I moved to Wisconsin 13 years ago...this guy is spot on. Native Wisconsinites have no clue that they actually DO sound like this! It's a perfect combination of German and Scandinavian accents.
You can tell what part of the Upper Midwest someone is from by how they END their sentences... Minnesota- "Dontcha Know" Da UP- "Der Hey" Wisconsin- "Fer Chrissake"
This was hysterical. I have lived in Wisconsin my entire life, and since I have moved farther North from the South Eastern area, my accent has gotten out of control. I have even been told it sounds more Irish which I think is hilarious. It's funny looking through the comments and seeing "we don't call them stop and go lights" or how you don't know the difference between a Wisconsin accent and one from Minnesota. They obviously have not been Up North. Also, for people saying there is no Shakespeare Festival, I can tell you that there most definitely is. And it is indeed embarrassing.
It's a northern Wisconsin/Yooper accent. People from southern Wisconsin speak a bit differently which is why a lot of people from Wisconsin are claiming that they've never heard someone in thier state speak this way. Some people in WI talk like this but most people from the southern part of the state haven't heard it before and are unaware of it.
YESSSSS! He included "er no..." I was hoping, because that's a big one der hey. I like it, we give people the option of no. I think it's an innate politeness, ain'a hey?
I'm from Chicago and moved to Wisconsin. They use yet when they should use still. They don't know how to pronounce a short A. O is oo. (as in stop and goo lights) They call a drinking fountain a boobler. They call pop sooda. They're always going overbyder. It's like Hey yah, goo up to overbyder at the stop and goo lights and get me a sooda, donchaknow.
He's hamming it up a bit but most is very accurate, I'd say his exaggerated accent borders on Yooper though., donchaknow. And it's a bubbler, water fountains are in parks with statues in them :-)
Belive it or not we have an accent, not as prominent as a yooper in the UP, but when I went out of state for a week, the said that I had an accent and that they couldn't understand me. We are all just used to it.
I am from Wisconsin and this is hilarious!!! I am laughing so hard I'm crying because it's all true! We say all of these things especially after getting a drink from the bubbler and money out of the time machine. Did you guys like it er no? BAHAHA
I have been in Madison for 20+ years now. When I go to visit family in Indiana, they all say I have an accent. I do not hear it but when they try to copy it they sound like Bob and Doug McKenzie on a milk high. Ya know what I'm sayin, eh?
I showed this to my history teacher, and only my teacher and I were laughing. The rest of the kids (17-18) looked bored or were cringing. Then again, they only laugh at jokes about shooting people, so what did I expect?
Can I be honest? I've never heard "real quick once" and I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life. But I have heard "real quick". I also very rarely hear "stop and go lights". I mostly hear people calling them traffic lights. Edit: I have been hearing more people say "stop and go lights" lately.
I don't hear this type of accent that often but there is a decent minority of people around the Milwaukee area that still talk like this. The more farther you go up north the more it sounds like a Yooper accent which is different in some ways than people from Southern Wisconsin, which is affected by the Northern Cities Vowel shift.
I'm from the Tomah/La Crosse area. And this is very accurate especially the stop n' go lights and the er no. I am very bad with the er no. We've never said "real quick once", just "real quick".
It ain't an upnorth thing. I live just south of fond du lac and been all over the state. Alot of folks that don't live in Milwaukee or Madison talk this way especially me just not with the real thick yooper accent.
Grew up in Rice Lake and I never said "stop & go lights".... nor have I ever once used the word "bubbler".... Not saying I don't have the accent but all these words I supposedly say, I've never said.
gacekky1 It's actually an Eastern Wisconsin thing because of the Kohler Company. It's also a Rhode Island and Portland, Oregon thing as well! A few folks call them 'bubbler's Portland because there are a few strewn around downtown that were designed by Simon Benson.
I've liven in Wisconsin all my life and this guy doesn't know a bubbler from a pop. He sounds like he is from Minnesota and even those folks don't sound as stupid as he makes us sound. He is a specialist in Northwoods Hillbilly.
i've lived in wisconsin since i was born and i've never met anyone with his accent... seriously i've been told that kind of accent is canadian... forgive me if i'm wrong i've never met a canadian (or at least i don't think i have)
He obviously does not know the difference between a Wisconsin accent and one from Minnesota. These are all from west of the Mississippi! If your going to try and insult people at least get it right. Stop and go lights is a Chicago thing, never hear donchaknow and the the guy from Chicago below, it's not a boobler! It is a bubbler, like I said, get it right.
