You Betcha! The 'Midwest accent' explained by a dialect coach

I’ve been to all 50 states. Minnesota EASILY has the strongest accent of all them. I’ve sat in diners in small Minnesota towns and it felt like being in the movie Fargo.

I moved to northern Minnesota in 2000. Every time I buy a single item at the store I am asked "Do you want a beg for that?" I still suppress the urge to get on one knee plead for it.

3:35 "ahhh, sure, okay" yeah that's us

Being from England I hear three accents in the USA. Northern States, Southern States, and Minnesota. I do love the Southern States accent, yes ma'am I do.

I’m so glad you brought out the bag 😂 my husband and I live in another state. We were at tbell a couple of weeks ago and I went to ask the employee for a bag and she said “wat?” So I said it louder because I thought I mumbled, but my husband heard the entire interaction across the restaurant 🫠

The tightening mouth thing when trying to speak English is exactly how swedes do it. It's so funny to discover that it has stuck amongst the people over there. The oooo word is spelled with a simple Å in Swedish and sound exactly like that. The word bag is pronounced like that in Swedish and though it spells the same we do say it like it's spelled with the letter Ä. Which sound just like how they pronounce it. Så Å and Ä tends to be something they use a lot. The only difference in the word oofda is that we say offdå. So it's a lot of Swedish going on there when you start to listen. The only letter I still haven't herd is the letter Ö.

I love Minnesota's accent 😂 its so cute, doncha'no!

Honestly this is would be the perfect opportunity for long form journalism

I’m from Seattle which is kinda known for having one of the most basic American accents and I lived in Minnesota for a year. 5 almost 6 years back in Seattle and some Minnesota pronunciations still stick with me.

Yeah you have an accent. It’s northern Midwest accent. Central Midwest is pretty much the most generic American dialect

Im not american but i remember watching fargo (living in mx) and being so entertained by the accent, i literally kept copying the words and saying them back lmao i thought they made it up but then i watched the "making a murderer" docu series and realized its a real thing haha i had never ever heard it before. its really cool though, reminds me of canadian or irish/scottish accents in how they pronounce certain vowels (similar to Spanish monophthongs)

My husband's from Minnesota and he hates the movie Fargo. He said it's nothing like the "Minnesota" accent lol I'm from South Dakota and we like to say, "Oh, you betcha, aye." "Oh, don't cha' know." Jokingly. We do say bag like beg and I noticed he says 'hill' like 'heel' and I make fun of him for it. Lol. My dad is an immigrant from Czech Republic and my husband said that I had an accent when we first started dating but now he doesn't hear it.

I'm from Georgia and I moved to Michigan for a couple years and sometimes notice myself using a hard O sound.

Make the Midwest it’s own country

"No, yah". Her dialect coach didn't get it all!

Remember the show Bobby's world. His mom had a really strong Midwestern accent. And the Movie Fargo. I've never watched the series but now I think I will

My fathers family are from the area around Fargo ND/MN, originated from Scandinavia. Love the movie Fargo.

Man moved from ak to here 10 years ago all I can say the movie Fargo prepped me pretty good

yay!

I dont know why but I'm I love the midwestern accent. It's so sharp and accentuated. Think of David Lynch.