Here's very interesting site where someone has mapped North American dialects. You can click on an area and You-tube links are shown where you can hear the spoken dialects.
According to my SIL, who has a degree in linguistics in addition to computer engineering, we do have a quirky use of words in Central Illinois. In most parts of the country "any more" is used in the negative (i.e. I don't want any more), but in our area we also use the words "any more" in the positive to mean "nowadays" (i.e. Any more I enjoy doing that.). So we don't have accents around here, but we like to rearrange words to keep people guessing what we really mean.
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Ah dont gats no steenkin' acksent...
Happy New Year to you!!!
~shews~
I'm from Pennsylvania which won the "honor" of being the most linguistically complicated state with 5 distinct dialects. I live in the heart of the Pittsburgh zone. So I don't no whut yunz is talkin about.
shews: New Happy Year to you, too.
I grew up in Wilmington, DE, but have been in the upper Midwest for most of the last 40 years. I thought I had assimilated rather well. My brother pointed me toward a short quiz about pronunciation and it concluded I was "as Philly as cheesesteak". You can't imagine my disappointment. I needa glassa wooter.
Stacy: The Pennsylvania people I know say "abowoot", not about.
Jon: So you don't say "You betcha" very often?
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