Stereotype of people from regions in the USA (page 2)

free2beme

To make sure other nations realize they also have things that are stereo type. I speak to people from the UK a lot too. They use very interesting phrases and words, that seem outdated here in the USA. I get a kick out of those calls though, they are kind of fun.

stillajwexelder

Midwest - awwlll yarls eat biscuits and gravy --

lonelysheep

People from New York and New Jersey - If you ever want to know what someone thinks of you, or if they are happy or mad, if you know someone from these states. You don't need to ask, they will most likely already be telling you and be very bold about it.

People from ANYWHERE who automatically assume because you're from New Jersey, that you prounounce it as "Joizy". We don't have accents here.

Frannie Banannie

Midwest - awwlll yarls eat biscuits and gravy --

Stilla!! This is very funny to me personally. It reminds me of the time when I was living out in California. I was trying to explain to a sister there how to make biscuits. After I began giving her the recipe verbally, she interrupted to ask me, "AWL??? You use AWL in your recipe for biscuits? What on earth for?" The sister must have asked me umpteen times to repeat the word, because she wasn't sure she was hearing me right. In California and thereabouts, oil is pronounced "o-weel" however, in one syllable.

onacruse

f2bm, I'm beginning to doubt your identity:

They call it ORE E GONE and I explain it is pronounced ORE GUN,

Now, we all know it is pronounced OR UH GUN.

jeanniebeanz

Texans prefer to be their own country and like to shoot people.

*laughs ass off* However, in watching the eyewitness news over the past year and a half since I have moved to Houston, I believe that you have your facts are wrong...

It's only under the following circumstances that a Texan will shoot a person; if you touched their: woman, truck, hat, kid, doorknob (without permission), sprayed your cedar fence with gang-banger tagging, tried to tap into your cable, 'dissed' the Texans or made fun of an Aggie to your face, poisoned your dog or if they were too drunk to have been firing at the skunk on the back porch and accidentally shot the neighbor (which is considered a horrible tragedy but apparently understandable at least if the neighbor is not a child (unforgivable) or the neighbor is a woman (unforgivable too) and the person does not die).

If you are going to disparage people, at least have your facts straight.

Jean

free2beme

Back here it is just a two syllable word, although we general know what people mean when they pronounce it other way.

Frannie Banannie

Down here, it's pronounced "ar-a-gun."

jeanniebeanz

Well... I'm actually from northern cali and I always pronounced it "Or i gun" I think you have to take into account not just state but also region within the state. Also, how your family pronounce words based upon family history and country or state of origin.

To tell you the truth, we did not notice much difference in the people between the two cities, Houston, TX vs San Francisco, CA. I mean, other than the shooting part: in the Bay Area California, you'd just get stabbed rather than shot. Much more civilized, California. *rolls eyes*

loosie

Hey Free, I understand completely. I work in a call center too. Most of customers are in the South or NY . The first time a southerner said "do you want me to mash the enter key" I about fell out of my chair wondering they were operating their keyboard with a potato mashing utensil.

Also Southerners when you ask them to unplug the blue cord they turn right around and ask you "you mean the yellow cord" If I meant that I would have said that? and they keep repeating the same thing you just ask them to do 2 or 3 times. It's weird.

And NY'rs get mad more easily than the other states do.

Stereotype of people from regions in the USA

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