OMG, now I get to learn midwestern speech =D

Being a military brat I used to just get funny looks, most of the bases I had lived on consisted of all kinds of people from all kinds of states and countries so if I did have an accent it had to be weird compared to El Paso.

A sister-in-law of ours is from Minnesota and has a slight midwestern twang, but not much.

@rebelann I'm sure it is.

I just remember one person who seemed not to realize that there is an 'r' in car and a few other words, it was as if she swollowed those r's, I thought it was the Chicago accent .... well, I've never really been on the east end of this country so I really don't know that much about how everyone speaks but because we get so many military families from all over and this one woman said she came from Chicago I just figured that's how people talked there. Hey, out here lottsa people speak Spanglish and I'm used to that.

Oh holy smoly @DianneN I thought it was the Chicagoans that said cah instead of car .... I do have a lot to learn don't I. I'm going to spend some time on YouTube to get familiar with the Main accent, I've heard people in the military say it is really different and I wanna know how different. I have an inquiring mind

@rebelann Car is Cah in Boston. Accents don't faze me. I've heard my husband's Bronx accent (NY) so many times that he now sounds normal to me. People say I have a Connecticut accent, and I still don't know what that is.

@rebelann Not all southerners talk slow. But that is what that southern drawl means, real slow.

As kids we tried to mimic that drawl but to no avail somehow talking that slow just wasn't natural for us @Shellyann36 But I do a pretty good southern twang, if that's whatcha call it.

I met a girl from Georgia once, we were on vacation at some lake in mid TX, and though we didn't make fun of her we did try to help her talk faster. I guess people from Georgia just naturally talk really slow. I haven't met anyone from Georgia since then. I do remember that as a kid most of us brats would mmic the accents we'd hear, the funniest ones were the Germans and boy did the kids from the German moms have fun with their mom's accents and being kids we all just went along with it. What I don't get is why adults make fun of people, you'd think by the time we reach adulthood that whole bullying thing would halt. So at least you know they had peabrains, right?

I thought the guy was funny they way he explained how people from Chicago speak.

Oh yes, it's even funnier when you visit Texas because the way they speak in Dallas is way different from Austin or El Paso or Corpus Christi and so on.

That is a really good point. The northeasterners have always cornfuzed me

I've heard the same thing but usually if it's phone call where they can't see me they think I'm hispanic.

Don't feel bad, I doubt a lotta folks would understand the Spanglish so many speak here.