Did my mom really have a Midwest accent?

[Richmondbread]

Born and raised in Richmond, VA she was chided for her Southern accent when she was modeling in NYC. But someone told me in this clip she doesn't sound at all Southern, that she sounded Midwestern. But I think she was trying to hide it maybe . Where would you place her to be from?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xtpWeYEKVo&t=99s

[NSXD60]

Sounds Midwest but slightly Southern, sounds almost exactly like my older sister, whom, before marriage had the standard La Cajun English accent, but having moved to an army base in north central La for 2 years with her husband, returned south sounding almost exactly like your mom in tone and accent, but perhaps having the same facial contours as your mom accounted more for the tone, however, even the cadence is similar!

[Richmondbread]

Sounds Midwest but slightly Southern, sounds almost exactly like my older sister, whom, before marriage had the standard La Cajun English accent, but having moved to an army base in north central La for 2 years with her husband, returned south sounding almost exactly like your mom in tone and accent, but perhaps having the same facial contours as your mom accounted more for the tone, however, even the cadence is similar!Really ? But my mom was chided for her Southern accent

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[CordedWhelp]

Her accent doesn’t necessarily seem Midwestern, just mostly “neutral” with some moments betraying a southern twang. She could perhaps sound passable as someone from Missouri, where the south and East ha e a southern influence. But she doesn’t sound like someone from the Great Lakes area.

[Richmondbread]

Her accent doesn’t necessarily seem Midwestern, just mostly “neutral” with some moments betraying a southern twang. She could perhaps sound passable as someone from Missouri, where the south and East ha e a southern influence. But she doesn’t sound like someone from the Great Lakes area.

There's no such thing as "neutral accent" . Midwesterners talk a lot faster and more nasally. She was a Virginian

This is my grandmother speaking (her mother)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQ2d5P294o

[Voskos]

I dont know the ddifferent accents of the new world. She has an Irish accent to foreigner me.

[CordedWhelp]

There's no such thing as "neutral accent" . Midwesterners talk a lot faster and more nasally. She was a Virginian

This is my grandmother speaking (her mother)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQ2d5P294o

You’re correct in that there really is no such thing as “neutral” accent, I was using terminology most use to refer to what we may call “Standard American English”. It may be that your mother was toning her southern accent down in that clip?

Anyway, I also was not implying that the Midwest is exclusively “neutral” accented either. But parts especially in the Great Plaines have speech close to this “neutral midland accent”.

[Richmondbread]

You’re correct in that there really is no such thing as “neutral” accent, I was using terminology most use to refer to what we may call “Standard American English”. It may be that your mother was toning her southern accent down in that clip?

Anyway, I also was not implying that the Midwest is exclusively “neutral” accented either. But parts especially in the Great Plaines have speech close to this “neutral midland accent”.

Ok, but I wonder why you think she sounded Yankee ? She was Southern belle.

[Richmondbread]

Okay

https://voca.ro/164c4scekobu


I think my mom sounds similar to actress Andie McDowell from South Carolina- an almost southern accent but cloaked for show business?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT558-6ip7Q

[Anglo-Celtic]

You’re correct in that there really is no such thing as “neutral” accent, I was using terminology most use to refer to what we may call “Standard American English”. It may be that your mother was toning her southern accent down in that clip?

Anyway, I also was not implying that the Midwest is exclusively “neutral” accented either. But parts especially in the Great Plaines have speech close to this “neutral midland accent”.

When I was a kid, I thought that Midwesterners were the only people in the whole world without accents. Then, some New York girls said "those guys talk funny".