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Regional accents
Apr. 30th, 2011 08:14 amHaven't done a meme in quite a while, and this one is interesting to me. I've done earlier versions of it, but they are improving the accuracy as time goes on. I only detected one slip-up this time. (Stolen from Corelog over on LJ.)
I was born in Detroit, educated in central Michigan and the Chicago suburbs, and have lived in Michigan and Illinois all my life. When I travel farther, to places like California or Texas, I am sometimes mistaken for a Canadian, but any Canadian influence is largely Ontario and not much different from the upper midwest. I actually have quite a few Canadian ancestors, but they are all three or more generations back and had no direct influence on my speech.
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I was born in Detroit, educated in central Michigan and the Chicago suburbs, and have lived in Michigan and Illinois all my life. When I travel farther, to places like California or Texas, I am sometimes mistaken for a Canadian, but any Canadian influence is largely Ontario and not much different from the upper midwest. I actually have quite a few Canadian ancestors, but they are all three or more generations back and had no direct influence on my speech.
