Hey, all, but especially Minnesotans. Help me.

[Bucky]

Do you pronounce "Walz" like there's an invisible T in his name, or is it spelled phonetically?

That is, should I say "Waltz" or "Walls" when I say Walz?

[RandySF]

1. I hear the 't' on television news.

[Mister Ed]

2. But they're wrong. In Minnesota, we pronounce it "walls".

I think that's how Tim and his family pronounce it.

[DFW]

3. I have no idea, BUT

Since it’s German name, and the “z” is pronounced like a “ts” in German, if he is elected VP, he had better get used to about 100 million Europeans pronouncing his name as if there were a “t” in there.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Tim's last name is Walz as in WALLS.

There is no T in his last name.

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. In the PSA videos I've seen of him and his daughter it sounds like Walls. I was pronouncing it more like Waltz

(as in Christoph Waltz) until I heard them say it.

[NickB79]

6. Minnesotans say it like "Walls"

No T that I've ever heard, and I've lived here my whole life.

[edisdead]

7. Pronounced Walls.

[keep_left]

8. I wonder if the pronunciation used ("Walls") has anything to do...

...with the Northern Plains accent heard so frequently in MN and ND. The accent was made famous, of course, in the movie Fargo. However, you will also find a bit of it in Canada--particularly around Toronto--along with the usual Canadian pronunciations of words like "house" and "boat".