The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for April 07, 2022

There are some accents that are so pronounced, it is not hard to figure out where that person was reared. She even looks thepart of a California Girl.

If you read For Better Or For Worse, Lynn Johnston always spells stupid as “stoopid”. Since she is Canadian, I figured it was too mimic the Canadian accent. I love the way they say “house” (hoose). Lots of Canadian snowbirds here in Florida; I hear this a lot.

Good enough for an Alice Cooper album, good enough for me.

I figure you spell it that way because you emphasize the first syllable when you say it.

“I swear I’ll leave you alone”

Could the lies start any earlier?

Big fan of accents. Can’t tell Mass. and Rhode Island apart. Chicago is my favorite. I have a fairly pronounced ( no pun intended) New York one (Queens).

Gary Larson was known to spell food as Fud. Or was it just the animals?

There’s a few dialect quizzes out there. They have a combination of accent and word choice to indicate where you are. Here’s one:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html