Thursday, August 30, 2012

Utah Accent

After 5 years in Utah with mostly linguistic friends I've become acutely aware of the Utah accent and horror or horrors I slip into it when I get really tired (or "relly turd"). The confusing thing about the Utah accent is a lot of the pronunciations are other words so sentences such as "How did sailing feel?" turns into "How did selling fill?" confusing...I once saw a guy do a stand up bit on the accent and kept saying "real meal deal" over and over "rell mell dill". I'd say it's sixes on whether or not they use an "e" or an "i" to replace hard vowels. Love it.

feel--fell or fill
form--farm
Mormon--Marman
fork--fark
wheel--whill
real/reel--rell
sale/sail--sell
deal--dill
mail/male--mell
milk--melk
pillow--pellow
winter--winner
crayon--cran
tired--turd
mountain--mou'in
button--bu'in
Layton--Lay-in
kitten--ki'in

what the heck
WTheck
flip
fetch
fudge
eff

3 comments:

  1. Do I have a Utah accent? I don't think I say any of those words that way. lol

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