For a real Vermon’ delicacy, order a maple creemee. You can substitute a creemee - Vermon’ese for soft-serve ice cream. It’s one of the five major food groups in Vermon’, along with cheese, beer, bacon and Ben & Jerry’s, according to DeWees. Should you want something sweet, Vermont has sugar on snow during winter – maple syrup poured on snow. If it were especially pungent, you might exclaim, “Jeezum crow.” If you note the smell of manure wafting from a dairy farm, you might comment on the dairy air. You pronounce Montpelier as Mon-PEEL-yer, Rutland as RUH-lin, Vergennes as Vurr-JENzz and Bradford as BRED-fud. You’re ready to fit in as a native Vermon’er, also known as a woodchuck. So you’ve got your flannel (shirt), your bahn boots and your hunter orange cap and you’ve mastered the back road wave. And that would comprise a Vermon’ traffic jam. Be careful of the eye contact though, unless you want to engage in a 15-minute truck-to-truck confab on the road. Family and close friends get four fingers and maybe even a smile and eye contact. A neighbor gets two fingers and a slight nod. While driving, an approaching vehicle you’ve never seen before deserves a one-finger-off-steering-wheel wave along with a slight nod. “Cat” might sound an awful lot like “caaat.” “Idea” sounds like “Oideer.”Īccording to Northeast Kingdom etiquette, Hello is “hoight” and goodby is “boight.” (Hat tip to Charlie and Margaret.) They also follow a back-road waving code. The Northeast Kingdom accent is also known as gargling marbles. Older Kingdom dwellers have a distinctive nasal quality in their speech, and they love to elongate vowels. Guildhall, Vt., in the Northeast Kingdom. The real, old-time Vermont accent still exists in the Northeast Kingdom - Essex, Orleans and Caledonian counties.
The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”Ĭomedian Rusty DeWees jokes Vermonters don’t measure snow in inches, they measure it in bee-uhs. Noted zylophile Homer Simpson discovered a stash of beer in the Vermont woods when he made the classic observation: “Ah, beer. Many zylophiles consider Vermont the Napa Valley of craft beer. You can get Heady Toppah from Alchemis’, Hahlan from Hill Fahmstea’ Brewery or Brave Little State from Lawson’s Foinest Liquids. One way to practice the Vermon’ accen’ is to order a lot of different kinds of beer (bee-uh). You might try a maple latte at a gas station. It’s “hawkey.” Green Mountain Coffee is Green Moun’ain Cawfee. Hockey: You hear this in the rest of Northern New England, too. Bernie pronounces this the way a Vermonter would: “bahn.” The flat A, as in most of New England, turns “car” into “cah,” “bath” into “bahth” and “dance” into “dahnce.” Bahn boots, along with winter camouflage, suspenders and hunter’s orange hats, form the basis for many a Vermon’er’s wardrobe. So the Green Mountains become the “Green Moun’ains.” Unlike Keow and foight, moun’ain and Vermon’ are gaining steam among young people.īarn. Mountain: Vermonters do to the T in mountain what they do to the T in Vermont. Then there’s “fight.” They like to turn the I into OI, so “fight” sounds like “foight.” Another one on the way out, according to Roberts. University of Vermont professor Julie Roberts says that idiosyncrasy is dying out among everyone else.
Vermonters pronounce “cow’ as “ke-ow.” At least the old male farmers do. ( Vermont does not have more of them than people, by the way.)
Five Ways To Talk Like a Vermonterįive key words can make you sound like Fred Tuttle. senator from Vermont without a Vermont accent, Patrick Leahy. Tuttle easily defeated his primary opponent, a flatlander who ran in Vermont because it was easier than running in his home state of Massachusetts. Senate in 1998 because it was easier than farming. A dairy farmer born in 1919 in Tunbridge, Vt., he decided to run for the U.S. If you really want to sound like an old-time Vermonter, find a video of Fred Tuttle.
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