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Originally posted by Roxy:
Bob, why not consider the possibility of an LIRR ride for you and the mrs. to journey from LI into town as the time grows near. . .

Dimpz/Missie - the fashions at the Chocolate Show's fashion show, are made of chocolate! The next days, some are on display in the lobby entrance displayed on manequins. It's amazing. They have chocolate liquers too! By the time you leave the show, you are truly plastered on the ceiling! (combination sugar rush and alcohol).

Now that is what I call a fashion show!!!

A girl could die happy.

Bob ~ Thanks for providing that link - very interesting & a real feather in the cap for New York.

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Originally posted by Missie:

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Originally posted by Roxy:
Bob, why not consider the possibility of an LIRR ride for you and the mrs. to journey from LI into town as the time grows near. . .

Dimpz/Missie - the fashions at the Chocolate Show's fashion show, are made of chocolate! The next days, some are on display in the lobby entrance displayed on manequins. It's amazing. They have chocolate liquers too! By the time you leave the show, you are truly plastered on the ceiling! (combination sugar rush and alcohol).

Now that is what I call a fashion show!!!

A girl could die happy.

LOL I adore clothes & chocolate!!!!! Is this what heaven is like?

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Originally posted by Dimpz:
Bob ~ Thanks for providing that link - very interesting & a real feather in the cap for New York.

I'm glad you found the survey interesting.

Too often, New Yorkers are misunderstood and considered rude, abrasive, and uncaring. Like most stereotypes, that conception is ill founded. Certainly, we tend to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of a large city, and some interpret that as impolite. That is not the case, even though we speak a version of the English language that the rest of the U.S. finds somewhat alien. Then, again, I have difficulty understanding someone from Alabama - a southern U.S. State-

I consider myself rather fortunate: I live in the tranquillity of a New York suburb and close to the action of a cosmopolitan New York City, where, it is said: "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere."


Regards.

Bob

Bob...

We have found that people from NY have an accent of their own, which is interesting. It is so much better than the accent (dialect?) of some of your neighbors to the north. Some of the people in BOSTON have an accent that is very strange. They say something like "pok da ka" for park the car, etc.

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Originally posted by Cat's Inheritance:
Bob...

We have found that people from NY have an accent of their own, which is interesting. It is so much better than the accent (dialect?) of some of your neighbors to the north. Some of the people in BOSTON have an accent that is very strange. They say something like "pok da ka" for park the car, etc.

Cat ~ Why is it that there are so many different accents within one country?

Speaking of accents on the Australian ABC on Thursday night there is a show about how the Australian accent developed. Should be interesting.

Apparently an Australian actor says we talk as if we have barbed wire through each side of our jaw!!! Really???? Do we???? No wonder poor Meryl had such trouble with it.

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Originally posted by Dimpz:
Speaking of accents on the Australian ABC on Thursday night there is a show about how the Australian accent developed. Should be interesting.

Apparently an Australian actor says we talk as if we have barbed wire through each side of our jaw!!! Really???? Do we???? No wonder poor Meryl had such trouble with it.

LOL Dimpz! I have always though it was just because we are unique!

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Originally posted by Dimpz:
Speaking of accents on the Australian ABC on Thursday night there is a show about how the Australian accent developed. Should be interesting.

Apparently an Australian actor says we talk as if we have barbed wire through each side of our jaw!!! Really???? Do we???? No wonder poor Meryl had such trouble with it.

I have a thought re the Aussie accent, I think it comes from the large Irish migration here, convicts & free settlers from the famine due to the potato virus. Just my thoughts.

Spooks ~ You must watch the show & we will compare thoughts.

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Originally posted by Cat's Inheritance:
Bob...

We have found that people from NY have an accent of their own, which is interesting. It is so much better than the accent (dialect?) of some of your neighbors to the north. Some of the people in BOSTON have an accent that is very strange. They say something like "pok da ka" for park the car, etc.

Cat's,

I recently returned from a tour of Croatia and Slovenia. Of the 40 tour members, all, except two British ladies were, North American - pretty evenly split between Canadian and U.S.

You can't imagine the teasing I got: all good natured of, course. As if the New York accent wasn't difficult enough for them, add in my Brooklyn accent - quite a challenge for them. Of course I emphasized it, to play their game.

Yeah, I hear ya re the Bostonian accent. Unfortunately, it didn't hurt them in the World Series.

Bob

I am totally clueless as to how the regional accents developed in the USA. There definitely are distinct accents from those of New York, Boston, the South, Philadelphia/Pittsburgh, the Mid West, Texas, and of course California Valley talk. There are loads of data about it on the web, but to me, it still remains a mystery.

In Oz, do the people from Sydney sound different than those from Darwin or Cairns or Alice Springs? Same for NZ, different in the North Island vs the South Island?

Of course in Europe, say Italy or Switzerland (German), they say they can detect where people are from by their dialect or accent...so it ain't just the states.

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Originally posted by Roxy:
I am totally clueless as to how the regional accents developed in the USA. They definitely are distinct from the accents of New York, Boston, the South, Philadelphia/Pittsburgh, the Mid West, Texas, and of course California Valley talk. There are loads of data about in on the web, but to me, it still remains a mystery.

In Oz, do the people from Sydney sound different than those from Darwin or Cairns or Alice Springs? Same for NZ, different in the North Island vs the South Island?

Of course in Europe, say Italy or Switzerland (German), they say they can detect where people are from by their dialect or accent.

It can depend on which state & the terms they use for different items. i can pick up if someone is from a country area. Also 2nd generation, parents born else way, children have a different accent. This may sound like a sweeping statement but I can also pick up on an aboriginal accent.

We can be a land of lazy speakers dropping off the front & back of a words eg afternoon turns into arvo.

It will be an interesting show to what.

Roxy Bill Bryson wrote a book about lots of things in the US, words, saying etc & discovered that a some of the terms/words still used in the US today date back to your first settlers.

Cheers
Spooky

Roxy ~ I originally grew up in NSW but live in South Australia, people say I have a NSW accent or ask me if I am British.

The one abbreviation I hate it Satdy instead of Saturday.

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Originally posted by Missie:
Roxy ~ I originally grew up in NSW but live in South Australia, people say I have a NSW accent or ask me if I am British.

The one abbreviation I hate it Satdy instead of Saturday.

Funny you should say that Missie, on one of our last tours a group from the US who knew I was an Aussie said to me near the end of the tour why was may accent so different to others on the tour????? They thought it sounded more English to them, one couple they were comparing me to came from Western Australia. I know we have different names for items & some/most people from the country areas can speak slower but to say I sounded more English then the other Aussies was a puzzle to me. to me I sound like an Aussie

Cheers
Spooky