Does people in Arkansas have a accent?

[ArkansasMan]

Just want too know?

[Webster]

Hmmmmm ... So what you want TO know is ...

DO people in Arkansas have AN accent?

No they don't, but most of them use grammar about as well as you do.

[guest]

ArkansasMan wrote:

Just want too know?

Nope! Just a southern drawl. Have you ever been in Boston? Now, Bostonians have an accent.

[Guest]

Every person in this area of Arkansas has their own separate accent.

I have not heard any two towns or even any two people in the same family that talked alike.

They listen to radio & TV and go to movies and understand everything said, yet let someone with a general US accent (like they use on TV and in the movies) talk to them and they say, huh?

You have to believe that some of them are just put on, they are so thick.

Like those Parkey & Davis office workers in Jonesboro in the commercial: We gee ove yee ooo flay oh Wers when yee ooo errr dun.(We give you flowers when you are done)

[danielle rose]

I've lived in Arkansas most of my life and I never thought anything about having an accent until I moved to Texas. I made friends with one of the mothers from my daughters school and she nicknamed me "Hillbilly" because of my accent. By the time I moved back here a year later I had people asking me if I was from Texas because I had picked up their accent. If your around other people with an accent for any length of time you will pick it up.

[Art]

Arkansas folk are the onliest folks that ain't got no accent in this here U.S.A.......

[farmer]

Art wrote:

Arkansas folk are the onliest folks that ain't got no accent in this here U.S.A.......

I never thought we did, until my daughter went to school in Illinois and everyone laughed at her accent .

[Your mother]

1. "Uh...Uh...Do What?"
Can't stand when you hillbillies say that.
It is Pardon me or excuse me.

2.You moan an "I agree" or a "Yes" you will not say it EXAMPLE: Do you the meal?
MMMMmmmmmMMMMmm.

3.The word is RUINED not runt
4.Stop with the Bible crap ...every smart person knows their is not a Santa Claus for ADULTS!!!

5.Oh yeah ...I am going to beat you to the punch.
What did the hillbilly say to the Native American Indian? If you don't like it.. well ..you can just get the HELL OUT OF HERE!

If you need help understanding that joke.The point is you hill billys say that as a comeback like you own it and where here 1st. Just trying to help-- didn't know how many of you could comprehend the joke. later hic-a- billys

[I-ZHEET M-DRURZ]

Your mother wrote:

1. "Uh...Uh...Do What?"
Can't stand when you hillbillies say that.
It is Pardon me or excuse me.
2.You moan an "I agree" or a "Yes" you will not say it EXAMPLE: Do you the meal?
MMMMmmmmmMMMMmm.
3.The word is RUINED not runt
4.Stop with the Bible crap ...every smart person knows their is not a Santa Claus for ADULTS!!!
5.Oh yeah ...I am going to beat you to the punch.
What did the hillbilly say to the Native American Indian? If you don't like it.. well ..you can just get the HELL OUT OF HERE!
If you need help understanding that joke.The point is you hill billys say that as a comeback like you own it and where here 1st. Just trying to help-- didn't know how many of you could comprehend the joke. later hic-a- billys

You might want to proof read your posts before you make fun of people. It's "there" not "their". It's "were" not "where". Hope you're not throwing stones from a glass house. Most people say "ruint" not "runt", but I understand what you meant.

[Guest]

Go up north and order in a restuarant, the first thing they will say is " you're not from here are you". Buy as far as I am concerned they have the accent , not us!

[cuppycake]

i have a friend from canada that is constantly making fun of my accent,and i didnt think i had one?? its just arkansas and btw if we're on hillbilly jokes we gotta come up with better ones than that! lol

[ArkansasMan]

I like most of yalls comments thank Yall so much.

[Guest]

I-ZHEET M-DRURZ wrote:

<quoted text>You might want to proof read your posts before you make fun of people. It's "there" not "their". It's "were" not "where". Hope you're not throwing stones from a glass house. Most people say "ruint" not "runt", but I understand what you meant.

It's not ruint or runt, it's rernt or rerned..

Reench is a tool, but it's also to get the soap out.

Cheer is something to "set" on.

If you were once able to, you "used to could" do that.

For a headache, take an asspern.

Try to usually put curtains on your winderlights.

[Goobertown Flash]

Yes, many have an accent. I was born and raised here but I do not have a southern accent. Most guess a mid-western.

We travel extensively and my wife is from the mid-south and has a slight southern accent but we have never been ask "you're not from around here are you" as a previous poster stated.

I think the big thing is the murder of the English language that grabs peoples attention along with colloquialisms.

I also find that many things are called something other than their name. I have gone into parts stores and ask for a particular item and they wouldn't know what I was talking about. I would describe the item and they would say, "we got that" and when they bring it out on the label would be the name I asked for and I would point that out and their response would be "that not what we call it".

Now I just bring the part in, if possible, and lay it on the counter. Sure saves a lot of time.

[Goobertown Flash]

Guest wrote:

<quoted text>It's not ruint or runt, it's rernt or rerned..
Reench is a tool, but it's also to get the soap out.
Cheer is something to "set" on.
If you were once able to, you "used to could" do that.
For a headache, take an asspern.
Try to usually put curtains on your winderlights.

I suggest you do a search for:
southern colloquialisms
Southern dictionary

Also you are wrong on the use of "ruint"

Yes, "ruint" means "spoiled," particularly "badly spoiled." We think it's an improvement over "ruined." Considering the many irregularities in the English language, I don't think this is extreme. Try it! You'll see what we'uns mean.

[Guest]

Goobertown Flash wrote:

<quoted text>
I suggest you do a search for:
southern colloquialisms
Southern dictionary
Also you are wrong on the use of "ruint"
Yes, "ruint" means "spoiled," particularly "badly spoiled." We think it's an improvement over "ruined." Considering the many irregularities in the English language, I don't think this is extreme. Try it! You'll see what we'uns mean.

No, I'm not wrong .. in my experience.
It may not be your experience, but it is mine.

rur ned (rurned) is how I have heard it pronounced.

I probably should also tell you how you have really experienced everything, but I won't be that presumptuous. Know what I mean?

[Guest]

I was able to find it online:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php...

[cuppycake]

now guys' we've forgot, dunnit, binthere, uhuh as an answer, oh and lets all go down to the walmarts ???

out yonder,we can go muddin!

[Goobertown Flash]

Guest wrote:

<quoted text>No, I'm not wrong .. in my experience.
It may not be your experience, but it is mine.
rur ned (rurned) is how I have heard it pronounced.
I probably should also tell you how you have really experienced everything, but I won't be that presumptuous. Know what I mean?

I have never heard either word pronounced as you pronounce them.

ruint has always been the way I have heard it in 60 odd years of life. After doing a search there are others but none as you have written.

I suggest you do a search of Souther Dictionary and Southern Colloquialism

Also what did your last sentence mean?("I probably should also tell you how you have really experienced everything, but I won't be that presumptuous. Know what I mean?")

06/05/97
ROON (verb). To damage beyond repair.
Usage: "Don't spill grape juice on the rug. You might roon it."
(Special thanks to Robert T. Lane for today's word)

11/21/96
ROONT (adj). Spoiled.
Usage: "I don't see how you can eat that there cottage cheese ... it's just roont milk."
(Special thanks to Elizabeth Nichols for today's word)

This is from Urban Dictionary concerning "ruint"

Yes, "ruint" means "spoiled," particularly "badly spoiled." We think it's an improvement over "ruined." Considering the many irregularities in the English language, I don't think this is extreme. Try it! You'll see what we'uns mean.

[Guest]

Goobertown Flash wrote:

<quoted text>
I have never heard either word pronounced as you pronounce them.
ruint has always been the way I have heard it in 60 odd years of life. After doing a search there are others but none as you have written.
I suggest you do a search of Souther Dictionary and Southern Colloquialism
Also what did your last sentence mean?("I probably should also tell you how you have really experienced everything, but I won't be that presumptuous. Know what I mean?")
06/05/97
ROON (verb). To damage beyond repair.
Usage: "Don't spill grape juice on the rug. You might roon it."
(Special thanks to Robert T. Lane for today's word)
11/21/96
ROONT (adj). Spoiled.
Usage: "I don't see how you can eat that there cottage cheese ... it's just roont milk."
(Special thanks to Elizabeth Nichols for today's word)
This is from Urban Dictionary concerning "ruint"
Yes, "ruint" means "spoiled," particularly "badly spoiled." We think it's an improvement over "ruined." Considering the many irregularities in the English language, I don't think this is extreme. Try it! You'll see what we'uns mean.

So, what you're saying is, if the goobertown flash hasn't heard it, it doesn't exist?