Wiki says I speak: Inland Northern (American) English
If you scroll to the bottom of the link, it lists some other dialects.
If you scroll to the bottom of the link, it lists some other dialects.
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Which American English do you speak
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Silverhair
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Canadian east coast english
Similar to Ray and Stanley here
I live at the head of the holler, look out my winder, and watch the branch a-flowing and whindling down to the Perry place which sets right yonder at the mouth of said holler. And if'n I climb to the bench of the ridge above my homeplace and look northwards I can see plumb to the Virginye border.
My milk gets blinked if it sets out too long, I feel finer that frog hair split four ways, I address a group of folk as "y'all" or "youn'uns", mash buttons on my chevy truck, push a buggy in the grocery and strive to show a good Christian conversation. My children get told that daddy is fixin to whip the tar out of them if they blackguard their mother, but if the young'uns behave they get a big red sucker from the filling station and when a big gully washer comes down I say "It's a-pourin down the rain".
That video also sums up why I can't stand folk that move into our community and the first thing they do is stick up no trespassing signs. Ain't right.
I live at the head of the holler, look out my winder, and watch the branch a-flowing and whindling down to the Perry place which sets right yonder at the mouth of said holler. And if'n I climb to the bench of the ridge above my homeplace and look northwards I can see plumb to the Virginye border.
My milk gets blinked if it sets out too long, I feel finer that frog hair split four ways, I address a group of folk as "y'all" or "youn'uns", mash buttons on my chevy truck, push a buggy in the grocery and strive to show a good Christian conversation. My children get told that daddy is fixin to whip the tar out of them if they blackguard their mother, but if the young'uns behave they get a big red sucker from the filling station and when a big gully washer comes down I say "It's a-pourin down the rain".
That video also sums up why I can't stand folk that move into our community and the first thing they do is stick up no trespassing signs. Ain't right.
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Why was I thinking you live in Alberta?
Silverhair
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I do now and have for the last 43 yrs but like they say once a down-homer always a down-homer.
Well I checked my ancestry and I'm Scottish-Irish but I speak neither... Dad hailed from Texas but I don't speak Texan either... Grew up in Southern California but don't speak Californees either, dude and all the slang that goes with it... Just stick with the colloquialism of everyday English... But I'm married to woman who is has a Master Degree in English and reminds me every time I butcher the Kings English... Which is probably everyday... Brother Glen
RighteousnessTemperance&
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You didn't just nail it, you murdered it. Nice show.Well I checked my ancestry and I'm Scottish-Irish but I speak neither... Dad hailed from Texas but I don't speak Texan either... Grew up in Southern California but don't speak Californees either, dude and all the slang that goes with it... Just stick with the colloquialism of everyday English... But I'm married to woman who is has a Master Degree in English and reminds me every time I butcher the Kings English... Which is probably everyday... Brother Glen
What's the coldest you've seen it get there? You hunt? Fish?
Silverhair
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Back home about -35 F out here in Alberta about - 40 F. Did hunt and fish but now age has caught up to me so had to give them up.