.......I don't know if you notice this, but most people in the COUNTRY speak that way.. At least here in Indiana we do, even though we're pretty close.
But I do know someone in my science class who's from Detroit and there are a couple of words that she pronounces pretty weird, especially "both" & words that start with the letter a like "acid" "accent" and "atom" :P
Never do I say, "party store". I've known a few people who have, but everyone else that I know here says "liquor store". And I pronounce "groceries" like how it's written not, "grosheries". I have said "fridge" plenty of times, but most of the time I will say "refrigerator" not "frigerator". And I have always gone back & forth when pronouncing "crayons". I still pronounce them both ways it just depends on the sentence I'm using them in. When referring to carbonated drinks I say "soda" not "pop".
I'm from Roseville (like 20 mins from Detroit) and I don't talk fast but slurring my words I ALWAYS do and I pronounce everything the exact same as you lol. And I think I butcher Cadieux pretty bad I say it like "ca-jew"
Alright I'm from west Michigan, you actually sound a tiny bit different. All the words you pronounced though I say the exact way. Just the way you say "accent" is kind of weird lol
@PhilTheGiant Detroit is also the home City to the birth of all american cars in this case mother city of all cars am I right or not if I'am, my friend then you are lucky to live in Detroit then any other City.
this is so true...i live there too and when i was traveling to chicago last year, a clerk at the mall told me i had an accent lol we sound canadian apparently but when we listen to everyone else in the country we dont hear any difference. heck yeah its a party store- liquor stores are for drunkards. and the only people who call them "gross-er-ies" are snooty rich people. :D
lol.I live in the Seattle area I'm a cashier and I had a customer from michigan today tell me I have a Michigan accent.I have never been told that.BTW I understand you perfercly.So I don't know what that persons problem was that couldn't undertsand you.
e_e i dont wanna respond to that comment cause it was like forever ago.... but the only store that i add the " 's " on is Meijer. Everyone I know does, but ive never heard the other ones.
now I want to make one of these lol. that's totally true though esp cans and cloze lol. Also apparently we say cat more like "caayut" and after I read that i realized it's really true, same with a lot of words like that shirt called a cami it sounds like caayumi. I went out of state for a while and everyone thought I had a weird accent and I hadn't thought I talked any differently than them but I guess we do!
ughh i hate when people say groceries like grossseries
Yeh Phil, Not sure if you've got a deep Michigan accent. I looked up Michigan accent because after listening to Shaun Hadsall (who is from Birch Run Michigan) and thinking "why does this guy sound Canadian?" which lead me to your video. Well the giveaway word that he used was about which sounds like aboowt. You don't seem to do this. maybe Birch run is further north or more country than where your from, or your more travelled and have learned to iron out bits of your accent .
Lol first time I heard of "crans". Weird shit, I used to live in London Ontario about 2&half hours from Detroit. Other then the crayons thing we sound similar :)
I don't know? You seem to kind of have a slight , slight accent. I always said groceries the way you have? Lol, But i'm from Kentucky, really close to Ohio though, and oh god, people seem to think that just because you're from KY you have a country accent. Totally, totally wrong. I don't sound "Country" at all. Also, has anyone ever told you , you remind them of Nick Simmons? Jw.
ahaha i'm from michigan and i say everything exactly like you do. it's almost hard to say REfrigerator . and i usually say Kroger's and Meijer's, but never Walmart's or Rite Aid's. i have a boyfriend from illinois and we get mad at each other because we both like taco bell but i pronounce it TACO bell and he says taco BELL. like wtf. i'm there for tacos not bells.
@Mamamidnight84 i get nailed for my "supposed" accent too! but i moved down south now and i am the LAST person that has an accent... i can't hear it but they say "im boutta go up da STERS" and " you need to get chow HER did" and stuff.... it's really funny
When I was younger I thought that all New Yorkers had no accent what-so-ever. But then, while watching an episode of family guy, the show made fun of the New York accent. C.S.I New York also fails at doing a New York accent, too. I was all like 0.o
Omigosh, I loved this xD I'm from Westland, which is like maybe 40 minutes from Detroit, and I talk like exactly how you do ! (obviously :p) this video was very entertaining though, I never though Michiganders had accents :3
You can hear it when he says his 'a'. Like 'back' and 'fact'. But by no means is it incomprehendible so the lady in seattle must be around 9% spastic.
Thats weird I've lived in Detroit all my life and I remember my grandfather calling the corner stores liquor stores. But then again most of his family is from Louisiana but moved up here a long time ago.
oh about the speed limit-ya can do it in Midland too haha seriously-I was goin 110 and the speed limit was 55 and I drove right past them and they didn't do anythin
and I'm from Saginaw-I've been told I kinda have a yooper accent-but idk, it's just confusin to me
I lived and worked in Texas for years, and with people from the UK and Cuba and they never say anything other than to complement my speech, but I do have a norhtern cities vowel shift (michigan) accent.
Even my foreign friends make fun of me because of groceries. ; _ ; I never even realized we said it oddly until now. I also didn't realize Partystore is more of a Michigan thing. You just grow up with it and never realize differently. As a girl from the Detroit area too, I sound the same. The Yoopers get a little funny with their accents though. :)
Haha you are so right, my friends and I soon realized that there are absolutely no rules in Detroit, we've ran a ton of red lights, done a shitload of illegal turns, the city is sooo confusing, nobody cares about traffic laws.
That's really ironic. My aunt got pulled over on the Lodge the other day for speeding. She's been going 75 on there for the past 30 years like everyone else and just now got pulled over. She didn't get a ticket though. And I didn't know party stores were exclusive to MI. Interesting.
My friend Cheyenne grew up in Texas and when we watched this vid in English she was like 'it's not "Crans"! Its "Cray-ons" . We were all like, no. It's Crayons.
To me people from Washington State sound similar to people from say Kansas City or Denver. The Michigan accent is completely different- When I lived in Seattle- I could spot a Michigan transplant from a mile just because of their accent
While mentioning the part about groceries I noticed you said "Kroger" instead of "Kroger's". It seems a lot of us - I guess more around the Detroit area - also have a tendency to say the names of businesses in a possessive form:
Meijer's
Kroger's
Rite Aid's
Walmart's
You get the idea. Any other MI folks here do that?
@joeydeadcat Yuhp! Lol didn't notice till now. Even when I went down south, no one mentioned anything and I know darn well NOW that I have an accent... -coughs- website -coughs-
i was born in detroit and then i moved to west Virginia about 2 years ago, and literally everyone told me i had an accent. i never knew it until then! but this made me laugh cuz we sounded the same and now im less paranoid. so thanks!
I work at a grocery store. People tell me I talk funny all the time. I don't mind it, since I live in St.Ignace, so I hear a wide range from normal Michigander, to Canadian.
I'm from Michigan and i really didn't know i had an accent until now. But then i just realize my accent is a mixture of a Mississippi accent and a Michigan accent. Lol!!
Haha its funny b/c I've heard we have rlly strong accents but I never thought so (I'm from detroit too) and everything we say "wrong" is exactly how I say it lmao like crayons (cranz) or something like milk (melk) or pillow (pellow) I can't say them the "right" way to save my life lmao
In lower Michigan- the accent is very similar to Chicago, Cleveland, Syracuse ,Buffalo and Rochester NY (and Milwaukee to some degree) the rest of the country sounds different than you.
oh and the only thing you said differently than I do (other than refrigerator) is your 'a' pronunciation, like when you said accents at 4:24; you did the 'aeh' thing like people from ohio. (I'm from Maryland btw)
I used to live in Seattle, and could always tell the transplants from Michigan (specifically the half of the state) apart from the local Seattle natives because the accents were so different- however as it turns out -some weren't from Michigan at all- some were from Chicago, some were from Cleveland or Toledo OH and some were from Buffalo or Rochester NY- the Metro Detroit area shares a similar accent with those specific cities.
Hey i'm from Canada and to me you do have an accent. Mostly it's just your a's and then some other words, like the crayons word i think i say differently lol. anywho you said groceries the same as me so i don't know what that lady in seattle was talking about. but they probs have an accent over there too haha.
This is so true, I was born an raised in Michigan but live in Virginia now and all of my friends make fun of me because of my accent like when I say Cold the o and l are mushed, and I talk really fast...I can't wait to move back to the Midwest for college this fall
lmao :) I am from michigan and people yell at me...and im like...you guys are crazy.....I would like to point out...you said cahp for cop. I think you sound like a normal american...don't you love accents :)
Dude. You northerners have some of the most awesome accents I've ever heard. Though we southerners got this interesting sorta accent..lol.well to yall it is anyways bc everytime i go up north some of yall stop me and ask me to say diff stuff...lol..well anyways, This vid was hilarious btw. (:
Dude!!! That is hilarious. You northern people always have the coolest sounding accents while us down here have thick southern accents..but it's funny when we go up north and y'all ask us to say diff stuff.
;D Metro Detroit, from the Mount Clemens area. Pride.
We mush together our words a lot, but...well, groceries sounds wrong the other way. Oh, and I completely dropped the RE from Refrigerator too. I mean you say "I'm grabbing some milk out of the fridge", not "I'm grabbing milk out of the refridge." So I always thought I was saying it correctly. Oops.
@ohso41: In response to me commenting that we mush our words together? We do. Because of the quickness in which we speak, some things seemed to get shoved together in our speech. And I already know about the vowels? Inland Northern City Vowel Shift.
I agree with how you say we say "car" and "fax", but I'd have to disagree with "back".
Sorry they don't speak with a Michigan accent the michigan accent involves very hard vowels, which is considered unusual to the rest of the country.. Actually they speak with a Kansas CIty accent.
You see Walter Cronkite was the benchmark for the Newscasters accent. He was from St Joseph's MO just north of Kansas City. Walter Cronkite always said he never had to alter his accent, he just had to learn to speak at a slower metered pace.
Dude, ur funny. yeah I love Michigan (even though I was not born here), and I always considered the Midwestern speech to be the "proper one", that is the most accent free American English. I gotta admit, the only one that was somewhat weird to me is "clothes", as I was used to pronuncing the whole word without clipping the "th" part of it. Anyway, funny stuff.
There are several midwestern accents. the most "neutral midwestern accents lie between i80 and i70- So places like Indianapolis, Kansas City, Omaha and Des Moines would be considered the most neutral
what up though.duh troit ,lah sir goin to kroger's and meijer's (the franchise has no plural s) liquor stores have liquor party stores have no liquor but every other alcoholic beverage.
Half the country says "groshrees", and I'm sure "cray-in" is almost as popular too. The dead giveaway to a Michigan accent is the emphasized short "a" sound, as in the word "accent". Us Michiganders like to give it a little more punch than usual.
the cop thing is soooo true....i fly by them all the time. i was doing 90 on I94 just south of 9mile which is 55mph speed limit...when i looked behind me and there was a cop right behind me on my ass. i just eazed up and moved over a lane and he went right past me. lmao
And again, the only two parts of the country you're going to hear anyone pronounce Peacock as "Pe-cawk" is in the Pittsburgh PA and the Boston MA area. Other than the great lakes region, where it is Pronouned "Pea-cack" the rest of the country pronounces it as "pea-cock"
Whenever I'm in MIchigan (downstate) Northern Ohio, Upstate NY, Chicago and Eastern Wisconsin I hear the hard vowels (IE "Pea-cack") only in this part of the country- no place else.
The only thing I see that is weird about your speaking is the sleerping your drink/coffee. I must be from Michagan in a weird kind of way since I say "City" the same way, as well as "Groceries". I guess Southern Californian's speak like Michaganders. You speak fine and I can understand you just fine. However, I never heard of a "party store" before, so that may be an issue if I came to visit and someone told me to go to a party store.
I lived in Michigan like my whole life, and when i moved to Texas for school it got pointed out that i had an accent!!! I was like bull crap i have an accent, you guys are crazy.... I never realized any of those like Strictly michigan things til i moved.
I live in michigan too, I was actually in detroit friday watching state playoff games and we speak exactly the same haha. : ) youre really funny by the way!
I live just outside of the city of Detroit itself and I completly agree about the speeding part. THe police for the most part dont give a shit how fast you drive because everyone there drives 10 or 20 miles over the speed limit !
LOL, I was sitting here drinking coffee and wanted to look up Michigan accent, because that's what I apparently have, and you were drinking coffee (CAW-FEE) too, so I was laughing as I said the words along with you, we sounded alike. lol! And whoever says we're saying groceries wrong is full of crap. LOL!
I get told by my cousins in Georgia that we say "soccer" wrong and everything else for that matter
jesiegirl8888 3 days ago
I think you forgot the A's, that's the most noticeable part of your "ayeccent" hahaha
manotooobz 3 days ago
omg im doing it as well
hensley555666 3 days ago
Michiganders :)
Also when we say "can" its sounds more like "Ken"
I also say friderator (who cares about spelling) for groceries, same concept for me I say groshceries. Cer=sh
I've also noticed that we don't pronouce "t"s that often when they are at the end of a word. it's like we leave them out like we leave out "re" hah
Maplepaw1 6 days ago
im from warren.... lmao dont think i've eve called it a REfridgerator....it's just a fridge or fridgerator lol
dancergirl7778 1 week ago
OMG I have a Michigan accent...O.o And people call me proper....lol
CUlayjaeP 1 week ago
haha, I live near GR, and I guess I have an accent, too. I say refridgerator, but I say everything else like you did.
BlueWind47 1 week ago
Apparently, we slurp our drinks, too!
Holly3418 1 week ago
is the person in this video asian or white?
scottyrobot 2 weeks ago
.......I don't know if you notice this, but most people in the COUNTRY speak that way.. At least here in Indiana we do, even though we're pretty close.
But I do know someone in my science class who's from Detroit and there are a couple of words that she pronounces pretty weird, especially "both" & words that start with the letter a like "acid" "accent" and "atom" :P
strawberry36512 2 weeks ago
Never do I say, "party store". I've known a few people who have, but everyone else that I know here says "liquor store". And I pronounce "groceries" like how it's written not, "grosheries". I have said "fridge" plenty of times, but most of the time I will say "refrigerator" not "frigerator". And I have always gone back & forth when pronouncing "crayons". I still pronounce them both ways it just depends on the sentence I'm using them in. When referring to carbonated drinks I say "soda" not "pop".
DiamondsxRoses 3 weeks ago
I'm a Detroiter, and I was NOT aware we had hard accents, 'til you pointed it out. The 'Fridgerator thing made me laugh though. It's so true.
NotReallyThatBritish 3 weeks ago
I'm from Roseville (like 20 mins from Detroit) and I don't talk fast but slurring my words I ALWAYS do and I pronounce everything the exact same as you lol. And I think I butcher Cadieux pretty bad I say it like "ca-jew"
abcmikke 3 weeks ago
pop. haha Meijers. oh sometimes i really do love michigan <3
ItsNoahHere 3 weeks ago
Alright I'm from west Michigan, you actually sound a tiny bit different. All the words you pronounced though I say the exact way. Just the way you say "accent" is kind of weird lol
licklehickle 1 month ago
Hahaha Michigan people r amazing. I'm from grand rapids!!!!!!!!! AHHH!.... I do say refrigerator wrong... snap
chewybananas5 1 month ago
'frigerator... Oh i know whats wrong... Crap..'
LMFAOO! i died!
Theiloveyouu97 1 month ago
Kroeger?? Blasphemy!! Michigan=Meijer's. Embrace your heritage!
MossyDrums27 1 month ago 12
@MossyDrums27 Kroger is from Michigan too. Though, yeah, I usually go to Meijer too.
AppleEarring 1 week ago
@AppleEarring Kroger is based out of Cincinnati, OH.
m100p 5 days ago
@m100p Ah okay I stand corrected.
AppleEarring 5 days ago
@AppleEarring All good. :-)I still love the D.
m100p 5 days ago
I wanna say you sound fine, but that's probably because a Detroit accent sounds like an NC accent! LOL.
Hiidora 1 month ago
schoenherr's german
bbeaup 1 month ago
ur T's kinda sound like D's
MRhiwhatsup1 1 month ago
Yea u should leave detroit the black r taking over . Lol jk
Patriik23 1 month ago
@Patriik23 That is messed up! Coming from a white person!
ilikewalmartbecause 1 month ago
@ilikewalmartbecause its a joke
Patriik23 4 weeks ago
@PhilTheGiant Detroit is also the home City to the birth of all american cars in this case mother city of all cars am I right or not if I'am, my friend then you are lucky to live in Detroit then any other City.
KingHarris1347 1 month ago
@PhilTheGiant you also forgot to add that Detroit was actually discovered by a Frenchmen.
KingHarris1347 1 month ago
You thought everything I did ahahahaha
TheWildgirl012 2 months ago
haha when i first moved people said i had a michigan accent~ and i didn't know there was such a thing :)
ciciy2006 2 months ago
I always get made fun of because of my "a's".....yay Michiganders :)
hotchikaero 2 months ago
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hotchikaero 2 months ago
Lol, I'm from CT and you sound perfectly normal to me. Apparently NW CT residents have similar accents. Was totally unaware too.
Pagmiester 2 months ago
Your an ugly muthafucka, whites left and your kind of whites stayed?
whorebig 2 months ago
i love the telegraph one hahahhha,so true.
xtheresapatriciax 2 months ago
im moving to MI from the south of england.. im going to stick out like a sore thumb!!!
Alis70s 2 months ago 2
haha, I just got back from Seattle too, and everyone told me I had a heavy Michigan accent. Totally turned my world upside down.
jj77111 2 months ago
I'm from about eight hours north of ya in Marquette michigan and I've been asked to repeat myself a lot when i go down south.
iplayatele 2 months ago
this is so true...i live there too and when i was traveling to chicago last year, a clerk at the mall told me i had an accent lol we sound canadian apparently but when we listen to everyone else in the country we dont hear any difference. heck yeah its a party store- liquor stores are for drunkards. and the only people who call them "gross-er-ies" are snooty rich people. :D
kevb927 3 months ago
lol.I live in the Seattle area I'm a cashier and I had a customer from michigan today tell me I have a Michigan accent.I have never been told that.BTW I understand you perfercly.So I don't know what that persons problem was that couldn't undertsand you.
LesterBonzSassygirl 3 months ago
e_e i dont wanna respond to that comment cause it was like forever ago.... but the only store that i add the " 's " on is Meijer. Everyone I know does, but ive never heard the other ones.
forevermyself1315 3 months ago
i live off lahser road!!!! definitely not lasher
Haileymorgann 3 months ago
i can totally hear my michigan accent in your voice. so weird.
Haileymorgann 3 months ago
I say all those words just like you, im from saginaw area
MK212074 4 months ago
bahhahaha....im from michigan
ItsCalledKpop 4 months ago
we don't pronounce our t's
kingback19 4 months ago
@kingback19 OH MY GOD...WE DONT..mind blow!!!
ItsCalledKpop 4 months ago
This is not France... LOL
CloudX100 4 months ago
Lol MICHIGAN! I didn't know I had an accent......
ManyImperfections15 4 months ago
haha GO FELLOW MICHIGANERS!! haha you should make more videos your funny lol
Rockkursoxx 4 months ago
now I want to make one of these lol. that's totally true though esp cans and cloze lol. Also apparently we say cat more like "caayut" and after I read that i realized it's really true, same with a lot of words like that shirt called a cami it sounds like caayumi. I went out of state for a while and everyone thought I had a weird accent and I hadn't thought I talked any differently than them but I guess we do!
ughh i hate when people say groceries like grossseries
xxxabc123xx 5 months ago
Yeh Phil, Not sure if you've got a deep Michigan accent. I looked up Michigan accent because after listening to Shaun Hadsall (who is from Birch Run Michigan) and thinking "why does this guy sound Canadian?" which lead me to your video. Well the giveaway word that he used was about which sounds like aboowt. You don't seem to do this. maybe Birch run is further north or more country than where your from, or your more travelled and have learned to iron out bits of your accent .
fyabun 5 months ago
oh you posted this on my birthday! and also we say belly button weird too, we drop the T's xD
Mariemurderx 5 months ago
Yeah, to UK ears you sound kinda Canadian dude
drakenapalm 5 months ago
@drakenapalm The accent does sound Canadian.
mayena 3 months ago
@mayena When I was in Florida. Someone asked if I was from Canadian. But my Ohio roommate correctly guessed I was a Michiganer. LOL
AppleEarring 1 week ago
Lol first time I heard of "crans". Weird shit, I used to live in London Ontario about 2&half hours from Detroit. Other then the crayons thing we sound similar :)
13vanity13 5 months ago
I don't know? You seem to kind of have a slight , slight accent. I always said groceries the way you have? Lol, But i'm from Kentucky, really close to Ohio though, and oh god, people seem to think that just because you're from KY you have a country accent. Totally, totally wrong. I don't sound "Country" at all. Also, has anyone ever told you , you remind them of Nick Simmons? Jw.
RoastedToasted5 5 months ago
Haha great video, so true. I live in Livonia so I know what you mean.
KristophM 6 months ago
ahaha i'm from michigan and i say everything exactly like you do. it's almost hard to say REfrigerator . and i usually say Kroger's and Meijer's, but never Walmart's or Rite Aid's. i have a boyfriend from illinois and we get mad at each other because we both like taco bell but i pronounce it TACO bell and he says taco BELL. like wtf. i'm there for tacos not bells.
itsmylovestorybaby 6 months ago
lol "Not CraYONce... this is not france"
Cinnamon815 6 months ago
Don't hear any accent. I'm from Texas and I say 'fridgerator' and 'grocries'. I don't know anyone who says 'grocery store'.
Ardalla555 6 months ago
Cement is a big one I get made fun of for but man, this is spot on!!!! To me, I talk normal. It's everyone else that has an accent!
Mamamidnight84 6 months ago
@Mamamidnight84 i get nailed for my "supposed" accent too! but i moved down south now and i am the LAST person that has an accent... i can't hear it but they say "im boutta go up da STERS" and " you need to get chow HER did" and stuff.... it's really funny
Cinnamon815 6 months ago
I love this guy! Living on the east coast has yet to suppress my MI accent; bring on the crayons while drinking pop and wearing tennis shoes!
Stevesclaire 6 months ago 7
HAHAH dude so right, no one goes 55 on the lodge or southfield freeway. seriously. no one
mkksal 6 months ago
@mkksal 696 is the Autobahn of the US
KristophM 6 months ago
When I was younger I thought that all New Yorkers had no accent what-so-ever. But then, while watching an episode of family guy, the show made fun of the New York accent. C.S.I New York also fails at doing a New York accent, too. I was all like 0.o
Queenlafry 6 months ago
i came here because i was wondering if we had an accent
IamDerpp 6 months ago
haha you are so right about the accent and the driving thing! Your funny and cute ;)
cutie5115 6 months ago
girl i met on omeagle if you see this send me a message
dannymsr1 6 months ago
Omigosh, I loved this xD I'm from Westland, which is like maybe 40 minutes from Detroit, and I talk like exactly how you do ! (obviously :p) this video was very entertaining though, I never though Michiganders had accents :3
laurathelovebug 6 months ago
weather in Michigan sucks. really. it was 90 degrees a few days ago and it hailed.
bullshit.
BKUK0 6 months ago
People in Utah where I went to school thought I was from Canada! I guess Michigan is part of canada lol
sunshineboi0783 6 months ago
@sunshineboi0783
And people from Utah actually have neutral or "general american" accents.
ohso41 6 months ago
Oh and please don't slurp your drink and then go 'aaaahhh' after you finish. .
HoopiesGoThrough 6 months ago
You can hear it when he says his 'a'. Like 'back' and 'fact'. But by no means is it incomprehendible so the lady in seattle must be around 9% spastic.
HoopiesGoThrough 6 months ago
Thats weird I've lived in Detroit all my life and I remember my grandfather calling the corner stores liquor stores. But then again most of his family is from Louisiana but moved up here a long time ago.
cottoncandychic 7 months ago
I...I can't understand you...Michigan accents... That women was probably a prick.
easternhero255 7 months ago
STOP DRINKIN COFFEE!!!
mrsmotorcity4life 7 months ago
lmao I saw this thing on Facebook that said all these words we say funny. I thought we said them normal. hahaha.
ForgottenForNever 7 months ago
My mother is from Detroit and she approves.
DeidarasGirl4Eva2Now 7 months ago
ur sexy!
DaniundPhil 7 months ago
oh about the speed limit-ya can do it in Midland too haha seriously-I was goin 110 and the speed limit was 55 and I drove right past them and they didn't do anythin
and I'm from Saginaw-I've been told I kinda have a yooper accent-but idk, it's just confusin to me
24creatrix 7 months ago
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Tobiastellem 7 months ago
im from MI too, this video is akshully priddy funny, (sips cup stares)
86trendkill 7 months ago
Ok we get it, he sounds normal to people all around the country. He was just telling a story. Geeeez.
mcrmegan1 7 months ago
I lived and worked in Texas for years, and with people from the UK and Cuba and they never say anything other than to complement my speech, but I do have a norhtern cities vowel shift (michigan) accent.
lengthyounarther 7 months ago
Even my foreign friends make fun of me because of groceries. ; _ ; I never even realized we said it oddly until now. I also didn't realize Partystore is more of a Michigan thing. You just grow up with it and never realize differently. As a girl from the Detroit area too, I sound the same. The Yoopers get a little funny with their accents though. :)
Downsight 7 months ago
Haha you are so right, my friends and I soon realized that there are absolutely no rules in Detroit, we've ran a ton of red lights, done a shitload of illegal turns, the city is sooo confusing, nobody cares about traffic laws.
huhhhhhhhhhhhh09 7 months ago 8
That's really ironic. My aunt got pulled over on the Lodge the other day for speeding. She's been going 75 on there for the past 30 years like everyone else and just now got pulled over. She didn't get a ticket though. And I didn't know party stores were exclusive to MI. Interesting.
CariandKelsey 7 months ago
michigan AND detriot area? lmao, im from port huron
DevilChick64 8 months ago
My friend Cheyenne grew up in Texas and when we watched this vid in English she was like 'it's not "Crans"! Its "Cray-ons" . We were all like, no. It's Crayons.
she0who0reads013 8 months ago
ya i dont get it man u speak pretty normal.......
BLAZE69007 8 months ago
@giggityjew123
To me people from Washington State sound similar to people from say Kansas City or Denver. The Michigan accent is completely different- When I lived in Seattle- I could spot a Michigan transplant from a mile just because of their accent
ohso41 9 months ago
While mentioning the part about groceries I noticed you said "Kroger" instead of "Kroger's". It seems a lot of us - I guess more around the Detroit area - also have a tendency to say the names of businesses in a possessive form:
Meijer's
Kroger's
Rite Aid's
Walmart's
You get the idea. Any other MI folks here do that?
joeydeadcat 9 months ago 32
@joeydeadcat yup
mrhockeyplaya32 8 months ago
@joeydeadcat Yuhp! Lol didn't notice till now. Even when I went down south, no one mentioned anything and I know darn well NOW that I have an accent... -coughs- website -coughs-
Yumminess247 8 months ago
@joeydeadcat i do! straight from Flint!
Cinnamon815 6 months ago
@joeydeadcat not in the Western part, at least I don't think
zayarummm 6 months ago
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eliizabetch 5 months ago
@joeydeadcat Looooooootta people I know say Kroger's and Meijer's.
mustbeburtreynolds 4 months ago
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kingback19 4 months ago
@joeydeadcat I mean its just Meijers...thats just what it is. there is noting else. haha
MK212074 4 months ago
lmfao i would say the word when it popped up and then youd say and it would sound exactly the same, wow my mind was just blown
rockandsaull 9 months ago
Yup, I sound pretty much the same. (: No one had called me out on "groceries", but I have gotten odd looks out of state. I'm from Metro Detroit.
Finally, a real michiganian, not that "Fargo" crap!
Downsight 9 months ago 2
i was born in detroit and then i moved to west Virginia about 2 years ago, and literally everyone told me i had an accent. i never knew it until then! but this made me laugh cuz we sounded the same and now im less paranoid. so thanks!
c0cksuck3r69 9 months ago
"important" and "can't" have no hard "t" sound for michiganders
KURTHUNT 9 months ago
the way you pronounce the word ACCENT, it sounds like ECCENT ;)
BatteredPiano 9 months ago
I was thinking you sound mostly normal then you said crayons and pronounced it like crans and I was like WTF
thekkl 10 months ago
Lol i live in michigan too.. I never knew we had an accent lol i cant tell at all
Baygoesrawrr 10 months ago
@Baygoesrawrr
If people from Columbus or Dayton OH sound "Southern" to you- then yes you have an accent.
ohso41 10 months ago
Michiganders have Michigan accent? I've lived in Michigan all my life. This is news to me.
Shikamarukan 10 months ago
@Shikamarukan
Yes, you have an accent compared to the rest of the country
ohso41 10 months ago
I work at a grocery store. People tell me I talk funny all the time. I don't mind it, since I live in St.Ignace, so I hear a wide range from normal Michigander, to Canadian.
It's worse I have a lisp too. =p
aug325 10 months ago
I'm from Michigan and i really didn't know i had an accent until now. But then i just realize my accent is a mixture of a Mississippi accent and a Michigan accent. Lol!!
RenaTheFreak 10 months ago
I live in Ohio, but my family's from detroit. Everyone says I talk weird ><
BigoletchAsketch 10 months ago
@BigoletchAsketch
Where in Ohio are you from- if you're from Columbus or Dayton then you have a standard "neutral" midwestern accent.
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41
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Grew up in and out of detroit, all family has michigan accent. I've gotten it from being only around it growing up.
BigoletchAsketch 10 months ago
Haha I live in Michigan GrandRapids and I found this one Google i don't have an accent they all do!!! lol
9InchesInDiameter 10 months ago
Haha its funny b/c I've heard we have rlly strong accents but I never thought so (I'm from detroit too) and everything we say "wrong" is exactly how I say it lmao like crayons (cranz) or something like milk (melk) or pillow (pellow) I can't say them the "right" way to save my life lmao
emiedgeyemo 10 months ago
@emiedgeyemo
In lower Michigan- the accent is very similar to Chicago, Cleveland, Syracuse ,Buffalo and Rochester NY (and Milwaukee to some degree) the rest of the country sounds different than you.
ohso41 10 months ago
@ 1:35-1:45 I find myself doing just those things. I was born in Detroit.
RyGil91 10 months ago
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RyGil91 10 months ago
It was cold that whole week lol
RyGil91 10 months ago
oh and the only thing you said differently than I do (other than refrigerator) is your 'a' pronunciation, like when you said accents at 4:24; you did the 'aeh' thing like people from ohio. (I'm from Maryland btw)
boxubixi 10 months ago
hahah with refrigerator, at first, I thought you cut to you saying it too late... but then you noticed your "mistake" and I lol'd
boxubixi 10 months ago
omg im from Michigan, and I never even knew we had an accent haha. btw we talk just a like, so it's awesome to know it wasnt just me. :D
ZaideProductions 10 months ago
@ZaideProductions
People from Michigan have very strong accents compared to the rest of the country (and I'm not talking the south or the east coast)
it's very noticeable and different compared to "general american"
ohso41 10 months ago
@ohso41 i never even noticed that! Thanks! :D It makes me wanna go to different states now, and see if anyone can tell if i have an "accent". lol
ZaideProductions 10 months ago
@ZaideProductions
I used to live in Seattle, and could always tell the transplants from Michigan (specifically the half of the state) apart from the local Seattle natives because the accents were so different- however as it turns out -some weren't from Michigan at all- some were from Chicago, some were from Cleveland or Toledo OH and some were from Buffalo or Rochester NY- the Metro Detroit area shares a similar accent with those specific cities.
ohso41 10 months ago
Hey i'm from Canada and to me you do have an accent. Mostly it's just your a's and then some other words, like the crayons word i think i say differently lol. anywho you said groceries the same as me so i don't know what that lady in seattle was talking about. but they probs have an accent over there too haha.
TayBics 10 months ago
haha, im from central Indiana and you sound COMPLETELY normal to me..
CGBabe101 11 months ago
detroit mutha fucka
MrSqueakyBootz 11 months ago
This is so true, I was born an raised in Michigan but live in Virginia now and all of my friends make fun of me because of my accent like when I say Cold the o and l are mushed, and I talk really fast...I can't wait to move back to the Midwest for college this fall
bandbaby93 11 months ago
lol
WordsWontWork 11 months ago
lmao :) I am from michigan and people yell at me...and im like...you guys are crazy.....I would like to point out...you said cahp for cop. I think you sound like a normal american...don't you love accents :)
amaaanda193 11 months ago
Dude. You northerners have some of the most awesome accents I've ever heard. Though we southerners got this interesting sorta accent..lol.well to yall it is anyways bc everytime i go up north some of yall stop me and ask me to say diff stuff...lol..well anyways, This vid was hilarious btw. (:
morganmusic2011 11 months ago
Dude!!! That is hilarious. You northern people always have the coolest sounding accents while us down here have thick southern accents..but it's funny when we go up north and y'all ask us to say diff stuff.
morganmusic2011 11 months ago
;D Metro Detroit, from the Mount Clemens area. Pride.
We mush together our words a lot, but...well, groceries sounds wrong the other way. Oh, and I completely dropped the RE from Refrigerator too. I mean you say "I'm grabbing some milk out of the fridge", not "I'm grabbing milk out of the refridge." So I always thought I was saying it correctly. Oops.
Downsight 11 months ago
@Downsight
Actually, that's not what you do- Your vowels are very hard compared to the rest of the country.
Fox "sounds like "fax" "car" sounds like "caahrr" and "back" sounds like "bay-eck" to the rest of the country.
Also, a midwestern neutral accent will likely sound "southern" to you.
ohso41 11 months ago
@ohso41: In response to me commenting that we mush our words together? We do. Because of the quickness in which we speak, some things seemed to get shoved together in our speech. And I already know about the vowels? Inland Northern City Vowel Shift.
I agree with how you say we say "car" and "fax", but I'd have to disagree with "back".
Downsight 11 months ago
@Downsight
"The "two syllable" way to pronounce the "short a's" is one of the first things I notice about the Inland north.
My friend who is originally from suburban Milwaukee loves her "pay-ehckers"
ohso41 11 months ago
apparently everyone else in the country stops for yellow lights and stop signs. i was totally unaware you can get pulled over for this ;)
MrLevitheace 11 months ago
I love Michigan accents. and you sound sexy saying city haha:P
And for groceries you prounounce it like "grosh-eries"
This is coming from a Kiwi (That's a New Zealander)
NeonGeah 11 months ago
If you will listen to the national newscasters, most of them speak with the same accent and dialect that midwesterners speak, including Michigan.
jhmorgan0951 11 months ago
@jhmorgan0951
Sorry they don't speak with a Michigan accent the michigan accent involves very hard vowels, which is considered unusual to the rest of the country.. Actually they speak with a Kansas CIty accent.
You see Walter Cronkite was the benchmark for the Newscasters accent. He was from St Joseph's MO just north of Kansas City. Walter Cronkite always said he never had to alter his accent, he just had to learn to speak at a slower metered pace.
ohso41 11 months ago
Haha yeah all that shit sounded normal to me :) cause I'm from ann arbor lol but you're attractive.
1234iem 11 months ago
Dude, ur funny. yeah I love Michigan (even though I was not born here), and I always considered the Midwestern speech to be the "proper one", that is the most accent free American English. I gotta admit, the only one that was somewhat weird to me is "clothes", as I was used to pronuncing the whole word without clipping the "th" part of it. Anyway, funny stuff.
Aleksndeb 11 months ago
@Aleksndeb
There are several midwestern accents. the most "neutral midwestern accents lie between i80 and i70- So places like Indianapolis, Kansas City, Omaha and Des Moines would be considered the most neutral
ohso41 11 months ago
I'm from New York, but I live in Florida and the only things we say different are 'crayons' and 'groceries'.
brittanyerinnx 11 months ago
what up though.duh troit ,lah sir goin to kroger's and meijer's (the franchise has no plural s) liquor stores have liquor party stores have no liquor but every other alcoholic beverage.
TussinProductions 1 year ago
Half the country says "groshrees", and I'm sure "cray-in" is almost as popular too. The dead giveaway to a Michigan accent is the emphasized short "a" sound, as in the word "accent". Us Michiganders like to give it a little more punch than usual.
thefrenchguy3000 1 year ago
LOL I talk exactly like you. I'm from northern Indiana XD
emily325117 1 year ago
the cop thing is soooo true....i fly by them all the time. i was doing 90 on I94 just south of 9mile which is 55mph speed limit...when i looked behind me and there was a cop right behind me on my ass. i just eazed up and moved over a lane and he went right past me. lmao
HAILtoBO 1 year ago
im from texas but people dont believe me cause i dont have a texan accent ..im mexican and dont have that accent either ... O.o
TheRosaA7X 1 year ago
I live in Oregon and people thing I have an accent. I don't say "re"fridgerator either... It's a fridgerator, PERIOD!
TheTrueOregon 1 year ago
when i went down to florida, somebody said "oh hey you are from michigan arent you?"
i was leik.... wut?
"yeah i could tell from your accent'
O_O
sharosudo 1 year ago
you are so freaking cute!!!
cindybeemoyao 1 year ago
I'm from California and we don't have accents :D
devinstarbucks 1 year ago
Hahahaha, I love how you said Kroger,
People aren't gonna know what kroger is.
puddaz444 1 year ago
Lol dude.. im from Florida.... I sound like you. LOL Apparently I have an accent too... ??? I dont get it, you sound normal to me.
TheParadoxMuse 1 year ago
It's the A's. Instead of pronouncing the short o sound like pea-cAWk. You would say Pea-CACK
ThrashingTerror 1 year ago
@ThrashingTerror
And again, the only two parts of the country you're going to hear anyone pronounce Peacock as "Pe-cawk" is in the Pittsburgh PA and the Boston MA area. Other than the great lakes region, where it is Pronouned "Pea-cack" the rest of the country pronounces it as "pea-cock"
ohso41 1 year ago
@ThrashingTerror LOL i've never said pea-cack
and i've been in michigan my whole life. maybe i'm just going crazy. and it sounds different to other people.
sharosudo 1 year ago
@sharosudo
Whenever I'm in MIchigan (downstate) Northern Ohio, Upstate NY, Chicago and Eastern Wisconsin I hear the hard vowels (IE "Pea-cack") only in this part of the country- no place else.
ohso41 1 year ago
I WAS AT KROGER YESTERDAY! and I was buying grosheries :D
whoaskdyu 1 year ago
The only thing I see that is weird about your speaking is the sleerping your drink/coffee. I must be from Michagan in a weird kind of way since I say "City" the same way, as well as "Groceries". I guess Southern Californian's speak like Michaganders. You speak fine and I can understand you just fine. However, I never heard of a "party store" before, so that may be an issue if I came to visit and someone told me to go to a party store.
sandbar3000 1 year ago
@sandbar3000
Southern Californians sound nothing like Michiganders. The "hard vowels" are very noticeable.
ohso41 1 year ago
lol but at least u don't sound like a yupper. pronounced (you-pur)
Cakeandbun666 1 year ago
I'm from southeast Michigan and I live in NYC now but this just makes me happy because it is SO true and it reminds me of the D
clairebear999 1 year ago
grosheries lol
TheFubz 1 year ago
@_@lol u speak completely normal to me, Im lost ahhh
gabriellez613 1 year ago 10
I lived in Michigan like my whole life, and when i moved to Texas for school it got pointed out that i had an accent!!! I was like bull crap i have an accent, you guys are crazy.... I never realized any of those like Strictly michigan things til i moved.
MaRsMcV 1 year ago
I live in michigan too, I was actually in detroit friday watching state playoff games and we speak exactly the same haha. : ) youre really funny by the way!
calichic2011 1 year ago
I live just outside of the city of Detroit itself and I completly agree about the speeding part. THe police for the most part dont give a shit how fast you drive because everyone there drives 10 or 20 miles over the speed limit !
Swordman401 1 year ago
LOL, I was sitting here drinking coffee and wanted to look up Michigan accent, because that's what I apparently have, and you were drinking coffee (CAW-FEE) too, so I was laughing as I said the words along with you, we sounded alike. lol! And whoever says we're saying groceries wrong is full of crap. LOL!
geminivids 1 year ago 13