Iowa City businesses lean in to their midwest dialect features
one of the ubiquitous [hɔᵊks] (in my dialect)
I’ve just returned from the University of Iowa, where I gave an invited talk (Dialects on the Move: What Accent Change in Mobile Speakers Can Reveal About People, Phonology, and the Lexicon) in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and otherwise had a great time chatting with faculty and students!