Colorado Accent vs Michigan Accent: Which One Truly Exists? (life, airport, beautiful)
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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.
I've heard it from eastern Coloradans from places like Burlington. It overlaps with far western Kansas and SW Nebraska. I'd call it some kind of odd hybrid between Southern yet not and Texan.
The Trolls have a standard Inland North accent. There isn't a big difference from the LP and the rest of the southern Great Lakes area (the area I was born and raised, so they obviously don't have an accent to me). Yoopers on the other hand do have an accent. For a lack of words, it is an adorable accent.
Colorado for the most part doesn't have an accent because of the people from all over the country. I'd say natives kind of sound like people in Nebraska and Kansas.
The Yooper accent also extends into far north-central Wisconsin as well. There is some overlap in that regard.
Absolutely - there's a Canadian Shield shared accent, though I can pick out regional differences (Yooper, WI northwoods, WI-Central, MN northwoods, etc.). Some depend on the ethnicity of the area - central WI is Polish-influenced, and you can hear it in certain phrases and pronunciations. I grew up in Door County, which was split between Scando/Swedish 'sconsin north and the southern Belgian-influenced version. It's fairly strong throughout these areas, and less-so once you start heading south towards the Milwaukee corridor, don't ya know dere once?
My favorite northwoods-ism is when a couple sisters I know were sitting together at a bar, and a local walked up and said, "you two look togedder in da face, eh?"
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