The language of Utah. The sounds of Short crik. The Utah drawl. I love it.

You hear it in the S. Alberta Moridor too.

The pure music of hearing that a hawrse walked from Spanish Farwk to Awrem.

Hilarious

When I arrived at Ricks in 1966 I met guy from Twin Falls Idaho that to my untrained ear sounded like they came from Alabama.

Us SE Idahoans did/do have somewhat of a country drawl.

As a teenager working in local department stores some people would ask me whether I was from New England or once even, Great Britain, because of a difference in my dialect they picked up from the other locals. I hadn't been to either of those places, but my dad lived in Massachusetts for some years before he met and married my mom.

Now as a New Yawker for the past 30 years, my dialect is mixed with a little of the Idaho twang of my youth, maybe some Californian thrown in for good measure. Even a little of the Ontario dialect due north where "boat" is pronounced "boot," and "out" is "oot."



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Jeff Flake has it

When Flake was on “the View”, it came in loud and strong. It has such an endearing tone, (whatever that means) I really like it.

Kind of like when you hear Mr. Rogers.

The problem is that Mr. Rogers' speech patterns are great for pre-school, not as useful when debating serious problems in Congress or confronting adversaries like Vladimir Putin.

Flake's tone and vocabulary do not bespeak confidence and strength.

It's the kind of thing linguists (which I am, though not in the same league with, say, Richard Packham) tend to notice: the flattening or broadening of particular vowels here and there are often the most striking give-aways.

For the record, I never heard him say "tuh" for "to," which is the single most annoying vocalization in Mormon parlance for me.

And it seems to me that there was a very distinct switch in Fred Rogers' speech when he was requesting better funding for childrens' programming and when he was talking directly to his TV audience of youngsters.

Mormons ... some or many of them, go where careers & $ is, so I expect the Utah drawl will diminish over time due to in & out-migration.

The word of the day is "cute".

Well fer hells sakes, Darthy, anyone who thinks I have an accent is an oninfarmed poophead.

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Shut the dar, Heber! Were you barn in a born?

You mean the "sing song" dialect from too much brainwashing and indoctrination? That voice people develop when their brains can no longer function on their own, and lack the critical thinking skills typically arrived at in maturity?

That one?

No, I don't see Jeff Flake as having that sing song dialect. Even as a Mormon he's managed to escape the total indoctrination and subjugation of mind control by TSCC.

Tip for mormons ... stop putting T's in words that have no T's !
You are hurting my ears.

My bitch is that they DON'T use "T"'s where they should.
Moun Tain is now Moun'in. Kitten becomes Ki'en. LayTon is Lay'in. They sound like hillbillies.

That is an inneresting point--although I am usually given to droppin' the "g" at the end of words.

In any case, we sure 'ppreciate cha and yur thread, TabernacleChoir.



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It is MUCH more noticeable (but fun to listen to) in Highland Scottish speech. The Lowlanders have it too, but their speech was easier for me to understand, so maybe it isn't as distinct.

I also notice it in junior high and high school kids, though some seem to drop it by the time they enter the work force.

I appreciated the notice since I put effort in that direction.

I weren't barned in no born over in Hurkin. An ma Mama learned me to eat ma carn with a fark.

Don’t be ignernt.

in after ~ "ignernt" ~

Ooo fer ignernt

Jail is jell
Mail is Mel
Wheel is whil
Inch is eench
Pleasure is play Shur
I appreciate you is Preceeatecha

I LIKE this one. It conveys a nuance somewhere between rude and ignorant and I haven't been able to find a word that fits better--so I still say it even though my husband doesn't get it!

When I try to explain "ignert" to people outside the Jello Belt, they look at me like I'm crazy. I'm pretty sure they think I am making it up.

Also, I was often referred to as being "diff'ernt" - which rhymes. :-)

Well I too was barn in Snowflake but thankfully I didn't grow up there or else I would be talking just like Jeffery and most of my relatives.

I remember how it really drove me nuts when my own Mom would lapse into her Utard dialect.

For a while I lived in Taylorsville, i couldn't understand some talks.

Isn't this a highly localized phenomenon?

Curiosity has me wondering how/why that is...

I think the sing-song 'Conference Voice' isn't 1:1 wth the drawl/twang.

We used to go from Salt Lake down to Uncle Gearge's place in Payson to ride the harses.
I thought that was normal until I moved to California :)

I don't. It's annoying and it sounds off (A soft "t" is better than no "t"). Here's hoping growing up in Idaho didn't leave me sounding Utarded.

I hate it. With a passion. When I was very little and would visit CA in the summer people would ask me where my accent was from and I hated that. I spent a lot of time with the national news (most of it I didn't understand) just to learn to speak as they did. Get a woman using the baby voice in that accent I just want to scream!

When I was a missionary, lo these many years ago, I spent time with some other language purists who found the LDS cursing lexicon annoying as heck. We felt that if someone was angry enough to employ an expletive, it should darn well be the real fippin' thing.

So we opted to use the Queen's English, just as it sprang from the coarse lips of her glorious Germanic ancestors. It was a wonderful time, that few months in which we said what we thought. There was no dang censorship and we felt personally honest as fetch given our bizarre and dishonest environment and occupation.



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Aint this the intonation inherited from the Glens of the Highlands past down from Pioneer days? I'm guessing most on the board don't like the Scotch and prefer the British and Dutch for whatever reason.

In part it might.

It doesn't explain the sing song intonation used by the most indoctrinated. Curiously, women seem more afflicted with it than men do. Maybe I'll start calling it the Stepford Wives phenomenon.

I don't know why there'd be an aversion to the Scottish?

But then I'm a mixture of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English per some DNA findings, up to nearly one-third. I'm partial to each.

Hahaha!

My TBM Dad was barn in Provo in 1912...

I can still hear him say to my TBM Mom, "Let's stop in Saint Garge, then head narth to Spanish Fark."

Back in the 90s when people were talking about Ebonics, this was humorously referred to as "Utahnics."

Some great examples in this old thread:
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,950790

Other examples:

"Lardy, Darthy, that's a mighty fine arenge farmal." (Lordy Dorthy, that's a mighty fine orange formal.)

My dad has a PhD and still says "crik" and the says of the week end with long e's - Sundee, Mondee, etc.