What American Accent do you have?

Teresa in St. Paul MN has an accent I listened  to a girls night out Podcast of her and two other St. Paul MN. REALTORS®

Black Table says the rest of the US all want to sound like "us."   "Us" being Ohioan's. 

"Not everyone in Ohio speaks with the midwestern nasal twang. Some do. In the Northern part of the state this is certainly the case. But if you move towards the hillier portion of the state, you hear a lot more about warshing dishes and hunnerd dollar bills, but somewhere in the middle everything levels out into a crisp non-accented cadence that is as clear as the words on this screen. In fact, the Ohio accent is the basis of the accent taught to newscasters. Newscasters on the televisual machine, meaning: the Ohio accent is so bland that you wouldn't even know it if you heard it because there's nothing to hear except the words, man. The words."

I think I talk like an Ohioan usually...... this little quiz "heard"  the Wisconsin in my voice.

You can never get away with saying Real-A-tor no matter where you are from in the US.

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"Discovering Columbus" 

Sunday' Chicago Tribune travel section had a story replete with the Mona Lisa mural in Columbus' Italian Village.   To see the Mona Lisa mural click on Travel in the chicagotribune.com >> Travel
 
"Ohio's little giant is more than just a one-sport town"

Story and photos by Robert Cross
Chicago Tribune
Published October 15, 2006

"People might suppose that an Ohio State game at Ohio Stadium--the famed "Horseshoe"--would grind the town to a halt.

Columbus isn't a town, however; it's a city big enough to keep its enthusiasms separated, so that even when 100,000-plus fans converge in one area, plenty more thousands of residents go to lots of places somewhere else.

And yet...the Chicago Tribune stylebook insists we say "Columbus, Ohio" in the dateline, while smaller cities, such as Des Moines and Akron, are considered so well known they can stand by themselves.'

Columbus Ohio, the best known Columbus in the country but just they are talking about how great  this city is we get a first and last name.  According to the Chicago Tribune article by  Cross ...we're "bigger than Boston, Cleveland, Las Vegas or Seattle, to name a few examples."  

Cross wrote about where to eat in Columbus, where to stay as well as giving information about Columbus neighborhoods such as the Arena District, the Short North, the Brewery District and downtown. 

Experience Columbus 

I've heard and read that Larry Black , the former director of Columbus Metropolitan Library, used to say that Columbus is a great place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit here.....   Not anymore.

While I don't agree with everything in the Wikipedia entry on Columbus Ohio 

(I could  quibble with the reference to Clintonville...Levittownlike? I believe that must be a reference to the Beechwold area east of High Street... those homes certainly don't nestle with the older Clintonville homes in separate Clintonville neighborhoods and the Clintonville homes are not all brick or stone... I think most Clintonville homes are frame... but I digress Beechwold and Clintonville are great neighborhoods...) I  do think theWikipedia entry has valuable info about Columbus and how Columbus is different than other Ohio cities and other mid western cities.  And Columbus is certainly different than cities in other regions of the country,  there are cows in town.

"Accordingto the 2000 census, Columbus has a population of 711,470 residents,making it the largest city in Ohio and the 15th largest in the UnitedStates.  The population increased to an estimated 730,008 in 2004.The greater Columbus metropolitan area has a population of 1,612,694,ranking  it third in Ohio  (behind Cleveland and Cincinnati )and 31st in the  United States."

"Unlike many other major US cities in the Midwest, Columbus continues to expand its reach by way of extensions and annexations, making it one of the fastest growing large cities in the nation, in terms of both geography and population, and probably the fastest in the Midwest.  Unlike Cleveland and  Cincinnati, the central cities in Ohio's two  largest metropolitan areas, Columbus is ringed by relatively few suburbs; since the 1950s it has  made  annexation a condition for providing water  and sewer service, to which it holds regional rights throughout a large portion of Central Ohio.  This policy is credited with preserving Columbus' tax base in the face of the U.S.'s suburbanization and has contributed to its booming economy, much like other cities pursuing similar policies such as Charlotte, North Carolina and San Antonio,Texas,  both of  which are similarly lacking in surrounding incorporated suburbs."

Get it?  Columbus is a big city but relatively small metropolitan area.   I don't believe the Wikipedia entry says anything about Columbus being a Cowtown ... 

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What people are saying about Columbus.

Ohio is the Heart of it All"  or at least it used to be.   Happy Valentines Day Columbus  I understand what I consider to be the BEST seafood restaurant in Columbus is all booked up for Valentines Day.  According to my "Sweetheart" by the time he called we could get reservations at 4:30 or 9:30.  All the BEST Columbus Restaurants were similarly booked. We are cooking fish at home tonight!

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Have a Happy Valentines Day and remember "Ohio is the heart of it  all" or it used to be when Ohio was in the midwest... And Columbus is the "heart of Ohio."  There was a real estate company named "Heart of Ohio"  but I don't remember hearing of it recently. 

I love SIX THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT: OHIO by Frank Smith"  on Black Table.  "If Ohio is the heart of it all where is the brain?" 

 "-- state that boasts itself as the Heart of It All. And this is a reasonable claim because, well, geographically, Ohio is positioned around about where America would have a heart, if landmasses had bodily organs. But then using that logic, America might not have much of a brain. Where would it be? New York? No, that's more like shoulder area. .........No, if the North American continent had a brain, it might be somewhere in Canada. Possibly Alaska. But Ohio, o-hi-o, is truly the heart of it all."

Frank Smith's "SIX THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT: OHIO  sounds more "Cleveland" than "Columbus" to me but we're all in this together... Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinatti... even those smaller Ohio cities that did not realize they needed to name their city Csomething to grow .. Toledo, Dayton, Akron,  Youngstown... We have to stick together especially if Ohio is no longer in the midwest (an evil rumor in the real estate industry... see the last entry)   

#3 The shoe thing?  I remember that from the 80's in Cleveland but I don't thnk I have seen it since or elsewhere in Ohio. 

#2. Ohio is the Birthplace of Aviation, Got it?

Does this explain's North Carolinian Terry Crook's attempt to say Ohio is not in the midwest and no longer the heart of it all? (Oh OK Terry my favorite Contrarian just said Columbus is not in the midwest geographically.) 

#6 is not for the faint hearted or Michiganders.  

Happy Valentines Day

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