So I live in New Jersey. There’s North Jersey, where they say cawfee, which is fine. There’s Central Jersey, where were normal. And then, there’s south Jersey, where they have a stupid accent - I need to go hoom (home) because I forgot my phoon (phone) - and they also have this weird grammatical quirk where they say “I’m done my dinner,” and just ditch the word “with.”
New Jersey is basically a postage stamp, and not a collectible edition, just a regular ass postage stamp with a piece of the american flag on it, on the envelope that is the United States, yet somehow we have three dialects, essentially. And it’s gotten a bit more homogenous over time, as things tend to (except south Jersey is still fucking weird), but there’s still plenty of people who you can tell where they’re from by how they talk.
The way you folks saw words like phone and home. I realized I couldn’t exactly figure out how to spell it, but I’d committed. And I suppose I should say I’m talking about deep south, not Toms River and whatnot (although I have some cousins from Manchester where some have the accent and some don’t).
Hoagie, for example, is Hō-Gee up north, but more like Hoo-Gee down south. If you can’t hear it, perhaps you are it!
So I live in New Jersey. There’s North Jersey, where they say cawfee, which is fine. There’s Central Jersey, where were normal. And then, there’s south Jersey, where they have a stupid accent - I need to go hoom (home) because I forgot my phoon (phone) - and they also have this weird grammatical quirk where they say “I’m done my dinner,” and just ditch the word “with.”
New Jersey is basically a postage stamp, and not a collectible edition, just a regular ass postage stamp with a piece of the american flag on it, on the envelope that is the United States, yet somehow we have three dialects, essentially. And it’s gotten a bit more homogenous over time, as things tend to (except south Jersey is still fucking weird), but there’s still plenty of people who you can tell where they’re from by how they talk.
I’m in South Jersey and what the fuck is hoom. Or phoon. What boonies are you talking to???
The way you folks saw words like phone and home. I realized I couldn’t exactly figure out how to spell it, but I’d committed. And I suppose I should say I’m talking about deep south, not Toms River and whatnot (although I have some cousins from Manchester where some have the accent and some don’t).
Hoagie, for example, is Hō-Gee up north, but more like Hoo-Gee down south. If you can’t hear it, perhaps you are it!