Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
I live in the south and his accent on the show sounds midwestern, not southern, to me.
Houstonian here. Absolutely correct.
Yea 100% not a southern accent
Came to say this. That is not a Southern accent, lol
Bible Belt East Texas here, that is 1000% not a southern accent.
Grew up in Kansas, now live in Georgia. This is pretty much true in my experience.
😱😱 I’m not American and his accent sounds so quintessentially southern US to me!! I’m completely shocked that it would sound any other way lmao Shows how much I know I guess hahaha 😂
I get it though. I have trouble picking out all the different English/Commonwealth accents sometimes, even though my understanding is that they’re easily distinguishable for people from the UK.
I’m a northeastern American and he sounds Southern to me. 🤷♀️
I’m from Iowa and it sounds southern to me as well 🤷♀️
To be fair, most Americans couldn’t differentiate between Scouse and Cockney accents.
Nor Australian and NZ despite the fact that one has huge extended diphthongs and the other has tight clipped vowels that actually sound like a different vowel that is intended. Eg. Noouuu vs. Nu for No.
I feel like NZ vs Australia is super easy. NZ vs SA would fuck me up though
Whenever I can’t work out if someone is aussie, kiwi or kings Russian, I assume they’re south African 🤷🏻♀️
Frooouuuuuurdoooour take the ring to Mooooouuuurrdooooouuuur
To be faaaaiiiiir!
To be faaaaiiiiir!
Right?!
Grew up in central Indiana and have lived in Tennessee for years, and I think it’s closer to some Indiana accents than anything I’ve heard in Tennessee and Georgia (where my extended family is from).
Wow! My dad grew up in Northern Indiana and sounds nothing like that.
Southern Indiana does.
Yeah, lived in the deep south my whole life and it’s definitely not a southern accent. It’s chintzy Midwest with southern colloquialisms thrown in.
It’s weird how the US is a big place and has a lot of intermingling
I think it’s that his colloquialisms sound southern. So even though he pronounces them with a Midwest accent, the words themselves sound southern. Even though the Midwest is full of just as many cliches as the south.
I agree.
As someone from that region and now living in the south, his accent struck me more “rural western/southwestern” than southern. More Colorado, west Texas, western Oklahoma, New Mexico than a quintessential Midwestern accent. My mother and grandmother have Midwestern accents, but Ted sounds very much like my father’s side of the family.