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1 “Michigander Slang Words”
The Michigan Accent “Michigander Slang Words”

2 Michigan Slang/Colloquialisms:
“The Mitten” The State of Michigan “The U.P.” The Upper Peninsula “Up North” Where you go if you're traveling within Michigan

3 In Michigan we…. ...go tuh the store, not "to" it.
...usta' have jobs in Detroit, not "used to" ...go huntin' in the wuds, not the "woods" ...get our tires slashed for driving a Tie-ota, not a Toyota. ...say er' not "or." ...feel like we're ki-nuh like Minnesotans, not "kind of."

4 Michiganders like to save time...
We talk really fast here, so in order to do so, we do something similar to what the French call a liaison and elision. This is basically a way to mash up words in order to make pronunciation easier and faster.

5 "Well, how am I supposed to say it?"
This comes out sounding like, "Well, how my spose'ta' sayit'?"

6 Ja-eat? Did you eat?

7 Yuh guys you guys

8 Look at it! check this out!
Lookit! Look at it! check this out!

9 Secretariah State Secretary of state

10 Where? We end many sentences in prepositions such as “at”
Where at? Where? We end many sentences in prepositions such as “at”

11 Grranrapids Grand Rapids

12 AK-cidih accident

13 aeh Narbor Ann Arbor

14 Ashfault Asphalt

15 bolth both

16 Char-LOTT Charlotte

17 Ciddy city

18 cloze clothes

19 CAHL-yum column

20 COMF-terbul comfortable

21 Cahngriss congress

22 C’Meer Come Here

23 Cranz crayons

24 crick creek

25 Deeah or Dayaahd Dad

26 DiTROI Detroit

27 drownded drowned

28 Eeeevs Traaaf eavestrough

29 FI-yerr Fire

30 FREVer Forever

31 Frigerraider Refrigerator

32 GoverMit Government

33 grage garage

34 GROSHries groceries

35 Haahkee hockey

36 Hunnerd Hundred

37 I-munna I’m going to..

38 KI-nuh kind of

39 LayKEERie Lake Erie

40 Lie-berry Library

41 liVONEya Livonia

42 maahm mom

43 Melk milk

44 Mier or meer mirror

45 muskeeda mosquito

46 NUKE-yuller nuclear

47 Pah-neeack Pontiac

48 pahp pop

49 pellow pillow

50 reeelatur realtor

51 ruff roof

52 seckit second

53 tempachur temperature

54 thenks thanks

55 vanella vanilla

56 weeken weekend

57 winzerr Windsor, (Canada)

58 yuh you

59 The Michigan Accent: The letter "A" The long "e" sound The letter "t"
as in "car" is a kind of light ee-yeah or ēă sound. Crayons are "crans" Dad is dēăd The long "e" sound like the "i" in "mirror" is a bit longer and really nasally. Also, we don't waste our time with the "or" in "mirror", so it's just "meer." The letter "t" If the letter "t" occurs in the middle of a word, it has a "d" sound. City is pronounced "ciddy"

60 The Michigan Accent: Glottal Stop "Ah"
This is when your voice kind of stops in the middle of a word and then starts again. In Michigan, we like to do glottal stops at the end of our words, which is kind of like a last bit of forced breath. When we say Detroit, we don't say the "t" sound at the end. We say “Detroi” and then a bit of forced breath. "kitten" or "button", there is a glottal stop without the t sound actually being pronounced kitten = kih'ihn, button = buh'ton "Ah" is drawn out, as in “faahh-ther” for father and “maahm” for mom. After school, you go to "haahckey" practice. Chicago is "Chic-aah-go" not "Chi-caw-go"


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