2007-02-24 01:41:18 · 5 answers · asked by Scotty R 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New York City
Yes definitely!! I am from New England and do not sound like a New Yorker but...when I was in college people did mistake my accent for a New Yorker's sometimes. NYers accents if they are from like inner city usually draw out their o's and stuff. Like New Yoourk. When they say things it kinds sounds like that. In New England specifically in Massachusetts-closest to the Boston area we don't pronounce our R's at the end of words. Car = Cah, Over = Ovah etc. People make fun of us for this all the time. NYers don't drop their R's like we do in New England. Also people say that if you are from New England you take R's away from where they should be and place R's where they don't belong. Soda = Soder, or Idea = Idear ha ha. I do notice this in NH but I live there now and do not do that but I def. do hear people saying soder and stuff it's wicked funny!
2007-02-24 02:32:51 · answer #1 · answered by lovetotravel 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If someone uses the word "wicked" to describe a good thing (a wicked good sandwich) - they are from New England, not from New York. New Englanders pronounce their short A's differently. I (New Yorker) say H ah vahd University. My best friend (who grew up in Boston) says haaavaaad. I once told his mother that she had a very strong Boston accent - she turned to her husband and said, I do NOT, do I, Faaaaaathu? She couldn't hear it. And, as Ccf already said, we pronounce the R's differently.
2007-02-24 09:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by gormenghast10014 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all in the "R" and other slight pronunciations where the "a" tends to be over-emphasized.
I was with someone who lived in New Bedford and she would laugh at the way I would say daughter "daughta" as she would pronounce it "dahta". There was this one city there that she would always laugh at as well...Taunton (Tauhntn) and she would say (Tahnton). Of course the typical "staht", "pahk", "hahvahd", "rivah" is what is heard in New England and for New York "corna", "stoah", "heah" is about what is heard mainly in the outer boroughs.
2007-02-24 19:24:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A New York accent is more edgier or raw and a New England one is more JFK.
2007-02-24 10:34:27 · answer #4 · answered by ic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you listen to the way they pronounce the letter "R"
You must be careful, with TV and people moving all the time, peoples accents blend
2007-02-24 09:48:36 · answer #5 · answered by ccfromnj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋