Appalachia

I was surprised to see that where I’m from is in the Appalachian region. When I think of Appalachia, I think of the television show I saw on ABC of the children living in the mountains, drinking Mountain Dew for breakfast and living in trailers. I’m from the country, but where I live is not not like the show I saw. I don’t think how I talk differs from anyone else, but I guess so because my roommate  when I went to Otterbein College use to make fun of different words I said. I never realized till that point that at times I do draw words out or cut them of. It’s not consistent though; I think it depends on the circumstance. One word was Ohio State. A lot of times I say Hia State. I drop the o at the beginning and then the second o becomes an a. After reflecting on it, it makes me sound lazy. My grandpa was grand at shortening everything or saying it how it wasn’t supposed to be said. It could be from where we live or that he grew up on a farm. Two of his famous words were schaar for shower and feesh for fish. I was looking through the vowel differences chart in this article and I think that I found out why he said those two words. Instead of being [fIS] he made the i sound tense and thus made it sound like [fiS].  Shower’s dipthong is lowered and makes it an a sound rather than an i sound.  Reviewing the chart now, it begins to make sense why some of his words came out the way they did.
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