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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The accent isn't Midwest per se, it's a northern, boarding Canada thing - Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota.

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+1 I would not call this a mid western accent. I've lived in both Ann Arbor, Michigan and Dayton, Ohio and no one sounded like that. [/quote]

I have family from Dayton and you are right, they do not speak like this.  Neither do many from Ann Arbor, b/c I have family from there too.  Maybe b/c there are folks from all over who live in Ann Arbor?  I don't know.  And my brother-in-law from Dayton doesn't speak like this either, I admit.

BUT, they DO speak like this in Wisconsin (have college friends from there), some parts of Illinois (again, college folks), some parts of Indiana (in-laws, and college friends).  I do not know where or how they get it, but they *do* speak like this.  And so does my MIL from Indiana.  Can you tell I went to college in the Midwest and married someone from the Midwest?  Luckily, we live here now. :)  (And I am not from there either.) :)[/quote]

Kind of like the grating NYC accent, weird Baltimore accent, etc. Where do accents come from?  Google is your friend.[/quote]

Not from NYC or Baltimore (or the South either), so I do know the accents of which you speak, but I still find the Upper Midwestern accent one of the most annoying in the U.S. [/quote]

There are also Pennsylvania accents (and within that, Philly accents), a Boston accent, and even a California accent.  It's a whole big country out there and not everyone is alike.[/quote]

Thank you, Captain Obvious.  What we are saying is that, of all the accents we know of (and yes, we are aware of many), this -- and yes, only this -- is one of the most grating.[/quote]

And I am saying it is not, so take it easy.  I am married to a beautiful woman from Wisconsin whose accent is even stronger than the accent featured in this video.  Everyone who meets her finds it charming and endearing.  And she looks damn hot in a tight Packers shirt.  To each his or her own, I guess.  But the hate for the Midwest mystifies me.  And I am a lifelong East Coaster, originally from Cambridge, MA. [/quote]

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