Connecticut accent - 2 words

I am saying 2 words that to me seem notable in my CT accent. How do *you* say them? Is there a difference? In what regions do we hear this pronunciation?

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• northeast
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[Courtmello]

lol I was watching your video and my dad walked by my room and hear your voice and thought it was his! We're from Ct so I guess that proves a point, although I think he sounds a tad more New York to me!

[hultonclint]

@Courtmello ha, hilarious...

[hultonclint]

@Courtmello ha, hilarious...

[alfredklek]

I'm from south central Connecticut (New Haven area) and do personally use these particular inflections. I also pronounce orange "arenge", ball as bawl, coffee as "cawfee" and I do occasionally drop the r's from the end of some words and I will often add another syllable. For example, if I'm mad "Get over here!" might become "Get ovah he-ah". The Connecticut accent is a funny one, thank you for taking a closer look at it.

[hultonclint]

@alfredklek Good to hear from ya. Those are all also how I say them, except for "arenge." That's something, incidentally, that's shared w/ typical New York accent -- but as I often stress (to people who say it is), doesn't necessarily mean the CT is derivative of NYC. There seems to be lots of funny little pockets of accents in CT. Still trying to figure out how my mom's and dad's accent are very different, tho they were both brought up in the same town (Enfield)!

[Courtmello]

@alfredklek I'm from the same part too and when I am in NC Ive had people tell me I sound like Fran Dresser! lmao

[IWonTheIntarwebz]

@hultonclint I lived in Connecticut for some of my elementary school years. I have somewhat of a Connecticut accent. My dad is from New York so I have some of that accent and my mom is from Wichita, so my accent is pretty unique ha ha.

[DIPwhenyourSICK]

i live in CT you sound completely normal there was no accent there sir

[jaevees]

My father was born, and grew up in Connecticut, and he had a New York accent. :) I have a slight accent because of that. XD

[hultonclint]

Please, everyone "has an accent". Accent is like color; you don't ask IF something has a color, you ask WHAT color/shade. This is not about whether Joe Blow will hear the accent of person from place X and say, "My God, you sound different to me!" It is about the *description* of phonological features -- observations of speech from some people, and hoping to discover where/among whom those features are shared. There is no comparison here, except to "standard broadcast" English as a baseline.