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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I'd love to know how eastern KS and western MO acquired their twangs. I have a best friend in Mo and another in TN. When I got them talking on the phone, the MO one started to giggle and tell the other "You have an accent, how cute!" to which I replied, "So do you, silly!" But the MO one does say things like "Ayuh" and "Right on" which comes out "Rat own". Oddly enough, his wife, also an MO native, sounds more "Fargoan".
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You can tell where someone grew up in KS or MO by how they talk. Eastern KS/Western MO, closer to Kansas City and surrounds, sounds like SW category, what they call "neutral/no accent" in other places. People farther out west or east start speaking in a... uh, more country way. I'd say more, but some guy in "Mizz-urr-ahh" might be fixin' to call the law on me. :/
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