The term Scots-Irish is mostly a US term. It primarily describes people from Northern Ireland, with Scots ancestry - thus , they are primarily Protestants (often Presbyterians) as opposed to Irish Catholics. At one time people felt the need to make this differentiation very distinctly.
The Scotch Irish originated from the Scotland-England borderlands and fled to primarily Ulster (the Ulster Scots are 'cousins' to the Scotch Irish from this common origin) Many of these people were border reivers fleeing the political changes of the borderlands You can see this in stereotypes of the Scotch Irish being clannish (Hatfields and McCoys) and putting more resources into their vehicles than their homes (border reivers built temporary homes and relied heavily on their horses)
Scots-Irish is also called Ulster. There was a lot of racism towards Irish immigrants, they were labeled as subhuman. The Northern Irish wanted to distinguish themselves from this.
There are a few videos on North American accents on UA-cam, but this one is by far the best. This man is terrific,, and he gets at the fact that accents have nothing to do with state boundaries. Glad Millie is getting the chance to see this one.
Being a truck driver here in the US, it’s actually crazy hearing all of these different accents for real. You can quite literally get into your truck hearing one accent, and get out 700 miles down the road and you’d think you’re in a different country entirely by the way people speak.
A very interesting and informative series. Accents are like "ear candy" for me. Maybe because I was a speech communications major in college. I just enjoy the unique sounds of different accents and tones. It is part of what makes us who we are !
Erik Singer is a linguistic beast. A few years back he did a series on wired, where he critiqued actors in movies putting on accents, reviewed con-langs (made up languages for books, shows, movies etc), and actors playing real (historical) people, how well they perform these accents, what they got right and wrong. I'd recommend ^^
Shame he skipped another Island accent--that of Smith and Tangier Islands in the Chesapeake which, even today are not connected to the mainland by bridges. The dialects there have been associated with Elizabethan English which is because these islands were settled very early in the 17th century and then remained isolated.
Interesting! I live in Florida and the accents and dialects have a wide range of annunciations from deep south in the panhandle to Caribbean in south Florida and everything in between. I find that I can sometimes not understand words being spoken in English in different parts of the state based on dialect and regional accents. Thanks for sharing!
I just spent a week in the panhandle of Florida (along "The Forgotten Coast") and there was zero difference between the accents there and in Georgia. I was completely surprised by the strong southern drawl in that part of Florida. (My previous trips to Florida were Orlando and Clearwater, and I didn't remember much difference from my own Michigan accent.) I have to say that I loved it! There's nothing like a southern drawl to make you feel welcome! 😀
@@thebirthmentor3683 I'm from and currently live in Orlando and grew up with a light Southern accent which has mostly been lost from living for years out of the state; but you can really hear it come out when I'm emotional (angry/upset/etc.) or drunk. The area has been losing its accent for over 30 years (which is why my accent is/was light) due to the large amount of out of state people moving in, which is pretty typical in Florida's larger cities on the peninsula part of the state, but the northern Florida cities have really retained most of their accents.
@@thebirthmentor3683 the Floridian accent is more rare these days in Southern Florida. I hear it with my great aunts and uncles but less so with my cousins.
I don't know if they cover this, but I'm sure exposure to people via tv, movies, music, radio, podcasts etc further affects accents of people without actually living with or meeting them. Like with people from other countries sounding "American" when they sing.
According to something I saw ( and if I’m explaining it right), the thing with singing is that things like projecting your voice and controlling pitch push your voice toward a more “neutral“ sound so it’s like when he mentioned “general American” accents just lacking really really obvious localizable distinct features, likewise many singers sound very neutral when they’re singing which is taken as sounding American because the baseline “general American” sound happens to be very neutral.
Definitely react to part 2! I grew up in Louisiana, and even Louisiana was (and still is?) pretty isolated from the rest of the US...so it was SHOCKING to see this guy get the Cajun accent right. I'd say he was about 90+95% accurate, and he even threw in a little bit of history too! Cheer guys from SoCal(I live there now lol) enjoy watching your channel ~
Interesting in itself, but this series is even better with The Beesleys reactions. Made me notice the differences even more with our honorary Americans chiming in. Keep up the good work and we look forward to the rest of this series!
I always refer to this video when people say North Jersey vs South Jersey distinction isn't real. Clearly the Northern and Midlands accents division starts right in the middle of New Jersey!
My southeastern Ohio accent is really similar to the Appalachian north Carolina accent, albeit it less pronounced. I'm just a college-educated hillbilly. I've long since stopped saying warsh, but still say crick instead of creek. I definitely use the (h)it syllable and say a-fishin' all the time. Speaking of which, we drop the G on -ing words so fishing becomes fish-in, and often even more distinct as it'll morph into feeshin the further southeast you go. Those i syllables becomes ee syllables.
Every time I fall asleep watching F1 practice and George Russell wakes me up talking, I think I've passed out watching a beesleys video. You dudes sound precisely alike to me
Another principal difference between the Boston and Providence/RI accents is that the Boston accent has the cot/caught merger, while the Providence/RI accent does not. The pronunciation of on to rhyme with dawn is an American extension of the lot-cloth split, which took place in southern England in the late 17th-early 18th centuries. It is analogous to the bath-trap split, where a is broadened in bath, glass, staff, but with short o instead. Words like off, cloth, cross are pronounced as if they were spelled awff, clawth, crawss. In American English, the word "on" was affected by this (so pronounced like "awn") in some areas but not others, creating the ON line. In the 1890s, Charles Grandgent found the line in the same place as shown in the video, separating the North (where on rhymes with don) from the Midland and South (where on rhymes with dawn).
Most people in the US Military speak a General English, because of the ,,mixing'' of people from all over the US. My Friend from Southern Georgia had a very thick southern accent. He's been in the Military for 7 Years now, and now speaks more ,,generalised'' it's hard to explain but you know what I mean. Same thing for me. I'm from southern Missourri, and I used to sound Midland-ish somewhat southern, but now I barely have an Accent at all. Kinda weird cuz my Parents still have southern Accents, but I don't anymore.😅
yes. My friend and I were in military for years. We went to the Virgin Islands, where everyone to some degree have an island accent. We had an islander tour guide who sounded the same as us, during the conversation he said he had been in military also for many years. Mystery solved.
I'm from Alabama and was in the Marines for 4 years. I never lost my thick Southern drawl mainly because the majority of people I hung out with were all Southern. We did have different variations of Southern accents amongst ourselves.
@@chadwaters6218 in that case that makes sense. For my friend and I, most the people we hang out with are from Everywhere really. Some guys from Ohio, some from Washington, some from the Dakota's and a couple dudes from Texas. Oh and one guy from Boston, who we make fun of cuz he's only been in a year and has a classic Boston Accent. 😅
You make a really good point about online gaming and how we’re all slowly becoming a conglomerate. It would be interesting to see what happens in the next 50 years or so with regards to accents.
My husband and I are from Houston, Texas. We took a weekend trip to New Orleans, Louisiana once. We were in a cab, and asked a question to our driver. 😳 The gentleman gave us a rather long answer, but we couldn’t understand a word he said! We just smiled and said thank you. I’m thinking he was speaking Creole, which I’d heard many times, but his accent was really heavy. I found that to be very interesting.
I grew up in Ohio, moved to Florida, then Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina. It takes a while living in a new place to understand the native tongue. He is right about NC, there is a lot of variety here.
He's done a much better job than just about anyone I've heard on accents before, and he's right about accents being very local and not conforming with many boundaries. Often the more rural the community is the accents become thicker and more defined I live in the Piedmont-Triad region of North Carolina and you can start from the border with Virginia on I-77/74 and come down through Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and then to Charlotte and experience at least 4 fairly noticeable differences in the accents.
I have lived all over the US and have all sorts of accents on different words and colloquial words and phrases, including British words. I talked to a linguistic expert and he could not figure out where I was from. I vote for more on this series.
This is really interesting! I have a love for language and why we sound so different. So much history there. I'd love for you to find one on the U.K... broaden it out to include South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. What's "cute" to me is that most people grow up believing they do not have an accent, it's everyone else that does! ❤️🙂
oh the goat diphthong!, my dad's family was from New Jersey and my mom's family Maryland and even as a young kid I noticed at family gatherings the difference, my mom and I would speak differently depending on which family we were with without even thinking about it
As an aside, it was primarily the British and Dutch who kidnaped Africans and brought them to the "New World". Also, remember that most of this was going on while the eastern parts of America were British colonies.
I have what's called a non regional accent. I was born and raised on Long Island but people there would say to me "oh you have a nice accent, where are you from?" I shrug my shoulders and reply "I'm from here"
I think there’s three parts. Definitely do the rest. Fair warning the last one is shorter than the others and seemed to wrap up in a hurry. Still watch it, it’s not bad just short and a bit less detail than I expected after the first two.
As an Appalchian North Carolinian, im muddled because of 1. Education (college) and 2. Lived 22 years in the middle part of the state and 11 years in east tn. That said, most educated Carolinians will tell you that Ocracoke and Eastern NC Coastal Communities around the Bay areas speak the closest english to British english of any of the American dialects. When i traveled to London as a 17 yeR old in high school, shopkeepers in London would speak to me friendly and openly, even commenting on my speach and how they recognized it. Students from Philadelphia and Chicago that were also on the trip were ignored or spoken to like unwanted interlopers. Us “southern” kids from Carolina fit right in.
Accents, although very tegional, can eadily be picked up on. I spent 8 weeks in the Biloxi, Ms. Area. When i finally got home, to Pennsylvania, my family questioned me as to why i was talking like i was born n raised in mississippi!!! younz( local dialect here in western Pa) do a great job at tgese videos. You keep them interesting. Nice react.
Growing up in the U.S., I was exposed to lots of different accents as my family moved around quite a lot (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, California, Arizona, etc.). That's probably why I developed a keen interest in accents and enjoy playing around with them. I think it helped me when I moved to Japan. My grammar wasn't the best, but my accent is pretty spot-on. It's also been fun while I've been living in Singapore and able to speak a bit of "Singlish" with friends for fun. Living in different places, I've had the opportunity to work and be friends with English speakers around the world, and we always had fun with each other's accents. It's really changed my perception of the English language and my view on accents. I'd be very interested to hear/learn more about the unbelievable variety of accents in the U.K.!
I was having a discussion with one of my friends some years ago and the topic of oil came up. As we were talking another guy walked in and heard us and coirrected us: "Oil (oy-yul) ? It's not 'Oy-yul'. It's aawwwlll." He was from Louisiana. 😄
I live in Vermont, When I visit family in North Carolina, I pick up up some of the Southern Accent but not from my family as they were all born in Vermont, it is mostly picked up from their in-laws .
I live in North Carolina. I grew up on the east coast of NC and had an accent until I moved to CA. I then lived in PA and NYC before moving to Central NC where I still live. I never picked up an accent again, and a lot of New Yorkers live in my area, so the accents are extremely mixed here in NC. I wish they showed more native speakers in this video. He does ok at displaying different accents, but there's nothing like the real thing. Ocracoke Island can be pretty hard to understand because they sometimes speak a lot faster than he did. I look forward to seeing Louisiana on this series.
It really depends whic part of North Carolina like in Charlotte we have an more urban accent despite being in yhe south I least I think I never been up north
Wow! I was wondering if y'all were going to mention the Lumbee accent! I am from the area and even my accent is a combination of North Carolina (the general one..lol) and Lumbee accent. I was just talking about the Irish and Scottish influence in how the Lumbee people say "Osh tater", if you say ,"Irish" in an Irish accent, slowly, that is what they are saying, Irish potato. It is very interesting and distinct. Thank you for the video.
My partner has a heavy "piney woods" accent. He was raised in North Florida (where I am now), and I don't even notice the accents any longer. It's strange how you can become accused to them over time. I have a Chicago/Midwest accent, but I now use terms like "ya'll" and "fixin" as opposed to "you guys" and "getting ready"....
Im from western North Dakota which has oil exploration and transient oil workers from all over, especially other oil producing states. I feel I can tell the difference between an Oklahoma and Texas accent which are very similar. Its so interesting as an American to watch this.
New to the channel and would love to know both of your backgrounds. I learned you live on Jersey Island. Is that where you both are originally from? You’ve probably shared information on other videos. Would love to hear more about you two. Thanks for the fun videos!
Lol. I am part Lumbee(NC Native American tribe). They did a pretty good job with Lumbee accent. I just wish they would have threw in some of our unique words. I live in a county over from Robeson county where the Lumbee are based. People in my county sometimes have no idea what Robeson Lumbee's say. I have stepped in to "translate". Lol.
In my area of Pennsylvania, about 90 minutes north of Philly. The accent here has developed to be a new version of southern New England. We sound NOTHING like Philadelphia or New Jersey. NOTHING at all. Pennsylvania has a HUGE variation in accents. Travel as little as 30 miles and it begins to change in many locations. I say "ahn" for the word "on". Hoagie is just simply "hoe ghee". And "water" is "wah-ter" not "wudder". The Pennsylvania Dutch accent is all but gone now here. When I was a child it was heard quite frequently especially amongst older people. In the last 40 years it has become nearly extinct. Although, my girls (22 and 19) will frequently call me out for how I say "milk". I say it with the "ilk" as the accented part. So, it comes out lik m-ILK. Dialects and accents are definitely fascinating, but are VERY hard to discern in US.
My 1st wife was from England but raised in the United States so when with me or our friends she spoke as a Long Islander but when we were with her family she spoke with a English accent lol. She didn't know it till I pointed it out. My second wife was born in Puerto Rico but raised in Spanish Harlem in Manhattan. So I saw the difference in accents up close.
You might get to me in part two. I'm from Louisiana, although I have a stronger southern accent speaking French than English. Don't ask me why, it's just like that. 😊
Appalachian, “Little cousin, go warsh yer’self before ye get teh yer friends house over yonder!” (Not an exaggeration my own mother told me this many times {That part of male puberty where boys are allergic to water more or less})
Yeah… The whole F sound for words that start with Th thing is really noticeable between English from England and English from the U.S. I don’t know why that is.
I just started watching your videos. I really like your very open reactions. This video especially interested me for a few reasons. I was born and reared in Central Kentucky in the US. Especially when i was younger i had a very fluid accent. If i listened to an accent for a while, i would start talking like that, without intending to (a few people thought i was being a jerk). I could do it on command as well; look up the 1980s term “Valley Girl.” I had an entire school thinking i was from California for which the whole phenomenon began. I spent my teen years in a very small town, i moved from a city where the whole elementary school i was in before i moved was about 6,000 students. The county i moved to had just over that amount in the whole population, the town itself only about 1,500. Culture shock, and i was not teased exactly, but my friends on occasion got a little behind while listening to me. I went to a special party kind of thing upon going in as freshman at university, ironically known as UK, (age 18) and we split into groups to “get to know each other” and we all introduced ourselves, blah blah and finally someone asked me where i grew up. I told them KY, they actually argued against me. They tried to get me to admit i was English or Australian (this was 1985 accents were only movies or TV). One of my dad’s brothers called me and my mom “Yankees” which refers to Northerners, rarely nicely. I still dont speak exactly like a native, but closer.
I’d definitely like to see you two react to the rest of the series. I’ve watched them and it was interesting for me as a Tidewater Virginian with a Philadelphian mom. My dad’s accent has actually been mistaken for Canadian. He often teases my mom because she says “frog” and “dog” as “frAHg” “dAHg,” and he says “frAWg” and “dAWg.” Then there’s my Mainer buddy, Clayton, with whom I’ve had arguments over pronunciation because he says “stalk” and “stock” as if they were both “stAHk.” Thanks to the guy in this video series I now understand this is an example of the “cot-caught merger,” or as I call it, “being bad at speaking.” 😂
I have a fun fact, a lot of news anchors on national News in the US are from the Midwest, this is due to the fact we take on accents of our surroundings very well giving the impression that we are from the area the studio is reporting from.
When I was 15, I rode from my hometown in Pennsylvania to Florida with my brother. We stopped at a tiny town in Virginia for breakfast. I couldn't understand a word the waitress said 😅
The term Scots-Irish is mostly a US term.
It primarily describes people from Northern Ireland, with Scots ancestry -
thus , they are primarily Protestants (often Presbyterians) as opposed to Irish Catholics.
At one time people felt the need to make this differentiation very distinctly.
The Scotch Irish originated from the Scotland-England borderlands and fled to primarily Ulster (the Ulster Scots are 'cousins' to the Scotch Irish from this common origin)
Many of these people were border reivers fleeing the political changes of the borderlands
You can see this in stereotypes of the Scotch Irish being clannish (Hatfields and McCoys) and putting more resources into their vehicles than their homes (border reivers built temporary homes and relied heavily on their horses)
Ha-ha, you brush over the tension with broad strokes :P Though, getting into the weeds would take probably years of research.
@@mokomothman5713 Yes, yes it would. :-)
Scots-Irish is also called Ulster. There was a lot of racism towards Irish immigrants, they were labeled as subhuman. The Northern Irish wanted to distinguish themselves from this.
16:45 Millie doing “price smoothing” was 🔥😃😁😂
Coming from a southern Appalachian “price smoother” this was great!
I thought the same thing and I’m from South Ga.
I thought the same as a Georgian.
There are a few videos on North American accents on UA-cam, but this one is by far the best. This man is terrific,, and he gets at the fact that accents have nothing to do with state boundaries. Glad Millie is getting the chance to see this one.
Being a truck driver here in the US, it’s actually crazy hearing all of these different accents for real. You can quite literally get into your truck hearing one accent, and get out 700 miles down the road and you’d think you’re in a different country entirely by the way people speak.
Just a heads up since he didn't reference it, when we in America say "Scotch Irish", we're referring to what y'all over there call the Ulster Scots.
A very interesting and informative series. Accents are like "ear candy" for me. Maybe because I was a speech communications major in college. I just enjoy the unique sounds of different accents and tones. It is part of what makes us who we are !
Erik Singer is a linguistic beast. A few years back he did a series on wired, where he critiqued actors in movies putting on accents, reviewed con-langs (made up languages for books, shows, movies etc), and actors playing real (historical) people, how well they perform these accents, what they got right and wrong. I'd recommend ^^
That guy is amazing. Love the many cultures that make up our country
As someone who spent much of his life in Raleigh, NC, nobody guesses where I'm from, and all of them are surprised when I say Raleigh.
Same
This series is fantastic. So detailed and interesting. The Ocracoke Island accent is very unique to hear in person, even for other North Carolinans.
North Carolina is so diverse with accents and dialects.
@@tjhorne82 Oh I know, I live in western North Carolina.
@@JasonMoir my family is from the high country to the coast, so I get a taste of it all mixed into my speech.
Very true. I'm from the foothills of North Carolina so a mix of the two
Shame he skipped another Island accent--that of Smith and Tangier Islands in the Chesapeake which, even today are not connected to the mainland by bridges. The dialects there have been associated with Elizabethan English which is because these islands were settled very early in the 17th century and then remained isolated.
Interesting! I live in Florida and the accents and dialects have a wide range of annunciations from deep south in the panhandle to Caribbean in south Florida and everything in between. I find that I can sometimes not understand words being spoken in English in different parts of the state based on dialect and regional accents. Thanks for sharing!
I just spent a week in the panhandle of Florida (along "The Forgotten Coast") and there was zero difference between the accents there and in Georgia. I was completely surprised by the strong southern drawl in that part of Florida. (My previous trips to Florida were Orlando and Clearwater, and I didn't remember much difference from my own Michigan accent.) I have to say that I loved it! There's nothing like a southern drawl to make you feel welcome! 😀
@@thebirthmentor3683 I'm from and currently live in Orlando and grew up with a light Southern accent which has mostly been lost from living for years out of the state; but you can really hear it come out when I'm emotional (angry/upset/etc.) or drunk. The area has been losing its accent for over 30 years (which is why my accent is/was light) due to the large amount of out of state people moving in, which is pretty typical in Florida's larger cities on the peninsula part of the state, but the northern Florida cities have really retained most of their accents.
@@thebirthmentor3683 the Floridian accent is more rare these days in Southern Florida. I hear it with my great aunts and uncles but less so with my cousins.
I don't know if they cover this, but I'm sure exposure to people via tv, movies, music, radio, podcasts etc further affects accents of people without actually living with or meeting them. Like with people from other countries sounding "American" when they sing.
According to something I saw ( and if I’m explaining it right), the thing with singing is that things like projecting your voice and controlling pitch push your voice toward a more “neutral“ sound so it’s like when he mentioned “general American” accents just lacking really really obvious localizable distinct features, likewise many singers sound very neutral when they’re singing which is taken as sounding American because the baseline “general American” sound happens to be very neutral.
Definitely react to part 2! I grew up in Louisiana, and even Louisiana was (and still is?) pretty isolated from the rest of the US...so it was SHOCKING to see this guy get the Cajun accent right. I'd say he was about 90+95% accurate, and he even threw in a little bit of history too! Cheer guys from SoCal(I live there now lol) enjoy watching your channel ~
This is a great series. You should do the rest. I'm from Appalachian North Carolina, and can confirm that part of it.
I grew up in Brooklyn...and absolutely your accent can nail you to within a neighborhood....
I've learned so much by watching these videos. Glad you are reacting to them. Fascinating.
@14:48 "God down the Ocean" refers to Ocean City, Maryland. Baltimore's accents are amazing.
Please do the rest of this series
Interesting in itself, but this series is even better with The Beesleys reactions. Made me notice the differences even more with our honorary Americans chiming in. Keep up the good work and we look forward to the rest of this series!
Yes, this series is great. Need to see them all.
I always refer to this video when people say North Jersey vs South Jersey distinction isn't real. Clearly the Northern and Midlands accents division starts right in the middle of New Jersey!
I'm a "transplant" in NH from Boston, MA and my NH friends often tell me "my Boston is showing" when I'm tired.
Joey from Friends(Matt Leblanc)is from Newton Ma. Near Boston.
My southeastern Ohio accent is really similar to the Appalachian north Carolina accent, albeit it less pronounced. I'm just a college-educated hillbilly.
I've long since stopped saying warsh, but still say crick instead of creek. I definitely use the (h)it syllable and say a-fishin' all the time. Speaking of which, we drop the G on -ing words so fishing becomes fish-in, and often even more distinct as it'll morph into feeshin the further southeast you go. Those i syllables becomes ee syllables.
Every time I fall asleep watching F1 practice and George Russell wakes me up talking, I think I've passed out watching a beesleys video. You dudes sound precisely alike to me
Millie having fun with “price” 😂
Another principal difference between the Boston and Providence/RI accents is that the Boston accent has the cot/caught merger, while the Providence/RI accent does not.
The pronunciation of on to rhyme with dawn is an American extension of the lot-cloth split, which took place in southern England in the late 17th-early 18th centuries. It is analogous to the bath-trap split, where a is broadened in bath, glass, staff, but with short o instead. Words like off, cloth, cross are pronounced as if they were spelled awff, clawth, crawss. In American English, the word "on" was affected by this (so pronounced like "awn") in some areas but not others, creating the ON line. In the 1890s, Charles Grandgent found the line in the same place as shown in the video, separating the North (where on rhymes with don) from the Midland and South (where on rhymes with dawn).
Thank you both for the video. New from Michigan with love ❤️
Lol at Millie not understanding her own in-laws.
Most people in the US Military speak a General English, because of the ,,mixing'' of people from all over the US. My Friend from Southern Georgia had a very thick southern accent. He's been in the Military for 7 Years now, and now speaks more ,,generalised'' it's hard to explain but you know what I mean. Same thing for me. I'm from southern Missourri, and I used to sound Midland-ish somewhat southern, but now I barely have an Accent at all. Kinda weird cuz my Parents still have southern Accents, but I don't anymore.😅
yes. My friend and I were in military for years. We went to the Virgin Islands, where everyone to some degree have an island accent. We had an islander tour guide who sounded the same as us, during the conversation he said he had been in military also for many years. Mystery solved.
I'm from Alabama and was in the Marines for 4 years. I never lost my thick Southern drawl mainly because the majority of people I hung out with were all Southern. We did have different variations of Southern accents amongst ourselves.
@@chadwaters6218 in that case that makes sense. For my friend and I, most the people we hang out with are from Everywhere really. Some guys from Ohio, some from Washington, some from the Dakota's and a couple dudes from Texas. Oh and one guy from Boston, who we make fun of cuz he's only been in a year and has a classic Boston Accent. 😅
So glad your finally reacting to this . Been waiting for this video for you guys
If you haven't already, please do all the parts of this series.
I'm in Eastern Tennessee, and I'm honestly surprised at how similar New York feels to me. Hearing some of these accents is really cool.
Definitely would like to see the rest of the course
You make a really good point about online gaming and how we’re all slowly becoming a conglomerate. It would be interesting to see what happens in the next 50 years or so with regards to accents.
My husband and I are from Houston, Texas. We took a weekend trip to New Orleans, Louisiana once. We were in a cab, and asked a question to our driver. 😳 The gentleman gave us a rather long answer, but we couldn’t understand a word he said! We just smiled and said thank you. I’m thinking he was speaking Creole, which I’d heard many times, but his accent was really heavy. I found that to be very interesting.
You can still pick up totally different accents from area to area and different generations that he doesn't cover.
I grew up in Ohio, moved to Florida, then Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina. It takes a while living in a new place to understand the native tongue. He is right about NC, there is a lot of variety here.
This guy is really accurate!
He's done a much better job than just about anyone I've heard on accents before, and he's right about accents being very local and not conforming with many boundaries. Often the more rural the community is the accents become thicker and more defined
I live in the Piedmont-Triad region of North Carolina and you can start from the border with Virginia on I-77/74 and come down through Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and then to Charlotte and experience at least 4 fairly noticeable differences in the accents.
I have lived all over the US and have all sorts of accents on different words and colloquial words and phrases, including British words. I talked to a linguistic expert and he could not figure out where I was from. I vote for more on this series.
These dude is amazing!! Switching accents like that is genius!! James and Millie you definitely need to do more like this!!
I live in one of those Lumbee Indian counties! Scotland County, North Carolina here
This truly is the great American melting pot of people,languages,and culture. Welcome to America🇺🇸
All of these videos are awesome!
This is really interesting! I have a love for language and why we sound so different. So much history there.
I'd love for you to find one on the U.K... broaden it out to include South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
What's "cute" to me is that most people grow up believing they do not have an accent, it's everyone else that does! ❤️🙂
Now I want to find the video where he gets to Chicago because that SNL clip is by no means the predominant accent
Greetings from Clifton Park, New York, USA!
Loved it ,,,
Loved it…..do the rest. Found the North Carolina part as we moved there from California. We do live in the Raleigh Durham area.
Fascinating video! I live Arizona and have been told I have an accent! Didn't know that!! Lol!
Please watch part two
oh the goat diphthong!, my dad's family was from New Jersey and my mom's family Maryland and even as a young kid I noticed at family gatherings the difference, my mom and I would speak differently depending on which family we were with without even thinking about it
Born in Indiana, lived in Florida for 5 years and lived here in North Carolina for 28 years! Talk about a confused accent! Lol!
Joey from friends is from Boston Massachusetts
he does the accents very well
You should watch the Philadelphia Eagles Underdog Super Bowl season! Best moment of my life
I grew up in Pittsburgh. Live in FL now.
As an aside, it was primarily the British and Dutch who kidnaped Africans and brought them to the "New World". Also, remember that most of this was going on while the eastern parts of America were British colonies.
I have what's called a non regional accent. I was born and raised on Long Island but people there would say to me "oh you have a nice accent, where are you from?" I shrug my shoulders and reply "I'm from here"
I think there’s three parts. Definitely do the rest. Fair warning the last one is shorter than the others and seemed to wrap up in a hurry. Still watch it, it’s not bad just short and a bit less detail than I expected after the first two.
As an Appalchian North Carolinian, im muddled because of 1. Education (college) and 2. Lived 22 years in the middle part of the state and 11 years in east tn. That said, most educated Carolinians will tell you that Ocracoke and Eastern NC Coastal Communities around the Bay areas speak the closest english to British english of any of the American dialects. When i traveled to London as a 17 yeR old in high school, shopkeepers in London would speak to me friendly and openly, even commenting on my speach and how they recognized it. Students from Philadelphia and Chicago that were also on the trip were ignored or spoken to like unwanted interlopers. Us “southern” kids from Carolina fit right in.
I live in southern MA when I visit my family in VT they say I have a “Boston” accent lol
Please do part 2. I live in the Midwest. And it's truly amazing. To see/hear other north America accents.
This was very cool. Please do the rest of them! 🙏
Yes! Please do the others.
16:20-16:58 Yinz need some lessons in Pittsburghese.
Accents, although very tegional, can eadily be picked up on. I spent 8 weeks in the Biloxi, Ms. Area. When i finally got
home, to Pennsylvania, my family questioned me as to why i was talking like i was born n raised in mississippi!!! younz( local dialect here in western Pa) do a great job at tgese videos. You keep them interesting. Nice react.
Growing up in the U.S., I was exposed to lots of different accents as my family moved around quite a lot (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, California, Arizona, etc.). That's probably why I developed a keen interest in accents and enjoy playing around with them. I think it helped me when I moved to Japan. My grammar wasn't the best, but my accent is pretty spot-on. It's also been fun while I've been living in Singapore and able to speak a bit of "Singlish" with friends for fun.
Living in different places, I've had the opportunity to work and be friends with English speakers around the world, and we always had fun with each other's accents. It's really changed my perception of the English language and my view on accents.
I'd be very interested to hear/learn more about the unbelievable variety of accents in the U.K.!
Living near Pittsburgh for a lot of my life, I gained a mild annoyance at words like "yinz".
i wanna see one of these for the UK too. the only british accents i know of cockney and RP
I was having a discussion with one of my friends some years ago and the topic of oil came up. As we were talking another guy walked in and heard us and coirrected us: "Oil (oy-yul) ? It's not 'Oy-yul'. It's aawwwlll." He was from Louisiana. 😄
A lot of Americans slip in and out of accents and dialects without even knowing it.
I live in Vermont, When I visit family in North Carolina, I pick up up some of the Southern Accent but not from my family as they were all born in Vermont, it is mostly picked up from their in-laws .
I live in North Carolina. I grew up on the east coast of NC and had an accent until I moved to CA. I then lived in PA and NYC before moving to Central NC where I still live. I never picked up an accent again, and a lot of New Yorkers live in my area, so the accents are extremely mixed here in NC. I wish they showed more native speakers in this video. He does ok at displaying different accents, but there's nothing like the real thing. Ocracoke Island can be pretty hard to understand because they sometimes speak a lot faster than he did. I look forward to seeing Louisiana on this series.
It really depends whic part of North Carolina like in Charlotte we have an more urban accent despite being in yhe south I least I think I never been up north
Wow! I was wondering if y'all were going to mention the Lumbee accent! I am from the area and even my accent is a combination of North Carolina (the general one..lol) and Lumbee accent. I was just talking about the Irish and Scottish influence in how the Lumbee people say "Osh tater", if you say ,"Irish" in an Irish accent, slowly, that is what they are saying, Irish potato. It is very interesting and distinct. Thank you for the video.
South Eastern Kentucky Appalachian here
lol every video "I'm not gonna pause the video that much"....pauses video
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My partner has a heavy "piney woods" accent. He was raised in North Florida (where I am now), and I don't even notice the accents any longer. It's strange how you can become accused to them over time. I have a Chicago/Midwest accent, but I now use terms like "ya'll" and "fixin" as opposed to "you guys" and "getting ready"....
Im from western North Dakota which has oil exploration and transient oil workers from all over, especially other oil producing states. I feel I can tell the difference between an Oklahoma and Texas accent which are very similar. Its so interesting as an American to watch this.
either this was filmed again or an old video was mixed up with newer ones, this was uploaded last month or before.
New to the channel and would love to know both of your backgrounds. I learned you live on Jersey Island. Is that where you both are originally from? You’ve probably shared information on other videos. Would love to hear more about you two. Thanks for the fun videos!
16:40 Yeah she sounded southern, but the accent was supposed to be an example for Pittsburgh, which is Northern 😅
“Price” was Southern- the rest was Pittsburgh.
In Appalachian accents our “on” becomes “own”. What’s going “own”.
I grew up back and forth between the Tidewater area and the Outer banks area my accent is wacked lol
I would love to see you do this on accents from the UK. I don't know where GUY MARTIN is from but I don't even know if he speaks english. lol
Lol. I am part Lumbee(NC Native American tribe). They did a pretty good job with Lumbee accent. I just wish they would have threw in some of our unique words. I live in a county over from Robeson county where the Lumbee are based. People in my county sometimes have no idea what Robeson Lumbee's say. I have stepped in to "translate". Lol.
This is the best on American language. Now your talking!
Hi James and Millie, great video as always. Please react to Geography King's "San Francisco- An Urban Analysis". Thanks.
In my area of Pennsylvania, about 90 minutes north of Philly. The accent here has developed to be a new version of southern New England. We sound NOTHING like Philadelphia or New Jersey. NOTHING at all. Pennsylvania has a HUGE variation in accents. Travel as little as 30 miles and it begins to change in many locations. I say "ahn" for the word "on". Hoagie is just simply "hoe ghee". And "water" is "wah-ter" not "wudder". The Pennsylvania Dutch accent is all but gone now here. When I was a child it was heard quite frequently especially amongst older people. In the last 40 years it has become nearly extinct. Although, my girls (22 and 19) will frequently call me out for how I say "milk". I say it with the "ilk" as the accented part. So, it comes out lik m-ILK. Dialects and accents are definitely fascinating, but are VERY hard to discern in US.
this dude nails the accents of the northeast pretty damn well
Fact check they where not kidnap they where sold and traded and I live near Pittsburgh east Pittsburgh sounds different then west
My 1st wife was from England but raised in the United States so when with me or our friends she spoke as a Long Islander but when we were with her family she spoke with a English accent lol. She didn't know it till I pointed it out. My second wife was born in Puerto Rico but raised in Spanish Harlem in Manhattan. So I saw the difference in accents up close.
You might get to me in part two. I'm from Louisiana, although I have a stronger southern accent speaking French than English. Don't ask me why, it's just like that. 😊
Appalachian, “Little cousin, go warsh yer’self before ye get teh yer friends house over yonder!” (Not an exaggeration my own mother told me this many times {That part of male puberty where boys are allergic to water more or less})
Yeah…
The whole F sound for words that start with Th thing is really noticeable between English from England and English from the U.S. I don’t know why that is.
I just started watching your videos. I really like your very open reactions. This video especially interested me for a few reasons. I was born and reared in Central Kentucky in the US. Especially when i was younger i had a very fluid accent. If i listened to an accent for a while, i would start talking like that, without intending to (a few people thought i was being a jerk). I could do it on command as well; look up the 1980s term “Valley Girl.” I had an entire school thinking i was from California for which the whole phenomenon began. I spent my teen years in a very small town, i moved from a city where the whole elementary school i was in before i moved was about 6,000 students. The county i moved to had just over that amount in the whole population, the town itself only about 1,500. Culture shock, and i was not teased exactly, but my friends on occasion got a little behind while listening to me. I went to a special party kind of thing upon going in as freshman at university, ironically known as UK, (age 18) and we split into groups to “get to know each other” and we all introduced ourselves, blah blah and finally someone asked me where i grew up. I told them KY, they actually argued against me. They tried to get me to admit i was English or Australian (this was 1985 accents were only movies or TV). One of my dad’s brothers called me and my mom “Yankees” which refers to Northerners, rarely nicely. I still dont speak exactly like a native, but closer.
I’d definitely like to see you two react to the rest of the series. I’ve watched them and it was interesting for me as a Tidewater Virginian with a Philadelphian mom. My dad’s accent has actually been mistaken for Canadian. He often teases my mom because she says “frog” and “dog” as “frAHg” “dAHg,” and he says “frAWg” and “dAWg.”
Then there’s my Mainer buddy, Clayton, with whom I’ve had arguments over pronunciation because he says “stalk” and “stock” as if they were both “stAHk.” Thanks to the guy in this video series I now understand this is an example of the “cot-caught merger,” or as I call it, “being bad at speaking.” 😂
Im a Tidewater Virginian with a Philadelphian mom as well!
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I have a fun fact, a lot of news anchors on national News in the US are from the Midwest, this is due to the fact we take on accents of our surroundings very well giving the impression that we are from the area the studio is reporting from.
I live in Washington state and people often ask me if I am from Canada
When I was 15, I rode from my hometown in Pennsylvania to Florida with my brother. We stopped at a tiny town in Virginia for breakfast. I couldn't understand a word the waitress said 😅