Wednesday, January 5, 2011

DJEE BREFFIS YEH? Via the Philadelphia Daily News, Sean Monahan's primer on how to speak Philadelphian:



7 comments:

  1. KCosmo8:48 AM

    Love it.  I am homesick.

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  2. It's got all the details right -- even the middle short-i becoming a long-e in words like Bawl-TEE-more and Mehx-EE-co.

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  3. Cecilia9:48 AM

    I'm from Wooster, and while we say "pop" and not "soda," we do pronounce everything absolutely correctly.  Except for "Wooster," which is not pronounced the way it looks.  So I'm glad we were able to help Sean out. 

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  4. Marsha10:52 AM

    My favorite is "Da Inquar."

    I understand him just fine when he talks, but trying to read the subtitles messed with my head...

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  5. girard3110:57 AM

    He's also right about the difference (however slight) between Baltimore and Philly. Baltimore is half Philly dialect/half Virginia-southern. Longer holds on the vowels, and the dropping of the T.

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  6. That is what happened to me. Trying to read it made it impossible to understand, but when I close my eyes I understand perfectly.

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  7. Meghan1:18 PM

    After moving away from Bucks County, it took me years to learn to get that second T in Trenton.  Tren-on, moun-ain, foun-ain. 

    This guy is awesome.

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