"Coming with?", Canadian/American accents

[blpurdom]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "saintbacchus" <saintbacchus at y...> 
wrote:

> Maybe instead of Canada being another American state, Wisconsin is 
> a lost province. Right around Beaver Dam (about halfway north), 
> people start saying "sow-ry" and "eh." We also say "come with," 
> even in southern Wisconsin. I had no idea that was a regional 
> phrase!
> 
> We don't say "a-boot" or "a-gain" (as opposed to "a-gin"), though. 
> Those seem to be exclusively Canadian pronunciations.

Actually, I think that's some of that Scottishness I mentioned 
creeping in there.  Some things stuck and others didn't.  Even 
regional US accents are like this.  I once had a co-worker who was a 
Boston native who had actually sounded--I thought--indistinguishible 
from someone from the Mid-Atlantic states, except she couldn't shake 
her pronuciation of "bathroom" ("BAHTH room").  I'd be having a 
conversation with her, and she sounded perfectly "normal" <snerk> 
and suddenly she'd say "BAHTH room."  I'd start looking around, 
wondering when a pod person had snuck in and replaced my friend...

And for some reason, a Scottish sort of thing that a lot of 
Presbyterian ministers tend to do (don't ask me why, perhaps it's 
because it's the Kirk of Scotland) is pronounce "measure" as "MAY-
zher."  It doesn't seem to matter where they're from.  (Maybe it's 
something they learned all at the same seminary.)  Go figure.  Eh.

--Barb
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