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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 720336" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>I had a college friend from Boston and I remember her calling it tonic - we thought it was SO FUNNY! We were easily amused.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Missourians do a lot of Y'alls as well. And ain't.</p><p></p><p>I grew up in Missouri from the time I was 2 months old, but my parents were from the pacific northwest and Nevada - so I actually have less of a dialect than many of my friends who's family were from Missouri. For instance, I say Missouri Not Missourah. They actually use the (mispronunciation) as a cheer at the University football games "Mizzou RAH!" Makes me crazy. It ends in an I people!!!</p><p></p><p>Other things I probably say differently: Root rhymes with suit, not foot. I drink soda, but some of my friends growing up said coke or pop. I had a boyfriend from Northern Iowa once laugh at me when I told him to turn on the DEfroster...instead of the deFROSTer. Apparently, the emphasis belongs on different syllables depending on where you are from.</p><p></p><p>I actually thought I had no accent at all, until I went to Seattle as a kid - about 17 - and my sister in law and I got lost and were looking for the bus. We were in a mall, looking for the right exit and people would ask where we were from as soon as we opened our mouths. I finally started saying, "We're from Missouri. They don't have busses. Tell us where to go." LOL</p><p></p><p>Then when I was practicing law I would be up late dictating legal briefs and listening to a tape one time, I remarked to my secretary, "OMG! I sound like a hick! I had no idea I had an accent!" She just laughed and told me that when I'm tired, it gets more pronounced also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 720336, member: 17309"] I had a college friend from Boston and I remember her calling it tonic - we thought it was SO FUNNY! We were easily amused. Missourians do a lot of Y'alls as well. And ain't. I grew up in Missouri from the time I was 2 months old, but my parents were from the pacific northwest and Nevada - so I actually have less of a dialect than many of my friends who's family were from Missouri. For instance, I say Missouri Not Missourah. They actually use the (mispronunciation) as a cheer at the University football games "Mizzou RAH!" Makes me crazy. It ends in an I people!!! Other things I probably say differently: Root rhymes with suit, not foot. I drink soda, but some of my friends growing up said coke or pop. I had a boyfriend from Northern Iowa once laugh at me when I told him to turn on the DEfroster...instead of the deFROSTer. Apparently, the emphasis belongs on different syllables depending on where you are from. I actually thought I had no accent at all, until I went to Seattle as a kid - about 17 - and my sister in law and I got lost and were looking for the bus. We were in a mall, looking for the right exit and people would ask where we were from as soon as we opened our mouths. I finally started saying, "We're from Missouri. They don't have busses. Tell us where to go." LOL Then when I was practicing law I would be up late dictating legal briefs and listening to a tape one time, I remarked to my secretary, "OMG! I sound like a hick! I had no idea I had an accent!" She just laughed and told me that when I'm tired, it gets more pronounced also. [/QUOTE]
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