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Good to have you, sunshinegal. Milum, greet your neighbor!  And thanks for this: I'm a stickler for correct pronunciation, despite living in the south. I anticipate this coming in handy. Right, Jackie? Whah, yay-ess, Ah'll be dee-lahted to demonstrate coh-rect pruhnunciation tuh everybody...
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Know what? I'm not sure I know what "correct" means in this context. Or whose authority I would accept to speak for me, or any of us...
(And here I am, the one who complained that dictionaries were abdicating their responsibility to be prescriptive rather than descriptive...)
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wofa, my guess is she means common mispronunciations such as liberry, and prolly not things like tomayto vs. tomahto.
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yer prolly kreck there, miz J! But I think we should ask a Californian since it's a well-known fact (WKF®) that these fine people are the only ones in the universe without an accent...  
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re: ask a Californian since it's a well-known fact that these fine people are the only ones in the universe without an accent...
Like, are you, like, sure, like, about that Mav? and like, how would you like, know? like, aren't you, like, stuck in some strange like, country that like, uses w like a vowel? and like, how can you like, tell they don't like, have an accents? is it like, obvious?
actually the only person i know who speaks with out an accent- and sound somewhat mechanical as a result is Keanu Reeves. he was born and raise in Hawaii, and had a very strong accent.. and went to speach classes to learn accent less speach..
its not totally accentless.. you can tell he is north american (and not say from UK, and most definately not from Oz or NZ)-- but his speach is very neutral.. even more neutral than say baltimore (hi Bob) or philedelphia. which have very neutral accents..
unlike yanks who Pahk theih cahs in Havahd yahd..
or new yawkers who sometime go to the east end lon guyland..
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how can you like, tell they don't like, have an accents? is it like, obvious?indeed® - I get, like, told, on a totally regular basis
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Ahs? We don' need no steenkin' ahs!... Except when you go to Gorr-rrrrre!
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And yet, and yet... Accents are so very much in the ear of the beholder. I was born in the Bronx, raised in Long Island, went to school in Boston; I pick up the accent of whatever group I'm among for an hour or two (or I used to anyway), and my accent -- well, it depends. I've been told by New Yorkers that I can't be from there, I don't have the right accent -- but the further away from the US East Coast a listener originates, the more obvious my NY accent is...
In any case - the Eh? the thread was initiated over seems to me to be such a clear regionalism - but with so many different regions using it - that to assign it a "correct" pronunciation will of necessity be arbitrary, and disputable.
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