Beeud Whooder

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• glennmagusharvey

  2017-03-13 17:53:34

  I'm not sure what the thread title should be
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-03-13 20:50:17

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Because you're not a True Pennsylvanian.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-03-13 20:52:15

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I am evidently supposed to recognize this but I don't actually.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-03-13 20:56:05

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Philly accent things. The title is, of course, "bad water."
  
• Crystal

  2017-03-13 20:57:40

  Munch munch, chomp chomp...

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  Philly accent things. The title is, of course, "bad water."
  

  Hah, nice.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-03-13 21:04:32

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  The "beeud" (or really "bayud") thing is mostly a Northeast thing but it exists in subtler iterations throughout the area. It has to do with how short a reacts to different consonants in a syllable. "Whooder" is... apparently a Welsh thing originally. Sometimes it's more like "whudder."
  
  The rest have to do with vowels that are merged other places but not here. Philadelphia accents are very vowel-rich.
  
• Odradek

  2017-03-13 21:11:07

  My dreams exceed my real life

  

  
  

  How often am I gonna have to post this
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-03-13 21:31:18

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  The "beeud" (or really "bayud") thing is mostly a Northeast thing but it exists in subtler iterations throughout the area. It has to do with how short a reacts to different consonants in a syllable. "Whooder" is... apparently a Welsh thing originally. Sometimes it's more like "whudder."
  
  The rest have to do with vowels that are merged other places but not here. Philadelphia accents are very vowel-rich.
  

  oh so you're saying you want some soop for your dish woosher
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-03-14 01:24:14

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Kinda? That's significantly further west. Similar principles apply.
  
  South and to a lesser extent Northeast Philly accents are why every dumbass failing to imitate a Philly accent winds up sounding like a New York cabby. Had not rhyming with bad happens there, too. It's like the reverse of horse and hoarse in the South.