Chicago Accents (Gibson, Hartford: radio, cities, phone number)

[Venom]

I think I got the accent.

[Lookout Kid]

My sister has a thick Wisconsin accent, and I don't. We both went to the same college and have professional jobs. My brother has no Wisconsin accent, but is the least educated of us. So I really can't figure it out. Neither of my parents have the thick Wisconsin accent either (though my dad has a slight tinge), so I'm not sure where my sister picked it up. None of my grandparents had a discernable accent at all. If anything, my grandparents from working class parts of Chicagoland sounded a tinge British like Cary Grant.

[Venom]

Probably has to do with whom you hang out with

[Avengerfire]

This has been covered in this thread (it has far more posts):

http://www.city-data.com/forum/chica...ago-slang.html

[ERS-One]

Originally Posted by Venom

Probably has to do with whom you hang out with

That is what I've read.

[MyssaTx]

Does a Chicago accent sound like a Wisconsin accent? I dont mean to be rude but and this only a matter of opinion but I find Wisconsin accents extremely annoying and very whiney.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by MyssaTx

Does a Chicago accent sound like a Wisconsin accent? I dont mean to be rude but and this only a matter of opinion but I find Wisconsin accents extremely annoying and very whiney.

Big words coming from a severely accented state like Texas...

They are not the same. There are similarities, but the Chicago accent sounds a bit tougher, I guess. I'd almost call it Midwestern-Brooklyn. The true Wisconsin accent isn't that common in Milwaukee and Madison, though it does exist there. It's more of a Northern Wisconsin thing.

I don't know how you'd be familiar with a Wisconsin accent without spending time there. It's not the same as the accent in the movie Fargo (that happens further west in Minnesota and the Dakotas), but that's the closest I've heard in popular culture. Most people in Wisconsin just have a couple of vowel sounds they speak slightly differently.

[MyssaTx]

I have a friend from Wisconsin and his accent is pretty obvious. Even though I find it a tad annoying Im really not affected by peoples accent unless of course it makes it hard for me to understand them.
Yes I know Texas is a severely accented state. Although as stated by others I also do not hear the accent but of course other people tell me otherwise.

[tb4000]

Usually older people have the inflection, but most people in the area have an Inland North accent, basically just a pretty flat one. That was apparently what Heath Ledger said he was going for when he voiced Joker. Slightly nasal, yet not annoying.

[Milwaukee City]

Nobody I ever met from Milwaukee has the wisconsin accent. I first noticed it when I went to a packer game and from that point on I was a bear fan. Even in Milwaukee the southside and the working class suburbs in Milwaukee(cudahy, south milwaukee, st.francis) seem to have a an accent. I have had numerous northsiders in Milwaukee tell me their is a southside accent. Must be a southside thing in both cities.