Question about a Michigan accent ?

Now I keep thinking of Canadians who say "pop" but pronounce it more like "pawp." That might be the prairie Provinces though. We get a lot of them who cut through the U.P. using US-2 instead of the longer, more hellish route that runs North of Lake Superior. You could spend a whole day sitting in the St. Ignace Big Boy listening to wacky accents. And yes, it has one of many of the painted moose statues across the Southern U.P. I'm not sure why Canadians like Big Boy so much.
 

I wouldn't recognize a Michigan accent, just never been there or knew anyone from there. I do recall a guy when I was in the Army that was from Illinois, I think from Shi-CA-go.
 
JeeperDon said:
I'm from Michigan too, for my first 24 yrs. I do know that 50 years ago the correct word for 'soda pop' was 'Vernors' :ROFLMAO:
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Oh, I love Vernors. We can’t get it here. Many years ago I could find it in a few random stores in the western US. When I visit my DDs in Ontario, I buy a 12 pack and probably drink three of them. The only time I drink pop is when travelling.
 

Way back in 1970 I moved from Detroit to upstate NY (Poughkeepsie). My 18 yr old brother and a buddy drove out to visit. We went to a local ice cream shop and they asked for a 'Boston Cooler'. Counter person said "What's a Boston Cooler?". They said, "You know, Vernors and ice cream." "What's Vernors?" My brother thought I moved to a different planet.
 
JeeperDon said:
I'm from Michigan too, for my first 24 yrs. I do know that 50 years ago the correct word for 'soda pop' was 'Vernors' :ROFLMAO:
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As a kid, one of the standard treatments for a sick child was Vernor's ginger ale, heated and stirred to remove the carbonation. We still do this on occasion. I think it has to do with the ginger (settles the stomach), but it doesn't work as well with other brands of ginger ale. Whenever we go back to Michigan we pick up a supply.

One comment I heard about a Michigan accent was that Mighiganders tend to pronounce the word "truck" more like "chruck". :unsure:
 
JeeperDon said:
Way back in 1970 I moved from Detroit to upstate NY (Poughkeepsie). My 18 yr old brother and a buddy drove out to visit. We went to a local ice cream shop and they asked for a 'Boston Cooler'. Counter person said "What's a Boston Cooler?". They said, "You know, Vernors and ice cream." "What's Vernors?" My brother thought I moved to a different planet.
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LOL...we have similar conversations in the UK..many parts of the uk have never heard of things, and words, from other parts, and accents are hugely different between very short distances ..and given that we're such a tiny country, you wouldn't believe it if you didn't live here, but it's true
 
JeeperDon said:
Way back in 1970 I moved from Detroit to upstate NY (Poughkeepsie). My 18 yr old brother and a buddy drove out to visit. We went to a local ice cream shop and they asked for a 'Boston Cooler'. Counter person said "What's a Boston Cooler?". They said, "You know, Vernors and ice cream." "What's Vernors?" My brother thought I moved to a different planet.
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I've heard of Poughkeepsie ..simply because it was part of a storyline on Friends years ago...
 
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