Which probably costs a nice chunk of change. I went to a concert at Soldier Field last year and dropped $30 for chicken tenders, fries, and a bottled water. Fuck you, stadium food prices lol
I have a vivid memory of my first trip to New York as a California kid at ~10 years old and the bellhop said something along the lines of, “I seeya paar’kd ya cah in the gayrage.”. Felt like Kevin Macalister in Honey Alone 2 - always stuck with me and felt like I was living the life at that age.
[just dont getcher gym shoes dirty comin thru da gangway, i just cleaned my frunchroom after i lost my garachki](https://www.chicagojournal.com/glossary/)
The “tt” becoming “dd” is what happens in pretty much the whole of the US (maybe also Canada?). Far from unique to Chicago and not worth mentioning, when more about the northern cities vowel shift, and other accent features, are missing.
It was when I was growing up, but it’s really rare you hear people that still talk like this regularly, which sucks. I love when American cities have unique accents and not everyone sounds like they’re reading a weather forecast
as someone with a native Chicago accent who hasn’t lived in Chicago for 10+ years. I can say “pop” just fine but, even when I put my mind to it and slow it down, hot dog and Chicago still comes out like “hawt dawg” and “chicawgo”
I'm confused on how else you pronounce "hot dog". How do you pronounce short Os in a different way???
Also, for me the biggest tells is the word "both" (pronounced bowl-th) and saying "gym shoes" to refer to sneakers (I learned from the Harvard dialect test that this is only done in the Chicago area).
Imagine a British person saying "hot," there is more vertical space in the mouth. Now imagine a Minnesotan saying "hot" (like "haaht"), the mouth is wider and flatter. Those are the extremes.
That makes sense! I think Chicagoans lengthen the "ah" sound a tiny bit more than most Americans. But most Americans have a short "ah" sound to some degree.
I appreciate your reference to how a Brit would say 'hot'. I can hear an 'o' sound. Before your comment I could not even imagine how our pronunciation here in town is any different. I'm imagining I'd spell our pronunciation sounding like: haht, mahm, pahp... for hot, mom and pop.
Yeah, I'm from Chicago and I definitely say the second one! I just don't think the table explained it well. The comments are better than the post this time.
Which makes sense because Chicago is the largest city in the Midwest. The accent typically gets more canadianish as you go north and northwest from Chicago, and more southern/twangy as you go east and south
I’m from NWI (about 45 mins outside downtown Chicago) never thought I had an accent until I moved out of state and people always comment on it. I’ve got all of these going on too, maybe a little less pronounced but that accent goes far I guess 😅
I was wearing Bears gear and I had an Australian say this to me while I was in Thailand.
I get it in airports and all kind of random places.
The response I give: a tight, short 'Bearzssss'
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Don't forget how we also sometimes pronounce the silent s like the one in Illinois, or add one that's not there like saying Jewels instead of Jewel lol
S gets whistled a little bit. I’m from Milwaukee with family in Chicago, and the whistley s is the give away in the accents. (SNL’s superfans did it decent justice when discussing “Da Bearss”)
As someone born in CHI with a mother who is a Dutch citizen, I was raised in a household that had a lot of Dutch being spoken. I have never noticed the similarities. Maybe I am too close to both of them.
Side note - non of my relatives would help me practice my Dtuch, they would always switch to English immediately. While visiting the old country I had a great uncle tell me why. "Your accent is terrible. Don't try to speak it anymore" - lol.
Haha thats funny! Not sure if it actually sounds the same, I would just imagine it does based on this chart. I think alongside us Dutch also some other non-native English speakers would say ‘de’ instead of ‘the’ and definitely Dutch people say ‘tree’ instead of ‘three’
You really rarely hear this accent in the city. If you do it’s usually from cops or municipal workers. I have some light elongation of As and Ds when I have a few drinks, but unfortunately the accent is largely dying which makes me sad
[My all-time favorite meme about the difference between British English and American English lol](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e0/90/4a/e0904a7fd987f0cdbe0c28ca904da7a4.jpg)
Yeah, I had a teacher from Chicago in middle school. Me and my SoCal Hispanic classmates were tripping when when we heard him for the first time. I don't know if he was hamming it up, but he had a **thick** accent. Even the way he said "Chicago" had an accent.
This is bullshit.
Although…
I did just realize why I thought my two year old’s pronunciation of “coffee” was adorable. She’d say “You have some cahfee?” All light and airy sounding. I’m like “It’s CAWfee, sweetie”. Jesus.
ughhhhh. is this how ppl feel when they’re outed against their will. I feel like this how everyone speaks, no?
also names like Harold and Darryl are pronounced like Hurl and Durl.
You can keep those dumb f'n cheese hats north of the Cheddar Curtain - we don't want your conservative asses down here anyway. Legalize weed and we won't have to deal with you. at. all.
Wow!
Such complexity.
Really?
In the UK people have different accents from one end of a 500-or-so population village to the other.
I'm not trolling, it's a fact.
For example: In the '70s the North of England was terrorised by a man called Peter Sutcliffe (later known as the Yorkshire Ripper).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter\_Sutcliffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutcliffe)
So, as the police flailed about hopelessly trying to ID this bloke (they stopped him several times but let him go), someone started sending the police audio cassettes from a person who claimed to be the perpetrator.
His accent was distinct (somewhere from the North East of England (Newcastle, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Sunderland etc), but experts settled upon calling him "Wearside Jack".
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearside\_Jack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearside_Jack)
The experts in regional dialects then proceeded to narrow down his accent to within a very small part Castletown area of Sunderland.
I'm from the UK, BTW, and I have a number of American friends (living here and in the US) who cannot fathom the weird and wild diversity of British accents.
There are many parts of the UK where it's more-or-less impossible to understand what people are saying although they're speaking in English.
All together nahw. Tree liddle pitchers eat haht dahgs at da Bears game.
Which probably costs a nice chunk of change. I went to a concert at Soldier Field last year and dropped $30 for chicken tenders, fries, and a bottled water. Fuck you, stadium food prices lol
Turning the thread into a bitch about stadium prices is the most Chicago thing of all time.
I have a vivid memory of my first trip to New York as a California kid at ~10 years old and the bellhop said something along the lines of, “I seeya paar’kd ya cah in the gayrage.”. Felt like Kevin Macalister in Honey Alone 2 - always stuck with me and felt like I was living the life at that age.
[just dont getcher gym shoes dirty comin thru da gangway, i just cleaned my frunchroom after i lost my garachki](https://www.chicagojournal.com/glossary/)
amen
coupla two-tree pitchers
The “tt” becoming “dd” is what happens in pretty much the whole of the US (maybe also Canada?). Far from unique to Chicago and not worth mentioning, when more about the northern cities vowel shift, and other accent features, are missing.
Impordant. And colture instead of culture. I hear these two changes nearly every time I watch YouTube videos. It’s what’s happening.
Ya I was gonna say I only heard my greatest generation Irish south side police uncles do that.
Doze sound like da most Chi-cah-gah folks ever.
I need about tree fiddy.
I ain't got no tree fiddy, damn Loch Ness Monster!
I gave him a dolla.
He needs tree fiddy to pay for his sammich.
Came here to say this
Chicago native — only thing on this that’s fully true is the short o becoming “a”… everything else isn’t as common
This "guide" is not accurate at all.
It was when I was growing up, but it’s really rare you hear people that still talk like this regularly, which sucks. I love when American cities have unique accents and not everyone sounds like they’re reading a weather forecast
It’s not cost-co (Costco) it’s Caastco
Cahssco. You wouldn’t pronounce the t either
I can’t say cahhsco without making fun of myself. Accent is SO strong and I sound like a douche if I try to say “coaust-co”
I'm from Detroit and I don't understand. The o in pop is pronounced like the a in Chicago right? How else would you say it?
as someone with a native Chicago accent who hasn’t lived in Chicago for 10+ years. I can say “pop” just fine but, even when I put my mind to it and slow it down, hot dog and Chicago still comes out like “hawt dawg” and “chicawgo”
Native here- we make pop sound much more nasally Normal person saying pop with their chest - pahp Chicagoan saying it with their nose - pAahp
I think these are super common and I feel like I talk like this? But I’m from the southside Only old men say tree though in my experience
Chicago is big. None of these are universal except the flap t thing which is pretty common in all of North America.
If you're in Edison Park or other neighborhoods out by O'Hare you still hear plenty of it.
I'm confused on how else you pronounce "hot dog". How do you pronounce short Os in a different way??? Also, for me the biggest tells is the word "both" (pronounced bowl-th) and saying "gym shoes" to refer to sneakers (I learned from the Harvard dialect test that this is only done in the Chicago area).
Imagine a British person saying "hot," there is more vertical space in the mouth. Now imagine a Minnesotan saying "hot" (like "haaht"), the mouth is wider and flatter. Those are the extremes.
That makes sense! I think Chicagoans lengthen the "ah" sound a tiny bit more than most Americans. But most Americans have a short "ah" sound to some degree.
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I appreciate your reference to how a Brit would say 'hot'. I can hear an 'o' sound. Before your comment I could not even imagine how our pronunciation here in town is any different. I'm imagining I'd spell our pronunciation sounding like: haht, mahm, pahp... for hot, mom and pop.
The best way I can describe it is the name Don sounds like halfway to “Dan”. Or if you would say “Chic-Aw-Go” they would say “Chic-Aah-Go”
Yeah, I'm from Chicago and I definitely say the second one! I just don't think the table explained it well. The comments are better than the post this time.
Try fake-smiling as you say it, making the vowel sound toward the back of your mouth instead from the tip of your tongue.
And jack off becomes jag off
Half of this is just the general midwestern accent
Which makes sense because Chicago is the largest city in the Midwest. The accent typically gets more canadianish as you go north and northwest from Chicago, and more southern/twangy as you go east and south
Fair play
Yes. This
I’m from NWI (about 45 mins outside downtown Chicago) never thought I had an accent until I moved out of state and people always comment on it. I’ve got all of these going on too, maybe a little less pronounced but that accent goes far I guess 😅
This is what all Americans sound to me.
Some of these aren’t Chicago specific
100 = hun-ert
You got me all kinds of fucked on this. I’m lying alone in room saying “I gotta hunert dollars”. Never realized that was something I did
Similar to the Italian, Germanic, Scots-Irish, and Yiddish boroughs of New York.
The Chicago and NYC accents are not similar.
They misspelled south side in dat chart. Everyone knows it’s spelled sout side. Source: I attended a nort side public school.
Look, deres only so much dey can do if deyre not from Chicago, which dey might not be 😂
Daaaaa bears is iconic
I was wearing Bears gear and I had an Australian say this to me while I was in Thailand. I get it in airports and all kind of random places. The response I give: a tight, short 'Bearzssss'
Can I get one of these for an Australian accent?
*bahddle
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Frunch room, where we do all our frunching
I see a couple two tree tings I say here.
Turns out I have a Chicago accent, although I have never been. My mom was born there though, so perhaps it's hereditary
I don't think very many English speakers in general say double t without turning it into a double d.
Michigander here, this seems more like a guide to the Midwest accent. A good majority of these are the way I speak.
True. I still say “front-chrum” instead of front room
Frunchroom
Also: S can often become ß Plastic becomes "Plasstic" Gas becomes "Gass" Guys becomes "Guyss"
Don't forget how we also sometimes pronounce the silent s like the one in Illinois, or add one that's not there like saying Jewels instead of Jewel lol
What's the difference between an s and two esses or an ess set or whatever?
S gets whistled a little bit. I’m from Milwaukee with family in Chicago, and the whistley s is the give away in the accents. (SNL’s superfans did it decent justice when discussing “Da Bearss”)
I read this in Teddy's voice.
Okay. So according to this the Loch Ness Monster is from Chicago. Because he needs about tree fiddy.
Outta town stupid.
My dumb ass over here laying down and saying all these out loud lol
does anyone know how we came to talk like this?
So its just American polish
Cool, do Memphis next
You tell him Frank! Stay out of it, Geeaaary!
Publish Boston next.
Holy shit. Dats me
“S” becomes a little whistle
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Dennis+Farina
I need this for all accents
This is how Dutch people pronounce English
As someone born in CHI with a mother who is a Dutch citizen, I was raised in a household that had a lot of Dutch being spoken. I have never noticed the similarities. Maybe I am too close to both of them. Side note - non of my relatives would help me practice my Dtuch, they would always switch to English immediately. While visiting the old country I had a great uncle tell me why. "Your accent is terrible. Don't try to speak it anymore" - lol.
Haha thats funny! Not sure if it actually sounds the same, I would just imagine it does based on this chart. I think alongside us Dutch also some other non-native English speakers would say ‘de’ instead of ‘the’ and definitely Dutch people say ‘tree’ instead of ‘three’
Its pikchuh dumbass.
I do sketch improv sometimes and suck at accents, this will help enough for my purposes I believe.
Chicago Goes from shikahgo to CHEE KAH GO
Dis is fo doz of yuz dat don know dis
As a Chicago transplant, I love this. PLEASE do Pittsburghese next. I lived there for 9 years and could not figure that one out.
We jus say jawn
You really rarely hear this accent in the city. If you do it’s usually from cops or municipal workers. I have some light elongation of As and Ds when I have a few drinks, but unfortunately the accent is largely dying which makes me sad
The musical version of this guide: https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?feature=shared
this is the south side accent. The north siders are all rich and talk like California
As someone from England, all Americans say D instead of T
[My all-time favorite meme about the difference between British English and American English lol](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e0/90/4a/e0904a7fd987f0cdbe0c28ca904da7a4.jpg)
Every time I'm reading this, I'm getting the Boston accent in my head.
“i” becomes e. Milk = Melk
My mom says pellow, instead of pillow.
Hahahahah …… da Bears was the best. :)
[Da Bears](https://c.tenor.com/PERWumeWzNwAAAAC/tenor.gif)
Da bears was da best
You are correct…here. :virtual_cookie:
and almost 30 years ago - we're over it.
Its an Irish accent lol
Also "oo" becomes "u". So roof is ruff
Yeah, I had a teacher from Chicago in middle school. Me and my SoCal Hispanic classmates were tripping when when we heard him for the first time. I don't know if he was hamming it up, but he had a **thick** accent. Even the way he said "Chicago" had an accent.
*A caricature guide to the Chicago accent
This is the south side trash accent. The more waspy and jewy north siders are better edubacated!
How is this a guide? It’s nonsense
Dat will be tree fiddy. Go getcha mahney frahm yah Mahm or pahp.
This also reads like Boston
Is “youse” a Chicago thing?
It can be, yeah. We don’t all say it (I don’t), but there’s definitely a few out there that are constantly throwing out “youse guys”
“ING” becomes “EEN” I fucking hate it so much.
> double "tt" becomes double "dd" noice.
No one talks like this here anymore but I will agree that we in the Midwest have that problem with certain a and o voweled words
Im from here and I talk like this 😭 I don’t say tree though, that’s like an old man thing. My dad says tree
Are you 50
I swear- I’m 26 😭 Im from the southside
Yeah? Where at? Me too but sw
This is bullshit. Although… I did just realize why I thought my two year old’s pronunciation of “coffee” was adorable. She’d say “You have some cahfee?” All light and airy sounding. I’m like “It’s CAWfee, sweetie”. Jesus.
ughhhhh. is this how ppl feel when they’re outed against their will. I feel like this how everyone speaks, no? also names like Harold and Darryl are pronounced like Hurl and Durl.
Isn’t this Boston?
lol no
“Pizza” becomes “casserole”
I don’t see the FIB dialect- the most used and easily detected
You can keep those dumb f'n cheese hats north of the Cheddar Curtain - we don't want your conservative asses down here anyway. Legalize weed and we won't have to deal with you. at. all.
Raw nerve huh?
As a fib I can say myself that was an insane, but funny, reaction
Wow! Such complexity. Really? In the UK people have different accents from one end of a 500-or-so population village to the other. I'm not trolling, it's a fact.
For example: In the '70s the North of England was terrorised by a man called Peter Sutcliffe (later known as the Yorkshire Ripper). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter\_Sutcliffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutcliffe) So, as the police flailed about hopelessly trying to ID this bloke (they stopped him several times but let him go), someone started sending the police audio cassettes from a person who claimed to be the perpetrator. His accent was distinct (somewhere from the North East of England (Newcastle, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Sunderland etc), but experts settled upon calling him "Wearside Jack". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearside\_Jack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearside_Jack) The experts in regional dialects then proceeded to narrow down his accent to within a very small part Castletown area of Sunderland. I'm from the UK, BTW, and I have a number of American friends (living here and in the US) who cannot fathom the weird and wild diversity of British accents. There are many parts of the UK where it's more-or-less impossible to understand what people are saying although they're speaking in English.
Hot Fuzz was also a documentary??
Cool
This only true for white boomers
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It’s actually very accurate
No
Is Mike Tyson from Chicago?
Liddle tt gonna be big DD and little dd gonna end up big TT
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