Ah, so you're a New Yorker too,
Fea? I can't stand people trying to talk like rappers and whatnot... come on, it's the
suburbs. There
is no "hood."
And, er, yeah... on topic... Apparantly the Midwestern "accent" is the closest thing to speaking the English language without an accent, if you see what I mean. My orchestra director, who I believe is Midwestern, speaks so nicely and clearly; it's so refreshing.
Having never been to England, I have hardly any first-hand experiences with the accents, and TV is unreliable. But if you try and say it with the very distinguished sounding sort of accent, the phase sounds quite nice. New Yorkers are notorious for speaking somewhat poorly, so when I say cellar door it doesn't have quite as nice a ring to it. I try my best to break that sort of sterotype, but I am guilty of saying "cawfee" for coffee and "chawklit" for chocolate. Ah, well. I'll just run around saying "verisimilitudinous" to make up for it! (I
love that word!)
