Northern American English

Northern American English or Northern U.S. English (also, Northern AmE) is a large class of predominantly white American English dialects regionally spoken around the greater metropolitan areas within Rhode Island, Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, Western and Central New York, Northwestern New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Illinois, , Eastern South Dakota, and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan; plus much of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Eastern Nebraska, and even the Canadian region of Southern Ontario. Among the oldest and most pervasive set of American English pronunciation patterns, the North as a super-dialect region is considered, by the 2006 Atlas of North American English, at its core, to consist of the dialects of the Inland North (around the Great Lakes region) and Southern New England.

Canadian English is believed by some scholars to have originated from Northern American English, or to simply be a variety of it. Though arguably native to the geographical Northern United States, current-day Pacific Northwest English, New York City English, and Northwestern and Northeastern New England English are not classified necessarily under the Northern U.S. dialect spectrum, according to the ANAE.