Another age thing is stretch pants. A couple of years ago I said something about stretch pants to an adolescent. She was appalled as she was not wearing stretch pants but yoga pants… Mmm they are pants…they are stretchy…therefore they are stretch pants lol
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Not enough folks from my neck of the woods have taken the original survey. It can’t decide where to put me LOL.[/QUOTE]
Must be my problem, too. It thinks I’m either from Winston-Salem NC or Jackson Mississippi. :lol: I’m a native South Carolinian.
I have taken it 6 or 7 times and if you draw lines where they intersect is close! Rockford, Springfield MO and Indy so maybe it is correct!
What they don’t have is Sody (soda) , Zinc (for sink), yello (for hello), Warsh (wash) and cattywampus (diagonally)
There are better reasons not to move to Kentucky than accents! I’ve been trying to get out for nearly 20 years now…
I’m aware that many people move here and love it, but there are plenty of people who think they’ll love it and turn out to barely tolerate it. YMMV
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There are better reasons not to move to Kentucky than accents! I’ve been trying to get out for nearly 20 years now…
I’m aware that many people move here and love it, but there are plenty of people who think they’ll love it and turn out to barely tolerate it. YMMV[/QUOTE]
I had a friend move there after growing up in MD, spending time in NY and 4 years in France. He said you get more than 5 miles from the training center and it was a totally different world!
I grew up Gulf Coast Florida, Tampa/St. Pete area and I just cannot adjust to this place. Some stuff I like, but most of it I can live without in a heartbeat in trade for mild winters, more sunshine, palm trees, and no allergies!
I hear ya. NOVA born and bred here, now relegated to the high prairie of CO. I would trade all the Fourteeners for one Wegman’s! CO is lovely, has a lot of neat activities, but I consider it a better place to vacation than live!
begin rant And don’t get me started on the deep and treacherous cultural differences between chicano Southern California and rural northern Vermont (where my husband’s family is from and where they all live). Unless you have ancestors buried in a local graveyard, you will always be an outsider, even if you have been happily married to a “good” local boy for twenty years. I’m chicana, veteran, educated, progressive/unitarian Muslim, often have non-standard hair color, and have visible tattoos. And to add insult to my M-I-L’s injury, my grandfather and g-grandparents came to the US without papers in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. My M-I-L does not like to be seen in public with me in their itty-bitty hometown. Sorry about the thread-jack.end rant[/QUOTE]
Hey, Cal-in-KS,
I am from this northern area (VT and NH), and I would much rather get to know you than your MIL! We are not all that way. LOL.
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Unless you have ancestors buried in a local graveyard, you will always be an outsider, even if you have been happily married to a “good” local boy for twenty years. [/QUOTE]
I think this is true of many parts of the country that have not seen much change over the decades. I was talking to a man in his 60’s at a meeting last year. He and his wife moved to a small town in SW Georgia right after they married and he got out of law school. He said he and his wife are still identified as “not from around here.” He said his son, who was born and raised in that town is still identified as “not from around here.” He laughed and said if his son stays there, marries a local girl and has children, those children might be considered “from around here.”
I live in an area where there is quite a bit of movement in and out. My kids gained “from around here” status through attending and graduating from the local schools, so it’s a lot easier to be “from here” here than it is to be “from here” in many places in the south. :lol:
The survey has me from Rochester NY (it got the state right), Madison WI or Rockford IL. I thought they call carbonated beverages “pop” in Rochester, not “soda” as I do.
I won’t say that native Ky’ians talk funny, but when you live in a town called Versailles (“Ver-sigh”) and find that it is pronounced Verr-SALES), it is disconcerting.
This was not as bad as when I moved to the other side of town and bought a farm on Harp Innis Road.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that I actually lived on Hard Penis Road (I kid you not. 
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Hah, I recently got tagged as “not from around here” by my pronunciation of Lancaster. It’s apparently not LAN caster it’s more like len kester.
I was once talking with a local, in Lexington. During the discussion, he said he was “tard”…I’m like “tard? What?” He repeated how he was tard. Turns out he was TIRED! Who would have guessed, lol.
Accents (and hair color) are easily changed. Skin color is not. It’s not a judgment, it’s a preference. I dislike certain accents and certain kinds of voices myself.
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Accents (and hair color) are easily changed. Skin color is not. It’s not a judgment, it’s a preference. I dislike certain accents and certain kinds of voices myself.[/QUOTE]
You seem to misunderstand my meaning. For me, when I meet a person, their accent is simply one of their characteristics, like their skin color or hair color. In my own personal way of thinking, those are things that do not qualify for an independent assessment of “like” or “dislike.”
That is why I don’t really understand someone who says they dislike a particular accent. If you dislike an accent, fine. I will accept that as one of your characteristics, but that doesn’t mean it will ever make any sense to me.
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There are better reasons not to move to Kentucky than accents! I’ve been trying to get out for nearly 20 years now…
I’m aware that many people move here and love it, but there are plenty of people who think they’ll love it and turn out to barely tolerate it. YMMV[/QUOTE]
Me me me me. Trying to get out 8 years and counting.
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Hah, I recently got tagged as “not from around here” by my pronunciation of Lancaster. It’s apparently not LAN caster it’s more like len kester.[/QUOTE]
Athens with a long A is weird too. And of course you pronounce the LL’s in Versailles.
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begin rant And don’t get me started on the deep and treacherous cultural differences between chicano Southern California and rural northern Vermont (where my husband’s family is from and where they all live). Unless you have ancestors buried in a local graveyard, you will always be an outsider, even if you have been happily married to a “good” local boy for twenty years. I’m chicana, veteran, educated, progressive/unitarian Muslim, often have non-standard hair color, and have visible tattoos. And to add insult to my M-I-L’s injury, my grandfather and g-grandparents came to the US without papers in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. My M-I-L does not like to be seen in public with me in their itty-bitty hometown. Sorry about the thread-jack.end rant[/QUOTE]
Hey, Cal-in-KS,
I am from this northern area (VT and NH), and I would much rather get to know you than your MIL! We are not all that way. LOL.[/QUOTE]
Hi! I should have been more clear.:o
All of the non-related-to-my-husband Vermonters that I’ve met have been perfectly nice, lovely people. I’m sure that my husband’s people would like me just fine had I not married into their family.
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I think this is true of many parts of the country that have not seen much change over the decades. I was talking to a man in his 60’s at a meeting last year. He and his wife moved to a small town in SW Georgia right after they married and he got out of law school. He said he and his wife are still identified as “not from around here.” He said his son, who was born and raised in that town is still identified as “not from around here.” He laughed and said if his son stays there, marries a local girl and has children, those children might be considered “from around here.”
I live in an area where there is quite a bit of movement in and out. My kids gained “from around here” status through attending and graduating from the local schools, so it’s a lot easier to be “from here” here than it is to be “from here” in many places in the south. :lol:[/QUOTE]
This actually makes me feel better.
Right out of HS I worked with a lady who had moved with her husband as part of the migration during WW2 of blacks to good paying jobs in the war effort at shipyards and in manufacturing etc. She came from Illinois supposedly, was part Cherokee and was getting ready to re-tahr. She was tahrt of working there since 1963. I loved listening to her talk. About everything.
