Country dialects - do they all have them?

JBR said:
Two things. I'm from BC, Canada, and I have no idea what a Civil Service Conservation is. ??

Second, I have worked with people, and have friends who are, from Quebec. And I think that the term "Frog", as a slang label, is crude... and often meant to be derogatory. I'd never use it, and neither would any of my friends out here. Having said that, unfortunately it was common in Canada's English-speaking provinces in past decades, but it seems rarer now.
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Maybe I didn't remember his job title right, He worked for the Forest Parks up in Cultus Lake so whatever his job was there. It's been many decades since I was there. This was back in the 70's so yes he laughed about being called that is why I remember it so well. He was a
good natured guy, and let it roll off his back. I know he had some Salmon caught from up there and I have yet to ever taste Salmon like that since.
 
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As a native Hoosier, I never thought I had much of an accent, outside of the Hoosier habit of putting an "r" in randomly, such as "Warsh your hands before you sit down at the table, young man!" I have fought that pretty successfully. I don't say "warsh".

But when I moved to Virginia for a year, everybody said I "talked funny", mostly because I pronounced city names as they were spelled. Big mistake. I would say Nor-folk, Suf-folk, New-port News. People would laugh. "You aren't from around here, are you?" I learned to pronounce the cities "Nawfuk, Suffuk, and Nuppet News"....or at least somewhere in the neighborhood.
 
IrishEyes said:
My sister married a man from Quebec he was a Civil Service Conservation and got transferred to B.C.
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In BC we have Natural Resource Operators (NROs, or Resource Operators) who work for the Ministry of Forests. These are the vast areas of what's termed "working forest" from which timber is extracted. The personnel become qualified by having the required forestry education — certain degrees or certifications. There may sometimes be certain casual or temporary jobs, as well.

In the Parks Service we have Park Officers and Park Rangers. They work in protected/recreational tracts of land, which often are mainly forested, or can be at least forested to some degree. The personnel are also educated and trained to qualify for the various main roles. In Parks too, there are sometimes casual or temporary jobs.
 
jujube said:
As a native Hoosier, I never thought I had much of an accent, outside of the Hoosier habit of putting an "r" in randomly, such as "Warsh your hands before you sit down at the table, young man!" I have fought that pretty successfully. I don't say "warsh".

But when I moved to Virginia for a year, everybody said I "talked funny", mostly because I pronounced city names as they were spelled. Big mistake. I would say Nor-folk, Suf-folk, New-port News. People would laugh. "You aren't from around here, are you?" I learned to pronounce the cities "Nawfuk, Suffuk, and Nuppet News"....or at least somewhere in the neighborhood.
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lol.. I was laughing because we have Suffolk... Norfolk.... and Newport here too.... we pronounce the first 2 ..as you do.. suffuk..norfuck ... but we also pronounce newport.. as NewPort... I wonder how they got Nuppet from newport..lol:ROFLMAO:
 
JBR said:
In BC we have Natural Resource Operators (NROs, or Resource Operators) who work for the Ministry of Forests. These are the vast areas of what's termed "working forest" from which timber is extracted. The personnel become qualified by having the required forestry education — certain degrees or certifications. There may sometimes be certain casual or temporary jobs, as well.

In the Parks Service we have Park Officers and Park Rangers. They work in protected/recreational tracts of land, which often are mainly forested, or can be at least forested to some degree. The personnel are also educated and trained to qualify for the various main roles. In Parks too, there are sometimes casual or temporary jobs.
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I think this is what happened with him. I know he said he worked in Civil Service, which service it was I do not know. He was bi-lingual
so that may be why he moved from Quebec to B.C. at that time. I wish I knew more for you, all I know is what he told me and my Mom.

With the emergence of new social programs, and Canada's growing populations, the public service grew from around 198,000 in 1970 to 274,000 by 1975. However, austerity-driven cutbacks beginning in 1978 would see around 7,000 public servants let go by 1979.

In 1979, the bilingualism bonus was introduced for employees with proven capabilities to communicate in both English and French.
 
jujube said:
As a native Hoosier, I never thought I had much of an accent, outside of the Hoosier habit of putting an "r" in randomly, such as "Warsh your hands before you sit down at the table, young man!" I have fought that pretty successfully. I don't say "warsh".

But when I moved to Virginia for a year, everybody said I "talked funny", mostly because I pronounced city names as they were spelled. Big mistake. I would say Nor-folk, Suf-folk, New-port News. People would laugh. "You aren't from around here, are you?" I learned to pronounce the cities "Nawfuk, Suffuk, and Nuppet News"....or at least somewhere in the neighborhood.
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I lived in Indiana all of my life except for the last 6 years. When I first started working in Kentucky, people would ask me where I was from. When I'd tell them, they would say that they were wondering because of my accent. I like you, don't think most Hoosiers have an accent unless they hailed from somewhere else originally. I think if you don't sound like the people you are talking to, they think you have an accent. I think Hoosiers have a bland accent, if you want yo call it an accent.
 
About 6 years living in Missouri, my Mom was out for a visit and she said "I hear you picked up that Missouri accent"
I looked at her like "What?" She explained:
You told Jeff just now to get something done and he was putting it off and you said "You BEST git it dun!"
I sat there thinking and started laughing, I began watching my wording after that.
 
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