Do you have a Michigan Accent? Examples of our accent

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Do you have a Michigan accent or are from Michigan and don't feel like you have an accent at all? Maybe you've never heard a Michigan accent and you want to know what it sounds like. Whatever your reasons, you're in the right place.
I was raised in Michigan and have been living in the Midwest ever since. Growing up, I was taught that my accent is the plainest and easiest to understand and so it what is used in Hollywood. However, I later learned that this couldn't be further from the truth. So I've decided to create a series on Michigan pronunciations to share the unique speech patterns in my home state (this is the first video of the series.)
In this video, I highlight some key features of the Michigan accent and give examples (from pop and soda to famous people who speak the accent.)
This is just a tip of the Great Lakes State's thumb (errr iceberg!) Read a ton more about the Michigan accent on my in-depth article:
owlcation.com/...
As always, thank you for watching and for being a part of my channel. If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the comments below and I'll see you in the next one!
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Meijer by rossograph, cc-by-sa 4.0
All other photos licensed via Canva or are own work.
#Michigan #accentchallege #culture

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@wideawake5630 Месяц назад

I once heard someone say Meijers's. That's not accent, that's just ignorance.

@shimna9803 Месяц назад

Imagine thinking it’s ignorant while being willfully ignorant as to WHY people call it that! 😂😂

@itseasytech Месяц назад

Do you know *why* some people call it “Meijer’s”? It used to be called Meijer’s.

@MelanieShebel-p6f Месяц назад

It’s literally called Meijer’s thrifty acres… lol it’s possessive. It belonged to Fred Meijer. lol wtf how do you not know that?

@darlenevannatter3592 19 дней назад

@@wideawake5630 Snarky.

@nancywindnagle2609 Год назад

Everyone I know in Michigan has always said pop. Probably always will. Hasn't dissipated at all.

@happytotroll Месяц назад

Yup and we take it with us when we move. Been in VA 10 years and I still say pop, but they have Faygo here so people know what I mean lol

@ga6860 3 года назад

I’m from Michigan and living in California has changed my accent significantly so I’m watching this cus I don’t want to sound like them. I’m trying my best to force it back 😭

@michaelnelson6776 3 года назад

I moved to Kentucky in 1990 and people still comment on my northern/yankee accent. The Michigan accent doesn't die easily 😄

@hennricc-5238 2 года назад

From NW MI area, lived in FL for a year and people constantly thought I was Canadian.

@amazonbox1115 2 года назад

dont fall into the california accent 🙏

@TheMaggiemay77 2 года назад

Good luck!! 😁

@TheMaggiemay77 2 года назад

@@michaelnelson6776 my uncle had a very strong upper peninsula accent sort of like in Fargo, and he lived in Southern California till he was in his 80s… He came here in his late 20s… And he never lost his upper peninsula accent.

@Polack-ml9fh 3 года назад

I grew up in southeast Michigan. One thing that made me laugh when I moved away was i grabbed some change from my truck to pay for a pop and one of the coins was Canadian. The cashier was like “Um yea we don’t take that”. I was so confused, then my wife who was from Wisconsin said why would you expect them to take foreign money? I never even thought about it growing up there. You might throw a Canadian dime in without hesitation since you’re back and forth across the border often.

@evelynwatson2352 3 года назад

So true

@thetruenova2172 2 года назад

Yessss!

@FreedomOfSpeech2024 2 года назад

That's hilarious and I never would think that either. I would look at them like they had cats growing from their ears. What?! It's just Canadian. Lol!

@ga6860 2 года назад

@@FreedomOfSpeech2024 no way, I thought it was normal to accept them haha

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Yessssss!!!!! 100% this!!!!!!!!

@KiaraWilliamsX 3 года назад

“Pop” definitely isn’t dying out lol. But this was a great representation

@Simon-tc1mc 3 года назад

No one I know from southeast Michigan says pop.

@framechable 3 года назад

Pop 4L !

@frankinstineone23 3 года назад

@@Simon-tc1mc you have to be lying, everyone in downriver and Detroit says pop

@Ronfost89 3 года назад

@@Simon-tc1mc Not a single person I know who is from Michigan says anything but pop, doubly so in southeast MI. Lived here most my life and if you say soda you get looked at odd.

@fiercetigerkity 3 года назад

I have lived in Michigan for 27 years and soda only come out of the mouths of people not from here lol

@TheWBWoman 3 года назад

I can't believe people talking about the Detroit accent miss this obvious fact: Yes the Detroit,Michigan accent shortens and smashes words a lot. Like we say "Whatchadoin?" instead of "What are you doing?" or "Djeet?" instead of "Did you eat?" It's because we were settled by the French first. The French also combine and smash words together. The Michigan accent is strongly based out of Detroit and you can still hear the impact of the French liaison from the original fur trappers and early French settlers in much of the state.

@blakestewart5781 2 года назад

I'm very guilty of Djeet never realized it til now haha

@TheWBWoman 2 года назад

@@blakestewart5781 It's from our roots of Detroit being founded by the French who also talk fast and smash words together. I don't normally talk that way but get me back home in Detroit around family or friends and my Michigan accent comes roaring back.

@dizzy_dino9052 Год назад

I do that too but mostly because I got a family full of rednecks and we just talk really fast and it makes it sound like we are smashing words together. I mean I only talk to a few of my redneck family members and the rest of them are Yankees or from small towns in Iowa but still that fast redneck accent is what I'm used to having spent most time with my mom so I adapted that accent. Honestly I think it's neat that we can just invent new words to save time.

@brittanyowens2800 Год назад

Wow this is fascinating and makes so much sense! Thanks for sharing.

@zachmcmillen389 Год назад

Lol really liked your comment. And 100 percent true haha. I'm from Midland

@rsohlich1 3 года назад

Its a really thick accent. I'm from Western Michigan and I sort of lost it once I moved west for a few years. But we loooovvvveeee those vowels!

@kn3621 Год назад

Living in the U.K. I’ve gotten used to a great many accents but my Michigander mouth still makes my friends laugh, especially “mahm”, “meer”, “squrrol”, and “didja” along with my pointing at the back of my hand to show where I’m from, calling hot dogs Koegels, and trying to explain Euchre and blue moon ice cream. And proud of it! Thanks for the video, it proves I’m not an alien 😁

@MadChild628 3 дня назад

@@kn3621 YES EUCHRE

@Scubasteve5022 2 года назад

So interesting! Another thing I’ve noticed is we jam together Secretary of State into Secretary-ah-state.

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Yesss!!!

@jacobwelty1067 11 месяцев назад

One pronunciation I grew up with was saying "close", which actually meant clothes.

@harrietharlow9929 2 месяца назад

Yep! I still pronounce it that way.

@THEEJoeSmith 3 года назад

Love being from here

@itseasytech 3 года назад

Me too!

@eunicejade1590 3 года назад

Nice

@keira9680 3 года назад

I agree

@canadiandude24 3 года назад

I’m from Ontario and whenever I drive to cities near Michigan I can sometimes hear the Michigan accent through the radio channels. It kind of sounds similar to the Wisconsin or Western NY accent to me.

@maryellenkelly9537 2 года назад

In Scotland and Cayman Islands they always think we're from Canada. It happened so much I got tired of explaining I'm from Detroit! Close enough, eh?

@lucasa7162 2 года назад

I'm from Michigan, I have somewhat of an idea what the accent is but whenever I have traveled abroad people think I'm Canadian..... and that actually makes me pissed

@EphemeralProductions 2 года назад

Me too and I’m from Washington state. lol

@eviseratorkyle 2 года назад

Lol people online always think I'm Canadian

@ryanvandy1615 Год назад

It’s more than just the pronunciation of a few words. Michigan accent is nasally.

@OOOO0000O0 3 года назад

I'm not sure if I say "milk" or "melk." I'm too aware of how I'm sounding, repeating it over and over each way. I need to ask people around me to let me know in an unguarded moment. Great video! A new one for me is "meer" for "mirror." I definitely say "meer." Along the same lines is "horror" being pronounced as "hore" (was gonna say "whore" lol but I do feel a tiny difference with the "w" added). Now I need to hear if other people say it as I do.

@chrissexton4748 2 года назад

Can’t forget about Michiganders calling a pillow “pellow”. So interesting

@dizzy_dino9052 Год назад

I'm from Florida/Georgia but spent so much time in the mid west and Pacific north west that all my accents smashed together. I have to be very careful when I say horror because ever since I moved from Nebraska I've been getting in trouble for saying hore. I also say meer. And tuh instead of to.

@katie7748 6 месяцев назад

ACK!!! MELK! It's an I not an E! That's like Iowans saying baygg instead of bag. I'm from the Upper Midwest myself and sound dang near Canadian but woof...some of the ways other people pronounce stuff makes my skin crawl.

@cheetahrose97 3 года назад

I'm from the thumb area and I've been told that my accent is pretty thick. Obviously not as thick as the northern Michigan accent, but still pretty noticeable. I've always heard people say pop around here; I've honestly never heard soda outside my southern cousins during a family reunion. 🤷‍♀️

@Gabeonly 3 года назад

i can relate same

@danielpierce6327 3 года назад

i'm from the thumb area as well east centural area and i to have picked up a north accent but not as thick as the true northern's i think it has to do with the climate here and the industry around here plus you have to count the gernerations of us locals to bulid a accent that can hold after time and i should also mention the influence of ontario canadians.

@Viewer92136 3 года назад

From "The Thumb" too!! When I speak to people on the phone - they ask me if I live in Ontario. When I have done the online guess your state by how you pronounce your words I get Detroit or Wisconsin. I never thought I had an accent, but I guess I do. :)

@danielpierce6327 3 года назад

@@Viewer92136 I felt the same way about not knowing that we have a regional accent here in michigan but if you compare actors Bruce Cambell Tim Allen and Jeff Daniels you can hear how wrong we truly are.

@katie7748 6 месяцев назад

Watch any movie where they talk about soda...almost all of them will call it soda. Not pop. Not sodapop. Not Coke. Soda. That said, you'd be surprised how many Americans call it pop.

@MrAte-uo7yo 3 года назад

I've been away from Michigan for 20 years and I just now realized I pronounced it "meer", "real a tor", and "melk".

@itseasytech 3 года назад

Haha! That’s awesome!

@NoWayJoseNotToday 2 года назад

Best Michigan accent explanation video I’ve seen! Can’t forget ope or however you say it. You know the noise when you almost hit a car or drop something. Ope!

@nataliesmomma07 3 года назад

Pop end of discussion

@itseasytech 3 года назад

100% agree

@c0ffeef0x 3 года назад

"I have a very light accent" *accent is super thick!*

@skylarbix7912 2 года назад

This was so cool; I didn't even know that we had an accent!!👍🏻😄

@itseasytech 2 года назад

I’m glad you liked it!

@Danny__Noble 10 месяцев назад

Everyone in the world has an accent

@JohnAckerman93 2 года назад

I live in Chicago, and we speak similar to the way people do in Michigan. I read someplace that it’s more like a Great Lakes accent since Chicago is on Lake Michigan, and Michigan is surrounded by the Great Lakes

@itseasytech 2 года назад

So true! Do please check out my Chicago accent video and let me know what you think.

@PSkitt82 Год назад

Well, this is what's called the Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCVS for short). And yes, it basically is the "Great Lakes" accent. The NCVS basically covers the whole Great Lakes region. And it's likened to a reputation of blue collar workers in all the major urban centers like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and sometimes Erie. But Erie is a bit different. Erie sounds more like Pittsburgh and can almost be mistaken for a cross between a West Virginia hillbilly accent and New York accent. Scranton and Wilkes Barre, though not on the Great Lakes, actually stand a better chance, in producing the NCVS accent than Erie. But since people continue to move from other states, not to mention other countries, I think these accents are beginning to fade, as if there is no accent unique to a particular region anymore. Just my take on it.

@bussamio 2 года назад

In the 90's when I was a teen, I was flying overseas and had a quick layover at JFK and asked for a pop. They replied with " you mean a soda?" I get on the connected flight and asked the flight attendant for a soda thinking pop was incorrect. I was given a club soda 😕

@littlelomichigan9213 Год назад

😂

@TheMrPeteChannel 5 месяцев назад

On the east coast we're more specific. Pop to many people means Coke or Pepsi but on the east coast we have to be more specific since we have so many flavors. Coke, Pepsi, Orange soda, root beer, ginger ale, grape soda, cream soda, birch beer & many more. So yeah if you say give me a pop or a soda & expect a Coke you may get a wierd look first.

@harrietharlow9929 2 месяца назад

LOL. I've been gone from Michigan for over 40 years and still call it "pop" if I'm not thinking.

@AceLM92 5 месяцев назад

I'm from Ohio, and a Cajun Woman told me I have a Michigan accent. My mom's from Michigan, and I lived close to the border, so it makes sense

@tmcgill2219 Месяц назад

Originally from NW Ohio too. Much of these, including squishing words, applies to me.

@abbyc1500 28 дней назад

NW ohio & the coast of lake Erie are also part of the Inland Northern accent!

@AceLM92 28 дней назад

@@abbyc1500 makes sense then

@annawilliams5079 Год назад

Can't forget the good old "ope" which is what one says when you accidentally bump into someone else. It is both an acknowledgement that the bumping took place, and an apology for the said bumping.

@Karatoona 3 года назад

Your description of our accent, I feel like, mostly applies to northern michigan. The further north you get, the more canadian and minnesotan it sounds. Being from Ann Arbor myself, yes I have an accent, but I don't sound canadian or wisconsan/minnesotan. I remember from the article saying we sound like Pirates from kentucky with a head cold. This much I can agree on.

@gerrynorris1421 3 года назад

Have you heard Gretchen Whitmer speak? Her accent is super thick. It may be more extreme the further North you go but we definitely have that type of accent down state too. Source: Born and raised in Metro Detroit.

@Karatoona 3 года назад

@@gerrynorris1421 born and raised in ann arbor and in my 47 years of life I have never heard anyone in this area speak that way. In my experience it's been thicker the further north you go.

@gerrynorris1421 3 года назад

@@Karatoona So you've never heard our governor speak before?

@beidoumainbtw826 3 года назад

I'm from burton and I can agree with all but melk

@maxhr1749 3 года назад

@@gerrynorris1421 I have lived in upstate NY since 2002. I lived in Michigan 32 years. I notice Whitmer’s accent on television. I thought to myself that she doesn’t sound like any Michiganders I know.

@isaiah2810 Год назад

This may have been a generational pronunciation that has since died out, but mom was raised in Michigan and moved to rural South Carolina when she was a teenager. The kids at school used to make fun of her and her sisters for saying “bicycle riding” (referred to as “bike ridin’” in the south).

@cyber_pirate Месяц назад

“i don’t have much of an accent” oh trust me, you do. after living outside of michigan for so long our accents our so obvious lol

@Kimberlena 10 месяцев назад

When I’ve been told that Michiganders have an accent, I’ve always pointed out that we sound no different than newscasters on cable news.

@Loliolla 3 месяца назад

Hahaha! My husband teases me because I say “the Dort Highway” and “the Dixie Highway.” Growing up, in eastern Michigan, I found myself switching between two different accents prevalent in the area. Sometimes I would pronounce roof as ruff, coupon as quepon and for as fer. To this day I pronounce frontroom as fron-troom. (I have no idea where that comes from - it could be an Eastern European thing). We also were taught to spell certain words in the “queen’s” English. That is, we were taught to spell plow as plough, gray as grey, and so forth. We also speak in sing song. Most people, including Canadians, think I’m from somewhere in Canada. That makes sense - We lived 60 miles from Sarnia and, at the time, many people in our area were of French descent.

@harrietharlow9929 2 месяца назад

Same with the spelling. I still spell words British style. The other way just doesn't look right. And I do get asked if I'm Canadian (originally from the Detroit area). Odd, eh?

@stevengeyer4459 2 года назад

Yep, Meijers, Martins, Hardings, Aldis, Kroger's. I've had people point out my accent to me lmao

@bugzbeezus Год назад

I'm from GR, but recently moved down to Florida and had someone tell me I had an accent.. It totally threw me for a loop, so I'm glad I had this resource to explain it to me!!

@itseasytech Год назад

I’m glad you enjoyed my video! If you look at the video description, I have a link to an article I wrote on the subject. Let me know what you think! -Melanie

@PASTELLARZ 3 года назад

I just learned how thick my accent is.

@theamericanoutlaw805 3 года назад

I’ve lived in Michigan all my life and I’ve always pronounced it as “Milk” but Nuclear, I always pronounced it as “Nuke- Lee- Er” so I have a bit of an accent

@OutlierRadio 3 года назад

The way you pronounce nuclear is the phonetically correct way. If you said it like George W. Bush that would be incorrect.

@maxhr1749 3 года назад

@@OutlierRadio 😂😂😂😂

@darleneironmonger9198 2 года назад

I'm from south of Holland and we do say melk. Didn't think it until now.

@Kimberlena 10 месяцев назад

My husband says, “berf-day” for birthday and “bref-est” for breakfast.

@katie7748 6 месяцев назад

@OutlierRadio I was a wee lass when he was president and hearing him say it wrong made me think nuclear and nuculer were two very real but different things LOL

@AandCMusic Год назад

Not sure if this is found in other states, but the sentence 'What are you doing?' becomes 'Whatcha doin'?' or 'Wudiyah doin'?' in speech.

@itseasytech Год назад

Yesss!!! I’m glad you enjoyed my video! If you look at the video description, I have a link to an article I wrote on the subject. Let me know what you think! -Melanie

@bingonamo7520 3 года назад

I'm from New Zealand and we actually pronounce some of this the Michigan way, such as little is pronounced liddle, but I think we also sound more like people from Boston and Brooklyn in some ways too. Player is playah to us. R's at the end of a word become an h.

@hannahhere5461 Год назад

omg i didn’t know i was saying mom weirdly too. i definitely shorten my sentences down by either cutting off ing to just in or combining sounds

@riverjao Год назад

This doesn’t really seem like accent stuff to me, but mostly just changing words. But, I moved from TN to MI and the accent is wild to me! Instead of bag as in “back,” about half the people here say bag with a long a as in “bake.” And the most noticeable one is how they have transformed the short o into a shot a sound. Instead of mop, it sounds like maaap. Instead of mom, it’s maaam. Instead of copy, it’s caaapy. It’s wild! I actually read an article about it from a professor who moved from Boston to MI and he explained how it all happened and the accent shifted around the 1950-60’s.

@evelynwatson2352 3 года назад

Oh my, I say all of them just like that, the exception is milk. I never realized I did until just now though, haha. I lived in Ohio for 9 years and with just being 4 hours away, I was surprised at how different Ohioans speak from us Michiganders.

@zezmerelda240 3 года назад

ev-- yep! I got teased when I moved to Mi from Toledo for my 'Ohio' accent. Now, I get teased for my MI accent when I go to Ohio! I am clueless, but 80 miles does make a difference. By the way, my granny from Ohio said 'melk', her mom was Pennsylvania Dutch.

@annashafto8823 3 года назад

This is a very interesting observation! I grew up in southwest Michigan, New Buffalo. The furthest southwest point in Michigan. I now live in the Detroit area and am often asked if I'm from the south. I believe it's due to growing up on the Indiana border.

@itseasytech 3 года назад

Crazy! I’m from New Buffalo!!!!!!!!!!

@katehartley2333 3 года назад

@@itseasytech And you didn't say FIP once,lol

@itseasytech 3 года назад

@@katehartley2333 I bit my tongue. I get a lot of FIPs watching my videos. All hail the FIP! 😂

@stevengeyer4459 2 года назад

I'm from Niles. There are people who do sound southern around here. Berrien County must be the deep south in Michigan lol

@marshallsweatherhiking1820 8 месяцев назад

The rural accent is different from the urban/suburban accent everywhere in the midwest. It’s not really southern though. It’s just country. I don’t know exactly what it is. The use of certain contractions is similar to what you hear in the south, but words are not nearly as drawn out or sing-songy like a real southern accent. It can mix with the Chicago accent too.

@franciszaldivar337 2 года назад

My mother's natively from Michigan (Northville in case anyone's curious), and I was told by my dad (who's Mexican) that she definitely had an accent but it kind of phased out over time, but I do hear it sometimes from my uncles/aunt on my mom's side

@BryanMichaell Год назад

When I lived in Hawaii I was told I say my R really hard and long, but I had no idea I had an accent at all until watching your video.

@bluemooneclipse6223 6 месяцев назад

I’m from Michigan, I do the “tuh” instead of “to” and the “er” instead of or a bit, I’ve never heard anyone doing the extra vowels though

@weirdogirl1275 3 года назад

The melk thing always drove me crazy. I never realized it was a Michigan accent thing. Hey where does mulk come from? I heard it in a video once. I am from Michigan, but I've always had a hard time picking out what parts of my speech patterns was michigan and what was from me liking accents. My mom and I have been doing the occasional southern accent since I was six, and I love trying other ones too. I actually am curious about learning dialect work for voice acting.

@KingofAmerica97 3 года назад

Isn't the accent different in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Don't people there have a more Minnesota-like accent compared to the Great Lakes/Chicago sounding accent heard in the Lower Peninsula?

@pgifford Год назад

yes.

@1982kinger 2 года назад

I was born in Sarnia and still in Ontario... Family history in Windsor Essex back to 1700s.....I had to endure years of speech therapy as a kid because I pronounce words EXACTLY the SAME way as you described. Makes sense now why Toronto ppl think I talk funny.

@spartonboat1 2 года назад

"Michiganian" was a descriptive term that Governor Bill Milliken tried to foist on/pin on/persuade Michiganders to use, in the 1970's and 80's. It did not take and fell out of use. Michigander is the operative term anymore, from what I can observe. He and his wife Elnora were from Traverse City, MI, and are now deceased.

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Yeeeah, I’ll always be a Michigander.

@jimsteele9261 Год назад

I think a lot of snooty folk back then thought "Michigander" was undignified. To my mind preferring the humorous "Michigander" shows more style.

@Bigbuckdown1776 3 года назад

What about when you mess something up or you see something stupid you don’t say “oops” we say *ope*

@j.s.m.5351 22 дня назад

I'm from Cape Breton, Canada and there are quite a few similarities in how we stretch certain vowels.

@itseasytech 8 дней назад

That's really cool!

@jrm4408 2 года назад

The Yooper accent sounds very different that what people have downstate in the "mitten" for the most part. Being from the UP it sounds a lot more like what you'd hear in Ohio or Indiana. A lot of people who identify a "northern MI" accent are talking about the north part of the mitten, when "northern" MI is more correctly classified as the Upper Peninsula.

@eviseratorkyle 2 года назад

Ik it's like these people forget there's a U.P.

@jrm4408 2 года назад

@@eviseratorkyle Frankly, I'm totally ok with that. We get left off maps frequently which is ok too. Places get ruined when they're "discovered." Lucky the 300 inches of snow every winter and brutal temperatures keep people from staying on a permanent basis.

@jjazman1234 Месяц назад

Having lived in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, and now out west, almost all of this sounds like a very typical Midwest accent. Very similar pronunciations in Indiana, for example.

@sober_katz 3 года назад

i love living in michigan :3

@flintmichigangaming 2 года назад

Yes I do 😜🤣 New subscriber here!! Fellow Michigander here 🤩

@Kimberlena 10 месяцев назад

Welcome

@EcoCrat 2 года назад

Hey there. Fun fact for any of you that are interested; the thing about ‘saving time’ for certain words, adding vowels and mashing words together etc. is due to the heavy influence of german and other germanic languages like danish, dutch, swedish etc. in the area. For example the word for ‘bat’ in german literally translates to ‘flutter mouse’ but their word is ‘fledermaus’. Sparkler=wonder candle= ‘wunderkerze’. Vacuum=dust sucker= ‘staubsauger’. So I think when many michiganders ancestors came, when they found english words that were too long or didnt sound right, they just changed them a little and passed it on to you guys. Just a theory anyway

@baecere2 2 года назад

I thought it was because a lot of french lived in michigan and since they would cut out words or make words easier to say since they speak so fast that michianers picked it up for english

@xnyph8490 Год назад

@@baecere2 It's a combination of different European dialects, but, the Dutch origin is very prevalent in Michigan.

@alexanderb7721 Год назад

Actually the amount of French people here was really really small and they kinda got expelled when the Americans established themselves in MI. And by small I'm talking like less than 10k.

@davidchamberlain1648 Год назад

@@baecere2😢Ed see😢

@raven_glass 6 месяцев назад

I have a Michigan accent and moved to the west coast. My friends constantly laugh about how I say things but I can't hear it. It sounds normal to me. Especially words like "Collar" or "Job".

@Astronomica999 9 месяцев назад

I was born & raised in Lansing & I can also attest to the people saying that "melk" isn't used as often. We say "milk" there, too! However, i do pronounce "mirror" as "meer" because it feels like im trying too hard when i pronounce the whole word😂 The "nucular" & "nuclear" part is debateable because it varies from person to person

@Green3ry 2 года назад

I was born in Michigan and we moved to Indiana when I was a baby, but I have a pretty prominent Michigan accent, probably cause my parents who lived there all their life up until I was born taught me how to speak.

@TheMaggiemay77 2 года назад

My mom was born in 1922 and she was from Houghton, Michigan (Upper penin). She’s of German and Scottish/English descent. Her mother’s Family came through Canada. Interestingly my mother’s brother, who lived in Michigan until he was in his late 20s and spent some time outside of Houghton but still in the upper peninsula, had an accent that was different from my mother’s . I actually didn’t pick up on the fact that my mom had any kind of an accent. She moved away from there when she was in her mid 20s, to Southern California, where she spent the rest of her life. So it seems like there are certain areas within the upper peninsula that have different accents. Oh, my mom always said “pop” for soda - makes sense, since it’s “soda pop”

@jrm4408 2 года назад

I'm from South Range a few miles away from Houghton. It's called a "Yooper" accent and it's really its own thing and localized mostly just to the U.P. The longer you spend away from there I'm sure you'd lose most of it over time.

@itseasytech Год назад

I’m glad you enjoyed my video! If you look at the video description, I have a link to an article I wrote on the subject. Let me know what you think! -Melanie

@benadrylcabbagepatch2527 2 года назад

Haha! I got in a huge argument with my friend in middle school over the correct pronunciation of “nuclear”- turns out I was just pronouncing it the michigan way the whole time, and we were both right. Since then I’ve converted to saying it the other way because I thought “nucular” was wrong, but it feels good to know that I wasn’t just an idiot back then lmao

@jrm4408 2 года назад

I go by how it's spelled. Nuclear (correct spelling) doesn't sound the same as "nucular" if you're sounding out the word correctly. Same reason I'm baffled people but an "L" or a "B" or both somewhere in the word Chimney and make it either "Chimley" or "Chimbly" which is just bizarre to me.

@dizzy_dino9052 Год назад

You're technically not wrong. People with different accents sometimes struggle to pronounce certain sounds, so you adapt to that by saying it differently.

@elizabethlovett4318 2 года назад

Born, raised and still in Michigan. I've never heard ANYONE say 'Meijers' or 'Krogers' though I may be guilty of saying 'Krogers' myself. I didn't realize I had an accent until I lived in Kentucky for 2 years because a stranger at a convenience store asked me if I was from Michigan after asking me about something else. No, it wasn't the plate on my car, I didn't have a car plus I was riding in a relative's car who has Kentucky plates on it. I heard there's something about how Michiganders pronounce their A's in words while speaking but I'm not sure.

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Yeah, we have a very nasally A.

@youforget1000thingsaday Год назад

I'm indigenous from Michigan ( three fires anishinaabe ) and we talk CRAZY. I talk VERY southern and my family don't know where it came from. 😭

@CorinneWoods Год назад

Perfect example of Michigan accident is at 1:00 when she says “smashed together”. She says “smeeeaaashed” instead of just “smashed”. Michigan accents pronounce their a’s as “eeeaaa”.

@BlueTickCH 7 дней назад

From The west coast it sounds exactly the same besides your whole " pop" . But than again I visited michigan and not heard one folk say pop

@KellyP_ 2 года назад

I'm Michigan born and lived there most my life. Moved to Alaska in 2014. So many people comment on my "accent" and a lot of people ask if I'm from Michigan because of it! Blew my mind! It is pretty here, but I miss my state!

@DMD96 3 года назад

I’m laughing as you go through these😂 I am in the army and people try to correct me and those same things and I thought they were kind of crazy

@BSIII 2 года назад

Everyone I knew used to call soda 'pop' when I was a kid in the 90s, Denver, CO. I didn't realize it was 'weird' until I got older. For some reason, no one calls is 'pop' anymore.

@mravalik Месяц назад

I've friends from all over the world, and being from Southeast Michigan, when they talk to me over the phone (video chat) and hear me talk......they tilt their heads because of our michigander ways of shortening and blending words together, it humors me greatly 🤣

@itseasytech 8 дней назад

Southwest Michigan here too!

@Resilient_disciple Год назад

I have lived in Michigan my whole life and had no clue we Evan had an accent 😂

@gregDino32 4 месяца назад

Yes you guys do ,I'm from California however I think you all sound kind of like us but more nasal and almost Canadian .

@ubernerrd 2 месяца назад

*Everybody* has an accent.

@TheMrPeteChannel 5 месяцев назад

The Upper Peninsula accent (Yooper) is the true Michigan accent.

@jimh8725 2 года назад

I moved to Ohio 14 years ago and work at a Kroger's. See what I did there? I was checking out at the register and the cashier looks and me and says you are from Michigan aren't you? I said yes I am how did you know? She said I have a Michigan accent! I never thought of myself having an accent! After living here a while I can really hear it when I talk to my sisters when they say words like pop or mom.

@HanBaby82 5 месяцев назад

Yes, it's Thrifty Acres, name long gone but never forgotten!

@NickiHurstAllDahLuvlyBad1s 2 года назад

I was bullied out of saying Pop when I moved to VA, so now I say Soda, but I still say it like sooda lol.

@laurens4042 2 года назад

I've lived in michigan and I grew up saying pop, but I'll say soooda sometimes now! Haha

@bernardschmitt6389 3 года назад

I’ve never been to the state and have no family that lives or have lived there yet, I speak with a Michigan accent lmao

@礼愉 3 года назад

Same thing! I'm from the Philippines, but during my visit to FL they thought i was from around Detroit LOL

@bernardschmitt6389 3 года назад

@@礼愉 haha

@jakedontlikeyou74 3 года назад

So if you’ve never been here or have family here how do you know you talk from here?? That don’t make sense

@vershawnnewborn979 3 года назад

@@jakedontlikeyou74 was thinking the samething how do you even know how they sound?

@bernardschmitt6389 3 года назад

@@jakedontlikeyou74 I think it's just a general Midwestern accent.

@spastickitchen Год назад

I don't recall anyone ever saying "noo kyoo ler" until around the time George W Bush took office, but I've heard lots of everything else you mentioned. It might be just a Detroit area thing, but the phrase that used to drive my friends from outside Michigan the most nuts was "Party store," you know, where you go to get things like pop, booze, smokes, better made chips, basically anything unhealthy.

@ThePunk01 Месяц назад

From Detroit and still say party store even though i haven't lived in Michigan for many years now

@greatpix 2 года назад

Back in the early '60s my family moved from Detroit to SoCal and kids there used to say I had an accent, and I'm thinking, "I don't have an accent", other than calling a soda 'Pop'. But I stand corrected. In fact I seem to still have some of and accent almost 60 years later.

@gregDino32 4 месяца назад

I'm from socal but moved to Dallas Texas as a 17 year old and different accents interest me a lot but honestly I didn't know that there are literally over 5 different types of accents with different variations of course .I always thought people from the Midwest just spoke newscasters English ,which is similar to how people talk in Cali but lol I was so wrong .I took a accent test and oddly enough I got a Midlands accent which apparently Iowans , Missourians,Nebraskans have , I have never gotten a west Coast one ironically 😂.

@gregDino32 4 месяца назад

I've been to Chicago once and I think it's underrated , never been anywhere else in the Midwest unfortunately.

@gregDino32 4 месяца назад

I also lived in North Carolina for like 4 months and I really stuck out.

@deannculver7969 2 года назад

I grew up in northern Michigan and Colorado. I now live in Alabama and I always have people ask me where I'm from. I've determined my accent is a mix of Michigan, Colorado and throw in a little Canadian! As far as Meijer, I didn't know until recently that it isn't Meijer's thrifty acres! No wonder I confuse people. I'm confused myself.

@WillmobilePlus 2 года назад

Mom is from Mississippi, and my sister and I drove her crazy with our apparently thick west Michigan accents (talking from the top-back of our mouths). So it's very much a real thing. And yes we put that 's' on the end of store names!

@pgifford Год назад

I was born and raised in Detroit (Ferndale), but have lived in Flint for 30 years. Comparing the difference, I would say that there is more of a Canadian influence in the Detroit accent. For example, I grew up saying "eh?" a lot, and now realize that it's not used in Flint much.

@calvinguile1315 3 года назад

$20.00 = twunny dollars

@joeytwotimes9586 Год назад

Me, from Michigan, before clicking: "I'm sure this is going to be way off"... Me at two minutes in: "Holy crap I do call it Melk!"

@ShebbyYT 6 месяцев назад

I never realized I had a unique accent being from michigan, mind blown.

@itseasytech 6 месяцев назад

I’m glad I could show you something you think is interesting. :)

@ProbsNotNova 2 месяца назад

Wow! This helped me realize I do technically have a mix of Michigan from the first half of my childhood and California from the rest of my childhood to now for my accent. Though California is the more dominant one since the most speaking I've done in my life was in California. I lost 'Pop' by about year 2-3

@AkaiKnight 3 года назад

her: "we michiganders like to mash and shorten words together a lot" Me: "no we dont" her: "I lookintha Meer every mornin before I haveta go tuh my job at thuh newcleer power plant, buta yoosta work at Meijer's" Me: *god damnit*

@glynette6570 Месяц назад

Born and raised here (a long time ago), and I’ve never heard anyone say “ope.” But the other examples sounded familiar.

@darkiller76521 3 года назад

Idk if this is a Michigander thing, but I always pronounce silverware as "civilware"

@thetruenova2172 2 года назад

Omg!, yessss!

@strana6875 Год назад

I’m from southern Louisiana, have a heavy Cajun accent. I’m doing a D&D campaign and it’s set in modern day Michigan, so yay, I’m here

@tzolkosky 2 года назад

I remember trying out saying soda as a kid in the 80s and it sounded sooo wrong. And everything else she hits on is spot on. Meijers, melk, meer, yoosta and real-a-der!

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Soda…. To me you sprinkle soda powder on your laundry…

@tiredtiredsoup 3 года назад

I’m from Ohio, half hour west of Cleveland . I’d say here the only differences are that we don’t say meer, or the word shortenings, or mahm. Everything else we do though

@jo100 3 года назад

Are their a lot of very Tall People in Michigan, because it has a very very very high Dutch population?

@itseasytech 3 года назад

Good question!

@jo100 3 года назад

@@itseasytech And the reason why I said that, because I heard that a lot of Dutch People are very very very Tall and the Tallest in the World 🌎 to, my Friend.

@itseasytech 3 года назад

@@jo100 Yeah, we are Dutch and my uncle is extremely tall.

@jo100 3 года назад

@@itseasytech just curious, how tall is your Uncle?

@itseasytech 3 года назад

@@jo100 I don’t know, I never asked him. Maybe 6’5

@User_177moonlightcore 2 года назад

As someone who lives in Michigan, some people who come to visit the state looks at ask where something is, and I’ll do it in my normal voice but they want me to repeat it because they said I was crunching up my words and going very fast.

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Haha this is the best!

@ceessimplesecrets 3 месяца назад

This was very good! I’m a Michigander and I travel to different states for work. When I’m doing presentations they always ask where I’m from because of my accent. I think some of our cadences like meer for mirror sound southern to people from other states.

@zachmcmillen389 Год назад

I lived in Arkansas for 5 years after being born and raised in Michigan for 27 years prior (Midland). Within 3 days EVERYONE in Fort Smith knew I was from Michigan, not only because of "pop" but everytime they asked where I was from I'd raise my left hand.

@itseasytech Год назад

I’m glad you enjoyed my video! If you look at the video description, I have a link to an article I wrote on the subject. Let me know what you think! -Melanie

@Modrunnermusic Год назад

Pop is not dying out! That’s literally what it’s called. Soda takes too long to say. Easier to say pop

@kmur4kitslovescats 2 года назад

I was raised in Michigan and I never say Real-a-tor or Nuc-u-lar, but I do say MEER and MELK even after living in the South for 30 years. I quit saying "pop" many years ago as I have picked up a lot of Southern words and ways of saying things. I actually sound southern when I visit Michigan anymore.

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Insightful perspective, thanks!

@chloek4045 3 года назад

I’m from Northwest Indiana 20 mins from Michigan and I pronounce everything the same way 🙌🏻

@itseasytech 3 года назад

You probably live super close to me then. New Buffalo here!

@chloek4045 3 года назад

@@itseasytech yes! I’m in the Michigan city area!

@itseasytech 3 года назад

@@chloek4045 That’s so awesome! I work in Michigan City!

@EphemeralProductions 2 года назад

I’m from Washington, and i don’t know if it’s my Asperger’s or what, but some accents of the US or foreign languages (like tonal languages) that just are amusing to me and make me laugh. It’s not that I’m making fun of them, it’s just that how the words are pronounced are so cool to me and quirky that it just makes me chuckle. lol. North-midwest like Michigan, Chicago, ohio etc is one of those. 😁.

@ClickWasd 11 месяцев назад

Also the pronunciation comes more from the back of your mouth close to the throat. Just like how this video sounds. I was shocked when someone from the west coast pointed out I had an accent. That’s when I realized he does sound more nasally, and words seem to roll off the tip of his tongue. Quick example, In MI we pronounce Ryan as Rye-un’ Someone else may say Righ-N’

@erichamilton3373 2 года назад

Go "tuh" the store is English...all varieties of English. It's called vowel reduction. Whether you're from Michigan, London, Belfast, Australia or the Bahamas you do it when speaking at a normal speed.

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@LunaDelTuna 2 года назад

Adding the 's at the end of grocery stores is common in the south as well, but it's way more common in the black community - especially with the older generation. Everyone's auntie says kroger's probably for the same reason you do. I grew up in the south while my entire family was born and raised in Detroit. They always 'picked' at my accent because as a child I was _very_ country bumpkin (i.e. saying Marcedes instead of Mercedes emphasis on the AR) and it also made me very fascinated with the sociology around language/dialects/accents. Also, it's about damn time y'all midwestern folk recognize that you do in fact have an accent lol

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Haha love this comment!

@heysweetybirds 3 года назад

I am from MI. I have never pronounced milk “mElk”. (Drives me crazy). Please don’t say “pop” is disappearing. I’m too old to change that one 😂

@itseasytech 3 года назад

I don't say melk either, but if I don't put melk in my guide, it's "off with her head." LOL!

@1besieged 2 года назад

I posted a Michigan VS. New York accent , it was fun!

@itseasytech 2 года назад

Awesome to hear!

@1besieged 2 года назад

@@itseasytech I noticed from watching your video we Michiganders do speak kinda weird compared to others. I cannot stop saying 'Meijers' of course there are plenty of them in Michigan, even the employees say' Meijers' ha ha ! I asked them to say the name of the store they worked at . the no~yeah is very common too and yeah~no , did not realize we spoke different, seems all good to me though, we are called yankess by southerners they pick up quickly on the 'northern accent' . Keep up the great videos, they are wonderful!

@songtraveler 4 месяца назад

What you describe is called an Inland North accent (sometimes called a Great Lakes or Northern Cities accent) common to a an area stretching from Central New York State, northeastern Pennsylvania, and along the Erie Canal and Great Lakes as far as Chicago and Milwaukee and parts of Iowa. It's been well documented by linguists for decades. Listen to someone from Rochester, NY, and you'll hear the same accent. And some characteristics you describe are common to the entire English speaking world: useta for used to? Everyone says that, including in the U.K. and Australia. You need to get out more.

@emmafuller539 Год назад

As someone south eastern Michigan to California another thing I hear people say about our accent is the way we pronounce our A’s that they can sound a little nasally and sounds more like the the vowel sound in the word yeah. You can hear it in words like and, Ann Arbor, and Dad.

@aafjeyakubu5124 Месяц назад

Meijer's Thrifty Acres. I think it changed in the 80s. That was the original name. We aren't just adding an 's' because it's a thing we do, but because that's how it was.