#english dialects

[damnyoucully]

Friendly reminder that Steve and Bucky probably have absolutely wild Brooklyn accents. Maybe it’s mellowed out over the years but sometimes, woild, goil, woist, poifume. Cwafee. Wourder. Fugeddaboutit.

[culmaer]

🇬🇧 fɪʃ æ̞nd tʃɪps

🇺🇸 fɪʃ eə̯nd tʃɪps

🇦🇺 fiʃ æ̝:nd tʃips

🇳🇿 fəʃ ɛnd tʃəps

🇿🇦 fiʃ æ̝nd tʃəps

[runningfromdragonflies]

curious to know the ratio on this is

IRL, apart from "you guys", what word/phrase do you most often use in place of "you" to refer to a group of people?

y'all

you mob

youse/yous

youse guys

yous all

you all

I really only use "you guys" and "you", nothing else

I use a different word/phrase (comment)

I've never said/heard any of these

Other/I'm bald

Voting ended onAug 1

I say non-internet because I think a lot of gay people say y'all on the internet who don't do that IRL! and also, I think you guys is pretty ubiquitous.

[datafags]

Do you say all the above dialogue with the schwa vowel?

Yes

No, I use a non-schwa vowel in one place

No, I use a non-schwa vowel in more than one place

I'm not sure/show results

Voting ended onMar 23, 2024

[tricornonthecob]

my favorite part of all this dialect research I did is watching Georgian period pieces with upperclass british gentry and knowing they wouldn't have spoken in RP and might have rather sounded a bit like pirates to my 21st century North American ear.

[muscari-melpomene]

Hi linguists of tumblr! I know there are some of you out there.

Can y'all explain the "I dunno" noise? idk if this is a southern thing specifically or if it's all over the place, but where I live people commonly just. Make A Noise, no vowel sounds, just a hum that (so far as I can tell) goes low pitch-high pitch-middle pitch (fooled around on a keyboard a bit to see if I could assign intervals. Kinda like anywhere from an augmented sixth to an octave up then maybe a third down, but that last note bounces a little?) that we all just acknowledge to mean "I don't know".

[allthingslinguistic]

xkcd does dialect quizzes

[neokun25]

Types of English language dialects:

American English 🇺🇲

Australian English 🇦🇺

British English 🇬🇧

Canadian English 🇨🇦

Indian English 🇮🇳

Irish English 🇮🇪

Jamaican English 🇯🇲

New Zealand English 🇳🇿

Philippine English 🇵🇭

Singaporean English 🇸🇬

South African English 🇿🇦

There are many English language dialects in some countries/regions