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There are American accents, and then there's American slang. You can have a whole conversation in just slang terms here
@Aaron Fawcett language isn't what it use to be my friend
@Aaron Fawcett once I realized that "forshizzle'' was going to be permanently apart of the English language, I gave up trying up caring about the accents that say these things 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Now I just need to what they are trying to tell me, to hell with asking where they come from
@@AngryIrishMan And then there is AAVE(African American Vernacular English with an accent. Depending on what part of The United States you are in the AAVE accent changes a lot.
@Aaron Fawcett What little Australian slang I have encountered on this site seems somewhat structured lots of shortening that has is similar. Shortening in the same way over and over or in a way that makes sense. US slang is regional and all mixed. I know where you are from by your most used slang, but a lot of it has been nationalized. Language is cool.
@@AngryIrishMan nobody says forshizzle but ok
As an American I always thought "innit" was specifically UK slang.
I'm from North West Ohio and I've used innit as long as I can remember
We use a very similar word in Georgia. We say "Idnit" theres a D sound in there but its use the same.
@@TheDestructodave520 Im from Kentucky and that is used here also
Southerner here... nope.
We say it here in Alabama
I highly recommend “A Clueless Europeans Guide to the NFL”. I feel like Dave would find it real helpful in getting a better understanding of the game. Plus it’s highly entertaining. Love the reactions!
I second this rec completely ... and even the clueless americans guide to the PL, would be fun to see them react to that too
Yes, I requested that in an earlier video, would be great!
Agreed. As well as a clueless American's guide to the EPL just to see their take on it haha
I was stunned by the quality of that vid. It was so well-made and enjoyable!
Yes!!!!!!
The movie My Cousin Vinny is great because it's a New York City lawyer talking to a old, southern judge with a deep slur. They don't understand each other half the time. "What's a Yute?".
That's one of my favorite movie scenes
Mike’s entrance was legendary!
Class can have some impact on accent but not to the same extent as the UK. But yes, generally, people who are working class are likely to have a stronger regional accent.
This is so right, and class can also have a higher impact based on region too. For example, in southern Ohio, you will here a stronger Appalachian like accent in poorer areas but less so in wealthier ones where as places like Texas don't seem to have as large of a difference. Of course this is all my experience and not scientific.
The Chicago accent is disappearing. I grew up in the city, and I only hear it from my Dad's older friends. It's one of those accents that when you hear it in the wild, it makes your day better because it is so different. Da Bears!
All the traditional accents are changing. The original video explains how we aren't losing these accents but that they're changing. We are in fact changing the speaking patterns of all the major white city accents. Those who possessed the previous accents we know moved to the suburbs and their children did not inherit it. The philidelphia accent is going away to. 50 years from now Americans will learn to associate completely different accents with these places
@@jacobjones4766 Traditional accents seem to only refer to White people... Black Chicagoans and other non whites have a regional accent too.
@@jacobjones4766 no more wudder?
@@ichiban308 maybe. People In south philly and northeast still sometimes have that accent. Delcos accent isn't going anywhere tho.
It's in da Frunchroom
You spoke about Creole. The host also does a great Cajun accent. Cajun and Creole are both cultures of Louisiana. Cajun is based in southwestern Louisiana around the town of Lafayette, and as Erik Singer said, they trace their ancestry back to Nova Scotia in the 1600s and 1700s. They were people from France who had settled in Nova Scotia, which was then called Acadia. When the English took over that area from the French in the mid 1700s or so, many French Acadians (from which we get Cajun) left or were forced to leave. Many of them went to settle in Louisiana at that time, and they have formed a unique cultural area there. I tend to associate Creole in Louisiana with New Orleans, although I know it's more complex than that. Creole in Louisiana is a mixture of not just French but also Spanish, African/Caribbean, and Native American. Louisiana is an interesting place. If you ever get the chance to visit New Orleans, it's worth the trip. One of the most unique cities in the US.
Yes! So well put. 💜⚜️
Creole is a language that has formed from two established languages. Cajun is a creole language. There are many creole and pidgin languages, including Gullah which was talked about in part one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creole_languages
Creole doesn't really refer to any type of people it's just a mixture of two languages.
Texan here! I’ve lived in several states and each one could have a show on itself on the different accents and tones. There is something different about the ranch or small town accent and tone in South Texas.
Love how Mike reappeared from under the table! Welcome back! EDIT: PS Socio-economic class can affect accents here in the United States; however, I wouldn't call someone from a lower economic class a "scumbag."
As someone part of that lower economic class I will say there are lots of scumbags, but not for malicious reasons usually.
@@stuartdubbs9605 just a lot of druggies where I am from. Not very trustworthy
@@adog4661 same here. I go as far to call them shitbags. Its a step below your run of the mill scumbag
How long has Mike hibernated under the table? 😅
You do realize the scumbag comment was a joke, right?
In Texas it’s a good idea to have an attorney with a local accent or the jury might have an unconscious (or conscious) bias against them and consider them untrustworthy. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen, but there are definitely instances where you might have out-of-state lawyers on the legal team, but a Texas attorney will do most of the talking.
Oh wow I never heard that and I’ve lived in Texas my whole life. But I totally believe it, we have a frickton of rural county courts. Honestly wish I had more of an accent, I think it goes better to clash with assumptions about my identity.
Reminds me of the SNL sketch with Will Ferrel about Bush getting trapped somewhere with his family, they have it out til his dad yells “Why are you the only member of our family with a Texas accent!?”
@@Souledex you do have an accent.....everybody does.
@@kevinprzy4539 yeah I know that. I’ve had that argument too in this comment section at some point, lol. I just mean a Texas localizable one.
In the southern US, our version of "innit" sounds more like "idnt it" and "doesn't it" sounds like "dudnt it"
Dunnit
I am Catawba Cherokee. She was saying you can either be sing songy OR monotone. I live in Rock Hill SC and the reservation is 3 miles from my house. I would appreciate it if everyone would leave my diphthong out of it. lol
Can't wait for part 3 on these, this is one of the most interesting vids you guys have done. I'm from near Indianapolis and I can identify as the standard midwest accent as shown in the video. The migration patterns are more relevant than I realized especially with all the transplants we have from Chicago and Detroit. We're "under the line", but even our general American accent is muddied a little with the Great Lakes among some people.
It IS interesting. I thought I had zero accent until I moved to New York and all of a sudden I could hear that I held a vowel sound longer said it harder. The main difference, however, was terminology. I would say "pop" and "sack" and "purse" where they said, "soda", "bag" and "pocket book".
The Bloke TOTALLY missed the point about monotone and singsongy. She wasn't equating them. She was saying that the accents of different Native Americans in that same region vary. You know how some people, say... some British people... might inaccurately describe all Americans as being one way? The problem is magnified even more with regard to Native Americans (and other Americans are totally guilty of doing this to them too). There were literally hundreds of different native tribes with different languages before the white man. Even with so many now wiped out, there are STILL tons of different speaking patterns left. Especially in that area, because the US government forcibly pushed so many different native tribes together there. So monotoned AND singsongy native speaking bases exist right next to each other.
Which she went on to say right after they resumed. Though they never acknowledged it.
I do think it would have helped if she’d played examples to illustrate each kind.
I'm confident that it is you who missed the point. By the way, the word Native means "country/region of birth." If you were born in America, you are a native American. I was born in America. I am as native American as you are. If you were born here, you are native. That's what the word means. Native Americans do not have some sort of right to being called native any more than a I do. Thanks for reading. 😉 Remember, all opinions matter.
@@vjtonelli Native Americans as they are represented in media are not actually Native Americans, you are right. But if you think about it and put your mind to it, what else are we supposed to be called, because we existed thousands of years before Europeans found us and yes we had tribes. But we never expected the AMERICAN tribe to take everything from us.
@@vjtonelli We were just HUMANS that lived on this continent before Europeans could call us Native Americans.
@@DMWolFGurL I expect that you call yourself an American. I dont walk around introducing myself as an “Italian American.”
2. Native American tribes were actively murderering, raiding, pillaging, raping neighboring tribes & killing women and executing their men LONG before European ever got here. You act as if Native Americans were uncapable of all the SAME types of crimes and attrocities that ALL humans participate in.
You realize your tribe was once conquered by a tribe before that, right. Native americans had incest & domestic abuse in theid world too, just like Europeans & every other “race”
Somehow Native Americans are beyond criticism & reproach.
You’re NO MORE AMERICAN that the immigrant who was nauralized either. All native americans crossed a land bridge in the ice age. How far back do you want to go?
The chart he used for showing the great lakes vowel shift is a map of the space inside mouth as seen from the side (from my understanding). So that top left point is the upper teeth and the top line is the roof of the mouth (ish). The placement of the tongue of the mouth changes the sound of the vowels.
He really was under the table.
YO!!!! The intro was 🔥🔥🔥. I LOVED that!!!
Born and raised in Chicago, Southside, and I have the very thick Chicago accent, they tell me, but I can speak Minnesota easily, though I have no idea why! But I can tell a person from Chicago and Minnesota in a few seconds....similarly, I can tell a person from Alabama instantly as well.....Native born people from Saint Louis, 50/50 have a thick accent, or non at all....strange that.
I'm used to da Yooper accent way up north der eh.
I don’t feel like class has as much of an influence on accents here in the States. Many of the wealthy people speak like the average person from wherever they grew up. The Kennedy’s sound Bostonian, Tim Cook sounds like he’s from Alabama, etc. Maybe the wealthier people enunciate a little better because they do more public speaking, but there’s no “posh” accent or “queen’s English” equivalent in the U.S. that I can think of.
There kind of is a back door way in how that can show up with urban/suburban/country dialect splits in the same metro. Where parents wealth had impacts in where people grew up, granted affordability and employment options have been in flux over time so may not be a long term stratification either.
The only thing I can kind of think of as an equivalent is the Pacific Northwest accent
Best intro ever!
You lot gotta react to him reviewing actors doing accents. As well as Paddy Pimblett/Darren Till.
There is a lot of “Code Switching” that happens. I speak very generically at work.. but I sound very Texan at home.
Welcome back, Mike! Glad to see you're feeling better
That was a great reveal lol
OMG he is real! He is ok! I was praying for you Mike! Welcome back!
Lol, that was good Mike!! Glad to see you back!
I have lived in multiple city across the States. The ING sound is sometimes an EEN sound sometimes, it's an AN sound, somethings its a ING sound and an IN' sound. It also changes within cities especially larger US cities. I Used to work with a guy from the UK that lived in the US for 15 years and his accent had changed into sounding like someone making fun of a British accent rather than someone slowing losing it.
When you start talking about class distinctions, and preferred varieties (Queen's English/ RP), you're talking about sociolinguistics.
We all learn the language as it's spoken at home when we are learning to speak.
After that, it becomes a choice, based on the identity (or class) you wish to convey.
In that regard, all languages are classicist when the preferred variety engenders respect, and the local variety is seen as lacking.
Fun stuff!
couldn't have said it better myself
Mike with us again
Man I thought I loved this channel before I saw this but now im convinced lmao
I am from Wisconsin and have to admit, I was getting a little confused by his Midwestern vowel chart. I really enjoyed this and looking forward to part three.
Welcome back Mike!!! I'm happy to see you back and doing well
Just got back from a 4hr road trip from Pennsylvania to Maryland. Perfect timing with the upload
Still hoping for Part 3 to wrap up the series! Fun reactions to watch.
Videos like this really show you how much you don't know about different cultures, histories, and peoples.
Utah has a unique accent. I’m from Utah and when I travel people always ask me where I’m from.
Cajun & Creole are basically the same thing, from what I’ve gathered Creole seems to be tied to those born in New Orleans & Cajun being tied to those living in more rural parts of Southern Louisiana.
Creoles are more of the African Americans & those of a mixed race while Cajuns are commonly White.
I think the word Creole confused them. Creole just means a mix of two languages.
You can have a French-English creole like in Haiti or Louisiana. In the coastal parts of Georgia we have a Creole that mixes West African languages with English.
I think in the last video when Dave heard the word Creole he thought it meant French and English and was only spoken in Louisiana, he didn't realize other creoles exist.
@@ATLMike94 yup, personally, as someone born in New Orleans but never really had any kind of accent whatsoever, the whole Creole/Cajun thing has always interested me a bit.
Obviously I don’t know much, but I’ve always found it kinda interesting nonetheless since I grew up surrounded by em’, family including.
Looking into it yields a lot of different things so I’ve never known really anything about it at its core.
Edit: typos
Mike was under the table all along!? The boys weren't lying ! lol.
New Orleans is spot-on. The Yats are mostly out in Metairie and surrounding Jefferson Parish (although Metairie and Kenner are still considered part of the "Greater New Orleans Area". I grew up IN New Orleans (Orleans parish), and my parents are both from other states, so I don't sound like a Yat at all, but I obviously know the terminology. "Where Y'at, dawlin?" is fairly popular greeting among locals.
Also, the proper way to pronounce it - "New Orlinz" or "New Or-lee-ans" are really the only ways considered "correct". Of course there's an exception in the song "Do you know what it means, to miss New Orleenz", which is how MOST people outside the state pronounce it.
I’ve been waiting for this video! And nice to see Mike back
I don't have the "Fargo" accent, but whenever I travel in the US people usually can guess from my accent that I'm from Minnesota
Having a lawyer that has a local accent can be a big asset since juries, which many times are disproportionately middle class, feel like they can trust or identify with someone who speaks the way that they do.
Once again, I have to say that his Chicago accent is mostly South Side. I never heard anyone speak like that until Saturday Night Live.
That accent I associate more with Chicago's heavy Polish population that was there for a long time.
I had a teacher in high school, who was of Polish descent, and she sounded just like that stereotypical Chicago accent that we hear here.
My grandmother had that accent but she was from Southside Chicago.
OMG MIKE IS BACK😱
If you go to New Orleans, you hear an accent that you SWEAR is a New York City accent. I understand the reason for that is there was an "import" of school teachers, many years ago, from New York City. The kids just picked up the accent and you can still hear it today.
That opening gag was worth the watch itself
Salt Lake City and San Francisco were both colonized by northerners, so they're weird enclaves in the west. Also, some Utah towns were founded by English immigrants and some old world pronunciations remain, such as Hurricane, Utah. (Say it like the office blokes would say it.)
Dave referring to low class people as scumbags really rubbed me the wrong way. I'm glad Daz corrected him.
Same, a lot of his comments on this video rubbed me wrong. A bit ignorant.
My mom speaks Cree, which is a Chippewa language in North Dakota. They have a word, "innit" and they use it the same way English people do.
Mike emerging from under the table like the girl from The Ring
the interesting thing is that there's a lot of variations of how we speak American English bc of things like race, class, nationality, ethnicity. we have more immigrants & a more ethnically/culturally diverse population than the UK w/over 300,000,000 people. there are Native American accents, African American Vernacular English is its own entire dialect that varies, diff accents in places w/Latino populations, & so much more.
I really love your guys take about this because you’re British and you have a huge diaspora of regional dialects in a small area. Respect.
And I’m Canadian so watch for video three
Damn! Mike's been sleeping under the table!! 🤣
This is a GREAT video. Dude really knows his stuff. But obviiusly, it barely scratches the surface. In south louisiana alone, we have several different accents. His cajun isnt great, but better than most non natives. But even louisuana cajun and creole have several regional variations.
The class/educational differences were a good point. We definitely have that, too
welcome back mike!
Daz forced Mike into being a foot stool, didn't he? The man with the best beard in the room, is usually the boss 🤣🤣🤣
I have a "Rockies accent" (I am from the Panhandle of Idaho), and its much more complicated than just how you pronounce "milk" and "sale", we say roof as "Ruff" and steering wheel as "Stirrin well". You can essentially say we drop long vowels. We also have different words for things like the glove compartment in a car is called a "Jockey box". And my family always called the cinema the "Movie house", but I am not sure if that is common. (The town I grew up in had less than a 1000 people in it, so yeah.)
The locals say "Chi-CAW-go" (CAW like a crow) while everyone else says "Chi-CA-go". And the "Eh" and long O's one hears in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota are definitely Canadian. Many Canadians immigrated to these areas in the late 1800's to participate in the copper and iron mining there. (The Pasty (meat pie) they brought with them along with those, the immigrant miners from England brought with them... is still VERY popular there)
i was raised in the rochester ny area, and never noticed our vowel shifted accent until i was away in the military and in college for 14 years. my accent is now a whole mishmash of sounds because i lived in virginia, las vegas, mississippi, louisiana, and boston 🤦🏼♀️ but yeah… when i moved back to rochester i was like “holy shit, we really do have a weird accent” it’s very grating on the ears if you’re not used to it 😬
Socioeconomic class definitely matters in America. He even said that in the beginning so that regional accents are more prevalent among working class people. You used the lawyer example. I’m a lawyer in New York and neither I nor most of my colleagues have much of a NY accent. Whenever I travel, people tend to know I’m from the north but are usually surprised that I am from NY or say, “but you don’t have the accent”
Yes, socio-economics & education play a part in American accents too, but not always. As someone from NJ living in SC for 14yrs old money upper & upper-middle income from northeast still sound northern but with a more refined "metropolitan" accent. Same goes for upper & upper-middle income southerners, just more refined southern accent. The "nouveau riche" of both North & South either try to change or eliminate their accent to "fit in" with the old money crowd or they sound no different than your local electrician, plumber, guy at the bar, or farmer. Heck, I personally know doctors who sound like the bit from comedian Jeff Foxworthy below. Heck my own uncle who also grewup in NJ, went college & med school in NC in the 80s & never moved back to NJ, now has an eastern North Carolina accent.
"People hear me talk, they automatically want to deduct a hundred I.Q. points. Because apparently the Southern accent is not the world's most intelligent sounding accent. You know, and to be honest, none of us would want to hear our brain surgeon say, 'Aw right, now what we're going to do is, saw the top of your head off, root around in there with a stick and see if we can't find that dadburn clot.' It'd be like, 'No thanks, I'll just die, O.K.?"
People from Milwaukee do not say "Mill*Walk*Key"
They say "Maw*Wah*Key"
They also tend to compress words such as:
"Coulda" "Woulda" "Shoulda"
So "What are you going to do ?" becomes:
"Whatcha gonna do ?" or
"Where are you going?"
becomes:
"Where ya goin' ?"
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It also can depend on generation/time period. Many of us born in the 1980's and grew up in the 1990's can not only speak a West Coast slang. But our "Midland" accents aren't just one thing. Many people in especially Ohio here have certain words that are from our families that moved here from Kentucky and West Virginia after the coal mines shut down. And Kentucky and West Virginia are similar but slightly different. With Kentucky having more Southern and West Virginia having more Eastern but not exactly East Coast accent. The Southern half of Ohio is usually a mixture of these and you'll hear both accents without the drawl to it. For instance "frigerator", "all of you", "Dayun" instead of Dayton. "Urr" instead of your. "Wanna" instead of want to. "Wohn" instead of won't. And many others that most of us don't even notice. But without the southern or West Virginia drawl to it. You also won't know "usually" from how we write unless the person writes how they speak. But can by sentence structure. For instance I just typed "how they speak" instead of by how they speak. Some words here will be left out. Or the sentence structure will be different. In general it won't sound odd structured that way so even people not from here usually won't notice. But the farther away from here you get the more people usually notice. And to anyone here we're speaking standard American English. Because there's no Southern or East Coast accent or drawl to it. But the sentence structure and leaving out words and southern way of pronouncing words is still there half the time. Again I just typed half the time instead of "half OF the time". And even just for Cincinnati near the Ohio River at the southern most point of Ohio. To the line between the bottom half of Ohio and top half. In what is called the Miami Valley. If you go East from the valley and just south of Columbus you will get a far more noticeable Southern accent mixed with Appalachian/West Virginia accent. That actually sounds Southern but cut the intensity by about half usually. Those are woodland and farming areas more isolated from the cities. Then the top half of Ohio. Again I said then the top half. I stead of "then AT the top half". Again leaving out a word. You have mostly Southern style accents north of Columbus but far less and more Pennsylvania and dutch/German immigrant accents. Or mixed with great lakes accents. We don't even notice we even have an accent until someone says that we do. And apparently to anyone on the West Coast or East Coast it's as noticable as a Minnesota or Southern accent. Just without the drawl to it. And we're asked where we're from often. Because it sounds like a standard American accent. But with the words slightly changed and the sentence structure slightly changed so that it isn't immediately noticable. But from what I'm told sort of sounds like someone from a non English speaking country that can do an almost perfect standard American accent. But the way the sentences are structured "all of you" or "you all" for instance immediately makes it sound "fake" I'm told in some ways. Like 1/3 southern and 1/3 Appalachian and the other 1/3 "normal" standard American English with a standard accent. Which is exactly what it is. But I'm told can sound "fake" when it's noticable. 🤷🏼♂️. And it's changing all the time because my generations grandparents are all dead. So unless there's someone in your family from the South recently it's becoming less and less prominent with a southern accent. But our children still learned from us so 4th generation midlanders do less. And even less from the constant stream of media. Which has even slightly changed my generations accent. Which is happening everywhere. Even in the South. Language is complicated 🤪. And always changing.
Pronouncing "ng" as "n" used to be a British upper class (received pronunciation) accent feature, in the 1800s. There are comic strips from the time that portray them saying things like "wringin' a pheasant's neck". It's also not true that upper class accents necessarily pronounce more of the sounds in a written word. For example, the upper class accent drops Rs that many working class accents don't drop, and they don't pronouce the G as a G in the middle of "singing" like certain accents do.
The class and education things in the UK is north vs south here. North was more urbanized and generally advanced schooling earlier in American history than the rural South did (because children had to help on the farm whereas eventually children couldn't work in factories eventually as kids so went to school while adults worked. The north was also traditionally wealthier than the South because of the urbanization and industrialization). So the dialects are a reflection of those paradigms in America.
Epic return of Mike in the vid!
Yesssss I’ve been waiting for this for sooooo long!!! Please finish this series out! 🔥
That entrance was proper spot on!! 👌
And then there is the AAVE(African American Vernacular English with an accent. Depending on what part of The United States you are in the AAVE accent changes a lot. This is a slang on top of another slang accent.
The producers of "The Crown" said your Queen and the royal family used to speak more high pitched, nasaly than than the same people do today. The producers had the actors, mostly British, do a moderately high-pitched twang but not as extreme as the old films and recordings suggest. Microphones picked up more high to middle notes (less bass) than they do today so perhaps the old recordings are not fair. Still QEII did do a bit of screeching back in the day.
Sort of reminds me of the quandary that a couple of movies ran into. In making Hollywoodland, the producers decided that Diane Lane shouldn't use the period-appropriate 40s-50s Hollywood socialite accent; the same year, The Black Dahlia had Hilary Swank use the period accent and was widely mocked and accused of being a scenery-chewing, overacting failure because of her adherence to the accuracy of the time period, when women in Hollywood had a tendency to speak with a stilted, almost fake-British accent, along with melodramatic overpronunciation. I don't think anyone ever actually discussed what Swank was doing or defended the choice. I only knew about it because of the background and choices made in the production of Hollywoodland.
7:17 yay my people and our Frankenstein way of speaking lmao
Welcome back Mike!! Glad to see your well.
What has to be going with that guy’s brain for him to switch between different accents so quickly and easily and then to switch back to his own?
I'd gotta say, from Indiana, I do notice I get some influence from my dad who has a southern 'hick' accent. He grew up in the holler in kentucky lol so I grew up hearing that. I say things like huntin' and fishin' and goin', doin', bringin'. Also, there's a place in my state called Hunnington, and I say 'Hun-in-tin'. so that also goes for things like 'mout-in' for Mountain, and stuff like that.
From my moms side, my nana and papa (grandparents, nana pronounced with the first 'n' very nasally and the first 'a' too, but the second 'n' and 'a' are more like 'nuh'. For papa, it's more like 'paw paw', not pah-pah). So, my nana and papa both do that thing where they put the 'h' sound before W words like What, when, where, with. and both of them say days of the week like 'Mon-dee' and 'Wenz-dee'. Also, they saw 'warsh' for the 'wash' like "put your clothes in the worsh".
In indiana we also add 's' to stuff. Like Ruby Tuesday(s) and Meijer(s). We also say things like; "How's things?" "Hows come/comes?" and more lol theres a few older youtube videos around the 'Indiana Hoosier accent' that points out a lot of stuff I never noticed before.
He's right when he says there's no 'General American' accent.
Dang that was really accurate about “mountain” and “button” in the Rockies. I always found it annoying when people pronounced it “but-ton” or “but-tin” because I’ve always said “but-in”
I definitely pronounce mountain and button that way and I'm from the East Coast. Interesting common feature I guess
@@yatez97 true, I initially thought it was more of a class thing to pronounce every letter like the blokes were saying so there’s probably a ton of different variables
@@yatez97 same
I like how it took Mike like 10 minutes to climb out from under the table.
MY WIFE, WHO IS SWEDISH AND SPEAKS ENGLISH, AND I, AN AMERICAN, WERE ON VACATION IN LONDON A FEW YEARS AGO AND WENT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON. A 'BEEF-EATER' GAVE THE TOUR AND DURING IT MY WIFE ASKED ME TO TRANSLATE FOR HER. I SAID EVEN AS AN ENGLISH SPEAKER I AM HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING WHAT HE'S SAYING!
When my dad was getting to an officer level in the US Navy he went to an elocutionist to improve his speech and, more specifically, get rid of his real thick Chesapeake Bay area accent. It actually could've held him back (at least in the 1970s)
As an American my impression is that here class doesn't really seem to have much of an effect on someone's accent
It absolutely does
@@caseyrogers573 I really doubt you'd be able to guess an American's "class" based solely on their accent.
it might actually have to do with the class system back in England and them moving over. As the west was colonized by the US it was more filled out by lower class Englishmen wanting a new life while the already industrialized east coast was entrenching itself in the "old money" ideals. just my two cents.
It does, but not as strongly as in other places.
@@caseyrogers573 ...I did not say that it does. Read the words that I had typed. This endless charade of each and every word crossing the internet having to be be spoken and interpreted in the simplest and most absolute manner possible is a bit tiresome. To say the least.
I wrote, and I quote "doesn't really seem to have much of an effect". Where did I say that it has no effect at all? As far as I am aware "much" is not an absolute term that utterly negates the opposite position.
Relative to the UK, and I say this as a man with family in the US and UK, class is of far FAR less importance in someone's accent in the US.
Lol one thing this video proves is that the Western US tends to be understudied by linguists. There’s more diversity than these videos seem to imply. I’m from Washington State, and every time I’ve been to California for work I get asked where I’m from because they think my accent is “cute.”
That chart they’re showing with the northern cities vowel shift is called a vowel quadrangle :) it is only that may squares and represents the shape of the tongue. The squares represent separate parts of the tongue and when they put a vowel in that box it means that’s where that vowel is made.
Tennessean here...yeah pretty accurate lol..cool how he can change his accent due to where he is referencing.
You should watch Eric's videos on actor's attempts at different accents. He reviews them in a really entertaining way.
I live in the Chi. Think about the "back" of your tongue making a swallower "cup" when you say cat and bag
Im Black and have lived in Ohio all my life and somehow have a Utah accent 😭
I live on West Coast USA and I say "innit" lol. It just works for so much
Yay!!!! I love the intro!!! Thanks guys, Mike, STAY!!!!!
GREAT INTRO i LOVE HOW INTO IT MIKE WAS
The Blokes should do a Cockney Rhyming tutorial video. I have watched a couple and still have no clue what the hell is happening
If only Mike’s entrance had The Undertakers theme song playing
I’m from South Carolina, that southern accent that he does in the beginning, that piney wood belt accent, is extremely common here. Basically every other person has it. I personally don’t but my girlfriend and many of my friends do. It’s fun, I make fun of them all the time for it.
Great stuff...I did not see where this guy did UK accents but I loved one called 20 "British Accents in 1 Video"
Cajun is Arcadian...Creole is a mixture of many although French Creole/Kreyol exists...french being a common base language with a twist
Thanks for the video!
Just a note... sounding happy doesn't equate being happy. It's just how the accent developed when you consider the factors the woman mentioned.
Hilarious entrance lol
Glad he is back!
Epic intro mike 🤣🤣, I’ve been waiting for this vid too
class doesn't have as much of a change on accent in the US. it used to, but not so much anymore. the best example I can think if is the old Boston Brahman accent which was specifically spoken by the upperclass back bay types. you can find some examples on youtube. but they've basically disappeared as the amount of old families with money has dwindled, died out or hit different fortunes.