Palin doesn’t sound that Minnesotan.....

[a kennedy]

By Chris Steller

Don’t believe everything you’ve heard about what comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth. In particular, Palin doesn’t sound that Minnesotan, say a trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison experts.

The reason Palin talks like a Minnesotan — to the extent that she does — is that the part of Alaska where she grew up was populated by a 1935 migration of people from the Upper Midwest. Of more than 200 families who moved north from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, the largest number (15) came from Minnesota’s St. Louis County.

The researchers from Madison compared Palin’s speech during the vice presidential debate last year to speech they sampled from two native Minnesotans: a man born in Austin in 1977 and a woman born in Minneapolis in 1978.

With some words, like “boat,” the male sounded “hyper-Minnesotan, whereas the female Minnesotan has a BOAT vowel closer to Sarah Palin’s.”

Yet for all the commonalities, the paper says, ”Sarah Palin’s dialect lacks certain features of contemporary Upper Midwestern English.”

full article: <http://minnesotaindependent.com/49889/experts-palin-doesnt-really-talk-like-a-minnesotan>

[MineralMan]

1. Sarah Palin is from Moronia, so she

has a Moronic accent.

[Love Bug]

2. True, she sounds like an extra from the movie "Fargo" which

in most minds is the same thing as sounding Minnesotan.

[glinda]

3. An "extra' because she is a bad actress.

[geardaddy]

4. I thought there was something

about how she actually didn't talk like that in real life. That it was an affected accent like Chimpy McCokespoon's Texas accent.