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In light of recent discussions on such expressions as "The lawn needs mowed," I'd like to direct y'all's attention to the following site: http://www.slanguage.com/index2.htmlIt features cities/regions which are home* to many of our participants [refusing-to-use-that-French-sounding-ALYEUR-thingie e] and I was wondering, as one who studied southeastern US dialectology a million years ago in college, what y'all think of the way your local lingo is described/transliterated? ---- *sadly, none in Zild, but they're asking for contributions!
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so far, no Minneapolis... uff da!
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Quite a few flaws as well as the usual stereotypes that are very specifically "south side only" pronunciations:
"Air = pronunciation of the letter after Q." (I don't get this one at all)
"DA- "anything"" - I heard this in Boston more than the north side of Chi-Town.
"Slingin' Sammy" - Never! It's "Slammin Sammy"
I've never heard Claude and Maude pronounced with the "O" sound in GOT - anywhere!
Never the YIKE - it's called the "IKE"
Paulina St is Pull-eye-na
Cheek-ah-ga, sassages, bab, da Hocks, how air ya - None of these are accurate or even a slight stretch. (Are you with me BeingCJ?)
Ditka is pronounced DIKA (I'm suprised they missed that one)
Chicagoland is only used by advertizers and the suburban people when asked "where do you live" and they know nobody knows where's Elmwood Park.
"Stereotypes are made for a reason" I say often to get a response from people, but in this case "I got nothin'".
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"I've never heard Claude and Maude pronounced with the "O" sound in GOT - anywhere"
In New England I never heard it any other way. I know that in Latin Claudius was pronounced the same as Clodius.
And meant lame.
And my dictionary give the same "o" sound for "god" as for "Claude"
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"Air = pronunciation of the letter after Q." (I don't get this one at all)
[singing quitly to himself] ABCDEFG . . .
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If it is talkin'bout the letter "R" (thanks JazzO), I have never heard that, so I still "don't get it" or "I got nothin" (used interchangeably here on the north side) or for you out-of-towners "It means nothing to me" or "A comment at this point is belabouring the obvious"(a kind of "Why are we still talking about this?") -or- "you have so much more experience, therefore I have nothing worthwhile to say"(said completely facetiously)! Take your pick! 
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Boston:
I pahk my cah by the Haavahd Apahtmens.
NH & Maine :
Eyuh (ay-yuh) different meanings depending on intonation and circumstance.
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Boston:
I pahk my cah by the Haavahd Apahtmens.In Zild, that would be: I pahk my cah by the Haavid Apahtments. 
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Chicago was a wonderful place for GI's on weekends in WWII. I didn't learn much about regional speech differences on my weekends there. But, to be mischievous, I read a book a few years ago in which a serious scholar said the name was derived from an Indian word meaning "place of skunks".
For the very young GI stood for "Government Issue" as though we were just pieces of goods.
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Boston:
I pahk my cah by the Haavahd Apahtmens.
In Zild, that would be:
I pahk my cah by the Haavid Apahtments
Close enough for gum'mint work!
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