Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Do people from Wisconsin have an accent?

I have heard that we say things like "Malk" and "Muhwaukee" but I say "milk and Milwaukee" and I've lived there my whole life. Do we have an accent? I'm asking people that don't live there, as I've been taught in school that you don't hear your own accent. Maybe it's because I say "bayg" instead of "bag" I know everyone has an accent, but do people from Wisconsin have a *distinctive* accent?
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1 :
Yes. You do have an accent. You won't notice it because you grew up with it.
2 :
Everyone has an accent. The common misconception that you, and people who you know that live in the same area as you, don't have an accent is because you grew up hearing it and you just don't pay attention to it. People with a British accent don't think they have an accent because that's normal to them.
3 :
Everyone has an accent. My cousins live in Wisconsin, and I hear them and people there talk. Once, to test their accent, I asked them to say "The dragon dragged the bag over the moon." They said it like "The draygen draygged the bayg over the mooon."
4 :
Yeah, people from Wisconsin have a very distinct accent. I can't always tell the many American dialects, but the Wisconsin-dialect is easy to pick out