I wonder sometimes how long it will take to stop noticing the accent…
I am practically addicted to watching “The New This Old House Hour” (and man oh man do I wish we could go see the Carlisle house). Anyway, there’s no doubt that at least a couple of those guys are actually from this area, since the accents are so thick they couldn’t possibly be acquired. So tonight on “Ask This Old House” Roger is helping this guy in Alpharetta, Georgia shop for a riding lawnmower and he says to the guy, “It rides just like a cah.”
And the guy says to Roger, “No, it rides like a car.”
For some reason this struck me as unbearably funny. Probably because I tell the baby that when the weather gets nice I’ll take her to the pahk, and I’d take her to the park but they don’t have those here.
That’s it, little lady! We’ll get ya fully acclimated in no time. Heck, soon we’ll staht teachin’ ya how t’ speak N’Hampsha’ and then Down East Maine, ayuh.
Posted by DCE on 04/15 at 07:16 AMDeb, the only problem with the Carlisle house is that it’s located in Carlisle—which I have found (with minor exceptions) to be full of petulant, arrogant newly-rich crybabies (who eschew flat ah’s).
Posted by wavemaker on 04/16 at 08:51 AMOh—and if you find the “New England” accent to be especially chahming, I comment to you any of the 55 works of Joseph C. Lincoln, written about Cape Cod people between 1904 and 1936. They’ll fill ya haht.
Posted by wavemaker on 04/16 at 08:54 AMYou’ll never stop noticing that accent. I haven’t. Both my parents are from that area. They moved away before I was born but they both still have that accent. And I notice it. Still. After (mumble… I’m probably old enough to be your mamma, if not grandmama) years.
Posted by Kathy K on 04/16 at 09:04 PM
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