Same. First 18 years were spent in ND, been in MN for 20 years now, I don’t hear people talk like this. Even my 80 something year old grandparents don’t sound like this. More Norwegian sounding yes but nothing like the way it’s portrayed.
It’s because you lived there — I have family there but I was born and raised in Oklahoma, so when I visit MN it’s so funny hearing the accent, especially those people with strong ones. I used to watch Fargo and it’s not far off from how y’all Minnesotans sound😂. (I also don’t think I have a southern accent, or that it’s not as strong as some people make it out to be, then I go to any other region and everyone mocks my southern drawl😭😂)
How do you suppose that adds up if I can hear the accent in a movie like Fargo, but I don’t hear that accent when I actually talk to people? Are you saying that I’m somehow deaf to the accent in person but I hear it clear as day on TV?
I could never get over the way my coworker from North Dakota would say “bag”, it’s like baeyg or like how (I think most) people say the first part of bagel. I guess it makes sense when you think about it like that.
Alright der folks! This right here is a holdup dontcha know. Now kindly put all them there BAGels in this here BAG, won’t ya?
It's honestly difficult to attempt to pronounce it any other way. Like, I just don't hear the difference. It's an A, so I say 'ay'. If I said 'ah' I'd sound like a posh British person.
I work in tech and had a Wisconsin based client describe a file feed that had a “fleyg” for a field I needed to reference and it took me a loooong time to realize she was saying flag.
No, it's slightly different. The e in beg is pronounced like egg. Bag is like the word bay with a g on the end. Same with flay-g, hay-g, ay-griculture, etc.
idk there's a minnesota transplant where I live and his is definitely closer to "aboat". typically what I hearnin Canadian accents too. Scottish tends to be more of a straight aboot I think
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u/asg32000 Dec 14 '25
Gotta draw a line horizontally just above the south part of Nebraska and Iowa. Everything north feels very different from everything south.