(disclaimer: I can’t account for the source of this map or its accuracy)
As we in the Midwest prefer to call it, “a normal accent”.
Baltimore has filed a protest.
Aaron earned an iron urn.
Go on, tell people in Philly they got a New York accent, I dare ya.
Or folks in Baltimore that they have a Midwest accent
baltimore assent say dis.
arn arnd an arn arn.
Never heard a New Yorker say needs washed, yins, warsh, or pop.
I’ve got a proper Cascadian accent. It’s lovely, but gets me marked as an outsider when I go elsewhere in the country.
New Englander here.
What in the world is a “New England accent?” Do you mean Boston? New Hampshire? Wood Chuck? Whatever the hell is going on in Maine? (I didn’t know anybody lived there to have an accent.)You don’t know any wicked mainahs then. Up north in East millinocket driver mcguyver
Over my dead Appalachian body!
“you betcha” I say as I choke you to death with a corn cob
Gonna make lots of Philly people angry.
They were already angry
This bit is so good.
Austin doesn’t sound valley imo.
Funnily enough, it shares a lot of dialectic traits with Orlando.
It does not. It’s more of a mix of Midwestern, border mexican, valley, and standard Texan. I loved how many of the Indian tech-workers that moved to Austin in the early 2000s quickly developed a habit of using y’all…and a breakfast taco addiction.
Source: Austinite from 1999-2022.
I’m an Indian born in Austin in the early 2000s who uses y’all and is addicted to breakfast tacos ^and elotes^ 💀
why is this so accurate
If anyone is wondering, I grew up in Seattle and I’ve had people who are English second language ask me if I’m British.
I just learned English by watching Frasier.
I live in Jackson, Wyoming (right on the border with Idaho for 8 months out of the year. I travel most of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and I do not detect a difference in accent between there and most of the Midwest.
Well if it makes you happy, to me, youse sound the same, I can make out the southern accent, but the rest just sounds american.
NJ gets its own on the map, so I’m happy.
Also all tourists can fuck off now, is fall, go home, beaches are closed.
Also all tourists can fuck off now, is fall, go home, beaches are closed.
Leaves are all gone! On the ground! I promise, no need to check!!