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Grr, someone already posted a thread about this story here. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=540481)

EDIT: make up a new topic......possibly one about accents and stuff.
Good idea, I'll take your advice. What kind of accent do the posters here have? There is a database here (http://accent.gmu.edu/), if you find one close to yours post it.

Err...Pahtatah? Seriously?

make up a new topic......possibly one about accents and stuff.

Lol, nice save.

Mancunian (http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/01/11/learn_mancunian_voices_feature.shtml)
Me (http://media.putfile.com/Manc-50) (hoping to God I don't sound as common as the first link...)

Northern cities shift, I suppose...it's really not much...

I don't have an exciting voice, just standard Midland American. I live in the South, but no one I grew up with had a Southern accent and so I'm not graced with one either.

I live in Connecticut, I have no accent. I speak non-regional diction.

Children speak as their playmates rather than as their parents.

Because of this I grew up with a German accent even though I'm not German. Most of my playmates were of German ancestry. Since then I've purposely tried to work toward Midland American.

My children, growing up in Missouri have just a little hillbilly-ridgerunner. The word I notice most is tore-ist instead of Tour-ist.

Missouri is unique in the fact that one can tell which side of the Civil War they are on by the way they pronounce the name of the state. Draw a line from 50 miles north of St. Louis to 50 miles south of Kansas City. South of that line it's Mizzura north of the line it's Missuree. You can tell a person's religion and politics by the way they say the name of the state.

Missouri is unique in the fact that one can tell which side of the Civil War they are on by the way they pronounce the name of the state. Draw a line from 50 miles north of St. Louis to 50 miles south of Kansas City. South of that line it's Mizzura northe of the line it's Missuree. You can tell a person's religion and politics by the way they say the name of the state.
It's similar with the place I grew up. A university meant the town was filled with evil liberals from up North. You could tell whether someone had gone to the university because if they did, they sounded out of place. (I wonder if there is a similar community of Southern folks up in New Haven.)

Pfft. I don't have an accent. Everyone else does.

Children speak as their playmates rather than as their parents.

Because of this I grew up with a German accent even though I'm not German. Most of my playmates were of German ancestry. Since then I've purposely tried to work toward Midland American.

My children, growing up in Missouri have just a little hillbilly-ridgerunner. The word I notice most is tore-ist instead of Tour-ist.

Missouri is unique in the fact that one can tell which side of the Civil War they are on by the way they pronounce the name of the state. Draw a line from 50 miles north of St. Louis to 50 miles south of Kansas City. South of that line it's Mizzura northe of the line it's Missuree. You can tell a person's religion and politics by the way they say the name of the state.
my grandparents said Mizzura and Hawayah and Calefornee

When I say Missouri it sounds nearly like Misery...:p

I don't know what my accent is like. Except for one sound I speak pretty much the same way my cousins in Michigan do.

I was born just in the "Midland" dialect region, so my accent is rather neutral. My mom was born about 30 miles south of where I was, and she consequently has more of a southern drawl. When I am here at school, i can pick out all the kids from chicago easily when they open their mouths. Sound like a bunch of scum bags ;)

When I say Missouri it sounds nearly like Misery...:p

Well they pretty much are synonymous. :)

Missouri is unique in the fact that one can tell which side of the Civil War they are on by the way they pronounce the name of the state. Draw a line from 50 miles north of St. Louis to 50 miles south of Kansas City. South of that line it's Mizzura northe of the line it's Missuree. You can tell a person's religion and politics by the way they say the name of the state.

That would explain why I pronounce it with the 'uh' sound at the end, instead of the 'ee'. I went to school in Cape Girardeau. Raised in Michigan with one Southern grandma and one English - I'm told I swear like a Bath fishwife when I'm angry. I also say y'all a lot.

Well they pretty much are synonymous. :)

Troof. The only thing Cape had going for it when I ws there was the Wal Mart. There was the Purple Crackle, but that was on the Illinois side of the Bridge of Death (I think they replaced it). That was the scariest bridge I've ever been on, and I've ridden in a sedan across the Mackinaw Bridge in high winds.

I say Missouri like misery except with the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first.

What's really wild is my in-laws. My F-I-L was a AH, my M-I-L says EE.

Of the 7 kids, every other one says AH and EE. The southern AH kids argue with the northern EE kids and each side does it's best to convert the grandkids.