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« on: October 02, 2012, 10:16:58 PM »

By that I mean ones that one can't place or wouldn't expect to be naturally occurring. A few that come to mind for me:

-I used to work with a woman who was about 35 and had basically spent half her life in Texas and the other half in Minnesota. So you can only imagine what she sounded like.
-Another girl I still work with has parents from Puerto Rico who speak Spanish at home, but has lived in Minnesota almost since she was able to talk, so she somehow manages to sound both as stereotypically Latin and stereotypically Minnesotan as possible. It's kind of a running joke at work when we make fun of her for rolling r's, and yet she still has all the "ya's" and whatnot.*
-My own cousin, who often has a rather stereotypical rural Western drawl, which sounds more like an imitation, even though he grew up in Wyoming. Even odder is that no one in his immediate family talks like that either, and hearing him talk to his sister is kind of funny since she basically has the "newscaster" generic American accent (and of course lives in Des Moines now, which is kind of the heart of the region where that is natural)

My own often confuses people, because the part of North Dakota is kind of the border between the Midwest and whole western interior, so it's not quite a non-exaggerated "Fargo" type one or interior western. The most known North Dakota trait is every word with a double oo (like "root") is pronounced like the u in "put" which is definitely true for me. But today I found out that I say "continue to download" as "continya ta download" which when I actually stop to listen to sounds funny.

*Actually what's kind of interesting is that if I ever go to a store with a "Se habla Espanol" sign and hear the staff speaking Spanish, they usually sound quite stereotypically Latin American, but if they speak English to me then sound completely Minnesotan. This is true even of some younger Somalis when switching between their native language and English, which is really weird.
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