Things Michiganders Say | Michigan Accent And Slang

[@RyanRedoute]

Wow! I've been loving all of these comments from my fellow Michiganders. If you're newly watching this video, shoutout in the comments where you are from, let me and everyone know your thoughts on this video and let us know how strong your Michigan accent is. 😆

[@Ashley-po3zm]

Madison heights Michigan

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas Madison Heights!

[@koalabear9632]

detroit/grosse pointe

[@RyanRedoute]

Koala Bear YAS Detroit/Grosse Pointe!

[@katherineking4038]

Big Rapids

[@em-vo4ml]

us michiganders speak hella fast. WE HAVE SUM TO DO AND PLACES TO BE. not actually, we’re just severely impatient.

[@RyanRedoute]

Haha. Yes, very impat- "gotta go bye"

[@hockeymom49721]

Thats about right LOL

[@RyanRedoute]

@Annabel Styf Facts are facts America.

[@dontknow7127]

Facts

[@taefithendo]

i live in vegas now and this is trueeeee people tell me im very impatient

[@Eksevis]

Honestly, I love how we call it 'Meijers'. Meijer just doesn't sound right to me

[@Eksevis]

It hurts to hear my accent being torn apart.. aaah!!

[@RyanRedoute]

I felt your pain while making the video. Haha.

[@dui_detroit]

Store names are the only things up here I say correctly lol. But let my license expire then I’ll have to go to the Secretary-uh-state.

[@dan27444]

I usually say Meijer.

[@EathanSwift]

My whole family calls it Meijers I just say Meijer. :p

[@Madison-iv8gn]

I went to California and had 2 people say, “are you from Michigan?” And I was like, “uh, yeah... how did you know?” And they said it was my accent.

[@RyanRedoute]

You see there. I had the same thing end up happening to me when I visited Puerto Rico. They ended up being from Canton, MI which is close to where I'm from.

[@dangeerraaron]

I was visiting Las Vegas one time and I was asked if I was from Chicago because of my pronunciation, lol. I was like "nope, close though! Michigan!"

[@dangeerraaron]

@@RyanRedoute I lived in Canton many years!!

[@RyanRedoute]

dangeerraaron oh nice! Home of IKEA

[@dangeerraaron]

@@RyanRedoute pretty much what put the township on the map 😆😆😆

[@avaharker3554]

You pointed out the way we pronounce things, I just thought everyone did that😂

[@RyanRedoute]

Nope. #shook Haha

[@EliRod94]

Same. I'm sittin here like "everyone talks like that!" I feel like a lot of people don't really annunciate a lot of Ts in general

[@teresaeskra]

Me to, I thought this is how these words/things were always pronounced like everywhere.

[@expgretaillegacy]

Yk what me too!!

[@Shallow2669]

Same

[@splashbrossports9749]

No wonder why Eminem can rap so fast

[@RyanRedoute]

Splash Bro’s Sports right! Haha check my Instagram for a funny meme on this 😆

[@mattie2091]

No wonder...

[@edgar22452]

8 mile Michigan.

[@TashenaStokes]

And I only like FAST rap. lol I hate slow rappers! lol

[@DeOneandLonely]

@@TashenaStokeswouldn’t slow rap just be R&B

[@thuantran610]

As a foreign language teacher, I find these nuances about languages very fascinating. It’s true, as a Michigander, I also say “Krogers” and “Meijers”. And I never noticed that I don’t pronounce the hard “t”.

[@RyanRedoute]

Haha! You can only realize when it's pointed out. Or in my case, travel to Denver and someone asks if you're British and you reply, "no, I'm from Michigan".

[@agape.8]

I was telling my dad about our accent and I had a hard time saying hard Ts I had to go back and say the word again

[@decafjnr]

Same here! I didn't realize it wasn't Meijers until I tried googling it once.

[@tomato6553]

Same

[@Deetroiter]

It’s that entrepreneur spirit! More than one store! Really though, I think it stems from it belongs to someone…”Ford’s”…”Kroger’s “, etc…we look at it as it belongs to someone and usually describe it as such.

[@kenyett7]

......When he said Ponniac, that's when i noticed..... We do that for sure

[@RyanRedoute]

😆😜

[@dilyarakish3572]

Until today i never knew some people actually said the T I thought everyone left it out because my family does that and i've done it my whole life.

[@Prnto44]

@@dilyarakish3572 saying it with the t just sounds weird

[@cheeseninja1115]

My favorite story about our accent is the fact that my highschool choir teacher had to re-teach us our vowels so we could learn to sing properly.

[@RyanRedoute]

Yes. I was in choir and had to do the same thing. Haha.

[@KourttneyL]

Everyone I meet asked me about my accent and now I’ve come to realize that I have a HARD MICHIGAN ACCENT. 😂😂😭 everything is spot on!!

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas!!! Welcome to the fam.

[@erinbierly]

Wouldn’t have it any other way, eh!

[@Nadia-dn3xw]

Grand Rapids girl here. This made me laugh, it’s so spot on!!

[@RyanRedoute]

:D Thank you for sharing. I couldn't stop laughing myself while shooting the video. Haha.

[@rachelmoomey1564]

Ayyyy Grand Rapids gang!!!!!

[@30kitagreen]

Me too. Go Grand Rapids!

[@whatno6963]

Same here

[@dark_alexyt7534]

Same nice

[@annawilliams5079]

Fun fact in Michigan we have both Native American and French roots, so a lot of our words are a mix of both those histories: Detroit, Grand Blanc, Mackinac, Tittabawasse, etc. Due to our history with both we incorporate both pronunciations in our talking. We use French liaisons such as: Je aime = J’aime. Ours are lazy liaisons or lazyasons which cause a lot of our spoken words to run together: Secretary of State = Secretariastate, or , did you eat + d’jeet or just jeet. That is thanks to our French history

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Very interesting to know. And I also am aware that Detroit is a French name 🙂

[@enjoyeverything4662]

I'm talking to myself as you're sayin' all of this and it's kind of blowing my mind.

[@RyanRedoute]

I know. It's crazy.

[@carissachacon1469]

Oh my goodness! I had no idea that the letter “T” was basically not existent to us😂 Wow, no wonder people always say I have an accent! I’ve learned so much in this video. Lol!

[@RyanRedoute]

Carissa Chacón Welcome to the Michigan “Accen” club haha I noticed when reading your comment that I didn’t say the t at the end of accent 😆

[@DeOneandLonely]

It’s almost like how the British use their T’s without the British accent.

[@cptmitchell983]

You forgot one thing, oh wait I need to get a can of ‘pop’ : )

[@RyanRedoute]

How could I forget! Haha.

[@johnjarou2357]

yeah, being from Michigan i was always puzzled when people i knew from the south would say "soda" or "soder".

[@RyanRedoute]

John Jarou sane haha. I actually mention “Pahp” in my Part 2 video 😆

[@f4iryth964]

I was so confused when some people from out of state would get annoyed when I called soda "pop" like...who feels like saying soda when you can just say it pops the drink is fizzy and pops anyway😭

[@RyanRedoute]

@@f4iryth964 Us Michiganders don’t have time for two syllables!

[@divergentdreamer]

As a Michigander named Charlotte, I didn't realize I didn't pronounce my name "correctly" (i.e., with a "t" sound at the end) until someone in college thought my name was Charla.

[@RyanRedoute]

Just said it outloud to myself and can totally hear Charla haha

[@annawilliams5079]

Oh no!! That’s too funny Charla!!! Lol as a homegrown Michigander I’d understand you! Now the real question is are you from Charlotte, MI? Lol

[@k8aik8ai]

And Charlotte, MI is not pronounced like Charlotte, NC. It's "shar-lot" in MI instead of "sharlet" in NC

[@Thousandaire-n7o]

And Charlotte, MI is pronounced "shar-LOTT"!

[@LiquidSquidYT]

"Fir a few reasons" there it is lol

[@RyanRedoute]

FIR!!!

[@lockheed6859]

We have cursed speech patterns

[@gratefuldead4714]

i wonder if it’s canadian french influence? who knows

[@ambergarris3075]

Ever since finding these videos about how we talk wrong, I try to better enunciate when using the “fer” and “yer” (instead of your or you’re lol)

[@kvarley87]

your teeth are distractingly perfect

[@RyanRedoute]

Awe. Thank you so much for the compliment.

[@JY-um4su]

Ur teeth r perfect which is kinda distracting tho.I like ur way of keeping a sentence short.Lol.Im a foreigner.

[@RyanRedoute]

Thank you! :D

[@ykhannah3513]

This is so funny.... and true 😭 only Michigan people would understand😂!!

[@RyanRedoute]

Yes Indeed. :) #Michiganders

[@General930-b1g]

Oh yeah other people in the world won’t understand, nice

[@vershawnnewborn979]

I heard This Accent In Detroit MI When I Visited

[@RyanRedoute]

Now you can point it out even better next time you visit! :D

[@vershawnnewborn979]

They Sound Nasally And Canadian

[@kumquatfairy]

the fact that you clarified that when we add an s to company names it's possessive and not plural makes me SO HAPPY

[@RyanRedoute]

Happy you caught that as it was something I focused on getting right. Haha.

[@rlnstn9300]

I live near Toledo, Ohio which is close to the Michigan line. We also pronounce words very similar to the way you Michiganders do😊

[@Narwarlock]

strangely the Michigan accent makes our pronunciation of Pontiac closer to the original Ottawa dialects pronunciation

[@RyanRedoute]

Interesting! Maybe we've hung onto it all these years.

[@Narwarlock]

@@RyanRedoute i think our climate just makes us all much more nasally

[@RyanRedoute]

@@Narwarlock Omg! Michigan is the worst state for allergies. Haha.

[@robc.2937]

It’s actually “Odawa”, Ottawa was the French pronunciation of the word meaning trader. Just a fun fact for you:) maybe in Ontario or Quebec Ottawa is accepted but in northern Michigan where I’m from you will be very quickly corrected by the Natives. 🤭

[@emanalqaatabi2854]

Im from Detroit and all these are spot on 😂

[@RyanRedoute]

Happy others agree! Haha.

[@Anna-zb6yz]

I'm from Ohio, I notice a lot of us (myself included) add an "S" to store names and I think we likewise tend to omit the "T' in certain words.

[@RyanRedoute]

It happens more than you think. Haha.

[@Anna-zb6yz]

@@RyanRedoute I dont doubt it. You never know what is rascally midwesterners are gonna do!

[@ellieolds3283]

I am from MI and I get so pissed when people add an S to store names. That’s not their name!!!!!!

[@hockeymom49721]

@@ellieolds3283 me too....I have over the years to not say ut that way any longer

[@southpawhammer8644]

Boo Ohio doesn't count. LoL

[@abbubbletea6749]

this is so true!! i never noticed that i don't pronounce the hard "t"s 😂

[@RyanRedoute]

I was shook while making this video when I realized the same thing. Haha. Side note: LOVE Bubble Tea!

[@abbubbletea6749]

@@RyanRedoute lol it was so specific! (and yea bubble tea is pretty awesome!!)

[@Ashley-po3zm]

Same

[@JY-um4su]

@@RyanRedoute Is the phrase *side note* a Michigan thing as well? What I know in American English is *P.S.* Side note:Im a foreigner outside US.Lol.

[@RyanRedoute]

J Y haha!! I feel it could be. I say “side note” all the time

[@kingtoasts9485]

I didnt even know mejiers was supposed to be said mejier. Im from Michigan.

[@RyanRedoute]

You learn something new every day. :) Haha.

[@sr71ablackbird]

well, in a sense, wouldn't ya be right ? seeing that the stores were started by fred meijer and therefore, they would be fred meijer's stores ? :P

[@Kwizzle9999]

I was born in West Michigan and moved all over the country during my childhood, but my accent always stuck with me since we always revisited the northern lower peninsula every summer. I have québécois cousins too. I always love bringing out the Yooper accent to mess with my neighbors down here in Georgia. The looks on their faces!

[@RyanRedoute]

Haha!!! Maybe I need to do a specific Yooper Accent video

[@Juleesuz]

I found out that my biological grandmother's side is québécois! My dad was adopted. Maybe we are related. LOL! I'm also from SW Michigan.

[@KLASSCULTURE]

This is GREAT - MAY I share this on my channel WITHOUT getting a STRIKE and WITH your permission please & THANK YOU!!!

[@RyanRedoute]

Sure! If you could tag me or mention my channel and link to it, that would be great. How do I give permission? :)

[@KLASSCULTURE]

@@RyanRedoute OF course I will DO all of the ABIVE = tag, add link and SHARE and Shout you out during my video! This was a Great VIDEO so thank you very much - I think you have already stated that you agree. LOL - I appreciate it SO MUCH! Have a GREAT DAY! PS I will also ask ppl to SUBSCRIBE to get you to your #1000

[@nickolaskerria2963]

I don' have a speech impediment, I'm from Michigan. We stop all breaths from our lungs because it's cold and we are saving our warm breaths.

[@RyanRedoute]

Nickolas Kerria You may not be wrong haha it does get rather chilly come Jan/Feb

[@nickolaskerria2963]

​@@RyanRedoute Sorry, bro. I'm from the UP. Isn't cold but gets snow 9 months of the year. Hated it when everything turned to slush then come the night and it freezes over (past tense because moved away few yr ago). But yeah, you're right, isn't cold else we yoopers are just use to it.

[@RyanRedoute]

Nickolas Kerria 9 months!?!? geez Louise!!!

[@stephanieshafto8738]

Very northern michigan: "yous goin to walmarts, er no?"

[@RyanRedoute]

Omg! The “er no”. 😆 that’s another one I say. Almost one word “eerno”

[@brockspaulding3948]

I didn't even notice the "T" thing it surprised me when I realized it.

[@RyanRedoute]

Saying these out loud to myself when I first learned them surprised me too

[@_R_D_N_]

I agree that as Michiganders we do all these things, but most of the ones you mentioned are quite common in North American English accents all over the region, and not unique to Michigan. Although, “Meijers” *is* extremely Michigan 😆

[@_R_D_N_]

For me, it’s the way someone says “I am” that just screams Michigan 😂

[@hockeymom49721]

I yam? Lol

[@agape.8]

I legit didn’t know that it was Meijer and thought it was Meijers until I was 11

[@RyanRedoute]

Just said this one out to myself. Haha!

[@RyanRedoute]

Can't believe we were tricked. haha

[@khfan4life365]

My grandparents are from Michigan. They moved here years ago when my dad was 5. Even now, they still have their Michigan accents. Whenever my family and I would visit Michigan relatives, I’d quickly emulate their accent. I wouldn’t realize it until I’d get back to California and my classmates would look at me like I grew a second head whenever I’d talk.

[@TatianaRacheva]

Sounds like a normal American accent. I also turn store names into possessives, 50% of the time, because I can never be sure which way it really is. It’s Albertson’s, right?

[@1982kinger]

I'm from southwestern ontario and was born in sarnia with family in Windsor Essex. Ppl in Toronto tell me I have an accent. I realized watching your video that I have a Michigan influenced accent. Ppl in the US never notice I'm Canadian.

[@marshallsweatherhiking1820]

What makes it confusing is a lot of company names do officially end with an 's'.

[@Juleesuz]

Walgreen's does.

[@danielpierce6327]

yes my family says aldi's and we refer to plastic bags as kroger bags tho we tend to shop at krogers meijers aldi's and sam's there's one more store we call with the s on the end but it's less known to us like von maur department store i call them von maur's tho i haven't shopped there yet but hopefully soon. they are one of the few family owned department stores in the midwest also blain farm & fleet changed it's name to blain's farm & fleet 15 years ago i really dont know if there are any other stores we call with the s on the end

[@RyanRedoute]

Love that you call them "kroger bags". I feel we do the same haha

[@melaninqueen2413]

Hey there! Born and raised in Ann Arbor but sadly moved to the south when I was 11. But I still consider myself a Michigander! I still say Pop and add S's to everything, while speaking quite fast and slurring my words. Please help me...!!

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas Ann Arbor! Once a Michigander, always a Michigander. But I can't even help myself. Haha.

[@lu-fg7ih]

i wondered why i added s’s to everything i thought i had a lisp turns out i just have a michigan accent

[@erinbierly]

@@lu-fg7ih😂😂

[@erinbierly]

😂

[@timk7073]

Good points! I attended law school in Michigan and locals would say "which part of the south are you from?" I am from Cincinnati, Ohio and had no idea how "southern" we sound until I experienced that.

[@BigE2600]

It’s not that we speak faster. It’s that we tend to be more lazy by taking shortcuts and blending syllables together.

[@RyanRedoute]

I can attest to the fact that your thinking may be correct as well. Haha.

[@MadFireTV]

Yep, definitely. I'm a Michigander and it's all true. I guess we are also unique in that we say Party Store lol. Great video, enjoyed it.

[@RyanRedoute]

That is another one! I said that to folks in Chicago when I lived there and they were like, Huh?!?! Also, glad to hear. :)

[@IntelligentT82]

Ryan Redoute I remember I told someone in the Washington DC area that I'm going to the Party Store and they thought I was talking about one of those Party City type of stores 😂

[@blackkittycat15]

There's other states like Ohio that don't have liquor stores on every corner. It's bizarre.

[@skylarbix7912]

Wait, what do other states say instead of 'party store' ?? 😳😄

[@meggles2188]

Oh, this made my day! I'm from Grand Rapids area but have been gone for about 6-7 years and people always ask me to slow down, repeat my self, or comment on my accent😂 I'm actually proud I still have it!

[@RyanRedoute]

Me too. And yes, sometimes I've come across as mumbling and I look at people who say I'm mumbling with such confusion. I'm like, Whatayamean? Haha.

[@mikaylasmith4181]

I’m from GR, too!! I noticed our accent when I hear a lot of the older folks pronounce “car.” The short “a” and sharp “r.” It makes us sound so nasally lol. I even catch myself saying it like that and I just have to laugh.

[@ChelseaBreathesAir]

My Canadian friends always laugh at my accent! They're only a couple hours North East of Detroit and we speak entirely different! lol. Ann Arbor girl here :)

[@RyanRedoute]

Hi there! You tell those Canadian friends of yours to mind their own business aye! Go have some poutine maybe. Haha.

[@hockeymom49721]

I'm in Northern Michigan and have been asked a lot if I'm from Canada.

[@wolfyy664]

Yo I was taking to someone that wasn’t from Michigan and then some how we were talking about Meijers and it was like a 15 minutes on I was saying it wrong. My face was like Girl no Meijers sounds better than Meijer.

[@RyanRedoute]

I agree that Meijers flows a lot more. Haha.

[@sapphirequeen71]

Meijers Thrifty Acres

[@a4ewald]

Sorry: I keep commenting on this 3 year old video. I’m from “GranRapidz”. I’ve been living in Chicago for too long now and I’m worried I’m losing my “Mishigin Aksen”. I always notice that we glue words together. Like for instance: “Did you see them?” become “Dijya seeum?”” I have read comments below that we Michigander’s way of speaking has possibly been influenced by Indigenous Peoples’ way of speaking English. Whenever I watch a movie with an Original Steward of Stolen Land speaking English, I always think: “They sound like they are from Michigan. Thank you for this video!

[@ChantelleLarae]

I’ve always had a problem pronouncing certain words the way they’re meant to be pronounced. Both my parents are from Michigan and I’ve never even been there. Ive been asked more than once by strangers if I’m from the Midwest…..I’ve lived on the west coast my entire life. I was curious and looked up Michigan accents and now my whole life makes sense 😂

[@annawilliams5079]

Haha welcome to the Michigander club. Even if you’ve never seen the beautiful motherland of the mitten, it will still live on through you. Legend says that a true Michigander is never far from home, because they keep a map of their home on their hands.

[@skylarbix7912]

@@annawilliams5079 Haha!!✋😄

[@diamondlou1]

@@annawilliams5079 So true. I've lived all over, and only another Michigander would understand when I put up my right hand and point with my left hand to show where I'm from in MI.

[@Kanne60]

Born and raised in Grand Rapids. When I was 53 we moved to North Carolina after 53 years in GR. Everyone always asks me about my Northern accent..I definitely drop my T’s. I always said Meijers. Wouldn’t ya know that NC doesn’t even have a Meijer. I miss the bottle returns and the beautiful lakes. Great video! We will probably move back to Michigan when my hubby retires. Wondering if we will be the only crazy people to move north when they retire.

[@sydneywalker35]

When you have to keep rewinding to hear it because it sounded normal the first time😂

[@RyanRedoute]

Lmao!!!

[@tdoug3543]

An old newscaster calls our accent as “the Michigan mumble”

[@barbaramatthews4735]

I'm originally from Michigan and now live in Tennessee. I've lived several places in the years since I left. I was in the Navy so I traveled a lot. I don't get to hear myself often so I don't know how much Michigan accent I have left. I'm sure if I went back to visit that I'd pick it up quickly.

[@RyanRedoute]

I'm sure you wood too!

[@lu-fg7ih]

im from michigan too and now living in tennessee

[@itssosarahh]

"igotih" killed me. this video is so funny and called me the hell out.

[@RyanRedoute]

ssssarah 😁😆 Glad you liked it. I felt I was calling myself out so much while recording. Haha

[@carrie9571]

I live in Muskegon, MI, and I never realized hat this was an actual accent 😂

[@RyanRedoute]

Welcome to the Michigan accent fam!

[@a4ewald]

Iggy Pop is originally from Muskegon! He has the most thick and textbook Michigan accent I have ever heard. Look up videos of him talking. You’ll love it.

[@chuckkottke]

Thank you Ryan! Could you explain this to SNL so they get it right when doing Governor Whitmer's accent? I could be wrong, but they've pegged her with the Minnesota- Dakota accent of Sarah Palin..

[@RyanRedoute]

It made me laugh, but I definitely felt it was more Minnesota as well. Haha.

[@chuckkottke]

@@RyanRedoute Thanks Ryan! True, funny all the same here, but living in Wisconsin I can tell the various accents apart, wish those subtleties wouldn't be lost by our popular culturists. You give a wonderful presentation noting the details, many thanks!

[@TheDrinkyDude]

Originally from California and I'm currently chilling in Michigan, I love it here, you do you Michigan

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas! Thank you for the boost of morale.

[@martyclarkworship]

I'm from SC and other than adding the unneccesary apostrophe s to the end of stores, I pronounce everything the same way you did...maybe not the ah vowel but the difference is very subtle.

[@RyanRedoute]

Waybe we have a little southern twang in our accent too

[@TashenaStokes]

80% of our folks came from the south, the difference is in how fast we do it. In fact part of my family is from SC. Also Mississippi and Alabama. To me it sounds totally different. Also when you see the second video the slang words help too. POP till the day I die!

[@meghanmiles8912]

Never even noticed until this video that I don't pronounce the letter " t" when speaking.😂Plymouth Michigan here

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas Plymouth! Haha. Me either until making the video.

[@clashwithtrash9380]

YOOO I didn't think I would find anyone is this comments section from Plymouth because that's where I'm from lol it's such a small city it's not even in the map

[@michiganscythian2445]

When I was in Hungary and the English speakers there use mostly UK English, my Michigan accent (accen’) really stood out. Apparently me saying, “I munna go t’ the stoRRR. I hafta ge’ melk,” was quite amusing. Any word that I said that ended with an “x” was difficult for them to understand with my accent. Apparently we say words like “tax” and “box” quite differently than UK English. And I do laugh when anyone in a movie says “I’m from DEE-troit.” Lol, no. Not if you say it like that

[@RyanRedoute]

Omg I heard you saying it while reading this haha

[@skylarbix7912]

Ya, for the word 'box', I think we say something more like 'bahx'...? 👍🏻Maybe I spelled that right!?

[@TheBelovedDisciple144]

Haha that's so funny. I didn't realize ANY of this. But I definitely talk like all of this.

[@RyanRedoute]

The Beloved Disciple Welcome to the Michigan accent family! Haha

[@thebirdperch_MI]

We do have a somewhat unique accent! It took me a while to understand why people said I have a "Michigan accent." Once I started paying attention, it made sense lol! We don't round our O sounds like Mom=mahm or John=Jahn. We also tend to drop the T from the middle of words like important=impor'ant or kitten=ki'in. Several years ago I was watching a crime show. One of the victims was speaking about what had happened and I suddenly realize "OMG! She's from Michigan!" and then moments later, they were interviewing a Michigan State Trooper!! I also used to add the S to the end of store names, but I trained myself not to say it lol!

[@luminousunicorn]

I somehow thought Meijer had an invisible “s” on the end growing up and never questioned it. But the small town I grew up in had tons of businesses named after the owner with a possessive, like Perch’s IGA and Jimmy’s Party Store that we would shorten to just Perch’s and Jimmy’s, so it just made sense. Also, I’ve noticed the “ope” changes regionally. Where I’m from, it sounds more like “up”. Our accent has accents. And don’t even get me started on the people who can’t tell a yooper accent from that of someone living an hour south of the bridge.

[@RyanRedoute]

Ooooo super interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing!

[@tudormiller8898]

Hi Ryan! Great accent tag video, really informative and entertaining. Watching from London UK.

[@RyanRedoute]

Thank you for the kind words! Yas London! :D

[@PossumMedic]

We do a lot of these in Ontario too! Good to know voicing a character from Michigan wont be as hard as I thought! :D Thanks for the vid!

[@RyanRedoute]

You’re welcome! We are pretty close to Ontario 😏 haha

[@RyanRedoute]

How’s Canada doing? Missing the ability to travel over the border haha

[@PossumMedic]

@@RyanRedoute Ya I didn't realize how close! My geography knowledge is horrible! xD Doing well here! Stay strong it won't be forever! :)

[@RyanRedoute]

@@PossumMedic that’s good and yes gotta keep remembering that. 😁

[@annawilliams5079]

Haha but Ontario is just Northern (or Southern) Michigan (depending if you are in Detroit or not 😉). I used to visit family friends in Ontario every year before the pandemic, and I can fake a pretty good Ontario Canadian accent lol. Your accents are very similar to ours that down south some folks think I’m a Canadian. I’ll tell them I am just to mess with them. I’ve noticed the biggest difference between Michigan and Ontario is that you drink Cahffee and watch Hawkey while we drink Cawffee and watch Hah-key.

[@Dreadtheday]

I am a michigander. Lived there for 30 years. I do not conversate, I converse. I say Ford unless it's a possessive. I say Sherbet like "shure bet" and horror "horror or" "e-Nun-c-e-adt", I proNOUNce. I am really heavy on the lack of letters, softening, shortening and adding ds on everything. I use the full stop ✋️. On every sentence.. I have lived inna appartmeh. I over "pRuh nunce" the R. When the word But is Buuh. I live and love your accent, it reminds me of home.

[@DillVicious]

Dude I tried to force myself to use the t and it feels to weird

[@RyanRedoute]

You see!!! Haha.

[@decafjnr]

You just confirmed that I do have a Michigan accent, even though I have always said I don't...haha. I'm from the suburbs of Detroit originally, Warren/Center Line area.

[@RyanRedoute]

decafjnr GOTCHA! haha. Yas Warren!

[@amberbamber.]

OMG I'm a Michigander living in Kentucky and everything your talking about is a big YESSSSS! What's even worse is when my northern and southern accent clash lol! I have to stop myself and be like, what the heck was that lol! Want to know what irks Kentuckians nerves, being a northern and pronouncing Louisville, Ky LMAO!!!! I still don't say it right lol! I LOVED your video

[@RyanRedoute]

Awe. Thank you so much for the kind words. I've heard Louisville is a fun town! And I'm right with you on speaking. You should see some of the footage from my "editing floor". Haha.

[@ez8546]

At one point (I think it was in the 1970s), they (the Michigan government or some cultural committee) wanted to starting calling us "Michiganians". We put a stop to that really fast. We are loyal to the duck!

[@RyanRedoute]

Really?!? The duck? What is that?

[@korubi_eCSTatic]

As a kid, someone once told me “Michigander” was a supposedly derogatory term that went back to the feud over Toledo. I just looked it up and apparently that person was half-right, it WAS supposed to be a little insulting in the implication of combining Michigan + goose, but it was Lincoln who coined it in a speech against Lewis Cass.

[@RyanRedoute]

@@korubi_eCSTatic even if it was bad. We can claim it as ours and make a positive thing hah

[@DeOneandLonely]

On not using T: Ypsilanti becomes “Ypsilany”

[@miss__monique]

I didn't realize that we had accents. I thought that it was more of a vernacular or a dialect. These videos have been so fun to watch including this one. I had no idea how many T's I don't pronounce 😆

[@heathertaylor4680]

Here, because I've been told on more than one occasion that I have a Michigan accent 🤔... born and raised in Arkansas, as well as my parents. I'm literally blown away right now...

[@hockeyisdabestsportever4056]

Saginaw boy here this is sooo true

[@RyanRedoute]

Hockeyisda Bestsportever Yas Saginaw! Ain’t it??? Haha

[@pakiraju786]

I tutor ESL students, and the letter “t” always messes me up since I’m so used to saying it the Michigan way.

[@RyanRedoute]

Haha oh no!

[@brenbren72]

I grew up in Cleveland, OH and I speak the same exact way as Michiganders apparently 🤣🤣🤣

[@RyanRedoute]

Welcome to the club! :D

[@moontheloon5]

A friend of mine from Michigan pronounces the word challenge as "Cheel-enge. Is this a Michigan thing or just my friend's own little quirk lol?

[@Joe_Parmesan]

definitely a Michigan thing. 'car' can be pronounced as 'caaar' or 'keyaar'. So, 'challenge' is probably like 'chee-allenge'

[@mitchelety]

Meijers! I Dunno, ciddy. Lol love you Ryan. This was informative!

[@RyanRedoute]

Glad it was helpful! You are the bestest.

[@BrandiMattison]

I'm from Cadillac, Michigan, aka "up north". This guy is 100% right! I'm 😂 watching him explain about Meijer's. ❤

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas! Love the added credibility haha

[@anthonymoncman6859]

I thought the ts sounding like ds thing was everywhere lol

[@RyanRedoute]

Nerp! Haha

[@MelissamarieR]

Same. When i moved to NY then came back to MI and noticed the KrogerS or MeijerS and FordS lol. I stopped it but picked it back up. Yes we do use double DDs instead of Tts .

[@RyanRedoute]

Aria A isn’t it crazy! Haha

[@garrettcampau8086]

Mans got a nice set of teeth if I’m being real😂

[@RyanRedoute]

Well thanks! Haha. :)

[@leovasquez5501]

Wow. Very eye opening. You nailed it. Leo from Flint. Edit: I godda run da Meijers.

[@RyanRedoute]

Leo Vasquez Stahp!! A classic Michigander phrase 😆😆😆

[@7gamex]

...I feel attacked lol

[@RyanRedoute]

7gamex 😆😆😆

[@CK-EDITS_edit]

I love how you giggle after each way us Michiganders pronounce our words 😂

[@kayartblox5963]

Saginaw here✌🏻✌🏻

[@RyanRedoute]

Yas Saginaw!!!

[@Bunnybath]

I seriously never noticed the accent, I had to go and look it up because I thought we sounded like everyone else. And the doctors ehh thing had me cracking up so bad some reason

[@RyanRedoute]

I saw ehhh probably too much haha

[@southpawhammer8644]

That was great, metro Detroit here

[@RyanRedoute]

Thank you and hey Metro Detroit!

[@AGnedotnotdead]

Aren`t the glottal stop, the t thing features of all the american dialects?

[@RyanRedoute]

It looks like you may be right. Maybe Michiganders do it more heavily so we/others notice it more?

[@DeOneandLonely]

I grew up in Michigan and the only part of my “accent” I’ve changed is I call pop soda, which is because it’s easier than explaining I’m from Michigan every day when I say pop lol

[@riverjao]

I moved from TN to MI and the accent is wild to me! Instead of bag as in “back,” about half the people here say bag with a long a as in “bake.” I don’t even know if that’s accent, it’s really just wrong pronunciation. And the most noticeable one is how they have transformed the short o into a shot a sound. Instead of mop, it sounds like maaap. Instead of mom, it’s maaam. Instead of copy, it’s caaapy. It’s wild! I actually read an article about it from a professor who moved from Boston to MI and he explained how it all happened and the accent shifted around the 1950-60’s.

[@Juleesuz]

I don't really say the "a" weird like you mention here. That must be more in Northern or Eastern Michigan.

[@THEEJoeSmith]

Kroger’s is true

[@RyanRedoute]

Right!?!? Haha

[@degalatarian]

“Michiganders love using a hard R” is crazy 😭😭☠️

[@abbielopez98]

Portage girl here. I never even realize that I don't put emphasis on the T in my own city 😂😂 I never really knew I had an accent until I went to Tennessee on vacation and they were like where are you from 😂 Also I said Pop and they had absolutely no clue what that meant.

[@RyanRedoute]

Abbie Pordige 😆

[@abbielopez98]

@@RyanRedoute Right 😂😂 never realize my accent until I go somewhere out of state and they're like where are you from?

[@annalynch5197]

YES! I’m from Kalamazoo and definitely don’t say PorTage. 😂

[@DeliRevv]

Michigan is one of those rare states where we have two sets of accents: Yooper and Troll.

[@peenchub151]

Now that you mention it, I realize that I actually have an accent😂

[@RyanRedoute]

Ya see there! Haha.

[@DeOneandLonely]

I don’t know if this is specifically Michigan, but I’m from there and I say iron like, “eye-yearn”, and I’ve noticed other places like AZ & MO say it like, “eye-run”.

[@AllThingsGina]

It used to be officially Meijer’s.

[@RyanRedoute]

Did it really?!?

[@AllThingsGina]

Ryan Redoute yup. “Together, with his 14-year-old son, Fred, they opened Meijer’s Grocery.” - from their website. (I was previously on the marketing and e-commerce teams at Meijer.)

[@nell6913]

Yup, Meijer's Thrifty Acres was the name.

[@diamondlou1]

@@nell6913 Now THAT is a blast from the past!! (Now that I think about it...my mom called it "Thrifty's" not Meijer's!)

[@Shaezi11aGames]

I don’t like to waste time so I appreciate the blending of words together. It makes it easier to get out of conversations faster 😂

[@bethaniepender9339]

The "T" is spot on. We also say "da'marrow" not TOmorrow.

[@elitereloadz4985]

Holy man, describes us in every way and I love it

[@ericsimandl3998]

Lower peninsula accent. Up North, it's a different accent entirely.