The Alaskan Accent #
October 3rd, 2008 | In Worth Reading
This may explain my feelings about Sarah Palin’s speech patterns:
Overall, because of the mixture of people and the large number of newcomers, Alaskan English is often hard to place, with both Westerners and Midwesterners thinking that it sounds oddly foreign; indeed, some Westerners have said that Palin sounds like a Midwesterner, and Midwesterners that she sounds Western.