Brits React to Different American Accents!
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- Today we're reacting to different American accents, including the Kansas accent, Boston accent and Louisiana accent!
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This is a authentic Louisiana accent:
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This is southwest Louisiana creole accent czcams.com/video/q_-Cm8f3CZY/video.html&feature=share
Grant Wheeler and lionel riley have given you examples of a Cajun (Acadian) accent: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Louisiana_regions_map.svg/1200px-Louisiana_regions_map.svg.png
Barry Fletcher yeah the video I post I know him he has that Acadian southwest creole accent. I’m from the greater New Orleans area & River Parishes so our accent is different as well.
Video Idea for you: Brits react to American College Football Pre-Game/In-Game Traditions (i.e. Florida State University Chief Osceola Planting the Spear and the Warchant playing).
Lmao thinking 3 hours is far away is the most British thing ever.
😂😂😂😂 facts
Just drove 2.5 hours for dinner with my husband for my bday last weekend. 😂😂🇺🇲
Hell, even without traffic, it take over 45 minutes to drive from one side of metro Atlanta to the other. When I have to drive to the northern suburbs, it can be well over an hour! lol
In Montana 3 hours is the next town over.
It takes 3.5 hours to go from Austin to Dallas, both still in central Texas. 😂
"Why are southerners self-conscious about their accent?" Because the rest of the country tells us we sound stupid and low class.
I'm Southern and proud. I don't care if people don't like it.
@@sonoftherabbitpeople4737 same, but it took me a long time to feel that way after being told those things as a kid.
True. Its hearing characters that have more pronounced southern accents be perceived as stupid or hicks causes me to feel self conscious of my own accent. And not even just to portrayal of characters. Ive heard my step mother say how my brother and his ex wife should train their child to not have the southern accent he has(even though both of my nephew parents are from the south), because his accent apparently makes him sound "stupid/dumb".
I like your accent
It's romantic and sexy
I'm from south Louisiana and im damn proud of my southern draw.
Southern accents, especially Appalachia, are heavily influenced by early settlers who were Scots-Irish. The accents and the grammar and sentence structure are also heavily affected by our ancestors.
Don't forget the many British ancestors who chose to settle in the South long ago. A vast number came to Alabama and Georgia in the 1880's to build the railroads.
There were as many English settlers in Appalachia and the Carolinas as there were Scotch Irish, hence so many of our common surnames.
@@maryreilly5092 the redneck's ancestors?
As a native Texan I can assure you there are many different accents within Texas itself. Depending on where abouts in Texas you live or grew up.
There are a few differences across dixie but unless you are from here or lived here a while they arent super distinguishable
facts normally west texas has a stronger accent while if you’re in the big cities or near the gulf coast you have more of a neutral accent
@Bubblez & HoneySuckle I'm from the south so maybe I'm a little biased, but the Texas drawl is one of my favorite American accents. Definitely nothing boring about it in my opinion. 😊
Exactly I sound very different from my cousins and they don't even live that many towns away.
and actually they are 4 sisters and 2 of them have thicker accents then the other 2 idk why just thought I should say that I guess maybe they moved around abit.
So true! I grew up in a small town about 30 min from Dallas and I have friends from there that even say I have a heavier southern accent.
The south has so many different accents. Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee alllll sound different!
The heaviest accent I've ever encountered was from around Birmingham Alabama. Not only the pronunciation, but the extreme slowness of the pace.
Even within the states themselves you will find lots of different accents.
Abby Smith very true! I’m from southern Ohio but moved to Columbus when I was young and everyone always pointed out my country accent 😂 now when I go back to my hometown, everyone thinks I talk different
@@tommccafferty5591 If you want to hear a slow, drawling accent, try spending some time in the Appalachian Mountains. I'm from Northeast Tennessee and I swear with some of my older relatives you could start a conversation, go get dinner, and be back before they finished their first sentence.
Either that, or they'll chatter so quickly you'll have trouble picking the words out.
@@VioletEnds It is amazing how slow some of them can talk.
I love people in the UK trying to wrap their heads around distance in the US.
I have a friend in the UK who so far has come to the US to visit twice, and one of the things she wanted to do was a classic American road trip like she had heard about and seen in the movies. No problem, I love road trips. The first one we did was about 400 miles each way. She enjoyed that one so much we did a bigger one the next time she visited, closer to 1,500 miles round trip. I've driven all over the US including coast to coast several times and a 12, 000 miler from the east up the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks, AK then to L.A. and back across the country to home a few years ago. 1,500 miles isn't a big trip to me, but she was amazed at the distances we think nothing of driving on "holiday", also how cheap gas is here, and the way motels, gas stations, restaurants and etc are open 24/7 and set up to accommodate long distance travelers. I've toured the UK and Europe by car a few times, and if you try to travel long distance by car there they way we do in the US and you're counting on finding motels and open restaurants and gas stations along the highways at all hours, you might very well find yourself hungry, out of gas, and sleeping in the car.
LMAO YEAH LIKE AN HOUR AWAY IS NEARBY
😂😂
Exactly. We are very large compared to the uk. Ok hey are the size of 1 small state Alabama and Alabama is a lil larger
@@TS-ef2gv my husband and I did a road trip in the UK a few years ago (decades really since it was 1998). We were very thankful that there were some roadside hotels in many towns along the way that didn’t require a reservation and weren’t quite as shady or scary as some of the ones you’d find here in the states. But yes, we had to plan a bit and skip a town or two until we found some accommodations. Luckily there were lots of little towns and no long stretches of nothingness like you get here in the southwest.
I’m from Kansas City (which is actually in Missouri). The accent here is the Midwest accent found in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. It’s commonly called the “news caster” accent because when television was getting its back in the 40’s and other American accents were still quite strong, the TV stations hired news reporters from the Midwest because our accent was the most neutral and easiest to understand across the nation. I’ve had British friends say it can almost sound a bit posh, but I guess that depends on the individual speaker. Hope that helps.
yeah im frl stl and the only time i hear an accent is in specific words and sometimes my vowels have a bit of an "ah" sound to them. wash "wersh", doll "dall", missouri "missouruh" are the ones that stick out in my mind
I’m from St. Louis as well. I went to KU, have lived in 4 other states and now live in Kansas again. You’re spot on.
Kansas is a State, its in the exact center of the country.
@@garycamara9955 not quite.
I'm so glad you guys like our southern accents! Most of the time we're embarrassed because it comes with the connotation of being either 'slow' or 'hillbilly' and is generally negative.
Or naive. A sweet southern gal to protect as she takes care of everything inside a house you didn't even know needed to be taken care of.
Or someone you don't want to cross. A serious mama bear. An action based man who talks very little with words (accept to his wife) and is always ready for a fight. (not looking for a fight, but ready if warranted)
Only Brits would explain their meaning of the word "common". It is rare in the US that we use "common" in a social economic way so it never even occurred to me.
Yeah i was confused when they explained the other definition of common at first.
Haha ikr
Common ain’t in our vocabulary
Common as in House of Commons - as opposed to House of Lords.
Same
As an American I forgot that “common” has a meaning related to class difference 😂
I thought the same thing. That was such a British thing to say. “Well not like the class common” yeah no American thought that.
I was thinking that too. We don’t really use the word common in that sense
I didn’t catch that, either, haha.
Was absolutely about to comment the same thing lol
@@ImYerDadJourdan Same
I really enjoy how my Alabama accent is taken in England. Seems everyone wants to talk with me. My British friends and I often joke about needing an interpreter.
Row Todd brother
@@Npouliot lol
Sweet home Alabama 😂
My Mom was from Florida. I found out years later she had gone to a dialect coach to get rid of her drawl. As a kid I kind of wondered why her siblings had accents, but didn't. I think she was afraid people would think her less intelligent with the drawl. Silly stereotype really.
The "southern accent" is stereotyped as "stupid" a lot of the time. I think that's why some people are embarrassed of it,
It's funny because a southern drawl doesn't imply stupidity. Probably the result of Gone With The Wind, but my dad is from WV which his accent implies stupidity. One of the smartest men I know, and his accent is judged as stupid. I really know why the woman in the video felt a little uncomfortable speaking with her accent. But I was raised in western PA. and we embrace the differences of the words we "mispronounce" and laugh at ourselves because we're from Picksburgh. Go Picksburgh Stillers!! 😂
@@gingersnap22 TBC: I'm not agreeing with the stereotype, just saying it exists, and like a lot of self conciousness issues it probably stems (at least in part) from people who project their own insecurities about themselves onto the opinions of others
Totally agree! People seem to want to put everyone in a certain box. A box that doesn't fit anyone. We are much more complicated than that. Its unfortunate that it seems to be amped up lately. 😔
@@gingersnap22 I'm going to set aside my loathing of the Stillers for a moment. (I'm a lifelong Bangles fan). Is it that the southern accent in general is stereotyped as stupid, or is it the association people make with Appalachian states partially responsible for that? People who aren't from the south or from Appalachia probably can't tell the difference between the two. I'm sure that my father, who was brilliant and could reverse engineer anything, but who almost didn't finish high school, would be stereotyped as stupid by his accent. He kind of sounded like Foghorn Leghorn, actually.
@@MajahDancer omg! My dad can imitate Foghorn Legorn! Awesome. Lol. Yeah, I was referring to the stupidity/southern accent stereotype. Yeah. I love dialects and can pick them out usually by area. It seems though as southern drawl like in some spots in the south, are considered cultured and refined. My dad, unfortunately, would fall into the banjo picking hillbilly group. Like I said, your dad and mine could be geniuses and still get laughed at. Now my grandpa came from the southern part of Virginia and had the drawl. He also was illiterate. Stereotype destroyed. It sucks to be put in a certain "class" of people purely for your dialects. Smh
I think the word you're all looking for with the Kansas accent is "neutral".
I'm from Kansas and the accents range from somewhat southern to somewhat northern, depending on age and education. The example is from a young man, who seems educated. I'm much older, and educated, but my dad only went to the fourth grade, so his accent was quite different. For 'soda,' I say 'pop' or even 'coke' in the generic sense, which could mean Pepsi; my dad used to say 'sody' or 'sody pop.' My niece says 'soda.'
Lyle Gentry really? Why do you spend your days looking for people to insult on the Internet?
I think for regions in the center of the country some of the key identifying features are the way they choose to pronounce certain words. Words like aunt, pecan, caramel, pajamas, can vary region to region even when the rest of the accent sounds fairly similar. I think that’s why some of the words that he was reading were on the list.
@@pjschmid2251 Whom did I insult?
Lyle Gentry in what universe is calling someone slow-witted not an insult?
Louisiana even has at least 3 different accents in it that I’m aware of: the Cajun accent, the New Orleans accent, and the general Louisianan accent. Y’all Louisianans, please feel free to jump in and add to my comments. 🙂
I'm in South Louisiana [Acadiana region], and have a Cajun accent. It's definitely different from anywhere else in the state, as well as the world.
Cajun is almost an entirely different language lol
@@matthewperdun9312 Well it is heavily influenced by French... isn't it?
I'm from Louisiana. There's definitely more than 3. In New Orleans alone, there are at least 10 different accents.
@@abeycee7427 Acadian French. In my ignorance, this is my impression: the Cajuns, properly called Acadians, were forced out of French Canada when the English won a war with them. The French they spoke was NOT what we know as Parisian French; it was an older form. Once again, I don’t know much about it at all. What is spoken currently in Quebec is called Quebecois French, I believe. I DO know this: a few years ago, my husband and I were in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in a restaurant, and I heard some people at a nearby table speaking a language I didn’t recognize. I asked my husband if he knew what it was, and he said they were speaking Québécois. He lived in Quebec for 6 months many years ago. It didn’t sound anything like Parisian French to my ear.
I LOVE that y’all are so drawn to the southern accent! I’m from Selma, Alabama, and it’s very endearing to know that people overseas like it so much! I usually get picked on for it where I currently live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida 😂
Which is also in the south.
@@haraldisdead Yeah, but it is or was a fort/military area. So people expect higher levels of communication around them.
More direct talking and you're supposed to ditch any accents or clues of where you're from.
I'd say around Forts and fort towns there's this air of professionalism or expedience.
Southerners can tell which part of the South a person is from by his accent, even though most non Southerners can't.
Agreed
Agreec
Agree
Even we can tell what city sometimes by what words you use for certain things. For example, feeder roads is strictly aHoustonian word for access Rds or frontage roads.
Pretty much
The accent that you called 'normal' is what Americans call the Midwestern accent.
and northern
@@qpol No. Wisconsin and Minnesota and North Datoka are not what is "normal" - snooo ya knoooo eh?
Is Pennsylvania midwestern
@@CaspiRose99 depending on who you talk to west pa like Pittsburgh is midwest, while
east PA like Philly isn’t (I live in the middle so uh)
Facts, they just sound normal
As a west coast American, I visited Norway and I hung out with some kids around my age. One of the kids asked me "Do Americans always sound so serious?".
Your opinion about Kansas accent is spot on!!! I am from Northern California and I couldn’t even tell the difference of whether the guy was from Kansas or California. Good job guys!
Kansas accent is “Midwestern “. Many TV news anchors are hired from the Midwest because there isn’t any strong accent. The Midwest is considered the most neutral accent in the US
Also, in Washington D.C. tour guides get hired based on weather or not they have a "Midwestern" accents. Same reason.
"Neutral" is the best term to use.
I live in Kansas City. Decades ago one of the TV stations hired a Texas beauty queen as a news anchor. First thing they did was to send the poor girl to speech therapy. True story.
@@russbear31 that’s nuts! Why not just hire a local gal? Here in TN the news anchors have thicker accents than the general population! Also a true story
It is not, however, Northern Midwestern. We of Wisconsin, Michigan, & Minnesota have far more nasality in our accent yet we are still considered the Midwest. And even Northern Midwestern has a subset that some just call Minnesotan, but here in Michigan we call it the "Yooper" accent. UP'er or Yooper is someone from the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.
*speaking of Boston accent* “I thought this was a New Yorker accent”
*every New Yorker has left the chat 😂😂
Facts 😆
Lmfaoooo yaaaaaaaassssss
New Yorkers left... Bostonians are looking for where “the fight” is gonna be ;)
Every Bostonian face palmed.
@@siddmic every New Englander, even.. I'm from Vermont, we have our own accents, but we can definitely tell the difference between a Boston and New York accent.. heck, I can tell the difference between a Lynn, South Boston, and Harvard accent even.
Instead of the “common” accent, I think you mean more like the standard. The Midwest accent is considered the standard accent. Specifically, the standard phone operator voice was selected to be the Ohio accent because it was considered the most neutral. This video was fun. Yeah Boston and New York totally sound different to an American. Haha. I am from Tennessee. I have heard several Brits say that they like the southern accent best. The farther south you go the more droll and slow it gets. The stereotypical Gone With the Wind accent is from Georgia. Sorry to ramble. You guys are cute. 🥰
Kansas accent is the “Midwest” accent-it’s closest to the one used by network news anchors. As a Canadian, I grew up with an “oot and aboot” dilute variation of a Scottish accent, (“Sunday” pronounced “Sundee” for example) but after a few years of watching television, I developed a Midwest accent.
As a Southerner, I feel like a lot of us are self-concious about our accents because it's often associated with poverty and lack of education. There are some historical reasons for this, but Hollywood hasn't helped. Some of us have been made fun of when we travel or live in other regions.
I don't use voice chat when I play games online because of this.
Absolutely. I was born in San Antonio, but after moving to Northern Va, I was so relentlessly made fun of growing up I sorta forced myself to speak in a much more generic manner. Granted if I am drinking a lot or REALLY angry the accent still comes back out.
@@chickensandwich8808 my parents are from up North and I've moved around a bit, so my own Appalachian accent is a little wibbly-wobbly, but when I'm stressed or pissed or stoked - any time I'm talking faster than normal - it comes back with a vengence.
@@NinjaGidget its rather funny. Just this moment at work I got a little stressed for almost spilling a drink and boom out came the accent 🙃
There's also a flip side to that. I grew up in South Dakota and Minnesota, but have been told that I talk "Minnesotan," but not nearly like what you hear on the Fargo TV show. Anyway, during the times I lived in Texas and Oklahoma I got a few comments about my accent. Some just identified me as a Yankee, with a bit of hostility. Another time I was asked, "Where y'all from? Ya sure don't talk lak we do." But then I was always a bit amused at being offered a cup of "cowfee." Strangely enough, though, I carried a few Southernisms back north, such as "Fixin'" to do something. In the backwoods of Kentucky, I could hardly understand a word. And in Tennessee, they couldn't identify my accent at all.
just remember: The "Bostonian" is more Irish based. The NY'r is more jewish and Italian based.
Brooklyn has a lot of Irish. “ He was sperlin’ for a fight when he was a yoot!
Nonsense. There were more Irish people in New York than in any other city in America. Yes, Boston is known for its Irish-American population, but there were always plenty of people in Boston whose roots were from places other than Ireland.
@@CheekandBluster Not talking about their populations. I'm talking about their accents, which is what this video is about.
the north end in Boston is all Italian.
southie is irish
the "Boston Accent" is more an amalgamation of old school British and local Algonquin, with a smattering of Quaker and Puritan originally.
Present day NYC accent especially in the Bronx is more Italian based
Hey, Boston guy here. Sadly, the accent is not commom, is found primarily in the eastern part of one of our smallest states (MA), and seems to be dwindling. Fortunately, I’m still around it every day. My grandmother’s is the thickest I’ve ever heard. For such a rare accent, its cultural/historical significance is felt by its continued use in movies, tv shows, etc. The Boston accent is older than the New York accent and is only really similar in its non-rhoticism (R drop), like in most Enlish accents.
Boston > New York. FIGHT ME! ☘️
Yall make me feel better about my accent. I was just watching amber heard and j depp trial and I said "trial"but it came out as "trall" lol
But thank yall for the complements!
Us with a south accent are made to feel like we are stupid just for having an accent. Thanks again. Have a good one!
Not just southern accents, rural Midwestern as well. My father grew up on a farm during the Great Depression in rural Ohio. He pronounces "creek" as "crick" for example. I had to get kind of crappy with one of his doctors for being kind of condescending about a medication question. The doctor seemed to think he wouldn't understand the answer. Before he retired 25 years ago he was a pharmaceutical research scientist, and probably knew more than the doctor about the drug in question.
I knew someone from Georgia who pronounced "Boiled" as in "Boiled Peanuts" as 'Bold"
I think southerners are “embarrassed” or shy about their accents, because the United States tends to based someone’s intelligence based on their accent and southern is considered less intelligent, even though it’s not necessarily true
Hello there. I'm southern and I'd have to say I definitely agree with you. Plus, when I was military I was told I needed to 'fix' my accent so it just really makes us self-conscious.
People like to put others in a box to make themselves feel good and above you, but they are only full of smelly hot air.
Didn't Jeff Foxworthy say something about how, when people heard his Southern accent, he could almost watch them deduct IQ points from their assessment of him?
Somehow, America has shifted to think that a Southern drawl indicates lack of education or intelligence, or that Southern accents indicate rural (read: less cosmopolitan or worldly) backgrounds. That's stupidly misinformed, of course, given that the Southern states -- like all of the rest of our states -- have a healthy mix of big cities and small towns, industry and farms, highbrow culture and history and homespun traditions... and that living in a big city is no more a guarantee of intelligence than living in a rural community means you don't value education. I'm from Oregon myself and speak in a fairly bland "common American English" way, but I personally love some of the Southern accents for their lovely cadence, softer consonants, even the twangy vowels -- so charming!
@@oregonchick76 and we don’t typically speak 100 mph. 😂
Naw....Texas...in Houston we shoot off rockets into space 😂
“Yeah, Kansas City”
Kansas City: actually....I’m in Missouri....
There is also a Kansas City in Kansas. Much smaller population though.
@@wordrioter oh really? Thx, I didn’t know that haha
And Kansas. It’s actually in both, isn’t it?
@@user-pu9zx2gn7o It's because the Missouri river cuts through the middle of it on the edge of the state. Kansas City, (neither side) is a good example of a Kansas accent. The western half of the stste would be a better example. My mom had a strong accent, and one example is the word "wash" is pronounced as "worsh" and "coupon" is said as coo-pon.
Grew up in South East Kansas and is way different than North and Middle
Its hilariously awesome how genuinely interested you guys are in this stuff. Ride on.
Oh my goodness, you guys are so cute! As an American who loves British accents, it's so nice to see you guys responding so nicely to American accents!
You were playing with fire when you said that Bostonites sound like new yorkers! There is a multi generational feud between Boston in New York City…
Indeed, although it can be forgiven to an extent. After all, call a Cockney in the UK a Scouser and you would be welcoming a fight. Or say someone from west Midlands sounds Brummie and same deal. The cultural dynamics are interesting to learn, just hopefully no one gets a black eye from it xD
Also to be fair it depends on the location. North End has more of an Italian influence on the accent heritage which followed the same morphology as NY, where as East Side has more Irish influence and some Dutch which is where the more recognizable Boston accent comes from.
yes lol
I'm born and raised in MA....not Boston, but greater Boston mostly on the North Shore. Every time I've traveled, people would either ask if I'm from Boston or New York. I don't get insulted, the fued is between the Red Sox and Yankees fans, not that our accents are similar, but different. My accent only comes out when I'm tired or drinking!
I hear it's like mixing up Man City and Manchester U or the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester.
I think the word you were looking for is "Bostonians", although I've heard Bostonites, in sports reference. New Yorkers talk funny.
As for people being "ashamed" of their southern accents: a thick southern accent is stereotypically associated with being poor, uneducated, rural, lower-class, and sometimes "backward" and ignorant (regardless of how fair that is). For people unaware of or who don't have that association, it would be confusing why someone would be ashamed of it, as on a phonetic level it's often quite pleasant (as you noted).
Bruh southern accents are a breath of fresh air... Any accent from any state.... Except California its just bland English and Spanish accents sometimes my mother's Spanish accent comes out when she says sandwich----> sandgwish 😂😂
I like them! I'm also not from the US, though. Mostly I was trying to clear up their confusion as to why they've had people from the American south apologize for or be embarrassed by their accent, especially since it sounded nice to them.
yeah, this is exactly the reason. it's so often associated with being uneducated, low class and has so much bigotry attached to it here that many people drop or loose the accent on purpose. it's hard to find that balance of not sounding like a hick (uneducated, "backwards") and still keeping the drawl.
I would love to have a southern accent (as an Ohioan with a southern parent). My family on my moms side just sounds so pleasing and I’m over here with a really nasally voice (more general american, probably couldn’t pick out where I’m from). Southern accents are so pretty
? I think its rather funny, cuz your right.. that thick accent is a ploy so they dont have to pronounce english properly lol...
like they have all those great idear's but never make sense of um
If you want to hear authentic regional American accents, you should try to find middle-aged or older working class people. People in their teens and twenties, especially if they're from well-to-do families and have a college degree, tend to have more of a generic American accent regardless of where they grew up.
They all so tend to "up talk" meaning stress the latter half of words later in a sentence.
@@Orange6921 yes!! It's so true & annoying lol!
I think the reason why the Kansan accent sounds like a 'default American accent' is because in the early days of radio communication, that accent was the easiest to understand. The US military actively recruited from the Midwest because they typically annunciated their words clearly and the vast majority of people can understand. It probably steeped into radio and television entertainment, and since entertainment is one of the US's biggest exports, it all makes sense.
Americans can generally ditch their accent for a generic accent if I can't understand them.. my accent will change based on who I'm speaking with.
I find though that it can help AND hurt at the same time. I’m Cajun but my mom isn’t so I was taught how to speak “normally” but when I switch to my Cajun accent suddenly. I’m so white people think I’m trying to sound black. It’s shitty but still.
Me too, I grew up in Illinois, so I've got a Midwest accent, but my mom's side of the family is from Mississippi, so when I'm with them I have a bit of a southern accent😂
Especially us with the "generic" accent. We can very easily change up our accents like it's nothing.
louisiana has a lot of different accents. there's like southern louisiana, cajun, new orleans, up north by shreveport and just central
This one was Shreveport so she basically sounds Texan. Natchitoches is a bit more country and New Orleans actually has a few different accents just within the city. Baton Rouge is either country or USA anywhere and Scott and Lake Charles or Opelousas are pretty similar and mostly what people think Cajun should sound like.
Dialects
Yep, Shreveport is very neutral, more twangy because we're so close to Texas. But we have an air force base here (Bossier City) so we have people from all over the U.S. living here and it really effects the "not really an accent" accent as I call it. Lol
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@OriginalNorvaal that's how I say Shugha lol
In my experience of traveling the US, I’ve noticed that accents are separated by regions. And within a regional accent you can pinpoint where it’s from except for maybe what you would call a “normal” accent. Such as: I would classify a New York and Boston accent as a New England accent as a whole. The whole northeastern region sound very similar and is the most British sounding of American accents ranging from as south as Pennsylvania and West Virginia all the way north until the Canadian border. Next is the southern accent. states that Start transitioning from northern to southern accent include Kansas straight lined east to Virginia and everything south of those states. Then you have the Canadian sounding northern accents which are prevalent in eastern North Dakota, northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Then there’s the Mexican border states such as southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Nevada, and southern California have Mexican/Latin accents. And then I believe southern Louisiana has its own Creole accent. Everywhere else you go in the US has your typical American accent where you wouldn’t be able to tell whether someone is from Nebraska or all the way across the country in Oregon. And of course your typical American accent is sprinkled everywhere you go. I myself am from South Dakota and everyone around me has your typical American accent.
New York is not in New England. My parents are both from New York and we pronounce our "a" vowels differently.
My mother has a New Jersey accent and my father has a Boston accent. Their accents get thicker when they are tired. They have been married for decades and still can't understand each other. All my life I have had to translate. New Jersey has weird vowel sounds especially "a" and they speak really fast.
The parts of the country that were well settle when travel outside your local area meant days on horseback created isolated populations where distinct accents developed in what is today close proximity.
There used to be lots of slight variations in the Boston accent, which have been flattened out in recent years. And, you are correct, there are many similarities between the Boston accent and the version of the New York accent you are thinking of. The biggest difference between the 2 is in the “short o,” which Bostonians pronounce very similarly to Canadians from Ontario. This is one of the underrated characteristics of the Boston accent.
I was dying when they just spouted off "Wizard of Oz" and "Kansas City" when talking about Kansas. The Missourians are gonna flame yall.
I was like *facepalm* 🤣🤣
You have to remember there is a Kansas City Kansas as well as a Kansas City Missouri.
Yes!!!!
Im from missouri, i just find it funny
I am a native Missourian, still live in the Show Me State..and am glad that some people's knowledge of one of our major cities inadvertently causes them to associate it with a much younger and in need of recognition state of our glorious Union! Yes..Kansas exists and is a state.
Rightly or wrongly, Americans often perceive the southern accent as a sign of low intelligence. You see it on TV or movies, the deeper the accent the dumber the character is assumed.
As a Southerner it's very frustrating
That happens with most cultures, as an Asian I can say that happens with us too. The thicker the accent, the more 'hick' or stupid you are. It's such a shame.
I was born and raised in WV, and sometimes I get sad when I think about how I purposefully trained as much of my native accent out of myself as a kid specifically because I didn't want to be perceived as "stupid" -- and moreover, how I bought into that stereotype and internalized it so much that I actually believed that about the people around me. It's *still* something I struggle with, even though I know better.
As someone who was raised in the south by 1 parent from the south and 1 from the west coast, 1000% agree, I was taught from a very young age to speak “clearly” or I might sound uneducated. Now working in a southern restaurant I try to overplay my accent, but people still say I sound like I’m from the Midwest (I’ve never been north of Virginia in the states)
I actually think the Boston accent sounds the least intelligent.
Southerner here. I came into this video scared I would be attacked but wow. Thank you 😊💓
When I worked at a store years ago, one of my co-workers moved down from Boston. I loved how he said it. It was pronounced like Boiston. I am a southern American, although my accent has been influenced by my parents, who were raised elsewhere. Southerners are often ashamed of their accents because it is associated with supposedly being stupid. I figure that there are different accents in the US and that I shouldn't be ashamed, but I do try to make sure that I pronounce all of my letters and not blend them too much because I work in a call center. I have found that when I say "you all" to the customer, they think I am saying y'all. I don't know if I'm blending the letters too much or if that's just what they're hearing. I have started saying "You guys" even thought I might be speaking to a woman. lol.
Y’all should listen to Cajun Louisianans that’s so different we can’t even understand them
It's like thick Scottish accents are for them.
As someone who lived in Illinois and is currently living in Scotland, I can understand Cajuns and thick Scottish accents 😂 you just gotta listen a little harder or ask them to slow down slightly
It is pigeon French/ English.
@@hellavadeal I think you mean pidgin
@@lunarul , Thanks , I thought it was spelled like the bird.
People sometimes judge someones education/intelligence based on an accent which is honestly the MOST ridiculous thing. I love hearing everyone’s accent. 😊
Accent and also pacing. I nearly got whiplash when I moved from Oklahoma to Chicago; NYC would’ve been a way worse transition 😂
Goosebump 801 Depends. Grew up in Oklahoma. Worked in Georgia. Went to college in NYC and GA.
There is a reason that Southern accents are considered less educated in the US.
Hookworm was rampant in the US and was endemic to the southern states. It actually causes developmental issues and perceived laziness.
@@goosebump801 do you miss Braum's?
@Jason Morgan that is terrible!
You both are soooo cool. I’m from Detroit, Michigan in the USA. Thanks for being so kind with our semi-butchering of RP English. I subscribed and maybe I can send audio/video of a Midwestern Detroit accent. Lol. Cheers 🍻
That “Louisiana” accent must be from the northern part of the state. The Cajun & creole accents down south are WAY different
I was trying to place it as well but I didn't get northern Louisiana... Then again there are many accents in Louisiana
Agree! I feel as though Cajun and even New Orleans (true New Orleans) accents are SO different that you have to say specifically what area you’re from rather than just say “Louisiana”. They should get someone from Villa Platte to talk, they’d lose it laughing.
Look my granddaddy is Cajun. My grandma is creole. Her mother is half French. I have that New Orleans accent where my words run together. Like a cross between a drunk slur and singing
@@StreetHeart13 im from grand isle and when i heard this i was like nahhhhh thats that northern crap
Northern Louisiana is really a blend of east Texas and Arkansas accents, in my humble opinion.
Kansas kid spoke in what is considered a standard "Midwestern" accent, which is often used on American TV and in American movies that aren't based in an area known for another accent (like the South, New York, Texas, etc.). It's also what is used by newscasters, and can be called "Broadcast English."
The reason why some Southern people might be self-conscious about their accent is that it makes them stick out in the larger population, and some of the assumptions made regarding a Southern accent is that you're "slow," or "dumb."
Disagree - that's a not a standard Midwestern accent he has, and the midwestern accent is not "broadcast English". The MW accent is Chicago, Minnesota, etc.
kansas is middle america accent which is def not midwestern. that’s like half Canadian
@@marie-hm8xt wot? No it's in the midwest, and its snack dab in the middle of the country and this is coming from Indiana
@@kilroy2517 I dunno I think it is again as someone from indiana who has been to Ohio and lived in Illinois and Missuori
Chicago has like four different accents in the city alone.
I love it when Americans say y'all 😁 It just sounds so cool to me 😎
It’s really only used in certain parts of the southern part of the United States, I’m from Maryland which is on the east coast and we don’t really say y’all, our accent is very basic
This is fun, you two!
The Louisiana girl has a really nice voice, but isn't typical of Louisiana. She has more of a 'New South' accent. You need to hear Creole and Cajun.
I know right? She has a regular southern accent. It’s not unique to Louisiana.
Doug Michalak. I was thinking the same thing. She may represent her generation (not sure), but it’s definitely not the traditional accent.
I disagree, only a small portion of people in Louisiana actually have a Cajun accent. You literally have to go down the bayou to hear that particular accent, alot of people here have an accent similar to that woman.
Agree with Emily! Most people in Louisiana sound like the girl in this video. The cajun accent is often only found in very rural areas close to the bayou.
@@emily_stewart I'm from Louisiana and we have variety of accents and most are creole and Cajun for sure in the bottom half of Louisiana. New Orleans has the biggest variety of accents that is found in most parts of Louisiana. Lafayette is mostly creole speaking. Where I'm from, which is two hours away from New Orleans , we speak pig Latin.
Ask a Bostonian and a New Yorker to say the word “coffee” and you will hear a pronounced difference. Also hate to tell you, but in the old days, the different boroughs of New York each had distinct accents. My grandfather, raised in Hell’s Kitchen, pronounced “girls” as “goils.”
My mother has family in New Orleans. She said that the older generation, which would’ve been born in the early 1900s, pronounced girl that way. I wonder what caused it.
And there is a Rhode Island accent that is literally about half way in between them
Priscilla Bennett like Archie Bumker lol.. he lived in one of the boroughs and always pronounced « girl » as « goil »
And honestly what they were saying was a new york accent sounds more like a (new) Jersey one... (Still various different ones in nj, but they are usually a bit more similar than new York ones from what I know (mom grew up in NJ, and we had family and family friends that live there and they pronounce things like that))
my grandma is from new jersey but she moved to boston when she was in her 20s and lived here ever since, it’s been almost 60 years. she lived right across the river from new york, so she had a new york accent, and now the only word she still pronounces with that accent (she’s picked up a boston accent after living here for such a long time) is coffee. i say it more like cAAfee, she says cOWAHfee
As someone born and raised in Jersey for like 21 years. I've not once pronounced it "joisey"
But there are times where I catch myself when I'm speaking fast that I'll drop things, mother and father become mudda and fadda, hell loses the H sometimes, and if anything has NG at the end it no longer has that G, so itll be stylin, drivin, relaxin
First of all, I'm American. Secondly, you guys are adorable! I love your excitement to the accents which to me sound pretty "normal". I have a fascination with accents and languages too so its pretty cool to find a video like this where people are studying american accents. Usually its just me reacting to and picking apart foreign accents on CZcams lol
As a Bostonian it’s funny how people love our accent from other countries, seeing that most Americans hate it! Also how DARE you compare us to New York
I came to the comments looking for this specifically.
Do they not KNOW the war they are starting? 😆
You do realize your profile picture is the Statue of Liberty, right?😂
I grew up in Colorado but have loved living in MA for 45 years. I LOVE the Boston accent in spite of never having picked it up.
Right??
I love the Boston accent
Even Louisiana doesn’t have just one accent. You have “southern”, you’ve got Cajun, and then you have one of the most distinct accents in the country, the New Orleans area accent. It is so distinct that only one in a hundred film makers even tries to get it right. For those who have never heard it, it is closest to a mix of New York and Southern.
Yeah, I generalized the name, for an easier understanding if the rest of the country. It exists in New Orleans, and then the greater metro area, which is roughly the surrounding 4 parishes, roughly a 75 mile ring around the outskirts of the city. Within that area are at least 15 variations that I know of.
As to the NY and Boston accents, I went to college with a school population that was 1/3 Boston and 1/5 New York and heard their accents all the time. Both are very different and very distinctive from each other.
Enjoyed the video!
My first time visiting New Orleans was for a bachelor party back in 2017. Y'all had some nasty flooding that weekend and I got caught up in it trying to meet up with the rest of the guys.
I think twenty people told me to "pull up onto the neutral ground" before I figured out what the hell they were talking about!
@@thefortyniner oh yeah, we have some phrases! 😂
@William Berry I'm not sure what you are hearing to even think of comparing NO to Boston, but I've lived in NYC and boston and they both sound similar, as most accents you'll hear on websites are older people with far more extreme accents than the norm. Cajun accent is like mixing french with generic southern US.
I lived in New Orleans and worked in St Bernard Parish where they have a distinct accent as well.
@@alexanderbohl6710 yep! 👍 I covered that mile-wise in my rambling second paragraph, LOL. I figured it would be easier for people to visualize that on a map than naming parishes. My second wife was from “da Parish.” 😁
I love it when Americans say y'all, it sounds so cool 😎
The "general" accent is used in TV and movies a lot because it's the easiest to understand. As others have mentioned, it comes from the central US is basically Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Nearby states can sound similar but the further you deviate from Kansas City, MO, the more of a distinct accent people will display.
I'm a New Yorker living in Boston and I can tell you with absolute certainly that they are 100% not the same
I've lived in both cities, they are so different.
I get why people outside of New England struggle with it, but you are absolutely right.
Both New York and Boston have so many different accents in the same city that it's hard to compare them anyway. However, there are some Boston accents that do sound similar to New York accents. I was born and raised in another Massachusetts city, Fall River, and moved to New Hampshire. Everyone always asks me if I'm from New York, even people from New York.
Yes, they are different...but they both come with much faster pacing, a greater sense of urgency - which distinguishes them from other regional American accents, and contributes to confusion among those who haven’t lived in or near one of them. (I graduated from high school in upstate NY, less than an hour from the MA border.)
@Joel & Lia, here’s my amateur description of the most obvious characteristics of these accents. (Please, no hate: I’m painting with a *very* broad brush here!!)
1. NYC area would say something like “nyoo yawk”; Boston area would say “new yahhk”; the South would say “nyew yorrk”; the rest of the US would say “noo york”...where you in the UK would say “nyew yohk”
2. “I paahked my caa in Haavaahd Yaahd” is the classic phrase used to illustrate a Boston accent. R’s are dropped in much of New England, similar to the UK; the vowels are different, though. (Joel, you have a good ear!)
3. “Tawk” (for “talk”) is a good NYC indicator. Also, “I godda go witchoo” (for “I[‘ve] gotta go with you.”)
Suggestions for other interesting US accents:
1. Minnesota: listen to the o’s and the a’s; remember the movie “Fargo”?
2. Texas vs. Louisiana or Georgia vs. Virginia: get a sense of nuance across Southern accents
3. Utah/Idaho vs. Kansas/Nebraska: you might be able to hear a bit of the Western twang vs. the plain-vanilla Midwestern standard, though it’s more subtle
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What you’re calling “general American accent” (like the guy from Kansas has) is the midwestern accent. It’s kind of analogous to BBC “Received Pronunciation” in that it’s so widespread largely because it’s the preferred accent of anchormen (newsreaders) and other media voices. That’s because it’s readily comprehensible to pretty much everybody. It has spread very widely because of this and can now be found pretty much anywhere, not just in the Midwest.
@Hello World! Only sorta, eh. In BC its more like standard American.
How can it be midwestern when he calls a bubbly carbonated beverage soda?? His accent sounds neutral to be. As someone else said, places like Wisconsin, the Dakota’s, Illinois, all sound different. He sounds super neutral IMO. Sounds just like people from Northeast who don’t have the accents.
@@thecheese3595 well, there’s no such thing as a “neutral” accent or “no accent.” There are only familiar accents and unfamiliar accents. And I assure you, his accent falls right in the spectrum of what is called Midwestern. If it sounds neutral to you, that’s because it is so familiar for the reasons I listed.
No idea how true it is, but I've heard that if you want to be successful in a news media career, you have to live in the Midwest at least a few years to become accustomed to speaking that accent. (I grew up in the Midwest, specifically the Great Lakes area.)
Another thing to consider is that if it's a 3-hour drive from Boston to New York, that's not a straight-line distance. That area of the country is known for meandering routes.
The Upper Midwest has several distinct accents that aren't really "general American". Its people from Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska who have the most "generic" accent.
Y’all are so funny. I love these videos.
You guys are cute in these videos! And Joel gets so excited which is adorable! I love your accents!!
People in America tend to relate the Southern accent to being unsophisticated and low bred. I often find myself feeling a bit insecure with my Texas Twang accent.
On the positive side, the rest of America finds your accent soothing and friendly, and will trust you more easily, and feel comfortable around you more quickly. Some people who work with folks in distress--like funeral directors, or crime scene cleanup crews--FAKE a Texas accent in order to have clients feel calmer and safer around them.
I personally like the southern accent it’s cool. Especially when singing lol
From one southerner to another, who has felt the same insecurities, let that beautiful southern draw out on display. Some do quite enjoy it.
Stay safe & take care :)
I'm from New York and I think it sounds really nice, probably the most pleasant of all accents in the country. The accent is part of what makes that part of the country interesting. It would be sad if it went away because people feel self-conscious. Embrace it!
Boooo. Why??
The stereotype of southerners is that we sound stupid because of our accent.
There exists a similar stereotype in Britain, but for 'midlanders', which likewise is regarded as sounding stupid.
Always thought the North Dakota and Minnesota accents made the people from there sound unintelligent.
@@primemover1416 that’s just because it’s Canada lite.
Horrible stereotype but it's true. 😔
Depends. I think culturally it starts to sound unintelligent when you're louder and angrier, there's definitely an elegant version of it that seems very high-society southern that carries with it this almost high society swagger, just a different kind of high society.
There are two big aspects to note with the generalized Boston accent (the accent is featured prominently in tons of movies, from Good Will Hunting, the Departed, the Town and Black Mass as well as by comedians like Bill Burr). The first is the non-rhotic R and expanded vowel before it: pahk, caah, yaahd. The often overlooked one is the O sound in words like socks (Sox) and not which are pronounced more like "sawx" and "nawt".
It was nice to see that you like our accents. I was thinking that you might find it horrible. I'm actually surprised. The British accent is the best in my book. I subscribed. Enjoyed your video. Now I don't feel so down about my American accent. I'm from Philadelphia I am also a voice over artist.
Regarding Louisiana: a New Orleans, Louisiana accent is VERY, VERY different from what you hear in this video.
Yep, David H.. South Louisiana accent also spills over some into coastal Mississippi.. North Louisiana and Central to North Mississippi are very similar..
I love the New Orleans accent. Both the city and the accent have to be the most unique and cool things in America. I love Louisiana!
I will say I was a little bummed last time I was there trying to find someone with the New Orleans accent to show my kids and couldn’t find a single person that day. I don’t know if it’s getting diluted or I was in the wrong place, but I was deliberately looking for locals and not tourists and still couldn’t find anyone.
When I started working in the oil field I couldn’t understand anything they were saying. After years around them my ears have been trained but when I introduce them to family or friends that have never met people from Louisiana they can’t understand them.
Some people think New Orleans and New York (Brooklyn) accents sound similar. Being from Brooklyn and living in New Orleans I agree!
@@named6635 I also agree! Before I realized they were so similar I very often mistook folks from New Orleans as being from NYC.
Southern people aren't embarrassed when they're in the South, but I think in general when you see a southern person portrayed in the media they are always made out to be ignorant, stupid, etc.
It’s such an untruth, Southerners are very intelligent and speak with a classic accent. I spent so much time there
Y'all come see us down here in South Carolina anytime now, ya hear. You will get all the y'all you can take. I know that British Accents can vary widely, but are always very rich and delightful to hear.👩😇
As someone who's lived in the South most of my life I can confirm that there's a lot of truth in the stereotype of Southerners being dumb.
But, it's not their fault.
Education isn't a priority for most Southern states. They'd rather put money towards oil companies and football teams than updated textbooks and well paid teachers.
There's also a well defined anti-intellectual sentiment that only adds fuel to the fire of Southern ignorance.
But... we're super nice, y'all.
@@michaeld519 I've lived in the South my entire life. The south does tend to be lacking on the education front, but I wouldn't say stupid. Ive traveled over half of the U.S. and in my experience most people in the South aren't stupider than people from anywhere else as far as intelligence goes.
@@ikikazz1 you're right. Southerners aren't naturally more stupid than anybody else. Just generally less educated with a tendency to be more willfully ignorant. It's frustrating because there's so much wasted potential.
Fun video! I especially loved how you got such a kick out of how we pronounce Jaguar in the states since how you Brits says "jag-yu-ar" has seemed equally strange to us.
Kansas guy was definitely neutral. You’ll find the closer you are to another state, the more you lean toward that accent. Family can also have an impact on your speech. I’m in California. Our “accent” I’d say, is pretty neural or “typical” for what you guys might think an American accent would be. Your guys’ accent we say leans more toward “posh” vs “cockney”… while I know there are different accents within those as well. Like Manchester, Liverpool, London, etc. so I’d say it’s similar to that. We all sound different even if in the same state. That probably didn’t make sense but yea. It’s a big country 😂
Also the “puma” comment was funny. Lol that had me cracking up. it reminds me of the way brits say party sounds like “potty” which is what we call the toilet for little kids. 😂 accents are so fascinating and fun!! ❤️ you guys were fun to watch! 😊
Louisiana has several accents. Cajun, New Orleans area’s and Northern areas.
I didn't see your note, I made the same comment.
Or just plain ole down the bayou 🤣
Yessss. I saw Louisiana on the thumbnail and was so happy ‘cause we have SOOOO many different accents💖
I'll tell you, who doesn't have a Louisiana accent is any actor trying to emulate a Louisiana accent.
I lived in Batton Rouge for a while - stayed with a Cajun family. What a trip😁❗️
Their accent is almost another language.
Of course Creole is.
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When you say common in America, nobody thinks of social or economic class.
The issue is, the individual with alleged accent thinks they don't have an accent and everyone else does. That's how it usually works, unless some one relocates to a different area.
I agree, when they say common, I would think of typical.
Common = ordinary = regular
We have 6 distinct accents. Alaskan/Northern, Hawaiian/islander, plains/west coast, New England, Midwest, and southern.
There’s some subtle differences, but they’re tiny and you’ll only know if you know. I can tell if someone is from Guam or Puerto Rico, Montana or Colorado, New York or Rhode Island.
A person from Georgia could call me out as Texan with their eyes closed. Someone from Belgium wouldn’t have a clue.
Hey Joel and Lia, I just stumbled across your video and would like to respond to your questions…
As an American who’s lived in California, Boston, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia, I have to say that not only do our beautiful country have many different accents, each State has various accents; meaning that San Francisco natives have different accents from Los Angeles natives; for it’s 8hrs away if you’re driving. I currently live in Atlanta, GA. There is a Southern accent for sure, but if I travel to Albany, GA which is 4hrs away driving, the Southern accent is very thick. Now that I clarified that people can have various accents living in the same State, I’m now going to focus on the States you mentioned in this video.
Bostonians accents are very distinguishing, and when I first moved there for work I was quite intimidated by it because it sounded harsh- somewhat aggressive, but over time I began to embrace; for it’s very unique, and no other accent in the other 49 States sounds like Bostonians. To my American ears, New Yorker’s accent is completely different from Bostonians, as well as people from New Jersey- New Yorkers and Jerseytonians have slightly different accents that’s very distinguishable to me. Although born and raised in San Francisco, people can never pinpoint where my accent is from, so it’s very neutral.
People from Louisiana do have a Southern twang and I love it! I can also tell if someone is from Tennessee versus Alabama, and North Carolina versus Texas. All Southern accents in our abundance of Southern States, are different.
Kansas and most other midwestern States tend to have a neutral accent, so you guys nailed it when you listened to the gentleman from Kansas.
Lastly, to elaborate on why I’ve lived in so many States for 3-5 years at a time, I’m an educator, debater, teacher of the English language. My description of the different accents I mentioned above are experiences I’ve encountered throughout living in these States and constantly being around people from all over the country in my classrooms.
Here’s a well kept Southern secret: only English actors and actresses can do proper Southern accents. We roar at the attempts of non Southern US natives trying to do ANY southern accent. We are laughing AT them , not with them.
i dont know if i agree with that. vivian leigh wasnt very convincing in Gone With the Wind if you ask me.
@@bbbrunella she sounded just like my 4th grade teacher . Or my 4th grade teacher sounded just like her😆
Lol well put
Except Daniel Craig
@@KRYMauL it was hard for me to truly enjoy that movie because of how terrible his accent was
You guys have to react to the video, "50 People Show Us Their States' Accents." You'll get a better understanding of how all the states talk. :)
Agreed! Just watched it, myself, and thought it was great: czcams.com/video/UcxByX6rh24/video.html
I think that video is more like caricatures of many of the accents.
Yes!
The Alaskan accent in that video is not accurate... there are a few different accents in that state.
That is not a good example. Alabama has several different accents.
I've grown up just outside of Boston and as a local I can tell you that a thick Boston accent is not very common anymore, years ago it was much more common but it has mostly died out. There are specific pockets of the city (Dorchester, South Boston, Revere, East Boston) where you will hear it but again typically from older folks who grew up there. I personally have met maybe a handful of people living here my whole life who actually had this accent, that's how uncommon it is.
My parents grew up in Cambridge and they have two different accents. My mother has more of a typical Boston accent and my father has more of a "Kennedy" broad "A" accent. I never thought I had an accent until I lived outside of New England and people would call me out occasionally.
The beauty of the southern accent is the fact that we can give the most backhanded compliment you've ever received and it won't hit for you three days how jacked up of a comment it actually was.
I am from Texas, born and raised and honestly didn’t realize I even had an accent until I visited Europe, starting with the UK, lol. I kept being told how fun or adorable my twang was. I would just say “what’re y’all talkin about? What accent?” 🤣 so funny now!
I'm from Oklahoma and we Okies sound just like Texans. When we hear a northern accent, we say " y'all ain't from around here air ya?
I am proud of my southern/southwestern accent. Easy to understand, not too fast. Love rodeos, shooting sports, Sooner and Cowboy (OSU) football and good BBQ.
i feel you on this because i'm from cali and people from other parts of america that i've talked to said i have a accent
"Y'all" is not just Texas. It's pretty much west of the mountains that separated the original 13 colonies. Lewis and Clark probably started it, Day 1 of their journey.
I'm from Oklahoma City, and while I do use "y'all", "howdy", and other "southernisms", I'd say I have a mostly Midwestern accent. But my mom is from south-eastern Oklahoma, and they've definitely got more of a twang down there.
"It's close in American distances." I don't understand why I can't stop laughing at that.
I love that they started out with Kansas. "He sounds very neutral" yeah, kinda like we're in the middle.... lol. Of course the only point of reference for us is a movie that was made 82 years ago, we've heard ALL of the Oz jokes. We also have the world's largest ball of twine. And the world's largest hand-dug well.
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yeah, not much happens here.
Some of the most fun, cheeriest most wholesome people on CZcams. I could watch them give a review of a 1998 Nissan Maxima.
Listen to the California "valley girl" accent, the "Fargo" Midwest accent, and the New York Bronx accent!! Those'll be fun!
Or Bernie Sanders’ classic Brooklyn accent!
Their heads will explode 😂
@@samanthab1923 or get very YUUUUUGE
Karen Nyere 😉😂
@@TheDivayenta Oh sure! Either way, the difference between Bernie Sanders and, say, Rosie Perez is not too dissimilar.
Bostonian here: all the people, i’d say, 40+ who grew up in the area have an accent and the older they are the thicker it tends to get
That's true. I have a much stronger Boston accent, 59 than my son does at 26.
@@BostonBobby1961 New England accents, especially more northern they are, retain more of the British pronunciation and intonation from the early settlers. Living way down east we also have local accents that have Irish and Scottish echoes. Ayuh!
I ❤️LOVE❤️Boston accents,it’s one of my favorites.I think it’s one of the sexiest ones to me,aside from Scottish,Irish ,and Australian☺️👌🏽
I don’t think it gets stronger with age. I think younger people are more exposed to the internet and media in their formative years so they end up talking more like that than the people around them. I think most English language accents will get more neutral over time everywhere
Im from Louisiana and we have multiple different Louisiana "accents" here, I live on the close side to Texas so we have a mix of Louisiana tang and Texas tang so my accent is different from this Louisiana accent plus I pronunciation words differently than most around me.
I'm from a town near Houston TX and I don't consider myself having a heavy southern twang because of my schooling and office job. I do notice that sometimes I enunciate words without but in a conversation I have a twang on certain words especially the long "i" or the letter "y". So for instance, reading something off of an email, I would not have an accent but saying it to someone, I would. So "I'm craving a burger and fries." would sound like "ahm cravin a burger aynd fraz". haha!!!!! I love accent videos! It is so very interesting to me and I have family from Newcastle with Geordie accents and also London and friends from New Zealand and they LOVE my sourthern accent. They find it so awesome but I would rather have theirs. you always want the opposite of what you have I guess. 😊😊
Nobody says Joisey anymore. Unless, you’re a gangster from the 1930s.
Or Bugs Bunny...
You some kind of wise guy, see?
I say Joisey just because I can
Actually we DO say it, to mock people who think we say it that way! It's fun ngl
I'm from NY. The NY "R" is pronounced aw while the Boston "R" is pronounced ah. It's also in other words like Boston (NY = Bawston, Boston = Bahston).
What if you pronounce ”aw” and ”ah” the same though?
This is a PERFECT description of both accents.
Common misconception there. No body in Boston says "Bah-ston". A Connecticut accent would say "Bah-ston". Boston is "BAWST-in" in Boston. A clear differentiation is in words like "can't" and "half". In Boston it's said, "I CAHHNT get there in a HAAFF hour."
@@JCluvr19 Then yer scwoowed.
@@johnford2898 Depends on where you are in Connecticut. I say it the new york way because I'm closer to there geographically.
I found your video to be great. I have to share a bit of a story. Back in 2000, I went to London. I will start off by saying that I have a very typical American accent. I visited the Tower of London, and as I am sure you know, the tower is covered by very famous inscribed markings from previous occupants. There was a table set up to collect a pamphlets in multiple languages to describe these people who were imprisoned and left their markings on the tower that was included in the admission for the price paid. I went over to the gentleman to ask to get a pamphlet. I said to him "I would like a pamphlet" and he responded "In what language?" I said, of course, English. He looked me over and said "You do NOT speak English!" and yet proceeded to hand me an pamphlet that was in English. I was flabbergasted but I blew it off. A few years later, I was playing an online game with my friends with a British citizen and I told him that I loved his accent which I truly do. He did not respond. I asked him what British citizens overall thought of American accents and his only response with a British accent to me was "You have got to be kidding me!" (with an air of complete arrogance). I sensed a deep hatred for the past by both of these encounters. That was the nail in the coffin (in American and possibly British vernacular) for me. I know that this is not true for the majority of the population, but it left me with the impression that there is a great distaste for the American accent in Great Brittan. I am so glad to see that this is not true for the majority of the population. Thank you for this video.
Y'all is an everyday word for me even at work..
If you've ever listened to recordings of President John F Kennedy, he spoke with a distinctly Boston accent.
Yes...President Kennedy..that would be easy for them to google and listen to a speech....then can do the same thing with Gulianni for NY..even Trump..but in NY they vary more...not as distinct as Boston. I'm from California, but I love Boston...
Michael Earendil no, he had a combination of mid-Atlantic, which was a fake “posh” accent developed in the late 19th century for theater, and a true Boston accent. I know no one in New England who actually speaks like a 20th century Kennedy.
@@jameswhalen4507 Thank you for the correction! I always love to learn from those who know.
@@michaelearendil6843 yeah his accent was what was seen as a 'posh' Boston accent that was developed in upper class communities- it was common in movies as well (Mid-Atlantic basically was half English RP and half American and taught in private schools and cotillion classes to children). Kennedy still had a Bostonian twang, which was made it a Boston Mid-Atlantic accent, but it was distinctly different from the majority of Boston accents. It has mostly disappeared though some of old great wealth in Boston supposedly still maintain parts of the Posh Boston accent.
Ny itself has multiple accents Brooklyn, Staten Island and Bronx are more distinct because their communities are often more home grown while manhattan can be more transient
Lol she's wearing a sweatshirt that says Colorado on it which is literally right next to Kansas
I hope she knew Colorado's spot 😆
Exactly xD
So you but a t-shirt with writing on, doesn't mean you know where it is precisely if at all...
@@sampuatisamuel9785 British people brag on there geography knowledge so she SHOULD know right?
I love this observation.
You would love some of the funny things they say in Boston like "what a wicked pissa " meaning really awesome...lol.
Someone who grew up in Kansas and knows people in the TV world [father's best friend worked for a couple of different local TV stations], they used to send national broadcasters to Kansas to learn a totally neutral accent.
“It’s close in American terms” lmfao
fr i drove from nj to boston and its 8 hours on a good day LOL
“Common” isn’t a class-related term in America
Because every American is a "commoner".
@@RoachDogg_JR put another way, there are no rigid classes in America; class boundaries are rather fluid.
@@tylerbwilson We swapped class boundaries for racial boundaries!
@@RoachDogg_JR eh
@@RoachDogg_JR nooooooo 😂
I love how they go crazy over 'jaguar' at 9:55 lmfao
This girl born and raised in Boston, appreciated this video so much.