yeh im partial to northeast accents for sure since im from rhode island. i didn't even know i had an accent until i went to college in boston (which many students aren't from there btw so they have no discernible accent) and i was quickly informed that i sound like a family guy character lmaoo. Also when i asked people where the "bubblah" was, i realized no one else knows what a bubbler is, it's called a water fountain apparently
My American ears have picked up distinct differences in British accents and as a semi-anglophile, I find it really interesting. Listening to you guys discuss that subject made me wonder if you have any videos that instruct about English accent diversity like you've done for American. I suspect many of us non - Brits would enjoy that very much.
I'm also trying to pick up more on the accents. I can recognize a lot of different ones. I couldn't even begin to guess which region they are from though.
@@RealDiehl99 the only direct locational clues I've had are things like hearing the Liverpool accent from the Beatles, and Yorkshire accent and expressions on the old 1970's series All Creatures Great and Small. Really good series! It's amazing to me that a country only a little over a third the size of Texas could have that much variation in accents!
I realize it's different but people born and raised in New Orleans sometimes sound to me almost "New York" or at least an odd combination of southern and New York. It's actually among the most melodious of American accents.
People from the northern states often sound like Canadians for instance if they say the word “about” it comes out as a-boot. The accent used in the movie “Fargo” which is in North Dakota is pretty hilarious!😊
Whenever they people try a midwestern accent they only sound like their from Wisconsin or Canada. Never in my life have I heard someone from Indiana sound like that. Closest you get is the Amish but they’re different
Was on the phone with a client once, and they admitted that they had kept me on the phone longer than needed because they were feeling homesick since moving from Philly. 😂
Have you guys (Office Blokes) ever heard the Chesapeake Island (Tangier and Smith Islands) accent. These are isolated islands in Chesapeake Bay with no connection to the mainland US except by boat and they are where 17th century British colonists passed by and sometimes debarked. As a result, they have accents that are very odd to American ears but supposedly sound like 17th century southwest English speech. There are a couple of videos of this you might react to.
Does it sound anything like the Ocracoke Island accent? The blokes did a reaction to a tour of American accents video a little while ago and the Ocracoke Island accent also sounds like what you are describing here.
@@RealDiehl99 Yes and probably for the same reason--to my ears anyway. There are plenty of videos of both and you can listen to both and draw your own conclusions. But any differences could be accounted for by the colonists settling the two areas coming from different areas of England. Supposedly the first English colony in North America was established in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh but I'm not sure where in England those people came from. In any case, they disappeared but were followed by others. Maryland and the Chesapeake region was colonized only a bit later by Catholics brought under a charter granted in 1632 to Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore by Charles I. Again I'm not sure where exactly they came from in England but experts say the accent resembles southwestern England.
My favorite sound in the Pittsburgh accent is the Oh, in things like know and go. It almost turns the diphthong into a triphthong, and is another sound that sounds close to Cockney. It's sort of aa--eh-o all smushed together. I agree with Dave that I like the South West accent, it's cute. And I like the old school Yorkshire, probably from watching too much Downton Abbey.
I'm from Virginia. When we were in West Virginia, we pulled into a gas station. The attendant came out and said, "You know you have a flit tar." We were like "What?" What he said was we had a flat tire.
The GREATEST American accent is all but dead now.. The Brooklyn Accent... Think Bugs Bunny.. My mom had that accent and I have a bit of it too. 🤣🤣 George Carlin did a short bit about the Brooklyn accent and how it can make horrible diseases sound fun... like "toyboycuelosis" and "hoyepes" 🤣🤣🤣
Pittsburghese: "Yinz goln dahntahn ta see da Stillers n' at?" (Are you going downtown to see the Steelers, and everything else) Gitahtah here! (Get out of here) He's ahtside, he's nawt in da hahs (He's outside, he's not in the house) "I got ten dolwers. Yinz want an Arn?" (I have ten dollars. You guys want some Iron [Iron City Beer, a local brew])
I’m from Seattle and didn’t think I had an accent until my friend from the east coast told me to say the words water and mountain. I said it like I always do “wader” and “moun’in” and she was like there ya go….
@@kellsinpdx Everybody who speaks has an accent, the fact that you don't recognize the accent of people in your community only proves that you have that same accent.
@@kellsinpdxI MET A GUY FROM PORTLAND! I'm from BC CANADA and I thought he was pretending to have an accent for like 20 seconds. It genuinely sounds like a Western American guy trying to do a southern accent but they're drunk or something. 🤣
@@tander101 Oh wow, I haven't heard that one! But thinking about things we say, I can see that lol. I had a friend in Europe and she said we sound like we're always chewing gum.
As someone from Pittsburgh, I do have a lot of the Pittsburghese going on, but the one that drives me CRAZY is when people don’t pronounce the letter L. That’s one that I’ve avoided doing my whole life
Pittsburghese, it’s definitely a thing. We even have a Pittsburghese dictionary. Lol! The waitress should have told him that, the fhire wurks are shot off daughn by tha river n’at. Tha best place to gough is daughn by point state parrrk. If yinz can watch on a boat from the maun then yinz’ll have one of the best spots. Translated: the fireworks are shot off down by the river, (n’at, is just a filler type word that means and that). The best place to go is down by point state park. If you guys can watch from a boat on the Mon (the Monongahela River), then you guys will have one of the best spots.
Speaking of accents im from Kentucky USA and i have a friend in leeds UK and he called me one night. I had been drinking and apparently so had he. We did not understand a single word from each other. To this day i have no idea what we talked about that night
Hands down the best accent is the southern accent. Our accents vary but it is so good and just to think I used to hate mine and try to speak without it. No accent is boring and some are terrible but I’ll leave my opinion of that out and let everyone come to their own conclusion. Just as long as everyone agrees southern accents are best. 😂😂😂
So a southerner is saying southern accent is best? Shocking lol. Joking around but I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t on here. But there is south and then Cajun which is quite a big difference
@@heywoodjablowme8120 The old southern accent is barely spoken any more. Maybe a few elderly people in middle Georgia but it’s going away these days. No one in the south sounds dumb, Forrest was not a smart man.
There are several Texas accents. Most Europeans assume that the White Texan accent is the standard. In reality, most Texans are of Mexican descent, and have an accent that reflects this. Go to South Texas, where many towns have about 10% White people, and you never hear a Southern Drawl.
I'm from Cincinnati Ohio it's Midwest but we're on the border of Kentucky so we speak like country slang but you can understand what we're saying lol a mix of two cultures
12:42 American here. When I was in boy scouts our scout master always took us to get something small to eat after every weekly scout meeting. The scout master called one of the kids in our troop Skweet because after every meeting was over the kid would say "let's go eat" but it sounded like "skweet".
Lived in Da Burgh for 3 years as a dyed in the wool Texan...Never DID locate "NM" who apparently is always part of the group. "Yunz goin to see da Stillers with Bob NM?"
Since we were settled by English, Scottish first in Pittsburgh, we use some of same words one might here in most of UK--for example we say "mum" (instead of "mom"). We don't say "me mum", though. :)
Sylvester Stallone speech isn't an "accent" of course he will have some regional affectations, but what everyone is assuming is his "accent" including myself until about 10yrs ago. Is a birth defect/problem idk exactly what to call it, I thought he was foreign growing up and just happened to read on him 1 day. When he was being born the Doctor had to use Pincers I guess common for difficult births at the time? And a nerve was pinched it's actually why he sounds like that and his face is like that, I don't mean this as a joke in anyway but you can certainly liken it to him having a small stroke. That's exactly how some who were able to recover sometimes talk and still have partial facial paralysis.
As a Boston girl, I'm biased...but I love a good Boston accent. I will always think our accents are the best followed by Southern and then in third place New York.
I lived in arizona, everyone there has a mixture of drawl, mexican or California accent. But when I moved to alabama lemme tell ya lol that accents are THICK. I have never heard a deep new orleans accent till i moved and wheb the guy first started speaking i legitimately thought he was speaking french.
When Brits try to imitate American accents, they often use the wrong kind of D sound. A lot of British accents almost double a D in the middle of a word. Bod-dy for body, with a D sound on both the end of the first syllable and the beginning of the last. So Laurence is saying wahd-der where most Americans would say either wahd-er or wah-der, depending on the accent.
The West Virginia accent, in my opinion and not disparagingly, is more hillbilly than southern. There is definitely a difference, though both possess a drawl. The Pittsburgh accent incorporates what I’d call clipped words and phrases. Jeet yet? No, Jew? (Did you eat yet? No, did you?)…Are yinz going to the game tomorrow? (Are you ones (archaic you plural) going to the game tomorrow?)…Red up your room. Company’s coming. (Ready up your room. We’re getting company). Thanks for your indulgence. I was born and raised @ seventy five miles east of Pittsburgh. Oh, by the way; there’s a little paperback book titled “Pittsburghese”. It defines most of the words and phrases that are typical of that region.
Laurence’s American accents were pretty good! Out of the three of you office blokes, I have a hard time understanding Mike sometimes. Where are you from Mike?
We’ve got a microcosm of the hard A’s just East of here in the hillbilly wood and coal mill area. Extremely localized to two small towns. Camas and Washougal in Washington State. They’re an interesting bunch for sure.
Lmao yall are respectful and thats appreciated, but outside maybe WV and philly (people hate or love em with almost no in btw), the other three are all considered among the least pleasant accents to Americans, to point of commonly being used for comedic effect just based on how they sound in pop culture
Laurence isn't Americanized completely. He said edgeways. The idiom get a word in edgewise is most often used in American English, the expression get a word in edgeways is most often used in British English.
Philly/South Jersey is famous for "wooder". It's a lazy accent. We are also known for clippin' the G from every verb ending in -ING. Words like laugh and bath sound more like layf and bayth. ("Yous were layfin' da whole time") Monday sounds like Mundy. Window sounds like Winda. "Do you" becomes "ju". "ju wanna?" = do you want to?
@Sassycatz I forgot about the "mayan". Lol! I always thought that was more of a South Jersey thing, like pronouncing towel like tail. But now that I think of it my sister had a friend who moved nearby from South Philly and she definitely pronounced it, "Mayan"🤣
@@RealDiehl99 Well ... funny enough, I was born and raised in Camden, NJ. So, I'm really from South Jersey, but many of my family were born and lived in Philly and I lived, worked, and went to college there earlier in my life.
Everyone associates California as beach dude accent. Thats probably like 3 to 5 percent of the people here. Most of the state isnt beach front. Were not all surfers!
Exactly! The surfer accent was more a thing back in the day although some still exist.. my cousin for example born and raised in Carlsbad still says things like, “that’s nutty man.” Over in the Pacific Northwest we snowboard a lot and they have there own crazy accents and lingo as well.
If you guys haven’t seen the movie Nell with Jodie Foster I think that would be a good movie for you to react to or just watch in your own time. Based on the isolated speech of the Appalachian people.
It's definitely a central IL thing at least. When I visit relatives in a small town near Champaign, everyone asks me how things are doing out there in Warshington. 🤣
Just my little area of south Louisiana has several accents. Much of the city of Baton Rouge has a generic American accent with a slight twang on certain words. Go just outside the city and the accents get a much more southern draw. A little bit southwest and you start to hear that French Cajun influence. Southeast towards New Orleans and they almost sound like New Yorkers. A little bit northeast and you start to see more of a Mississippi sound with a slower cadence and a little bit bigger southern draw.
These are not the most distinctive accents which I would say include: New York, Boston, Baltimore-Philadelphia, "southern", California/San Fernando Valley, and Chicago. There are many others but they are more obscure to people not from there or less readily differentiated from others.
Younger generations in the Midwest and Western states have a lot of California influence in their speech. Plus, essentially the central and Western states all have slight variations on the quintessential American accent. Sorry to those in the Northeast and South, but your complex varieties of regional dialects are not quintessentially American.
I disagree. Not only can I 9 of 10 usually tell immediately if someone is from New Orleans a lot of times I can tell what part of town they are from. Southern Louisiana Cajun us also distinct and to where I can’t understand but maybe half of what they say unless they switch to how they address outsiders. Also South Carolina Low Country Gullah Geechee people can sound like they are from Caribbean. Some part of Maine are like wow to my ears. I thought a guy from Michigan was Scandinavian until he told he was a Youper.
@@anndeecosita3586 What is readily discernible by a local is often not by an outsider. I was talking about major accent groups even people from outside the US recognize as different from one another. I doubt someone from the UK can tell the accent from one part of the south, and certainly one town in Louisiana, from another. And sure, there are lots of very distinctive accents spoken by small numbers of people like the Gullah or the Chesapeake islanders or the Cajuns but again, even many Americans from distant parts of the US will never hear these spoken or even be aware of their existence.
It’s a bit of a personal thing but I’m from Indiana and so when people attempt a Hoosier accent almost always do a Wisconsin accent instead and it annoys me
From my experience, and I’ve traveled throughout the country, is that people from Philly or NYC know you’re from Philly through the accent. Anywhere else they think you’re from New York. Some *supposedly* Philly accents are not even from Philly. Tina Fey’s exaggerates her perception of it. It’s embarrassing, actually.
@counselthyself 😂 I watched some videos about the Newfoundland accent a few years ago on youtube and couldn't understand some of the people who were in those videos.
Interesting how quickly we can lose accents. I lost my Texas accent in 2 years while living in Europe. When I returned I laughed at everyone's thick Texas accent. In a year I sounded like them again. Northeast Texas accents are very thick. West Texans have no accent.
@@BP-or2iu I’m bilingual English/Spanish and can definitely hear a difference between them and Spanglish speaking people in places like NYC, Miami and San Diego where I grew up.
Sylvester Stallone is NOT from Philadelphia and nobody in that movie, nor in the Sixth Sense have Philly accents. Unless you're from Philly (Kevin Bacon, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper), you'll never be able to mimic it. 5 best UK accents: Geordie... Bristol.... Durham... Brummie.... Manchester 5 worst UK accents: Cockney... Scouse... Fraffley ... East Anglia ... Scotland (it actual sounds great, i just can't understand what the f_ _ _ anybody is saying) 5 best US accents: Philadelphia ... Appalachia... Noo Yawk ... Minnesoooooota ... "African American Vernacular English" (especially Memphis) 5 worst US accents: Chicago ... everywhere that touches the Great Lakes ... Boston / Noo Hampshah... ignorant southern whites... Los Angeles "Valley" accent (Kale Cuoco)
The strange thing Florida is in the deep South but it has no deep South accent mostly it's actually kind of clear you might find a couple rednecks but I live in Northern panhandle for 30 year's and it's mostly a Midwest accent which is a clean understood a boring accent really with a few Southern Carolina word's (the gentleman accent) which are usually drawn out word's when this is combined it makes a Northern Florida accent. Well at least in my opinion
Unbelievable.....you gone from Minnesota to Boston to two cities in Pennsylvania Appalachia .....wow.... Non. je viens de la Nouvelle-Orléans, en Louisiane. WE have our own accént. Most people wõuld not know b'câuse we are isolated et l'Américain ..... But we nous aimons la France, nous aimons aussi les États-Unis
Minnesotan here, when he tried to do the accent at 6:24 that beginning part actually sounded really really good. And the "nooo" was spot on haha!
I'm Canadian and it sounds accurate to here as well
You guys get a tough break on that accent. Meaning you all get made fun a.lot
If you love Bostonian, the movie "The Departed" is a nonstop party for the ears.
You only gotta go a few miles in the northeast or south to get a different ascent here in America, especially around Boston
No you can literally go a city over in certain areas and there’s a totally different accent
Sylvester Stallone is from Hells kirchen part of Mahattan by the Waddah (hudson rivah ) 😄
Ozone pahk baby!
He went to Lincoln High School in Philly.
@@joeladams2540 😁
yeh im partial to northeast accents for sure since im from rhode island. i didn't even know i had an accent until i went to college in boston (which many students aren't from there btw so they have no discernible accent) and i was quickly informed that i sound like a family guy character lmaoo. Also when i asked people where the "bubblah" was, i realized no one else knows what a bubbler is, it's called a water fountain apparently
My American ears have picked up distinct differences in British accents and as a semi-anglophile, I find it really interesting. Listening to you guys discuss that subject made me wonder if you have any videos that instruct about English accent diversity like you've done for American. I suspect many of us non - Brits would enjoy that very much.
I'm also trying to pick up more on the accents. I can recognize a lot of different ones. I couldn't even begin to guess which region they are from though.
@@RealDiehl99 the only direct locational clues I've had are things like hearing the Liverpool accent from the Beatles, and Yorkshire accent and expressions on the old 1970's series All Creatures Great and Small. Really good series! It's amazing to me that a country only a little over a third the size of Texas could have that much variation in accents!
And everyone always forgets the Cajun accent.
Spicy English
I realize it's different but people born and raised in New Orleans sometimes sound to me almost "New York" or at least an odd combination of southern and New York. It's actually among the most melodious of American accents.
@@BTinSF it is an odd combination but it's believed to be tied to the shipping connections between the two states.
@counselthyself I'm aware. Studied this in school over half a century ago.
Malcolm Muggeridge had my favorite British accent-you could tell he loved it too
Chicago does indeed have a very specific accent. But it is related to Midwestern accents more generally but you can definitely pinpoint the city.
People from the northern states often sound like Canadians for instance if they say the word “about” it comes out as a-boot. The accent used in the movie “Fargo” which is in North Dakota is pretty hilarious!😊
I love the Midwest accent, specifically the great lakes region accent. North Dakota and Minnesota are my two favs.
@counselthyself a lot of Canadians say a-boat not aboot but it still sounds funny chill.
I’m from Northern Minnesota and Fargo hit it perfectly, that’s exactly how we sound, don’t cha know
@@lt.spears1889 my family is from Sharon, ND
Whenever they people try a midwestern accent they only sound like their from Wisconsin or Canada. Never in my life have I heard someone from Indiana sound like that. Closest you get is the Amish but they’re different
Was on the phone with a client once, and they admitted that they had kept me on the phone longer than needed because they were feeling homesick since moving from Philly. 😂
I live on the Mason Dixon line of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Most people here say wooder for water. It still slips out when I say it sometimes.
I was cracking up at the Philadelphia one since I’ve lived in Philly my whole life. I can confirm I say jeet wooder
Have you guys (Office Blokes) ever heard the Chesapeake Island (Tangier and Smith Islands) accent. These are isolated islands in Chesapeake Bay with no connection to the mainland US except by boat and they are where 17th century British colonists passed by and sometimes debarked. As a result, they have accents that are very odd to American ears but supposedly sound like 17th century southwest English speech. There are a couple of videos of this you might react to.
Does it sound anything like the Ocracoke Island accent? The blokes did a reaction to a tour of American accents video a little while ago and the Ocracoke Island accent also sounds like what you are describing here.
@@RealDiehl99 Yes and probably for the same reason--to my ears anyway. There are plenty of videos of both and you can listen to both and draw your own conclusions. But any differences could be accounted for by the colonists settling the two areas coming from different areas of England. Supposedly the first English colony in North America was established in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh but I'm not sure where in England those people came from. In any case, they disappeared but were followed by others. Maryland and the Chesapeake region was colonized only a bit later by Catholics brought under a charter granted in 1632 to Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore by Charles I. Again I'm not sure where exactly they came from in England but experts say the accent resembles southwestern England.
my friend was from Minnesota. She had a very strong German/Dutch sound.
For Boston, just think of Bill Burr :)
My favorite sound in the Pittsburgh accent is the Oh, in things like know and go. It almost turns the diphthong into a triphthong, and is another sound that sounds close to Cockney. It's sort of aa--eh-o all smushed together. I agree with Dave that I like the South West accent, it's cute. And I like the old school Yorkshire, probably from watching too much Downton Abbey.
He lived in indiana for awhile and his impression sounded like some of my relatives lol
I'm from Virginia. When we were in West Virginia, we pulled into a gas station. The attendant came out and said, "You know you have a flit tar." We were like "What?" What he said was we had a flat tire.
The GREATEST American accent is all but dead now..
The Brooklyn Accent... Think Bugs Bunny.. My mom had that accent and I have a bit of it too. 🤣🤣 George Carlin did a short bit about the Brooklyn accent and how it can make horrible diseases sound fun... like "toyboycuelosis" and "hoyepes" 🤣🤣🤣
Each NYC borough has a slightly different accent. My mom’s family are from Brooklyn and the Bronx and you can tell the difference.
Pittsburghese:
"Yinz goln dahntahn ta see da Stillers n' at?"
(Are you going downtown to see the Steelers, and everything else)
Gitahtah here!
(Get out of here)
He's ahtside, he's nawt in da hahs
(He's outside, he's not in the house)
"I got ten dolwers. Yinz want an Arn?"
(I have ten dollars. You guys want some Iron [Iron City Beer, a local brew])
PLEASE do a collaboration with Lost in the Pond soon!!!!!
The best Chicago accent: Mr. Maniscalco
True
The Pacific Northwest accent sounds like Canadian surfers has me dying lol. I’d like the see the other part with the western accents!
I’m from Seattle and didn’t think I had an accent until my friend from the east coast told me to say the words water and mountain. I said it like I always do “wader” and “moun’in” and she was like there ya go….
@@gabriellaama3325 I'm from Portland and I don't think we have an accent.
@@kellsinpdx Everybody who speaks has an accent, the fact that you don't recognize the accent of people in your community only proves that you have that same accent.
@@kellsinpdxI MET A GUY FROM PORTLAND! I'm from BC CANADA and I thought he was pretending to have an accent for like 20 seconds. It genuinely sounds like a Western American guy trying to do a southern accent but they're drunk or something. 🤣
@@tander101 Oh wow, I haven't heard that one! But thinking about things we say, I can see that lol. I had a friend in Europe and she said we sound like we're always chewing gum.
As someone from Pittsburgh, I do have a lot of the Pittsburghese going on, but the one that drives me CRAZY is when people don’t pronounce the letter L. That’s one that I’ve avoided doing my whole life
Pittsburghese, it’s definitely a thing. We even have a Pittsburghese dictionary. Lol! The waitress should have told him that, the fhire wurks are shot off daughn by tha river n’at. Tha best place to gough is daughn by point state parrrk. If yinz can watch on a boat from the maun then yinz’ll have one of the best spots.
Translated: the fireworks are shot off down by the river, (n’at, is just a filler type word that means and that). The best place to go is down by point state park. If you guys can watch from a boat on the Mon (the Monongahela River), then you guys will have one of the best spots.
Speaking of accents im from Kentucky USA and i have a friend in leeds UK and he called me one night. I had been drinking and apparently so had he. We did not understand a single word from each other. To this day i have no idea what we talked about that night
Hahaha. I have a friend in England too and we have the same issue
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia and I have to say that Lawrence's southern accent is shockingly good!
Sylvester Stallone was born in the Hells Kitchen area of New Tork City.
Hands down the best accent is the southern accent. Our accents vary but it is so good and just to think I used to hate mine and try to speak without it. No accent is boring and some are terrible but I’ll leave my opinion of that out and let everyone come to their own conclusion. Just as long as everyone agrees southern accents are best. 😂😂😂
Eh, depends what part of the south and I only find it attractive in females. That drawl makes men seem slow and stupid.
So a southerner is saying southern accent is best? Shocking lol. Joking around but I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t on here. But there is south and then Cajun which is quite a big difference
@@heywoodjablowme8120 The old southern accent is barely spoken any more. Maybe a few elderly people in middle Georgia but it’s going away these days. No one in the south sounds dumb, Forrest was not a smart man.
@@heywoodjablowme8120 My comment was a joke. Have you ever see Forrest Gump?
NOPE!
Sylvester Stallone is from the northeast section of Philly.
There are several Texas accents. Most Europeans assume that the White Texan accent is the standard. In reality, most Texans are of Mexican descent, and have an accent that reflects this. Go to South Texas, where many towns have about 10% White people, and you never hear a Southern Drawl.
I'm from Cincinnati Ohio it's Midwest but we're on the border of Kentucky so we speak like country slang but you can understand what we're saying lol a mix of two cultures
And weirdly if you drive 30 minutes straight north up 75 it sounds exactly you drove 30 minutes Southeast
My dad was from Cincinnati and he said "crick" instead of "creek"
@@shasha5627 So do I
12:42 American here. When I was in boy scouts our scout master always took us to get something small to eat after every weekly scout meeting. The scout master called one of the kids in our troop Skweet because after every meeting was over the kid would say "let's go eat" but it sounded like "skweet".
Pittsburghers speak Pittsburghese and I am a Pittsburgher, n'nat.
That is the second n'nat I've seen. What the heck is that?
Lived in Da Burgh for 3 years as a dyed in the wool Texan...Never DID locate "NM" who apparently is always part of the group. "Yunz goin to see da Stillers with Bob NM?"
II love a man with a Boston accent!❤️
Why?! lol I'm jk 🤗
@@TaMara_x, Boston men have a gangster/manly voice! The voice that's either going to keep you safe or break your kneecaps😂
@@Tammy-wu1xb I know it's kinda hot .😋I live in NY so it' sounds similar to me , I was jk 😄
100% none of these guys, except maybe Daz, could pick out a Texan accent from a lineup of southern accents
Since we were settled by English, Scottish first in Pittsburgh, we use some of same words one might here in most of UK--for example we say "mum" (instead of "mom"). We don't say "me mum", though. :)
Let me help him with the Pittsburghese: I left my haas to go dahntahn, n'nat.
Sylvester Stallone speech isn't an "accent" of course he will have some regional affectations, but what everyone is assuming is his "accent" including myself until about 10yrs ago. Is a birth defect/problem idk exactly what to call it, I thought he was foreign growing up and just happened to read on him 1 day. When he was being born the Doctor had to use Pincers I guess common for difficult births at the time? And a nerve was pinched it's actually why he sounds like that and his face is like that, I don't mean this as a joke in anyway but you can certainly liken it to him having a small stroke. That's exactly how some who were able to recover sometimes talk and still have partial facial paralysis.
Oops meant cart became chat in england starting in 1791.also that year the 5th amendment.
As a Boston girl, I'm biased...but I love a good Boston accent. I will always think our accents are the best followed by Southern and then in third place New York.
Boston accent = ar into aw, so car = caw, bar = baw.
The Bostan accent sounds like a mix of NY and NH accents to me.
Yes, he's in Chicago. I actually encountered him.
sadly, nobody in the Rocky movies has a Philly accent. the one thing Sly got wrong was having himself and other New Yorkers keep their NYC accents lol
I lived in arizona, everyone there has a mixture of drawl, mexican or California accent. But when I moved to alabama lemme tell ya lol that accents are THICK. I have never heard a deep new orleans accent till i moved and wheb the guy first started speaking i legitimately thought he was speaking french.
New York City alone must have at least 5 or 6 different accents .
When Brits try to imitate American accents, they often use the wrong kind of D sound. A lot of British accents almost double a D in the middle of a word. Bod-dy for body, with a D sound on both the end of the first syllable and the beginning of the last. So Laurence is saying wahd-der where most Americans would say either wahd-er or wah-der, depending on the accent.
I'm American, but I definitely conflate a lot of the great lakes accents... Flat vowels..
Mid-Atlantic, ours isn't as stereotype, but equally silly
The West Virginia accent, in my opinion and not disparagingly, is more hillbilly than southern. There is definitely a difference, though both possess a drawl.
The Pittsburgh accent incorporates what I’d call clipped words and phrases. Jeet yet? No, Jew? (Did you eat yet? No, did you?)…Are yinz going to the game tomorrow? (Are you ones (archaic you plural) going to the game tomorrow?)…Red up your room. Company’s coming. (Ready up your room. We’re getting company). Thanks for your indulgence. I was born and raised @ seventy five miles east of Pittsburgh. Oh, by the way; there’s a little paperback book titled “Pittsburghese”. It defines most of the words and phrases that are typical of that region.
Laurence’s American accents were pretty good!
Out of the three of you office blokes, I have a hard time understanding Mike sometimes.
Where are you from Mike?
I can understand all of them just fine.
Accuse him of being from Liverpool and see what happens. :) lol
"jeet" and "wooder" also Marylandese
Sylvester Stallone is actually from New York. Grew up in Hell’s Kitchen. His father was Italian and had moved to the states. But yeah not Philly. NY.
I’m in “Chicagoland”. I say bayg but sort of like beg. Maybe Baeyg?
Y’all definitely have a distinct accent, at least to other Americans.
We’ve got a microcosm of the hard A’s just East of here in the hillbilly wood and coal mill area. Extremely localized to two small towns. Camas and Washougal in Washington State. They’re an interesting bunch for sure.
Lmao yall are respectful and thats appreciated, but outside maybe WV and philly (people hate or love em with almost no in btw), the other three are all considered among the least pleasant accents to Americans, to point of commonly being used for comedic effect just based on how they sound in pop culture
It's ok to have an accent. Jesus had a country bumpkin accent cause he was from Galilee the bible even references it,
Wanna go to Manchester someday just to make fun of everyones accents
Laurence isn't Americanized completely. He said edgeways. The idiom get a word in edgewise is most often used in American English, the expression get a word in edgeways is most often used in British English.
He definitely butchered the accents but I was amused. 😂
South Louisiana and Baltimore are my 2 favorites
Philly/South Jersey is famous for "wooder". It's a lazy accent. We are also known for clippin' the G from every verb ending in -ING. Words like laugh and bath sound more like layf and bayth. ("Yous were layfin' da whole time") Monday sounds like Mundy. Window sounds like Winda. "Do you" becomes "ju". "ju wanna?" = do you want to?
Yep, and quarter is qudder. And, mine is pronounced mayan.
@Sassycatz I forgot about the "mayan". Lol! I always thought that was more of a South Jersey thing, like pronouncing towel like tail. But now that I think of it my sister had a friend who moved nearby from South Philly and she definitely pronounced it, "Mayan"🤣
@@RealDiehl99 Well ... funny enough, I was born and raised in Camden, NJ. So, I'm really from South Jersey, but many of my family were born and lived in Philly and I lived, worked, and went to college there earlier in my life.
Everyone associates California as beach dude accent. Thats probably like 3 to 5 percent of the people here. Most of the state isnt beach front. Were not all surfers!
Exactly! The surfer accent was more a thing back in the day although some still exist.. my cousin for example born and raised in Carlsbad still says things like, “that’s nutty man.” Over in the Pacific Northwest we snowboard a lot and they have there own crazy accents and lingo as well.
The favorite accent of all is a Southern Carolina
In the south it’s “djyeet yet?”
That's called a New England accent not a Bostonian accent.
If you guys haven’t seen the movie Nell with Jodie Foster I think that would be a good movie for you to react to or just watch in your own time. Based on the isolated speech of the Appalachian people.
"Dickthong" is the name of my metal band.
I thought the "warsh" was a southern Illinois/ st louis thing
It's definitely a central IL thing at least. When I visit relatives in a small town near Champaign, everyone asks me how things are doing out there in Warshington. 🤣
@@bus6292 I had to stop saying "I need to warsh my clothes" I got picked on when I went to college out West.
WAIT!!! dave is wearing an OBD hat??!!
Just my little area of south Louisiana has several accents. Much of the city of Baton Rouge has a generic American accent with a slight twang on certain words. Go just outside the city and the accents get a much more southern draw. A little bit southwest and you start to hear that French Cajun influence. Southeast towards New Orleans and they almost sound like New Yorkers. A little bit northeast and you start to see more of a Mississippi sound with a slower cadence and a little bit bigger southern draw.
Louisiana is neat that way with the variety of accents they have
Yes. I went there years ago for work. You all are all over the place haha. I dig it tho
Northern Midwest was settled by Scandinavians and Germans.
These are not the most distinctive accents which I would say include: New York, Boston, Baltimore-Philadelphia, "southern", California/San Fernando Valley, and Chicago. There are many others but they are more obscure to people not from there or less readily differentiated from others.
Younger generations in the Midwest and Western states have a lot of California influence in their speech. Plus, essentially the central and Western states all have slight variations on the quintessential American accent. Sorry to those in the Northeast and South, but your complex varieties of regional dialects are not quintessentially American.
I disagree. Not only can I 9 of 10 usually tell immediately if someone is from New Orleans a lot of times I can tell what part of town they are from.
Southern Louisiana Cajun us also distinct and to where I can’t understand but maybe half of what they say unless they switch to how they address outsiders. Also South Carolina Low Country Gullah Geechee people can sound like they are from Caribbean. Some part of Maine are like wow to my ears. I thought a guy from Michigan was Scandinavian until he told he was a Youper.
@@anndeecosita3586 What is readily discernible by a local is often not by an outsider. I was talking about major accent groups even people from outside the US recognize as different from one another. I doubt someone from the UK can tell the accent from one part of the south, and certainly one town in Louisiana, from another. And sure, there are lots of very distinctive accents spoken by small numbers of people like the Gullah or the Chesapeake islanders or the Cajuns but again, even many Americans from distant parts of the US will never hear these spoken or even be aware of their existence.
first accent is candian
George WaRshington lived by the wooder
I've read that the "r" in words like wash or Washington came from the Scots Irish.
It’s a bit of a personal thing but I’m from Indiana and so when people attempt a Hoosier accent almost always do a Wisconsin accent instead and it annoys me
My name is Bolton
I also get annoyed by certain accents, even in my own country. And some accents I love, such as accents from Korea and Japan.
Baltimore
Casey Affleck's Dunkin Donuts skit from SNL is actually a pretty great example of how a stereotypical Boston-area idiot talks.
your Patrice O'Neil has been blocked!
Granted that this is a SNL skit, the accent is a thick, Chicago-land classic: ua-cam.com/video/kBnnon_iZOM/v-deo.html
From my experience, and I’ve traveled throughout the country, is that people from Philly or NYC know you’re from Philly through the accent. Anywhere else they think you’re from New York.
Some *supposedly* Philly accents are not even from Philly. Tina Fey’s exaggerates her perception of it. It’s embarrassing, actually.
Speaking of accents, Daz says ain't- is that normal for any British accent or something he picked up in America?
Common over here 👍🏻
I think if my 3rd grade English teacher had heard me say “ain’t” in a sentence, she would have most likely kept me inside at recess break for a week.
No hesitation from Mike 😂 “scouse”
I'm from California and I hate the way we sound. Not everyone but a lot of people annoy me here.
Chill, dude.
Dirty south accents are the best hands down on this side of the Mississippi we damn near have our on language lol
@counselthyself lol baby huh? That must be overseas? 🤔
@counselthyself Closer to the Irish accent than the Canadian😂
@@Nnnnnn73765 Newfoundland and Labrador is a province located in eastern Canada.
@@AAGul oooohhh ok lol I was confused baby but ok thank you for explaining.
@counselthyself 😂 I watched some videos about the Newfoundland accent a few years ago on youtube and couldn't understand some of the people who were in those videos.
caht from cart
Edgewise, Lawrence. Not "edgeways"
Interesting how quickly we can lose accents. I lost my Texas accent in 2 years while living in Europe. When I returned I laughed at everyone's thick Texas accent. In a year I sounded like them again. Northeast Texas accents are very thick. West Texans have no accent.
That’s not true. West Texas has a pretty distinct accent in much of it.
@@BP-or2iu I should say El Paso area. No one there has an accent.
@@lgwappo The Hispanic population does, which is almost the whole area. They have Tex-Mex accents.
Everyone has an accent. I have definitely heard some West Texas accents.
@@BP-or2iu I’m bilingual English/Spanish and can definitely hear a difference between them and Spanglish speaking people in places like NYC, Miami and San Diego where I grew up.
Being 🇺🇲 the southern accent is my least favorite.
I like Larry, but he's rambling here
Sylvester Stallone is NOT from Philadelphia and nobody in that movie, nor in the Sixth Sense have Philly accents. Unless you're from Philly (Kevin Bacon, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper), you'll never be able to mimic it.
5 best UK accents: Geordie... Bristol.... Durham... Brummie.... Manchester
5 worst UK accents: Cockney... Scouse... Fraffley ... East Anglia ... Scotland (it actual sounds great, i just can't understand what the f_ _ _ anybody is saying)
5 best US accents: Philadelphia ... Appalachia... Noo Yawk ... Minnesoooooota ... "African American Vernacular English" (especially Memphis)
5 worst US accents: Chicago ... everywhere that touches the Great Lakes ... Boston / Noo Hampshah... ignorant southern whites... Los Angeles "Valley" accent (Kale Cuoco)
He's not doing the accent justics
Mine's just sht....
My husband used to watch that stupid reality show Swamp People! If the devil had a voice, it would be the Cajon accent! That accent is scary!😬
The strange thing Florida is in the deep South but it has no deep South accent mostly it's actually kind of clear you might find a couple rednecks but I live in Northern panhandle for 30 year's and it's mostly a Midwest accent which is a clean understood a boring accent really with a few Southern Carolina word's (the gentleman accent) which are usually drawn out word's when this is combined it makes a Northern Florida accent. Well at least in my opinion
Unbelievable.....you gone from Minnesota to Boston to two cities in Pennsylvania Appalachia .....wow....
Non. je viens de la Nouvelle-Orléans, en Louisiane. WE have our own accént. Most people wõuld not know b'câuse we are isolated
et l'Américain ..... But we nous aimons la France, nous aimons aussi les États-Unis