My daughter just used “boughten.” She doesn’t hear it in the wild; I assume it’s because she misapplied the wildly inconsistent rules of English verb formation. So you could see how it might re-arise, rather than having been a regional holdover.
If someone refers to a Sucrets as a lozenger, they are likely from Baltimore.
^ There’s no “t” in Bawlmer. 
And if anyone says they are from New York City, they are NOT from “the City.”
Here’s a website all about regionalisms – http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
I took part in a discussion about “hamburger meat”. Some said it was a black English thing, but some white folks acknowledged they used the term also instead of “ground beef.” I said it was a Southern thing, as we Hoosiers just call the stuff “hamburger.”
Many central Indiana natives call bell peppers mangoes.
Many people in Georgia pronounce the L in salmon. Is this common in other southeastern states?
That’s right, but I was just translatin’, Hon. See you downy ocean.
As I know what both Tolo & Pee-chees are, <sing song voice> I know where you’re fro-om</sing song voice>.
Also, apparently other places in the country don’t have “Honey Buckets.”
I’ve also heard people pronounce it “amm-ond” (“amm” rhymes with “Sam”) but I’m not sure where that one comes from. I was born in southern CA and lived the last 30 years in the Bay Area, and I say “ah-mund”.
Where is it that anyone pronounces the L in almond? To check myself I went and watched one of those Almond Joy/Mounds commercials. No L. Maybe in Britain, in Received Pronunciation?
No, that is completely dependent on who they are talking to. When I was in Amsterdam I’d say I was from New York City. I’d never say I was from “the City” in any case, if I am taking to someone local I’d say I live in Manhattan.
I pronounce the Ł in almond. But it is what is called a “dark L”. You start to form it, but before your tongue hits the front of your palate, your lips close into the M that follows, so it is very subtle. Almost like a flattening of the vowel rather than a full consonant in its own right (different from the L in “almost”). The way that most people say “calm” which sounds different from “comm”.
You mean those old “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t” commercials? I just watched several on YouTube, and the L is certainly pronounced in every one of them.
I had the opposite situation, overseas and here. People ask where I’m from, I say New York, even New York State, and people will ask me if I live in New York City. Not a problem now that I live Rhode Island. Then people will ask “Is that in New York?”, or “What state is that in?”.
It is not.
It is on this one.
I just went on YouTube and watched the first five “sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you don’t commercial” results … No Ls
If you greet someone with a nice cheerful “How y’all doing?” or “Y’all come back now, hear?” and you’re talking to JUST ONE PERSON, you’re not actually from the South.
“Y’all” is plural, y’all.
Dude, they are there. I hear them.
Not this one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOJAxformw
Not this one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeibzLZn2hU
Not this one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JSIRo9DjBA