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What Do You Sound Like?

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Well, I'm a Florida native, with native Floridian parents, who had a mild Southern accent. Was raised mostly in Georgia, so picked up a pronounced Southern accent there. In my college years, moved back to Florida, and have lived in the Midwest for the last 25 years or so. It gave me a Midlands accent which is probably close, since I have lost a lot of my "Southernspeak". On the other hand, when we visit relatives down South it comes back pretty quickly.
 

JimWagner

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It said I have a midlands no accent accent and that's about right. It's actually a Tidewater accent, but unless you were born in that part of Virginia you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.

Last Saturday I was accused of having a New Jersey accent. First time that ever happened.
 
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I always found unusual pronunciations (usually regional) of common sounding names interesting. Examples include place names such as Cairo, IL (pronounced "kay-row" instead of "kye-row"); Houston Street in New York (pronounced "house-ton" instead of "hews-ton") and Orion Lake, MI (pronounced "ohr-ree-un" instead of "o'ryan").
 
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JimWagner

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I was born in Norfolk, Va. and it isn't pronounced with the "L" by people from there. More like Norfuk. My current home, Durham, is pronounced without the "h". More like Durum. There are quite a few towns here in NC that aren't pronounced like they are spelled. I'm sure that's nothing unusual at all, though.
 

Widebrim

I'll Lock Up
I always found unusual pronunciations (usually regional) of common sounding names interesting. Examples include place names such as Cairo, IL (pronounced "kay-row" instead of "kye-row"); Houston Street in New York (pronounced "house-ton" instead of "hews-ton") and Orion Lake, MI (pronounced "ohr-ree-un" instead of "o'ryan").

There is a county in Virginia by the name of Taliaferro. It comes from the Italian family who immigrated there in the 1700s, whose name was originally spelled Tagliaferro, and who provided many officers to the colonial Army during the Revolution. Local residents cut off the o at the end, and pronounce it TOL-li-var; very odd. (As a note, the T. in Booker T. Washington's name stood for Taliaferro; the Washington part was made up by him.)
 

Yeps

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Around me, the word "folk" rhymes with "poke" or "joke." We are not that big on pronouncing Ls. For my mother (Baltimore) the words Hulk and Hawk are identical.
 

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I always found unusual pronunciations (usually regional) of common sounding names interesting. Examples include place names such as Cairo, IL (pronounced "kay-row" instead of "kye-row"); Houston Street in New York (pronounced "house-ton" instead of "hews-ton") and Orion Lake, MI (pronounced "ohr-ree-un" instead of "o'ryan").

Don't get me started on how they pronounce city and street names here in Ohio :rolleyes:
 
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I always found unusual pronunciations (usually regional) of common sounding names interesting. Examples include place names such as Cairo, IL (pronounced "kay-row" instead of "kye-row"); Houston Street in New York (pronounced "house-ton" instead of "hews-ton") and Orion Lake, MI (pronounced "ohr-ree-un" instead of "o'ryan").

The high school I attended in Columbus, Georgia was spelled Jordan, pronounced, JERdan.
 

The Good

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On that quiz, I got "The West."

If you look at my YouTube videos, you can hear what I sound like. My voice is generally that low and whispery, but at the times of making those videos, I remember being particularly tired, so I tend to put a bit more energy into my speech than that... I have been told from time to time that I should improve upon raising my voice. For some reason, it feels as though it takes a lot of effort to speak at what others would consider a normal tone. I think I would agree here, but it's a difficult habit for me to break out of. For when the occasion calls for it, I do intend to speak loudly enough in say, a classroom to answer the professor's question directed towards students. In situations like this, I take care to be audible enough so that everyone else could hear what I had to say.
 

Tango Yankee

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The Inland North. But what do they know?

Let's see... I currently live in southern Ohio, but I've only been here coming up on six years. Before that was three years in South Carolina, four years in England, a bit over two years on Guam, five years in Germany, four years in Austin, Texas, a year in Korea, and five years in Bellevue, Nebraska. Prior to all that running around I was born in and spent the first twenty years of my life in southern California. At my first duty station in Nebraska people tended to think I was from south Texas, one guy said specifically the Galveston area.

Cheers,
Tom
 

scotrace

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Reviving this old thread.
If you would like to hear what I sound like, I'm entered in this audition contest. I've been trying to find a way into recording audio books for awhile. If you like my entry, please give me a vote! The top 20 vote-getters are in the running to read for the upcoming recording of the Neil Gaiman book American Gods.
To vote for me to have a shot at a role in the Neil Gaiman audio book, go to the linked page, sign up (sorry), click the "Vote" tab and then search for Scotrace. Have a listen. If you think it's worthy, please give me your vote! :)

No, really. I need VOTES. Top vote getters are over 300.... :)
 

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