The Indiana Accent!!!!

[thelittlesweetone]

HOOSIERS!! =) <33

[JessicaLouiseMusic]

All I hear is xbsdhfbhdgjnfdjgndfgusdfjsnbHB­ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ­ZZZZZ?

[billboardnumber1]

you sound like you could be from PA, OH, CA, Niagara Falls, NY or even ON, BC (Canada).

[Rand0mGirl13]

@chevyking10 OMG yes it is boring here!!! Apretty much all there is is corn and soy beans.

[patsbruins]

did you film this with a potato?

[cheeveka3]

Most people would automatically say southern but its actually variation of mountain talk and how they talk is considered basically the same is what people speak down here for a few words and sayings may be different

[chevyking10]

I guess you have social phobia when talking in front of others. Don't worry I have the same shit thing and I'm struggling to overcome this problem. Anyway I wanna just ask you about something is Indiana state really boring as I'll come and study at Purdue uni in West Lafayette. thx and good luck

[irkofan]

I'm from Indiana, and I don't have that drawl--I even grew up in the country. XP

[ZombiePyro1]

People here in South Carolina say I have an accent and I never noticed it until now but Im proud of it...Indiana was the best place I ever lived in my entire life and I wish I could move back but theres hardly any jobs up there......but trust me all you Indiana haters should try South Carolina....the south is full of the dumbest fucking people ou will ever meet.

[blacksuperman341993]

lol you hit that right on the nail lol. i live in ohio but i was born and raised in evansville,indiana i went to harrison high school on the eastside. yeah we have a southern accent for real lol.

[jdawg951]

Mooresville camby area

[Leextemari]

... YAY WE SOUND THE SAME! :D

[starblazewinter]

I'm from Hendricks cnty!!

GOO INDIANA!! bahaha

We all sound the same >.<

[Bubbless4444]

All this talk about the difference between the northern accent and the southern accent, but nobody has made a response to show the difference. Am I gonna have to do it myself? Somebody do it, cause I think us southern Indiana people sound pretty darn cute! P.S. Loved the video.You sound just like my college friends from up that way : )

[ApplePickingAaron]

I'm from Southern Indiana blessed with a southern accent.

[xoRACHEL96xo]

I live in Indiana(: haha i sound like this.. During the Covered Bridge Festival in Parke County, I've been told that I have a cool dialect by a lot of people that live in different states, but to my friends and I.. we all sound normal. ( but of course to us, it sounds normal)

[TheSaviorKoty]

Around Oakland City everyone sounds the same except from the people from the country

[evilbunnyangoodbunny]

I'm from Southern Indiana. Evansville to be precise. We have a little more of a Kentucky mixed with Texas sort of accent.

[NeonPinkEyeShadow04]

Yeah sounds about right! I'm from Northern IN (Fort Wayne) as well, but my family is from Central (Indianapolis, New Castle), And my Grandparents moved up this way from Kentucky. So I've heard a bit of all of them.

[2trillgirl]

wooo hoosiers Gary!!

[sandbar3000]

I was in Crown Point IN for 4 years and it must have been a very strong accent that I had. I'm from Southern California (I'm here now). When I went to Milwaukee in the summer of 1999 (after 2 years in Crown Point), I was asked "Are you from Indiana?" I asked why. The ladies said that my accent was a really strong Indiana accent. I told them that I was from Southern California and I was living in Indiana for bible college. Very strange . . .

[tragic1Kingdom]

BOOM that's it. But the eastside Indianapolis accent is super specific.

[Punkprincess9519]

haha bro we sound just alike,

indiana is boring D:

[DihDin]

@Punkprincess9519 Totally <_<

[HipHopPrincess102]

@Punkprincess9519 I am Born In Indiana And We Are Not Boring

[Punkprincess9519]

@HipHopPrincess102 If you read what i had said, I said Indiana is Boring, Not the People.

[blacksuperman341993]

@Punkprincess9519 go to indianapolis lots to do there. if you can't find anything to do there then it's not indy it's you.

[krazzylm10]

that was so awesome i loved all five minutes of it you really hit the head on the nail with that accent of yours parnter; btw ur a cutie! :) i like the way you say your RRRRRRRRRRRRRR's :)))))))))))))))

[DihDin]

@krazzylm10 Aww, thanks! :D

First time i recall being called cute like this. ;D

[yoshibug3]

i live in northern indiana and you sound pretty normal to me, so i guess you got the indiana accent part right. :)

[ashmarykate]

my ex is from indiana and his accent sounded like he was from boston lol

[W2IBC]

you sound more like a southern/midwest hybrid accent.

i live in anderson. born here grew up here, but travaling the nation people thought i was from new york. due to when i talk its usually quick and to the point (ing ending i drop the g so dancing becomes dancin.) which i hear alot of people here do.

[Bennisim66]

im form columbus man, we sound just the same haha

[nclsgut]

Fellow south bend person here, and I was raised here but i was born in chicago.. mm lemme upload my video response and see if its the same :D

[barnesfam]

I can't hear a thing.

[kyokat130]

Up near Chicago, people don't talk like this really. But everywhere else in Indiana they tend to have a little "twang" so to speak.

[a13B1xx]

I live in southern Indiana and you sound just like meeee. Haha.

[DihDin]

@a13B1xx Odd. lol I come from above indy. I don't know how i sound so southern indiana when i was born and raised in the north. Maybe cause i have family from arkansas and it has a little influence on my accent? Though actually, my own accent can be compared to like a New Jersey one, so it has its north-eastern qualities.

BTW what's with that weird alien pic on your MS? And how come it isn't viewable in your album?

[a13B1xx]

@DihDin Well, I just moved to southern Indiana about 2 years ago.... I used to live more north. I think all we Hoosiers sound the same haha. And about the alien picture... I just uploaded it to my album, set it as my album default, and then deleted it. :p If you want the picture I can link it to you, lol.

[DihDin]

@a13B1xx Ah, ok. Nah just asking how it got there and yet it's not in the actual album. ;)

[joshkkv]

woo hoosiers ftw lol

[jimmihshs]

Im from about as far north as you get in indiana! Angola and I love how i sound.

[Helfrichishere]

I am from the southern half of Indiana. My mother was from Louisville and my father was from southern Indiana and surprisingly enough I have a pretty accent-less english minus some certain words I will say. Southern Indiana is more like a slight Southern but without a lot of the twang. Almost accent less but with some southern words in it. Indiana accent is pretty distinct from others in the area.

[jimmihshs]

ive noticed that southern hoosiers have more of a drawl than a southern accent.

[meganlynnlds]

Where I'm from in Indiana, there's a strong German heritage, so the accent is pretty different. Our "I'm" sounds like "am". Some people say "warsh" instead of "wash". I have since eliminated that word from my vocabulary. Our voices sound almost like our noses are stuffy. It's weird and this is just what I've been told and from my own observations :)

[hug103]

Everyone where I live speaks like we are from Kentucky... I don't live anywhere near Evansville though. x)

[samurai0rezurii]

I was born and raised in Ohio and I don't think you even have an accent...o_o  You sound normal...*shrug*

[DihDin]

Well, Indiana and Ohio are right next to each other and i would suspect the accents are the same or very similar. I have listened to some ohians speak and some of them do sound very similar to indianans. ;)

[cooldan11]

i think folks from indiana sound more southern than northern im from chicago and theres a huge difference we dont sound southern

[xxanaxanarchyxx]

I'm from Indianapolis!

[cdel723]

I noticed that most of the people from Evansville sounded like they were from Kentucky. It was crazy! They sounded like they had a stronger southern accient than people that were actually from Kentucky. They would make fun of the the way I said Louisville, I said it "Louie- Ville" and they said it" Lule-vll" really fast kind of. There were alot of other words but that was the most common one.

[smbstressfest]

Much of Evansville, IN is <5 miles from Kentucky so it's not crazy at all that many southern hoosiers have a bit more of the KY sound, it's just geography.

[meganlynnlds]

Yep, I'm living in Evansville now and a lot of people do say "Lule-vll" :)

[cdel723]

I'm from South Bend, Indiana and I have lived in almost every region of the state. I first started to notice the different dialects threwout the state when I went away to college in Evansville, Indiana. Everybody said that I talked different when I spoke. They said I talked very fast and it sounded like I was from Chicago or Detroit or something.

[Sharkie6545]

I live in northern Indiana too so I've got a bit of a drawl like you but it's not too noticeable for some reason.

Indiana accent is funny sometimes like pronouncing "Monday" like "Mundee" lol

[Valpo2004]

I'm in Northern Indiana too and I have a hard time saying the word potato correctly. Used in regular speech for me I often end up saying "pa-tay-ta" (Especially if I say potato salid) Also sometimes my onion sounds like "on yon". And before I went to college (where there was a lot of out of state people) I said stold instead of stole. I also got used to hearing the term soda so I use that term alot more then I did before.

[Amberella2408]

I was born in Michigan and now live in Indiana for about 10 years. When I first moved here I noticed they said treasure as trey-sure or pleasure as pley-sure...kinda got on my nerves...used to it not but I dont say it lol

[bananasmitty95]

you dont sound like ur from northern indiana!!! you sound more like a southern indiana accent!!!! lol u dont get really "southern" sounding till ur below Indy. hahaha

[DihDin]

I'm from Anderson originally, but now i live in Frankton, which are waay above indy.

Well, i don't know where that southern thing from though, i even say words "And uh" like "Andyuh" with a quiet "Y" in there, New Jersey does that as well, i notice. I have been to southern Indiana before and it sounds more Kentucky-like down there, i have lived in Northern indiana my entire life, most people up here sound like me. It's a hoosier twang, we all have it here in Madison County.

BTW, the

[DihDin]

Also, i just added a annotation to about 2: 59(?) read that and maybe that will clear up a misunderstanding.

[bananasmitty95]

wow you sound just like we do here in bloomington!!!!!

[vawver]

All of Indiana has that hoosier twang and it doesn't seem to matter where you're from in the state, it just varies in degree. I'm from Fort Wayne (Northeast) and Warsaw (North). You would think these areas would be the least likely to show an accent of any kind, but both areas have that twang and you don't notice it until you either leave or have an outsider come in to tell you that you sound like a hick haha. Just watch "Hoosiers!"

[DihDin]

I am going to make a better video on this, i eve felt incorrect when making it.

One thing i do notice, however, is that we have an accent that kind of sounds like our mouths are full when we say some vowels.

[adioslve88]

Im from hammond indiana, northwest. I know i don't sound like this lol, but I don't think i have an accent.

[Ehsum41]

I'm from Indiana.

i kinda have a hillbilly accent though i guess cause my family is from the southern states.

[Brettwbeyer14]

hate to tell ya but you have a very noticeable southern twang in your accent. how far north are you? are you closer to the michigan border or indianapolis?

[DihDin]

I'm from anderson originally(now residing in frankton) the northern indiana accent has a mix of a hick accent and a north-eastern one.

I also forgot to mention that we say gone as guawn kinda, though the "u" is kinda said rather fast.

[RSC2006]

Dude thats totally wrong.. anywhere from like warsaw, fort wayne south you will get a southern twang.. i am from Elkhart/South Bend area and i notice a more Chicago accent, not a southern kentucky. FYI