Want to catch an Inland North accent? Maybe head to da bar in certain parts of Chicahhgo. Trent Sprague/Chicago Tribune The Midwestern accent is well worth studying, because there’s more than one.

American accents come from varied origins, mixing geographic, cultural and migration patterns. The Michigan accent encompasses the local speech habits of Michiganders. It is part of the Inland North ...

Believe it or not, Michigan — the home of ope-sayers and pop-lovers — does actually have an accent of its own. The Michigan accent is a part of a more wide-ranging regional accent called the Inland ...

The book was published by Cleveland's Belt Publishing. Sales are robust around the Midwest and strongest in Cleveland, he said last week. The Midwest hosts many English-language dialects. He sorts ...

For a third time, dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look ...

There isn’t a North American accent. There is a collection of accents. As well as those of European origin, there are those of East Asian and African-Caribbean origin and many more. There is a mixture ...

I guess this explains why Patrick Dempsey had to go. For most guys I date, I never even think about their accent as being a factor in their attractiveness. Because most guys I meet in New York have an ...