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A very interesting clickable map of American dialects: American English Dialects

It said “Inland North. Are you from Wisconsin?”

Yes, yes I am. Very much so.

The only word on the test that I may not pronounce properly is ‘on’. I pronounce it more like ‘dawn’ than ‘don’. I’ll retake the test with that change and see what it says.

ETA: That didn’t take long. Pronouncing ‘on’ like ‘don’ puts me a little further north.

Okay, so what’s the matter with the rest of the country? Don’t you know how words are pronounced?

The Midland, which is true only as a center of mass - I was born in Cincinnati, grew up in California, and spent 17 years in Boston as a young adult.