I thought the Midwest accents in 'Fargo' were grossly exaggerated, but

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I had jury duty today, and sat next to a Wisconsin native guy, we talked a lot about ice fishing and the proper way to grill Johnsonville brats. (I started him on that second topic)

Dude could've been an extra in that movie, asking for Gopher tickets for the weekend. A male version of the "Go Bears" girls in the bar, heh.

[melissinha]

1. Believe it or not

There's even a difference between the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin... OF course you have to be from there to get it.... Your Wisconsinites sound like the people in Chicago... and from what I understand South Dakota is like Minnesota.... I'm from northern Iowa.. so its more Minnesota... Wisconsinites are more nasal as Minnesotans have more buttoned down O's...

blah blah blah..

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Oh I believe it all right. I remember reading once that there were speech

experts used by the FBI, intelligence services etc. who could listen to a taped bomb threat and tell within a few hundred miles most of the time where the speaker was from.

I remember I was trained by a guy from some small area in Georgia, the guy talked like no one I ever heard. I was told that only people from that particular funky little place in GA spoke like that, and I could believe it. It almost wasn't like a Southern accent at all, very hard to describe.

Now that I've lived in TX a spell I can distinguish Southwestern native accents from other Southern accents. That's why it's easy to tell that shrub's is bogus.

[melissinha]

6. yeah

That reminds me of something on NPR that I had heard... some dialect expert was commenting on actor's accent/speech performances and said that Hilary Swank's local Missouri accent could be traced to the county... how cool is that?

[TheDebbieDee]

10. Hillary Swank is from Missouri? Really?

[miss_kitty]

70. Actually she was born in Lincoln Nebraska

and left Bellingham WA, near the Canadian border, for LA at the age of 16 with her mom. I think she spent most of her formative years in WA state.

[Terran]

25. Not surprising, re Missouri

I've lived here 11 years now and the variety is astonishing. Missouri really should be divided up into nine regions and the outer eight should just be ceded to the surrounding states, because all those people there talk like the people in those other states.

[Arkansas Granny]

78. I was born and raised in Missouri and moved to Arkansas.

Just 150 miles between my birth place and where I live now and the difference in accent is astonishing. I think I sound like a Southerner now, but people who were born here still say I sound like a "yankee" even though I've lived here for over 30 years.

[trackfan]

5. So then you might know where the bubbler is.

(I think that's an upper midwest term, isn't it?)

[RevCheesehead]

11. I think it's unique to Wisconsin.

But I know what and where it is! :)

[Poiuyt]

14. Boy did I get kidded about bubblers when I was in college

I went to school in Ohio. Much laughing. But the people from Boston knew what I was talking about.

[trackfan]

17. Hey, I have a MAD Magazine from the early 60's that relates to your

name and sig line image!

[trackfan]

15. That stands to reason.

The guy from whom I learned that term was from Lake Mills, WI.

[Viking12]

87. When I first moved to WI, the bubbler seriously puzzled me

and I'm from MN

[driver8]

20. My friend from Rochester, NY uses "Bubbler"...My wife is from

Wisconsin and she knew right away what he was talking about. I just looked at him and said, "WTF is a 'bubbler'?"

[Arugula Latte]

62. Please tell us. WTF is a bubbler anyway?

:shrug:

[driver8]

65. water fountain!! don't ask me how they turned "water fountain" into

"bubbler."

Freakin' cheeseheads.

[Pharlo]

66. Works two ways...

First time someone asked me where the water fountain was I told him "I don't know. In a park?" I didn't know what the hell he was looking for. Made him describe it...LOL...After he explained what he was looking for I said "Oh, you mean a BUBBLER." He looked at me and said "WTF's a bubbler."

I'm from SE Wisconsin, and I've had that particular conversation more than once in my lifetime....

I sure do wish the rest of you people would get with the program. :rofl:

[driver8]

67. My wife is from OshKosh...she calls it a bubbler, too.

[Arugula Latte]

68. Okay, I should have known that.

Here in Portland, Ore. we have some always-running drinking fountains from, I don't know, 100 years ago, which were put in by a guy named Benson...thus they're known as "Benson Bubblers." They sure waste water, but, hey, it rains here, I guess is the thinking.

[Wapsie B]

18. There's a big difference between northern & southern Iowa.

In the northern tier say around Decorah or Lake Mills with large settlements of Scandahoovians you'll swear you're in Canada by listening to them talk. In southern Iowa I've met people who've not lived anywhere but places like Fontanelle or Ottumwa and it's like you're in the Deep South.

[Poiuyt]

2. The best accents are from Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Uppers (pronounce Yoopers)

And yes, we take our brats very seriously here in Wisconsin

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Yeah there was a whole procedure, of chargrilling just to the point of

the skin wanting to split. Then simmering for a short time in some water, beer, and a butter in it. Then dry, and ready to go.

[RevCheesehead]

13. Dat's Da Yoopers, buddy.

:hi:

[driver8]

21. "Just say 'ya' to da UP, ay"? I had a roommate from the UP

and he had a t-shirt that said that (or something close.)

[indigo32]

7. LOL

I thought they were exagerating too... till I spoke to some folks from the Iron Range.

It's for real.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. No,those accents exist, don't ever be mislead on that. They are real.

They are, however, a dying breed. And they are not "midwest" accents at all, they are a very specific midwestern accent spoken in scandanavian-ultra-heavy areas.

In my father's generation (I a WI native), I've met and known many who DO speak like that. And I still run into some occasional older folk who do speak that way.

But even in the areas in which that accent was prevalent, it's disappearing. The younger generations, who have TV and radio and teachers from outside their community, etc., are learning a more regular (though still definitely midwesterny) accent.

Every now and again I meet a younger person of my generation who has that scandanavian accent of Fargo, but they are few and far between, and they are always farmers in very small towns.

[Sabriel]

12. Very true. My hometown's full of Finnish-based accents

Northern WI and the UP are great for accents you rarely hear in the media anymore.

If you don't believe me, tune in to WIKB (Iron River, MI) and listen to Telephone Time some morning. It makes me all homesick. Yah, hey.

[no name no slogan]

22. Oh, God, the Upper Penninsula accent

I'm a native Minnesotan, and I know we have some goofy speach, but UP English is another beast entirely.

Hell, I don't even know if it's considered English anyore, it's so bizarre :crazy:

Oh, and here's the definate lexicon on the "Fargo" accent:

[MN ChimpH8R]

24. Yoopers

are almost completely impossible to understand. Southwestern Ontario residents are right up there too.

Had my car break down in SW Ontario on my way back to law school one year. Tow truck drives past and stops. "Nee' a tow, 'ere, eh??"
Me - "Hunh??" - light comes on "Yeah I could use a tow."
Asked if I wanted "gravy wit' dem fries" in diner. That is a uniquely Canadian eccentricity, I guess.

[no name no slogan]

26. hah! gravy on fries is a yooper thing, too!

i've seen it up there... never ordered it though.

and people say us Minnesoh-tans talk strange... :silly:

[MN ChimpH8R]

27. Canadians and Minnesotans

First week of law school in Bah-stun, a guy in my orientation group asked me what part of Canada I was from. :wtf: I told him I was from the part that was in Minnesooda, ya know. He was a Virginian who had gone to Princeton. Apparently he'd never encountered a Minnesotan or a Canadian before.

[no name no slogan]

29. oh, jeebus

now THAT'S hilarious!!!

I work with a guy from Warroad, which is about as close to Canada as you can get without actually being there. he doesn't speak like a Canadian at all, despite the fact that he grew up watching only Canadian TV (as it was the only signal they could get in the days before cable) and listening to the CBC.

Of course, I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a Bah-ston and Main-ah accent though...

[MN ChimpH8R]

32. There's a difference there

The Bah-ston accent is brasher, the Mainers sound a little more rounded and are generally more taciturn. A Cliff Claven type Bostonian asks for a beeyuh, a Mainer asks for a be-ah (with the hint of a pause between the two "syllables").

One of my law school profs told me he got mercilessly heckled as a Yale undergrad for his thick Maine accent: "Hey Dick, come over here and say Doctuh Peppah for us." By the time I knew him he had only a faintly generic New England accent.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

83. In nine years of living in Connecticut, I became pretty good at hearing

the differences among the various Northeastern accents.

One of my fellow linguistics students aptly described the working class Boston accent as "the Boston honk."

The Maine accent has the "ah" in words like "path" and "laugh," and the dropped "r," as does the Boston accent, but it's spoken with a leisurely drawl instead of with an aggressive nasality.

The New Haven accent was ridiculed by outsiders with the story of a visiting professor from Scotland whose son is named Ian. When the boy goes to school, he tells them that his name is "Ian," and the teacher responds, "Ee-yan? That's a girl's name!" ("Ee-yan" is the New Haven pronunciation of "Anne.")

[MN ChimpH8R]

95. Then there's Philly

Apparently there are variations of the basic Philly accent that natives can detect. When I was working on a project out in Philly for a few months I mentioned that one of the gals working with us had the perfect Philly accent. One of the other natives said, no, Terry sounded Westchester (which she was), not Philly proper. I couldn't hear much difference, but I swear there are more guys named "Ant'ny" in Philly than in any other city. Not "Tony," always "Ant'ny."

Now if Pat's or Jim's or Tony Luke Jr's could ship me half-a-dozen "Steaks wit' and Wiz"

[Lisa]

38. Some Canadians think I'm American

I grew up on the Niagara Peninsula, a short way from Buffalo. People from other parts of Canada think we sound American, but Buffalonians (and other Ontarians) can tell us apart.

[no name no slogan]

42. interesting...

do you pronounce the "ou" dipthong, and pronounce a long "e" sound "been", too?

I already know you people can't spell "flavor" and "color" and "valor" worth a damn, so I won't even ask that! :dunce:

[Lisa]

45. the "ou" might depend ...

... on exposure to Scottish schoolteachers in our formative years? Some of us do, but on others it's hard to detect.

And a lot of people I know use the long "e" ("steereeo").


I admit that I consciously alter my spelling here on DU, since the extra "u" makes some Americans uncomfortable ("looks wrong").

[no name no slogan]

46. yeah, some Americans have no sense of, erm, "humour"

I lived in the UK for awhile, and I had to make a conscious effort to spell everything correctly in my written communication. it was a lot harder than i thought it would be, too. sometimes I still find myself using the Queen's spellings in words like neighbour, before I catch myself and correct them.

[TrogL]

49. Lemme guess, you sound like Irv Weinstein

I'm the same way. To much WKBW news.

[Rambis]

47. "So you like Spats"

I said yeah I like sports, Me... so you're a Saux fan?
Great encounter in the KC airport bah- This was supposed to be in the Bah-ston section sorry;0

[myrna minx]

58. I love my Minneeesooota accent.

Uff-da. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

100. I love mine too. I have a perpetual fear that I'll lose it out here!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

82. There are still enough people with the Minnesota accent

I really notice it, having moved back here from the Pacific Northwest after 19 years.

Some of my older relatives, the ones with hearing problems, understand me better when I revert to the accent of my youth.

Since I've lived on both the East and West Coasts, my own accent is a mixture of Midwestern, Eastern, and Western, but the crazy thing is that three or four people in the past two years have asked me if I was from England! :wtf:

(And I swear, I would not have pronounced the last phrase: "but the crazy thing is that three oh foah people in the pahst two yeeahz have ahsked me if I was frawm England.")

I think they may be catching onto the fact that my "r's" and "l's" are less emphatic than the typical Upper Midwesterner's. Since a major component of the "Fargo" accent is emphatically pronounced "r's," some of the more naive people might take a lighter "r" as a sign of an English accent.

I just laugh and tell them that I have spent exactly one week in England in my entire life.

[hfojvt]

30. I still think it was a huge exaggeration

Although the Coen brothers should know, being from Twintown. But I grew up in South Dakota, went to the U of Minnesota in the early 80s and had a roommate from Detroit Lakes, and knew people from Ada and Babbitt and Detroit Lakes and Little Falls and never heard accents like that. Sure there are people who sound like that, but they are not that common. Like you said, they are few and far between whereas the movie makes it seem, or implies, that everyone from Fargo talks that way.

[no name no slogan]

33. go down to southern Minnesota, in farm country

my ex-in-laws (from New Prague) have accents very similar to the Fargo ones, but not as Scandahoovian. They're German/Czech, so they're a bit more central European sounding, but they still have many of those same "Minnesohta-isms" that you heard in the film.

It seems that higher education and moving to the "big city" tends to level off the regional accents here, much like what happens when students in the UK go off to the Oxbridge schools. They may go in with a regional twang, but they leave speaking the very proper "RP" English taught at the universities.

[hfojvt]

34. the people I knew were Freshman

having just gotten to the big city.

[WeRQ4U]

37. It's not as exaggerated as you think.

I realized how pronounced the accent was when i LEFT the area and returned some time later. If you're always around it, you don't realize it.

[Left Is Write]

53. The problem I had was all those Twin Citians talking that way.

Hearing "Minnesota-speak" in exaggerated fashion in the Twin Cities is pretty rare. Rural areas with heavy populations of older Scandinavians are more likely to have that particular exaggerated accent.

I'm reminded of the way my Gramma spoke, not the way two hookers from Chaska would speak.

[MN ChimpH8R]

55. Two hookers from Chaska?

:spray: :rofl:

ARE there hookers in Chaska?

[Left Is Write]

59. According to "Fargo" there are.

:D

I wonder how many people out there think Fargo is in Minnesota.

[WeRQ4U]

74. Actually wasn't one of them from White Bear Lake?

Go bears.

[no name no slogan]

91. She was originally from Le Seuer, but went to HS in WBL

I just watched the movie again a couple nights ago :dunce:

[Left Is Write]

98. In real life, or in the movie?

I don't know. I just remember them talking about being from Chaska. Or one of them. Or something.

[Ellipsis]

9. Jeepers!

I have lived in Minnesota and grew up in Wisconsin...Hard Cheese say it with me, Nasal yes. The predominance of all of what you say has diminished with the advent of the Television and City culture... but find those rural pockets still without cable don't cha know and yes it be True. I once listened to a conversation between two descendent's of original settlers from central Wisconsin and I swear the the only thing they said was Oh YAH for 15 minutes. These rural areas are delightful and special and we should work to preserve what culture "progress" has yet to morph into concrete streets and strip malls.

[fishnfla]

16. Oh its for real, but varied

I can peg the different dialects easy. Some people in upper NY, the hudson Valley, have a twinge of it.

BTW, the cheesehead maybe told ya' wrong. Dont split the skin on the brats when grilling.

1. soak fresh brats in cold water
2. grill over coals, (dont let the skin split)
3. toss in pot with beer, water, fresh ground pepper, onion and butter
4. simmer 20 mins or so
5. serve with brown mustard on fresh roll, none of them pre-split jobs

people south of lambeau field put barbeque sauce on 'em, but they are inclined to be bears fans ( der hey)

[MN ChimpH8R]

23. Bratwurst

A Sheboygan-raised college pal said the only way to cook brats was

Spork em with a fork
Simmer in water, beer and sliced onions for twenty minutes
Grill over coals until nicely browned
Pop into brat bun with chopped onions and good mustard

It's always worked for me.

BBQ sauce on brats?? Heresy!

[fishnfla]

56. There are 2 schools of thought-its a huge debate

well hey, the winters get long and what else ya gonna talk about at a tailgate party, before the game?

Boil before or boil after, grilling, that is?

I have found that the post boiled brats taste better. Sheboygan is the bratwurst capitol of the world, so your friend might know

[KitchenWitch]

19. Believe it or not, the accents were not really that exaggerated

I have relatives that speak like that.

[Rambis]

31. I do too

They live in MN and they visit Nort Dah-koe-tah a lot.

[bertha katzenengel]

28. Noop.

A friend back home is from Wiscahnsin. That's how she talks....

[LissaM]

35. Don't remind me..

I live here and I've been trying to get rid of my damn accent since I discovered it was so bad, when I was forced to spend a few months in the South a few years ago... I get laughed at by my fellow Minnesotans if I say "boat" like the rest of the nation, or "roof." I still say, "Minnesoooooooooooooooooooota," and "Noooooooooooo." I can't help it. I just can't clip the "o".

Anyone want some hotdish???

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

63. Kills me when people hate their accents or try to rid themselves of it.

I like all regional accents that announce a person is from a place. Growing up in the D.C. 'burbs as I did you don't really get an accent. I think they're cool. Although I hear bad things about the Cranston, R.I. accent.

[LissaM]

71. see,

I love accents, too, but I think that mine makes me sound very much like I belong in on a frozen lake somewhere with a fishing pole in the ground... Um, no. I'd take a East Coast accent, anyday!!! :) I love them all, from Maine to Florida.

[WeRQ4U]

75. I agree with you here.

East coast accents and southern accents aren't too bad. The Yooper Northern / canadian accent that I"VE been blessed with sucks.

[WeRQ4U]

36. I have lived in North Dakota for almost all of my life. It's for real.

I moved to Portland, Oregon for a few years to attend law school, and it took me at least the first year or so to lose it. My "O"s aren't as hard anymore and I actually pronounce the "th" sound now.

My sister lives in Fargo. And her accent is one of the strongest I've ever heard.

[bleedingheart]

39. Yinz guys talk funny in this thread n-at..

[MN ChimpH8R]

40. Ah, Pennsylvania is heard from

"Yinz" is Pittsburgh-ese, IIRC? Like Gian' Iggle?

[bleedingheart]

41. ya...i confess....i'm from da 'burgh...home of the stillers...

and the pie-rats...

[MN ChimpH8R]

43. Isn't Pittsburgh also the home of those

humongous sandwiches with the fries already stuffed into them? Always wanted to try one of those, but I've never been to Pittsburgh, only Philly. What the hell are those sandwiches called, if I may ask a native?

[bleedingheart]

44. oh your'e talking about those Primanti Brothers sammich....

A huge sandwich with your choice of meat, with fries and coleslaw on it...

God...my mouth is watering thinking about it...I may just have to go down the road and get on....

[MN ChimpH8R]

48. Now THAT is one hell of a sammich

Looks incredible, but onions and no tomatoes on mine, pls. :9

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

64. It looks like a food accident--a DELICIOUS accident...

[LissaM]

72. i think i just gained

15 pounds from looking at that thing!!!!

[JVS]

51. As a child of a Minnesotan and Michigander raised in Pittsburgh....

I like to combine these accents

[JVS]

50. That's not the "Midwestern" that's the Minnesota accent.

Wisconsin is similar

[Left Is Write]

52. No, no, no. No. That would never happen.

No Wisconsinite would ask for GOPHER tickets. Nope - ain't gonna happen!

Besides, the curiosity known as "Minnesota-speak" does not extend to Wisconsinites. Anecdotal illustration:

While working for a radio station in Wisconsin, I took a "working" vacation to Nashville. One evening, I was sitting in a bar having a drink while waiting for a record rep to join me. I struck up a conversation with the man next to me. After a few minutes of conversation, he said, "You must be from Minnesota."

I am, but being the cagey one, I answered, "Actually, I live in Wisconsin."

He replied, "You might LIVE in Wisconsin, but you're FROM Minnesota."

He was right, and it call came down to the subtle differences in accent.

[huskerlaw]

54. That's not a Midwestern accent

that's a Southern Canadian accent. Those of us in the REAL midwest don't talk like that!

[LaurenG]

57. That's right, doncha knoo nt

[no name no slogan]

60. "Real" Midwest?

Puhleeeeeze! If you're east of the mighty Mississippi, you ain't midwest!!!! :crazy:

[Arugula Latte]

61. "Sooo, which one of ya slept with the little fella?"

n/t

[miss_kitty]

69. A lot of people now living in Seattle are from the midwest

and when I saw Fargo, I went with my neighbour who was from Minneapolis. and you could tell that there were other people in the theater from the midwest-they all laughed at the same shit Sean was laughing at-which was different from the rest of us.

[evlbstrd]

73. After a year and a half in Minnesota,

my daughter came back home with the cutest accent. Not as pronounced as a native, but definitely there.

[no name no slogan]

76. Yah. A guy can pick up that accent real easy-like

it'll grow on ya, like a fungus or a tumor maybe.

time for "a little lunch". :D

[evlbstrd]

79. But she never learned to make hot dish.

And I specifically requested itl.

[no name no slogan]

85. OMG!!! SHE DIDN'T????

Ohmanohman, she's gonna need some remedial training then!

Here's a good hotdish recipe, straight from the book "How To Talk Minnesotan":

2 cans cream of mushroom/celery/whatever soup
2 cans of some sort of vegetable (corn, greenbeans, peas, carrots)
1 lb. of pulverized meat (any kind will do)

Empty contents into glass dish. Stir. Top with dried chow mein noodles , french-fried onion rings from a can, or saltine crumbs. Bake at 425° until top is burnt to a crust. Serve with Minnesota-style salad (jello with marshmallows and fruit coctail) for a complete meal.

:hi:

[evlbstrd]

89. Thanks!

I'll forcer her into the kitchen this weekend.

[Viking12]

88. Tater-Tot Hotdish

Brown 1 lb hamburger.
Drain. Add 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup (it is a required ingredient for all hotdishes).
Place burger/soup mixture in a casserole pan.
Add a layer of shreeded cheddar cheese.
Add a layer of frozen vegetables (beans, peas, carrots).
Add another layer of cheese.
Finallly arrange tater-tots over the top.
Bake at 350 for 45-60 minutes (until cheese is bubbling up through the tater-tots.
Enjoy.

[evlbstrd]

90. That sounds pretty good.

[no name no slogan]

92. oooo, good one! a staple of school caffeterias statewide!

dang, i'm getting hungry for hotdish now! :D

[Viking12]

93. It's a staple in my kitchen too!

You can take the boy out of MN, but you can't take the MN out of the boy. :):silly:

[Beausoir]

94. Noooooo! No!

Please..no!
Tater Tot Hotdish is just...wrong.:P

My husband BEGS me to make it and I refuse. Only when I go out of town does he get it..and then he makes it himself.

[Left Is Write]

99. Opposite here! I love tater tot hotdish, but my husband doesn't.

I also like tuna hotdish, but he can't stanned canned tuna. I've made it with chicken, though.

[Left Is Write]

97. A quibble.

Cream of (fill in the blank) soup is NOT a required ingredient for all hotdishes!

I make many a hotdish without using cream soups at all. Some are tomato-based. For the ones that are creamy, I usually use a white sauce base.

[Viking12]

101. I concede.

You're correct, macaroni-hamburger-tomato hotdish. Not required but VERY common.

[Left Is Write]

102. Definitely common.

But I definitely prefer a white sauce base over cream soup. Cheese and sour cream can be added if a creamier texture is preferred.

[mzmolly]

105. Hot dish is easy ... just combine carbs, burger and campbell's

soup of some variety - bake it for three days (at 700 degrees) ... and voila' ya got yerself some smokin "hot dish!"

[mzmolly]

104. "a little lunch"

I don't get it? Probably - cause' I'm from Minnesota? ;)

[ballabosh]

81. Easy to pick them up

without even knowing it.

I lived in Illinois all my life (not Chicago), but more than half of my family is from Wisconsin. One summer I worked at a camp in Waupaca, WI and after several weeks had to visit the camp nurse for a minor injury. She was surprised that I was from Illinois because I didn't have an Illinois accent (whatever that is).

I also had a close friend in college from Calcutta. He had lived several years in England, so he didn't have that stereotypical Indian (Apu) accent, but sounded more like an upper crust Britisher. My mom said whenever I came home, I had picked it up.

Sometimes I even had to translate for him even 'though he spoke perfectly good English. When he was trying to buy a car, he asked the salesman if the car was aw-TOM-a-Tick. The guy had no idea he meant automatic. I think he thought my friend was asking if the car was atomic.

[evlbstrd]

84. I picked up an accent living in Baltimore.

Pronounced Bawlamer. Fast and clipped speech. At home in the midwest, no one could understand me.

[Beausoir]

77. I've lived in Fargo and Brainerd..

No one I know talks like anyone in the movie.
Not accurate at all.

Fargoans do sometimes have a little accent....like when they say "car". It's hard to spell out..but it comes out like "carrr".

No one in Brainerd says YouBetchaYa! At least not that I've ever heard in the 5 years I've been living there.

I loved the movie, but uff-da...the violence!

[MsUSA]

80. Hearing that buzz saw running and as the camera comes

closer to the sound, you see that leg sticking out of the barrel. I almost lost the lunch I had eaten. So sick, but was kinda funny.

[Arugula Latte]

96. Oh god, and the running shoe sticking out.

So sick, but I laughed just the same.

[Taverner]

86. My Dad's side hails from Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin

And yes, they talk like that.

[mzmolly]

103. No one who's met my Mother (Minnesota accent) would say those accents

are exaggerated.

;)

Many Minnesoootins are not native, but loads of those who are, posses a unique accent. In fact, I have been "pegged" as being from Minnesota from people around the globe on various occasions. It's amazing to me that people can pin point the actual state I'm from, based upon my personal nasal-ity. ;)