Most American national broadcasters and commercial voice actors have what would be called a General American accent. A majority of the west coast speaks with a General American accent. Media tends to prefer it because it tends to be very neutral and understandable.
Dave's referring to Navajo Code Talk. It's based on the Navajo language, but it's also a code. So even a native Navajo speaker couldn't understand it. The video had just mentioned Star Wars being translated into Navajo. During the attack on the Death Star at the end, all of the ship-to-ship communications were done in Navajo Code Talk.
When you talk about the west coast accents remember in the first video how they said once you cross the Mississippi River in the US there is a little less accent diversity. The east and south were colonized by English speakers longer while the west coast didn't get English speaking settlers until hundreds of years after the first English speaking colonists landed in the east.
14:30 The reason why the Western US (including California) doesn’t have as many distinct dialects is because English speakers haven’t lived here for as long as English speakers in the Eastern US have, so there hasn’t been as much time for distinct dialects to develop Give it a few hundred years though and that will change
I spent my childhood in California, particularly San Diego. I think NorCal people sound differently to my ears. For example almond. I and most SoCal people pronounce the l and most NorCal people don’t. Plus there is a lot of Chicano English. I and most people I knew were bilingual. we tend to pronounce Spanish words and places more in the traditional way than NorCal than as Anglosized.
I’m American. I don’t pronounce marry, merry and Mary all the same way. Merry I say as meh ree, marry maah ree and Mary mah ree. My Southern USA family says Mary as Mae ree.
It is. But he has lots of practice, it is literally his job to teach actors to sound like their characters are who and from when and where they are supposed to be. Probably accounts for the mix that makes these videos so interesting: the technical details and history that the linguists would focus on and the practical examples and comparisons that show the rest of us what they’re talking about.
I wished he had done more of the stereotypical California "Valley Girl accent," more than just Ted and Bill's "Excellent!" He gives a lot of technical information, but not enough spoken examples.
CA has the valley girl accent, and we tend to raise the intonation at the end. There's also some vocab differences that make SoCal distinctive - Freeways, NOT highways Definite articles in freeway numbers - THE 405, THE 5, etc vs I-405 in many places, or just the number in NorCal In slang: If you use "Hella" in a conversation that's a dead-on marker for someone from NorCal There's also a pocket of inland California that has a distinctive Arkansas and Oklahoma influence, from all the farmers that moved there during the Dust Bowl (as seen in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath) Also - as a Korean American, I can definitely hear a Korean American LA accent. I'm not even kidding. It's like a California Valley Girl Accent, but certain consonant sounds and where they stress the words have some subtle Korean influences. You can see some of it from Kpop stars that are Korean Americans: Listen to an interview of Tiffany Young from Girls Generation and it's 95% of a valley girl accent, but 5% of a veeeery sutble Korean influence thrown in her pronunciation of certain words, AND SHE WAS BORN IN THE US
Y'all would love his videos (i believe they're with wired) where he critiques movies accents and whatnot. Great stuff and a ton of neat insights like there were in this series.
I agree wholeheartedly. the best part, though, is him _doing_ the accents. they are almost all spot on. a few of them, you might be able to tell that he isn't a native speaker, but he's almost always to the point where you would think he had at least studied the language for some time. just the variation between any accent, his natural speaking voice, and the few "accent-less accents" is astounding. and the breakdown is just so informative. I'm with Dave, I can usually tell if someone is from New Zealand vs Australia, but I couldn't tell you exactly why they sound different. this guy will do the accents _and_ explain exactly what is happening. just an amazing guy to watch and listen to.
@@chriswright8114 my thoughts exactly. It's one thing to inform us about the linguistics behind all of it and what's really going on under the hood, but to demonstrate it so well, so consistently. An impressive guy for sure
I’m from Texas and have the caught-cot merger. I actually didn’t realize they were supposed to be pronounced differently until I took a class on American accents at university. Chicano English is a really interesting subject. I grew up in a town with many kids who were from Mexico or whose parents were from there. I grew up using a lot of their slang, even though I’m Puerto Rican. And on the subject of the Navajo people, there’s a great book by Chester Nez, who was a code talker in World War II. It describes his time serving in the war, the harrowing situations they faced in the Pacific Theater, and the discrimination they endured through it all. We owe a significant part of our victory in that war to the Navajo code talkers.
@@Chris-rh9ej Yeah, it was really interesting. Funnily enough, I actually took it as a blow off class for my major. But I ended up loving it because there was so much culture and history attached to each accent. I still say “cot” and “caught” the same way, though 😂
The 'windtalkers' were a group of Navajo people who joined the Marines to communicate between various units in the Pacific campaign. They used their own language with some additions like 'turtle' for a tank which they did not have a word for.
I just wanted to say yes The Sopranos is set in New Jersey but in the area of NJ it takes place, the Northern part, a lot of people have NYC accents. North Jersey is apart of what's called the New York tri-tate area aka the NYC metropolitan area, I'm from North Jersey and a lot of people have extremely similar accents to people from NYC. I have a general American accent for the most part but say certain words in a NYC accent, words like coffee, on, off, dog, etc. Tony Soprano and other characters from the show sound exactly like New Yorkers because that's how a lot of North Jersey residents actually talk.
I agree with Dave with regards to Northern California. I was also disappointed that the Accent Tour hardly mentioned San Francisco Bay Area accents and didn't even touch Central California or the area of Eureka -the most Northern part of California. Btw, as a Mexican-American (aka Chicana) I don't have that odd accent that was shown in the video. lol I always that accent was an "East LA" thing -like Cheech Marin (from the comedy duo Cheech & Chong). 😄
I agree, I grew up in Redding. And up there a lot of words tend to add or subtract letters to words. Then you have the Almond growers in the area between Chico and Redding saying they are {Ah monds} not {Al mods}. I have not lived there in almost 30 years and I still do it to the name Theresa {Tree sa}and the word Nuclear {Nuke ah lur}.
As a lady from Southwest Louisiana, I can agree with his accents that he did do for my state. I would also LOVE to see y'alls reaction to accents from the UK (if Mr. Singer does an explanation video), as I really like Dave's accent and would love to know what other ones I tend to lean toward.
Both of my parents grew up speaking Norwegian and came to Minnesota and they both sound like the cast from Fargo. I've been trying to dodge the accent because it's so thick it's embarrassing
I’m from rural southern IL, my husband from St Louis, Missouri, and we’ve spent a big chunk of our marriage along the front range of Colorado. I can hear folks with chunks of the upper Midwest and Canadian pronunciations here, as well as Chicano, indigenous, and even deeper Central American, but unless someone is an immigrant from outside the Americas proper, many Americans’ dialects are not too dissimilar from me and my husband. Sometimes I’ll catch a slight twang, or a soft non-rhotic r, but they’re not common at all in public settings. It’s interesting because there are a lot of East and West Coast folks here. What Eric says is true about the wider variety of dialects in the areas of eastern US. I’d love to visit communities along the Atlantic seaboard of North America, and hear the larger variances in dialect.
Im raised speaking a mix of Chicano and native English, the raising of the end of the end of the sentence to me kind of is like the ‘…’, like saying “this isn’t finished yet” So like, I’d say it “I guess we’ll see where it goes…” but rise it at the end to show I don’t know. But it can’t also be heard telling a little kid you love them or something, to sound friendly.
Totally missed an opportunity to talk about French Canadian accents. I get that it's because they are not nati e English speakers but most are bilingual and someone like Goerge St-Pierre has a very distinctive French Canadian accent. That said it was American focused so it makes sense not to. People from Manitoba also have a distinctive accent similar to Minnesota and then also in the west from Saskatchewan to Banff they have there own rural Canadian dialect. I've driven coast to coast there are plenty of unique accents up here too lol
Also in Ths Atlantic region their are lots of different accents. They only did Newfoundland but skipped Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick which both have accents that sound nothing like the Newfoundland one but are also very different from the Ontario or the Vancouver or Northern accents. They also missed talking about pockets of ethnically diverse or minority accents which differ as well from the Atlantic region. More missed opportunities. Canadian is a bigger country than the US with more space in between people so more distinct accents can be found
Tijuana is a boarder town in walking distance to San Diego CA. Note: Never take your car to Tijuana because you will probably be walking back without a car.
Ok, so I actually grew up in the Matsu Valley in Alaska, and I can confirm that the Matsu accent is very very real. A lot of the people up there grew up with it, and I actually have a weird mix of a Matsu accent, a Utah Accent, and a bit of the Chicano accent as well. It’s an odd mix, and can throw people off. My grandpa has a very strong Matsu Valley Accent, to the point it does sound very much like a Minnesota accent. It’s very very cool to see it talked about in a video!
I'm born and raised in SoCal (My Mom's family were originally from Mississippi but they moved to Bakersfield then eventually Sacramento and my Dad is from Kingston Jamaica but patios isn't any good since he passed away when I was toddler) we have more Spain/Mexican influences and by the early 19th century an influx Asian countries (Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai and other South East Asian). Also we get help from Australia and vice versa during Fire Season (Eucalyptus trees must have been gifts). Yes, we have the General American Accent of course because of the lack of European Influences. AAVE is also distinct in most notable in West Coast Hip Hop NorCal (E40) to SoCal (Snoop Dogg, Tupac, to Kendrick). I found myself "code switching" is what they call it to Mexicali/spanglish dialect and Korean because I grew up more so in DTLA but when we moved to South Central LA I had to learn AAVE and now I use a standard American Accent (which a lot of older generation White Americans prefer here) unless I need to say something in Spanish then you'll get an accent (We have more vitamin D on West coast except for Washington unfortunately so we tend to have an upbeat tone). Also California is still very segregated so you don't get a lot variations in accents and dialects unfortunately and it will take probably couple more generations to even see a bigger difference.
You are correct. In WWII the military used different Native American languages, primarily the Marine Corp. They would be relatively unknown, plus a lot of them have no written language but only orally taught. They were used on the Pacific because the Japanese kept breaking the Allied Codes. Code Talker played a large role in winning the war but unfortunately didn't get the credit they deserved for far too long.
And then there are people like me, who have lived their entire lives in the U.S., but in numerous different states. I think if you heard me speak you would agree that I have a pretty neutral (newscaster) American accent, and I've had residence in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Wyoming, Oregon, and California.
Yep, you were right than the military did use Native Americans(specifically, the Navajo are the most famous example of this but I don't think it was just them) as codetalkers in World War II using codes based on their languages.
Yeah, there is definitely not as much variety in accents in the western US. I live in Southern New Mexico and just noticed the Rocky Mountain -een for our -Ing words. Before watching these video's, I never really realized I've been saying "sayeen". Other than that, I've only really noticed our area as speaking General American or Chicano Spanish accents.
7:05 "I can't stand that inflection". You're not alone Dave. Many Americans find it irritating. One UK word that grates on my ears is "Innit" used for everything, not just a contraction of "isn't it?".
I'm a American-Canadian from near Toronto.... we don't sat "aboot". It's the regular about. IMO you here that more in the prairies, such as Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The East coast like PEI, they definitely sound more Irish, where y'all would here "aboot" too
I'm a truck driver and I travel all over the country. I had a student with me when we went up to Maine. After checking in with a customer he came back to the truck and said, "I couldn't really understand what that guy was saying. I think he's from somewhere in England."🤣 It was just a strong "New Englander" accent. Similar to the character, Jud Crandall, from the movie, Pet Semetary. ua-cam.com/video/sAOjqe62GdE/v-deo.html
I grew up in Brooklyn in a mostly Eastern European Jewish neighborhood where many people spoke Yiddish, many Jews who don't speak Yiddish still speak English with the cadence of Yiddish think Woody Allen or Bernie Sanders.
Newfoundland accents - watch the delightful musical Come From Away about the stranded planes in Newfoundland on 9/11 after the US airspace was closed. A filmed version is available (here in the US at least) on AppleTV+. The actors do a great job with the Newfie accent,
Most of the people in Vancouver who sound a bit Irish (or Scottish) usually come from other parts of Canada unless their family hails from those areas. People born here or who have lived here a long time usually have that standard North American accent like you hear on TV or in the movies.
I wana gonna say, the reason why californais don't sound that distinctive is because most if nat all major new channels and other sorts of media are in the californian accent, you know cuz Hollywood and what not.
Part 3 of that video series always seems like it was rushed to me compared to parts 1 & 2 - so much more that could of been said about the US West & Canada.
I was thinking about the fact that he didn't go over my accent (central canadian) then I realized that basically, if you combine Minnesota, Toronto, and Vancouver, you've basically got us 😆
as someone from california I will say the younger generation of americans who use social media and are online alot definitely have adapted california accent also because of hollywood west coast accent is the generic american accent now. Of course new york and east coast is more distinctive but if yu go to california all the way up to washington idaho nevada oregon they dont sound that different especially in cities
Chicano English is interchangeable with many Latinos(as) here in Southern California. Shared with Central Americans who are relatively recent immigrants here (Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans). So the brief examples provided an insight into how many of us talk in day to day life. In addition: Mike, just grow a mustache, comb your hair back, and you'll fit right in. lol
yeh it's not the whole spanish language that people are using the "x" for, it's literally just for the word "latino/latina". It's legit one word being altered because it's the equivalent of how in english people can use they/them in addition to the usual he/she. Also not everyone does it either it's not mandated lmao. People need to chill, they're so eager to call others a bunch of whiny libtards but they're always the ones getting upset over a different way to say one single word not to mention it's in a language they probably dont even speak. Like damn just keep it pushing and move on lmaoo
Movie translation: I saw several American movies in Greece which had Greek subtitles. Most were comedies and my American friend and I were laughing all through them but we noticed very little laughter in the Greek audience. I think the translation wasn't very good.
'Posh" English developed after migration to the U.S. had largely ended. There was nothing 'posh' about colonial American english. It was the rural English spoken before the emergence of posh English in London in the later 18th century.
Wow, I am a Chicano from L.A. and that was total B.S. I'm not sorry for saying it. We don't all speak like that. Having some white girl try to show how we speak.. Nope!! Also the term "Latin X". That is some new cancel culture type nonsense. Growing up, we were either a Latino, or a Latina. A Chicano or Chicana. None of that Latin X bullsh@t.. Also Yeah. Tijuana is a border town next to San Diego. We just call it TJ.....We are going to TJ for the weekend.
The people in comments screaming about political correctness need to get a life. If they don't want to use a term, fine. But they're arrogant plonkers who get upset when anyone else uses one.
i found it interesting how Dave made an issue of out it both times and then acts surprised when trolls show up making this a political correctness anti woke issue. Its one letter at the end of a word that you are not required to use. Just watch and learn from a video and stop attacking folks. I just cant imagine being upset over a new term that doesnt even apply to me. Language changes over time and no one is forcing you to be "woke" just be respectful its not that hard to ignore what you dont understand.
@@mdr216 Yeah, it's a little odd that the guys who threw a tiny manbaby hissy over "Latinx" are now wondering why they've got people doing the same thing about other words.
@@mdr216 …..he/she. Him/ her. Boy/girl…. Mother/ father… man/ woman ….that is it period. …only FOOLS / IDIOTS think the Normies will change the meanings of these words. Time for woke culture of That’s / It’s to pull a RIP…VAN…WINKLE 🤡
You should check out the video Navajo Code Talkers | Short Documentary | EXPLORE MODE for more information on the brave men who served as Code Talkers and why the use of native language was so effective for the US during WW2
I live in the state of Kentucky, one of the most northern states of what is called the south. There is even a range of dialects in my state. Along the northern border of the state there are more midwest accents and further south there is more southern. There is also a difference in the few big cities and the rural areas here. There is also what is called northern Kentucky which is a handful of counties near Cincinnati, Ohio that is very northern or midwest like in speech. Funny enough many from that area just say they are from Cincinnati like they aren't even from Kenctucky.
18:20 I cannot imagine having a Manc accent and thinking Mathew McConaughey has a cool accent. That would be like eating filet mignon and being like "that Spam stuff is really good!"
People born to "rough" accents tend to find "smooth" accents cool, and vice-versa. I grew up with that lazy-sounding Bill & Ted accent, but always loved harsh Northeast accents. Everybody sounds sarcastic and mean in those accents, and it's great.
I am surprised they did not do the strangeness of the far northern California accent. I grew up there and when I went into the military and move to other parts of the country people could not figure where I was from. Far northern California tends to add and subtract letters to words. The name Theresa in northern California would be {Tree Sa} not the way the rest of the English world says it. Another word I say different is Nuclear, I would say {Nuke Ah Lur}. There is also a very small area that says the world Almond is different than even other Northern Californians. They say {Ah mond} Not {Al Mond}. Since they are the biggest almond growing area in California the Tv new shows in Northern California have to say Almonds like them otherwise they have a fit. There are a lot more but those are the main ones that people will point out to me, and I still do it even though I have not lived the for almost 30 years.
wonder if he does an British one. A lot of accents there and there are even a few that I can barely understand. And its not because of the slang words either.
Agree with Dave, Californian's really are not known to have an accent save for the trends with surfer dudes and valley girls. Chicano english is relegated to that group only and is not a part of the average Californian's speech. I have a very neutral accent and most people can't tell where I'm from based on that alone.
I can't believe he aid us southern Californians talk like that. we don't, we pronounce miss like miss not mess, and we do not sound like surfers but I think he was just saying that is just the stereotype. Those surfers accents are made fun of in the US, its like a classic joke to impersonate it.
The "inflection that turns sentences into questions" is not very common in well spoken Californians. You see it a lot in "valley girls". I grew up in the valley and you'll notice it in people that live there like Kim Kardashian and other such airheads. It's more of an intelligence thing.
Most American national broadcasters and commercial voice actors have what would be called a General American accent. A majority of the west coast speaks with a General American accent.
Media tends to prefer it because it tends to be very neutral and understandable.
We learned in theatre as "Standard American Accent", which is just insulting. I like "General".
Dave's referring to Navajo Code Talk. It's based on the Navajo language, but it's also a code. So even a native Navajo speaker couldn't understand it.
The video had just mentioned Star Wars being translated into Navajo. During the attack on the Death Star at the end, all of the ship-to-ship communications were done in Navajo Code Talk.
Thank you! So many folks don't realize the code talkers spoke in coded Navajo (and Tlingit). It makes it even more insanely impressive.
When you talk about the west coast accents remember in the first video how they said once you cross the Mississippi River in the US there is a little less accent diversity. The east and south were colonized by English speakers longer while the west coast didn't get English speaking settlers until hundreds of years after the first English speaking colonists landed in the east.
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The reason why the Western US (including California) doesn’t have as many distinct dialects is because English speakers haven’t lived here for as long as English speakers in the Eastern US have, so there hasn’t been as much time for distinct dialects to develop
Give it a few hundred years though and that will change
I spent my childhood in California, particularly San Diego. I think NorCal people sound differently to my ears. For example almond. I and most SoCal people pronounce the l and most NorCal people don’t. Plus there is a lot of Chicano English. I and most people I knew were bilingual. we tend to pronounce Spanish words and places more in the traditional way than NorCal than as Anglosized.
I’m American. I don’t pronounce marry, merry and Mary all the same way. Merry I say as meh ree, marry maah ree and Mary mah ree. My Southern USA family says Mary as Mae ree.
The man can slide from accent to accent seamlessly...impressive!
It is. But he has lots of practice, it is literally his job to teach actors to sound like their characters are who and from when and where they are supposed to be. Probably accounts for the mix that makes these videos so interesting: the technical details and history that the linguists would focus on and the practical examples and comparisons that show the rest of us what they’re talking about.
I wished he had done more of the stereotypical California "Valley Girl accent," more than just Ted and Bill's "Excellent!" He gives a lot of technical information, but not enough spoken examples.
Yeah being from that small pocket in the Bay Area, we definitely have our own accent. Valley Girl accent too.
Oh California, you feel underrepresented in something? Puh-LEEEZE 🙄
@@indowneastmaine I'm not from California, I'm from Ohio. Juist interested in dialects, accents, and linguistics.
CA has the valley girl accent, and we tend to raise the intonation at the end. There's also some vocab differences that make SoCal distinctive -
Freeways, NOT highways
Definite articles in freeway numbers - THE 405, THE 5, etc vs I-405 in many places, or just the number in NorCal
In slang: If you use "Hella" in a conversation that's a dead-on marker for someone from NorCal
There's also a pocket of inland California that has a distinctive Arkansas and Oklahoma influence, from all the farmers that moved there during the Dust Bowl (as seen in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath)
Also - as a Korean American, I can definitely hear a Korean American LA accent. I'm not even kidding. It's like a California Valley Girl Accent, but certain consonant sounds and where they stress the words have some subtle Korean influences. You can see some of it from Kpop stars that are Korean Americans: Listen to an interview of Tiffany Young from Girls Generation and it's 95% of a valley girl accent, but 5% of a veeeery sutble Korean influence thrown in her pronunciation of certain words, AND SHE WAS BORN IN THE US
Just listen to Zappa
Y'all would love his videos (i believe they're with wired) where he critiques movies accents and whatnot. Great stuff and a ton of neat insights like there were in this series.
I agree wholeheartedly. the best part, though, is him _doing_ the accents. they are almost all spot on. a few of them, you might be able to tell that he isn't a native speaker, but he's almost always to the point where you would think he had at least studied the language for some time. just the variation between any accent, his natural speaking voice, and the few "accent-less accents" is astounding. and the breakdown is just so informative. I'm with Dave, I can usually tell if someone is from New Zealand vs Australia, but I couldn't tell you exactly why they sound different. this guy will do the accents _and_ explain exactly what is happening. just an amazing guy to watch and listen to.
@@chriswright8114 my thoughts exactly. It's one thing to inform us about the linguistics behind all of it and what's really going on under the hood, but to demonstrate it so well, so consistently. An impressive guy for sure
I second this comment, I’d love to see more Erik singer videos
I’m from Texas and have the caught-cot merger. I actually didn’t realize they were supposed to be pronounced differently until I took a class on American accents at university.
Chicano English is a really interesting subject. I grew up in a town with many kids who were from Mexico or whose parents were from there. I grew up using a lot of their slang, even though I’m Puerto Rican.
And on the subject of the Navajo people, there’s a great book by Chester Nez, who was a code talker in World War II. It describes his time serving in the war, the harrowing situations they faced in the Pacific Theater, and the discrimination they endured through it all. We owe a significant part of our victory in that war to the Navajo code talkers.
A class about American accents sounds like a class I’d love to go back to college and take lol
@@Chris-rh9ej Yeah, it was really interesting. Funnily enough, I actually took it as a blow off class for my major. But I ended up loving it because there was so much culture and history attached to each accent. I still say “cot” and “caught” the same way, though 😂
@@adambridges9366 I’m above the on line, so they sound different for me
Chicano English is simply English spoken by Spanish Speakers w/ typical Spanish phonemes. It's not a "dialect" or even an "accent."
@@vjtonelli There are only a few hundred kinds of spanish, and millions of people who don't speak spanish that speak Chicano english
It's so charming to me how NE has the three diff ways of pronouncing 'Mary', 'Merry', Marry'
My dad lives 45 minutes south of St. John's in Newfoundland. It's a great place! I always end up with the accent by the time I leave every time.
The 'windtalkers' were a group of Navajo people who joined the Marines to communicate between various units in the Pacific campaign. They used their own language with some additions like 'turtle' for a tank which they did not have a word for.
I just wanted to say yes The Sopranos is set in New Jersey but in the area of NJ it takes place, the Northern part, a lot of people have NYC accents.
North Jersey is apart of what's called the New York tri-tate area aka the NYC metropolitan area, I'm from North Jersey and a lot of people have extremely similar accents to people from NYC.
I have a general American accent for the most part but say certain words in a NYC accent, words like coffee, on, off, dog, etc.
Tony Soprano and other characters from the show sound exactly like New Yorkers because that's how a lot of North Jersey residents actually talk.
Those radio operators during WWII were Navajo. They were called code talkers. One of my Dad's friends, was a "code talker."
There is a very large Irish population all over Canada, but especially in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. But those Quebec Irish often speak French.
Didn’t expect the Code Talkers to come up, but I guess it really does apply.
I agree with Dave with regards to Northern California. I was also disappointed that the Accent Tour hardly mentioned San Francisco Bay Area accents and didn't even touch Central California or the area of Eureka -the most Northern part of California. Btw, as a Mexican-American (aka Chicana) I don't have that odd accent that was shown in the video. lol I always that accent was an "East LA" thing -like Cheech Marin (from the comedy duo Cheech & Chong). 😄
I agree, I grew up in Redding. And up there a lot of words tend to add or subtract letters to words. Then you have the Almond growers in the area between Chico and Redding saying they are {Ah monds} not {Al mods}. I have not lived there in almost 30 years and I still do it to the name Theresa {Tree sa}and the word Nuclear {Nuke ah lur}.
We know where you are from in CA by also how you say the freeways
It’s not 405, it’s THE 405 and real locals usually call it “the f*cking 405”
That got dark really quickly..., "Show me on the doll."🤣
As a lady from Southwest Louisiana, I can agree with his accents that he did do for my state. I would also LOVE to see y'alls reaction to accents from the UK (if Mr. Singer does an explanation video), as I really like Dave's accent and would love to know what other ones I tend to lean toward.
The language most often spoken by the "Wind Talkers" was Navajo.
I've also heard them called "code talkers".
Both of my parents grew up speaking Norwegian and came to Minnesota and they both sound like the cast from Fargo. I've been trying to dodge the accent because it's so thick it's embarrassing
I’m from rural southern IL, my husband from St Louis, Missouri, and we’ve spent a big chunk of our marriage along the front range of Colorado. I can hear folks with chunks of the upper Midwest and Canadian pronunciations here, as well as Chicano, indigenous, and even deeper Central American, but unless someone is an immigrant from outside the Americas proper, many Americans’ dialects are not too dissimilar from me and my husband. Sometimes I’ll catch a slight twang, or a soft non-rhotic r, but they’re not common at all in public settings. It’s interesting because there are a lot of East and West Coast folks here.
What Eric says is true about the wider variety of dialects in the areas of eastern US. I’d love to visit communities along the Atlantic seaboard of North America, and hear the larger variances in dialect.
Im raised speaking a mix of Chicano and native English, the raising of the end of the end of the sentence to me kind of is like the ‘…’, like saying “this isn’t finished yet”
So like, I’d say it “I guess we’ll see where it goes…” but rise it at the end to show I don’t know. But it can’t also be heard telling a little kid you love them or something, to sound friendly.
Totally missed an opportunity to talk about French Canadian accents. I get that it's because they are not nati e English speakers but most are bilingual and someone like Goerge St-Pierre has a very distinctive French Canadian accent. That said it was American focused so it makes sense not to. People from Manitoba also have a distinctive accent similar to Minnesota and then also in the west from Saskatchewan to Banff they have there own rural Canadian dialect. I've driven coast to coast there are plenty of unique accents up here too lol
They did the Cajun accent and they are native French speakers. So I don't see why not other than time they couldn't have.
Also in Ths Atlantic region their are lots of different accents. They only did Newfoundland but skipped Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick which both have accents that sound nothing like the Newfoundland one but are also very different from the Ontario or the Vancouver or Northern accents. They also missed talking about pockets of ethnically diverse or minority accents which differ as well from the Atlantic region. More missed opportunities. Canadian is a bigger country than the US with more space in between people so more distinct accents can be found
@@gamexsimmonds3581 US here, I really enjoyed these accent videos. I would love to see accent videos for both Canada & UK.
@@bobbimccain2385 I would like that too
Fun fact: the distance between St. Johns Newfoundland and Vancouver is twice as great as from St. Johns to Dublin, Ireland
Tijuana is a boarder town in walking distance to San Diego CA. Note: Never take your car to Tijuana because you will probably be walking back without a car.
Driven there many times and still have a car ☺️
Ok, so I actually grew up in the Matsu Valley in Alaska, and I can confirm that the Matsu accent is very very real. A lot of the people up there grew up with it, and I actually have a weird mix of a Matsu accent, a Utah Accent, and a bit of the Chicano accent as well. It’s an odd mix, and can throw people off. My grandpa has a very strong Matsu Valley Accent, to the point it does sound very much like a Minnesota accent. It’s very very cool to see it talked about in a video!
No wonder Alaska was accepted into the Midwest in Charlie Berens’ podcast 😂😂
Navajo Code Talkers in the Marine Corps. Much respect to them. I think the last one died a couple years ago.
I grew up about 20 minutes North of where McConaughey grew up in NE Texas. I can tell you his accent is pretty representative of the region.
I'm born and raised in SoCal (My Mom's family were originally from Mississippi but they moved to Bakersfield then eventually Sacramento and my Dad is from Kingston Jamaica but patios isn't any good since he passed away when I was toddler) we have more Spain/Mexican influences and by the early 19th century an influx Asian countries (Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai and other South East Asian). Also we get help from Australia and vice versa during Fire Season (Eucalyptus trees must have been gifts). Yes, we have the General American Accent of course because of the lack of European Influences. AAVE is also distinct in most notable in West Coast Hip Hop NorCal (E40) to SoCal (Snoop Dogg, Tupac, to Kendrick). I found myself "code switching" is what they call it to Mexicali/spanglish dialect and Korean because I grew up more so in DTLA but when we moved to South Central LA I had to learn AAVE and now I use a standard American Accent (which a lot of older generation White Americans prefer here) unless I need to say something in Spanish then you'll get an accent (We have more vitamin D on West coast except for Washington unfortunately so we tend to have an upbeat tone). Also California is still very segregated so you don't get a lot variations in accents and dialects unfortunately and it will take probably couple more generations to even see a bigger difference.
On the topic of the Windtalkers, it was because the language was never written, making it a choice language for covert comms.
Boston has a less pronounced but very similar "t" sound to the Newfie, Scouse, and Irish one. Boston also had quite a bit of Irish immigration.
You are correct. In WWII the military used different Native American languages, primarily the Marine Corp. They would be relatively unknown, plus a lot of them have no written language but only orally taught.
They were used on the Pacific because the Japanese kept breaking the Allied Codes.
Code Talker played a large role in winning the war but unfortunately didn't get the credit they deserved for far too long.
And then there are people like me, who have lived their entire lives in the U.S., but in numerous different states. I think if you heard me speak you would agree that I have a pretty neutral (newscaster) American accent, and I've had residence in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Wyoming, Oregon, and California.
Yep, you were right than the military did use Native Americans(specifically, the Navajo are the most famous example of this but I don't think it was just them) as codetalkers in World War II using codes based on their languages.
Yeah, there is definitely not as much variety in accents in the western US. I live in Southern New Mexico and just noticed the Rocky Mountain -een for our -Ing words. Before watching these video's, I never really realized I've been saying "sayeen". Other than that, I've only really noticed our area as speaking General American or Chicano Spanish accents.
7:05 "I can't stand that inflection". You're not alone Dave. Many Americans find it irritating.
One UK word that grates on my ears is "Innit" used for everything, not just a contraction of "isn't it?".
I'm a American-Canadian from near Toronto.... we don't sat "aboot". It's the regular about. IMO you here that more in the prairies, such as Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The East coast like PEI, they definitely sound more Irish, where y'all would here "aboot" too
Yes, Tijuana is literally the next town south of the Border. It's a few minutes away from California
Southern California here. A feature of a lot of Chicano English is pronouncing "barely" like "burely."
I'm a truck driver and I travel all over the country. I had a student with me when we went up to Maine. After checking in with a customer he came back to the truck and said, "I couldn't really understand what that guy was saying. I think he's from somewhere in England."🤣
It was just a strong "New Englander" accent. Similar to the character, Jud Crandall, from the movie, Pet Semetary.
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I grew up in Brooklyn in a mostly Eastern European Jewish neighborhood where many people spoke Yiddish, many Jews who don't speak Yiddish still speak English with the cadence of Yiddish think Woody Allen or Bernie Sanders.
Newfoundland accents - watch the delightful musical Come From Away about the stranded planes in Newfoundland on 9/11 after the US airspace was closed. A filmed version is available (here in the US at least) on AppleTV+. The actors do a great job with the Newfie accent,
Yall got a Tik-Tok and China has an Office Blokes. Well done fellas
Most of the people in Vancouver who sound a bit Irish (or Scottish) usually come from other parts of Canada unless their family hails from those areas. People born here or who have lived here a long time usually have that standard North American accent like you hear on TV or in the movies.
"...all the English are there, just mincing around, going 'Merry/Marry/Mary!'..."
Just *burst* our laughing 😂
I'm From Oregon and my wife can't tell if I'm saying Erin or Aaron.
Love it! Interesting, informative, and scientific.
Wish I understood all the terminology better.
Only one logical thing to do next. If they have one about the UK or Western Europe or whatever, ya gotta do it!
That native american woman is so beautiful.
If you really want to dive into various Canadian accents, I recommend the show Letterkenny.
I wana gonna say, the reason why californais don't sound that distinctive is because most if nat all major new channels and other sorts of media are in the californian accent, you know cuz Hollywood and what not.
You guys would LOVE some videos about Newfoundland and Labrador and our ties to the Irish and the rest of the UK
Part 3 of that video series always seems like it was rushed to me compared to parts 1 & 2 - so much more that could of been said about the US West & Canada.
I think it’s because like he said in part 1 there’s less accent diversity on the west side of USA so part 3 won’t be as detailed
And New England probably has the most Irish-Americans out of all the regions of North America.
Off topic: That Native lady is so beautiful 😊😊
Hell yea Daz! We have the best accents of the USA here in Boston or the northeast in general.
Yea, I love "The Departed"...Best portrayal of your accent 🤣
Take a drink every time megan's eyebrows jump.
I really enjoyed his videos. I would love to see him do videos of Great Britain accents.
the navajo code talkers given the code name "wind talkers."
I was thinking about the fact that he didn't go over my accent (central canadian) then I realized that basically, if you combine Minnesota, Toronto, and Vancouver, you've basically got us 😆
as someone from california I will say the younger generation of americans who use social media and are online alot definitely have adapted california accent also because of hollywood west coast accent is the generic american accent now. Of course new york and east coast is more distinctive but if yu go to california all the way up to washington idaho nevada oregon they dont sound that different especially in cities
I love what you 3 do. Keep it up!!!!
Matthew mcconaughey was born in the town that just had that school shooting
Chicano English is interchangeable with many Latinos(as) here in Southern California. Shared with Central Americans who are relatively recent immigrants here (Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans). So the brief examples provided an insight into how many of us talk in day to day life.
In addition: Mike, just grow a mustache, comb your hair back, and you'll fit right in. lol
haha I have a Mat Su accent. Showing some Alaskan love. Also, most of the west has a neutral accent or the Hollywood accent as some call it.
11:00, Yes Michael, we Lot are Clever, Americans. It's nice to hear That Word describing Ourselves. Clever, not just deceptive. Thank You.
yeh it's not the whole spanish language that people are using the "x" for, it's literally just for the word "latino/latina". It's legit one word being altered because it's the equivalent of how in english people can use they/them in addition to the usual he/she. Also not everyone does it either it's not mandated lmao. People need to chill, they're so eager to call others a bunch of whiny libtards but they're always the ones getting upset over a different way to say one single word not to mention it's in a language they probably dont even speak. Like damn just keep it pushing and move on lmaoo
“Show me on the doll!” 😆
You can see Tijuana from San Diego.
The movie Code Talkers is great. I recommend it! Real life story of these amazing guys who served during WW2.
Movie translation: I saw several American movies in Greece which had Greek subtitles. Most were comedies and my American friend and I were laughing all through them but we noticed very little laughter in the Greek audience. I think the translation wasn't very good.
Because of time and isolation.
That Cot and caught thing got me haha
'Posh" English developed after migration to the U.S. had largely ended. There was nothing 'posh' about colonial American english. It was the rural English spoken before the emergence of posh English in London in the later 18th century.
Wow, I am a Chicano from L.A. and that was total B.S. I'm not sorry for saying it. We don't all speak like that. Having some white girl try to show how we speak.. Nope!! Also the term "Latin X". That is some new cancel culture type nonsense. Growing up, we were either a Latino, or a Latina. A Chicano or Chicana. None of that Latin X bullsh@t.. Also Yeah. Tijuana is a border town next to San Diego. We just call it TJ.....We are going to TJ for the weekend.
Most Americans sound the same with subtle differences. The most pronounced is Boston , New York and the Southern states.
You skipped Washington state! We have always been told here that we have a ‘newscaster’ accent, if any at all.
The people in comments screaming about political correctness need to get a life. If they don't want to use a term, fine. But they're arrogant plonkers who get upset when anyone else uses one.
i found it interesting how Dave made an issue of out it both times and then acts surprised when trolls show up making this a political correctness anti woke issue. Its one letter at the end of a word that you are not required to use. Just watch and learn from a video and stop attacking folks. I just cant imagine being upset over a new term that doesnt even apply to me. Language changes over time and no one is forcing you to be "woke" just be respectful its not that hard to ignore what you dont understand.
@@mdr216 Yeah, it's a little odd that the guys who threw a tiny manbaby hissy over "Latinx" are now wondering why they've got people doing the same thing about other words.
@@mdr216 …..he/she. Him/ her. Boy/girl…. Mother/ father… man/ woman ….that is it period. …only FOOLS / IDIOTS think the Normies will change the meanings of these words. Time for woke culture of That’s / It’s to pull a RIP…VAN…WINKLE 🤡
You should check out the video Navajo Code Talkers | Short Documentary | EXPLORE MODE for more information on the brave men who served as Code Talkers and why the use of native language was so effective for the US during WW2
Matthew McConaughey is from Uvalde, Texas
San Diego & Tijuana are very close to each other - closer than Manchester is to Liverpool.
If you have seen the movie "No country for old men" the bridge the guy keeps walking over connects California to Tijunna.
I live in the state of Kentucky, one of the most northern states of what is called the south. There is even a range of dialects in my state. Along the northern border of the state there are more midwest accents and further south there is more southern. There is also a difference in the few big cities and the rural areas here. There is also what is called northern Kentucky which is a handful of counties near Cincinnati, Ohio that is very northern or midwest like in speech. Funny enough many from that area just say they are from Cincinnati like they aren't even from Kenctucky.
Code Talkers of WWII were mostly used against the Germans.
His Newfoundland accent is too Irish.
18:20 I cannot imagine having a Manc accent and thinking Mathew McConaughey has a cool accent. That would be like eating filet mignon and being like "that Spam stuff is really good!"
People born to "rough" accents tend to find "smooth" accents cool, and vice-versa. I grew up with that lazy-sounding Bill & Ted accent, but always loved harsh Northeast accents. Everybody sounds sarcastic and mean in those accents, and it's great.
I am surprised they did not do the strangeness of the far northern California accent. I grew up there and when I went into the military and move to other parts of the country people could not figure where I was from. Far northern California tends to add and subtract letters to words. The name Theresa in northern California would be {Tree Sa} not the way the rest of the English world says it. Another word I say different is Nuclear, I would say {Nuke Ah Lur}. There is also a very small area that says the world Almond is different than even other Northern Californians. They say {Ah mond} Not {Al Mond}. Since they are the biggest almond growing area in California the Tv new shows in Northern California have to say Almonds like them otherwise they have a fit. There are a lot more but those are the main ones that people will point out to me, and I still do it even though I have not lived the for almost 30 years.
We Californians talk positive because of our awesome weather and beautiful landscapes.
Yessss finally!!
Lol Mexico was forced to give up territory after losing the Mexican American war.
Lol love how Boston and New York are dad's favorites, those are widely considered some of if not the ugliest two here in the rest of the U.S.
Fun fact: Mathew McConahay or however he spells it, his dad played for the Green Bay packers!
wonder if he does an British one. A lot of accents there and there are even a few that I can barely understand. And its not because of the slang words either.
West coast sounds all the same in my opinion. Some of SoCal gets valley different. But once you go to the Canadian border…it’s gets weird, eh.
Agree with Dave, Californian's really are not known to have an accent save for the trends with surfer dudes and valley girls. Chicano english is relegated to that group only and is not a part of the average Californian's speech. I have a very neutral accent and most people can't tell where I'm from based on that alone.
5:03 😂😂🤣💀💀
REACT to clips from Holy Grail. would love your thoughts on my favorite British comedy
Love your reactions! Much love from my Mexican 🇲🇽 brothers and sisters! Viva Mexico
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I can't believe he aid us southern Californians talk like that. we don't, we pronounce miss like miss not mess, and we do not sound like surfers but I think he was just saying that is just the stereotype. Those surfers accents are made fun of in the US, its like a classic joke to impersonate it.
The "inflection that turns sentences into questions" is not very common in well spoken Californians. You see it a lot in "valley girls". I grew up in the valley and you'll notice it in people that live there like Kim Kardashian and other such airheads. It's more of an intelligence thing.