Colorado Accent vs Michigan Accent: Which One Truly Exists? (compared, places, America)
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I found it from this article. In my humble opinion. I'd say the Michigan accent is more noticeable than the Colorado accent as alot of people from Michigan speak in a Great Lakes accent like Chicago or Milwaukee. Especially when Michiganlanders say "Pop" or "Mahm".
The only people who don't have accents are people who can't speak, lol. Even the Denver "Non" Accent sounds like an American accent compared to other English speaking accents.
I've never heard, or even heard of a Colorado accent. That's a new one on me.
Before the migration of Californians and people from other parts of the US. Native Coloradans spoke in a Cowboyish Western drawl that sounds Southern-like to the untrained ears. I knew someone from Western Colorado who spoke in that accent, but you're not going to hear someone from Denver who speaks like that.
From a native Coloradan.
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Originally Posted by jazzlover
Coloradans, unless they are transplanted Texans or Southerners, do not have a "Southern" accent. If they have an accent, it is more of a "Western drawl." There is a distinct difference, and Rocky Mountain region natives and long-time residents can tell the difference between the two accents quite readily. The only place in Colorado that you may regularly hear a "Texas" drawl (other than at the resorts that they frequent or areas that they have transplanted to) is in the far southern and southeastern parts of Colorado abutting the Oklahoma panhandle. Even there, it may not be pronounced. I have known a fair number of people over the years native to the Texas Panhandle, and they themselves frequently have more of a Western drawl than Texas accent.
Before the migration of Californians and people from other parts of the US. Native Coloradans spoke in a Cowboyish Western drawl that sounds Southern-like to the untrained ears. I knew someone from Western Colorado who spoke in that accent, but you're not going to hear someone from Denver who speaks like that.
In my experience, as a non-native resident, many Coloradans sound bored in their speech. The Co-lo-raa-do pronunciation is almost a dead giveaway, but not always. Believe it or not, the west side of Denver has its own, quite annoying accent. I like to go over there and mimic them sometimes. Sounds like a wannabe ghetto halfway-Latino accent. Rural Colorado on the plains has a sort of drawl.
The Michigan accent makes my ears want to curl up.
Before the migration of Californians and people from other parts of the US. Native Coloradans spoke in a Cowboyish Western drawl that sounds Southern-like to the untrained ears. I knew someone from Western Colorado who spoke in that accent, but you're not going to hear someone from Denver who speaks like that.
From a native Coloradan.
The thing is that much of California had a similar Western accent as well(some still do). My grandparents and great uncles and aunts and older relatives of my dad's generation all had it from growing up in the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada(even on the edge of the Bay Area in parts). You still hear it occasionally out in some places. The "Okies" in the 1930s brought a sort of Texas drawl to the region as well. Over the years though people from other parts of the country(or other countries) moved to California and it sort of changed.
Though I think in part regional accents are dying off as a generational thing. In part the country is just more generalized these days with mass media and people transplanting across the country more easily and often. Even southern accents or Philly or New York accents often seem a little softer these days.
Though I think in part regional accents are dying off as a generational thing. In part the country is just more generalized these days with mass media and people transplanting across the country more easily and often. Even southern accents or Philly or New York accents often seem a little softer these days.
Yeah. This woman is from Natchez, Mississippi. I think black people from Mississippi have historically had the most powerful southern accents known to man. But her accent is relatively mild, imo.
The thing is that much of California had a similar Western accent as well(some still do). My grandparents and great uncles and aunts and older relatives of my dad's generation all had it from growing up in the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada(even on the edge of the Bay Area in parts). You still hear it occasionally out in some places. The "Okies" in the 1930s brought a sort of Texas drawl to the region as well. Over the years though people from other parts of the country(or other countries) moved to California and it sort of changed.
Though I think in part regional accents are dying off as a generational thing. In part the country is just more generalized these days with mass media and people transplanting across the country more easily and often. Even southern accents or Philly or New York accents often seem a little softer these days.
While some regional accents are dying out. Some regional accents like in the Great Lakes and West Coast are actually getting stronger because most of the speakers don't realize they have noticeable accents. I heard young speakers throughout the West Coast speak in that California Vowel Shift/Uptalk/Creaky-Voice from San Diego to Seattle. And the Great Lakes accent is starting to spread through the Midwest.
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