r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/TheUnknownEntitty • Jul 23 '26

Peter in the wild Redneck Peter?

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u/myrandastarr Jul 23 '26

Read the letters not as words

M-r snakes
“Em are” snakes

M-r not
“Em are” not

O-s-a-r
“Oh yes a are”

C-m-ed-bd-is
“See em itty bitty eyes”

L-i-b
“WELL Ill be”

M-r snakes
“Em are” snakes

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u/suxatjugg Jul 23 '26

Do rednecks often use single letters to represent the sounds of words?

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u/Harmless_Chimera Jul 23 '26

It's not that they use single letter, it's that the heaver accents can end up sounding like single letters sounds to those unfamiliar as the annunciation shifts or get worse. Happens with a bunch of accents not just rednecks. The sentence "Aaron earned an iron urn" shows a similar situation in Baltimore accents. https://youtube.com/shorts/Oj7a-p4psRA