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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite American English dialect? [View all]tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)25. I've been told I don't have much of an accent
And coming from NY, that says a lot.
However, as a small child, I was corrected if I "talked like a New Yorker."
I spent the spring in WI last year working on a recall, and the first thing they did upon my arrival was drill their way of pronouncing their state in my head. I later saw a friend I hadn't seen in awhile (after I returned to NJ) who had a friend with her that thought I was from WI.
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When we lived in Pittsburgh my SIL told me I have a California accent.
Still Blue in PDX
Jan 2012
#45
Across a thin strip of Northern Ohio there still can be found a strong influence of the speech
Ikonoklast
Jan 2012
#19
Standard American, the goal toward which all educated speakers strive, but a tip of the hat to
dimbear
Jan 2012
#8
I like the Boston accent because it reminds me of the Kennedys. I've also been to Boston twice and
applegrove
Jan 2012
#13
I like the accents in CA (since we don't have accents) LOL! However, if I had to choose an actual
nirvana555
Jan 2012
#16
Not one person has mentioned the New York, Brooklyn, Bronx or Queens accent
Sanity Claws
Jan 2012
#33
Whatever it was in the movie "Fargo." Is that Minnesota? Also, cajun accent. nt
Honeycombe8
Jan 2012
#40
That's it! N Dakota! So you live in Fargo? How cool is that? Literally cool.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2012
#46