Crossed to the dark side - Green & Gold review

[purplefaithful]

dontcha know its a casserole not a hot dish!

Yup, my home-made tuna noodle is a casserole.

LOL  Living in Arizona, it's been pointed out to me so many times over the years that I had an accent.  I'm like, "Accent, what accent?"  People tell me I'm from the midwest just by the way I speak.

It was Grumpy Old Men and some of the True Detective movies dialect that opened my eyes lol.

[MaroonBells]

I was told decades ago that many radio & TV personalities originated from Minnesota because we were thought to have the "cleanest/non-dialect" in the whole country.  Later in life, I found out what a bunch of horse puckey that was.  Yes, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Lower Michigan...all have some semblence of an accent.  I think the more rural they are, the more pronounced the dialect.

Wow, horse puckey is right. I think the people with the cleanest dialect, the voice targeted by media, (it's called GenAm), is in the western states. 

The accents in Minn, Wisc and Mich are immediately identifiable to me. Add Chicago to that as well. It's funny though. It's not an Illinois accent as much as it is a distinct Chicago accent. Illinois is a LONG, vertical state. People down in Carbondale actually start to get a bit of a drawl. 

I studied linguistics in college and we had a visiting professor come in one day who had a kind of parlor trick. He gave each student a couple sentences to read, and with that he could identify precisely where each was from. But it went even deeper. Things like "you live in east Texas now but you're from the Boston area, or at least your parents are." It was uncanny how accurate he was.