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I moved to Iowa from Tennessee last month and everyone comments on my heavy Southern accent, which I know I have, but this silly test puts me at neutral. I was born in 86. A local girl I'm dating has a strong regional accent and she was born in 91. Stupid question IMO.
I moved to Iowa from Tennessee last month and everyone comments on my heavy Southern accent, which I know I have, but this silly test puts me at neutral. I was born in 86. A local girl I'm dating has a strong regional accent and she was born in 91. Stupid question IMO.
Make sure you say the words in a sentence. Sometimes when you say the words by themselves you actually say them differently than you do in conversation.
Accents are attained by time. If you live in an area with accents, it will probably take about a year for you to start developing the same accent. This is natural, and not something one can really control.
This map seems more accurate. From wikipedia. Almost everywhere not in this map has at least a noticeable and fairly prevalent regional accent. Many people in KC and STL have a touch of a southern accent, and some have a complete southern accent. Minneapolis has its own accent (stronger as you go further north), and so does Chicago (stronger in the city than suburbs). The map doesn't quite extend up to Sioux Falls but it could also be included.
I've always found California to have a neutral English accent among native White English speakers as well.
My sister has one of the deepest southern accents ever and she was born in 1991: ohhh blesss yowerr heart type of deep, and I have no accent at all. When asked where I was from in the navy and everyone was always dumbstruck when I'd say Atlanta they'd always say but you don't have an accent. I have no idea why she has such a deep accent.
No to the California way since General American english comes from Midland which is originally from the Delaware Valley.
Is this true? I doubt many would think of the Delaware Valley accent when thinking of General American English. Philly newscasters are usually instructed to ditch their accent. I usually think of places in the Midwest when I think of a general american accent. I believe Iowa may have the most "general american english" speakers for some reason.
This map seems more accurate. From wikipedia. Almost everywhere not in this map has at least a noticeable and fairly prevalent regional accent. Many people in KC and STL have a touch of a southern accent, and some have a complete southern accent. Minneapolis has its own accent (stronger as you go further north), and so does Chicago (stronger in the city than suburbs). The map doesn't quite extend up to Sioux Falls but it could also be included.
I've always found California to have a neutral English accent among native White English speakers as well.
The only people in KC and STL who have southern accents are transplants, just like any other city in the nation. Both cities are Midwestern and not Southern.
I doubt many would think of the Delaware Valley accent when thinking of General American English. Philly newscasters are usually instructed to ditch their accent. I usually think of places in the Midwest when I think of a general american accent.
Which Pittsburgh was the gateway to.
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