spurgeonryan said:
The rest talk regularly. But the ones I mentioned all have some sort of strange accent and they all think they are the normal ones until I have them watch a movie. Then I ask them if they heard any accents in the movie. Usually, unless it is based in the south or New york, there is no accent present. |
Some parts of southern Ohio (close to the Kentucky border) can have a hillbilly / redneck accent. I grew near Columbus, Ohio though (which is dead center in Ohio). The big cities usually tend to have less of an accent. Such as in Austin, Texas (where I live now) most people talk normally and not with a country accent. However, if you go outside to the smaller towns around Austin then I am sure you would easily find people speaking with a country accent. When I went to Texas Tech (Lubbock, TX) the students from bigger cities (Dallas, Austin, Houston) didn't have an accent while the students from smaller cities usually had one. I believe the bigger cities have more diversity thus most people don't show an accent.
