{"id":784,"date":"2007-02-25T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2007-02-25T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T15:17:00","slug":"were-not-so-different-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/were-not-so-different-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re not so different after all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last line, about being mistaken for a Canadian a lot, made me laugh…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What American accent do you have?<\/b> <\/p>\n
Your Result: North Central<\/b><\/div>\n
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“North Central” is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw “Fargo” you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The West<\/td>\n\n
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Boston<\/td>\n\n
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The Midland<\/td>\n\n
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Philadelphia<\/td>\n\n
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The Inland North<\/td>\n\n
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The Northeast<\/td>\n\n
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The South<\/td>\n\n
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What American accent do you have?<\/b><\/a>
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The last line, about being mistaken for a Canadian a lot, made me laugh… What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central “North Central” is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw “Fargo” you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for … Continue reading “We’re not so different after all”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadianisms","category-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}