Accents- Who's got 'em? Upstate vs Downstate

[ELMER J. FUDD]

This might be fun.

New York or new Yawk?

Hot dog or hot dawg?

Sauce = sawse or soss?

awesome or ossum?

Syracuse = serra-cuse or seera-cuse?

Forget about it? Fughedabadit?

What say you?

[132 eight pointer]

I would be an upstater BUT my father regularly roots for the "SARA-CUSE " Orangemen while I always pronounce it Seer-a-cuse. What about Soda or Pop ?

Edited December 16, 2011 by 132 eight pointer

[First-light]

Hot dawg!

Lon gisland!

[ncountry]

I like huntin and fishin. I didn't realize how bad my speech had gotten, Until correcting my daughters speech as she is growing up.

[arrow nocker]

Yall fixin to get some snow big time!

Oh ya.that be a little far south.LOL.

[New York Hillbilly]

My nick name for years up here has been Baldy. My neighbors from the city (great people by the way) used to crack me up when they would ask me when they came up at deer season..........."Hey Bwaldy wehz da (and a bad word said real funny but I wont write for fear of getting yelled at...LOL!) deeaz?" LOL!

What accent? LOL!

[bkln]

Hot dawg!

Lon gisland!

I think you meant to say Lawn Guyland....LOL

Hey, I gotta a great deal for a Brooklyn Bridge for ya.... :-)

I never knew there is an "Upstate accent" in NY unless you consider Albany upstate...:-)

I think folks in Plattsburgh drink Molson, eh!

[Pygmy]

Tucked inta the southern teer out here next ta tha Pee -Yea border, I never realized I had an ACK-sent, until I joined tha Navy and was stationed in Fawt Skyler, da Bronx...

[Deerthug]

This might be fun.

New York or new Yawk?

Hot dog or hot dawg?

Sauce = sawse or soss?

awesome or ossum?

Syracuse = serra-cuse or seera-cuse?

Forget about it? Fughedabadit?

What say you?

Elmer how about:

"Coffee or Cawfee",

"Talk or Tawk",

"Those or Doze",

"Three or Tree"

"Off or Awf"

[Elmo]

I have a very heavy Bronx accent with a dash of Chinese in there. Makes for a weird one that a lot of non-New Yorkers have a hard time placing.

And you forgot that we drink carw-fee in the morning.

[ny hunter]

Born in da Bronx,accent has nevea left.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Ive got the typical Rochester accent (over-pronounced R, etc) mixed with a little of my leftover southern accent from my Ohio (Kentucky border) and Florida days. You guys should have heard me when I first moved back to NY, I sounded like a life long Kentucky boy lol. Used to get made fun of constantly about it.

[JimR]

HMMMM... In the Buffalo area it's ;

pop - not soda

a road # is pronounced "root", not route

all numbered highways are prefaced with "the" ie "take the 90 to the 290 "

and mostly your parents female siblings are pronounced ant, not ount

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Grew up in the Mowhawk Valley and fished the West Canada CRICK.

Moved to Rochester and found out the village to the south Avon is not pronounced like the Cosmetic company name.

and the village of CHILI is not pronounced like the warm bowl of food. Really makes folks from around here stick out...lol

[ELMER J. FUDD]

Grew up in the Mowhawk Valley and fished the West Canada CRICK.

Moved to Rochester and found out the village to the south Avon is not pronounced like the Cosmetic company name.

and the village of CHILI is not pronounced like the warm bowl of food. Really makes folks from around here stick out...lol

So is it uh-von? How exactly is Chili pronounced? kill-ee? Just wundrin!

[Culvercreek hunt club]

ave on

chy lie

[WNYBuckHunter]

It took me a long time to figure out Avon (cosmetics co) wasnt pronounced ave-on like the town. lol

[Culvercreek hunt club]

this is kind of fun

found a list that made me remember a few mor weid ones from upstate

Rochester area

Chili... (CHYE-lye)

Riga... (RYE-ga)

Charlotte... (shar-LOT)

Genesee... (jenna-SEE) rhymes exactly with Tennessee

Finger Lakes area

Ithaca... (ITH-a-ka)

Keuka... (KYOO-ka)

Cayuga... two pronunciations are common... (KAY-yoo-ga) or (KYE-yoo-ga)

Canandaigua... (cannon-DAY-gwa) or (canna-DAY-gwa)

Penn Yan... the Yan rhymes with "Ann"

Honeoye... (HONEY-oy)

Syracuse area

Skaneateles... (skinny-ATLAS) or less commonly (skanny-ATLAS)

Brewerton... (BRUR-'n) if you want to sound like a real native

Chittenango... (chit-NANG-go)

Oswego... (ah-SWEE-go)

Schroeppel... (SCREW-pull)... just like the word "scruple"

Pompey... (POM-pee)

Constantia... (kun-STAN-sha)

Albany area

Greenwich... (GREEN-wich)

Colonie... (kah-la-NEE)... like "colony" but with stress on last syllable

Rensselaer... (ren-sa-LEER)

North Country

Lowville... (LAOW-ville) rhymes with "ow"

Pulaski... (pull-ASK-eye)

Southern Tier

Olean... (OH-lee-ann)

Binghamton... (BING-m-ton) - it's not one of "The Hamptons"!

Mohawk Valley

Canajoharie... (canna-jo-HARRY)

Utica... (YOU-tick-a)

Ilion... (ILL-ee-un)

Herkimer... (HER-k'm-er) ... seems easy but can be confusing...

Oneida... (oh-NIGH-da)

Schenectady... (skeh-NECK-ta-dee)

Schuyler ....sky---ler

Chenango Valley

Chenango... (sheh-NANG-go)

Oneonta... (oh-nee-ON-ta)

Edited December 16, 2011 by Culvercreek hunt club

[MuzzyLoader]

Finger Lakes area

Ithaca... (ITH-a-ka)

Keuka... (KYOO-ka)

Cayuga... two pronunciations are common... (KAY-yoo-ga) or (KYE-yoo-ga)

Canandaigua... (cannon-DAY-gwa) or (canna-DAY-gwa)

Penn Yan... the Yan rhymes with "Ann"

Honeoye... (HONEY-oy)

Southern Tier

Olean... (OH-lee-ann)

Binghamton... (BING-m-ton) - it's not one of "The Hamptons"!

Yup... all correct. Haha

And CRICK... boy did I ever get ridiculed in the military for that word! I was the 'hillbilly' from NY.

[Pygmy]

Yup... all correct. Haha

And CRICK... boy did I ever get ridiculed in the military for that word! I was the 'hillbilly' from NY.

Yeah, Jerry..We grew up fishing CRICKS. Goodhue CRICK, Meads CRICK, Tuscarora CRICK, Post CRICK, yada yada..

And the town over the hill is CAMP-bell...Not pronounced CAMBLE, as it is everyplace else in the world..

My daughter lives in the north country, near Bubba..

The little town she lives in is NORFOLK... It is pronounced NORFORK by the natives...

[Pygmy]

Geeze..You got me going, now...

Rathbone.......RATH-bun

Cameron.....CAM- run

Woodhull....WOOD-hall

Caton....KAY-ton

Presho...PRE-show

Edited December 16, 2011 by Pygmy

[Culvercreek hunt club]

lol. woodhull. always heard that as woodal

[Pygmy]

Culver...If you grew up in Addison, as I did, eleven miles down the road..... You would have heard it as WOOD-hall..hehehehe..

[Nomad]

I still can't figure out just what 'upstate" is. Near as i can tell its NYC name for the rest of the state.

I know of.

Western NY

Finger Lake area

Central NY

Capital region

North Country

Hudson valley

Southern tier and so on

I call self a western NY'er . i drink pop,eat white hots and drink Genny

[Jennifer]

Yep!! CRICK here too. I get made fun of by most of my buddies (not from around here).