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[Desertdi]

Snot gonna take ya long on thee-L

Guess where......

[LindaSal]

This was a good laugh but interesting!  I am a born and bred RI girl and let me tell you "r" does not exist in our vocabulary, LOL!    Everything ends with "ah" .   Like the green monstah at Fenway, they actually sell the t shirts, clam chowdah,  pok the cah, on and on.   I have friends from Boston that are more "r" pronouncers at times.   It's funny, they are not that far away from us and we poke fun at each other.   I was in an elevator in Hawaii once and someone said to me OMG, you're an east coaster for sure........ yeah, and proud of it!

[Sooner]

It's Kennedy-speak.  They all talk like that.  And you can always identify a speaker from Boston when they say "BAAAAH-ston." Or "paaaah-k" the car!  

At least we aren't doing Hillbilly speak today.  I'm kind of tarrd of 'splain those!  

[VanSleepy]

When I moved to NJ from Chicago I was expecting everyone would talk very differently.  But aside from the Mary, merry, marry thing, I thought most everyone I met pretty much sounded the same as I did.  But people noticed that I pronounced things differently much more than I thought they did.

[riley1]

former NJ gal here - the word is idea - and that is how I pronounce it - there is no r at the end.

[Vivian]

The article was interesting. All of my parents' families were New Yorkers. My 99 year old mother still adds that r where it doesn't belong, as in "That's a great idear." I've lived in upstate NY for most of my life. For the past 50 years I've lived in a town where natives speak what's known as "Great Lakes English." People brought up anywhere near a Great Lake definitely hold onto the final r and do not add it to words ending in a vowel. I think that after all these years my accent is a combination of NY/NJ and Great Lakes English. Nobody ever tells me I have a NYC accent anymore. I used to hear that daily.

[homedecor1]

This reminds me of my dear dad & his family.  We still "joke" about the word "sandwich" (we are NJ born).

They would say "do you kids want a sangwitch"...we tried to correct them but after awhile it was known to all of us it's a "sangwitch"!  I still kid my kids when their here with it 🙂

For me I say idea but very bad at the word coffee -- I say "cawfee"🤷‍♀️My dad said it this way too!  

[zitawins]

My late husband (and my late mother-in-law) were from upper New York. They ALWAYS added that intrusive "r", but I thought it charming. They also said "ARRANGE" for Orange and RADDiator for radiator. Just a regionaism they never lost when they moved here to the Midwest. 

[Othereeeen]

Love all the examples presented and have heard them all...

The one tiny little word mispronunciation that drives ME insane is...

Get ready for it...

AXXX for "ask"....as in :

"I AXXED him how to pronounce "idear"...."

I lose my mind.

Such a hard multisyllable(/s) word to master. I've heard professional newscasters and announcers say it like that.

"Youins" from Pittsburgh and "Ungyun"from upstate NY ( Like "Sangwich")...

Here's one from my youf in Jersey...."melk" for milk. Knew a family that could NOT pronounce "milk". We thought it was funny!!!

[Citrine1]

@homedecor1   What's wrong with cawfee?  That's how it's pronounced!