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16 May 2014, 11:22 pm

Ever Heard of the Northwest hick accent.I have it.
It's people who grew up in the Northwest but
they have a southern like accent.



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18 May 2014, 2:03 pm

I saw on CNN many years ago that the most American accent was in Spokane, WA.


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19 May 2014, 12:59 pm

Dude. I live in Scappoose. I hear it all the time. :lol:

I think I might have picked up on it a little bit too. :lol:


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19 May 2014, 1:07 pm

I'm from Seattle. I don't have that sort of accent, as far as I can tell.


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19 May 2014, 1:09 pm

^ You have more of a TV announcer accent. Like people on the news, but sharper and with a little more personality.


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19 May 2014, 1:12 pm

:) Thanks, Makayla. That flatters me in an awesome way. :D


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19 May 2014, 2:05 pm

I have been living in Portland all my life, and as far as I can tell, I don't speak with that sort of accent.


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19 May 2014, 4:56 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
I have been living in Portland all my life, and as far as I can tell, I don't speak with that sort of accent.


I didn't really either until I moved out here from Portland. Places like Happy Valley and Rose Valley have a lot of people like that. They're all over Columbia County. :lol:


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19 May 2014, 9:27 pm

Seattle doesn't have that sorta accent, AFAIK.


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19 May 2014, 10:26 pm

it's a minority of northwestern that have the hick accent.



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20 May 2014, 8:59 am

I go up to oregon a lot but never heard of or noticed an accent. interesting



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26 May 2014, 4:43 pm

I know in eastern Washington they have a bit of an accent, they tend to say "warshintun" and also they say ruff instead of roof. that is what I've noticed. in the northern Puget sound corridor towards Bellingham they start sounding a bit Canadian.



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26 May 2014, 7:00 pm

^ My grandparents are from Rainier and Astoria, and both sides say things like "warsh" and "ruff." Maybe I got it from them? idk


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26 May 2014, 7:04 pm

MakaylaTheAspie wrote:
^ My grandparents are from Rainier and Astoria, and both sides say things like "warsh" and "ruff." Maybe I got it from them? idk

I remember seeing an "regional accent map" a while back which seemed to indicate a large wodge of land between eastern Washington/ Idaho, stretching down to northern California abutting the Oregon border, where there was lots of warsh and ruff spoken.