Most people here talk pretty much standard English as you would hear on TV. In the U P (U P = upper peninsula) you may hear an accent though. I lived in Vermont for a couple years as a kid, the only things brought to my attention were some of the words I used. In MI (and mid-west) we call carbonated drinks pop while other areas call it soda . Here it s a couch rarely a sofa . We play catch while in Vermont they play toss but maybe most use catch anyway. A word heard often and borrowed from the Canadians is aeh pronounced a . Can be used alone like hey or hi or after a word as a needless add-on like freggin aeh . Your example of the word match would not normally be found in southern MI. Here are links:http://www.michigannative.com/ma_home.sh��http://www.michigannative.com/ma_wordsph��But looking at these and other sites, they bring in a lot of U P into it and I would never hear most living in SE MI. BTW, I am an EMU grad, commonly called E-Mu (Eastern MI University) and located in Yipsilanti, commonly called Yipsi or Yipitucky . So in MI not much accent but more word choice differentiates us.
People in Southern Michigan do not have accents. If you venture into northern Michigan, that s a different story. I would go to clickondetroit.com and watch some videos; most Michiganders sound like them. Hope this helps you out!
I am from Michigan here is a link that will show you how we pronounce our words http://www.michigannative.com/ma_pronunc��
I didn t know people from Michigan spoke a different English.
Look up detroit news stations and watch them online. See how they talk.