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The "Incredibly Impossible to Derail This Thread" thread
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As @Ahhh Girl can tell you, I never answer with my name, though she will generally start with hers – even though the phone has already told me it’s her (it comes up on the screen – Ahhh Girl, well no, it doesn’t, it shows her real name, but I’m not telling you lot that don’t already know it)! A call often begins with “Mark?”

Phones tell you who’s calling nowadays, and I don’t answer calls from unidentified or withheld numbers.

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Mark? Followed by a plea for help. Now that I think about it, I really should call you sometime when I’m not in need of help. Guess I could say the same about Zig.

Hello is all I say when I answer the home landline phone. How I answer calls on my mobile phone depends on whose name I see.

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In a different thead, @Ahhh Girl said

…those of you who have heard my voice, do you think I have a Southern accent?

Absolutley. To be fair, everyone has an accent. Zag and I are both originally from Upstate NY and have a very distinct accent. My co-workers laugh at me every time I say I am going to grab a cup of caw-fee.

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ahdn_paul_06How else are you supposed to pronounce coffee?  

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Cah-fee, I guess.

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StrawberryFieldsForever said

How else are you supposed to pronounce coffee?  

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Cah-fee, I guess.

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Correct.

@StrawberryFieldsForever the accent does not come across well in print does it? I suppose if I used a couple more w’s – cawww-fee. a-hard-days-night-george-9

Also, Zag’s accent has her turning one syllable words into two syllables. For example: if the room is too dark, turn on a lay-ump.

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Zig said

StrawberryFieldsForever said

How else are you supposed to pronounce coffee?  

parlance said

Cah-fee, I guess.

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Correct.

@StrawberryFieldsForever the accent does not come across well in print does it? I suppose if I used a couple more w’s – cawww-fee. a-hard-days-night-george-9

Also, Zag’s accent has her turning one syllable words into two syllables. For example: if the room is too dark, turn on a lay-ump.

That’s cutea-hard-days-night-george-9.

Oh, and I still say “cawww-fee”, cause I don’t have an American accent. I guess @meanmistermustard and @Ron Nasty would approve of the way we pronounce the word.a-hard-days-night-john-1

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Zig said

In a different thead, @Ahhh Girl said

…those of you who have heard my voice, do you think I have a Southern accent?

Absolutley. To be fair, everyone has an accent. Zag and I are both originally from Upstate NY and have a very distinct accent. My co-workers laugh at me every time I say I am going to grab a cup of caw-fee.

I’m from Lawn Guyland, and I hear everyone talking about the caw-fee they drink too. Of course, I will deny having an accent just like everybody else on the island.

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I always answer the phone with “Hi, NAME” – umm – that’s my name – and it’s not Wendy.

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Zig said

In a different thead, @Ahhh Girl said

…those of you who have heard my voice, do you think I have a Southern accent?

Absolutley. To be fair, everyone has an accent. Zag and I are both originally from Upstate NY and have a very distinct accent. My co-workers laugh at me every time I say I am going to grab a cup of caw-fee.

If the only two options are caw-fee and cah-fee (Boston accent?) then I say caw-fee too.

I don’t think I have an accent, but I don’t know what to compare it to. I don’t have an easily identifiable one like English, Southern, or NE at least.

I do run my words together though (would not you = wouldn’tcha for example) which is something that goes with the New England/Boston (and most big cities) dialect, not an accent though.

How does everyone pronounce apricot?

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Mr. Kite said

How does everyone pronounce apricot?

ah-pri-cot

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I don’t think I have an accent, but I don’t know what to compare it to. I don’t have an easily identifiable one like English, Southern, or NE at least.

I do run my words together though (would not you = wouldn’tcha for example) which is something that goes with the New England/Boston (and most big cities) dialect, not an accent though.

To find your accent look at the people and locations you grew up in since that is where most people pick up their accent.

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Annadog40 said

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How does everyone pronounce apricot?

ah-pri-cot

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I don’t think I have an accent, but I don’t know what to compare it to. I don’t have an easily identifiable one like English, Southern, or NE at least.
I do run my words together though (would not you = wouldn’tcha for example) which is something that goes with the New England/Boston (and most big cities) dialect, not an accent though.

To find your accent look at the people and locations you grew up in since that is where most people pick up their accent.

That’s the thing. South Florida is so South the Southern accent doesn’t apply and people there are from everywhere, other countries and other parts of the US, so that has no accent of its own, and I spent a few of my formative years near Boston but wasn’t raised by someone with a Boston accent so don’t have that. I have a weird subtle mixture of a lot of things I guess.

And I say a-pricot.

(@cbatch I accidentally typed thongs and it corrected to things… It’s learning :(
If it’s any consolation it said provost when I wrote pricot.)

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Here is a guy talking about Apricot (under spoiler) for an apricot example

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Mr. Kite said

How does everyone pronounce apricot?

With the a rhyming with the a in “cat.”

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parlance said

Mr. Kite said

How does everyone pronounce apricot?

With the a rhyming with the a in “cat.”

parlance

Same!

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All my life, people from the North, South, East, and West have told me that I don’t have a Southern accent. I’ve always been told I have a flat, Mid-Western accent. I wonder why I am gettting different opinions now. I wonder if aging is the culprit.

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StrawberryFieldsForever said

parlance said

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How does everyone pronounce apricot?

With the a rhyming with the a in “cat.”

parlance

Same!

So that’s 1 to 3, I guess I have an accent on that word!

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I say apricot the way you do, @Mr. Kite.

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Wait , there’s more than one way to pronounce apricot? I had no idea.

A (to rhyme with way) – pri (as in prick, not pree) – cot (just cot). Apricot. Now I’m filled with self doubt.

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Joe said
Wait , there’s more than one way to pronounce apricot? I had no idea.

A (to rhyme with way) – pri (as in prick, not pree) – cot (just cot). Apricot. Now I’m filled with self doubt.

See, my pri is pronounced pree – but then I am Welsh and we pronounce things rather oddly at times.

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