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Thread: Does the Minnesota accent sound Irish?

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    Default Does the Minnesota accent sound Irish?

    This is the accent where people say things like "you betcha", "doggone-it", "don't ya know?", etc.

    To me it sounds Irish influenced, very much so.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzN_nqXZPj8

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    arent they vikings? its probably norwegian but i dont know enought about the languages

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    No it sounds annoying as hell, tbh. It sounds very nasally and unattractive, even on women. While Irish sounds beautiful and makes my heart melt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yehiel View Post
    arent they vikings? its probably norwegian but i dont know enought about the languages
    Yeah a lot of Swedish and Norwegians settled in Minnesota. To my ears the intonations do sound Swedish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stefan_Dusan View Post
    No it sounds annoying as hell, tbh. It sounds very nasally and unattractive, even on women. While Irish sounds beautiful and makes my heart melt.
    Minnesota accent is the one Sarah Palin talks with.

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    No,it sounds American....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Minnesota accent is the one Sarah Palin talks with.
    Is it? I dunno, but she's probably has an Alaskan accent which is similar to Canadian accent which is similar to Minnesotan. It doesn't matter, I don't like it either way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stefan_Dusan View Post
    Is it? I dunno, but she's probably has an Alaskan accent which is similar to Canadian accent which is similar to Minnesotan. It doesn't matter, I don't like it either way.
    Her family is from Idaho, which has the same accent as Minnesota for the most part. Alaska has no accent since the people there came from various parts of the midwest.

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    The upper mid-west accents are speculated to come from different things; one of which being that many Germans/Swedes settled in that region - and some of the Germanic inflections that were brought over when they immigrated, may have shaped the 'Minnesota accent' of today.

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    Not really. It shows very Scandinavian influences, much like the the one from Upper Michigan and Northern Wisconsin.

    Speaking as someone who was born and raised in Central Wisconsin, our accent are more of the stereotypical Midwestern twang.

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