Single most stigmatized feature in your native accent

Trimac20   Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:03 pm GMT
Which is the most stigmatized pronunciation feature or marker of your accent?

In Australian, I will list them in perceived order:

Rounded 'i'. Hi, nice, time, right (hoi, noice, toime, roight). The most stigmatized because it is rarely heard among cultivated speech, and is rare among females and people under 20 outside the country.

Long vowel in 'gone'. Gone is pronounced like 'gawn.' Rather restricted to this one word.

Long 'ae'. Best heard in words like 'fantastic' or 'band.' The 'an' sound is more extended and nasal, think a North Midwest accent.

I would say the 'ai' phoneme isn't stigmatized today as much as it used to be, but I noticed some who try to sound really posh omitting it in favour of the 'ai' quality found in GenAm and RP.

Intrusive 'r' in frowned upon in some situations. Like 'drawring' for drawing (the majority pronunciation). Otherwise most Aussies don't even realize they are doing it (like me before).
Guest   Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:23 pm GMT
I used to have an intrusive L sound in my pronunciation of "drawing". It became "drawling". Now I don't say it that way anymore. Of course I have no intrusive R sounds because I speak a rhotic accent.
eeuuian   Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:38 pm GMT
In the US:

- the "d" instead of a real "t", in words like "butter"

- a real "r" sound in words like "butter"
Jasper   Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:01 am GMT
^ the "ai" sound used in the place of a long "a"...


...as in the word "Parkay" ;)
Woof   Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:32 am GMT
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Trimac20   Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:18 am GMT
Tapping ('d' like sound in place of 't') is not stigmatized at all in the US, because like 95% of all Americans use it. Now it's only really frowned upon by RP in England. I don't see how 'real r' in butter (rhotic) is stigmatized either, as almost everyone uses it.
kamb   Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:10 am GMT
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That doesn't look like a dog.
Entbark   Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:12 am GMT
Off the top of my head, the ones I usually think of:

Bag: /bæg/ vs /bejg/ (cat vs cate)

Coupon: /kʰupan/ vs /kʰjupan/ (coopon vs q-pon)

Syrup: /sɪrəp/ vs /sirəp/ (sir vs sear)

Across: /əkʰrɔs/ vs /əkʰrɔst/ ('t' at end)
Entbark   Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:16 am GMT
Forgot to say that I am in Wisconsin.
JeffinNYC   Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:22 pm GMT
My native accent is rural, Southern American English (NE Texas).

Stigmatized even by natives and clearly recessive:

Daince, aint, haint for dance, ant, haunt.
Keer, skeered for care, scared.
Git for get.
Own, woant, stoamp, woeman for on, want, stomp, woman.
Brang, thang, rang for bring, thing, ring.
Wahr, far, tarred for wire, fire, tired.
Winder, feller, medder for window, fellow, meadow.
Bay-ud, fay-ud, ray-ud for bed, fed, read.
Quee-ut, hee-um, spee-ull for quit, him, spill.
Certain past-tense endings in t: learnt, spelt, burnt, dreamt.
Certain vocabulary words: reckon, yonder, directly.
New, due, Tuesday pronounced with the long-u sound. (Oddly enough, I think this has become the prestige pronunciation in New York, where I currently live.)
Use of objective pronouns as reflexives, as in "I'm gonna get me one."
Use of "them" instead of "those".

Some that I used to hear, but I think are all but extinct by now: Rurn for ruin, intrusive y in here, r-dropping.

Stigmatized even by natives, but not recessive:
Use of Meemaw or Mammaw and Peepaw or Pappaw to refer to one's grandparents.

Stigmatized by speakers of other North American English dialects and not recessive:

Fixing to.
Monophthongized long-i. (Although this is definitely recessive in larger cities, like Dallas and Austin.)
Multiple modals.
Pin-pen merger. (This is also definitely recessive in larger cities.)

I don't really think the word "y'all" is stigmatized since I hear even non-Southerners use it on occasion with no risk of mockery here in New York, but I could be wrong.