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If you don't know they refer to Liverpool, Newcastle, and that wee bit of London, you'd have no idea.
I've known what a Geordie accent sounds like for a while due to all the British television I watch, but it wasn't until just the other day that I put it together with Newcastle while watching an old Graham Norton episode with Diddy, Vince Vaughn, and Sarah Millican.
Hoosier accents vary significantly depending on what part of the state you're from, so I'm going to say, "no" on that one.
Hoosier accents vary significantly depending on what part of the state you're from, so I'm going to say, "no" on that one.
Walking, talking, proof of that one.
We don't even have that many regional (or whatever) nicknames that don't connect to the place name -- Hoosiers, what else? Not Massholes, obviously.
Cajun doesn't refer specifically to the region it's from.
Yooper? (Except obviously that ties back to the place name. Er.)
New Orleans has the Yat accent, but I don't think many people outside Louisiana know what that is.
We don't even have that many regional (or whatever) nicknames that don't connect to the place name -- Hoosiers, what else? Not Massholes, obviously.
Downeaster, sort of.
Matt, I'm sorry for your loss. Much peace to you and Beth.
I remember researching something or other and finding out that, in the early 1800s, New York City newspapers would have a lot of jokes about stupid New England farmers, and the stereotypical farmer's name was Jonathan, to the point where some of the jokes just started with "Jonathan came to the store" or something and they'd expect everyone to know what they meant.
I'm sure there are state or team nickname type things that get used in the local news or whatever, but not really other places - like does anyone in real life call people from CT Nutmeggers? I think Hoosiers is for real, right?