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@fekkezaum6 ай бұрын
the accents were way easier to understand than this messy video. are you listing accents? states? cities? this video is so hard to follow and hard to tell when you're switching from one accent to the next one. the editing needs some serious improvements.
@sheilaathay20346 ай бұрын
Idaho , Utah , Arizona western accent is very distinct but varying in depth.
@efogg36 ай бұрын
NYC and upstate NY(anything past Albany) have completely different accents.
@KGTiberius6 ай бұрын
MISSED: Kentucky Alabama (Birmingham) Alaska Hawaii Virgin Islands (Crucian/Thomian) Res (Indian Reservations) Canadian (west, mountain, plains, Ontario, Newfie, Arcadian, quebec) Puerto Rico Samoan.
@butchgriggs63256 ай бұрын
@GoodNewsEveryone2999 Easiest is Pacific North West
@malikon69535 ай бұрын
dude just rounded up like 6-7 States and said, "it's called a Southern Accent" ... bless his heart.
@coloraturaElise5 ай бұрын
Right? Because each state in the South has a distinct sound....hello, Tennessee, anyone? No one would mistake Georgia for Louisiana, and that Mississippi drawl is unique, honey!
@thevictorianedge54655 ай бұрын
@@coloraturaEliseNorth Carolina here. Each county has divisions of dialects. I can tell what part of the county you are from in my county that is. ❤
@mootsym5 ай бұрын
Y’all sound the same to people not from your states.
@santosmadrigal37025 ай бұрын
The stupidest acssent is the woke acssent . They make statements in the form of questions ... Don't get me started on the word " axe" . My little yellow guitar is more like an axe then a question .
@bXkgY2hhbm5lbCBzdWNrcw5 ай бұрын
he rounded up MAGS (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina)
@ggjr616 ай бұрын
As an American the most difficult accent I’ve ever heard came from rural Louisiana. The accents you labeled as Minnesota and Upper Peninsula Michigan are heard all over the upper Midwest including Wisconsin. In fact one of the clips you used for Minnesota actually was a clip of someone from Wisconsin.
@LuggageLife6 ай бұрын
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing haha. And I personally would have put the Louisiana accent as the most difficult. 😂😂
@Kerryjotx6 ай бұрын
I knew that had to be Wisconsin. Thanks for the clarification.
@stevepalmberg59056 ай бұрын
Live in MN traveled to upper peninsula of Michigan Much common but there's subtle differences between MN Wisconsin and upper Michigan
@jennifercarter12656 ай бұрын
feeling validated. I would have sworn one of those was Wisconsin.
@davidfrischknecht82616 ай бұрын
They're also similar to the accents spoken across the border in southern Canada.
@codyscott86876 ай бұрын
Before watching, I’m going to guess Louisiana Cajun accent as the most difficult to understand
@John-vm2sq6 ай бұрын
Yeah this was kinda a destined pick because Cajun/Creole/Bayou isn't even English. It's the only accent on the list where half the actual words aren't English. No wonder it is hard to understand, because it is pulling from a bunch of non-english vocabulary. The way I explain American accents is that the majority of Americans (especially now because of the internet) are beginning to be standard American English. This is, like the video says, is the accent we hear constantly on TV. It shares vocabulary, cadence, and emphasis. Then you have regional accents which all still pull from commonly understood vocabulary, but some sounds are altered, cadence can vary, and emphasis differs. This is for places like west coast (SoCal) and East Coast too (NYC). It's essentially the same vocab just sounding differently. Then you got the southern accent. Which still shares the majority of its vocab with the rest of the country but southerns speak in colloquial phrases (idioms) to convey meaning. The words on their own dont carry intelligble meaning, but put them together and you've got a profound phrase that only southerners get. And then you got Cajun, which doesn't share its vocab with the rest of the country, and therefore the hardest to understand, because honestly it isn't English. It's an amalgamation of multiple languages where no particularly one dominates the vocabulary. So Cajun is like 30% English. 30% French, 20% Canadian emphasis, and 20% local colloquial phrases. That's why Southern/Appalachian and Cajun are the hardest to understand. Southererns share the same vocab, but we speak in idioms. Cajuns speak a different language altogether. And the rest of the country essentially retains the same vocab but their vowels and cadences and emphasis' are different. As a southerner, I feel it is honestly the best all-around accent. I can understand SoCal, Brooklyn, Boston, Minnesota, Midwest, Texas, southern states, and even Appalachia. I understood every word from the Appalachia segment. I understood every single accent in the video except for the Cajun and NC outer banks. I stand out if I'm in a crowd of northerners or west coasters, but I understand them all quite easily. Now if I take them to rural South or Appalachia, they'd be so lost, but I'd be right at home with my southern speakers.
@gtb81.6 ай бұрын
i guessed the same, i figured Appalachian or Louisiana
@hickszn6 ай бұрын
@@gtb81.Appalachian is a good vote too
@FreedomLovin6 ай бұрын
By far yes!
@alzaidi77396 ай бұрын
Remeber that potato chip adv read by the Cajun? "... hot guar-awn-teed..."
@meatofpeach3 ай бұрын
I'm from North Carolina. We have 4 of the accents you mentioned! African American vernacular english, Appalachian, Southern, and Outer Banks. We're a very diverse state.
@thevictorianedge5465Ай бұрын
@@meatofpeach outer banks is that high tider accent. I’m southern from south east nc and we are actually more Appalachian sounding due to the amount of Scot Irish that settled here in my county back in the 1740. It’s all very unique. Love it.
@Caramel180612 күн бұрын
I'm from the Sandhills. Idk what influences my particular accent has 🤔🤷🏽♀️
@dixiedad8 күн бұрын
Wait till he hears one from the swamp in NC
@MorganMingo7010 сағат бұрын
AAVE is not a one sizes fits all monolith neither. Your description excludes Black people from the Southern dialect when it’s very much intertwined with Southern AAVE. -There are universal *understood* aspects of AAVE regardless of region (habitual “BE,”), but make no mistake… Black ppl from the South are “Southern” & helped create that culture!
@justaquilter25 ай бұрын
I'm from Northern California & my husband is Cajun. After 17 years together, I can understand him, but when he gets around his family, I'll look at him and say "WHAT???"
@CaptainQueue5 ай бұрын
My son in law is from central England called the Cotswalds. When he speaks rapidly, I can comprehend about 50% of his English.
@bethmoore77225 ай бұрын
I got sort of lost in Lafayette, and stopped to ask a guy for directions. I could not understand a single word he said, so I just went in the direction he pointed.
@BigOlSpiderMonkey5 ай бұрын
I speak Californian English, but the hardest to understand is Irish or Scottish from smaller towns and deep down south in US... Ozzy bogans are a close 3rd
@FatherRina5 ай бұрын
Wait that’s crazy I’m Creole and from NorCal! My grandpa was from Louisiana, and his son/my father from Detroit. Definitely had issues understanding both of them as well 😭💗
@2econd_Son5 ай бұрын
@@CaptainQueueI met your son at hochunk gaming and he was scalping lakers tickets
@Defiantly_Joyful5 ай бұрын
I’m from the Southern US. My son married a girl from Boston. Her mother was riding in the car with me when I asked Siri a question. Siri couldn’t understand me, so she tried. Siri couldn’t understand her either, so we pulled over and googled. 😂😂😂
@DustyAxelsen5 ай бұрын
Siri was like "Try that again in English"
@optionout5 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 Hilarious!
@aeternanox85335 ай бұрын
I have a very conscious news-caster voice that I use hilariously and effectively when voice assistant AI can't handle my yinzeriffic natural voice.
@Auntie-Sara4 ай бұрын
SISTERS🎉
@ryxlet254 ай бұрын
That southern accent section, I was like “some of these people are applalachian and some are downright country”
@tayzonday5 ай бұрын
I’m from Chicago. The Midwest definitely has variation. I can hear if someone is from Wisconsin or Minnesota or Iowa.
@RodericSpode5 ай бұрын
I'm from Ohio and you can I can attest that the Midwest accent from my state and Indiana, our neighbor to the West, is pretty different. But the difference between Buckeyes and our Southern neighbors in Kentucky is even greater. Even in Ohio you'll hear differences depending on what part of the state the speaker is from.
@jrmcdonald75105 ай бұрын
@@RodericSpode I'm from Indiana (Indy) and I agree with you. I have friends who grew up in Ohio (Cleveland) and they really do pronounce some vowels consistently differently.
@encycl07pedia-5 ай бұрын
Yeah, these accents are far too broad. "Southern" is laughable, especially when you include Louisiana.
@tayzonday5 ай бұрын
@@encycl07pedia- Yeah Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, North/South Florida- each distinct dialects. Locals can tell where in the south others are from.
@Niselouise5 ай бұрын
Yes. I agree.
@susanwbrown23992 ай бұрын
I’m from Louisiana. We ain’t got nothin’ on those Gullah Geeche folks when they start talkin’! That accent is by FAR the most difficult to comprehend! I enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing!
@Cry_Like_A_Swamp_Puppy15 күн бұрын
That’s because it’s an entirely different language. Maybe partially intelligible with English but not an accent
@thomashughes_teh10 күн бұрын
Bro. That's not even English. After Hurricane Katrina Indianapolis got some NOLA refugees. I met one who was pulling cigarette butts from ashtrays before dawn at a local 12 step meeting house. He spoke a few words of English. He was like the others I'd met. When I asked him to write down what he was saying he tried to explain that he is illiterate. At least that's what I think he was trying to say.
@rigdonbabybean5 ай бұрын
Texan here: I was in Germany this month, and heard an American accent from across the restaurant, and I knew they were from Texas and was pretty confident they were from Dallas. I introduced myself, and they confirmed they were from Dallas - absolutely can tell by accent where folks are from inside the state of Texas 😄
@Peter_S_5 ай бұрын
Heard a worker in Home Depot the other day in Colorado. He had to be from the Midland area. I asked and sure 'nuff, Midland.
@HannahFields4445 ай бұрын
I'm from east texas and made a friend from west texas and I struggle to understand his accent.
@fishjohn0145 ай бұрын
I'm sure the butt plugs made it easier to find each other 😂
@virginia93925 ай бұрын
as a texan from dallas it’s really easy to tell where people in texas are from
@Fire.and.Knives885 ай бұрын
That's too funny! I only lived in Texas for 5 years and was able to pick up on where in Texas someone was from! lol I lived in Granbury, Fort Worth, and Dallas.
@adinz96915 ай бұрын
bro slept on the baltimore accent
@Guyver095 ай бұрын
That's right hon
@kidcharlemagne74505 ай бұрын
He shoulda gone downyoshun -- but wudder and earl don' mix, hon.
@rucker695 ай бұрын
Maybe because no one cares?
@adinz96915 ай бұрын
@@rucker69 hold on dawg is this 2016, must be reminiscing, with the pfp and everything
@kegdoty5 ай бұрын
Arr arr arr arr arr err arr!
@jumpinjehoshaphat19515 ай бұрын
Drove an 18 wheeler OTR, visiting each of the lower 48. Only person couldn't comprehend was a Cajun store clerk near the Mississippi Delta.
@bnic94715 ай бұрын
My Waterloo was a cook in the Camelia Grill, New Orleans. He was not Cajun, tho.
@bettyb15815 ай бұрын
Cajun accent 😂😂😂😂is the worst
@kmac1405 ай бұрын
Went to pickup a load about a half hour north of New Orleans back in '01. Two super nice 23ish young men working there. First one explains the way I needed to go and under what rack I was to load at. After he finished his directions, I asked the second one to please repeat what the first one said. Unfortunately he said the exact same thing in the exact gibberish. I put my forehead on the counter at that point.
@MM-gk1tm5 ай бұрын
Grew up in NY hearing accents from all over the world but a MS delta taxi driver could have been speaking another language completely for all I could tell. To this day nothing has come close.
@sheenaburton47385 ай бұрын
I’m only first accent in on video but my first thought as hardest was it had to be Cajun lol. Think the waterboy guy. Thats legit how they sound deep on the bayou. lol it’s wild.
@johnthomas38423 ай бұрын
My Dad was from Georgia, my Mom was from Long Island NY, I was born in Texas, raised in Texas, Kentucky, FL, Panama and California. I speak with a slight Texas drawl with some NY thrown in. I can recognize a Long Island accent over a Brooklyn or other east coast accents. The accent I like most is the Cajun accent.
@Abbasgirl3122 ай бұрын
Love it. 😃
@stephenkarla7113Ай бұрын
Me too, I love the Cajun accent and the food.
@Jessinblackandwhite6 ай бұрын
The accent from the old Western film is more of a combination of transatlantic Hollywood accent and a Texan accent.
@morriganinoregon6 ай бұрын
And Katherine Hepburn and Reginald Garner were taught to speak "Mid-Atlantic"
@johnmarengo39886 ай бұрын
that's a new thing calling it mid atlantic or transatlantic. Someone made that up in recent years. What is a transatlantic Hollywood accent? Transatlantic referred to east coast to europe. Old Western films was whatever the actor was, and their own accent. THere wasn't any focus on accent.
@johnmarengo39886 ай бұрын
@@morriganinoregon Reginald Gardiner? The English actor? Anyway, that label mid atlantic is new in the last couple decades. From movie viewers not grasping the accents. Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis,etc were not taught Mid Atlantic, there was no such thing in those days. There was no such thing when I went to acting conservatory in the 70's. It mainly was their own New England accents. Hepburn from upper class Connecticut family. Davis from Massachuetts. But added to that, there was what was called 'Standard Stage' English. Standard English is same as General English, just contemporary. Standard Stage was American actors doing the classics, like Shakespeare, without doing an English accent. So it was more proper..a bit. But it also was that in those days the majority of hollywood actors came from stage in New York,where they performed everything from the classics, contemporary dramas/comedies, Shakespeare,etc. So you got a majority who has that type of sound to their speaking, both from being from the East Coast, and from standard stage English. But it wasn't all. Spencer Tracy was originally from Wisconsin, and he just kept whatever accent he had from there. I forget where Clark Gable was from, but it was general. He didn't have a stage background first to get standard stage english.
@rastalique81146 ай бұрын
My uncle from New Mexico spoke like John Wayne. I never knew where the John Wayne accent comes from.
@johnindigo54775 ай бұрын
There was actually one guy who taught all the actors how to speak like a Texan. Bob Hinkle. He thought he couldn't be in movies cause of how he sounded but they wanted him as a dialect coach 😂 He tought all the Hollywood stars in the 50s
@duanedoel32465 ай бұрын
Years ago an old fellow in the U.K. thought I was Canadian. When I told him I lived in N.Y., he said I must live right on the border of Canada. He nailed it, Buffalo!
@virgilflowers98465 ай бұрын
Upstate New York and Northern PA have some strange accents people don’t discuss much. Rochester, Syracuse, it’s a strange mix of Northern/almost Midwestern and….New England? NYC? I don’t even know. Same for people in rural northern PA, one thing they say a lot is “out” pronounced like “oat”, sort of Canadian but different. The Northeast has quite a few unsung heroes of the accent world lol
@paestum705 ай бұрын
@@virgilflowers9846 Totally. I'm from New England and I don't hear that in Buffalo/Rochester English. I hear more nasal, Toronto-ish sounds.
@virgilflowers98465 ай бұрын
@@paestum70 fair assessment. My family are all new Englanders, I actually partially grew up there too. To clarify my original comment, I think you’re accurate about upstate NY, I think what I was thinking of more with the New England (and honestly probably more accurately New York) is the Scranton PA accent. There’s a good example here on YT, it’s a clip from some kind of town meeting or something lol. Some chunks of Northern PA were originally populated by people from New England, so there could be something to it
@paestum705 ай бұрын
@@virgilflowers9846 Cool. Haven't heard it...will look it up. "Yah, ya learn somthin' new every day" -spoken in hardcore Bostonian
@dave9285 ай бұрын
i grew up in northern California and have lived in Seattle for 45 years. on multiple trips to the UK, several Brits have told me i sound Canadian.
@drLogo_5 ай бұрын
as someone with a standard American accent, I feel absolutely average
@nclsanluisrey41444 ай бұрын
😆
@mrnasty021064 ай бұрын
I wish I could be you. Full-on American. No influences from the scary nations of Eastern and Southern Europe (Shitaly, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Serbia).
@nicedoppy20773 ай бұрын
what do u mean with average accent?....south accent, midwest accent, new yorker accent?
@ThatEverydayEnthusiast3 ай бұрын
Same here. An illinoisian.
@lagreyeyes3 ай бұрын
@@nicedoppy2077 Basic Boomer/Gen X Californian accent. That's average, i.e. newscasters, etc. I speak with that accent, but it really changes when you get into Californian Millennial/Gen Z vocal fry, upspeak, and slang. And the difference between northern and southern California accents pretty much started in the early 1990s.
@EuroYank3 ай бұрын
My Italian teacher, a 30 year old Italian with a PhD in languages, speaks Italian, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese. While visiting the U.S., she was stopped for speeding in the Deep South and had to have her American husband translate because she could not understand the state trooper who pulled her over. I’m from central California and she once told me I speak Italian with a Mexican accent. Also, I was surprised that I immediately recognized the Minnesota accent until I remembered my Mom was raised in Hutchinson, MN. Thanks Olly, I really enjoyed your video!
@AshleyMcClymont-c3n16 күн бұрын
That’s funny; I speak Spanish with a little bit of an Italian accent. I’m working on it!
@stickkman5 ай бұрын
I grew up in Southern California. Until today, I couldn't hear my accent. Now I can't unhear it. Also I feel called out.
@dianamatthews59655 ай бұрын
It's OK to have an accent. No judging! You're safe here. 😄
@uservdhdunxinfstinf4 ай бұрын
i wish they used locals speaking normally uniformly instead of all the people doing impressions. southern californian english is often mostly standard and way less exaggerated than shown here. the accent these guys had was gnarly lol jk
@Marky-Mark13374 ай бұрын
I saw a video where SoCal people use "the" for freeways and some highways.
@uservdhdunxinfstinf4 ай бұрын
@@Marky-Mark1337 yah we do for all of them actually. the 605 to the 5 to the 405… etc edit: that’s local tho for the most part but we’ll say pch for example or rout 66 or the name of any well known route etc
@stickkman4 ай бұрын
@@Marky-Mark1337 This is indeed a thing we do! People where I live now sometimes look at me funny when I use the definite article before an interstate number.
@peregrination36436 ай бұрын
My favorite accent story was told by my geography professor. She's a black woman from suburban Texas. Maybe a slight accent, otherwise very standard. She married an Irish-American as pale and red-haired as can be, from downtown Milwaukee. So when people talk to them on the phone and meet in person later, they're very confused. They completely assume that the husband was black and she was white. She had a great sense of humor about it.
@irishgirlintexas6 ай бұрын
Someone in a music class I took in college easily could've passed for Gabriel Iglesias from a distance, but hearing him talk you'd hear mostly Yooper. Half Mexican, half Brazilian, but no accent from either.
@catzenhouse6 ай бұрын
My father-in-law was raised in So. Texas but didn't have a Texas accent. The rest of his family - almost unintelligible. Then throw in the grandparents from the Old Country and a war bride from Wales and you had a real mash-up.
@johnindigo54775 ай бұрын
@@catzenhousewhere in so Texas
@tsb79115 ай бұрын
There is a boxing champion from Memphis, Tennessee named Caleb Plant. For starters most American boxers aren't white. Memphis is also mostly African American. Also the name Caleb Plant? Caleb is married to a very attractive black woman,. Caleb is white. If you gave me all the info, except his race I would have lost a lot of money on that.
@isaiahhernandez28695 ай бұрын
That’s cool actually, I definitely think he was from up on the north side of Milwaukee
@especialexpression69226 ай бұрын
I'd say from SoCal we mostly speak General American. The surfer accent is more in the beach cities and valley accent more in the hills or upper middle/middle class. SoCal has a lot of ethnic accents, especially Chicano/Hispanic. Black American English is heavy in certain neighborhoods. Plus all the transplant, so we probably get all the accents.
@dfash18756 ай бұрын
So. Cal is definitely predominantly the general accent. The fry voice is everywhere, even here in the South and is more of an affectation than an accent.
@especialexpression69226 ай бұрын
@@dfash1875 you're right, I've heard that vocal fry from people all over NA, even Canada or the South. Add in a bunch of "like"s and "literally"s
@FreedomLovin6 ай бұрын
I'm from Northern CA/Bay area and I still think there's a Socal accent. I can hear a general California accent when I travel too.
@KyleReeseCel20295 ай бұрын
I'm from the valley, and I have heard only maybe a couple people in my life have that Hollywood surfer accent. Seems to it's practically a fake stereotype.
@especialexpression69225 ай бұрын
@@KyleReeseCel2029 Same, actually up to a few years ago I thought that accent was a myth, but I have surprisingly met a few people who genuinely have the accent. It's so rare though when I do hear one it seems like a prank
@suz0000Ай бұрын
I’m a Californian who moved to central Alabama for 2 years. My coworkers would have conversations with thick southern accents and spoke very fast. I couldn’t understand a word of it!
@snakemanmike5 ай бұрын
I was born in California, but grew up in south Louisiana. When I was 9 years old, my parents divorced, and my dad moved back to California. I spent summers in California (San Francisco bay area) and the school year in Louisiana, near the Texas border and on the edge of Cajun country. When I was in college, I had a professor who was a connoisseur of accents and prided himself on being able to guess the place of origin by listening them. I was the only one in the classroom who stumped him.
@vmcprojects5 ай бұрын
Not surprised, you must have a real thick Cajufornia accent
@alissagonzales7355 ай бұрын
I speak mostly Italian and spent my young life in Edmonton, Alberta. When I stayed with my father who is spaniard/ French. So I have an accent that is expressive but smooth even when I am angry and it doesn't matter which language I use. That is what I have been told.
@alisalavine10525 ай бұрын
I've never heard someone from southern California say supper unless they were transplants from somewhere else in the country. Mid-West usually. We say dinner.
@pbm___0005 ай бұрын
South and/or Midwest farming used Supper. (Even Dictionary will confirm)
@realDanielAugustine5 ай бұрын
There's a sizeable population of Southerners that migrated to southern California during the Dust Bowl and that might be where it originated.
@Msterri515 ай бұрын
We say Supper where I'm from. In the South !!
@JayBigDadyCy5 ай бұрын
Midwestern rural only. They use Supper and Dinner separately in the northeast. But supper is used widely there. If you live in suburban or Urban Midwest we don't typically say supper.
@Gamble6615 ай бұрын
I'm from Massachusetts and when I was a kid my parents, all parents, said supper but you almost never hear it now and if you do it's an older person using it. We say dinner now too.
@leedurham31444 ай бұрын
I’m so American that I understand 90% of these accents. He’s missing the geechy language in South Carolina tho. But he did good
@ForeverFlaccidАй бұрын
Was just about to say, the gullah/geechie dialect can be difficult at times. Worked at the volvo manufacturing plant and sometimes I'd get completely confused when we all sat at the table for lunch lol.
@javajoy100Ай бұрын
I wen down de skreet for some skrimps
@hailholyqueen28 күн бұрын
Gullah geechee is difficult. It's also easy to pick up on its influence in the Charleston area.
@barbaraarnzen5181Ай бұрын
I grew up with very little accent in WA state. I Love all accents and I hope people retain most of theirs!!❤
@paulagardner32186 ай бұрын
Not a correction, more of an addition. The General American Accent is spoken all over the Pacific Northwest.
@auntietara6 ай бұрын
Indeed! PNW is the epitome of General American Accent. Midwesterners tend to flatten their vowels.
@dgoins66 ай бұрын
Washington State University has the Edward R Morrow school of broadcasting. That's where journalists go if they want to be on a national stage.
@paulagardner32186 ай бұрын
@@dgoins6 I did not know that.
@drmasroberts6 ай бұрын
You just think you don’t have a recognizable accent. Listen to the way Oregonians say Oregon and Portland and many other words. Easy to understand, yes but distinctive.
@BadgersInTheAttic6 ай бұрын
Yes, and not so much in the midwest. The midwest, for the most part, doesn't have a super heavy regional accent, but does have a number of distinct flavors. There's the grating, nasal a's of Chicaaago-land (especially as you travel south of the city) the swallowed vowels of WI, the Canadian-esque OUs of MN, etc. NorCal and PNW is definitely more the home of "General American," --at least, if you ignore NorCal's tendency to pronounce "eggs" and "legs" as "aygs" and "laygs." [Note: these are strictly personal observations over the years, having lived in SF, Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis.]
@perceivedvelocity99145 ай бұрын
My mother grew up in Brooklyn New York. She moved cross country to Washington state for work when she was 30. She has spent half of her life in Brooklyn and the other half in the Seattle/Tacoma area. Her accent has become a lot softer as the years have gone by. When she talks with our family back East her accent comes back in full.
@franbrooks6055 ай бұрын
@@perceivedvelocity9914 same here. I have lost my Bronx accent over the 30 something years since I left. But get me around family and friends from the Bronx and it’s back like I never left 😂❤️
@floppyori32625 ай бұрын
I live in Brooklyn and my accent is a little stereotypical
@BaePlatinum5 ай бұрын
My dad trained himself to get rid of his Brooklyn accent to have a fulfilling radio career up north, but same as your mom, when he goes back there for stuff like high school reunions, he goes back to being "Bawby." 😂
@Rev14v75 ай бұрын
Same here with our particular version of Appalachian accent! Years of traveling and associating with people from all sorts of places have moderated it somewhat, but it tends to come back when we're around people who speak it.
@Beabuzz1235 ай бұрын
As a midwesterner I heard the first clip and was like “that’s not an accent!” But then I was like “oh right non Americans probably recognize it”
@bobludwig37674 ай бұрын
Regardless if you think you have an accent or not, that's an accent. Anyone that speaks differently than another has an accent, If you ask anyone with a distinct accent if they thought they had an accent, 9 of 10 will say no. I've done it.
@YogaATLАй бұрын
Greetings from Georgia! As an American, I found this video very enjoyable. You are very well studied in our accents/dialects. I use the General American Accent at work or any place with a more professional/upscale atmosphere. My natural or default accent is very southern, loose, and full of words that cannot be found in any dictionary lol. I would love to see a video on English accents in the UK or Ireland. Great video!
@514Lacey5 ай бұрын
You need to hear a Hawaiian Pidgin accent, specifically from someone on one of the smaller islands of Hawaii. Their accent is so thick, sometimes even other people from Hawaii doesn’t understand them.
@frankfrank79215 ай бұрын
Good dat kind bruddah!
@hammahdolo73845 ай бұрын
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@happydays13365 ай бұрын
I dated a guy whose father was from Hawaii. I thought his accent was charming and asked what it was. My boyfriend looked at me like I was being critical and said, "Pidjn English."
@PanPanPotato5 ай бұрын
@@frankfrank7921oo close but lemme fix for you. Das how June Tao. Or, Das da wan you kno dat buleehhhhh... chutee.
@pumpkinhead5405 ай бұрын
My uncles accent so thick that I had to translate for my friends when he came to visit lol
@JN-pl7wk6 ай бұрын
I grew up in northeastern Wisconsin not too far from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I left when I was 9. Forty-five years later I was in the wilds of Syria and ran into some American diplomats. They asked me where I was from. I said Colorado where I currently live. The wife looked perplexed and said, "Are you sure you aren't from Wisconsin?" That was just one of the many times strangers have pegged my accent even though I haven't lived there for many decades!
@Bubbs886 ай бұрын
Mine comes out with certain words and I haven't lived there in 33 years.
@bnic94716 ай бұрын
I moved away from Milwaukee as a kid to North of Eau Claire, and I was ordering something in a diner in Nebraska one day, and the guy at the table next to me asked me if I was from Southern or northern Wisconsin, because I sounded like both.
@Constance-cl3wg5 ай бұрын
That skit he played was actually about Wisconsin. He should have mentioned that.
@nancydupuis80835 ай бұрын
Even though these accents differ alot, Americans can still easily understand almost all of them, aside from a few isolated areas. I'm a Connecticut natives and don't have an accent at all. It's basically the language of the standard television news presenter, very "correct" yet there only a couple of people in this video I had a hard time understanding
@TheDoozerDo5 ай бұрын
Same here, born in Milwaukee moved to Colorado and 45 years later ppl can still pickup on that Wisconsin accent.
@phillipcarpenter12146 ай бұрын
I was a radio operator in the Coast Guard. I was born and raised in southern Virginia. As it happened, my first duty station was located in the Eastern Shore region of Virginia. I was 100% certain I knew the hardest American accents on your list. Tangier Island's (Chesapeake Bay) fishing boat fleet was in our area of responsibility. We had a 24/7 on-call interpreter that we could patch into our radio communications when assisting these fishing boats. I worked several search-and-rescue cases with fishing boats from Tangiers, and the interpreters were invaluable.
@jeanneknight47916 ай бұрын
The Smithsonian studied it, if I recall. Tangier Island has Elizabethan English caused by isolation.
@bustedupgrunt11776 ай бұрын
#13 "Hoi Toid'rs" I heard also on Harker's Island, NC, below the Outer Banks. aka - Downeasters region. The accent - dialect was even stronger before a bridge was built to the isand. Isolation.
@MelissaThompson4325 ай бұрын
@@bustedupgrunt1177"hoi toid'rs," the phrase, sounds, in the mouth, like West Country, UK.
@pagaporvista5695 ай бұрын
I thought of Smith Island, MD when I heard that accent! Didn't realized OBX was like that, also as I always think of upper middle class having vacation home there.
@elyfreedman64245 ай бұрын
So true! I remember a local commenting that it was a "rot qua'at not". If you understood, you know Tangier island.
@jenaogirl2 ай бұрын
Where exactly was that southern accent from at 8:00? I heard Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Western NC.
@RBB526 ай бұрын
A small correction. the Cajun people were never French Canadian. They were Acadians from Acadia which is today's Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. At the time of the expulsion of 1755-63 the Nova Scotia colony was an independent colony, (New Brunswick was part of Nova Scotia until 1784). The Canada's (Upper and Lower) were separate colonies at that time and were not connected at all to Nova Scotia. So the Acadians from Acadia that ended up in Louisiana were never Canadians.
@rooseveltnut6 ай бұрын
I always think of Evangeline when people speak about the Acadian expulsion. One of my favorite pieces of poetry.
@rls251326 ай бұрын
@@rooseveltnut I always think of the song by the Band "Acadian Driftwood ", which tells the story and migration to the southern US of the Acadian people. Great song.
@Copernicus54725 ай бұрын
Another Catholic People persecuted by the English
@elizabethaja5 ай бұрын
Pretty great Peter Santenello episode/interview from spring ‘24 with some useful insights on this. I learned just what the OP cited.
@frankbrown13215 ай бұрын
I understand why he said that, but yep, French Canadian, c'est Quebecois
@PhillyEagles105 ай бұрын
One of the most popular/mocked accents currently in the USA is from the "Delaware Valley" area. Delco (south east PA) + North Delaware + Philadelphia + West NJ.
@MikeM-uy6qp5 ай бұрын
It's also one of the most studied, thanks to linguist William Labov at Penn, who loves it. He called it one of the richest and most complex accents in the world.
@MarqDiamond-gb7uy5 ай бұрын
From West Philly and my dad's 2nd wife was from Germantown.. man you definitely could hear the difference. She would say "I coaled you" instead of I called you.. It cracked me up..
@UntappedBlue5 ай бұрын
Was looking for this comment also go birds!
@whobeyou53425 ай бұрын
Everyone there sort of sounds like Elmer Fudd- they don't say "L"s. They don't SpecuLate they SpecuAte about things.
@Philly19745 ай бұрын
It's a Philly thing
@ryan2clw4 ай бұрын
From Florida here, one time in the national guard we felt like we needed a translator for the Cajun accent.
@ericah65462 ай бұрын
😂
@AlexandraWood762 ай бұрын
I've spoken standard American English and standard French since I was 3. I can't understand those guys either. It's fascinating though.
@sheilakaye97055 күн бұрын
I'm not Cajun, but I love their accent.
@lonestarbellepk4 күн бұрын
My great grandmother's family is Cajun and came from Alsace-Lorraine area in 1700's. My grandfather understood it but had changed due to educational influences.
@bds1243 ай бұрын
The first clip is not an American accent, it is a News Caster forcing a voice that American news casters use. No one else in America talks like that.
@reidboggs43442 ай бұрын
Technically it’s an extremely formal and forced version of the Midwestern accent.
@iluvmybleach2 ай бұрын
Mid sized Midwestern towns and cities do.
@rollforever852 ай бұрын
I was thinking that. I could swear that’s the only time you hear that specific accent. I’m British btw
@bds1242 ай бұрын
@@rollforever85 you’re right!
@DJ-jx1yt24 күн бұрын
Dudes def brit
@gmk664 ай бұрын
This is so cool after hearing British actors answering 'whats the hardest US accent?' with 'theres more than one?'.
@OleensEmbroidery6 ай бұрын
There are several towns in North Carolina's outer banks, particularly on Hatteras and Ocracoke island that were essentially isolated until around the 70s. "Hoi toid on the sound side" typifies it. You can still hear it with some of the older locals but it is getting harder to find. I am so glad you included it before it dies out.
@notmyworld446 ай бұрын
There is a neighborhood in New Orleans Louisiana called Algiers, where the natives talk exactly like New Yorkers. I actually knew one of those people when I lived in Texas. Her last name was Watts, and she pronounced it "Warts".
@jimgreen57886 ай бұрын
@notmyworld44, warts? That's hilarious! Also, do they pronounce it like the capital of Algeria--al-JEERZ?
@dougules6 ай бұрын
New Orleans far and away has the hardest dialects for other English speakers to understand. (and the city does have more than one dialect) I was watching a second-line parade from the porch of where I was staying, and a lady standing next to the porch asked me a question. I was just lost and asked her to repeat it a few times. Fortunately my husband finally got it, and came out with the paper towel she was asking if she could get. I was lost on what puhpuhtuh meant.
@trentpettit63366 ай бұрын
Did you ever eat at GULF PIZZA (which actually gets its name from being an old Gulf gas station building!) in the Algiers area? And where in Texas did you meet this "Watts" lady? I'm especially curious because I actually had an elementary school teacher in Texas (right outside Houston) who was originally from Kenner (Louisiana) and was a perfect example of the famous "Yat accent" found in and around New Orleans!
@lancerelle92806 ай бұрын
That’s where does Sicilian immigrants settled when they got off the boat in New Orleans? That’s why it has a very similar accent to New York and other areas that a lot of Italians immigrated to. That’s where half my family grew up.
@trentpettit63366 ай бұрын
@@lancerelle9280 Do you suppose the "Algiers Italians" would have trouble communicating with a New Yorker (such as a "Brooklyn Italian" for example) despite the similar accents? And would they have trouble communicating with a person with the "plantation" Southern accent, found especially in Georgia and South Carolina?
@debrabolton937225 күн бұрын
I am from Long Island, NY and definitely have a Long Island accent....and proud of it. Thank you for a great video.
@YogaBlissDance6 ай бұрын
A lot of American's wouldn't be able to decode some of the accents truly. We are a HUGE COUNTRY..so...I understood most but as you got to the end it did indeed become a challenge. ALSO some of those TikTok folks my sense is they are EXAGGERATING SPEECH for effect/humor.
@giorgiopalmas79346 ай бұрын
Americans not American's.
@CliffCutts6 ай бұрын
no socal person says "supper." that guy was not from here! lol
@GohTakeshita6 ай бұрын
I thought that guy was from Philly.
@bjeffryz6 ай бұрын
Exactly my thought, "supper" is not a SoCal thing, at all
@thehapagirl926 ай бұрын
@@GohTakeshitaI thought he was from the East Coast too. As a native SoCal resident I’ve never heard a guy sound like him
@lindadixon43416 ай бұрын
I hate that! It's called DINNER!
@rls251326 ай бұрын
@@lindadixon4341 I lived in San Diego and Michigan and we had dinner.
@boopsbucket5 ай бұрын
What the hell? I'm a native Angeleno and no one talks like those first two people, and no one in LA says "supper"!
@laurabelzer72375 ай бұрын
I’m one county up in Ventura County. They definitely talk like that here but we don’t say supper.
@PeacefulPariah5 ай бұрын
@@laurabelzer7237 Correct, and Supper is def midwest, never heard a Californian say that.
@sweetsubversion5 ай бұрын
I thought A few people were mimicking the accent. It sounded weird.
@boopsbucket5 ай бұрын
@@sweetsubversion Absolutely, the first two people were mimicking. The first guy sounded stereotypically Canadian or something, lol. The third girl’s accent is genuine!
@kirkgarner90975 ай бұрын
The guy who said supper was from somewhere else and was mimicking the accent, it sounded fake to me (I'm from San Diego)
@Slimothy2 ай бұрын
*ain't no way he said "saint louie missouri* bruh lmao 🤣 crazy brit. 17:42
@yakhooves6 ай бұрын
Most Southern Californians don’t sound like that. It’s kind of like a fashion accessory of an accent down there for some of their subcultures. As for the general American accent, I sorta associate it with the Pacific Northwest. Where virtually all accents stick out like a sore thumb! If I recall correctly, the University of Washington did a study of the PNW accent… to determine if we have one… and the results were “kinda? If you really look for one…” Love this analysis from the other side of the pond, mate!
@zacharyduval16 ай бұрын
Thought the same thing. Never heard someone from SoCal say "supper" either
@argonwheatbelly6376 ай бұрын
@@zacharyduval1 : "Supper"??? In Cali? Nah.
@yakhooves6 ай бұрын
@@zacharyduval1 that totally threw me too! “Supper” is soooo much an easy of the Mississippi word me! Never heard it from my home in Western Washington to New Mexico… it’s always dinner here in the west. I love the English language though lament it’s the only language I speak. So out of curiosity, years ago, I tried using vocabulary uncommon to the Pacific Northwest to see how people would react. I had a pretty good idea haha… supper was one of those words. I got so many “dude… really?” looks as well of a few “dude… really?” spoken inquiries to assess if I “really” went there. So that word was dropped from the lineup pretty quick! However, I really love the word “mate” in place of “friend,” and use it to this day. Those who know me have a fun nickname for me! “Pretentious!” …come to think of it, that’s kinda just an adjective… maybe they’re just being funny… But seriously, I’ve had more than a couple of friends and coworkers express they sometimes need to look up vocabulary in my text messages… so. Thank goodness it’s easy to highlight the words and search on most phones…
@STARPHASE6 ай бұрын
True. But we definitely like out vocal fry down here. I don't have that 'surfer' talk or even the valley accent, but I still get some vocal fry going. And some people down here do say supper! I was born and raised just 60 miles east of LA, and there are people around who say supper.
@scottmartin59906 ай бұрын
Most Southern California residents grew up elsewhere in the US, so mostly average out to General American dialects. The stereotypical SoCal accent is almost entirely associated with 80s valley girls and surfer dudes, and even for them is an ironic affectation they can turn on or off.
@TheDrewjameson5 ай бұрын
The midwest has a specific accent that is definitely not the "neutral" newscaster accent.
@robneff70845 ай бұрын
It's probably as close as anything to "neutral".
@frankbrown13215 ай бұрын
The standard "radio" accent is mostly a highly enunciated version of generic midwestern from Ohio, Indiana and rural Illinois.
@azelmamortlake44715 ай бұрын
You're thinking of Upper Midwest, which I would argue is a separate accent altogether from generic Midwestern, especially as it more closely resembles some of the Plains states (like the Dakotas) than the rest of the Midwest.
@jmchanti5 ай бұрын
@@azelmamortlake4471 he list more than on upper midwestern accent
@cannahelpu5 ай бұрын
I’m from Michigan…we don’t have an accent! Haha
@DomP19896 ай бұрын
Texan here, the “Piney Woods” or East Texas accent is much different from the West Texas accent. I’m from Houston and I speak in a much toned down east Texas accent.
@StormyDay5 ай бұрын
That’s bc you have a Gulf Coast accent. Or partly.
@hockey321smash5 ай бұрын
@DomP1989 Very true. I grew up near Houston but have relatives in West Texas around Abilene. Our accents are completely different:)
@juliedepaolo99715 ай бұрын
Funny. I've lived in North Texas, a time in West Texas, a long time in Houston and now East Texas. I vacationed in Paris and people would intentionally stop talking to hear my accent. When I finished, they asked, "where in England are you from?"
@stephanielasek60705 ай бұрын
Yep, I lived in the Piney Woods of Texas (tiny town called Grapeland) for my high school years and it's a very different accent than the rest of Texas. Bit of a country twang. Sorta reminds me of some of the rural accents in SC, but a touch less Southern.
@greenytaddict5 ай бұрын
Austinite here, I feel the same. I feel like my accent is so plain but once in a while you can tell I'm from the south.
@MonaBrasseaux2 ай бұрын
Cajun in da house!!! Woo hoo! Thanks for representing us 😁
@dd1984mmАй бұрын
Cajun here, too [Lafayette]. I've yet to hear a decent non-Cajun accent. 😂
@jijitters6 ай бұрын
My dad's side are Finnish Yoopers and my mom's side are Scandinavian Minnesotans. I've never found either difficult to understand at all haha Perhaps it made people from Nordic countries easier for me to understand instead! I love my Lake Superior-surrounding family 💗
@KittyHerder5 ай бұрын
I was in Glasgow and the cabbie made like he couldn't understand my "I watched a lot of TV" American accent. So, I leaned forward and said, "I know everyone in Europe watches 'Star Trek' and "Seinfeld', so don't even TRY to pretend you don't understand me." He very sheepishly took my friend and myself to the destination I requested.
@met0xff005 ай бұрын
As a German native speaker, Scotland was almost one of the worst regions for understanding (together with some regions of Australia). I've been working for US companies for a decade now and no issues there anymore but Scotland? Oh my ;). (Besides, I never really watched Star Trek, only a bit of Seinfeld but never in English ;))
@KiKi-tf8rv5 ай бұрын
@@met0xff00Half of my family is Scottish and I still can’t understand some of them!😂
@met0xff005 ай бұрын
@@KiKi-tf8rv lol oh actually this is not too dissimilar from here in Austria where I struggled quite a bit with the dialects of my wife's family for a few years. We now moved into this region and my kids... after two years my daughter I think finally starts to understand everything the teacher says
@KiKi-tf8rv5 ай бұрын
@@met0xff00 It really is difficult getting used to some dialects when it feels like it’s almost an entirely different language! I once lived in an area of the USA where I understood the Spanish speaking people better than the English speakers. I don’t speak Spanish.😂
@mariocisneros9115 ай бұрын
Wow. Thanks for the tip and money I won't lose
@_am.ber_5 ай бұрын
Appalachian here and proud of my accent. I meet with major companies in my job and I proudly keep my appalachian accent
@CarpetHater5 ай бұрын
good, your accent and language is your indentity, and it's boring to constantly hear the general american accent no matter where you are.
@ladykarolyn15 ай бұрын
I'm glad you do! You're carrying on your region's history AND breaking down some classist bs about which accents are "professional" enough to be used in the workplace. High five from a random internet stranger!
@Heisenberger_695 ай бұрын
Internet
@safffff10005 ай бұрын
I'm glad I was raised in the 1st accent, everybody that speaks English worldwide understands me
@Obreyski5 ай бұрын
I'm biased but Appalachian is easy to understand without colloquisims. I have what I'd consider a Mid-Atlanic accent but it is very easy for me to slip into Appalachian. If you've some super specific term for something up in your holler i might not know the word, but I'll understand everything else. It doesn't help two out of three guys he used as examples were missing a good part of their teeth. As long as we're all using the same terms we're good.
@ericshippie1563Ай бұрын
This is soooooo cool. Ty soo much. I am fascinated. Greetings,! Bostonian here in Reno, Navada
@Oaksloves5 ай бұрын
A lot of Americans who don’t live in cities tend to have “country” accents. Like go three hours inland from cities like Los Angeles or San Diego and there’s a lot of folks with country accents
@alaric30565 ай бұрын
If they have an accent, it's probably because Spanish is their first language lol
@WAATLP5 ай бұрын
@@alaric3056 you don't have an accent?
@nicowho5 ай бұрын
yeah you drive an hour out of any midwestern city and it's full "country"
@TheHesseJames5 ай бұрын
In Germany you go 15 minutes outside of a city and you don't even get what the old dudes are saying.
@complexity-jw8wx5 ай бұрын
Lol that's because they ain't from here I'm in sandeigo now but grew up in Washington DC. Everybody I meet with a slang to their accent is from a different state
@BradSchmor6 ай бұрын
I grew up in Ontario, but then lived in upstate New York, southeast Virginia, and now central Florida. Because I've had a scientific education and career I've been constantly surrounded by people from all around the world and have unintentionally honed my accent to be as neutral as possible, to the point where people often tell me that they cannot figure out where I'm from. But if I'm sufficiently excited, or drunk, my Canadian accent comes screaming out.
@kalithuania6 ай бұрын
I have a similar history, born in Central Florida, living in Upstate New York, spent some time in Shenandoah Virginia, and been to Ontario countless times
@winkletsdad6 ай бұрын
At the risk of being that guy, the General American Accent is more specific than just "Midwest". It's specifically the Ohio Valley accent. The Upper Midwest has far more nasal qualities to it.
@lydia34606 ай бұрын
To be fair he did mention the Minnesota and UP Michigan accents which would both be upper-Midwest, but I do agree that it’d be good to have some of the more specific information regarding the “general American accent” since, like most supposedly “neutral” accents, it’s not quite as general as it’s name might suggest
@Rutabega_NG6 ай бұрын
Nah. Maybe around Columbus. Dayton suburbs. We got a bit of a twang in Cincinnati. I only hear it when it's compared to someone else. Or when I lived in Colorado. Go to the extreme eastern end of the Metro area (Adams and Brown counties) and you get the most hideous, flat, nasal, twangy accent I've ever heard.
@Doc-A-Boy6 ай бұрын
Ding ding
@newenglandgreenman6 ай бұрын
Actually, General American is a class-based accent. It's the accent of the educated upper middle class pretty much everywhere outside the South (though members of this class in the South may have this accent and generally have an accent somewhere on a continuum between this accent and their regional accent). The General American accent is based on pronunciations recorded in American dictionaries in the late century, and it reflected the pronunciation of an area stretching from western New England (specifically Springfield, Mass) to northern Ohio where most American dictionaries were compiled. These pronunciations were a model for radio announcers when radio took off in the 1920s. Since that time, regional accents in western New England and, even more so, western New York and northern Ohio, have diverged sharply from General American. The accents in the Ohio valley remain closer to General American than the accents of northern Ohio where it originated, but the accents of people from lower middle or working-class backgrounds in the Ohio valley have regional features that are distinct from General American.
@winkletsdad6 ай бұрын
@@lydia3460 almost, but not entirely. The primary affected accent in the 1920s, through to the 1950s, was the Mid Atlantic, an entirely synthetic accent taught to movie stars and radio personalities in the first half of the century, characterized by non-rhotic Rs, a more nasal delivery, and a rounding of front vowels. One leading theory about its demise is the post WW2 rejection of elitism specifically. So while that does appeal to the upper middle class element of your argument, you ignore the importance of the media training of the second half of the century. And in particular the importance of Walter Cronkite. And while he's a topic entirely to himself, his importance to the shaping of how reporters talk, and in turn how that affected the rest of the country would be difficult to understate. Admittedly, he was from Missouri, but he also worked at eliminating Missouri specific markers from his speech. If you listen to reports from him from WW2, versus those from later in his career, there's a notable difference. But again, that may be getting into the weeds a little bit. However, my broader point remains. The reason media personalities were trained to speak that way was because it had the fewest linguistics markers, and so could be unappealing to the fewest people. It just so happens that the Ohio Valley accent has the fewest natural markers. There certainly are those that say that those two facts are coincidental, as so they may be, but it's also reasonable to think that, in an effort to turn away the fewest listeners/watchers in total, vocal coaches would seek out the most "neutral" accent, and in so doing find the OVA. So, yes, there is in a way a class element to it. But I'm afraid it's reductive to insist that it's entirely about class.
@caitlindalby64603 ай бұрын
18:30 is the boomhower accent haha or however you spell it. From the show King of the Hill.
@bunnybgood4113 ай бұрын
Yep@
@Metalhed1300p5 ай бұрын
I'm a 3rd gen American living in the central valley of California, grandparents came from Mexico. I really don't speak a whole lot of Spanish, and I've always been told I "sound white". But funnily enough when I went to New Zealand, I was told a few times I have a "Mexican accent". Couldn't believe it lol, first time anyone had ever told me that.
@GlobetrotterExpat5 ай бұрын
I moved there in my 30s, lived there for nine years, and now live in New York and New Yorkers have told me on multiple occasions that I have the weirdest Puerto Rican accent. What??? I’m from Utah. I guess I was influenced by the Central Valley’s strong Mexican population more than I thought. That being said, I think I sound very white too.
@duglife22305 ай бұрын
The crazy thing is that a county line can make all the difference in accent, especially here in North Cackalacky (North Carolina).
@ijustimagineit5 ай бұрын
As someone from the edge of the Appalachian Mountains in upper Alabama, my great grandfather DEFINITELY had the thickest accent in my fam. When he was still alive, I remember constantly lookin' at my mom and going "what he just say??" I was still real young at the time 🤣 Managed to still get some accent from my Pops and Nana tho!!
@TheHesseJames5 ай бұрын
I was the same when my mum and I visited the village in Germany where she was born. I didn't understand a word what people were saying. After a couple of days there wasn't any problem. I just love all accents in German up to even Dutch which is considered to be a different language but as a German you'll pickit up in a couple of weeks. I also love all the British Isle accents.
@JonasGutenwald-yj8th5 ай бұрын
This comment has an accent so thick I can hear it in my mind
@Auntie-Sara4 ай бұрын
DEEP woods dialects Talkin waaaay far behind the backwoods where earliest folks settled in. Makes me smile thinkin of em. 😏
@jWRe-t1gАй бұрын
hello! I'm in the dekalb, cherokee county alabama area. the accents i hear in my area can be very different from those in the city of gadsden or anniston.
@W7ENK2 ай бұрын
It's been said that people in the Pacific Northwest, specifically the Western Valleys of Oregon and Washington States, speak American English in its most phonetically pure form. As someone who grew up smack in the middle of that region (Portland area) I would have to agree. In fact, as a kid I remember when my best friend moved here from Northern California, and I immediately recognized that he spoke a handful of words (specifically vowel sounds, and more specifically some diphthongs) slightly differently, and we would playfully chide each other over the variance, but we both eventually concluded that the PNW way was technically more accurate to the rules of English Phonetics. This is why news anchors and reporters around the whole of the US, actors in Hollywood, etc... all emulate our (non) accent. Call it: Cascadian English. What's funny, when you cross the border into Southern BC, they sound exactly exactly the same with only one difference - the word "about" they pronounce "a-boat." The difference is immediate. Other than that, absolutely no difference. I have to say, I was a little disappointed we were left off your list, considering we're the de facto masters of American English! Though, we're often forgotten, especially Oregon. The farther East you go in the US, the more people you'll find who don't even know we exist over here, tucked away between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean, just quietly minding our own business and trying to keep a low profile. 😬
@joegrainey8064 күн бұрын
True about the Pacific Northwest. I would add there was no mention of the Montana accent. I think we have a touch of Irish mixed with the Pacific Northwest.
@rosemcgovern41696 ай бұрын
I'm a Northern California native with a General American accent. For the past decade, I've lived in Southern California, and my accent fits right in. I can only tell which half of the state people are from by their freeway terminology.
@uigrad6 ай бұрын
I like the term "General American accent", just because it is so hard to give it a single location. I think of it as the Midwestern city accent, but if you go to a place like Pinkneyville, IL (half-way between Carbondale and St. Louis), you'll find the true regional accent for that region, and it's pretty far from a general American accent. (If you're curious, it's very similar to a western Tennessee accent) __Every__ U.S. city has people with the General American accent, because travel between U.S. cities is easy and no one feels pressured to drop it after moving. Places like Columbus, Indianapolis, and Peoria have the highest percentage, but coastal cities with lots of transplants from the midwest (Seattle, LA, and even Boston) are not far behind. Even people raised for generations in those coastal cities have settled on this accent because their neighbors speak it and it's what's heard on TV. The "So. Cal" accent is an actual regional accent. In college (midwest), I knew a few people with it, but within a year of moving to the midwest, they had lost it. Like many regional accents, it is dying also. It became a cultural phenomenon in the 90s, and that was probably its peak. A few decades from now, it will probably be completely gone (if it isn't already). When a regional accent goes away, the General American accent usually fills its place.
@smallmeadow16 ай бұрын
I'm a northern Californian and was in college in the 1970s and was amazed at the cultural differences. Men from northern California would not be wearing shorts and sandals much at any time of the year, but those SoCal guys wore both at all times of the year. I think there's still a bit of difference on that.
@rls251326 ай бұрын
@@smallmeadow1 It is much warmer, you can't even swim in the ocean. As a Michigander growing up with the cold Great Lakes we swam in San Diego in the ocean year-round. The water temp was 65-68...warm enough for us but I must say the locals did think we were a bit crazy to be swimming in that temp. But those I know who live near san Fransisco say it is always too cold for ocean swimming. San Diego just had this large beach town vibe I loved.
@spagerrhowtaf86735 ай бұрын
So Cal for over 60 years. I don't know about the "laid back" accent - I have never heard anyone use in expect in movies and jokes.
@LaraSierra285 ай бұрын
Not much with the accent, but more about the slang. For instance, how do you refer to the lot sitting diagonally across the street? If you say kitty corner, that's Socal. If you say catty corner, you're in the Bay Area. More regional terms: janky, the city, and hella--all NorCal words you'd never hear in SoCal. And in SoCal: dude, sigalert with its companion term traffic break, and "the" before any freeway number.
@soldat25015 ай бұрын
Try the Geechie accent from the Gullah language found on the barrier islands in SC and GA.
@christiandulaney16385 ай бұрын
I went to The Citadel, and heard that accent plenty of times in the King Street Market. It was called the "slave market" back when I went to college. Very creepy
@frankbrown13215 ай бұрын
I thought that was going to be the last one. In fact, the Outer Banks accents (really more than a dialect than accents) have the same basic cause - a very isolated cultural group.
@toyajames39355 ай бұрын
I noticed he didn't mention Gullah in many videos. That's a language of its own. My Grandma taught us the language. It's beautiful.
@youresomodest4 ай бұрын
Kept waiting for him to talk about Gullah.
@N9body-j3u4 ай бұрын
@toyajames3935 he forgot the Yams of new orleans, too. Everybody things New Orleanians have a southern accent, but the sound like New yorkers
@thomasbeerman55005 ай бұрын
Yinz guys got me dahn pat! Yea from Pittsburgh! Traveled for service industry and everyone knew I was from da burg! Worked in Australia, hard to understand them but the kiwis were impossible! Good video!
@joshtomsic87115 ай бұрын
Same I remember Myrtle Beach when I was 18 running into girls from the south and they talked about our accents.. whole time sounding like I'm in a country song with their twang they got.. they said my accent was the worst too I never had a clue til then lol
@ForeverFlaccidАй бұрын
The gullah/geechie dialect here in SC can be difficult at times to understand. Not surprised most of the more difficult ones are in the south. It is kinda crazy just how many accents there are in our country once you think about it.
@BradSchmor6 ай бұрын
Fun fact about Ocracoke (yes you pronounced it correctly) is that it has a British war cemetary. During WW2 the bodies of the crew of a British ship sunk by the Germans washed ashore. Due to their isolation they just identified the bodies as best they could and buried them in Ocracoke, where they remain today. Officially it's British soil, but in practice it's maintained by the locals of Ocracoke and the US Coast Guard.
@massmanute5 ай бұрын
That's a touching story. And in Normandy, France there is a local group of French people who lay flowers at the graves of fallen American soldiers whose families can't afford to do the same. A similar thing happens at a Canadian cemetery near Juno Beach in Normandy, and as an interesting twist to the story, some of the locals put maple leaves on the graves in the Canadian cemetery.
@paulkrail63586 ай бұрын
Texas has states inside the state that people not from Texas don’t know about, we got east Texas, west Texas, Central Texas, North Texas, south Texas, the panhandle, and the coast. Each one is very different
@greenytaddict5 ай бұрын
And different parts have a huge Hispanic influence.
@erickottke96735 ай бұрын
In San Antonio area, if you want to see a fight start, ask people if they are in the south or the southwest. I think San Antonio/Austin is considered right on the geographic & climate border between S/SW.
@moseshoward70725 ай бұрын
A personal trainer approached me in the gym the other day and offered to show me some exercises, during which he asked, "Waddaya goes?" He was a young black man and at first I couldn't tell that he was asking "What are your goals?" because he couldn't pronounce the "L" in "goals." He also pronounced "shoulders" as "showdahs."
@admiralbenbow5083Ай бұрын
Being a French and an English speaker I would love to spend some weeks trying to understand and speak Cajun. I have been to the US many times but never to that region ! Not only do you have to deal with the switches you also have to decipher the accent !
@jgs11226 ай бұрын
Life long SoCAL resident. Rarely hear the last meal of the day called "supper'.
@anonymousone28435 ай бұрын
That is prevalent here in Northeast Pennsylvania. Supper is almost always used to designate the evening meal here.
@loislewis52295 ай бұрын
Yep, it’s dinner 🍽️
@EclecticSB5 ай бұрын
Exactly! His parents were perhaps from the Midwest? We always hear that word when we travel there. No one I know uses it in So Cal.
@Art-w1l8x5 ай бұрын
😂😅 7th generation Alta Californian here & have never heard anyone say "supper" 😂
@Rad392jeep5 ай бұрын
yeah as soon as I heard "supper," this video lost all credibility
@maryefromky6 ай бұрын
i'm from Kentucky and understood every word of the people from the region, haha. one feller was talking about working in a coal mine and i think he said a pipe or something got backed up and exploded. the girl was talking about hanging out with people she thought was friends, but they were laughing and makin fun of her, on account of her strong accent. then my favorite, that's old Jim Tom! durned if he aint the most Kentuckiest man alive, haha. gosh i love this region of Appalachia so much! he was talking about the old buggy they used to ride into town, it'd take em a long time to get to town, and he'd be workin the brakes. we start to go up a hill, and i kindly push the brake on him. he told that old mule, he said, "Git up there!" me turnin the wheel, he looks back and says "Jim Tom! Turn the brakes loose!" he'd take three ears of corn to feed it at lunch. he'd start back home bout 4 o clock." lmao, i love it though. somethin about that twang, people in Tennessee and West Virginia have it too. like music to my ears! literally all the rest of the people i could understand, it was just the regional references and words like dight, lol never heard that one before. just about all the rest, i could understand if i listened hard. then the Tennnessee feller, he said "naw, we didn't have no electricity, didn't have no runnin water neither. we run it out of the, we got it out of the spring. but they eventually got electricity up through here." and i always said it as Apple-at-ya. but yes, to the rest of the country and internationally, we are unintelligible, lol and yes, we've done been isolated for literally forever. since day one. and its made us real particular
@jennifercarter12656 ай бұрын
That girl who was talking about hanging out with so-called friends made me so sad. It's one thing to be enchanted by someone's accent and want to hear it, but that story sounded like mean people.
@ALWhite-ub1ye6 ай бұрын
Clear to me, as well. I grew up in NJ but I spent every summer with grandparents from WV. I live here now. There were a few points early on when I has to translate for my wife but she's gotten past that, now.
@notspacekeeper6 ай бұрын
Found that perfectly understandable. I'm from rural Scotland. Then again, I work with people from half of Europe, and a couple from the most remote place you could imagine in Ireland where they speak so fast you can hardly tell one word from another.
@maryefromky6 ай бұрын
@@ALWhite-ub1ye yep, we all sound real similar in central Appalachia ... Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, three of my favorite states. beautiful country!
@S.D._777_6 ай бұрын
SW Virginian here and understood every word. We speak the same way here.
@kumaridesilva39926 ай бұрын
I don't know if you are familiar with the 50th state but when I first moved to Hawai'i I found the local accent with its "pidgin" slang certainly the hardest American English accent to understand
@TheRoRo565 ай бұрын
Agreed
@Jmr6813Ай бұрын
My two favorites here are the Brooklyn and Cajun accents!
@Corsuwey6 ай бұрын
I'm from Nebraska... And I'm sitting here thinking, "Seriously? English speakers from outside the US find some of those accents hard to understand?"
@Mikelaxo6 ай бұрын
Yes, I do
@heathersandsted42506 ай бұрын
I am in Central Nebraska, and I can understand everything up until we got to the end of the video. And then, it might as well been from a whole different planet.
@fubselcom6 ай бұрын
im from Germany but fluent in English and i understood everything except for the elderly men without teeth
@HuckleberryHim6 ай бұрын
Haha, okay, you can perfectly understand thick Ocracoke Brogue? The vast majority of Americans will have trouble understanding at least a few of the clips played here. Why are you lying dude, lol.
@albertmiller2electricbooga8976 ай бұрын
For me it's harder to pick out questions from statements whenever they use rising tones on every word, and all the r sounds are hard to imitate
@gavendb5 ай бұрын
I'm texan born and raised. I didn't always appreciate accents till I moved away. Since then, I've made it a point to record family members talking. It's priceless to show people from the northern states what a west and north texas accent sounds like. I have some real king of the hill folks in the fam.
@Beer_Me5 ай бұрын
Texan too, I got legit laughed at by a couple little twats working a Wendy's drive through in South Dakota. Sorry I don't speak my vowels in fucking cursive
@l79865 ай бұрын
The Appalachia accent is the hardest for me to decipher. Once drove through West Virginia and when we had to stop to get gas it got to the point I had to have the guy write down what he was saying because I couldn't understand a thing he said even when he slowed down.
@DedraAmbroseandSnow5 ай бұрын
Yes it can be yes
@seensaw73394 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@suterfamily55784 ай бұрын
The Appalachia accent is completely absent in the northern panhandle and the eastern part of the eastern panhandle.
@kenw94384 ай бұрын
I love that you honor and enjoy the diversity of language. Have you checked out Pidgin English in Hawaii? Most locals know how to turn it off or at least tone it down for outsiders but it can be quite different, A lot of it is vocabulary differences but there are also lots of tonal variations.
@crazeekids97445 ай бұрын
It’s “apple-atcha” and it’s the best! Love that accent! I grew up in Ky and can confirm that western, central, and eastern parts of the state all have distinct accents.
@tinagoodman72565 ай бұрын
If an Appalachian woman says Oh, bless your little heart - run!
@amandasimply66676 ай бұрын
I live in St. Louis, and we pronounce the ending S, Saint Lewis.
@uigrad6 ай бұрын
Absolutely, 100%. I don't think it's always been this way. In older movies, the 's' is usually dropped. Even in downstate Illinois, I knew a couple of people that would always drop the 's', but frankly, they're just wrong. Actually, in each of those cases, it was someone that moved there from somewhere else. Once you get anywhere near St. Louis, you'll find that the 's' is pronounced 100% of the time today.
@JustMe-dc6ks6 ай бұрын
There is the old musical ‘Meet me in St Louis.’ though.
@amandasimply66675 ай бұрын
@@GingerBreadBeing Americans don't drop the S, but the man in the accent video does. I wanted to make a note so more British/Europeans don't make the same mistake.
@stephanielasek60705 ай бұрын
In the south we pronounce your city that way as well, but yet there are places in the south that we pronounce the same name Lewy.
@limoments40752 ай бұрын
Missouri is pronounced “mezurah” to my ears when I lived in S Illinois & S Missouri. From MN.
@DrummerPainterDogNutPGH5 ай бұрын
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, although I lived up and down the east coast. I moved away at age twenty, finally settled back in "the Burgh" at age fifty-one. I loved your Pittsburgh segment. At one point I lived in Baltimore. There is a neighborhood in Baltimore called Dundalk, the locals sound like they are from Pittsburgh. There was a steel mill there, so maybe that was a factor. (Pittsburghers relocating for work?)
@joshtomsic87115 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Pittsburgh we would do work in Baltimore years back and soon as they would hear us the shit talking would begin over football lol
@charlesdavis794021 күн бұрын
Fascinating and expertly done. Good job. 👍
@bonniebickett45204 ай бұрын
Being from GA living in Missouri now, I have to explain that a sentence in a southern accent is just one whole word!
@needserotonin1676 ай бұрын
The Midwest does have an accent, they tend to nasalize vowels General American “o” becomes more of a nasal “ah”
@Primadonana6 ай бұрын
It’s true, we say “Tah” instead of “To” and I hear the use of “Dhat” more often than “That” even the word “than” is pronounced like “Dhan” sometimes, also the Should’ah, Would’ah and Could’ah is very common too.
@JacquelineMoleski6 ай бұрын
Yes, this is true. If I said, "I'm going to the store," it would sound like "I'm goin' ta the store." In cities like Chicago and Detroit the TH is often softened to a "d" so you get "We watched da' Bears!" (Chicago football team). Suburbanities tend NOT to do this though. It's very much a neighborhood by neighborhood thing. The biggest tell of a Michigan accent though is that the letter "T" isn't pronounced in the middle of words. It's either gone entirely and replaced with a glottal stop or it becomes a "d". So city is cidy, kitty is kiddie, butter is bu'er (buh-er there's an actual glotal stop). Then there's words like kitty-corner (a place on the diagonal corner from another place), anyways (not anyway), and local words. So Michigan has three Distinct accents - urban, like Detroit; the Upper Peninsula (Yooper accent hazzah!), and the rest of the state.
@catw69986 ай бұрын
Words like rock and Rochester and the city in NC, Charlotte is not quite sweet and soft as one would think. Upstate NY, 2nd grade to HS grad.
@sirnate90656 ай бұрын
Grew up in Eastern North Carolina, so I actually have a pretty good ear for the Outer Bank's accent even though it's notoriously difficult for people moving in.
@jocelynralston52853 ай бұрын
I'm from North Georgia and you were right on about the Appalachian Accent. Sounded like home to me!
@Jack_Stafford5 ай бұрын
I grew up with that "non accented general American accent", my parents spoke it naturally, it's what I hear in everyday life from nearly everyone from every economic or educational strata, it's just normal and natural to speak clearly. It was reinforced in schools and if someone was lazy or incorrect in their ennunciation they were corrected and taught how to do it properly. There was a fair amount of focus put on grammar, pronunciation and spelling and we were even then informed that our natural way of speaking was considered "standard American English" and that's why so many actors in newscasters sounded very natural to us, we must have sounded almost foreign to someone from the northeast or the deep south. And many friends and relatives did go on to find jobs in radio work, movies, and other media. It is kind of funny, when I speak to people from other parts of the country or the world they often will say I sound like I have "a radio voice" or think that I'm putting a lot of effort into speaking clearly when it really is just the way I grew up. It's second nature and requires no thought or extra effort. I guess in that way I am lucky that I have one of the most easily understood accents, because being understood is such a crucial part of communication.
@suzicq5 ай бұрын
Same, I grew up that way too. When I moved to Kentucky, I'd constantly get, "You ain't from around here, are ya?" My family now claims that I sound southern when I visit them. I do hear some Kentucky creeping into my voice at times, so I guess they're right.
@cryvage13546 ай бұрын
What I found out is that I mostly have problems to understand when it is an old guy who barely has teeth speaking, no matter his accent.
@canchero7246 ай бұрын
Take care of your teeth folks 😂
@Aritul5 ай бұрын
I thought the same. His pronunciation would have changed with teeth.
@kdks78435 ай бұрын
No teeth? Why don't these people use dentures?
@John_aka_Clint6 ай бұрын
I grew up in So. Cal. and have to say that I really don't think the guy carrying the baby at the beginning of the video is from CA. Not only did he not sound local to me but he used the term "supper." My sense is he's a Midwest or East Coast transplant who's faking the local accent--badly. The chica after him didn't sound natural to me, either. Waaaay too exaggerated, especially on the word "nermally." The third example sounded spot-on, though.
@linzzzanity5 ай бұрын
At all. He sounded more Jersey than socal.
@PeacefulPariah5 ай бұрын
supper is KS, NE, MO, IL, IA farmland, and sometimes the mid South, and I've heard it in CO and WY.
@GrantRabenn3 ай бұрын
correct, we don't say "supper" in SoCal
@hglundahl4 ай бұрын
12:57 Scandinavian? Minnesota? Viskonsin (vere Yon Yonson is from)?
@JS-jn8ku5 ай бұрын
My friend spoke Creole. When he was drinking, there was no hope for even catching a drift of what he was saying. I only heard hmana he hmanah hahaha.... Wonderful man.
@Sonic-dogmagic5 ай бұрын
I was an Army Brat. My dad was in the US Army for 21 years and we lived in many places. Therefore, people sometimes have a tough time telling where I'm from by my mixed accent. 😂
@Sal.K--BC6 ай бұрын
Wow! You can really hear the Finnish influence in the guy who was talking about falling off the roof into the snow. (My parents are both Finnish)
@juliedepaolo99715 ай бұрын
I agree. I could detect the Finnish too. I spent some time in Finland and found the language interesting. Nothing like it.
@Kid_Ellipsis5 ай бұрын
Every Yooper I’ve met has a Finnish last name
@Sal.K--BC5 ай бұрын
@@Kid_Ellipsis except for the ones who anglicized the original name (for example Mäki to Hill). FUN FACT: Not a yooper, but if Pamela Anderson's great-grandfather didn't change his surname to Anderson, she woulda been Pamela Hyytiäinen. Altho, since celebrities often make stage names, I'm sure it woulda been changed to something else for her stage name.
@ronalddonaghe36742 ай бұрын
I guess I'm pretty easy to understand since I come from New Mexico (that blank spot in your mind between Texas and Arizona). Enjoyed the video. Laughed out loud at some of the accents .
@dawnproffitt-schrag75786 ай бұрын
Regarding the pronunciation of Appalachia - I’m from southwest Virginia and I’ve lived in several rural and urban places in the U.S. (both coasts and in between). In my experience, the use of the ‘atch’ pronunciation is used by natives of southern Appalachia. The long ‘a’ sound is used by speakers from the northern part of the region and most other Americans.
@tinagoodman72565 ай бұрын
From sw VA myself. Visited around DC and Maryland area when I was a young teenager. My new friends used to tell others to be quiet and let Tina talk.
@susanlueem82676 ай бұрын
Pittsburgh PA is the hardest. We speak very fast and even have our own words. I was talking about our steel mills and they thought I was talking about „still“ mills. Really shocked me.
@nantzlynn776 ай бұрын
Hey, Yinzer!
@nishikaze6 ай бұрын
I was born and have family in Pittsburgh and grew up in Philly. My god what a culture shock. My aunt and I go back and forth about our accents. So funny. At least I can understand you.
@trentpettit63366 ай бұрын
@@nishikaze Philly and Pittsburgh are certainly very different, but ironically, folks in BOTH of them are known for their non-standard pronunciation of the word "eagle" (or should I say "iggle"...)
@VeretenoVids6 ай бұрын
When I first moved to Pittsburgh a couple of decades ago I didn't have much trouble understanding the accent, it was the vocabulary that threw me. The first time someone asked me for a "gum band" I was completely baffled. 😂
@nantzlynn776 ай бұрын
I’ve lived in Pittsburgh all my life and never used “gum band” when referring to a rubber band
@andrelindor17755 ай бұрын
As a pittsburgher I will proudly say we have our own language!!!
@rksnj67975 ай бұрын
When I went to Penn State, most of my social circle was either from Pittsburgh or Philly. We developed a mashup language of each city's dialect. We could be having a conversation in public and people would wonder what we were saying!
@ranglaandersson39934 ай бұрын
Meh, Chicago's gotchyer number.
@andrelindor17754 ай бұрын
@ranglaandersson3993 only thing Chicago has is ruining pizza
@ranglaandersson39934 ай бұрын
@@andrelindor1775 Yeah, ok.
@atarahchomah146325 күн бұрын
It’s called Pittsburghese. We have a published dictionary too with the same name! I’m from a town south of the Burgh. Home of champions. Those from the Mon Valley would know what town I’m talking about. 😁
@planelvr073 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyable! Pacific NW here, I've heard we have no accent. My mom majored in English, sooo we had to know our spelling, grammar & pronunciations! BTW, I think you meant Scottish-Irish accent...Scotch is a liquor.
@graceunderpressure38605 ай бұрын
I live a few hours south of Chicago and I sometimes have trouble understanding people from there. Years ago I lived in a college town and worked in a store. Parents from Chicago would come in to buy things for their kid's dorm rooms. On day a lady asked if we had any clacks. I had her repeat it several times, but never understood what she was asking for. She then explained that a clack was used to tell time.
@generic_account21385 ай бұрын
We got tree clacks rye-ch here in da frunchroom. Just gimmier yer garachkey and I'll letcha chrew.
@NoBullsheet4 ай бұрын
Wonderful video !! Thanks for uploading this. I am an Asian Indian, and live in a Non-English speaking country in Europe. Though, I have been to the US and have lived there for an year. I not only loved being there meeting new people...but also found out that it is the American version of the English that I do like (read: love) the most...above all other accents from any other English speaking countries in the entire world. Hope to visit the US again someday. 😄😍 ...Great country, great people, great accent ! PEACE!
@LMaGillicutty993 ай бұрын
Awww, come on back!
@lspthrattan6 ай бұрын
As a Texan from the Piney Woods, I can not only tell you where a Texan is from, I can also tell you that folks who try to imitate any Texas regional accent fail every time. Probably easier just to find a real Texan who can hit a mark and memorize the lines.
@trentpettit63366 ай бұрын
Have you ever come across a person from New Orleans (or its suburbs) with the famous "Yat accent" which is unusual for its "New York" sound, living in your part of Texas? My first-grade teacher in Texas (right outside Houston) was a "Yat transplant" originally from Kenner, and this was long before the Katrina disaster happened!
@stephanielasek60705 ай бұрын
What town are you from? I lived in Grapeland for a while.