Do you have an accent?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I took for granted "tag sale" was self-explanatory for both the indoor "garage sale" and the outdoor "yard sale."  Guess not, though.

"Rummage sale," then?  Or did eBay kill off all four of these?

Tag Sale: Distinctively New England.  As is the use of "swop" for "swap."

[Хahar 🤔]

I took for granted "tag sale" was self-explanatory for both the indoor "garage sale" and the outdoor "yard sale."  Guess not, though.

"Rummage sale," then?  Or did eBay kill off all four of these?

I don't make any distinction between a yard sale and a garage sale (though the latter is far more common). I've never heard the term rummage sale.

[Torie]

I took for granted "tag sale" was self-explanatory for both the indoor "garage sale" and the outdoor "yard sale."  Guess not, though.

"Rummage sale," then?  Or did eBay kill off all four of these?

I don't make any distinction between a yard sale and a garage sale (though the latter is far more common). I've never heard the term rummage sale.

I thought rummage sale was an archaic term for department store sale. Same here on yard versus garage sale, and I have never heard of tag sale. It sounded like a store sale where the tags are attached with lower prices.

[HardRCafé]

I've never heard the term rummage sale.

You've never heard the song "Fortunate Son"?

[YRABNNRM]

I took for granted "tag sale" was self-explanatory for both the indoor "garage sale" and the outdoor "yard sale."  Guess not, though.

"Rummage sale," then?  Or did eBay kill off all four of these?

I don't make any distinction between a yard sale and a garage sale (though the latter is far more common). I've never heard the term rummage sale.

Yea, yard sale and garage sale are interchangeable for me.

[MasterJedi]

You'll see garage, rummage and yard sale used here all the time and they are all the same. I've never heard "tag sale" before, and it doesn't make sense.

[YRABNNRM]

You'll see garage, rummage and yard sale used here all the time and they are all the same. I've never heard "tag sale" before, and it doesn't make sense.

The items for sale are tagged.

[DownWithTheLeft]

I got another one, although I guess this could exist other parts of the country, when you use the term "the city" everyone knows you mean New York

[Verily]

Yes. New Yorkers and New Jerseyans look at me funny when I use it.

I very recently discovered "tag sale" is incomprehensible to Midwesterners.

I would know what you meant, but I've never heard it. Garage sale, maybe yard sale.

Agree with DWTL about "the city", but that's probably true near a lot of big cities (although Boston was never "the city" at college in its suburbs).

[HardRCafé]

I got another one, although I guess this could exist other parts of the country, when you use the term "the city" everyone knows you mean New York

Very irritating when it's used for Chicago.

If "tag sale" is indecipherable, what about "package store"?

[Ban my account ffs!]

We almost always just say garage sale whether its inside or out... occasionally we say rummage sale.

Minnesotans have a bad habit of using "borrow" instead of lend.. like "can you borrow me five bucks?"

Or rather than saying "I am going to", we say "Ahm-in-a"  like Ahm-in-a go-dah-the-store.

or "and stuff".. we use that a lot "Oh, we went fishing and hung out an' stuff."

or we say "dint" instead of didn't  "Well, I sure dint know that!"
Or words with "s" sounds get a t injected before... so else becomes elts... "Boy, that hot dish sure was su'um elts!"

Or people say "e-yellow" for "hello" when answering the phone.. and they say "mmbye" when hanging up.

then there is the "oh, for" construction  like "Oh, fer cute!"  or "oh, fer precious"

Or "frosts my butt" to express annoyance.. "Boy, it just frosts my butt when he's late like this"

Using "with" instead of "along"... "are you coming with?"

Hafta or gonna for have to and going to  "He's gonna hafta pay for that!"

or hawda for how to "I'm gonna hafta show ya hawda do that"

Jeet for did you eat  "Jeet before you came over?"

Munce for months "It's been five munce since the accident"

Q-pon for coupon

Spendy:  Expensive "That shirt sure is spendy, in'it?"  (in'it being isn't it)

Ud be for would be "this ud be the third time this week she's been down here whinin an complainin about the cold"

[MasterJedi]

I got another one, although I guess this could exist other parts of the country, when you use the term "the city" everyone knows you mean New York

That's usually used if you're by a bigger city. Like here it's used for Milwaukee, just like if you say "the lake" it means you are talking about Lake Michigan.

[MasterJedi]

Minnesotans have a bad habit of using "borrow" instead of lend.. like "can you borrow me five bucks?"

Or rather than saying "I am going to", we say "Ahm-in-a"  like Ahm-in-a go-dah-the-store.

or "and stuff".. we use that a lot "Oh, we went fishing and hung out an' stuff."

Using "with" instead of "along"... "are you coming with?"

Hafta or gonna for have to and going to  "He's gonna hafta pay for that!"

or hawda for how to "I'm gonna hafta show ya hawda do that"

Munce for months "It's been five munce since the accident"

Q-pon for coupon

Ud be for would be "this ud be the third time this week she's been down here whinin an complainin about the cold"

The ones I've kept are done a lot here too, so it's not just Minneosta.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I got another one, although I guess this could exist other parts of the country, when you use the term "the city" everyone knows you mean New York

That's usually used if you're by a bigger city. Like here it's used for Milwaukee, just like if you say "the lake" it means you are talking about Lake Michigan.

Or here in Minnesota "the Cities" are Minneapolis/St. Paul

And "the lake" refers to any lake, usually one that you have a familiar resort or a cabin on.. so you can say "yeah, we're headed up north to the lake"... and people will understand you.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Minnesotans have a bad habit of using "borrow" instead of lend.. like "can you borrow me five bucks?"

Or rather than saying "I am going to", we say "Ahm-in-a"  like Ahm-in-a go-dah-the-store.

or "and stuff".. we use that a lot "Oh, we went fishing and hung out an' stuff."

Using "with" instead of "along"... "are you coming with?"

Hafta or gonna for have to and going to  "He's gonna hafta pay for that!"

or hawda for how to "I'm gonna hafta show ya hawda do that"

Munce for months "It's been five munce since the accident"

Q-pon for coupon

Ud be for would be "this ud be the third time this week she's been down here whinin an complainin about the cold"

The ones I've kept are done a lot here too, so it's not just Minneosta.

Well, it's not like Wisconsin is a foreign country.. we're right next to each other for God's sake

Or should I say WisCAHNsin

[MasterJedi]

Minnesotans have a bad habit of using "borrow" instead of lend.. like "can you borrow me five bucks?"

Or rather than saying "I am going to", we say "Ahm-in-a"  like Ahm-in-a go-dah-the-store.

or "and stuff".. we use that a lot "Oh, we went fishing and hung out an' stuff."

Using "with" instead of "along"... "are you coming with?"

Hafta or gonna for have to and going to  "He's gonna hafta pay for that!"

or hawda for how to "I'm gonna hafta show ya hawda do that"

Munce for months "It's been five munce since the accident"

Q-pon for coupon

Ud be for would be "this ud be the third time this week she's been down here whinin an complainin about the cold"

The ones I've kept are done a lot here too, so it's not just Minneosta.

Well, it's not like Wisconsin is a foreign country.. we're right next to each other for God's sake

Or should I say WisCAHNsin

Bite your tongue!

[bgwah]

I have a general American accent, probably with whatever minuscule differences Northwesterners have.

[Verily]

If "tag sale" is indecipherable, what about "package store"?

No idea what that means. Like a UPS store?

[platypeanArchcow]

I think I have mostly a standard northern California accent.  In particular, in additions to the things already mentioned, "writer" and "rider" differ in the pronuncation of the 'i' only.  I have been accused of having a slight Russian accent, which is odd since I haven't been in Russia since I was 5.  This may, however, be more a collection of idiosyncrasies than an accent.

Something I do differently from most people: I pronounce "orange juice" with the two j-sounds melded together into a geminate, like "oranjjuice."  Everyone does this for things like "red deer," not to mention "Miss Smith."  What this seems to indicate is that most Americans treat the j-sound as two separate sounds, d+zh.  Never would have thought so until I discovered this.

Oh, also since moving south I've picked up the LA habit of referring to freeways as e.g. "the 110" and I've started being ambivalent as to whether to say "neether" or "neyether" (both come out spontaneously on occasion.)

Oh, and snowguy: I didn't realize "come with" was a regionalism.  I was under the impression it was just a nerdy way of making English more regular, sort of like I sometimes use "-aways", say, "I'm going Sloanaways" instead of "I'm going to Sloan [building]," which I more or less made up one day.

[HardRCafé]

If "tag sale" is indecipherable, what about "package store"?

No idea what that means. Like a UPS store?

Yes, only every parcel is alcohol.

[Ban my account ffs!]

There's a joke about a kid from Minnesotan who goes to Princeton and he walks up to another student and asks

"Can you tell me where the Quad is at?"

and the other student says, rather snobbishly "At Princeton, we don't end our sentences with prepositions" to which the Minnesotan responds

"OH... okay... can you tell me where the Quad is at, asshole?"

[dead0man]

31 of my 35 years have been in St.Louis or Omaha, so no, I have no accent at all.

Actually, you do.  There is no such thing as someone who doesn't have an accent.  You speak English in a particular way, yes?  Thus, you have an accent.

What's the point of the OP?

That you do, in fact, have an accent.  I thought that was pretty clear.

Yes, you are of course correct.  Why didn't you mention this fact to the dozen or so peolpe that said "no, I don't have an accent" before me?

[MarkWarner08]

I say things like "rough" instead of "roof" and I refer to the creek as the "crick."

[Spaghetti Cat]

Let's see, some western PA things
Yinz or yunz for you (plural) "Are yinz coming with us tonite?"
broke instead of broken "My air conditioner is broke so lets go to your house"
redd up- means clean up "Go redd up your room before we leave"
dippy eggs- I don't know what they're actually called
slippy instead of slippery- "Be careful, the pool deck's slippy"

Eastern PA-
water is wooder
long o's are airy, i can't really explain, in words like "boat" and Coke".  Maybe the vowells are stretched out or something.
short a's are said like "ee-a" blended together, in words like "bathroom", "that".
yous is said as the plural of you (sometimes)

[J. J.]

Let's see, some western PA things
Yinz or yunz for you (plural) "Are yinz coming with us tonite?"
broke instead of broken "My air conditioner is broke so lets go to your house"
redd up- means clean up "Go redd up your room before we leave"
dippy eggs- I don't know what they're actually called
slippy instead of slippery- "Be careful, the pool deck's slippy"

Eastern PA-
water is wooder
long o's are airy, i can't really explain, in words like "boat" and Coke".  Maybe the vowells are stretched out or something.
short a's are said like "ee-a" blended together, in words like "bathroom", "that".
yous is said as the plural of you (sometimes)

I mercifully never had to worsh clothes. 

It's also "wadder," not "wooder."