Dropping Rs in the middle of a word is another common verbal quirk. As in pronouncing "quarter" like "quatter." I pointed out to one friend that it's a "quart" of milk, not a "quat."

Too bad there aint no Geordies in here, from northern England. They could really confuse y'all!

Ah say askeert insted of afeared! But I do call a crick a crick!

Mah next door neighbor is a hangin out her warshin awn the close line!

all areas of the world,,do have various takes on the same word,,lot depends on there principal language and area dialect,,few of those in Canada and we spell a few of our words differently but found out on a tv show this week called Mysterys at the museum ,one of your early presidents at the start of the 1900,s had a reading or writing problem and went to great lengths to get words shortened and even passed legislation on it but it got over turned in later years but some of his modified words are now entrenched in your language just a different spelling like Colour is how we spell it ,and the way english do also but you guys it was shortened to Color leaving the you out,,i always wondered why this was

I encountered 'Warshintonians" when I lived in Colorado. Near as I kin figger, it comes from the waves of Dust Bowl refugees, who migrated to Californy, and then up the Pacific coast, following the agricultural jobs (esp. fruit-picking), until they ended up in "Warshinton". And yep. Southern English is one of the four main dialects of American English. The others are, General American, New England (" Bahston" ), and Northeastern (" I gotta walk my doag" ). Believe it or not, there are eleven sub-dialects of Southern English.

Seems Southern to me and I still get a lot of this in Missouri too. When I lived in Texas one of my daughter's teachers always laughed and shook his head if he heard her say "you guys." He would repeat it outloud thinking she was saying "youse guys."

Wait up you guys turns into "wait up youse guys."

I've always chalked that up to being a colloquialism. But there can be difficulty deciphering between colloquialism and sheer stupidity. I used to work with a guy who pronounced concrete as "concreek" and worked with a woman who added a T instead of a K as in DEST, as in sitting and working at a DESK.

My number one irritant are people who sell homes and they STILL call themselves REALITORS.... I always steer clear of someone who cannot correctly pronounce what they do.

I think it is fun to bring back old lingo from the past though. My latest favorite... answer anyone who asks me how I am doing by saying, "Everything is Jake!" Meaning, everything is just fine. This is a phrase from the 20s and 30s that for some reason fell out of favor. (As often happens)

Mate, I can tell the difference between a southern accent and ''the rest of America and Canada" lolol. Sorry but can't tell if a canadian is from USA or not. But I do love different dialects/accents. England gets me......such diverse accents in a tiny little area. There' a 'brash' sounding accent that I don't like (I'll have to try and think of a tv show that does it) but other than that I really love different accents. .....oh except South African. sorry ppl from SA

Ignorance?

i have some frndz that say warsh. i call what i use to bathe with a 'wash rag'. they call it 'warsh cloth'.
they are from central tx. i'll have to ask where the older ones (g''ma & g'pa) were from

Having been born and raised in Washington, I heard "Warshington" and "warsh" many times in my youth. Only time I hear it now is from my neighbors who are originally from Ohio. One would think they would realize they say these words differently than the average person, but they don't seem to change the way they say it.

I just have to smile at the charming way they speak, being true to their roots, just as I do with all the many accents and pidgen I hear throughout the day, living in a melting pot of many cultures.

Speech impediment

Most of those don't really bother me but I do get a little concerned when someone wants to "axe" me a question.

I can’t speak to your examples, specifically. But, it’s my understanding that some of what is heard in an accent comes from various parts of England, Scotland and other parts of Great Britain, as English was spoken several hundred years ago.

My roomate at college had a shirt made that said "Warshington State University".

Beats me say it near DC too