Philly Area Accent Edit Meaning

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The accent of people from Philadelphia and South Jersey, please people do NOT confuse North & South Jersey, North Jersey is more like New York.

A Philly area accent pronounces words such as boat like boot, grass has a long A not a short A, the same for ass and other such words, we're not from England it's a LONG A!!!

Water is wooder

Phone sounds like phoon

This isn't an accent, but a way of life for people who speak in Philly, it is a HOAGIE not a sub, a sub goes in the water not in your mouth!

Oh, and if you diss a Philly team, especially the Eagles, you will hear plenty of the accent in cuss words and may forget this accent because of the blunt force to your head!

See philadelphia, south jersey

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Dialect heard in eastern PA and Southern NJ (yeah we don't say 'Joisey' for christs sake,no one up north does either.) and Delaware(I think,flame me if Im wrong) It's a strange talk and it's hard to type sometimes.

water=wooter

groceries=grosh-rees

home=hoeame

phone=phoeane

road=roaed

go=goea or something like 'gew'

hoagie=hoaegie

etc.

You get the idea.Anyway,we sound something like bam margeraif you wanna hear it in action.

I'm only from South Jersey,so if any Philadelphians would like to correct any mistakes or add something,do it.

"Rocky" was a great film,but an insult to our dialect.