I mean, when people say you have no accent, they really mean you have the “standard accent.” Which is different in England, Scotland, US, Canada, etc.
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No, no.
You’ll bring hotdish. Not A hotdish. smh
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Yeah, I contemplated trying to explain “ope”, but I, too, would need 3 pages to do it. And that’s a lot, even by my standards.
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It’s an Albany expression.
When we lived in Missouri, people there told me that the Midwestern accent is considered the "no accent -accent ". So I tried to speak that way. When I was getting better at it, we moved to Texas. Oh, come on now. Then four years later we moved back to the Midwest. Me talk pretty One Day.(David Sedaris)
Wait until you try that fancy Albany talk in Albany GA (pronounced something like All benny there, but I can’t say it right)
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That’s how it’s pronounced in Western Australia. I’m constantly getting the New York one wrong.
I’d add that the KS/MO/OK accent has changed the past few decades. When I grew up there in the 1990s the ‘no accent’ accent was most common. But somewhere along the way things changed, maybe Duck Dynasty had an influence. It became cool to be a redneck, complete with bedazzled jeans, and rap country took over. And some confluence of that has given them a new accent.
It’s a little southern, and to me a lot of it sounds like they are just talking with their mouths full.
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I-70 seems like an approximate dividing line across much of the country between the southern and midwest accent.
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FWIW, the best (albeit rather complex) map I’ve encountered depicting North American English accents/dialects: American English Dialects
Typed it pretty well from what i remember.
Hmmm… if you amended that to 20 miles south of I-70 (in order to include all of the suburban parts of the cities on I-70) and then dip down around Columbus’ eastern suburbs all the way to northern Kentucky to include Cincinnati & suburbs then that’s probably fairly accurate at least into Missouri.
I don’t know Wichita, KS or Colorado Springs, CO enough to know if they need carve outs too, but I don’t think of either as being a southern city, so they might.
And end it in Colorado somewhere west of Denver. Arizona isn’t part of the south, in terms of accents. It’s part of the west.
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I was thinking 70 to 44 to 40 was maybe a bit more accurate, but TBH, not a whole lot of people live west of KC in that band (until you get to CA). MS’s map roughly confirms all that though.
I do agree though the metro areas along this line fall more or less in the “not southern accent” bucket.
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I was adding some precision to your approximation… not disagreeing with it outright.
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That’s quite a resource. I had to note this:
Where do they speak without an accent? Or where do they speak “General American”?
This question implies that there is an accepted standard of spoken American English which is perceived as not having any strictly regional features. In other words, any features which are distinctly northern, southern, eastern or western would be excluded. And indeed there is such a standard, used by most radio and television news staff throughout the U.S.
I was joking when I said “I don’t have an accent”, I’m sure that New Yorkers think I sound very “Midwestern”. But, I can also say that I can listen to national news and not notice any surprising pronunciations. I wonder if New Yorkers think TV news people have an accent?
We lived in MO in the 1970s. People then called the Midwestern accent the TV broadcaster’s accent. Supposed to be neutral for TV. Even in Texas, the TV anchors didn’t have a Texan accent, at least when we lived there. Maybe now, they have a law that says y’all’s must speak like a Texan, ya’ hear!
It just occurred to me that Walz, being from MN, must be a Vikings fan. Well, that’s not good. Not good at all. I might have to vote for El Trumpo.
Well that’s one way for Trump to break into the Chicago voting bock. 
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