Remember all those Bud "Wassup?!" commercials? Turns out they released a bunch of regionalized ones. Here's the one for Wisconsin. From spartanjoe on YouTube:
I grew up in Zion, Illinois. When I was a young child many of our neighbors around us were actually up from Mississippi, or Alabama because there was better jobs 'up north'. Anyways, I ended up with a nice 'northern, southern' accent thing going of for years. I still get caught sounding 'different' at times when I'm tired. You know, I start drawing my words out, and saying, Y'all...lol
I've had people say i still have a southern sound to me, i say ya'll and aint a lot, otherwise i don't get what they are saying considering i been here most my life. Of course when i tell them that, they say i must hang in the ghetto then LOL um NOPE not I!
Like most people, I don't hear my accent but alot say they can tell I've spent alot of time in NY, even tho I've spent equal amounts if time in the South.
I laughed about the bag video.. I say bag but here they say sack and it drives me batty.
Another thing people do around here is leave "to be" out of a sentence.. they will say "The car needs fixed" rather than "The car needs TO BE fixed".. another thing that drives me batty.
What drives me nuts is how people pronounce Wisconsin, just like in one of the videos posted. Those who say Wesconsin are even worse. There's no E in there.
I remember having a friend from Hurley that told a group of us that "yous guys talk funny." We all burst out laughing at the "yous." She really stuck her foot in her mouth. Then she would tell us the proper way to pronounce sauna. She said it's sow-nah not saw-nah.
I've never heard anyone talk like ya der hey and dis place or dat over der. I've been up north and in the UP and sounds pretty much like us down here in southern Wis.
Sack drives me nuts, too. A sack is made of cloth, like an old flour sack.
I don't think I've noticed people really saying beg instead of bag when I went places.
I've never heard anyone talk like ya der hey and dis place or dat over der. I've been up north and in the UP and sounds pretty much like us down here in southern Wis.
Sack drives me nuts, too. A sack is made of cloth, like an old flour sack.
I don't think I've noticed people really saying beg instead of bag when I went places.
I don't know if they do or not. I've never heard anyone talk like that except in a movie. All the people I've heard from Minn. sound normal to me. None of that ya der hey. Maybe it's farther north or west than I've been in Minn.
Then there's the soda vs. pop controversy. I always say soda and so does everyone else around here.
Soda came from the ingredient sodium bicarbonate that was used. Pop comes from the popping sound made from the corks that used to be in the bottles. Since neither is used anymore, then both names are wrong lol.
My brother in law from Queens, NY used to say "soda". He used to get mad when we called it "pop". When I lived in western NY, we always said "pop". They say "pop" around here where I'm living now.
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Then there's the soda vs. pop controversy. I always say soda and so does everyone else around here.
Soda came from the ingredient sodium bicarbonate that was used. Pop comes from the popping sound made from the corks that used to be in the bottles. Since neither is used anymore, then both names are wrong lol.
I am from Wisconsin and I have never heard anyone from Wisconsin talk about a "Wisconsin Accent".
Just what is a "Wisconsin accent" and, I would think the only ones that would recognize an "Wisconsin Accent" would be outsiders.
That is my humble opinion.
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You're probably very correct.. but accents or colloquialisms can often be what makes a people special or unique in a positive way. It's part of the local heritage and something to be proud of. We often don't recognize or acknowledge our "accents" until we're away from home and realize alot of people don't sound like we're used to.
These days, with travel being so easy and people moving from one part of the country to another, plus the influence of television and radio, things become even less noticeable because we've become one big melting pot, as they say.
I've always had an interest in the origins of words and colloquialisms and how they've evolved or how they're said.
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I am from Wisconsin and I have never heard anyone from Wisconsin talk about a "Wisconsin Accent".
Just what is a "Wisconsin accent" and, I would think the only ones that would recognize an "Wisconsin Accent" would be outsiders.
That is my humble opinion.
I've traveled to other states and don't usually notice a difference unless it's a southern accent. Most other places I've been I really don't hear it. I've had people comment on our midwest accents and then you ask what's different and they answer I don't know.
Rather than accents, some things I'll notice more quickly are idiomatic speech or local habits of speech.. in Virginia Beach, anyone younger than I referred to me as "Mr. Dave".. hated it Made me feel "old" ..
My friends from Maine had distinct accents, instantly recognizable, when they first moved to NY when I lived there in the early 90's.. as their kids grew up, one daughter lost her accent and the other daughter and boy kept theirs.
I have a friend from New Brunswick, Canada who has the greatest accent. We met online and talked on the phone over 8 hours one night! She's Acadian French/English (tho they really hate the Quebecois French tourists with a passion!). Her daughter grew up speaking French while Tanya actually speaks very little "proper" French.
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I've traveled to other states and don't usually notice a difference unless it's a southern accent. Most other places I've been I really don't hear it. I've had people comment on our midwest accents and then you ask what's different and they answer I don't know.
Strangest accent we ever heard was in Wisconsin, it was from a guy who was born in Australia, grew up in the south, then moved to Wisconsin in his 30's. He was about 50 when we met him. Talk about strange accent.
Great thread! I get to share a local accent story or two...
I was on the elevator in the Eiffel Tower. These are big elevators. They hold at least 30 or 35 people. I heard someone speaking English and immediately turned around to ask, "What part of West Allis are you from?"
A bit startled, they said, "Guess." I said, "70th and Lincoln." They were from 69th Street, 2 or 3 blocks north of Lincoln!
I had a really good ear back then, speaking German and English. A friend's German girlfriend had an excellent ear, and could drop into any on 15 different German dialects at will.
I met a fellow in my air defense artillery unit in Germany who I instantly knew was from Wisconsin. He guessed that I was from Milwaukee. Since Milwaukee and New Berlin were the two longest places I lived as a kid, that fit. I told him I though he was far south side if not Kenosha or Racine. We talked more and I pinned it down to somewhere around the airport. Sure enough, he was from Cudahy der hey! (Cudahy borders the airport) And ya, dey do use some deys and heys down der hey. I've got a friend who was a South Side boy, West Allis, who lives in Cudahy Towers now and we joke about it often. I think it was more prevalent when I was a kid, before there was as much media influence.
What throws me the most is some very rural areas in the Badger State; sometimes the accent is almost Southern.
Southern accents...I melt when I hear the ladies talking!
By the way, it is common for us Milwaukeeans to skip the "l" in Milwaukee!
Cool thread. Thanks for the opportunity to share the stories.
Regards,
Keith
p.s.: The streets I mentioned may be off by a couple of blocks...point was, I guessed within 3 blocks!
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