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[conuly]

Them: Go look at any official communication from a company. Have you ever received a ConEd bill that says, “Ya should of paid ya bill on time, now we gonna haveta cut off ya powa”? Of course not. Why? Because that is not standard English, and it would reflect poorly on the company.

Me: I take it you've never called ConEd on the phone in NYC? Because, whew, that'd disabuse you of this fiction pretty quick. Them and National Grid, wow. And I'm not even talking about their representatives, I'm talking about their recordings! Never heard such a thick NYC accent in my life, and I grew up here!

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[siliconshaman]

Aye Lassie, an' Scottish powerrr is just as bad, ye ken?!

[conuly]

Seriously, every time I have to call the gas company I'm left wondering where exactly they got the lady to make the recording. Who even talks like that nowadays? Maybe she came in from Jersey for it?

[buttonsbeadslace]

At my job in DC, I occasionally had to call the DMVs of DC, Maryland and Virginia, and it was always funny to me that Virginia's pre-recorded phone message sounded significantly more Southern.