<story><title>A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-accent-liberal-kansas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m 37 and I&amp;#x27;m still perplexed that it rains some places in the summer.</text></item><item><author>oldcynic</author><text>&amp;gt; and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever&lt;p&gt;I suspect everyone thinks that. It&amp;#x27;s all those people from other parts of the world&amp;#x2F;country that have accents. :)</text></item><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>fwiw, I grew up in Miami, and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever ... because for whatever reason, there weren&amp;#x27;t really a lot of people born and raised in miami in popular media (at least that I was aware of, days before Pitbull, etc).&lt;p&gt;Well, I moved away to central florida (very different demographics) at 17 ... and it wasn&amp;#x27;t until a few years later when I went back to visit, that I realized just how distinct (to my ears at least) my friends sounded. Nowadays, I can hear someone start to speak, and within a few minutes of listening can tell that they were raised in Miami. It&amp;#x27;s a few subtle clues that thus far have almost always been right</text></item><item><author>KAMSPioneer</author><text>Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I&amp;#x27;m a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don&amp;#x27;t know, maybe I&amp;#x27;ve just gotten used to it.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pests</author><text>Here I am from Michigan thinking &amp;quot;When else would it rain?!?!&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-accent-liberal-kansas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m 37 and I&amp;#x27;m still perplexed that it rains some places in the summer.</text></item><item><author>oldcynic</author><text>&amp;gt; and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever&lt;p&gt;I suspect everyone thinks that. It&amp;#x27;s all those people from other parts of the world&amp;#x2F;country that have accents. :)</text></item><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>fwiw, I grew up in Miami, and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever ... because for whatever reason, there weren&amp;#x27;t really a lot of people born and raised in miami in popular media (at least that I was aware of, days before Pitbull, etc).&lt;p&gt;Well, I moved away to central florida (very different demographics) at 17 ... and it wasn&amp;#x27;t until a few years later when I went back to visit, that I realized just how distinct (to my ears at least) my friends sounded. Nowadays, I can hear someone start to speak, and within a few minutes of listening can tell that they were raised in Miami. It&amp;#x27;s a few subtle clues that thus far have almost always been right</text></item><item><author>KAMSPioneer</author><text>Whoa, I never thought an article about Liberal would be on HN. I&amp;#x27;m a Liberal, KS resident since about 2005, and now that I think about it...people here do have a kind of unique accent, but I don&amp;#x27;t know if it&amp;#x27;s really as striking as the article makes it out to be. I don&amp;#x27;t know, maybe I&amp;#x27;ve just gotten used to it.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked when I opened the article and saw our welcome sign. Hahaha</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>It rains in the tropics, like in those tropical &lt;i&gt;rain&lt;/i&gt;forests.&lt;p&gt;How about Maui: &lt;i&gt;&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;Big Bog,&amp;quot; a spot on the edge of Haleakala National Park overlooking Hana at about 5,400 feet elevation had an estimated mean annual rainfall of 404.4 inches over the 30-year period of 1978 to 2007&amp;#x27;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Maui#Rainfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Maui#Rainfall&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>