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Woo Hoo


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Thinking of the pronounciation of Grand Blanc made me think of other Michigan pronunciation. This page lists some that are quite true! laughing.gif

http://www.michigannative.com/ma_pronunciations.shtml

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Oh muh gahd, I fell like I'm back home. A ton of people in my family talk like that. And now I'm down here where there's this weird southern-like accent. I try really hard not to have an accent, but I know that I slip a lot.

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Hey, that list is missing one that I pick on my husband for all the time: "warsh" as in George "Warshington".

That could be just a Northern Indiana thing though too. Like my mom says "weighn"(it's hard to spell phonetically) instead of "wait." "Que-pon" instead of "coupon" is a common one too, and "lie-berry" instead of library.

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I find that older people around me say "warsh".
My Grandma did but she was from St Louis originally
This is what it said:

it's rare to hear any Michiganian say "arse" (Great Britain), "warsh" (Indiana/Kansas) or "soda" (Eastern US). In case ya weren't wonderin'. OCTOBER 2002 UPDATE: I received an email from Kid Ripster who claims that there are many Michiganders that say "warsh". As soon as the news gets out that there is a secret colony of Hoosiers in Michigan, spreading their addiction to basketball and their genetically-modified corn, there'll be trouble in River City, let me tell YOU.

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I only type "arse" and I occasionally say soda. But that was something I picked up from others.

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uh oh- here's another one I would be in trouble about!

"You guys": No, not "youse guys", and yes, it refers to women as well. Michiganians use it without even thinking. No true native would be caught dead saying "y'all"... that's just not right. (California Accent Pronunciation Guide equivalent: "duuuuuuuudes!")


I know I type "y'all"  all the time, not sure if I say it that often though. Hmmm.

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I used to say you guys a lot, but I think I've curbed that a bit.

My husband says Dude or Mate. It's so funny, from his time in the Navy and when he lived in San Diego, he has the strangest accent.

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You'll hear "warsh" a lot around here too. Gotta go warsh the car.

I always figured the extra "r" was coming from all the Boston people that don't use the "r". Gotta go warsh the ca(r).

One day our pastor was talking about accents from when he lived in Texas. He said his favorite was "y'all" and that more specifically, if you were addressing multiple people, you had to use "all y'all".





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I call Pepsi, Coke, etc. "a pop".  My brother, who did 20 yrs in the Navy calls it soda.  And I'm guilty of using "you guys" too. 

I read the list of words; the majority I pronounce and enunciate correctly, but there are a few I'll use the "MI accent" on.  smile

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my friend from PA says Y'Alls it drives me NUTS...not that I had far to go but you know what I'm getting at. biggrin.gif

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The one I hate is Can I aks (axe) you a question?

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Oh I hate that too Sparky!!!  furious  "Can I axe you something??"   NO, you can't axe me anything!!  

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The one that I notice the most (and there are quite a few people around her that do this) are people that don't use the long A sound in a lot of words like:

The bell of hay. (bale)
The cat's tell. (tail)
The stear rell. (stair rail)
He got put in gel. (jail)

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Oh yeah, "axe" bugs me too. laughing.gif

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most of those sounds like South Dakotans too....sadly I am guilty of alot of them myself.



The kiddy corner one I just said this morning. laughing.gif


but at least we dont say hey all the time....hey ashamed.gif

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I use kiddy corner too.  

In the upper peninsula you hear a lot of "aaay"......almost at the end of every sentence they say.  Drives me bonkers when I'm up there.  hmm

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When it comes to "ask", I've noticed I tend to swallow the 'k', so it sounds more like "ass."

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UPHotRod.jpg picture by super88dan

Okay, eh. Tis the season!

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Where can I get me one of those?

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Hey Squonk, that looks like it'd be a blast to use on the lakes!!!  biggrinsmile

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