Tonight marked the first of two times this week where I get to spend quality time with two of my favorite bloggers: Dawn @ Mom2My6Pack and Kim @ Jogging in Circles.
What do they have in common besides being incredible people, great bloggers, and acutally think I’m worthy of their friendship? They both have THICK regional accents.
I’m talking, you-know-what-airport-code-from-which-they-originated-as-soon-as-their-mouths-open kind of accents.
Their difference: Dawn has no clue she has an accent where Kim apologizes for it on a near-daily basis.
I crashed Dawn’s relaxing evening by the resort pool with my nutty pool-stairs-only girls, her 6 water-baby kids, nommy cheeseburgers, Dawn’s ‘mommy drink,’ and one strange birdman befriending our young girls.
I loves me an accent since I don’t have one, so I tend to notice them when I hear them. I’ve talked to Dawn several times over the last year, and have watched her interviews at 5 Minutes for Mom, so I know FOR SURE that she has a Chicagoland accent.
Yeah, you know she’s from the Mid West as soon as she says “because I said sooo, Jaaaaackson!”
Funny thing though - she has NO CLUE she has an accent, and neither do her kids. She even announced to the world via Twitter than I was ‘making fun’ of her endearing accent. No. No making fun. Just pointing out a fact. Even Mr. Dawn, Joe, agreed with me. (According to Dawn, you should never believe Joe, but that’s up to you to decide. I’m on Joe’s team on this one.)
I’d love for you, my tens of readers, to evaluate the evidence. I have a gentlwoman’s bet on this one with Dawn. Let me and her know if she does or does not have an accent.
Again, not making fun. Nope - just another reason to love Dawn.
Kim - your day for my accent evaluation is coming on Sunday. I’ll be rubbin’ up on you while you whisper sweet nothings in my ear with your luscious Lawng Iiiiland accent.
I love accents, too … being from Oregon I don’t think I have one, but maybe when I move to South Carolina I’ll learn I do. I am SO excited to live with Southern Drawlers, btw.
I don’t think that Dawn’s accent is really heavy … I can tell she’s not from Oregon … but it’s definitely not as heavy as I would have thought. I can hear it when she says her A’s, especially in “parenting” and “thank you”.
I can’t wait to meet Kim one day and hear her Lawng Iiiiland accent!
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Nope, I don’t hear an accent. Maybe because I’m from Wisconsin? lol
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Every now and then I would hear a word or two that told me Dawn was from ‘Chi-cah-go’, but it wasn’t really thick. I have family in Ohio, they say Pop too or is it ‘pahp’
I keep trying to tell myself I don’t have one either, but whenever I talk with people who are not from the south they immediately pick up on it or if hear myself on tape, I sound like a hillbilly.
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Yep, accent. However I oersonally find that Lawn Gisland accent to be the sexiest on the planet. IMHO of course.
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Oh yeah… it’s there, it’s not heavy but it’s there.
Oh and by the way … Coke.
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I agree with Sarah, not heavy but it’s in her A’s. BTW, I AM from Chicago, now living in South Carolina and I don’t think I have an accent either. But my family makes fun of me. The southern thang is SO easy to pick up!
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Not really but then again, I’m from down state in Illinois (across the river from St. Louis, MO) so maybe I’m just used to that accent. Of course, being from “southern Illinois” is akin to being a southern red neck to most Chicagoans.
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I LOVE Kim’s accent. It’s sooo thick, and she really does apologize for it a lot. I love her.
I didn’t know what a midwestern accent sounded like until I heard Dawn’s. Now I do. *lol*
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If you can get Kim to say ‘don’t forget to water the bushes on the East lawn Julio, and then you can come in for some home made lemonade’ THEN I can judge if her accent is as LI typical as I remember…
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Will have to check out Dawn’s interview…she and I probably talk pretty much the same.
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This made me piss my pants.. hysterical.. two more days luvah.. two more days..
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yeah, she sounds like me, someone who grew up in the suburbs. You want a Chicago accent? Listen to my hubby, he grew up on the South Side of Chicago (Pilsen)
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Ugh. I do NOT have an accent. Listen to SNL’s “Da Bears” skits. THAT’S a Chicago accent. I sound plain ole white bread, non-accent, normal. So there!
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Oh yeah, and it’s “pop” of course.
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