Do you Speak American?

[tbb113]

There is a show on PBS tonight about the American language and dialects. I know that we have had a lot of threads about how to pronounce certain words...might be interesting.

Here (http://www.pbs.org/speak/) is more info on the show.

[funnybone]

I'm not sure what I had on yesterday (it was background noise as I was doing something else) but they were discussing this show. Thanks for the link because I missed when it would be on. It sounded interesting.

[AndreaU]

I've already "reserved" the tv tonight to watch it! I read about it somewhere (newspaper?) and it sounds interesting. Being a teacher, I'm looking forward to checking it out.

[Grace]

All those on the board who can't understand how to pronounce "Don" more than one way should watch too! :D :D :D ;)

[AndreaU]

Originally posted by Grace
All those on the board who can't understand how to pronounce "Don" more than one way should watch too! :D :D :D ;)

Ah, DH understands this one all too well as that's his name! When he went to college in VA (from NY), he learned this first hand.

[LaraW]

Originally posted by Grace
All those on the board who can't understand how to pronounce "Don" more than one way should watch too! :D :D :D ;)

LOL! What was the other word that people were having trouble with hearing two different ways?

(btw, I can hear the difference between Don and Dawn) ;)

[Canice]

Aaron and Erin!

[LaraW]

That's it!

[tbb113]

Oh, there are lots of words that people say the same in CA that I say differently with my fading Chicago accent.

Caught and cot
Dawn and Don
Erin and Aaron (I say these the same, need a NY'er to hear the difference)

I'm sure that there are more out there if I think about it

[MusicMom]

Thanks for the reminder. I read about it on Sunday, but forgot.

[Peggy]

Looks like an interesting program. We are planning on watching it. Looks like a rare TV night at our house... Arnold at 5pm and the other program at 8pm!:) I'll be a regular little tater-tot!!

Peggy

[MKSquared]

This show is simply fascinating! I wish I'd known about it earlier so my education cohort could also watch it with me. :p

And what's with them saying the Columbus dis-PATCH? I live here and say DISS-patch. :p (Then again, if you look at "Midland," I'm technicaly not from that area, coming from Cleveland.)

[funnybone]

I was going to watch and realized it was 3 hours long. I decided to TIVO it and watch it in "installments" at a later date.