Regional Dialect Meme - Cincinnati, Ohio

[trishnice]

You're not crazy!! I grew up learning the rain thing is "The Devil is beating his wife" HAHAHA you say he's kissing her, we say he's beating her! I haven't watched many of these dialect videos yet, just the Iowa ones (where I'm from), but you're the first one who actually had an answer for that one :)

[brontular]

I'm from IN like 15 minutes from Cincy and even though poor little Pandy's doin' the best she can, our accents are much thicker than thou. Similar yet thicker.

[blastofo]

I like quirky girls like you. I like your glasses and hair, and body language. Its just a shame you all turn out to be lesbians and my heart gets broken.

[PandyFackleresque]

@blastofo I'm not a lesbian...?

[blastofo]

@PandyFackleresque I think you may be in the closet. There's nothing wrong with being a lesbian. And to be honest, i'm a pretty androgynous guy. I could be a smooth transition for you. *Wink* *Wink*

[PandyFackleresque]

@blastofo Yeah... I'm not a lesbian.

[ForeverandEverDance]

This is spot on. A lot of my family lives in Cincinnati, and they speak similarly, if not the same, as you.

[zeppelin8677]

Thick framed glasses, pierced up face, stretched ears, messy yet colorful hair, reads Richard Dawkins... I spot a Hipster...

[PandyFackleresque]

@zeppelin8677 Hell yes you do.

[JesusFreak494]

lol accent in itself shows the ohioan accent

[Subzzero93]

@JesusFreak494 so true it gets me every time "I don't have an Aaccent!! ok yeahh maybe I do"

[monumentfloyd]

"MEEM" might indeed be the correct pronunciation, and you might be feeling superior that way. However, it doesnt sound pleasant. I prefer to say "mim", and that actually might be closer to the Old English usage.

[PandyFackleresque]

@monumentfloyd "I prefer to say "mim", and that actually might be closer to the Old English usage." Haha, and I'm the one that's supposedly feeling superior about my pronunciations ;)

[lucindathestrange]

hehe i'm from perth australia and I have to play someone who pretends to be from Cincinnati (complicated i know haha) and this really helped thanks! (:

[TwilightsSerenity]

I SAY OMA AND OPA <3

[ericsterwerf]

I'm from Cincinnati and I heard that when it's raining while the sun is out the devil is getting married.

[TheKoodude7]

This is a real Cincinnati accent. Some people in Cincinnati talk very southern but most of us talk very proper for Americans!

[GuyItalian]

eveyone knows Cleveland is better than Cincinatti :)

[GeorgeInCincinnati]

C-i-n-c-i-n-n-a-t-i. If you're going to insult us, for the love of God, could you at least get the spelling right? ;-)

[PandyFackleresque]

@GeorgeInCincinnati I did!

[ryno123321]

uhh wheres the accent?

[marinah2oblue]

Midwesterners sound like the work so hard a talking lol, they make everything loooonger.

[MellBell42]

Drinking fountain! :3

[MrMissGlorious]

I've lived in Cincinnati all my life. Represent! :D Only thing I do differently, is I say "Aunt" like "ant", "data" like "dayta", "coupon" like "cuepon", "syrup" like "seerup" and "pajamas" like "puhjahmas". Dunno if that makes sense. I've never called a bubbly carbonated beverage "pop" though, it's always been "soda" to me. Also, I have never heard of that regional sun and rain phrase thing either.

[DoctorChibi740]

Moved to Cincinnati from Columbus. Someone noticed I had a differant dialect from others around here. Did not notice anything at all lol.

[spectroman71]

Loved the clarification of how to pronounce "meme"!

[iboy012345]

It's not wash. It's warsh! XD

[lovinmynugget]

I have watched a few of these videos and i think yours is my favorite so far i love the way people talk to!!! linguistics is fantastic!! i'm from southern cali so i don't have an accent really lol

[kivoutin]

A rainbow lady...

[Freezer513]

Thanks for saying aunt the CORRECT way. Lol. I also heard an "r" try to sneak in when you said "wash" as in "warsh." It's not uncommon to hear people say "warsh you clothes" around here in Cincinnati. It's mainly the transplants from the hills and sticks though.

[jcherise1]

Im from Cincinnati too!!! Im gonna post a video like this! Im from westwood like a block from Cheviot. I feel as if I dont have an accent but ive been told by ppl from columbus that we talk proper with a faint southern twang lol

[Brentstah]

Haha Cincinnati represent! (read richard dawkins... pssh) I'm actually from RIGHT over the river, but I grew up in Indiana and Forest Park. I call what you called "Pill Bug" a "Roley Poley". Addressing a group of people: Hey guys, Hey Y'all, Y'all, you all, you guys, or just sup guys?

Also, never heard that raining while the sun is shining thing, I never heard it called something special. I call it raining while sun is shining. (THE FIRST ONE'S PRONOUNCED ANT BY THE WAY!! AARGH)

[MitholX]

Water fountain = Drink tap :)

If you're interested in the Australian dialect, watch my regional dialect meme video!

[Xcorgi]

OK, there was really nothing unique about this. I've lived in Cincinnati all my life and the only thing that I've heard about us that is unique is that we have NO accent. Unless of course you happen to be a transplanted Kentuckian. We should just call Hamilton Little Kentucky. They will always tell you when you first meet them. They will say I live in Hamilton but I'm originally from Kentucky and they will do so with a big twang. When they do that, it's not like we need to be told to begin with.

[xxSuperSarcastic]

I'm from Cincinnati too :) If it's raining while sunny we've always said the devil is getting married... That's kind of disturbing haha

[WC3POchannel10A]

Your vowels are pretty rounded for someone in the lower Midwest. Cincinnati is the nexus of the South, the Midwest and the East, so it is bound to have some mixture of influence in speech. Also, I believe West Virginia and Kentucky mountain is there also from people who moved to southwest Ohio for work in past decades.

[delhigal97]

I'm from Cincinnati too ! :D

[PandyFackleresque]

@delhigal97 Ah yes... a sibling in suffering.

[battlestarnomore]

Soda!!

[ashyash4life]

@battlestarnomore lol.i want to call it soda too!but in ohio,its pop.so i just go with the ohio flow!

[caffingdu]

what you said was mostly the same as how we say it here in California.

except the bug is called a roly poly (roll-ee pole-ee) (maybe the weirdest name for the bug, when i really think about it)

and it's SODA not POP!! I feel like you're from the 1950s anytime I hear someone call it "pop" or "soda pop" haha

[jonatcer]

@caffingdu Same here (Roly poly and everything else), but just so you know... It's pop! :P

[eilseleiram]

i say soda, hey guyz, and the 'devil is beating his wife(the rain would be her tears)

[Wally773MTG]

I did a video response, did you see it? its not showing you approved it...

[PandyFackleresque]

@Wally773MTG Because I just did just now

[Wally773MTG]

@PandyFackleresque kewl....(choke)...uh, I mean cool

[julian303]

its called a bubbler in aus! not a fountain GRRR

[kitsunegames]

I pronounce the L in salmon a little more strongly than you, and the A in carAmel, everything else sounds "normal" to me.

Questions - Teepee, rolly polly, soda, sneakers or tennis shoes, hey, daddy longlegs, mamaw and papaw (Tennessee) and granma and granpa (Texas), shopping cart, sun shower, remote, and water fountain.

[bruinjogger]

tp, rolly polly, soda, gym shoes, you all/guys/gals, daddy long legs, grandma/pa, shopping cart, raining while sunny, remote, drinking fountain

[francisthechick13]

My parents and I say a witch is getting married when it's raining and it's sunny, I don't know whether it's a Spanish thing. I say peecan instead of pecan and caramel not carmel.

[EmilyCan0]

ooo i'll do this tommarow

[PandyFackleresque]

@EmilyCan0 Video response!

[InuitInua]

I knew you were from ohio when I first saw you videos before I went to your channel page to look at your info.

One from ohio always knows another from ohio. :)

[PandyFackleresque]

@InuitInua Because we can see the quiet suffering in one another's eyes ;)

[endthedisease]

potato bug, even though it's not a potato bug.

[perkuskamui]

aunt = ant, caramel = Care-a-Mel, Sure = shoe-rrr, May-O-nayse, Puh-jaw-muhs

lol hope that comes across well enough

[perkuskamui]

t.p. a house = Roll a house

bug that curls = Rolly Polly

I call carbonated drinks Soda

Grampa / Gramma

[gibadoo]

a daddy long legs is a very large mite, not a spider. that is why it's sometimes called a harvester mite

[kitsunegames]

@gibadoo Actually it's an arachnid and not a mite though also not a spider(Talking about Opiliones, not the Cellar Spider or the Crane Fly, which are also referred to as daddy longlegs), and they are called harvestmen.

What is known as a harvester mite is a small red mite with short legs, it would look like a little red dot moving on your arm.

[gibadoo]

@kitsunegames mites are arachnids. so are ticks and horseshoe crabs.

[kitsunegames]

@gibadoo True. Even so, the harvester mite is a completely different creature than the daddy longlegs aka harvestmen. And it is wrong to call a harvestman a mite, they are not mites, they are an order unto themselves(Opiliones).

[TheLaughingOut]

I only really say aunt differently than you.

Also we change the channel with a clicker and we don't have a word for when it's raining and the sun is out.

Other than those, we're pretty similar linguistically. We must live somewhat close.

[abbynormal0ne]

OOOOOooooh, I so totally am going to do this when I have time. I love linguistics and dialects!

[PandyFackleresque]

@abbynormal0ne Can't wait! Do a video response!