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okay, so, with thanks to

verav and

azewewish, the kid who played little!dean?

also played little johnny cash in walk the line.

i know - KNOW - that i am not alone in finding this to be the BEST INFORMATION EVER IN THE HISTORY OF TIME.

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it is true!

hey, lav, can i ask you a question? where did the jay-red thing come from? i mean, i kind of assumed it was a southern accent thing, but i haf assessed with many people from many different parts of the south, and it's not that. so, um. whuh?

I have no clue as to the nitpicky details of who/when/where/why, but I imagine it came about as a spin on the whole Texan/Texas accent thing.

Depending on what part of the state you live in, that tends to be the common pronounciation. I grew up in Dallas, so I don't have quite the same accent (and I've spent the past 8 years beating my old accent outta me, to boot), but my Dad's a small-town Texan from Lubbock and he drawls like you wouldn't BELIEVE. Any a's get prounced like "ay" or this weird cross between "ah" and "uh" with him. ^^;;

get him to say "jared" one day, will ya? i've heard a buncha texans say it ain't so, and i'm really curious. :)

Remember that Texas is friggin' HUGE. Different areas have different accents. Go to East Texas and you'll hear more of a Louisiana influence, go up to the panhandle and people will sound just as general-midwestern as they will straight-up Texan, and so on.

And I've got a step-cousin named Jared - he says "Jayred" on a fairly regular basis. Either that, or he'll do a "bear" sound - like "Jehr-ed".

i know, i know, i'm talkin all-over texans.

most of 'em would point at that -ehr sound. up here in alberta, we do a fair share of chewin' on the R ourselves. :) sometimes the vowels totally disappears in it: jerrd. just like when jensen says it. *beams*

well thanks, though! i figured it was an accent thing, and it is too. :)

Heh. It also depends on personal circumstance - how the individual speaker is accustomed to saying/pronouncing things. Even physical details - shape of the mouth, teeth, size of the tongue, etc. It all affects how you speak.

The whole trademark accent think is kinda funny to me - last year when I went back to DFW for a family reunion, I hit a restaurant with some cousins and the first thing the waiter did was ask where I'm from and make the observation that I'm "ah-bvee-usly not fr'm uhround heere".

I had to explain to him that I was born here, actually, and I moved away from TX I was 16.

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