And so it begins.
In Utah this:
is pronounced the same as this:
And this:
is pronounced the same as this:
I find this aspect of the accent particularly interesting because it is the opposite in country music. For instance, the place of fire and brimstone is pronounced the same as the weather phenomenon in which balls of ice falls out of the clouds.Surely I'm not the only one to notice this?
8 comments:
My ears burned for weeks after I came back from Australia.
No, you aren't the only one to notice this. It is the same in Idaho, except that my grandparents and parents wouldn't let us say our words that way. Whenever we met someone new, they thought we were from some place else.
Oh no, we totally mock it as well. But you have to add pellow and melk to the list too.
I guess my problem with this assessment is that most people from Utah don't speak like this. Some may, but the overwhelming majority do not. At least that has been my experience. That said, I certainly enjoy listening to people who DO have funny ways of saying things, wherever I may find them.
The one I can't stand is when feel and fill sound the same. Drives. Me. Crazy.
And then, of course, there is "mountain" coming out like "mou'in" and "bitten" coming out like "bi'en" and "get" coming out like "git".
Sigh.
xox
My southern-Utah native mother-in-law pronounces 'farm' as 'form'. There are so many many others.
No you're not the only one who noticed. I could hardly understand people when I first came back from the UK. I had to ask them to say things twice. They'd look at me all weird because I came from a place that had spoken "the same language" after all.
Wrong. Very wrong. It's not the same. At all.
I have a friend who was studying at BYU-H and one time some kid had jumped on one of the tour carts and was drivin' it around crazy. So she calls PCC security and can't get them to understand her cos she's saying "cart" with a kiwi accent and they keep thinking she's saying "cat" because of her apparent lack of "r", which naturally results in a hilarious misunderstanding with the security folk thinking that some kid is running rampant around the Polynesian Cultural Centre on an out of control cat (the mind boggles) and her getting increasingly frustrated to the point that she eventually screamed "There's a kid on a caRRRRRRRRt!!!" down the phone in a heavily put-on American accent with plenty of "r" attitude.
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