Michiganders have the same accent as you and everything that you said is the pretty much the same as what you said. Although I tend to call my grandpa "papa."
I am from Michigan and I have noticed that whenever I travel to southern Illinois or further south, I always get called out for being a Michigander. Everyone seems to notice it as soon as I open my mouth, but I have never noticed it being different. I have been called a Michigander in Southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and DC.
Michigan (and other northern) people talk with their noses. Who cares what you call certain things, and who cares if someone calls them different. it's like getting pissed because someone with the same name as you spells it different. Its how they do it. Oh well.
Sweetie your accent is "PURE MICHIGAN" and it's a beautiful thing. I'm from Lansing and we say "pop" and "tennis shoes" too Fuck you soda and sneaker weirdos!!!!
There are other words that she uses as well that are characteristic, but overall she is an excellent example of the Michigan accent, especially that spoken in the suburbs of Detroit. Just listening to her reminds me of sitting at the bar at Miller's on Michigan Avenue in West Dearborn overhearing a conversation while having one of their famous burgers.
I haven't lived in Michigan for 30 years, but having been away so long in other parts of the country and the world, one's ear becomes more sensitive. There words used here that capture the quintessential Michigan accent quite well... "Crayon, Iron, " with an open nasal quality to the "-on" and she says "theater" in a way that sounds very much like the way my relatives in Dearborn would pronounce it.
I wouldn't even say your accent is General American. It's definitely been affected by the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. All of the "a's" in "Salmon", "Alabama" and "aunt" are very high, almost sounding like "Ee-ant" and "See-amon", while "pop" is near to being "pap."
i believe it's coke, grandmother = granny, grandfather = papaw. the correct way to refer to a remote is "clicker." then again, i'm from far western north carolina. i don't hear an accent on you, except when you say POP. which is, apparently, coke?
I call my grandmother mammaww :D It's a southern thing :p but I was born in Florida, most of my family is from Alabama and Kentucky and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
@jadapreteenqueen2009 they do! And they call hunting hats toboggans. Then there's the pocket purse... and the back sack.. it's hard for me to get used to these southerners down here sometimes!
Im from Michigan too, and we had all the same answers. It's interesting to watch people from all over the world do this, their answers are pretty interesting!
i'm from mi (lived here my entire life and probably will die here lol), and i get teased because i say button like buTTin, and my freinds are all like michiganders dont't say there t's and i noticed we dont, i just say my t's in words like button or mitten.. its weird lol
it's a cupon not coopon...lol I live in Virginia and here they call a shopping cart a buggie, and a Grochery Store here in Virginia is called a supermarket, but I was born and raised in Andover, NY. Regaurdless of where someone lives they're going to have an accent for the region they live in. Like in most state they say you all but here in the south it's Ya'll which is most common.
@KryztalKitsu lol i thought "melk" was just the way that people from the thumb said it. Atleast that's how my teacher who was from the thumb said it haha
@ChicanoX3Irish haha idk. I live sort of near the capitol and I think my accent is messed up because sometimes I say words one way and in the next sentence, I'll say it a different way. It's weird!
Like: Yay! I have a koopon. (coupon) Aww, my kyuupon didn't work... Does anyone else do things like that? I can't be the only one, right? lol XD
ooo sometimes I'll say for windmill: winmeal or wim-meal or winmill haha. Where did my d-sound go? haha But I'll say windmill like windmill too. :P
you deffently have an american accent. im canadian and its not to hard to tell. like the way you say aunt. you make it almost whiney like theres an E in it or something and you do that with most other words. hope this helped :)
@338juliane ooo! When I was a kid, my mom would pronounce it the whiney way, and my dad pronounced it "ah-nt". (So naturally, I called aunts on my mom's side with my mom's pronunciation, and aunts on my dad's side with his.) ;)
Do you pronounce "ant" the whiney way or the ah-nt way? :D (I pronounce it the whiney way haha) :)
I'm from Philadelphia and I don't think you have an accent. I have some friends from Michigan and I really can't hear an accent with them. They just say a few words different than I do. I use the same words you do, except I say "soda" and "sneakers."
I'm from Grand Rapids and I moved to Nashville recently and it's upsetting to me that people get really self-conscious about their accents. Regional cultures are great and make everyplace unique, and that's slowly dying. Also, hearing you talk made me a little homesick, so yeah, you have the accent.
Okay. I can tell you have an accent when you talk normally. But this regional dialect meme doesn't really make sense. I know people from boston that say caramel and pecan both ways. Its not a regional thing.
Anyway, its a carriage or a cart. Rolly polly's are called pill bugs. Daddy long legs are apparently called Harvest-men. Its a remote or a clicker. And when it rains while the sun is shining, its called a "sunshower."
omg! do you have a katie braclet on? she went to my school and we were good friends<3 amazing how so many people in michigan knew about it! but, no... we dont have accents. haha:)
totally have a midwestern twang in the way you say your 'ays' got that nasaily 'a' for sure :) I'm from wisconsin and you sound more like a wisconsinite than i do hehe.
totally have a midwestern twang in the way you say your 'ays' got that nasaily 'a' for sure :) I'm from wisconsin and you sound more like a wisconsinite than i do hehe.
Yeahh, I think you have a bit of an accent. just certain things you pronounce like alabama and syrup. I guess it just sounds different to my because I live in the northwest haha.
And Grandma and Grandpa--who calls them something else? Same with remote haha!
LMFAO i love this video ! i am from Michigan & it's so funny because we find that saying pop, grandma and grandpa, remote, kart totally normal but other people find that so weird.. idn haha. but you're funny, love your sarcasm
Everyone has an accent, which should be obvious considering we all don't speak exactly alike. Being from Michigan I have the Midwest accent, which is suppose to be the most acceptable accent I guess...(lack of a better word). Probably the most common way to spot someone from Michigan is seeing if they make two tt's together sound like d's. Like, "little" will sound like "liddle"
It's not /t/ or /d/, it's a whole other phoneme called a "flap" which we don't actually have a letter to represent. That's why "tt" and "dd" sound the same in words...
@thekhanakay930 Interesting factoid, I heard somewhere that a midwestern accent is actually the easiest to understand, which is why most national TV personalities/reporters in the USA have a midwestern accent. There are exceptions here and there, of course.
@JimKuback2009 They don't use the Midwest accent. They use an accent that is similar to it and General American. It's actually quite different if you listen closely. And frankly... it's annoying.
Im from grand rapids michigan and one time for a family road trip we went to mississippi, and i asked these kids if they had any pop....they were looking at me like i was crazy or something :\
if its pop then how come just about every can says either "orange soda" or "lemon lime soda" and also in every movie and TV show they say soda. huh? huh? huh????
@wiseGUY1288 you just agreed with me then. you said they put it there so idiots know what it is then you're claiming that the correct term is soda. that is what it is. pop is a stupid 3 letter word thats spelled the same backwards. if you guys are going to change the name of something and create your own word you can do a lot better than that. pop sounds ridiculous and stupid.
@petruccifan38 it's pop. soda pop was invented in michigan. verners was the first. so basically when we say it's pop it's pop. we have the patent on it.
@Brettwbeyer14 nobody in movies or TV says pop. Everyone who is smart knows that a soda is called a soda. I dont even know why i bother arguing this. It should be common sense. Pop is a stupid midwestern slang term.
@petruccifan38 people in the movies say soda because california, and new york and new england say soda. the greatlakes, great plains, mountain west and pacific northwest say pop and the south east says coke. the people who say soda definitely do not make up that big of a majority if they do. and like i said earlier, the first american carbonated drink was invented in detroit, which is in the part of the country that says pop.
I don't think you have an accent except when you said things like "pecan." That is the only word you say DIFFERENT than I do (I'm not assuming that I am unaccented), but the "a" sound in words like "pecan" for you (and many mid-westerners and new englanders) sounds really... harsh. Its like high and nasal. Besides that, I think you are unaccented.
some michigan people over pronounce their vowels like if you were to say "mom" without realizing it, it would come out like "maom" or something like that, i would know i'm from michigan xP
Most people from Michigan don't have an accent but there is a subculture of Mid Michigan people that adopt almost a Kentucky Hick contractor talk. ex: Yup=yuope. I don't know= I ont oh. Over there= Ove air. But = Buh, etc. Overall people from Michigan don't have an accent. There are accents out east, down south all the way to florida, minnesota, and south west. People from the south west always soften their words and seem to over pronounce "O" softly in everything like some surfer dude slang.
When you say words with an "O" in it you have a accent I'm from michigan and my friends say that when I say words like "cold" "remote" or "old" my accent comes out
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michiganhiphopBOI 1 week ago
you say crayon weird for a michigander...
aqkc2009 2 weeks ago
Michiganders have the same accent as you and everything that you said is the pretty much the same as what you said. Although I tend to call my grandpa "papa."
godsmack875 2 weeks ago
I am from Michigan and I have noticed that whenever I travel to southern Illinois or further south, I always get called out for being a Michigander. Everyone seems to notice it as soon as I open my mouth, but I have never noticed it being different. I have been called a Michigander in Southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and DC.
Starwarsfanboy501 3 weeks ago
@Starwarsfanboy501 Do you drive down? Michigan plate gives it away.
foxstang92 2 weeks ago
this is good. i like how she corrects the questions hahah
ajs0407 3 weeks ago
Michigan (and other northern) people talk with their noses. Who cares what you call certain things, and who cares if someone calls them different. it's like getting pissed because someone with the same name as you spells it different. Its how they do it. Oh well.
TheVagtasticRainbow 4 weeks ago
@TheVagtasticRainbow I don't talk with my nose... O_o
godsmack875 2 weeks ago
Sweetie your accent is "PURE MICHIGAN" and it's a beautiful thing. I'm from Lansing and we say "pop" and "tennis shoes" too Fuck you soda and sneaker weirdos!!!!
Rulison17 1 month ago
haha, thing you use to change telivision channels.............(bites lip).....(light comes on) Remote! :D
hobopiesforeveryone 1 month ago
@hobopiesforeveryone much Michigan love
hobopiesforeveryone 1 month ago
You really should have chosen a different thumbnail.
AxisOrtiz 1 month ago
There are other words that she uses as well that are characteristic, but overall she is an excellent example of the Michigan accent, especially that spoken in the suburbs of Detroit. Just listening to her reminds me of sitting at the bar at Miller's on Michigan Avenue in West Dearborn overhearing a conversation while having one of their famous burgers.
Costantino923 1 month ago
I haven't lived in Michigan for 30 years, but having been away so long in other parts of the country and the world, one's ear becomes more sensitive. There words used here that capture the quintessential Michigan accent quite well... "Crayon, Iron, " with an open nasal quality to the "-on" and she says "theater" in a way that sounds very much like the way my relatives in Dearborn would pronounce it.
Costantino923 1 month ago
I wouldn't even say your accent is General American. It's definitely been affected by the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. All of the "a's" in "Salmon", "Alabama" and "aunt" are very high, almost sounding like "Ee-ant" and "See-amon", while "pop" is near to being "pap."
Guthrie7777 1 month ago
i believe it's coke, grandmother = granny, grandfather = papaw. the correct way to refer to a remote is "clicker." then again, i'm from far western north carolina. i don't hear an accent on you, except when you say POP. which is, apparently, coke?
mo13rey 1 month ago
English is an accented language. Everyone who speaks English has an accent.
Mariooooooism 1 month ago
Its Soda
Plashing 2 months ago
@Plashing Chicago and Detroit soda = pop!
CheckM8King2 1 month ago
Ant sounds like ayant. But the rest sounds the same. I live in California
Plashing 2 months ago
@Plashing Is that part of the USA?
CheckM8King2 1 month ago
I'm from Illinois. My accent sounds exactly the same and our names for things...pop, bag, daddy long legs...etc are the same too.
cherryslurpeesrock12 2 months ago
I call my grandmother mammaww :D It's a southern thing :p but I was born in Florida, most of my family is from Alabama and Kentucky and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
DarksideCookiez 2 months ago
I call it a clicker too! And the majority of my friends in MI call it a clicker :P
kodaknwafflesx3 2 months ago
Michigander Here! The "cart" question I heard in the south they call them "buggy's".
jadapreteenqueen2009 2 months ago
@jadapreteenqueen2009 they do! And they call hunting hats toboggans. Then there's the pocket purse... and the back sack.. it's hard for me to get used to these southerners down here sometimes!
kodaknwafflesx3 2 months ago
Im from Michigan too, and we had all the same answers. It's interesting to watch people from all over the world do this, their answers are pretty interesting!
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lol when a michigander addresses a group of people they say "you guys". well most people i know do
ChicanoX3Irish 3 months ago
i'm from mi (lived here my entire life and probably will die here lol), and i get teased because i say button like buTTin, and my freinds are all like michiganders dont't say there t's and i noticed we dont, i just say my t's in words like button or mitten.. its weird lol
cheerldndiva 3 months ago
it's a cupon not coopon...lol I live in Virginia and here they call a shopping cart a buggie, and a Grochery Store here in Virginia is called a supermarket, but I was born and raised in Andover, NY. Regaurdless of where someone lives they're going to have an accent for the region they live in. Like in most state they say you all but here in the south it's Ya'll which is most common.
anthemsguy2008 3 months ago
Does anyone say milk like "melk' ? I used to, until I realized that I did! (I still say it sometimes though) XD
KryztalKitsu 3 months ago
@KryztalKitsu lol i thought "melk" was just the way that people from the thumb said it. Atleast that's how my teacher who was from the thumb said it haha
ChicanoX3Irish 3 months ago
@ChicanoX3Irish haha idk. I live sort of near the capitol and I think my accent is messed up because sometimes I say words one way and in the next sentence, I'll say it a different way. It's weird!
Like: Yay! I have a koopon. (coupon) Aww, my kyuupon didn't work... Does anyone else do things like that? I can't be the only one, right? lol XD
ooo sometimes I'll say for windmill: winmeal or wim-meal or winmill haha. Where did my d-sound go? haha But I'll say windmill like windmill too. :P
KryztalKitsu 3 months ago
Why is NYC accent being rated so bad in USA? I m from Holland
MrTommyXL 4 months ago
I'm from Michigan and I can tell that you have an accent by the way you said grocery. We say it like GROSHries here.
brosentertainments 4 months ago
also you say "crans" we say "cray-ons" lol
338juliane 4 months ago
you deffently have an american accent. im canadian and its not to hard to tell. like the way you say aunt. you make it almost whiney like theres an E in it or something and you do that with most other words. hope this helped :)
338juliane 4 months ago
@338juliane ooo! When I was a kid, my mom would pronounce it the whiney way, and my dad pronounced it "ah-nt". (So naturally, I called aunts on my mom's side with my mom's pronunciation, and aunts on my dad's side with his.) ;)
Do you pronounce "ant" the whiney way or the ah-nt way? :D (I pronounce it the whiney way haha) :)
KryztalKitsu 3 months ago
I'm from Philadelphia and I don't think you have an accent. I have some friends from Michigan and I really can't hear an accent with them. They just say a few words different than I do. I use the same words you do, except I say "soda" and "sneakers."
Tacolover1987 4 months ago
i'm from georgia and you have a real big accent compared to mine and most everyones down here
ThePenguinJ 4 months ago
I'm from Grand Rapids and I moved to Nashville recently and it's upsetting to me that people get really self-conscious about their accents. Regional cultures are great and make everyplace unique, and that's slowly dying. Also, hearing you talk made me a little homesick, so yeah, you have the accent.
efficianado 5 months ago
What City are you from/ side of the state? I'm from the West Side :)
joling92 5 months ago
lol im from mi and i say clicker and pop and cran haha wanna color with my new crans? i just noticed it when i tryed this!
TwatSwab 5 months ago
Okay. I can tell you have an accent when you talk normally. But this regional dialect meme doesn't really make sense. I know people from boston that say caramel and pecan both ways. Its not a regional thing.
Anyway, its a carriage or a cart. Rolly polly's are called pill bugs. Daddy long legs are apparently called Harvest-men. Its a remote or a clicker. And when it rains while the sun is shining, its called a "sunshower."
philnoll 5 months ago
omg! do you have a katie braclet on? she went to my school and we were good friends<3 amazing how so many people in michigan knew about it! but, no... we dont have accents. haha:)
Mbeanieb12 5 months ago
i love your starcasm hahah. and your pretty!! and im from MI too(:
Peaace4Liife1997 6 months ago
people from michagain say pop people from mass say soda, people from new york say sodar! lol,
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totally have a midwestern twang in the way you say your 'ays' got that nasaily 'a' for sure :) I'm from wisconsin and you sound more like a wisconsinite than i do hehe.
donotseemecricket 6 months ago
totally have a midwestern twang in the way you say your 'ays' got that nasaily 'a' for sure :) I'm from wisconsin and you sound more like a wisconsinite than i do hehe.
donotseemecricket 6 months ago
Yeahh, I think you have a bit of an accent. just certain things you pronounce like alabama and syrup. I guess it just sounds different to my because I live in the northwest haha.
And Grandma and Grandpa--who calls them something else? Same with remote haha!
monyyy12345 6 months ago
@monyyy12345 I call a remote a clicker...
EppickWinn 6 months ago
LMFAO i love this video ! i am from Michigan & it's so funny because we find that saying pop, grandma and grandpa, remote, kart totally normal but other people find that so weird.. idn haha. but you're funny, love your sarcasm
zeex3sayys 7 months ago
i say crayon like "cran" not cray-on. and sure like "shur" not "shoe-ur"
itsmylovestorybaby 7 months ago
@itsmylovestorybaby same here
summerzgal96 6 months ago
@itsmylovestorybaby r u from lower mi or ohio
TheChuckd22 3 months ago
@TheChuckd22 Michigan
itsmylovestorybaby 3 months ago
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NoobFish23 7 months ago
@ZacEfronFan98 haha we do not sound like Canadians though ahah
kruunk1 7 months ago
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volcomelijah 8 months ago
im from michigan and i moved to virginia and i hear that i have an accent being down here.
knppstr542 8 months ago
Everyone has an accent, which should be obvious considering we all don't speak exactly alike. Being from Michigan I have the Midwest accent, which is suppose to be the most acceptable accent I guess...(lack of a better word). Probably the most common way to spot someone from Michigan is seeing if they make two tt's together sound like d's. Like, "little" will sound like "liddle"
thekhanakay930 8 months ago 21
@thekhanakay930
It's not /t/ or /d/, it's a whole other phoneme called a "flap" which we don't actually have a letter to represent. That's why "tt" and "dd" sound the same in words...
wtfidonthaveaname 2 months ago
@thekhanakay930 Interesting factoid, I heard somewhere that a midwestern accent is actually the easiest to understand, which is why most national TV personalities/reporters in the USA have a midwestern accent. There are exceptions here and there, of course.
JimKuback2009 1 month ago
@JimKuback2009 They don't use the Midwest accent. They use an accent that is similar to it and General American. It's actually quite different if you listen closely. And frankly... it's annoying.
jackthefrenchguy 1 month ago
@thekhanakay930
Uh, no... Most people around the country pronounce it with a d. Not just Michigan..
strawberry36512 1 month ago
my cousins live in michigan and when they came to visit i made fun of them because they had and accent and i live in nebraska
JTSlover97 8 months ago
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CLSkill 9 months ago
Im from grand rapids michigan and one time for a family road trip we went to mississippi, and i asked these kids if they had any pop....they were looking at me like i was crazy or something :\
kac530 9 months ago 2
@kac530 GRAND RASPIDDSS!!
kruunk1 7 months ago
Im from Indiana.. and def. do not think you have an accent.
checkthisonenow 9 months ago
CRAYAHHN! lol
p0llenp0ny 10 months ago
if its pop then how come just about every can says either "orange soda" or "lemon lime soda" and also in every movie and TV show they say soda. huh? huh? huh????
petruccifan38 10 months ago
@petruccifan38 because we know its pop.... they write soda so idiots know what it is.
wiseGUY1288 10 months ago
@wiseGUY1288 you just agreed with me then. you said they put it there so idiots know what it is then you're claiming that the correct term is soda. that is what it is. pop is a stupid 3 letter word thats spelled the same backwards. if you guys are going to change the name of something and create your own word you can do a lot better than that. pop sounds ridiculous and stupid.
petruccifan38 10 months ago
@petruccifan38 it's pop. soda pop was invented in michigan. verners was the first. so basically when we say it's pop it's pop. we have the patent on it.
Brettwbeyer14 9 months ago 30
@Brettwbeyer14 nobody in movies or TV says pop. Everyone who is smart knows that a soda is called a soda. I dont even know why i bother arguing this. It should be common sense. Pop is a stupid midwestern slang term.
petruccifan38 9 months ago
@petruccifan38 I moved from the midwest (soda) to the northwest (pop).
JesdaG 9 months ago
@petruccifan38 people in the movies say soda because california, and new york and new england say soda. the greatlakes, great plains, mountain west and pacific northwest say pop and the south east says coke. the people who say soda definitely do not make up that big of a majority if they do. and like i said earlier, the first american carbonated drink was invented in detroit, which is in the part of the country that says pop.
Brettwbeyer14 8 months ago
you have accent
kelseycowen 10 months ago
I don't think you have an accent except when you said things like "pecan." That is the only word you say DIFFERENT than I do (I'm not assuming that I am unaccented), but the "a" sound in words like "pecan" for you (and many mid-westerners and new englanders) sounds really... harsh. Its like high and nasal. Besides that, I think you are unaccented.
vballplayerdorr 10 months ago
your hot
chrisdouglasroberts 11 months ago
some michigan people over pronounce their vowels like if you were to say "mom" without realizing it, it would come out like "maom" or something like that, i would know i'm from michigan xP
Haley24x7 11 months ago
What do you say to address a group of people?
They were looking for "You guys" or "Ya'll"
Paulski311 11 months ago
@Paulski311 nonono. "they were looking for you"
sakuranamikaze1 11 months ago
hahaha! that is exactly what they are all called! ppl are silly!
we dont have an accent. the end
samantha0945 1 year ago
Most people from Michigan don't have an accent but there is a subculture of Mid Michigan people that adopt almost a Kentucky Hick contractor talk. ex: Yup=yuope. I don't know= I ont oh. Over there= Ove air. But = Buh, etc. Overall people from Michigan don't have an accent. There are accents out east, down south all the way to florida, minnesota, and south west. People from the south west always soften their words and seem to over pronounce "O" softly in everything like some surfer dude slang.
CMink7777 1 year ago
When you say words with an "O" in it you have a accent I'm from michigan and my friends say that when I say words like "cold" "remote" or "old" my accent comes out
bandbaby93 1 year ago
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Ivy2cute 1 year ago
Nice views
jezz123kid 1 year ago
What up doe!!! I'm a detroiter... Ur cute,phat,hot,fine as hell... Its been so long sinces i've been home
detroitlionfan 1 year ago
I'm from Detroit in the D we say what up doe for alot instead of hi ps ur cute or hot or you look gud lol
detroitlionfan 1 year ago