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    Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
    Personally, I don't have an accent.
    Neither did I when I was young but several years after leaving home I noticed that my entire extended family developed an accent I can only describe as 'redneck country'.
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    Is there a rocky mountain accent? Other than the New England area and the cheese heads, I don't pick up regional accents at all. I have friends who are refugees from Iowa and I can't detect any mid-western accent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
    Is there a rocky mountain accent? Other than the New England area and the cheese heads, I don't pick up regional accents at all. I have friends who are refugees from Iowa and I can't detect any mid-western accent.
    My ear picks up differences between Colorado, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico accents. Subtle ones.

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    I had a college professor tell me I had one of the most "godawful" New England accents he had ever heard. I do know that I use R's after vowels very sparingly.

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    I’m from Michigan, suburban Detroit. I’m told I have the Michigan twang and even after almost 30 years in the Chicago area, I still have it. I definitely don’t sound like the folks born here, even those from the suburbs.

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    I can pick up accents from different areas of Texas. Fort Worth twang is quite different from other regions. Other than saying y'all every once in a while, my long time in Texas left no clue. Old timer western Coloradans also have a particular way of speaking which I like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    Neither did I when I was young but several years after leaving home I noticed that my entire extended family developed an accent I can only describe as 'redneck country'.
    Haha!

    There is a Southern Illinois accent around St. Louis that I notice sometimes.

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    If you live long enough, you can notice shifting patterns too. Especially when you’ve been away from an area. It seems to me that Chicago-speak has been gradually colonizing Southern Wisconsin over the last thirty years or so.

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    Considering the small size of the Northeast relative to the rest of the country, we do have a surprising number of detectable accents. Besides the obvious rosa/Boston accent(s), There's a Maine/New Hampshire accent (I was in the play Our Town, so I know), and there is a separate Vermont accent. Everyone knows the NJ accent which thank God my kids never picked up, and New Yawk/Lawn Geyeland and then there's a PA/MD accent ("on" is "awn").
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    Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
    Considering the small size of the Northeast relative to the rest of the country, we do have a surprising number of detectable accents. Besides the obvious rosa/Boston accent(s), There's a Maine/New Hampshire accent (I was in the play Our Town, so I know), and there is a separate Vermont accent. Everyone knows the NJ accent which thank God my kids never picked up, and New Yawk/Lawn Geyeland and then there's a PA/MD accent ("on" is "awn").
    When I lived in Boston, I was surprised by the many different dialects within a small area. Southie, Brookline, Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, etc. all sounded a bit different to me. Maybe that’s what comes from three hundred years of segregated neighborhoods.

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