10 Attempts at a Philadelphia Accent

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[@g.c9172]

Kevin bacons was spot on!! The hoagie conversation is literally something you would here construction workers saying walking down the street. Love him !!

[@skriddlehiddles]

Because he’s from Philly lol

[@sniper161718]

He lived in Rittenhouse Square. That's an affluent white neighborhood. They don't have Philly accents

[@Lumeniaellina]

*hear

[@oliverinnocent639]

I thought James McAvoy did a great job. Not only was he an Scotsman putting on an American accent, but he was also putting on a regional accent.

[@HandleThiSS88]

I thought it was terrible

[@SteakCutFries]

He was every Philly roofer I've ever known

[@rickwrites2612]

It was one of the best actor Philly accents besides actors from the area.

[@ericajaye666]

He's phenomenal 😍

[@yvonneplant9434]

McAvoy lives in the Philly area now. Well, he did.

[@mkphilly]

I've lived in Philly since 1960, and have yet to really have heard a "pure" Philly accent: it all depends in what neighborhood you grew up.

[@laughinghawk8522]

I was born and raised in Philly. Still live here and I do not speak with that accent. That accent is white people from Philly specific only.

[@samiam1417]

Yea and I’m from bucks and have a completely different accent, but all the boys speak in a philly accent

[@sdot7436]

We're very critical about it. But I love, just love overhearing a news guy say water.

[@reesecup3ify]

The "Horizon services" guy...classic Philly/Delco accent.

[@billsnyder6391]

@@sdot7436 A new reporter at my radio station is from Perkasie. He says "wooder" I am in upstate NY.

[@cazlaz]

As a Brit, I'm not well rehearsed in American accents. But I can't help but think that the Philly accent sounds like someone who grew up in New York and then moved to the South. A fantastic accent with so many nuances from surrounding areas. Love it!!

[@liverpooloflife8731]

I’m a Philly guy & I’ve always said that the Aussie/New Zealand accent reminds me of a Brit, who moved to Australia, etc. Like you said, so many nuances. I also love it!

[@PopsRacer61]

..YEP, you nailed it ! Here are some Philly words pronounced : Woulda, Coulda, Wurdur, Mondee thru Sundee and Hogees ! Wolud've,Could've,Water, Monday - Sunday and Hoagies..

[@drutalero2962]

​@@PopsRacer61 crick = creek

[@VVeremoose]

As a bloke from Arkansas, I concur m8

[@Between2Riverz]

As a Philadelphian, I always said that

[@peony6818]

the Siri voice dragging everyone has me dying

[@sbakernyc5761]

McAvoy fucking nailed it... especially in the beginning. Impressive for a Glaswegian

[@sunny70299]

Especially as he couldn't even nail a Edinburgh accent for Filth.

[@TranceRevolved]

Damn he sounds just like one of my old coworkers when I worked at the Target in South Philly lol.

[@kjohnstin]

Nope

[@sbakernyc5761]

@@kjohnstin nope what

[@xxIluvyouguysxx]

He is absolutely amazing at accents

[@ianmcshea913]

The thing about Philly is the accents are different in different parts of the city. NE Philly sounds different from South Philly, which sounds different from NW, etc.

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

I don't even notice it.

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

I'm in delco and I watched one episode and was like this jawns trash thanks for trying though, there was room for Jack on that door... Smh

[@Corrupted-file]

Yeah, but we all say wooder.

[@MrButch-ls8vl]

You are right ... West Philly here ... but I think it's also ethnicity and economic class - lower middle class Italian-Americans from South Philly, working class Kenzos and those living in Port Richmond and Frankford, upper middle class Jews from Bala Cynwyd and Haverford - all sound different.

[@MrButch-ls8vl]

@@Leprechaun-qv6mo the Delco accent is in fact the "truest" Philly accent.

[@melissaford717]

I'm 53 white woman born & raised in Philly. Grew up in Frankford (Bridge and Pratt) and I got a Lower NE Philly/Riverwards accent. I never realized how strong my Philly accent is until I moved. As soon as I opened my mouth, they knew I was from Philly. I don't think I could ever get rid of my accent if I tried. It's not an easy accent to use; the only real Philly accent in the movie Rocky is the young gal Marie. You can tell she's from Philly. GO BIRDS 💚 🦅 🏈

[@rickwrites2612]

McAvoy as Charmin guy did one of the best Philly accents I've ever seen by an actor not from the area. And of course Cooper and Fey nailed it. Bacon was good buy more lite, like center city. "Guess he ain't bin heer inna whall"

[@sniper161718]

McAvoy started good but ended up sounding like a drunk guy from Boston who spent too much time in Malibu

[@lin2thez341]

I thought Toni Colette did a good job. She was a south philly mom, not a Delco house wife. Delco, for some reason, has become the de facto accent.

[@HearturMind]

She was SO good. Best I have seen.

[@MultiFantastical]

I agree. I know many Philly moms that have her accent. Even outskirts of NJ. She did so well.

[@mulletoutdooradventures6286]

It's cause Delco is what runs Philly

[@MrButch-ls8vl]

Yep. I'm a Philly guy and I have to admit my Delco friends and acquaintances speak the most authentic Philly accent.

[@samanthab1923]

MultiFantastical That's because parts of south jersey might as well be Philly

[@matthewmahon7432]

Haha this is great. Bradley Cooper nailed the commercial

[@ladell5101]

The Kevin bacon one was ON POINT 😂😂😂. Kevin is from philly if y’all read about it lol. I can hear that entire conversation so vividly in my mind ctfu!!

[@sloppyjoe8718]

Kate winslet does a great one in mare of easttown

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

debatable. I'm currently working on a video that ranks all the accents in that show. Thanks for watching my video

[@c.meister8723]

She does until she says dauughtur

[@joebaumgart1146]

I don't think so. I've lived in Delco for 30 years. She sounds nothing like us.

[@peteralmo]

Completely agree, she's awful, doesn't appear to be doing a Delco accent at all until she hits a word with a long O sound, then it just sounds like anyone half assing a Philly "on" or "home".

[@Wigfield84]

Evan Peters more so but that’s just what I’ve heard from people

[@jeffreymatthews7647]

Even by neighborhood the accents vary so much, I'm from the suburbs and when I made friends with people from the Mayfair/Tacony area I felt like I'd moved to another country.

[@rlawrence71]

It wasn't common in the past, but in the last 5 years, it's been featured on SNL quite a bit. The Baltimore accent is actually very similar I've discovered lately. I'm from South Jersey and have some similar accent traits. I think being in the shadow of NYC and Boston for a long time kept the Philly accent in the background.

[@albertbatfinder5240]

I am not American but have spent hours on KZbin trying to learn what the Philly accent is all about. My efforts have been thwarted by the fact that all the videos seem to be about bad Philly accents, or how it’s changing, or how it differs across the city, or with different generations, or with different ethnicities. Mercurial, you might say. All I have learnt is to slip “hoagies” into the conversation.

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

😂 the best way to learn the philly accent is to spend time with people from certain neighborhoods in Philly like Fishtown, Kensington. Watch the Philly Captain on KZbin. He's got a great Philly accent

[@ThePhillyCaptain]

@@phillyhistoryfacts5757 i see what youse did dare

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

@@ThePhillyCaptain 😉

[@pollymorphic500]

Just watch the interview with Conan O'Brien and Kevin Bacon. Kevin's from Philly and does a funny monologue with a real-deal Philly accent

[@ridesharegold6659]

You Bet Your Garden on KZbin. Host Mike McGrath is from Northeast Philly.

[@lamarwynn4690]

Love em' all but Tina Fey is hands down #1 our Jawn for dat Philly accent ard

[@kevinquinn8118]

It’s #1 because she’s from Upper Darby, that’s right in the heart of Delco.

[@thewigdoctorsijaye6445]

💯

[@elizabethjones4959]

So many actors attempt Philly, but sound like New York .

[@HearturMind]

Did you notice Kevin Bacon and Tina Fey sneering? That is KEY to a hardcore Philly accent. And the word Meow is the way in. There are little short e sounds inserted all over the place. :)

[@AmarantIsLiveTTV]

the 1:15 high delco junkie comment cracked me up

[@octopodiatrist]

I lost my fucking shit!!!

[@tvc153]

Me too

[@anthonyaaron1990]

I just wanna hear someone tryna to immitate a black philly accent

[@frizmagnet2246]

I think Kenan Thompson was trying to imitate Will Smith but I'm not sure what that was. Also Keke Palmer, Tessa Thompson and the cast of Charm city kings tried lots and lots of Jahns and a bad new york accent.

[@JoeyAfrika]

The city is majority and all we got was Keenan SMH

[@advancedraymondology2914]

I knew Cooper would be toward the top. I've watched his hoagie clip many times, it's perfect. Weird thing is, I've lived in Philadelphia all my life, have been told by girlfriends who didn't grow up here that I have a strong accent, but if I TRY to do it, I can't. It's a hard accent to imitate and I actually HAVE one, haha. A dude I work with does it perfectly, has a whole "Philly guy" routine he does. It's weird: I couldn't really even explain the accent to people, but when I HEAR it in an out-of-place context, I instantly recognize it. I was in Orlando and some dude working at DisneyWorld had it. Soon as he started talking I was like, "Are you from Philadelphia?" I was right. And first time I saw Sleepers, which is set in New York, I remember Bacon's character coming on and I was like, "Is he supposed to be from Northeast Philadelphia?" Interesting side note: apparently older people from Baltimore have a very similar accent. My girlfriend and I watched The Wire, and a couple of the cast members that they hired who were actually from the area, we both said they sounded EXACTLY like they were from Mayfair, haha. The lady who is an administrator at the grammar school, and the old Polish cop high in the ranks? If you watched The Wire you'll know who I mean. They're native to Baltimore but they sound more "Philly" than I do, haha. Another weird thing, black Philadelphians DON'T have the accent, at least not in the same way. I always wondered about that: black people, no matter what part of the country they are from, sound more like each other than they sound like whites from their own region. I don't know HOW that could be, but it is.

[@ridesharegold6659]

It's because most of the black people in Philly moved there in the 1950s and 60s from Virginia and the Carolinas - or at least for the younger ones it was their grandparents. Most cities in the Northeast and Midwest didn't have many black people until after WWII. Still, I lived in South Philly for a long time, a lot of black people have a black/southern accent but usually it still has a lot of Philly influence.

[@samanthab1923]

Yes, I thought the same, first time I saw Tin Men with Danny DeVito doing the Baltimore accent. Wasn't familiar with Philly until moving to Bucks Co. 25 years ago. It was all over the news.

[@PtylerBeats]

That’s because black culture is very different from white culture. The accents and dialects are very different

[@rickwrites2612]

It's because most Black Americans speak an entirely different dialect of English, AAVE often with a recently-migrated Southern accent within 3 generations, and they are not taught Standard English as small kids in school in a way that acknowledges its a different grammar structure/language than what is spoken at home. AAVE incorprates grammar from west african languages like tense-strucures and conjugations we just dont have in Standard English. Like if a white child not from black culture says "He be dancing" it is a mistake, a failure to grasp grammar, but in AAVE it has a specific grammatical meaning that is consistent and should not be confused with "he is dancing". One means you always do the verb, one means you are doing it now. ie Cookie monster be eating cookies but Elmo is eating cookies. Similarly there is a difference between "been done" and "done been". This is why in the 90s schools in CA wanted to teach English to black kids the way they teach ESL to kids who speak Spanish or Chinese at home. But to do that you have to acknowledge what they speak at home isn't just poorly spoken Standard English. But that's what most white ppl think it is because they arent educated about it (ironically). Certain white people had a fit about this idea at the time because they thought the point was to legitimized poorly-spoken English and only for black children. So the school wasn't allowed to do it.

[@ericarichardson2983]

The exception is ‘wooder’

[@surbon514]

I'm normally good at mimicking accents, I'm from the Northeast, and I gotta admit the Philly accent is HARD! It's really one of a kind.

[@bugzbunny69]

Give me examples? I've been here for 7 years, what is philly accent ?

[@liltoaster7308]

@@bugzbunny69 The Philly accent is only really prominent in south Philadelphia. You won't hear it much anywhere else in the city, Basically it sounds similar to a NY accent but with rhotic "r" pronunciations as well as extended "o" pronunciations.

[@bugzbunny69]

@@liltoaster7308 I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I just don't know what it sounds like. South Philly is college area for me.

[@philliphampton5183]

@@liltoaster7308 the Philly accent is prominent from bucks all the way down to near Baltimore. And East to Morristown. In bucks it’s more mixed with jersey and even some NY. But it’s still clearly Philly. It’s the whole city not just south Philly.

[@liltoaster7308]

@@philliphampton5183 Personally, I've never heard the accent in neighborhoods like Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, Manyunk, Andorra, East falls or Roxborough. I've also never heard it anywhere in north Philly or in the greater Northeast. I mostly only here it from Spring Garden down to South Philadelphia and into West Philly. I do agree that the accent continues south out of the city borders quite a ways, but it seems like it mostly encompasses southern NJ and Delaware county, which is where the accent then shifts a bit.

[@heathermorgan4070]

Great compilation of accent attempts here!

[@adriennestarkov1615]

Omg i love this! Dennis from always Sunny’s is the best! He nails all the types of Philly accent! But he just blends it into one. Fey, cooper, and bacon all have it naturally so they know how to put it on perfectly. Mcavoy was a complete delight bc he is truly the only one putting on the accent as he is Scottish! Love it! Not all ppl born and raised in Philly have such a heavy accent due to education and social class, and neighborhood location. But most have a slight drawl of the words and tones that is easy to pick out if speaking next to others from say ny or Boston. I could tell someone was from Philly when i lived in boston and i was delighted to hear my local brethren lol. Love a Philly accent it’s super unusual and dear to my heart and kind of sounds like an Australian accent gone way wrong!

[@briangoldy8784]

From Southwest Philly,,,,,,,Fey. Bacon & Cooper......Nailed it.

[@Tubes12AX7k]

Bradley Cooper nailed it! In a way that sounds natural and you'll still hear that today. Accents have a lot to do with the groups of people who settled in an area and it might borrow from several different sources. I'm not sure what language the distinct Ohhh comes from in "hoagie" but it's guttural. Jimmy Fallon got it pretty closely. Most of the Philly accent is a more guttural version of standard English. The "O" starts with ohhh and ends with ooooo.

[@Wigfield84]

I like learning about it because it’s like a cross between my Minnesotan accent, more of a NY accent, and then a hint of slight southern. Very strange but very cool. It’s always more nuanced than any one person can nail down and learn, no matter the accent. Within one family there can be levels to it.

[@Tubes12AX7k]

You also get an idea about the unique groups of people who came to the area from the names of towns and roads in the Philadelphia area - Bala Cynwyd, Tredyffrin, Bryn Mawr, Lower Gwynedd... are Welsh. And Schuylkill is Dutch.

[@johannadavis7594]

McAvoy does an amazing job. Especially being a Brit. Really impressive

[@GizmoBeach]

British people do USA accents better than USA people do their own accents. Might have something to do with USA people nowadays typing things like "If they miss this field goal, we're gonna loose!"

[@Fung43]

I’m from Philadelphia & the way you can tell an impression is good is if you don’t even notice they’re doing an impression. Tina Fey’s sounds like it could be anyone from south philly

[@TranceRevolved]

There's a debate about how Philadelphians pronounce the word - water. A lot of people will say that we say it like "wooder" but I personally find that most people, including myself (Yes, actually West Philadelphian, born and raised lol) pronounce it like ward-er. Like the word "ward" as in psych ward.

[@stephenmartin308]

I always thought it was more like w(awe)der, as a native South Philadelhian.

[@TranceRevolved]

@@stephenmartin308 Mine definitely has a r sound before the D. So here’s proof we have different dialects in Philly. 😂

[@EzekielPrellus]

@@TranceRevolved Montco born and raised and mine is "wawder". My friends from the NE all said "wooder" and shortened their long vowels, e.g. "ee" becomes "i" (Eagles->Iggles, bagel->biggle). There are some very unusual (and hilarious) diphthongs in certain Philly accents (hoagie->Heh-ew-gie).

[@conni60640]

@@stephenmartin308 mine is more like that also. Definitely with the D though, no T in water lol.

[@naeb9486]

I agree

[@sethbaer7567]

Im from north east Phila and Kevin sounds completely normal to me!!

[@Scottie-gd7bo]

As a New Yorker who lived in Philly for 6 years, I can attest that: 1) Native Philadelphians are in denial about how strong their accent sounds to outsiders 2) Tiny Fey, Bradley Cooper and Dennis from Its Always Sunny all nail it

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

As someone who grew up close to where kevin bacon and Tina fey, that's the delco accent tho, Bradley cooper has a montco accent. Cooper did the south philly accent more italian than hood.

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

Also sidenote lol the new hbo show mare of easttown... Lmao... Any pa residents know easttown doesn't exist.... It's easttown township (berwyn) in chester county not delaware co delco. Ppl move though right lol.

[@SteakCutFries]

James McAvoy looked and sounded like every guy Ive ever seen here in Philly waiting outside for their methadone clinic to open. Amazing

[@rturner09251]

I always deny how strong it is until I’m on vacation or in another part of the country and I ask for a wooder when I’m out to eat.

[@theresabollman8061]

Listen to a video of David Brenner on Johnny Carson. His Philly accent was so strong that most people thought he had a speech impediment...the kind where you choke on your letter "L"s and elongate your vowels...especially letter O.....very, very long Os. Nobody here really aced it except for Bradley Cooper.

[@BGTuyau]

I obviously agree in re Cooper -who, unlike all the others, does it with love and zero mockery- but although I lived in Philly for 5 years and paid close attention to the local dialect(s), it was David Brenner with his "full-elfia," complete with those "dark 'L's," who really decrypted it for me. A shout-out is also due to erstwhile Penn linguist Geoffrey Nunberg for his articulation of the vowels in "Fourth and South."

[@conni60640]

Toni Collette sounds South Philly enough to me, they definitely have a NY flavor to the accent there. I think hers was actually the best one, the others were a bit too nasal with their Os. My parents were born in S. Philly, even though we moved to southwest Philly just after I was born and their accent lost some of the NY-ness. Then I lived in Delco for 10 years to add an exotic twist to my Philly haha. My mom still says caw-fee lol. The Always Sunny cast sounded Philly (which means to me they sounded normal lol) except when the woman was trying to lol.

[@reesecup3ify]

Tony Collette did alright. She pulls off the typical American accent which most people in the Philly area have. The "Philly/Delco" accent is a weird phenomenon where only about 10% of people in the area actually have the accent. I've lived here all my life, I should know. I can't even imitate the accent, it's tricky. There's a big west African community around here and that accent is easier for me to imitate. I'm a white female and I do a better west African accent than the entire cast of Black Panther. They all do a terrible west African accent, they sound ridiculous.

[@vshaffer257]

Forgot Sam Rockwell in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Nailed it.

[@patrickthomas8890]

Sienna Miller can talk anyway she wants. She’s staggeringly beautiful

[@CrownOfLaurels426]

I grew up near Lansdale. I lost my accent for the most part when I moved to NV in '98. It comes out a lot when we go back to visit PA and my kids the hubs tell me it REALLY comes out during Eagles games 😂😂 P.S. always remember...arnge wooder flows through the crick.

[@stevenprice8253]

Have lived in Chicago for 30+ years, grew up down the road from you in Perkasie. Lost my accent as well, but I always get called out when I say "arnge".

[@CrownOfLaurels426]

@@stevenprice8253 same, lol! Some stuff is just ingrained 😁

[@kevinx9123]

I think you mean during Iggles games

[@brookelondon8029]

That's how I've always said it! Plus caramel is pronounced carmil.

[@smallfry1463]

The Australian lady at #6 did pretty damn good! I live in central pa and she did something closer to our accent vs Philly. But she got the right state. Very impressive

[@DaftSwank]

Philly accent is next to impossible if you’re not from around there.

[@christinec7892]

You’re so right on Toni Collette

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

Right!? I don't get it!

[@muttonking9]

Kate winslet in Mare of Easttown

[@Justin-xm2xx]

Alright Dennis is pretty spot on. I'll give him that. He sounds exactly like a white boy from the Northeast.

[@BGTuyau]

With all due respect to Upper Darby's Very Own Tina Fey, it's only Bradley Cooper who sounds authentic and unforced. Ms. Fey knows her Wawa and Conshohocken, but it's apparent that she spent her early life unlearning the local accent and succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. The Scottish guy comes in as #2 with his almost-version of the accent. Kevin Bacon also almost gets it but doesn't get much farther than mentioning Wawa and hoagies before wandering into a Hollywood imitation generic "blue-collar" accent, though it's not as bad as Ms. Fey's. n.b.: Before I ever set foot in Philly [college], I was under the impression that the locals spoke like Katharine Hepburn and was shocked when I heard the way they actually talked. All that said, Tina Fey could probably do a pretty good Katharine Hepburn.

[@missimin]

I never knew we had an accent until my two friends and I went to NYC and a guy passing by yelled at us "You're from Philadelphia!" when he heard us talking.

[@mjt7231]

The reason the accent is so hard is because it has subtle differences depending on neighborhood or which suburb you’re in. Also, it’s not just about how you pronounce the words. There’s a certain attitude behind it and how you put the words together. It’s the literal crossroads of the NY, southern, and Midwest accent. Jeet yet? We’s thinking about going to Wawa to get hoagies. Them the jawns. Then going down the shore. All youse all should go. You’in?

[@maryandchild]

lol in 40 years i've never heard 'them the jawns'

[@amycaitlyn1120]

@@maryandchild Oh yes jawn is basically a word for anything 😂😂

[@maryandchild]

@@amycaitlyn1120 i mean, i know that, i've just never heard it used in that awkward way.

[@amycaitlyn1120]

@@maryandchild It’s used in any way lol, that’s the hilarity of it. 🤣

[@lisaspikes4291]

Where I lived, it would have sounded more like “are yoos goian daown to Wawa?

[@whettefarhtz7334]

Kroll show Pawnsylvania skit had solid philliy accents but iasip clip was the whole reason clicking on this 😂😂😂 would you like at that Philadelphia

[@funkytown5497]

what is goein awn? -Dennis Reynolds

[@meganoneill2216]

Honus Wagner Pre-owned Cologne

[@ApositivFilmCo]

Kevin Bacons was clearly the most realistic

[@samanthab1923]

That's s joke right? You know he's from Philly

[@ApositivFilmCo]

@@samanthab1923 Yes exactly. That’s why his is the best. What’s the confusion?

[@samanthab1923]

A Positiv Well, he's not "attempting" a Philly accent. It's just his way of speaking.

[@ApositivFilmCo]

@@samanthab1923 Haha no that’s not true. Have you ever seen him talk? He doesn’t talk like that. He turned the accent up a ton. Come on now. Who is your favorite then? Must be one of the foreigners I guess

[@ApositivFilmCo]

Also cooper and fey are from there too lol

[@dawnlovescouture2644]

Kevin Bacon always sounds like Philly. Like a lot of us Philly people, he tries to be more neutral when he’s talking to other people but you can still hear it all the time. Same with Bradley Cooper, but he’s actually from MontCo, so his accent is different from Kevin’s. Tina Fey is also from outside of Philly, so she also has a slightly different accent.

[@yossarian6799]

I thought it was just me. When I first saw "Footloose", I joked that Ren must've just moved to Bomont from Montco.

[@kandkt758]

I am just so in love and obsessed with Tina Fey

[@SteakCutFries]

Most actors who try to do a Philly accent usually end up sounding more Baltimore than Philly. "How 'bout those O's hon!". As a product of both places (living in Philly since 2003) the Baldimer accent has a slightly more laid back drawl to it, Philly speaks faster and has more of like a stacatto to it. A little more harsh and angry, I mean shit ... If you lived in Philly you'd be angry too. Christine Nangle nails modern working class Fishtown/NE Philly in her brilliant Four Seasons Total Landscaping skit, do yourself a favor and search it. I sat here in a room all by myself LOLing

[@lornabolden8538]

Tina Fey is the best and I busted out laughing because she’s a Philly girl for real!

[@SunflowerVibe329]

Mason dix ... What ? Girl shut up pls ... I've never HEARD THIS IN MY SOUF PHILLY LIFE LMAO

[@adiebrown4135]

Because you're probably my age we never talked like that haha

[@einfussganger]

For the people who are area natives (Bacon, Cooper, Fay) it's just something they turn on or off. Macavoy does the best put-on accent. He nailed it.

[@HandleThiSS88]

Cooper and Fay didnt grow up in Philly tho

[@CZA27]

I grew up watching cky videos and Viva la bam. To this day, “Nooovak!” sometimes comes to mind lol

[@mortyrosenstein4211]

I am from east coast of Florida. Never in my life has anyone said I had an accent until I went to Philly. Then people said I sounded like a stoned surfer and always knew I was from out of town. Which to be fair, I am stoned surfer. I have traveled all over the US and always thought my accent was as neutral as neutral gets, until I went to Philly. I wanted to say YOU have the accent, not me.

[@bcarss1970]

I was born at the Navy Base hospital in Philly (now Citizens bank parking lot. Grew up in Southwest and lived within 20 minutes of the city most of life with friends in many parts of the city, There is no one Philly accent. South and Southwest are very similar. The Northeast is different. Olney,/Oaklane, Germantown and Manayunk/Roxborough are similar. Then there could be a blend in the middle with North Philly. Kensington I think can be unique as well. My buddy George, grew up in Fishtown and his accent does not sound like mine from Southwest. It is funny. I have had people that I talked to in business on the phone where I put on my "business" voice that I have later met in person say that I do not sound at all like the person on the phone.

[@Leprechaun-qv6mo]

😂😂😂 then delco montco and bucks all have their own

[@mrchronicblack5810]

The accent changes in Philly depending on where you are and what group you're around. In a city that is predominantly African American, as a life long resident our accent and slang is different. And can y'all please learn how to use Jawn in the correct way

[@wralford]

Is there still a Philadelphia Mainline accent? Gary Cooper supposedly mocked Grace Kelly for her upper-class Mainline dialect.

[@Dalt21]

I was surprised to see that the last demographics that was posted , African Americans had one percent less of the population that whites in philly. It’s like 44 percent white and 43 percent black. Super cool city

[@fallout3freak360]

Jawn can mean anything tho 😂 you just can’t force the word, it has to come naturally

[@joebaumgart1146]

I grew up in Delco, I lived in that jawn for 30 years.

[@MrsTwitty2484]

Being born and raised in Philly and now living in Richmond I can’t stand hearing ppl say jawn……it always comes out as “ John”🤦🏾‍♀️

[@nickmerino9440]

James McAvoy NAILED IT

[@suedefringe]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'm over here dying at work. ps I don't sound like that. And Jimmy Fallon seems like hes doing a bad Aunt Mary Pat accent.

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

haha so true. A couple of my friends said the same thing, prob just watched a few Aunt Mary Pat videos and thought they nailed it.

[@GizmoBeach]

Imagine an actor like Kevin Bacon who was born in Philadelphia doing a "Philly" accent...uncanny, truly.

[@TheAgentmigs]

If you wanna find out if someone is from Philly then have them pronounce Schuykill River.

[@angelcertain8867]

Skoo-kill or Skookle 🤣🤣... Depending on what part of the city you are from.

[@jayweh]

elaborate.

[@angelcertain8867]

@@jayweh Philly suburbs say “Skookle River”... inner city says “Skoo-kill River”.. I don’t know why, that’s just the way it is.. lol!

[@tkso.philly3879]

Yes.Kevin Bacon...Oh yeah.Like me,because I've traveled for so many FCKN years,it WILL COME OUT,AND OTHER people tells me about it.But yeah', I can hear Home in Kevin Bacon's talk-

[@swirless]

Lee's hoagies awesome

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

Facts!!

[@paolothorpe1461]

Are you a girl?

[@anthonyaaron1990]

Pagano’s hoagies on Ogontz. Thank me later

[@notcolorblindbutnotcolorbl3889]

Kenan slipped into some sort of Boston accent and Jimmy’s physically hurts me. We have more of a southern twinge than New York but we still stray towards a New York one. My family has a thing where we go lower like wooder instead of my uncles (my aunts husband) brooklyn accented wahter. And then we got certain words we’ll replace like melted cheese with whiz, and merging some words together like did you eat into j’eat, which all my friends from Bensalem get on my ass for. My family with say something like crooswalk instead of my uncles crasswalk, and my uncle says hilArious (like an ah sound) while mine will say hilairious, and we say soduh and he’ll say sadah, and he’ll say y’all and we say yous. I’m aware I sound like a crazy person but it’s how my family is. My moms from Kensington and my dads from wissinoming/Frankfort, and I’m a disaster of their accents mixed together. I can’t say certain words correctly because I’ll drag the phonetics into a lower drawl instead of the higher one of New York or Boston. Sorry for this little rant type thing but people butchering a Philly accent get on my last nerves.

[@b0r0din988]

In Kenan's defense(??) he's awful at ALL accents.

[@Shesshewidmin000]

Right dear, same as it ever wuz

[@jayweh]

I lived in landsdowne for a year, which is a philly suburb. I never heard a distinct accent (not english native). I recognize all kinds of accent, but the philly one escapes me. edit: ooh, tina fey is from upper darby? that's right next to landsdowne! now, I have to google where she was 1996-97. we might have crossed paths at a wawa. :D

[@kjohnstin]

Lee’s Hoagies. Across from Willow Grove naval base.

[@MrButch-ls8vl]

We used to have one here in West Philly on Walnut Street near Penn - for many years - but it's gone. Now I get my hoagies from Primos.

[@robbiefrantz8170]

I was born in Philadelphia and lived there until the age of 26. Only Kevin Bacon, #4, hits me as unmistakably Philly. Tina Fey surely is Philly, but she seems to be trying too hard to impress here. Kevin has it here, a totally relaxed Philly accent. In my opinion, the Philadelphia accent and the Baltimore accent have a lot of similarities.

[@robynryan7473]

So recently I met up with my friend in Arlington Texas and we were talking and out comes the wooder and my long O's and U's and he's like what did you say. I said shut up cuz most of the time I just think ppl are making fun of me he just never heard a true philly accent before.

[@Trust_Me]

Love the channel, new sub here

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

Thank you so much!! We really appreciate the support

[@Trust_Me]

@@phillyhistoryfacts5757 🍺👍❤✌

[@williamb2845]

I think Toni Collette did a great job

[@morganstonefelt2337]

My boyfriend is born, raised and still lives in DelCo...I still cant put my finger on what he sounds like and everytime he says something sometimes he says it differently, like water is SOMETIMES water other times its wooder 😂

[@Brandon-yg7mw]

I was actually kind of surprised by James mcavoy's. And I don't know what the hell that British actor lady was talking about

[@nikolasmokalis3425]

Every Delco accent just makes me think of Bam Margera 🤣

[@missimin]

McAvoy and Cooper nailed the accent.

[@SuburbanSavage]

The key to a passable Philly accent are: 1. Speak with the front of your mouth 2. Keep your jaw tight 3. Your tongue needs to be super loose 4. Your "r" and "l's" are interchangeable 5. Words that start with "th" turn into "d" 6. Elongate your vowels, especially "o" and "u" Easiest sentence to put a Philly accent on is, "Did you eat?" The Philly version is, "Jeet?"

[@adiebrown4135]

Haha funny and true I take it as compliment lol

[@anteup75]

Accents range from neighborhood to neighborhood. Can’t be replicated

[@brigiddailey5674]

I grew up in Warminster PA. My grandparents and parents grew up in Philadelphia. I have a Philadelphia accent. Don’t know how I picked up on it.

[@JA-tb8zd]

Lmao @ Tina.

[@Christrulesall2]

She got it down.😁 Wawa, son!

[@Justin-xm2xx]

"like a high delco junkie ordering wawa at 3 am" oh I am laughing

[@joked87isback]

I feel like im listening to myself when Bradley Cooper did it lol

[@Hewson2549]

I grew up in fishtown we can tell what part of the city your from your accent, sink is zink, wash rag is warsh rag, water is wooder

[@thecasualcaribou]

I would say Bam Margera has a good example of it as well

[@trollem69]

4:08 Dennis from 'Its Always Sunny' philly accent is the best. So over the top, but still so accurate.

[@wralford]

To me, the Philly accent sounds a lot like Baltimore. "Kow" = the Iron Man of baseball. "Fane" = a wireline telecommunication device invented by Alexander Graham Bell. "OO-un" = the opposite of "OO-uff."

[@phillyhistoryfacts5757]

I watched that documentary "The Keepers" on Netflix and I couldn't believe how much the Baltimore accent sounded like Philly! I had no idea!

[@briangoldy8784]

Yepper.......Lived in South Philly . My Mom from Baltimore.......Sound similar .......

[@adamdipasquale8702]

I wonder why they sound so similar..it’s unique

[@JoeyAfrika]

I'm from Philly and I agree. Well white philly and white Maryland sound the same. Black baltimore sounds brittish

[@theresabollman8061]

Mark got to be a really good actor.

[@myperspective5091]

I didn’t even know they had an accident. I’m from Maryland and I’ve never heard it. I guess I don’t know my neighbors very well. I do know that Delaware has an accident , especially over’t Delaware shores area. My brothers have the southern Delaware accent. My Mom and my Dad and most of my cousins have the northern Delaware accent. I don’t have either .

[@skipanther]

That small little state has 2 different accents?Does the southern Delaware accent sound kind of southern?

[@myperspective5091]

@@skipanther Not like a deep southern accent, but it is country sounding (S.Del “sounnin” ). Drop the Ds at the end of a words , especially if it comes before ing, and add nin instead of ing.

[@deepghetto8968]

Kevin Bacon for #1. I closed my eyes and I was outside of a Wawa

[@theresabollman8061]

Bradly Cooper was the best. Some had NO Philly accent at all. NONE!

[@marianneagu1312]

I'm genuinely curious what 🐐 Will Smith has to say about this video

[@garytorresani8846]

Actually, linguistics experts say the Philly accent is a southern accent with other influences. Yep, south Philly has a different accent than NE, and the suburbs are slightly different. I grew up in Montco, about 3 miles away from where Bradley Cooper grew up, after a time in south Philly. Kate Winslet does the best Delco accent I’ve ever heard an actor not from Philly do in Mare of Easttown and she’s British.

[@dionbaia288]

You guys gotta get on John Glover from 52 Pick Up. That's the best version of the accent. Ever.

[@Retrievinggold]

To be clear there’s a Delco then a Philly accent . We can tell the difference around here

[@cole8865]

I’m from delco and live there now it’s not something you can really learn it’s something you pick up

[@mkphilly]

She also played a Philadelphian in the movie "In Her Shoes"

[@zephyrjet122]

My college roommate was from Philly, McAvoy for shorrrrr furrr the wehn.

[@jeffawake4669]

Born and raised!

[@megachef0421]

I’m from west I don’t speak that way, I’d have to hang around every bar in 69th to learn that😂

[@adiebrown4135]

And it's Jesus Mary and Joseph!! Lol

[@8bayavenue]

Jawn