Between Grand rapids and Holland? I bet our home towns are the same or very close to each other. And yeah i've been in the Army for close to a year and i get called out for my accent every single day lol.
This isn't representative of West Michigan 'accents', rural, city or suburb. Hmmm, "small town between Grand Rapids and Holland"? I'd guess Grandville, Hudsonville, maybe Zeeland. The small town South of Grand Rapids?? That could be any of a number of towns, Wayland, Ionia, Allegan, Kentwood, Hastings, Plainwell or maybe Fennville. Besides, we don't have accents...well, except for the Yoopers and they sound more like Cajun's. Trust me, I live in Holland & I'm married to a Cajun.
I agree, Michigan accent all the way. We DO speak very fast, I get that ALL the time (I live in Louisiana now, and for the pat 3-4 years). The only thing I disagree with is the end... I'm from Jackson, MI and we're not that polite there. :P This video makes me homesick..
"The gayness might be interfering slightly with how I talk" - You really cracked me up with that line. To be honest, I was wondering about that from the start. Good to know my gaydar seems to be functioning rather properly, just in case I lose my interest in women ;-)
So yeah, I'm kinda looking into the Michigan accent and let me tell you - being a German - it's reeeaaally hard to differenciate the tons of unique accents from all over the U.S. not being a native speaker. Nice video, thank you!
I just did an accent tag video just a few minutes ago. I'm from Grand Rapids and one time I was on an atheist video chat room and someone asked me if I was from Grand Rapids and I said "yes" and her response was "I can tell, people from GR have an accent" and I was like "oh really?" I am wondering if people from GR have a distinctive accent from the rest of W. Michigan or Michigan entirely.
@volcomelijah I NEVER comment on youtube videos, because I think that everyone who does so nastily is just an idiot looking for attention. DING DING DING. You got it. I DON'T EVEN USE THE WORD OFFENDED, but that's how I feel. I hope you rot in a dirty little prostitute hole for saying those mean things to someone you don't even know. How dare you?
Anyways, I'm also from west Michigan, and I definitely can hear the similarities. =)
im from eastern michigan and let me tell you, we do sound like that we just don't own up to it. ours is probably more tinged with a bit of canadian though and i have had one person from manitoba say i sounded like i was from the south. go figure.
I'm from West Michigan as well, so we sound similar. My legitimate question is, I do not mean this derogatory, but what IS the gay accent? Why do gay men speak differently just because of their sexual orientation? I've never understood that.
hi i stumbled upon your video.. im a senior in high school in Maryland and i am considering going to Hope College lol so i thought it was such a huge coinkidink that you are from Western Michigan and studying in Virginia... lol really not that random considering i was the one who clicked on the video titled Michigan Accent! lol well yea im just kind of testing the internet waters to see if i would be ok going to college so far away.. you dont sound crazy to me lol idk i know a lot of crazies X3
@ic3sk83r I was thinking the same thing. I'm from Toledo so its as close to MI as your gonna get lol. I live a block away from the border. We sound the same. North OH definitely sounds different than South too. Been to Columbus and Cincy and ppl sound a little different. I loved how to MI accent is how I talk.
Yes, you do have a classic Michigan Troll accent. It is far from being a Yooper accent, though. I do have to agree that we do sound somewhat like Canadians but with more of a nasally Upper Midwest undertone.
Things are definately produced in Michigan. It is called "agriculture". Look it up and see what there is in Michigan. There is a lot of agriculture up there.
I'm not sure if I agree with you because I am an eastern Mich person and you don't sound different to me. I was however accused of being Canadian by people in Vegas.... quite a few people in fact... I think Michigan people tend to say... I work a Fords... I and going to Pennys to shop. I used to shop at Hudsons.... I heard other states don't do this....
I am from Flint, and don't think you are crazy. Just listening I can subtle differences between your accent and my own. Your accent is definitely more Canadian. This is a neat way to look at the people of Michigan:)
@daneslord Actually, elijah's pretty good with DRUMS (not guitar). It kind of scares me to think that a "Law Student" such as you claim yourself to be (coughs) would have the kind of character to insult, my, my, a 14 year old? (Beside the point, however I wouldn't like you as my defense attorney) Let's try and think before we say anything something.... stupid. Ok?
@carrotsRgood4you ummm, I'm sorry, but even at age 14, he had it coming to him. He should be old enough to know better. (hopefully!) ^_^' However, how daneslord handled him wasn't mature either.... D:
On a side note:
(Although, I admit, "pasty-butt-son-of-a-mother" was quite humorous for an insult!) haha XD
I'd totally laugh if that was said to me! (Maybe I'm not getting the negativeness of this expression?) *naive* X'D
How can someone sound like Canadians AND Sarah Palin? We sound nothing alike! Yoopers sound a bit more like us than other people in the region, but that kind of accent you only find out in western Ontario. We sound little like Midwesterners.
high five for belonging to the Michigans top export (young people) club! I'm from Northern West Michigan and work in WV and Texas. Nobody every says anything to me about my accent, but I know I am effected by the northern cities vowel shift.
I am a born and raised Michigander and you sound like you are from Michigan! But I do agree that some people from Michigan do sound a little different from other Michiganders. It is interesting. I do think your accent is just like mine. I'm from like southwest Michigan, so in terms of east and west I do consider myself to be west.
listened to your accent, sounded like Michigan, I liked the KY comment, I am just relocated from Michigan to Ky, I have a hard time understanding them all the time and visa versa. No gay marks. Only one. I am gay too (lesbian) from my partner and I in KY; Merry Christmas
@Dan0fTheDead7892 Yeah, I totally get that. I mean, this is how people are supposed to talk! lol. So where in GR do you live? My Parents live inbetween Wyoming and Byron Center, so more South of the City now.
I don't know if you realize this or not but there is actually more than one accent in the entire state of Michigan. You're certainly not a Yooper just by the sound of your accent.
@fixedgearforlife that is true about the UP being different, but i think he means non-UP accent (most of the population of MI is not in the UP). I live in Ann Arbor and this sounds pretty similar.
@brokev03 Personally I think the U.P. should be its own state. Back in the 1800's the government was considering the U.P. and part of Northern Wisconsin its own state: Superior. I don't know why but for some reason it just never happened. I grew up in the U.P. and I hate how people associate me with people from Detroit.
@fixedgearforlife yes! I think most of Michigan would prefer not to be associated with that sinkhole. At least I know I don't want to be anywhere near it.
@fixedgearforlife Detroit Deff reppresents michigan as a whole. doesnt matter where you are in the us if they find out you from michigan they ask you bout detroit .
@fixedgearforlife: Also a yooper. Totally understand. It is extremely rude to even bring someone's accent up, it only serves to make that person uncomfortable. Not appropriate for a conversation piece lol
Keweenaw's copper mining slowed down after WWI, same with the iron ore in western counties and N. Wisconsin. No substantial income of their own, they rely on the state in many instances (not all). Calumet was considered for the state capitol but Lansing beat them out.
Are you from Sagatuck, MI ( AKA Sausage Tuck)? I would have to agree my rainbow buddy here. Though don't fly the rainbow flag and most of West Michigan doesn't either which might also be part of the reason you left. And yeah a little bit of your accent is probably because you are gay. I am a Grand Rapids, MI native and you are right. West Michigan is a lot different than East Michigan and we speak a littIe different. I now live in Colorado. All my friends think I have accent, its crazy.
@1776AmericanWarrior lol....no. Jenison and Watervliet. I know where "Soggy-f*ck" is though. Great dunes. Don't fly the rainbow flag myself....I'd rather go hunting than clubbing. (unless it's baby seals). lol. Just remember, West Michigan is God's own Country...we don't have an accent, everyone else does.
oh yeah, more of a comment might be nice huh.. ann arbor 'gay guy' here.. i can hear your accent but it's not too bad imo. My parents are a lot worse and Sarah Palin.. is like Michigan times 10.. what is up with that? the first time i heard her i thought she was from the midwest
@brianestoll LOL. Sarah Palin is from like Idaho and Alaska... so that explains (most of) that. My mom and dad have pretty strong accents as well...I'll try and post a video of one of them at some point.
I would disagree to the severity of difference you describe. I can hear a little difference, as in words like "so", you have that longer "oh" sound, but the nasal tones are the same. Nevertheless, it's great to hear a Western Michigan representative! I think sometimes we in the East get more attention because of Detroit and Lansing, and that's not fair. Good luck with law school!
Between Grand rapids and Holland? I bet our home towns are the same or very close to each other. And yeah i've been in the Army for close to a year and i get called out for my accent every single day lol.
Americanpatriot777 5 days ago
i have a little bit of accent
246hollister 1 week ago
This isn't representative of West Michigan 'accents', rural, city or suburb. Hmmm, "small town between Grand Rapids and Holland"? I'd guess Grandville, Hudsonville, maybe Zeeland. The small town South of Grand Rapids?? That could be any of a number of towns, Wayland, Ionia, Allegan, Kentwood, Hastings, Plainwell or maybe Fennville. Besides, we don't have accents...well, except for the Yoopers and they sound more like Cajun's. Trust me, I live in Holland & I'm married to a Cajun.
OlSkoolBiker1369 1 week ago
You have that southern-gay accent
Just10tb 1 week ago
Has the "you guys" thing down but sounds more Nordic than where I lived in SE Michigan. "Reel-y" -- not Michigan by my ears.
mariannamouse 2 weeks ago
It' the subway guy...
PieceofMindmusic 3 weeks ago
Wait, are you from Kalamazoo?
monkeystix231 4 weeks ago
I agree, Michigan accent all the way. We DO speak very fast, I get that ALL the time (I live in Louisiana now, and for the pat 3-4 years). The only thing I disagree with is the end... I'm from Jackson, MI and we're not that polite there. :P This video makes me homesick..
usafangel176 1 month ago
I love the "anywho" in the East we don't say that a lot :)
jesiegirl8888 1 month ago
ANYHOO... LOL
warflynn 1 month ago
Also, I know my last comment had no correct grammar. It was to prove a point!
Holly3418 1 month ago
You say UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM way to much! Don't go to court speaking like an r-tard!
Holly3418 1 month ago
You totally have a West. MI accent! After moving away from W. MI, I can tell the difference between W. and S.E. MI accents (and N. MI accents, too!)
ammonitelight 1 month ago
"The gayness might be interfering slightly with how I talk" - You really cracked me up with that line. To be honest, I was wondering about that from the start. Good to know my gaydar seems to be functioning rather properly, just in case I lose my interest in women ;-)
So yeah, I'm kinda looking into the Michigan accent and let me tell you - being a German - it's reeeaaally hard to differenciate the tons of unique accents from all over the U.S. not being a native speaker. Nice video, thank you!
CalamityCain 1 month ago
I just did an accent tag video just a few minutes ago. I'm from Grand Rapids and one time I was on an atheist video chat room and someone asked me if I was from Grand Rapids and I said "yes" and her response was "I can tell, people from GR have an accent" and I was like "oh really?" I am wondering if people from GR have a distinctive accent from the rest of W. Michigan or Michigan entirely.
WeatherMondacicci 1 month ago
@WeatherMondacicci people from GR have an accent? this is news to me!!!
iamalovablegeek 1 month ago
@volcomelijah I NEVER comment on youtube videos, because I think that everyone who does so nastily is just an idiot looking for attention. DING DING DING. You got it. I DON'T EVEN USE THE WORD OFFENDED, but that's how I feel. I hope you rot in a dirty little prostitute hole for saying those mean things to someone you don't even know. How dare you?
Anyways, I'm also from west Michigan, and I definitely can hear the similarities. =)
bellydancechika 1 month ago
I'm from southeastern Michigan near Detroit, and down here we talk faster and slur our words more.
abcmikke 1 month ago
im from eastern michigan and let me tell you, we do sound like that we just don't own up to it. ours is probably more tinged with a bit of canadian though and i have had one person from manitoba say i sounded like i was from the south. go figure.
auntbecky 2 months ago
"You people from eastern Michigan sound like me but less so"....Less so ?
I just don't understand that moronic statement. WTF, please.
gblueslover2 2 months ago
You're cute <3
kejikujjo 2 months ago
I liked Phil the Giants version of this.
chewybananas5 2 months ago
are you kidding? you make michigan look/sound like we are all gay. you are NOT representative of michigan.
patsht122 2 months ago
@patsht122 neither are you, dear. we aren't all homophobes like you.
auntbecky 2 months ago
I'm from West Michigan as well, so we sound similar. My legitimate question is, I do not mean this derogatory, but what IS the gay accent? Why do gay men speak differently just because of their sexual orientation? I've never understood that.
obriekat 2 months ago
hi i stumbled upon your video.. im a senior in high school in Maryland and i am considering going to Hope College lol so i thought it was such a huge coinkidink that you are from Western Michigan and studying in Virginia... lol really not that random considering i was the one who clicked on the video titled Michigan Accent! lol well yea im just kind of testing the internet waters to see if i would be ok going to college so far away.. you dont sound crazy to me lol idk i know a lot of crazies X3
whatsherfacegal 2 months ago
Easiest questions to ask...1)"You's Guys" or "You Guys"? 2).. Pop or Soda or Coke?
TheRabidrage 2 months ago
@TheRabidrage You guys, and pop.
angel17539 2 months ago
You sound just like I do, and I'm from Cleveland, OH. I wonder if Michigan is similar to Ohio accents... since they are so close ! lol
ic3sk83r 3 months ago
@ic3sk83r I was thinking the same thing. I'm from Toledo so its as close to MI as your gonna get lol. I live a block away from the border. We sound the same. North OH definitely sounds different than South too. Been to Columbus and Cincy and ppl sound a little different. I loved how to MI accent is how I talk.
thomasmu15 2 months ago
@thomasmu15 I love Toledo....Tony Pacos...Mud Hens.....Lots of Tiger fans.....
CheckM8King2 2 months ago
It sounds just like your typical American accent to me. But just like minnesota, i hear a slight canadian twang.
kylem1112 3 months ago
Yes, you do have a classic Michigan Troll accent. It is far from being a Yooper accent, though. I do have to agree that we do sound somewhat like Canadians but with more of a nasally Upper Midwest undertone.
BluYooper 3 months ago
i'm from da up and you dont sound different?
222kwatson 4 months ago
What small towns are you from in W Michigan? I live in Marne which borders Grand Rapids to the west.
30129ss 4 months ago
im from the thumb and everyone tells me i sound alaskan or canadian lol and why do we michiganders speed-talk?
kevb927 4 months ago
It seems like michiganders can talk faster or something haha
ShanaeEskimoFace 4 months ago
i could totally hear it when u said anywho
mirandaallisonwentz 4 months ago
Things are definately produced in Michigan. It is called "agriculture". Look it up and see what there is in Michigan. There is a lot of agriculture up there.
awmialnldiaams 5 months ago
he sounds like he has a gay accent, or at least not from metro detroit
kingback19 5 months ago
@kingback19 answered my post lol..nevermind. and i feel your pain about law school
kingback19 5 months ago
I'm not sure if I agree with you because I am an eastern Mich person and you don't sound different to me. I was however accused of being Canadian by people in Vegas.... quite a few people in fact... I think Michigan people tend to say... I work a Fords... I and going to Pennys to shop. I used to shop at Hudsons.... I heard other states don't do this....
TheDianne2us 6 months ago
You don't have an accent. I was expecting something sharp and abrasive.
Heavenlyrest 7 months ago
I am from Flint, and don't think you are crazy. Just listening I can subtle differences between your accent and my own. Your accent is definitely more Canadian. This is a neat way to look at the people of Michigan:)
justin07teach 7 months ago
@justin07teach of course Flint does have many urban contributions to the Michigan Accent, words probably not in use in the rural areas of the state.
justin07teach 7 months ago
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justin07teach 7 months ago
'Nothing really gets produced in Michigan anymore'
Lmfao xD I live like 40 minutes outside of Detroit, and I think we sound pretty similar :3
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you are a disgrace to the human race , homo . Get out of virginia and go back to michigan where fags are welcome
volcomelijah 7 months ago
@volcomelijah I took at look at the video of you playing the guitar and I have two observations
(1) you really are a pasty-butt-son-of-a-mother aren't you, and
(2) you're quite terrible at the guitar. Like, my epileptic brother is better than you are. Mid seizure.
daneslord 7 months ago 3
@daneslord Actually, elijah's pretty good with DRUMS (not guitar). It kind of scares me to think that a "Law Student" such as you claim yourself to be (coughs) would have the kind of character to insult, my, my, a 14 year old? (Beside the point, however I wouldn't like you as my defense attorney) Let's try and think before we say anything something.... stupid. Ok?
carrotsRgood4you 3 months ago
@carrotsRgood4you ummm, I'm sorry, but even at age 14, he had it coming to him. He should be old enough to know better. (hopefully!) ^_^' However, how daneslord handled him wasn't mature either.... D:
On a side note:
(Although, I admit, "pasty-butt-son-of-a-mother" was quite humorous for an insult!) haha XD
I'd totally laugh if that was said to me! (Maybe I'm not getting the negativeness of this expression?) *naive* X'D
KryztalKitsu 3 months ago
@volcomelijah
uhm...last time i'd check Michigan wasn't to welcoming of "fags" either, people their are just as homophobic as your being.
itstylertriplett 7 months ago
@volcomelijah you can go to hell stop making fun of people on the internet. Too scared to in real life so piss off
Ipodhacker000 7 months ago
How can someone sound like Canadians AND Sarah Palin? We sound nothing alike! Yoopers sound a bit more like us than other people in the region, but that kind of accent you only find out in western Ontario. We sound little like Midwesterners.
ajoajoajoaj 8 months ago
high five for belonging to the Michigans top export (young people) club! I'm from Northern West Michigan and work in WV and Texas. Nobody every says anything to me about my accent, but I know I am effected by the northern cities vowel shift.
lengthyounarther 8 months ago
You definitely sound more like Sarah Palin than Eastern Michiganders. Go Virginia!!!
ElGuamesIrlandes 9 months ago
I am a born and raised Michigander and you sound like you are from Michigan! But I do agree that some people from Michigan do sound a little different from other Michiganders. It is interesting. I do think your accent is just like mine. I'm from like southwest Michigan, so in terms of east and west I do consider myself to be west.
LittleLotte1410 9 months ago
I'm from Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo..
We sound completely alike!
TheKilak 9 months ago
Huggge Difference!!!
TheKilak 9 months ago
i wouldnt have never guessed you were from michigan im a easterner.
wiseGUY1288 10 months ago
I was born, raised, and educated in the U.P. (NMU!). This has me wondering if I have the Yooper accent.
piaffeprincess 10 months ago
Weird. I live in jackson michigan- i didnt know we had accents?! weird....:P
AlysonRogers99 10 months ago
Ur not a Yooper eiter eh?
poikaa3 11 months ago
@poikaa3 no, not a yooper. Although I have spent time up in Ishpeming
daneslord 11 months ago
listened to your accent, sounded like Michigan, I liked the KY comment, I am just relocated from Michigan to Ky, I have a hard time understanding them all the time and visa versa. No gay marks. Only one. I am gay too (lesbian) from my partner and I in KY; Merry Christmas
ldytamera 2 months ago
Dude, you don't have a Michigan accent at all. Fast talkers are from out east.
CMink7777 1 year ago
@CMink7777 lol...Midwesterners talk fast too....
daneslord 1 year ago 3
@CMink7777 michiganders talk really fast on average. trust me.
Brettwbeyer14 11 months ago
@CMink7777 I don't know about other areas in Michigan, but South Eastern Michiganders are crazy fast talkers.
NotReallyThatBritish 1 month ago
@NotReallyThatBritish We are?
jackthefrenchguy 1 month ago
@daneslord I actually just moved from that area. I'm in Kentwood now.
Dan0fTheDead7892 1 year ago
@Dan0fTheDead7892 Cool! Kentwood isn't bad, I have loads of friends who live right next to East Kentwood Highschool.
daneslord 1 year ago
Ive lived in Grand Rapids for the past 11 years. I feel that I talk normally and it's the rest of the world that has an accent.
Dan0fTheDead7892 1 year ago
@Dan0fTheDead7892 Yeah, I totally get that. I mean, this is how people are supposed to talk! lol. So where in GR do you live? My Parents live inbetween Wyoming and Byron Center, so more South of the City now.
daneslord 1 year ago
I don't know if you realize this or not but there is actually more than one accent in the entire state of Michigan. You're certainly not a Yooper just by the sound of your accent.
fixedgearforlife 1 year ago
@fixedgearforlife that is true about the UP being different, but i think he means non-UP accent (most of the population of MI is not in the UP). I live in Ann Arbor and this sounds pretty similar.
brokev03 1 year ago
@brokev03 Personally I think the U.P. should be its own state. Back in the 1800's the government was considering the U.P. and part of Northern Wisconsin its own state: Superior. I don't know why but for some reason it just never happened. I grew up in the U.P. and I hate how people associate me with people from Detroit.
fixedgearforlife 1 year ago
@fixedgearforlife yes! I think most of Michigan would prefer not to be associated with that sinkhole. At least I know I don't want to be anywhere near it.
daneslord 1 year ago
@daneslord: Do explain why my home is a sinkhole.
TheOwlkin 6 months ago
@fixedgearforlife Detroit Deff reppresents michigan as a whole. doesnt matter where you are in the us if they find out you from michigan they ask you bout detroit .
wiseGUY1288 10 months ago
@fixedgearforlife: Also a yooper. Totally understand. It is extremely rude to even bring someone's accent up, it only serves to make that person uncomfortable. Not appropriate for a conversation piece lol
Keweenaw's copper mining slowed down after WWI, same with the iron ore in western counties and N. Wisconsin. No substantial income of their own, they rely on the state in many instances (not all). Calumet was considered for the state capitol but Lansing beat them out.
TheOwlkin 6 months ago
You and my aunt have the same accent.
GeneralNerd 1 year ago
@GeneralNerd your aunt sounds like a quality woman, then
daneslord 1 year ago
Are you from Sagatuck, MI ( AKA Sausage Tuck)? I would have to agree my rainbow buddy here. Though don't fly the rainbow flag and most of West Michigan doesn't either which might also be part of the reason you left. And yeah a little bit of your accent is probably because you are gay. I am a Grand Rapids, MI native and you are right. West Michigan is a lot different than East Michigan and we speak a littIe different. I now live in Colorado. All my friends think I have accent, its crazy.
1776AmericanWarrior 1 year ago
@1776AmericanWarrior lol....no. Jenison and Watervliet. I know where "Soggy-f*ck" is though. Great dunes. Don't fly the rainbow flag myself....I'd rather go hunting than clubbing. (unless it's baby seals). lol. Just remember, West Michigan is God's own Country...we don't have an accent, everyone else does.
daneslord 1 year ago
oh yeah, more of a comment might be nice huh.. ann arbor 'gay guy' here.. i can hear your accent but it's not too bad imo. My parents are a lot worse and Sarah Palin.. is like Michigan times 10.. what is up with that? the first time i heard her i thought she was from the midwest
brianestoll 1 year ago
@brianestoll LOL. Sarah Palin is from like Idaho and Alaska... so that explains (most of) that. My mom and dad have pretty strong accents as well...I'll try and post a video of one of them at some point.
daneslord 1 year ago
HAHA.. the 'gay accent'.. that's funny (0:
brianestoll 1 year ago
Sounds like "and" is pronounced "ay-nd" all across Michigan.
Shahamu 1 year ago
I would disagree to the severity of difference you describe. I can hear a little difference, as in words like "so", you have that longer "oh" sound, but the nasal tones are the same. Nevertheless, it's great to hear a Western Michigan representative! I think sometimes we in the East get more attention because of Detroit and Lansing, and that's not fair. Good luck with law school!
oracularp 1 year ago