What are some characteristics of "Chicago" speech/language?

Question

I live in Chicago, I want other people's take on it. For example, we talk fast and our vowels are pronounced harder.

Or we call "soda", "pop".

Answer 1

well from what i kno its more proper than other parts of the country...they dont seem to use as much slang neither.....

Answer 2

A distinctive speech pattern is centered on the Great Lakes region. This is the Inland North dialect - the "standard Midwestern" speech that was the basis for General American in the mid-20th Century, though it has been recently modified by the northern cities vowel shift.

This area consists of western New York State (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse), parts of Michigan's Lower Peninsula (Detroit, Ann Arbor, etc.), Cleveland, Chicago, Gary, and Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Racine).

By the Northern cities vowel shift, cad, cod, cawed, Ked, and cut are pronounced [keəd], [kad], [kɑd], [kʌd], and [kɔt], respectively.
The starting point of /aʊ/ (for example, mouse, down) is pronounced noticeably in the back of the mouth ([mɑʊs], [dɑʊn]), while /aɪ/ (mice, dine) is much further front: ([maɪs], [daɪn]). Standard American diphthongal glide /ɪ/ and word- or morph-final /ɪ/ are pronounced as a shortened /i/.
The long-o of "bone" and "goat" is rounded and pronounced far back.
The word "on" rhymes with "don," not with "dawn."
Canadian raising is found in areas close to the Canadian border.


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