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Cajun country most definitely the most difficult. Been married to a crazy Cajun for a decade and still have no idea what he or his family is saying. Lol
Agreed
That’s so funny. Never been to Louisiana before, I lived in Houma. One day I got lost so I stopped into a store and asked for directions. I know he was speaking English, I think. I didn’t understand a word he said. He had a very heavy Cajun accent. I had to go to the fire station to get help. 😂
I was raised there, and I have a hard time understanding those crazy Cajuns. They sure know how to cook though!
I totally agree - hardest accent ever for a Minnesotan. I can understand if you talk slow. I don’t really care how you talk - I’m there for the food!
Yes, I can pretty much all states - some harder but all English with some personal area speech.
"We British have have a very sharp accent"
British: boaol o wa'ah.
American: bottle of water.
Yeah have someone in Boston say that.
@@dit100Boston accents are sharper and more nasal. "Baaaahttle of waaaaahtah"
😂😂😂😂
@@dit100at least they actually say bottle instead of bo🔇le
I think bo'ol o' wa'ah is more Scottish
Lewis, I was laughing so hard with the guy from Chicago. I was like "this guy doesn't have an accent" but when it said Chicago i was like "That's where I'm from" LOL. 😂😂
I'm from Chicago and know what it sounds like. I was away in the Army for 12 years, when I came back I REALLY noticed it lol.
Nah I had a jaw drop moment when the chicago guy popped up bc my immediate thought was "I thought we were still doin regional accents" lmaoooo
Ugh. Me too. What accent?,???
😂 Our accents are so much fun!
I couldn’t really hear it either, and I grew up in NY, VA, and MO. I got the STL one right though! Thought it was STL & Memphis but it was Florida instead lol
fun fact, the midwestern accent was chosen to become the 'general american accent' deliberately, during the advent of radios. they did some studies in the early days, and found that the midwestern accent was most easily understood broadly, so they carefully curated only people with that accent for radios, and then for early television, and especially for news, so it is the one accent that was broadcast across the united states, and eventually outside of it.
I believe it. I’ve traveled all over the USA. I’ve only been told I speak like a newscaster outside of Ohio. First time was in Kentucky and Georgia while on a road trip. I never noticed that before then😂.
My Ohio-born husband loves telling me that he doesn’t have an accent. I beg to differ.
I always wondered being a Michiganander if I have what's considered an accent.
For sure! I grew up in Central Illinois, and have traveled all over the U.S., and people constantly comment about MY accent?! I'm like, "i'm the one in the room WITHOUT an accent!!!"
I disagree midwestern accent is very obvious, ie the movie Fargo. The generic tv accent is actually more accurately N. California, Oregon, and Washington
Fun note: a lot of African languages that made it to America didn't conjugate verbs. So while in most american English speakers would say "i am, you are, they are" African americans adapted that as "i be, you be, we be"
I was born and raised in the deep south of Louisiana Cajun country and married myself a Texan. I have somehow combined the two accents and can't even understand myself🤣😄
I lived in Texas four different times. I used to think it was funny how when friends would talk about WhatABurger it sounded like they were saying Water Burger. I liked Texans.
@mybluefly5845. I love deep Louisiana accent so much.
Mashed with Texan, (which part of TX?) accent must sound delightful.
You got accent lucky! ❤
lol 😂
Lewis, is your accent considered “Cockney?” The reason I ask is because I noticed when you say “you know what I mean”, it sounds like one word. “Y’noahmeen?” lol, please don’t take offense; I find it delightful, and such fun!
But, if you want to try affecting an American accent, I can help you with some of them. You’d have to choose the region first. Some of them are like foreign languages, even to me, but I can teach you enough that you could blend in to some areas of the Southeast, and some parts of NYC.
@mybutterfly5845 i'm a southern Va boy that grew up overseas, taking 5 years of french. Creole is the most confusing thing i have ever heard.
"Wait. Boston's in New England?" Check out the Boston Tea Party. You may be impressed! 🤣
Too funny!😂😂😂
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😂😂oh thats good!
Lmao 🦅
Just in case you didn’t know, Boston is in the state of Massachusetts.
For New York: if you want to hear Italian New Yorker, watch movies Saturday Night Fever or A Bronx Tale. If you want to hear Jewish New Yorker, watch Judge Judy. If you want WASPs from Queens, watch All in the Family. If you want to hear Puerto Rican New Yorker, watch White Men Can't Jump and pay attention to Rosie Perez. That's just a few of the MANY so-called New York accents. Yes, I'm a native New Yorker.
I have an accent curse. I was born in Texas. But moved to Minnesota. The mixture of those two absolutely wild accents is hilarious af😂. Everyone is confused when they hear how I mash up the two.
Whats fun is when two accents marry into each other. I was born in the midwest. My mother's side of the family is from Tennesee. My father's side is from the midwest. As a result, i have a very distinct midwestern accent, but the minute i detect another accent, regardless where its from in the world, my Tennessee accent slips out and makes me sound like a fast talking southerner, which compared to my sister who lives in that state, i am lol
My mom's pure Connecticut, my stepdad has a weird mix of Boston and NY, and I have what I think of as "general North-eastern" but it slips between that and North Carolina (where I spent much of my early years learning to talk). It's a weird hybrid that often confuses people being a mix of BOTH north and south! 😂
I swear a couple of those were from Tennessee!
What’s even more fun is being a military brat 😂 I grew up in England, NorCal, New Mexico, Texas, Indiana, and now I live in SoCal. My accent changes based on when I am so I’m basically a chameleon cause no one can guess where I’m from. To add to that my dad is also a military brat and he mainly grew up in New York and Puerto Rico so that creeps into my accent sometimes too 😆
I was raised in Chicago and moved to East Tennessee in my 50s. When I go back to Chicago they say I'm a hillbilly but here in Tennessee I'm a Yankee just because of my accent.
The NY accent is always so exaggerated when people talk about it. There’s so many different accents around NYC and they’re typically a lot more subtle than how they’re made out to be.
Agreed, I'm from here. Never feel represented in these videos.
I went to college in the 80s in southern California (from Colorado)... had a really good friend there who was from Brooklyn. I had to have him repeat half of what he said. He had that real slowww accent where like every letter was sounded out. 35+ years later and whenever I hear the accent I think, "Jaaaayyyy frommm Brooooklynnnn!"
I’m a west coaster who went to university in NYC. I rarely had people I couldn’t understand. Maybe it’s because of growing up with my Cajun family. 🤣
Same for the southern accents. Are there some crazy back woods people who sound like that? Yes and they're always interviewed after a tornado. But the vast majority of us, especially under the age of 50, don't sound like that.
You can really only judge that if you're not from there. I have a number of NY friends (now and in the past) and what you hear on TV is not far off at all.
Yinzer here! I've been told my Pittsburgh accent sounds like gravel in a blender. However, that was told to me by my dad, who has the strongest West Virginia Appalachian accent you've ever heard. 😂❤
Burgh girl here too! My cousins husband actually wanted to record me bcuz he said I have the heaviest Pittsburgh accent he's ever heard. Lol
My husband has a Pittsburgh accent. I wouldn’t say it’s a ridiculously strong one, but you can tell when he talks. I was born and raised in Johnstown, but I don’t really have an accent as far as I know.
@@jodiuhron1979 he must be a good dude then!!! 🙌🤣
Also a yinzer here! Ive been asked countless times what certain words that i was just raised with mean, but Im proud to say Im from Pixburgh😂
@@chab1rd155, love him with all my heart! And, OF COURSE, we had a black and gold wedding almost 21 years ago! 🙌🖤💛
As someone who grew up in New England (Rhode Island) the "Whoa there buddy way to cut us off" then the quiet "Massachusetts" made me laugh so much.
Northern Louisianans near Shreveport sound like Texans. Not Cajuns. We don’t understand them half the time. 😂
I was just gonna say that in Texas we have a ton of accents, I'm sure it bleeds together with our neighbors in the east as well. East Texas is its own thang
@@cannibalvince I have a friend from Nacodoches, TX and her accent is 🔥. I lived for a couple years in El Paso and that's a whole different sound!
Bienville parish confirms
@@nachoakajrod Calcasieu Seconds
Truth....lol
I’m a native Californian. I was born in a beach town in SoCal and moved to Norcal in my early 20’s. People from California don’t sound like that. It’s a movie industry parody and people actually buy into it
Ya, I'm from san diego and so is my mom. Sure grew up on the beach in Coronado, and neither she or I talk like that. I've only heard a couple talk like that, and usually heavy stoners. I'm in San antonio now, and they don't really have an accent either, unless you're mexican. LA and San Diego talk like they do in the movies because it is in LA so we have no accent. I did and still do on occasion say dude a lot though
I totally agree. I'm from SD too and we don't talk with vocal fry. It's a stereotype from Fast Times that ppl think is real now
I agree with you, I'm from L.A. and that surfer dude, valley girl accent comes from the movies and tv. I never heard it from friends or family
I’m from SD and I think there are some words and affectations that we have and the movie California accent is just like taking those real things and taking it to the extreme. I worked on the beach for years and definitely some people have that “beach” vibe in their speech
Yeah. Totally a fake accent. What Californian uses the word 'supper'?
I was born and raised in Texas. Haven’t lived there for 45 years. I will never lose my accent 😂
Also, I find it funny that many non-Americans find certain southern accents attractive, because you'll get mixed opinions about them here in the States.
I was born in Texas and had a very southern accent, but when my family moved to northern Illinois when I was a kid, the other kids at school made fun of me for it. So, I did everything I could to have a non-regional accent.
Whenever I've traveled abroad, and someone asks about where I'm from, I like to see if they can guess. No one has gotten it so far.
But the moment I'm around other southern accents, specifically Texans, my accent comes back real quickly haha.
I used to try real hard to talk "regular" myself, but realized I didnt like how I sounded and it was too much work to always be censorin myself. And no matter how hard I tried, Id slip up one word and people laugh and mimick the way I say it, so I quit tryin. Now everyones like "wow i love your 'accent' what country are you from?" xD Well that's how it goes in the city or outside the real cultural South. Back home and in country areas people don't bat an eyelash.
I got the St. Louis Missouri accent immediately because I worked with a guy from there and every other word out of my mouth was "pardon," "say what," "huh?"
What's crazy is that I live in the southeastern part of Missouri or the bootheel as we like to call it and I immediately picked up the St. Louis accent. I've lived in the bootheel all my life, but I've been told that I have a southern accent, but I just tell them that it's Midwestern which depending on where you live can be a mix between southern and just a general accent.
@@Awood2207 and @AZHITW I'm from near Columbia and the very northern tip of the ozarks. I feel like we are right on the border between the standard midwestern and southern. Most of us have the classic midwester but there's still a lot of people with a bit of that twang. Lol when I visit friends in Texas, I get told I sound like a yankee. When I'm out east, I get asked if I'm from Texas. Go figure.
I agree with both of you about StL. While nobody talks like that here, there isn't a soul here who can't pick out the St. Louis accent. Everyone knows people from St Louis.
Missouri is just a odd combo of Midwest and Southern lol I'm 30 miles east of KC and I have lived here my whole life. I have a combo of midwest and southern. Southern comes out when I'm mad lol
I once heard Jimmy Carr open his comedy set in the US by saying "I know some of you will have trouble understanding ne because of my accent, but this is what English sounds like when it's pronounced properly!"
As a Pennsylvanian, I knew immediately it was Pittsburgh from "yinz". That word is a dead giveaway.
25:37 Translation
"No, we didn't have no electricity, didn't have no water... running water either... we run it out of the... got it out of the spring. But, they eventually got electricity up through here."
I live in western North Carolina which is one place to find the smoky mountain dialect. It's hard when it's that broken (he interrupts and repeats himself several times for clarity). It took me listening a few times to get it.
The difference in accents in the state of North Carolina line is staggering. I love my home state ❤
Agree. So many great accents, and being isolated in our little communities through much of even the 20th century, we've held on to them somewhat. I'm coastal. I've been asked if I'm British by people from other countries whose native tongue isn't English. Even in a 50 mile radius, so many accents, and I guess you can hear the lingering licks of English, Irish, Scots. Sadly, as people have figured out how awesome coastal NC is in the last 30 years or so (except the mosquitoes....we all hate the mosquitoes) and moved here, the various acccents seem to weakening to me.
The Outer Banks of North Carolina has a little place called Harker's Island. That last clip is a perfect example of their dialect which is called "high-tiders" but the way they say it sounds like "hoy-toy-ders". Its a trip.
Hey dude, first time watching your American accents ranked video. I'm from St Louis Missouri, there's a rapper that's from our city that's big, his name is Nelly. You should listen to the song, country grammar sometime!
Born in south Texas but raised in Pittsburgh. My accent is so mixed and switches back and forth, to people point out how I say certain words.
Easiest = Midwest
Hardest = Appalachian
Specifically Colorado easiest Alabama hardest
Carolina's are harder that Alabama..but Alabama has the most friendly, wonderful people!!
I was born and raised in So. Cal, but my entire family is from the deep backwoods of Kentucky, but even being raised with my parents and siblings having strong accents, I needed an interpreter to understand a lot of my Appalachian kin.
Appalachian is easy once you hear it for awhile
❤😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm from an Appalachian family. I don't sound that deep holler, but my elders do.
I'm from Texas and in college, my roommate was from West Virginia. Neither one of our accents were real heavy, until we started drinking..... lol
@@Roadtrip635 Oh when I get mad, or drunk no one can understand me.
The last Texas one was Actor Montana Jordan From Young Sheldon. And he was Born in Longview, Texas.
Texan here! I have that accent! I grew up in Piney woods LOL it's the drawl part :) and yes - I can tell what part of Texas they are from when I hear them talk.
Being from SE Georgia, I've encountered an accent that's about as hard as any of the difficult ones at the end of the video. That's the Geechee from the Georgia barrier islands.
Oh definitely. I could be wrong, but I think linguists classify Gullah-Geechee as more than just an accent. It's a dialect (different vocabulary, maybe different word order, etc.). But possibly you might hear people with just a Gullah-influenced accent, which would be hard enough to parse on its own.
I was wondering why they didn't cover that accent.
YASs! The Geechee people… I thought that would be the hardest one. Because they maintained some of their West African dialect and language from Slavery.
I think that’s what he was referring to in the beginning of the video.
Damn. When Chicago guy came on I thought to myself "he sounds normal" ... then they said Chicago and I started laughing. That's where I'm from.
I'm from Michigan and had the same reaction. Like, what accent? Oh. Mine.
32:07 to me (a Canadian/American) the presenter sounds definitely British. Nothing else. And his name is Ollie, which I've only ever heard of in England in modern times.
I have a thick Boston accent, I've lived here my entire life, I also did some digging in my family, I got 200yrs back and both sides of my family were here in Boston!
Your face is priceless watching really strong accents.
I find it really crazy that the Midwest doesn’t get explored enough for accents -
Here in St Louis Missouri there’s a dialect that’s highly different than the Chicago accent aswell, the area here has a blend of slang and t & d drop example: “I don’t want none of that” becomes “idondwon nunnadat” - “it’s pretty cold out” becomes “it’s burry”
I'm a Michigander living in Arizona and my Fiance is from Nevada. He laughs when I say different words and says "I've never heard someone add more vowels to an already long word. VEEAAALEINTEEINEE." Even when I say Michigander I say "Michigeeander"
We tend to add vowels and shorten or not say the last consonant if the word ends with one.
It's almost minnesotian.
Same with the Chicago accent
As an American I think the hardest to understand accents are: 1. Creole 2. Appalachian 3. Any accent that is super thick AND where the person talking is a fast talker 🤣
I was born and raised in the Carolinas but now live in L. A.,, I have pretty much lost my accent over the last 25 years. But I still understand it, when I talk to my family back there, I immediately pick it back up for a little while after the call.
My mom would always revert to her southern Ohio/Kentucky accent when she would talk with relatives despite living in California for more then 40 years
North or South Carolina? Because those "two" accents (NC alone has at least six) are different.
@@honorsilverthorne7227 Harnett County North Carolina
Really cool video and your reactions. I knew about 60% of them, especially the Minnesota- your facial expression made me laugh. They sound crazy, right. Been watching your videos this weekend starting visiting the US. Really hope you get to, the country is really amazing! And I really like your reactions; you seem to be an open and friendly person-God bless you! Greetings from Oklahoma, USA
Smoky mountain Appalachian guy was talking about how he doesn't have any running water and how he goes and gets it from the spring
America is just like England, but better. I few hundred years ago the best of the Brits came over and stayed. They were the first Americans and over the years we changed these Brits and they became better, Americans. And before I get heat from this, it was a joke. My grandmother was from England and I loved her as if she was a real person, just like an American.
Love your vids man.
lol, I see what you did there. 😅
Gotdammit, Lewis!! "Oh, lord, Jesus, it's a fire!" fucking sent me!!
Where was that... I'll have to listen again...😂😂
@kathyolney4083 or wait, do you mean timestamp on lewis' vid? It's 24:25.
it's a far, not fire!
1:50 as a 4th gen Californian (SoCal), this is what we sound like.
(I wish I had that woman’s Texan accent) I actually randomly switch to different accents sometimes without meaning to. A hybrid of Southern & Texan (really bad you can tell it’s fake), British Australian (No clue what it is), Romanian (don’t ask how, I have no clue how, never been outside the US in my 19 years of living), Scottish (I actually slipped into this one time without meaning to and it takes quite an effort to keep up), and Irish (Hell. Takes so much effort. I have to remove the ‘th’ and turn them into a harsh T if it’s in the middle of a word, if it’s at the end it’s a mix of a soft d and t. And sometimes I will switch from one accent to another like from Romanian to Scottish to Southern for no apparent reason other than my emotional mood or escalation. It’s hilarious when I accidentally do it around people I know because they look so surprised and confused by what just happened.
You hit a hot topic Lewis.😊
We are very aware of the mind boggling number of accents. But by and large we happily get along enjoying each others differences. 😊
The southern Cal one was definitely exaggerated. Grew up in a beach city but moved away. We also don’t usually say “supper.”
I feel like we got did dirty cause ion speak like that at all 😭. There’s just too many different accents out ere. Every damn city or county folks speak differently.
I’m a Cajun! lol love the the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux joke. That’s my family too. My accent ain’t that thick but my cousin is. I do throw random French in and people get confused. I love it tho! 😂
I'm a native southern Californian, I don't know anyone who speaks like that. Maybe the younger folks, but it's put on.
I lived in Ca for a couple of years. I was shocked when I met someone once who had a valley girl accent. I didn’t think it existed……lol
The Southern California accent is always so exaggerated in these videos.
I’m from Houston Texas and yes I can tell what part of Texas y’all are from.
Boston is in Massachusetts in the East. Chicago is Midwest. I was born in Minnesota - only northern Minnesotans really talk like that. Minneapolis is fairly normal. I also lived in Chicago - your accent depends on what part of the city you are in.
Also depends on socioeconomic background to a decent extent. Most of the folks with a strong Chicago accent tend to be lower-income blue collar folks. My parents were both white collar workers (A teacher and a government office worker) and I basically have no accent at all unless I’m talking super emphatically (or maybe when I’m drunk)
I grew up in Duluth, the only people I can recall sounding like that would have been people who would have real close ties to Scandinavia, but most people would have the midwest accent. But when I have travelled a lit of people think I am Canadian. Eh!
@@bulldog9889 My husband’s family are all in Duluth - ya, you bettcha - nothing Canadian there.
@@bbmul1572 Not true - accents of Chicago were heavily ethnic (usually a mix of Irish & Italian) for example Bridgeport - if you remember both our old mayors - the Daily’s, father and son - not poor, not blue collar, although many are with the accent, had heavy Chicago accents, brother of Mayor, John Daily, also heavy accent - chief of staff at the White House. A lot of socioeconomic blue collar workers do have heavy accents but it wasn’t their financial status. More to do with ancestors. A lot depended on where you lived and your background. Irish held heavy Chicago accents for example another person, Michael Flatley, Riverdance.
There's also a mex/american Chicago accent in the mexican neighborhoods, a mix of the Chicago "ah" sound, and the mexican diction and the tone of English words
The British forget that the letter "t" even exists!! Born and raised in South Texas. Each area of Texas has a different accent. West Texas is flater, more like the western states, north Texas sounds more like the midwest. Oh, my goodness, East Texas, the Piney Woods has a twang that will knock your esrs off. Probably because they are close to Louisiana and Cajun country. LOL!! I don't think South Texas is near as bad. But I do know Texas is pretty colorful in word choices to describe things. I lived in New Jersey for a while and felt totally lost. I actually asked people to please speak slower because I couldn't hear that fast! 😊 They thought it was funny! They told me I didn't have an acent. Then I would zing them with an east Texas twang and they would lose it!!! 😊😊😊
I get a chuckle everytime Lewis says "hit that subscribe bun"
I'm an Acadian from northern maine and can talk the old french that the cajuns speak in louisiana.
My daughter in law is from Maine, and I could listen to her talk for hours. I love that accent
Same here Joe. I'm from the pi area. I always wonder why these accent videos always lumps the whole state in with the coastal accent when we have valley French Acadian accent up here
I'm a Cajun from Louisiana and that would mean we are cultural cousins.
I was so surprised, Lewis! You guessed right! The most difficult was from Tangiers Island, Virginia!!
Louisiana! Lol
It really just depends what area of louisiana you grew up in. I moved maybe an hour away from my hometown and the accent was totally different.
Cool to see the Piney Woods featured in this. My family moved from Northern California to Houston when I was a kid, but I've spent a lot of time in that area. Had friends who grew up there, as well. I think listening to their thick accents is why I thought for a long time that I hadn't developed any accent. Visited the North and I immediately got called out as a Texan, so I guess I did.
You would be surprised by the "outerbanks" accent. It sounds a lot like people from Cornwall. The reason is that many of its people are decendants of the English that came from Cornwall and surrounding areas, especially in Orocoke. There were many pirates in that area. The most famous was Edward Teach, who was famously known as Black Beard. Orocoke, North Carolina, was a favorite hideout for him.
I always thought Blackbeard liked to hang out in New Orleans, in the French Quarter.
Ocracoke.
@@truthisfreedom6492No. He may have sailed there, but he was from North Carolina.
Here I am an American and I have never heard anyone talk like some of these peoples let alone understand any of it.
yeah the cajun i heard giberish fish giberish
Tbf the guy making the original video picked the strongest accents he could find. The Maine accent was way stronger than any I've heard and the Minnesotan was stronger than most of the Canadians I've talked to. And the broad generalizations of the Northeast and South were pretty well, broad. Both of those areas will have several smaller accents as well.
Yeah the Minnesota accent was not even close. Those were skits of people parodying what they think we talk like. It gets old when everyone thinks you talk like the movie Fargo. 😒😒. No one talks like that.
@tonkabeanpumpkin-fh4fz well over here in the desert, you control the wadder you control everything 😂
As a yooper, I’m happy our accent got some recognition. I would say that we do use the Midwest accent a lot, but our yooper accent tends to come out a lot with certain words and also is more noticeable in winter for some reason
I love your videos. And to my surprise my nephew was actually in this video he is a comedian and from St.Louis MO 😂😂
I follow the “skater dude” family on UA-cam and they actually have a thick southern accent naturally! So funny to hear him mimicking a “surfer dude” accent. Like crush from the movie Finding Nemo
Southern makes sense! He said "supper", and I knew he faking.
Nothing better than southern accent on a woman I would know because I’m a southern woman with an accent
Me too.
All ya'll sound ditzy, but I like it too.
Funny I'm a southern woman with an accent and I cringe internally when i hear some of these...
You southern belles are adorable. Don't ever change. That being said, being called sugar or hun by a stranger sounds like you guys are flirting. I know you guys aren't.... but it still throws us midwesterners off.
Yes’m
I am originally from CA but have lived in Indiana and the Northwest and travelled to every state except HI. I don't understand a lot of accents! A guy once asked me for a "lodge coughy". I said, "if you can tell me how it's made". He looked at me like i was making fun of him. My friend said "large coffee"! 🤦♀️
Youll have to be forgiving. We do get made fun of alot for how we talk. lol
Love that they included the Pittsburgh accent 😂
I understood Rocky Mountain perfectly, I grew up in Florida (backwoods & swamp people sound similar), but I've been living in Arkansas for almost 2 decades. (The hill people accent here is pretty similar, too, honestly. 😅 )
Here's your translation:
He said back then they "didn't have electricity, indoor toilet, or running water either, they had to run it over, got it out of the spring but they eventually got the electricity up through here."
A lot of Americans do struggle to understand them also. I had an older homesteader from the hills call the store I was working at to have me talk on the phone for him because the guy at a call center couldn't understand what he was saying. He told me he tried having his "nice talking" neighbor talk to the guy, but the call center guy still couldn't understand. So he asked if he could add me to the call so I could try talking "Florida" to him. 😂😂😂 I told him to come on then. Gotta love our hill folk. They're a riot. ❤
13:50 I’d agree with you - that seemed like multiple distinct varieties of Southern accents. To me a “Southern” accent isn’t a single accent but a whole family. It’s kinda like saying something is a “British” accent. There’s loads of very different varieties within it.
All are still recognizable as southern though.
@@ronaldpippen8164 but there’s a lot more variety in the different examples of “southern” that he gave than there is between Minnesota and upper peninsula Michigan, but he made those completely separate categories .
@@AdamNisbett there are so many different southern accents that we would need our own video to cover them all, North Carolina alone has 4 or 5 atleast.
I only got a couple of these. People move around so much that most of us don’t have such a recognizable accent. I would need subtitles for those last few.
Much love and appreciation from Kentucky ❤️🙏❤️🇺🇸
I cracked up when your guess was "Arkansas" for St. Louis & Florida AAVE.
Same 😂
Montana Jordan was that Texas accent he played on Young Sheldon. That's his real accent.. peace from Central Texas Hook'em Horns 🤘
And the reason why you can understand some of them especially in New England is because it has a lot of British roots that was fantastic great job
I’m from west central Texas, and worked at a call center in eastern TN. During that time, I almost completely lost my accent, because I had to be able to be understood by people from all over the world. Since I’ve moved back home, tho, my accent is back and as strong as it ever was!!
I was just watching this guy yesterday do a video on accents and two of them were people from Robeson County NC which I grew up in and around. It’s kind of a Southern drawl with extra syllables and a hint of Cajun. Yeah is Yay-yuh and they call everyone Pa. It’s also the most dangerous town (Lumberton) per capita in North Carolina, maybe the country.
I am from rural North Carolina and my husband is from Yemen....we have been together for 10 years and still can't understand each other at times 😂
I know exactly the interview meme you're talking about and that was by Sweet Brown aka (Kim) here in OKC. I've met and hung out with her several times and she's very kind and down to earth.
I like the British accent , I could listen all day..
25:40 "We didn't have no electricity, didn't have no (sounds like he said electric again?), or running water, any way, running out of the...got it out of the spring. But, they (eventually?) got electricity up through here."
I can mostly understand all of these but don't catch every word. My mom was from the eastern shore of the Chesapeake bay (last clip where the guy was talking about his Mom) and I grew up on the border with Quebec, so I speak a good amount of French. That helps with Cajun. I've lived all over the world but now live near Appalachia, so the accent in the above clip I transcribed is heard around here sometimes.
But all of this makes it difficult for others to guess where I am from.
@tonkabeanpumpkin-fh4fz I took an extensive one and it was confused. But it was actually quite accurate since it picked up not only many of the places I have lived, but also where my parents were from. The strongest was where I lived from about age 9 to age 12 (northern NY state). It picked up Baltimore and Eastern shore Chesapeake bay from where my parents grew up, western Maryland where my Mom's family lived (and where she spent the summers). It also located me near Ottawa as the strongest component (I spent 3 years an hour south in NY). It also detected Rochester (I lived in the finger lakes for 2 1/2 years, from ages 5 to 7). It also placed me in Chicago, but I only lived there for 6 months. My guess is that I may have picked up the generic American accent (which is similar to Chicago) from watching American entertainment from all the times I lived overseas growing up. I had lived in Central Ohio for a while, but as an adult. It didn't pick that up. Seeing as I have lived in many countries and most sections of the US, and since no one can guess where I'm from (except somewhere in the US or Canada), I was amazed that it figured anything out.
Rural central New York state here. We don't have the NYC accent. The Brooklyn NY'rs are difficult to understand.
Ohhh yes you DO have an accent to these Ohio ears.😂 But you're 100% right. It's not The Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn. Not at all.
I frequently get asked where I am from. They think I am from Britain but the British think I am from the West Country of England, kids think I am a pirate. The hardest just happens to be mine. I am from Tangier Island, lived a short time Occacroak Island. Now I live in Richmond, Virginia.
Born and raised in Minnesota. Just moved south a year ago and it is a major culture shock. My accent isn't as strong as most people from Minnesota and I've been told that most people from around here can't really pick up on it unless I say a few of the slang words we use up there. Mainly I sound "mid-western" like the people you hear on TV. I've always been fascinated with accents from everywhere, so I understood almost all of the ones from that video. My favorite accents are from across the pond. I find Scottish, British, and most of the UK dialects positively adorable and attractive. Unless they are so thick that I can't figure out what in the world they are trying to say, similar to some of the deeper southern accents in the US. On occasion I will thicken up my accent just to make people laugh around my new location. It floors me that nobody around here knows Yiddish words, which are common in the area where I was raised. For those unfamiliar with Yiddish, it is an offshoot of Hebrew developed by Jewish people that settled in Sweden before migrating to America.... only a few words are commonly used in the region where I'm from. I can't have a complete conversation in Yiddish or anything. Just words like verklempt, schmutz, or baubella. The most "give away" thing I say is "Uffda" which is a staple word for everyone in Minnesota and neighboring parts of Wisconsin. The other key Minnesota give aways are "yah sure, you betcha" and "don' cha know".
24:54 THAT'S JIM TOM! JIM TOM! He's one of the most famous moonshiners of all time!!!
"I called him out many a time. It'd take us a long time to get into town with that old buggy. He'd tell me to work the brake. -- We'd start to go up a hill, I'd kinda push the brake on. He'd tell that old mule, 'Get up there!-Get!' ... he's scootin' the wheel. He'd look back - ...he'd say, 'turn the brake loose!'
Three ears of corn he'd feed it for lunch. He'd start back home abt 4 o'clock."
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new England is a region with several states, Boston is in the state of Massachusetts
I was born in Massachusetts and moved to N California when I was 8. I also had a lisp. My elementary school brought in a speech therapist to help with the lisp. It was gone within a day. But they made me continue sessions for an additional month, to pound the Boston accent out of me. I resent it to this day. (The old accent still peeks through though, and not so subtly when visiting MA fam)
The moment we got into that one guy talking about fishing, I recognized that accent immediately. It was the word "pasties" that gave it away.
Thank you very much, Jeff Daniels. Also helps that one of my friends from childhood was a boy from Michigan. His mother's accent was stronger than a cup of Navy coffee.
As an American who watched BBC reruns of The Benny Hill Show, I couldn't understand ANYTHING they said. I needed a translator for that thick British accent. 😅😅
Mines messed up I was born and raised in Southern California, my dad has Alabama accent, and I live in Texas
I'm from eastern ky (Appalachia) and I understood everything they were saying 😂 The old man with the beard (right before you paused to ask if anyone understood that) said:
"Well no, didn't have no electricity, didn't have no lake for no running water either. We run it out of the - got it out of the spring. But, they eventually got the electricity up through here."
Born and raised in the state of Maine, but Im 3rd generation French Canadian, speaking mostly french in my youth but surrounded by the unique Maine accent. My accent now is a mix of both.
Those runner sleds were fun, they work really good, but first you have to pack the snow down on the hill with toboggans, once it is compressed down and has a nice layer of ice on it and hose sleds fly, and you use the wood handles to steer by warping the runners.
I moved to Appalachia as a teen and cried when an older man yelled at me for not understanding him. He sounded like the man they just showed in the Water Boy clip to me. Now, when I go back home, they think I have a Southern accent but I definitely do not sound local. I’m a bit blended now, but I think it comes out differently, depending on who I’m with.
I too, am from good ol’ North Cackalacky. 😊 ❤️
The coastal plains region?
@@ronaldpippen8164 I lived in cape carteret but now live in Raleigh.
@@kellygriffin8232funny all these North Carolina people commenting on here! I'm in Clayton!
@@beckieweadon8158 I used to live in Clayton off of 42!!
Me too from Whiteville near Wilmington and the coast😃
The neat thing is all the little variations that occur. In a 100 mile circle of where I live in Western North Carolina, there are seven distinct accents that are all the result of we're a group of people came from, and all unique in several ways.
You said "Baltimore" and I had to rewind!! 😂 We pronounce it "Ball-da-mor" or "Ball-mer" around here. I love your accent!!
I’ve got a Cajun dad, Boston mom, live in North Carolina, with tons of people from Great Lakes area, NY, and also from the App Mountains moving here. It’s a melting pot of all of these accents lol. All I can say is most the accents are accurate for everyone from those areas, except the outer banks one. 90% of people from the outer banks don’t talk like that, and it’s definitely not #1 lol. Good vid tho!
Nope, it's dying. My Great Grandpa and Grandma were from Carteret Co., and I remember them using mommuck, pizer and mitrices, but I don't hear that too often anymore.
Bruh, I literally watch your videos because I love your accent. From Maine myself but have french and indigenous influence in my accent.
What's a fun fact is that Americans understand Americans.
Lol for the most part 😅 I dunno if I reeeeally understand Cajuns ❤
With the exception of cajuns. No one understands them. 😂
I am from southern Georgia and have a drawl. I’ve often corrected people from other areas who say I have a “twang.” They hear a southern accent and just call it a twang. Meanwhile, they’re talking through their noses.
Yeah, I agree. Twang, to me, is like, "Git own nah, liddle dawgie!" Drawl is more, "Oh, nah, hello dahlin', how you?"
@@andimproud As someone who says it, it's morre laik "Oh, hey darrlinn, how'rre yuu"? But, to be fair, I'm more east Texas.
@cannibalvince oh, howdy neighbor!. I wonder, then, if culture plays a part, as we are black folks. My mama's folks are from east Texas, Harleton, Marshall, Longview. My daddy's folks are from Corsicana and Dallas. I'm born and raised in the DFW metroplex. We definitely pronounce darling as dahlin. How are you is just how you? Either way, dialects and accents are so interesting.
Texas is such a big state they have multiple accents. It’s 3 times the size of the uk
I was waiting for Appys to show up. Moving from oregon to eastern Kentucky basically felt like learning a new language.
As an american, i thought we had 2 main accents here
southern and non southern
with a bit of boston and gibberish on the side too
Haha, I enjoyed watching this. I am from Pennsylvania and there is a PA dutch accent which is quite distinct. I don't have that accent even though I am, but I have family members that have it. I didn't see Jersey accent either. Funny stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I'm from Arkansas, but have lived in Montana, Texas, Virginia, Missouri, Germany, and Turkey.
I can not, not sound like I'm not from the South with my Arkansas accent.