it's what everyone sounds like up here

my first girlfriend was from PA, and tawked luyk that.

the subtitles actually made it harder to understand.

it's not the easiest accent in the US to master, it's true

the funny thing is, nan, i could at least get a sense of what it was from the written word. the spoken part was incomprehensible to me!

I'm from Missouri. We just add Rs where they don't exist. Okay, it's a bit more than that, but that's the main thing.

lol. i've never known a MO accent! all those extra Rs must be work

warshing the dishes can be hard.

i've heard that one here too.

Now I live in Warshington! My boys teased me no-end when they were little.

i guess that's not a popular pronunciation in washington?

nope. I CAN say it correctly, it's just part of my identity not to!

lol... interestingly, they talked about 'roots' and identity as related to accents on the NPR show, though i didn't hear the whole show

to say for sure. still, it's an interesting topic, at least to geeks like me who notice such things.

The NPR Show, Radio Times WHYY Philadelphia

that was really interesting!

shelley: i thought so

I think some Philly people filtered down to Virginia when I lived there. I heard some people who sounded luyk that, but not as bad!

also: Warshington annoys me!