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

"A lot of what I hear from actors is, 'This can't be right… you can't say this like that!' and I'm like, 'No we do… that's how we say it," said Keely Wolter, an accent and dialect coach based in the Twin Cities.
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[@MrAflac9916]

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.

[@Daveyjdigital]

I’m born in twin cities it’s hard to hear my own accent

[@josephfaulkner7426]

I've been to Wisconsin. My mom's side of the family is from there. Hearing the Wisconsin accent, being from Washington state, was not real surprising having grown up in that type of family. I say some words that are unique Wisconsin/Midwest such as brat, hotdish, pop (instead of soda) often times without even knowing it.

[@chrisp308]

@@josephfaulkner7426 I'm from South Carolina and went to Northern Wisconsin one time and a lady said that she loved my Southern draw and I replied well thank you, I love your accent too and she asked me what accent? 🤣

[@madisonperry7447]

I have relatives based in Duluth, so when they visited is when I got to experience the Minnesota accent. Just a couple months ago I was flying back home through customs and I heard the women behind me speaking, and they sounded completely normal at first but once one of them said "bag" it was an instant alarm in my brain. Kept listening to them talk for a little while before I turned and asked if they were from Minnesota and sure enough they were. They sounded just like my relatives, but one of the women told me "I don't think I have an accent" like I didn't just accurately guess where they were from XD

[@hfrhkiuffbkiyfc]

I'm from Minnesota. I've never met anyone who sounded like the movie Fargo. Ever.

[@joeharris3878]

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.

[@tradeswithdbo]

it's baaaaaaaaaggg lol

[@joeharris3878]

@@tradeswithdbo In Bemidji they don't drag it out. To my southern ears it sounds like "beg" LAWL !

[@mr_silver_eyes]

In the Corn Belt we seem to do this with E rather than A. I’ve heard mostly old Baby Boomers who grew up in the country say “beg” as “bayg” or pronounce the name Regan as “Raygun”, so for a long time I thought it was a generational thing, but I did it too when I was a toddler. I remember calling eggs “aygs” and thinking acorns were called “egg-corns”.

[@joeharris3878]

@@mr_silver_eyes we're north of the corn belt here. Corn is grown for silage, growing season is too short for grain. Sugar beets are grown west of us. Hay is the only profitable crop. The Norwegians came here maybe 110 years ago, nobody else wanted the free land. That's where the peat bog accent comes from.

[@TheStabbyMedic]

😂😂😂

[@Jin-Ro]

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.

[@zildiun2327]

I live in the South yet I have a midwestern accent. Sometimes when I start talking people will look at me and be like, “where are you from? Are you a northerner?” The dynamic between the northern and southern states is really interesting to me, possibly because I grew up without too much bias. If I could choose where to live though, I would get out of the South, mainly because some of the people here don’t have the friendliest opinions.

[@genghiskhansbabymomma5649]

Add Appalachian to that list, just look it up

[@justa16thnote]

Thanks Kim Jong Il. I also love the Southern accent. I moved to the south from the Midwest and I can't get enough of it!

[@richlisola1]

There are way more-The South alone has multiple accents

[@heyfitzpablum]

Southwestern like Texas? It's not the same as Southern, quite different.

[@Shoomeater]

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 🫠

[@yourlifeisagreatstory]

I find the MN accent attractive. Some Americans might say French, Spanish or even British, but I hear that MN accent and fall in love, you betcha…

[@Canyouhandleth1s]

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.

[@Swenthorian]

It was mostly Norwegian influence, which is why it's uff-da instead of off-daa. Same, though; I also haven't heard ö or ø.

[@MaleOrderBride]

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

[@coriklocek1841]

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

[@Mick-hp4yg]

Don't ever change! I love your accent ❤️

[@thompsonapproachacademy]

As an actor and acting coach, this helped tremendously. I Love to learn and grow. I advocate this to my students. KEEP LEARNING and you will KEEP GROWING and...keep getting work.

[@jamierene6602]

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.

[@Adelicows]

My husband is the opposite, he's from Idaho and he says "heel" like "hill." 😂😂 He also pronounces "feel" like "fill" "It fills like I'm getting a blister on my hill!"

[@TheAidanodian]

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.

[@andreszavala386]

really like what?

[@devchonka18]

From Seattle too. Originally from Kazakhstan. I always get asked if I'm from Canada because I say my o's and a's different

[@seththomas9105]

I'm from Iowa and we are known to have one of the most neutral "flat"accents in the USA. Think of Johny Carson and that's a "Iowa" accent. Unless you are in southern Iowa, then Missouri twang comes in pretty good.

[@uggggggghhhhh]

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)

[@Rusty_Nickle]

You're pretty close to being right. Most of the people that settled the regions in The Dakotas and Minnesota were pretty much The UK and all the countries around the UK. Irish , German, Norwegian. Etc. It's mostly German and Norwegian where I'm at here by fargo.

[@rachell6296]

That’s a legit Minnesota accent not a Midwest accent lol. Minnesoooooota, dontcha know? 🤪 sounds more Canadian to us. I’m from Michigan and I can confirm us from Michigan ohio indiana all sound the same.

[@rachell6296]

@@Rusty_NickleI’m from Michigan and y’all sound super Canadian to a lot of us but with more “dontcha knows” over the “aye”. Lol. Side note- (I don’t mean that in a bad way either. I hope it doesn’t come across that way! Us midwesterners are the best and I’ve been told some of the friendliest people. Js.)

[@Rusty_Nickle]

@@rachell6296 oh Heck no. I'm from the Eastern side of North Dakota. Real close to Fargo. I grew up in the rural area. Definitely a difference between the rural and the city. But I never realize how I sound until I take a video and I hear myself talking. And then I think oh God! 😂. But I think all the states off the Canadian border have a pretty unique accent. I drive truck for a living. And people will pick you out of a crowd. Lol

[@rachell6296]

@@Rusty_Nickle I agree those on the boarder do have unique accent! Most definitely. Lol. Us Michiganders have lack of one so I think that’s why it seems so much more thicker to us. Growing up around it, you’d never notice. But I feel like even those from Minneapolis will sometimes have their Minnesotan accent pop up in convo on occasion. (Been driving trucks for years myself- grew up in it so @ 16 I was forced to learn how to drive a manual… but in a 2000 26’ international 4700. Lmao. I was petrified. I had JUST gotten my license).

[@YooperBanjo]

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

[@kashigata]

So, so interesting! I’m Australian and I adore the way the actors speak Minnesotan in Fargo. It is the best American accent by far IMHO. 😅 I hope everyone in Minnesota speaks that way.

[@jeannedarc5351]

Oh ya betcha! I live on the Wisconsin/Minnesota border and I love Australian accents!

[@corylee88]

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

[@parkergrantski4777]

Lol my family is kinda the opposite. We're from Lincoln Nebraska. But moved to Georgia. I was born here bust still have a lil accent that shows in my O's and I say ope as an exclamation. Like whoops. Lol

[@masonslie1146]

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

[@dawnjensen5615]

Yes! My son watched Bobby's World..

[@Alaskan-Armadillo]

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

[@fireofhislove3395]

It's the greatest accent I've ever heard.

[@charjl96]

I love the Minnesota accent

[@Condesamontes]

I call bags “sacks” but it comes out Sayack. 😂👏🏽

[@tomfields3682]

Are you from Iowa?

[@enbyharbor]

This may sound weird, but a far northern New Mexico accent sounds identical to this. Go to towns like Costilla and Questa, you’ll hear it for sure.

[@vickilindberg6336]

We love our vowels so much that we don't want to let them go.

[@Grungefan2018]

Weird one is from Syracuse New York and eastward it’s “soda”. From just outside Syracuse westward it’s “pop”. Except I had never heard this while attending University at Buffalo and I thought they kept saying “pot”. I was sooo confused . 😂

[@LesNouvelle-Angleterreur]

The Minnesota Accent I imagine would be the best American English Dialect for speaking Nordic Languages. It sounds like a bunch of Swedes and Norwegians trying to do a Boston or Rhode Island non rhotic accent. I could see whole towns and streets of nordic immigrants using it as a communal Language at work and in home but speaking English for trade and official documents.

[@Grungefan2018]

She still has an accent 😂 even after a dialect coach

[@wavstudionet]

3:36 And of course you have a Target bag... how Minnesotan of ya

[@lovelyandsmartcommentator5130]

When my kids were in Europe, people thought they were from Canada.

[@stufoo]

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

[@EdwardoLover]

Yes, thank you. My accent is pretty neutral too. I'm from NE Indiana.

[@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf]

As an Iowan, I must agree.

[@Rusty_Nickle]

As a North Dakotan I agree. North Dakota has it but when you start getting into South Dakota it starts going away. And If you want to hear the accent you kind of got to stay in the rural areas. Like I have it I guess, but my friends from Fargo don't

[@kingoftheboat]

Thank you for specifying "northern Midwest". I'm from Indiana, myself. Definitely not the same accent.

[@n1gtwhisper158]

Yeah unless you specifically are in a rural community with an accent, if you live in a town in the mid-mid west (I've lived in central Illinois/Indiana) I don't have an accent though there are a few that do.

[@ThatNeilDude]

Hi from Moorhead, MN!

[@seanhoward8025]

He’s not from Canada, he’s from Ontario. Canadians from Alberta and Saskatchewan sound exactly like the upper third of Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota.

[@LordDirus007]

Exactly, they shouldn't say that people in Minnesota have a Midwestern accent. Because they don't. Talk to someone from Iowa or Nebraska. They sound like News Casters

[@DaveMiller2]

Interesting that she mentioned her accent coach. Most people don't know that most newscasters are trained to have a generic American accent (or close to it) if they don't already have it.

[@arthurwatts1680]

I never understood why the Boston accent is singled out by many Americans - to an Aussie, it's one of the most intelligible of all the regional accents. Fargo wasn't that tough either, but the subtitles definitely come in handy with Swamp People or anything else set in Cajun country. English is a second language down there ;)

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

@arthurwatts1680 - Australian and Boston accents are both non-rhotic, which sounds especially odd and striking to the ear of the average American.

[@jasonmoore1900]

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

[@nameless_ben__]

I was confused when at example bits I didn’t hear an accent and then I remembered I’m from the Midwest

[@saxophoney1786]

Odd to me that this so called professional dialect "coach" is an 'up talker'.

[@rhondathieson1156]

Canadian here! You talk very similar to various parts of Canada. I’m in western Canada in Alberta and the series Fargo was filmed up here, coincidence or what.😜PS….I always say you betcha.

[@MedalionDS9]

That is cool, fellow Canuck from both the east and west coast of Canada and I totally hear the similarities more on the East Coast

[@BertTurp]

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

[@randytate6848]

Oh yah?

[@andyjin1453]

@@randytate6848 ohhhh shooore bud

[@Learnamericanenglishonline]

The accents used for the film Fargo are so exaggerated, it's almost painful to watch.

[@maryjackson1194]

Grew up in Michigan. When the Michigan economy tanked in the early 80s, we dispersed: one sister lives in Minnesota, one in Wisconsin, and I'm in Texas. When my daughters spent a week with their MN cousins, their favorite word was "tack-o."

[@daryllect6659]

0:15 - "...us Midwesterners"? we WE Midwesterners

[@jalinagiglio6659]

In the great NW we call the "bag" a sack...went Louisianna and ask for a sack and they looked at me like I was crazy.

[@boredofvideogames]

been living in the twin cities all my life. while yes this so called "minnesota" accent does exist, it is no where near as prominent as tv shows and movies make it out to be. even in most small towns i have visited no one speaks like this. you really have to go to some remote small town to ever find anything like how shows portray the accent. and its mostly only certain words. not an entire accent that blankets all speech. its also funny they are asking the canadian of all people if we have an accent. and the bag/beg thing literally comes from canadians and how they pronounce it.

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆 ~ 🫡 Lakes Country here. Lol - you never met my mom & dad ... & my grandparents & my great-grandparents & everyone else in my family that came from Norway & Sweden - i "caught" their strong Nordic accent from the day i was born, firrr shurrrrr. I've NEVER said "beg" for "bag" (never E-VON heard of THAT B4 'til this vid) - I've ALWAYS said, "Bāāāāāg" (long "A" drawn-out.) I'm totally gonna pay attention to the grocery store baggers from now on & ask their heritage. Maybe E-VON have some fun tricking lotza people I'm around into saying that word just to test 'em to hear how they pronounce it - & asking their heritage. *SKÅL!* (I _say:_ "skōōōōōōōl!") ;) Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@TylerAllenAI]

It's the "ahh, sure, okay." for me.

[@richlisola1]

I hate that in the news business they erase people’s own accent in favor of that bland “General American.”

[@Whoo711]

Upper Midwest*

[@FunkyChild718]

Funny the Canadian newscaster sounds more neutral American than the American newscasters and makes fun of their Minnesotan, Canadian sounding accents. 😂

[@l.m.d.4084]

Clearly a non-Canadian who has no idea what actual Canadians sound like. Heres a hint, we sound nothing like Minnesotans and in fact sound "neutral American".

[@FunkyChild718]

@@l.m.d.4084 Nah. I can hear the accent immediately, doesn't sound American to me.

[@DaveMiller2]

@@l.m.d.4084 Until you say "Oot and aboot". 😃

[@leeoconnor5142]

Great segment!

[@buddyholly4672]

Buffalo also says bag very Midwestern lol. I learned something new today!

[@jgpix1]

The guy on the left used the Chicago accent for “bag”

[@queenofdahouse1591]

Went to Houston years ago. Nearly a dozen people guessed. I. Was. From. Minnesota. Out of fifty states. Moved to Colorado. I’d say a phone number and they would guess as well! You betcha!

[@electriccowboy4747]

Being from Wisconsin I hear no accent in this show ya know hey

[@FloarMin]

Great jorb hamstray!

[@InsignificantSpeckOfDust]

She sounds like she could have relatives in Wisconsin....oh yaa...you betcha.

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆🌬Methinkz she LOOKS like a Wisconsinite, firrr shurrrrr. Plus, I've NEVER said "beg" firrr "bag" - NEVER E-VON HEARD of THAT B4. I've ALWAYS said, "Bāāāāāg". Dontcha think she LOOKS like she's Wisconsin-born, though??? THAT was my 1st conclusion. *SKÅL!* ("skōōōōōōōl!") Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@StinkyCato352]

😭 i was born and raised in TX and I keep getting told I sound from the Midwest and now here i am 😂

[@ChessScholarOfficial]

I had a friend who was from Minnesota down here in Florida, and they seemed to be stuck between the two dialects of "beig" and "baag". They were pronouncing it like "Bee-aag" (or "biag"). If you listen to the very end of the video, the lady has a veeeery sight bit of that if you listen carefully. Might be a little closer to "be-ahg". Pretty cool

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆 ~ Uffda! They musta been a transplant to Minnesōōōōōōōta. I've ALWAYS said, "Bāāāāāg" - strong Nordic heritage here from Lake Country, firrr shurrrrr. *SKÅL!* ("skōōōōōōōl!") Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@alZiiHardstylez]

"Look at me now. No, yahh"

[@aquarius5264]

bro midwest is literally just canada lite

[@naturaljustice4654]

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

[@queenofdahouse1591]

I’m from SW MN. I was so mad cuz we don’t talk that way. But I do have a MN accent… and actually enjoyed the movie years later…cuz it has a good plot.

[@NORFUM]

I am from Kazakhstan and I have a British accent

[@noahjones5150]

I can guarantee you that you don’t. You might think you do- but you don’t. Unless you were brought up in the UK from 6yo at the latest your accent is probably a strange mix with some British influence. Also, there is not one British accent. They vary hugely. I can tell where people are from in the Uk accurately within a 10 mile radius.

[@stephgreen3070]

I live in between The Cities and Fargo. I always say that in Fargo you try to swallow the vowels. In the cities, you try to shove them out your nose. Same accent, different delivery.

[@thumbstruck]

Seattle says "bag" the same as you guys.

[@lokipokey]

Oh! I thought they pronounced bag "sack."

[@Differentbutrational]

Make the Midwest it’s own country

[@katelynwhitmer]

First off, it's 'Sconnie.

[@Pixie1695]

Minnesota, born and raised. That's a beg.

[@lovelyandsmartcommentator5130]

Uff da!

[@electriccowboy4747]

People do not hear the difference between our "bag" and "beg" but I do. Its easy to hear the difference

[@MountainMn22]

Ahhhhh the dialect of true romance

[@Bigfoot-px9gj]

I grew up right smack in the middle of the mid-west, and I don't have a mid-west accent. I don't even know what one sounds like. I can tell when someone is from Boston, but anywhere else in the country, I just don't notice it.

[@MacCready_]

"aahn" = on

[@walterbenjamin1386]

"we midwesterners"

[@scottborenstein8291]

No, I’m from Wisconsin and I’ve never said “you betcha” in my whole life.

[@rhondathieson1156]

We say it frequently up here in Alberta!🫣

[@cactusannie738]

My dad always said "you betcha" and was born and raised in Milwaukee

[@jenroo2751]

It's BA-G!

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆🌬It's "Bāāāāāg" firrr shurrrrr. 🤣 *SKÅL!* ("skōōōōōōōl!") Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@daehr9399]

Having spent my entire life in Iowa, and working in in the MN/WI area, this is spot on. I would say the MN accent is significantly less "over the top" than you see on Fargo, but it is definitely there. Wisconsinites, meanwhile, tend to have more of a Chicago-influenced accent the further south you go. But I can definitely tell the difference. I always wonder, do I have an accent? Friends from California say I sound like I'm from Minnesota mixed with Missouri and Wisconsin but I'm really not sure.

[@jonathansfavorites]

I'm from Florida, and my grams is from Ohio, and I related to her bag pronunciation.

[@Dreadtheday]

Michiganders have a bit of it. My grandparents were from Austria, Scottland, Germany and Ireland. Im from Detroit michigan. I live in NC. I sound like m from Minnesota.

[@db3170]

That’s not a bag it’s a poke

[@FrostyIgnition]

So they basically Canadian? It’s weird because as a Canadian I don’t see the difference until it’s pointed out. I laughed at the end when she said bag because that’s how all Canadians say it. It’s forever Baeg not bayg.

[@jijitters]

Well, it's possible we share some settler heritage, being so close. The MN accent was formed by Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish immigrants who shaped the land, culture, and language we still use today o/ If those groups also exist in Southern Canada, then perhaps that's why it sounds similar!

[@Grungefan2018]

Jordan Peterson has the strongest Canadian accent I’ve heard so far. I love Canadian accents . It’s the “o’s”. They’ll be talking and then That little o pronunciation comes out and you know immediately they’re from Canada . Never realized Tommy Chong was from Canada until last couple years cause when I was a kid I had never heard a Canandian accent then I went to Univ of Buffalo and I received a proper lesson in Canadianese 😂. The big one was “agayan” for again.

[@peterboil4064]

ooooo! it's a beeeeg!

[@grbmajor6645]

Uff da.

[@206markmck]

yay!

[@martinconnors6200]

We have a heavy Cosmopolitan London/Thames Accent (in Essex). Essex (UK). Come on over to Essex

[@Grungefan2018]

Wherever Ozzie is from is almost unintelligible and funny at the same time cause you know he’s speaking English but for the life of me I can’t figure out what the words are 😂

[@bby_ln]

How do you say pillow tho?

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆🌬Well, that's a stooopid question! Obviously, it's "pilllll-lōōōōōōō" - firrr shurrrrrrr. *SKÅL!* ("skōōōōōōōl!") ;) Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@MarkDusosky]

No yeah

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆🌬Yeah no yeah! Firrr shurrrrr. 🫡 *SKÅL!!!* ("skōōōōōōōl!!!) Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@BDUBZ49]

Why would you bother calling the Minnesota accent "Euro-centric", when almost the entire country has Euro-centric accents?

[@LennartH-r8f]

First time I came to Minneapolis I heard; You speak English with the Scandinavian accent! I do not mind. As long I can speak and make myself undarstood, it is OK. I can speak French, English and German.

[@rachell6296]

Minnesota accent isn’t a Midwest accent, dontcha kno?

[@oberstmolders]

Minnesotans sound more like Canadiens than Canadiens...

[@randytate6848]

Oh sure.

[@Dulcimertunes]

The Midwest doesn’t end at WI

[@nitochi3]

To me all Americans sound the same except southerners

[@lanivelazquez5308]

so californians sound like new yorkers to you? lol

[@nitochi3]

@@lanivelazquez5308 nope, I can't generalize

[@squidjit83]

I think the only accents in the US are general American (West, Midwest) the Southern accent the New York accent and the New England accent

[@omardelmar]

Same here. As a person with ASD, I listen to information rather than bells and whistles.

[@StephNuggs]

Is she gonna say yeah or not? I aint got all day lady

[@rickredmond2393]

It ain't that different from us down here in Chicago. lol

[@rdl8878]

She goes on and on and on and on and on and we never actually hear any midwestern dialect.

[@eddiearsenal718]

This chick is high

[@UntameableRunaway]

🎆 ~ 🤣🤣🤣 Methinkz she's from Wisconsin ... firrr shurrrrr. 😆 *SKÅL!!!* ("skōōōōōōōl!!!") Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖

[@LordDirus007]

Minnesota isn't a Midwest accent. It's more of a Canadian Accent.

[@richlisola1]

Not at all.

[@FunkyChild718]

@@richlisola1 MN accent is definitely more similar to Canadian than Midwest.

[@KaedonVik]

Minnesota accent are mostly from from Scandinavian Slavic or Irish or Scottish German accents

[@lovelyandsmartcommentator5130]

You betcha.

[@jijitters]

It's Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish. Not Canadian. If there's similarities it's because those groups also settled in Canada, not because of Canada itself.

[@grantjohnsonvo]

Anybody goin to the boat show at the Fargodome?

[@storkbomb7417]

Her accent got so much thicker for "GAHSH, WE DOHN RILLY SOWN LIKE THA, DO WE?" that it was probably intentional. But I really hope it wasn't.

[@BornAgainCarnivore]

You mean Minnesota accent, not midwest accent.. there are MANY midwest accents.. like southern Missouri is midwest and sounds different than Minnesota.

[@marshalllapenta7656]

Oh yeah Don't you know eh?

[@louied6065]

Sounds like Canadian

[@trippplefive]

it does sound canadian, eh ..probably because of the scottish heritage

[@Lotterywinnerify]

Although the comment “euro-centric” is correct. It is also ridiculous. Why bother pointing that out? It’s just virtue signaling

[@paulrom446]

My late dad's from Northern Minnesota near the Canadian Border! Eh?