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Oh coldwine, must you always refute all accepted linguistic data on US regional accents just because you can't hear it? Surely you realize that there is an accent specific to the Great Lakes region of the US that is different from the West Coast, East Coast, and the South. Naturally, not everyone has it, just as not everyone from Boston has the Boston accent, but I grew up in a more working class part of the Chicago area, I and definitely could introduce you to some older guys in their 50's and 60's who grew up on the south-side who have the accent.
As far as Obama is concerned, I find his accent rather neutral.
Yes, actually. As a first gen American from a household where English wasn't even the second language spoken at home, I'm generally mystified by the assertion if this northern cities vowel shift situation.
After having lived abroad, I still haven't heard it. Oh, except for Peter griffin on Family Guy. But I thought it was a midwest phenomenon.
There is most certainly a Chicago accent, but it ain't this NCVS bull.
Yes, actually. As a first gen American from a household where English wasn't even the second language spoken at home, I'm generally mystified by the assertion if this northern cities vowel shift situation.
After having lived abroad, I still haven't heard it. Oh, except for Peter griffin on Family Guy. But I thought it was a midwest phenomenon.
There is most certainly a Chicago accent, but it ain't this NCVS bull.
The voice of Peter Griffin is a mixture of the Boston and NYC accents; after all, the show is set in RI, and if you've ever visited Providence, this is what you'll hear..
Obama has a fairly neutral, nondescript generic accent, IMHO.
I voted "No". He sounds clearly like a well spoken guy from the midwest to me. I would never confuse him for a well spoken person from anywhere on the eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. Maybe it's because I study languages?
I'm from Chicago, and neither myself nor anyone I know speaks like that. So, you know. BS
Yeah, I think the stereotype of the "Chicago accent" grossly exaggerates the general situation in 2010.
With millions of people in the metro now being hispanic, black or asian, as well as the large numbers of people that have moved away since the 1960's, only to be replaced by large numbers moving in from around the Midwest since the early 1990's - the hard core Chicago accent is definitely an exception than any rule.
I've been here for 9 years now from elsewhere in the Midwest, and I never really noticed any accent, and no one back home has ever mentioned that I've developed one. It's pretty much a non-issue in the city as far as people talking about this accent.
Once in awhile I will hear a really Ditka or SNL "Da Bears" accent, but it's more of a novelty.
Wooder = Philly. It's pretty well known around there. I've never heard anyone from Maryland say wooder.
Oh yeah, the whole areas has people saying that -
"Listen for water becoming wooder, and orange as awrange, and you'll realize there really is an accent here. And don't say Maryland like Mary land—you'll sound funny."
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