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Old Posted Nov 5, 2009, 8:00 AM
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Originally Posted by sopas ej View Post
The upstate New York accents are interesting to me; I have a friend who's originally from the Schenectady/Albany area and to me she sounds "normal," she sounds like she could be from California; she does NOT sound like someone from NYC. But I met someone who was originally from Syracuse, and to me he sounded like he was from Chicago. And this map shows that that accent extends from that part of upstate NY into the Midwest. Very interesting.
the albany area does have a pretty distinct accent; this coming from someone who was born and raised only 90 miles west of there in utica. the rest of upstate gets more nasally the further west you go like the much of the midwest. they even call soda "pop" as you get out towards rochester and buffalo.
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