Just watched this with my son and he asked me to write that I figured out you were talking about Boston before recognizing the accent by the Prudential building.
Have you ever read the "Jack Tales" or the "Grandfather Tales"? We used to go to story tellings up on Beech Mountain when I was a kid. I think you would love the language of Western NC highlamds.
Jersey can be split by North and South. There are definitely differences within in these, but generally North Jersey is more New York, while South Jersey is more Philadelphia. The mass media 'Philly' accent (even though you rarely hear it nationally so no one can place it) is very white and varies by area, while Philly AAVE is unique by itself (although there is some overlap).
Agreed, but then there is the one like the guy saying people thought he was from the South. I've met folks from Brick/Tom's River who talk like that, and it's a whole different thing.
Agreed in general. But coming from Cape May county, I can attest that the Philadelphia accent is different from the far southern part of New Jersey, although the vowels are quite similar. At least among the older generations. I haven’t spent a lot of time in rural Delaware/ eastern Maryland, but I think they form an accent continuum with the rest of the Delaware Bay and River valley.
I'm so glad you included the Gullah-Geechee creole (some call it a dialect or even a language). It is unique and many English speakers would not understand it.
Seeing a photo of those Kennedy arrivistes as representative of the Brahmins was an unexpected treat. I haven't enjoyed a good laugh like that since the fall of Ceausescu.
JAWN was very specific to a city locale and culture. Lived in Philly since 1960 and only heard this recently, and now it's all over the place.... never heard anyone use it...
Olly, kudos to you for explaining that NJ is incredibly diverse accent-wise, and leading with one of the most hardcore south Jersey accents I've heard in ages! It's probably the accent that is probably least associated with my state's stereotypes, but one I once heard a lot of. Still, these clips leaned heavily on south NJ accents, and I'd have loved to have heard a contrasting hardcore north NJ one...one that is in some ways heavier than NYC's, except that it is entirely rhotic.
When I was in college, some of these New Jersey people (I'm from Long Island) had strange to me accents I had never heard. Hello neighbor--your state gets a bad rep but I know lots of nice Jersey folks.
Im from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and have a heavy Chesapeake accent. I forget i sound different until i travel to different states and people point it out.
At the 12:54 Mark I believe her name was Nina. She was a TV cameraman at Channel 2 news here in Charleston. I worked at Channel 5 and I would see her all the time down at bond court covering cases.
I'm going to guess that High Tider is #1. I'll come back and correct myself If wrong. So, you had Chesapeake Bay, but you didn't talk about the High Tiders on Ocracoke Island, NC. They should have at least been on the list if not #1.
Native Merliner here (from Maryland), had no trouble with any of them. Not sure what Swedes had to do with Maine since the Swedes settled in extreme southern New Jersey (there’s a town there called Swedesboro) and, mostly, Delaware.
Of course, NJ and DE aren't the only states in which Swedes settled. It would be silly to say that was the case! There's a town in northern Maine (Aroostook County, not far from the Canadian border) called New Sweden and another one called Stockholm. Swedes settled in that area in 1870 and their descendents still celebrate Swedish holidays and festivals in the traditional way and wearing traditional Swedish clothing. They hold a festival every year. There's also a town called Sweden in southern Maine.
@@BlissfulDee Sure, but those are all tiny. Stockholm has 250 people, New Sweden has 577. By contrast, Irish and French Canadian immigrants were something like 40% of the population in 1900 (source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maine), not to mention the obvious continuity of the Maine accent with the other New England accents which derive ultimately from the Norfolk origins of the original English settlers, obviously much modified over the centuries. It's not plausible that a few hundred people in a few isolated towns had a major effect on the accent of the whole state.
So I'm from Dorchester which is in Boston. Born & raised there. It's where they filmed Gone Baby Gone. Anyway me & my family have wicked thick accents & it's normal for me but is noticeable when I travel & people can't understand a fucking word I say. When I was in the Marines & was in other countries, it was brutal trying to talk to others. I had to get other Marines to order food for me, ask for directions, buy cigarettes etc. I didn't think it was that hard to understand me. I remember when my family came to my graduation @ Parris Island & we went out to eat after we had to leave the restaurant cuz the waitresses didn't understand us & this was in South Carolina! The only place that understood what I was saying was in Australia. Didn't have to repeat myself at all😂😂😂.
I’d implore you to check out and react to the video Different Hood Accents/Dialects posted by CharliBoi. I think you’d have a different view on black people’s slang, especially in the south.
I didn't miss any. I grew up in South Carolina & South Jersey, lived on Long Island, have relatives in inland and Outer Banks North Carolina, Virginia (Vuh jin yuh), Georgia and Florida, went to school with a girl from downeast Maine, did research for my MA in Boston and New Hampshire, spent time in DC and heard the Baltimore (Bald'm'r) accent. I also recognize some Midwestern, Texan and California accents. I wish you had used an organizational plan rather than a guessing game. Your map shows 5 accents but you cover 11 and never refer back to the top 5. Confusing!
Upper class aristocrats are called “blue steel”.. “blue bloods“ are people who are very veiny; their veins are sitting by the surface of their skin 😉👍🏼.. people name themselves by what they like the sound of just like the word Aryan. The word doesn’t mean platinum blonde and blue eyes, Arian was someone long ago who came from places such as south Asia and intermixed with fins or Russians. Their children were called Arians. almost the same difference are Siberians, who are a mixture of Finnish and East Asian, usually Japanese.
Several of the numbered "accents" featured examples of distinct accents (Florida a particular example). Did not make much sense. Basically one born in the last hundred years has the accent featured at the beginning of the video.
The people who know they are being recorded in order to show their accents are purposely exaggerating them, just pouring it on. They don't sound like that when they're talking normally.
Haven’t you heard, Olly? We don’t have working class people in the US! We only have “middle class”, ask any Democrat or Republican politician!! And that term covers EVERYONE, including billionaires! Now ya know. 🍻
@@FloreFauneWhere to start? Moving non-linearly across the map was hard to understand - start in the south and move north or start in the north and move south. Despite being on the eastern coast of the USA, many states do not regionally considering themselves “East Coast”. Florida, where I’m writing you from associates more with “the South” as does Georgia and the Carolinas. Where I agree that he got it right is highlighting the differences between urban and rural accents within states. I definitely respect Olly as a polyglot, but this felt derivative of other content on UA-cam and disorganized. Look at the Erik Singer dialect videos produced by Wired for how to do this better.
Think you can pronounce these difficult sounds? 👉🏼 ua-cam.com/video/J4GNW3lCGmI/v-deo.html
please make a video about r pronunciation difference of each languages. I wonder which languages have French r.
I live on the East Coast (Long Island) and I am a bit of a language buff, so I did well with this quiz. Thanks for all the cool videos, Olly.
Just watched this with my son and he asked me to write that I figured out you were talking about Boston before recognizing the accent by the Prudential building.
Have you ever read the "Jack Tales" or the "Grandfather Tales"? We used to go to story tellings up on Beech Mountain when I was a kid. I think you would love the language of Western NC highlamds.
Jersey can be split by North and South. There are definitely differences within in these, but generally North Jersey is more New York, while South Jersey is more Philadelphia. The mass media 'Philly' accent (even though you rarely hear it nationally so no one can place it) is very white and varies by area, while Philly AAVE is unique by itself (although there is some overlap).
Agreed, but then there is the one like the guy saying people thought he was from the South. I've met folks from Brick/Tom's River who talk like that, and it's a whole different thing.
Agreed in general. But coming from Cape May county, I can attest that the Philadelphia accent is different from the far southern part of New Jersey, although the vowels are quite similar. At least among the older generations. I haven’t spent a lot of time in rural Delaware/ eastern Maryland, but I think they form an accent continuum with the rest of the Delaware Bay and River valley.
I had a friend from Maine and he described Maine as a place where Men are Men and the women are mighty glad of it.
My crusty Downeast grandfather described it as "a beautiful place to live; terrible place to try to make a living."
I'm so glad you included the Gullah-Geechee creole (some call it a dialect or even a language). It is unique and many English speakers would not understand it.
Seeing a photo of those Kennedy arrivistes as representative of the Brahmins was an unexpected treat. I haven't enjoyed a good laugh like that since the fall of Ceausescu.
JAWN was very specific to a city locale and culture. Lived in Philly since 1960 and only heard this recently, and now it's all over the place.... never heard anyone use it...
How about making a video about the different types of German spoken in the US (Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin)?
Something like this? Olly's video: ua-cam.com/video/VxrL8La1BjM/v-deo.htmlsi=-LJRhasBXbULmYeZ
Olly, kudos to you for explaining that NJ is incredibly diverse accent-wise, and leading with one of the most hardcore south Jersey accents I've heard in ages! It's probably the accent that is probably least associated with my state's stereotypes, but one I once heard a lot of. Still, these clips leaned heavily on south NJ accents, and I'd have loved to have heard a contrasting hardcore north NJ one...one that is in some ways heavier than NYC's, except that it is entirely rhotic.
When I was in college, some of these New Jersey people (I'm from Long Island) had strange to me accents I had never heard. Hello neighbor--your state gets a bad rep but I know lots of nice Jersey folks.
You should do a video on Canadian accents at some point. I'm not Canadian myself but I just think it'd be super interesting and good to learn.
Im from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and have a heavy Chesapeake accent. I forget i sound different until i travel to different states and people point it out.
Thanks for your uploads 🙏🙌
19:43 "don't drive like my brother!"
When would you add Indonesian to your website? Would love to learn with you !!!!
Can you please make a video giving 11 reasosn to learn Russian? I love the language!
At the 12:54 Mark I believe her name was Nina. She was a TV cameraman at Channel 2 news here in Charleston. I worked at Channel 5 and I would see her all the time down at bond court covering cases.
She REALLY is Geechee. We have talked about it.
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I'm going to guess that High Tider is #1. I'll come back and correct myself If wrong.
So, you had Chesapeake Bay, but you didn't talk about the High Tiders on Ocracoke Island, NC. They should have at least been on the list if not #1.
Native Merliner here (from Maryland), had no trouble with any of them. Not sure what Swedes had to do with Maine since the Swedes settled in extreme southern New Jersey (there’s a town there called Swedesboro) and, mostly, Delaware.
Of course, NJ and DE aren't the only states in which Swedes settled. It would be silly to say that was the case! There's a town in northern Maine (Aroostook County, not far from the Canadian border) called New Sweden and another one called Stockholm. Swedes settled in that area in 1870 and their descendents still celebrate Swedish holidays and festivals in the traditional way and wearing traditional Swedish clothing. They hold a festival every year. There's also a town called Sweden in southern Maine.
@@BlissfulDee Sure, but those are all tiny. Stockholm has 250 people, New Sweden has 577. By contrast, Irish and French Canadian immigrants were something like 40% of the population in 1900 (source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maine), not to mention the obvious continuity of the Maine accent with the other New England accents which derive ultimately from the Norfolk origins of the original English settlers, obviously much modified over the centuries. It's not plausible that a few hundred people in a few isolated towns had a major effect on the accent of the whole state.
Being Swedish: I didn't know we brought skis to Murica. I thought the indjuns at least knew it beforehand, or didn't they? At all?
So I'm from Dorchester which is in Boston. Born & raised there. It's where they filmed Gone Baby Gone. Anyway me & my family have wicked thick accents & it's normal for me but is noticeable when I travel & people can't understand a fucking word I say. When I was in the Marines & was in other countries, it was brutal trying to talk to others. I had to get other Marines to order food for me, ask for directions, buy cigarettes etc. I didn't think it was that hard to understand me. I remember when my family came to my graduation @ Parris Island & we went out to eat after we had to leave the restaurant cuz the waitresses didn't understand us & this was in South Carolina! The only place that understood what I was saying was in Australia. Didn't have to repeat myself at all😂😂😂.
Sometimes it helps hearing the person speaking for more than a minute.
I’d implore you to check out and react to the video Different Hood Accents/Dialects posted by CharliBoi. I think you’d have a different view on black people’s slang, especially in the south.
im from russia, and i only guessed the florida and amish accents
Tony Soprano meets Lois Griffin
Please add Turkish subtitles to olly videos.
I could understood most of these but I grew up in Texas.
I didn't miss any. I grew up in South Carolina & South Jersey, lived on Long Island, have relatives in inland and Outer Banks North Carolina, Virginia (Vuh jin yuh), Georgia and Florida, went to school with a girl from downeast Maine, did research for my MA in Boston and New Hampshire, spent time in DC and heard the Baltimore (Bald'm'r) accent.
I also recognize some Midwestern, Texan and California accents.
I wish you had used an organizational plan rather than a guessing game. Your map shows 5 accents but you cover 11 and never refer back to the top 5. Confusing!
Mainer accents are the hardest for my ear to identify. Pennsylvanian are the easiest.
Upper class aristocrats are called “blue steel”.. “blue bloods“ are people who are very veiny; their veins are sitting by the surface of their skin 😉👍🏼.. people name themselves by what they like the sound of just like the word Aryan. The word doesn’t mean platinum blonde and blue eyes, Arian was someone long ago who came from places such as south Asia and intermixed with fins or Russians. Their children were called Arians. almost the same difference are Siberians, who are a mixture of Finnish and East Asian, usually Japanese.
I buhlieve Gawguh in itsewf has mo den 11 accents Olly.
The Kennedys did not have a brahmin accent. They had a Kennedy accent. I never heard anyone else speak that way.
❤Gullah Geechee
My grandfather had a solid brahmin accent, so that eas a no brainer.
Several of the numbered "accents" featured examples of distinct accents (Florida a particular example). Did not make much sense.
Basically one born in the last hundred years has the accent featured at the beginning of the video.
They never differentiate the Philly and Bawlmere accent.
The people who know they are being recorded in order to show their accents are purposely exaggerating them, just pouring it on. They don't sound like that when they're talking normally.
Brahmin
Haven’t you heard, Olly? We don’t have working class people in the US! We only have “middle class”, ask any Democrat or Republican politician!! And that term covers EVERYONE, including billionaires! Now ya know. 🍻
This video is so poorly organized.
So true!
Seems fine to me
Sorry you feel that way.
Elaborate
@@FloreFauneWhere to start? Moving non-linearly across the map was hard to understand - start in the south and move north or start in the north and move south. Despite being on the eastern coast of the USA, many states do not regionally considering themselves “East Coast”. Florida, where I’m writing you from associates more with “the South” as does Georgia and the Carolinas. Where I agree that he got it right is highlighting the differences between urban and rural accents within states. I definitely respect Olly as a polyglot, but this felt derivative of other content on UA-cam and disorganized. Look at the Erik Singer dialect videos produced by Wired for how to do this better.