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mimi belle
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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Neutral
You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up. |
 I am Canadian. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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I got "Neutral", which is what I've heard for people that live in Oregon, a very plain and wide-spoken accent, probably the most spoken English accent overall.
It makes sense, with the whole Oregon Trail thing, having the Midwest accent. |
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sallymonster
Joined: 06 Feb 2010
Location: Seattle area
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
I got "Neutral", which is what I've heard for people that live in Oregon, a very plain and wide-spoken accent, probably the most spoken English accent overall.
It makes sense, with the whole Oregon Trail thing, having the Midwest accent. |
I've lived my whole life before Korea in the Pacific NW, including four years in Portland, and I also got "neutral", or as I call it, "west coast" accent. |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Boring ol' "Neutral" for me too. I'm more or less from Idaho. |
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Vagabundo
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
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| Neutral though I don't think of it as West Coast, but "educated Midwest" accent, the one you hear in the media from anchors, correspondents, etc. |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| i've got a western accent. what's the difference between stalk and stock? |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| standard, blah, midwestern (ohio) |
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Mr. Peabody
Joined: 24 Sep 2010
Location: here
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
| i've got a western accent. what's the difference between stalk and stock? |
The difference between stalk and stock? Stalk has an "all' sound. Stock has an "ah" sound.
I would pronounce them the same in normal speech, because I also have a "western" accent.
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| The difference between stalk and stock? Stalk has an "all' sound. Stock has an "ah" sound. |
What? We'll see about this.
Northeastern -
This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn't mean you don`t pronounce R's.(People in Jersey don`t call their state "Joisey" in real life)
I can only assume as an Englishman that Northeastern Americans are the most correct ^_^
Stalk has an 'or' sound for me. Stock has a sound closer to 'oh' like 'top' |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
| i've got a western accent. what's the difference between stalk and stock? |
Not a dang thing. I've got a western too. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| I rated a "North Central", which they said is often called a "Minnesota Accent". Now I was born and raised in Orlando, Florida, but both of my parents were from Cleveland, Ohio, so it does make at least a little sense to rate like that. Florida has such a weird demographic mix of southern, northeastern, midwestern, and spanish speakers. |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:50 am Post subject: |
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ipa pronunciation:
stalk: /stɔk/
stock: /stɒk/
so, pretty much a very subtle difference |
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Quack Addict
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
I got "Neutral", which is what I've heard for people that live in Oregon, a very plain and wide-spoken accent, probably the most spoken English accent overall.
It makes sense, with the whole Oregon Trail thing, having the Midwest accent. |
Agreed. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Northern.
You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for. |
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