A Conversation for American Regional Dialects - The Midwestern 'Non-Accent'
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shagbark Started conversation Mar 16, 2008
Michigan has a linguistic tradition when speaking place names of emphasizing particular syllables. People there joke about the On-Star navigation system saying O-KEY-mus when the resiidents say oak-e-mus,
Or some newly transplanted citizen (from the south) talking about
the town of Charlotte,MI saying
SHAHR-lot when locals stress the second syllable shahr-LAHt.
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