TV spokesman with Tidewater accent
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- TV ad running in Norfolk, Virginia, featuring an elderly spokesman with a strong, non-rhotic Tidewater accent. Notice how he pronounces "about", "government", "years" , "older" and "repairs". I added some text and a picture at the end (my first attempt at video editing).
Geez. I hate how when most people think of the stereotypical "fancy, iced tea-sipping Southerner" accent, they think it comes from further South. Virginia doesnt get the credit she deserves sometimes.
Virginia was the original South. The Deep South copied us.
@widhbnw efDwdwDW the deep South was settled by Virginians, bringing the Southern culture with them.
Meade Music Nonsense!
@@fairfaxcat1312 no, it's truth.
Meade Music Hampton Roads has a distinctly British method of chopping off the R’s as does North Jersey through New England. Western Virginia, particularly Southwestern Virginia, is the opposite, drawing the R’s out forever. It is the truth that it is nonsense that Deep South dialects ought to be “credited” to Tidewater Virginia any more than Balmorese or the Phila. nasal accent ought to be “credited” to Tidewater Virginia. About half of Americans could, until the caravans of recent decades, trace their arrival to boats landing in Virginia and Maryland.
This is how Gansey talks???? Lol
+Holistic Crowd it doesn't sound as distinguished as I thought though
Me too hahahah Ganseyyyy
I'M LOOKING FOR ACCENT VIDEOS ON HOW GANSEY TALKS did Maggie link this video or something???
take me to cabeswaterrrrrrr!
After watching this, Gansey is like a completely new character when I reread the book 😂😂
My grandma spoke with a Tidewater accent...I'd give so much to hear her speak again. Beautiful.
beachgirl1947 mine too. She had the most remarkable accent
I just had the same thought.
Back in the early 60s when I moved to Hampton, VA there were distinct accents for the component areas that made it up: Southampton, Wythe, Buckroe, Phoebus, Fox Hill, Back River...
One that was so distinct was Fox Hill.. words with the diphthong "ou" were spoken like they are in Canada .."out" was "Ow-oot", "about" was "Uh-bow-oot"..
Reading about the area it was pretty separate for hundreds of years, relying on poundnet fishing and the like..pretty cool..
Gone now, of course.
This is very similar to the way my grandparents spoke, from saltville/glade spring area.
Same. My grandma was from Ophelia which is in Northumderland county
This accent apparently is the closest to how colonial english/british english sounded when the colonist first arrived in America.
Those accents tended to be rhotic (without post-vowel r-dropping), like the modern Tangiers accent (and others in nearby coastal Virginia, Maryland, and to a lesser extent, Eastern North Carolina) like the modern Engand West country accent (the old fashioned accent of Devon, Cornwall, Sommerset, etc., which you can still hear, and are cliche in British comedy-In the UK West Country folk are stereotyped as parochial hicks)-though other English accents were generally more rhotic back then and the West country has been the last to preserve rhoyicism (many settlers to the coastal upper South came from the West country). Apparently pockets of rhoticism existed rural Central England (general london/middlesex zone) into the 70's/80's or so. One documentary on th ehistory of English (on youtube but I forget the name, "The Histry of English" maybe ) from then shows a very old-fasioned rhotic accent among provincial working class people arround middlesex
The Baltimore accent is very west country, but sait have a minor highlan Scottis influence (whereas most other Scots in the South came from the Lowlands which were closer to North England culturally and had never been Gaelic (Anglo-Saxon mixed with older British Brythonic Celts, like the rest of England)
The Appallacian accent (backcountry south/inland South East) is strongly influenced by North English and South Scottish accents (borderlands), from the homelands of many settler there (some also came by way of Ireland ( so-called "Scots-Irishfrom the Ulster plantation, but from the same Anglo-Scotch border zone originally)
The Southwest/deep South is often/largely a mix of upper/coastal south and backcountry Appalaccia.
Much of the r-dropping was later a trend, starting with the English elite (who had not generally done it before) arround the late 18th century, and spreading slowly from there to other classes/regions in England and parts of the US.
East Anglia/Norfolk (where many New Englan Puritans came from) had had some r-dropping before that, but (I think) usually only after e's-or e sounds (in "third" or "permanent"-though in some English regions, these words were pronounced as though spelled with a's-but not so much in "farm" or "port"). R-dropping after other vowels was picked up in New-England later in imitation of the local elites (who were imitating sophisticated/high status English usage), but supposedly did not spread every where (New England and East Anglian accenst still have much in common: flat a's, a certain burring nasality, word usages, etc, and much of East Angla has also since shifted post vowel to full r-dropping). The Martha's Vinyard accent is said to still be partly rhotic (as East Anglian originally was), as are the accents of Midwesterners of New England descent ( though some came fro elsewhere in the North East) who left before ths shift. Parts of East Coastal Canada (New Brunswick) were also settled by East Anglian-descended New Englanders, arround the revolution and may have something close the to older, only, partly rhotic style.
skellagyook oh my god you wrote more than I did in my essays holy fuck where did you get the time to write that 😂🚑
I honestly feel it sounds like Florence Nightingale’s accent from a voice recording that she did in 1890
People in Richmond have this accent too, but ironically Richmond sounds much more Southern than this. He definitely sounds like a Virginian, though.
That accent is actually very subtle. My in-laws are in the Hampton Roads-Suffolk area, and their accent is far more pronounced. It actually sounds quite refined, like a British accent. One peculiarity is the sound of the word "about," which comes out like "a-boot." This is all very different from the East Tennessee accents that I grew up hearing. Those accents have the annoying tendency to use a very flat "i" sound, so that "like" comes out more like "lyke." Rural East Tennessee accents are the ones that people tend to consider undereducated or worse. West Tennessee is quite a bit different, more like the "Gone With the Wind" accents of the old South. Of course, the most distinctive accents in the region are the Cajun sounds of Louisiana.
Your comment is extremely old now, but I had read somewhere that the tidewater accent actually most closely resembles Imperial English at the time of the American Revolution, and that the more popular received pronunciation (and other accents) weren't adopted until shortly thereafter
@@Strommunism When the American Revolution took place, the various dialects of English across Britain were actually rhotic, as is similarly the case today in North America and unlike modern Britain.
I have lived in Norfolk my whole life and I deny having an accent lol but after watching this and reading your comment, my moms older neighbor who is probably 90 definitely has this accent. It's southern but fancy at the same time. Definitely what tv would show an aristocratic person in the south having and not the dumb southern version they have dimwitted people on tv have (kwim?)
@@Garrett1240Scotland and Northern Ireland are both highly rhotic. Most of England and Wales are non-rhotic (although some parts of the West Country (mostly just parts of Cornwall these days) are still rhotic). At the time of the American Revolution, Received Pronunciation was a relatively new thing, although it did exist. A lot more of England at this time was rhotic than today, but there were still plenty of non-rhotic accents being spoken. In the early 17th century, when the majority of the Thirteen Colonies were founded, I would guess the majority or all of England was rhotic.
@@heiliger_sturm Yeah, when the British colonies in North America were up and running, the Received Pronunciation accent as we know it didn't really exist yet, or was in its embryonic stages. Plus, English speaking North America was a somewhat isolated backwater with the exception of some coastal cities and towns, which explains why North American English didn't pick up most of the phonological changes to British English. Australia and New Zealand on the other hand, saw its major waves of British colonization much later, and those countries maintained closer ties with Britain, hence the national accents of these countries much more closely mirror Received Pronunciation. , and retained all British spelling and grammar to boot! Some North American coastal cities and their surrounding areas did pick up a few features of Received Pronunciation and the related accents of East Anglia, such as non-rhoticity and in a few cases the trap-bath split (wherein the A in words like 'bath', 'chance' and 'glasses' assumes the same sound as the A in 'palm' , 'start' or in most American pronunciations of 'ball' and 'caught'), but even the accents of these cities remained largely American.
How do we know when your not a local? Because you say "going to Nor-folk". We say " driving to Norfuck (yes that's how we say it). Going to my house, we say, my howse. Hampton roader for the last 25 years.
Lol true. Went to MacArthur Center in Nahfeck yesterday.
Instead of Nor'folk, locals say Nor-fuck', notice the 'fuck' is accented, not the 'nor'. That wasn't very clear in your OP.
when someone says GNORE-FULK it makes my ears bleed
same here, usually hear it on radio commercials, i'll admit i am a local (Hampton) and i really dont say Nor-Fuck I tend to say Nor-Fick
We don't smoke, nor drink, nor cuss, NORFOLK NORFOLK NORFOLK! Love from OV.
finally someone pointed out that VA has its own set of accents.
its not smh, it is a southeastern port accent such charleston and savannah.
@@matthewsparks8821 Its still a Virginian accent!
@@matthewsparks8821they got it from Virginians coming through the port.
A dying accent.
I've heard rumors and have whispy memories of speaking like this when I was littler but my parents thought it was a speech impediment and my teacher sat me down and gave me a lesson on "how to pronounce your r's." Only two years ago was I walking along with some friends and we were talking about teeter totters though I chimed in with a "teeta totta." aha Seems that my teacher missed a word when she was trying to "correct" me. It's annoying how people are judged based on how they speak in some situations. Really wipes away a part of your identity to a degree. Anyway I thought you might could find that funny
What makes me sad is this is just the natural evolution of language.
Our accent is so beautiful and romantic, comparable to the romantic Latin love languages.
People tend to also confuse word pronunciation with sentence structure (which is the true indication of intelligence)
Amazing accent. Please don't let it die.
Too bad, it is dying. My Dad spoke it, but he passed away three years ago at nearly the age of 87. I grew up in Williamsburg Virginia, born in 1961, but never spoke with a Tidewater accent. The advent of television and its pervasiveness when I was growing up influenced my development of an accent. Same with many of my generation. It's more if a "general American" accent. Listen to news reporters.
And I'm also tic'd that the characteristic Virginia BBQ (shredded pork BBQ sandwiches with coleslaw) has been diluted to that of other regions. That beautiful "white" vinegar-based pork BBQ, spiced a certain way, heaped on a sandwich, is pretty much a thing of the past now.
A lot of media tends to influence the way people speak, I've heard of kids developing British accents from watching Peppa Pig, but with that logic in mind this accent along with others will never truly die. The tidewater accents a lot like other southern accents directly descends from the way their British ancestors speak. Not only that but as long as it's recorded it will truly live forever
I was born and raised in Norfolk and sound just like ol' Bill. Never knew I had an accent until I lived in Tennessee for a couple of years. I stuck out like a sore thumb amongst all those hill people. It was embarassing at first , but after a short while , I started to feel a bit special . Probably when a lady friend told me how much she loved to listen to me speak.
757
I'm 23 and grew up in Southern Maryland. There was a kid in my grade who spoke like this (he said said house with an o sound) and I always thought it was cool. He might be one of the youngest Tidewater speakers around today.
It's extinct among Caucasians but very much still alive among African Americans, though rapidly receding like every American accent.
My grandfather (1868-1941) moved from Virginia to Texas as a child and brought with him that pronunciation. Soon after arrival, his teacher spanked him for persistently pronouncing mouse and house as (more or less) meos and heos, just like your classmate. She thought he was “acting silly.”
@@Garrett1240it is not extinct in caucasians.
I'm from hampton roads and this is my grandfather sounds like. He's lived in Portsmouth all of his life
@MrMorg19 Being from the County of Norfolk in England I am astonished at how similar his accent is to the one still spoken here today (we're often made fun of for the old fashioned way we speak)
The tidewater Virginia accent evolved from the English accent. It became slower over time.
Listening to this man makes me so happy. Sounds like the people I grew up with.
I'm from near Suffolk. Years "yeuhs."
im from newport news and most people from 757 sound like this from his generation. the newer generations have a very very lil bit of west coast in it, at least in NN. If you go out of the cities, im mean just right out the boarder the accents can get way thicker than this. sometimes a lil southern tang comes out my accent because i would vist my family in NC alot as a kid.
I've been trying to pinpoint the NN accent that I heard when I lived there. They seem to pronounce the word "carry" like "carrah" or "carruh". Some of it is more subtle than that though.
if someone looks up a "very richmond phone call" you will hear a tidewater va accent, that sounds more classically southern/virginian, than the one represented in this video.
The phone call ladies sound like my grandma spoke. This man sounds like my dad. The way he says things like "about" but pronounces them like a Canadian almost.
@@mrtorbert Canadians say "oat" They say it differently, IMO
Born and raised in VA, people all the time comment me about my tidewater accent. I just watched this and was like " WOW, I really do talk like that!" How cool.
Are you non-rhotic? In other words, do you drop your Rs after vowel sounds?
Born and raised tidewater. Live in Florida. I stay being asked to repeat myself even though mine is not super strong. Definitely gets stronger at home and I’ve let it out more as I’ve gotten older. It’s definitely an accent that is historically more connected to the British accent as people have pointed out which is not unusual on the east coast.
The military influence is quickly taking away this accent....on the peninsula you can find the accent still in isolated communities in Poquoson, parts of Yorktown, Gloucester, and James City. I still have the issue with saying aboat....and dragging word endings. I get mocked for it also. :-/
I lived in NORFOLK in park place and Ocean view... EOV to be exactly sure, lived in Virginia beach as well, in my teens I was raised in Portsmouth (Pronounced Port- Smith) just like NORFOLK Is pronounced NorFUCK or NAWfick... bottom line... I miss walking around on Granby St, Tidewater DR, E. Little Creek, E Ocean view in NORFOLK but in Portsmouth tho, High St, Elm St, Effingham St, George Washington HWY, Glenwood DR, Fredrick BLVD, lol... In Chesapeake, Western Branch all day homie WHOOP WHOOP... LOL
This accent has many similarities to mine i have a non rhotic r-less southern accent
I live in the blue ridge mountains of va, our accent is the opposite here, lots of hard r sounds, comes from a heavy Irish influence I'm assuming.
I like y'alls accent better. I guess it's because this doesn't really sound like an accent to me since i'm so used to it. I love how people in the Virginia mountains talk.
CRAZY. Ppl would say I have a accent but I never thought I did until now. So happy to be from VA
born and raised in virginia beach, he just sounds normal to me, but also very homey!
Yes I had to listen to it twice before I heard the accent, sounds completely normal. He sounds like my dad or my papa
My people from Richmond area and it's very similar to this.
The Sean Connery of mortgages.
damn so true virginia accents are dying out. I grew up in Richmond my whole faimily has that accent. I grew and moved to NOVA and there are no true VA accents up there.
All regional accents appear to be dying out.
@@suthinanahkist2521 Except many midwestern accents are actually diverging very quickly.
@@suthinanahkist2521 No, isolated accents are slowly going away but regional differences are getting stronger
Whats funny is if you live in Richmond you can understand every word and barely even here an accent.
That sounds nice to me (as an Englishman), much more so than the "standard" American accent. Shame to hear it's dying out.
It's going from the same reason everyone in Britain is leaning towards RP. I've got nothing better to do right now than just go and type out responses out of boredom while waiting on some people, but back when I was younger (i'm just 21) people did and probably still do view people with the basic tv anchor accent as lesser. This one is fragile. All you have to do is go and teach the young kids how they "ought" to be speaking and it sticks. anyway there's rumors and I have a few memories of being sat down and losing this type of r-less speech from a one on one with a teacher in first grade after moving away from Virginia where I had learned to speak.
@@Ian-dn6ld Don't you just love it when bastards try to force " standard English " down our throats?
A tidewater accent is a slower English accent.
it is defiantly not dying , the virginia tidewater accent covers the southeastern port cities , such as charleston and savannah, ga
I think I just realized something: Chris Chan has a tidewater accent, just a super bastardized version.
Virgil Goode actually has more of an Olde Virginia accent, like what the planters in the Piedmont would have sounded like antebellum.
gansey boy
Definitely my favorite American accent, though it can be hard to understand over the phone.
wait-is this the dialect of the Old South which has been deckining since the Civil War?
General Lee's accent.
@jetfreak4 not really. To untrained ears, it may sound new englandish. However, the non-rhotic southern drawl is much different. A slower enunciation, and the Boston accent is much more nasal and brisk sounding. Also, notice how he says "aboot"-which is coastal Southern (some say Canada- those Canadians probably spent their summers on Southern shores, lol). Ive heard Bostonians and the inflection is much different.
Meade Music, That sounds alot like me! I have that non rhotic pattern too! Except I pronounce the ou dipothong, as in the words out, town and cloud as 'eeoo' or ' yoo', So downtown for me would be "deeoonteeoon' . I've noticed this man drops the R in 'children' which is rather bizarre to me, because unless you have a disorder that makes R's impossible or nearly impossible for you to pronounce, you would pronounce R's in words like children and marrying, no matter how non rhotic your accent is! The only exception I can think of is caramel, which can be pronounced like "car-ml" or "cah-ml" and maybe forever, which can be pronounced like " foe-evuh". But otherwise dropping R's directly before vowel sounds or between vowel sounds is very odd to me
I grew up in North Carolina. They're accents are more Scottish based. The Virginia accent is more British...same with parts of Georgia and Alabama
That makes a lot of sense, UA-cam commentator, “Neil Gondalves.” Scottish Presbyterians and Germans started out in Phila. and migrated right down the Shen. Valley. NC’s population grew way more inland, unlike the Northeast, starting with Norfolk which is older, more British, and river dependent.
He has an accent?! I’m from north Carolina and I don’t hear any kind of accent. He sounds normal to me. I sound like this when I talk
We're not that far away
Natives of Tallahassee sounded similar to this a couple of generations ago.
Is it all gone? :(
What do they sound like now?
Sounds similar to the accents in Southern Louisiana.
I'm from tidewater, the thing is a lot of older ppl talk like this. Our generation, talk alot faster and have more of a northerner influence in our accent, while still maintaining southern phrases, and words. For example think of a northern that will sometimes say "y'all " or "finna".
Tru. This dude sound more like my dad
@@nodelhs6992 right, that's a old school tidewater accent. Generation X, millennials don't sound like that. For example: Pharrell Williams is born and raised in tidewater...he sounds more northern or perhaps just Urban. Then there is: Ms - Supa Dupa Fly herself , Missy Elliott. Missy was born and raised in Portsmouth. Again she speaks more urban, rather then country, listen to Chris brown, and Allen Iverson...if you don't believe me go look up some of their interviews.
This generation's dielect is a mixture of northern/southern, and Country/ Urban.
Some one please correct me if I'm wrong
@@leeladebris2254 I don't think native Virginians sound northern at all, unless they are transplants.
@AirCooledMan2006 No, Canadians do not say it like that- they say more 'Aboat" as like rhymes with oat. If anything, Canadians stoled that from Southerners.
It's like a hybrid Canadian and Louisiana "Yat" accent. I grew up on the Peninsula and have never heard house (HOWSE) pronounced (HOSE) by locals. I used to pronounce Norfolk "Norfuck" as a child but since I have been living in Baltimore I pronounce it more like "Norfulk"
Here in northeastern N.C. we also have a non-rhotic accent. Our "about" differs from the Tidewater in that ours is pronounced more like "a-bite".
fordtruxdad, Where I'm from, "about" is pronounced like " abeeoot" or ' abyoot' So instead of raising the first sound in the dipothong, We lower the damn thing!
I notice southern Virginian accents sound almost a Canadian speaking with a southern accent. aboot for about, hoome for home, end for and.
Yes!!! My grandmother was from Ahoskie (northern NC) she pronounced “about” the same way. Similarly she would pronounce “out” as “ight”. And would also say things like “taint so”, which means, it ain’t or isn’t so.
Is this what George Washington woulda sound like?
My neighbor had this accent. He grew up somewhere in rural-coast North Carolina, then came to Norfolk some time ago.. so I'm guessing this accent is also shared with folks in the OBX area of NC also.
How, pray tell, do you know what the , "...planters in the Piedmont..." would have sounded? Listen to our elders. Don't forget our past.
Sounds like Charleston and savannah
I used to talk this way when i was a kid.... but kids at school made fun of me and always asked it was Canadian or Irish..... dumbasses...
I saw myself talking on a home video of me as a kid.... I blame the military. People who come to this area from other places affect the speech, as well as Cable TV. lol.
miltitary: good for jobs, good for the country, just bad for the accent... lol
This is interesting. I am from the Tidewater region (Delmarva Peninsula) but closer to Maryland. I have a hint of twang but nothing compared to the deep south. I need to see other parts of Virginia because I've never heard this accent a day in my life.
I can barely detect anything. I'm in chicago.
@haylkat1
funny because without the northerners and Midwesterners the tidewater area would be dead. That whole region lives off the military and the government.
That's great for the economy, but terrible for the local dialect and culture.
That’s why there’s no major league sports in Hampton Roads. Not enough people with deep roots in the community what with so many military dependent transients. Largest metropolitan area in the country with no big league sports.
Sounds like a Canadian raised in Virginia.
I lived in Norfolk and Virginia Beach for most of the eighties. My first wife and her three children were all born in Norfolk. It's definitely a unique accent not shared by people outside the "Tidewater" or "Hampton Roads" area. Also, the locals called my weak Noo Yawk accent a "northern" accent.
EJKorvette1 because it is
I'm living in VA Beach from CT. They say I have a Yankee accent, lol.
People will definitely clown you too if you don’t pronounce Norfolk right lol. I miss living out there
Yes, it does seem like homesick southerners come to view these vids, lol. A NET (northeast transplant) from NYC and NJ said he HATES southern accents. But how could you? Maybe having seen too many cheesy hollywood anti-southern movies where they have endlessly connected their villains with southerners. But all the south accents are so much softer, more melodious unlike the staccato of spanish (lots of that now) and the nasal twang and yankee harshness, a lack of graciousness
This also sounds like central North Carolina. My dad grew up in North Carolina in the 40's and 50's his generation sounds like this.
My family came over in 1607...
Lol.
Another way to note is how he says "cash". Johnny Gilbert is the same as he says "Whose 2-day CAYSH winnings..."
I don't think it can be all rhotic accents that sound annoying to me because I generally like Irish & Scottish accents. There must be some quality other than rhoticity that is what makes it annoying to me then - because the US midwest/northern accents I find to be annoying.
I’m From Newport News. All the people around this age talk like this. It’s kinda proper. I never really thought about it until I left.
I'm a nurse at VCU Health. Most of the time when I get an elderly patient from the Tidewater area, they sound just like this.
Most people in Tidewater and Central Virginia don't have an identifiable accent anymore
gumnant
The audiobooks of The Raven Cycle has like.... the perfect narrator for the series and let me tell you guys when he reads for gansey? You won't be able to think of him as speaking any other way
As somebody who finds rhotic accents to be annoying I like the way this man talks :)
1337Yazman, Is your accent rhotic?
I once worked with a woman who had a strong Tidewater accent. I called it the "Virginia blueblood" accent. It was characterized by very little enunciation. The words seemed to flow like gentle waves. It's the complete opposite of the Michigan UP accent where words are super enunciated.
psa this is how george washington spoke i wanna die
this accent reminds me of my early childhood growing up in Richmond/ Chester
I took a tour of the White House of the confederacy in Richmond last year and one of the employees there (an older fellow) had the exact same accent that this guy did
The way he says "about" sounds Canadian. Tidewater raising and Canadian raising are similar.
I agree the white people have a very straight laced northern accent up there while more of the african americans have a sort of fusion of the DC accent which is kinda similar to the Va accent,like a sort of urban country grammar.
dcflava74 I'm from Hampton Roads Virginia we got our own style Playboy
@@montbrink4700 Lol.
Sounds like southern accent from the MS River peoples in MS and LA.
I hear this accent south of Charleston into Savannah. Many radio station commercials in GA have this accent.
This is what George Washington sounded like?
I'm reading a book about an arsonist in that hangnail region of Virginia off the Chesapeake Bay. The regional accent of the Bornheres was described as Tidewater. Thank you for the video
Sounds a lot like President Carters accent :)
so do younger people and midage people still have a southern drawl in the more remote areas like gloucester,mathews, tappahannock?
A little new York and a little southern
Nothing like New York
Whoa... Even in the C'ville area you hear this accent.
Such a gorgeous accent
The Waltons!!
I live in Northern Virginia, and apparently, I have a Californian accent, even though I lived in VA all my life.
Lol.
I was born in Newport News and raised in Hampton and everybody always assume I'm from further south when they hear my accent.
they are ignorant if they think that.
Same here although I'm from Portsmouth near Suffolk and Smithfield Virginia but people always think I'm from Alabama, Mississippi or Texas and it's ignorant. Just goes to show people try to act like Virginia wasn't the Original South.
Yes this is tidewater southern english, there is a different accent called elizabethan with is spoken in more isolated lowlands on the Chesapeake bay
Ha, I live in Va, on the water bitches ;D anywooo...That accent is dying down...I do have some of this thoe...But my accent is very very strange thoe...My grandparents had that accent...Damn northerners and midwesterners, your KILLING our accent :(
@Qdude10 I'm also from NOVA, and I'm pretty sure the accent here is closer to a midwest accent rather than California. Here's a hint-- Californians can't tell the difference between "cot" and "caught", "caller" and "collar", and "Dawn" and "Don".
NOVA used to be normal - aka Southern, lol
I'm sure any Bronies who might be watching this might be surprised when they find out that Rarity from MLP:FiM has that accent, and she's my favorite pony!
ha ha
i mean, you're the one's who are choosing to change your accents
It’s not a choice. The accent is fading with the generations because of outside influences like people movement and media. We usually pick up accents when we learn to speak. I have a tidewater Virginia drawl but my daughter doesn’t. The only difference is the exposure to people from different regions when she was learning to speak.
Wow, it's just like listening to my paternal grandpa talk. Dad's side of the family has been here in the Richmond area for like 300 years, and they've got the classical Virginia accent. I'm not close with that side of the family, but I love the accent, almost as much as I love the Appalachian twang on Mom's side.
I just learned this is my accent, altgough, more subtle. I didn't know I had one, despite being told for years I don't sound like I'm from the moderate southern drawl area I was raised and reside in. I must have picked it up from my mom and her family. I haven't been up to see my maternal family in too long; it's refreashing to hear this accent now.
Accent low key reminds me of Florence Nightingales accent from her 1890 recording
I lived in tidewater for 20 years don't remember ppl talkin like this
Eck-weh-teh
Somewhat. My grandfather is from Hertford, NC which borders on southeast VA and he talks very similar to this. the prononciations of "out " and "about" are different, but generally, yes there's a bit of this accent in NC as well but to a lesser extent. mostly in the very NE part of NC
ive been in norfolk virginia all my like and i have never heard anyone who talks like this. Maybe because im black. From my area its a mixture . We dont sound like the north or the south.. I actually had people who came from nc to work at my job and they sound country as shit. I have that wtf face lol..Then i had new york guys say u sounded country saying that. We have this own distictive hybrid accent
Lol.
@@fairfaxcat1312 wow can't believe I posted this comment 10 yrs ago it seems like yesterday ..I got to do better.
@@xavierwilliams2228 Virginia is the South people always trying to downplay us and North Carolina.
Just because you might not have a Southern accent that's not the whole state of Virginia. It's more to Virginia than just the 7th cities.
It's people here who talk country and who don't have a Southern Drawl at all The same goes for the rest of the South especially nowadays.
@@Southern_Virginia nope Va is mid Atlantic. Nc those bammas are country
its closer to an english accent than what I thought, except for the "a" sound (as in "pass") he makes, which is typical american
We are watching a commercial for a reverse mortgage, solely because of his Tidewater accent is like linguistic silk. And I want to watch it, again.
@wendila Coincidentally, I pronounce each pair of words the same way. Perhaps I do have a Californian accent, though I don't know where I got it from since my parents are foreign.
Scots pronounce the R as an alveolar tap, that sounds completely different to the way Americans pronounce it, that might be the reason you don't find them annoying.
About the Irish, I'm not sure but I think depending on the region they might have the alveolar tap but not all of them have it.
there's a certain australian accent I find to be annoying too, of the maybe 3-4 accents we have here, although the differences are a bit more subtle than the differences between american accents.