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| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
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Accentsure 
| | Ed Cone: In Guilford County, natives of a certain age will ask you to "mash" an elevator button; vehicle is pronounced with a hard H and an accent on the second syllable. |
| | I guess I'm that "certain" age, having lived four years (the college ones, in the late 60s) in Greensboro when Ed was a boy. I remember one doctor speaking to another doctor on the phone, discussing the peculiar bruise of a patient, "Ah dunno whatcha cawl it, but it shore smarts if ya mash awn it." |
| | There was also this weird thing that Greensborovians (of an even more "certain" age) did when they pronounced the name of their town. They called it "Grainssburra." Strong emphasis on the sibilant in the middle. |
| | I also remember this other quirk, of throwing extra vowells in unlikely places. For example, there is still burned in my brain, 35 years after the event, the sight and sound of a promotional moment on WFMY, Channel 2. It went like this: Hah. Ahm Payum Rawgurrs, Miss Jaye Jaye Ayo of nonteen sixtae non. That's "Hi. I'm Pam Rogers, Miss GGO of 1969." |
| | Kinda miss hearing those people. Or, in the Californian, "I'm all, like, you know..." |
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