Famous North Dakota Alumni

[warriorchick]

I enjoy confusing people with my "accent". I've picked up a number of regional aspects from my travels/years moving around the country. I've got west coast, midwestern (Ohio, Chicago, and SE Wisconsin), southern, Florida (yes they are different) and a little Northeast thrown in there for good measure.

I agree, accents are a fun game.

In my early adult years, my friends could always tell I was drunk because my southern accent came back.  Otherwise, I could turn it on and off at will.

By the way, northern guys are suckers for a southern accent.

[tower912]

Yes we are.  But an Irish accent really weakens my knees.

[Galway Eagle]

Yes we are.  But an Irish accent really weakens my knees.

 

[jsglow]

I enjoy confusing people with my "accent". I've picked up a number of regional aspects from my travels/years moving around the country. I've got west coast, midwestern (Ohio, Chicago, and SE Wisconsin), southern, Florida (yes they are different) and a little Northeast thrown in there for good measure.

I agree, accents are a fun game.

Now you have a highly honed podcast voice.   

Along those lines, it's crazy when you get a chance to chat with Charlie Berens and he's speaking to you in his regular voice.

[Spotcheck Billy]

 

Get a room!

[MUEng92]

The word that gave her away was 'wash', which she pronounced 'warsh' and the answer was Ft. Wayne.

My Dad (born 1930 and raised in Rockford, IL) used to pronounce it warsh.  I always thought he was just trying to funny when he pronounced it like that.

[warriorchick]

My Dad (born 1930 and raised in Rockford, IL) used to pronounce it warsh.  I always thought he was just trying to funny when he pronounced it like that.

The say "warsh" down south as well.  Then you "rinch".

[real chili 83]

Dad used to say cat-feesh

[warriorchick]

Dad used to say cat-feesh

I used to say micro-feesh

[mu03eng]

In my early adult years, my friends could always tell I was drunk because my southern accent came back.  Otherwise, I could turn it on and off at will.

By the way, northern guys are suckers for a southern accent.

Just remember, y'all is singular and all y'all is plural.

Maybe it was because I spent far too much time in the south but a female southern accent was always a trigger to run the other way for me. Now, if you want to talk about the Sheila accent, woo boy.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I love accents.   I find them fascinating.   Drawls, New England, Yooper, Irish, Canadian, British, Aussie, love em all.   Which is why I did not say anything negative about her accent.   I thought it was 'so awesome'.

No accents from Connecticut.  The Marquette friends were always surprised.  I just always surmised Boston/Rhode Island accents and New York City/Long Island accents just cancelled each other out in Connecticut.  Only word the Midwesterners could detect "something" was the word length. 
My friend from southern Illinois spoke normally except when stating he was doing the "warsh".

[ZiggysFryBoy]

My Dad (born 1930 and raised in Rockford, IL) used to pronounce it warsh.  I always thought he was just trying to funny when he pronounced it like that.

My dad, Evergreen  Park, says Worsh.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

No accents from Connecticut.  The Marquette friends were always surprised.  I just always surmised Boston/Rhode Island accents and New York City/Long Island accents just cancelled each other out in Connecticut.  Only word the Midwesterners could detect "something" was the word length. 
My friend from southern Illinois spoke normally except when stating he was doing the "warsh".

As a nutmegger to say “New Britain” and their accent appears.  You are right that it doesn’t have a strong accent though in the middle of some of the strobgest (you forgot Maine!).

[mu03eng]

No accents from Connecticut.  The Marquette friends were always surprised.  I just always surmised Boston/Rhode Island accents and New York City/Long Island accents just cancelled each other out in Connecticut.  Only word the Midwesterners could detect "something" was the word length. 
My friend from southern Illinois spoke normally except when stating he was doing the "warsh".

There are people from southern Illinois that have a stronger drawl than anyone I've met from eastern Texas or southern Alabama

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

As a nutmegger to say “New Britain” and their accent appears.  You are right that it doesn’t have a strong accent though in the middle of some of the strobgest (you forgot Maine!).

Hard hittin' New Britain!

[pbiflyer]

In my early adult years, my friends could always tell I was drunk because my southern accent came back.  Otherwise, I could turn it on and off at will.

I remember sitting in the hallway of Schroeder my freshman year talking on the phone. One of the floormates walked by looking at me strange. I asked "What???". He said "what happened to your voice? You are talking like someone from the South."
I was talking on the phone to my friends in Alabama and slipped back into a southern accents while talking to them.
To this day, while on customer calls with people in South Carolina and Alabama, my accent changes back.

[Galway Eagle]

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[brewcity77]

Why bump this?

[Cheeks]

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I thought we were playing North Dakota State, not the University of North Dakota.

[Galway Eagle]

Why bump this?

Lol my bad 😂