Being from the middle of Illinois, I have no accent at all, but I lived in Glasgow, Scotland as a wee lad, so I get accents. The parents were from Tennessee and we had an aunt there who was Aint Ethyl. The first time I heard someone from Cincinnati say "please" when they meant excuse me I didn't hear you, I tilted my head to the side. The Pittsburg folks say "you uns" which seemed very southern to me. I got all that while living in West Virginia working for DuPont. Now the WV folks have accents that differ across the state. I won't even try to type those pronunciations.
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