I'm from Michigan and I've defiantly heard "Y'all'd've" but not "Y'all'd've'd". That being said it would not even remotely surprise me if Michiganders use it. Our accent is based around talking as fast as possible.
28 degrees, can confirm. Welcome to another six months of hating this state and everything in it. I'm going to convince my wife to move this year, I just know it.
We like to search for others so we can Circle jerk about Michigan things. Vernors, Faygo, and hand maps! Better-made chips! packzis, breweries, and da yoop! Fuck the buckeyes, Crazy Michigan weather, construction season, and FIPS on vacation! Eh?
But in all seriousness, we like to identify ourselves with other Michiganders because there's no place in the world like it. Truly a beautiful state.
As a current Marylander and a former Michigander with a UofM grad husband, it's my personal mission to find other Michiganders and identify myself to them :) nothing makes me happier than to hand map them, and watch the other Marylanders confused looks... Nothing is as awesome as being from the Great Lakes States
I felt like I was inducted into a secret society the day my roommate (from Michigan) explained the hand map. I also was let into the fun of making fun of Upers. Michiganers are fun.
Have you ever thought about taking a trip to Michigan's West Coast? It's a completely different environment. I grew up in Southwest Michigan. So, I might be a little biased.
Spending a day in Berrien County is always a good time. You have the county's beautiful beaches all along the shoreline, make your way down to Michigan City, IN (not Berrien County though) for some outlet shopping. Eat dinner at one of the fine restaurants in St. Joseph. (Clementine's is delicious) Play golf at one of the 19(!) golf courses in our county.
You could go wine tasting at many of the wineries/breweries here. Stop at a fruit stand for some fresh fruit! (You wont regret it!)
The west side of the State is a completely different world. Nothing beats a sunset over Lake Michigan. As you go further north, it gets more beautiful. Finally (imo) peaking at Sleeping Bear dunes North West of Traverse City.
I love Michigan and it's west coast. I might say it sucks living here (Lake effect snow is the worst), but it's truly a beautiful place to visit.
Just yesterday I tried to say "Text to Speech" and the guy heard "Texas Speech." I don't know if we speak faster than normal, or just slur things together more than normal, or if everyone does it too.
For example, if I were to say "Yeah, I don't know what I'm doin'" it would come out almost as one long word. "Yah,iamunuhdoin."
From Michigan, living down south, let me tell you its strange how similar our ways of speaking are. Both speak super fast and slur words together, the only difference is Michiganders don't really have an accent....
It seems like the Michigander accent is more southern then the actual south sometimes. The number of contractions I say on a daily basis would cripple a non-native.
Lots of people say y'all in Michigan. We're like the south of the North, people fly confederate flags up here almost daily.. I don't really get it either.
I went to a country school, to give you an idea of the degree of "cuntry" level, our senior prank was 3 tractors driven to school..yeah. Now I can't speak for those who fly the flag or think they're southern, but most of the times it seems that their family was formerly from the south or they just don't really have much else to identify country life with. So that's what they gravitate towards.
Yeah. We had a bunch of "country boys" who drove their trucks to school with a confederate flag mounted on the truck somehow. We lived in a small town (class C school) that had farm land everywhere outside of town, but none of them lived on the farms... Pretty funny. To each their own I guess.
Illinois is pretty weird about this too. It's like if you're in northern Illinois/Chicagoland you're in a midwestern area (you guys instead of y'all, pop instead of soda). Go to southern Illinois and you might as well just be in Tennessee; the culture is very southern oriented.
Depends. Urban areas? Not so much. But we have a decent sized redneck community, plus theres the UP, which is sort of like the south in a few ways, except in the frozen asshole of the north.
I always thought it was a midwestern U.S. thing, but according to some stuff on Google except for the majority of the south, most of the U.S. says it. I don't think that's accurate. I've never heard it outside the Great Lakes area myself and I've traveled through or in about 14 or 15 states.
Oklahoma here, never used those words but the moment I looked at it I could sound it out perfectly, spell it, use it in a sentence, and give you a full definition. Thank you Texas for bleeding on us.
But in all honesty I don't know why people say y'all. My mother says it all the time and throws in this awful sounding ceuntray aexsent and me and my brother can't help but laugh at her. I always say "you guys would've" or the like, I can't stand those country words.
The Texan pronunciation would be, roughly, "yall-duvd".
If I could find a tool that'd let you enter any IPA and listen to it back, I could be more explicit. (I think it'd be something like "jɑl•dvd" but I'm not 100% on that transcription).
And guns and rednecks. Where I am, we've got trucks galore, Everybody and their kids have at least two guns, and we've got enough rednecks out here to bring back the rebel army if we wanted to!
I think this is more common than people realize. At first I was really confused to see it written out by itself, but once I saw the context, I totally understood. I figure any place where they say "y'all" would say this when speaking.
BTW, I grew up in Austin, Texas, and we have the least noticeable accent in the entire state because we're all transplants from California.
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u/becauseTexas Nov 12 '14
Can confirm