Im from North Carolina, ive lived in Thomasville my whole life, but grew up pretty much everywhere from high point, Reidsville, all the way down to hampstead. Im told i have a "country hood accent" and my family tells me i have the "hickory accent" because how i mumble and pronounce my words.

Oil took me out. That’s when I knew for sure I had a accent. 😂

All these people in the video have completely different accent, and they all from NC, so this only shows that all these "Accents" is just nonsense. The most important thing in communication between people is a making the other side to understand what you mean. If you can't make it with words , use your hands and body language, whatever. English is not my native tongue and I speak also other languages, so accents are so unimportant in communication

It’s in the O,s. Need to hear some O’s. Outer banks

NC ❤❤❤❤❤It's how we talk down here y'all 🙌 🎉

Nakalaky…

The guy at 5 min sounds Irish.

I just watched an interview with someone from Asheboro and she doesn't have a "southern" accent at all. I expected her to but she didn't

Great video!

i'm from the triad and i just realized how light my accent is compared to everyone else 😭

I was born outside of the USA, but North Carolina was the first state I lived in and kind of where I learned English. I think parts of it remains in my accent to this day.

My ex wife used to always humiliate me every chance she got for the way I say the word, “Orange.” Apparently I pronounce it “Arnge.” That being said she’s from Iowa and she ran away back to Iowa so her opinion means less than dirt, as it always has.

I was born and raised in Davidson County, NC, where I've lived all my life, but when people hear me talk, they tell my accent sounds either Jamaican, West Indian, or Northern American, which upsets me because I know that I've lived in NC all my life. I've never been outside this country, and the furthest I've been outside of NC have been SC, GA, and southern VA.

A lot of accents are disappearing due to outside interference or northern marriages . A lot of parents will keep the accent but it wont transfer to the child depending on the area an a bunch of other factors especially in this era . The southern accent is almost gone .

Its amazing a lot of people from arkansaw sound like georgian/carolinian

Northern chics love a man with a southern accent

Wilson NC is the real South. Accents are super thick and cool

I want to also add that the word "aunt" was pronounced "aint", roof was like ruff, Cooper was like cupper, and there was no letter R at the end of word like butter, platter, etc., which were said buttuh, plattuh, etc. This was my dad's whole family who were from Wilkes, Allegheny, and Alexander Counties beginning in the early 1700s. Before that, their ancestors were from southern PA and western MD and before that, they were from England, Scotland, France, and Germany.

My dad's whole family on both sides were from Wilkes, Alleghany, and Alexander Counties all the way back to at least the early 1700s. Everyone including my first cousins who were raised both there and the aunts, uncles, my Dad, and cousins raised by several ancestors who moved to Randolph County, GA (southwest GA) had accents that were nearly non-rhotic or fully non-rhotic---something not addressed here because I believe it has died out---and they also dropped their "g" s at the ends of words like wedding, speaking, and hearing. The word my sounded like mah. My dad would say, "peanut buttuh" and "deah". And to this day, even my sister and I, raised in Atlanta, GA, say "Nuth Caylahnah" for North Carolina. I am biased, but I find the middle to western North Carolina accent the most beautiful in America.

I'm from Savannah y'all's accent isn't much different.

The point he made about teachers from other parts of the states that thought southerners wrote how we talked was on point frfr.

Ive done enough work in davidson and rowan counties that those are immediately recognizable to me

I love the girl from Asheville who’s in denial, haha. Super cute. But gotta give it up for only having it really come out around the edges. Definitely the closest to General American accent of all the interviewees.

I have the thickest accent in my family, but also talk really fast too. Certain words I say sound really country. I definitely got teased when visiting Boston. I like my NC accent ( lived in various parts of NC)

Now I can place an old school North Carolinian right away, likely lived their all their life when they certain phrases like "mother and daddy." I just watched a video from a professional dialect person who said that North Carolina especially had a very variety of accents. Interesting stuff!

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I spent a significant amount of time in and around Asheville as a kid, and despite being from the Philly area, I speak more like this than like a philadelphian... Although a lot of us (younger) philadelphians sound like this haha

I’m too to figure out how people know that I’m from North Carolina from my accent because I don’t hear it and I live in Texas I’m from Wayne County and haven’t been back in 20 years never mind after hearing these people I get it

I didn’t know they said pop instead of soda in west va 😮 and my great grandma from wilton nc says hanithea instead of hand it here 🤣🤣 she will say gone out dows instead of Go outside 😂

I grew up in Durham and when I go other places folks know I’m from the south , I’ve been all over the us and folks always say , “you’re from the south ain’t u “ 😂. I live on the west coast and everyone knows I’m from the south I didn’t realize I pronounced Uber as uba 😂so people were laughing when i said I’m here for an uba eats delivery but My family are from wilton nc, creedmoor , and franklinton . My great grandma says hen nall instead of hell nall 😂 but my great grand father sounds different, he’s from ahoskie nc and instead of burnt he said bunt , it’s wild all The different accents u find in nc . lol go down to Robeson county that’s a different ball game all together lol .

Leila and Tristan are such cuties!!!

i have a mix of a boston and north carolina accent so its not a strong southern accent but also not like a strong boston accent

Thank you for this video. I've been in outside of my southern NC for 7 years now (mainly Texas), and I miss home. Lot of Texans hardly speak with a distinctive accent

Yesaday=yesterday, anyone else say it like that? I'm from NC but have lived in Alabama 26 yrs. Since no-one can pin down my accent I wonder if I've combined the 2 to make my own. Oddly enough most people think I'm from Louisiana, which is funny to me. Thanks.

Fellow Albemarle native here.

i live in north carolina, but i don't have the accent because i had a speech impediment that caused me to have to take speech lessons, therefore i learned the "proper" way to say everything. my mom has the accent though.

idk why, but I do not feel like my accent sounds like this, and I have lived in NC for 18 years. I don't have the southern aspect but my mom does, it almost feels like I have no accent at all lol. For example, my mother would say "dawg" but I literally just say "dog" straight with no accent, plain in a way.

Oh my god, Vicky from Davidson said “diddy” they all say diddy in central NC

Vicky is old money accent

I'm from Orange County myself, and most of the people I've met in NC tend to have an incredibly subtle drawl to them, including my sister and myself. We can go full southerner if need be, but overall, the accent is incredibly subtle.

Im a 12th generation Virginian

That young lady from Asheville has worked hard to erase her southern accent - I don’t think she wants to have one - she comes across as wanting to be more up town and not sound like she’s from here -

Proud of my eastern NC accent ☺️

I’m from eli Whitney area Chatham county. Definitely country area .

Now if you grew up in Robeson County like me then you know there's a whole nother accent down there

From Mooresville NC. Family from Iredell County. I've had people from other states say I talk like I'm from Louisiana, Mississippi, SoCal, and Dallas TX. But when I lived out in Greenville NC, this dude asked me if I was from Jamaica (????????). I speak Spanish as a second language, but when I would speak English in Ecuador, folks who spoke to other North Carolinians in English said I spoke differently from them, like "the blues" and spoke Spanish like a Dominican or Cuban.

Easfreak 😎

I'm sad that I don't have an accent other than "general American" 😑

Fuck I'm southern

I don't like the North Carolina accent. It is not pleasing. The South Carolina and Virginia accents are far more beautiful.