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I'm from Washington (capital area) and they just sound normal????

sounds similar to Vancouver Canada accent specially egg

Seattle sounds very southern to me. You can here it in a lot of grunge music which is seattle music. They all sound like country singers take Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, and Kurt Cobain for example.

I guess we all pick up where our ancestors came from. Mine from Ireland on my moms side. Grandpa on dad's side, Wisconsin and Minnesota but they didn't have accent like my MN friends.

I have never heard of beg for bag. Never.

You also only interviewed white people. . .

Worshington

Two accents I didn't know about till I went in the service were western Pennsylvania and the State of Washington.

Beg? Instead of bag? Lol

I grew up in Seattle and I currently still live in Seattle and people say I have an East Coast accent probably because of my Romani heritage most Romani people have like that that New Yorker/Brooklyn accent

I feel like we just have the general American accent.

The bag/beg thing is definitely prevalent in the Seattle metro area. I know a guy from Kirkland, Washington who calls a bag a “beg”. 😆

🥚aeygg. Egg. Ayg. Eyg. What? 🍳

There is no accent. The people you say that have an accent have an obvious influence from somewhere else like Michigan. Those people straight up sound like they’re from Michigan and Illinois not Seattle. p.s. I was born/raised in Wenatchee, lived in Seattle for 12 years, moved to KY and back in the PNW now. I was told I had an accent in KY but that’s only bc I had a lack of accent imo 😂

Seattle they have a slight Canadian accent

People in Florida think theres no accent but I moved from Florida to Colorado, another state which thinks it doesnt have a accent but I noticed the accent the minute I moved here.

Moving up to seattle from the deep south as a child helped me learn the accent fast and i can swap between the both. Its certanly a funny one especially when it comes back out now that i live on the east coast again.

I think it's at least partially the Scandinavian influence. It's theorized that the basis for the Seattle freeze as well. The midwest also has a similar problem. There's also a total snow bird/surfer-ish accent.

If someone is saying 'beg' or 'agge' that was born in Washington, then there is some other influence. Like they moved to Washington. This is basically the Canadian pronunciation.

Before Seattle became a 💩hole. 😂

I’m from here and I say b ag and ayg lol I guess I have super generic speech Down south in Tacoma (south edge of Seattle metro area) people will frequently use ain’t and yall And YES people across the mountains in eastern Washington do sound different

Ive heard Wisconsin people say "baig" not "bag"

Do people in Seattle say "bolth" instead of "both"? Ive heard a podcaster from Salt Lake City who says it like that

Fireball whisky $6.50 a shot?!?!? Well... that's certainly Seattle for ya! 😅

The "Seattle" pronunciation of egg is closer to the Old English pronunciation (ǣg) than the typical pronunciation (the word itself was borrowed from Old Norse), so I'd have to say it's closer to correct. It's similar to how Swedes and Danes pronounce it and is probably midwestern influence.

The funny thing is that they're all in denial that they have an accent but when pressed almost all of them have it, but it only shows up in a few select words.

There is. When I was in Philly I used to get compliments. Girls liked it.

Does anyone know when this original aired?

If you are from Washington you might say Worshington. Or instead of washing machine you say worshing machine.

I know why Seattleites have a similar accent to the upper Great lakes region. They both have Scandinavian heritage.

I'm the first West coaster in my family. Born and raised in Washington by parents from New England. Compared to other people whose parents & grandparents were raised in Washington. I sound different than they do. In fact most kids I grew up with didn't have the typical Washington accent. And those that did have the Washington accent were often pointed out as having strange pronunciation of words like bag or bagel or water. "Baygs, Baggels and Worter." Maybe while their great grandparents were being Western pioneers my great grandparents were going to college? I don't know...

The only accent in Seattle is a gay lisp

if there was it would be classified as a woke drawl🤣

I'm trying, but I don't hear it.. it still sounds like the standard American english. 🤷‍♀️

I say aygg and I'm from AZ

Cosmopolitan is not an accent

Wait thats just Vancouver

Lived in Northern California for 62yrs, then moved to NW Washington 5yrs ago. Haven`t noticed any accent change but people talk calmer(?) up here. Both places are on the West Coast along with Hollywood, which moderates American English for the World, in a way, so it`s really hard for me to delineate between the two.

There isn't any Seattle Accent. There also isn't any 'Minnesota' accent. I'm from fucking minneapolis, born and raised and lived there forever, you only hear people say, 'Min-eh-SOO-da' if you go way the fuck up north, where most people don't live. No one talks like that in the fucking cities or the metro area nor do they in St. Cloud, of Rochester, etc..Most people got that, incorrectly, from the movie Fargo, guess what, I live in Fargo,guess what= nobody here says Minnesota like that either! Basically, it's a bleeding of accent from the canucks above us, but it only goes down so far and certainly no where near where most of the people live. Everytime I say I'm from MN they always say, 'Oh, Min-eh-SOO-da', to which= I give them an eyeroll. lol.

This video made me forget how I normally pronounce egg

over 10 years later and we have even more evidence of the PNW accent developing. but they fail to mention 2 big things: 1. usually the speakers of new accents dont perceive the accent, because the development is very gradual, like over multiple generations. but outsiders can hear it pretty easily 2. people with vowel mergers as a rule cant hear the difference when unmerged speakers make a distinction. so to us it just sounds like she says 'caught' louder but technically for her she used a different vowel than 'cot'. the exception is when the distinction is exaggerated or one of the vowels sounds made in the distinction maps onto a different vowel in a merged speaker eg: think how nyc or british accents say 'thought', which for merged speakers, the vowel maps with our 'force' vowel, so you can hear the difference because we still have that 'o' vowel in our system

How is cot different than caught?

I’m from California and lived in Bellingham for a while. At one point I said the word “tour” and someone did not understand me. They explained to me that in the northwest “tour” rhymes with “sewer” and not “four”. The egg thing is pretty noticeable in some people though

I've been veen saying there is a Seattle accent for years. The bag/beg was always an example. So is milk/melk. Or pillow/pellow ..

I feel like sometimes the Seattle accent is basically very similar to Kurt Cobain and Krist Noveselich's voice - it's subtle...but a mix of kinda hippie dippie, but almost canadian sounding or something and sometimes mumbly

I say "rate" when I mean "right there" but right when I mean the direction or that you are right. From around the Seattle area and I catch this with others all the time.

We don’t pronounce the double tt in words we change it to a double dd battle is baddle Seattle is seaddle

There is a sounds seatlites (and maybe others) make to express annoyance... a rumbly back of the throat scratch like the the tch in achmed. Its actually a complete single letter word in several of the languages of PNW tribes, and at least some of them take a bit of pride that they've assimilated it into our english, all the more humorous to them that almost no one realizes they're speaking a language at all let alone theirs. Its meaning is exactly how we use it; a generalized expression of annoyance.

Laid back slack talkers

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