Well, I am bad at imitating a hick accent!
Let me try again:
“Ellie, Buford done got him a pop! Ya want one too? We got cherry and grape flavor pop!”
I dunno. I just can’t do it too well.
I asked a friend from the South about this whole “soft drink”/“pop”/“coke” thing, and he agreed, “soft drink” was the term used, not “pop”.
A midwestern accent would be more like:
“Hey dere, guyse. You want I should get yaz a pop? Okee-dokee, t’ree pops comin’ up.”
Pardon me. I absolutely do not sound like that. I will send a vox file to anyone who asks for one as proof.
~Chris
(Who pronounces her th’s, TYVM)
“I like toast.” 
Sure, not everybody in the midwest talks like a character out of a Nelson Algren story, but if you’re living out there, you’ve surely met your share of them.
I have a cousin with an accent that seemed thick to me even when I was living in Chicago. Now that I’ve been away for a while, everybody up there sounds like that. It goes something like this:
“Shud op makin’ funna da way I tawk, Jyames; ommona smyack yoo.”
LMAO!!!
i didn’t think i had that noticable of an accent, (yes, i pronounce my th’s), but this is EXACTLY how i sound:
“ommona smyack yoo”
ommona go lay-uff sum-moor!
(i just hope pop doesn’t come outa my nose while i do!)
Right on… I’m from the Chicago area (Gary, IN, if you must know) and we all call it pop. I never heard it refered to as soda until I visited my sister in Texas.
Right on… I’m from the Chicago area (Gary, IN, if you must know) and we all call it pop. I never heard it refered to as soda until I visited my sister in Texas.
Sorry for the double post. I had to address the person who said only people from Indiana say “pop”. Not true. I lived in Downers Grove after college and everyone calls it pop there too.