Cities With no Distinct Accents (south, places, America, population)

[719inhere]

Originally Posted by wag more bark less

Any city in Colorado. Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Pueblo, etc. There's nothing distinct about the way people speak...I think sometimes people define it as "mid-American". Boring!

I kind of agree, but theres alot of transplants from all over the country living in Colorado, so you hear alot of different accents. But people I've meet here that are actual natives don't seem to have any distinct accent. Im from Northeast Ohio and they think I have a southern accent out here.

[Joe84323]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

The black population in the DMV has a very distinct accent.

Maryland is Murland
Area is Urea
Berry is Burry
Everybody is Urybody
Here is Heea
Regardless is Regawdluss

Wow, I would really have to throw up if I dealt with that on a daily basis. Southern accents are unappealing to my ears with very few exceptions.

[~CountryBoy~]

-Miami.
-Seattle.
-Portland (Oregon).
-Denver.
-Des Moines.

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by blkgiraffe

Boy how can you not hear the accent??? It's pretty strong too. She sounds like an average black dallasite.

This girl named Sidney is from the Oxygen Network reality show "The Bad Girls Club" and is from Dallas, TX


YouTube - ‪Bad Girls Club 6 - Casting Sydney‬‏

To me her accent doesn't sound southern at all. To me it sounds neutral/urban. I didn't know that there were people from Dallas who talked like this.

[Optional Angel]

You can't have a neutral accent. A person from the UK would find the Omaha accent very distinct. We all have accents. If you mean which cities have accents that sound the least like the Midwest accent, then that might make more sense.

[LakeShoreSoxGo]

Originally Posted by birdsing

Yeah overall DC has no distinct accent outside of the black population.

Not true at all. I went to school in D.C. and the a lot of local born residents have a slight drawl, even some from Maryland. The whole Mason- Dixon Line is like that and even up through the Ohio River Valley. If you go a couple hours south of Chicago further down state or in Indiana it is noticable there too.

Originally Posted by PDX_LAX

Cities that are full of people from somewhere else IE west coast cities. The more people from different places moving in and out of your city all the time the harder it will be to develop a distinct accent.

California has some very distinct accents. Pac NW not so much...

[west336]

Originally Posted by ~CountryBoy~

-Miami.
-Seattle.
-Portland (Oregon).
-Denver.
-Des Moines.

This list is fairly accurate in my experience. Except I don't know how Miami would NOT have an accent....

Some places where people don't think they have an accent, but do:

Columbus
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
D.C.
Pittsburgh

[pw72]

It's called a "broadcaster" accent, and it is most common in the central plains, pacific northwest, and most parts of California. Chicago is part of the equation, but on occasion you will hear that midwest twang sneak in, even in the loop.

[AdamBpa]

^Whaaaaat? Chicago has a very distinct accent. Not even like a twangy kinda accent, but like a "daaaa Bears" kinda accent.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by ~CountryBoy~

-Miami.
-Seattle.
-Portland (Oregon).
-Denver.
-Des Moines.

Miami does indeed have a distinct accent.