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I and my Hubby have lived our whole lives in Michigan, half the suburbs of Detroit and the other half in West MI. I think that we and most everyone here sound like the "standard" movie actor or national TV anchor. The U.P. of MI is a different story, they (Youpers) sound more like the stereotypical Fargo accent (not quite though).
We have been together for 20 yrs. and yet DH still makes fun of me for the way I pronounce things. I say eggs and legs with a hard A, Aggs and lAgs (a very good childhood Canadian friend teased me for this and I gave it back to her on ut and abut). He says them with a soft A which to me sound like they are spelled but not what I grew up with.
I can't explain that, we grew up in the same area! It can only be influence from our parents. His grew up in Ohio (their parents too) and are a decade older than mine who grew up here but who's parent's were from Kentucky (Dad) and the Ukraine (Mom). The funny thing is, his Dad has always said words like video "vidga" and since my Dad has recently entered his 60's, he's slipping into pronouncing words very similar to that and the way my Grammpa used to. He never has before! Strange. Dialect's confuzzle me.
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