Which region in the United States of America has the best accent and why?
Which region in the United States of America has the best accent and why?
virginia is NOT in the mid-atlantic
There are many different accents in those regions. For instance if you go to kansas you will get a generic American accent like on tv. But if you go east to the Great Lakes it sounds more like the da bears Chicago nasally accent. Northeast has like a different accent in every big city metro area. West coast is mostly the same as the generic Kansas accent but with more varieties in California based on which city you are from. South has fairly different accents from state to state.
I like a nice upper class southern accent from like Georgia.
What it is then?
midwest and northwest sound normal and not stupid or annoying
South has fairly different accents from state to state.
It doesn't except for boomers from really rural areas
Louisiana is the best sounding on females
nta, but it's a part of the South.
How retarded do you have to be to put Kentucky in the Midwest and Virginia/West Virginia in the Mid-Atlantic? They are all three the literal OG South, where the rest of the South was settled from.
Anyway, the best American accent is the Kentucky accent; this example is the best. Wait for the main farmer they're interviewing to speak. Leagues above every other Southern accent. youtube.com
st louis has a weird relationship with great lakes and especially chicago. st louis consider themselves to be similar culturally but great lakes dont think about them or even sometimes consider them like southerners, which i think they resent
NYC
AYYYY, WHASSAMADDA YOU? YA DON'T LIKE DA GABAGOOL? FUGGEDABOUDIT, OHHHH!
This map doesn't represent St.Lous entirely accurately. The St. Louis accent is a weird mix of South Midland (rhotic Southern, a la Kentucky & Tennessee) and the Inland North (Great Lakes) accent. They have features of both, along with North Midland (what's just termed "Midland" in this map).
Historically, St. Louis was entirely South Midland in terms of dialect but that changed with commercial connections to the Lakes in the mid 1900s, and by a self-conscious effort of St. Louisians to disassociate themselves from the southern/southern adjacent history of Missouri.
Missouri's a weird state because, without the Civil War happening. it'd basically just be Kentucky 2.0 and St. Louis would be a lot like Louisville but the Civil War led to a government sponsored ethnic cleansing of Southerners in the state, so it has some weird ungodly mix of kraut LARP midwesterners & anglo-irish Southernerrs.
They even put West Virginia in there. The absolute fucking audacity of Yankee expats is too much sometimes. The whole image seems bizarrely modeled to ignore the South, calling most of it the "southeast" and splitting up several Southern states into other regions. We're still here, you animals.
No one cares about Dixietard regionalism
Maybe if you ignore NOVA, RVA, and Chesapeake. Its over brother.
Btw, I'm trying to improve my accent, so if anyone can check this out and see what it can be improved, it would be pretty cool. Thanks and take care.
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It is a Civil War thing? Virginia doesn't sound very Southern these days.
It's North of the Mason Dixon
How many people in the Midlands and the South merge cot and caught?
Non rhotic southern gentleman
St. Louis is rust belt. It’s similar to places like Detroit and Milwaukee. Basically it used to be a big white middle class utopia that was destroyed by black people and globalization.
I have the stereotypical Boston accent that I can code switch in and out of depending on my company. The place I visited where people loved it the most was Newcastle, and the feeling was mutual. The only place I was mistreated because of it was in Alabama by black people.
Most Koreans prefer to hear Californian accent
place I was mistreated because of it was in Alabama by black people
Why?
Basically it seems that the Great Lakes and the New York accents are the only ones that consistently keep cot and caught distinct. Is it real?
I don't know. Perhaps they are like dogs and sensed my innate mistrust of them.
It also seems that the West and the South have a more back and possibly rounded vowel for cot-caught while the Noth Central and New England have it more forward and unrounded.
Great Lakes no
What "no"
This is a Great Lakes accent
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Wiscos two accents both make me feel warm and fuzzy
This guy has a quintessential Great Lakes accent. youtube.com
Yes. Bat sounds like bet, bot sounds like bat.
I like New York and southern accents. New York sounds the most neutral to me, and southern are kinda homely (in the positive sense).
Some more great lakes kino
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Yeah jobs sounds like “jahbs”. most vowels sound nasal. But cot and caught will both sound like caht in the Great Lakes.
you just described all Yankees
Ah might be so nowadays. Most of all that linguistic data is 20 years old. Do cot and caught now sound the same everywhere besides New York then?
Eh are you sure? Are you from the great lakes region? I think I generally say them the same but my dad differentiates them. My impression was that the cot-caught merger was complete in most places other than the great lakes region. But maybe I'm thinking of northern Wisconsin and minnesota
NYC, New Jersey, Philly, Boston, Rhode Island will all have them sounding different. They emphasize the u sound in caught. It sounds like coo-ut.
Im from Michigan. Wisconsin is a bit different.
Boston, Rhode Island
Nah no way. The merge them but to an aw instead of an ah.
maybe I'm thinking of northern Wisconsin and minnesota
Might be, those are considered the North Central and they have the merger.
Ah i see. So i guess it depends where you are in the great lakes region. There's at least some areas that the merger's still working on
Is the accent even still around or is it regulated to specific neighborhoods like Dorchester?
People in Rhode Island and Boston or Massachusetts in general don't have distinct accents anymore, most of us have the default standard American accent. It's really only the old folks that have one.
the default standard American accent
Does it have the same vowel in lot and thought?
You aren’t southern fuck off
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