Question about a Michigan accent ?

jlhog said:
Lived in MI my entire life and never heard it pronounced like weer.
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it's odd isn't it...did you listen to him speak in the video... ? he says weer for where.. and prepeer, for prepare...

do you live anywhere near him ?
 

hollydolly said:
it's odd isn't it...did you listen to him speak in the video... ? he says weer for where.. and prepeer, for prepare...

do you live anywhere near him ?
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I really cant hear (understand) videos, tv, or phones. I have severe hearing loss. Even with hearing aids it is tough. Maybe he is not a Michigan Native.
 
jlhog said:
I really cant hear (understand) videos, tv, or phones. I have severe hearing loss. Even with hearing aids it is tough. Maybe he is not a Michigan Native.
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He is definitely a Michigan Native..I looked him up on google.. he's the son of a prominent Michigan Lawyer.. who've lived there for at least 50 years..

This is where he's based...

Southfield, MI 48033, USA
 
Pinky said:
Canadians in general don't say "aboot" .. I would venture to say that you may hear it in our East Coast where there are transplants from overseas - Scots, for instance.
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I was born and raised in Southern California, and said worsh until I got teased about it, and learned to say wash!
 
I'm a born-and-raised Yooper. When DH and I moved back to the UP from Georgia, the accent grated on my precious little shell-pink ears.

Weer? Prepeer? I dunno; those are head scratchers!
 
I was Indiana-born-and-raised with a year (and a lot of vacations there) in Virginia and six years in Michigan. Now after 45 years in Florida, I still get asked occasionally if I'm Canadian.

I guess it's a combination of being exposed to the Tidewater accent and whatever-the-hell the Michigan accent was.

Nobody has ever asked me if I'm a Floridian because not even a linguistics expert can say what a "Florida accent" is. I guess that's because there are Ohio-Floridians and New-York-Floridians and Maryland-Floridians and California-Floridians and Canadian-Floridians and British-Floridians........

We're the true melting-pot here, inviting the world to "give us your tired, your poor, your frozen masses yearning to be warm...."
 
Wonder if he even realizes he pronounces these words like that. You should send him an email. 😉

He might have had a speech impediment when he was young.
 
Jules said:
Wonder if he even realizes he pronounces these words like that. You should send him an email. 😉

He might have had a speech impediment when he was young.
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LOL...no absolutely no..I;m not sending him an email to point out he's not pronouncing words correctly..... he's my eye candy with Brains..lol
 
Paco Dennis said:
This is close to an explanation.

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So much of this is full of crap, though there are exceptions. But only the semi-literate would say "nu-cu-ler." "Pop" is most certainly not dying out except among the young and vapid who apparently ape Hollywood, having such a tenuous association with their native culture.
 
A former co-worker from northern Michigan would run contractions together. For example: shouldn’t = shunt, wouldn’t = wount. Over 40 years ago, but still remember how odd it was.
 
There was a test on the Interwebs sometime back that quizzed certain words for pronunciation, to predict where you grew up. I got Las Vegas, a place I never lived! I have lived several places in the southwest, and also s. California, so perhaps that had something to do with it.
 
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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Good old Vernors. When I first moved to Florida from Michigan, I'd bring back a case when we'd go back, because you couldn't get it here.

A Vernors float with vanilla ice cream was sublime. Then they came out with Vernors ice cream......yuk.

As Dillitante said, it's not the same taste now.

I used to live only a couple of blocks from the Vernors bottling plant on Woodward Avenut and my daughter loved to go stand at the big window of the plant and watch the bottles go by. For some reason, that was fascinating to a 2-year-old.

Somebody would always run out the door and hand us a bottle.
 
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Pinky said:
Canadians in general don't say "aboot" .. I would venture to say that you may hear it in our East Coast where there are transplants from overseas - Scots, for instance.
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I think this is right. Except "transplants" can come across as rather recent immigrants, and some Canadian regions have had Scottish immigration for centuries. Pronunciations can linger regionally.

I've found that people from Alberta and some parts of Interior BC say "a-boat" for about. Pinky, what have you noticed, eh?😉
 

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