A Seattle Accent?

The way I describe Seattle accents to others is “if a surfer dude and Canadian had a baby”

I grew up in Seattle, I've always said agge instead of egg I never noticed until now.

I live in seattle myself. A friend of mine from michigan said that we tend to mumble a lot.

Honestly, as someone from the east coast, I can definitely hear an accent.

everybody has an accent

Because in Seattle we are modest talkers. Kind of not really tryna pronounce the words thoroughly but we get to the point

I NEVER used to think people from Seattle had an accent (I was born and raised in Washington state) until I’d lived in NYC for over a decade. Now I can always tell when someone is from Washington. It’s a very familiar way of speaking, and I would say I probably now pronounce some of the words in the above video the “Seattle” way about 40% of the time and the more standard way the other about 60% of the time. You can’t hear the difference of the “Seattle accent” until you have been immersed for a substantive period of time among people who don’t have it.

Why is that lady randomly in a tree?

"up there in the tree" okay then

The lady in the tree is swaggin over everyone else.

Kurt Cobain was from 2 hours outside Seattle and he had a strong accent to my Northeastern ears. Similar to what I'd call a West Coast accent. The guitarist from Pearl Jam, Stone Gossard does too.

I went to Seattle a couple of months ago. Didn't notice a accent. Bit I will say this. Seattle is all that and a beg of chips.

"listen to how people from ohio say it" don DAWN sounds the same she just said it louder

I work in a large company here in Seattle (born and raised in Seattle), but most of the people I work with are out of state.  When I talk, they tell me I often sound Canadian from their perspective.

I live in Seattle but came here from Florida. North Westerners sound Canadian to me.

Most people who are born in Seattle become a grunge band singer.

Lol I'm a total Seattle native transplanted in New York and every now an then people will be like "where u from u have an accent" lol I never thot so until this-in pretty sure I say aygs not eggs lol

why the hell is she in a tree 

I'm from New England, I moved to Olympia Washington and I hear the accent when people say bag all the time. At the supermarket it's always like, "Do you need a beg?" Aside from that there isn't much of an accent so it always comes as a surprise to me. But hey, you have a regional accent, embrace it, be proud of your heritage and the things that make your home different from the rest of the country.

This is really interesting! I have to say that as someone from NY, Seattle seems to have a much more subtle accent than other places. It's definitely a lot closer to the proper way to speak, especially compared to new york/new jersey where we say things like "tawk" (talk), "wawk" (walk), "cawfee" (coffee), etc. It's funny because with words like "don" and "dawn", "cot" and "caught" - there's a huge difference between the two in NY. We say "cot" exactly how it is spelled, and "caught" like "cawt".