Indiana Southern Accent?

[BE Mike]

Y'all got it wrong. We ain't got no suthun accent down in these parts. I'm a fixin' ta go all ninja on ya'll, iffin ya push it.

 

[spainy79]

I was told I have an accent but this was by people who live in Utah and northern Wisconsin. I don't think I have one.

 

[rgrimm01]

I refer to the dialect of most people around here in west central IN as "cornfield". A little light in the enunciation department mixed with a small degree of slang words.

When I was in the SE for a few years, I noted an inflection of the sound raised during the entire or most certainly at the end of every sentence making it unclear if every utterance was a question... I did get used to that and refered to it as a twang, not the syrupy southern draw.

 

[SolubleSpork]

I naturally don't, but after living with my room mate who is from southern Indiana, I picked it up and it comes and goes from time to time.

 

[Jarhead1775]

Yep.. I have a slight one. I live in NC for several years and I guess it blended in

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Yep.. I have a slight one. I live in NC for several years and I guess it blended in

it happens. i lived in north carolina for four years. i remember being somewhat scared when i no longer noticed the locals' accents.

 

[riverman67]

True. To my Chicago-land raised ears, anyway.
Which is funny, because DR72 has almost no accent.

He has had more education than I have and ran with a better class of" billies'
when growing up. I say" billies" because where we grew up it is a dead flat euclidian plain, So I leave out the "hill" , It seems dishonest to me .

 

[johntheplinker]

Moren than oncet I've been tolt dat Ise sound like ah just fell offen a turnip truck.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I have done my level best to rid myself of any accent. Especially the redneck accent, as that just makes you sound like an idiot, not charming.

 

[goinggreyfast]

... You have a good voice for TV and radio...

I have Midland as well. I was told in college that television and radio stations look for people with a "midland or midwest" dialect because they are the most easily understood by all the rest.

 

[Titanium_Frost]

I have Midland as well. I was told in college that television and radio stations look for people with a "midland or midwest" dialect because they are the most easily understood by all the rest.

Because we pronounce the actual word- not what we think it sounds like and we have no heritage or culture to interfere with that.

 

[CathyInBlue]

That quiz claims I'm not Midland, I'm Inland Northern.

And I don't buy that Hoosier Apex at all. At least, not with its described extents. I was born and raised in the tip of that apex, and I don't ever recall anything approximating a southern or southern-like accent in my environs. Now, down along the Ohio, where I want to move, I can't speak intelligently about what accents I expect to encounter.

 

[Stang51d]

http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=a4-n7Sfzt-M

 

[StuBob]

I've never heard a native Hoosier with an authentic Southern accent. There are plenty of people who call a One Cent piece a "pinney," plenty more who "do the worsh," some who call a small river a "crick," and others who think the plural of "you" is "you'ns." But that isn't Southern, it's just Hick.

 

[tv1217]

Midland, occasionally some Chicago accent slips out.

 

[kalboy]

Snorko's dead right, you only think we in S.Ind. have a southern accent until you cross the Ohio and hear the corncrackers speak!

 

[marv]

When I was stationed at Camp Atterbury people there would ask what part of Texas I was from. When I transferred to Texas they asked where I was from in Alabama.