Midwest people HAVE accents!

[423musicfan]

You live in the west coast not the midwest lol

[Whitney3797]

Lol, I was cracking up.

[TheHeyyItsJayde]

lol this is hilarious because its so true!!! im from southern illinois and i had to pay really close attention to hear what you were saying. i love ur accent!!

[whittyb3]

you're hot.

[CrustyClown11]

I have lived in Kansas, and there actually are accents there. Its kind of... twangy? i guess is the word. anywho, everyone has an accent.

[TaylorMarie831]

@CrustyClown11 I agree with the twangy!!! I am from southwest Kansas, moved to central Kansas, and I always get told I have a southern or twangy accent!

[kaydenmae69]

mmm. you're yummy...

[FFDucksoup]

I know right? I hate when people here in Colorado say they don't have an accent. Everyone has an accent.

[whoadavie]

"taught like tater tots"?? lmao!!! :D

[ArathBenedek]

02:45. A lot of people from the Western states have what is called the cot-caught merger.

[phillips1990702]

35 seconds. If you don't get it, then you don't listen to Tom Leykis. 

[TEB368]

My ex girlfriend lived in New Jersey and I didn't like the Jersey/New York accent when I visited. It's most likely my least favorite accent.

[Subzzero93]

Im from Cleveland and I think we have accents, our As and Os are very different kind of like what u described so i don't know what Swishagirl216 is talking about

[gaychristiandude]

I love ur accent!!!!! I'm trying to say 'taught' like you but it sounds weird lol it comes out like tote lol my mom gets on to me about how I say 'boil' and 'bowl' lol p.s. born in texas, raised in florida

[RodTalon0000]

Very cute ;)

[Swishagirl216]

Aye im from the midwest & i dont have no accent. Cleveland baby!

[Sorcerer8605]

That's ridiculous. Everyone has an accent. We all just have different KINDS of accents. Without them, we'd be mimes. :-)

I'm from Indiana. We say "tot" instead of "taught", I guess, but also something in between "walk" and "wok," "park" instead of "pok," and (yes) "pop" instead of soda (usually).

[coolvidcritc98]

I don't know what a accent those people where speaking, but it's not a mid-western, we don't say tot, we say taught, we don't say pock, we say park. The Mid-Western accent is know as standard american because it is the simplest and clearest. BTW if you ever go to Illinois, Michigan, Wisconcin etc. we don't say soda we say POP. I know other people say soda, but to mid-westerners soda sounds weird lol, our slang is very different than the rest of the country

[hobbler365]

@coolvidcritc98 It isn't simpler or clearer. It just covers a huge area (and used to cover a bigger area) and a huge population. Midwest and Western accents are very similar, meaning there's a big chunk of the population that can easily understand the accent.

[italianopita16]

hahahahhaha "learn how to speaking english properly!" hahahahahha i love some of the comments on here

[llHyRaXll]

wow you sound retarded learn how to speaking english properly you sound like a disabled person

[italianopita16]

hahah thanku for owning ur accent raynbowlover!!!

[raynbowlover]

<-- Minnesota bitch right here, in denile. Just saying!

[JDwelle605]

LOLOL New mexico isnt midwest, dude.

[TheNonsubscribable]

I have no accent.

[hobbler365]

@TheNonsubscribable false

[TheGoodStuff2010]

At least you said Illinoi(s) right. lol

[msdeathbatify]

your from jersey? never wudda guessed.

-wisconsin rep. and we talk beautifullyyy :)

[Blackout9193]

without knowing where u from I know ur from Newyork or sumwhere out east by da way u talk...Im from chicago n I pick up other accents easily...

[VASINGER]

The East Coast accents are not all equal.Im from Virginia and I definitely dont talk fast at all. Most people think Virginians talk slower than the rest of the country. I have a hard time understanding people from New York and New Jersey. But the East Coast is huge. It stretches from Maine to Florida.

[TheBrandonKoth]

you sir.. are a retard minnesota is midwest and so is wisconsin, colorado.. not so much?

[sillyjontag321]

@TheBrandonKoth haha i know!? i always thought MI,MN,WI, IL, IA,ID, and maybe OH are the Midwest but someone tried to tell me that Arkansas is the Midwest too? I was like huhh?? lol

[TheBrandonKoth]

you sir.. are a retard

[jmsilvsubtitles]

As a foreigner, I believe everybody has an accent, but broadcast English, or General American, an accent more connected to the Midwestern one is the preferred one. That's the one I try to teach to people, but I have to try to understand everybody since I do movie subtitles. Some people are very hard to understand sometimes not because of the accent, but because of bad diction. your diction is great.

[lolhaleyhill]

I live in Kansas City, and we really don't have accents... Not southern ones, at least.

[ohso41]

@lolhaleyhill

I agree, Kansas City is probably the most "neutral" of the midwest accents

[MK212074]

you say taught like twought.

[MK212074]

I hate eastern accents. frickin annoying.

[skiptonius]

You can totally tell that you are originally from the Northeast. :-)

[italianopita16]

nosir i believe you are referring to the new yorker accent!!!!!!! not mine. we pronounce our R's! lol

[Piano81819]

you pronounce your Rs like Ws. It sounds like baby talk to me. hands down the most annoying accent in the country...

[italianopita16]

@shreve99: funny you said that you understand northeastern accents better, ive actually heard a few times that i have a "creole" sounding accent hahaha

[shreve99]

You are right. EVERYONE has an accent! I'm from Louisiana and my ex bf was from Iowa. It took me a while to understand him...and even though I have a Louisiana accent, he understood me better than I did him for a long time! Strange as it may seem, I understand the northeastern accents better than I do the midwest.

[blahk04]

I'm from Chicago, I took an accent test and the result was - "neutral, you do not have a regional accent, you speak all around American English."

[MNTWINSnVIKESnWild]

sorry, colorado is not part of the midwest!!

[IcyHot311]

Oh and....Colorado is not a part of the midwest.EVERYONE Illinois,Indiana, Iowa,Kansas,Michigan,Minnesota­,Missouri,Nebraska,North Dakota,Ohio,South Dakota,Wisconson are midwestern states. And amoung those states there are a wide variety of accents...so really the "midwestern accent" can be a lot of different ones.

[IcyHot311]

EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT(:

[IcyHot311]

I live in Ohio so we are at the northeastern part of the Midwest. I live in Cincinnati....we don't have Chicago accents....the Chi CAH go. We don't have southern accents..... and we don't have Minesoooota or canadian accents. haha where I live, everyone has hmm how to describe it...everyone talks just like people in California do. Very, I don't want to say average...because really it depends on what you view average. Just kind of plain. We don't put much emphasis on our words or anything.

[murderapolis612]

denvers not in the midwest. i realized after watching this that jersey accents sound alot like deaf peoples way of speaking

[MrMisterdump]

Should probably learn the definition of the word accent for starters, it's impossible not to have one.

[1993MovieMan]

@MrMisterdump Unless you`re , like , mute !

[nlclmnt]

Since when is Colorado the midwest?

[italianopita16]

you should make a response video so we can hear you!

[vidvewer35]

We don't sound like that in Milwaukee.

[2014sportsgirl]

Colorado is not midwest. Midwest is minnesota, wisconsin, the dakota's, etc

[italianopita16]

hahahahahahahahha

[badgernation74]

Pretty good on walk/wok and taught/tot. We do talk that way, but I'm not getting called out by a dude who waxes his eyebrows that much

[koolkroth1]

this is pretty gay

[sblwarrior75]

Colorado is not the Midwest, they are considered "Mountain" or "West," and their accent is different from the Midwest

[horsegurlcrazy14]

Haha, I'm from WI, and I say "walk, taught, and park" like you demonstrated, but the other words I say differently then your demonstration....so I guess it just depends.

[crosbyesmio1]

Easterners add the "aw" sound to words and its annoying. I'm from Kansas and say things how they are spelt. that is all i'm saying

[MusicGroup13]

Wtf noo. Im from WI

[daltiepoo]

I admit to having an accent, but South Dakota is really like that... at least where I live.

[Bottcity51]

dude Colorado isn't even in the Midwest, go to somewhere that is actually in the Midwest and you'll find that they don't talk like that!

[mrgtjke]

@Bottcity51 I'm from Australia, but moved to Kansas City, and people here do talk like that. Metcalf Rd is commonly pronounced like he was saying, like there is no 'l'.

[HardKore5250]

How is Colorado?

[JetHawk]

I have a midwest female as a roommate. And she sounds much different from CA girls. Once I lived with her for a week, I can start to hear the accent.

[redsugar18whitney]

Hahahaha Arvada!!!! Woot ;)

That is how we pronounce it. Or mountains...we dont pronounce the "t" you'll notice.

Moun'n.

Born and raised.

[LZ08]

Thank you so much for making this video! I'm from the East Coast as well and I can't stand Midwestern accents, especially how they don't differentiate the words caught and cot, taught and tot, etc! It sounds moronic to me, You have a strong Jersey accent but I prefer it 100 times more than any sort of Midwest accent.

[Hipcubbiesfan80]

@LZ08 An east coaster calling someones accent annoying and moronic, ah the irony. Btw there's no "o" in Jersey. How anyone could pronouce it as "Joisy" is completely ridiculous.

[southchicago87]

Your're right. Midwesterners do have various accents depending on what part of the Midwest they're from. But get your geography straight and learn the difference between the Southwest and the Midwest. Being from the Capitol Of The Midwest: Chicago, I can't help but be annoyed by someone referring to Colorado as "The Midwest". IT"S NOT! Get it straight! Lest I lump you in with the people in Georgia, the people in the Carolinas and all the others hillbillies living on the East Coast.

[southchicago87]

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska are the Midwestern States. It's up for debate whether or not the Dakotas are part of the Midwest. And no Oklahoma and Arkansas are not Midwestern States but Colorado certainly is not. It is a Southwestern State. And I don't wanna hear any bullshit about how it's all "Western". If that's true than Georgia and the Carolinas are the same as New York and New Jersey cause they're all on the "East Coast".

[southchicago87]

Alright, just so you know Denver and Colorado are not the Midwest. COLORADO IS IN THE SOUTHWEST NOT THE MIDWEST! OK! The American Midwest used to be just The West. Over time as America grew it became the middle part of America but was still considered "western" by the centers of power and population in the Norteast. Hence it became known as the "Middle-West" or Midwest for short. 

[Hbh128]

Well it's certainly not how people in Ames Iowa sound. I know I live in the midwest, but I maintain my opinion that central Iowans have no accent.

[mcbutter1998]

Some words I say come out sounding southern and I live in the southern part of northen illnois haha If tht makes sense

[BrunoEdwin]

I'm from Wisconsin, and the funny thing is that when I watch TV, I think everyone sounds just like me, but I was told that we sound really nasally. Ha!

[animegirl506]

@BrunoEdwin

you do

especially Wisconsin/Dakotas...

[italianopita16]

hahahahah forreal!!!? thank you! yeah, it's not a bad accent, but it's definitely there! haahah!

[NiKKiBSEXCii]

I live in st.louis missouri, ( midwest )

& Yes we have accents. It's sortof country :p

I don't like to admit it, because people assume

i'm from the south. But anyways, yer..you nailed how

midwestern talk.

[mwsonline]

@NiKKiBSEXCii im from STL too and i hate the way i talk. i think midwest people say we dont have accents because the majority of america speaks that way..

[thefuzzyducky1]

@NiKKiBSEXCii you guys don't have a country accent trust me I lived in Missouri for 6 years coming from california. you guys just say vowels differently

[killerofhope]

I don't sound like this.

[sk8nboomer900]

@killerofhope who cares?

[emagneticboy97]

lol good observations. I'm from Illinois and I say "tot" but never thought about it till now

[MaStErPhReSh333]

i do not talk like this, u just dont

[Larielle]

Well... they do in Colorado and DEFINITELY in NJ, but we in Ohio (which is still considered midwest) have no accent... we talk exactly like they do on TV. Broadcast schools try to TEACH people to talk like us.

[rizdraver]

@Larielle

A large portion of Ohio has a slight drawl/twang, with the southern sections bordering Kentucky having very thick drawls. And then in Cleveland you have a strong Northern Inland accent (cross between a Chicago and New York accent). I would definitely disagree with you that Ohio does not have an accent. The news instructs people to talk with a Northern Midland dialect (Nebraska, Missouri, etc). EVERYBODY thinks they talk like on the news. I hear the same thing from my Wisconsin family.

[irkofan]

I'm from the Midwest (Indiana) and I agree that we have accents, though not the same as those folks in Colorado. As with any 'region' within the US (or any country, for that matter) you have folks who have differing accents within an accent . . . if that makes sense. I think that some Midwesterners think that they have a lack of accent due to the Midwest dialect being the type primarily used in newscasts and radio reports. But, I live in Louisiana now and I can honestly say, we have an accent

[alton06]

omg dude that is how we talk...lol im from southern illinois...and thas how we talk....kinda

[alton06]

omg dude that is how we talk...lol im from southern illinois...and thas how we talk....kinda

[italianopita16]

thank you very much! lol

[ssips720]

omg u hav an extraordinary face

[italianopita16]

hahahaah thats funny that you couldn't tell his accent! i think english and aussie's do sound pretty similar...well, i only know what aussie's sound like b/c of you, nicole kidman, and that animal guy steve who used to be on discovery channel lol

[ThisIsMeMPL]

"what country you from!?" and he was like "AUSTRALIA!".

 because after working and talking with allot of other different peoples i didn't rec the Aussie accent lol its funny as they sound English. least now i know why some of my american friends think i sound English lol

[ThisIsMeMPL]

we all have funny accents lol ive been doing charity work around QLD and working with different people with different backgrounds and nationalities not only that but meeting allot of back packers and. and when i was working i met a aussie guy and i was like