Nailed it.
Precision: there are a few word pronunciations that are excellent indicators of what part of south Philly one hails from.
Residents of Delco, northern DE, or southern NJ need not speak. Ever.
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It was accurate. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs.
Fuck you
And “go birds”
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I was raised in central Michigan. Lived in WI late 20s to late 30s.
I’ve been to NY and New England maybe 6 times, same as FL.
As a kid I had a speech impediment, pronouncing the letter R, not like a pirate, but like Owl. Some around me said I hada NY accent. And I had a manager st work once ask me if I was from the east coast, as my direct communication style was perhaps more abrupt than the midwest nice they were accustomed to in WI. Said manager was from Brooklyn.
It had me in Boston and Northern Va. Pretty good for a Mainer who spent many years in DC.
Kind of close. I grew up in the PNW, eastern WA and northern ID mostly, but moved away when I was 18 and have lived all over the place since then, including very northern CA. So while I grew up calling carbonated beverages ‘pop’, I picked up ‘soda’ over the years.
Chicago Rockford and Aurora which is all Chicago
I grew up in Grand Rapids (the quiz got that right) and we didn’t have a name for this.
Nailed me from Central FL, with the possibility of Jackson, MS and strong agreement with my current location in CO. That’s probably due to the way the answers were posed for some questions, where FL didn’t have terms or a predominate answer, so I used the CO term or pronunciation.
The apotrophe in ya’ll is in the wrong spot.
How is that? The contraction is “you all,” therefore, the apostrophe is between y and all. Y’all.
Just had this conversation with my sister.
Show me someone who says “ya’ll” that would say in “How are you doing?” They’ll say “How ya doing?”
“Ya all” contracted is ya’ll. You can’t apply normal grammatical rules to Southern language. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s the south; it isn’t ‘You all’, it’s ‘ya all’…
- Jeff
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I’ve heard some preposterous nonsense in the LR before, but this might take the cake.
I know people who say, All y’all”.
Where are you from again?
I lived for years in North Carolina and my dad and his extremely Southern parents were of the genteel Southern upbringing that comes with people who have their great great great grandparents Confederate papers in storage.
Ya all is ludicrous. There are multiple supposed origins of y’all. “Ya all” isn’t one of them.
You’ve used preposterous and ludicrous in your responses to me. Too many syllables for someone claiming to have an understanding of casual Southern language 
It’s ya all-> ya’ll.