Those voice activated prompts services used on the phone? Completely useless for hybrid accents.
\”State your purpose.\”
\”Moving.\”
\”I think you said \’pricing.\’ Would you like pricing?\”
\”No.\”
\”State your pupose.\”
\”I am moving.\”
\”I\’m not sure I understood. Please choose from the following options… connect/disconnect…\”
\”Connect/disconnect.\”
\”Please state if you wish to connect new service, disconnect old service, or if you are moving and require both, please state \’moving.\’\”
Ahahaaa!
Later, while speaking to a human:
\”City?\”
\”Washington.\”
\”Where is Wahr-shing-ton?\”
\”Oh, um… WAH-shing-ton. WAH-shing-ton, D-C.\”
\”Right then, Washington; no worries! Thought Wahr-shing-ton might have been somewhere else.\”
It\’s taken me being out of the country for six months to somehow settle into the Washingtonian accent that I have been trying to avoid all my life. \”We went to WAHRshington to do the WAHRshing, then we went to Bal\’more to see the Auuuurioles beat the Red Sox. And I\’ll have some CAWLARDS and a HALF-SMOKE to go with that drawl, please!\”
Oh man. My tongue no longer knows what region to speak in.
\”Dinnae ken \’bout yinz, likes, but, the footy was fully sick last avro, right?\”
\”Going for a Chinese meal but have to stop at the bottleo first as tea is BYO.\”
Wet with language.
