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I've heard someone say that the Midwest accent (or Chicago or Great Lakes accent, whatever...the one with the vowel shift) is the truest to the phonetics of the English language. I'm not sure how true this is. I think the way we stress the vowel a in words like 'aunt' (we say 'ant', and others say 'ont') seems a bit off, and kind of harsh sounding. The way we pronounce 'crayon' as 'cran' is another example. Also, 'winner' instead of 'winTer'.

I always thought people from Ohio had a bit of an accent, especially once you get to the Cincinnati area.

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I had heard it was the Ozark accent. It was from a "History of the English Language" class I took, though the text we used was written by a Brit in the '80's.

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The Midwestern "Temp-Ah-ture"/"Temp-Ah-chur" is kind of grating to me.

Turning "nt" into "nn" seems to be everywhere, as Harveywood, the midwest, and the South have all been known to say "Hunner" instead of "Hunter". Frankly, if some foreigner were to hear 'Muricans casually talking about Biden's idiot son, they'd likely think his name was "Hunner."

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I cringe whenever I here aunt pronounced as "ont". It's so gay and yankee.