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Survivors Guide to New Jersey Speak
Many people have in their mind an idea of how a New Jersey (or 'Joisey') native sounds.  If you are not from New Jersey, perhaps you get your impressions from TV, such as The Sopranos.  However, the influences on New Jersey are diverse and identifying standard New Jersey speech patterns is more complicated than many realize.  
First, it's important to recognize that there are two main divisions with New Jersey, roughly divided geographically into North and South Jersey.  Due in part to the impact of New York City on the North and Philadelphia on the South, this has helped created recognizable linguistic differences between North and South Jersey. (See the articles "New Jersey English" and "New York - New Jersey English" and the Reference Guides below for more details.)Three examples of the differences in North and South Jersey pronounciation are how "coffee", "drawer" and "water" are pronounced.  North Jersey will tend to say "caughfee" or "cawfee", "draw" and "whatar", whereas in the South you will tend to hear "coughfee", "drarr" and "wuter" (short "u") or even "wooder", such as  "Let's all go to Rita's for some wooder ice!"Warning: Unless they possibly hail from Brooklyn, NYC, no one who lives in New Jersey that I ... more

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