Instead of saying "um" like "uh-m," you seem to say it more like "ah" or "ah-m." If it's not an accent, I'd definitely say it's a distinct way of speaking.
you sound like you're anywhere from, pennsylvania, or ohio or anywhere north east, even canada. i guess "plain" accents like yours sound like those people in the US news (cnn, abc, cbs, nbc)
Um...I think you sound like youre from Minnesota, the way you say "I don't know" sometimes, or the way you talk quickly and pause sometimes. CT has NO accent supposedly, (?) boston has a famous accent. But be it what it is: compared to us you do sound different. And my family from Minnesota would sound like you more...or talk like you a lot more.
I'm from rural northeast Ohio originally and now go to school in central Ohio. I get caught on my accent all the time (especially from people from other parts of my own state). Anyway, the accent where I'm from is technically a sub-variant of the Inland North dialect (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo). I can sort of see why you might think of it as being New England though, possibly due to the phenomenon known as the "Northern Cities Vowel Shift".
I noticed when I first started YouTube and whached my videos,.I spoke really fast. I had to slow down. You don't know till you can see and hear yourself.
I'm from Illionis, and i sound like you, i dont think we have accents either, but i noticed midwesters speak much faster than a lot of other areas of the States
@DaytonaRoadster I noticed when I first started YouTube and whached my videos,.I spoke really fast. I had to slow down. You don't know till you can see and hear yourself.
I was born in the midwest, its pop...i moved to Louisiana, its soda..i now live in Atlanta and its Coke....jesus dont get me started on how confusing this is
Definitely not from Michigan, I can tell you that. Unless you're a Yooper. Not Wisconsin or Minnesota either. Probably Illinois or one of the Dakota's.
This sounds like a Wisconsin, UP Michigan or Minnesota accent. Lower Michigan, Northern Ohio and parts of Indiana don't seem to have an accent at all.
There's some area in Wisconsin where it becomes bubbler. Anywhere else in the state, people use both. But EVERYONE knows what it means when you say it.
I'm from NY State...and I have to say people from the midwest seem to talk slower, here in NY we tend to talk faster, then once you get to around Albany, NY you start to hear the New England accent coming threw there voice....NYC has there own accent that is even herd in part of Northern NJ as for Ohio, that to me is more of a canadian, southern and northeastern accent combo and I would have to say the same for Michigan and Indiana as well.
You'd be surprised. I lived in another state briefly before I moved to WI. I never did seriously use the word "bubbler". But when In one city I lived, no one knew what the heck it was if it was called anything other than a "bubbler"
I'm from Wisconsin, and we say "bubbler" here. Most of my Chicago friends think I sound like "Marge" from "Fargo". Yah, we do have a bit of an accent here.
@Jefgg actually it's a bit more complicated than Midwesterners drink pop, people from Pennsylvania say pop, and for sprinkles, they say jimmies. I think in Ohio they might also say pop and I wouldn't consider either of those two states to be part of the Midwest.
@Jefgg I think what you mean to say is that you drink coke.... soda is for baking with and pop is your old man, but i think the most common mistake is when people say "you all" obviously the correct way to say it is "y'all"
Damn you have a strong accent I moved from Minnesota to California and all midwestern accents are noticeable now it sounds like your from illinois or around that area. I still think the most distinguishableis the ND and MN accent.
I don't think we have an accent. I am from Illinois and I had a discussion with some friends about this today. We can hear accents from other places like people from New Jersey, Boston, California, etc. However, as long as you pronounce all the letters and can hear the difference among different vowel sounds, I am cool with it. I also speak many languages and you can hear the difference in different countries of Latin America for Spanish and in different regions in Italy for Italian.
I know when I visited Wisconsin they had a noticeable accent, especially on the "o" vowel sound. They said we had the accent and they didn't. My uncle is from Missouri and sounds pretty Midwestern and their nickname for him was Mississippi. Obviously they've never been to Mississippi or talked to anybody from Mississippi.
Yeah I'm from California and was talking to someone from Wisconsin the other day. I couldn't figure out his accent until he told me lol. But then again here and California we have a pretty distinct accent as well. I don't realize it, but folks from other parts of the country say that my voice goes up and down a lot when I'm talking. Don't even realize it.
He sounds pretty Midwestern to me, but I've never heard the word "bubbler" before.
I live in Missouri, in the border area between Midwestern and Southern. I've been told we have a pretty unique accent. This guy on this video doesn't sound exactly like people around here.
But I can't always differentiate where an accent is from.
I had speech problems when I was little and I had to receive special instruction on learning how to talk. I may not actually have an accent because I couldn't emulate how others communicate. I had one person who observed that I talk "like a news reporter".
The midwestern accent is used so often in films and TV that it's not easy for people to recognize the location. I moved to Ireland from the Midwest and no one knows where I'm from...You have a pretty standard Midwestern accent without the influences of other places (Minnesota, Tennessee, etc) so I could see where people could say you don't have an accent.
@TheLastHylianTitan It's not actually the most used accent, it's just the accent that is used as "generic" American in films/TV as it doesn't contain the strong regional qualifiers like those in Boston or The South. I'm told quite often that I "sound like the people on American TV", like the man in this video.
it's not possible to not have an accent. to not have an accent is to assume that there is a universal absolute way the language is to be spoken and that you are speaking it in that way.
There not accents there dialects. Accents are very different from each other and sometimes they spell curtain words differently. For example The British accent spells the word "color". Colour ect.
The upstate new york accent (buffalo, specifically) i'm convinced is accentless. I moved from Buffalo area to Western michigan and I talk just like them. I've also been all over southern ontario and we talk just like them... Chicago, Idianapolis, Ohio, Pennsylvania (parts) AND WE TALK LIKE THEM ALL! I think it may be some weird hybrid lol
Actually Western Michigan, Buffalo and Chicago DO have similar accents- it's not accentless- only a very small part of the country talks like that- unless all the linguists are wrong of course
I'm from Australia, and yes you do have an accent, although the general Midwest accent is harder to emulate for me at least, it's much easier for me to put on a Southern or NY accent. But yes, Mid-westerners do have accents
To me you sound like you may be from the Minnesota region. And, yes, you definately have an accent. But all Americans have some sort of regional accent. We all have one! So how could anyone say "I don't have an accent"? You just don't recognize it because you hear it all around you and you're used to it.
Okay, first things first - stop moving your camera. Its really annoying!
And you do have an accent lol, I'm English and I don't think I have an accent. Your accent is sooo strong and completely different from say California or New York
Yeah you sound like you have a northern Midwestern accent there is such thing as an southern on and an northern one as for us northerners we could actually pass as Canadians we sound just like them
You do speak pretty "plainly" although on a few of your words I notice a little bit of "upper midwest" in there. If I had to bet Id say you were from Northern illinois but judging by your attire by no means a city person. I live in Southern Indiana and there's more of a Southern drawl down here, which I've thought just sounded dumb. Almost as if they're trying to sound dumb.
And yes, Ronnie Boy, I could swear you were from Wisconsin. And a little technical note, there's no such thing as someone who doesn't speak with an accent.
I've lived all my life in central Indiana, and I speak with the General American accent, although you encounter some people in Indiana (at least in central, as I've not really been in southern or northern Indiana) with Southern American aspects in their speech and people with full-blown Southern accents. From what I've heard, people from north Indiana share the same dialect/accent with the people of north Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, but I really wouldn't know.
I have a few comments relevant to your post. First of all, the only reason why other countries have "standard" languages is because someone in power decided that everyone should speak like them. If someone decided to set a "standard" American accent, the entire country would revolt.
I have a St. Louis-Midwestern accent. I was hired to teach English in China. Apparently they prefer Midwesterners because they think we have "standard" American accents. However, my accent is different form yours, so which one of us has the standard? I have discovered two things that are relevant to your blog post: 1) there is no such thing as a lack of an accent & 2) "standard" American English is just a myth.
The St Louis accent is considered more "standard midwestern" than say a Chicago, Wisconsin or Minnesota accent although there are some deviations. The most standard of the mIdwestern accents would be the Kansas City area
I'm from Iowa in the midwest lol and it seems like I dont have an accent xD but who knows, we're all different from how our parents teach us our accents.
My relatives all live around Myrtle Beach, while just my immediate family live in Minnesota.
But yeah, you sound Midwestern, and we do use our R's a lot. My mom says I swallow my R's :P. I laugh my ass off whenever I watch a movie taking place in Minnesota, or has a character from there. Yes, a lot of us sound like the folks in Fargo (even though that's the Dakotas). Hell, I even say 'up Nort' instead of 'up North'.
I was about to bone my girlfriend out at the lake, but suddenly she yelled. So I looked up and was Big Foot. Then I went back to bone her, but the mosquitoes were going crazy and she said there was no way.
I am from Texas and I went to visit my girlfriend in Wisconsin and among some other differences in the speech of her family members, I noticed a particular peculiarity in the pronunciation of word with an "o" in them such as about or boot.
hey I'm French but, about the hard R's, what I noticed is people from Buffalo NY have it, Indiana and Chicago...Then, but that's a different "hard R", some people from the Canadian border have a heavier emphasis on all consonants, including the "R"...Minnesota etc...
Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, and safe, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some say they hear, do it.
Many people consider the Pacific Northwest to have a neutral or "standard american accent" I lived in Seattle back in the early- mid 1990's- the locals were always able to point out transplants from the Northern MIdwest or Great Lakes area because their accents were completely different, however someone from say Kansas City or Indianapolis would be more elusive because to the ears of the Local Seattlites "they sound just like them"
The Upper Midwest, Southern Canada, and the Great Lakes accent is quite similar in a way with different variation of dialects. I totally disagree with people in Indiana (except those in NW Indiana - Chicagoland) that have the "general american" accent. I have met Indianians that have more of a southern pronunciation that sounds like they can be from Kentucky or even perhaps Tennessee, but not as ignorant as Alabamans or Mississippi folks. Different dialects varies in Chicago alone as well.
You're correct about southern Indiana having an accent similar to Tennessee. Indianapolis has the classic standard midwest accent. David Letterman, who is from Indianapolis has the classic central Indiana accent. He too has said previously that he never had to alter or change his accent. Again, if someone from Tennessee had a conversation with someone from Indianapolis, they would classify that person as a Yankee.
@ohso41 David Letterman does in fact sounds classically Midwestern (midland north), as well as Jerry Springer to me who is not originally from the Midwest/ Great Lakes region. But I also find it quite interesting how Stephen Colbert purposely suppressed his "southern accent" to a much more acceptable Midwestern dialect and enrolled to Northwestern University School of Speech. Texas-born MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall suppressed hers too. I have been called a "Yankee boy" by countless southerners.
Yes- Indianapolis is a perfect example of the midland north accent.
I'm just trying to picture a talk show host with the classic Chicago accent- and I can't get Dennis Franz, Dennis Farina or Dick Butkus out of my head- although Bonnie Hunt pulled it off and she does have a Chicago accent.
All of the videos I favorited are local commercials all around the country with what I consider the typical accent of the area- they are real- and not exaggerated.
@ohso41 What about Steve Wilkos from Jerry Springer? Do you also think upstate New York natives (like Buffalo, Utica i.e.) dialect or accent is quite similar to Chicagoans? I've heard that before. Bonnie Hunt sounds very Chicago-like.
I will check out the videos you favorited. Hopefully you have some vids about the dialects in the Great Plains area.
@QUIKKSTAR I thought I responded- i wasn't familiar with Steve Wilkos- but I checked his videos on youtube- yes- he sounds very Chicago to me.
Buffalo and Rochester, as well as Syracuse accents do sound very similar to Chicago- so does Cleveland and Detroit- not sure about Utica though, I haven't spent much time up there.
@ohso41 Yes I been to Rochester and Buffalo (especially Buffalo) and even Niagra Falls NY and I could tell the similarity in the accents with Chicago. I think its a "Great Lakes" dialect connection or something. But yes, your right about Cleveland/ Northeast Ohio and Detroit sounding similar to Chicagoans... although the rest of Michigan definitely sounds more distinct to me for some reason.
Interestingly enough those with thick accents from the Great Lakes or northern midwest will insist that people from Kansas City, or even Omaha and Des Moines have Southern accents, I can assure you that folks from Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia would laugh hysterically at that closed minded ignorant statement
@ohso41 I had a farmer/friend who lived in Kansas. His address was Nebraska. Pawnee City. He was killed in a car accident. When we talked on the phone he had a quite noticable southern drawl.
And it probably sounded that way to you because your accent is extreme. I know people in Boston and Rhode Island who think that people from Philadelphia have a southern drawl, in fact I'm born and bred Long Island and have the classic (Long Island accent) and where I live now in Rhode Island people who don't know me asked me if I'm from the south.
However if your farmer friend had a conversation with someone from Mississippi or Alabama he would sound like a "yankee" to them.
@ohso41 I think you must not forget the differences between rural and urban parts of the geographic areas as well. I am originally from Tennessee, but I now live in rural Missouri near Kansas City. Albeit the people in the more urban areas have little to no accent (coming from a Southerner) while in the rural areas I find some people have more of a "Southern" accent than many people I knew in Tennessee. Especially in the Ozarks area the people there have as much of a Southern accent as anyone.
Walter Cronkite has always been considered the benchmark for the standard american or midwest accent. He grew up on St Josephs MO, just north of Kansas City. He always said that he never had to alter the accent he grew up with in any way shape or form.
After visiting Kansas City on numerous occasions I can vouch that it has one of the most neutral midwest accents in the country. Certainly not a southern accent or the "Nasal" "da bears" great lakes accent or the fargo sounding northern accent
Here is the linguists perspective on what is considered the standard american midwest accent.
"The Telsur Project[3] (of William Labov and others) examines a number of phonetic properties by which regional accents of the U.S. may be identified. The area with Midwestern regional properties is indicated on the map: eastern Nebraska (including Omaha and Lincoln), southern and central Iowa (including Des Moines), and western Illinois (including Peoria and the Quad Cities but not the Chicago area)."
@ohso41 I have my own Vaio notebook and I am grown you fucker! You're just a Chicago hater! I'm was in school for Journalism and I met students/ interns from around the country as well as international students in Chicago. They all said they picked Chicago to further their education and future careers to develop the "news caster" accent. Plus Chicago is the top market to major in broadcast journalism and most anchors started out their careers in Chicago or atleast the surrounding area FIRST!
have you seen me use profanity once- that's because I'm mature and you're not
I happen to love Chicago- I also love the thick accents that I hear when I'm there.
There's a reason SNL developed the Chicago Superfans skit- they didn't just pull an imaginary accent out of the hat- I have close friends from Chicago- and every single one of them has that Chicago Superfans accent
@ohso41 You're right about the profanity - thats uncalled for. But I don't think you have been in Chicago very long to fully analyze the accents here because it is quite unique and its a melting pot of various dialects rolled into one. I am quite like you... I have lived all over to realize this and what I sound like myself. In my opinion, those SNL skits are on the money with the typical Chicago sports town accent, however SNL does exaggerate the vowels a tad bit.
im from the missouri and you have an accent to me. "A Boot, about". Thats what I hear ha, you pronounce your O vowels differently than Missouri does. say soda and yeah...
Sir, you and EVERYONE else in this world has an accent. English came from ENGLAND!! but then again, what is the one true correct English? Some say the Queen's english is he most correct and proper...
You do have an accent. It's nice. It reminds me of home in Chicago Illinois. I always vacationed in Wisconsin, and I would meet people from all over the Midwest and heard your type of accent all the time. In fact, whenever I hear Midwestern accents I get a happy feeling because of my memories of that place.
I think the place in the US that has an accent with the least amount of distinguishable characteristics are non-skater/surfer people from the West Coast. There aren't really any characteristics to that "accent" at all. I have known lots of people from the left coast and they just don't say words in any kind of distinguishably different way than they are intended.
Pretty much the the entire west Coast including the rocky mountain and Southwest states as well as the patch between i70-i-80 going through Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
Nobody realizes they have an accent or what accent they have until they leave the area they grew up in. Every region has an accent even if you don't want to believe it. I grew up in the U.P. and never really noticed my accent until I joined the service. In one of the comments above you mentioned you're from Wisconsin. I am very familiar with Wisconsin because I have a lot of relatives that live there. Are you in the 715 area code?
Everyone has an accent. Yours sounds more or less the standard American accent. But it depends on where in the midwest you are from. Like Michelle Bachman has a funny little accent going lol
@ohso41 So what is the "standard american" accent to you then? Because I definitely know its not the typical NYC accent. Last time I check, American newscasters adopts the great lakes regional midwestern dialect and many experts consider that to be the typical standard american dialect. Also, the same dialect that many Chicagoans have is the same dialect that is taught to ESL (English as a Second Language) students.
Hi Ronnieboy, I looked this up as I'm auditioning tomorrow for a play set in Mid West, Mitch Albom play, I think the Mid West accent comes from the stomach, where as New Jersey is up in the throat. Thanks for the vid.
Shit the way upper midwest you can catch different accents from county to county. depending on if its potato farmers, corn farmers, people from the backwoods, the twin cities, just 5 miles away from where i live there is a road, if you live north of that you have more of a "Fargo" accent. "Nort of nindy five der" its like there are different dialects...
You have a bit of a northern accent. Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois for the most part are about the same accent, the Midwestern accent, but Wisconsin and north and west of there aren't the same accent at all. It's similar in ways, but there is a distinguishable difference. I'm a Hoosier, but I have a very slight southern drawl sometimes because several of my grandparents are from Tennessee, and I picked it up from them. And, if I am in Tennessee long, it thickens like crazy.
I'm from the heart of the midwest and I always thought I didn't have an accent, but every time I go down south my cousins are like "you have a strong accent"
You definitely right about the "R" accent!
davd1986 1 day ago
@maccpottsV2 what part of iowa are u from? I'm from south east Iowa and everyone says pop, never soda
xSweetStrawberriesx 1 day ago
Instead of saying "um" like "uh-m," you seem to say it more like "ah" or "ah-m." If it's not an accent, I'd definitely say it's a distinct way of speaking.
AndersonHenderson 3 days ago
For example: Sure We pronounce it (Shure) and it's actually pronouced (Ssure)
captfalcon7 4 days ago
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Midwest has a dialect (accent) we don't know it since we are very use to it.
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you sound like you're anywhere from, pennsylvania, or ohio or anywhere north east, even canada. i guess "plain" accents like yours sound like those people in the US news (cnn, abc, cbs, nbc)
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billboardnumber1 1 week ago
I used to have midwestern accent, but then i took an arrow on the knee.
Ryosuke1208 1 week ago
I'm from Iowa. This guy sounds like the generic urban American accent that we pride ourselves on.
ganixaba 1 week ago
Um...I think you sound like youre from Minnesota, the way you say "I don't know" sometimes, or the way you talk quickly and pause sometimes. CT has NO accent supposedly, (?) boston has a famous accent. But be it what it is: compared to us you do sound different. And my family from Minnesota would sound like you more...or talk like you a lot more.
ippolytos1 1 week ago
cool DeKalb hat! I am an NIU alumn.. ;-) what memories
wreckageyears 1 week ago
I'm from rural northeast Ohio originally and now go to school in central Ohio. I get caught on my accent all the time (especially from people from other parts of my own state). Anyway, the accent where I'm from is technically a sub-variant of the Inland North dialect (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo). I can sort of see why you might think of it as being New England though, possibly due to the phenomenon known as the "Northern Cities Vowel Shift".
bucknation2012 2 weeks ago
I noticed when I first started YouTube and whached my videos,.I spoke really fast. I had to slow down. You don't know till you can see and hear yourself.
ronnieboy2rdot 2 weeks ago
I'm from Illionis, and i sound like you, i dont think we have accents either, but i noticed midwesters speak much faster than a lot of other areas of the States
DaytonaRoadster 2 weeks ago
@DaytonaRoadster I noticed when I first started YouTube and whached my videos,.I spoke really fast. I had to slow down. You don't know till you can see and hear yourself.
ronnieboy2rdot 2 weeks ago
@ronnieboy2rdot yup, i live in Georgia now, and these people speak so slowly, i've had to learn to slow down for them
DaytonaRoadster 2 weeks ago
I was born in the midwest, its pop...i moved to Louisiana, its soda..i now live in Atlanta and its Coke....jesus dont get me started on how confusing this is
DaytonaRoadster 2 weeks ago
Definitely not from Michigan, I can tell you that. Unless you're a Yooper. Not Wisconsin or Minnesota either. Probably Illinois or one of the Dakota's.
laguzslayer1014 2 weeks ago
lol, i'm from california, we drink soda.
sabridd45 2 weeks ago
What part of the Midwest are you from......doesnt sound like any midwestern accent i ever heard
CheckM8King2 3 weeks ago
Midwesterners really do have strong accents, my southern accent sticks out like a sore thumb.
farmhouselouisiana 3 weeks ago
I'm Polish so you all sound weird!
TheGallifrey123 3 weeks ago
DEKALB HAT! THATS WERE I LIVE!
DTBiker24 4 weeks ago
This sounds like a Wisconsin, UP Michigan or Minnesota accent. Lower Michigan, Northern Ohio and parts of Indiana don't seem to have an accent at all.
wpollock1 4 weeks ago
my girlfriend is from Illinois , I'm from Tennessee ... you can imagine the fun they had with my accent
Clutch8800 1 month ago
I'm Texan and I sound european :B
Yenaboi 1 month ago
@Yenaboi you have big teeth
bobtheflyingdonkey 1 month ago
Everyone has an accent, unless you are the queen.
MrThisplaceisweird 1 month ago
I'm asian and i have a mid-western accent
colormydaisy1 1 month ago
Ahhh, I just realized I have the R thing.
thomasmu15 1 month ago
You have a very strong accent. You say your a's like e's and your r's are different.
missdixie7 1 month ago
American's have an RRRRRR sound --- like a pirate, Rrrrrrr mately LOL
shutdafup 1 month ago
I grew up in the Midwest, and I have definitely noticed before that I exaggerate my R's waaaaaay too...otherwise, Standard American accent here :)
Gammafan94 1 month ago
You don't seem to have much of an accent. But with some words it sounds a bit diff like alil canadian. From Central IL btw.
qh777 1 month ago
a water fountain is something you throw coins in
Legittrick 1 month ago
Are you sure I heard it means water fountain?
HardKore5250 1 month ago
California: the accent of cinema
SagaciousSilence 2 months ago
There's some area in Wisconsin where it becomes bubbler. Anywhere else in the state, people use both. But EVERYONE knows what it means when you say it.
you guys don't get jokes do you ._.
WiscoNortherner 2 months ago
He sounds a little too northern to me.
Rosebunse 2 months ago
I'm from NY State...and I have to say people from the midwest seem to talk slower, here in NY we tend to talk faster, then once you get to around Albany, NY you start to hear the New England accent coming threw there voice....NYC has there own accent that is even herd in part of Northern NJ as for Ohio, that to me is more of a canadian, southern and northeastern accent combo and I would have to say the same for Michigan and Indiana as well.
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Thumbs up if you have a bubbler! :]
ArtificeSounds 2 months ago
WTF is a water fountain?
WiscoNortherner 2 months ago
@WiscoNortherner ...do you really not know what a water fountain is?
Rosebunse 2 months ago
@Rosebunse I believe it's called a bubbler, thank you very much.
WiscoNortherner 2 months ago
@WiscoNortherner I've never heard that.
Rosebunse 2 months ago
@Rosebunse
You'd be surprised. I lived in another state briefly before I moved to WI. I never did seriously use the word "bubbler". But when In one city I lived, no one knew what the heck it was if it was called anything other than a "bubbler"
BugFolk 2 months ago
@WiscoNortherner
"water fountain" is what most people outside WI call a bubbler.
BugFolk 2 months ago
I hate everyone's accent but my own!
publicatdamagnificen 2 months ago
Oh, it's "Simple Jack" from Tropic Thunder ...
filoscope 2 months ago
I'm from Wisconsin, and we say "bubbler" here. Most of my Chicago friends think I sound like "Marge" from "Fargo". Yah, we do have a bit of an accent here.
scandia61 3 months ago 6
I never really thought we had an accent...It's just the farmers in the country pretty much.
12Toodles12 3 months ago
Midwesterners drink pop. I am from the East Coast. I drink soda.
Jefgg 3 months ago 17
@Jefgg actually it's a bit more complicated than Midwesterners drink pop, people from Pennsylvania say pop, and for sprinkles, they say jimmies. I think in Ohio they might also say pop and I wouldn't consider either of those two states to be part of the Midwest.
Fuguhan 1 month ago
@Jefgg *from wisconsin* I drink soda
KeyEpic 1 month ago
@Jefgg I disagree, here in Iowa we drink soda. Fuck pop.
maccpottsV2 1 week ago
@Jefgg I think what you mean to say is that you drink coke.... soda is for baking with and pop is your old man, but i think the most common mistake is when people say "you all" obviously the correct way to say it is "y'all"
PHOBOSakaSHELLY 3 hours ago
the way you say yootoob (you tube) was the strongest thing to me. Other than that it was pretty normal.
jav12sol15 3 months ago
Damn you have a strong accent I moved from Minnesota to California and all midwestern accents are noticeable now it sounds like your from illinois or around that area. I still think the most distinguishableis the ND and MN accent.
Schlongster69 3 months ago
I don't think we have an accent. I am from Illinois and I had a discussion with some friends about this today. We can hear accents from other places like people from New Jersey, Boston, California, etc. However, as long as you pronounce all the letters and can hear the difference among different vowel sounds, I am cool with it. I also speak many languages and you can hear the difference in different countries of Latin America for Spanish and in different regions in Italy for Italian.
leondjsizzle 3 months ago
I'm from Michigan, I consider Michigan mid western.
misselliearendt 3 months ago
I know when I visited Wisconsin they had a noticeable accent, especially on the "o" vowel sound. They said we had the accent and they didn't. My uncle is from Missouri and sounds pretty Midwestern and their nickname for him was Mississippi. Obviously they've never been to Mississippi or talked to anybody from Mississippi.
RoseMaddison 4 months ago
@RoseMaddison
Yeah I'm from California and was talking to someone from Wisconsin the other day. I couldn't figure out his accent until he told me lol. But then again here and California we have a pretty distinct accent as well. I don't realize it, but folks from other parts of the country say that my voice goes up and down a lot when I'm talking. Don't even realize it.
Howardyt 4 months ago
He sounds pretty Midwestern to me, but I've never heard the word "bubbler" before.
I live in Missouri, in the border area between Midwestern and Southern. I've been told we have a pretty unique accent. This guy on this video doesn't sound exactly like people around here.
But I can't always differentiate where an accent is from.
RoseMaddison 4 months ago
im from ohio. i understood this guy perfectly but i still dont have an accent
seminoleboy96 4 months ago
I'm from Nebraska and I have never heard someone with that accent
JTSlover97 4 months ago
he sounds normal to me. probably cuz im from Illinois
idrownfishify 4 months ago
I had speech problems when I was little and I had to receive special instruction on learning how to talk. I may not actually have an accent because I couldn't emulate how others communicate. I had one person who observed that I talk "like a news reporter".
Agent1W 4 months ago
The midwestern accent is used so often in films and TV that it's not easy for people to recognize the location. I moved to Ireland from the Midwest and no one knows where I'm from...You have a pretty standard Midwestern accent without the influences of other places (Minnesota, Tennessee, etc) so I could see where people could say you don't have an accent.
Kinnacat 4 months ago
@Kinnacat it's because the Midwestern accent has become the standard American accent. it's the most used accent.
TheLastHylianTitan 4 months ago
@TheLastHylianTitan It's not actually the most used accent, it's just the accent that is used as "generic" American in films/TV as it doesn't contain the strong regional qualifiers like those in Boston or The South. I'm told quite often that I "sound like the people on American TV", like the man in this video.
Kinnacat 4 months ago
Minnesota accent You said youuuutubbbbee
HardKore5250 4 months ago
Minnesota accent
HardKore5250 4 months ago
Whats bubbler mean?
HardKore5250 4 months ago
@HardKore5250 Water fountain.
ronnieboy2rdot 4 months ago
@ronnieboy2rdot Ohioans don't have a New England style accent. It's in the Midwest.
CarlosCoolidgeAlden 2 months ago
@ronnieboy2rdot down south we call it a fountain or spicket
SHOOTandREVIEW 2 months ago
@HardKore5250 its a weed smoking device lmao
abannanahammock 1 month ago
@HardKore5250 in boston they say "bubblah" or "bubbler" for water fountain and when I was younger we usually said "bubbler" in connecticut_
ippolytos1 1 week ago
Everyone has an accent, the dialect changes from region to region and it works that way everywhere around the world.
Anyone who thinks they don't have an accent is delusional.
MrHbomb3 4 months ago
@MrHbomb3 Iowans don't have accents.
Newcasters are sent there to learn to talk properly.
festdir 4 months ago
Your not from Indiana you sound like your from Michigan or northern Illinois
jdawg951 4 months ago
it's not possible to not have an accent. to not have an accent is to assume that there is a universal absolute way the language is to be spoken and that you are speaking it in that way.
that's just not how language works
darris321 5 months ago
Yup. Not Illinoisian.
startrekmakesmehappy 5 months ago
People who don't realise they have accents simply don't understand the definition of the word. It's impossible not to mate.
MrMisterdump 5 months ago
There not accents there dialects. Accents are very different from each other and sometimes they spell curtain words differently. For example The British accent spells the word "color". Colour ect.
TheJsamayoa 5 months ago
the ppl from omaha and des monies only have accents in the south im from des monies and we sound nothing alike ppl from the south
bob2012isfake 5 months ago
you sound like you're from Illinois. I'm from Indiana, and I can hear the accent
1978atcarroll 5 months ago
He doesnt have an accent....
lol im from MN
thespartaman 5 months ago
at least you guys speak proper English compared to us people from california. WE tend to say/use "hecka, oh my god, whatever, like, you know" a lot.
Just watch "Clueless" and you'll know what I mean - Valley Girls style!!!
xXxPiousNinjaxXx 5 months ago
We don't have accents. Everybody else does.
wakasak1 5 months ago
Are you from Minnesota? If so I can tell. :)
NickTheCola 5 months ago
YooToob, yanno.
nayzany 6 months ago
You sound like you're from Minnesota o.O
amvloon 6 months ago
The upstate new york accent (buffalo, specifically) i'm convinced is accentless. I moved from Buffalo area to Western michigan and I talk just like them. I've also been all over southern ontario and we talk just like them... Chicago, Idianapolis, Ohio, Pennsylvania (parts) AND WE TALK LIKE THEM ALL! I think it may be some weird hybrid lol
kpwillson 6 months ago
@kpwillson
Actually Western Michigan, Buffalo and Chicago DO have similar accents- it's not accentless- only a very small part of the country talks like that- unless all the linguists are wrong of course
ohso41 6 months ago
I'm from Australia, and yes you do have an accent, although the general Midwest accent is harder to emulate for me at least, it's much easier for me to put on a Southern or NY accent. But yes, Mid-westerners do have accents
mrgtjke 6 months ago
To me you sound like you may be from the Minnesota region. And, yes, you definately have an accent. But all Americans have some sort of regional accent. We all have one! So how could anyone say "I don't have an accent"? You just don't recognize it because you hear it all around you and you're used to it.
7t8h4z 6 months ago
Okay, first things first - stop moving your camera. Its really annoying!
And you do have an accent lol, I'm English and I don't think I have an accent. Your accent is sooo strong and completely different from say California or New York
Cald0m92 6 months ago
Yeah you sound like you have a northern Midwestern accent there is such thing as an southern on and an northern one as for us northerners we could actually pass as Canadians we sound just like them
cheeveka3 6 months ago
You do speak pretty "plainly" although on a few of your words I notice a little bit of "upper midwest" in there. If I had to bet Id say you were from Northern illinois but judging by your attire by no means a city person. I live in Southern Indiana and there's more of a Southern drawl down here, which I've thought just sounded dumb. Almost as if they're trying to sound dumb.
jbeard8 6 months ago
And yes, Ronnie Boy, I could swear you were from Wisconsin. And a little technical note, there's no such thing as someone who doesn't speak with an accent.
MrFfuckUp 7 months ago
I've lived all my life in central Indiana, and I speak with the General American accent, although you encounter some people in Indiana (at least in central, as I've not really been in southern or northern Indiana) with Southern American aspects in their speech and people with full-blown Southern accents. From what I've heard, people from north Indiana share the same dialect/accent with the people of north Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, but I really wouldn't know.
MrFfuckUp 7 months ago
@MrFfuckUp
People in the Indianapolis area sound "General American" or Standard Midwestern to me.
ohso41 6 months ago
@ohso41 Also, the majority of us do but again there's a good few that don't.
MrFfuckUp 6 months ago
I have a few comments relevant to your post. First of all, the only reason why other countries have "standard" languages is because someone in power decided that everyone should speak like them. If someone decided to set a "standard" American accent, the entire country would revolt.
SableH231 7 months ago
I have a St. Louis-Midwestern accent. I was hired to teach English in China. Apparently they prefer Midwesterners because they think we have "standard" American accents. However, my accent is different form yours, so which one of us has the standard? I have discovered two things that are relevant to your blog post: 1) there is no such thing as a lack of an accent & 2) "standard" American English is just a myth.
SableH231 7 months ago
@SableH231
The St Louis accent is considered more "standard midwestern" than say a Chicago, Wisconsin or Minnesota accent although there are some deviations. The most standard of the mIdwestern accents would be the Kansas City area
ohso41 7 months ago
Watchin in Wisconsin.
MooneySuzuki3654 7 months ago
im new jersey..i dont have an accent. born and raised by new jerseyans. no accent.
CShan0998 7 months ago
thumbs up if you say bubbler not waterfountain :)
sillyjontag321 7 months ago 9
I'm from Iowa in the midwest lol and it seems like I dont have an accent xD but who knows, we're all different from how our parents teach us our accents.
liveontheclassics 7 months ago
Is it bad to only like the Packers just because they have Jon Deere colors? ;D
squeeky95 8 months ago
My relatives all live around Myrtle Beach, while just my immediate family live in Minnesota.
But yeah, you sound Midwestern, and we do use our R's a lot. My mom says I swallow my R's :P. I laugh my ass off whenever I watch a movie taking place in Minnesota, or has a character from there. Yes, a lot of us sound like the folks in Fargo (even though that's the Dakotas). Hell, I even say 'up Nort' instead of 'up North'.
sparkkle2 8 months ago
@sparkkle2 Its is good do know I'm not alone.
ronnieboy2rdot 8 months ago
@sparkkle2 I say up north.. O_o... and I'm in Northern Minnesota.. and hour away from fargo. lol, i don't have any accent, whatsoever. lmfao
squeeky95 8 months ago
@squeeky95
Jesus...
WardyProductions 8 months ago
@sparkkle2 I'm from South Carolina and i'm goin to Myrtle Beach in a couple of weeks. :D
Angelnot95 7 months ago
canada, minnesota or wisconsin?
TheMichaelSwan 8 months ago
i like farmers
trumpy00 8 months ago
LOL i just started laughing out loud becuase of the camera. Couldnt find its mark. haha
Go packers yah der hay
Flamespark32 9 months ago
id have an accent and im from va
lilddonovandark 9 months ago
I was about to bone my girlfriend out at the lake, but suddenly she yelled. So I looked up and was Big Foot. Then I went back to bone her, but the mosquitoes were going crazy and she said there was no way.
blueshifter 9 months ago
I am from Texas and I went to visit my girlfriend in Wisconsin and among some other differences in the speech of her family members, I noticed a particular peculiarity in the pronunciation of word with an "o" in them such as about or boot.
elliuqahs7 9 months ago
i like your overalls...
iiTzZNIKyDuhH 9 months ago
I... have an... accent?
elijah56565656 9 months ago
its called a dialect. not an accent. for americans its dialect anyway..
TimCampbellMusic 9 months ago
hey I'm French but, about the hard R's, what I noticed is people from Buffalo NY have it, Indiana and Chicago...Then, but that's a different "hard R", some people from the Canadian border have a heavier emphasis on all consonants, including the "R"...Minnesota etc...
yoe91 9 months ago
Sound just like me!
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jamestargetedindiv 10 months ago
Many people consider the Pacific Northwest to have a neutral or "standard american accent" I lived in Seattle back in the early- mid 1990's- the locals were always able to point out transplants from the Northern MIdwest or Great Lakes area because their accents were completely different, however someone from say Kansas City or Indianapolis would be more elusive because to the ears of the Local Seattlites "they sound just like them"
ohso41 10 months ago
The Upper Midwest, Southern Canada, and the Great Lakes accent is quite similar in a way with different variation of dialects. I totally disagree with people in Indiana (except those in NW Indiana - Chicagoland) that have the "general american" accent. I have met Indianians that have more of a southern pronunciation that sounds like they can be from Kentucky or even perhaps Tennessee, but not as ignorant as Alabamans or Mississippi folks. Different dialects varies in Chicago alone as well.
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
@QUIKKSTAR
You're correct about southern Indiana having an accent similar to Tennessee. Indianapolis has the classic standard midwest accent. David Letterman, who is from Indianapolis has the classic central Indiana accent. He too has said previously that he never had to alter or change his accent. Again, if someone from Tennessee had a conversation with someone from Indianapolis, they would classify that person as a Yankee.
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 David Letterman does in fact sounds classically Midwestern (midland north), as well as Jerry Springer to me who is not originally from the Midwest/ Great Lakes region. But I also find it quite interesting how Stephen Colbert purposely suppressed his "southern accent" to a much more acceptable Midwestern dialect and enrolled to Northwestern University School of Speech. Texas-born MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall suppressed hers too. I have been called a "Yankee boy" by countless southerners.
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
@QUIKKSTAR
Yes- Indianapolis is a perfect example of the midland north accent.
I'm just trying to picture a talk show host with the classic Chicago accent- and I can't get Dennis Franz, Dennis Farina or Dick Butkus out of my head- although Bonnie Hunt pulled it off and she does have a Chicago accent.
All of the videos I favorited are local commercials all around the country with what I consider the typical accent of the area- they are real- and not exaggerated.
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 What about Steve Wilkos from Jerry Springer? Do you also think upstate New York natives (like Buffalo, Utica i.e.) dialect or accent is quite similar to Chicagoans? I've heard that before. Bonnie Hunt sounds very Chicago-like.
I will check out the videos you favorited. Hopefully you have some vids about the dialects in the Great Plains area.
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
@QUIKKSTAR I thought I responded- i wasn't familiar with Steve Wilkos- but I checked his videos on youtube- yes- he sounds very Chicago to me.
Buffalo and Rochester, as well as Syracuse accents do sound very similar to Chicago- so does Cleveland and Detroit- not sure about Utica though, I haven't spent much time up there.
ohso41 9 months ago
@ohso41 Yes I been to Rochester and Buffalo (especially Buffalo) and even Niagra Falls NY and I could tell the similarity in the accents with Chicago. I think its a "Great Lakes" dialect connection or something. But yes, your right about Cleveland/ Northeast Ohio and Detroit sounding similar to Chicagoans... although the rest of Michigan definitely sounds more distinct to me for some reason.
QUIKKSTAR 9 months ago
Interestingly enough those with thick accents from the Great Lakes or northern midwest will insist that people from Kansas City, or even Omaha and Des Moines have Southern accents, I can assure you that folks from Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia would laugh hysterically at that closed minded ignorant statement
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 I had a farmer/friend who lived in Kansas. His address was Nebraska. Pawnee City. He was killed in a car accident. When we talked on the phone he had a quite noticable southern drawl.
ronnieboy2rdot 10 months ago
@ronnieboy2rdot
And it probably sounded that way to you because your accent is extreme. I know people in Boston and Rhode Island who think that people from Philadelphia have a southern drawl, in fact I'm born and bred Long Island and have the classic (Long Island accent) and where I live now in Rhode Island people who don't know me asked me if I'm from the south.
However if your farmer friend had a conversation with someone from Mississippi or Alabama he would sound like a "yankee" to them.
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 That makes sense! RB
ronnieboy2rdot 10 months ago
@ohso41 I think you must not forget the differences between rural and urban parts of the geographic areas as well. I am originally from Tennessee, but I now live in rural Missouri near Kansas City. Albeit the people in the more urban areas have little to no accent (coming from a Southerner) while in the rural areas I find some people have more of a "Southern" accent than many people I knew in Tennessee. Especially in the Ozarks area the people there have as much of a Southern accent as anyone.
firefoxmoz 8 months ago
@firefoxmoz
Yes, there is no doubt that the folks from the Ozarks do have very pronounced accents. To me the people there sound more "Arkansas" than Missouri.
ohso41 8 months ago
Walter Cronkite has always been considered the benchmark for the standard american or midwest accent. He grew up on St Josephs MO, just north of Kansas City. He always said that he never had to alter the accent he grew up with in any way shape or form.
After visiting Kansas City on numerous occasions I can vouch that it has one of the most neutral midwest accents in the country. Certainly not a southern accent or the "Nasal" "da bears" great lakes accent or the fargo sounding northern accent
ohso41 10 months ago
Here is the linguists perspective on what is considered the standard american midwest accent.
"The Telsur Project[3] (of William Labov and others) examines a number of phonetic properties by which regional accents of the U.S. may be identified. The area with Midwestern regional properties is indicated on the map: eastern Nebraska (including Omaha and Lincoln), southern and central Iowa (including Des Moines), and western Illinois (including Peoria and the Quad Cities but not the Chicago area)."
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 So what the fuck does Chicagoans sound like to you then you piece of shit?
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
@QUIKKSTAR
you need to quit playing on Mommy's computer little man
Do you feel like a big man "hiding behind your computer and hurling unprovoked insults at others?"
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 I have my own Vaio notebook and I am grown you fucker! You're just a Chicago hater! I'm was in school for Journalism and I met students/ interns from around the country as well as international students in Chicago. They all said they picked Chicago to further their education and future careers to develop the "news caster" accent. Plus Chicago is the top market to major in broadcast journalism and most anchors started out their careers in Chicago or atleast the surrounding area FIRST!
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
@QUIKKSTAR You're such a big man-
Men don't have the need to use profanity-
have you seen me use profanity once- that's because I'm mature and you're not
I happen to love Chicago- I also love the thick accents that I hear when I'm there.
There's a reason SNL developed the Chicago Superfans skit- they didn't just pull an imaginary accent out of the hat- I have close friends from Chicago- and every single one of them has that Chicago Superfans accent
and Walter Cronkite was not from Chicago
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 You're right about the profanity - thats uncalled for. But I don't think you have been in Chicago very long to fully analyze the accents here because it is quite unique and its a melting pot of various dialects rolled into one. I am quite like you... I have lived all over to realize this and what I sound like myself. In my opinion, those SNL skits are on the money with the typical Chicago sports town accent, however SNL does exaggerate the vowels a tad bit.
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
im from the missouri and you have an accent to me. "A Boot, about". Thats what I hear ha, you pronounce your O vowels differently than Missouri does. say soda and yeah...
simonsdanielle89 10 months ago
@simonsdanielle89
Unless you're from the Ozarks, Missouri has more of a standard midwestern neutral accent.
ohso41 10 months ago
Sir, you and EVERYONE else in this world has an accent. English came from ENGLAND!! but then again, what is the one true correct English? Some say the Queen's english is he most correct and proper...
aznguyinusa 10 months ago
You do have an accent. It's nice. It reminds me of home in Chicago Illinois. I always vacationed in Wisconsin, and I would meet people from all over the Midwest and heard your type of accent all the time. In fact, whenever I hear Midwestern accents I get a happy feeling because of my memories of that place.
elainebmack 10 months ago
im from missouri so im sure my midwest accent is different. i could tell you were from wisconsin. now i wonder what i sound like lol
xNervousxBreakdancex 10 months ago
HELL YES! YOU ARE EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!
ColleenMae27 11 months ago
I think the place in the US that has an accent with the least amount of distinguishable characteristics are non-skater/surfer people from the West Coast. There aren't really any characteristics to that "accent" at all. I have known lots of people from the left coast and they just don't say words in any kind of distinguishably different way than they are intended.
vaibanez17 11 months ago
@vaibanez17
Pretty much the the entire west Coast including the rocky mountain and Southwest states as well as the patch between i70-i-80 going through Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
ohso41 11 months ago
Nobody realizes they have an accent or what accent they have until they leave the area they grew up in. Every region has an accent even if you don't want to believe it. I grew up in the U.P. and never really noticed my accent until I joined the service. In one of the comments above you mentioned you're from Wisconsin. I am very familiar with Wisconsin because I have a lot of relatives that live there. Are you in the 715 area code?
fixedgearforlife 11 months ago
Everyone has an accent. Yours sounds more or less the standard American accent. But it depends on where in the midwest you are from. Like Michelle Bachman has a funny little accent going lol
Dreadkid08 11 months ago
@Dreadkid08
It doesn't sound "standard american" at all.
ohso41 11 months ago
@ohso41 So what is the "standard american" accent to you then? Because I definitely know its not the typical NYC accent. Last time I check, American newscasters adopts the great lakes regional midwestern dialect and many experts consider that to be the typical standard american dialect. Also, the same dialect that many Chicagoans have is the same dialect that is taught to ESL (English as a Second Language) students.
QUIKKSTAR 10 months ago
as soon as I heard this guy talk I could tell he was from good ol wisconsin. your "o" and the abbreviations of words you use. GO PACKERS
packeropie 11 months ago
i dont notice it but im from wisconsin too
riley19921 11 months ago
i am from ohio. i don't have an accent. if you go in southern ohio they talk like country bumpins.
thedeadnotsleeping 1 year ago
@thedeadnotsleeping
I've been to Cincinnati and Dayton- the people there sound pretty normal to me. The parts of Ohio that have thick accents are Cleveland and Toledo
ohso41 1 year ago
@thedeadnotsleeping
You do have an accent. Every human on earth has an accent. Why can't you Americans understand this?!
WardyProductions 10 months ago
@bigdrocks55 lol. i cant help how u take it. XD the answer is im messing with you. don't worry, you among a friend. i love jeff.
Rachulie 1 year ago
@bigdrocks55 u way obsessed with the dude lol. u just go around looking for him name in comments ? just messin with u :)
Rachulie 1 year ago
Im from ohio, there is a little difference, but not much. You sound like you are from northeast ohio. Largely the german area.
falcons12345 1 year ago
Hi Ronnieboy, I looked this up as I'm auditioning tomorrow for a play set in Mid West, Mitch Albom play, I think the Mid West accent comes from the stomach, where as New Jersey is up in the throat. Thanks for the vid.
robcallaghan 1 year ago
Shit the way upper midwest you can catch different accents from county to county. depending on if its potato farmers, corn farmers, people from the backwoods, the twin cities, just 5 miles away from where i live there is a road, if you live north of that you have more of a "Fargo" accent. "Nort of nindy five der" its like there are different dialects...
cavalrycountry 1 year ago
You have a bit of a northern accent. Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois for the most part are about the same accent, the Midwestern accent, but Wisconsin and north and west of there aren't the same accent at all. It's similar in ways, but there is a distinguishable difference. I'm a Hoosier, but I have a very slight southern drawl sometimes because several of my grandparents are from Tennessee, and I picked it up from them. And, if I am in Tennessee long, it thickens like crazy.
cmknoll3 1 year ago
I'm from the heart of the midwest and I always thought I didn't have an accent, but every time I go down south my cousins are like "you have a strong accent"
dearmissedessa 1 year ago
@dearmissedessa
Where in the midwest are you from? And what do you consider "down south"?
ohso41 1 year ago
@ohso41 I'm from Illinois and when I say down south I mean Mississippi
dearmissedessa 1 year ago