Do you speak it? Do you know what these words mean? If you're from Utah, you should be fluent. Let me use them in a sentence for you:
1. I'm starvin...jeetchyet? Skweet over 't the Del Taco.
2. Joo see that squirrel?!? Skillit with yer .22!
3. I got bad breath...javnee gum?
4. Is today Wensdee? Nope, Toosdee.
We have a gas station here in the Mountain West called "Maverik." Yes, that is the correct spelling. In fact, I work a block away from the busiest, highest-grossing Maverik in the nation. That's saying something considering they have 200 stores with over a billion $$$ in sales.
Anyhoo, I bring up Maverik because they have TV and radio commercials with a spokesman who is obviously a Utah native and speaks with a HEAVY Utah accent.
I don't like it. It sort of gives me the heeby-jeebies to hear that accent. Almost worse than listening to an Australian accent. Almost. I feel like I have NO accent, as manifest by this test:
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta. | |
| The Midland | |
| Boston | |
| North Central | |
| The Inland North | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The South | |
| The Northeast | |
| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
What accent do you have?
5 comments:
It says I have a Midland accent. Weird, cause I've lived 7 different states, including the South, but none of the Midland states.
Oh, there's a definite Utah accent, and lots of words used only in Utah. Now that I've lived away from Utah for 15 years, I notice the accent even more. I was mocked openly years ago in the MTC by non-Utahns for using the word 'sluff', as in 'sluff school'. Everyone thought that was hysterical. And don't even get me started on the word 'melvin'...
I guess I have a midland accent. I have only lived in Utahrrrr.
Totally reminds me of the old KJQ feature, "The Utah Word of the Day." My personal favorite was "chesterjoors"--you know, you put yer socks in the chesterjoors in yer bedroom.
Back in grad school days I worked as a telephone interviewer, calling people all across the country, and they loved my accent specifically because it was regionally-neutral. Until I said the word "creek"...
Shocking that my scores are almost identical to yours, given that we grew up about five miles from each other and all.
LOL at this! A Cafornian once told me of another Utwah word: YIDDIOT; "What were ya thinkin--y'idiot!" Thanks fer the guffaw, nephew.
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