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« on: April 06, 2015, 01:13:23 PM » |
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There is definitely a Chicago accent. The "neutral accent" is more found in central Illinois, like the area around Peoria. It's in a belt that basically runs from eastern Nebraska, starting at about Lincoln to Peoria, and kind of stops around Champaign-Urbana (which makes sense, since I imagine that all the students are mostly from the Chicago metro or outside the region). But the Chicago accent has a lot more to do with a sort of rust belt one than Minnesota.
Incidentially there's a Mendota in Minnesota, and it's pronounced with the long o. Southeastern Wisconsin accent and dialect is not at all like Minnesota's, though western Wisconsin (lik Eau Claire and La Crosse) certainly is.
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