Barkeater Lake by Corey Pandolph for December 18, 2012
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Transcript:
Bill: Acks. I want to acks you a question... Mike: Billy? Whatta you doin? Mike: Hooked on wiseguy phonics? Read by "The soprano's" James Gandolfini? Bill: Yeah. I heard our new coach is from Brooklyn. I want to make sure I can understand her. Mike: Do you know what a stereotype is, Bill? Bill: Uh, no... But I'm only on the first tape.
A TV show called “How the States Got Their Shapes” suggested that there was no “southern accent” until after the Civil War. Unfortunately, the program didn’t explain that statement at all. I haven’t been able to find any corroboration. But people who mispronounce common words can be found all over. Their used to be a silly, little poem that went:Little Mary donned her skates, upon the ice to frisk.Wasn’t she a silly girl, her little *?Now, getting the joke requires you be able to pronounce properly the term for the symbol *. If you can’t, you won’t get it. And yet I had someone pronounce that as “as-ter-rick” and miss the gag altogether.