And again, if you have a poem inspired by one of these plates, please include it in your comment, or email it, or tell me where to find it on your site, and I will include it in the Sunday review here.
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It is also the 2erd day and 23rd line for the Progressive Poem, the brainchild of Irene Latham. Check on the side navigation to go to today's new line.
T is for Two Maine Plates in the poem Today:
Put 'R Thayah
If you ah a Main-ah
Yud bettah talk right
Just put "ahs" where the Rs ah
Add em othuh spawts fuh spite
If you like drawrin' pich-ahs
Just put one ah right thayah
We've omitted enough,
So we have should have a spay-ah.
Don't mattah if yer a teach-ah
The rules ah the say-um
Sayin' ah's not just for doctahs
It's paht of ah fay-um.
©Donna JT Smith, 2016, all rights reserved
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Oh my. That is one of the hardest poems I've ever read aloud! But I get the picture... or rather, the sound! ;) Great job!
ReplyDeleteOooh, maybe I should try recording it and putting it here.
DeleteThat's hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize the accent was there until I moved to Minnesota for 10 years. When I returned, it was shocking to hear my parents speak; but after a while, it was business as usual again!
DeleteThis one just BEGGED to be read aloud! So. Much. Fun. "Fay-um," indeed!! HUZZ-AH!
ReplyDeleteWish I'd recorded it. Maybe for next week's Poetry Friday.
DeleteLOVE that poem!! I didn't realize that I had a Maine accent until I went to New York for a college visit. My host made mention of it after about my third or fourth use of 'wicked good.'
ReplyDeleteTeach-Ah is a perfect plate for a Maine teacher. :)
We are slowly losing all these accents. It's a shame to see them go!
DeleteWorks for us Rhode IslanDAHS too! lol
ReplyDelete#AtoZ
I've lived in RI and though they do have an accent, it's not quite the same. We have a few different stresses on words that have to be heard and don't come through with writing!
DeleteHaha I love this one
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lynn!
DeleteGreat Main-ah verse. :-) The accent works all ovah New England. :-)
ReplyDeletefly a kite indoors
juggle cupcakes and teapots
oh, to be Thing Two!
I'm tempted to do another for Trout, but I doubt I have time to. So tempting, though. Perhaps I'll be back.
It has variations depending on which state you are in and even in Maine, the farther north you go the more Canadian it gets. Some parts are heavy French-Canadian even in southern Maine, though.
DeleteNow that is a cute poem to explain how people in Maine talk :)
ReplyDeletebetty
http://viewsfrombenches.blogspot.com/
It's easier said than written!
DeleteLove, love your poem. I'd have a horrible accent if I visited Maine. You'd think I was a foreign-ah
ReplyDelete(oh, wow, I don't think I wrote that right.)
JEN Garrett
You'd be summah folk or from away if you was from anuthah state.
DeleteA faw'nah would be from out the states, don'cha know.