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Old 03-16-2016, 04:35 PM
 
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Can anyone give me some examples of the Michigan accent? I do telephone triage for a living and on several occasions I have had people in places like California and Oregon ask me where I'm from and when I tell them Michigan, they'll say, "Aha! I knew it! You have SUCH a Michigan accent!", which is funny to me, because I'm not even from Michigan originally (grew up in NW Oho, which I know, isn't very far away) and I only live 20 minutes from the border now. I have lived here for almost 19 years, but still, I think I just have the plain, no accent, "Midwestern Vernacular", as they say. I was totally shocked the first time I was told that I have a Michigan accent, but, especially since I didn't move here until my early 30s, it makes me proud!


I also do telephone work. I live in Austin, TX, and have been in Texas for ~40 years, much longer than I lived in Michigan. Sometimes callers ask where I am located, I say Texas, they say funny, you don't sound like a Texan. Then, when I say I'm from Michigan, they say yes, you sound more like a Michigan accent! Or, they say right out, you sound like you're in Michigan. Funny, when I was in Michigan, no one ever said I had a Michigan accent?
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