Carmel (pronounced CarMEL) is the town in California not the other way around. You definitely do have an accent. Its interesting. There was more difference in your pronunciations and answers than I would have expected.
People notice that i pronounce my A's weird. Like bag (bayg), wagon (weygon), bagel, etc. They often ask if I'm Canadian, (I do the stereotype eh/ey thing) nope I grew up in beautiful Washington! I live in Colorado now, so people notice it. And they don't pronounce the "T" in mountain(s), sounds like "mounain" here. Lol my dad also gives me crap for saying crayon the way it should be (how you said it), he says it like "cray-on" he's from Boston and thinks I'm the one with an accent!
@Killermolls44 Yeah, I'm from WA living in TN and people here say I have an accent. I say those words the same way you do and I don't think I have an accent. I've also heard people say they can tell what a Pacific Northwest accent is but I that's pretty crazy...
People notice that i pronounce my A's weird. Like bag (bayg), wagon (weygon), bagel, etc. They often ask if I'm Canadian, (I do the stereotype eh/ey thing) nope I grew up in beautiful Washington! I live in Colorado now, so people notice it. And they don't pronounce the "T" in mountain(s), sounds like "mounain" here. drives me absolutely nuts. Lol
Why do people say 'I don't have an accent?" lol! Not to you, or the people in your home town you don't, nobody does. :) But go down south, Brooklyn, another country, whatever, you do to them.
@FlyAwayNorth Silly. The Pacific Northwest generally includes Washington and Oregon. Sometimes Idaho is lumped in with this, and even northern california, though the latter two are rare.
@FlyAwayNorth You should probably look at a regional map. Oregon is very much apart of it; I thought we Washingtonians were the non-pretentious punch?
@Ironcabbit Are you from the midwest? in your comment you said "folks" and "beg" :) We live in Washington but my mom is from south Dakota and she says stuff like "folks" and "beg" instead of "bag". even though Ive lived in WA my whole life, I say "beg" but I don't say "folks" or "supper". I say "dinner" :)
Yeah....I was born in Spokane, and I've moved around washington and oregon, and I must say, we don't really have an accent. I think the ending part of this is more accurate, we do call things different names than other regions. Like when I went down south I asked for pop and the waiter had no idea what I was talking about
Everyone has an accent. To someone from the UK you would have an American accent. We can't notice our own accents because that is what we perceive as normal.
Im from Virginia, and I notice a lot of people greet people saying "you guys" even if they are female. In Virginia we never used to say that, but it seems to be spreading. So I assume that Californian/West Coast culture is spreading.
Whoa. You said "theatre" like "thee-AY-ter". I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and I've never heard anyone from there say that word like that. (I'd say something like "THEE-uh-der".) It's not wrong--just exceptional for the PNW.
@Brandon112878 Well, I pronounce it two ways... if we're talking about a cinema, "thee-ay-ter" but when referring to stage productions, "thee-uh-ter."
I am from Spokane, Washington and am going to school in the Southeast, so I LOVE hearing your accent. I think you say everything right lol. I am about to put a video on youtube of my accent, too, to see if people think I sound weird or not.
AND I actually just got into an argument with my roommate about how to say "crayon," and I say it exactly like you do! I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I am from Spokane, Washington and am going to school in the Southeast, so I LOVE hearing your accent. I think you say everything right lol. I am about to put a video on youtube of my accent, too, to see if people think I sound weird or not.
One thing you did, which I'm totally positive is a Northwest thing is not pronouncing the 'g' on the "ing". I do, but only because I'm weird. A lot of my native PNW friends don't, my doesn't. NWers tend to say "eenh" instead of "ing". Like "we went swimmeenh" or like what you did there you said "spitteenh". I've never read anything online about this, but it's totally there.
I'm a native of the Northwest, and there are a few expressions that are VERY PNW, like "where-all did you go?", "what-all did you do?", "Grade 4" instead of "4th Grade", and any driving way other than the usually travelled is "the back way"... Some ways other people pronounce things are rather jarring to us, like "Ore-uh-gone" or "worsh with worter"...
@erikolson100 Yeah... the "Grade X" thing seems to be definitely Canadian, but around Seattle we also always said that. It wasn't like we stopped in confusion when we heard "6th Grade" or anything, but "Grade 6" was FAR more popular. Oh, and there other thing that's very Seattle (and I never knew this, until I saw 'Fargo') is that people around Seattle often say "ja" instead of "yeah". I've never heard roly-poly...
@erikolson100 Yes, Portland IS different in some ways from Seattle, not only speech-wise, but it's subltly different in housing styles (they'ye very similar, but different, somehow). And it's always amusing for Washingtoninans to go to Oregon and find that entrance signs to freeways don't tell you in which direction it's going but merely (I-84 - The Dalles or I-5 - Salem) and what seem to be commands, in an odd font, to SPEED (at 60)...
your voice has a pitch pattern that's unique to the pacific northwest. each sentence starts low, ends high, and repeats in a rhythmic fashion. i'll mark it out with bars where you do this:
they're doing | a thing | called regional dialects | so how people pronounce | certain words | and so...they have a list of words | that um..they've been saying |
a bit like the californian accent, but more sudued and comes with the occasional "melk" instead of "milk." most musically pleasing US accent.
Dohoho! I'm from Oregon (Portland originally) as well. It's weird though, I say things much differently! I say Aunt like ONt, Route like root... theater like thee-et-er.... and coupon like kyoo-pawn.
...Now I'm wondering if I'm a weird Oregonian haha.
Oh cool! You did it too! Faribalove just did this same thing the other day. I'll have to watch the other people you posted who did it too. I love this kind of thing, so maybe I'll have to do it. You said a couple more things differently from me than faribalove does: theater, crayon and mayonnaise. Interesting, because I grew up in Utah, haha! I wonder if Oregon is that different. Very cool that people are doing this! ^^
The Pacific Northwest is actually cited by linguists as having the least accent of any English-speaking area. The most we have is a bit of a nasal-sounding thing, and what little we have - because we have such a lack of accent - is easily corrupted. Most Northwesterners will pick up accents they're around very swiftly and easily, wherever else they go.
Interestingly, you say "coupon" differently from the way I do. I say the "cou" as though I'm starting to say "cute".
@AdamTheAlien im from socal and as sad as it is to admit my accent is VERY easily corrupted. when i spend time with my english cousins for more than a week straight its GAME OVER for alot of words. hahaha
Carmel (pronounced CarMEL) is the town in California not the other way around. You definitely do have an accent. Its interesting. There was more difference in your pronunciations and answers than I would have expected.
rickygervais1776 2 weeks ago
The background music is really distracting
arildoaim 3 weeks ago
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Southern Oregon/Northern California....
Davenport = couch.
"Get your feet off the Davenport!"
Housecoat = Robe. "Could you get me my Housecoat?"
Minute Market = Convenience Store.
"Please stop at the Minute Market and pick up Milk."
Buggy = Cart/Basket - "Grab me a Buggy!"
BennyB5555 3 weeks ago
People notice that i pronounce my A's weird. Like bag (bayg), wagon (weygon), bagel, etc. They often ask if I'm Canadian, (I do the stereotype eh/ey thing) nope I grew up in beautiful Washington! I live in Colorado now, so people notice it. And they don't pronounce the "T" in mountain(s), sounds like "mounain" here. Lol my dad also gives me crap for saying crayon the way it should be (how you said it), he says it like "cray-on" he's from Boston and thinks I'm the one with an accent!
Killermolls44 1 month ago
@Killermolls44 Yeah, I'm from WA living in TN and people here say I have an accent. I say those words the same way you do and I don't think I have an accent. I've also heard people say they can tell what a Pacific Northwest accent is but I that's pretty crazy...
ilovemymilitary 1 day ago
People notice that i pronounce my A's weird. Like bag (bayg), wagon (weygon), bagel, etc. They often ask if I'm Canadian, (I do the stereotype eh/ey thing) nope I grew up in beautiful Washington! I live in Colorado now, so people notice it. And they don't pronounce the "T" in mountain(s), sounds like "mounain" here. drives me absolutely nuts. Lol
Killermolls44 1 month ago
@TehBrizon
way to forget British Columbia, Canada it's part of the pacific northwest
jkjkjkish 1 month ago
CASCADIA LIVES
lucperkins 1 month ago
You're a cute one ey? (:
thugmuffinmcanthony 2 months ago
Why do people say 'I don't have an accent?" lol! Not to you, or the people in your home town you don't, nobody does. :) But go down south, Brooklyn, another country, whatever, you do to them.
TheSandbar136 2 months ago
doin it wrong! if you think about it too much you aren't going to say it naturally.
funktapus 2 months ago
I am from upstate new york and I talk like you...
IAmTrueJackson 2 months ago
Saying folks is a nouveau feminist way to address groups of people, is this the line of work you do?
HopeRanchRain 2 months ago
Yeah Portland Oregon!
CB9316 3 months ago
WOOT WOOT!! i come from UTAH and i now live in the pacific northwest!! people say i have an accent..
orchadork222 3 months ago
I am from the northern midwest. I noticed you talk a little bit different than us but imo not much.
416mcp 4 months ago
Its sad how people from Oregon try and be like us from Washington.. We are the Pacific Norhwest... not Oregon
FlyAwayNorth 4 months ago
@FlyAwayNorth Silly. The Pacific Northwest generally includes Washington and Oregon. Sometimes Idaho is lumped in with this, and even northern california, though the latter two are rare.
TehBrizon 2 months ago
@FlyAwayNorth It's Washington and Oregon. (And arguably northern California)
Mrvort 2 months ago
@FlyAwayNorth You should probably look at a regional map. Oregon is very much apart of it; I thought we Washingtonians were the non-pretentious punch?
chcomilk7412 1 month ago
@Ironcabbit Are you from the midwest? in your comment you said "folks" and "beg" :) We live in Washington but my mom is from south Dakota and she says stuff like "folks" and "beg" instead of "bag". even though Ive lived in WA my whole life, I say "beg" but I don't say "folks" or "supper". I say "dinner" :)
iamsocoollike11 4 months ago
@wattsnick30 I'm from marysville! cool beans :)
iamsocoollike11 4 months ago
LOL nobody in florida ever says "hella" as a for of exclaimation .
WeSSENT457 5 months ago
Yeah....I was born in Spokane, and I've moved around washington and oregon, and I must say, we don't really have an accent. I think the ending part of this is more accurate, we do call things different names than other regions. Like when I went down south I asked for pop and the waiter had no idea what I was talking about
Ramones53rdand3rd 5 months ago
my friend laura and i were watching these videos and she clicked on one and i was like, AHHHH THATS MY FRIEND WUT. it was cool.
MissAlissa15 6 months ago
@MissAlissa15 OH SNAP!!
erikolson100 6 months ago
@erikolson100 omg has anyone told you your cute? cuz your cute
msktee123 5 months ago
Everyone has an accent. To someone from the UK you would have an American accent. We can't notice our own accents because that is what we perceive as normal.
laserboy18 6 months ago 2
@laserboy18 Finally someone else understands. The only way I could see someone not having an accent is if they don't talk. Even then I wonder.
InferiorThanYou 6 months ago
Our NW accent is lack of an accent. For UK folks trying to imitate us there is no dialect to hide behind. Also, I own a recyclable "beg." Do you?
Ironcabbit 6 months ago
@Ironcabbit from what i have heard, where i live now in Utah is a lack of an accent. thats why there are so many call centers based out of salt lake
erikolson100 6 months ago
@Ironcabbit While the Pacific Northwest accent is close to the 'neutral' American accent, it is not completely the same.
theclinger 5 months ago
@Ironcabbit I think the most NW thing you just mentioned was the "recyclable" part.
TehBrizon 2 months ago
Im from Virginia, and I notice a lot of people greet people saying "you guys" even if they are female. In Virginia we never used to say that, but it seems to be spreading. So I assume that Californian/West Coast culture is spreading.
monumentfloyd 6 months ago
rock on portland!
frankfrankerson89 7 months ago
Whoa. You said "theatre" like "thee-AY-ter". I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and I've never heard anyone from there say that word like that. (I'd say something like "THEE-uh-der".) It's not wrong--just exceptional for the PNW.
Brandon112878 8 months ago
@Brandon112878 Well, I pronounce it two ways... if we're talking about a cinema, "thee-ay-ter" but when referring to stage productions, "thee-uh-ter."
Ironcabbit 5 months ago
You sound just like us in SoCal.
thehapagirl92 9 months ago
I am from Spokane, Washington and am going to school in the Southeast, so I LOVE hearing your accent. I think you say everything right lol. I am about to put a video on youtube of my accent, too, to see if people think I sound weird or not.
AND I actually just got into an argument with my roommate about how to say "crayon," and I say it exactly like you do! I'm glad I'm not the only one.
vballplayerdorr 10 months ago
I am from Spokane, Washington and am going to school in the Southeast, so I LOVE hearing your accent. I think you say everything right lol. I am about to put a video on youtube of my accent, too, to see if people think I sound weird or not.
vballplayerdorr 10 months ago
One thing you did, which I'm totally positive is a Northwest thing is not pronouncing the 'g' on the "ing". I do, but only because I'm weird. A lot of my native PNW friends don't, my doesn't. NWers tend to say "eenh" instead of "ing". Like "we went swimmeenh" or like what you did there you said "spitteenh". I've never read anything online about this, but it's totally there.
TageSavage 10 months ago
I'm a native of the Northwest, and there are a few expressions that are VERY PNW, like "where-all did you go?", "what-all did you do?", "Grade 4" instead of "4th Grade", and any driving way other than the usually travelled is "the back way"... Some ways other people pronounce things are rather jarring to us, like "Ore-uh-gone" or "worsh with worter"...
shmuli9 10 months ago
@shmuli9 all of those are so true. i say, "where-all did you go" hahahaha but the "grade 4" thing i have only heard from Canadians.
erikolson100 10 months ago
@erikolson100 Yeah... the "Grade X" thing seems to be definitely Canadian, but around Seattle we also always said that. It wasn't like we stopped in confusion when we heard "6th Grade" or anything, but "Grade 6" was FAR more popular. Oh, and there other thing that's very Seattle (and I never knew this, until I saw 'Fargo') is that people around Seattle often say "ja" instead of "yeah". I've never heard roly-poly...
shmuli9 10 months ago
@shmuli9 Yeah, Seattle has very similar phrases to those around the Portland area but is still sometimes miles different in ways haha. Love it
erikolson100 10 months ago
@erikolson100 Yes, Portland IS different in some ways from Seattle, not only speech-wise, but it's subltly different in housing styles (they'ye very similar, but different, somehow). And it's always amusing for Washingtoninans to go to Oregon and find that entrance signs to freeways don't tell you in which direction it's going but merely (I-84 - The Dalles or I-5 - Salem) and what seem to be commands, in an odd font, to SPEED (at 60)...
shmuli9 10 months ago
You. Are. Beautiful!
chrissyb69 11 months ago
your voice has a pitch pattern that's unique to the pacific northwest. each sentence starts low, ends high, and repeats in a rhythmic fashion. i'll mark it out with bars where you do this:
they're doing | a thing | called regional dialects | so how people pronounce | certain words | and so...they have a list of words | that um..they've been saying |
a bit like the californian accent, but more sudued and comes with the occasional "melk" instead of "milk." most musically pleasing US accent.
stlmxc 1 year ago
Unrelated, but I like your My Chem poster in the background lol. :P
dracomustdie 1 year ago
is that silversun pickups in the background? nice vid.
candidaerendira88 1 year ago
Crazy! Born and raised in SEA and speak exactly like you. Every word you said, right down to "Papa" for grandpa!
NickLightingale 1 year ago
The town in California is actually Carmel, and is pronounced car-MEL. Close though!
ispinintights 1 year ago
Dohoho! I'm from Oregon (Portland originally) as well. It's weird though, I say things much differently! I say Aunt like ONt, Route like root... theater like thee-et-er.... and coupon like kyoo-pawn.
...Now I'm wondering if I'm a weird Oregonian haha.
Also, clicker is weird as hell @_@
sourjin 1 year ago
You talk in riddles without sensing the time of water's motions.
jazzhot10 1 year ago
I pretty say all the same thing. I might try a video response too!
joebob2406 1 year ago
oh and I definitely agree with Martha stewart
nicolys1 1 year ago
it's heat shower
nicolys1 1 year ago
Had to do my own, haha. Sadly I can't seem to make it a video response without removing it from the other dialect vid I responded to.
dreamerboy6 1 year ago
Oh cool! You did it too! Faribalove just did this same thing the other day. I'll have to watch the other people you posted who did it too. I love this kind of thing, so maybe I'll have to do it. You said a couple more things differently from me than faribalove does: theater, crayon and mayonnaise. Interesting, because I grew up in Utah, haha! I wonder if Oregon is that different. Very cool that people are doing this! ^^
dreamerboy6 1 year ago
Yes Panic Switch in the background!! Love silversun pickups..
therurjuur 1 year ago 6
oh, and she also called a refrigerator a "refrige"
branflakes0909 1 year ago
Martha Stewart also pronounces "herb" with the "h" sound
UGH!
branflakes0909 1 year ago
The Pacific Northwest is actually cited by linguists as having the least accent of any English-speaking area. The most we have is a bit of a nasal-sounding thing, and what little we have - because we have such a lack of accent - is easily corrupted. Most Northwesterners will pick up accents they're around very swiftly and easily, wherever else they go.
Interestingly, you say "coupon" differently from the way I do. I say the "cou" as though I'm starting to say "cute".
AdamTheAlien 1 year ago 6
@AdamTheAlien thank you adam for that wonderful insight :D im just glad i dont say waRshington ....i hate that
erikolson100 1 year ago
@AdamTheAlien im from socal and as sad as it is to admit my accent is VERY easily corrupted. when i spend time with my english cousins for more than a week straight its GAME OVER for alot of words. hahaha
thelumbahjack 1 year ago
I followed your twitter and dbooth
rbrown2697 1 year ago
You say theAter. cool.
Clicker is SO weird.
jazzw0rth 1 year ago
@jazzw0rth lol yea my friend Jeff says clicker...its weird
erikolson100 1 year ago