Now I have laryngitis, so it makes no difference if I find my phone. I’ve never had laryngitis before, and it’s kind of amusing. I keep testing my voice, singing scales and trying to yell, just because it sounds so funny when my voice cuts out. At least I’m not coughing my guts out and doing that cough-puke-asthma-attack thing. Cause that sucks.
I want so badly to try the cinnamon roll recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks!, but I’m honestly afraid of the damage it would do to my arteries. Because would I share? Noooooo! And scroll through it all the way and tally up how much live butter is in that recipe. As my friend and former co-worker, Alison, from my formerly academic career as a library reference assistant (where I also used to work side-by-side with Daring Young Mom, I’m that famous), used to say, “I just cannot dill!” You might not get that if you’re not from Utah. It comes from the same region as “I think it’s gonna hell tomorrow,” “Put your head on your pellow and go to sleep,” “I forgot to pill the potatoes for supper,” and “Use yur fark sweetie, the carn’s still hot.”
But enough about me. Does anyone have a wonderful, perfect shower head you can recommend? Because I’m venturing forth into the world of DIY tomorrow. Actually I already ventured. Yesterday, I switched the door to one of my kitchen cabinets so it opens in the opposite direction. Because the guy who put it in? Not a cook. No sense of ergonomics, or really even common sense. I remedied that situation, me and my drill. I didn’t even require the assistance of the one-armed-man.
November 2, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I don’t like laryngitis, because then I cannot impose my will upon everyone, but I LOVE being hoarse. You know that episode of friends, where Phoebe has the cool singing voice? Like THAT.
My mother-in-law totally talks like that. She grew up in West Jardan.
November 3, 2007 at 9:48 am
OK, never been to Utah, but it sounds like they have a southern accent from what you just wrote. Is that right?
My husband worked on the Navajo reservation in Utah, but I think those people had a…um…Navajo accent.
November 3, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Not really southern. Not really even a drawl, and more like a midwest accent gone slightly more rural. If that’s possible.
November 3, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Imagine saying it in very short way. Southerners drawl their words out, Utahns clip the word. So, instead of saying reeeaaal, it’s ‘rill’; say it as quickly as you can.
From another source:
“egg,” “leg,” “measure,” “treasure,” and similar words pronounced with the “ay” sound of “hay,” rather than the “eh” sound of “wet.”
Introduction of a “T” into certain words: “teacher” pronounced “teat-chur;” “preacher” as “preat-chur;” other examples include between the sounds “L” and “S” (”Nelson” and “Wilson” pronounced as “Neltson” and “Wiltson”).
Removal of the hard T sounds in the middle of words and replacement of them with glottal stops. Mountain is pronounced “Moun-uhn”
I find it fascinating to study the origins of regional accents. There’s been some work done that points dialect specifics of Utahns directly to the country, even region of origin. For example, they’ve found that some of the dialectical specificities originated in communities founded by immigrants from south western England; the dialects in those areas still contain markers that tie them back to SW England. You find that all over the West as isolated communities reflected the country of origin.