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The St. Louis Accent: An Explainer
So many dialects intersect in this one Midwestern city.
The following is an excerpt from How to Speak Midwestern, available now from Belt Publishing.
Given where it lies on the map, St. Louis should be a Midland-speaking city. After Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Indianapolis, it’s the next major city on Interstate 70, and it’s directly west of Cincinnati. However, because it was a major industrial city, and because it sits on a highway that connects it with Chicago, St. Louis has been seceding from the Midland dialect region, and joining the Inland North.