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Is NY-NJ-CT not full of different sounding accents?
Yes. Even north jersey and south jersey are very different which is probably the biggest change in a short distance I've heard. Someone mentioned Boston and Providence but they both sound quite similar but Prov has more of a NYC influence I guess you could say?. North jersey (around NYC area) sounds basically like the NYC accent most people know but south jersey is where you can start hearing the southern accent coming into play which took me by complete surprise when I lived there for a year.
In New Orleans you hear the yat accent, then in Metairie, which borders the city, you don't hear it at all unless the person is from New Orleans.
Yeah, it's hard to beat New Orleans, where there's arguably four accents (Yat, AAVE, Uptown, and standard southern). Plus the Cajun accent isn't spoken all that far away from the city.
I imagine Missouri to be a good contender with the southern half sounding more like Arkansas and the northern part sounding more like Iowa. Somewhere south of the middle there's gotta be a sudden change. Or maybe its more gradual? Idk but I noticed that when I reach Florence, Kansas, there's no southern influence in the Kansas accent, not that there's a strong one to begin with. Its a pretty clear change between Oklahoma and Kansas in terms of dialect.
Yes. Even north jersey and south jersey are very different which is probably the biggest change in a short distance I've heard. Someone mentioned Boston and Providence but they both sound quite similar but Prov has more of a NYC influence I guess you could say?. North jersey (around NYC area) sounds basically like the NYC accent most people know but south jersey is where you can start hearing the southern accent coming into play which took me by complete surprise when I lived there for a year.
I just mentioned in another thread how some of the rural parts of South Jersey can be kind of rednecky. It's very different from North Jersey.
Wisconsin and Minnesota. Southern and metro areas have a little bit of the accent. Get even 50 miles north into the Northwoods it sounds like the movie Fargo.
Even within the Twin Cities metro - the northern burbs and counties sound totally different than the south and west metro.
Wisconsin and Minnesota. Southern and metro areas have a little bit of the accent. Get even 50 miles north into the Northwoods it sounds like the movie Fargo.
Even within the Twin Cities metro - the northern burbs and counties sound totally different than the south and west metro.
Agree. Also, if you drive northwest from Milwaukee, or northwest from Madison, quickly you go from a typical midwestern "normalspeak" to sounding like they are Canadian.
Specifically in Madison the speak is quite average, then go 40 miles over to Baraboo, and it's a major difference.
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