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Thing is, my accent changes depending on to whom I am speaking. When I speak to those New York bankers, I sound like a typical midwesterner. But when I talk to the good old boys running the bank down here in Texas, I sound like I have mud on my boots while climbin' into my pickup truck, y'all.
Yes, this is exactly me! Living around the world and from coast to coast here in the US, I've managed to adapt my speach depending on whom I'm conversing with.
But Oh Lordy, don't let me pick up the phone and call my cousin or granmomma, you'd know where I call home.
"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
I'm born and raised in Minnesota. Yah sure, you betcha!
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Yes, this is exactly me! Living around the world and from coast to coast here in the US, I've managed to adapt my speach depending on whom I'm conversing with.
But Oh Lordy, don't let me pick up the phone and call my cousin or granmomma, you'd know where I call home.
~Kerri
Thing is, I don't even realize I'm doing it. It comes naturally. One time I was on the phone talking to a friend in Midland and my roommate at the time started laughing. He said that by the time my conversation was over, my West Texas was showing.
__________________ "There must be more historians of the Civil War than there were generals figthing in it... Of the two groups, the historians are the more belligerent." David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered (1961)
That would be right. I live across the river from Granite Falls and work in Hickory.
My uncle Ned Landon Cockerham lived in Sawmills. Welcome to the board! Finally a person I can relate to (probably). All us mountain folks are cousins. Another uncle Elmer Parker lived on the ridge in Hickory not too far from the Catawba up on 10th St. NW.
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Ancestors in US Army: 13th TN Cav; 10th TN Cav; 3rd NC Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 48th VA; 63rd VA, 5th NC Cav; 37th NC
Wife and Grandson's CSA: 15th AL, 51st GA, 41st TN; 36th TN; GA Mil 1197 Dist
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