How to Speak Hoosier, Episode 4 - "From Angola to Lebanon"

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Join Rachel as she and her friend Bill talk about an exciting trip he's just returned from. In this episode, you'll learn about Indiana's fascinating geography, including some unique city names, along with some important Hoosier vocabulary and constructions.
How to Speak Hoosier is a fun series for those who want to learn to talk right! Join host Barb Bryan as she explores the endlessly fascinating facets of Indiana's unique dialect from vocabulary and pronunciation to constructions and expressions.

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@BaconKiller360 4 жыл бұрын

Hoosiers: “Yeah I drove through Peru on my way to Mexico.” Literally everyone else: “Excuse me but the fuck?”

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂

@travismalone1985 8 жыл бұрын

Indiana has probably the most diverse accents of all states, considered Chicago is just up north and Kentucky is just south. It's weird but even people here in southern Indiana all have different accents I can pick up on. It's like a twangy Kentuckyian-Midwestern deal I've been told.

@MarmaladeINFP 4 жыл бұрын

My mother's family is Kentuckiana. Only a few generations before, the family was in Kentucky. But my mother was born and raised in Lafayette. She kept much of her strong Hoosier accent, though, until she went to college to become a speech pathologist. Even then, when our family moved to a wealthier Jewish suburb of Chicago, people thought she was Southern. On occasion, she still will say 'feesh' and 'cooshion'.

@lindsayyork5956 3 жыл бұрын

I’m from Connersville Indiana, and we have Kentucky accents. Instead of doing the southern draw we cut our words shorter than normal, if that makes sense. The short draw is usually at the beginning of the word instead of the end like you would hear in Tennessee.

@Andrew_Sowala 3 жыл бұрын

Osceola, N. Indiana here! Wakarusa is pronounced Wakarusi here for some reason. I grew up calling a couch a "damport". We are a bit more nasaly up here with a very noticeable Chicago accent in a lot of us. My great grandmother raised her kids in a log cabin in Baugo Crick. No running water, she warshed in the crick :)

@YourselfAndEye 4 жыл бұрын

Paoli is pronounced more like, "Pay-oh-lee." And for some odd reason, old people pronounce Washington as "worshington." No clue why.

@Chichilovee 2 жыл бұрын

My grandma always said warsh rag and warsh powders...she was mostly kentuckian with a little hoosier.

@Skaggfacemutt 13 жыл бұрын

Talking now about the whole series of these videos - I was born and raised in Hammond, Indiana, even though I moved 28 years ago. I still say groshry store, sack, and remember my granny calling the couch a davenport. I spent the first couple of years in Utah wondering if there was a difference between a canteloupe and a muskmellon. I had to get used to the lunch/dinner and dinner/supper thing. I call the fridge an icebox quite often. My mom still says "warsh." However, we don't say "crick."

@user-yr4os6jz4r 2 жыл бұрын

We said crick...The ole man even said zink for the kitchen sink.

@connerbaird834 5 жыл бұрын

The cities really are wierd here... My Mom's from Brazil Indiana. Never did figure out why we keep giving all our towns super stupid and confusing names.

@peggyellis6393 6 жыл бұрын

Proud Hoosier here, representing Southern Indiana, Bedford/Bloomington!!

@nephy_9 9 жыл бұрын

EYE-TALION AND MY WIFE ORDERED MELK.

@BradBryanMultimedia 9 жыл бұрын

😃

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂

@stevethompson7791 7 жыл бұрын

Born and bred in central indiana. Its coke to drink not pop. I do sweep the carpet with a sweeper. A pepper is a freakin pepper.

@MarmaladeINFP 4 жыл бұрын

In most of the Midwest, it's pop. But in the Deep South, it's typically coke. Still, there are differences within specific areas.

@ameliarandall1550 9 жыл бұрын

I have lived in Indianapolis since I was 3 years old. The pronunciation of these words make my brain hurt. I have heard some of them pronounced that way but for the most part no just no. I don't know too many people who actually speak this way

@MiKayla-Rose 5 жыл бұрын

Amelia Randall same lol “tore-teel-ee-ya” I was born and raised in Kokomo and still love here. I’ve never heard anyone call it that.

@t_rexmouse 2 жыл бұрын

bestie thats bc ur from indianapolis thats like the most annoying city here

@didididuh 5 жыл бұрын

Also, FUNNER is a word damnit..lol

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@jtthomas2 9 жыл бұрын

Moved to Indiana 20+ years ago, and I hear this kind of talk all the time. Mangos, davenport, sweeper; Krogers, Aldis, and even Walmarts. Living near Kendallville, around here it is called, "Kendaville." And for those offended, what in the world is your problem? Why not let people talk the way they want, rather than according to some effete snob's version of what is "proper"?

@didididuh 5 жыл бұрын

We call it Kendaltucky and it's in the county of Nobletucky.

@birdseeo 2 жыл бұрын

I agree bc I am a Hoosier! Wait…. MEXICO AND PERU ARE HERE?? We have dumb city names

@greenleafwater 8 жыл бұрын

Terre Haute should be on the list of hard city names

@rhianahouse5650 8 жыл бұрын

Tear Hote

@bonniemoerdyk9809 6 жыл бұрын

Ashley Marie ... most people ask me if I'm from TERRY-HUT

@christopherrouth9383 5 жыл бұрын

terra hote. terra hote. that's how you pronounce it.

@christopherrouth9383 5 жыл бұрын

like terror but terra hote.

@bamba11s 11 жыл бұрын

A good hoosier eats nothing but corn and washes it down with pop. Or diet pop if they're watching their weight.

@bonniemoerdyk9809 6 жыл бұрын

..or warshes it down (poking fun at myself)

@harleyhagemeier4866 5 жыл бұрын

Alex McWilliams speak the truth brother

@dianestrand6793 5 жыл бұрын

No, they "warsh" it down with pop! LOL

@jimlorentz4982 4 жыл бұрын

I mean I say soda but yeah the rest of my diet consists entirely of corn

@jonpoynter5847 3 жыл бұрын

I lived in Indiana all my life I’ve never talked this way before

@johnbrendel6882 11 жыл бұрын

This series is more of a northern Hoosier dialect.... Those in Central and Southern Indiana have what some would call a twang... These people sound almost like they're from Michigan or Wisconsin to me

@RustyHumphrey 13 жыл бұрын

I still recall my godmother saying, "Now you better go warsh your hands, you been feeshin' in the crick!"

@katiforbes1194 9 жыл бұрын

2:54 What? Only 15 ears of corn?

@roccoboth 9 жыл бұрын

That's a true angola accent. He's probably either of Pennsylvania Dutch (amish) descent, or he has lived around them. It almost sounds like what people from Chicago would call a "Country" accent. I am in middlebury and we talk just like that guy.

@boi_mayor 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Mexico. There is not a restaurant here unless you count the gas station or the truck stop out on 31.

@grimey1925 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting! Lebanon was the first faux pas i noticed....it's less than an hour away from here and we pronounce it LEB-uh-nun....and Peru we pronounce PEE-rue.

@nurglenurgle 3 жыл бұрын

Natives say "Leb-nun"

@occultmama 12 жыл бұрын

Ok, so we do pronounce Groceries like Grosherys, and we do say across with a "t" at the end in Northern Indiana, but most of this stuff I have never heard of. I'm amazed she could even pronounce Mishawaka correctly!

@zolia260 3 жыл бұрын

i thought everyone pronounced it like that

@DJSantoX 4 жыл бұрын

I myself have traveled around latin america right in our home state of indiana. I've never been to lebanon but i've been to brazil, peru and mexico. I've also been to palestine.

@jenniferjohnson5833 4 жыл бұрын

Hoosiers don’t have their bad grammar. This video makes us sound like we haven’t completed 5th grade English Class.

@lizrivera3136 6 жыл бұрын

What the fuck, Barb? I've been waiting for ten years for the 5th episode!

@jacosag 13 жыл бұрын

I'm from Fort Wayne, and I could only understand half of what that guy said. Really.

@anselmodominguez2373 3 жыл бұрын

“We found a real Mexican restaurant in Mexico “ 😂😂😂💀💀💀💀

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@GymbalLock 2 жыл бұрын

HA! I remember "worsh" and "acrost" from growing up in Bloomfield

@jerryjohanan1940 5 жыл бұрын

I drive truck for a living I'm all over the lower 48 in Canada and every time a waitress asked me for something to drink and I ask them what they have and they say soda I always correct him I said no it's called pop pop pop not soda not Coke not whatever it's pop

@dianestrand6793 5 жыл бұрын

I never heard of the term "pop" for soda until I had to move to this crappy state. It's so bad they actually think Indianapolis is a center of culture and excitement.

@mgunslinger17 13 жыл бұрын

I hear euphemisms like the ones in these videos from people all over the state. Some I admit are kind of rare, but I've heard sweeper, melk, pop, all the ___er, and several others. Most of the people I know from southern Indiana, don't really talk like this; you're much more likely to find Kentuckian accents, though. My mom is an English teacher so she raised me to speak standard American English. Her mother, on the other hand, has some fun colloquialisms: "tumped over, warsh, blinky milk, etc."

@km32dawg 16 жыл бұрын

got to go to the hip hugger. real nice

@willb2b 12 жыл бұрын

More please!

@nj_thom 11 жыл бұрын

Nobody talks like this. And I've lived here my whole life. We might pronounce the cities like she said but Lord !

@aisforapple2494 2 жыл бұрын

I was born there and it's "PAY-O-LEE" or "PAY-OLA". We NEVER say "PEE-OLA"! Google and 411 say "POW-LEE".

@jrogue7715 9 жыл бұрын

I'm sure y'all don't talk like that (I spent some time up in Indy)

@DaAbbySaraChannel 13 жыл бұрын

There is a Holland, Indiana and an Ireland, Indiana too.

@AdrienneFrailey 14 жыл бұрын

OMG. I live within 20 minutes of Warsaw, and I do not say "worsh", "torteelia", "eye-talian", "melk", "acrosst", "warsall", "innanapolis", or "all the farther" =)

@Andrew_Sowala 3 жыл бұрын

I live 45 minutes north of Warsaw in Osceola. My grandparents and their brothers and sisters all spoke like this. Other than "Italian" and "Tortilla", I do as well.

@williamjones2994 4 жыл бұрын

Now they're just making stuff up.

@IKE5021 2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget "this'n" and "that'n"...I don't do that, but I've noticed it. Maybe that is a Kentucky import.

@ashley3910 11 жыл бұрын

god damn indiana is pretty much rural

@erialcteragram 9 жыл бұрын

nailed it

@heinaantipatica 13 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you didn’t get the “whenever” bit, as in “Whenever I got married the first time.” After a decade this one still throws me on occasion. I've never figured out what folks from here in the southern part of the state would say where I would say “whenever”...

@sp00g37 3 жыл бұрын

"I hear you're supposed to be careful with water, but I suspsect pop is good no matter where you're at." this is the most indiana thing out of all of these. i still have never said indinapolis. i always pronounce the ian syllable.

@camhuffman4694 4 жыл бұрын

Not born in Indiana but I what to live in Indianapolis or somewhere around there

@johnadavid1 11 жыл бұрын

LOL, along with my family, guilty of nearly all. When I moved from Wayne County, had to learn about bell peppers, cantaloupe, and vacuum cleaners.

@allynnxx 13 жыл бұрын

I have lived in Kokomo my whole life and I do not talk like this at all lol. Words such as "melk" and "pellow" drive me crazy, along with "warsh"! I have NEVER said "how's come" or "all's i know's." I hope people watching these don't really take these seriously hahaha. PS- I don't like corn :o I must not be a Hoosier! haha :)

@BradBryanMultimedia 13 жыл бұрын

@jablair51 Oh, Brazil is a great one! I really love all those foreign names for Hoosier towns - and especially how Hoosiers say them!

@xclaudia97 13 жыл бұрын

The only people I've ever heard speak like that are my Grandparents.

@kingstonLinth 5 жыл бұрын

Northern Indiana Hoosier supporting kendallville

@MagpiesMarvels 13 жыл бұрын

I have never said pop, warsh, sweeper, or ice box. I also so "as hot as it is going to get" "as clean as it is going to get."

@Valpo2004 15 жыл бұрын

I've grown up in Northern Indiana since I was 2. They did not pronounce a lot of the tricky cities the way I pronounce them. Especially Kendallville (we say Ken-del-ville), Auburn (Aw-burn), Indianapolis (Indian aa po lus). However they did pronounce Lafayette the same way I do. The last two southern cities I have never heard of before. At the end she does pronounce Mishiwalka (I love close to this city) and Shipshewana (sp?) the way I do. Havn't heard of the third one though.

@dawnten 9 жыл бұрын

They left out Morocco. I lived most of my life in Northwest Indiana and people from other places say we sound like we are from Chicago. No one I know speaks this way besides calling soda ...pop.

@momogo35 12 жыл бұрын

Woo Fort Wayne!!

@corkymp89 15 жыл бұрын

in southern indiana people say tail city when its named tell city

@robertelee7 13 жыл бұрын

People need to lighten up and laugh! I'm for northeast Indiana, and I fine a lot of this accent true with myself and friends. Also, if you are from a city, you will pry not talk like that, due to being around an urban accent. I believe this is a more traditional, rural indiana accent.

@darci0206 14 жыл бұрын

i know a few little places in indiana where they talk like this, but that is the very rare occasion. I live in Lafayette around Purdue. There are alot of different cultures here so i know we do talk a little different but, as my husband says, compared to everywhere else, its the lack of accent that makes us sound different....and i dont add an 's to everything....

@Makyui 11 жыл бұрын

This is making me crave sweet corn.

@Ltc92-14 2 жыл бұрын

Lebanon is where the late Sylvia Likens was born

@natnoholosblog7093 11 жыл бұрын

It does *not* come from Native American or from Amish dialects but from the early settlers (German, English) and subsequent immigrants from Ohio, Kentucky, and elsewhere over the years. If you live in Indianapolis and know people who live there, odds are they are some of the many new generations of settlers. Go outside of Indy and you will find plenty of vernacular. Google "Dialect Survey Maps and Results" and you will see that Indiana is a mixture of many dialects.

@TylerG797 2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I’m from Indiana and I only speak and pronounce half of the stay the way it is

@Wolfemen1120 10 жыл бұрын

I just moved here to Indianapolis....people do not say "Inda-napolis" and also people in Mishiwaka don't sound like this...I have cousins there....

@dianestrand6793 5 жыл бұрын

I hear them pronounce it that way on the news stations! Most of the people who do the local news and weather on TV are from Indiana. Impossible to get anyone else to move here!!

@muir_kat 14 жыл бұрын

1) In-dee-un-ap-lis or really, just Indy 2) only people in southern IN say "worsh" instead of wash, I swear! 3) all of those "all the..." sayings were just weird, I have to say 4) Italian has a short "i" sound! 5) there's really a Mexico, IN? Who knew! -Katie

@catlingmex 13 жыл бұрын

Hey, how´s about the pronunciation of our great neighboring state Ellinois?

@TheAngriffer 13 жыл бұрын

Is Carmel not a notable city?

@emeraldcicada3954 2 жыл бұрын

The local denizens pronounce it Leb-nun

@simboli69 13 жыл бұрын

My wife is from Indiana and she doesn't even talk like that....LMFAO

@akigakuyuu 11 жыл бұрын

I think people are taking some of this way to seriously. And I gotta say I've heard ALL of these ones. I'm Indianapolis born and raised and I certainly do say In-di-naplis from time to time. And warsh and crick are only 'rural' if you think that the only suburban parts of Indiana are Indy and Carmel. Fort Wayne is certainly rural and I hear warsh and crick there constantly.

@sillygoose4176 4 ай бұрын

Ok the guy sounded like a Hoosier. I heard it big time. More than the girl

@Brettwbeyer14 15 жыл бұрын

i didn't say people from the north all say that. just some people tend to say that. i don't say it either.

@metalbob3335 4 жыл бұрын

The old folks speak in this terminology , and my Grandma always puts a K at the end of stuff ...WHY ? Like wal-mark like she cannot say T's after R's.

@honigmeister6212 2 жыл бұрын

Im from peru indiana

@barscotch 11 жыл бұрын

"Winsdee"-yeah. "I expect"-yes indeed. "Acrossed"-yes ma'am, though I try not to say it very much anymore. "Loffy -ett." absolutely. "all the farther" yes.

@shawnrobinson225 5 жыл бұрын

Drew Little some people pronounce Lafayette Lay- Fee -Yet

@19591960joe 9 жыл бұрын

Its Peerue's there, Brad

@robhill5578 2 жыл бұрын

All roit. Ow am yow? Hoosiers Dow spake proppa. Tay loik us in Craydely. :-)

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@maxdroll 12 жыл бұрын

How's come I've never heard none of this jargon for? Pry cause I live so close to Kentucky.

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Brettwbeyer14 15 жыл бұрын

lol warsh and melk. lots of people in michigan say melk and some also say warsh, but i definitely do not say warsh. they are definitely from northern indiana. they don't have a southern accent.

@jamorgn8 12 жыл бұрын

I watched all these videos just for fun, as I'm from Indiana (Richmond). Anyways, WE DON'T LIKE CORN THAT DAMN MUCH! Too much corn. Yes, there's a lot of corn growing in Indiana, but that doesn't mean we eat it with every stinking meal!

@DebbyDeb 12 жыл бұрын

Very nice, but my friend from Lebanon tells me it's pronounced "Leb'nun." And I lived in Paoli a couple years. That's pay-OH-lee. Have you heard the construction "too yet"? As in, "The kids tracked mud through the living room and knocked over grandma's vase too yet!" Make more videos!

@marcelodal 11 жыл бұрын

you forgot Brazil, IN

@kayvee256 13 жыл бұрын

Somewhere, Stephen Pinker is laughing. Or crying. I'm not sure which.

@onemidnightgone 11 жыл бұрын

It's not "Leb-a-non", it's "Leb-nin." Derp.

@snackalicious_2424 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't think these actors are from Indiana

@brittanythecaptain 16 жыл бұрын

What about Terre Haute? I hear people mispronouncing that constantly... and Vevay... Milan too.

@Sakura7981 14 жыл бұрын

is this lady really from indiana if so she may be from the south part

@Minunat12 6 жыл бұрын

sorry, TORTILLIA?

@19591960joe 9 жыл бұрын

Well,I shure don't know how much moore Hoosier I's can sound there, dawnten! Idn't that raht? Hoosier sources, ennyways?

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@esterrios5626 Жыл бұрын

I read it twice n still cant get what you said/wrote! 😂😂

@jacosag 13 жыл бұрын

cAnd it's pronounced KENdullvill. Like it's spelled. And Awe-burn. You are clearly not from northern Indiana. I wish they'd say where in Indiana these people are from because Indiana has a lot of dialectical differences from north to south and even east to west. In general there's the Northeast, The Region, Central, Indy, Southeast, Southwest, and South Central Indiana. To make a guess, I'd say these people are from Central Indiana, probably near Lafayette. And rural.

@gailedwards8261 6 жыл бұрын

jacosag they're n9t from near lafayette, i live there, and the only accurate pronunciations thatvive heard near here are lafayette, mishewaka, and shipshewana, I've heard old people say "worsh", but never "tortillia" or "melk"

@hial22 6 жыл бұрын

There ain't no Italian restaurant in Lebanon.

@shawnrobinson225 5 жыл бұрын

Chalupacabra That’s true because I grown up and live around Lebanon

@Lakin4569 13 жыл бұрын

@sterberger these people must relle not be from indiana because on the southern half we call it indianapolis ans we dont call paoli peeola,

@feeblepizza 13 жыл бұрын

Uh, nobody pronounces the L's in "tortilla" here.

@Andrew_Sowala 3 жыл бұрын

My great grandmother who was born here in 1922 would pronounce the L's. Also consider, she was literally born before sliced bread was a thing so tortillas were very foreign in Indiana until much later in her life. It wasn't a word they would have grown up hearing so they said the word how it's spelled.

@iamthenmam 14 жыл бұрын

@KateAndOrKatie Ouch! I'm live in Newburgh and I don't say worsh! Only old weird people say that! We make fun of people who say worsh and worter...

@Mav4jc 7 жыл бұрын

If you say Peru, you aren't from that part of Indiana. It's pronounced 'Peeroo' and those in Miami know that and that's pronounced 'Miamma.'

@higglety230 5 жыл бұрын

There's even a Hin-DOO-ston.

@cc219Hmd 14 жыл бұрын

I only use pop, melk, and i dont think they have used pellow yet. and god damn we have some fucked up city names. also notice how everything more north wasnt in there?prolly because its just a suburb of chicago at that point. and nwi residents like to use ta instead of to.

@EvanSpringer 2 жыл бұрын

This entire series is plagued in the comments by Hoosiers whining "I never said that! I never heard that! This is all wrong!" Read through enough comments and you see there's an overlap from everyone of what they have and havn't heard. Clearly this series did a great job of averaging the silly speech patterns of the nearly 7 million Indiana residents. Maybe some of these Hoosiers should take a little trip around their own state once in awhile instead of Florida.

@MochiDesire 15 жыл бұрын

Is this a joke o__o. I could barely understand most of what was said and I live in Indiana.

@katelynn91094 13 жыл бұрын

@Sakura7981 I'm from southern Indiana and she has it all wrong. I really don't see any "Hoosier" traits or dialects in any of these videos... Innapolis? WTF? So definitely not from southern part..

@lajenata 12 жыл бұрын

Everyone knows that Paragon is the most notable city. And it's pronounced ParUHgun

@troylowe814 Жыл бұрын

I've been mocked for how I pronounce Italian.

@gabbyelaine92 12 жыл бұрын

lol Vincennes is not a notable city!

@melissaadams5531 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's nothin really here lol

@Sakura7981 14 жыл бұрын

@raem16 lol its not, im live in indiana and if you talk like that people are going to laugh at you and ask why are you talking like that. just talk normal we'll understand.