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Thread: Does the Minnesota accent sound Irish?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    There is no Alaska accent, because people living there all came from elsewhere and enough time hasn't passed to develop an accent.
    http://www.startribune.com/politics/30454004.html



    The GOP vice presidential candidate's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, is in the middle of the valley where more than 200 broke families from the Midwest -- many of them from Minnesota -- relocated during the Great Depression.

    Which means Palin grew up listening to the children and grandchildren of those Minnesotans and being fed a steady diet of "yahs" and "ya knows" and even "you betchas."

    "When people settle a new area, there's not a set accent,'' said Joe Salmons, director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "And it takes several generations for a new accent to form. What that means is, she was raised in an environment where there were a lot of people who were new to Alaska, and those Upper Midwestern influences were going to be very strong."

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    Scandinavian Fargo style

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    Does Brock Lesnar have one?He is from Minneapolis.


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    no it does not sound Irish at all... I have neighbors with that accent and it is annoying. The Boston accent is even worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Crow View Post
    no it does not sound Irish at all... I have neighbors with that accent and it is annoying. The Boston accent is even worse.
    New England accents are East Anglian. New Hampshire, Boston and Maine are more Norfolk and Rhode Island, Connecticut more Suffolk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stefan_Dusan View Post
    Is it? I dunno, but she's probably has an Alaskan accent which is similar to Canadian accent which is similar to Minnesotan. It doesn't matter, I don't like it either way.
    There's no such thing as a Canadian accent lol. Sounds the same as American

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archon Progon View Post
    There's no such thing as a Canadian accent lol. Sounds the same as American
    This. Americans and Canadians have the same accent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    This is the accent where people say things like "you betcha", "doggone-it", "don't ya know?", etc.

    To me it sounds Irish influenced, very much so.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzN_nqXZPj8
    It doesn't sound Irish at all. It sounds to me to be Scandinavian influenced. The accent that sounds the most Irish to be is not American but the Newfoundland accent. Now that's an Irish sounding accent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alice View Post
    It doesn't sound Irish at all. It sounds to me to be Scandinavian influenced. The accent that sounds the most Irish to be is not American but the Newfoundland accent. Now that's an Irish sounding accent.
    You forgot Nova Scotia. Boston Southie accent is funny but maybe typical of Boston overall.

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    Fuck off, Jim. The accent most Canadians speak and most Americans speak is the same. How about debating instead of thumbs down.

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