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Bag, as in "bad." I'm from Texas, but I'm going to school up here in the North and I'm sorry but I have to chuckle every time someone says "baeg." Or better yet, "put the baegs and the paerts in the caer!"
Bag, as in "bad." I'm from Texas, but I'm going to school up here in the North and I'm sorry but I have to chuckle every time someone says "baeg." Or better yet, "put the baegs and the paerts in the caer!"
Okay, okay technically it's the Upper Midwest, but it's the North to me! I'm in Nebraska, but there's a lot of people here from South Dakota and Minnesota and Wisconsin, so it's not uncommon to hear a bunch of Dan Aykroyd's walking around XD
As a matter of fact you're right, he was born in Canada. For some reason I always associate him with like Chicago. But the stereotypical Canadian and Minnesotan accents sound very similar to me.
I, too, have succumbed to speaking MinnahSOHT'n when I'm speaking to people here. It's not forced--it just happens. I actually have said, "Yah, you betcha" and I've also ended my sentences with a preposition: "Are you coming with?" (That drove me crazy when we moved here!) I've even said, "Oh, fur cue-ut" (cute). Our youngest was four when we moved here, so she says all the above as well as "about" in that somewhat Canadian manner.
It's not just NE Minnesota - most people in the Twin Cities say it the same way. I think it's the entire state of Minnesota.
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