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Thread #155124   Message #3646818
Posted By: LadyJean
31-Jul-14 - 12:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Favourite Accent
Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Accent
Scots.

Lancashire, not like other English accents, and Lancastrians are always pleased when I recognize it.

Kentucky. I had family there.

Least favorie, mid Atlantic, 1/2 British 1/2 American gets on my nerves.

I live in Pittsburgh, but talk like a Bostonian, my mother, like a lot of Pittsburgh girls of her generation was sent to college in Boston, in part to pick up the accent, which sounds better than the Pittsburgh nasal twang. Like a lot of Pittsburgh girls of my geneation, I picked up the accent from her.

Pittsburgh is interesting. A lot of Scots settled here, including Andrew Carnegie, though he was a Johnny come lately. But you will hear people named Kowalski and Coscarelli saying "Redd up" or "Slippy" instead of slippery.