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I have a weird varied accent. Most of my speech is standard Midwestern but I get poked fun at by a lot of ppl out here for my vowel sounds which are a bit east coast I got from family. My Latin side comes out on select words
My accent is varied. I live in a transitional zone, here in my region of Arizona/New Mexico you pick up hints of Texan, with classic western accents. Not to mention just south of where I lived was settled by southerners following the Civil War. So I'd assume Western, with light touches of Texan and/or Southern.
To see what I'm getting at, look at the whole bubble around Silver City, it takes up my little region of Arizona.
That is interesting how they cut up Florida... I would agree. I'd say my accent is pretty flat and grew up around a marked "general american" w/ no features.(Florida) I've actually been described as monotone accent by people that I think have strong accents.
When I click on the map Desert kid provided, it enlarges to a good level. I noticed the area where I grew up in north-central West Virginia is right above the southern accent line, in the midland section to be precise. Also that region is in a transitional zone, which I think is very accurate. It's not quite southern, but it's not quite northern either. Very interesting patchwork of dialects in that region of the country. I currently live about 80 miles to the north outside of Pittsburgh, and the dialect up here is somewhat similar, but more northern, if that makes sense.
Also only one little part of West Virginia is in the Inland South region, which is the Williamson area. However, one other map showed the vast majority of the state as "Mountain Southern", which basically follows the Inland Southern on this map. The map above is more accurate in my opinion.
Interesting map above. NJ is split into 3 accent zones, and I agree with it. There are 3 very different accents in NJ. And the vast, vast majority of people in NJ speak in a tone not even remotely close to anything you've heard on the Sopranos.
Does the rest of the nation detect an accent in Californians?
I was born and raised in Ca and I don't "think" we have an accent, but I'd be curious to see of others detect a west/pacific coast accent?
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