Regional dialects

Smith and Tangier DEFINITELY have their own dialects- so does the the Eastern "Shur" of VA. For some reason, the day prior to today is "yersterday".

Some of the watermen on down thru the Carolinas speak the Queen's English- the dialect is actually Elizabethan English. When the water in the bay comes in as much as it's going to, it's "Hoigh Toide". Get back in the hills and hollers of Appalachia, you will here the influence of Scotch-Irish heritage.

Knew a young lady from NW North Carolina- her Granny lit into her when they were talking, and she spoke the word "white"- instead of the down home "whayt".

Listening to a cashier couple of weeks ago, said "You don't sound like yer from around here.." She grinned, said "Nope- where'd think I'm from?" I said "Islip". Her jaw dropped- "Omigawd- I lived 10 miles from Islip (Long Island).

My bride is a West Country lass, born in Devon, and grew up on the Devon/Cornwall border- and that is assuredly NOT a London accent.

Gives some flavor to life- hearing different accents. dialects, and figures of speech.

 

And I think that would be:
Close the window (here we say winder)
It's a foggy day
I'll make us a cuppa
Who are your folks (here it's "Y'all got kin 'round heah?")
Stay there- am on my way

Yeah- I'm a CFA, but spent some time hanging out with Princess Pat's boys (Canadian Airborne)- and a couple of them were Newfies. We figured we could use them like the Navajo Code Talkers!

If you think Newfie is strange, do NOT try to hang with the Kamaʻāina (Hawai'ian for local boy) In between borrow words from japan and Spain, Pidgin and Hawi'ian, it can be fun. Made food for a lunch with a co-worker, who thought it was exceptionally good- expressed as "Broke da mouf, bruddah!"

 

Nothing like the slang in the inner city of Chicago. Not only the words used but the accent. I’m in Oklahoma now. People can always guess I’m from the Great Lakes region.

 

Oh, we do have regionalism all over the place. In Georgia, any soft drink is a coke (lower case c) Depending on where you are, a grocery bag can be a sack or a poke. You can have a sandwich, sammich, grinder, hero, sub or a po' boy. (Although the po'boy is SUPPOSED to be fried oysters)

American Spanish also has its own... differences. A bruja (j is an h) is a witch- but in NM it is what a junkie uses to shoot up. A rubber tired backhoe loader is a mano de chango (paw of the monkey)- but do NOT use that in Puerto Rico- it is obscene.

Of course, the military has its own language. A full field layout inspection is junk on the bunk. Your field gear was ta-50. The folding can opener on your dog tags was a P-38 or a John Wayne. But if you caught yourself referring to your wife as Household 6, you were too far gone.