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Centropolis · #**2301** Posted **Nov 15, 2011, 4:49 PM**

I'm in the cranz club too. I also say worsh. People round here use oZarky ways of talking sometimes but said in a nasaly Midwestern way.

Ayreonaut · #**2302** Posted **Nov 15, 2011, 5:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by touraccuracy

grocery store (my c has a *sh* sound)

I'm not sure this is a regional thing. I hear it both ways in Calgary. I grew up saying groshery, but I think now I say gross-ry. Usually I just say I'm going to Sobey's, or doing a Sobey's run, and people usually know what I mean. If I'm in BC, then replace Sobey's with Superstore.

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whatever happened to jstush? i don't think i see dr. taco posting often, or maybe i do and don't make the connection with his old name. i miss the fusey vs. jstush dynamic.

He probably got tired of being one of the only conservatives on here. Those two still go at it on facebook though.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**2303** Posted **Nov 15, 2011, 6:45 PM**

My relatives say things like "warsh" but I never really picked that up.

Keep in mind that a half hour in any direction from Cincinnati and you're bound to hear a different accent. Mine's probably a combination of Kentuckian (my dad's family is from there) and the hickvilles northeast of Cincinnati (mom's family originally lived in Milford but spread out to Blanchester and Wilmington).

Ayreonaut · #**2304** Posted **Nov 15, 2011, 7:51 PM**

I've never heard anyone under 70 say "warsh" or "Warshington".

touraccuracy · #**2305** Posted **Nov 15, 2011, 9:08 PM**

sawr, idear

vid · #**2306** Posted **Nov 15, 2011, 11:28 PM**

His accent sounds really familiar to me but I was raised on WDIV, WWJ and WXYZ. I can tell he isn't from here but if I heard it in person, probably wouldn't think much of it.

rockyi · #**2307** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 12:02 AM**

I do say gross-ry but if I'm EVER caught saying warsh or worsh you have my permission to beat the crap out of me.

Cleveland Brown · #**2308** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 12:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

His accent sounds really familiar to me but I was raised on WDIV, WWJ and WXYZ. I can tell he isn't from here but if I heard it in person, probably wouldn't think much of it.

How can you get local news 800 miles away?

Centropolis · #**2309** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 1:12 AM**

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Centropolis · #**2310** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 1:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

My relatives say things like "warsh" but I never really picked that up.

Keep in mind that a half hour in any direction from Cincinnati and you're bound to hear a different accent. Mine's probably a combination of Kentuckian (my dad's family is from there) and the hickvilles northeast of Cincinnati (mom's family originally lived in Milford but spread out to Blanchester and Wilmington).

Cincy and St. Louis are practically doppelgangers. You have this heavy duty brooding Germanic, industrial, easternish influence as an island in a sea of rural lower midwestern and upper southern influences, and some stuff crosses over. Many failed farmer white folks (who also were often of German decent like part of my family) also migrated north into St. Louis from the Ozarks just like Kentuckians into Ohio and probably mashed up their accents and ways of saying things into the nasally great lakesish accent. I also think it depends on if you are from the Northside, Southside, or Central Corridor in St. Louis. I think historically, the Northside and Central are more purely Great Lakesy in accent, and sometimes almost Northeastern, but that's probably dying out.

I was called out for saying "worsh" (not "warsh") when I was in college in western Missouri by some rednecky dorm mates believe it or not.

Ayreonaut · #**2311** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 3:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

How can you get local news 800 miles away?

Local networks from Seattle, Spokane, Detroit, Buffalo, and Boston are available in many Canadian households. As well as Fox Rochester (usually instead of Fox Buffalo, if they have one).

Buckeye Native 001 · #**2312** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 4:08 AM**

So here's what my voice sounds like. My friends and I dicking around with the grill last Memorial Day:

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touraccuracy · #**2313** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 4:49 AM**

"yeah there ya go bitch"

Centropolis · #**2314** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 4:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Local networks from Seattle, Spokane, Detroit, Buffalo, and Boston are available in many Canadian households. As well as Fox Rochester (usually instead of Fox Buffalo, if they have one).

That's weird.

Ayreonaut · #**2315** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 5:35 AM**

Call me immature, but I think Peter Dinklage is one of the funniest names I've heard in a long time.

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

That's weird.

They're usually just labelled as NBC/ABC/CBS/PBS/FOX East/West. They are rather unnecessary since Canadian channels carry pretty much all the American network shows anyway, but I like having them simply for college football, which is not usually simulcast on CTV or Global.

LMich · #**2316** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 9:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

That's weird.

Maybe it's being from Michigan, but I don't find it all that weird considering we get CBET, CBC's Windsor affiliate, in a lot of Michigan. What's strange is that here in Mid-Michigan, East Lansing gets CBET, but you can't get it in neighboring Lansing (we're talking about cable).

LMich · #**2317** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 9:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

So here's what my voice sounds like. My friends and I dicking around with the grill last Memorial Day:

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"Awww, that was shitty."

She seems so genuinely and earnestly disappointed, as if her whole day has been ruined. lol Her honesty in her evaluation of the experience makes the clip.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**2318** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 4:10 PM**

That's my friend's fiance. She has me beat in cynicism and negativity by a mile.

Personally, I love that the video begins with her saying "God, you're stupid."

Cleveland Brown · #**2319** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 9:17 PM**

^ It sounds like a review for the worst porno ever! Anyway, BN, you sound just like someone from southern Ohio. It's amazing how accents shift within the state.

vid · #**2320** Posted **Nov 16, 2011, 11:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

How can you get local news 800 miles away?

Detroit's TV stations have the largest Canadian audience due to the proximity to Canada, so they're the ones our cable companies broadcast nationwide to give us American channels on the Eastern schedule. FOX Rochester is aired in Canada because it was agreed by the people in charge of Shaw Cable in the early 90s that it had a better schedule than the other lower Great Lakes Fox affiliates.

Canadian cable companies can air, free of charge, any local American tv channel, as long as they simsub the Canadian channel over it when they're both airing the same programme. This is why Canadians get Peachtree TV instead of TBS.