nostr:npub10d5zhp5atut9hcmyyslxdr07s65tj45q72wxvg229ajwjvmpqugq6lvvxa I find regional accents/pronunciation very interesting. Also the way people think of regions. People from the City think of it as the City and upstate, but as someone who grew up in central NY/ Finger lakes, upstate always meant something different to me.
nostr:npub175l80yqmw7jrh79385lpcdaqdgwvxm25leflgqqedmjpkalphvnqyv55we I haven't run into that, that I've noticed, but I can visualize it happening. I catch myself on occasion using the wrong word.
I have to wonder how much of it originates first from speech. For instance, accent. I was raised in New York where dog sounds more like douhg. Similarly, a lazy "b" in jibe could become jive as we type what we hear in our head.
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nostr:npub175l80yqmw7jrh79385lpcdaqdgwvxm25leflgqqedmjpkalphvnqyv55we I'm not that familiar with western NY, but from living in the state I know New Yorkers think of it as very distinct.
At the time, I could differentiate between Long Islanders and New Yorkers (meaning the city). Upstate NY was again distinctly different, but I'd where do you draw the line? The Catskills are kind of a hybrid, the Adirondacks quite different again.
Now, living in the west, people around me often think of NY as NY and that's it, unless they've been there.