most distinct regional dialect

There's nothin in Missouri either, unless you're in the bootheel and that's REALLY southern. I heard more accents visiting a friend there than I did living in Arkansas.

 

Come on, didn't you see Raising Arizona? ``Turn to yer rat!''

Yes, love the Mondee, Tuesdee thing. Actually, Friday often comes out more like FRA-dee then FRY-dee.

And I love the way tournament becomes TOON-amint and coach sounds something like ``corch.''

 

"So the two yutes ..."
"What did you say?"
"What?"
"Did you say 'utes'?"
"Excuse me your honor. YEWTHHHS."

 

When I'm traveling for work around the country, 99% of the people I converse with immediately say...."Boston".

Sadly, I do presentations for my job....and I often try to pronounce my "R's".

 

Ya, shure, you betcha! For stupid! For cool! I'd link North Dakota and Minnesota for sure, since they are at least half of Scandanavian ancestry. Western ND, SD, Montana less so, more of German/Czech/Bohemian/Ukrainian backgrounds.

Western New York has a very distinct accent, very hard A's., sounds like carh, haackey, etc. Sort of like Chicago.

I'd say the West Coast has the fewest regional accents, because it's a mix of so people from so many regions. You read the obits of any West Coast paper and it seems that 3/4 of those 60 years or more are transplants, who came out west during the Depression or after WWII.

 

Yep. Just like there's a difference between them Yinzers in Pittsburgh and, say, Philly.

 

There's also a difference between the Wisconsin and Minnesota accents. Wisconsin-speak sounds a lot less like the people in "Fargo." I think the German influence cuts it somewhat.

 

Don't forget about Baltimore, or, as many of the locals say it, "Bawl-mer."

 

Speaking of cousins, New Orleans and New York accents aren't far apart.

Texas, of course, has a twang that's different from other Southern states and words (like "tank" for "pond") that I never had known existed.

And I love blond Swedish girls from Soath Dakooooota.

 

My god. That took me back home for a minute. I don't have that accent, but it pervades all my memories of growing up there.

Good work, JK.

 

To me, the Minnesota accent and the Dakotas one sound the exact same. I just picture Frances McDormand saying it.

 

Yeah, but how did their accent land you?

I lived in Cleveland 25 years and about six months after I left I went back realized that 50 percent of the guys and 99 percent of the women have the most annoying accent ever. (No reflection on the town, which I will always love dearly, but lord...)

What do Clevelanders put their groceries in?
A beeyag.

Where does it hurt?
My upper beeyack

How was the movie?
Not beeyad.

And so forth.