What about living in your city is nothing like the TV/movies?

[Merlin the Elder]

In New York City most residents think anywhere above White Plains is Indian country.  I was asked once, after the person heard I was from NY,  Oh do you know so and so.  Like there are only 25 million residents in the state I should know this one person.  JEEEEEZZ............

LOL! Yeah... My son teaches in Brooklyn. Someone asked me, "Does he know...?"  Funny thing, though. We were walking near St Pat's, and my son ran into a friend from back home in Little Rock. Go figure.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

When I was in NY City years ago, someone in a shop asked since they knew by our 'accent' knew we were not from there asked where. When i said Iowa, she leaned in and said "oh, honey,  out here we pronounce that O-hi-o.  I figured, yep, they probably did.

[DonaCatalina]

When I was in NY City years ago, someone in a shop asked since they knew by our 'accent' knew we were not from there asked where. When i said Iowa, she leaned in and said "oh, honey,  out here we pronounce that O-hi-o.  I figured, yep, they probably did.

LOL

[LadyFae]

Unlike what you see on Little House on the Prairie and Picket Fences- around here the grass is not always green with leaves on the trees up until Christmas.  Not every time it snows is it a blizzard.

[Bob of the Lake]

Northern New Jersey. And most of us don't spend our days working on our abs, tans, or hair, and the rest of us aren't connected with the mob.

[Merlin the Elder]

Northern New Jersey. And most of us don't spend our days working on our abs, tans, or hair, and the rest of us aren't connected with the mob.

About that favour you asked me for....

When I was in NY City years ago, someone in a shop asked since they knew by our 'accent' knew we were not from there asked where. When i said Iowa, she leaned in and said "oh, honey,  out here we pronounce that O-hi-o.  I figured, yep, they probably did.

NO WAY!

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Northern New Jersey. And most of us don't spend our days working on our abs, tans, or hair, and the rest of us aren't connected with the mob.

I'm originally from NJ but for the past 17 years have lived in the Midwest.  People hear my accent and ask where I'm from.  When I say NJ, they inevitably say "New Joy-see."  Really, people from NJ don't pronounce it like that!!!!

[Merlin the Elder]

I think that's more an affectation from areas of NYC, isn't it, Lady Renee? ...I can't tell you which one. I'd need to confer with my son...

[BLAKDUKE]

Merlin:

yes "youze guys" and "toity toid" st are mainly NYC accents.

It's like "pahk the cah"  in Boston.

The Blakduke

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

I did go to college with a guy from Paramus and his did refer to it as joisey - maybe he was being facetious, but that is how he said it.

[cowgrrl]

We do say y'all but I hear a lot of people trying to do a Southern accent trip up on that word. It's just "y'all", not "y'aaalllll". It takes about the same length of time to say as 'you'.

[DonaCatalina]

Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.

Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?

yep.
and I am fixin' to tell ya'll about it.

[Meagan]

Something I find funny. I never say y'all, and I am not fixin' to do anything. I do not speak with a heavy southern/Texas accent at all, but I DO live across the street from a cattle ranch and there is a gas well behind our property.

[arbcoind]

Pittsburgh PA

Steelers/Penguins/Pirates fans are way more rabid than shown on TV or Movies.  We BLEED black and gold.  Do not come to our town and diss on the Black and Gold...do not wear another teams jersey.  Do not deface the Terrible Towel....EVER...Oh and we hate Cleveland Ohio, not sure why, but we just have to.  It is never totally sunny here.  If we get a day that is completely clear without a cloud in the sky, we go NUTS.

We say "yinz" instead of y'all.

"Yinz goin' dan dat Stillers game an at?" 

I could go on, but I think everyone here who has met a true yinzer gets the point.

Gina

[Dissension]

Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.

It's ok.  We all have successful acting careers on the TV show, "Dallas", now.  Let the damn yankees do all the hard work on the ranches.  Suckers!