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Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

@SeaMaiden East Coast here and I say idea. I do have a neighbor, however, that says "warsh" for "wash". Always makes me giggle.

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Desertdi wrote:
Snot gonna take ya long on thee-L

Guess where......

LOL. That's Philly speak for sure.

september · ‎03-09-2010

I've never heard anyone in the Northeast, add an r to words such as idea or soda!

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

I say "idea". My students always said I was an English teacher, I was not, but I educated the "whole child".

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@Citrine1 wrote:
@SeaMaiden East Coast here and I say idea. I do have a neighbor, however, that says "warsh" for "wash". Always makes me giggle.

@Citrine1 I grew up with a friend who said WARSH too! They were from Iowa....could that be why?

Tessa Mendoza · ‎01-27-2020

I'm originally from New Yawk, and we don't put "r's" on the end of any words.

house_cat · ‎03-09-2010

Thanks for posting, OP. I too am a linguistics nerd.

I'm a native NYer. When I moved to CA at 42 years old and began teaching there, my HS aged students called me "My Cousin Vinny" because I sounded like Marisa Tomei. I wish I looked like her, but that's another story.

I think the 'r' at the end of the word is more of a New England thing. Like someone said earlier, NYers leave the 'r's off the end of just about everything. My son had a girlfriend named Amber and my mom and dad called her "Amba", lol. I was always an excellent speller, but I remember I spelled the word "propeller" incorrectly in elementary school - spelling it "propella", like "umbrella". Ha!

After a couple of years in California I noticed that people were no longer commenting on my accent. It turns out I dropped the NY accent for a more generic California accent. I recently moved to the south east and I'm having a ball with the accent and regionalisms. I'm sure it won't be long before I sound like a local. I think some people just take on the accents of those around them.

~ house cat ~

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
I grew up in NJ and NY. I don't put an R on the end of words. Idea is idea to me and the people I know. I'm sure some do speak with an R at the end of the word, I just don't know them.ETA, I do say cawfee.

@proudlyfromNJ LOL. I've been in the south for,70,yrs., but born in NY and around my northern family down here. I will say ya'll and other southern expressions, but cawfee and chawklette give me away every time.

hgsuddle · ‎07-02-2010

I am a born and bred Philly girl who has been transplanted to Cincinnati for 20 years. I still have people ask me if I am an east coaster because I talk so fast.

My son's name is Harry and I will never forget when a preschool teacher of his told me they were going to discuss something that rhymed with his name: :"Dairy". I said, "Oh no you;re not - that is not how his name is pronounced!" Needless to say, everyone here pronounces it that way and I hate it, I probably wouldn't have named him that had I known it would be pronounced that way,

Cincinnati may be my residence, but it is not my "Home". Philly will always have my heart and I can't wait until my DH retires so we can move back east!

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@Citrine1 wrote:
@SeaMaiden East Coast here and I say idea. I do have a neighbor, however, that says "warsh" for "wash". Always makes me giggle.
@Citrine1 I grew up with a friend who said WARSH too! They were from Iowa....could that be why?

My neighbor was born in Philly and lived here all her life. I can't, for the life of me, understand why she says warsh. hahaha