Lololol I'm not from Chicago and you can probably tell because my accent is not fully Chicagoan. Other than that though, I speak the same way you do, which comes from living here for the majority of my life :P
this is true. im from the chicagoland area(so i guess i hav a chicago accent) and i pronounce my "a's" and "o's" differently, i talk fast(my dad always tells me to slow down but its kinda hard but i try, like in my videos), and the other stuff he said. sometimes when i saw "Don" or "milk" people say i say it differently. i think i sound normalish but watever :)
I'm from Illinois too. But I traveled a lot including places like Germany nc ny and dc so I guess its mixed. cuz I sat everybody talked wiered. Some of the stuff my mom pronounces I think is weird and she's from newyork
The me is totally implied. I used to wonder why i thought other ppls sentences seemed long winded to me....its the extra word lol. heres a couple of other chicago type accents on youtube, just look up 'best of road warriors promos'.
The reason we don't say do you want to come with me is because the me is implied. XD If it's someone else you'd put in someone else like with them. >.< It just seems too be adding a me when that is unnecessary. XD That's really how it makes sense in my head. XD
I was talking to this girl I know and she's also from Tennessee and she told me that I have a weird accent also. I didnt realize it until she said the word Chicago and then she told me to say it. Just like this vid says, us Chicagoan's pronounce our A's and O's differently and it was only until she pointed this out that I realized I have a Chicago accent. What is about people from Tennessee that they are able to spot accents lol?
Love it! I grew up in Plainfield and I never though I had an accent........ until I moved to the DEEP SOUTH. I got teased SO mercilessly that I learned reallllly quickly that I needed to ditch the "Yankee" in my voice. So I did. I can slip right back into it when I go north to visit, but south of the Mason-Dixon line I'm just as Dixie as I need to be!
Chicagoans don't say pop. They say pooooooooop. I'm from New Jersey. If we ask for pop we get a pop in the mouth. We call it soda. People in Chicago eat sahsage. Jersey people eat sawsage. Jersey boys say aWWWsome. Chicagoans say ahsome. And we say hAWk correctly with a w. People in a lot of other places say hock. I hate that. Coffee and dog don't have W's, but hawk sure does. FUGGETABOUTIT!
I would have never noticed your accent unless you pointed out what you say differently. But you're right some minor differences. I started laughing when I heard how I saw those few words, you used as an example, differently than you. But it's all good, I wouldn't make a big deal about it. By the way I am from California. Cheers! ^^
People in Illinois in general talk pretty close to monotone, but Chicago has more energy in the voice, putting more emphasis on certain syllabils and certain vowels, and in southern Illinois you get a southern accent creeping in. Central Illinois is VERY monotone & that's where I live.
Cagle - I don't know if you would agree with me on this, but from my past interactions... I find that the Chicagoan accent is much stronger in females. Especially older women who have spent their entire lives there - even in comparison to men who are also born and raised Chicago-ans.
I'm from Chicago, and my friend from Philly said I say the phrase "I'm going to..." weird. She said I pronounce it, "Ah-min-uh". Like "Ah-min-uh go to sleep now" or "Ah-min-uh take a shower". She also said I say "PROLLY" instead of "PROBABLY". I don't know if these are Chicago things or if it's just me, but I'm proud either way. :].
my friend in oklahoma used to make fun of me about the way i say "white sox." he would be like "white sax?" it just sounds british if you over-enunciate the o
And you guys think we Canadians say "aboot." :P This guy says "about" closer to "aboot" than any Ontarian I know. I'm not sure if it's just him or if that's a general Chicago thing. But he definitely says "dee-ad" (dad). Accents just make cute people cuter. Case in point.
Yes and I think Canadians say aboat, not aboot.. lol Americans think we say aboot but what we actually say is aboat. Some Canadians also over-pronounce their R's.. like when saying the word "parliament" they say "parrrliament". Another word is "tomorrow" .. some Canadians will say "tuhmarrrrow." We definitely do say eh a lot, but not necessarily at the end of a sentence or question. One thing we say a lot also is, "Have a good one." or "No worries." :)
Yes, you guys do say "no worries" a lot. Thank you for mentioning that. That's one of the things I noticed most when I visited Toronto. My mom noticed it too. I think you're on to something about the "R" thing too. I'm American, btw.
Ah; you're welcome, I think? :) Canadian people can sometimes be very anxious... We tend to apologize A LOT for things, even when it really isn't necessary... so we (often) come back at each other with "No worries" and a smile. :) The over-pronunciation of the R's is mostly in the East coast, especially in Nova Scotia. But Ontario is an exception. :)
I came looking for this vid to prove to my boyfriend (who grew up just outside of Chicago) that he has a Chicagoan accent. No complaints here though - I think it's so attractive that I wish it were thicker. :p
Im 18 and i lived in the burbs of chicago for about 12 years and it wasnt until last year i noticed a slight accent, heres some words i say weird lol..
Chicagoians don't have accents you do, this is a mid-western accent, at least that's what I've heard it referred to. My spanish teacher was talking about prepositions, but thats just normal, right, right. Oh, I went to Memphis, and a waitress asked me if I was from Chicago because I said Milk weird, she said it without the L. Which suburb did u grow up in?
Chicagoans do have accents. There are several midwestern accents, however if you listen to folks from Indianapolis, Columbus Oh, or Kansas City- those are the folks with the least amount of accent.
I don't have an accent, you do, hmmp, lol. I know that each place in the mid-west has differnet accents, but usually they sound the same as or simalar to, the one from Chicago.
I have heard many people from Indianapolis-a lot of them TOTALLY have a twang. It's because in the fourties or something a bunch of people from Kentucky came up to work in Indiana factories. But yeah, some people seem accent-less. It's weird in Indiana.
if you're from the great lakes region, or northern Midwest, then it is likely that those from places like Indianapolis, Kansas City, and even Iowa or Nebraska will "sound like" they have a twang, even thought they actually don't. The reason why is because the accents in the Great Lakes Region ie (Chicago) and the Northern Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota) are very extreme....I live in Rhode Island, and people here think that people from philadelphia have southern accents!
Indiana actually has I believe 4 distinct American dialects- The Chicago-esque variety, General American, North Midlands, and South Midlands, which tends to have many aspects of Southeran American Engish. Some people in Indianapolis have closer to a General American variety, many have North Midlands, and some do drift towards a Southern variety. It depends on who you talk to, but living in Indiana and studying linguistics at Indiana University has taught me this.
I don't hear it. In fact even as far south as Wichita I don't hear a twang. The only strong accents I hear in the midwest are the Great Lakes Accents (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee) and the Northern accents- Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, UP> MIchigan. Even South Dakota has a "slight Fargoesque" lilt to their accent. I laugh when I hear people from that part of the country say they have no accent, because it sounds extremely thick to me.
O my gosh, I totally agree with you about the way we say "Chicago". My cousins out of state tell me that I pronounce my own city wrong, and then I tell them that is not possible because its our city...
every Chicagoan nos that the southside and city workers talk like that. northside, west, north and far southwest burbs r 2 proper. everywhere else has the biggest acents, like me.
the way chicagoans say freeways or direction is weird. Im from california but all my relatives are from chicago and youll day take 5 to 40 but we day take the 5 to the 40
you guys in the midwest say "a" to much, in place of the "o" .. like "Box" sounds like "Bax" when you guys say it.. It is SOOO ANNOYING!! but it is definitely not worse than the Bostonians and New Yorkers :D
i had lived in chicago for my whole life until recently i moved to charlotte, nc and everyone tells me i have such a chicago accent and the thing u sed about ending sentenes w/ prepositions, i nvr realized but is exactly right great vid
aaah i know what you mean! i've lived in chi-town all my life and i stayed her for college and all my depaul friends are like why do you say washroom? its bathroom! and like wait, say chic"aw"go again, and i always say noo you said it wrong! and btw you sounded completely normal to me right now...obviously lol
in both michigan and chicago we both like to pronounce our vowels in the same weird kind of way. like mad we like to say myaad. and use a little bit of naslyness in it.
where as my dad says chicuwgo. and a lot of people i've heard on tv or met personaly from chicago pernounce it that way. i've notice that people from the city sound a bit different than from the suburbs. people in the city sometimes can sound like farely does on the "da bulls da bulls da bulls" saturday night sketch. where as the suburbs they sound different sometimes more robotic. that's my take from my experiences and my family. but i noticed both in chicago and michigan we like to
hmmmm....very interesting. im saying this because my honest interpretation of chicago accents if everything opposite of how you sound and what your explanations. my father is from chicago and i have relatives out there, and i've traveled with my company to work out there. Im from michigan and we definitely talk a lot faster than you guys do. i get sometimes anoyed by how slow my dad speaks and others that i've listened to out there. and you definitely say chicago the way we do in michigan.
i'm from northern chicago and i don't think i have an accent but i now live in Arizona and all my friends mock me and say i do.
like when i first moved to AZ they're like where are you from and i said CHICAWGO and there all like say it again say it again cause everyone here says CHICAHHGO.
i say coffee like cawwfee, and people here say cahhfee. and i say highway rather than freeway. and pop rather than soda.
I'm from st. louis and the typical accent here is a cross between the kansas-like midwestern accent and the chicago accent, but I've met people here that if you didn't know who they were, you'd think they were from chicago.
I'm also from chicago and never thought I had an accent until I went to California and everyone pointed it out. I had a friend from the west coast whom I couldn't say "batteries" around because he'd laugh for hours. I guess that word really brings out the accent, haha. Baaaaaateries. Oh, and sauuuusage. Now that I've been more conscious of it, I can pick it up very easily. You have a very noticable Chicago accent.
THANK YOU!! For my voice over class, we were assigned to use different accents for a whole day of school , and we were all assigned different ones. I know ALL the other accents assigned to EVERYONE else, but I've NEVER heard of a Chicago accent. My teacher kept saying "look it up, look it up", and I'm glad you put this on here. I would have been totally screwed not having an accent to give!! anyway, thanks!!
i tried to say chicago with a closed "aw" and it kinda hurt too lol
i didn't know the "wanna come with" was just here...that's weird
another thing is sometimes if we are talking really fast, and you say hundred, it can come out "hun-erd". i think that is a chicago thing, my dad told me it was lol
plus not necessarily an accent thing but we tend to calculate distance in a time frame for example someone not from chicago would say the bowling alley is about 2 miles away whereas we would say it's about 5 minutes away.
This is a topic that has fascinated me lately. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan and always sort of thought that the way people spoke in Chicago was just sort of plain and normal. Well recently I've been traveling a lot around the country and I've begun to notice the different dialects in people's speech around the country. It occurred to me that NOBODY actually sounds the way we do anywhere but in Chicago and the surrounding area, and in fact WE are the ones with the accent.
yea i say chic-AH-go. but i heard people say chi-CAW-go. they say that the AH is the accent. i thought the AW was the accent. but i do say AH. if thats the accent than i do have a chic-AH-go accent which i thought i didnt have. but i guess i do. i cant stand the AW too. it pisses me off. it sounds retarded. i dont do the preposition thing though.
You forgot "Over by there." Or "By someplace" to indicate where somethig is, like "I was over by the South Side." or I'm over by Lansing.'
I also note a tendency to substitute "thing" for a specific object, like "My bag is on the thing in the living room." or "Your food's in the thing."
shytownmofo 1 day ago
I never knew about to prepesition thing. i always say do you wanna come with?
zimmermanxx13 1 month ago
Lololol I'm not from Chicago and you can probably tell because my accent is not fully Chicagoan. Other than that though, I speak the same way you do, which comes from living here for the majority of my life :P
waleedsajjadkhan14 1 month ago
POP
jayallday52193 4 months ago
this is true. im from the chicagoland area(so i guess i hav a chicago accent) and i pronounce my "a's" and "o's" differently, i talk fast(my dad always tells me to slow down but its kinda hard but i try, like in my videos), and the other stuff he said. sometimes when i saw "Don" or "milk" people say i say it differently. i think i sound normalish but watever :)
emmy3555555 4 months ago
we say "ant" not, "aunt"
echoplex89 5 months ago
My aunt always makes fun of my Chicago accent!!
fudgemonkeybru 5 months ago
sanic lol
FightingSpirt 5 months ago
I'm from Illinois too. But I traveled a lot including places like Germany nc ny and dc so I guess its mixed. cuz I sat everybody talked wiered. Some of the stuff my mom pronounces I think is weird and she's from newyork
R456jen 5 months ago
apparently we midwesterners (chicago born and raised) overly accentuate our words....yours is pretty noticeable lol
LeaveJordanAlone 9 months ago
They over extend most of their words, same goes for all of northern Illinois. They also say other words weir like car "cur" and gone "gawn"
BNSF2184 10 months ago
What about "Dis, dat, da other thing,"
MrM2dude 11 months ago
wtf. you sound normal. everyone else sounds weird. haha
groundnpound702 1 year ago
The me is totally implied. I used to wonder why i thought other ppls sentences seemed long winded to me....its the extra word lol. heres a couple of other chicago type accents on youtube, just look up 'best of road warriors promos'.
Mentillstate 1 year ago
makes my neck feel funny when i try to say it the other way.
SOL1DGRAY 1 year ago
Chicago accent is best accent.
PantzMaster76 1 year ago 23
question... how would you guys (from chicago) say holiday or dog? would it come out like hahliday or hauliday?
JoshuaParkWM 1 year ago
@JoshuaParkWM definitely HAHliday
Caglehead268 1 year ago 5
@Caglehead268 you say dog like dawg
stephanieB1996 9 months ago
@JoshuaParkWM dawg
schaumton 1 year ago
@JoshuaParkWM hah-liday
crabpeoples 1 year ago
@JoshuaParkWM i say it like hauliday...thats how it sounds
putaface101 9 months ago
The reason we don't say do you want to come with me is because the me is implied. XD If it's someone else you'd put in someone else like with them. >.< It just seems too be adding a me when that is unnecessary. XD That's really how it makes sense in my head. XD
MistressArte 1 year ago
@MistressArte
Same here the "me" is useless.
krystian1333 1 year ago
I was talking to this girl I know and she's also from Tennessee and she told me that I have a weird accent also. I didnt realize it until she said the word Chicago and then she told me to say it. Just like this vid says, us Chicagoan's pronounce our A's and O's differently and it was only until she pointed this out that I realized I have a Chicago accent. What is about people from Tennessee that they are able to spot accents lol?
iceman32290 1 year ago
duuuuude ! haha.
im always told i talk fast and that i have a heavy accent.
i moved from chicago to somewhere else, and always being told that.
xxredriot 1 year ago
im from chicago also, and i also denied i had an accent until someone pointed everything i said different outt. its weirdd haha. proud chicagoan :)
southloverr12 1 year ago
Love it! I grew up in Plainfield and I never though I had an accent........ until I moved to the DEEP SOUTH. I got teased SO mercilessly that I learned reallllly quickly that I needed to ditch the "Yankee" in my voice. So I did. I can slip right back into it when I go north to visit, but south of the Mason-Dixon line I'm just as Dixie as I need to be!
missbunniesgalore 1 year ago
I live in Chicago and a kid came to our high school is from new York and he says he talk soo wierd haha
deevinix03 1 year ago
we are very monotone also..people have a really hard time makin out wut i say cuz i tend to slur my words lol
eaguir3 1 year ago
Lol im from chicago & i talk like that too :)
lol !
SuperMexicangurl 1 year ago
Chicagoans don't say pop. They say pooooooooop. I'm from New Jersey. If we ask for pop we get a pop in the mouth. We call it soda. People in Chicago eat sahsage. Jersey people eat sawsage. Jersey boys say aWWWsome. Chicagoans say ahsome. And we say hAWk correctly with a w. People in a lot of other places say hock. I hate that. Coffee and dog don't have W's, but hawk sure does. FUGGETABOUTIT!
Jefgg 1 year ago
i have a chicago accent and i never knew it till now....i gotta listen to ppl if they have it too
CUTEpandaDancing 1 year ago
I hear that all the time. The 'a's and that we talk waaaaay too fast. I don't notice it though...
lam681 1 year ago
omg! lmao. i've lived in chicago my whole life. i've never noticed it until you said it! haha
JuleeFreshh 1 year ago
I have the accent. lol i didn't even no people said Chicago like chic-aw-go. i was like wat the-?
benitolugo 1 year ago
I would have never noticed your accent unless you pointed out what you say differently. But you're right some minor differences. I started laughing when I heard how I saw those few words, you used as an example, differently than you. But it's all good, I wouldn't make a big deal about it. By the way I am from California. Cheers! ^^
MaGiLo90 1 year ago
@MaGiLo90 say* xD
MaGiLo90 1 year ago
MadTv's Couch Hines has the best accent.
clipsryan 1 year ago
it really doesn't sound like u have a chicago accent
7kacie7 1 year ago
People in Illinois in general talk pretty close to monotone, but Chicago has more energy in the voice, putting more emphasis on certain syllabils and certain vowels, and in southern Illinois you get a southern accent creeping in. Central Illinois is VERY monotone & that's where I live.
kyokat130 1 year ago
lol i didn't even know that we talked that fast
kaytee1190 1 year ago
Dude ur amazing and something about that was hilarious xD wohooooo CHICAGO!
Raphsrockingways 1 year ago
Omg i caught myself on that ahaha
ScapeStream 1 year ago
lol yes we do talk real fast.... Daat caam! haha thats right bitches! GO Chi-town!
mizrans 2 years ago
im from chicago.i talk like that too.
Exqusite94 2 years ago
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Then ur a FAIGG! because i hate ChICAGO and I hate ur accent!!
DG3744 2 years ago
Cagle - I don't know if you would agree with me on this, but from my past interactions... I find that the Chicagoan accent is much stronger in females. Especially older women who have spent their entire lives there - even in comparison to men who are also born and raised Chicago-ans.
What do you think?
xnotfortheworldx 2 years ago
OMG you sound like us Chicagoans!! I do say "gahsh"
femmefatale1990 2 years ago
I'm from Chicago and I talk the exact same way you do lol but my friend from Flordia is always making fun of the way I talk. But to me I talk normal!
SarahNicole722 2 years ago 9
@SarahNicole722 Same with me! I live in florida now, and everyone is like thats not how u say it, thats not how u say it...blah blah blah....LOL
das1418 1 year ago
beautiful accent
XxflammelxX 2 years ago
LOL.....u r so right :)
hardlife14 2 years ago
Hehehe. Well the video helped me, I've got to audition with a Chicago accent in half and hour.
hornn002 2 years ago
xDD
I talk just like you described.
I don't live IN Chicago, but I live only like, an hour away from the city.
PitTheAmerican 2 years ago
holy shit, i guess i do have an accent. LOL
CwalkinHome 2 years ago
EVERYBODY drinks a lot of starbucks and I think Americans in general talk fast at least to Europeans.
purpleshamrock17 2 years ago
clock we say apparantly clack
and route i say raute instead of root
yansi888 2 years ago
...Oh my gosh, you're right.
And "Gahsh" instead of "Gawsh".
PitTheAmerican 2 years ago
I'm from Chicago, and my friend from Philly said I say the phrase "I'm going to..." weird. She said I pronounce it, "Ah-min-uh". Like "Ah-min-uh go to sleep now" or "Ah-min-uh take a shower". She also said I say "PROLLY" instead of "PROBABLY". I don't know if these are Chicago things or if it's just me, but I'm proud either way. :].
MorbidOverlord 2 years ago 4
No, those are not chicago things
saying "bay-eck" instead of "back" is a chicago thing
saying "aahn" insead of "on" is a chicago thing
saying "caaahrd" istead of "card" is a chicago thing.
I here pronunciations like that everytime I'm in Chicago or almost anywhere in the great lakes region of the country.
ohso41 2 years ago
Sounds just like me. xD
PitTheAmerican 1 year ago
i say prolly lol =]
XxTHUGLUV1390xX 2 years ago
That's funny, i just realized i say it like that too, never gave it any thought till you brought it up.
srg200669 2 years ago
dude how else CAN you say chicago?
I LOVE CHICAGO unfortunately i had to move away
as soon as i turn 18 and get the money im moving right back to the city i know and love
kingdeamon18 2 years ago
true dat
jussjorr 2 years ago
People I'm just wondering..
Where exactly did the Chicago accent come from??
I'm still quite unclear. I heard it comes from the Italians.
spoiledkid90211 2 years ago
the Chicago accent is a blend of polish & italian.
26Deacon 2 years ago
Chicago?
Brandon112878 2 years ago
We refer to almost all soda beverages as "pop"
richier31 2 years ago 24
That's a Michigan thing... and it's because of Faygo.
Hoopermazing 2 years ago
its actually like that in Pittsburgh too
JoeDOMINATESyou 2 years ago
my friend in oklahoma used to make fun of me about the way i say "white sox." he would be like "white sax?" it just sounds british if you over-enunciate the o
EmsieDearest 2 years ago
And you guys think we Canadians say "aboot." :P This guy says "about" closer to "aboot" than any Ontarian I know. I'm not sure if it's just him or if that's a general Chicago thing. But he definitely says "dee-ad" (dad). Accents just make cute people cuter. Case in point.
toiletholder 2 years ago
Yes and I think Canadians say aboat, not aboot.. lol Americans think we say aboot but what we actually say is aboat. Some Canadians also over-pronounce their R's.. like when saying the word "parliament" they say "parrrliament". Another word is "tomorrow" .. some Canadians will say "tuhmarrrrow." We definitely do say eh a lot, but not necessarily at the end of a sentence or question. One thing we say a lot also is, "Have a good one." or "No worries." :)
xnotfortheworldx 2 years ago
Yes, you guys do say "no worries" a lot. Thank you for mentioning that. That's one of the things I noticed most when I visited Toronto. My mom noticed it too. I think you're on to something about the "R" thing too. I'm American, btw.
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
Ah; you're welcome, I think? :) Canadian people can sometimes be very anxious... We tend to apologize A LOT for things, even when it really isn't necessary... so we (often) come back at each other with "No worries" and a smile. :) The over-pronunciation of the R's is mostly in the East coast, especially in Nova Scotia. But Ontario is an exception. :)
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I came looking for this vid to prove to my boyfriend (who grew up just outside of Chicago) that he has a Chicagoan accent. No complaints here though - I think it's so attractive that I wish it were thicker. :p
xnotfortheworldx 2 years ago
Yeah I know the R thing is mostly East coast.
awefhiwefiuwafiuhai 2 years ago
i had no idea i had a accent!! xD
i cant hear his accent tho lol it sounds totaly normal to me lol!! mayb its bc im from Chicago (DUHH!!) LOL
xLivesforMusicx 2 years ago
we also say the word "yous"
kubaniski 2 years ago
What are you? You look like a penis.
white5indigo7 3 years ago 3
LOL
bglasier 3 years ago
After you said that...I ended up not being able to look at him without laughing.
He does xD
missbluberry 2 years ago
Lmao, hell nah, this nigga said he looks like a penis
Nacho773 2 years ago
Cheers :) really helpful. I'm putting on Bertolt Brecht's play, 'the resistable rise of arturo Ui' and this has REALLY helped :D
joshuaward1991 3 years ago
where is this play going to be at?
Caglehead268 3 years ago
:D England, Bath/Bristol (South-west) so yeah, a little way from you
joshuaward1991 3 years ago
Im 18 and i lived in the burbs of chicago for about 12 years and it wasnt until last year i noticed a slight accent, heres some words i say weird lol..
Chi-KA-go
sAnic
Sanwidge
bewlet- (instead of BULLit)
pewl- instead of PULL)
mudda instead of mother
dolla instead of dollar
i do the preposition things too haha! awsome!
Scowty 3 years ago
Chicagoians don't have accents you do, this is a mid-western accent, at least that's what I've heard it referred to. My spanish teacher was talking about prepositions, but thats just normal, right, right. Oh, I went to Memphis, and a waitress asked me if I was from Chicago because I said Milk weird, she said it without the L. Which suburb did u grow up in?
MarleyMe95 3 years ago
Chicagoans do have accents. There are several midwestern accents, however if you listen to folks from Indianapolis, Columbus Oh, or Kansas City- those are the folks with the least amount of accent.
ohso41 3 years ago
I don't have an accent, you do, hmmp, lol. I know that each place in the mid-west has differnet accents, but usually they sound the same as or simalar to, the one from Chicago.
MarleyMe95 3 years ago
I have heard many people from Indianapolis-a lot of them TOTALLY have a twang. It's because in the fourties or something a bunch of people from Kentucky came up to work in Indiana factories. But yeah, some people seem accent-less. It's weird in Indiana.
AubreyMcfate 2 years ago
if you're from the great lakes region, or northern Midwest, then it is likely that those from places like Indianapolis, Kansas City, and even Iowa or Nebraska will "sound like" they have a twang, even thought they actually don't. The reason why is because the accents in the Great Lakes Region ie (Chicago) and the Northern Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota) are very extreme....I live in Rhode Island, and people here think that people from philadelphia have southern accents!
ohso41 2 years ago
Indiana actually has I believe 4 distinct American dialects- The Chicago-esque variety, General American, North Midlands, and South Midlands, which tends to have many aspects of Southeran American Engish. Some people in Indianapolis have closer to a General American variety, many have North Midlands, and some do drift towards a Southern variety. It depends on who you talk to, but living in Indiana and studying linguistics at Indiana University has taught me this.
AubreyMcfate 2 years ago
I was looking at a US dialect map and it appears that Indianapolis is right on the Northern Midland and Southern Midland Border..
ohso41 2 years ago
Kansas City definitely has a twang. It's not a bad thing. It's just a result of the unique Southern/Midwestern cultural mix of the entire city.
mpearson82 2 years ago
I don't hear it. In fact even as far south as Wichita I don't hear a twang. The only strong accents I hear in the midwest are the Great Lakes Accents (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee) and the Northern accents- Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, UP> MIchigan. Even South Dakota has a "slight Fargoesque" lilt to their accent. I laugh when I hear people from that part of the country say they have no accent, because it sounds extremely thick to me.
ohso41 2 years ago
I live in the Chicago area . . . about 10 miles away and I don't hear any accents whatsoever.
Can you suggest to me some sort of video in which the General American accent is spoken clearly?
Aries041487 2 years ago
Try the Amy Walker video. One of them sounds almost exactly GA. Can't remember which one though.
Brandon112878 2 years ago
You said ChiCAHgo dats how more people from the burbs say it. Alot people from da city say ChiCAWgo.
chimex2010 3 years ago
WTF are you talking about? It's Chi-CAH-go! You're not a true Chicagoan then...
hapidjus69 3 years ago
and some people say "thr" as "tr" haha
apparently i say stuff like "Go trow it in da trash" lol
Togala 3 years ago
O my gosh, I totally agree with you about the way we say "Chicago". My cousins out of state tell me that I pronounce my own city wrong, and then I tell them that is not possible because its our city...
it really bothers me.
-Eve
juliaeve 3 years ago 2
Yeah, my cousins from New Jersey swear it's Chic-oh-go.
It's Chica-ah-go.
And your totally right about the preposition thing.
starrynight472 3 years ago
u must b from the south side...or else 1 of ur parents is a city worker
cmac1223 3 years ago
i grew up in the southwest burbs. y do u say that?
Caglehead268 3 years ago
every Chicagoan nos that the southside and city workers talk like that. northside, west, north and far southwest burbs r 2 proper. everywhere else has the biggest acents, like me.
cmac1223 3 years ago
you can tell when you're from the ss
militiaheart 3 years ago
I agree with everything he says...I love my Chicago accent :]
purduewsoxgrl24 3 years ago 3
the way chicagoans say freeways or direction is weird. Im from california but all my relatives are from chicago and youll day take 5 to 40 but we day take the 5 to the 40
musicmusicmusic16 3 years ago
you guys in the midwest say "a" to much, in place of the "o" .. like "Box" sounds like "Bax" when you guys say it.. It is SOOO ANNOYING!! but it is definitely not worse than the Bostonians and New Yorkers :D
pibbos 3 years ago
It's not the Midwest that does that; it's just the Great Lakes region. You're stereotyping us.
ChuckieDeG 3 years ago
Ur rite but it doesn't seem annoying to me.
MarleyMe95 3 years ago
L-LOL well, soooorrry kiddo. xD
PitTheAmerican 1 year ago
i had lived in chicago for my whole life until recently i moved to charlotte, nc and everyone tells me i have such a chicago accent and the thing u sed about ending sentenes w/ prepositions, i nvr realized but is exactly right great vid
goblu789 3 years ago
aaah i know what you mean! i've lived in chi-town all my life and i stayed her for college and all my depaul friends are like why do you say washroom? its bathroom! and like wait, say chic"aw"go again, and i always say noo you said it wrong! and btw you sounded completely normal to me right now...obviously lol
collegechick1207 3 years ago
in both michigan and chicago we both like to pronounce our vowels in the same weird kind of way. like mad we like to say myaad. and use a little bit of naslyness in it.
Brettwbeyer14 3 years ago
where as my dad says chicuwgo. and a lot of people i've heard on tv or met personaly from chicago pernounce it that way. i've notice that people from the city sound a bit different than from the suburbs. people in the city sometimes can sound like farely does on the "da bulls da bulls da bulls" saturday night sketch. where as the suburbs they sound different sometimes more robotic. that's my take from my experiences and my family. but i noticed both in chicago and michigan we like to
Brettwbeyer14 3 years ago
hmmmm....very interesting. im saying this because my honest interpretation of chicago accents if everything opposite of how you sound and what your explanations. my father is from chicago and i have relatives out there, and i've traveled with my company to work out there. Im from michigan and we definitely talk a lot faster than you guys do. i get sometimes anoyed by how slow my dad speaks and others that i've listened to out there. and you definitely say chicago the way we do in michigan.
Brettwbeyer14 3 years ago
i'm from northern chicago and i don't think i have an accent but i now live in Arizona and all my friends mock me and say i do.
like when i first moved to AZ they're like where are you from and i said CHICAWGO and there all like say it again say it again cause everyone here says CHICAHHGO.
i say coffee like cawwfee, and people here say cahhfee. and i say highway rather than freeway. and pop rather than soda.
stormcheeer 3 years ago
When I think of the classic Chicago accent, Dennis Franz, Dennis Farina and Dick Butkus come to mind
ohso41 3 years ago
ya haha i do everything u said. i always calculate distance in time and its usually 15 mins. to get to anywhere in chicago in 15 mins from me
shanflan02 3 years ago
loloollololoololololl that couldn't be more true
LuckyPineapple 2 years ago
I'm from st. louis and the typical accent here is a cross between the kansas-like midwestern accent and the chicago accent, but I've met people here that if you didn't know who they were, you'd think they were from chicago.
TheBackOfTheBoat 3 years ago
On the "wanna come with?" thing...
I had no idea there was anything wrong with saying that!! I never thought anything of that... weird!
sxsder24 3 years ago
nah "come with" is said by people all around me and none are from chicago
devastaticon 3 years ago
we say "coffee" cawwfee which sounds perfectly right to me
Diegojetsetter1988 3 years ago
how else is it said??? lol
Caglehead268 3 years ago
cawwfee is one and theres cahfee
dpaosd 3 years ago
ur from chicago rite? "cofe"
Diegojetsetter1988 3 years ago
yup
Caglehead268 3 years ago
I worked in a Hotel in Rome in 1992...a girl walked in and said 'Where is..blah blah..'
I can't remember what she said...but i couldn't believe her accent!
I feel in love with this girl INSTANTLY....it was very weird..it was her accent.....
I said - 'Where are you from?'
She said 'Chicago'.
I said - 'Don't go...talk to me'
She left...she was in a hurry....
Now i was just in my studio working...and i thought of that girl....16 years later...and i gotta check youtube for info on Chicago
dojufitz 3 years ago
I'm also from chicago and never thought I had an accent until I went to California and everyone pointed it out. I had a friend from the west coast whom I couldn't say "batteries" around because he'd laugh for hours. I guess that word really brings out the accent, haha. Baaaaaateries. Oh, and sauuuusage. Now that I've been more conscious of it, I can pick it up very easily. You have a very noticable Chicago accent.
jerimann 3 years ago 2
THANK YOU!! For my voice over class, we were assigned to use different accents for a whole day of school , and we were all assigned different ones. I know ALL the other accents assigned to EVERYONE else, but I've NEVER heard of a Chicago accent. My teacher kept saying "look it up, look it up", and I'm glad you put this on here. I would have been totally screwed not having an accent to give!! anyway, thanks!!
(cool dream, dude)
~Imp~
impagain 3 years ago
i tried to say chicago with a closed "aw" and it kinda hurt too lol
i didn't know the "wanna come with" was just here...that's weird
another thing is sometimes if we are talking really fast, and you say hundred, it can come out "hun-erd". i think that is a chicago thing, my dad told me it was lol
danishgrl3 3 years ago
haha, i know exactly wut u mean with the "hun-erd" thing.
Caglehead268 3 years ago
plus not necessarily an accent thing but we tend to calculate distance in a time frame for example someone not from chicago would say the bowling alley is about 2 miles away whereas we would say it's about 5 minutes away.
Stylefree83 3 years ago
is that seriously only here?
gosh i've got to travel around more lol
danishgrl3 3 years ago
This is a topic that has fascinated me lately. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan and always sort of thought that the way people spoke in Chicago was just sort of plain and normal. Well recently I've been traveling a lot around the country and I've begun to notice the different dialects in people's speech around the country. It occurred to me that NOBODY actually sounds the way we do anywhere but in Chicago and the surrounding area, and in fact WE are the ones with the accent.
ryangassxx 3 years ago 3
Same here, I just got back from the South and they all would say, you're from Chicago arn't you. Since then I'v just been researching this all.
McCainIsOld 3 years ago
yea i say chic-AH-go. but i heard people say chi-CAW-go. they say that the AH is the accent. i thought the AW was the accent. but i do say AH. if thats the accent than i do have a chic-AH-go accent which i thought i didnt have. but i guess i do. i cant stand the AW too. it pisses me off. it sounds retarded. i dont do the preposition thing though.
chibanging 3 years ago 2