Dialect Road Trip! - American Tongues episode #4
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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People in eastern Kentucky, central Ohio, and west Texas show how their accents and self-awareness differs in these vignettes from the classic documentary AMERICAN TONGUES by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker.
I did a ten week tour of the States with an Army Band from Britain. The friendliest nation in the world, they were awesome to us.
I am from the north west of the UK and just love the sound of southern American accents.
I'm from Eastern Kentucky, and I see and meet people every day that are ashamed of their accent. I don't see why. I'm PROUD of the way I talk. It's the way I speak, the way my father speaks, the way HIS father spoke, and so on. It's a history that no one needs to deny, and instead needs to embrace. It's a rich culture, full of exciting things. I just wish everyone felt this way.
The difference in accents between Cleveland and Cincinnati is phenomenal!
Being from Cincinnati I can never hear the Cincinnati ascent but I have been told we do have one in the Queen City.
Everyone thinks we (Cleveland) sound like New Yorkers or straight up Canadian which is crazy to me
It is not only the words. The man with the beard is talking about a pulse and a tonal quality and he nails it.
I live in Ohio and when I went down to Kentucky even just a little bit the speech was so much different
The Kentucky one's pretty accurate, even outside of Appalachia. Tons of people in my town talk like that.
I live in London, England and I really want to live in the states one day! I know all accents are different, but the general southern accent and dialect just sounds so beautiful, wholesome and friendly! I would love to move to somewhere like Texas :) But I love all of America! xx
Have you moved here yet? ❤️
A very noticeable difference is the rate of speech. Ohioans in general talk much faster than those in Kentucky and Texas. Ohio also has many different accents.
Meh I would say around 4 or 5 dialects in Ohio
I'm from East Texas and I sound like I'm from Mississippi with a Cajun word here and there.
A lot of settlers who came to Texas in the early 1800s were from Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Georgia merging together to create a unique accent. A few phrases you might hear someone say in Texas would be ya'll, ain't, bless her/his heart, sweet tea, and I'll tell you what. A lot of people who I went to high school with had neutral accents probably due to exposure to television/social media and self awareness of their accent. However some kids overcompensated due to the fact that they lived in the city and wanted to sound "Texan" and they had forced accents. I decided to keep my accent, gives your voice some flavor.
I'm from Indiana. My mom is from Texas, but doesn't really have the accent but my Grandma and aunts have very thick accents and I love them. What they say about us telling stories for hours is very true.
i live in kentucky and i say you're wrong. i hear this accent every day, and i love it.
I was born and raised in Texas and I call that critter a cow puppy.
People from Southern Ohio and along the Ohio River, like myself, have a mixture of Midwest and Southern in the way they talk. The way I speak is very strange because my father is from Cincinnati, my mother is from Lexington, and I grew up in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Covington. I borrowed many different speaking patterns from my family in Lexington as well, so I sound like a screw-ball.
I'm from Texas. Born and raised, and I have a standard accent.
lol maytag warsher. that's how my family in southern ohio right near kentucky talks. my grandma's sister always said she's "fixin to warsh the dishes."
If I could have any accent in the world other than my London Accent it'd be the Texan accent, it's so warm and welcoming.
I was wondering "Where the hell did they find Texans that actually talk and act like that?" Then I read the description and realized they cheated and talked to WEST Texans, lol, us East Texans don't fool with the wild west, but I actually think they have the best accents :-)
I love this stuff. My grandfather was from Kentucky, and I got a full-on dose of this growing up. I've lived all over, though I'm better at telling where someone is from in England than I am telling where they're from here in the States. There's a ton of videos on this topic. Time to study.
im from rhode island its crazy i went down to florida everyone thought I had an accent.... its just literature and where you grew up i love accents though
I'm from Northern NY (30 mins from Canada) and we speak a lot like Southern Canadians, Montreal types.
I grew up in a military accent and typically take on the accent of whomever I'm talking with. I go to a university in Georgia that is mostly black so I speak the same way they do while on campus but my accent is much different with my dad who is from Nevada and with my mom who is from Alabama 😅 that plasticity though has made is much easier for me when learning languages.
My family is from the Cincinnati area and the old timers call it Cincinnata. I lived in Columbus for a few years and the accent is totally different sounding, 100 miles north.
That part about the two trucks parked next to each other on the road while talking to one another is completely true. I couldn't help but laugh when hearing that guy explain the scenario
I'm from southern Ohio, right across the bridge from kentucky one way and west virginia the other. I love the eastern ky accent, I had a boyfriend from Inez in high school. All things appalachian are close to my heart. To be honest, to me ohio accents sound similar to 1950ish american dream type accents like you'd see in movies and commercials.
I live just south of Cleveland and have friends around here from Columbus and Lancaster. They most definitely talk like that.
I like the different American accents. I'm from California, and it surprises me how people from other states I visit can tell. I recently went to Boston, and I really did notice the accent....
I'm from Illinois, and Ive started noticing we tend to talk with a "smile" to our speech. Everything's nasally. I love the texas accent so much. Thanks for this awesome video, perfect reference!!!
I have to disagree with the Ohioans about there being a complete lack of an accent in the midwest, especially in the upper-midwest region (Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan.) I lived in Illinois all of my life until I moved to Carolina a couple years ago, which, of all places that I've been in the south, the Carolinas have the thickest accent I've heard; so after being here for as long as I have and then going back home for a visit recently, I was shocked at how thick the accent is throughout Illinois. To me, it sounded a lot like what I used to think of as a Minnesota/Wisconsin accent, only a slight difference in the pronunciation of certain words, i.e. words ending in "ag." And this is not Chicago I'm talking about either; I grew up in central Illinois, where most people from outside would typically think of as nothing but stretches of corn and dusty old small towns (and they would be absolutely correct!)
South Carolina or North Carolina?
Texas accent is usually straight to the point and somewhat " well i dont give a fuck just get it dun'"
I'm from southeastern Ohio. I will say this. We speak, for the most part, clearly, however, we have certain words/phrases/accents on words. "Warsh", "yins (you'ns), up'ere (up there), adding prepositions at the end of sentences, "Where's my shirt at?" "..innis = in this, we also tie words together in a string.
my hometown is at the opening around 50 seconds into it.. Whitesburg Ky.. it looks a lot different these days. The older citizens speak this way but not the younger.
Come to the Blue Ridge in Carolina or Virginia! I guarantee you won't wanna leave haha!
I'm from Southern Indiana ('bout 5 minutes north of KY) and joined the military a couple years ago. I traveled around a little before hand, too. And still, to this day, everyone mistakes me as being from Texas. But, it seems that everyone in South IN has that problem, but not IL or OH.
im from western ky, Murray to be exact and this reminds me of home.
I'm originally from Maryland, now living in west Texas. I go back and forth between the two accents several times a day depending on who I'm talking with. That is, of course, I'm not fresh off the phone with a friend in Maryland. Then it's plain to see "muh ruts"
i'm from Cleveland yeah there is a difference between north and south ohio up here we have a few slang terms like
"pop"- sode or coke
"sweeper" - vacuum
"treelawn" - a curb, on the side of the street (usually in a residential/commercial area) and
aunt is pronounced "ant" and our like "are"
Same here. I think people who live in western Kentucky have less accents (like me). But it depends on your parents, and if they grew up with the accent. ^^
i live in texas and like the western accent myelf. In Texas you have both southern and western accents, but they are in different parts of the state.
I find attempting to write out a yank accent is ridiculously good fun: Y'alls all sound prurty funny ta'me.
The Texas stuff is so true to this day. All of my family is from east Texas and they sound EXACTLY like that, and they will sit and talk forever. And it's only one road up there and they will stop there trucks and talk about any and everything. Ugh. This is so relevant.
I'm from Dayton, Ohio and I say warsh, the word "cash" is caysh and traysh. My father would always say "take out the traysh boy" or " warsh the dishes" "I put the clothes in the warsh". There is no "g" when speakin' usin' words with an ing suffix. I heard myself on the answering machine today leaving a message for my wife. (Yes I still have a house phone as well lol) The message "Hey babe , I'm going to stop by the store and cash my check and probably pick up some food for dinner. If you are tired call my mother to watch the baby and take a nap" sounded like this "Ay bae I'ma stop by da store and caysh my check and pry grab sump'n for dinner if you're tarred call my mama so you can take ya a nap." I was mortified to hear myself speak as opposed to how I hear myself in my head or when I read. Holy shit I just realized I also still cash my check and use cash as currency. Oh well, the more I think about it the more I like that no matter how much media outlets have changed things I'm still a "Good ole Appalachian" boy.
Adam Wilson you just made me laugh lol I struggle with my own accent that I thought didn't exist
I just know that people marginalize us because of our accents. Doesn't matter if you're brilliant, some folks will assume you're unintelligent because you have a thick accent.
Adam Wilson exactly I moved from Cali to Georgia and one of the mechanics I work with is brilliant but feels insecure because of his own heavy southern accent
I'm right above you in Greenville!
I also live in dayton
That's actually the way we used to talk here. Its changed over the past 25 years since this video came out. Its somewhat like this in SE Ohio still, Athens townies being a great example. They've kept that accent despite an influx of accents from students of all areas at OU.
I am a teen from KY, and love the way we talk, live, act, dress, etc.I don't particularly like stereotypes, 'cause hey, I wear A&F and don't live on a farm, but we will always have them. I
I love this video!
I've heard so many different accents, and some people just dont realize how much of one they until they are farther away from home. now i DO know that people in southern ohio, have a different accent than central ohio. Im from south central ohio and almost every single person i know, talks the way those Kentuckians are talking, but a little less twang. Same for Kentucky, different areas of the state have different accents. I recently moved to Northern Michigan, & an accent eye opener!!!
@Subzzero93 I say every single thing there, except "treelawn." Pop,soda,coke are interchangeable. Sweeper and vacuum are both used.
I was born in Texas and moved to New York/ New Jersey when I was young. I usually talk like your stereotypical new yorker but when i get really mad or excited i start talking like a true texan :)
The only way NOT to have an accent is to be mute.
Southern Speech 101 at 2:27: "May could," a double modal.
EAST TEXAN and proud (:
Found out in the navy too 😂
"maytag Warrrsherrr" :P
I agree, BlazingSoul, about the tiny difference in southern Ohio accents. I once worked with several men and women from Springfield, O., who commuted weekly to my place of employment near Chicago, and just like Washer=Woorsher, their "Os" were different than ours. We pronounced "Ohio" in a totally different way than they did. Also, what we would always call "lunch," the Buckeyes would call "dinnertime." Hard-working, nice people, they were.
Texas is the best southern accent TEXAS BORN!!!!
I'm from Texas but right next to the city. I don't think I talk like that but I know a bunch of folk that do. Depends where you are. Although I'm right next to Houston on the suburbs I've still lived two or three minute walk away from horses and cows my whole life. My stepdad says supper we all say Fixin' to and y'all. Um my dad hunts and we all fish,
that is very true what he says about Texas, we are open bout everything!! haha
@orchardcottage That is very nice of you to say! Being from the Appalachian mountain region, this is something that we don't always hear. :)
ya i was raised with my dad being from ohio but i now live in north carolina, when im at work i use my "ohio" standard english accent due to the "profressional" atmostphere, but around my friends i let the southern accent slide out
ohh I luv it...
I live in Michigan, and Ohio accents still sound funny. of course, as a Michigander, it's common for people here to be able to identify Ohio accents. We need to find as much stuff as we can to fuel our ever living rivalry. :D
Michiganders sound a little canadian, apparently.
Do Kentucky people pronounce "sell" as "sale"?
08metalmama Thank you for the detailed explanation. I think they really should have made subtitles for this video to make it easier to analyze the accents, because it's likely to mishear something.
He said "frigidaire," which is a brand name but a lot of older people use it generically to describe a refrigerator.
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That's what I tend to do. I guess I have a mixture. My Dad and his side are from South East Kentucky while my Mom was from Southern Indiana. For the last several years I've lived in Northern Kentucky. Personally I prefer the Appalachian way of talking.
There's a difference in their pronunciation? I've always pronounced "sale" and "sell" the same.
Yeah, sale and sell are the same for me, around southern Ohio. Got a mix of accents here though.
Louisville is a great place. Despite the stereotypes from outside states, KY has an amazing graduation rate, and Lu-a-vull is a hotspot of wealth, just like Georgetown, but there are strong ties with these families to their heritage. Mountain people formed this country. You sound like you don't belong there, when most people celebrate their own past in KY.
I'm from California/Nevada. Devoid of any dialect.
we definitely have an accent, but it is very hard to tell
I've had Folks in Northern Kentucky tell me I sound like a hillbilly! But most the Folks I grew up with were from South Eastern Kentucky!
Accents generally fade in the cities, but I really like the rural Texan accent. There's a guy who does a fishin' and huntin' radio show here in Austin. He commutes from, I think, Lampasas, and he brings his accent with him. It's so cool to listen to.
In fact, here he is: watch?v=tcbqVgJuFEc
@ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz I think you'd be very suprised at the amount of scots and irish culture in Kentucky. It would be a great place to start off a U.S. visit.
I love your accents! Love from London, England
i live in bullet county and we all have a southern accent, but everyone points mine out as the thickest, maybe because i spend alot of time in southern kentucky
I moved from southern Ohio to California and had everyone and their brother telling me, "I LOVE your accent! You're from Texas, right?" I think it may just be because Ohioans are so used to hearing us people from the southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky area that they're probably desensitized to your Texas accent. Apparently, the accents are more similar than I realized. I at first thought this video was going to be comparing the accents of those from Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas and their similarities
I'm from deep east texas, what's called the pineywoods and i thought i'd put my two cents in..that is a true texas accent, but i've heard accents so thick even I could barely understand them lol...what threw me off was the first time i heard a Canandian lol
LOL. I live almost exactly 70 miles due south of Columbus and yes, people here do talk like they're from Kentucky, almost.
I know what you mean...I am from about 40 miles outside of Cincinnati and it's an equal split of southern/midwestern accents. My mom was from Kentucky so I grew up with an accent which I tried to train away because of the negative associations with it. Really dumb...but it was cool at our high school how you had people with THICK southern accents right along with people with no trace of an accent. Metropolitan Columbus though? Yeah, not much accent until you get into the surrounding country.
"Hi! Can you read my comment?" That is what south florida people would say if they wantted you to read thier comment.
I get the impression there wouldnt be enough space in the comment box for ky people based on what he said in 2:50 - 3:20 . They talk a half hour before getting to the point...wow. Not saying its bad but I am just impressed by the diffrence, because we have a time limit of like 5 seconds or less to get to the point. Cool video learned alot!
that's correct, Cincinnati area
i live in northern ohio, and we do kinda have a bland accent, but some of us speak with a southern accent. funny thing is whenever i'm in a different state, they always look at me funny, because what they call soda, i call it pop. and when they say shopping cart, i say buggie.
this was filmed in the 80s.......
There is a Tx accent. Go to the country. You'll hear that drawl'. But, so many non natives are flocking in that it's it's practically nonexistent in major areas. Houstonians/folks in Corpus used to have some RIDICULOUS drawls, when I last visited. Very 'suth'un bellish' way of phrasing things...as if they came straight out of GA. I didn't realize that I had mine until I went elsewhere. I don't sound like a hick - but, everyone thought my little way of phrasing things was cute.
I'm from Dallas, Texas and I don't have any accent at all. We don't ride horses to school and wear cowboy hats (though some kids have the whole boots and jeans thing going on). My dad is from Connecticut and my mom is from jersey so that's a huge reason why I don't have a big texan accent. I'm actually italian, but occasionally a bit of a Texan accent may slip out. I love Texas, even if it's hot as shit, but I also love the northeast and visit it every summer and winter.
I've lived in Ohio for my whole life, and we don't talk like that. That accent starts to develop once you're in southern Kentucky.
I'm from southeastern Ohio and we deff. have a strong appalachian accent here where I am.
I say 'hia, not O-Hi-O
I was born in north texas and speak just like the guy from idaho with just a hint of texas accent
@ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz Met a couple of Scots while I was in the Navy and I'd say that door swings both ways, Good stuff that Single Malt too! I live in Australia but originally from Texas.
my dad spent the majority of his life when he was younger in texas... so he has a bit of a texas accent, and we're from ohio.
i've picked up a bit of it... but it only comes out when i get mad and i'm whining. lmao
dude @ 4:20 looks like FDR
ky yeah!!!!!!!
I was born and raised in Kentucky.. Clay County im 17 my southern accent is as strong as it gets. Girls speak different boys sound alot more bold with their accent as do i male**
well im from texas and i definitely don't talk like people from KY and OH.
i wanna go somewhere else and have people guess where im from :)
I'm from kentucky, I don't really notice when people around me talk like the people in these videos, but I've been told I don't talk like that, its weird because there are a few words that I say that will come out with that accent but everything else I say doesn't.
ha my dad does that.
and he says perty.
it gets on my nerves.
lmfao.
and you cant forget worsh instead of wash, and pewsh instead of push. haha.
i know a bunch of my familiy who speak just like that in texas
lol im from kentucky! & i sound just like that lol if not worse!
I'm a Ky/OH mix.. if we ever get stationed in Tx.. wow that'll be interesting ;)
I was born, and learned to speak in Texas.
Then my family went to Wisconson. And then Iowa (where I am now).
To sum it up, I have a bastardized Midwest/Texan accent, that is spoken rapid fire Wisconsin style. But I have a heavy southern accent when I am either,
in the south for a while,
or pissed off.
The disadvantages of living in many states during your toddler years. XD
can anyone explain why regional accents change over the decades, i've noticed it in every english accent around the world
People outside of KY don't realize that Louisville is in the state. When they think or hear KY, they think or farms and shit. They don't realize that Louisville is the 27th largest city in the U.S.
I always confuse the hell out of people because of my mutt accent! I was born in Arkansas, moved to Colorado when I was 5 and so I apparently have a combo southern/Hispanic/western accent.
Is there a video of you speaking?
@TexasFreedom70... actually, i believe he was referring to ''westerners'' as western society, including europe, the americas, etc.
Ask a Texan to say "cutie pie"....it's amazingly cute!