<p>Yeah I had some guy in my class this summer who had a really strong accent (more noticeable than usual southern IL people). Sure enough pretty far south. It cracked me up the first couple of times.</p>
<p>I moved around a little bit....i lived in the midatlantic, the south, and the northeast. my mother is frm the midwest and my father is from the caribbean. most people have told me that i dont have a southern accent, but a few people have noticed that i talk a little strange. i say "y'all" a lot and where i go to school...prtty much nobody i know says it. someone imitated me before and it was an exaggerated southern accent. then i had someone over the phone ask me, "where are you from?" i told her from the south and asked her if she thought i had a southern accent.....she said that i sounded like i was from another country....lol....whatever</p>
<p>did a professor seriously take points off for saying "pop"?</p>
<p>I poke fun at my friends who say "pop", but honestly... it's the same thing and there is no reason you should lose points for saying or writing "pop" instead of "soda"</p>
<p>maybe because "pop" is colloquial and "soda" is not? </p>
<p>o.o;;;??</p>
<p>Or maybe they were doing a project on regional dialect?</p>
<p>I get made fun of for using "wicked". But I don't mind- my roommate's from Colorado, and we argue about what the right word is/how you say it all the time. All in good fun :).</p>
<p>Last 2 years in high school I finally got out of my shy stage and started speakin louder and man did people start noticing my southern accent. So people picked on me in my home town for my accent. I go to a college 2 hours away from my town and everyone here either thinks im from way down south not NC :) or they pick on me but I dont mind though if they're just messin around </p>
<p>I love accents :)</p>
<p>Nobody really likes it when they're state is mispronounced. You east-coasters have no idea how much we make fun of you from pronouncing Oregon O-ree-gone. It sounds like bush trying to pronounce Iraq. Awful. :)</p>
<p>or Illinois as El-la-noisssse. So many mistakes. Don't even know where to begin.</p>
<p>Um, yeah. Sometimes. But people get used to it.</p>
<p>I go to college WAY upstate in New York, and we have every single New York accent up here - Long Island, NYC, Central NY, Western NY, Capital Region, North Country. Yeah, bet you didn't know New York had that many accents. ;)</p>