For real! You listen to younger folks from almost anywhere in the country now and they all sound like they're from Southern California. Its kind of sad.
Why?? Nothing better than owning where you come from. My favorite accents happen to be the most frowned upon L.I./NY and Boston. Love those dialects, they're hardcore.
I'm from long island too and everyone pretty much sounds just like this. When I moved to Florida ppl already knew i was from New York cause of my accent. Man I miss New York.
Deep South accents are about as noticeable. Mississippi and Alabama tend to sound a lot more "lower-class", Georgia and the Carolinas tend to be a bit more urban/"upper-class" sounding, and we Tennesseans seem to fall somewhere in the middle. When you're living among your "home accent", you never notice it, but then when you go on vacation, it sticks out like a sore thumb, and you catch yourself pronouncing words in ways you never realize you did until you stopped hearing other people say it like that. Accents are WEIRD like that.
Kimona Faith lived in nassau county 48 years moved to florida boy am I having fun talking with all the southern people I'll never lose my accent but the funny thing is more and more long islanders are moving here
i grew up in island park but now live in minnesota. i dont have a thick long island accent. my parents have real thick new york accents. my mom left the bronx 43 yesrs ago and still has that bronx irish accent
Born in Queens, raised on Long Island, now stationed in Texas for the last 25 years, and yet everyone I meet can tell where I came from without a moment's hesitation. Long Island gives you an accent that stays for life.
I was born and raised on Long Island and I never thought I had much of a Long Island accent. I still don't. However, when I went to sleep away camp for the first time when I was 10, many kids thought I was from the Boston area because of how I talked. I do actually pronounce my "r" sounds unlike most with a thick Boston accent. I used to go to school with a couple of people who had pretty thick Long Island accents and lots of people used to ask them to say the words "coffee," "water," and "orange" just to hear how they sounded.
There are a lot of similar language features that are similar between New York and New England that get lost to the confusion between "Hahvahd" and "cawfee". I like to tell people I'm from the Northeast because of this rather than identifying a metro area.
I'm standing in the middle of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey talking to my Father-in law. The shopkeepers stand outside their stores trying to lure people in . I hear the shopkeeper across from us say " Hey Long Island, come check out my store"
@No. Body How can people forget it's an island when the only way you can get there is by bridge, tunnel or boat? Maybe I'm just biased because I lived on Christopher Street when I was born...in Manhattan.
@No. Body When I was in high school, after a vacation - maybe winter break - I had been trying to grow a mustache. In gym class we used to line up for attendance, and my teacher would go down the line like we were in the army or something. When he got to me he said, "where have you been - living on an island?" I said, "Yes. Long Island" (I had moved there by then.) Gym teachers don't like to be shown up, of course. So - I get it.
True! I think it can also apply to lower New York too; I say “I’m waiting on line to check out” and not “in line”. A New Jersey friend of mine gave me a crazy look haha.
I'm LI born and raised and yes, I agree, we "natives" (correctly, I might add) say "on" not "in". One lives ON an island, not IN an island! Makes me crazy, esp when professionals, like news anchors do it.
I'm not from the US so I was really excited the first time I went to NYC and heard this accent in person haha. I knew it from the movies but to hear it live in NY is really cool!
It's funny, my mom and her family are from Long Island, and when I work in a call center I can tell when someone is from Long Island. There is definitely a difference between a NYC, an Islander and a New Joisey accent.
Angela Yu You don't notice an accent when you're used to hearing it on a daily basis. When someone from upstate like me goes down, they'll let me know (my family specifically) that I don't pronounce certain words like water, compass, or Mario correctly.
The urban North Jersey accent - think Hoboken, Jersey City et al - is kind of like a softened NYC borough accent that pronounces all "R" sounds. "Joisey" is of course a joke, that's actually the dead curl-coil merger that only urban NYC people had about 100 years ago - picture Groucho Marx. Quite abruptly inland towards Morristown, Wayne etc. it turns into a pretty neutral Hudson Valley-ish accent that dosen't sound very NYC at all. This also applies to below the Raritan River. Then there's South Jersey near Philly. I have this accent. You'll get diphthong vowels in words like "bath" and "pass" just like a NYC/Long Island accent and the "aw" sound is pretty enriched(cawfee, dawg, etc), but it's fully rhotic and has a goofy Pennsylvania-ish sound that is completely unlike NYC. Yet when I leave Jersey people think I'm a Jersey or NY guy due to the way I say words like "hot dog" or "glass".
prushimush The North Jersey accent doesn’t pronounce “R’s”. My family is from Jersey City and Bayonne, “R’s” are never used when talking. But “R’s” are added to words ending in a vowel. Oh and maybe since I’m Irish American, any word with a “O” sound at the end turns into a “ah” sound. Potato is pAtatA. Tomato is tAmatA. Window is windA
I did a job at Whiteman airforce base a few years back. Pretty close to Sedalia MO, anyway we went into a bar and they were all line dancing, but we didn't know how. So we just started to dance like we normally do and got nothing but love from the people there. And that was literally in the middle of nowhere. Loved the people there!
I hear it, but only a little bit. I think he had the "thinnest" Long Island (Lawn Guyland) accent out of any of the people they interviewed... It's definitely not a "thick" accent.
I was born on Long island (Islip) in 1938. Left when I was 16 to California. Even now,, when I talk to someone from L>I> I slip back into the accent after all these years.
Garden City here, 11530. BUT never said sofer (sofa) or Donner (Donna). In LA now but when I hear someone speak Long Island, they are my new best friend. Strawng Island.
I’m originally from West Yorkshire in England which has a similar accent to Long Island, but I think the Long Island accent is thicker, but I was interested in the Long Island accent. I currently live in Islip, NY
Don’t forget the two other rules...1) dropping the “ing”. Walking becomes walkin’; cooking becomes cookin’; etc. And 2) running two or more words together to form one word. “What are you doing” becomes one word “Whachadoin”.
@@chelle315 I notice people are from LI and don't have relatives from the city speak that way. If your relatives are from city, you aint talking like that. I have Queens accent and didn't grew up in Queens but spent most time in Queens as a child. I not the L.I. accent, it's interesting
I love this! I’m an English prof who grew up in Farmingdale, went to college in New Paltz, lived for eleven years in Manhattan, and moved to Los Angeles in 1999. My youthful arrogance made me work during my 20’s to remove my accent from my speech, which I now regret. I guess I was not 100% successful, because every once in awhile someone here asks, “Are you from Long Island?” I love it when that happens. My kids tell me when I go back to visit it kicks in again, which makes me happy. Best quote in this piece is, “ There’s nothing wrong with sounding like you’re from anywhere.”
Nocturnal316 California aren't the most understanding people when it comes to outsiders.They sort of live in a bubble.Not much diversity there.The best thing to do is just go with it if you can.If you can laugh at yourself its better than them laughing at you.If not move back home like I did."Say Coffee!"-NO! Everyone asked me that.Got old quick
I moved in Brooklyn in 2003 and you'd hear this accent everywhere....after 2008, you only heard it in long island. Now I just hear Arabic and Spanish and Chinese and Japanese.
I live in Texas now but as soon as I cross the Verranzano-Narrows Bridge both the accent & the Long Island Expressway driving habits come back like flipping a switch.
Get the same thing after spending my first 37 years on LI. Funny thing I raised my youngest child in NC from 6 months old and he has a bit of a LI accent and never lived there. After repeatedly asked where I was from I would always tell them a different southern state. The look on their faces was priceless. When asked what part of GA I would respond North Georgia.
Great accent. Come over to the UK with that accent, you'd get lots of attention. In fact, all of the US accents would get lots of attention over here 😍
I’m from the east end (farther from NYC) and our accent is less thick. But then I moved to SW Florida populated largely from MidWesterners, & they hear me comin a mile away like I’m Joe Pesci 😂
I've lived in Southern California now for nearly 50 years--but I was born and raised in Long Island City. I've lost whatever New York accent I may have had--except whenever I pronounce a word with an "o" in it, I give away where I'm originally from. "Lawng Island," "frawg," "fawggy day." Haven't lost my "Lawng Islandese." And know what? Hope I never do!
Long Island City is NOT long island. Never was and Never will be. That is Queens and one of the 5 boroughs of NYC--only Nassau County and Suffolk County are considered Long Island. Brooklyn is Not Long Island either for same reason. It is Kings County which has been a borough of NYC long before there was a dirt road in the wilderness of long island. People from Brooklyn and Queens are considered city folk not Islanders.--Glad you kept a lot of your eastern accent. A Queens accent is great!! Most Islanders have parents or grandparents living in Queens or Brooklyn. (The old country, hahaha)
Me too! Micheal. I'm from Long Island. I don't know if it's being around family so much but have THE words that come out of my mouth so Long Island. Now my family came from Bronx, Brooklyn then moved to the island. I had family in Levittown, Bethpage and Massapequa. Then a portion moved to Southern California. What's SO COOL is I Google my old address and can see my home as it is today ❤❤❤
I think it's kinda interesting that some of those things can work similarly to a typical Southern accent & how that linguistic thing can work literally backwards in a Southern accent. Like turing oil ("oy-yul") into "ole" or "awl" - linguistics & accents are just fascinatingly cool!
When my dad was stationed in San Diego back in the late 50s, a cab driver picked him up from the airport to take him to the base. "You in the navy?" he asked. "I am," dad said. "I'm gonna give you a few words to say to me and by the end of your ride, if I don't guess where you grew up within 50 miles, your ride is free." After dad said "Look at this" and "What do you say?" the cabbie said "You're from Hudson County...Hoboken or Jersey City." Dad was from Hoboken.
Born and lived in Harlem, moved to LI at 5yo,still here. Used to be embarrassed by my accent. Now I know it's a unique, fading beautiful accent. Please pass the cawfee.
For some the island is luxurious and lavished, for others it is dark and tragic. Yet the dividing lines are thinner than both worlds realize. That is long island
I lost a 4th grade spelling bee because I spelled "quarter" without the first "R", due to the way we all pronounced it on LI (KWAW-der). Still rankles 40 years later.
I'm from Long Island. My grandparents were from Brooklyn and The Bronx and my Dad was from Queens. I have zero Long Island accent. I think it's because my Mom is from England. I am from East Setauket.
I'm born and raised in Long Island (NY) but I've never heard A Long Islander say lawn GY land ! Yet whenever I meet someone who's not from around here the first thing a say is oh! Lawn GY LAND AM I RIGHT MY BRUTHUHS AND SISTAS?
I grew up and am still living in Connecticut but somehow was blessed with the Long Island accent and it gets even more noticeable when I'm mad too I'm also Italian and maybe 4"10
I was born and raised in Suffolk county with two sisters and none of us sound like this. None of our friends do either. I think it stems from having parents from a burrough who moved out to LI and/or having a strong accent from another language such as Italian
I went to Seattle Washington to visit family. I went to a Walgreens and asked a female employee working there for help, she was nice, helped me out, then smiled at me asking if I'm from LI, I said yeah and she knew just by my accent so that was pretty cool being recognized like that. I also stopped by a fast food restaurant and asked for an (iced cawffee, light and sweet). The guy taking my order was so confused because apparently "light and sweet" isn't a recognized term out west.
Nah it's not a matter of terminology it's matter of failure of communication, if you don't understand light & sweet in barista occupation you shouldn't be in that occupation.
I grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn and have lived on Long Island for many years. Some call it a New York Accent, some call it a Brooklyn accent, and in recent years, we have heard people calling it a Long Island Accent. But except for a few slight differences, I find that it's pretty much all the same, even in the Bronx and Staten Island. Maybe it should be called the New York-Long Island Metro Area Accent?
@@15lesson what in the actual fuck are you talking about? I was making a joke because I’m from Long Island and I have the stereotypical accent. Go bring your toxic bullshit somewhere else.
@@15lesson your attempt at humor was an absolute failure. You decided to make a conscious effort to attack someone’s appearance instead of commenting on the video like you should’ve. Your comment and my comment had no correlation with one another.
I'm from the New Orleans area and I've been called out for my obvious New Orleans accent in many places around the U.S. including Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Flagstaff, Arizona. The people that I spoke to recognized my accent immediately. I don't really notice it in my speech either though.
There is a difference from Suffolk County and Nassau County accents. When I moved from Uniondale to Bayshore, everyone was like "Ah, you're from Nassau. Your accent gives you away." Slowly I learned the difference as well.
@@learner5090 The Suffolk accent is heavier from the best I can describe. There seems to be one of a emphasis on the vowels in Suffolk County. Like the infamous "coffee"; In Nassau I hear "Cawffee" but on Suffolk that is a distinct emphasis on the AW. I first noticed its with my landlord and the owners of the house I was renting. Then I heard it with my boss and employees.
@@jessquinn6106 I notice with Suffolk county the accent can nasally compare to a Queens, Brooklyn and Nassu county. It kind of reminds me the Aussie accent. If you grew up in household with a parent from queens or brooklyn, you wouldnt pick it up most likely and if you spend time there.
One of my all-time favorite gags - I've been using it for hundreds of years and it works every dang time - in a conversation where an Irish person is present (and especially when they say they're from Ireland) is to happily blurt out: *"My family's from Ireland!*" When they look surprised, or bemused or just mildly annoyed at my interruption, I pause half-a-second then add *"Lawng I-land".*
You wouldn't believe all the accents I heard being in the military. I picked up new ways of expressing things that were easier to say, or have a more effective way of making your point, that they don't use in NY. I'm originally from Brooklyn and everybody from other places in the country knew that about me without even asking.
My dad grew up in Farmingdale. He has lived on the west coast for about 40 years now and didn’t retain much of his native accent, except it does come back out with certain words, like “mirror” (he says “mirra” 😊) I love it!
Many years ago I lived in Queens but worked in Manhattan. Many of my neighbors in Flushing had accents reminiscent of Archie Bunker. However, when I crossed the bridge to the upper east side, I encountered a nearly Bostonian lock jaw. Amazing what difference a bridge crossing or a few subway stops can make.
@@shaynabarkan3940 you tend not to notice things when it’s the only type of accent you’re exposed to, if you were from like California and visited the island you’d probably notice an accent
The Long Island accent actually originated from Brooklyn and Queens, especially from the Italian Americans and Jewish Americans. This accent used be a lot more common in Brooklyn and Queens, but starting in the 1950s, especially since the 1970s, a lot of the European Americans left these boroughs moving to Long Island bringing the Brooklyn/Queens accents and eventually it became more common in Long Island than in Brooklyn/Queens as most of the original Brooklyn/Queens accent speakers left these boroughs and gave way to large numbers of new demographics and now you mainly can still hear these accents only certain parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
I'm from Long Island. I'll use this dialect in the monologues I make up and perform when I do impressions of my childhood caretakers. The adults in my life have a thicker accent than my peers
I'm from Long Island living in NC now for almost 40 years and to this day have not lost the accent, as people remind me on an almost daily basis. And when I hear someone from the Island speak I can tell where they're from in about three words. Also when I talk to someone from Long Island my accent instantly gets thicker by osmosis. Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of high water potential to a region of low water potential in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides; but you know what I meant. LOL!!
@@lisalee2885 Hi, Years ago but decades after leaving the Island, my best friend once asked me this over the phone. He wanted to know if I was still from Long Island, and so he said "What do you call a horses feet? I answered without even thinking about it, it was automatic, in grained I guess. He said, yeah, you're still from L.I., So in the spirit of fun and adventure, I'll ask the same question: If you're from Long Island what do you call a horses feet?
@@robertkees6048 Welllllll Robert...I call them huvs. We lived in Levittown until 72 and have been in Southern California since. Today is actually my 59th Birthday ☘️🍀☘️ Awesome day cooking cornbeef/cabbage and enjoying family and friends. Italiano,Scottish and German here. Very Great memories of Long Island...Jolly Roger's and great neighbors. Hope you did too. Oh WHAT do you call horses feet? 😂😂😂
I had a tourist come into my store and say you have an interesting accent, I looked at that lady with confusion, like what accent lady you are in New Yalk!
The Long Island accent came about from New Yorkers moving out there. Originally, being rural, people there spoke with that antiquated northeastern country American accent that you would hear from old broadcasters.
"There's nothing wrong with sounding like you are from anywhere." Preach it!
Right? This is our identity!
yep! i talk with strong amsterdam accent...wich is looked down up on by the dutch people who talk dutch without any accent ...i 'm proud of my accent
Agreed?
For real! You listen to younger folks from almost anywhere in the country now and they all sound like they're from Southern California. Its kind of sad.
@@jeffmorse645 Yes, I've noticed that!
Accents are wonderful. It's a sign of maturity that the US has developed a fair number of regional dialects. It's enriching.
I wish people felt this away about Southern dialects
@@stalstonestacy4316 I do.
Accents make everyone seem colorful and fascinating to me. Having no accent like in much of the west makes one seem humorless.
@@stalstonestacy4316 they only bother me if they're so thick you cant understand anyone. Otherwise, they're cool.
@@kenaldri4923 Everyone has an accent. It's literally (literally literally in this case) impossible not to have an accent.
i get extremely uncomfortable knowing this is how i talk
Don't.
OwnageCubed The accent is cool!
Aww, no, be proud. What else are you gonna do?
Why?? Nothing better than owning where you come from. My favorite accents happen to be the most frowned upon L.I./NY and Boston. Love those dialects, they're hardcore.
It’s honestly cool!
I'm from long island too and everyone pretty much sounds just like this. When I moved to Florida ppl already knew i was from New York cause of my accent. Man I miss New York.
Deep South accents are about as noticeable. Mississippi and Alabama tend to sound a lot more "lower-class", Georgia and the Carolinas tend to be a bit more urban/"upper-class" sounding, and we Tennesseans seem to fall somewhere in the middle. When you're living among your "home accent", you never notice it, but then when you go on vacation, it sticks out like a sore thumb, and you catch yourself pronouncing words in ways you never realize you did until you stopped hearing other people say it like that. Accents are WEIRD like that.
Kimona Faith lived in nassau county 48 years moved to florida boy am I having fun talking with all the southern people I'll never lose my accent but the funny thing is more and more long islanders are moving here
i grew up in island park but now live in minnesota. i dont have a thick long island accent. my parents have real thick new york accents. my mom left the bronx 43 yesrs ago and still has that bronx irish accent
Same just moved from long island but everyone says I just have a valley girl accent
EVeryone moves from NY to FL so much that I am trying to AVOID moving to FL even though it is destined to happen, haha...
Born in Queens, raised on Long Island, now stationed in Texas for the last 25 years, and yet everyone I meet can tell where I came from without a moment's hesitation. Long Island gives you an accent that stays for life.
Kill me now!
Born in Brooklyn, lived in Nassau. I live upstate NY and I draw attention every time I open my mouth.
Proud to be a Long Islander :)
jgiresi70 same
Same as well. How abouta youse?
Same here.
Lawn-guyyyy-land
Shame what it’s becoming tho.
I was born and raised on Long Island and I never thought I had much of a Long Island accent. I still don't. However, when I went to sleep away camp for the first time when I was 10, many kids thought I was from the Boston area because of how I talked. I do actually pronounce my "r" sounds unlike most with a thick Boston accent. I used to go to school with a couple of people who had pretty thick Long Island accents and lots of people used to ask them to say the words "coffee," "water," and "orange" just to hear how they sounded.
FrozenUSA every time i go into the city im asked if i'm from boston as well
I guess you're jewish.
Jews don't sound like that.
There are a lot of similar language features that are similar between New York and New England that get lost to the confusion between "Hahvahd" and "cawfee". I like to tell people I'm from the Northeast because of this rather than identifying a metro area.
Yeah same I pronounce the r
I'm standing in the middle of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey talking to my Father-in law. The shopkeepers stand outside their stores trying to lure people in . I hear the shopkeeper across from us say " Hey Long Island, come check out my store"
This is not an accent thing, but I always say "If you say you live "in" Long Island, you weren't born "on" Long Island.'
Never thought about that. You're right. I grew up IN Queens but my friend lived ON Long Island.
@No. Body Yeah, but people don't say I was born "on" Manhattan, they say I was born "in" Manhattan.
@No. Body How can people forget it's an island when the only way you can get there is by bridge, tunnel or boat? Maybe I'm just biased because I lived on Christopher Street when I was born...in Manhattan.
@No. Body When I was in high school, after a vacation - maybe winter break - I had been trying to grow a mustache. In gym class we used to line up for attendance, and my teacher would go down the line like we were in the army or something. When he got to me he said, "where have you been - living on an island?" I said, "Yes. Long Island" (I had moved there by then.) Gym teachers don't like to be shown up, of course. So - I get it.
True! I think it can also apply to lower New York too; I say “I’m waiting on line to check out” and not “in line”. A New Jersey friend of mine gave me a crazy look haha.
Folks from LI will refer to everything LI as “on” the island. Those from elsewhere say in LI.
I'm LI born and raised and yes, I agree, we "natives" (correctly, I might add) say "on" not "in". One lives ON an island, not IN an island! Makes me crazy, esp when professionals, like news anchors do it.
"oowan"
I am originally from Queens, and any place on LI that wasn't Queens or Brooklyn, we referred to as being "out on the Island."
It has nothing to do with were we live. It's the correct way to say it. You live IN a state and ON and island.
@J Stone so true,,, I live oooonnnnnn Looonnnngggg Island
I'm from Uruguay, and I find Long Island accent so beautiful and amusing to hear. Don't be ashamed of where y'all come from!
I find it too "Mannish" to be honest.
Appreciate it!
Oh I amuse you? Like a clown?!
It's not pronounced Long Island, it's pronounced Lawn Goyland.
You have made my day
Lawn guy lander
Ka Boom lmfaooo
With an O? I hear more people pronounce it like 'lawngilan' as a long islander.
It’s more like lawn guyland
Yiddish and Italian = Long Island
Lol. I speak Yiddish and a bit of Italian....
@@SimonKanner-si3it And to you. Grazi mille. I also speak a fair Zulu and grew up speaking Afrikaans.
@@hectormowsmylawn6355 Ja ek kom van Sa af. JY?
Dont forget Irish
David Scalza The Irish were here before both.
I'm not from the US so I was really excited the first time I went to NYC and heard this accent in person haha. I knew it from the movies but to hear it live in NY is really cool!
Sana owl hahahahahaha
Hello! I’m from Long Island
It's funny, my mom and her family are from Long Island, and when I work in a call center I can tell when someone is from Long Island. There is definitely a difference between a NYC, an Islander and a New Joisey accent.
Angela Yu You don't notice an accent when you're used to hearing it on a daily basis. When someone from upstate like me goes down, they'll let me know (my family specifically) that I don't pronounce certain words like water, compass, or Mario correctly.
There is no NJ accent, and only new yorkers say "Joisey" We always say New Jersey.
The urban North Jersey accent - think Hoboken, Jersey City et al - is kind of like a softened NYC borough accent that pronounces all "R" sounds. "Joisey" is of course a joke, that's actually the dead curl-coil merger that only urban NYC people had about 100 years ago - picture Groucho Marx. Quite abruptly inland towards Morristown, Wayne etc. it turns into a pretty neutral Hudson Valley-ish accent that dosen't sound very NYC at all. This also applies to below the Raritan River.
Then there's South Jersey near Philly. I have this accent. You'll get diphthong vowels in words like "bath" and "pass" just like a NYC/Long Island accent and the "aw" sound is pretty enriched(cawfee, dawg, etc), but it's fully rhotic and has a goofy Pennsylvania-ish sound that is completely unlike NYC. Yet when I leave Jersey people think I'm a Jersey or NY guy due to the way I say words like "hot dog" or "glass".
prushimush The North Jersey accent doesn’t pronounce “R’s”. My family is from Jersey City and Bayonne, “R’s” are never used when talking. But “R’s” are added to words ending in a vowel. Oh and maybe since I’m Irish American, any word with a “O” sound at the end turns into a “ah” sound. Potato is pAtatA. Tomato is tAmatA. Window is windA
I think I got all the accent
LOL I'm from Missouri and I sit here and listen in total amazement on how you folks pronounce words it cracks me up but I got nothing but love for ya
I did a job at Whiteman airforce base a few years back. Pretty close to Sedalia MO, anyway we went into a bar and they were all line dancing, but we didn't know how. So we just started to dance like we normally do and got nothing but love from the people there. And that was literally in the middle of nowhere. Loved the people there!
Guy at 1:11 says that everyone tells him he has a strong Long Island accent, but I don’t hear it at all.
I do in his vowel for "long"
Yeah I don't here it at awwwwl
I hear it, but only a little bit. I think he had the "thinnest" Long Island (Lawn Guyland) accent out of any of the people they interviewed...
It's definitely not a "thick" accent.
@@EmeraldLavigne then I don’t have one lol
This is a real thing. I somehow just realized I have the accent. Before I didn't notice it
The Mick Foley special guest shot blew me away
I love the N Y Long Island accent, grettings from Mexico City.
I was born on Long island (Islip) in 1938. Left when I was 16 to California. Even now,, when I talk to someone from L>I> I slip back into the accent after all these years.
Garden City here, 11530. BUT never said sofer (sofa) or Donner (Donna). In LA now but when I hear someone speak Long Island, they are my new best friend. Strawng Island.
I'm a big fan of the hardcore legend Mick Foley.
All hail
I met him in Florida at the hotel I work at. Cool dude.
This is probably the most charming accent to me of all regional accents.
Appreciate it
Mariah Carey sexy voice
Thank you, professor lady, for reassuring me that there's no reason to be embarrassed by a Long Island accent. That's very open minded of you.
I really think the "coffee"/ Long Island accent is unique to a certain extent.
That is how Carrie Heffernan said it on the KOQ show.
Yeah we pronounce it cawfee.
I’m originally from West Yorkshire in England which has a similar accent to Long Island, but I think the Long Island accent is thicker, but I was interested in the Long Island accent. I currently live in Islip, NY
I pronounce it as coffee
@@john.andrew.brighton Generally speaking, New York accent is similar to English Accent. At least I notice. For instance; Talk, Call, More, door etc
Don’t forget the two other rules...1) dropping the “ing”. Walking becomes walkin’; cooking becomes cookin’; etc. And 2) running two or more words together to form one word. “What are you doing” becomes one word “Whachadoin”.
LOL...like what do you mean?.....wadayamean? and the shoulder shrug with your palms turned up.....
@@chelle315 I notice people are from LI and don't have relatives from the city speak that way. If your relatives are from city, you aint talking like that. I have Queens accent and didn't grew up in Queens but spent most time in Queens as a child. I not the L.I. accent, it's interesting
I love this! I’m an English prof who grew up in Farmingdale, went to college in New Paltz, lived for eleven years in Manhattan, and moved to Los Angeles in 1999. My youthful arrogance made me work during my 20’s to remove my accent from my speech, which I now regret. I guess I was not 100% successful, because every once in awhile someone here asks, “Are you from Long Island?” I love it when that happens. My kids tell me when I go back to visit it kicks in again, which makes me happy. Best quote in this piece is, “ There’s nothing wrong with sounding like you’re from anywhere.”
Get it back
Happens to all of us when we go back to visit.
Honestly one of my favorite American accent - from a Scandinavian
Appreciate it
I love the fact that Mick Foley was interviewed for this! Never thought about it!
In California they watched me talk like I was always about to tell a joke.(Because many famous comedians including Seinfeld were natives here.)
Thomas Kennedy theres alot of irish jewish and polish people dont forget
I just moved to cali too. They all say I have a long island accent and make fun of me =(
Nocturnal316 California aren't the most understanding people when it comes to outsiders.They sort of live in a bubble.Not much diversity there.The best thing to do is just go with it if you can.If you can laugh at yourself its better than them laughing at you.If not move back home like I did."Say Coffee!"-NO! Everyone asked me that.Got old quick
I don’t hear my accent but whenever I leave LI everybody that I meet ask “are you from New York” 😂
I moved in Brooklyn in 2003 and you'd hear this accent everywhere....after 2008, you only heard it in long island. Now I just hear Arabic and Spanish and Chinese and Japanese.
I live in Texas now but as soon as I cross the Verranzano-Narrows Bridge both the accent & the Long Island Expressway driving habits come back like flipping a switch.
I relate so well to this. Eat or be eaten driving in New Yawk.
people always ask me if Im from Boston and I have to let them know that its a genuine Long Island accent
Get the same thing after spending my first 37 years on LI. Funny thing I raised my youngest child in NC from 6 months old and he has a bit of a LI accent and never lived there. After repeatedly asked where I was from I would always tell them a different southern state. The look on their faces was priceless. When asked what part of GA I would respond North Georgia.
Great accent. Come over to the UK with that accent, you'd get lots of attention. In fact, all of the US accents would get lots of attention over here 😍
Happy to hear lol
Jolly good.
I’m from the east end (farther from NYC) and our accent is less thick. But then I moved to SW Florida populated largely from MidWesterners, & they hear me comin a mile away like I’m Joe Pesci 😂
I've lived in Southern California now for nearly 50 years--but I was born and raised in Long Island City. I've lost whatever New York accent I may have had--except whenever I pronounce a word with an "o" in it, I give away where I'm originally from. "Lawng Island," "frawg," "fawggy day." Haven't lost my "Lawng Islandese." And know what? Hope I never do!
Long Island City is NOT long island. Never was and Never will be. That is Queens and one of the 5 boroughs of NYC--only Nassau County and Suffolk County are considered Long Island. Brooklyn is Not Long Island either for same reason. It is Kings County which has been a borough of NYC long before there was a dirt road in the wilderness of long island. People from Brooklyn and Queens are considered city folk not Islanders.--Glad you kept a lot of your eastern accent. A Queens accent is great!! Most Islanders have parents or grandparents living in Queens or Brooklyn. (The old country, hahaha)
Me too! Micheal. I'm from Long Island. I don't know if it's being around family so much but have THE words that come out of my mouth so Long Island. Now my family came from Bronx, Brooklyn then moved to the island. I had family in Levittown, Bethpage and Massapequa. Then a portion moved to Southern California. What's SO COOL is I Google my old address and can see my home as it is today ❤❤❤
I think it's kinda interesting that some of those things can work similarly to a typical Southern accent & how that linguistic thing can work literally backwards in a Southern accent. Like turing oil ("oy-yul") into "ole" or "awl" - linguistics & accents are just fascinatingly cool!
I grew up on Lawn Guy Land but have lived in South Carolina for years. Everyone likes my accent and says it's cool!
"I love drinking Cawfee when Im not drinking Wawtah", Love my Island!
When my dad was stationed in San Diego back in the late 50s, a cab driver picked him up from the airport to take him to the base. "You in the navy?" he asked. "I am," dad said. "I'm gonna give you a few words to say to me and by the end of your ride, if I don't guess where you grew up within 50 miles, your ride is free." After dad said "Look at this" and "What do you say?" the cabbie said "You're from Hudson County...Hoboken or Jersey City." Dad was from Hoboken.
Years ago in South Florida, I walked into a Mc Donald’s and placed my order. The McDonald’s employee asked me what part of Long Island I was from.
I am proud to be from New York, Brooklyn, NY. All New Yorkers have distinct accents from all over NY.
You misspelled “Lawn Goylan” as Long Island. Rookie mistake
Born and lived in Harlem, moved to LI at 5yo,still here. Used to be embarrassed by my accent. Now I know it's a unique, fading beautiful accent. Please pass the cawfee.
For some the island is luxurious and lavished, for others it is dark and tragic. Yet the dividing lines are thinner than both worlds realize. That is long island
Lawnga Island is my place for 59 years. BE PROUD !!!
I lost a 4th grade spelling bee because I spelled "quarter" without the first "R", due to the way we all pronounced it on LI (KWAW-der). Still rankles 40 years later.
I lost a spelling bee because they thought I said a different vowel, because I had a silly little Southern accent. I hear ya.
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I'm from Long Island. My grandparents were from Brooklyn and The Bronx and my Dad was from Queens. I have zero Long Island accent. I think it's because my Mom is from England. I am from East Setauket.
I'm born and raised in Long Island (NY) but I've never heard A Long Islander say lawn GY land !
Yet whenever I meet someone who's not from around here the first thing a say is oh! Lawn GY LAND
AM I RIGHT MY BRUTHUHS AND SISTAS?
What part, I notice it alot more out east around of L.I. If you from Nassau close to Queens, it explains why.
I grew up and am still living in Connecticut but somehow was blessed with the Long Island accent and it gets even more noticeable when I'm mad too I'm also Italian and maybe 4"10
I was born and raised in Suffolk county with two sisters and none of us sound like this. None of our friends do either. I think it stems from having parents from a burrough who moved out to LI and/or having a strong accent from another language such as Italian
I live on Long Island and have been raised there since I was 2 years old, and I've always had this Long Island accent.
I went to Seattle Washington to visit family. I went to a Walgreens and asked a female employee working there for help, she was nice, helped me out, then smiled at me asking if I'm from LI, I said yeah and she knew just by my accent so that was pretty cool being recognized like that. I also stopped by a fast food restaurant and asked for an (iced cawffee, light and sweet). The guy taking my order was so confused because apparently "light and sweet" isn't a recognized term out west.
Nah it's not a matter of terminology it's matter of failure of communication, if you don't understand light & sweet in barista occupation you shouldn't be in that occupation.
Right. They don't know "Coffee Light" ! 😮
I grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn and have lived on Long Island for many years. Some call it a New York Accent, some call it a Brooklyn accent, and in recent years, we have heard people calling it a Long Island Accent. But except for a few slight differences, I find that it's pretty much all the same, even in the Bronx and Staten Island. Maybe it should be called the New York-Long Island Metro Area Accent?
Love the Long Island accent!
Stand tall, Long Islanders You are loved 💕
Why was this recommended to me? I feel attacked.
You look like you feel attacked by anything🤣😂 someone says hi to you and you probably think it's sexual harassment🤣😂🤣😂
@@15lesson what in the actual fuck are you talking about? I was making a joke because I’m from Long Island and I have the stereotypical accent. Go bring your toxic bullshit somewhere else.
@@rhiannajd4412 Damn you can't take a joke?🤣😂🤣😂 toxic? 🤣😂
@@15lesson your attempt at humor was an absolute failure. You decided to make a conscious effort to attack someone’s appearance instead of commenting on the video like you should’ve. Your comment and my comment had no correlation with one another.
@@rhiannajd4412 I laughed so it wasn't a failure🤣😂 no no I apologize if I offended you🙌
We Long Islanders don't have an accent!! Youse guys do!
I'm from the New Orleans area and I've been called out for my obvious New Orleans accent in many places around the U.S. including Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Flagstaff, Arizona. The people that I spoke to recognized my accent immediately. I don't really notice it in my speech either though.
There is a difference from Suffolk County and Nassau County accents. When I moved from Uniondale to Bayshore, everyone was like "Ah, you're from Nassau. Your accent gives you away." Slowly I learned the difference as well.
What are the differences?
@@learner5090 The Suffolk accent is heavier from the best I can describe. There seems to be one of a emphasis on the vowels in Suffolk County. Like the infamous "coffee"; In Nassau I hear "Cawffee" but on Suffolk that is a distinct emphasis on the AW. I first noticed its with my landlord and the owners of the house I was renting. Then I heard it with my boss and employees.
@@learner5090 At least this had been my observance
@@jessquinn6106 I notice with Suffolk county the accent can nasally compare to a Queens, Brooklyn and Nassu county. It kind of reminds me the Aussie accent. If you grew up in household with a parent from queens or brooklyn, you wouldnt pick it up most likely and if you spend time there.
We also call "drawer" a "draw" or at least i do
I don't think you can pronounce the er in that accent
I have a Long Island accent because I grew up on Long Island hahaha. I live in Brooklyn now though.
I was from Suffolk County and I wish I could move back!
No you DON'T
this is why I can't move away... people are always like "say the thing" and I'm like "what are you talking about"
and they go crazy
One of my all-time favorite gags - I've been using it for hundreds of years and it works every dang time - in a conversation where an Irish person is present (and especially when they say they're from Ireland) is to happily blurt out: *"My family's from Ireland!*"
When they look surprised, or bemused or just mildly annoyed at my interruption, I pause half-a-second then add *"Lawng I-land".*
I needed this cause I was reading a book and it said Long Island accent and I had no idea what it meant 😃
You wouldn't believe all the accents I heard being in the military. I picked up new ways of expressing things that were easier to say, or have a more effective way of making your point, that they don't use in NY. I'm originally from Brooklyn and everybody from other places in the country knew that about me without even asking.
My dad grew up in Farmingdale. He has lived on the west coast for about 40 years now and didn’t retain much of his native accent, except it does come back out with certain words, like “mirror” (he says “mirra” 😊) I love it!
I lived in Westchester and I remember making fun of my cousins when I was a kid for saying,, "I'm gonna tell your Mutha".
I’m from Rhode Island and it sounds jus like this
My grandfather too!
Many years ago I lived in Queens but worked in Manhattan. Many of my neighbors in Flushing had accents reminiscent of Archie Bunker. However, when I crossed the bridge to the upper east side, I encountered a nearly Bostonian lock jaw. Amazing what difference a bridge crossing or a few subway stops can make.
this becomes a conversation piece once a day when i am away at school in maryland. Drawer is another big one.
from tennessee, have never heard a human being with this accent in person. still waiting.
How?!! I am a long islander. I live 40 minutes away from the city, and I don’t even notice the accents. It’s just normal
@@shaynabarkan3940 you tend not to notice things when it’s the only type of accent you’re exposed to, if you were from like California and visited the island you’d probably notice an accent
I can confirm the accent is contagious. I lived there for 7 years and I have the accent and it's permanent. I think it sounds great
Represent
1:40 love this guy hes got an xbox controller on his end table hes my best friend already
Lol
Mick Foley is an icon
The Long Island accent actually originated from Brooklyn and Queens, especially from the Italian Americans and Jewish Americans. This accent used be a lot more common in Brooklyn and Queens, but starting in the 1950s, especially since the 1970s, a lot of the European Americans left these boroughs moving to Long Island bringing the Brooklyn/Queens accents and eventually it became more common in Long Island than in Brooklyn/Queens as most of the original Brooklyn/Queens accent speakers left these boroughs and gave way to large numbers of new demographics and now you mainly can still hear these accents only certain parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
"on" Long Island. :)
That's cool. I'm from Long Island and Italian and family from Bronx and Brooklyn and Rhode Island ❤❤❤
Holy shit Mick Foley!!! BANG BANG!!!
Watching this makes me miss home 😭💜
Totally 😢😢😢😢
My company, Profacgen, a state-of-the-art protein service provider is located in Long Island, NY, USA. We're very proud of Long Island!
I say everyone of these and i get so much shade for it and I'm like sorry it's not my fault you weren't raised right
Then step out into the sun.
Yes you were.
I'm from Long Island. I'll use this dialect in the monologues I make up and perform when I do impressions of my childhood caretakers. The adults in my life have a thicker accent than my peers
I never realize I sound like this until I hear myself on tape.
I saw Mick, I clicked.
I love the accent. I hope it remains. There is a charm to it.
FOLEY! FOLEY! FOLEY!
Strong Island stand up!!
Mick Foley
My son of 30 still likes him
They should have been made to say, "The scissors are in the drawer." My LI husband pronounces 'drawer' as 'draw'.
Nobody sounds like that, except for the soccer moms in LI ( I love there)
I'm from Long Island living in NC now for almost 40 years and to this day have not lost the accent, as people remind me on an almost daily basis. And when I hear someone from the Island speak I can tell where they're from in about three words. Also when I talk to someone from Long Island my accent instantly gets thicker by osmosis. Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of high water potential to a region of low water potential in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides; but you know what I meant. LOL!!
That's funny 😂 I'm from Long Island and it's been 50 years and I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU 😂😂😂
@@lisalee2885 Hi, Years ago but decades after leaving the Island, my best friend once asked me this over the phone. He wanted to know if I was still from Long Island, and so he said "What do you call a horses feet? I answered without even thinking about it, it was automatic, in grained I guess. He said, yeah, you're still from L.I., So in the spirit of fun and adventure, I'll ask the same question: If you're from Long Island what do you call a horses feet?
@@robertkees6048 Welllllll Robert...I call them huvs. We lived in Levittown until 72 and have been in Southern California since. Today is actually my 59th Birthday ☘️🍀☘️ Awesome day cooking cornbeef/cabbage and enjoying family and friends. Italiano,Scottish and German here. Very Great memories of Long Island...Jolly Roger's and great neighbors. Hope you did too. Oh WHAT do you call horses feet? 😂😂😂
from now on i will correct people
i do not have a new york accent
i have a long island accent
I had a tourist come into my store and say you have an interesting accent, I looked at that lady with confusion, like what accent lady you are in New Yalk!
My dad's from New London, CT so maybe that's why he talks like that lol
FOLEY FOREVER
I only came here cuz I live on Long Island :p
Too funny. I lived on Long Island....on Celestial Lane 🤗 I do say Coooooffffeeee. Ha! Ha!
The Long Island accent came about from New Yorkers moving out there. Originally, being rural, people there spoke with that antiquated northeastern country American accent that you would hear from old broadcasters.
True
this is great! wauda...