Originally posted by zeeblebot" had tracked Hinkle down after reading about a study, conducted by University of Texas at San Antonio linguistics professor Guy Bailey, that found that the Texas accent is actually spreading. Bailey discovered that the use of the flattened vowel sound that makes “night” sound like “naht” —a key marker of the Texas twang—is expanding across all socioeconomic groups, most dramatically among people who are thirty and younger. "
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/texan/drawl/
give it up, mikelom .... someday yuh'll be tahlkin' lahk me ...
"Just as surprising, in an era when media saturation and urban living are the norm, regional phrases like “y’all” and “fixin’ to” are becoming more popular among Texans, not less. Add to these developments all the attention that the twang is garnering now that Dubya is in the White House, and the Texas accent hasn’t been this cool since, well, arguably since James Dean ambled over to Elizabeth Taylor in Giant and said, “Yew shore do look purty, Miss Leslie.” "
"Bailey and Tillery are also interested in the way Texans articulate other vowels. The “vowel merger” is a blending of vowel sounds, so that words like “win” and “when” start to sound alike, as do “cot” and “caught,” “feel” and “fill,” and so on. More and more Texans are now blurring their vowels together this way, particularly those born after 1972. "
what?!!! do "when" and "win" sound different to you?
Originally posted by zeeblebotPrecisely!
[b]"Bailey and Tillery are also interested in the way Texans articulate other vowels. The “vowel merger” is a blending of vowel sounds, so that words like “win” and “when” start to sound alike, as do “cot” and “caught,” “feel” and “fill,” and so on. More and more Texans are now blurring their vowels together this way, particularly those born after 1972. "
what?!!! do "when" and "win" sound different to you?[/b]
Originally posted by celticcountryYes I do.
The words Band and Banned sound exactly the same when I say them.
Does anyone else pronounce them differently?
Band is pronounced "band"
and banned is pronounced "ban ned"
This allows me to differentiate the two words so that when I tell some drunk plonker that they are banned as in "ban ned" from the nightclub I work in they know that they are banned as is "ban ned" and not that I was telling them about a band as in "band".
😛
