I prefer to call it the mishmash accent.

’Cause it seems like I’ve lived everywhere, man.

Via Leslie’s Omnibus.

1. Gee, after 10 years I still have the North Central (aka, Minnesota) accent.  Yes, it really does say Minnesota accent for North Central.  Uff da.

   Posted by  on  11/10  at  07:44 AM  from 

2. The Inland North:

   “You may think you speak ‘Standard English straight out of the dictionary’ but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like ‘Are you from Wisconsin?’ or ‘Are you from Chicago?’ Chances are you call carbonated drinks ‘pop.’”

   Well, yes, I did grow up in Wisconsin.

   In fact, more than once while traveling around the country, I’ve been asked, on the basis of my accent, whether I’m from the Madison area. (Yes, I grew up in a small town just north of Madison.)

   And BTW, it is “pop.”

   Posted by Paul Burgess  on  11/10  at  08:14 AM  from 

3. And in things that make you say “WTF, over?” I took this quiz, went straight down the questions amused that I was answering all standard proper English answers and was also going to come out midwest/no accent, and came out Boston.  Apparently if you answer correctly and don’t do any vowel shifting or whatever, you have a Boston accent and people who talk funny think you talk funny.  At least on paper.

   Posted by  on  11/10  at  10:07 AM  from 

4. Okay, so I retook it and changed the answers on the two questions that I answered the way I say them when I am trying to talk “right” to the way I sometimes say them, and changed another answer I realized I was wrong on, and now I am:

   “North Central” is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw “Fargo” you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

   Heh.  Deb just called me “Mr. Aboot” and enjoyed this result.

   Posted by  on  11/10  at  10:13 AM  from 
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