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To: Torie

Midwesterners have no accent!!


1,449 posted on 07/19/2005 7:08:33 PM PDT by hoosierham
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To: hoosierham
Midwesterners have no accent!!

That's why all the TV talking heads try to sound like us, right? We have itty-bitty, local accents.

1,485 posted on 07/19/2005 7:12:15 PM PDT by madison10
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Yes they do actually. It is more distinctive in some places than others. I listen for ruf for roof, and Warshington for Washington. It is obvious in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago, but I can tell an Iowa accent too, often. It just has a certain je ne sais qua. The UP in Michigan has a near Canadian accent. Detroiters have a certain flat quality that I cannot quite describe. Few sound like northeastern seaboard types, even those without much of an accent, like my Dad.

Where I fall down, is when it comes to the South. They all sound the same to me. I can't tell a Virginia accent from a Texas accent, and that's pathetic. But then I am a Yankee. :)

1,503 posted on 07/19/2005 7:14:54 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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