Catie’s recent blog entry/video blog about dialect and pronunciation interested me enough to do a video of my own:
Words said:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught
Questions answered:
* What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
* What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
* What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
* What do you call gym shoes?
* What do you say to address a group of people?
* What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
* What do you call your grandparents?
* What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
* What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
* What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Thats cool, I think I may have to do that, though mine is fairly close to yours :P.
This is so cool! I may have to do it too!
Oh, gosh. I just had to go and look this up….
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/spitting-image.html
I’ll have to do this from a Canadian P.O.V.
I think we say most things similarily – but you sound different when you say ‘water’, it sounds like .. ‘wooder’ or something!
That was quite interesting – you sounded different to what I thought you would!
I might have to do that on my blog at some point – to me, you say a lot of those words the same way I would, with the exception of route, haha. I think a lot of people might find the way I say that funny