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The Minnesota accent is made conspicuous in the film Fargo (especially as displayed by Frances McDormand's character Marge Gunderson) and the subsequent television series. [28] [29] [30] The accent can be heard from many minor characters, especially those voiced by Sue Scott, in the radio program A Prairie Home Companion.
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
The most distinctive Inland Northern accents are spoken in Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. [3] The dialect can be heard as far east as Upstate New York and as far west as eastern Iowa and even among certain demographics in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. [4]
Temple adds that the way showrunner Noah Hawley writes his dialogue in the scripts helps with the accent as well: “He writes it for a Minnesota accent. The dialogue itself works for the accent.”
The American Dialect Society formed the Linguistic Atlas Project in 1929 with a vision of creating a uniform Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada. The project split into independent studies for each region due to a lack of funding, and Harold B. Allen was named director of the Minnesotan atlas.
Midwestern or Upper Northern dialects or accents of American English are any of those associated with the Midwestern region of the United States, and they include: . General American English, the most widely perceived "mainstream" American English accent, sometimes considered "Midwestern" in character, particularly prior to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.
This northern Minnesota accent is still present in the area, especially among older people; hence the popular nickname "da Range". [ 12 ] The regional culture is strongly linked to former periods of steady, usually well-paid mining employment, although in recent decades, the region's outdoor recreation and relative remoteness has attracted new ...
The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change (abbreviated ANAE; formerly, the Phonological Atlas of North America) is a 2006 book that presents an overview of the pronunciation patterns in all the major dialect regions of the English language as spoken in urban areas of the United States and Canada.