Iowa Accent Talk

[katehatesyou14]

im iowan. [: i didnt think i had an accent either.. when i think of accent i think of like british and all them.. or the cool ones. iowan accent it kind of boring.. but my friend from texas told me that i had a accent.. close to the accent of people that live in minnesota.. and the pop and soda thing is sooooo true. my friend from texas started aruging with me and told me that its pop. xD

[DDCisAWESOME]

Love yur spongebob shirt!

[nicholelovesall]

BigBrightBlueBox: Thank you for saying im cute and that you like my accent. :).

[BigBrightBlueBox]

you're cute, and you didn't bore me to death. I like your accent. Its sweet.

[goofydood]

i live in iowa too! =)

[thesamalal]

i love in iowa. :D

[nicholelovesall]

Frank Nave in english we do use the word like but it aint a bad thing. As long as you dont use it in every single sentence you use.

[nicholelovesall]

Deathbyeteacup I can't really tell the diffrence between an Iowa accent or a Chicago one so we are both on the same boat you know what I mean.

[nicholelovesall]

Hi 2380 Shaw. Hmm I didnt know Michigan people sounded like Iowan's thats pretty cool to know. :) and you seemed to have moved alot of places so you got the gist of what each accent is supposed to sound like.

[2380Shaw]

Hello Nicole,

I used to live in Iowa. I wasn't originally from Iowa. Originally from Michigan, where I use to live until I was 25. When I moved to Iowa I thought everyone sounded the same as everyone in Michigan sounds. I lived in New Zealand for 3 months where they definitely have a different accent. Almost British sounding but don't tell them that lol. I moved back to Iowa last fall to finish college and then moved up to Grand Forks, ND last November for work.

[nicholelovesall]

Thank you "Divarachelenvy" im glad you love my accent.

[divarachelenvy]

awesome hey, im from Australia and i love it xx

[deathbyeteacup]

I enjoyed the video. I live in Iowa as well, and last night I was with some friends in iowa city and ran into some fellow dubuquers that I hadn't seen in a while. and I noticed my one friend now has a chicago accent which is really strange. And they were all telling me I have an Iowa accent. I talk the same as you and have a hard time telling what part of it is different cuz I don't think I have an accent. But everything is relative to what you are used to

[FrankNave]

Among all American English dialects, there is an overuse of the word 'like'. Like is a simile. Like is used as a comparison to something. Unfortunately most Americans under 40 are hooked on the word 'like' as is if it were proper. I am not picking on you, but rather making an educated observation. In addition, throughout the Midwest, the term 'go' is used in place of say or says. If he or she goes, that means they move, not that they say something.

[sunnyforengland]

enjoy it while you can? is some sort of apocalypse on the cards?

[sblwarrior75]

@nicholelovesall what part of Iowa are you from? We don't say crick in my area

[sblwarrior75]

She has the same accent as me, im from northwest Iowa

[nicholelovesall]

and I dont use it to joke around about south western Iowa, haha. Use it like an other word.

[nicholelovesall]

xLivvy212xx Ive lived here all my life and I say crick. My dads half of the family, him, my mom and I say it all the time. Some other people do to. I hate using the word creek. It wont be in my vocab when I talk aloud unless you dont understand what im saying. lol.

[xxLivvy212xx]

lolwut iowans dont usually say "crick"

[MrRyinoyea]

i have never heard in iowan say crik unless they were joking when they said and im from south western iowa

[nicholelovesall]

Hmmm yeahithasahemi I never realized we emphized the i in italian. haha and Avatarskysong How is my accent middle? jw.

[AvatarSkysong]

Iowa has three accents: southern, middle, and north, the north talks more like minnasota, the south has more of a draw and you have a middle accent...lol

[yeahithasahemi]

just passed thru iowa, the two words or three that i heard

were crik, pop and dont forget italian, with the I emphasized

[nicholelovesall]

Welppp thanks for telling me I sound normal thicks2007, but if you come to Iowa we sound like this.

[nicholelovesall]

Welll I say it and im not country, some people really do say crick and im one of them killerofhope.

[killerofhope]

I don't know anyone in my town that says crik instead of creek. I lived in Iowa for 18 years. Only the country people say crik.

[thicks2007]

You sound completely normal to me. But then again i'm from Iowa too.