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11-20-2009, 03:32 AM
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| How to speak "Yankee"
Your Abbreviated Guide to Proper YankeeTalk
And they say we talk funny?!
If your unfortunate enough to have to visit Yankee Country - like Boston (pronounced BAH-stin), this guide may help you understand what they are sayin', (but I doubt it). Pahty: A place to go to drink and socialize - nothing to do with Mother Nature.
ah: The letter between "q" & "s."
ahnt: Sistah of your fathah or muthah.
bah: Serves beah and hahd likkah: "The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah."
bay ah: Ferocious brown or black animal.
beah: Malt beverage.
bahn: As in: "What yeah were you bahn in?"
bzah: Strange, odd.
Chahlz: The rivah.
chowdah: Clams, milk, buttah.
cahn: Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob.
connah: Where streets intersect.
fah: Not neah heah
fahk: What you eat pahster with.
fiah: Blaze
Gahden: What they closed last yeah (also a place to plant flowahs.)
hahbah: What they dumped tea into in 1773.
Hahvid: Preppy college across the rivah.
hahf-ahst: Done without regahd to detail.
heah: Done with the eahs. "Listen my children, and you shall heah of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah."
khakis: What you staht the cah with and keep on yawh key chain.
nawtheastah: Stahm that blows in from the wottah.
Noo Yok: Sinkhole 240 miles south of Tremont Street.
owah: Sixty minutes.
pahk: Cahn't do it in Hahvad Yahd. Not downtown, eithah.
pahster: spaghetti, ziti, etc.
pastah: The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits.
pichahs: They throw fastballs at Fenway.
Rawjah: He *used to* throw the fastest fastballs at Fenway.....
Reveah: He rode through Ahlington on a hoss shouting, "To Ahms!"
shuah: Of course
shot: Not tall.
wof: A peeah, jutting into the hahbah.
wottah: H2O
yeah: A 365 day period.
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11-20-2009, 06:07 AM
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I've seen southern talk before, but this is the first time I've seen "up yonder" talk.
thanks for clearing some of that up for me.
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11-20-2009, 08:35 AM
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Thank the Lord my MA accent isn't THAT bad! Very funny!
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11-20-2009, 03:12 PM
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LOL I have some buddies from Maine...it took me about a week to fully grasp their accent...Cah for car, and Sqauh for square, and pahk for park.
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11-20-2009, 09:48 PM
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I can't understand that stuff......
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11-21-2009, 04:05 PM
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And if they're talking with their mouth full, forget about it !!
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11-21-2009, 08:52 PM
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thrillbilly, that's not Yankee talk. That's Bahstin talk... more or less. For the real Yankee talk, yah haveta move a hunded miles noth of Bahstin, down ta Maine.
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11-21-2009, 10:14 PM
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Cy...see post #4.
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11-22-2009, 08:44 PM
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Up here in Vermont it is yup and nope and yes and no are complete sentences
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11-23-2009, 12:30 AM
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I went to an armorers school (S&W) with a CO from Fed Prison Atlanta. I had to act as his interpreter for the 2 weeks we were the. The hardest thing was trying to get a glass of sweet tea.
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11-23-2009, 12:36 AM
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Oh jeez... at least yur not goin after us yoopers up here in WI dont'cha no...
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11-23-2009, 08:10 PM
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Close to maniac speak like lobstah, Bah Habah, Sodah,
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11-25-2009, 04:39 PM
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I read that just fine...lol
Now check this out, I've lived in Wyoming all my life (Dad and grandparents moved out here from PA in 1979/1980). However whenever I am around someone who is from PA (currently lives there or has a strong accent) or when I watch a show that's filmed in the area PPA (Pennsylvania Parking Authority) or Viva la Bam comes to mind; when I talk while the show is going or shortly after the show is over I will be talking just like I'm from PA.
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