I'm a linguist, and I can assure you it's really hard to compare accents by listening to isolated words. Our accent comes from connected speech and intonation patterns. When you have people pronounce isolated words, you can compare their PRONUNCIATION of words, but not their ACCENT. (Yes: pronunciation and accent are not the same thing). And, needless to say, everybody speaks with an accent. Saying (orally) "I don't have an accent" is like saying "I don't exist." How can you not exist if you're saying a sentence? How can you say you do not have an accent if you're speaking with an accent as you say it? Greetings from Brazil.
Not true in the US. In the US, an accent is a "distinct mode of pronunciation of a locality." If you dont pronounce a word the way the dictionary says, then that's an accent. If you do pronounce words the way the dictionary says, you do NOT have an accent. That's literally the textbook definition. We're not as fancy as Brazil lol
I swear I need to do one of these. I remember in college my best friend was so surprised when she heard me speak to my mom on the phone because my accent came out (I’m from North Carolina like the girl in red). Sometimes I hear it but I often don’t but I’ve been told it’s definitely there and Southern. 😅 I don’t think I hear other Southern accents that easily though.
You realize there’s some inherently insulting in the “you’re one of the good ones” comment, right? It betrays a generalization about the entire state, which is ridiculous. “Oh, that state is full of pretentious losers… you’re ok, tho…”
As a NY'er, i can say that our accent varies depending on which borough your from, your ethnic background, and your age. An 45 y.o. Italian person from Staten Island would have a much different accent than a 16 y.o. Puerto Rican person from Queens or a 30 y.o. black person from Brooklyn. I would guess, this young lady is not from a borough, but rather another city in NY.
Lol i never heard Bagel said like that. She sounds like she has a Caribbean influece in some of her words. While i have a Carib background, there were no accents in my home. I feel like we mostly shorten our words, and she made it longer, which was stranger as heck lol it pretty much sounds like "bay-gu" when i say it.
Or maybe not Caribbean, cuz that "downtown" sounded like some sort of African ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i dont know, i just know she doesnt pronounce words like anyone i know. They need at least 5 people per borough for us 🤣 🤣 🤣
Agreed, they sound the same here. I also think they should have either had much older or younger people for this experiment. I also believe these subjects are more educated, which makes a huge difference in the pronunciation of your "speech" pattern.
Exactly what I thought. Atlanta girl sounds like a generic suburban American. The New Yorker barely has an accent. NC girl has a very mild accent as well. They all sound exactly the same
@@Spectonimous it's funny that the nc girl had the strongest accent, even tho as a north carolinian i can confirm it was pretty mild for us. we definitely got the best representation tho, i know atlantans/georgians and new yorkers are pissed they had girls with average suburban american accents to represent them. 💀
@@breadophileI’m also a North Carolinian and I have a stronger accent than her 😭 I agree her accent was the strongest in the video but she sounds regular to me. I also remember my first time going to New York last year, I went to the Bronx and saw my ex’s aunts and uncles and oh my gosh I was so confused at times. Very very strong accents from them, the New Yorker in this video barely had one. Kinda disappointing
@@lavinder11 I've never been to America. I went to an international school were there were a bunch of students from different countries. There was this (only) American girl who used to insist that everyone had an accent but her. We used to try to explain to her but she was like nah
@@lavinder11and by standard, we mean neutral. Like an accent with very little inflection or emphasis or stress on certain syllables and words, I believe
lmfao fr. idk why they're comparing isolated words and thinking that is what determines a person's accent. clearly not a single linguist was involved in the making of this video.
@@nodrvgs I think that's why I made the comment, like most of us who are here Ive watched alot of videos on this topic including groups of people from different provinces comparing each other and this has to be one of the most disorganised and utterly pointless gatherings Ive ever seen. The only discernible accents here are the New Yorker and the Californian cos those accents are pretty obvious in themselves but the rest of them may as well not even be there cos there's no real difference in them at all and one of them is sposed to be a southerner. Maybe if they'd spent less time laughing at the Californian's presentation and more time on the reason they're sposed to be there it might've been slightly more informative. Or you know, get people with actually different accents?
so glad to see someone from North Carolina in here😭😭yall didn’t peep when she said “y’all”🤣yeah, i wouldn’t change my southern accent for anything in the world hahaha
They all speak with the same upper/middle class white collar professional accent. I don't know if they all started that way, if they didn't they've likely learned to suppress any distinguishing factors as they may be perceived as less educated or less professional if they sound too regional.
A lot of people from america after a certain generation have non regional accents simply because of exposure and the way we're educated. A lot people live in big cities now which exposes us to a lot more diverse groups of people. My grandparents for example who are all in their 80s would have more distinct accents because they grew up in more isolated rural area. There are a lot of other factors involved but i don't feel like writing an essay
My parents are 80, so you and I are a generation apart. I will never understand how youngsters nowadays claim that writing more than 4 lines of text is writing an essay. When I was 14 in high school, I wrote a 30 pages paper about the Soviet Union for Geography class and another 20 pages one about subatomic particles for Physics. And there wasn't Internet back then, we were still using huge encyclopaedias from the library and typewriters in 1980's...
I'm from the U.S. They didn't choose good people for this project. All these people speak general, standard American English. They are affecting their differences here but it is not natural.
Same in germany, take a guy speaking lower german, a salon, a barian, a franconian,a Rhinelander , a Berliner and a Westphalian for example and thats only a few.
Okay, about New York: Firstly, New York City has different sections called boroughs, and they all have different accents + sub-accents. The girl here could be from any one of them, or probably she moved there later on in life. There’s a chance she wasn’t born there, but hard to say completely for sure. Secondly, NY is not just the city you see in movies. That’s a tiny piece of it. There’s also the upstate New York region, which is just farms and wide open land as far as you can see. The other area is Long Island, which can be anywhere from a 20 minute to two hour drive over to the city (depending on which part of the island you’re on). I live there, and my accent is not like the typical city accent you see in movies (do ya want sum waddah o kawfee?). It has different accents depending on which part of LI you’re looking at. Mine is standard, I guess.
Hunter didn’t have a New York accent. She sounded like she grew up some place else and then moved there. We are losing our accent in the lower New York area( Northern New York sounds more country), but a lot of us you can tell where we are from and she doesn’t sound like us.
I was looking for this comment.....Hunter definitely DOESN'T sound like she's originally from NY. Most of her words I was like "ahh ahh...that is NOT how we New Yorkers pronounce that 🤦🏾♀️😅
They would sound the same. All the participants sounded the same. Unless you're over 50, you'll sound more like an "American" versus the locale you are from.
The word that interested me the most was "syrup," because the pronunciation of the "y" changed ever so slightly with each person. It was almost perfect, but I think Atlanta's was slightly more wide sound than New York's, so if they switched places you could hear a distinct transformation from wide to closed vowel sound.
I thought that was interesting, as well. In Alabama, we mostly pronounce it “sir-up” instead of “seer-up”, although you hear more of the latter further north, in areas like Huntsville. Funny, though, if one goes a bit further north into south Tennessee, “sir-up” becomes more common once again.
Shes right about oil. Deeper south we drag the sound. Depends on how heavy or fast youre talking. But also environment are in. If professional, then we say it regular.
The state of NY most definitely has distinctive regional accents. Some Upstate accents can sound Canadian and the rural accents are very 'country'. The major urban areas have their own nuances as well.
Absolutely! People in New York City/Downstate have told me I sound Canadian ... A LOT. I grew up in Rochester and crossed the border for as long as I remember. And people from Canada also tell me I sound like I'm Canadian, too! But then they say I sound like a New Yorker when I say certain things.
Yes thats true! Most people think were all the same. Like you say im from NY but everyone who doesnt live there thinks New York city. Like the whole state is the city!
@@rosemaryedwards7239 Yeah, I agree with that. If I say I'm from New York, to people I know online, they think the city. I then say I'm from The Island and they are lost...I mean Long Island though. The City is Manhattan...The Island is Long Island and then everywhere else you specify. But seriously the New Yorker here does not sound like I do...when she said bagel especially, I sound more the like the one next to her, same for a few other words as well honestly.
Ian was great! I don’t know why they were putting SO much emphasis on every little detail about his actions … 😮😀 They were all great and interesting. Very small differences between the “accents”, though. Seems like all of the US speaks more or less the same.
There's different accents even within the same states. North Carolina coast has the Carolina brogue (OY-land instead of I-lend) and then in the mountains it's a very Appalachian dialect with the long I's. The history behind why those accents exist is fascinating.
yeah for those who live in Eastern Carolina (not the coast) a lot of older folks and a small number of younger folks speak the Plantation or Tidewater dialect and it's very noticeable when someone speaks it. They don't pronounce their Rs and it sounds majestic.
Within the same city 🤣 I’m from LA and I can tell when someone if from the East side cause there’s a bit more country to it. And like my father doesn’t say “car” like I would he says it more like “cor” and he’s from south central area, I’m from the southbay a bit more proper and clear.
i wish they picked people who had a native accent, if that makes sense. like folks who talk heavy southern drawl or a thick new york accent. that's what i love to hear.
As an Aussie, I barely noticed a difference between any of these accents. The only one of note was the girl from Ohio, whom I noticed said "Glu'en" for "Gluten" and "Bri'ain" for "Brittain" - the T sound was more a throat sound rather than a tongue and teeth sound (does that make sense?)
@@Jermarenorth and north east Ohio have a “vowel shift” accent where they stress their vowels. Where I’m from in Ohio, we have more of a Pennsylvania accent since we’re so close. It’s a relatively new accent in comparison to others!
I'm not sure if the NY girl is a native New Yorker. I've been living in NYC for over 33 years, since I was 4 years old, and I've never heard anyone pronounce bagel or downtown the way that she pronounces it. Most of the words used in this video have pretty much identical pronunciations across the board.
True, if someone asks you to enunciate a random word, you are most likely going to "correct" it to a standard American accent since usually when that comes up it's because someone is making fun of you, or they can't understand you. Muscle memory is bound to take over in a situation like this.
i think the differences between the accents can be clearly seen not in a single words but more in sentences and longer speeches (i hope u understand) like the way they lengthen or shorten the words at the end of a sentences and all that stuff
I was born and raised in Atlanta Georgia and then I went my senior year of high school in California. Everybody loved the way that I spoke. They couldn't believe how thick of a southern accent was . Everybody kept saying " Please say that for me again, or talk for me" of course I don't realize it until you travel from state to state. I I don't know the people they picked for this video don't really set a good example for the north south , Midwest , East Coast , and west coast accents. Just my opinion😂❤
@@Digital_Gangster alotta ppl claim atl that are really from the surrounding suburbs. if you met somebody from the actual city of atlanta, trust me you'd be able to tell cuz they have a whole different kinda southern accent. but yea when you compare suburban accents to rural country accents, the country accent sounds more southern than forest gump 😂
Two southerners with little to no Southern accent and a New Yorker with little to no New York accent. It's unfortunate how the more unique regional Americans accents are becoming amalgamated with the standard American accent.
I was born in NC. Moved to Texas in 2012. The accent is different even though it’s still the south. Goodness the southwest is different lol. I get made fun of for my accent.
8:10 she's right accent change. I'm originally from Dominican Republic and when I speak Spanish people can't really tell where I'm from. I have Puerto Rican friends Colombians, Mexicans, I'm married to a Peruvian; so my accent is not the same as some of my family members who's close friends are from Dominican Republic because of where they live in the USA.
The Southern Ohio accent is way different than the girl's accent in this video. When I moved from Southern Ohio to North Carolina, my accent was so like theirs that I immediately fit in. No one asked where I was from because I sounded like them. This was a great video!
My guess is because these 5 live overseas (like they address at the end). As an American living in Sweden, I have realized that many Americans who live or work internationally for a long time adjust their accents to be as generic as possible so that non-native speakers can understand them better. If you plucked 5 locals from each of those cities who have never lived anywhere else, then maybe the accents would be more distinct.
One thing I'd point out is that most movies and tv we see are from Hollywood, and that general California accent has become a bit of a standard accent for a lot of the country. If people want to sound like they have a generalized American accent, they're probably a lot more likely to learn it from TV and movies, so it makes sense that people would veer toward the Californian accent. I think the words and phrases they used didn't show the variation as much as some other words they could use. I'm from California, I went to college in Ohio, lived in North Carolina, and have lived in New England as well. Most of these words and phrases chosen don't really illustrate the variation in these accents.
The "standard american accent" is a softened mid-western accent. I think California has pretty similar pronunciation for most things, but different tonality (but also that depends on whether it's northern or southern cali as well).
@@ChrisCypherI think both Charlene and you are correct and here's why. California and the west in general were largely settled by Midwesterners. California in particular was settled by Midwesterners and to a lesser degree by northeasterners, followed by southerners, and European (largely British, Scottish, and German) immigrants. In southern California you see the first white settlers from the east, establish towns (that would later become cities), coming from states like Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, etc. Pasadena--the city where the Rose Parade takes place, was once called the Indiana colony since most of its initial residents were from Indiana (fun fact Julia Child was born and raised in Pasadena). The city of Pomona, east of Pasadena received settlers from Ohio and Pennsylvania. The city of Long Beach was initially settled by people from Iowa. Pasadena neighborhoods were even used as a stand in, in the Halloween movies for Illinois since it has that very mid western any town main street USA vibe. Of course there were also the odd immigrants from Britain/Scotland, Germany, Ireland, Canada, etc. And a few people from New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, etc. But the vast majority of settlers to places like Oregon and California followed the Oregon trail and later Route 66 which originated in Chicago, went through St. Louis, and points further west. Denver was also a stopover point for trails further north. So I've read therefore that while accents are very varied from Texas on east, beginning around Denver going west, the general accent is quite similar and uniform. You don't have as drastic distinctions as say comparing the Boston or New York accent, to the Mid-Atlantic, to the Southern accents. Therefore the California accent is a modified mostly Midwestern accent. But Charlene is correct in that Hollywood films have propagated the western, "California" accent far and wide, and mainstreamed it as the standard American accent. Other regions of the country have even adopted, for example, the Valley girl persona mimicry--even well off (or aspiring) New Yorker trust fund girls trying to ditch the New Yawk/Brooklyn accent. Foreigners have just been conditioned to expect that as the standard American accent. So that's my take on that.
@@ChrisCypher what tone is different? Not everyone in California talks like this guy or the stereotypical Cali accent portrayed in the media. We don’t all sound like valley girls
Its crazy how one country can have so many different accents! Im from the usa and cali, and i never thought about such an occurance until i moved to michigan in my early 20s. I had always thought accents came from people from other countries. Then i moved there and everyone told me I had an accent, lmao! I was thinking that they all accents... 😅 then i meet a dude that had also moved to there that was from new york city.. we both damn near instantly caught on to eachothers accents and guessed what state we where from. 😂 it was pretty hilarious and we got along great, lol. Being from big city places and moving to a tiny town was very much a culture shock for both of us. so having someone there, even if from different states, that grew up in kinda the same big city environment helped a lot. It was all cool for both of us to meet someone from the west/east coast. We often shared stories about our home states and compared how our states where different or the same. Fun stuff. 😁👍✌️
In Ian's defence, he mentioned his state just after Shannon told about her state and then they went: "Oh you Californian" The word "iron" changing in context reminded me of Japanese language where the household device is called アイロン (airon) and the golf club is called アイアン (aian). Same source word, different loanwords.
I’m not a native speaker, but I think they all have a standart American accent. How is Shannon speaking with a Southern accent? Usually I have hard time understanding Southern, but I get every word she says…
It really depends are where in the state you are from. I'm from Raleigh, the capital of NC, and a lot of people have a more generic US accent (we have a lot of "transplants" who live in the city, ie people from all over the country, so the accents kind of merge). If you go out into the countryside, that is when you start to hear the more stereotypical "southern" accent.
We have five dialects in NC. I have been told by people in NC that there's no way I'm from here due to my accent. I was born and raised in North Carolina. I have not resided outside of NC.
Oh now I see! As a person from outside of the States, I usually hear the Southern accent from the films/series and they usually demonstrate the stereotypical one. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t believe she was Southern.
@burakpatan8453 yep that makes sense because in the video she barely has an accent. Honestly these folks weren't good examples because they all have a more general us accent probably due to education level/travel etc.
They are hilarious and chaotic. Would love to see all of them in another video with Christina. They all have accents but you have to listen to the audio without watching the video. Their accents come out when they are talking, not much when they are pronouncing the words.
That's what I was about to say. If they just let them talk freely and get comfortable having a conversation, then introduce the words, it would be easier to catch their accents.
Chelsi sounds less southern than I'd expect. Im from Georgia and I sound like half the stuff differently than her😭 I think I sound more like her when Im code switching 💀
😂 mixed feelings. Unfortunately, many professional fields growing up did not take kindly to accents. I have one, but it isnt strong~ thanks for watching!🎉
According to the labels in the video, Chelsi was representing "Atlanta", not Georgia. And she does speak like a lot of people in Atlanta. Which is to say, with a very straight down the middle, standard American accent. It seems like each of these people came from larger cities in their respective regions, and a lot of people in larger cities generally just don't have strong regional accents anymore. So like... what was the point of it? I dunno, man.
@@Mr._Du Nah if you’re really from the Atlanta metro you’re either gonna sound very Southern or have the Atlanta accent. It’s just that all the other people that aint from her fucking up the real accent.
I love how north Carolina accent & Californian accents sound & i love how they sound the same. I love how the people say their procedure words like: affirmative. Negative. Loud N clear. Clear. All clear. copy that. You got it. Over & out😎🖤 if someone has a laid back relaxed raspy voice tone it sounds even better.
Nah I believe yall. Shit cause I got homeboi and homegirls from new york and they sound different as hell. It's like wit florida you can tell who not really from here fr fr. It's lil shyt that stick out.
6:34 The word being "coffee" and Ian probably (looking by his body and facial expressions) are suffering with a diarrhea and having a bellyache/cramps at this time it's a ULTRA syncronized scenes ever, lmaoo 😂 (Poor Ian, i could see he was not very health when they film this video that day 😔 Something was wrong with him, i hope he was good now and 100% confident like he shows sometimes in another videos 🤣💙)
I love this ! I've lived in North Carolina just for a few years when I was little, but it's great ! But, after the time, California and Atlanta hits me too. NY is a bit fast sometimes, and Ohio is eye opening.
I'm from New York City and I sound nothing like the New Yorker on this video. Even in New York depending on if you're from upstate, on an island or in the city, your accent and/or slang is different. Even within the city itself, you will hear different accents/slang depending on what borough you are from.
The Iron one is funny. Atlanta people usually say it closer to Urn. Like get an Atlantan to say 'Aaron earned an iron urn' and it would sound like 'earn earn an earn earn'.
It really depends on where you are in the state. Like in ATL you’re not gonna really hear a Southern accent from someone who was born and raised there for like the first 15 years of their life (if you’re from the North you might be able to but just a bit), but if you somewhere more rural then you can definitely hear it in someone who was even at least just born there and raised there for 5 years or so.
What’s fascinating, even within California, there are different types of accents! You got: valley, Chicano, hills, beach, innercity accents! It’s so wild!
I'm in Georgia and the "pejamas" "pa-jam-mas", "pajamas" is soooo true! It depends on mood and how tired I am! Lol Oil is also "o-yal" here! (Not ya'll) There are so many other words that I wish you guys did! I would love to hear the differences in "coke", "soda" and "pop"!! Now, saying all that, I lived in Oklahoma for 5 years and was told I didn't have an accent by many! But if I got emotional or upset, my southern twang would come out!
As an Ohioan and with family in Michigan, this lady must be from Northern Ohio like Toledo since there's a very subtle Michigan accent in there. I heard it plain as day when she said "Downtown" for example.
I'm from Queens and believe me my ny accent is wild I love my accent and she might be because she tripped me out on all of them especially coffee I was born in queens and raised in Brooklyn so you can imagine
I think there are about three Ohio accents: the Southern sounding Cincinnati accent, central Ohioan which over pronounces all of the word, and Cleveland accent which pronounces “ag” as “eg”.
@@christophershell7564I'd saw the SE and SW part of Ohio are completely different. SE is more WV, and SW is more KY. Then central Ohio kind of teeters between newscaster and SE, and the Northern parts can vary between MI, CA, and NY somehow 😂
America is unique. American accents have to be broken down to region. But then also broken down to race. But then also broken down to ethnicity. And even in some cases the vernacular, slang meanings or pronunciations changes slightly by generation.
It's interesting hearing the girl from Atlanta because we sound different based on the side of town you from. Racial differences are one of the biggest as well as code switching shows up.
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 Phoenix is the capital of Arizona, but there is a city also named "Phoenix" in Putnam County in Georgia (located in middle Georgia). It is a very small town that it has no local government and probably no citizens
Unless they're from the rural south, this generation of Americans have virtually no regional accents. Now their parents might, grandparents definitely.
Growing up in the U.S., I've definitely heard stronger accent differences in person. I agree that all of the people on this video have very similar accents. There are only subtle differences. But this video doesn't feel accurate to the differences I actually hear living in the U.S. There are some very dramatic accent differences across the country, none of which were represented in this video.
These were very bad examples of regional accents. I'm guessing they just had limited access to Americans. They all pretty much have the standard us English accent.
NY girl doesn't really say Bagel like a typical New Yorker. Actually, several of her words (not all) were a bit atypical. But not wrong... NY has a ton of accents. I think she mostly just has another accent mixed in... like if her parents came from another place and she grew up mixing those sounds in.
Lived in ATL for 37 years, but from Cleveland (brief stints in Tennessee and SC made the accents really stand out), but when I went back for my HS reunion, the whole speech pattern was really noticeable and not just regional vernacular like pop or having to designate tea as iced tea, but the more rapid rhythm and more direct, less frou fra, way of conversing. When I first moved South, I found folks to be stand-offish and they found me abrasive when I was being the Ohio version of friendly. And oh, some of the words from old folks really stand out - "arrah" for the letter r, sah-RENE for siren, deeyen for den....
I'm a linguist, and I can assure you it's really hard to compare accents by listening to isolated words. Our accent comes from connected speech and intonation patterns. When you have people pronounce isolated words, you can compare their PRONUNCIATION of words, but not their ACCENT. (Yes: pronunciation and accent are not the same thing). And, needless to say, everybody speaks with an accent. Saying (orally) "I don't have an accent" is like saying "I don't exist." How can you not exist if you're saying a sentence? How can you say you do not have an accent if you're speaking with an accent as you say it? Greetings from Brazil.
Not true in the US. In the US, an accent is a "distinct mode of pronunciation of a locality." If you dont pronounce a word the way the dictionary says, then that's an accent. If you do pronounce words the way the dictionary says, you do NOT have an accent. That's literally the textbook definition. We're not as fancy as Brazil lol
I swear I need to do one of these. I remember in college my best friend was so surprised when she heard me speak to my mom on the phone because my accent came out (I’m from North Carolina like the girl in red). Sometimes I hear it but I often don’t but I’ve been told it’s definitely there and Southern. 😅 I don’t think I hear other Southern accents that easily though.
Us New Orleans noo wee say EARL
even they realized that it was a fair comparison lol
Yup, it's like trying to compare accents during karaoke. Never gonna happen.
Now give them 4 alcoholic beverages each and watch their true accents come out
Not likely to happen, but that would be much fun
I would love if this happened
😂😂😂
Yes and I want to see all of their reactions when the term “3-way” is mentioned 😂 Shallen will be the different one.
😂😂😂
I’m glad we got a normal dude for California that doesn’t try to complicate or exaggerate anything, he’s cool
He are really funny and types of women
While still definitely being California. He's a good one.
Cali girl👋🏽
Dude! A Segel just coooold pooped on my head.
You realize there’s some inherently insulting in the “you’re one of the good ones” comment, right? It betrays a generalization about the entire state, which is ridiculous. “Oh, that state is full of pretentious losers… you’re ok, tho…”
The accents would have been more distinguishable had the panelists not been world travelers.
This was very anticlimactic because in regular conversation it's not like this at all lol 😂
As a NY'er, i can say that our accent varies depending on which borough your from, your ethnic background, and your age. An 45 y.o. Italian person from Staten Island would have a much different accent than a 16 y.o. Puerto Rican person from Queens or a 30 y.o. black person from Brooklyn. I would guess, this young lady is not from a borough, but rather another city in NY.
She from upstate lol
@@Oh_geezzz facts
Lol i never heard Bagel said like that. She sounds like she has a Caribbean influece in some of her words. While i have a Carib background, there were no accents in my home. I feel like we mostly shorten our words, and she made it longer, which was stranger as heck lol it pretty much sounds like "bay-gu" when i say it.
Or maybe not Caribbean, cuz that "downtown" sounded like some sort of African ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i dont know, i just know she doesnt pronounce words like anyone i know. They need at least 5 people per borough for us 🤣 🤣 🤣
She prolly frm long island
Ian : show off his hair , looks at the camera , preperes his throat, speaks confidently. Yeah , that's it 😅😂
😂😂😂 every single time
@WorldFriends07HAHAHA😆 SCAMMER
Californian
That guy seems so insecure and stressed, full of planned and practised poses. Hope without camera he can loosen up,
@@shiraz9986Me when I record myself. Hahahaha
They needed someone from Chicago, Baltimore, DC, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philly, Bronx(NYC), Dallas and Boston
And Mississippi
I'll be the one from the Bronx 😊
I'm from New Orleans and I said ever word with them and it was different, especially oil. 😅
Agreed, they sound the same here. I also think they should have either had much older or younger people for this experiment.
I also believe these subjects are more educated, which makes a huge difference in the pronunciation of your "speech" pattern.
And washington state.
Who gathered this group together and thought, This group is a good representation of the variety of American accents?
LMFAOO fr, they half-assed this 🤣
Seriously. They all sounded the same
Exactly what I thought. Atlanta girl sounds like a generic suburban American. The New Yorker barely has an accent. NC girl has a very mild accent as well. They all sound exactly the same
@@Spectonimous it's funny that the nc girl had the strongest accent, even tho as a north carolinian i can confirm it was pretty mild for us. we definitely got the best representation tho, i know atlantans/georgians and new yorkers are pissed they had girls with average suburban american accents to represent them. 💀
@@breadophileI’m also a North Carolinian and I have a stronger accent than her 😭 I agree her accent was the strongest in the video but she sounds regular to me. I also remember my first time going to New York last year, I went to the Bronx and saw my ex’s aunts and uncles and oh my gosh I was so confused at times. Very very strong accents from them, the New Yorker in this video barely had one. Kinda disappointing
Bro is acting the most professional but is getting roasted by everyone 😅😭😭
Ikr, I liked him 😊
Side note for non Americans: when Americans say they don’t have an accent they mean they have a standard American accent, not a regional one
I just think they think they're the default and people elsewhere have the accents 😂
@yoboidylxnzw No, it means standard American accent. We're comparing accents within the country, not with the rest of the world.
@@lavinder11 I've never been to America. I went to an international school were there were a bunch of students from different countries. There was this (only) American girl who used to insist that everyone had an accent but her. We used to try to explain to her but she was like nah
@@lavinder11and by standard, we mean neutral. Like an accent with very little inflection or emphasis or stress on certain syllables and words, I believe
@yoboidylxnzw That's her at your international school. We're talking about Americans in the USA.
I think we can safely say we learned absolutely nothing from this lol
😂😂
lmfao fr. idk why they're comparing isolated words and thinking that is what determines a person's accent. clearly not a single linguist was involved in the making of this video.
@@nodrvgs I think that's why I made the comment, like most of us who are here Ive watched alot of videos on this topic including groups of people from different provinces comparing each other and this has to be one of the most disorganised and utterly pointless gatherings Ive ever seen. The only discernible accents here are the New Yorker and the Californian cos those accents are pretty obvious in themselves but the rest of them may as well not even be there cos there's no real difference in them at all and one of them is sposed to be a southerner. Maybe if they'd spent less time laughing at the Californian's presentation and more time on the reason they're sposed to be there it might've been slightly more informative. Or you know, get people with actually different accents?
@@JohnBloggs-m8l “one of the most disorganized and utterly pointless gatherings you’ve ever seen” LMFAOO 🤣
You're right they all sound the same😂
For the record, Atlanta is not a state.
Thats weird I always thought it was 😂 But I'm not American otherwise that would be embarrassing
Of course 🤦🏾♂
Lol yeah, Atlanta is a city (the capital) from Georgia! @@Nick_80599
Nawww you're a genius
That was driving me nuts from the thumbnail 🤦🏾♀️
so glad to see someone from North Carolina in here😭😭yall didn’t peep when she said “y’all”🤣yeah, i wouldn’t change my southern accent for anything in the world hahaha
I peeped it and said yep she’s from NC. I can’t stop saying y’all and I teach English 😆
In my opinion they do not have the accents of their states.
Except California guy.
He has the basic American accent like what you hear in movies and TV.
As someone from North Carolina she is from wake county probably Cary 😂
@@jjthejet8447yeah it’s giving Wake/Durham/Orange County 😂
@@weepingkoopa2862he definitely isn’t born and raised cali
They all speak with the same upper/middle class white collar professional accent. I don't know if they all started that way, if they didn't they've likely learned to suppress any distinguishing factors as they may be perceived as less educated or less professional if they sound too regional.
A lot of people from america after a certain generation have non regional accents simply because of exposure and the way we're educated. A lot people live in big cities now which exposes us to a lot more diverse groups of people. My grandparents for example who are all in their 80s would have more distinct accents because they grew up in more isolated rural area. There are a lot of other factors involved but i don't feel like writing an essay
I would agree. I am a native Southern Californian. My accent is no different than my boss', who's from Atlanta.
My parents are 80, so you and I are a generation apart. I will never understand how youngsters nowadays claim that writing more than 4 lines of text is writing an essay. When I was 14 in high school, I wrote a 30 pages paper about the Soviet Union for Geography class and another 20 pages one about subatomic particles for Physics. And there wasn't Internet back then, we were still using huge encyclopaedias from the library and typewriters in 1980's...
@@BlackHoleSpain Im pretty sure they didn't mean it literally, also leaving a long comment online can be considered like an essay just bc its long...
@@minco04 yeah I was being sarcastic. I know a lot of people won't read long comments
Yes, also depends on who we are talking to. And sounds change in sentences
You should try this with 5 area of the UK - Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham and London and the difference would be immensely different 😂
Like in France!!! Accents are much more different in European countries, eventhough they are smaller 😂
@@J0HN_D03 True: Belgium would be pandemonium... ABSOLUTE pandemonium. 😂😂
I'm from the U.S. They didn't choose good people for this project. All these people speak general, standard American English. They are affecting their differences here but it is not natural.
Same in germany, take a guy speaking lower german, a salon, a barian, a franconian,a Rhinelander , a Berliner and a Westphalian for example and thats only a few.
Chuck a welsh person in there aswell
"California , Downtown" lol , the way he said this one is both incredible and funny 😂 , even the other girls got surprised by that
He was the only one who said it correctly. 😉
@@bitcoinbellehe said it exactly the same way as Atlanta and North Carolina.
In parts of Houston, they say downtown like this....."dawntawn"
Okay, about New York:
Firstly, New York City has different sections called boroughs, and they all have different accents + sub-accents. The girl here could be from any one of them, or probably she moved there later on in life. There’s a chance she wasn’t born there, but hard to say completely for sure.
Secondly, NY is not just the city you see in movies. That’s a tiny piece of it. There’s also the upstate New York region, which is just farms and wide open land as far as you can see. The other area is Long Island, which can be anywhere from a 20 minute to two hour drive over to the city (depending on which part of the island you’re on). I live there, and my accent is not like the typical city accent you see in movies (do ya want sum waddah o kawfee?). It has different accents depending on which part of LI you’re looking at. Mine is standard, I guess.
Watching Ohio and North Carolina flirt w/ California for 8 minutes
Hunter didn’t have a New York accent. She sounded like she grew up some place else and then moved there. We are losing our accent in the lower New York area( Northern New York sounds more country), but a lot of us you can tell where we are from and she doesn’t sound like us.
I was looking for this comment.....Hunter definitely DOESN'T sound like she's originally from NY. Most of her words I was like "ahh ahh...that is NOT how we New Yorkers pronounce that 🤦🏾♀️😅
I agree!!!
she a transplant probaly moved to ny wen she was 17 lmao
She has a west Indian tinged accent. She doesn't sound like her family from there.
her voice was deep tho
I have never heard a New Yorker pronounce bagels like that before
I said the same thing. I'm a NYer. also oil and iron... I would think she's a transplant
@AS-kf1ol Yeah "iron" was definitely NOT how any native NYC'er would pronounce it. Lol I was so confused 🤨
Yeah, she definitely isn’t a native of NYC.
Her parents are probably Caribbean
@8aba_Yaga thats def irrelevant. She prob from upstate
I would love to see people from Texas and Louisiana participating in this game 😂
Especially New Orleans. I'm from Baton Rouge and their accent is so much different than ours. Or the Cajuns
They would sound the same. All the participants sounded the same. Unless you're over 50, you'll sound more like an "American" versus the locale you are from.
@@Chloe.zyxwvu Now that I think about it, you're probably right.
We'd definitely show more accent. But these kids aren't from rural neighborhoods lol
My exact thoughts
The word that interested me the most was "syrup," because the pronunciation of the "y" changed ever so slightly with each person.
It was almost perfect, but I think Atlanta's was slightly more wide sound than New York's, so if they switched places you could hear a distinct transformation from wide to closed vowel sound.
I thought that was interesting, as well. In Alabama, we mostly pronounce it “sir-up” instead of “seer-up”, although you hear more of the latter further north, in areas like Huntsville. Funny, though, if one goes a bit further north into south Tennessee, “sir-up” becomes more common once again.
Shes right about oil. Deeper south we drag the sound. Depends on how heavy or fast youre talking. But also environment are in. If professional, then we say it regular.
The state of NY most definitely has distinctive regional accents. Some Upstate accents can sound Canadian and the rural accents are very 'country'. The major urban areas have their own nuances as well.
Absolutely! People in New York City/Downstate have told me I sound Canadian ... A LOT. I grew up in Rochester and crossed the border for as long as I remember. And people from Canada also tell me I sound like I'm Canadian, too! But then they say I sound like a New Yorker when I say certain things.
I was born in upstate New York then raised mainly in the south so it’s muddled
Yes thats true! Most people think were all the same. Like you say im from NY but everyone who doesnt live there thinks New York city. Like the whole state is the city!
@@rosemaryedwards7239 Yeah, I agree with that. If I say I'm from New York, to people I know online, they think the city. I then say I'm from The Island and they are lost...I mean Long Island though. The City is Manhattan...The Island is Long Island and then everywhere else you specify. But seriously the New Yorker here does not sound like I do...when she said bagel especially, I sound more the like the one next to her, same for a few other words as well honestly.
I need to rid myself of this accent. 😆
Ian is so effortlessly funny😂
thats because its 4 vanilla women and a gay man
Ian sounded like a local newscaster signing off when he did the gluten free one😆
New York sounds like she's originally Caribbean and Ohio sounds like she's originally European. That could be throwing off the accents even more.
This was too funny 😂As an OG Atlantian, we call oil, "Ol" & syrup "surb". 😂😂😂
Ian was great! I don’t know why they were putting SO much emphasis on every little detail about his actions … 😮😀 They were all great and interesting. Very small differences between the “accents”, though. Seems like all of the US speaks more or less the same.
It's because they are a little crushing on Ian
@@deejayencontro4113 I guess you’re correct 😉
You are right. He is hot though
Because the two girls next to him were crushing on him the whole time. Take a shot every time NC makes eyes at or touches Ian. LOL
cause they want the D
There's different accents even within the same states. North Carolina coast has the Carolina brogue (OY-land instead of I-lend) and then in the mountains it's a very Appalachian dialect with the long I's. The history behind why those accents exist is fascinating.
yeah for those who live in Eastern Carolina (not the coast) a lot of older folks and a small number of younger folks speak the Plantation or Tidewater dialect and it's very noticeable when someone speaks it. They don't pronounce their Rs and it sounds majestic.
Within the same city 🤣 I’m from LA and I can tell when someone if from the East side cause there’s a bit more country to it. And like my father doesn’t say “car” like I would he says it more like “cor” and he’s from south central area, I’m from the southbay a bit more proper and clear.
@@treyandrews3618my ex husband and his family have lived in Onslow County since forever and at times I would look at him like say what.lol
never heard of an appalachian accent before
Hers sounds central
Ian is killing it! He is so funny😂. I think he should be an actor.
That's probably what HE thinks.
And you'd BOTH be wrong.
@@richardbuchanan7124 yeah you are right. I came back to watch this video and I find Ian cringy as hell. I guess I should delete my comment
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 I'll wait.
He’s not confident
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826lol🤣🤣
i wish they picked people who had a native accent, if that makes sense. like folks who talk heavy southern drawl or a thick new york accent. that's what i love to hear.
Same 💯
He sounds like he's trying to sell us something, lol. "and I say, gluten free"💸
As an Aussie, I barely noticed a difference between any of these accents. The only one of note was the girl from Ohio, whom I noticed said "Glu'en" for "Gluten" and "Bri'ain" for "Brittain" - the T sound was more a throat sound rather than a tongue and teeth sound (does that make sense?)
The "glottal stop".
They all pretty much spoke standard American English. This experiment was poorly done.
I’m from Ohio and I also have a hard time pronouncing the “T” sound in many words, when I say “water” it’s sounds more like “wadder”
@@Jermarenorth and north east Ohio have a “vowel shift” accent where they stress their vowels. Where I’m from in Ohio, we have more of a Pennsylvania accent since we’re so close. It’s a relatively new accent in comparison to others!
For gluten, most of them said glu’n but one of them said glu’in. They all had a glottal stop but one of them out a distinct vowel after it
These girls are glazing this man 😂😂😂😂😂
That's what I was talking about.
It’s prolly cause he’s gay or they are attracted to him
I'm not sure if the NY girl is a native New Yorker. I've been living in NYC for over 33 years, since I was 4 years old, and I've never heard anyone pronounce bagel or downtown the way that she pronounces it. Most of the words used in this video have pretty much identical pronunciations across the board.
She is definitely not from New York City. I bet she's from the Caribbean.
Why every time the guy says something, these girls start giggling, laughing, reacting completely out of proportion?
Frrr they obviously like him but the way they be acting is kinda embarrassing for their big age
Somebody get New York a hearing aid, yall AINT sound the same 😂😂😂😂
Also, Atlanta Janice! It’s “arn” 😂😂😂
Why is everyone so good looking? Especially Hunter and Shannon like woah😍🔥
They’re models in Korea.
Shannon ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The two white people? 🙃
@@GenerationNextNextNextHunter is the one from NY
The differences are more evident when they start talking to each other.
Yes🎉
True, if someone asks you to enunciate a random word, you are most likely going to "correct" it to a standard American accent since usually when that comes up it's because someone is making fun of you, or they can't understand you. Muscle memory is bound to take over in a situation like this.
Girl, there is no reason to be ashamed of saying oil like that. I'm from GA and I say it that way. Southern accents are acceptable and beautiful. 💖
If oil doesn't sound like awl, then y'all aint right! 😂😂
@@OriginalGlorfindelI came here to say I’m from Alabama and I’ve heard people my entire life say “awl” or “ol” 😂
@@MahaliaMD73 I'm not from Floribama, rather the GA/FL coast. We have a lot of Appalachian words as well.
Lol according to this video that's shna Atlanta
They are just geeking over dude
I am from Russia, and we say: all four young ladies are flirting with the young man 😂❤❤❤❤ Love the gigles and the joy of this function)))))
i think the differences between the accents can be clearly seen not in a single words but more in sentences and longer speeches (i hope u understand)
like the way they lengthen or shorten the words at the end of a sentences and all that stuff
I was born and raised in Atlanta Georgia and then I went my senior year of high school in California. Everybody loved the way that I spoke. They couldn't believe how thick of a southern accent was . Everybody kept saying " Please say that for me again, or talk for me" of course I don't realize it until you travel from state to state. I I don't know the people they picked for this video don't really set a good example for the north south , Midwest , East Coast , and west coast accents. Just my opinion😂❤
People I've met from Atlanta barely even have an accent compared to others from rural south 🤷
Yeah I don't know if I even could have guessed where they were all from lol
@@Digital_Gangster alotta ppl claim atl that are really from the surrounding suburbs. if you met somebody from the actual city of atlanta, trust me you'd be able to tell cuz they have a whole different kinda southern accent. but yea when you compare suburban accents to rural country accents, the country accent sounds more southern than forest gump 😂
Tell me you're a model without telling me you're a model, Ian. 😂
He doesn't look like a model.
And yet, his mannerisms suggest otherwise
Shoot, it really might just be a California thing lol
@@JLDReactions I was gonna call you ugly but then I saw your pfp. You're Hella cute
@@innitbruv-lascocomics9910lmao
@@13Kr4zYAzN13 No it's not. Trust me
You all should've had someone from southern GA. The accent is thicker down south.
Two southerners with little to no Southern accent and a New Yorker with little to no New York accent. It's unfortunate how the more unique regional Americans accents are becoming amalgamated with the standard American accent.
Ian was trying to make every word he said sound like a commercial ad fr 🤣🤣🤣
And he delivered and made us californians proud of him.
Omg! North Carolina represent!😭✨never seen a southern from the Carolina’s in these type of videos
i said the same!! we’re finally on the map haha
I was born in NC. Moved to Texas in 2012. The accent is different even though it’s still the south. Goodness the southwest is different lol. I get made fun of for my accent.
8:10 she's right accent change. I'm originally from Dominican Republic and when I speak Spanish people can't really tell where I'm from. I have Puerto Rican friends Colombians, Mexicans, I'm married to a Peruvian; so my accent is not the same as some of my family members who's close friends are from Dominican Republic because of where they live in the USA.
The Southern Ohio accent is way different than the girl's accent in this video. When I moved from Southern Ohio to North Carolina, my accent was so like theirs that I immediately fit in. No one asked where I was from because I sounded like them. This was a great video!
They need me on that panel to represent the south. I was born and raised in Alabama! The Atlanta lady really let me down! Lol
Me too to everything you said lol. Born and raised in Alabama and I was thinking the same thing about Atl girl ngl 😅.
To be honest, I didn't feel the difference🤷♂
PS I like how Ian represents California "downtown"🤣 This guy deserves more time on this channel
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There wasn't. All these people speak standard American English.
Same. It’s funny they think there’s a difference
My guess is because these 5 live overseas (like they address at the end). As an American living in Sweden, I have realized that many Americans who live or work internationally for a long time adjust their accents to be as generic as possible so that non-native speakers can understand them better. If you plucked 5 locals from each of those cities who have never lived anywhere else, then maybe the accents would be more distinct.
wow, it's incredible how similar they all sound! i'll watch this again and again
One thing I'd point out is that most movies and tv we see are from Hollywood, and that general California accent has become a bit of a standard accent for a lot of the country. If people want to sound like they have a generalized American accent, they're probably a lot more likely to learn it from TV and movies, so it makes sense that people would veer toward the Californian accent.
I think the words and phrases they used didn't show the variation as much as some other words they could use. I'm from California, I went to college in Ohio, lived in North Carolina, and have lived in New England as well. Most of these words and phrases chosen don't really illustrate the variation in these accents.
The "standard american accent" is a softened mid-western accent. I think California has pretty similar pronunciation for most things, but different tonality (but also that depends on whether it's northern or southern cali as well).
@@ChrisCypher i saw vids about nyc from 2001 and a lot of people had different accents
I feel like the Atlanta girl was the most regular American accent without accent
@@ChrisCypherI think both Charlene and you are correct and here's why.
California and the west in general were largely settled by Midwesterners. California in particular was settled by Midwesterners and to a lesser degree by northeasterners, followed by southerners, and European (largely British, Scottish, and German) immigrants.
In southern California you see the first white settlers from the east, establish towns (that would later become cities), coming from states like Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, etc. Pasadena--the city where the Rose Parade takes place, was once called the Indiana colony since most of its initial residents were from Indiana (fun fact Julia Child was born and raised in Pasadena). The city of Pomona, east of Pasadena received settlers from Ohio and Pennsylvania. The city of Long Beach was initially settled by people from Iowa. Pasadena neighborhoods were even used as a stand in, in the Halloween movies for Illinois since it has that very mid western any town main street USA vibe.
Of course there were also the odd immigrants from Britain/Scotland, Germany, Ireland, Canada, etc. And a few people from New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, etc.
But the vast majority of settlers to places like Oregon and California followed the Oregon trail and later Route 66 which originated in Chicago, went through St. Louis, and points further west. Denver was also a stopover point for trails further north. So I've read therefore that while accents are very varied from Texas on east, beginning around Denver going west, the general accent is quite similar and uniform. You don't have as drastic distinctions as say comparing the Boston or New York accent, to the Mid-Atlantic, to the Southern accents.
Therefore the California accent is a modified mostly Midwestern accent. But Charlene is correct in that Hollywood films have propagated the western, "California" accent far and wide, and mainstreamed it as the standard American accent. Other regions of the country have even adopted, for example, the Valley girl persona mimicry--even well off (or aspiring) New Yorker trust fund girls trying to ditch the New Yawk/Brooklyn accent. Foreigners have just been conditioned to expect that as the standard American accent.
So that's my take on that.
@@ChrisCypher what tone is different? Not everyone in California talks like this guy or the stereotypical Cali accent portrayed in the media. We don’t all sound like valley girls
Its crazy how one country can have so many different accents! Im from the usa and cali, and i never thought about such an occurance until i moved to michigan in my early 20s. I had always thought accents came from people from other countries. Then i moved there and everyone told me I had an accent, lmao! I was thinking that they all accents... 😅 then i meet a dude that had also moved to there that was from new york city.. we both damn near instantly caught on to eachothers accents and guessed what state we where from. 😂 it was pretty hilarious and we got along great, lol. Being from big city places and moving to a tiny town was very much a culture shock for both of us. so having someone there, even if from different states, that grew up in kinda the same big city environment helped a lot. It was all cool for both of us to meet someone from the west/east coast. We often shared stories about our home states and compared how our states where different or the same. Fun stuff. 😁👍✌️
0:59 Ian had me at the safe word😂😂😂😂😂😂
In Ian's defence, he mentioned his state just after Shannon told about her state and then they went: "Oh you Californian"
The word "iron" changing in context reminded me of Japanese language where the household device is called アイロン (airon) and the golf club is called アイアン (aian). Same source word, different loanwords.
I’m not a native speaker, but I think they all have a standart American accent. How is Shannon speaking with a Southern accent? Usually I have hard time understanding Southern, but I get every word she says…
It really depends are where in the state you are from. I'm from Raleigh, the capital of NC, and a lot of people have a more generic US accent (we have a lot of "transplants" who live in the city, ie people from all over the country, so the accents kind of merge). If you go out into the countryside, that is when you start to hear the more stereotypical "southern" accent.
We have five dialects in NC. I have been told by people in NC that there's no way I'm from here due to my accent. I was born and raised in North Carolina. I have not resided outside of NC.
Oh now I see! As a person from outside of the States, I usually hear the Southern accent from the films/series and they usually demonstrate the stereotypical one. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t believe she was Southern.
@burakpatan8453 yep that makes sense because in the video she barely has an accent. Honestly these folks weren't good examples because they all have a more general us accent probably due to education level/travel etc.
They are hilarious and chaotic. Would love to see all of them in another video with Christina.
They all have accents but you have to listen to the audio without watching the video.
Their accents come out when they are talking, not much when they are pronouncing the words.
That's what I was about to say. If they just let them talk freely and get comfortable having a conversation, then introduce the words, it would be easier to catch their accents.
as a californian, I can confirm we do say bagel
There’s a distinct separation… just Ohio. Everyone else was communicating… but the extreme turn and leg cross,issue and it impacted the interactions
Chelsi sounds less southern than I'd expect. Im from Georgia and I sound like half the stuff differently than her😭 I think I sound more like her when Im code switching 💀
It didnt make the cut, but Hunter and I def mentioned it. While living in Korea, you pretty much remain in a state of switch😅
@livinglifewithchelcichuu6721 oh no😭 I don't wanna feel like a customer support agent every day
@@amaraw9893 dun dun dunnn, our reality, haha
For sure I say ol and iaaaaan lol 😂 I’m just country unfortunately. T from gluten is for sure gone just like cotton and Atlanta.
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Im from California and i am legitimately confused why all the girls laugh everytime Ian says a word
It's because they are attracted to him...especially the woman from North Carolina.
They are crushing on him both of the blonde chicks and he knows it he's just eating this up😅
Cuz he does it suave while looking at the camera
It's his height and Deep voice he honestly has his own accent because of his deep voice and tone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cause he acts weird when he says the words
Not a hit of Georgia in Chelsea’s accent, that I heard. She almost sounds more Cali than the California dude lol.
😂 mixed feelings. Unfortunately, many professional fields growing up did not take kindly to accents. I have one, but it isnt strong~ thanks for watching!🎉
According to the labels in the video, Chelsi was representing "Atlanta", not Georgia. And she does speak like a lot of people in Atlanta. Which is to say, with a very straight down the middle, standard American accent.
It seems like each of these people came from larger cities in their respective regions, and a lot of people in larger cities generally just don't have strong regional accents anymore. So like... what was the point of it? I dunno, man.
@@Mr._Du Nah if you’re really from the Atlanta metro you’re either gonna sound very Southern or have the Atlanta accent. It’s just that all the other people that aint from her fucking up the real accent.
@@Mr._Dufalse, all false lol
@@thesharinganknightwhat bout if your from Decatur then moved to az and baton right
I love how north Carolina accent & Californian accents sound & i love how they sound the same. I love how the people say their procedure words like: affirmative. Negative. Loud N clear. Clear. All clear. copy that. You got it. Over & out😎🖤 if someone has a laid back relaxed raspy voice tone it sounds even better.
Im black and from the Midwest you will NEVER know how we are going to pounce a word at any given time.🤷🏽♀️
She not from ny fr 😒
Right! NY doesn’t sound like this🙄
Nah I believe yall. Shit cause I got homeboi and homegirls from new york and they sound different as hell. It's like wit florida you can tell who not really from here fr fr. It's lil shyt that stick out.
She gotta be from upstate smh
Nah, she's from minnesota
Yea cause wtf, her accent if offff
You guys are super cool. Nice vibes and positive energy!
In Mississippi we say “CAWFEE”. We also don’t have a pronunciation for “Gluten-Free” because we don’t know what that is.😂
oh is there not a lot of gluten-free stuff in mississippi? i have an allergy to gluten so im genuinely curious
@@treefrogg No we do. Everybody is Mississippi is just so fat 😂
I wanted to hear them say the word “water”. My grandparents are from Pennsylvania and the way they say water always cracks me up. Love them.
6:34 The word being "coffee" and Ian probably (looking by his body and facial expressions) are suffering with a diarrhea and having a bellyache/cramps at this time it's a ULTRA syncronized scenes ever, lmaoo 😂
(Poor Ian, i could see he was not very health when they film this video that day 😔
Something was wrong with him, i hope he was good now and 100% confident like he shows sometimes in another videos 🤣💙)
I’m a Native New Yorker (City) and I moved away in 2015! And my Bronx accent gives me away most of the time! Especially “Cawfee”
Yup that an corner store =D
The NY chick must be from the Canadian side of NY
Ian out here like a news caster 😂
I love this !
I've lived in North Carolina just for a few years when I was little, but it's great !
But, after the time, California and Atlanta hits me too.
NY is a bit fast sometimes, and Ohio is eye opening.
I'm from New York City and I sound nothing like the New Yorker on this video. Even in New York depending on if you're from upstate, on an island or in the city, your accent and/or slang is different. Even within the city itself, you will hear different accents/slang depending on what borough you are from.
I really love this episode. I need more episodes of those five 😎
To my foreign ears only oil and pajamas were that different
The Iron one is funny. Atlanta people usually say it closer to Urn. Like get an Atlantan to say 'Aaron earned an iron urn' and it would sound like 'earn earn an earn earn'.
!!!!! Oh no, I just tried to say it and you're absolutely right! 😂😂
Not really. I’m from ATL and only the most rural people wouldn’t pronounce it as I-Urn.
@@jeremiah_12 grew up in the A, and I still struggle saying that dang word, lol
@@BecomingChelciChuu It also depends on where a person’s parents are from too.
@@jeremiah_12 exactly, the list of things to consider is endless!
It really depends on where you are in the state. Like in ATL you’re not gonna really hear a Southern accent from someone who was born and raised there for like the first 15 years of their life (if you’re from the North you might be able to but just a bit), but if you somewhere more rural then you can definitely hear it in someone who was even at least just born there and raised there for 5 years or so.
What’s fascinating, even within California, there are different types of accents! You got: valley, Chicano, hills, beach, innercity accents! It’s so wild!
Shannon is so gorgeous. Her smile is beautiful.
I’m shocked nobody is commenting on how everyone’s skin in this video looks like a glazed donut.
I'd love to know where in NC and Ohio and California they're each from because it can vary wildly within each state too.
I'm in Georgia and the "pejamas" "pa-jam-mas", "pajamas" is soooo true! It depends on mood and how tired I am! Lol Oil is also "o-yal" here! (Not ya'll) There are so many other words that I wish you guys did! I would love to hear the differences in "coke", "soda" and "pop"!! Now, saying all that, I lived in Oklahoma for 5 years and was told I didn't have an accent by many! But if I got emotional or upset, my southern twang would come out!
As an Ohioan and with family in Michigan, this lady must be from Northern Ohio like Toledo since there's a very subtle Michigan accent in there. I heard it plain as day when she said "Downtown" for example.
I love Hunter’s NY accent that would sneak out at times.
Ok
So I’m from NY and pronounce many of the words totally different from the girl from NY… I guess it depends from the area your from.
Agreed! I'm from NYC maybe she's from Upstate because we don''t pronounce "bagel" and "iron" the way she did.
Thank you!! I’m from Brooklyn NY and I’m listening to her and I’m like what’s going on?! Lol
I'm from Queens and believe me my ny accent is wild I love my accent and she might be because she tripped me out on all of them especially coffee I was born in queens and raised in Brooklyn so you can imagine
@@thecaribbeanbelle6733 SAME I am thinking what NY is she from? Oh she's an Upstater...
Its so interesting to see different accents even within states bc im from Ohio and i pronounce a lot of those words very differently than she does.
I think there are about three Ohio accents: the Southern sounding Cincinnati accent, central Ohioan which over pronounces all of the word, and Cleveland accent which pronounces “ag” as “eg”.
@@christophershell7564 more than that bro. There like 3 just within where I live.
@@christophershell7564I'd saw the SE and SW part of Ohio are completely different. SE is more WV, and SW is more KY.
Then central Ohio kind of teeters between newscaster and SE, and the Northern parts can vary between MI, CA, and NY somehow 😂
@@christophershell7564Yep. Exactly
@@Kelsie154Yes! I would say here in CLE we’re have a mix of NYC, Cali and Canada with a sprinkle of the South for flavor.
America is unique. American accents have to be broken down to region. But then also broken down to race. But then also broken down to ethnicity. And even in some cases the vernacular, slang meanings or pronunciations changes slightly by generation.
It's interesting hearing the girl from Atlanta because we sound different based on the side of town you from. Racial differences are one of the biggest as well as code switching shows up.
Atlanta is not a state, it's the capital of Georgia.
I thought savanna was the capital
@@jamesedwards1284 Nah. Savannah used to be the capital in the 1700s, but after 17 capital changes, Atlanta is now the capital ever since 1868
@@vivd8187 and what is Phoenix?
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 The capital of Arizona
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 Phoenix is the capital of Arizona, but there is a city also named "Phoenix" in Putnam County in Georgia (located in middle Georgia). It is a very small town that it has no local government and probably no citizens
They all sound the same to me. 👍
I hear no difference, we need the brits for that
Or the Irish. These people have no idea what actually distinct accents throughout a country sounds like lol
Unless they're from the rural south, this generation of Americans have virtually no regional accents.
Now their parents might, grandparents definitely.
Growing up in the U.S., I've definitely heard stronger accent differences in person. I agree that all of the people on this video have very similar accents. There are only subtle differences. But this video doesn't feel accurate to the differences I actually hear living in the U.S. There are some very dramatic accent differences across the country, none of which were represented in this video.
These were very bad examples of regional accents. I'm guessing they just had limited access to Americans. They all pretty much have the standard us English accent.
NY girl doesn't really say Bagel like a typical New Yorker. Actually, several of her words (not all) were a bit atypical. But not wrong... NY has a ton of accents. I think she mostly just has another accent mixed in... like if her parents came from another place and she grew up mixing those sounds in.
Lived in ATL for 37 years, but from Cleveland (brief stints in Tennessee and SC made the accents really stand out), but when I went back for my HS reunion, the whole speech pattern was really noticeable and not just regional vernacular like pop or having to designate tea as iced tea, but the more rapid rhythm and more direct, less frou fra, way of conversing. When I first moved South, I found folks to be stand-offish and they found me abrasive when I was being the Ohio version of friendly. And oh, some of the words from old folks really stand out - "arrah" for the letter r, sah-RENE for siren, deeyen for den....