the valley girls

When I was a kid, I used to make fun of my cousins from San Francisco and Salinas when they said "I nyoo it!" or "chocolate and nyoogat" or "he's nyooorotic!"

Joanne, you're so mean LOL

Joanne, since your cousins pronounced "nougat" as "nyoogat", did they also say "cyoopon" for "coupon"? I said "cyoopon" when I was a kid, but not since then.

oh, kyoopon sounds particularly horrible to me...

The dialect around here really, really does not favor such onglides, with "coupon" being /kupAn/, and also with some words with /w/ (not just /j/) onglides tending to lose them, such as "quarter" being /kortr=/ rather than /kwortr=/, "coordinate" being /kordInet/ rather than /kwordInet/, and so on.

Ed, I'm not mean! They made fun of how I say "coffee" and "talk." They can take a little ribbing from a "Nyoooo Juhrrseyan" :D

And Deborah, yes, they say "cyoopon" too! It sounds just as horrible to me as it does to Ed. lol

Joanne, I take you say "kwaffee" and "twak", or "kwoffee" and "twok", if your accent is mild.

Deborah, I say "kwoffee" and "twok." People in Queens say "kwahffee" and "twahk".... don't they, Ed? :)

Oh great, I'm really an insular sort it seems, as I never ever knew people said things like "kwoffee" and "twok" myself in the first place. Maybe the English here in Wisconsin doesn't provide some kind of universal standard for English-speakers in general then after all, it seems... ;)

<<Deborah, I say "kwoffee" and "twok." People in Queens say "kwahffee" and "twahk".... don't they, Ed? :) >>

Hmmm, I don't. I say "kwoffee", as well.

Oh, Travis, it seems you're not familiar with the NYC accent. Listen to Victoria Gotti. She has a very "cute" accent lol

Or maybe I do say kwaffee...

Aw... don't feel bad. Only newscasters speak Robot English, really. Wisconsin and Minnesota have some peculiarities in their accents, too! Like they way some people pronounce "house" and "about."

Oops. I meant "the," not "they."

OMG Joanne the funniest thing I've heard on the radio the other day. It was a parody of the song Rich Girl called Jersey Girl. hahaha It was sooooo funny. I'll try to post a link.