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Post by tonya on Oct 27, 2005 14:31:23 GMT -5
LMFAO, I have never *never* in my 2 years here, heard a local person say "y'all." St. Louisans speak with a very distinctive accent, but it's not southern....more like a midwest meets New Orleans accent. Very hard to describe. It's always fun going to Georgia or Alabama, where Stephen's family lives, because the accents down there drive me nuts. I can't stand stopping anywhere where we might have to converse with an actual person. Southern twang gets on my dang nerves!
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Post by gurlnlifemagazine on Oct 27, 2005 18:31:30 GMT -5
^^How do you explain Nelly?  Even I say y'all, just not with the accent |
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Post by tonya on Oct 27, 2005 19:18:47 GMT -5
That's what I meant - "y'all" with a southern accent.
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crislorena
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Post by crislorena on Oct 27, 2005 19:22:11 GMT -5
starbucks. for the coffee. yuuuum white chocolate mocha frapucchinos...
-C
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Post by tonya on Oct 27, 2005 19:29:09 GMT -5
^Man, I'd die for one of those.
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Post by gurlnlifemagazine on Oct 27, 2005 23:49:23 GMT -5
That's what I meant - "y'all" with a southern accent. People in St. Louis say "y'all" with a southern accent  |
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Post by judith on Oct 28, 2005 6:06:26 GMT -5
this is not a poll for europeans i see..
i never seen any of those 3... (besides on tv or so..)
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Post by tonya on Oct 28, 2005 6:50:27 GMT -5
LOL Lisa, just because we don't sound nasal and snotty when we pronounce a word with an A or an O in it doesn't mean we have southern accents Poor Krispy Kreme, won't someone vote for it  |
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Post by Katie on Oct 28, 2005 7:26:03 GMT -5
We do not!! I've actually lived all over the state....north, central (between I-80 and I-64) and south (south of I-64) and I can tell where someone hails from just from when they open their mouth! Central Illinoisans have weird words too, like "wallago" and they call a vaccuum cleaner a "sweeper." I love dialects and colloquial (is that the right word) terms! But back to donuts, I've established that I love Dunkin Donuts, but has anyone tried Kroger donuts, if you have one where you live? Man, I could get so fat off of those. You Southerners really love your Kroger! My roommate is from Peoria and seriously Kroger comes up in every conversation we have about anything, lol. Is that like the mother of all supermarkets down there? |
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Post by desperate4changing on Oct 28, 2005 8:02:44 GMT -5
Poor Krispy Kreme, won't someone vote for it I never had a Krispy Kreme. I refuse to try em! lol. I hear they are dilicious and addicting!!! I don't want to become a Krispy slave, so I choose to stay away. lol |
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Post by tonya on Oct 28, 2005 8:38:55 GMT -5
No Katie, but it's the only decent grocery store. Much cheaper than Schnucks or Dierbergs. I can shop at Wal-Mart's even-cheaper-than-Kroger evil empire now, which suits me fine since there's not Kroger near St. Louis  |
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Post by gurlnlifemagazine on Oct 28, 2005 12:12:19 GMT -5
LOL Lisa, just because we don't sound nasal and snotty when we pronounce a word with an A or an O in it doesn't mean we have southern accents Poor Krispy Kreme, won't someone vote for it Tonya we gone fight . My best friend even says y'all talk like Blanch from "Golden Girls" and I agree |
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Post by tonya on Oct 28, 2005 17:06:51 GMT -5
LMFAO bring it on  I will gladly defend my non-southern-yet-still-somewhere-in-the-Midwest accent! *puts boxing gloves on* You know you live in Illinois when you go to a corn maze on Friday night for fun ;D |
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Post by gurlnlifemagazine on Oct 28, 2005 20:53:37 GMT -5
You know you live in Illinois when you go to a corn maze on Friday night for fun ;D No, that's when you know you live in Illinois, but don't live in Chicago because half of the people here have never even seen a corn field And you don't have a St. Louis accent. It's just a regular one Like I don't have a Chicago accent, but I do have a westside accent |
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Post by tonya on Oct 28, 2005 22:34:34 GMT -5
^LOL that's why I said "Illinois".....Chicago is NOT part of Illinois, it is it's own state (figuratively speaking) |
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Even I say y'all, just not with the accent 
I will gladly defend my non-southern-yet-still-somewhere-in-the-Midwest accent! *puts boxing gloves on*