h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You always come up with the most fascinating stuff!

I haven't read much of your project yet (I'm stuck in catching-up-work-after-time-off at work and online), but a thought occurred to me as I was reading your intro.

Would it be worthwhile to think of famous people that demonstrate various dialects? While reading the southern drawl bit I kept hearing Matthew McConaughey's voice. For New York I'd say Danny DeVito.

Just a suggestion.

I've got a few examples of people in a few entries (maybe just the Boston one come to think of it) but those are excellent examples. Matthew McConaughey has a great southern accent and Danny DeVito has a perfect, irritating NYC accent

For Boston, I had to settle for the Kennedy family and two fictional characters (Cliff Clavin from Cheers and Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons). Can you think of any others?

The intro isn't proofread yet, by the way, in case you were wondering why it (probably) doesn't quite read right just yet.

Just a quickie - compared to Echo's Aboat - I actually prnounce the thing Abowt

And warsh is Pittsburghese. Pittsburgh has its own dialect and possibly even sublanguage which is thankfully dying out.

A30501721 I have 'warsh' in the second para under 'Still is Still Movin' to Me'

Actually, from what I understand though, it's not really dying out.

Oddly enough, though, my paternal grandma was from Tennessee and she always used to pronounce it 'warsh', and if she was taking about the US capital, it was 'Warshington'. I dunno, in my research I didn't really encounter that elsewhere in the border/southern states. Maybe she was just weird.

Warsh is alive and well in Missouri. Drives me nuts. Another one that grates on me is 'ideal' for 'idea'. I still haven't finished reading, so I don't know if that one's there or not.

ideal with an 'l'? Really? I have 'idear', but no 'ideal'.

Yes, really. And I've seen it written with the 'l', too.

I can't say if that's something that's specific to St Louis, or what area it would apply to, but I've heard it hundreds of times over the years.

Is there somewhere official for feedback on this, or is it all going here for the time being?

Anyway, worth mentioning that the Boston Celtics pronounce it 'selltics', not 'keltics'?

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"Some Bostonians whittle the name down to 'the Seltz'" Think that's enough? I dunno, it's a good point that I forgot to mention. I guess I just didn't even really think about it, being so used to hearing the name 'Selltics'.

For feedback to then entries, this is a good place. I'll bother 'rich about it in a while, as he's got the editing rights to them now.

Yeah, I was looking at that entry. I was just thinking that most non-Americans reading it might wonder why the 'keltics' would be shortened to the 'seltz'. But you can wait until it hits PR and see what everyone else makes of it.

Do people outside of Philly really call a cheesesteak a 'Philly cheesecake'?

"Do people outside of Philly really call a cheesesteak a 'Philly cheesecake'?"

Absolutely, they do. Not all the time, of course. One of the sandwich shops in Dayton has it on the menu, and I hear it on commercials as well. (but I promise, none of my research is based on anecdotal evidence from my one-horse town in Oho )

I'll ask Skanky to fix the Seltics thinger.

Yes, but... 'Philly chese*cake*'??

Ah, so...

Maybe my sweet tooth was aching when I wrote that... Cheesecake does sound good right now, actually

Cheesecake *always* sounds good!

Last night, my hankerin' for cheesecake was fulfilled Cheesecake in raspberry sauce, alongside blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. 'twas heavenly

This series of entries keeps reminding me of a joke I heard years ago:

What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idear.

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no idear.

What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs and no balls?
Still no f*****g idear!


**Pardon my French.

No Cheesesteak nor even Cheesecake for me though I did have some of my home made five chesse stuffed Manicotti that was left over from my New Year's day feast though the Italian Sweet Sausage that accompanied was long gone