I have a "Midland" accent.I guess that comes from my background, which isn't near anything they suggest. My father was from Illinois, my mother from California. Coming from a military family, I learned to talk originally in North Carolina, which accounts, I guess, for the graph showing the South heavily present in my speech, but I completed learning to talk in Trinidad where they speak English at warp speed. I've lived in Indiana, Brooklyn, NY, North Carolina, California, and the Panama Canal Zone, among speakers from every part of the country. I guess that explains a lot.
Nan
