My wife is from Long Island and when she drinks she starts pronouncing the final g if the next word starts with a vowel.
She becomes from “Lon gisland” and is planning on “goin gout” later.
She becomes from “Lon gisland” and is planning on “goin gout” later.
I am also from Long Island, and have largely moderated my pronunciation to match a more standard pronunciation, but when I interact with natives of north Jersey, parts of NYC and Long Island, I somehow start adopting the accent a bit, unconsciously.
It’s most commonly found with African Americans and minority/immigrant communities, since in professional or unknown settings people will use more standard registers of English.
(My accent is odd because I was born in Brooklyn and we spoke Yiddish at home, grew up on "Lon Gisland" then did college and beyond in Israel, and now spend about 2/3rd of time in US and 1/3 in Israel)
"Hog", "log", and "bog" all rhymed, buy we couldn't figure out (not even the teacher) why "dog" (dowg?) sounded so much different. I was telling this story as a teenager when it suddenly occurred to me that I had a very strong accent.
everything east of bushwick till the hamptons triggers me