The way you folks saw words like phone and home. I realized I couldn’t exactly figure out how to spell it, but I’d committed. And I suppose I should say I’m talking about deep south, not Toms River and whatnot (although I have some cousins from Manchester where some have the accent and some don’t).
Hoagie, for example, is Hō-Gee up north, but more like Hoo-Gee down south. If you can’t hear it, perhaps you are it!
We’re going to have to go ahead and disagree, Toms River is, by all metrics, south Jersey. It’s south of 195 and the souls are sandy, so it’s manmade and naturally below the line.
And I’m thinking you don’t hear the accent because you’ve got it! Although, when I’ve left Jersey, I’ve been told I sound like I’m from Jersey (mainly by folks on the left coast), and I personally don’t think that’s true!
I also curse a lot, but I think I’ve slowed down in my old age.
And North Jersey is weird, that’s why central Jersey is best Jersey!
The way you folks saw words like phone and home. I realized I couldn’t exactly figure out how to spell it, but I’d committed. And I suppose I should say I’m talking about deep south, not Toms River and whatnot (although I have some cousins from Manchester where some have the accent and some don’t).
Hoagie, for example, is Hō-Gee up north, but more like Hoo-Gee down south. If you can’t hear it, perhaps you are it!
Toms River isn’t south. I’m reading what you’re writing, but I’ve never heard the weird elongated o you’re putting in.
I also don’t have any jersey accent though, despite being here my entire life, and that’s backed up with people from other states hearing it.
Other than cursing a lot when talking.
But north jersey is its own weird little world I guess.
We’re going to have to go ahead and disagree, Toms River is, by all metrics, south Jersey. It’s south of 195 and the souls are sandy, so it’s manmade and naturally below the line.
And I’m thinking you don’t hear the accent because you’ve got it! Although, when I’ve left Jersey, I’ve been told I sound like I’m from Jersey (mainly by folks on the left coast), and I personally don’t think that’s true!
I also curse a lot, but I think I’ve slowed down in my old age.
And North Jersey is weird, that’s why central Jersey is best Jersey!