> > Wait, Minnesotans say o's" weird? Who, this
> is like, news to me. How do we say them
> weird (of course, it's probably just weird to me
> and not the other 98% of the world)
>
> From what I've heard tell (my assistant pastor
> used to live in Minnesota, he's a huge VIkings
> fan) Minnesotans tend to say their "O's" like
> Norwegians. I think this is because Minnesota
> was orginally largely settled by Norwegian
> immigrants. Or parts of it.
>

Well... It's really hard to describe. I think it's more of a rounder, fuller sound than I'm used to, and where my "o's" have almost an "ah" or "eh" sound at the very beginning and a "w" sound at the end, people from that part of the country don't seem to do that. It's pure O, all the way through. But it sounds weird. :-}