You Betcha! The 'Midwest accent' explained by a dialect coach
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- čas přidán 20. 09. 2022
- "A lot of what I hear from actors is, 'This can't be right… you can't say this like that!' and I'm like, 'No we do… that's how we say it," said Keely Wolter, an accent and dialect coach based in the Twin Cities.
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I’ve been to all 50 states. Minnesota EASILY has the strongest accent of all them. I’ve sat in diners in small Minnesota towns and it felt like being in the movie Fargo.
I’m born in twin cities it’s hard to hear my own accent
I've been to Wisconsin. My mom's side of the family is from there. Hearing the Wisconsin accent, being from Washington state, was not real surprising having grown up in that type of family. I say some words that are unique Wisconsin/Midwest such as brat, hotdish, pop (instead of soda) often times without even knowing it.
@@josephfaulkner7426 I'm from South Carolina and went to Northern Wisconsin one time and a lady said that she loved my Southern draw and I replied well thank you, I love your accent too and she asked me what accent? 🤣
I have relatives based in Duluth, so when they visited is when I got to experience the Minnesota accent. Just a couple months ago I was flying back home through customs and I heard the women behind me speaking, and they sounded completely normal at first but once one of them said "bag" it was an instant alarm in my brain. Kept listening to them talk for a little while before I turned and asked if they were from Minnesota and sure enough they were. They sounded just like my relatives, but one of the women told me "I don't think I have an accent" like I didn't just accurately guess where they were from XD
I'm from Minnesota. I've never met anyone who sounded like the movie Fargo. Ever.
3:35 "ahhh, sure, okay" yeah that's us
I moved to northern Minnesota in 2000.
Every time I buy a single item at the store I am asked
"Do you want a beg for that?" I still suppress the urge to get on one knee plead for it.
it's baaaaaaaaaggg lol
@@tradeswithdbo In Bemidji they don't drag it out.
To my southern ears it sounds like "beg"
LAWL !
In the Corn Belt we seem to do this with E rather than A. I’ve heard mostly old Baby Boomers who grew up in the country say “beg” as “bayg” or pronounce the name Regan as “Raygun”, so for a long time I thought it was a generational thing, but I did it too when I was a toddler. I remember calling eggs “aygs” and thinking acorns were called “egg-corns”.
@@user-nl3xw4gg7m we're north of the corn belt here. Corn is grown for silage, growing season is too short for grain.
Sugar beets are grown west of us. Hay is the only profitable crop. The Norwegians came here maybe 110 years ago, nobody else wanted the free land.
That's where the peat bog accent comes from.
😂😂😂
Being from England I hear three accents in the USA. Northern States, Southern States, and Minnesota. I do love the Southern States accent, yes ma'am I do.
I live in the South yet I have a midwestern accent. Sometimes when I start talking people will look at me and be like, “where are you from? Are you a northerner?”
The dynamic between the northern and southern states is really interesting to me, possibly because I grew up without too much bias. If I could choose where to live though, I would get out of the South, mainly because some of the people here don’t have the friendliest opinions.
Add Appalachian to that list, just look it up
Thanks Kim Jong Il. I also love the Southern accent. I moved to the south from the Midwest and I can't get enough of it!
There are way more-The South alone has multiple accents
Southwestern like Texas? It's not the same as Southern, quite different.
I love Minnesota's accent 😂 its so cute, doncha'no!
The tightening mouth thing when trying to speak English is exactly how swedes do it. It's so funny to discover that it has stuck amongst the people over there. The oooo word is spelled with a simple Å in Swedish and sound exactly like that. The word bag is pronounced like that in Swedish and though it spells the same we do say it like it's spelled with the letter Ä. Which sound just like how they pronounce it. Så Å and Ä tends to be something they use a lot. The only difference in the word oofda is that we say offdå. So it's a lot of Swedish going on there when you start to listen. The only letter I still haven't herd is the letter Ö.
I’m so glad you brought out the bag 😂 my husband and I live in another state. We were at tbell a couple of weeks ago and I went to ask the employee for a bag and she said “wat?” So I said it louder because I thought I mumbled, but my husband heard the entire interaction across the restaurant 🫠
My husband's from Minnesota and he hates the movie Fargo. He said it's nothing like the "Minnesota" accent lol
I'm from South Dakota and we like to say, "Oh, you betcha, aye." "Oh, don't cha' know." Jokingly. We do say bag like beg and I noticed he says 'hill' like 'heel' and I make fun of him for it. Lol. My dad is an immigrant from Czech Republic and my husband said that I had an accent when we first started dating but now he doesn't hear it.
My husband is the opposite, he's from Idaho and he says "heel" like "hill." 😂😂 He also pronounces "feel" like "fill"
"It fills like I'm getting a blister on my hill!"
Great segment!
"No, yah". Her dialect coach didn't get it all!
I’m from Seattle which is kinda known for having one of the most basic American accents and I lived in Minnesota for a year. 5 almost 6 years back in Seattle and some Minnesota pronunciations still stick with me.
really like what?
From Seattle too. Originally from Kazakhstan. I always get asked if I'm from Canada because I say my o's and a's different
I'm from Iowa and we are known to have one of the most neutral "flat"accents in the USA. Think of Johny Carson and that's a "Iowa" accent. Unless you are in southern Iowa, then Missouri twang comes in pretty good.
Im not american but i remember watching fargo (living in mx) and being so entertained by the accent, i literally kept copying the words and saying them back lmao i thought they made it up but then i watched the "making a murderer" docu series and realized its a real thing haha i had never ever heard it before. its really cool though, reminds me of canadian or irish/scottish accents in how they pronounce certain vowels (similar to Spanish monophthongs)
You're pretty close to being right. Most of the people that settled the regions in The Dakotas and Minnesota were pretty much The UK and all the countries around the UK. Irish , German, Norwegian. Etc. It's mostly German and Norwegian where I'm at here by fargo.
That’s a legit Minnesota accent not a Midwest accent lol. Minnesoooooota, dontcha know? 🤪 sounds more Canadian to us. I’m from Michigan and I can confirm us from Michigan ohio indiana all sound the same.
@@Rusty_NickleI’m from Michigan and y’all sound super Canadian to a lot of us but with more “dontcha knows” over the “aye”. Lol.
Side note- (I don’t mean that in a bad way either. I hope it doesn’t come across that way! Us midwesterners are the best and I’ve been told some of the friendliest people. Js.)
@@rachell6296 oh Heck no. I'm from the Eastern side of North Dakota. Real close to Fargo. I grew up in the rural area. Definitely a difference between the rural and the city. But I never realize how I sound until I take a video and I hear myself talking. And then I think oh God! 😂. But I think all the states off the Canadian border have a pretty unique accent. I drive truck for a living. And people will pick you out of a crowd. Lol
@@Rusty_Nickle I agree those on the boarder do have unique accent! Most definitely. Lol. Us Michiganders have lack of one so I think that’s why it seems so much more thicker to us. Growing up around it, you’d never notice. But I feel like even those from Minneapolis will sometimes have their Minnesotan accent pop up in convo on occasion. (Been driving trucks for years myself- grew up in it so @ 16 I was forced to learn how to drive a manual… but in a 2000 26’ international 4700. Lmao. I was petrified. I had JUST gotten my license).
Honestly this is would be the perfect opportunity for long form journalism
I'm from Georgia and I moved to Michigan for a couple years and sometimes notice myself using a hard O sound.
Lol my family is kinda the opposite. We're from Lincoln Nebraska. But moved to Georgia. I was born here bust still have a lil accent that shows in my O's and I say ope as an exclamation. Like whoops. Lol
Remember the show Bobby's world. His mom had a really strong Midwestern accent. And the Movie Fargo. I've never watched the series but now I think I will
Yes! My son watched Bobby's World..
Yeah you have an accent. It’s northern Midwest accent. Central Midwest is pretty much the most generic American dialect
Yes, thank you. My accent is pretty neutral too. I'm from NE Indiana.
As an Iowan, I must agree.
As a North Dakotan I agree. North Dakota has it but when you start getting into South Dakota it starts going away. And If you want to hear the accent you kind of got to stay in the rural areas. Like I have it I guess, but my friends from Fargo don't
Thank you for specifying "northern Midwest". I'm from Indiana, myself. Definitely not the same accent.
I never understood why the Boston accent is singled out by many Americans - to an Aussie, it's one of the most intelligible of all the regional accents. Fargo wasn't that tough either, but the subtitles definitely come in handy with Swamp People or anything else set in Cajun country. English is a second language down there ;)
@arthurwatts1680 - Australian and Boston accents are both non-rhotic, which sounds especially odd and striking to the ear of the average American.
yay!
Man moved from ak to here 10 years ago all I can say the movie Fargo prepped me pretty good
Oh yah?
Make the Midwest it’s own country
My fathers family are from the area around Fargo ND/MN, originated from Scandinavia.
Love the movie Fargo.
I’m from SW MN. I was so mad cuz we don’t talk that way. But I do have a MN accent… and actually enjoyed the movie years later…cuz it has a good plot.
In the great NW we call the "bag" a sack...went Louisianna and ask for a sack and they looked at me like I was crazy.
I dont know why but I'm I love the midwestern accent. It's so sharp and accentuated. Think of David Lynch.
3:36 And of course you have a Target bag... how Minnesotan of ya
"Look at me now. No, yahh"
I call bags “sacks” but it comes out Sayack. 😂👏🏽
Are you from Iowa?
We love our vowels so much that we don't want to let them go.
Uff da.
Buffalo also says bag very Midwestern lol. I learned something new today!
He’s not from Canada, he’s from Ontario. Canadians from Alberta and Saskatchewan sound exactly like the upper third of Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota.
Exactly, they shouldn't say that people in Minnesota have a Midwestern accent. Because they don't.
Talk to someone from Iowa or Nebraska. They sound like News Casters
Grew up in Michigan. When the Michigan economy tanked in the early 80s, we dispersed: one sister lives in Minnesota, one in Wisconsin, and I'm in Texas. When my daughters spent a week with their MN cousins, their favorite word was "tack-o."
😭 i was born and raised in TX and I keep getting told I sound from the Midwest and now here i am 😂
Ahhhhh the dialect of true romance
It's the "ahh, sure, okay." for me.
I had a friend who was from Minnesota down here in Florida, and they seemed to be stuck between the two dialects of "beig" and "baag". They were pronouncing it like "Bee-aag" (or "biag").
If you listen to the very end of the video, the lady has a veeeery sight bit of that if you listen carefully. Might be a little closer to "be-ahg". Pretty cool
How do you say pillow tho?
Canadian here! You talk very similar to various parts of Canada. I’m in western Canada in Alberta and the series Fargo was filmed up here, coincidence or what.😜PS….I always say you betcha.
That is cool, fellow Canuck from both the east and west coast of Canada and I totally hear the similarities more on the East Coast
Anybody goin to the boat show at the Fargodome?
No, I’m from Wisconsin and I’ve never said “you betcha” in my whole life.
We say it frequently up here in Alberta!🫣
My dad always said "you betcha" and was born and raised in Milwaukee
Seattle says "bag" the same as you guys.
Michiganders have a bit of it. My grandparents were from Austria, Scottland, Germany and Ireland. Im from Detroit michigan. I live in NC. I sound like m from Minnesota.
I hate that in the news business they erase people’s own accent in favor of that bland “General American.”
Minnesota, born and raised. That's a beg.
Uff da!
I was confused when at example bits I didn’t hear an accent and then I remembered I’m from the Midwest
Oh sure.
The guy on the left used the Chicago accent for “bag”
Interesting that she mentioned her accent coach. Most people don't know that most newscasters are trained to have a generic American accent (or close to it) if they don't already have it.
She goes on and on and on and on and on and we never actually hear any midwestern dialect.
First off, it's 'Sconnie.
I grew up right smack in the middle of the mid-west, and I don't have a mid-west accent. I don't even know what one sounds like. I can tell when someone is from Boston, but anywhere else in the country, I just don't notice it.
I am from Kazakhstan and I have a British accent
I can guarantee you that you don’t.
You might think you do- but you don’t. Unless you were brought up in the UK from 6yo at the latest your accent is probably a strange mix with some British influence.
Also, there is not one British accent. They vary hugely. I can tell where people are from in the Uk accurately within a 10 mile radius.
Having spent my entire life in Iowa, and working in in the MN/WI area, this is spot on. I would say the MN accent is significantly less "over the top" than you see on Fargo, but it is definitely there. Wisconsinites, meanwhile, tend to have more of a Chicago-influenced accent the further south you go. But I can definitely tell the difference. I always wonder, do I have an accent? Friends from California say I sound like I'm from Minnesota mixed with Missouri and Wisconsin but I'm really not sure.
When my kids were in Europe, people thought they were from Canada.
It's the greatest accent I've ever heard.
Oh! I thought they pronounced bag "sack."
It's BA-G!
Funny the Canadian newscaster sounds more neutral American than the American newscasters and makes fun of their Minnesotan, Canadian sounding accents. 😂
Clearly a non-Canadian who has no idea what actual Canadians sound like. Heres a hint, we sound nothing like Minnesotans and in fact sound "neutral American".
@@l.m.d.4084 Nah. I can hear the accent immediately, doesn't sound American to me.
@@l.m.d.4084 Until you say "Oot and aboot". 😃
No yeah
I bag to differ
Went to Houston years ago. Nearly a dozen people guessed. I. Was. From. Minnesota. Out of fifty states. Moved to Colorado. I’d say a phone number and they would guess as well! You betcha!
bro midwest is literally just canada lite
So they basically Canadian? It’s weird because as a Canadian I don’t see the difference until it’s pointed out. I laughed at the end when she said bag because that’s how all Canadians say it. It’s forever Baeg not bayg.
Well, it's possible we share some settler heritage, being so close. The MN accent was formed by Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish immigrants who shaped the land, culture, and language we still use today o/ If those groups also exist in Southern Canada, then perhaps that's why it sounds similar!
That’s not a bag it’s a poke
Minnesota accent isn’t a Midwest accent, dontcha kno?
"aahn" = on
You mean Minnesota accent, not midwest accent.. there are MANY midwest accents.. like southern Missouri is midwest and sounds different than Minnesota.
melk
Oh yeah
Don't you know eh?
To me all Americans sound the same except southerners
so californians sound like new yorkers to you? lol
@@lanivelazquez5308 nope, I can't generalize
I think the only accents in the US are general American (West, Midwest) the Southern accent the New York accent and the New England accent
Same here. As a person with ASD, I listen to information rather than bells and whistles.
Sounds like Canadian
it does sound canadian, eh ..probably because of the scottish heritage
This chick is high
First time I came to Minneapolis I heard; You speak English with the Scandinavian accent! I do not mind. As long I can speak and make myself undarstood, it is OK. I can speak French, English and German.
I was born and raised in Minnesota, Minneapolis to be exact and other than a slight accent, we do not talk like that! Now if you go up nort, as they say, that is where our Minnesota accent comes from. It stems from the Finish, that is from Finland. If you grew up there you would know this. Thus ends the lesson!
Every non-american person, myself included: you guys only have 3 accents - New England accent(New York included), common american accent and the southern accent.
Out of all accents, I absolutely love the New England accent(especially the one from Rhode Island) and I totally despise the southern one(especially the Louisiana one).
Naw there's more accents than that. Standard American (News anchor accent), Eastern New England, NYC metro, Philly/South Jersey (my local accent), costal lowlands southern, deep Appalachian southern twang, Gullah accent, Pittsburgh accent (western PA), Inland Northern cities (Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee share that same accent), Minnesota/North Dakota, New Orleans Cajun and yat, Hawaiian, and Western US (which covers the entire coast from Seattle to Socal and as far east as Vegas and Denver). Which is the most basic sounding accent from that region. Except specifically in California for some reason their accent give off deep surfer Bob vibes. Surfer Bob isn't so standard after all. Lmao
Also ethnicity plays an even greater role in one's accent in the US. Your ears just aren't accustomed to it which is understandable and expected. I couldn't hear all the differences in British accents until I repeatedly watch various videos on them. Many I still can't discern, but I can pick out London from like a Yorkshire type. Or Ireland and Scotland from England.
I used to think Aussie, Kiwis, South Africans, and British all sounded the same as a kid. Now, I can pick out SA, Aussies, and Kiwis from the British, but I still confuse Kiwis, SA, and Aussies.
There are many different accents. There are many nuances between states, and their accents. Obviously there’s “general” accents, but more specific accents that you’d need to hear to differentiate. (Also there’s way more than 3 “general” accents).
I had a person,from the north side of Chicago,say to me,your from the south side of Chicago,I said yes,she said I can tell by the way you talk! News to me!
Why would you bother calling the Minnesota accent "Euro-centric", when almost the entire country has Euro-centric accents?
Minnesota isn't a Midwest accent. It's more of a Canadian Accent.
Not at all.
@@richlisola1 MN accent is definitely more similar to Canadian than Midwest.
Minnesota accent are mostly from from Scandinavian Slavic or Irish or Scottish German accents
You betcha.
It's Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish. Not Canadian. If there's similarities it's because those groups also settled in Canada, not because of Canada itself.
im from indiana and i don't have a bad accent just a small one
Her accent got so much thicker for "GAHSH, WE DOHN RILLY SOWN LIKE THA, DO WE?" that it was probably intentional.
But I really hope it wasn't.
Although the comment “euro-centric” is correct. It is also ridiculous. Why bother pointing that out? It’s just virtue signaling
Minnesotans sound more like Canadiens than Canadiens...
Wisconsinite here and I say bag like tag or hag. Our accents aren't as extreme in the southern part of our state
Wait, Americans need to get rid of their accent to work on the news?
Yeah usually news broadcasters need to have a standard American accent for broadcast. It kinda sucks
Yep. Even the anchors at the major networks have voice coaches.
My late dad's from Northern Minnesota near the Canadian Border! Eh?
If you fly doon to Naesh ville be shore to check your Baeggage!
Notice the coach didn't call it a midwestern accent. It's the Minnesota accent. By far most midwesterners do not have this accent.
Really, THIS needed background noise?
And is about accents.. who thought THAT was a good idea....is not a thinker!
Give it a few more years and all that will be gone for random brown people accents.
2:05 Give some examples instead. What a dialect coach lol.
Gosh she’s not to darn bad lookin’ is she huh
What shapes the midwestern accent? Years and years of Polish, German, and Scandinavian migration. Ja, you betcha!
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as a texan girl… who has a minnesota boyfriend, how can i win his heart?!!
Get to the point faster, enough filler.
Isn't the accent you hear in the Twin Cities mostly Somali?
No but the Somali have a whole community section in city
Why would anyone who's not Somali have a Somali accent? I feel like you were trying to be snarky but you just sound stupid lol
BS. What a joke of a show. What a joke of a "profession."
All these Minnesota accents are hilarious to me and everyone else.... literally from Minnesota. I grew up in Minnesota. Never left the midwest until I was in my late 30s. I literally have never ever actually met anyone ever with this Minnesota accent. Ever. But listening to people who talk like that sounds hilarious to me.
I hate that the Minnesota accent is the same as the michigan accent. It's clearly different. Its almost southern with a New York tightness. It's so different but michigan gets laced in this Wisconsin/ Minnesota accent.
Nope
Ope
Yooper
Minnesota accent is v similar to Michigan accent, versus less-pronounced WIsconsin accent
@metadata4255 Minnesota accent is Canadian accent. Wisconsin accent does not sound Canadian, neither does michigan. The lower peninsula which is the majority. Something tells me you're from the UP which does not speak for michigan but Wisconsin. Michigan accent is new York but faster and less or more pronunciation depending the word. I live on southwest Michigan directly in between Chicago and Detroit so ik the accent