How to talk Minnesotan

From Minnesota Monthly magazine:

How to Talk Minnesotan author Howard Mohr agrees that many Minnesotans are oblivious to their peculiar diction, though he says our unique speech is really more about attitude -- using the passive third person, for example -- than accent. Says Mohr:

I had a friend who smoked cigars, and he opens up a 5-gallon can of gas -- looking in with his cigar going -- and another friend tells him, 'You know, a lot of guys wouldn't smoke a cigar and look in a gas can like that.'