"The Midwest" is a very big place and there are lots of accents to be found there.

I repeat, everyone has an accent. Some are more pronounced than others, some are more common than others, but everyone has an accent.

Please tell me that this is supposed to be a joke.

Of course, maybe you're not joking. After all, I have trouble taking someone seriously who posts in bright colors.

MysticCat is dealing with KK withdrawal. :p

The font hurts my eyes, too.

I encounter Midwesterners all the time, from all over the Midwest, who claim not to have accents. It's comical because their accents are always clear as day to me. It's also interesting because people in the same area can have different accents.

What's the place where the "news anchor accent" stems from? There are a few states that claim they have a neutral accent.

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Good for you.

I'm sure there's a better green you can use, though. :)


There's a "news anchor" accent because of the appearance of accent neutrality and the ability to be easily understood by whomever. However, this is not to be confused with the absence of an accent or that a "Midwest accent" is not easily detected. :)

Now that you've told us about accents, why don't you go to the AKA Forum and properly introduce yourself. ;)

You'll learn the quote function and stuff later.

I know if you and I were to get on the phone together right now, you would think that I have an accent and I would definitely think you have an accent. Doesn't make either of us right or wrong, just makes us from different parts of the country. :p

One more thing . . . I don't think that news anchors in Southern California sound like they are from the midwest

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^^^^^ hemming up K's

i feel lightweight aroused

LOL

calm all that shit down.

Yeah, right. No, I just have a hard time staying quiet when people say silly things.

I assume since you're cutting "further North" from the Midwest, you've decided that Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota aren't really the Midwest. So what Midwest are you talking about? Chicago? Iowa? Nebraska? Ohio? Missouri? I've heard people from all of them with accents.

But it's an overgeneralized observation. I have heard plenty of anchors in the South who do not sound like midwesterners.

Everyone who speaks has an accent. An accent is nothing but the way in which words are pronounced. The "newsanchor speak" you keep talking about is more commonly known as "General American" or "Standard Midwestern" (or even "American Broadcast English"). It is an accent; it's just the accent that is perceived to be the most homogenous and free and regional distinctives, but it is an accent -- a way of pronunciation.

According to The Telsur Project (as reported on The Wiki), it's eastern Nebraska, southern and central Iowa and western Illinois.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...l_American.png

My accents fairly thick.

There are obviously different types of Southern accents even, which match the different types of Southerners. Some of the more obvious is the difference between the Hill Country and the Delta. Mines more Delta, even though I live at the foothills of the Hill Country. That comes from the parents though.

I grew up in the shaded area in the map above. No wonder I think I talk "normal" and the rest of you talk "strange". I grew up with TV characters and news anchors talking just like me. :-)

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i totally and completely concur and they have to be hot from the store not buying the cold ones and going home and warming them up *that's blasphemy* i am happy i have a store that is like 20 minutes from my house ... i only get them once a month though because those things are soo addictive.