I’m surprised the awesomeness of this video didn’t cause the internet to explode.
What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)
Midland
(“Midland” is not necessarily the same thing as “Midwest”) The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it’s a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn’t mean you’re from the Midland.
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Last night we were flipping the channels and landed on 1 vs. 100, the latest NBC prime-time game show. I guess the premise is to beat 100 people in trivia. The first question we saw was the easiest level and it went something like this:
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Finally, somebody has taken it upon themselves to produce a study diagramming a subtle, yet important difference in our dialects. The question of whether that fizzy flavored drink is called, “Soda”, “Pop”, or “Coke” has now been mapped. I grew up with the word “pop”, but i’ve since migrated to the word “soda”. [...]
Something Esther and I noticed on a walk the other day.