Chicago accent
Windy City speech
A Chicago accent is the distinctive speech pattern of Chicago and surrounding areas, characterized by fronted vowels that make "hot dog" sound like "hat dahg" and "Chicago" like "Chicahgo." The accent features Canadian raising in words like "house" and flattening of short vowels.
Her Chicago accent comes out when she's excited.
The accent is associated with working-class neighborhoods and is sometimes stereotyped through exaggerated portrayals of "Da Bears" sports fans.
- nasalOf the nose
- flatLacking vertical variation
- vowelsLetters with unblocked airflow
- twangSharp vibrating sound
- nasalityNose-resonant voice quality
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