Midwest Accent I see that you are deleting my corrections regarding the General American accent in the article Midwest which quite wrongly implies that General American is owned lock stock and barrel by that region It s nonsense The General American accent is spoken all over the north from Seattle to Connecticut You are going to have to come up with some citations which realistically and accurately show that the northern accent originated in or is unique to the Midwest before I kk allow you continue deleting my writings without a fight It certainly is not unique to the Midwest a region which was not even settled by English speakers until barely 150 years ago after the northern accent was known to exist in places like Pennsylvania and upstate NY and Connecticut It really bugs me to see the Midwest taking ownership of an accent which began in the Northeast The original author blunders badly by lumping the accents of certain urban areas of the northeast in with the rural areas Anybody from my region the Syracuse NY area formerly Albany NY knows that our accent it totally indistinguishable from that of the Midwest I challange anybody to put a group of Midwestern speakers side by side with upstate New Yorkers and tell which is which It s impossible it s the same accent utterly and completely the same And we ve been speaking this way since before the Midwest was even settled so it s nonsense to say it s a Midwest accent