What is the funniest, or most amusing, sounding American accent to your ears?

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Shmoo_the_Parader@reddit

Haitian creole. Good friend of mine, anytime he's on the phone with his mom, I'm like, that's not a real language right? It is.

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I was bored one day and took a few Haitian creole lessons on Duolingo. It's kinda like French spelled phonetically in a southern accent. I remember the word for cheese was "fwomaj" and I was like, ok yeah I get that.

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Tyler_w_1226@reddit

I see you’re Canadian, but I’ve got to say it’s the ones that sound most Canadian. I think it’s like the upper Minnesota/North Dakota area

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dcgrey@reddit

It’s a reason the darkness of “Fargo” worked so well. Pairing that accent with a body in a woodchipper is quite the comedy choice by the Coen Bros.

And TIL the actual woodchipper from the movie is a Fargo tourist attraction you can visit lol.

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willogical85@reddit

The Minnesota Nice accent is probably 50 percent of why the movie Fargo is so hilarious.

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guysmiley1928@reddit

Martin Freeman’s accent in season 1 of Fargo show sounded the most like home to me.

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ProfessionalCat7640@reddit

If I never get another Fargo movie joke about my accent until the end of my days, it'll still be too soon. Lol.

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CheeseFries92@reddit

I'm from Minnesota and I agree! I love how we all sound (Canadians sound different but also adorable) but it's absolutely funny!

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BlackQuartzSphinx_@reddit

My mom's best friend is from Minnesota and my best friend is from Canada. It makes me smile how similar they sound.

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

I feel like Minnesotans and western Canadians feel like we don't sound like one another, but everyone else really thinks we do. I feel like it's a New Zealand / Australia type dynamic. They really swear they sound so different but they sound almost exactly the same.

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BlackQuartzSphinx_@reddit

My bestie is from Calgary specifically and to be honest I can't hear any difference between her and my mom's bestie.

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

haha right on. I bet the Calgary bestie and the Minnesotan can hear the difference between themselves though eh? I can see how both sound more similar to eachother than both do to how you guys down in Montana talk. I've spent a lot of time in Montana, I used to live very close to the Montana / Alberta border. That is my favorite region on earth.

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ProfessionalCat7640@reddit

Uffda! Oh sure, we can tell a difference. You bet'cha.

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ProfessionalCat7640@reddit

You're right, I agree. To most Americans my accent is "Canadian passing" but when I visit Canada I hear differences and most Canadians know I'm not from Canada.

The exceptions were when I visited the Yukon, some folks thought I was from Southern Canada, and Victoria in which a few just could not place my accent as either from Canada or the US. Most Americans (outside of my state and maybe Wisconsin) assume I am Canadian and immediately start talking to me about hockey and whiskey.

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Ironlion45@reddit

Minnesotans don't really sound like canadians. For one, "about" does not sound like footware. Minnesota it's mostly influenced by old scandinavian dialects; up in Canada there's a lot of Scots DNA in there.

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Wise-Ferret274@reddit

I work at a hotel in the ND/MN region and could pick out a Manitoba visitor by their accent 9 times out of 10.

The remaining 1 I could sus out by how much of a picky bastard they are about everything in a specific kind of way. It's a whole vibe.

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NewTransformation@reddit

I think the subtle difference is the Scandinavian influence on the Minnesotan vowels

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UnrelatedCutOff@reddit

Donchya know

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molotovzav@reddit

I can hear a much bigger difference between the Aussie/Kiwi accent than I can the upper Minnesota and Winnipeg types. I live in Vegas so I hear all you guys all the time. I'm really good at picking our where people are from just from years in living in a tourist trap. The key to hearing the difference between Aussie and NZ is the vowels. The kiwi accent tends to do more of a u sound for I. And it's more terse and closed on the vowels. Like six turned into sex almost but said really closed and terse in comparison to Aussie vowels. That being said Aussie has a bit more diversity in accents having 33 mil spread out a bit. I rarely ever get Minnesota vs the Canadian area bordering it right with people.

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Pancancake@reddit

Oh I forgot about Minnesota!! Love it.

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Ironlion45@reddit

Let me introduce you to "Yoopers".

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Everryy_littlethingg@reddit

My family and I went to Canada and everyone thought we were Canadian because of our North Dakota accents 😅

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Southern-Usual4211@reddit

Funny enough I've been told that the new Mexican accent sounds a bit Canadian which is hilarious

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NewTransformation@reddit

I lived in Minnesota for 13 years and I still can't take the accent seriously

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PeterNippelstein@reddit

I dont realize I have this accent until I travel to the south, Im from ND and they do think its funny when I pronounce certain words. Theres definitely levels to it though, like if im ever in a small town in ND or talking to an older person I can absolutely hear the accent, and it is very funny.

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pmathewr@reddit

Toast. Boat. Sorry

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GlitteringLocality@reddit

Honestly this is news to me. I thought nobody liked ours.

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ajm91730@reddit

Oh, yaaa

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tn00bz@reddit

They are very goofy accents.

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

Ope, Minnesota here checkin in!

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

I almost wanted to make a caveat to exclude my accent because I knew a lot of you would choose it. I have a really thick western Canadian rural accent and it always provokes a laugh or two travel state side.

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lumpiaandredbull@reddit

There are parts of rural Maine where people just kinda sound like Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys and not even in a bad way, but it makes me smile.

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GoinMinoan@reddit

Yooper my friend. Yooper is hilarious.

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gregrph@reddit

Never heard of this term. Where/what is it?

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Highyellowhair@reddit

It’s from Upper Peninsula Michigan (called the U-P) It’s the hat on top of Wisconsin 😂

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GlitterberrySoup@reddit

Yooper as in from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, or UP. Spent a lot of time there, the accent is indeed great.

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Ironlion45@reddit

This is the correct answer. Probably half the people here think it's what they're talking about when they say Minnesotan. :p

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CheerioMissPancake@reddit

Yooper! Always yooper!

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three_st1cks@reddit

Son of a gun, dontcha know I saw that big buck down the way, Larry coulda got it but damn DNR showed up. Oh well, I'll see you down at the 40 tomorrow, try again I 'spose.

Or something like that.

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VulpineWelder5@reddit

Baltimore accent

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lfIWX5vGTEk

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CheeseFries92@reddit

I was going to be so disappointed if it wasn't this video. Makes me laugh every time 🤣

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just_one_diabete@reddit

Sheeeeeeet

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Ok_Watercress_7801@reddit

My grandmother was raised from birth in Thomasville, GA beginning 1914.

She wasn’t from a well off family, but was encouraged to get an education and have a career as something to fall back on before marrying. She graduated from Vanderbilt school of nursing in 1935, went on to become a public health nurse with a town and rural route.

I say this because she had an odd way of speaking in careful, practiced English that almost sounded like a slight affectation of British or Queens English.

Had a touch of the Transatlantic accent as well.

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Direct_Obligation570@reddit

Educated Southern doesn't sound anything like regular southern. Actually the best example I can think of is Jeff Sessions but yeah also Doc Holiday from Tombstone.

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BotherFantastic3264@reddit

Yes! My dad was from Mississippi and very well-educated. He’s gone now, but I have a friend who’s a judge down there who sounds just like him. He could be ordering a hamburger, and the tone has gravitas and dignity.

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

I've met some folks from Georgia before and I really like that accent. I know it sounds weird to say but it makes me almost taste cinnamon when I hear that accent. It's so soft and sweet but has an undertone of spicy. The most eloquent accent that has a hint of contradiction. I really enjoy that southern accent. I can envision this with a transatlantic tone. I bet you grandmother had a beautiful accent.

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IneffableOpinion@reddit

Agreed. They sound proper and genteel, like British aristocrats in period dramas. I know a few Georgians and have always wondered why some words or phrasing sound British to me. It might just be the old fashioned manners that none of us on the West coast have anymore. It seems like they stepped out of a time machine from 1830

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

It's true. And no one who is honest with themselves doesn't hear Doc Holliday from Tombstone a little bit in anyone from the South.

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I-am-a-constant-LIAR@reddit

Boston.

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thisolhag@reddit

Surfer dude from California. It's a relatively rare one nowadays but it always puts a smile on my face hearing it in the wild.

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Eat_Locals@reddit

I feel like surfer lives on in outdoor sports guy.

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Ironlion45@reddit

Paulie Shore?

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bigtcm@reddit

I've been told that I sound like a beach bum that smokes weed and surfs all day. I do neither.

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thisolhag@reddit

Yea there's a certain relaxed cadence to the voice. Not everyone will be doing the stereotypical things associated with the voice tho.

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IneffableOpinion@reddit

Josh Meyers impersonating Gavin Newsome as a surfer dude makes me laugh

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Comfortable-Bike9080@reddit

Minnesota lol

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Mongomayhem@reddit

This one is specific to the 2ns smallest county in PA. The title says "Philly", but it's more Delco (specifically south Delco) than anything.

I give you Delaware County Jawn

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killingourbraincells@reddit

Country Florida. I gotta translate the stuff my family says to normal folk. To put it into perspective, I have an uncle named Jamerica. These jokers speak faster than the cars at the Daytona 500. Lots of sound effects. On par with the traditional Appalachian one though.

Another funny one is Colorado white folk. The way they pronounce beuna kills me.

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Luckypenny4683@reddit

I really enjoy the cadence and musicality of a deep Cajun accent

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Ganymede25@reddit

I would say Cajun may be the funniest or most amusing, but I don't know if south Louisiana rural Cajun qualifies as English. Long Island and northern Midwest such as Minnesota grates on my ears a bit. I actually like Canadian English from Alberta or BC as it is distinct and interesting but not grating. It is still part of North American English.

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

Lawn Guyland

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Offi95@reddit

Southern accents sound like they are delivered with a mouthful of shrimp and grits

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erilaz7@reddit

I remember hearing the dialect of Tangier Island off the coast of Virginia in a documentary about the history of English. It was a trip, very much like what the language of the original colonists is supposed to have sounded like.

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Bright_Ices@reddit

Ocracoke island has a similar thing going on, but specifically colonists from the southeast (? I think) part of England.

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ramblinjd@reddit

Yeah I was gonna say outer band high tide accent. Like English West country had a baby with deep Southern

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evil_gummy_bear@reddit

real-life "valley girl" (southern california) accents are so classic and i love the lingo. i used to have one as a teenager living in the area!

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IndiaEvans@reddit

Does it still happen?

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evil_gummy_bear@reddit

yes! i am in my twenties. it's not as mainstream or (ever was) exaggerated as it is in media, but the los angeles/valley accent does exist

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

Is that the accent Charlie on TMZ has?

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PacSan300@reddit

“The Californians” on SNL definitely exaggerated the accent, but they got the dialogue about using roads and highways spot on.

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evil_gummy_bear@reddit

lol very true. i (like everyone else) call the interstate here in washington "i-5", but as soon as i'm visiting california it becomes "the 5" again--it's like two different highways in my brain

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PacSan300@reddit

It’s “the 5” only in Southern California. It is “I-5” in Northern California as well.

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_MaryJane-@reddit

"uptalk" - a manner of speaking in which declarative sentences are uttered with a rising intonation as though they were questions.

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Ironlion45@reddit

You see it's modern descendant everywhere on the west cost. Vocal fry, uptalk, and peppering with lots of "like"s and "literally"s.

It's like the official "basic" dialect :p.

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bigtcm@reddit

The most intense valspeak I've ever heard was in grad school.

I was in awe of this girl trying to explain ribosome footprinting assays. We're talking really hardcore biochemistry jargon but spoken like every statement was a question with "like" in every sentence:

"and like the ribosome? It moves like in three base pairs at a time? Because its like recognizing codons?"

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TownZealousideal1327@reddit

As an Aussie the Minnesota one hahaha sound more Canadian than the Canadians.

Whilst I truly believe I’d prefer to live upper West or East or even Mid West near the lakes… your southern accents are nice

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Ironlion45@reddit

As an Aussie you'd definitely love California the most; It'll be most like what you know.

Also, speaking of accents, I always admired Australia's ability to turn the word "No" into a four syllable word XD

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TownZealousideal1327@reddit

Oh don’t get me wrong as a south east coast surfer I get that… buuut I’d love to live north of New York or California, on either coast. And the Great Lakes are epic and mid westerners they hectic love them.

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

I got playfully teased a lot in Aus, and by Aussies up here, for my accent. They make fun of how we say "ooooh yah". Or the "eh?" thing, you guys find that funny too.

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TownZealousideal1327@reddit

Hahahaha we say hey too… but it’s more a haaeey and yours is short and so polite, ours sounds redneck and rough hahaha

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

It really is like like that. The "eh?" you guys make fun of, but you understand. You get the interjection. Americans do not understand the interjection. They make fun of the "eh?" for an entirely different reason. But at the end of the day, we get made fun of for it nonetheless.

Aussie slang has definitely Alberta and BC. I There's a reason that "no worries" is as native in western Canada as it is in Aus, and it's because of Aussie ski bums in Banff and Whistler. Also - the finger roll passing of joints technique. That's a very Canadian technique that people in NSW and QLD can thank Canadian working traveler visa holders in Byron Bay.

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TownZealousideal1327@reddit

Been friends with many Canadians, Americans, Irish, Brits, Kiwis, SAfers… thing I’ve always found funny, the rest of us seem to pick up one another’s inflections and slang well… then there the Americans, someone has a bit of an Aussie or Irish accent and they need subtitles hahaha

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

Yes! I agree! I actually have a very uneducated / ignorant theory about that. I think that American English developed before it proportionately got mass immigration from Ireland and Scotland in the mid to late 19 century. The US got the lion's share of Irish immigrants and Scottish immigrants - but proportionally Australia, Canada, NZ and other parts of the British Empire got more. Most of the colonial business owners and managers also were of Irish, Scottish, and northern English origin. So I think these dynamics shaped these accents more. Canadian English was borne of the migration of American settlers into the Ohio Valley and NW Territory - and I think that's why the Canadian accent can fit neatly into the Midwestern accent category. But it did get just an ounce more Scottish and Irish influence than the mainstream American accents, and I think that accounts for most of the difference. I came to this conclusion after contrasting the popularity of Curling between Alberta and Montana. Aus was settled 100 years later so you guys sound more British, but not quite British.

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

The Canadian accent doesn’t fit into the Midwestern accent at all, only Minnesota and to a lesser degree, a few other states which border Canada.

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Ironlion45@reddit

The best is the Minnesotan "Ohhyahyoubetchya?"

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LoosePhilosopher1107@reddit

Boston, but more annoying than funny

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Longjumping_Soil2116@reddit

I lived in a few states around the Midwest and North East, including Minnesota. It's Minnesotans. Canadians if they were American lmao.

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DamperBritches@reddit

Dontchaknow

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jasonreid1976@reddit

You betcha!

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

Comin with?

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Ok_Challenge_5176@reddit

Ope, ya sure! Just gonna sneak right by ya, there.

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MCMLXIXLXIX@reddit

Uff da

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MillieBirdie@reddit

For me, the surfer dude California accent. It's just so amusing that people actually talk like that, and I don't encounter it often.

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

In the middle of the Midwest, my friend’s toddler is just learning to talk, and the baby has this very British accent. It’s wonderfully cute!

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SouthernStyleGamer@reddit

This is going to sound oddly specific, but when a southerner tries to copy a Boston accent. My mom's was dreadful, she'd always say "pahk the cah in the gay-rage."

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Jackalope_Sasquatch@reddit

u/SouthernStyleGamer -- I just met my soulmate, ha. My mom is from Mississippi and when we were kids she would imitate the Boston accent to be funny. In fact she would say "pahk the cah" as you noted, but there was more to it that I can't remember....

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toastagog@reddit

Pahk tha cah in Hahvud Yahd

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Jackalope_Sasquatch@reddit

Yes!

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bscspats@reddit

Maybe she finished it with "in havid yahd", as is customary

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Jackalope_Sasquatch@reddit

That sounds right!

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SnapHackelPop@reddit

Cajun. Down on dat dere bayou

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ProfessionalCat7640@reddit

That is 100% my favorite. This wild mix of absolute class and totally ghetto no other US accent can touch. I want to retire there purely to go down to the local hang outs and listen to people speak. It absolutely tickles my soul.

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hugemessanon@reddit

i love jason sudekis's impression on the swamp justice snl sketch lol

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sillybelcher@reddit

Charlie Day's character was hilarious too

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paparazzi_rider@reddit

My aunt's dad was a doctor who practiced a long time in Grand Isle. He had an absolutely authentic Cajun accent but was a great physician. Just hilarious to listen to.

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sapgetshappy@reddit

Aw I actually find this accent really beautiful!

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Ganymede25@reddit

I was deep sea fishing in the Gulf about 110 miles due east of Galveston and we ended up tying off the stern of an offshore tugboat crewed by south Louisiana Cajuns one night. I am a native Texan but could still only understand about a third of the words coming out of their mouths! Friendly bunch though.

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Grungemaster@reddit

My uncle has lived in Nawlins his whole life and even him just talking about work or errands is fun to listen to.

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MrTeeWrecks@reddit

New Orleans accent is different than Cajun though.

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B_A_Beder@reddit

What was that, Gambit?

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boopbaboop@reddit

The Pennsylvania accent from Mare of Easttown.

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TheYellowKingzzz@reddit

They all sound like Bam Margera

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GoldHeartedBitch@reddit

Where I come from, we call that the "Delco accent."

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Cool-Bunch6645@reddit

Maine is quite interesting

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

Sometimes, ded is betta .

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nachobitxh@reddit

Ayuh

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ShookMyHeadAndSmiled@reddit

Whatcha whittlin?

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Ironlion45@reddit

just sit'n eah by de wudda.

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nachobitxh@reddit

Eddie's key

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New-Grapefruit1737@reddit

I visited a coworker in rural Maine after having lived in Boston for 7 years. His neighbor comes out saying stuff and I had no idea what he was saying. Sounded cool though and was clearly a nice guy :)

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SmokedPumpkin@reddit

I work with a woman from Maine, and having spent some time living in Mew Hampshire, I’m sometimes the only one who can understand her.

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achaedia@reddit

Yes! I haven’t met many people from Maine and the people I do know don’t have thick accents but I recently came across a Maine accent and it was glorious.

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FinanceGuyHere@reddit

That was my answer too. Like a weirder Cajun sometimes

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Ironlion45@reddit

Yoopers both for sounding the funniest, and having the funniest name.

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Anxious-Attorney9663@reddit

I've always had a thing for the New York and Southern accents. Something about those two specifically just tickles my brain

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Gold_Telephone_7192@reddit

Upstate New York sounds insane. It’s like Minnesotan, northern which is already ridiculous, but with an added nasal/whine to it. Just an awful awful accent.

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lemoneegees@reddit

Ha, that's mine! I've never heard it compared to Minnesota (which is my favorite). But, yeah, our flat a's are... something.

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_Nocturnalis@reddit

Is there someone who speaks that way or a video you can point me to? I can not seem to picture that.

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lemoneegees@reddit

Jim Boeheim might be the easiest to look up. He was born and raised in the area and did decades of press conferences and interviews as Syracuse U’s basketball coach. Kathy Hochul, the current governor, is from Buffalo. (The Baldwin brothers, Alec et al, are also from near Syracuse but Hollywood changes accents.)

FWIW, I’ve only ever been identified by accent twice in my life. The first time was a linguist who specializes in accents and overheard me talking with a HS friend. She specifically asked us to pronounce Italian and apple to hear the flat a before guessing correctly. (We were all in Spain at a summer language course.)

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boopbaboop@reddit

Western upstate NY sounds like eerily like an Appalachian accent.

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matthewsmugmanager@reddit

I lived in upstate NY for nearly a decade, and I still chuckled whenever someone with that accent said "pasta salad."

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PickleMundane6514@reddit

For some reason the old school South Carolina accent is really grating to me.

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paparazzi_rider@reddit

Which? The lowcountry southern drawl, or the high speed upstate hillbilly accent? I speak the second.

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McGonagall_stones@reddit

Old generation Vermont accent is REAL distinct. My dad had it. Half my family has it.

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lumpiaandredbull@reddit

Yeah, Vermont and maybe a bit of Western Massachusetts have by far the most unique accent in New England. The rest of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and southern Maine all kind of have different variations of what I think can safely be called the same accent, the Connecticut accent sounds a lot like a New York accent, and Northern Maine sounds like Maritime Canada.

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Imaskeet@reddit

There's an old time New Hampshire accent up in the more northern parts. Sounds kind of like a Maine accent, but very rare these days.

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blixxic@reddit

Yeah my dad and uncles have the old-timer Northern NH accent. I'm happy to say that my 40-year old relative has it also. Hopefully it will stick around.

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Scrappy_The_Crow@reddit

I'm interested in hearing examples of all of these y'all are talking about! Any good ones you can link?

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theresuscitator@reddit

Southern

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charcoal_kestrel@reddit

There's a reason Warner Brothers gave Bugs Bunny a (then current but now extinct) Brooklyn accent. On Mad Men, Peggy's sisters have the same accent and it's part of her character that Peggy gave it up for a standard American accent.

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RiverTadpolez@reddit

Probably just the typical one, not any of the regional ones, which sound characterful and charming.

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TickdoffTank0315@reddit

North Carolina "Tide Water" accent, or "High Tider" (Hoi Toide). In the NC Outer Banks.

https://youtu.be/x7MvtQp2-UA?si=B_b_NNX-pRl6HAnn

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OpheliaMorningwood@reddit

My lort hunny eye was a makin shur that brogue gawt minchined, aiiight.

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LastCookie3448@reddit

North Dakota is pretty amusing to me. Oh yah, you betcha.

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oneislandgirl@reddit

Southern drawl. It always makes me smile.

Different but not amusing is a harsh New York or Boston accent. I find it irritating and not funny/pleasant at all.

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Brave_Mess_3155@reddit

Southern gay male.

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so_slzzzpy@reddit

whatever is going on in Baltimore

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MsOnyxMoon@reddit

I find the Gullah Geechee accent and their creole language to be the most amusing. I could sit and listen to them talk all day.

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bear__attack@reddit

This was my answer too! It’s so lyrical, I love it. I can still sing every word to the Gullah Gullah Island theme song.

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Aaron696@reddit

Wisconsin and Minnesota, or really just midwestern in general. They sound kinda cartoonish to me

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soupy2112@reddit

MAINE.

It’s kind of like you’re hearing someone from Boston but the longer you listen the more you doubt it.

Not saying it’s an ugly accent or anything, but definitely unusual to my ear at least.

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Imaskeet@reddit

A strong Pittsburgh accent is really quite amusing. If you've never heard it before, you really don't expect that level of twang in a rust belt city so far north.

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madderdaddy2@reddit

Get ahta here. Yinz always clahn on our accent.

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Bright_Ices@reddit

The Ocracoke “Hoi Toider” accent is pretty great: https://youtu.be/lFvzPWiTCS4

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JuryOk2662@reddit

Any of that east coast shit. Except Boston because my aunt's from there and her southie dialect was so strong that she passed it to my cousin who got relentlessly mocked talking like that in Portland OR, so I felt bad for her.

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illegalsex@reddit

Two Bostonians threatening to beat the shit out of each other is thr funniest thing in the universe. Bonus points if one is a woman.

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Zephyr_Dragon49@reddit

Idk if this is Boston but it's a whole series of videos and I love the way he sounds 🤣

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dadofsummer@reddit

It’s not Boston, that’s New York, it’s the actor Michael Rappaport

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Current_Poster@reddit

I was going to get up about that (as a New Englander) but then remembered the time a crazy guy was shouting at my group in Chicago and I thought it was adorable.

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Rogue_Cheeks98@reddit

I was in market basket once, and some lady on a rascal (one of the ones you get from the store with a basket on the front) was complaining about it not working, kinda making a fuss. Worker comes over, lady gets up, worker gets on, it works completely fine. He shows her how.

The conversation then went like this

lady (in a boston accent): “what the fahk? I must just be retahded then”

worker (also boston accent): “yehp, must be”

She took no offense, worker walked away.

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Meekanado@reddit

I always thought Bostonians sounded like toddlers who are just starting to sound out words.

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geaddaddy@reddit

And if both are women? As a kid in the 1970s I used to see women throw down at the St Paddys Day parade all the time

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Help1Ted@reddit

I watched this happen outside my hotel room. I stood there sipping some coffee watching these 2 absolutely go off on each other. My wife and I just watched the entertainment. We were in downtown Boston and the lady was standing in the middle of the street yelling at the guy on the sidewalk.

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ForestOranges@reddit

Louisiana accents can be pretty funny. And I also agree, the Minnesotan and Canadian accents are basically identical and it’s hilarious. I called a call center one time for help with something and the lady on the phone had such a strong accent. When I asked if she was Canadian she said “no, I’m from Minnesota, I get asked that a lot.”

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

We really do think Minnesotans sound different. I bet Minnesotans think we also sound different. But we can't put our finger on how, because we likely don't sound very different.

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BrettScr1@reddit

I grew up in South Dakota and now live in Minnesota. The really noticeable thing with Canadians is that you all have cot / caught merger and pronounce both vowels with a very rounded sound (basically identical to my caught vowel). Some Minnesotans, especially northern Minnesotans, have cot / caught merger but their vowel is more like my cot vowel with little to no rounding.

In other words, to my ears, Canadians say “I slept on a caught” and northern Minnesotans say “I cot the ball.”

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pawsplay36@reddit

Minnesotans have a little more "yoop" and their Canadian neighbors have little more "eh, ah".

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cameronpark89@reddit

midwesterners that sound canadian

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Ok_Ordinary6694@reddit

New Orleans sounds like Drunk Brooklyn to me.

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spookybatshoes@reddit

That'd be a Yat accent. We have several different New Orleans accents.

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Current_Poster@reddit

I dunno, I don't make fun of the way people talk.

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RhinoPillMan@reddit

New York City accents, all of the dialects there, are like nails in a chalkboard.

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CosyBeluga@reddit

Minnesota or Maine both sound ridiculous

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ThrockAMole@reddit

Old school New Yorker.

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Return_Of_The_Whack@reddit

Old school NYC is a classic "murdaaaa??? What murdaaaaaa?" "WHO DA FUCK IS TINGUS PINGUS" "BING BONG FUCK YA LIFE"

Hilarious.

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AnUnknownCreature@reddit

Outer Banks North Carolina, leftover pirate speech

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indicus23@reddit

Yinzers.

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BlueJeanFoneCase@reddit

Teeter from Yellowstone is my first choice! But an angry guy from Brooklyn is in my top 3!

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Shiny_Mew76@reddit

Gotta be Boston. I always joked with my Aunt who is from there than there are only 25 letters in the Boston Alphabet, and it doesn’t include the letter R.

I also learned a phrase to say with the accent.

“Park the car at the Boston Garden”, just, replace the “r”s with “ah”s.

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TheSapoti@reddit

That one Baltimore accent that almost sounds British

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howieinchicago@reddit

Came here to say this. Grew up in Ohio and there was an older couple down the street that would have their three grandsons come stay for the summer. The combination of their accent and drawl was utterly hilarious and so foreign.

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A-Moron-Explains@reddit

Baltimore. There are two, a white and black one. Both the white and black Baltimore accents are hilarious.

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boringcranberry@reddit

Aaron earned an iron urn.

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Roadhouse699@reddit

My girlfriend (from Georgia) impersonating my mom (from New York)

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DCStoolie@reddit

Delco

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Dear_Milk_4323@reddit

Northern Missouri. Cannot take them seriously sounding like that

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Suspicious_Ad_6271@reddit

Cajun. It sounds so ridiculously fake. I can’t stop thinking of Bobby Boucher and his sweet mama.

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_Nocturnalis@reddit

Ed Orgeron is the former LSU football coach. His accent waxes and wanes a bit but some interviews are comedy gold. I particularly liked the one where he mentioned how he eats some grass from the field every game as that will tell him how the field will play.

Someone is explaining to that dude about alligators and toothbrushes every time he speaks. At least in my head I hear it.

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Snookfilet@reddit

To me they sound like retarded New Yorkers

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

And the guy from Joe Dirt.

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IllustriousRanger934@reddit

New York Italian American wise guys, I don’t think the accent really exists anymore, but it is the most comedic American accent

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caarmygirl@reddit

Southie (a pawt of Boston)

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NoSpaghettiForYouu@reddit

Probably Mississippi tbh

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SideEmbarrassed1611@reddit

Valley. Sounds dumb and everything ends sounding like a question and it makes me laugh everytime I hear it.

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szayl@reddit

Even worse nowadays with the vocal fryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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IneffableOpinion@reddit

Clueless and Buffy the Vampire Slayer come to mind

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pawsplay36@reddit

It's a beautiful accent, but the Baton Rouge, Louisiana accent gives me the giggles.

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Big-Dig-Pig@reddit

Maine, ayuh

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Which_Loss6887@reddit

Xavier Legette

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Lemon-Leaf-10@reddit

Boston.

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

I hate that as soon as I hear the southern drawl my brain immediately files said person under "idiot".

Ive met some really smart people from that area (been all over) but I just cant stop my brain from reacting this way.

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drnewcomb@reddit

New Orleans. “Wheah ya’at, dawlin’?”

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ExtentOld2417@reddit

Pittsburgh

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Rock-Wall-999@reddit

As someone who has traveled extensively in the US and a bit in Canada, and has a Southern accent of my own, I find it amusing that all of these areas are in agreement that while I have an accent, they don’t!

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cats-n-cafe@reddit

As a California , the Boston accent is the BEST accent hands down. It’s like a party when you’re talking to a Bostonian.

I also like the Kentucky accent, they have all sorts of slang that is very amusing.

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Rose_E_Rotten@reddit

The Yooper's accent, dontchaknow. From UP (yoop) Michigan and northern Wisconsin. The Yoop area is all about hunting, fishing, and drinking beer.

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Aggravating_Anybody@reddit

Delco PA accent is hilarious.

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Profopol@reddit

Something about hearing British people do an American accent cracks me up. Not like actors but just like if you have a Brit friend and ask them to talk American. Minnesota/North Dakota is amazing. Also black peoples from Cali especially the Bay Area have an incredible accent.

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ants_taste_great@reddit

Louisiana Mush Mouth

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Effective_Coach7334@reddit

i've always enjoyed the stereotypical Minnesota housewife accent. =0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqqm-bDyE4A

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EMAW2008@reddit

Creole/cajun by far. Half my family is from Louisiana. That accent coupled with their sense of humor just kills me.

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GMane2G@reddit

On the other side, sorry but deep suburban Midwest city that had a lot of basketball titles in the 90s has the most grinding, irredeemable accent. There’re also so loud which goes against my vibe

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Spasticbeaver@reddit

Either Minnesota/Michigan/Wisconsin or Appalachian like total Kentucky/West Virginia.

Interestingly I saw a video about people living on a group of islands off the coast of Virginia I believe, that are so isolated due to the distance from the mainland, that they still have an accent that sounds like they're from the 1800s.

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Icy-Beat-8895@reddit

When southern people say “hour” and it sounds like “are.”

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a_duck_in_past_life@reddit

Sevierville County, TN. I even lived there for a time and seen some documentaries about thwir more isolated communities. There is a particular dialect that comes from the mountains of that county where people have words for things and pronounciation of things that most Americans would not even be able to understand. It's both beautiful and hilarious. Things may have changed since the Internet and social media since I've lived there in the early '10s. But they were truly an isolated people 30 or more years ago.

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DirtParking4216@reddit

As a Southerner, I think the most entertaining is Boston, New Jersey, or New York. Mostly when they're angry and fighting.

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QuarterNote44@reddit

Minnesota and Cajun

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Jazzlike-Monk-4465@reddit

Rural north Georgia

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Responsible-Care-388@reddit

Fargo or Good Will Hunting

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Genius-Imbecile@reddit

stares glaringly

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LockNessCrotchMonst@reddit

Boston, what a clown show

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Rays-R-Us@reddit

Deep South, hearing it reminds me of racism and prejudice

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Old_Shape2357@reddit

Carolina Beach is horrific across the board. Senator Lindsey Graham is a slightly cultured version of this accent. Astoundingly all the men sound slightly effeminate.

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sgtapone87@reddit

Hot chick, thick Boston accent. Can’t take them seriously.

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

In my area we put contractions at the end of sentences. Instead of "Where is Joe?" It's "Where is Joe at?"

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maseephus@reddit

Middle of nowhere in Wisconsin or the UP

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WhiskyStandard@reddit

This feels like a trap.

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voltairesalias@reddit (OP)

Nah just a moment of clarity.

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