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Most Place in the Midwest have a generic accent IMO, but I'm from Detroit and I don't think I have a accent but who knows? what places do in the Midwest do you think have a distinctive accent with a exception St Louis and Minnesota
All the big older cities have pretty distinct accents, notably Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Buffalo all have variations of the Great Lakes dialect-- they are all a little different from each other, but they sound very similar to the un-attuned. Kansas City is twangy and kind of country.
All the big older cities have pretty distinct accents, notably Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Buffalo all have variations of the Great Lakes dialect-- they are all a little different from each other, but they sound very similar to the un-attuned. Kansas City is twangy and kind of country.
Cincinnati's "accent", as much as it has one (which is very subtle, possible linguistically non-existent), features more of the markers of what many might call "country" than KC. Words and constructs like "reckon", "plumb" as an averb, "might could", etc.
Kansas City speech is neither "twangy" nor "country" by any linguistic measure, though I'm sure that fits the St Louis narrative of "little country cousin KC". In point of fact, KC has no municipal dialect. People here speak the Central Midland dialect of American English, a speech pattern which is recognized as the nee plus ultra of American Received Pronunciation, aka, no accent.
Detroit and Chicago accents are both nasally; the Chicago has more of a drawl while the Detroit/Michigan is more high-pitched (my fam is all from Mich). The Cinncinnati/Dayton accent has a heavy Kentucky influence.
Columbus, Cleveland & Indianapolis are the only Great Lakes cities I've been which don't have a distinct accent.
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