Regional Dialect Meme - Montana

Hey guys, here is my Montana accent, notice its not twangy like people make it out to be (since its not a southern state... duh)

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[Th33asy8utton]

YESS YOU SAY BAG THE SAME WAY I DO TOO

What part of Montana are you from?!

[wpederson1]

@Th33asy8utton Near Missoula :-) Everyone I know from back home says it the same way... hehe

[TanyaBrossoit]

ummmm..... I am Canadian and you sound like you have a Canadian accent to be honest.

[wpederson1]

@TanyaBrossoit Its funny you say that, I've been in California, and someone said to me "you must be from Montana, or Canada..." I was like "how can you tell?" she was like "because of your accent" its funny that I don't think I have an accent, but I guess I do... LOL

[donkeypantsf1]

@MALibraryMedia I know that its common to hear, "Only in Montana can the sky be blue, the sun shining and its snowing!!!"

[donkeypantsf1]

I hear you with bag/flag, etc. I get guff all the time 'specially being in the military. how do you pronounce root (the noun and the verb)? How about creek? So, yeah I'm told I have a Canadian accent, but I think the Minnesotans and NorDakers do.I think I slur my words a bit more than you. Like if there is a cluster as in "maintenance" I don't pronounce the "t." Also how about there actually being a Manhattan, NY? Wow was I blown away to find that out in like 4th grade or Amsterdam, Holland?

[MALibraryMedia]

Oh, how do you pronounce "skull"? My mom, who was an English teacher, used to harp on me about my Montana pronunciation of that and of bag.

[MALibraryMedia]

I grew up in Havre, but I have now lived in Virginia for 20 years. Here, when it is raining and sunny at the same time we say "the Devil is beating his wife." I don't recall having a phrase for that in Montana. A friend of mine who lives here but came from North Dakota also says bag like you did.

[ohso41]

@AmericanThunder

Oh, ok - that's different. then- you're probably right I notice the same thing with central Connecticut (Hartford area) and Western MA.

[AmericanThunder]

@ohso41 I'm not that far North. This is the Hudson Valley. Trust me, there's little to no accent.

[ohso41]

@AmericanThunder

Actually that's incorrect. Upstate NY has the Inland North accident- this is mostly Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester, and to a lesser extend in Binghamton and Albany. Thiis is a very notable accent shared with other "great lake cities" such as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and to a similar extend Milwaukee. It's actually quite far from "dictionary english" and is very distinctive compared to more "neutral" parts of the country.

[AmericanThunder]

@ohso41 Upstate NY doesn't really have much accent. We pronounce most stuff the way the dictionary indicates.

[ohso41]

@AmericanThunder

I grew up on Long Island, The Upstate NY accent couldn't be more different than the General Western accent which Montana is apart of.

[wendyandwanda]

I'm from Virginia and when it rains when the sun is shining, we say that the "Devil's beatin his wife". I realize no other dialect meme video has understood this question, so I thought I'd clear it up. :)