Comments on: You Say Tomato, and I say …….

By: Zooomabooma

Zooomabooma — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:56:53 +0000

I’ve got a minor fascination with accents, American in particular. My north Jersey accent has somewhat faded after spending many years away in Montana and Utah and Alaska. But all the time my mind registers something I say in that accent. People look at me funny at times, knowin’ I ain’t from Alaska, no way, no how, not talkin’ like that, he ain’t. When I hear people from back “home” talk, that’s when I really recognize how different like Erica’s Brooklyn accent is which is similar to Westchester and even not too far north of there, and much of northeast Jersey where I’m from.

Yooze know what I’m sayin’? Ain’t nobody ever gonna confuzle me with someone from Nebraska!

By: Dash

Dash — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:20:10 +0000

The rest of the story is - Paul’s originally from Okiehoma and really has some rather quirky intonations and inflections. No one else on earth speaks the way he does. Still going strong at 89, he’s an American radio icon. I still can’t resist listening to him every day. Good day!

By: Suzette

Suzette — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:04:06 +0000

I think Paul Harvey must have gotten a new set of dentures recently. He used to have that denture-drop thing going on that causes a sibilant S (Too-ssssss-day) - very entertaining. I recently heard one of his broadcasts and the sibilant S was gone.

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:54:17 +0000

Jerry: I should remind you [from Wikipedia] that “Vinny” was a “neophyte personal injury lawyer from Brooklyn,” and Marisa Tomei went to my high school…in Brooklyn.

Jimbo! They’re trying to get you to adapt their hillbilly ways! Don’t you see this??

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:01:45 +0000

Jimbo,
Just try to fit in when you travel south. I’m reminded of a certain scene from My Cousin Vinnie:

Mona Lisa: [Vinny looks at her funny] What?
Vinny: Nothing. You stick out like a sore thumb around here.
Mona Lisa: Me? What about you?
Vinny: I fit in better than you. At least I’m wearing cowboy boots.
Mona Lisa Vito: Oh yeah, you blend.

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:41:05 +0000

God, now you got me thinking….

I think — but it’s too painful when I’m cognizant of it — I might pronounce “tomatoes” as “t’may-tehs.” We pronounce “our” the same way, but this: CHOOWK-lit? Dude, it’s like this: CHALK-LIT.

This, on the other hand: “TOOS-dee” … This I pronounce that it should rhyme with “youse” [or, “yooz”], as in “youse-day.”

Paul Harvey is kind of a pleasure to listen to, in a Garrison Keillor kind of way. He’s definitely da one wit da accent, doh.

By: zombyboy

zombyboy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:11:17 +0000

tuhmaytoe, ower (our and hour sound the same), chocklit, toosday

Paul and you both have weird accents. Freaks.