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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Accents I find amusing:
(1) South side of Chicago: The SNL Da Bears skit is NOT a caricature. It is not hyperbole. It is dead on.
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Coltrane speaks the truth. The hardcore Chi-kaw-go accent is an amazing thing. Most often heard in Bridgeport on the near South side, southern suburbs and the NW side, the accent crosses ancestral lines. You are just as likely to hear such an accent from people of Irish, Polish or Italian ancestry, though typically they share a blue-collar background...
Some notable examples:
Gratch - the place you park your car
Gratchky - the thing you use to open the place you park your car
da - the
Overbydere - where you parked the car, as in "I parked the car in da gratch overbydere."
samich - sandwich
Kaminsky Park or Sox Park - the former Comiskey Park
youse Guys
Hard to keep from laughing when you hear it, except the guys who sound like that are typically huge and/or liquored up...
