Being born and raised in San Francisco, mainly in the '50s and '60s, I picked up some very peculiar ways of pronouncing various words. I didn't realize this till I move to North Idaho. It was in Idaho that I realized that San Francisco is basically a cross section of the world with its many cultures, maybe for only one block, but with foods, language, etc. -- at least that was how it was back in the '50s and '60s.
At various times in my life I've had people ask me where I was from, even when I lived in San Francisco, and when I told them they'd tell me they thought I was from, the Mid-West, New York, Texas, New England, and many other places.
It was a woman here in Idaho that pointed out just how I would pronounce certain words, such as: water, daughter, and quarter. She pointed out that they all sound the same and she would laugh hysterically every time I would say the following: Here's a quarter for the water for your daughter.
May be that is why some people thought I lived over on Tirty-Tird & Tird in the Bronx?
Happens nearly every year.
At various times in my life I've had people ask me where I was from, even when I lived in San Francisco, and when I told them they'd tell me they thought I was from, the Mid-West, New York, Texas, New England, and many other places.
It was a woman here in Idaho that pointed out just how I would pronounce certain words, such as: water, daughter, and quarter. She pointed out that they all sound the same and she would laugh hysterically every time I would say the following: Here's a quarter for the water for your daughter.
May be that is why some people thought I lived over on Tirty-Tird & Tird in the Bronx?