clevelanders don't have accents
What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net
Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Syracuse, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).
It helps to use the words in a sentence and listen closely to what you say. E.g. "I was playing baseball and caught the ball" vs. "The hotel had to give us a roll-away cot."
One pair I found interesting was collar and caller. What I heard was that my vowel shape in collar was more like an a ("caaaaller"), but my vowel shape in caller was more like an o ("cawller"), even though they're spelled oppositely.
The one I didn't understand was bag and vague. There are regions where these words rhyme? So is it "beg" and "vague" or "bag" and "vag"??
Inland Northern American English
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Yeah, actually, there are some areas where "bag" is pronounced more like "bayg"--the vowel is long and somewhat twangy.
Now I could have answered this two ways. How I speak here and how I speak when I am home on Long Island. As Bird can attest to, when on LI my New Yawker accent comes out of hiding. Laurie kept telling me not to use my accent for the quiz, so I ended up with the same Inland NA accent. Despite the fact that I still say hare-ible and are-ange.
Midland. The Midland (please don't confuse with "Midwest") itself is Pennsylvania, the southern and central parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as Missouri, and after that it starts to turn into the West. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.
Lol, guess I'm not the Clevelander I thought I was afterall!!! I did once have someone in my apartment building ask me if I was from Atlanta...
Well, much like Pittsburgh, I think Parma should probably have its own category. :) Or should I say, "Paurrma"?
Ummmmm....wtf??? I got three answers??
Mid-Atlantic. This is what everyone calls a Philadelphia accent although it's also the accent of south Jersey, Baltimore, and Wilmington. Well, everyone that lives near there, that is. Outsiders can tell you talk differently from them even though they can't tell what your accent is.
Southern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you're probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River.
Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Syracuse, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).
Also, when you're from New York, you say "CARnegie avenue" instead of "carNEGie." ;)
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