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As a linguist I’m so glad when I see people having epiphanies about language while watching Eric’s videos. He’s a great educator
Erik's videos are awesome.
On a side note, I'd love to see the Office Blokes reaction to the guys from Baltimore saying "Aaron earned an iron urn."
@@MrVvulf I love how it dawns on them in that video that they say it differently 😂
Are you a cunning linguist?
@@navrotron22 You’re goddamn right I am
Does it excite you sexually? Tell the puppet. Just talk to the puppet.
I cracked up at the Pittsburgh accent. He sounded just like my dad 🤣
Same Pittsburgh native here
Same! I actually kinda sound like that too. 😅 They would be so lost watching the Pittsburgh dad channel on UA-cam. 😂
Same here as well!!! 😂😂😂
As a Southerner, I can confirm his Southern accents are accurate. Reminds me of how my elderly teachers in school would talk.
Also, on the topic of the Gullah accent, there used to be a popular kids’ show called “Gullah Gullah Island” about those very people. It was one of my favorites.
Haha, I remember that show.
My nanny lives in the mountains of Tennessee, she adds an R to everything 🤣 im North Florida/South Georgia “Southern”
I agree . I’m from Georgia and I speak very much like that . But if your from here .. you can tell his accent is fake though, but if I didn’t have the accent myself - I imagine it would sound dead on !
lmao "Gullah Gullah Island"
@@kristiankiser7190 I agree. That southern accent is pretty bad.
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In linguistics a creole language is one that develops basically as a combination of two or more languages. Before it's a full fledged language it's known as a pidgin language.
The french-english creole you're thinking of is Cajun.
Perhaps. But Cajun isn’t the only Creole language spoken in Louisiana. Cajun is a particular group of people. Louisiana French, or Louisiana Creole, is a diverse group of dialects spoken by blacks, white Cajuns, native Americans, etc…
@@BP-or2iu true, my example was overly general. However my main point was to explain what a creole is as a linguistic term.
The Jamaican dialect aka patois is an English-based creole. Haitian creole aka Kreyol is a French-based creole and the most widely spoken creole language hence why ppl might view the term to be synonymous with that country. Afrikaners speak Afrikaans, which is a Dutch-based creole.
@@Boog1137 I got you.
Yeah. I learned that in linguistics class for my anthropology degree
Yes! This guy actually knows about their accents
He's crazy good, it's mindblowing
Every video he’s done with wired are their best videos
NOLA can differentiate tourists and natives because natives say Nawleans while tourists say New Orleans. A native from Missouri say "Missura" while tourists day Missouri
As a New Yorker myself, who lives in The Bronx, that NYC accent is super accurate, especially people who live in the New Jersey half of Greater New York.
It’s an accent I hope never dies, because it’s just iconic, and it’s who we are.
It's definitely disappearing, unlike in the past people move a whole lot more nowadays and new transplants don't have the NYC accents. Been to new york many times and younger folk rarely have it. It's the same case for most accents in America and worldwide as well. Small regional ones dying off for the mainstream.
Mike's on a subway in NYC right now. Seen him pretending to be Spiderman.
Where is Mike? Seriously, where is he?
@@pamelahollar1976 man I’m getting worried :(
@@pamelahollar1976 In a previous couple of vids they talked about him taking a trip to the US. I think that's where he is.
@@msdarby515, I sure hope so! Maybe he's doing an "only in New York" segment or some such production.
i think he's actually just at a Soouuubway.
You might be confusing “Cajun” and “creole” when thinking about Louisiana. After the Brits took much of French Canada, many Acadian French migrated from French Canada to French Louisiana. “Acadian” became shortened to “Cajun” - a distinctively different culture from Creole. Creole culture started with people of both African and European (usually French or Spanish) ancestry, spawning many distinct sub-groups depending on ancestry, region, etc.
As an Acadian, I would like to point out that "migrated" should be re-written as "forcibly deported" above. Commonly known as "The Expulsion of the Acadians" or "The Great Upheaval," but otherwise correct, yes.
@Alex Winterborn yes. The Americans don't come into play at all. The majority of Acadians originate in east coast Canada.
I live in New Orleans and there are both Creoles and Cajuns. We are known for having creole roots here
Lets simplify: there are two different uses of the word "Creole", although there's some commonality behind them. Creole in language is a mix of languages, any fully realized mix. The Creole people are a specific mixed background group of people.
I lived in Louisiana for a few years and the main thing I took away from that was this: Do not call a Creole a Cajun, and don't call a Cajun a Creole.... and NEVER confuse their cooking.
17:09 it’s okay, as someone from Pittsburgh, our accent is a trainwreck to everyone else in the US as well lol
I know that people find it hard to find examples of that type of accent, but honestly the best example is Bam Margera and the guys from Viva La Bam especially. When they get all excited people like Ape, Phil, Raab, Dunn, and Bam give you a pretty good example of what it's like. It is rather unique though, so y'all have than goin for ya anyway lol.
Go Ravens!
I live in Florida and people from Pittsburgh ALWAYS come up to me knowing I'm from PGH. At least once a week it's mentioned.
I would be lost as well if I didn't have a Yinzer uncle who can turn it on or off.
Yinzers are in SE Ohio too. I'm about an hour away from Pittsburgh and we say yinz. We think nothing of it but people not yinzers think it sounds crazy. We, also, call shopping carts, buggies.
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I like that the expert speaks with the accent he's talking about. It really helps to understand just how complex each accent is. I guess I have more of a General American accent. I was born in California but moved to Florida at an early age, but none of my friends or family can hear a distinct accent when I speak.
When I was a young’un, I had an EXTREME southern Georgian accent
Like, a lot of drawing things out
I’ve lost a lot of it because I’ve moved around or lot, but its still managed to stick around lol
Same here, born and raised in California. It's not that we don't have an accent, it's that the entertainment industry is headquartered in California so that the default accent in most movies and television productions is the California accent such that over the decades it has become the one accent that everyone is familiar with.
I was born and raised in California. I believe we don’t have much of an accent if any. That goes for most of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. If you were to look at the actual pronunciation of words in the dictionary I think we come closest to how it’s supposed to be pronounced.
Move up to Chicago, you’ll getcher self an accent real quick
(“Hey boss, can I get a couple two three beefs, sweat not dipped” [Hay - bowse - kin - I - get - a - cup-le -too-tree- beefs, - sweeet - not - dipd ]
Lived in pittsburgh my whole life. We are referred to as "Yinzers" because of how we speak. "Yinz coming dahntahn for the Stillers game?"
DAHN TAHN
@Bob Johnson Pennsyltucky accent: "Jeet yet?, Y'all, Redd up the house" you'll even hear an occasional "Jawn" 😂
She explained why the country accent is similar to the south for Black Americans. The great migration, our grandparents migrated from the south.
What’s the “country” accent?
@@BP-or2iu She used the widely-used term for a type of accent that falls somewhere within the rural/southern/"hick" branch of accents. It's a colloquialism, i.e. "He has a thick country accent."
It wasn't accurate when she said black people were "kidnapped" and brought to the US. They were already slaves in Africa and were sold, not kidnapped, and brought over. People always tend to ignore that for some reason....
@@Brian61010 some were kidnapped some were sold by the rich same shit slaves nonetheless
@@Brian61010 There's always one person in the comments who focuses on the irrelevant thing that triggered them lol
When he says "fascinatin'" in the North Carolina coverage, it was perfection.
NC is dialect heaven it’s like so many different southern accents
This guy is great. Do his movie accent reviews as well as the rest of this series.
As someone who was born and raised in Alabama, this is great! Typically people butcher our accent, but this guy is incredible! It’s also funny to hear him talk about the “classical southern” accent that drops the R. Where I’m from all the older folks talk this way and we refer to it as “old southern” accent.
My aunt has a house on Ocracoke. First time I visited I was 14 and there was a man running a produce stand with a High Tider accent and I immediately asked my aunt if he was English or something. She told me that's how some people talk down here.
I first found this guy grading movie accents. He's pretty amazing.
This dude has a bunch of videos breaking down movie accents. It's great.
Erik Singer is awesome, and he’s got a few videos talking about movie accents that are great!!
He also has one in the end card about tongue twisters that is great.
I very much enjoyed this! Can’t wait to see my Chicagoland accent. Although the OG Chitown accent isn’t as prominent as it used to be, you still hear it sometimes in certain parts, and it’s glorious.
The "OG" chicago accent was only ever in basically one region of Chicago and by one ethnic group.
Southwest Chicago (OG/super fan/european immigrant/etc) was never THE chicago accent.
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Btw, a Creole language is more of a general term for a language that originated as a mixed language, so there are many "Creole Languages". Hope that clears up some of the confusion on that part for you guys.
oh, nice! Thanks for that. I just read this, but I tried to cover that in a comment I added too. It's nice to get a little validation on it, at least. You definitely managed to get your point across much more... succinctly then I did. My ADHD riddled comment was probably a bit more all over the place. lol
Grew up on the Outer Banks, I'm glad you did this video! Hoi Toid!
What's really cool, being in the military I was exposed to all different kinds of accents, colloquialisms, and synonymous that my particular speech pattern is a hodgepodge of different parts of the country.
dave's probably got very distant family somewhere in the southern US, made me happy to hear he loved our accents bc he was actually really spot on when the guy said that's how inland mountain people talk.
This is like a 1000 times more interesting than I thought it was going to be. This might be the most interesting thing you guys have reacted to.
I am an English major who works in tourism in a popular destination. When I can pinpoint someone's accent it lights them up. Language is truly our common thread
Growing up in east Alabama and now living in west Georgia around here we absolutely draw out the "i" sound. It's funny (in a good way) how Dave thinks it sounds really cool and some of us are at least a tiny bit self conscious of it. Don't get me wrong I love my accent but I don't realize how prominent it is until I'm talking to someone with a different one or less of a southern accent.
I’m from Florida but I only notice that I do it when I say wide.
@@raymonds7492 I think it’s pretty common in nearly all the southern states. 🤗
@@NikkiCox81 Yep, i also noticed that we say buggy instead ofshopping cart.
@@raymonds7492 It’s always a buggy 😂😂
From what I can gather, foreigners seem to like the southern accent more than Americans from other parts of the country. I'm a Georgia girl and was more self conscious of my accent when I was younger, but appreciate having a distinctive accent now. To me the southern accent is more homey and inviting and it really does roll off your tongue like honey.
YES! I've been dying for you guys to check this series out. Can't wait for the next parts!
When I left West Virginia to work in 1993, people couldn't understand me, I took speech pathology classes every week for 3 years and I still can't always hide my accent, the guy in this video is amazing.
I would love to have someone study our accents, it doesn't matter your color we all talk the same. But according to alot of people I had to work with we just sounded dumb.
Plus, we have words like cygoggly instead of the word crooked, courtin instead of dating, moter- sickle instead of motor cycle and "a spell" is a measure of time. I've rarely hear those terms used that outside of central Appalachia.
I love when Randy Moss gets to talk on TV. His WV accent stands out so much and it tickles me.
Damn breaks my heart knowing people have to try to lose an accent when they move out for work reasons etc. Accents are going away as it is. Anytime I hear a thick one it makes me smile knowing its in good hands and not dead yet lol you see it in the youth more nowadays less n less accents with the generations.
Here in Virginia at least the part I’m from people will still use the phrase ‘a spell.’ An example being. “I’m gonna sit down a spell.” I’ve never heard of the others though. Where I’m at we use the word Cattywampus as a synonym for crooked.
Legitimately, all of his videos are amazing. I loved rewatching this one with y’all and can’t wait for y’all to watch the rest of his videos!
A creole language refers to a mixing of other languages that develop into a stable natural language. When initial speakers learn a new language, it's often called pidgen language. Sometimes it involves cobbling together grammar and terminology from the old language with the new one.
However once the descendants of the pidgen speakers have a stabilized language with fairly distinct grammar and terminology, that becomes what's called a creole language.
The confusion is that a lot of people in Louisiana are known as Cajun Creole, because of the French, Native and African-American influence. But creole could refer to any language combination.
And there is also Haitian Creole, which is the combination of the native islander languages with French.
I knew a few Gulluah (sorry about the spelling) families when I was in Savannah. They would say words like skreet for street, and skraight for straight, or Im crying (trying) to tell you....
Skrimps for shrimp too. I lived in Savannah for 8 years so I'm kinda familiar with some of the dialect.
@@katherinetepper-marsden38 oh yeah, I've been invited for a mess of skrimps on numerous occasions 😊
Damn that's interesting thanks for sharing. Swear I learn so much from reading comments. Been scrolling 20 mins now lol.
Those 34 minutes absolutely FLEW by. Great video 2/3rs of the Office Blokes!
My in-laws were from Philly. They both passed in the last few years. I miss my father in law’s voice especially. “u need some waulkin aroound money?” If u watch Mare from Easttown, that’s the accent.
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Funny how I've heard British people say they loved the Southern accent, while in America it's looked down upon.
I’ve noticed that from multiple UK UA-camrs they seem to appreciate the southern accent
proves Brits have better taste in accents -
@@Missangie827 I’m from Oklahoma I 100% agree
I'm southern & still appreciate a man with a southern accent. It is sexy as hell.
I feel like anyone who live outside of the US adore the southern accent! I'm from the Philippines and immigrated to America a few years ago and I love love love southern accents. It sounds absolutely lovely, and whoever is speaking with that accent automatically seems so much more warm and friendly to me. Someone from the midwest sounds cute too, but like in a dopey way haha, these two accents are the best and having lived here for a while, I do see that it gets made fun of a lot but I still don't know why.
If you ever feel insecure about your southern accent just know that literally ANYONE else outside of the US prefer your accents over the general american accents.
Cant wait to see the reaction to the next two parts. They're all very good.
This is one of the first one of these guys I've seen that actually got the Baltimore accent right. Kudos. Wensdee, hun.
He briefly mention it in this video but theres been some heated debates between linguist on if American dialect is more European than modern European dialect, mainly when speaking of the UK. There are a few places in the US such as Ocracoke Island as mention in the video that may have had the same dialect since the first Europeans settled on the land. One reason not always true is because people do not move to these remote places but rather leave and their population have gone from tens of thousands to a few hundreds in some areas.
There are also many words that Americans say more similarly to the old European pronunciation (sometimes even old english) than modern Europeans do. It's a bit funny tbh.
Oh man you seen the video of the folk in Tangier island. Now that's a look back in time for sure. Was filmed in 80's-90's it seems like to when Tangier had a lot more people. So cool hearing the locals talk.
Yes! As someone from south Kentucky I’m sooooo proud of not only my southern roots but, as he said the majority people in the Appalachians and the Upland South have ancestors that are Irish, Scottish, and German. (My family on my mother’s side come from those original settlers AND we say many of the dialects that he said!) Also if your going to do a southern accent you HAVE to remember to say y’all 😂
I honestly had no idea that Stephen Graham was English, due to his amazing accent. He’s quite awesome.
Best Al Capone by far
Never thought I'd hear "your balls will thank you" on this channel, lol.
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I'm just excited they got a sponsor. Good on ya blokes!
Love your channel! Congrats on the sponsorship!
Erik Singer is terrific. I'm glad you've found his videos, and that you're sharing them.
He actually did a pretty good Pittsburgh Accent. It really is distinctive
Lol finally, I’ve been recommending this video. Can’t wait for part 2!
This guy is amazing. I studied English and Linguistics in college. This mans ability to slip in and out of accents is amazing. That takes a lot of practice.
I really like this reaction! I have learned so much and can't wait for part 2.
Some parts are inaccurate
I love Gullah, even own a new testament written in Gullah called "De Nyew Testament".
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I used to be confused about Creole as well. I thought it was a specific language, but it actually is a group of languages. So the Creole we think of is often specifically Cajun Creole, New Orleans and such. As opposed to Gullah Creole. It's the word that goes along with Creole that defines which kind.
I love Canjun accent. One word sentences like Jeet= Did you eat
@@casey4602 yooooo i just tried it and i didnt even realized😂😂😂😭😭😭 wow wtf
One of my favorite reactions! Hope you react to the other parts soon, that was great. It was long, but so interesting that it didn't feel long.
Yeah, I'd like to see someone do a similar rundown of UK accents, because as Americans, we can barely detect more than 3 or 4. And as he said, I've heard from somewhere else that UK accents can change drastically in such a short distance.
Great choice! This dude is legit.
One of my best friends is from South Carolina. She has the best accent. First....they talk sloowwww. One thing they didn't touch on was a "country accent". That's what the locals call someone who really has a drawl. Staci is definitely country. She will answer the phone and just the greeting takes ten seconds, "Heeeey Dawrr-by". But the sayings she has are the best. Like when she's angry, "Girl, I was hotter'n a billy goats a$$ in a pepper patch." Or has good food, "That tater salad will make yer tongue slap your teeth right out yer mouth." or "This bbq so good you'll slap yer mama." Or when her kids are out of line, "I'm fix'n to give you a country a$$ whoopin'." Or if someone does something stupid, "He's so dumb he could throw himself on the ground and miss," and "he's dumber than a bag of hammers."
I'm used to them now, but every so often she'll lay one down that has me rollin'. Also, she started calling me DarbyDoll and eventually that became DarbyDollah. I have several nicknames but she's the only one that calls me that. LOL
This is utterly fascinating. I love it. More, please. I love the specificity of the examples "priice smoothin", front and back tongue, a blade "tee" versus a tip "tee", etc. Extremely interesting.
A UK version would rock, too. As an American I would love that.
I went pretty far down the linguistics path in college until life required you to focus on practicality. I dig this stuff hard.
Again, more, please.
That series is great. I watch it frequently as a music teacher trying to help my students soften their particularly nasal Great Lakes accents (Chicago area), which might just be the worst collection of vowels in the English language for singing
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That's the great thing about having been in the military; you get use to hearing all different accents and end up with a combination of all the American accents.
Coming from a southern Appalachian “Price Smoother” This was great! So glad to see you finally doing this series!
Yesssss finally!!!!!! Been waiting for this for so long!
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My mom's family is from Pittsburgh and have been from there for hundreds of years. He sounds EXACTLY like a Pittsburgher. NAILED it!
The word "creole" has many definitions. Linguists refer to a creole as "a language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community"
AAVE was initially a creole of English and sometimes French or Spanish in combination with African language. It slowly became closer to English.
Dude when the "sounds Australian" comment happened I clapped dramatically because I hear it too every time I go to parts of the northeast or when I try to do those accents. There are way more similarities with Aussie accents in NA than I thought growing up. I'm not a dialect coach but I am becoming a linguist and teach language to children or English to non-English speakers, so this topic is fascinating to me. I feel validated when people hear the AUS in some of our dialects here in the US.
After two years in the Army, I picked up tons of accents from everywhere, PR to HI and in between, and also non-native english speaker accents. Now that I am learning spanish, have picked up on the different accents among the different latin american countries as well as Spain, and it is amazing the differences not just in accents but also in vocabulary use, such as the word for a girl Muchacha, Chama, Amiga, Chica, and Niña and their use from country to country, and in regions of different adjacent countries.
20:39 When he said “Scotch-Irish” he’s not talking about those of mixed Scottish and Irish ancestry. He’s referring to Ulster Scots, Lowland Scottish and Northern English Protestants who colonized Northern Ireland in the 17th century during the time of James I.
such an interesting video, I can't wait to see part 2 to see what they say about Canadian accents, being from western Canada. I love stuff like this, where you learn something but it's very entertaining as well. Cheers!
Very interesting, love your comments!
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Speaking as a Floridian with family from the northern panhandle WV just 35 minutes south of Pittsburgh, I can confidently say that Yinzers have _the funniest_ American accents 😂
LOVE this video so much💓
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Hey! I'm from Georgia and transplanted in North Carolina! This is fascinating! I lived in Savannah, GA for 5 years so I know about the Gullah and Geeche dialect!
This guy is amazing! He’s got lots of videos, if you’re interested in learning more about linguistics and dialect. So excited to see y’all reacting to this!
Y'all should do the second one too
been waiting for this
LatinX is not about removing gender, it means the individual or group recognizes that they are a part of the African diaspora. This term is also interchangeable with Afro Latino/Latina
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I'm ready for part 2!!
These clips are really brilliant and his skill is just mind boggling.
Eric is so smooth when transitioning ... I watched all his other videos as well. lol He makes it really intriguing and entertaining to learn such an odd subject. It's sooo good
"it has nothing to do with gender it has to do with linquistics"
as part latino myself, i don't appreciate being told i have to use the word latinx instead, so i don't. but even with that being the case, gender is 100% involved in linguistics...that's the whole point that SJW's are trying to fight. you can take the view that it having to do with gender alone isn't sexist, which is my take, but to claim it has nothing to do with gender at all is to know nothing about linguistics.
TBH, as an immigrant psychiatrist I didn't expect much after it got to the more SJW parts and kinda tuned out thinking "Bloody hell, even she sounds uncomfortable trying to handpick her terms like this". I mean, to the point where it seemed like it made her say things she probably didn't even really mean the way she articulated it but couldn't do so cleanly in a way that was consistent with creed.
It was like watching someone give an off-the-cuff speech while also having a massive internal conflict amongst warring parts of their own mind.
And as an Irishman, I found it pretty weird how the Creole expert described Africans in slavery then, in the same sentence while describing my countrymen, swapped to "indentured servants", which is flatly a misnomer as indentured servants are working off a debt they took on willingly... not taken from their land by force and deported to work off some imagined debt they owed to the Englishmen who colonized them the same as they did North America.
I mean, it's a false dichotomy at best, but for it to get tossed in that closely to the other term really shines a heavy light on it.
@@BobPapadopoulos it’s the term understood in the literature, and the history. The laws governing their treatment were fundamentally different though the daily realities of their life and circumstances of their transport were often the same. And that circumstance applied to some irish immigrants, not the majority who fled under the price of servitude to not starve to death. There were exactly zero Africans who came here under a similar situation for the first 200 years on this continent.
The reason it has to do with Gender is often deep. It is fundamental to linguistics, but it doesn’t have to be for collective nouns. Language change all the time, it’s not my place to say what changes another one needs though I will say it was latino people who began this in scholarship. That doesn’t make it definitive but arrogant crass dismissal of it is just as much of an agenda.
And no Gender isn’t inherent to language it became inherent to it, often in societies that were particularly patriarchal. I feel the same way about folk etymologists who try to take the “man” out of “woman” because “man” in Middle English and germanic roots is literally the gender neutral term. There used to be “Werman” as a term for men so trying to remove man from every word is dumb because it was already gender neutral.
There are plenty of these fights and often the people having them aren’t just up their own ass, they spend a lot of time thinking about them and often only use their correctives in academic literature. So when it enters general use coming from the mouths of the ivory tower it comes off bad no matter what.
Whatever we are all descended from proto-indo-european cultures, they usurped, killed or raped their way across the land and replaced many institutions that existed before with ones people now arrogantly assume represent the norm, square zero - that includes their language and Rome and Greece’s patriarchal divisions of the world and their language. It’s not inevitable, and you are under no obligation to follow it. Just like you are under no obligation to try new words, I just use latin@ when typing.
@@Souledex Latinx doesn't sound right to me, so I don't use it. I don't know enough about genderering in language to know why we have it, but to eliminate it in Romance languages altogether, so as to "correct" the language would be the same as eliminating the language itself, in my view. I'm not sure. I guess I gotta read up more about it to be fair, and speaking for myself I try to be polite where I can. I've been corrected for using "you guys" for example, by a colleague, but I hear women say you guys almost everyday. I'm going to continue speaking the language as I learned it, same goes for English, until I see a reason to do otherwise.
I studied Speech Pathology and my Kentucky accent still shines through.
A lot of people still can’t understand me. That’s fine.
My youngins and coworkers do. 🤷🏻♀️
I first learned about Gullah as a kid from the show "Gullah Gullah Island" It had giant frog puppet called Binyah Binyah
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You guys should do parts 2 and 3 of this series!! 😊
I really enjoyed this video guys, as a native Central Texan who has lived in several other states I've always loved different dialects, thanks for the video.
Oh sweet, I like these kinds of vids where we can talk about the neat similarities and differences between us and uk
My accent is basically how you would imagine a glass milk would sound if it said things like “ope, sorry” and “yeah no for sure”