That thing says I am also midland or no accent however everyone pegs me as being from northern New England. I am from New Hampshire mostly. That said you never will hear me say “You can’t get therr frm here nope" or aeyhaa.
I am one of those people who has lived all over and I have the tendency to pick up accents and if someone I am talking to is from the south I am You'alling in no time (lived in North Florida and went to boarding school in Orlando with roommates from the deep south).
It makes me sound kind of phony. I don’t even realize I am doing it.
I pronounce all Hawaii related words like a native as that is how I learned them when I lived there.
So do any of you find you have a chameleon accent or am I just wierd?
Trudy
