Here's a three-part video series called "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents" by WIRED Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/H1KP4ztKK0A/v-deo.html Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/IsE_8j5RL3k/v-deo.html Part 3: ua-cam.com/video/Sw7pL7OkKEE/v-deo.html
You should react to Wired's "Tour of U.S. Accents". He does a very good job with accents as well 😉 Also, "North Cackalacky" is North Carolina's nickname, same as South Cackalacky 😂. West Virginia = West "By-God" Virginia.
As a linguist, I love the more “difficult” accents and wish I had a stronger one. It wasn’t too long ago that I realized I say “mountain” faster, which does make sense. In Colorado we are talking about them a lot, haha. 😂
I have a NYC accent and I am always asked to say something when traveling throughout the US. New Yorkers are known to get stuff done quickly. We do not mess around when we are working. We are brash and blunt when we need to be. Aggressiveness is second nature to us.
As a Bostonian I get asked to say stuff ALL THE TIME lol. I am so tired of people asking me to say "pahk the cah in Hahvid Yahd".... You can't even park there that's not a sentence anybody would ever say 😂😂😂 And we too come with a lot of aggression
I just thought about this, if you react to "My first black cookout," you'll hear that deep southern accent from Zach Rushing. He's from south Mississippi. It's hilarious to watch.
I was born and raised in deep south Texas, but spent 20 yrs in the military, going from country to country, where I lost almost all my accent. When I go back home for a visit, it actually takes me a day or two to get back INTO the local accent! It even sounds a bit funny to me as well. But, I can STILL talk "Texan". Ex: "Pert near" means very close. "Light bub" is good for light BULB. "Big ole" means big old (referring to size). "She was madder than all git out" means she was very angry. "Fixin'" means I'm about to (I'm fixin to go to the store). "Nuttin" means nothing. "show nuff" means sure enough. These are very common in my area of Texas. Oh, and EVERY kind of soft drink is referred to as "soda". IN the north, many refer to soft drinks as "pop".
@@earlonaweary9155 It's easier, if you ask me. Just ask if anyone wants a soda, then let them pick the one they really want .It's an "in general" type thing.
Nah we call all kinds of soda, coke. It don't matter if you're talking about Dr. Pepper, big red, sprite or whatever else. When they ask what kinda soda you want, they say, "what kinda coke you want?"
I grew up in Arkansas and spent some time in Louisiana .. at a buffet restaurant in Baton Rouge LA .. I asked the girl serving what something was ... and could not understand anything she said. Heavy, heavy creole or Cajun .. or a mix
Born and lived in Chicagoland for 30 years. Nobody ever pegged that I was from Chicago unless I used the word “pop” or “ gym shoes” for soda and tennis shoes. That was, until, I moved to Arizona. Many commented on my Chicago accent.
We do the same in Pittsburgh. You ask for a soda here and they will ask you what kind of ice cream you want in it. And I have heard that you have adopted our term "jag-off" (or Jagov) which I think has Polish immigrant origins--we both have large Polish populations. We of course have things that are unique to Pittsburgh. State lines are terrible as boundaries for understanding accents. Philly is nothing like us. Well, um goin' dahn Irwin watcha Stillers n'nat.
I'm in Alabama and had a telemarketing job in my 20s And O'boy things people wanted me to say with my accent was bonkers!!! I was just trying to give them a free vaction
The southern accents and piney woods accent have many many accents within it and the south is divided between dozens of accents with big differences, but you can still tell its southern. And there are also whole dialects within northern and southern accents of African American that never really gets explored like ever, and they can be categorized by state/region and urban/rural. Within the African American Northman and southern accents, there are so so so many ways of speech and even while separate English American dialects also.
@17:40 in or so, I KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS!!! He is Tony, from "Crime Pays, but Botany Doesn't," where he literally travels the world, explaining every species of plant he comes across. He is a genius, and from Chicago. He has the Chicago Italian accent. If you want a treat, pick a spot you have always wondered about, and look him up on YT. As for the rest, I didn't find any too difficult, but I have lived in Southwest Michigan, Central Georgia, Northern Illinois, Eastern Wisconsin, and East Tennessee, with family living in North Carolina and Arkansas. I thought the so-called "Piney" accent in Texas sounds pretty much like the Southern Appalachian accent of East Tennessee. Meanwhile, there is a distinction between the Deep Southern accent of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, versus the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There is also, broadly, across the country east of the Mississippi River a "country" accent, that always sounds vaguely southern, and tends to be found more among less educated people. Not saying dumb, just not educated beyond high school, as they didn't need degrees to find work, etc.. All across our country, the city accents are MUCH reduced, compared to surrounding counties. Oh, btw, the "Yuper" accent of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is one that takes some getting used to, youper coming from saying "U. P." out. I find it bizarre how many accents are found on the British Isles altogether, when they are no bigger than our single state of Oregon. My home state of Michigan is bigger as well. It would be like finding a distinct accent in almost every county! I can't imagine. In that the video says experts say our accents are diverging over here, I guess that's not a surprise. But I figure media is pulling us all together, tho, helping us not drift, or at least, drift together, parallel.
When I took a trip to London and heard the various accents milling about in conversation I laughed out loud when suddenly, I heard a New Jersey accent cut through all the background chatter very loudly. The funny thing is she approached me to take her picture with her mom thinking I was a local…because even though I’m from North Carolina ,apparently, I sound like I’m from Manchester. Even people in London that I talked to thought I was from Manchester and just “went to university in the states” to explain my accent. 😂
13:27 here’s what he said. “ on your right now, there is going to be another Dunkin Donuts. Ok? Then, straight up over the hill , across the street used to be Another Dunkin Donuts / like, Baskin Robbins combo. You know what I’m talking about. One of those deals. Anyway,it’s gone now…On your left is a Stop-N-Shop, that’s where my Dad likes to go. My Mom likes Rush Brothers but she says it’s too expens… Anyway! That’s where my Dad goes Stop-N-Shop. There’s a Dunkin Donuts *IN* that Stop-N-Shop, And you go straight through to the Rotary.”
Funny how the accents change, even within the same state. For instance, im from upstate ny and we talk completely different than NYC. We have a basic general american accent.
Hi, l live in Texas, and the piney woods accent is only found in east Texas. That accent is also found in north Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama and Georgia. Texas has a lot of different accents, from the afore mentioned piney woods accent, to a southern drawl, Cajun influenced around Port Arthur, the classic cowboy accent so often featured in Hollywood westerns, to Tex-Mex and Spanish accents.
When I listen to linguists talk about American accents, many talk about what they call rho(w)dic vs non- rhodic accents. Non-rhodic means the omission of R's from within and at the end of spoken words that contain them in spelling,, like British English. I think most East coast and Gulf coast southern states accents fall in that category. I believe it came from our British forebearers. The rest of the country, including Texas, have clearly rhodic accents. My mom was from eastern New Mexico, which borders Texas to its west. She had a Texas accent.
I can tell you part of the reason why language in the U.S. seems to be getting further and further apart is because of the countries is almost the size of all of Europe. No wonder there seem to be many differences.
Most people in the Dallas area do not sound particularly Texan and sound almost midwestern. Pittsburgh's is extremely distinctive and is a kind of a lingustic isolated island. I can't even imitate it. Very interesting to hear in person.
Some of the US dialects are more contextual than British English. It is the idiomatic way we speak. You will get the accents with no problem. I can give you some examples of here in Texas if you wanna get confused. LOL!! Sure, do the next part of the video.
You can hear the Boston accent if you react to stand up comedian Bill Burr My favorite English accents are Manchester (The Office Blokes/Office Bloke Daz), Yorkshire (James Beelsey) , and Bristol (Mr H and Friends) Areas of my favorite British UA-camrs. What part of England is AliKai from? Seems you guys speak standard British?
@@AliKaiProject I am in Ohio, Columbus Ohio but we here in Ohio also have a town called Kent! Kent State University is a famous university in Northeast corner of Ohio.
My favorite part about our "accents" is that we can typically turn them off and speak "general American" when we need to explain something clearly but of course there are many exceptions
Texas is Southwestern. It is heavily influenced by Spanish and French. Whereas a Southeastern southern accent is a combination of English, German, Scottish, and Irish accents. I'm from the Southeast and There is a big difference between the southern accent from someone east of the Mississippi and west of the Mississippi.
As a native San Antonian, I find it very easy to figure out which part of Texas someone is from based on their accent. Most San Antonians speak GNA because the schools stress the accent with all the military bases.
As someone who grew up in Northern California where the accent is quite different from Southern California. My wife works at a call center making reservations and she can instantly tell if the person is from Southern California (Los Angeles) or if they’re from New York. Along with the accent the attitudes are very recognizable too Something that caused a mixing of accents is that American people will move from state to state or across the country more than other countries. I grew up with my fraternal Grandparents who had accents from Oklahoma and Mississippi and my maternal grandparents who had Canadian and Northwestern accents. The only accent I have a terrible time understanding is anyone who lives near a bayou East of Houston and Louisiana
Unfortunately, Olly's list is VERY simplified. Each state, region, part of the city as well as ethnicity has their own accent. I'll look for this other video(s) and link it in your second part to this video. Much more in-depth with examples from linguist who specialize in this thing...
Born in Kentucky and grew up in Virginia and Alabama , but I have lived in metro New York City for more than 50 years . I have tried VERY hard to not develop a New York accent , which I think is one of , if not THE ugliest accent in the USA . People here in New York know I'm not from New York but never guess where I'm from . Most of them guess California or the Midwest . I have a lot of trouble understanding many Brits who tend to speak very fast and nasally and have a lot of difficulty pronouncing words with the letter T. They tend to just swallow the T sound and pronounce words like button as if it was buh un with no T in it .
He didn't explain it well but the south has so many very different accents. In Texas alone there's at least 50 or so. Some are completely different like deep Cajun. Even Cajun has a couple. Some southern accents are almost impossible for us to understand even though we hear it every day. Up in the Ozarks the accent is so thick you won't catch anything they say unless you grew up with it.
You can't lump all Midwest in together. I live in northern Illinois not far from Chicago and most people from other parts of the country don't notice an accent at all.
I'm from Oklahoma and have an "Okie" accent. It's similar enough to a Texan accent that someone might think that I'm from Texas. By the way, there are lots of different southern accents so I'm not sure why he lumped all of the accents together as one "Southern Accent". There are so many states in the south that have their own distinct sounding accents. He could have done a whole video just on southern accents alone. Anyway, enjoyed the reaction. A second video would be good, but y'all should really check out the videos called "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents" it's a lot more comprehensive and in-depth.
As a native born North Carolinian I hate the Carolinians that say “ cackilacky” . It’s like nails on a chalkboard level of annoying. It’s “ Care-oh-lye-nah” or “Care-oh-Lee-nah” those are the only two acceptable ways to say it. 😂
You should check out WIRED's three-part series "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents". It's incredibly thorough and entertaining. Highly recommend! 😊
I think the thing most tourists may not realize is that New York "State" is a large place. They may have heard the New York "city" accent, but they may not realize that that type of accent may not be prevalent throughout the whole state. 😊
Many of these examples are really exaggerated by people acting. Taylor Swift isn't even from Minnesota. I am from Chicago and I will say less than 5% have a "Chicago" accent. It's only in a very small area in the city. Most people have the general accent he explained as the accent from TV and movies.
0:53 Lol we not that bad down here in the south But i was born and raised and still here in Tennessee some people that hear me talk say I have an Alabama accent I don't hear it😂😂😂😂
Had an Alabama roommate in the Army and remember one day some guys were teasing him about his accent. I looked at him and asked ... "What accent?" ... I was from Arkansas.
I would say that people from the Chicago area have the least accent. Not everyone talks like Mike Ditka “Da Bearz” or Dee’s Dems and doze! We may leave the g off of our words like fallin’ or goin’ but we do not talk like Mayor Daley or his illiterate son Ritchie!
@@AliKaiProject Most people do not consider Texas to be a southern state. Texas is its own thing. Florida is not considered a southern state either for that matter. Sure it is south of every other state in the south, but culturally speaking Florida is not a southern state. This is because there are millions of northerners like me living here. The further south you go in Florida, the further north you really are. That expression is a fact in Florida.
Texan accent is southern. Linguists consider it Southern American English, though it's a South Midland accent, so it's different from the southern accents in the south east. And the US government considers Texas a part of the south. It's culturally southern, especially east Texas, but it's not considered "deep south".
WRONG!!!!! THe midwest has an accent "Dont'chya know" And california has the the valley girl "like totally" the plain accent is in Washington state and Actors and news anchors have been told to spend some time in Washington to get rid of their accents.
Ranking accents is literally just stupid…are we going to rank Scot accents…?…America comprises all of North and South America…the United States..broadly speaking is 1/3 of North America…all 3 countries in the north are pretty large..and in any rather large land mass, there will be variations in the language…such is the history of mankind…there is no debate…just differences…but as citizens of this large country…we believe in the Constitution…life, liberty and freedom of speech…the right to travel anywhere ..we never have to leave this country to have an amazing vacation…here, life can be pretty good…rolling meadows and roaring rapids rivers…mountains for climbing or skiing..a lot of room to spread out and some,rather large cities..most people want to come for a visit…or to stay…but ranking dialects/accents would be waaaaaay down my list of things to do, since there is such an abundance of very real things I can be doing…
Here's a three-part video series called "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents" by WIRED
Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/H1KP4ztKK0A/v-deo.html
Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/IsE_8j5RL3k/v-deo.html
Part 3: ua-cam.com/video/Sw7pL7OkKEE/v-deo.html
Thank you, we’ll check it out. 😃
You should react to Wired's "Tour of U.S. Accents". He does a very good job with accents as well 😉
Also, "North Cackalacky" is North Carolina's nickname, same as South Cackalacky 😂. West Virginia = West "By-God" Virginia.
We’ll take a look, thanks! 😀
As a linguist, I love the more “difficult” accents and wish I had a stronger one. It wasn’t too long ago that I realized I say “mountain” faster, which does make sense. In Colorado we are talking about them a lot, haha. 😂
I have a NYC accent and I am always asked to say something when traveling throughout the US. New Yorkers are known to get stuff done quickly. We do not mess around when we are working. We are brash and blunt when we need to be. Aggressiveness is second nature to us.
It’s a good accent to have! 😍
As a Bostonian I get asked to say stuff ALL THE TIME lol. I am so tired of people asking me to say "pahk the cah in Hahvid Yahd".... You can't even park there that's not a sentence anybody would ever say 😂😂😂
And we too come with a lot of aggression
I just thought about this, if you react to "My first black cookout," you'll hear that deep southern accent from Zach Rushing. He's from south Mississippi. It's hilarious to watch.
I absolutely love Zach! Hilarious and such a good human being!
I was born and raised in deep south Texas, but spent 20 yrs in the military, going from country to country, where I lost almost all my accent. When I go back home for a visit, it actually takes me a day or two to get back INTO the local accent! It even sounds a bit funny to me as well. But, I can STILL talk "Texan". Ex: "Pert near" means very close. "Light bub" is good for light BULB. "Big ole" means big old (referring to size). "She was madder than all git out" means she was very angry. "Fixin'" means I'm about to (I'm fixin to go to the store). "Nuttin" means nothing. "show nuff" means sure enough. These are very common in my area of Texas. Oh, and EVERY kind of soft drink is referred to as "soda". IN the north, many refer to soft drinks as "pop".
That makes the most sense to me, referring to all sodas as sodas. That's what they are💁🏽♀️ 😄
@@earlonaweary9155 It's easier, if you ask me. Just ask if anyone wants a soda, then let them pick the one they really want .It's an "in general" type thing.
@@dwanemarsh4378 Exactly! 100%.
Nah we call all kinds of soda, coke. It don't matter if you're talking about Dr. Pepper, big red, sprite or whatever else. When they ask what kinda soda you want, they say, "what kinda coke you want?"
Saying soda sounds foreign to us down south. Then again, I'm from the south point, which is the valley and as far down as you can go in Texas.
Why would he lump a few accents together and call that southern. LoL
I know! That bothered me a lot!
Yeah, there are lots of southern accents. There's not just one accent that covers all of the states in "The South".
I grew up in Arkansas and spent some time in Louisiana .. at a buffet restaurant in Baton Rouge LA .. I asked the girl serving what something was ... and could not understand anything she said. Heavy, heavy creole or Cajun .. or a mix
There are many "Southern accents", not just one. (This is a very big country).
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A bounce house is a large inflatable party thing for kids. They usually look like a castle or something.
We generally just refer to them as bouncy castles here as that’s the typical shape. 😀
Born and lived in Chicagoland for 30 years. Nobody ever pegged that I was from Chicago unless I used the word “pop” or “ gym shoes” for soda and tennis shoes. That was, until, I moved to Arizona. Many commented on my Chicago accent.
We do the same in Pittsburgh. You ask for a soda here and they will ask you what kind of ice cream you want in it. And I have heard that you have adopted our term "jag-off" (or Jagov) which I think has Polish immigrant origins--we both have large Polish populations. We of course have things that are unique to Pittsburgh. State lines are terrible as boundaries for understanding accents. Philly is nothing like us. Well, um goin' dahn Irwin watcha Stillers n'nat.
I'm in Alabama and had a telemarketing job in my 20s And O'boy things people wanted me to say with my accent was bonkers!!! I was just trying to give them a free vaction
New subscriber from New Mexico USA. Fun video. You two are a lotta fun. The video you were reacting to is one of the better ones I’ve seen.
The southern accents and piney woods accent have many many accents within it and the south is divided between dozens of accents with big differences, but you can still tell its southern. And there are also whole dialects within northern and southern accents of African American that never really gets explored like ever, and they can be categorized by state/region and urban/rural. Within the African American Northman and southern accents, there are so so so many ways of speech and even while separate English American dialects also.
Louisiana not being on the list is a crime.
@17:40 in or so, I KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS!!! He is Tony, from "Crime Pays, but Botany Doesn't," where he literally travels the world, explaining every species of plant he comes across. He is a genius, and from Chicago. He has the Chicago Italian accent. If you want a treat, pick a spot you have always wondered about, and look him up on YT.
As for the rest, I didn't find any too difficult, but I have lived in Southwest Michigan, Central Georgia, Northern Illinois, Eastern Wisconsin, and East Tennessee, with family living in North Carolina and Arkansas. I thought the so-called "Piney" accent in Texas sounds pretty much like the Southern Appalachian accent of East Tennessee. Meanwhile, there is a distinction between the Deep Southern accent of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, versus the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There is also, broadly, across the country east of the Mississippi River a "country" accent, that always sounds vaguely southern, and tends to be found more among less educated people. Not saying dumb, just not educated beyond high school, as they didn't need degrees to find work, etc.. All across our country, the city accents are MUCH reduced, compared to surrounding counties. Oh, btw, the "Yuper" accent of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is one that takes some getting used to, youper coming from saying "U. P." out.
I find it bizarre how many accents are found on the British Isles altogether, when they are no bigger than our single state of Oregon. My home state of Michigan is bigger as well. It would be like finding a distinct accent in almost every county! I can't imagine. In that the video says experts say our accents are diverging over here, I guess that's not a surprise. But I figure media is pulling us all together, tho, helping us not drift, or at least, drift together, parallel.
When I took a trip to London and heard the various accents milling about in conversation I laughed out loud when suddenly, I heard a New Jersey accent cut through all the background chatter very loudly. The funny thing is she approached me to take her picture with her mom thinking I was a local…because even though I’m from North Carolina ,apparently, I sound like I’m from Manchester. Even people in London that I talked to thought I was from Manchester and just “went to university in the states” to explain my accent. 😂
13:27 here’s what he said.
“ on your right now, there is going to be another Dunkin Donuts. Ok? Then, straight up over the hill , across the street used to be Another Dunkin Donuts / like, Baskin Robbins combo. You know what I’m talking about. One of those deals. Anyway,it’s gone now…On your left is a Stop-N-Shop, that’s where my Dad likes to go. My Mom likes Rush Brothers but she says it’s too expens… Anyway! That’s where my Dad goes Stop-N-Shop. There’s a Dunkin Donuts *IN* that Stop-N-Shop, And you go straight through to the Rotary.”
Check out the three part series on American accents by Eric Singer it is incredibly good.
Funny how the accents change, even within the same state. For instance, im from upstate ny and we talk completely different than NYC. We have a basic general american accent.
Hi, l live in Texas, and the piney woods accent is only found in east Texas. That accent is also found in north Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama and Georgia.
Texas has a lot of different accents, from the afore mentioned piney woods accent, to a southern drawl, Cajun influenced around Port Arthur, the classic cowboy accent so often featured in Hollywood westerns, to Tex-Mex and Spanish accents.
When I listen to linguists talk about American accents, many talk about what they call rho(w)dic vs non- rhodic accents. Non-rhodic means the omission of R's from within and at the end of spoken words that contain them in spelling,, like British English. I think most East coast and Gulf coast southern states accents fall in that category. I believe it came from our British forebearers. The rest of the country, including Texas, have clearly rhodic accents. My mom was from eastern New Mexico, which borders Texas to its west. She had a Texas accent.
I can tell you part of the reason why language in the U.S. seems to be getting further and further apart is because of the countries is almost the size of all of Europe. No wonder there seem to be many differences.
Most people in the Dallas area do not sound particularly Texan and sound almost midwestern. Pittsburgh's is extremely distinctive and is a kind of a lingustic isolated island. I can't even imitate it. Very interesting to hear in person.
Those donkeys and butterflies are freaking me out, man.
I hope it's not a hallucination.
It could be. 😉
@@AliKaiProject Okay, you heard my thoughts. Was that last part out loud?
I need more butterflies.
Some of the US dialects are more contextual than British English. It is the idiomatic way we speak. You will get the accents with no problem. I can give you some examples of here in Texas if you wanna get confused. LOL!! Sure, do the next part of the video.
You can hear the Boston accent if you react to stand up comedian Bill Burr My favorite English accents are Manchester (The Office Blokes/Office Bloke Daz), Yorkshire (James Beelsey) , and Bristol (Mr H and Friends) Areas of my favorite British UA-camrs. What part of England is AliKai from? Seems you guys speak standard British?
We’re from Kent in the South East 😁
@@AliKaiProject I am in Ohio, Columbus Ohio but we here in Ohio also have a town called Kent! Kent State University is a famous university in Northeast corner of Ohio.
My favorite part about our "accents" is that we can typically turn them off and speak "general American" when we need to explain something clearly but of course there are many exceptions
That’s interesting and confusing at the same time! 😅
Texas is Southwestern. It is heavily influenced by Spanish and French. Whereas a Southeastern southern accent is a combination of English, German, Scottish, and Irish accents. I'm from the Southeast and There is a big difference between the southern accent from someone east of the Mississippi and west of the Mississippi.
In the Pacific Northwest people shorten their sentences with mhm and ah’s.
As a native San Antonian, I find it very easy to figure out which part of Texas someone is from based on their accent. Most San Antonians speak GNA because the schools stress the accent with all the military bases.
As someone who grew up in Northern California where the accent is quite different from Southern California. My wife works at a call center making reservations and she can instantly tell if the person is from Southern California (Los Angeles) or if they’re from New York. Along with the accent the attitudes are very recognizable too Something that caused a mixing of accents is that American people will move from state to state or across the country more than other countries. I grew up with my fraternal Grandparents who had accents from Oklahoma and Mississippi and my maternal grandparents who had Canadian and Northwestern accents. The only accent I have a terrible time understanding is anyone who lives near a bayou East of Houston and Louisiana
Unfortunately, Olly's list is VERY simplified. Each state, region, part of the city as well as ethnicity has their own accent. I'll look for this other video(s) and link it in your second part to this video. Much more in-depth with examples from linguist who specialize in this thing...
Born in Kentucky and grew up in Virginia and Alabama , but I have lived in metro New York City for more than 50 years . I have tried VERY hard to not develop a New York accent , which I think is one of , if not THE ugliest accent in the USA . People here in New York know I'm not from New York but never guess where I'm from . Most of them guess California or the Midwest . I have a lot of trouble understanding many Brits who tend to speak very fast and nasally and have a lot of difficulty pronouncing words with the letter T. They tend to just swallow the T sound and pronounce words like button as if it was buh un with no T in it .
He didn't explain it well but the south has so many very different accents. In Texas alone there's at least 50 or so. Some are completely different like deep Cajun. Even Cajun has a couple. Some southern accents are almost impossible for us to understand even though we hear it every day. Up in the Ozarks the accent is so thick you won't catch anything they say unless you grew up with it.
7:50 Fran Drescher in The Nanny!
She’s talking about King of Queens
I wish you would have done the whole thing in one video.
Apologies, we’ll follow up with the second part soon. 😀
You can't lump all Midwest in together. I live in northern Illinois not far from Chicago and most people from other parts of the country don't notice an accent at all.
I'm from Oklahoma and have an "Okie" accent. It's similar enough to a Texan accent that someone might think that I'm from Texas. By the way, there are lots of different southern accents so I'm not sure why he lumped all of the accents together as one "Southern Accent". There are so many states in the south that have their own distinct sounding accents. He could have done a whole video just on southern accents alone. Anyway, enjoyed the reaction. A second video would be good, but y'all should really check out the videos called "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents" it's a lot more comprehensive and in-depth.
As a native born North Carolinian I hate the Carolinians that say “ cackilacky” . It’s like nails on a chalkboard level of annoying. It’s “ Care-oh-lye-nah” or “Care-oh-Lee-nah” those are the only two acceptable ways to say it. 😂
You’re probably thinking of King of Queens for the New York accent
Yes, that’s the one! Thank you for the reminder 🤗
louisiana is the most difficult.most people can not understand the Cajun accent.
You should check out WIRED's three-part series "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents". It's incredibly thorough and entertaining. Highly recommend! 😊
Thanks, we’ll have a look. 😍
I think the thing most tourists may not realize is that New York "State" is a large place. They may have heard the New York "city" accent, but they may not realize that that type of accent may not be prevalent throughout the whole state. 😊
This is very true! :)
Many of these examples are really exaggerated by people acting. Taylor Swift isn't even from Minnesota. I am from Chicago and I will say less than 5% have a "Chicago" accent. It's only in a very small area in the city. Most people have the general accent he explained as the accent from TV and movies.
Oi guv'nor..... Bloody good show, absolutely smashing. Pip pip cheerio matey 😂❤😂
Jolly good old chap, thank you kindly. 😂
Texas is Southwestern. The South refers to the Southeastern states.
0:53 Lol we not that bad down here in the south But i was born and raised and still here in Tennessee some people that hear me talk say I have an Alabama accent I don't hear it😂😂😂😂
Had an Alabama roommate in the Army and remember one day some guys were teasing him about his accent. I looked at him and asked ... "What accent?" ... I was from Arkansas.
I would say that people from the Chicago area have the least accent. Not everyone talks like Mike Ditka “Da Bearz” or Dee’s Dems and doze! We may leave the g off of our words like fallin’ or goin’ but we do not talk like Mayor Daley or his illiterate son Ritchie!
The kid at 13:30 just sounds general american. I dont hear any Boston in him.
Many of those Minnesota accents sound more lik e Wisconsin to me and that's a poor Chicago accent.
The Texas accent is not a southern accent. In fact, it is not considered in the south at all.
Really? 😮
@@AliKaiProject Most people do not consider Texas to be a southern state. Texas is its own thing. Florida is not considered a southern state either for that matter. Sure it is south of every other state in the south, but culturally speaking Florida is not a southern state. This is because there are millions of northerners like me living here. The further south you go in Florida, the further north you really are. That expression is a fact in Florida.
Texan accent is southern. Linguists consider it Southern American English, though it's a South Midland accent, so it's different from the southern accents in the south east. And the US government considers Texas a part of the south. It's culturally southern, especially east Texas, but it's not considered "deep south".
East Texas = high & tight; West Texas = Low & slow; Valley = heavy Spanish influence
WRONG!!!!! THe midwest has an accent "Dont'chya know" And california has the the valley girl "like totally" the plain accent is in Washington state and Actors and news anchors have been told to spend some time in Washington to get rid of their accents.
Texas isnt the south
Ranking accents is literally just stupid…are we going to rank Scot accents…?…America comprises all of North and South America…the United States..broadly speaking is 1/3 of North America…all 3 countries in the north are pretty large..and in any rather large land mass, there will be variations in the language…such is the history of mankind…there is no debate…just differences…but as citizens of this large country…we believe in the Constitution…life, liberty and freedom of speech…the right to travel anywhere ..we never have to leave this country to have an amazing vacation…here, life can be pretty good…rolling meadows and roaring rapids rivers…mountains for climbing or skiing..a lot of room to spread out and some,rather large cities..most people want to come for a visit…or to stay…but ranking dialects/accents would be waaaaaay down my list of things to do, since there is such an abundance of very real things I can be doing…