Bill Dawes - Outtakes from an audition

[xxTJxxBearxx]

People in North Dakota don't have Canadian accents. Well at least nonee that I'VE met, and I've livedd in North Dakota alll myy life.

[ohso41]

@xxTJxxBearxx

People in North Dakota have VERY STRONG accents compared to the rest of the country. You're just used to the accent because you live there.

[xxTJxxBearxx]

@ohso41 Sorry, but I don't have ann accent. I talk just like everyonee else. Unless everyonee on earth has a North Dakota accent.

[ohso41]

@xxTJxxBearxx

I don't know about you, but when I was in Fargo and Bismarck Mandan last summer I was laughing at all the people with thick accents who kept insisting that they didn't have an accent (No I wasn't laughing directly at them-just to myself)

[rizdraver]

I thought the funniest thing she kept on saying was "about", lol. Very glaring accent in that word. That pronunciation stretches from North Dakota to Wisconsin.

[ohso41]

@rizdraver

yes it does- also the U.P of Michigan too.

[justahotfriend]

i love bills laugh

[umeskiz]

This is great you guys! I loved this!

[ZekPatterson]

I'm from North Dakota, and yeah, I notice the accents. I do my best to conceal it.

[mairs20]

i dont see an accent here, lol that might be because i live in ND, i pronounced Dagger like that.

[ajheart06]

yeah, i don't know what's funny lol but i am also from NoDak, so... lol People in Iowa make fun of the way I say "Bagel"... (Baygul) so it's probably the same thing lol

[mairs20]

@ajheart06 lol its hard to pronounce it bag-ul lol bay-gul is the only way to say it lol im in nd

[malotor]

bAG

[mewesbrian]

Pfffft. I live in Fargo. We talk awesome.

[specialedd13]

@mewesbrian pffft,i live in bismarck...we talk the same

[kazoopilot]

Daygger. It's not just North Dakota, people from Minnesota and Wisconsin say it the same way. Not to make fun of her, I love Upper Midwest accents.

[holysab7]

what he laughing at...?

[trekkie2006]

i live in North Dakota and can honestly say that there are people who talk like that. i am one of them. well, sometimes haha.

[DrinkSkateSleep]

@trekkie2006 I'm from manitoba so whenever i go through north dakota i can instantly tell the accent difference haha.

[TMAN2012t]

Yeah right no one in ND talks like that, listen to the minesotans they say words like, an nen (and Then) or projec (project)

[buffalojack19]

Fuck this "north dakota" accent. NOBODY TALKS LIKE THAT! Trust me, been here my whole life. ;)

[ohso41]

oh yes they do. Everyone from North Dakota that I know has a very strong distinctive accent. Listen to folks from Kansas City or Indianapolis, they have a neutral midwestern accent and newscasters based their accent on those two cities. if you think they sound southern, then YES YOU DO HAVE AN ACCENT

[buffalojack19]

i'm not saying we don't have an accent. everybody has an accent..ours just isn't like extremely Norwegian/Dipshit as everybody just assumes lol

[ohso41]

Actually some are as extreme. What's laughable is everyone in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin insist they don't have an accent and are ready to dismiss others from "the deep south" of Omaha and Des Moines as sounding "southern" when in actuality those are considered the neutral accents (as well as those from Indianapolis and Kansas City) oh and if you think I'm from those areas I'm not I'm from the North East therefore I'm probably the most objective of all.

[ajgolfer1]

@ohso41 my father insists that people from the deep south of Aberdeen SD have a southern accent.

[ohso41]

@ajgolfer1

I was just in North Dakota and MInnesota back in August- I can truly say the accent is very strong-- even in the Twin Cities- I noticed a similar accent in South Dakota- it wasn't quite as strong but was still noticeable. In Iowa the accent moderates and becomes midwestern neutral. Even in the Kansas City area those with a drawl are acturally transplants from the Ozarks. Most locals have a a fairly neutral accent. I was also in Wichita Kansas where I noticed a subtle twang.