Inquiring Minds Want to Know...

[VeloVT]

Does John McCain TRY to say "warshington" and sometimes slip up and say "washington"? Or is it the other way around??? He's been surprisingly inconsistent tonight.

I actually think "warshington" is kind of endearing.

[Possegal]

Warshington is the pronounciation where I grew up. So I was kinda surprised when I moved to DC and realized it is what locals here say. Not that many folks are born and bred here Lots of us 'imports'. But I've heard it from quite a few folks that I know who are from several generations of DCers.

I'd never really noticed McCain but now you have me interested. I'll pay better attention. Anything is better than nucular.

[bikerchic]

I'm a hick. I've always said it with the "R". My X used to ALWAYS correct me as if he was Mr.Webster himself!

I digress....now that I live a few miles away from the great state of Washington I hear all the locals put the "r" in it, so there!

Mr. McCain can say whatever he wants however he wants to say it.........I am so not listening!

[VeloVT]

I am not saying anything *directly* in response to bikerchic because I responded with some perfectly innocent indiscretion to a post about John Kerry last night and that thread was gone this morning.

But... we're probably on the same page. I just have this strange feeling of civic responsibility to watch both conventions, as well as debates, etc...

His peeps should have made him wear a red tie tonight. Not only would it have been thematically appropriate, but it would have made him seem more virile and less old.

[snapdragen]

I am not saying anything *directly* in response to bikerchic because I responded with some perfectly innocent indiscretion to a post about John Kerry last night and that thread was gone this morning. .

Yeah, I deleted my thread. I asked for no politics, it went there, so I nuked it.

[VeloVT]

I was pretty impressed with his regal and ladylike 96 year old mom, though.

He has a nice smile, too. That alone will probably earn more votes than you would like to think.

[Mr. Bloom]

Does John McCain TRY to say "warshington" and sometimes slip up and say "washington"? Or is it the other way around??? He's been surprisingly inconsistent tonight.

I actually think "warshington" is kind of endearing.

I just realized...he found the "R" that Bostonians lost when they "pawk the ca' in havad yad"

In Southern Indiana, the errant "R" in waRsh and waRshington is common (along with poor subject/verb tense)

[Crankin]

I have never heard the "r" in Washington or wash except from people who were from Illinois or Indiana. A lot of them live around Phoenix, so it was pretty common there.
I worked really hard to get rid of my Boston accent, but once, when I went on a job interview when I graduated from college, I walked in, shook the guy's hand, and he looked at me and said, "Cape Cod."
Huh? He then said, "Are you from New England.?"
I always pronounce my r's, unless I am really yelling and angry. In fact, you rarely hear anyone with the accent around where I live. It seems to live on in certain towns and cities, maybe where people don't move in or out as much.

[Pax]

I have never heard the "r" in Washington or wash except from people who were from Illinois or Indiana. A lot of them live around Phoenix, so it was pretty common there.
I worked really hard to get rid of my Boston accent, but once, when I went on a job interview when I graduated from college, I walked in, shook the guy's hand, and he looked at me and said, "Cape Cod."
Huh? He then said, "Are you from New England.?"
I always pronounce my r's, unless I am really yelling and angry. In fact, you rarely hear anyone with the accent around where I live. It seems to live on in certain towns and cities, maybe where people don't move in or out as much.

I'm from the Cape and my accent (after MUCH effort) is pure Midwestern these days...except after I've had a few drinks. It cracks my friends up.

[OakLeaf]

It cracks my friends up.

You should hear the New Jersey rush back into DH's speech whenever he goes home and goes out with his "boys" - all 'a dose t'ings...

My grandmother put an "R" in just about everything, but "warsh" was high on the list. She lived in New Jersey most of her adult life, but I think her descent was Southern

I, of course, have no accent whatever

[Trek420]

Question: why would anyone want to get rid of an accent? I think regional differences, international differences are great. It shows you have a history, been somewhere, done things ....

I have no accent at all.