On Dec 23, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Annette Taylor wrote: > My map put me right where I belong....either Chicago or Rockford or > Aurora--all within a few miles of each other. My kids laugh at me when I talk > about the "mare" of San Diego and his problems but i grew up under the reign > of Mare Daley (as in 5 by 5). Every time I told my kids to see a conslr at > school they corrected me, it's coun-se-ler! Hmmmph.
I was born on Long Island, about 20 miles from Queens. When we moved to a suburb just outside of Chicago, I was evaluated for a speech "impediment," apparently because my teacher thought my accent sounded like a developmental problem. Eventually, I started talking more like someone from the Chicago area instead of from the Town of Oyster Bay, although I never lost all of my L.I. accent. When I moved to Arizona, some of my students thought that whatever accent I had by then was funny, although I didn't sound like a resident of either Queens or the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. Now, I have absolutely no idea what I sound like. My "map" placed me in the Madison-Milwaukee-Rockford (IL) area, but only because I tried to remember the words I used for things when I was a kid, not those I learned in my almost 30-years in AZ, or ones used in the northeast (the ones my parents had used, and that I had used when younger). Best, Jeff -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=31842 or send a blank email to leave-31842-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
