Comments on: “You have a Midland accent” http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2008/12/18/you-have-a-midland-accent/ noise from a mozilla IT/Operations wrangler Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hanspeter http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2008/12/18/you-have-a-midland-accent/comment-page-1/#comment-79386 Hanspeter Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:33:54 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/?p=205#comment-79386 Well, it gave me <blockquote>You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."</blockquote> which is completely bogus because I grew up in NJ (only spent 1 summer in HS in Minnesota) and I definitely say 'soda' (and hate hearing pop). Well, it gave me
You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.”

which is completely bogus because I grew up in NJ (only spent 1 summer in HS in Minnesota) and I definitely say ‘soda’ (and hate hearing pop).

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