Regional Dialect (Pacific Northwest)

Say These Words:

Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

Now answer these questions:

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

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[goodbeerfinder100]

there is no pacific northwest accent it has only been habited by europeans for like 100 years. Go there, everything looks like it was built last week.

[erikolson100]

@goodbeerfinder100 no everything looks like it was built in the 70s

[MissAlissa15]

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.

[erikolson100]

@MissAlissa15 OH SNAP!!

[Ironcabbit]

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?

[erikolson100]

@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

[therurjuur]

Yes Panic Switch in the background!! Love silversun pickups..

[AdamTheAlien]

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".

[JCKustom13]

I went to portland once about 2 years ago and I swear Norcal and Oregon have the least accents. I think thats where that plain english that you here on TV and movies comes from.

[ilovemymilitary]

@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...

[rickygervais1776]

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.

[arildoaim]

The background music is really distracting

[Killermolls44]

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]

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

[jkjkjkish]

@TehBrizon

way to forget British Columbia, Canada it's part of the pacific northwest