{"id":69,"date":"2007-05-12T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T02:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/12\/accent-what-accent\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T21:36:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T02:36:50","slug":"accent-what-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/accent-what-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"Accent? What accent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took another online quiz today. Here is my result:<\/p>\n

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What American accent do you have?
\nCreated by Xavier<\/a> on Memegen.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Midland.<\/strong> The Midland (please don’t confuse with “Midwest”) itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn’t mean you’re from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, “non-regional” accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Take this quiz now – it’s easy!<\/p>\n

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We’re going to start with “cot” and “caught.” When you say those words do they sound the same or different?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I find this interesting, given that I’m from Michigan. I wonder what’s different about my accent from whichever one Michigan is in (I could only get a list of other answers, without the description, so I don’t know if MI is considered Northern or North Central).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Took another online quiz today. Here is my result:       What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net   Midland. The Midland (please don’t confuse with “Midwest”) itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn’t mean you’re from there. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}