British Guy Reacts to A TOUR OF U.S. ACCENTS - 'Way More than I Thought!'
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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I react to 'Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One)' from WIRED. Covers a range of American accents from across the United States (New York, southern, African American etr). There were a lot more than I thought (or could identify if I'm being completely honest). Enjoy!
PART TWO HERE: ua-cam.com/video/-b-I0HXkTL8/v-deo.html
As a linguist I always love watching people react to this video, especially when they’re outside of North America. 😊
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It is interesting that a north American can easily tell a new York from a Boston or a New Orleans front a Jacksonville. But foreigners hear north and south.
Usually I can tell that someone is Canadian when they use certain words like "sorry" they pronounce more like "sore-ee" and a lot of their Canadianisms like "eh" at the end of sentences.
Don't forget "about" pronounced "ah-boot" in Canada.
@@randyparker2134And house is "hoose"
@@randyparker2134Not in most places anymore.
@@randyparker2134Noo Doout!
Hoagies are sub sandwiches. There are quite a few words for these, sometimes regional or distinguishing between hot and cold ones. Submarine/sub, hoagie, grinder, hero, and others.
A good way to tell the difference is wait until a Canadian says, “about,” or, “sorry.” That’s how you can tell.
Yes, please review Part 2. I loved your reaction and input. I have one objection about the video itself, however. Being a lifelong suburban Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) resident, the Pittsburgese accent (the one you could not understand) is limitedly as strong as Eric demonstrated. Most people I know, living 20 - 25 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, only have subtle shades of that accent. I even struggle at times to understand a strong Pittburgese accent.
Same with my baltimore accent, those with several generations living downtown are much thicker than the suburbs, but I notice my goat fronting and pronouncing "tired" as "tarred" happens when I get...tired. there is a little AY in Ocean.
Ask a Canadian to say "sorry" and you can immediately tell them apart from the Americans. Same with how they say the vowel in the first syllable in "canada" or the infamous "oot and aboot"
Yes please continue this series. I’m really enjoying your reaction and appreciate your interest in the history in the development of the accents.
Something not covered in these videos that I would think would be interested for them to cover is the military accent that results from a blending of people from across the country as well as local influence from where they are stationed. I remember when I'd come home to Iowa on leave from the Army and my friends had a difficult time understanding what I was saying. After I got out, it took about a year before my accent returned normal.
A hoagie is a type of sandwich people in the Philadelphia area enjoy. In other regions the same type of sandwich is called a sub.
Pittsburgh was:
“Yinz wanna go dahntahn and go shopping for cahches?”
Which means:
“Do you guys want to go downtown and go shopping for couches?”.
It’s a really strange accent…really nothing like it in the US.
And don't forget to put "an-aht" ("and that") at the end 🥰
"Yinz goin dahn t' the igguhw for pop an aht?"
(Are you guys going down to the Eagle [grocery store] for soft drinks?)
American's can usually pick out Canadians by the "ou" sound. Canadians tend to pronounce it "oo". So '"about" becomes "aboot", etc. Many, especially those in the entertainment industry, suppress it, but if you listen to them long enough in conversation it usually peeks out eventually. There are some other differences, but that is the biggest giveaway.
To be fair, Canadians speak more French than English, and "ou" is almost always pronounced as "oo" in French, so that's most likely how they got that.
pretty sure the only Canadians that speak more French than English are those from Montreal.@@ShwappaJ
@@ShwappaJ only the Quebecois do
i know canadians by their spirit (sort of) it's like a kind of sense
Canadians also sound a bit snarkier too.
As an American from Utah, I can easily tell the difference between my accent and a Canadian accent. Also, some words that Canadians say are different than what we say in the U.S. for instance, we ask for the restroom or bathroom where Canadians will ask for the washroom.
I live in Minnesota and I can def tell a Canada and MN accent apart very distinct to me haha
I'm really into language, so to answer your question about US vs Canada accents.... Many northern US citizens and Canadian citizens sound very similar. Basically: Unless there's something 'strong' about their accent, you probably wouldn't be able to tell right away. Things that are stereotyped like "aboot" and "eh?" are good tells for Canadians, but that's not a universal truth.
Growing up just south of Boston I can tell you there are micro variants in that region alone. Blue collar Boston, proper Harvard style Boston which almost sounds a bit British if done correctly. Nearby Rhode Island had its own sound and by the time you got out to western Massachusetts folks started pronouncing their “R’s” more like a midwesterner. Oh and then there is Maine.
Canadians are definitely easy to spot when they start pronouncing vowels like A, O and U.
Aside from the blistering heat, I like living in North Carolina. I never noticed how different the various Southern Accents are here, but him doing them just now, I can hear it and think of specific people who fit the mold. I would have never guessed so many accents were native to NC.
I'm surprised I don't hear more of the ones from other parts of the Country here. The largest Marine Corps Base on the East Coast is two miles away from my house, so we have people from all over here. Maybe the drill instructors beat accents out of the Marines before they're stationed here.
We have a big population of "Mama Sans" from Okinawa too, and a lot of them have their own accents too. Off topic, but if you want to be impressed, watch them throwing cast nets four times their size flawlessly for hours on end, then try to do it once yourself and hope your arms don't fall off.
My family comes from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, colloquially known as The U.P or The Yoop. Yoopers, as the folks call themselves, do this thing with really long "o" and "u" sounds, and like to end almost every sentence with "ay," or "don'tchya know." They also say, "you betchya," a lot. That's just the few I can remember, but reading it isn't the same as hearing it anyway, so I hope it gets covered in the next episode. I definitely want to see the rest of this series. It's very interesting and fun.
"Mama Sans"
Undertale references galore
This is a 3 part series and is great fun, as well as being educational.
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Linguistic diversity in New York City is not recent. It has about the same percentage of foreign-born residents now as it did in the year 1900. It has *always* been diverse. Only the languages change.
Americans generalize the ou sound like oo. About vs Aboot. Really it sounds more like oa as in oats. So about sounds like aboat
Yes you can tell Canadians apart from Americans. Just ask a Canadian the word about. He’ll say aboot
So interesting about settling patterns. Both sides of my family are from eastern North Carolina and I've lived in North Carolina my entire life. More times than I can count people have asked if I'm British because they hear *something" in my accent.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
The moment he speaks he makes some other Englishman despise him
It's from 'My Fair Lady,' the musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion.'
The version you know is probably from the Shaw. I'm more familiar with the bouncy rhyming musical version. 😀
Yes, Northern Florida's accents differ greatly from Southern Florida accents.
Florida is very big and the more north you go in it the more southern it gets.
So FL is a mishmash of every region of the US plus Latin American plus Black.
Up here in Northern New England remnants of Old English remained into the mid 1900's. My father-in-law commonly used the contraction shant vs. shall not and nevah pronounced the lettah "r", evah. Even the meadow was the ameddah.
Keep watching. It’s fascinating.
Love from Alabama/Georgia. Great channel!
I want to give an example of local diversity. In Georgia we have standard English and localized African English that is iconic. We Also have the largest Korean population outside of Korea. We also have Gullah like this video. Helen is German. Georgia is great for so many reasons.
The Canadian accent is most distinct with the O sound. For example “about” sounds like “a boat” and they say “Eh” a lot like the Northern US people do Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The pilgrims did NOT land in Plymouth first. They landed FIRST in what is now Provincetown, Cape Cod, Mass.
I find the English pronunciation of the TH sound to be perplexing. The TH with pitch is often a V sound (further becomes fervor) and the un-pitched TH sound is an F sound (both become bofe). I hear this increasingly across the UK when I visit.
Language splits into dialect, and dialect splits into accent. As long as human communication exists, it will become just as diverse as mankind itself.
On the US vs Canada, really northern US Midwesterners can sound Canadian, whereas some of the edge folks in BC can sound like Washingtonian. Quebec and Nova Scotia have their own things, too.
You should react to parts 2 and 3. It gets more interesting
You can't tell a Canadian. What's that all aboot?
Take off, Eh 😂❤
You mean aboat, eh?
Definitely continue! It's pretty interesting!
I really enjoyed your review/reaction of this video. You have a lovely voice and made insightful comments. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to your next post. By the way, I'm from the deep south so I can answer questions about our accents if you have any questions.
I’m an Indigenous Native from a Federally Recognized Tribe from N. California 🏔️. I can definitely tell right away when someone is from CANADA …even the NATIVE TRIBAL People. My grandparents did not speak English well…and Great Grandfather did not speak ENGLISH at all. I still speak my Tribal Language…but I attended UNIVERSITY so I definitely can speak ENGLISH thoroughly…and I know a few other language basics. My step father was MEXICAN…my grand daughter’s paternal grandmother is Greek / Mexican but my grand daughter’s Spanish is without what I believe is a authentic accent but she’s been taking it in School for years. It’s probably very interesting to hear so many different accents. 🙆🏻♀️❤️🔥🇺🇸
Why do dialect coaches use Gone With the Wind or Streetcar Named Desire to teach an authentic old South "posh" accent ?
1. Vivian Leigh was British
2. there are multiple variations of this traditional accent, and they are ridiculously hard to imitate successfully
Two examples of the real thing:
Upcountry South Carolina/Anderson: ua-cam.com/video/WaAw4m--x7g/v-deo.htmlsi=5Eb3CkpBlG3X8WIT
Lowcountry SC/Charleston: ua-cam.com/video/SOUUktqJDCk/v-deo.htmlsi=78HjuQiWmpCRmrcq
If anyone's still reading lol, where I grew up
- "oil" and "boil" rhyme with "roll"
- "gas" rhymes with "ace" and "face"
-"on" rhymes with "bone"
- "pen" and "ten" rhyme with "pin"
Each country and language has it's own vibes
Yes, we can typically tell when people are from Canada. They distinctly enunciate every syllable, and their long O’s are very long, similar to some Scottish accents. And their OU’s are sound like they are puckering their lips.
As an American from the US, it can be pretty difficult to distinguish a general Canadian accent from a general American accent considering that for the most part we sound very similar, but there are some words that can give it away instantly. Words that have 'o' sounds can help tell our general accents apart.
Many Americans tend to say Sorry like "Starry" but without the T, while most Canadians tend to say Sorry like "Sore-ry" like they are sore.
Canada has a few different accents too. Some are completely indistinguishable from American, others are very noticeably Canadian.
When you talk about a posh American accent, I think of the Mid-Atlantic accent, intentionally invented to sound both posh and nonspecific, a mix of American and RP. It's the accent of the classic movie actors of the 40s and 50s like Cary Grant, but now it's mostly obsolete.
Except to Biff and Hillary at Harvard.
@@heywoodjablowme8120 Even Biff and Muffy don't speak the infamous Larchmont Lockjaw anymore. I'm from that part of the country, and no one under the age of 55 or so still speaks like Thurston Howell III. It doesn't get adopted by students at prestige prep schools anymore either. It's a dialect that's nearly completely died out, and that you only hear still hanging on among quite elderly people of That Certain Class.
In the Southwest and California spoke Spanish before English.
this guys sounds like C3PO form the first star wars film. lol!
One reason is that New England, particularly New York, New Jersey, and areas of Pennsylvania, like the city of Philadelphia, had very heavy Irish and Italian immigration settlement a century ago before we closed our borders off. Landing on Ellis Island is why. Some got out further west to places like Chicago, but yeah. That’s why there’s a heavy Italian and Irish background in some areas of the Northeast. As far as Eastern section Latino communities go, well, I can’t speak on that as I’m white, but Puerto Rican and Dominican are pretty heavy influences in New York with the Spanish speaking communities. Cuban is very heavy down in Florida. Further west here our Latino impact seems to be more from the mainland Latino origins, mostly Central American counties like Guatemala, and South American countries like Columbia. We really destabilized the region back in the 80s and cartels have ran people up across the Rio Grande ever since. But, the Southwest of the United States, from Texas to California, up to the Utah territories into Colorado, was all land owned by Mexico until the 19th century.
interesting the film clip he showed of the classic southern accent was spoken by a british actress
I think people's accents depend on how long someone is immersed in a culture and/or region as well as what accent they first learned to speak with in their formative years. I listen to a lot of content from people with various British accents online, but I don't have a British accent when I interact with people in my daily life. Now, if I moved to the UK I'd slowly pick up a British accent to some degree depending on how long I stayed there, but if I moved back to Iowa, I'd rapidly return to the accent I learned to speak with. This actually happened when I came back to Iowa after getting out of the Army, as the military has an accent all of its own.
Major Puerto Rican migrations were in the 40s and 50s. It a long established community.
Okay, so I live in eastern Pa, where we call sub sandwiches hoagies, but NO ONE here pronounces hoagie the way it’s said in this video. 😂 I’ve never heard it pronounced that way in my life, despite years of traveling up and down the coast, into Jersey, going down the shore, driving into Philly or NYC or Harrisburg. I would love to know where that pronunciation comes from.
I'm from Rhode Island, one of the non-rhotic portions of the U.S. Our stereotypical accent is a blend of two other stereotypes--Boston and New York City (Italian version). This is a product of geography and similar demographics. But not only do we drop "Rs" from words, we add them, sometimes within the same word. I've heard "parka" pronounced as "PAH-ker."
With that whole disclaimer about variations by generations and degree... The US and Canada - my mother was born and raised in Canada, (Saskatchewan specifically) and to my ear, and with people my own age, not only can I discern that they are Canadian, but usually if they were from East or West of Winnipeg, Manitoba. That Said, there is the added accents of Francophones... which adds a whole extra set of complexities.
I have Canadian friends and can tell their accent from my Southern accent.
Northern US accents might have slightly more prestige than southern accents, but generally the most prestigious is General American, excluding some rare accents only spoken by upper class people in the northeast.
Do they? I think NY and Boston are quite similar that people can easily mimic them. Whereas in the South accents change from state to state and region of that state to the demographic of people in that state.
We do say Autumn in America, too. Fall is interchangeable with it. This is because the leaves fall from the trees.
More please!!
It honestly boggles me that foreigners think we all sound the same. We don't! The USA is a huge ass country. There are going to be MANY different accents and dialects. Depending on the state.
Where I live we have a lot of Hispanic people. A lot of them are from Mexico. Spanish is a very common language spoken in Utah and Idaho.
There is a theory that states as the world becomes more interconnected that there will eventually be only one "race", and with that, one language. That language, as hypothesized, would be a blend of English, Chinese, Spanish and a few other minor but popular languages. Of course, this would be 1000+ years in the future or so the theory goes.
I'll be honest, my ear can't hear the difference between his diphthongs and smoothed out diphthongs.
There are more Puerto Ricans in New York City than in Puerto Rico.
Wheres the 2nd part?
It’s three parts. More like two and a half really in terms of time and content. Definitely finish watching.
The Scarlet O’Hara style was basically the “genteel” southern accent, probably nonrhotic because of interaction with upper class Londoners after they had lost their Rs.
Lots of people claim that the Appalachian accent is the closest to Shakespearean English. Which is probably drastically oversimplified. It definitely preserves features of it that most other forms of English have lost, but really all modern English accents are the result of different choices of which older features to keep and what changes to make.
I think it’s hard for most of us to recognize the differences between accents that we’re not familiar with. You pick up that it doesn’t sound like the ones you’re used to but not the whole pattern of differences that distinguish one from another. That’s why Americans may assume Australians, New Zealanders, or South Africans are British. And of course you don’t know all the cultural or even geographical implications either. Americans get that the cut glass RP is upper class and cockney isn’t, but not all the fine distinctions in between. And even if we can tell that two Brits have different accents we don’t know what they are or where they’re from.
yeah north florida is vastly different from south florida. south florida is very hispanic. over 50%
And other Caribbean Islanders too
People from Connecticut have trouble with the letter r or skip it altogether
2 and 3 for sure
I enjoyed your video. I'm an American and southern accents all sound alike.I can tell the East Coast accents better.. Long Island New York or New Jersey accent is not very flattering to me. Southern accents to many Americans sound like the person is ignorant. I know that's not true. I'm in northern calif so who knows what I sound like.. I like the older Hollywood movies that had a trans-Atlantic accent..Anyway, do part 2...Cheers
😅Does Yosemitee Sam speak Montana dialect?
part 2 :)
Unfortunately, the north has lost many of its great accents.
Southern folk defiantly dont find the northern accents prestigeous we find em pretentious if anything (no offense intended)
No one calls them Latin X.. Seriously lady.
This video frustrates me so much. I am so amazed at all these people who think that what this woman is saying is correct. Africans were not kidnapped by Europeans. I mean, just think about it for a moment. Do you honestly believe that a boatload of Europeans would be able to run around Africa rounding up a bunch of Africans? No, Africans conquered and enslaved other African tribes and sold them to Arabs and Europeans. They also kept some for their own slaves. They also practice slavery in some parts of Africa TODAY. People please educate yourselves, do not allow yourselves to be indoctrinated.
That was after Europeans first enslaved and colonized most of Africa for free labor, resource mining, and conquest. Yes, certain settlements and tribes sold off captured prisoners from their internal conflicts in the continent, but this all started because of Europeans. The **transatlantic** slave trade wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Europeans, Africans wouldn't have been forced from their home continent 🤷🏽♀️