How to Speak Midwest

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  • @damascusraven
    @damascusraven 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +800

    You forgot "welp", especially at gatherings it signals that you're about to leave or that everyone else needs to leave.

    • @champio517
      @champio517 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      Only after you have smacked both of your thighs and stood up

    • @jessh3092
      @jessh3092 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Oh the Midwest goodbye need a video of its own. It’s a process. 😂

    • @jakem8839
      @jakem8839 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welp *knee slap* I suppose *stand up*

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      oh common buddy just one more

    • @marcielston3019
      @marcielston3019 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      That person's a hero, because then I can say "Welp, I think I'll head out wicha"

  • @nutzpwnz
    @nutzpwnz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1085

    You forgot 1 important thing, distance traveled is measured in time, not miles
    It isn't 30 miles away, its 30 minutes away

    • @UnknownUser-fe5zu
      @UnknownUser-fe5zu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      He explained that in another video I believe, that or it was Charlie

    • @KansasFarmer620
      @KansasFarmer620 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      This is actually true as hell

    • @GeorgeJefferson-h7w
      @GeorgeJefferson-h7w 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Are there really places where they talk about how many miles away a place is instead of minutes/hours?

    • @M_Weber
      @M_Weber 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      It's right down the street
      - ok? How far is it?
      ... Oh I dunno? Like 20 minutes?

    • @carlsaganlives6086
      @carlsaganlives6086 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GeorgeJefferson-h7w I know. Scandalous. Truth is stranger than fiction.

  • @kylisius2868
    @kylisius2868 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +417

    I'm from South Africa and married a mid-western lady. She says the whole, "if you don't want to, you don't have to", all the time. The key is listening to the seriousness of her tone.

    • @djrandyification
      @djrandyification 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Yep, gotta master reading in between the lines. If my wife says something like that, I'll usually opt to do whatever it is right away, lol.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      100%! In the Midwest we will ask you to do things that we're not really asking you to do we're telling you to do but we just don't want to be rude.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​​@@djrandyificationthat is usually a good idea. I say as a Midwestern wife hahaha

    • @TheChyaman
      @TheChyaman 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Lekke vibes bra. God help you convincing them a braai is better than a bbq

    • @lindickison3055
      @lindickison3055 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup....same words. Different tone. Watch out!

  • @CRBungalow
    @CRBungalow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +248

    The weather is always the perfect topic for a conversation because we know the weather 2 hours from now might be a different season from right now.

    • @ronaldrobertson2332
      @ronaldrobertson2332 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Nebraska: "If'n you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

    • @dragonflash09
      @dragonflash09 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And compare the current weather pattern to the last time you saw that weather pattern. Classic.

    • @midonna3134
      @midonna3134 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sports as well!

    • @dracofirex
      @dracofirex 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You absolutely have to mention the Halloween blizzard of 1998 too.

    • @ronaldrobertson2332
      @ronaldrobertson2332 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dracofirex Ugh! Don't make me have to hurt you for those unpleasant memories!

  • @CyndieAmala
    @CyndieAmala 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +692

    I always find myself saying "ope sorry" in the grocery store when I realize I'm blocking someone's path with my cart 😂

    • @UnknownUser-fe5zu
      @UnknownUser-fe5zu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Same, Midwest native of 28 years and now live in west Texas, people tell me “you have an accent” and “why do you say nope without the N” 😂

    • @CyndieAmala
      @CyndieAmala 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@UnknownUser-fe5zu 😂 I love it!

    • @Lufkindaytrading
      @Lufkindaytrading 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      “Ope.. Excuse me”

    • @DrewBombard
      @DrewBombard 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “Ope before sorry, but not after jeez”
      th-cam.com/video/qb_-taYLRfY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8bGuwxaa9mS5sYwf

    • @bdawg4231
      @bdawg4231 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100% Same here lol

  • @Childofbhaal
    @Childofbhaal 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +636

    One of the most common phrases I hear living in the Midwest:
    “It would be really nice out without this damn wind”

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      you forgot the second part of that, "But, at least it's not snowing"

    • @ChasingChampionships
      @ChasingChampionships 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Or humidity 😂

    • @SalmoTheGreat
      @SalmoTheGreat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Or humidity

    • @braceletlife28
      @braceletlife28 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes

    • @lindasokolowski8506
      @lindasokolowski8506 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I just said that this morning! All of it! 😂

  • @Mindy12836
    @Mindy12836 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +279

    When someone gets to your house always ask what roads they took to get there 😂

    • @seameology
      @seameology 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I never of that but YES!

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's so true

    • @genevarailfan3909
      @genevarailfan3909 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I think we do that because we want to recommend the route we've found to be fastest.

    • @772tsweet77
      @772tsweet77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Then tell them how wrong of a route they took.

    • @smscoal8579
      @smscoal8579 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “Hey how was the Dan Ryan?” 😂

  • @Big_Country_67
    @Big_Country_67 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

    Add the “ope it’s time to head out” then you stand by the door with your winter gear on only to continue chatting for over an hour and you start to warm up too much then you walk outside and they continue to follow you and talk to you. You get in your car and drive away and they are there at the end of the driveway still waving at you…. Classic MN goodbyes

    • @HRourke
      @HRourke 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I spose

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      If not for that Midwestern parties would literally never end. No one wants to be rude and leave first. We're all waiting for the icebreaker. If there isn't one in attendance the party just goes on and on and on making the owners of the house very angry.

    • @sharibigay4712
      @sharibigay4712 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I always liked when the leaving soon, goes so long you have to spend the night. It got so when I went to certain friends I'd put extra food out for the cats, have the neighbors feed the dog and let him out if I wasn't homes before dark.then if the car isn't there the next morning to feed and let out the dog agsin. Plus I'd throw a couple pillow and blankets in the car and xtra clothes just in case.

    • @rhondaflesher8313
      @rhondaflesher8313 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Phone calls with a friend are the same thing - several "Well, I gotta go", before someone actually hangs up. lol

    • @timharris2291
      @timharris2291 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@rhondaflesher8313 Actually my mom, who was a Minneapolis girl, always said, "well, I'll let you go."

  • @mikenimmick3920
    @mikenimmick3920 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

    Oh, no matter where you live in the MW, if you have to go somewhere to shop...you gotta go into town.

    • @kathydimeglio1852
      @kathydimeglio1852 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Oh my, I said this to a colleague because I needed batteries for my mouse and she fell off her chair laughing.

    • @gwengayhart4505
      @gwengayhart4505 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hitch up them horses!

    • @Sir_Austin_T_Gee
      @Sir_Austin_T_Gee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      No joke… I moved from the Midwest to Texas and well
      Grocery store is less than 5 blocks from me and I always hit my wife (Texan) with the “welp I spose we better go into town and get them groceries cause I’m ready for bed and I won’t wanna do it tomorrow” to which she replies “babe, we literally live in town”.

    • @janserventi
      @janserventi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amazon

    • @bistromathics6
      @bistromathics6 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I mean, I'm literally in midtown of a midsized city in the middle of the midwest. I'm already in town. (I just say which neighborhood I'm going to)

  • @themodernfrontiersmen
    @themodernfrontiersmen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +430

    I never realized how Midwestern I was until I joined the Army. Southerners, West Coasters, East Coasters, etc. had no idea what I was saying half the time lol

    • @KansasFarmer620
      @KansasFarmer620 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm not talking shit just curious of where your Midwest is??

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      When I joined, my Alabama buddy pointed out the word Oil to me. or rather to him "Ole" and to midwesterner "Oyal"

    • @marcilk7534
      @marcilk7534 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@DravenRedrumMy ex from Bahamas said “oral”. I had a heck of a time figuring that out at first.

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@marcilk7534 so cars needing Oral would have been an interesting conversation huh

    • @esssee9386
      @esssee9386 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      We're from Los Angeles. When my daughter was in the Navy everyone thought she talked like The Californians on SNL. (I understand Midwesterners just fine and would love to live there, but can't take those Winters!)

  • @goopygeiger5632
    @goopygeiger5632 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Heading out to the mail box in flannel pajama bottoms and a parka, coffee in hand, and sayin, “good mernin” to your neighbor who is dressed the same….thats midwest. Much love from the south shore of Lake Erie

    • @marym.s.8862
      @marym.s.8862 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🙋‍♀️ we ( me? ) do that here in North Idaho too💙 🌨🌬❄️☃️

  • @MaryJoD
    @MaryJoD 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +275

    On our SECOND date, my future husband gave me an oil filter for my car. Most girls get chocolate or flowers, I got an oil filter. My dad said, he's thinking about you. Go Midwest Bros.

    • @WinteryMix84
      @WinteryMix84 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      I got a set of Pyrex for giving birth to our first kid; a vacuum cleaner for the second. LOL

    • @AbigailHummel
      @AbigailHummel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      My husband changed my wiper blades early on. This is how Midwest men show their love.

    • @gwengayhart4505
      @gwengayhart4505 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      A date (and I’m using the term in its loosest possible way) once gave me a battery for the remote on my gas fireplace. And he’d never even been in my house.

    • @starrystarrynight9822
      @starrystarrynight9822 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That is the most romantic thing I've ever heard!!!!! ❤😍❤🥰 ♥

    • @CarolynMcPherson-r3z
      @CarolynMcPherson-r3z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I got a router for my birthday.

  • @CRBungalow
    @CRBungalow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    Also adding s to the end of everything, Krogers, meijers.
    In Michigan you are always going up to or down to, somewhere even if it's east or west of where you are.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And random Rs to words. Like wash. I hate hearing half of the people I live near say the word wash because they add an r! There is no r in wash!

    • @RetiredFreeBird
      @RetiredFreeBird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Penney's. Sherbert. Warsh. Norter Dame. Pop. Ending sentences with prepositions.

    • @RetiredFreeBird
      @RetiredFreeBird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MamaMOByes there is.

    • @julieaskingforafriend
      @julieaskingforafriend 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh my God, thank you! To this day, I have issues with East/West directions because we simply never used them.

    • @maryjackson1194
      @maryjackson1194 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My parents always had two maps in the car on trips around Michigan -- one was for the kids in the back seat, so we couldn't ask how long; only "where are we?" if we weren't paying attention. Still, our house faced east, and to this day, I struggle to show my husband google maps of Grand Rapids because I always think they are sideways. Everywhere outside of GR, cardinal directions work.

  • @Wall_Flour
    @Wall_Flour 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

    "Spoze" (I Suppose)... E.X. 'Welp, [ knee slap ], Spoze I should get out there and mow the yard.'

    • @nco_gets_it
      @nco_gets_it 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      another one from growing up..."welp, that hay ain't cutting itself"

    • @ronfullerton3162
      @ronfullerton3162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Then there is the flip side, "Spouse not".

  • @jillschaefer1360
    @jillschaefer1360 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    Don't forget the "er, no's".
    Me: "So are we goin' to Kwik Trip now, er no?"

    • @amyellen3845
      @amyellen3845 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I made the mistake of asking my toddler, "are you coming er not"? I hadn't intended to offer "not" as an option, but that was her answer. 😂

    • @jillschaefer1360
      @jillschaefer1360 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@amyellen3845😂😂

    • @supergeeky7529
      @supergeeky7529 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Now I wanna go to the Kwik Trip and get some glazers!

    • @pamelah6431
      @pamelah6431 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Kwik Trip won me over last year, I must admit. Those chocolate muffins....

    • @onionbubs386
      @onionbubs386 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Where I live, it's Kwik Star. Huge cultural differences here in the Midwest.

  • @groovygannon
    @groovygannon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    My favorite word from growing up in rural NE. Pertnear. Like that was pertnear a car accident. Word I didn't know was weird til I moved to a bigger city.

    • @christurgeon6277
      @christurgeon6277 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      As a native rural Nebraskan, I agree! My mom still says that word from time to time But I have never once heard it here in Denver.

    • @henrythebasset8749
      @henrythebasset8749 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I grew up near the Illinois/ Wisconsin border and pertnear was in common usage. That was in the fifties and sixties though. Don't hear it anymore, thanks for reminding me, I pertnear forgot.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wow that's when I haven't heard in Illinois since the '80s!

    • @kibbylollabee1259
      @kibbylollabee1259 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think it’s spelled ‘purtnear”. Former hoosier

    • @valeries382
      @valeries382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Grew up in WI.
      We allis set pritnear.
      (Always said, "pritnear")

  • @earlymorningtwilight9119
    @earlymorningtwilight9119 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    From Iowa but have been held captive in NYS for 35 yrs . It's good to hear normal people talking. You betcha!

  • @greenfox6606
    @greenfox6606 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    We would rather suffer alone than make someone do something they don't want to do... This is soooo on point 😂

  • @aronhultgren7903
    @aronhultgren7903 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

    I feel a connection to midwesteners Im a swede, we act similar.

    • @seameology
      @seameology 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Hey, cousin! Lots of Swedes in the Midwest!

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      We're all Swedish somewhere down the line in MN

    • @erin6083
      @erin6083 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@zr3755 Except all the Somalis

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@erin6083 Just like Sweden nowadays as well

    • @erin6083
      @erin6083 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zr3755 true and sad..No care for Europeans’ indigenous lands. They love imperialism and colonization and trampling on indigenous people’s rights as long as it’s them doing it to us.

  • @sethgnade3530
    @sethgnade3530 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    You forgot the goodbyes, where you slap your knee and say welp and then proceed to bs for another hour before actually leaving

    • @GoingGreenMom
      @GoingGreenMom 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My kids hate this phenomenon.

    • @sethgnade3530
      @sethgnade3530 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@GoingGreenMom I did too then I became an adult. You just start doing it

    • @giraffesinc.2193
      @giraffesinc.2193 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      FIlipinos do the same thing here in Cali (but without the knee slapping). I am told it takes at least an hour to leave a gathering.

    • @natebit8130
      @natebit8130 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@giraffesinc.2193Three to six hours.

  • @bokehbutterfly6544
    @bokehbutterfly6544 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    The smile and nod to people you pass on the street or in the store; or in the road (possibly combined with variations of finger/hand acknowledging as well).
    And holding doors open for anyone and everyone.

    • @marvelousrex2866
      @marvelousrex2866 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It feels so rude to not acknowledge the other person with at least a nod haha

  • @garettjohnson6978
    @garettjohnson6978 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

    Also important to note, Yeah, no, yeah can also mean "yes, definitely/obviously"

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I always thought it was whatever you ended on. You start with you and you go until you get back to the one you want.

    • @michaelaboros2084
      @michaelaboros2084 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And “no, yeah, no” is like, “definitely no,” or “I am quite sure that the answer is no.” 😂

  • @pvwolfgang420
    @pvwolfgang420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +137

    I even say ope sorry to my dog when its totally his fault

    • @alfiegrace
      @alfiegrace 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I once apologized to a mannequin in a store that I bumped into. “Ope, sorry about that.” My friends looked at me as though I was bonkers. 😂

    • @erikaquatsch2190
      @erikaquatsch2190 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've caught myself apologizing to a lamp I knocked in to.

  • @SALTYJULES111
    @SALTYJULES111 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Also, giving directions by landmarks as well as time. About 10min take the bend at Runsa Hut then past the old Miller farm bout 10min...

    • @gaborkorthy8355
      @gaborkorthy8355 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Here in Maine locals will also give directions by landmarks. More often than not the land mark is no longer there. " Take a left at the old Esso station"

    • @jonathandonley3299
      @jonathandonley3299 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. In Illinois, distance is measured by time.

    • @gabety731
      @gabety731 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jonathandonley3299 Not me, in rural Illinois it's miles. Time is irrelevant because there is no traffic or "gapers delays" As far as landmarks for directions, spot on in rural Illinois. Ex. Go West of town to the three mile toolhouse and go North to the Tee and turn left.

    • @kjean4662
      @kjean4662 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In MI, explaining where a city/town is, we throw up our hand and point at it. Most out-staters just look confused.

  • @scottsolomonson9005
    @scottsolomonson9005 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    The long good bye. ‘Well we should get goin…45 minutes later….well we should think about heading out.

  • @Nurichiri
    @Nurichiri 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    In Illinois, or at least in the Chicago dialect, if you pass a car accident and slow down to stare at it, you are not rubbernecking. You are gaping. If there is a backup due to everyone doing that, it's called a gapers delay.

    • @CRBungalow
      @CRBungalow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Where i live in michigan we say gawking.

    • @brendamartini2165
      @brendamartini2165 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's a "gawker slowdown" in MN.

    • @nco_gets_it
      @nco_gets_it 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      gapers...never heard that one...we called them "idiots"

    • @pamelah6431
      @pamelah6431 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I've never heard anybody around here say Gaper. 😂

    • @wsmarshjr
      @wsmarshjr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In Boston, it's a gawker-blocker, pronounced gawkah-blohkah. 😂

  • @ALZulas
    @ALZulas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I busted out laughing about pointing out animals by shouting their names 😆😆😆😆 My non-midwestern husband HATES when I do this

    • @peony519
      @peony519 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Whenever I see cows I always let out a hearty mooooo!

    • @jvallas
      @jvallas 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a difficult sentiment to respond to. 😏

    • @g8807
      @g8807 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peony519 same

    • @JuniperWhiskeytart
      @JuniperWhiskeytart 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You just nod and smile 🤷 ​@@jvallas

    • @SarahRenz59
      @SarahRenz59 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@peony519 I combine the two; I say, "Moooo cooowwwws!"

  • @brettwelch8368
    @brettwelch8368 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    giving directions in time not distance is my favorite.

    • @judiwinemiller3655
      @judiwinemiller3655 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Distance,no ya we only do time

    • @judiwinemiller3655
      @judiwinemiller3655 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Distance,no ya we only do time

    • @twentynineteen4687
      @twentynineteen4687 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait, isn't that how to do it?!

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@twentynineteen4687Seriously, is this unusual?

    • @pamelah6431
      @pamelah6431 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Distance doesn't matter. If you go 5 miles through town = 20 mins; 5 miles down I-90 = 4 minutes. If you need to know what time to leave, you base it on time.

  • @TheLovelyMissBeans
    @TheLovelyMissBeans 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    Today, my husband asked me, "Do you want tacos for dinner? Or would you rather have spaghetti?" I said, "We can have spaghetti...unless you wanted tacos, the that's fine too,not trying to cause a problem..." we've been married 20 years. He still doesn't understand.

    • @jvallas
      @jvallas 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What he doesn't understand is, "please get spaghetti."

    • @TheLovelyMissBeans
      @TheLovelyMissBeans 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jvallas exactly.

    • @beautifulmoon8896
      @beautifulmoon8896 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @jesusmendax6815
    @jesusmendax6815 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    I just cant help but think the mid west was the area where a lot of scandinavian people settled. All these things you describe are standard social traits in scandinavia.

    • @wutzittouya3765
      @wutzittouya3765 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Yep, that would be correct. The Midwest is primarily German and Scandinavian decent.

    • @Ndsl710
      @Ndsl710 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That is correct, most scandinavians settled in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin when they came to the US

    • @seameology
      @seameology 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I was once told by a guy from Norway that there are more Norwegians in Minnesota than there are in Norway so...

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes the Midwest is extremely Middle European.

    • @RetiredFreeBird
      @RetiredFreeBird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      My grandparents came to Illinois from Norway in 1896.

  • @TheDoorToLight
    @TheDoorToLight 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    Ya forgot the Midwest wave at an intersection. Anyone who doesn’t give ya the wave to go you know isn’t from the Midwest.

    • @ronaldrobertson2332
      @ronaldrobertson2332 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Raise the pointy finger of the steering wheel.

    • @lindickison3055
      @lindickison3055 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Even just passin on the street (cept when theres moren 4-5 cars, like in town. I remember askin Dad "Who was that?". Reply- I dont know😊

    • @timharris2291
      @timharris2291 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the South everyone just waits for everyone else to go without waving.
      It's changing now, unfortunately.

    • @olly8
      @olly8 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      After living in California for a couple years, as soon as moved back to Nebr, I went for a drive in the country just to see and get that "hey" with the (index) ☝🏼 finger. Such a simple, familiar greeting. Put a smile on my face 😁

    • @SSGTC
      @SSGTC 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ronaldrobertson2332 my wife is always like “why did you put your finger up without even taking your hand of the steering wheel and wave stoically at every single other truck or car you pass even though you have no idea who they are.

  • @billhansen862
    @billhansen862 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Every city, regardless of size, is referred to as a town. Example: “Does he live in town here?” and the town being referred to is Omaha.

    • @gwynthegnome2050
      @gwynthegnome2050 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Lol … yes! Absolutely true. 😂

    • @amytarvin2776
      @amytarvin2776 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hey! I live in town! Wanna get pickles?! Gotta support the church!

    • @772tsweet77
      @772tsweet77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Get some pickle tickets at the Holy Name fish fry?

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      In MN the exception is the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul). This area is "The Cities" and everything else is a town

    • @caseysmith544
      @caseysmith544 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      South Dakota all are Cities, even places as small as Pukwana or Oacoma. Only a town if you are in an unincorporated township.

  • @SouthernOutfitter
    @SouthernOutfitter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Being from Alabama and traveling all over I totally understand brother! When I talk people are like what did you say??!?! 😂 I love meeting people from all over our great country stay safe God bless

  • @kennethabels3833
    @kennethabels3833 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Always remember to announce “welp I should get going now” AT LEAST 30 mins before you actually should get going. If not your gonna be late.

    • @brittany1484
      @brittany1484 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lmao 😂

  • @JC-uq7tp
    @JC-uq7tp 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I say “aw jeez” a lot. Also I take the letter G out of the end of a lot of words like “ya know I’ve been listenin to this podcast” or “Aw jeez I’m tryin ta get somewhere here”

    • @RetiredFreeBird
      @RetiredFreeBird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      saves time droppin the g

    • @gwengayhart4505
      @gwengayhart4505 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds danish to me.

    • @dianalindenmeyer4847
      @dianalindenmeyer4847 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I always do too. And I usually drop the L out of always.

  • @rwt5678
    @rwt5678 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    "if you can't or don't want to I completely understand"

  • @ghostlyrose8946
    @ghostlyrose8946 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I'm from New Zealand but have been living in Kansas for almost 15 years. I've definitely become more Midwestern than I thought! I literally do every one of these 😂

  • @KrB12345
    @KrB12345 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    I learned first hand southerners don’t appreciate the magic of “ope lemme sneak by” when a guy looked at me stepped in my way and said “not sure if you’ve heard we use excuse me in the US”. Boy did I wanna let him know how wrong he was but of course to avoid confrontation I realized I was in the wrong isle.

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      proper response to that is, "Ope sowry about that buddy. Please excuse me"

    • @1ListerofSmeg
      @1ListerofSmeg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      You missed an opportunity to reply to that southerner in language they will undoubtedly understand clearly..
      "What adorable unsolicited advice, Bless your heart!! (Also Get the fuck out of my way)..
      ...But I'm a FIB so .....😋😁👍

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a tiny little woman I'd have to show him why most other states think Chicagoans are dicks.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​​@@1ListerofSmegoooohhh I'm not sure about that. Bless your heart might be fighting words down south!
      Also a FIB!

    • @1ListerofSmeg
      @1ListerofSmeg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MamaMOB ...That IS the idea😜
      (& they started it anyway🙄 )
      FA (W the FIBs) & FO

  • @periloustimes4439
    @periloustimes4439 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I'm an escapee from the West Coast, I came to the great heartland of the Middle West and I'll never ever go back. Have a nice day.

    • @dhcocoae3399
      @dhcocoae3399 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Love this, never heard it called the middle west lol.

  • @klev0036
    @klev0036 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    Uffda....a Minnesota classic

    • @joshuas8953
      @joshuas8953 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ok Ole and Lena!!!!

    • @lwdfn7479
      @lwdfn7479 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      OMG. “Uffda”! You brought back a flood of memories with just that one word. Dad was from Fargo, his mom was from Halstead MN. I used to say it when I lifted my children.

    • @willdowns1745
      @willdowns1745 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Grew up around my Minnesotan grandfather. I say uff-da multiple times a day

    • @honusbigtime591
      @honusbigtime591 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As in uffda she kicked me in the dupa 😎

    • @elultimo102
      @elultimo102 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Does every car load of city dwellers yell MOOOOOO, whenever they pass a cow or two?

  • @joshmiller3927
    @joshmiller3927 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    The last meal of the day is “supper”. On Sunday 2nd meal is called dinner, but every other day of the week it’s called lunch.

    • @stswithjohnny
      @stswithjohnny 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      In the south supper is 7 days a week and dinner ‘could’ be said in place of supper but dinner is lunch.

    • @CoffeeMysteryMayhem
      @CoffeeMysteryMayhem 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      yup - Sunday Dinner - Supper was always the evening meal.

    • @772tsweet77
      @772tsweet77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Breakfast, lunch, dinner. What the hell is supper?

    • @irenemarcus967
      @irenemarcus967 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      "Supper" is dinner when "dinner" is lunch.

    • @maryjackson1194
      @maryjackson1194 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Actual definitions of those terms: Dinner is the main meal; supper is the last meal. That's why Sunday dinner is midday. When my Brazilian colleagues visited the US for meetings, they told me my team wasn't feeding them a proper dinner at midday.

  • @Deborita777
    @Deborita777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    You forgot the Midwest total opposite of the South's meaning of, "Bless your heart!" In the Midwest we mean, "Aw, man! I am so sorry you had that bad thing happen/you're going through such a tough time/you have done such a wonderful thing (for yourself or others)!"

    • @SirYodaJedi
      @SirYodaJedi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ...what does that mean in the south?

    • @audreyf9092
      @audreyf9092 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@SirYodaJediThey are calling you stupid lowkey

    • @ElderStatesman-pi3lc
      @ElderStatesman-pi3lc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think that’s correct - it’s meant with sincerity. If you want to insult someone in the Midwest, you just go ahead and call them a FIB.

    • @shreddleddbetter7053
      @shreddleddbetter7053 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ElderStatesman-pi3lc Don't forget FIBWAB (with a boat).
      But I dunno, I usually go with Cheesehead. ;)

  • @benclark5388
    @benclark5388 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I'm from the east coast but my dad was born and raised in the midwest. I have picked up some of these things from him. I can speak the midwest equivalent of "spanglish" lol. I get corrected constantly when I say soda instead of pop. But I am fluent in burying emotions and trying very very very hard to not inconvenience someone when asking for a favor, for instance. I also measure distance in terms of time.

  • @daylonsaalfeld8444
    @daylonsaalfeld8444 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Don't forget the midwest's favorite phrase, if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes.

    • @gwynthegnome2050
      @gwynthegnome2050 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Lol … yep. Wednesday morning (2 days ago) it was 75 degrees out. By that evening, it was snowing! (Kansas)

    • @James-the-LDB-Stan
      @James-the-LDB-Stan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@gwynthegnome2050 Also in KS. Can confirm.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And don't forget that each one of our states coined it. Separately.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@gwynthegnome2050last week in Illinois I went to bed with it being 28° and woke up to it being 70.

  • @bjammin187
    @bjammin187 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    From a New Zealander, we are also famous for starting a response with “Yeah , nah….” FYI: “Yeah, Nah” usually means “No”, “Nah, Yeah” usually means Yes. But not always. Tone and cadence is critical. “Yeah, nah, yeah” means 1) Maybe, or 2) Still Maybe, but I don’t want to annoy you with my indecision, so I’m stalling for time. “Yeah, nah, yeah ….. nah …..” is Ive forgotten what the question is.

  • @janeentumbao8690
    @janeentumbao8690 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I'm originally from Cleveland and now live in the Chicago area and I didn't recognize any of that.
    But a few things we do are...
    Put an " 's " to everything. Like the store Aldi (Aldi's) or Giant Eagle (Giant Eagle's) or Jewel Osco/Jewel Osco's-which is Albertson's(their actual name) elsewhere.
    We tend to use "at" at the end of sentences. Where's my keys at?
    We have mixed feelings about snow. It's either we have a BBQ when it snows 10 inches or we are allergic to it and head to Florida.
    We tend to take football and other sports more seriously.
    And last, but not least...
    We call it "pop". 😂
    Update...
    We say "Remember?".
    This is loosely translated as "Hey dumbass! Don't ya remember what I just told you 5 minutes ago?".
    One major difference between Cleveland and Chicago is how they measure street blocks.
    Cleveland blocks vary in length, but "two blocks over"= two streets over.
    Chicago's blocks... One block equals 2 streets. There are 8 blocks to a mile, but usually more than 8 streets in that mile.
    And south side blocks are longer. Especially the numbered streets. And there's the "street" and the "place" with the same number. Example: 21st ave and 21st pl.

    • @marylist1236
      @marylist1236 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't forget Meijer's

  • @faeriering2001
    @faeriering2001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    okay so I don't know what goes through other folks heads, but if some one is asking:
    "would you like to go out to dinner?"
    my "yeah, no" is extended in my brain to mean -
    yeah = oh wow thank you so much for asking that's really nice; and the
    no = i have just actually processed what you said to me and i just want to curl up at home in front of the fire and read because people are too much in the middle of winter sometimes. thank you so much for the offer though
    or some equivalent. the first response is trying to be polite, while giving your brain time to actually process the question. at least for me.
    also there is a whole lot of these tendencies that are super similar in Nordic countries.

  • @samaelament
    @samaelament 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Midwesterners: we're American Canadians

    • @wegotgame
      @wegotgame 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Except we own lot’s of pew pew’s and know how to use them.

    • @samaelament
      @samaelament 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@wegotgame But we still have to watch our language when referring to particular condensed powder combustion behind aerodynamically designed metal pellets

    • @wegotgame
      @wegotgame 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@samaelament nice 😂 but sadly true. It is total insanity but not too much concerned with terminology as long as they are in my possession.

    • @georgejasper8794
      @georgejasper8794 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've always referred to Wisconsin as South Canada, especially when working with Canadians.

    • @lilliedoubleyou3865
      @lilliedoubleyou3865 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh no, don't say that!

  • @noahwiebe2558
    @noahwiebe2558 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    As someone from Northern Ontario I hear these almost every day

    • @Dabeano15o2
      @Dabeano15o2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yer welcome der bud.

    • @nathangoode1089
      @nathangoode1089 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'm from Alberta. It's the same here

    • @Okeen12
      @Okeen12 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Southern Ontario is the same too tbh we do most of this shit

    • @okeedokee16
      @okeedokee16 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As someone from Eastern Ontario, he's missing the 'get'r dun'

    • @772tsweet77
      @772tsweet77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because Oilberta is freaking mint, home to Peg Leg aka Zip ties n bias plies.​@@nathangoode1089

  • @barbarawarren9443
    @barbarawarren9443 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Youze guys did a great job.

  • @saints146
    @saints146 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    100% the effort we go to avoid inconvenience inconveniencing people

  • @ianw1426
    @ianw1426 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Maybe it is obvious since it is the channel name, but YOU BETCHA is a staple of my midwesterner lingo

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Let me start an argument: I believe that yasureyoubetcha is one word

  • @13tony31
    @13tony31 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    so funny when I lived in the Twin Cities & worked in the grocery business at CUB FOODS right after high school, I was saying OPE all the time. plus I totally relate to the bar stuff, we used to shoot pool (badly) & just drink beer after beer after beer. I never got pulled over HAHAHAHa I live in Missouri now - technically the mid-west but no where as nice as up north. miss you guys : )

  • @silverisbull
    @silverisbull 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Exiting a conversation with, "Well, I suppose"

    • @pamelah6431
      @pamelah6431 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      * "tsk. Welp."

    • @ruthbowman5928
      @ruthbowman5928 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Starting one with 'I tell you what...'

    • @lorannamoody7011
      @lorannamoody7011 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My non mis westSO doesn’t understand I suppose or you would think

  • @charlenevarada--Stargazer
    @charlenevarada--Stargazer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I've been speaking Midwest all my life as I grew up in Chicago & I think I aquired that accent. Even when my parents & I moved to California, I was told I "talked funny".😊

  • @leekrizka4073
    @leekrizka4073 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Here in Il, at least Chicago, you might hear someone say “just take it witch-a”. This is used when speaking about whether or not a person should take something along.

    • @janeentumbao8690
      @janeentumbao8690 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm from Cleveland and now in the Chicagoland area and I say that. 😄

  • @christurgeon6277
    @christurgeon6277 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    As a native Nebraskan, I can confirm they are called pickle cards. Come to think of it, that is the only place I’ve ever heard that term.😮 another Midwest word you forgot is crick…not CREEEEK. Crick. Lol

    • @DaleStLouis-xb5mx
      @DaleStLouis-xb5mx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Creek is the noise the south pasture gate makes when it needs oil.

  • @JSFal
    @JSFal 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Never thought of Utah as the Midwest until I saw videos like this. Quite similar here. But we don't prononouce T's... nice mounains, with a lot of wader in em.

  • @anderjem6528
    @anderjem6528 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As someone born and raised in WI, I love watching these videos cause it’s fun to imagine someone from Texas or somewhere taking this class cause they’re moving and want to be able to talk to the locals! lol

  • @cassyschraft6268
    @cassyschraft6268 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Don't forget "real quick once." "Can you help me move the couch real quick once?" "I'm gonna run this over to Barb's real quick once." We're all about the illusion of speed and efficiency

    • @cassyschraft6268
      @cassyschraft6268 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And the pinnacle "ope, lemme squeeze right past ya real quick once"

    • @gwengayhart4505
      @gwengayhart4505 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I say this ALL THE TIME. Also, I had no idea how often I use “ope” until I started watching these and Charlie Berens after moving to FL).

  • @nikkihafliger8724
    @nikkihafliger8724 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    You forgot the "two vehicles meeting on a rural blacktop" wave where both drivers lift their index and middle finger off of the steering wheel, without releasing said steering wheel, and flicking them sharply forward and to the right. Yes, the "farmer wave" is alive and well in the rural Tri-state area of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. 😉

    • @Zalis116
      @Zalis116 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In Nebraska as well!

  • @heatherqualy9143
    @heatherqualy9143 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Born and bred Minnesota. I’ve noticed some of the usual things attributed to Minnesotans aren’t said in the Twin Cities area, more in the rural parts. I will apologize for everything, like any good midwesterner. But I say, “Oops, sorry” I have never used the word “ope” in my life. Never heard anyone in my family use it either.

    • @rhondaflesher8313
      @rhondaflesher8313 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm in Indiana and I've never heard it used around here either - that or I've just never noticed it.

    • @daltonwooldridge8199
      @daltonwooldridge8199 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its odd that the midwest gets put in this huge box. I was born in Kansas, and raised in Missouri. I've never encountered anyone using "ope". Even the accent, it can't be bunched up into a singular dialect, because there are multiple accents throughout the entire midwest. Maybe it should be differentiated by saying something like "northern midwest", "midwest", or "southern midwest"?
      I don't know. But even the "pop" thing, we used to say that as kids, but once we got older it turned into us saying "soda", at least for most people.
      Honestly, its both funny and irritating when I say I'm from the midwest and people instantly think im from Minnesota or Wisconsin, yet I don't sound like I'm from there. I already have to explain that I grew up in the Missouri part of Kansas City, and not Kansas. 😂

  • @Mooghasi666
    @Mooghasi666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I agree with “ Er no”. Can you help me move this weekend? Er no ?
    Wanna go fishing tomorrow? Er No?

    • @SSGTC
      @SSGTC 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You give your buddy a out when you invite him to go ice fishing so he doesn’t feel obligated to go do his favorite activity with his best friend of 40 years and drink beer your wife got you

  • @BurstingVeins1
    @BurstingVeins1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Even though I was born in Minnesota but moved to the east coast when I was around 5, it was still enough time where I picked up all of these and still do them 40 years later.

  • @kdekan82
    @kdekan82 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wow! This is all so true😅 I unfortunately got moved out of northern Wisconsin to Indiana 24 years ago, but my goodness all of this still describes me to a T!!! It makes me happy when coworkers still notice my accent after all this time away😁

  • @JakeMC2227
    @JakeMC2227 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I have a MSG, who's from North Carolina, teaching our ROTC class in Southern Illinois. He loves to mention how the way we bottle up our hatred for someone is insane.

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My parents have a feud with the neighbors. The curtains can't take it anymore. They have a bird feeder in front just so they can say they are watching the birds...

  • @GeorgeJefferson-h7w
    @GeorgeJefferson-h7w 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It's just too damn accurate. I've been out of my midwest natural habitat for too long now. Might be time to head back where maybe people will understand me.

  • @SC-gp7kt
    @SC-gp7kt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    As a born and raised Michiganian, all of this is true 💙🤚

    • @danmecham8075
      @danmecham8075 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Michiganian? WTF…Michigander!

    • @shanestover1696
      @shanestover1696 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Both are correct unless you're a yupper

    • @bluefalcon5433
      @bluefalcon5433 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danmecham8075thanks for correcting this atrocity 🫡

    • @dand3975
      @dand3975 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yooper, lives above the bridge (the mighty Mackinac), Trolls live below the bridge Detroit, Saginaw etc.

    • @marylist1236
      @marylist1236 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kalamazoo

  • @coreyeatsdetroit9733
    @coreyeatsdetroit9733 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    When we speak, we drop the "g" on any word ending in "ing."

    • @juliannmorris6478
      @juliannmorris6478 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What are ya doin?

    • @juliannmorris6478
      @juliannmorris6478 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Whatcha doin also works

    • @FruityPebbles-420
      @FruityPebbles-420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I never did this and have been living in the Midwest most of my life.

    • @coreyeatsdetroit9733
      @coreyeatsdetroit9733 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FruityPebbles-420 maybe it's more specifically a Michigan thing.

    • @FruityPebbles-420
      @FruityPebbles-420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@coreyeatsdetroit9733 No, I've definitely heard plenty of it in both Indiana and Illinois. It's just me.

  • @chucker625
    @chucker625 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +132

    There's the classic "Ya... I don't know" that is commonly used to end awkward or uncomfortable conversations..... EDIT.... There is no pause between "Ya" and "I".... It is a single word.... "Yi"... Credit to @zr3755 for the correction.

    • @gwengayhart4505
      @gwengayhart4505 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or even more common, “ya, you know…..”

    • @zr3755
      @zr3755 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You gotta combine "ya" and "I": "yi don't know"

    • @chucker625
      @chucker625 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@zr3755 Agreed.... There shouldn't be a break between "Ya" and "I"... Those two are pronounced as a single word. Good call.

    • @a.katherinesuetterlin3028
      @a.katherinesuetterlin3028 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've so done that! It's all about tone of voice and inflection. 😅

    • @jvallas
      @jvallas 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not a midwestern trait, but a friend used to end every argument he was losing with, "That's beside the point." It kills a conversation handily.

  • @becklyn3
    @becklyn3 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    In Missouri we don't say ope but I'm pretty sure I say let me sneak right past ya every time I'm at the grocery store. Also instead of saying hello we we say "how ya doing?" Which is almost always replied with "good, you?"

    • @russhowser9747
      @russhowser9747 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We definitely say Ope in Missouri. All the time.

    • @becklyn3
      @becklyn3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@russhowser9747 I've lived in north eastern mo all my life never once heard it but I can't speak for the rest of the state.

    • @Fatfudgiedoodoostains
      @Fatfudgiedoodoostains 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Columbia/jefferson city, Missouri here and we def say ope

  • @BeeGuns
    @BeeGuns 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I never knew exactly what “whippin shitties” meant aside from it being something with a car and I’ve just been using it regularly when talking about my driving, so it’s nice to know the proper way to use it now. I will not change my use of it at all.

  • @chrishatch84
    @chrishatch84 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    A couple two tree battries means I need four batteries

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not sure if that one's made it to Illinois yet. Cuz if you say that to me I'm going to give you 2 or 3 batteries. You ain't getting 4. You didn't say 4. To be fair Illinois is its own special little case I think.

    • @RetiredFreeBird
      @RetiredFreeBird 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i say that! I'm a FIB

    • @twentynineteen4687
      @twentynineteen4687 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      From Illinois, I'd give you three but definitely not 2!

  • @genevarailfan3909
    @genevarailfan3909 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Wisconsinite here! It's only a bubbler up north. It's a water fountain in most of the state.

    • @JT-ox9tk
      @JT-ox9tk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've lived in Milwaukee, Lacrosse, and up north in Rhinelander. It's been bubbler all over the state! I refuse to use the term water fountain unless it's something in the middle of a mall and I'm throwing quarters into it and making a wish!

  • @RingBilledSeagull
    @RingBilledSeagull 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    HES BACK. Reminds me of the old videos

  • @jonchines
    @jonchines 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The word “across” must be spoken with a “t” at the end: “I went acrost the street to get a pop.” Bonus points for adding an “r” to the word, “wash”: “ope, the warshing machine has gone catty-whampus again”.

    • @tommywright8369
      @tommywright8369 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂👍

    • @772tsweet77
      @772tsweet77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Warsh. Except my mom's side of the family pronounced it "woosh" which I hear more in the mountain west like Wyoming.

    • @DorkQueen23
      @DorkQueen23 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Goin to run thru the power warsher real quick = I'm going to take a quick shower

    • @a.katherinesuetterlin3028
      @a.katherinesuetterlin3028 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My mom would say the "warsh" thing to the point it annoyed my dad -- because he heard his mother, a native Texan, say it that way...plus he could be a pedantic, holier-than-thou arsehole. (Yes, I'm borrowing a Brit term, just bc it's fun, and I'm a shameless Anglophile). 😜

    • @sallybruska1499
      @sallybruska1499 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had a teacher when I was in high school who teased us when we said warsh. He was from Chicago. I taught myself to say wash after that.

  • @ssbroderick
    @ssbroderick 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I use "kitty corner" when I'm talkin something diagonal across the street. I picked it up from my folks. (I'm from IND and had to move to ILL for work many years ago 😒). I had to explain the meaning to someone in ILL. Is that a midwest thing or a south thing?

    • @janeentumbao8690
      @janeentumbao8690 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I use either kitty or caddy corner. 😂

    • @kirchfam
      @kirchfam 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In east Missouri, we saw catty corner (St. Louis and SE Missouri.

    • @YOUR-LOCAL13
      @YOUR-LOCAL13 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’ve lived in Colorado my whole life and we say many of these things. We say pop for a soft drink, tennis shoes for any athletic shoes, Kleenex for facial tissues and we use time to describe distance of travel instead of mileage.

    • @kirchfam
      @kirchfam 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@YOUR-LOCAL13 I live in St. Louis; no one has ever said pop for soda.

    • @markseaman4750
      @markseaman4750 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@janeentumbao8690 A Caddy is a car😂

  • @scottcunningham5425
    @scottcunningham5425 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    So in Nebraska before 'pull tabs' were legal, bars would get ahold of some and dump them in a old washed out pickled egg jar, That way they could easily be hidden if need be.

  • @battlerapperd1654
    @battlerapperd1654 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Pop = Soda

    • @Doc_Tar
      @Doc_Tar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's a regional distinction. Pop is more to the west all the way into Minnesota. Soda is more hugging lake Michigan side of the state. Same with water fountain and bubbler. I'm not exactly sure the line of demarcation, Maybe Wasau or Steven's Point, probably more Oshkosh to Fond du Lac.

    • @marcilk7534
      @marcilk7534 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I moved from Beloit to the Milwaukee area and had to switch from pop to soda. Every time I asked for pop at a restaurant, they responded “huh?”.

    • @WinteryMix84
      @WinteryMix84 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In Southrrn Indiana everything is a Coke. As in, “you want a Coke?” “Response: “Yeah, get me a Mountain Dew”. It has to be a two-part exchange.

    • @adria89
      @adria89 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Doc_Tar Michigan uses pop instead of soda.

    • @onionbubs386
      @onionbubs386 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And I will die on this hill

  • @Saymyname4321
    @Saymyname4321 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m a midwesterner living in CA. I can totally relate to all this, how fun!

  • @williamkalbus9939
    @williamkalbus9939 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In the winter months if you say “The roads are pretty good,” It means that they’re slippery but well enough to get through

  • @KRKM89
    @KRKM89 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I'm loving the green screen!
    Also in Saskatchewan we call a hoody a bunnyhug

  • @zr3755
    @zr3755 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I can't believe "yasureyabetcha" didn't get a shout-out here

  • @robm3063
    @robm3063 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So a couple years ago I was in Portland OR visiting a cousin. His next door neighbor is from the north burbs of Chicago and I'm from the west suburbs of Chicago. Now this lady has lived there 30 plus years. So we are on the deck talking about something and she says " I haven't that in a long time" . To this day I do not know what I said but it was definitely a Midwestern word or two that made her smile.

  • @NathanDodson
    @NathanDodson 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I'm not even from the Midwest, but after finding your videos and Charlie's videos, I catch myself saying "Ope" a lot more than a Texan should be saying 😂

    • @JeremyBarnes-d1c
      @JeremyBarnes-d1c 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      uffdah

    • @alex-vd4vm
      @alex-vd4vm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      me too 😂 i literally live on the other side of the world and when i bump into someone i say, “ope, sorry” in the midwest accent

  • @joeowensby3997
    @joeowensby3997 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Asking someone to say hi to someone else for you.
    "Tell your folks I said hi"

    • @jackies1729
      @jackies1729 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is that a midwesterner thing?

  • @marcusmcmahon9650
    @marcusmcmahon9650 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “Didn’t think it was gonna rain taday”
    “Hey, we needed it”

  • @VyseInglegard
    @VyseInglegard 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Can't forget the passive-aggressive remarks to make ya feel bad about not bringing a hotdish to the church potluck

    • @SSGTC
      @SSGTC 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I said “hot dish” to my wife and she stareeed at me like I was talking Japanese

  • @bossawesumsauce
    @bossawesumsauce 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Being from Michigan I can say we tend to add the letter s to stores. It’s Meijers or Krogers.

    • @drmayer
      @drmayer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      … Aldi’s, or my favorite Best Buy’s

    • @bossawesumsauce
      @bossawesumsauce 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Facts

    • @ryanfarmer5155
      @ryanfarmer5155 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fords

    • @Gecko4nine
      @Gecko4nine 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      We also love to show people where we are from with are hand lol

    • @Madambutterfly007
      @Madambutterfly007 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Absolutely! 😊👍

  • @rbrueske
    @rbrueske 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    “Oh boy” is like a sad “Ope”

  • @Daddyo7391
    @Daddyo7391 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    May seem obvious to many, but one thing i didnt catch was the mention of the use of the word "hey". Wisconinite and i use it all the time and don't even know it. Starting a sentence, finishing a sentence, whenever.

  • @chris_2714
    @chris_2714 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Canada must be an extension of the midwest, this describes us to a t 😂

    • @DravenRedrum
      @DravenRedrum 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      you know how there is "Little China" in New York. Well the Midwest is just little Canada for America

  • @nunyabidness4779
    @nunyabidness4779 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I am from TX. We definitely have a different dialect for sure - yeah, no, yeah down here would get you a "bless your heart". BUT our small talk rules are exactly the same and there is no such thing as leaving quickly. Our goodbyes can be just as long.

  • @guywithnoaffiliation2435
    @guywithnoaffiliation2435 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    To all you people in the comments, saying, we have those sayings everywhere you have no idea until you live in the Midwest.

  • @jamesmainelli8277
    @jamesmainelli8277 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Being from Nebraska I didn’t know pickle cards were known as anything else…

  • @caleb_does_gaming9642
    @caleb_does_gaming9642 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A sign of love is saying “Watch out for Deer” As your significant other drives off, also ranch is the number one sauce to eat with in the Midwest, especially with delivery pizza.

    • @SSGTC
      @SSGTC 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      My comment too. Ope! And you might as well not eat if you don’t have ranch What’s the point? Uffta!

  • @brentlanyon4654
    @brentlanyon4654 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Never once heard "Ope" while growing up in SW Missouri, but I sure did hear "whelp" about a million times. Usually while the dude saying it was looking at his boots. Also, "you know". Yep, you betcha.
    This all tracks.

    • @SinclairSound
      @SinclairSound 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I feel like there's a zone in Missouri where the Midwest and south come together and create some weird stuff, truly a unique place

    • @Deborita777
      @Deborita777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Part of the "Midwest Goodbye."

    • @AustinFeltron
      @AustinFeltron 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@SinclairSoundYup lmao, anything south of Missouri River

    • @brentlanyon4654
      @brentlanyon4654 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@SinclairSound Totally. On my bus ride from the farm to middle school there was a HUGE variety in accents. Also the church camps I went to as a high school student were filled with every accent from deep southern to educated St. Louis types.

    • @willcresson8776
      @willcresson8776 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oddly enough, I hear a decent amount of both ope and whelp in Virginia and North Carolina. Maybe the transplants are changing our vernacular. Not that I mind, I greatly prefer midwesterner transplants to Yankee transplants.

  • @destroxxiv6489
    @destroxxiv6489 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Wait till you find out about a little game they call Duck, Duck, Gray Duck

  • @happywife77
    @happywife77 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Instead of saying, “Bless your heart,” like southerners say, we say, “Poor thing.”

    • @adria89
      @adria89 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All the time 😂

  • @erico4339
    @erico4339 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Live in northwest Indiana my whole life and everything thing here is 100% correct.