Julie Roberts: The Vermont Accent
Vložit
- čas přidán 15. 03. 2016
- University of Vermont professor and linguist, Julie Roberts, studies the Vermont accent by analyzing how it has changed over the years in relation to Vermont migration patterns. She uses this to predict the further existence of the Vermont rural dialect.
As a Vermonter, born and raised, I never realized I was doing the glottal stop T sound, since I've always said mitten, kitten, mountain, etc. that way.
Same here
I’m from Ontario and I do it also. I never noticed it
Vermont 😭
I also do this for orange
This is crazy
I love this sort of thing. Really interesting how US accents vary, and even how one regional accent evolves.
my grandfather has a very strong vermont accent. i feel so at home when i hear it. i grew up mostly in south carolina but i still have have a glottal stop when i say words like vermont and mitten!
I'm from Massachusetts. Its funny how people automatically wonder why I pronounce my R's and speak no differently then a television news lady. That's a small percentage of people in the Boston area talk like that. Though, when I visited Disney in Florida, many people asked me if I was from Mass. I was like???? What gave it away. I said the word , wicked. Which I never knew was exclusively a Mass thing. Love languages!!
I would say that the Massachusetts/Boston accent covers the eastern half of the state, and gets increasingly stronger the closer you get to Boston & the north and south shore..I grew up on the south shore in the 60's and 70's when people still referred to soft drinks as "tonic"...that has mostly died out but I still say it from time to time...calling a liquor store a package store or just "the packy' is still used along with 'wicked pissah!!!..My great grandmother was born in northeast vermont in 1896 and had a very strong accent that the woman in the vid described..my cousins were also from the northeast kingdom area of Vermont and had the accent, though nowhere near as strong as my ggrandmother..I was told by a lifetime Vermont resident that the Northeast Kingdom is one of the last places in Vermont that still has the old accent..
Little Flower I say wicked and mad, but Vermont and Mass culture do sort of bleed a little since we do border each other
When I was a teen and early twentysomething, I talked very unlike what most teenagers sound like, or at least what most California teenagers sound like. I had a very flat accent, quite unlike the apathetic/scoffing "Valley" drawl that SoCal kids are supposed to have. I was told that I sounded like someone from Fargo, North Dakota, which was crazy, because I've lived in California my whole life and because I've seen the movie FARGO and I sound nothing like those characters. I also was told I had a nervous, stammering voice similar to that of Jimmy Stewart, who was from western Pennsylvania. (I've also been told my tone is so whiny I sound like a West Coast Woody Allen.) My family members lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Indiana before they came to California, but never in North Dakota and only briefly in Pennsylvania. What gives?
My grandparents were from Morrisville VT and pronounced garage as "ga - rarj" and aunt as "arnt"
I learned the glottal stop in central NY also and still find myself doing it almost constantly even though I haven't lived there in 23 years
I’ve lived in MA all my life and now I just realised I have a Vermont/Connecticut accent.
I’m from VT and lived in MA for 5years and I have a Vermont accent when Bostonians don’t have a Boston accent they have a Vermont one
I have lived Oklahoma all my life except for a year in Wyoming. People there would ask me if I was from the south. I had no idea that I sounded any different from them!
just watched the first episode of the Netflix documentary series called “My Love” which features 86 year old David Isham whose family has owned their farm in VT since 1871. I had to look up VT accent because his is quite pronounced to be it almost sounded Irish in moments.
i'm from vermont and my dad pronounces "pie" like "poy"
Ah.. That's so Irish
I usually end up saying something like “pah”
@@CromKiller98 "gararge" instead of garage is also common
@@djskabzhxnsozmy girlfriend says "verhicle"
Ha! SBHS! My old school, class of '93! :D
Sounds kinda like Newfoundland and even some Irish accents iv'e heard, they say cow like ''Ceeow'' and do glottal stops and the I is often Oi.
Reminds me of my time in Milton aka Mil-in
Mil-in, Swan-in, Sn'obbins
@@NatalieCaulfield Shar lot
Would really like to see this Lady guess my accent. :) I've been in Vermont for a couple weeks and everyone looks at us funny when my wife and I speak.
Still here? Have you picked up the t drop yet?
Isn't the replacement of the open front unrounded vowel/near-close front unrounded vowel diphthong with the mid central vowel/close front unrounded vowel diphthong (okay, I'm showing off now!) a characteristic of the Gaelic dialects of English, especially Irish English? (Such as, for example, saying "foine" instead of "fine.") I once did an impersonation of Robert Frost for a poetry recital in college. Even though Frost was born in California, he lived for many years in Vermont, so I tried to employ what I thought an Upper New Englander would sound like, and chose to imitate the voice of an Irish-born priest at my Catholic church whose accent was in fact only lightly Irish. I think I did a good job, but no one in class was fluent enough in Vermont English to say for sure.
They also say “oh shore”
I do
"oh sure bud, ah sure"
Yut yut we dew
Your darn right we do!
Vermon', Wesfor', and Mil'on, along with Hannafor'S, are places familiar to anyone who grew up here, (especially if you live in Chittenden County,) and gargling marbles before talking to people is common among anyone who's family had lived here for the past hundred years or so.
This is just the appetizer to a full presentation of how Vermonters talk. Let’s hear some oldsters tell their life stories. Let’s hear some farmers describe their cows. Let’s hear some women describe how they cook pot roast. Enjoyed hearing them pronounce my first name Scott in three syllables. It’s not a separate dialect, but it stands alone, as does the Southern accent or Brooklynese.
Mmm. Boiled dinner.
Very interesting .
Us in CT are mostly known for the t glottal, but we also have non rhotic accents in the eastern areas and the southwestern portion of the state
I was raised in VT, but since my family hasn’t been there for generations I’m still considered a flatlander by most natives.
She mentioned a couple interesting fragments of the general dialect, but the accent does change from area to area. I grew up on in central VT and the accent is akin to some accents in northeastern New York. If you travel to the northeast kingdom, the the accent starts to sound a bit more like some Maine and New Hampshire accents (which is what the idiots in Hollywood usually use for a VT accent).
It’d be nice to hear the accent I know, love, and sometimes poke fun of truly represented in popular media one day.
One interesting point is that some eastern Canadian accents are quite similar. If you watch the trailer park boys there are some similarities between their Nova Scotia accent and the VT accent I grew up with.
And a flatlandah ye shall remain! Be off you offspring ofah foul creatin!
I lived in Northfield for a while, my landlord was a local Northfield fella but sounded like he was from Newfoundland.
Did anyone else look at this title and see the name Julia Roberts? Then get excited, then look at the thumb nail and get really disappointed.
A lot of thick accents at SBHS
What do you have against spoken examples?
Thank you.
Vermont and Utah are both mountain states with good skiing. Utahns also pronounce "mountain" as "moun'in." Maybe there is a connection!
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were both from VT.
awesome
I've always told people that Vermonters don't pronounce most Ts and now I have the name for what we're replacing them with, thank you 😂
I’m from California and people keeping telling me I have a Vermont accent and that’s probably why (I am living in nc now)
The Term Woodchuck comes to mind....
i need a real job like this.
Same thing in Louisiana.
dag gammint I steal speak in the old dialect- all hail Fred Tuttle! Woodchucks worldwide!
This is like the whole midwest bud
Yes my family has the thickest Vermont accent and I do not.
I can’t be the only one thinks the Vermont accent sounds Canadian
Sounds almost like a buffalo dialectic at times
you know, a Midwesterner hears me sounding “southern” so like... how would a Vermonter (or whatever the right title) hear me
Unless the t comes at the end of the word, like Cabot. The t is hard.
Fun fact: A small group of white people is called a Vermont
You're not wrong.
Duude, yer wicke’ baah’d.
Just an off shoot of the Canadian accent
The Canadian accent in itself is an offshoot American accent, so if anything it's the other way around.
I've always said it's a Canadian 2.0
10 seconds in and I can already tell she's not a true vermonter
And who,s funding this ,,tax payers?
You get paid for this "research" ? I'm in the wrong line of work