50 People Show Us Their States' Accents | Culturally Speaking | Condé Nast Traveler

[@visitingstatue171]

As a foreigner, I can pretty much only hear 2 accents: Southern and not southern

[@juandoe8879]

That's all I hear and I am american.

[@magpie7938]

Where I live in the U.S., there's a lot of accents so I'm pretty keen on it

[@bransonjallim2620]

XxDepthsOfShadowsxX there’s plains,southern,northern,north east accents

[@tasnimuddin902]

Yeah pretty much

[@CoatHanger25]

Moonlit Waters Me too

[@davidfirth]

45 people saying they don't think they have an accent. 5 that clearly do.

[@cautionshebites7461]

Lol didn’t expect you here! Snd yeah lol

[@danielgomezjr]

Hi

[@screaminggecko4280]

Wait hold up, u came

[@gamesandculture]

Whoa. David. Still slinging brutal truth.

[@justaguyontheinternet1556]

Wut are you doing here?

[@guilhermebraga9773]

Funny how the US is so gigantic, yet the changes in their accents are not that dramatic when you compare to Britain’s size and how it changes so much across much smaller distances

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Samsung Ericsson

[@sylar2a]

In croatia, we don't understand people who live 100 km away

[@fabiofdez]

Yeahh, most likely since the US is so much younger than GB, which existed for hundreds of years even before ppl started moving around much. In comparison, more than half of the US isn't even 200yrs old. And in that time there was a lot of movement so there was never the chance much for distinguished dialects to pop up like back in Britain

[@SuperSkipMaster]

Oh look a european finding something else to claim is better in Europe on the internet. Loser.

[@HopperGround]

@@SuperSkipMaster you must be American with that comment, really you’re the loser lol

[@JSterling812]

"I definitely notice it when I'm travelling" That's the Jersey way of saying "Our accent comes out when we swear"

[@beccaesten7709]

i dont notice it until people call me out after saying things like coffee, dog, walk😭

[@SmokinSesh]

Jersey here lol. Coffee. Dog and drawer.

[@beccaesten7709]

@@SmokinSesh yup drawer too! lol no matter how hard i try it always just comes out like "draw"

[@SmokinSesh]

@@beccaesten7709 I’m so glad it’s not just my family hahahahaha. It’s a draw to me too.

[@thezigglybop]

My aunt swears a lot and she does it in her jersey accent 😂

[@Lalo3001]

With all due respect, you should have put older people, at least 55+, who still speak in their states' original accents.

[@ikbeneenaardbei4896]

Agree. That would be way better

[@bealtesandfloyd]

I agree but the NY guy was 👌

[@joeyedmond6587]

All due respect, there's no such thing as "original accents"

[@markhenley3097]

@@joeyedmond6587 Correct, but some of the States' accents are lost with increased inter-connection. For example here in the UK where I live, in the 1950s many people in parts of the country spoke in more regional accents, with certain phrases and forms of grammar dating back to Middle English, but not used in Standard English. I read a story of a child during WWII who left London during the Blitz, to a small town in Northern England, and heard completely unique forms of pronunciation and grammar, which were leftovers of the more complex grammar structure English had in the past. When he visited the town again a few years ago, he couldn't find anybody who spoke like they used to.

[@hardwirecars]

texas was fairly spot on for women with texas you have to have a girl and a guy we speak very different to each other.

[@sweetmash477]

This is literally a bunch of people who have intentionally lost their accent and are now trying to imitate it.

[@trishalennex4630]

And after a while in Ohio especially you lose you’re accent often when u grow up too I couldn’t tell with her

[@JigglePhysics3000]

Maybe it's because they took a bunch of metropolitan liberal millennials to do this video.

[@trishalennex4630]

kledo5778 mmmmmmmmmm I don’t know

[@JigglePhysics3000]

@@trishalennex4630 Well, I think you can tell. I mean, you can see the age. None of them look like they're poor, they look pretty middle-class. Also, some of them are even wearing political (democratic) shirts. I think it's pretty obvious they didn't interview random people.

[@trishalennex4630]

kledo5778 okay so yes maybe that but what I meant was that millennials would probably still have their accent, I’m assuming a lot of these people have lived out of the state for a while and have faded their accent

[@sinclairsbakery]

Suggestion: Rather than choosing people to impersonate others in their state who have accents, choose people who actually have the accents.

[@zacharycannabis3109]

when you're in California it's hard to outsource i guess

[@BooneDavey]

Eh idk. These are pretty accurate for the not-so-accented... accents. But also would know the thicker-accented people by association.

[@Britenus]

Seriously, I live in a Ohio and we are surrounded by so many accents. Northern Ohio “My MAm” hard As. Middle Ohio sounds like a standard news caster, Southern Ohio twangs, and rural Ohio accents that are different than southern. Above is Michigan with the lakes accent, and below is northern KY with a faster speaking twangy sound than the rest of KY.

[@whatthefuckisthis7]

the minnesota and california ones were both on point

[@dontmindmyname7563]

@@Britenus Michigander here 👋

[@somedude8380]

saying that you don't have an accent is like saying that this comment doesn't have a font.

[@stillnotstill]

Oh I like that comparison

[@Exayevie]

I see no font here.

[@coledeko]

@@Exayeviesigh.

[@Exayevie]

@@coledeko I'm just saying, it's a way less compelling argument than he thinks it is when you look at these letters. Honestly, it demonstrates what the "i don't have an accent" crowd means really well, technicalities aside.

[@BazookaGamingGirl]

@@coledekoPeople who say/think they don’t have an accent are saying that because their accent sounds “normal” to them. They don’t think about their way of speaking as an accent, even though it is. The font comparison is similar because yeah it’s obviously a font, but it’s a very basic font that we’re all used to seeing so it doesn’t feel like a font, if you get what I mean.

[@braxton5264]

When the Massachusetts girl said “hsidhfbisjdvfhsjsbisjhfbrujahfhfjd quateah foah some chowdah” I felt that

[@victoriagrace5855]

Braxton Collett park the car in Harvard yard and the guy a quarter for some chowder

[@aprilford9670]

She went dkeiwodkeodfowprkfoffftt chowdah

[@alessiaomari7845]

Lmao only a small amount of people in Massachusetts sound like that

[@WRsdO0djebeuR_WY7bllWqzfmo]

You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder. It's a Southie accent (not South End).

[@darria3492]

Braxton Collett 😂😂😂

[@goofbob8]

They picked the worst people to represent their states accent

[@jakesmidt7016]

100% The lady for my state said something that was blatantly false.

[@Ejexion]

#Diversity

[@geraldtheseal6050]

Litterally had a Democrat for Texas 🤔🤔

[@Reenar1201]

Lilpeanut8888 yeah he was

[@jackanderson1534]

except the wisconsin guy, his was BANG on

[@Aaron-is8yt]

Texas woman sounds like she's about to burst into tears

[@pascho1057]

Her beta t shirt says it all

[@offusyoufus4278]

@@pascho1057BAHAHAHAHA

[@adventure_lewis3354]

2:26 you lost me at "you gotta park the car"

[@prajwalam5092]

Hey bro, I took the pic in your profile photo.

[@ahuman3749]

She sounds like Sadness in Inside out

[@aldonroe4558]

“Oh you betcha” sums up Minnesota almost perfectly. Add an Ope and you got it

[@skovol007]

You forgot to end that with a "Dontchya know".🙃

[@patc5482]

Hey tell yer folks I says hi

[@petuxinhamaria470]

As a non-native english speaker, this is genuinely so calming and entertaining to hear

[@KEVINBRYANful]

As a non-native english speaker, I'm afraid to going to Boston and find everyone speaking like that girl jajaja

[@Superbatmanbro]

What the guy said is to true, We Midwest Washington people do have an accent and we don’t like admit it

[@arolemaprarath3248]

Because we are amazing and powerful.

[@notizzyb]

@@KEVINBRYANful not everyone does talk like that as the strength of it can vary, but most people do have some level of an accent

[@afrini]

Fr

[@kevinkotur4804]

This video needs more linguists and old people who actually have the accents.

[@junab3743]

This!!

[@u._harp]

Yeah

[@quietbox2627]

exactly kids don't really have accents due to people moving around since the old days and the internet being able to talk to people around the world

[@danfaeh9264]

AMEN

[@veganconservative1109]

I think so. Too many 'basin' states sounded exactly alike to me.

[@saraasher1052]

The Texas girl sounds like she was being held at gunpoint behind the camera.

[@mortisthemagnificent376]

That’s because she is

[@airfallgamer6435]

Ha

[@codeinecowboy8607]

A Texan with a beto shirt? Probably was held at gunpoint with a fully semi auto with a .30 caliber clip

[@wcf312]

@@codeinecowboy8607 I hear it's able to dispense 30 rounds in half a second**

[@fouralot]

@sophia lazzaro wait she does???? i feel like a jerk now :/

[@TheMclairsSanctuary]

the Massachusetts girl speaking giberish 😭😭

[@Wes.jumpss]

Gibberish to you. Perfect English to me 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@mollyergen3132]

Am I the only one that just heard literally the same accent throughout the whole video besides when people were forcing themselves to sound different

[@mkscorp9152]

Ikr

[@kiera1209]

I think they should have picked random people without telling them what they were doing.

[@jameskelly2559]

Yup agree

If they would have actually gotten a random sample instead a bunch of young professional hipsters then there would have been a nice variation in English accents. Instead everyone was just speaking the same way and varying a few words

[@TofranBohk]

@Allô français canadien There are plenty of different accents in the US also. They just didn't do a good job finding actual people who speak with them in this video.

[@zakar......]

Half of them: "I don't really have an accent" Other half: "HEY YALL!"

[@addie_is_me]

Zakaaar Offnanyan I thought they came across that way though, Middle American vs Southern. That was cute.

[@_addi_1428]

Zakaaar Offnanyan Nah Nah nahhh north east and west America: u think we sound pretty normal South: HEY YALLLLL WHAT YALLL DOIN TONIGHTTT???? the south already knows lol

[@bassnation986]

Addi Wright yup 😂🤣

[@Johnny_64]

SCOTT HERE

[@raph485]

@@Johnny_64 dude i appreciate your scott the woz reference

[@ShenCobra]

Let’s get it straight: Everyone has accents to some degree we just don’t notice the one we have, because it’s our norm.

[@Kaiisdreaming]

Facts

[@yomamasfavoriteson3113]

Facts

[@maashido8185]

Facts

[@Chomidome]

Facts

[@G33P33]

Facts

[@ColtonMack]

I love how none of these people had the accent they were talking about

[@LexusFox]

*”Well, California has like a... we say “Like”, like a lot.”* Sadly true.

[@jasi7313]

Honestly that's kindof everywhere in the US though...

[@0elli085]

Soooo true. A lot of us have valley girl accents too

[@shaylas.2896]

Like foreals

[@sweetpotato3427]

When I lived in California I picked that up and when I moved to Illinois every one pointed it out 🙄

[@milly6018]

@@sweetpotato3427 I've lived in california all my life except now I live in Texas. Does that mean I'm gonna pick up a Texas accent?

[@Staples-Giftbag]

The Texas girl sounds like she’s talking into a fan

[@itsalysssaa]

sounds like she’s bout to cry at any second

[@michaelf5185]

shes likely nervous. i do the same

[@pawlpstv7115]

FR

[@XMissCupCakejeee]

I was looking for this comment😹

[@THE-NC2]

Her vocal chords vibrate way too much lol

[@SatireDepartment]

“California like- we say Like” Accurate

[@bruhyoulowontime9009]

Heh

[@morelandlesswater8656]

We should get another word to say at some point though

[@nnuveohombre]

We do say that too much

[@jonp3890]

Devin..?

[@ProcyonAlpha]

Fun fact, we do that in Ireland too, put a like on the end of everything

[@What-xg1kw]

Everyone: talking about accents Utah: asking nicely if you want to go skiing in the moun'ains

[@frugal9065]

this is accurate

[@Lekktrik]

as a utah native, its more like mow-ins, and usually we just leaving out the -g in ing words like skiing or running so it sounds like "you wanna go skiin in the mow'ins?"

[@dandymcgee]

Alabama - 5:02 Alaska - 4:15 Arizona - 2:04 Arkansas - 0:32 Californa - 1:13 Colorado - 1:16 Connecticut - 3:41 Delaware - 3:29 Florida - 4:29 Georgia - 0:37 Hawaii - 3:52 Idaho - 4:00 Illinois - 1:27 Indiana - 4:04 Iowa - 0:23 Kansas - 4:24 Kentucky - 0:49 Louisiana - 0:34 Maine - 2:35 Maryland - 3:55 Massachusetts - 2:25 Michigan - 3:45 Minnesota- 2:56 Mississippi - 0:35 Missouri - 4:27 Montana - 3:12 Nebraska - 4:13 Nevada - 4:06 New Hampshire - 2:32 New Jersey- 4:09 New Mexico - 1:37 New York - 0:53 North Carolina - 4:54 North Dakota - 2:53 Ohio - 1:33 Oklahoma - 0:13 Oregon - 0:00 Pennsylvania- 4:40 Rhode Island - 2:10 South Carolina - 5:06 South Dakota - 2:58 Tennessee - 0:40 Texas - 1:46 Utah - 1:59 Vermont - 0:58 Virginia - 5:00 Washington - 3:22 West Virginia - 2:01 Wisconsin - 3:06 Wyoming - 3:14

[@basiccaucasiangirl]

Thank you comrade

[@Nooneinparticular05]

the hero no one asked for :,)

[@crappyaccount]

thanks a lot

[@willmakecontentoneday2159]

I wish they could do this for us

[@Emanuel-qm6zk]

In alphabetical order too🤭😢✊🏽

[@susandrydenhenderson6234]

You needed to do this with older people. Young people brought up with tv and media and who travel more and mix with various others through long vacations and later education and through immigration have their accents greatly diluted and neutralized.

[@tomfields3682]

Yes!

[@Princessm1320]

I agree and I’m 23

[@truthseekerv1318]

This was the "woke" version

[@RenzoBoomin]

@@truthseekerv1318tf does this even mean 😂

[@truthseekerv1318]

@@RenzoBoomin means the video was more about showing you a diversity of people rather than people with actual accents

[@elysemcclure148]

People ARE losing their accents though. They should've asked old people to talk in their accents.

[@ConceptJunkie]

Good point! I think it was the North Dakota woman that mentioned the same thing.

[@captainblacktail8137]

They will still have an american accent

[@antheosenigma]

Ok boomer.

[@wildin1170]

Amelia Ok Boomer

[@hasuoka]

Ok boomer

[@sirrom5155]

thank you for this frenetic three-nanosecond burst of accents. i really appreciate the format.

[@McDonough01]

don't watch if you don't like

[@keylafrolden7537]

The Texas girl sounds like she is on the verge of tears

[@littlebirdie1956]

For real

[@domjonas]

She was just mocking the Texas accent but did it badly.

[@NiceDog17]

Cause she was forced to wear a Beto shirt

[@tytube3001]

she got dem hips tho

[@mai.vancon]

She was probably trying to play it cool but her nervousness was showing through.

[@biancasilva8172]

As a non native english speaker I find it very hard to differentiate some accents. There are some that are very clear because they're heavier, but some are just too subtle to recognize

[@r4ven22]

As a native english speaker, I am the same

[@B_lusch]

Yeah, as an american and native speaker I heard like two people who had an Accent. In this video what is being called an accent is just the different ways states say certain words or phrases like the "Soda pop" example. Here in Oklahoma nobody says Soda pop, we just say pop.

[@13_cmi]

It feels like a lot of them especially on the west coast is different variants of the generic bland white guy sound. The south is all similar too but they have differences. Hard to tell what though

[@STJukes]

As a British English speaker, I can't really tell the difference. I can tell when it's south or new york or west coast but that's about it.

[@canny_linguist]

@@r4ven22 Came here to comment the same thing 😆

[@eightsclone]

should of made all of them say a word for example “water” to hear the difference

[@TrekkieBrie]

Maryland: Wuuder

[@stantwiceandloo1208]

Georgia: Wata

[@catherinesmith8483]

California: like waterr

[@macyturner7263]

Philadelphia: wooder

[@beschil13]

Connecticut: wahder

[@huntxr111]

as a foreigner, there’s three groups: southern, not southern, and new york (which i’m also including boston and jersey in)

[@doomyboi]

Oh, you like to live dangerously, huh?

[@annie45108]

As a native, you’re completely correct But I’m gonna add Midwest as well (and include north and South Dakota)

[@kylebretherton1929]

Surprised no Bostonians have pilloried you in the comments yet...

[@graysonpibal8544]

Should’ve had them all say a similar sentence or something

[@TheNumber146]

They all said, "I don't think I have an accent."

[@TheKaiTetley]

Grayson Pibal. How now brown cow.

[@TheBaumcm]

It seems to be the vowels so it would be helpful to have a sample sentence.

[@anaolbe8256]

Casey Hearseman CAN WE HAVE AN AMEN

[@jfm14]

Check out the International Dialects of English Archive. They have folks read a short script and you can hear accurate accents instead of the half-assed representations in this video.

[@GUGU8b]

50 Americans go on camera to tell us they don’t *really* have an accent Bish ofc u do

[@lvciab]

that genuinely stresses me out so bad like. what do they think an accent is???? lmaonfjfjf

[@rorykillen1811]

I dont think Americans understand what the word "Accents" means

[@mikkat8613]

Gudbjørg Poulsen 💀💀💀

[@amytheprettyweirdfangirl3786]

I live in NY and I don't think I have an accent... 💀

[@JDlovescats979]

I think they mean in comparison to the stereotypical american accent, that's usually what people here mean.

[@sarahchavez3882]

i promise us texans don’t sound like we bouta cry all the time

[@rondee]

Are you sure you don't sound like you're having a panic attack?

[@winterine4827]

I thought it sounded like talking through a fan for a bit

[@luzd4515]

Right I sound nothing like that and not everything is cowboy or cowgirl and not everywere is a desert

[@mushmelloh]

I can hear the crying through your comment

[@namadila5066]

Her voice is so shaky

[@ada.has.feelings]

Utah "mouns" for "mountains" is all we needed. Perfection.

[@eliabeck689]

Yeah... We do drop a lotta letters in that word in particular. And it really is "Mou'ns", not "Mountains". We're too lazy to pronounce those middle letters, so we make do with a glottal stop and assume we don't sound weird. (We totally sound weird.)

[@linebeck1381]

The main categories are definitely: 1. Southern 2. Midwesty 3. Bostonian 4. New Yorkish 6. Canadian-like 7. Californian

[@bryanna597]

I never realized Californian's had an accent until I went on vacation to the East Coast. Everyone says we sound like TV stoners/beach bums and YES the word "like" really is used a lot LMAO :(

[@johnnyavalos9442]

we also say man & dude a lot

[@objetty11]

@@johnnyavalos9442 Don't forget " bitchen " as in Those fish tacos were reallllly bitchen....aloha

[@jasoncardwell8535]

Y'all also say for sure a lot like for sure

[@PotatoGawds]

@@bryanna597 We also said hella a lot and swear almost as much as New Yorkers

[@SteezyRedStars]

Florida is so weird! The Peninsula is divided into three. South Florida has a Hispanic American influenced accent, Central Florida is a bland vanilla accent, and Nothern Florida is almost like Georgia.

[@danielleacas2263]

yup

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

Isn't the saying something like, 'the more north you go, the further south you get'?

[@Baseballboomin]

Yes

[@SteezyRedStars]

@@candicehoneycutt4318 And the more south you go the more Spanish Latino it gets. Except for the Florida Keys which is another plain dull Atlantic vanilla accent just like Central Florida colonized by the same white Americans.

[@wakealise]

Nutshell Bread thanks💀

[@isabellalaylaa]

There are like 50 different accents in New York but we’re all still loud.

[@audreyc4976]

Isabella yeah about

[@BuckleyBrittany]

TRUE 😂

[@pavelchekov7833]

Agree

[@espynwisniewski9013]

Isabella yous

[@luvria_]

accurate

[@jakemartinez2525]

New Mexicos accent is a trip. You don’t hear it too much in Santa Fe and it’s tamer in Albuquerque but you catch some of those homies up north in cundio, espa, ojo, and even Dixon and it’s stronggggggg.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

I’d say that American accents vary more by region instead of by state. New England, Midwest, south, west coast, mountain, and cascadia I think would be the main regional accents, with some more niche ones here and there.

[@gridgd]

baltimore

[@gio_is_swag]

Ma- udeskood la tra uhk in a poo- kdelohod

[@deonte8355]

@@gridgd they be speakin a whole other language

[@Roda45Crossfit]

Except for Alabama. Clearly distinctive.

[@quesoturtle739]

Don’t forget Cajun

[@fruitloopes8173]

yes all of us Texas people sound like we’re going to cry each sentence

[@daltonmiller5590]

Can confirm lmao

[@creativeinking]

Does beyonce sound like that. I think so but I'm not sure 🤔

[@BooSki29]

LMAO

[@carscad03]

Ah yes. Maybe just because I may or may not be sad 90% of the time but most of the time I speak... how i speak

[@evandrake8095]

I’m am very guilty of saying oyl instead of oil

[@L.O.Hammmm]

I like how the Floridian accent was just straight up Spanish

[@dinoflagella4185]

Turtle Vision Films lots of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, & South Americans in South Florida. North Florida is very Southern American.

[@vinucete]

I actually don’t like this girl’s responses that much, they’re all about Miami, specifically, not about Florida as a state. I have seen 4 videos so far.

[@compulsivecommenter990]

Caribean Spanish

[@biancaa861]

@@vinucete yeah, most florida has latino accents except north florida which has more of a southeren one haha

[@dexterlee6938]

It’s pretty accurate tho for a miamian

[@HenryFigglebottomIII]

1:48 texas is shivering in their boots

[@saraibarragan6773]

Lol she doesn't stand for us, we staying red ❤

[@cmmndrblu]

Many people are unaware that EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT but one in particular is usually considered "neutral".

[@virus-eiiz]

yeah the way i see it everyone has an accent regardless of whether u r aware of it or not

[@Singsonggirl]

I came down here to say that, just because they think they speak "normal" (whatever that means) it doesn't mean they don't have one. Sure, of you've moved and/or grown up in a household where different accents were spoken it can be a little over the place, but they all have an accent! PS: that South Carolina guy is absolutely gorgeous.

[@georgiagm5471]

yes this is so true. im aussie and I can hear the difference between so many of them. some sound similar tho. but the funny thing is we don’t really have different accents in Australia mainly just bogan or non bogan

[@jaceh4942]

@@virus-eiiz well yeah lol. "Accent" just means "the way someone speaks". If you speak, you are doing it with some kind of accent. I hate when people say they don't have an accent. It's such an ignorant statement.

[@miloelite]

Ignorant or not, I can tell you with certainty I do not have an accent.

[@WMM-td4pk]

That poor texan girl, she sounds like she’s about to cry.

[@deonaaz2081]

WMM 1138 that’s what I said

[@akkermansia1488]

"Beto for Senate" will make any true Texan cry =)

[@adamlucas1185]

I thought that was her accent! lol

[@t7ngo]

Thats the usual down here

[@joshuamartinez667]

It’s cause of her Beto shirt. That’s not Texan

[@dominoot2652]

So basically it’s: Standard Americans, Southern people And Dakota people.

[@justinpaquette4970]

Boston is definitely not standard American accent lol

[@dominoot2652]

@@mossyeyec5816 The Alaska guy is what i'd consider standard. Although he isn't regionally where most people sound like that.

[@hollowlord8548]

@@dominoot2652 dont forget Iowa apparently the only thing that represents our accent is BAGEL

[@medlawar8645]

And my accent, fake canadien

[@cupids3]

And east coast

[@emilymower9902]

North East... New York 0:53 Vermont 0:58 Rhode Island 2:11 Massachusetts 2:25 New Hampshire 2:32 Maine 2:35 Connecticut 3:40 Maryland 3:55 New Jersey 4:09 Pennsylvania 4:40

[@nightmareeyes4116]

All of them: “I don’t have an accent”

[@cassidysmith6512]

Alabamians (me): I ain't got no accent

[@technosauruswrex]

Mass though was just: "Here is the Boston accent you all thought of when you clicked this video."

[@niet3191]

Michiganders don't have an accent

[@NostalgiCrazy]

To be fair, most of them were right! We tend to go for the "General American accent" when speaking to strangers, presenting, etc.

[@notstarboard]

I think by "I don't have an accent" they mean "I speak with a standard American English accent". If you sound like people usually do on national news broadcasts or in American shows, I think that's fair to say. Everyone has an accent, of course.

[@benjamindemarbieux1468]

Why does the Texas girl sound like she’s speaking through a fan

[@tyleryoung306]

I think she was just mad nervous lol you could hear her heart pounding through her chest with every word

[@ulisesortiz7921]

Tyler Bodies True, she looked at the camera for like a millisecond

[@texasisfortexans7170]

thats beto people

[@Imsleepeebruh]

@@texasisfortexans7170 😂

[@tonywong303]

IKR

[@VanDriphoven]

The Cali dude looks like the actual physical embodiment of his State

[@Jgeraus]

yup and he still somehow managed to uptalk. If he had said hella it would have been the coup de grace.

[@facelessandnameless]

girlmathnerd Exactly

[@megb9057]

i wish that guy didnt represent my state

[@AfiOye]

iRememberY0U he really does 😂

[@KrispyKitty66]

He was hella accurate. I live in Cali and he was, like, totally on point.

[@crazy_pyromaniac]

"What color is your hair?" "I don't think I have a hair color. It just kind of looks normal."

[@jacksonkolevich5328]

As an Australian, I heard like 5-6 accents out of 50.

[@jvyeknom]

That's because the accent is really only applied to certain words

[@jansojele289]

@@jvyeknom really? That's fascinating

[@jevon4206]

It’s because they chose a bad selection lol a lot of the southern states have a different accent then what they put in this vidro

[@SalvableRuin]

@@jvyeknom That's not really true. The accent is easier to hear in certain words, but it's always there.

[@Teddy-ApolloW1tness]

Same though... up that to about 7-9 tho ;-;

[@mephostopheles3752]

This video is 25 people saying “We don’t have an accent” and 25 other people who don’t have an accent saying “Our accent is sooo weird, lemme poorly explain why.”

[@four-x-trading5606]

I thought this the entire time lmao

[@thatbrokecrckhead1934]

True half the video is clickbait

[@four-x-trading5606]

ht2t00 y0U yep I hear straight through my screen...

Well, they're not linguists; they did their best to explain it -even if they failed in so doing.

[@elebrony]

An American accent is still an accent.

[@WarvelsWarvengers]

Favorite moment: "People in California have like... They say 'like'."

[@raynarounds8957]

Each state deserves its own video

[@dead_channe1]

@@raynarounds8957 Exactly. California got skipped over and I kept waiting for it to come back to be elaborated on but it never happened. T^T

[@lunakitty1990]

I'm very guilty of saying that a lot and also awesome or dude

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

We're really nasal in our voice, our a's we hide in our noses We also do vocal fry more often than other place 'All right' Some vocal fry in the 'a' & 'i' I'm working on voice training & north Carolina female singer of the Band "Squirrel nut zippers" whom sang 'winter weather' has a goal voice Its cool we individuality taylor our vocal Communication in accents!

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

@@denesetler I mean, we kinda like . . . Do that It's funny

[@emalynmc]

As someone who lives in Charleston, SC I would've LOVED to hear a Geechee accent

[@Kawsaki]

How is it that most of them sound like they have a generic “American” accent?

[@michaelabrennan8049]

Because they all were probably aspiring actors who now live in Cali so their accent got flattened out

[@SerpMolot]

michaela brennan probably because of all the immigrants this liberal channel decided to shove in. They don’t have the balls to go to hicktown to find a real representative of his respective state.

[@johnbishop9621]

Probably because it makes no sense to order them by state. There are several accents and dialects in American English, but they either go across larger areas (beyond several state's borders) or are confined to a few locations. There are also cultural dialects like African-American English (see Donkey in Shrek) or Latino English dialects. They go beyond borders.

[@gailsf]

Americans love to pretend they have huge accent range. When really it can be summarised into a few zones, it's rarely state to state. America need to be more willing to admit it when bits of culture that other countries have skip them by due to how young they are.

[@etherealcatholic5711]

Television destroyed accents. All of these people sound exactly the same.

[@tommyknops6048]

Everyone: “We don’t really have an accent.” Everyone not in THAT state: “Yes you do!”

[@nate5353]

In my opinion a lot of the people who said they don't have an accent actually all sounded very similar. So they are kinda right

[@derekarter6886]

Indiana though

[@dancepants3399]

I'm your 1k like

[@testiechimp9856]

1000th like

[@testiechimp9856]

@@dancepants3399 no u ain't I was 😂😂

[@Dinadarya]

literally everyone: we don't really have an accent

[@RiceEater483]

I think when people say that, they mean they believe they have what they consider to be the "standard American accent". I'm guilty of it myself. I've said that before because I felt mines wasn't attached to a certain area or region. Even when people say they have a certain accent, I find it kind of hard to notice. The differences throughout the entire country is pretty subtle to me besides certain ones that are thicker than most like the stereotypical NY or Southern accent.

[@Dinadarya]

And I know what they meant when they said we don’t have an accent I was just Quoting them lmao

[@global4.284]

they don't know what accent means lmao

[@mazystar74able]

Basically, they all sound the same (maybe southern accent can be distinctive..) compared to the accent differences in Britain.. cockney, scouse .. they all crazy ..

[@finnwindu]

Title should have been "50 People claim they don't have accents"

[@kawaiiButterfly-t8d]

I always thought Tennesse sounded like they had a ball in the back of their mouth. I literally love it though. Its so endearing

[@LordAus123]

So florida’s accent is actually a completely different language

[@c-dawg2145]

Yeah. Most of these in the video are misrepresented.

[@Neyobe]

😂

[@Neyobe]

I think she means that their accent is a Mexican person speaking English. But she just spoke straight up spanish

[@taylorherzog563]

Honestly people all over Florida sound so different, Spanish and Spanish people speaking English are I south Florida, while north Florida sounds more like a south accent

[@ccc7120]

Truth

[@thekiss2083]

"I don't really have an accent" 25 times

[@lyonking1820]

Majority of em do (Understood that technically everyone has an accent)

[@deadeyes2803]

its very suddle, if you cant hear the detail in the accent you are accent blind and you should get that check with a doctor, buddy.

[@illuminazi9208]

@@deadeyes2803 *subtle

[@Jamie-tx7pn]

@@deadeyes2803 "accent BLIND" "get that checked by a doctor" You may be projecting about that doctor bit, my man

[@brandonwoohoo]

I feel like almost everyone in the video who said this, was right. They just sounded 'general American'. Not all though.

[@serinalopez6046]

The Texas girls voice sounds like me when I do class presentations 😂😭

[@Seokjinnnnie]

I could feel the tears in her voice

[@caseylamb7544]

Serina Nicole Omg so true

[@a-paige]

Serina Nicole literally she sounded so nervous haha

[@allygab3906]

Yess her voice was bout shaky😂😂😂

[@natcau]

i was looking for this commect

[@animals4lyfe]

colorado with the dog is so real....we love our dogs!

[@iangoldberg7453]

“You gotta fit yo way into a conversation when you’re a New Yorker” Truer words have never been spoken

[@dubb9020]

not if you got a chopped cheese with your timbs on and you scream YERRRRRRRRRRR.

[@ldive]

Just daily life for a New Yorkaaa *whistles for a taxi*

[@doritocoolranch]

The California one was really accurate we really say “like” a lot...

[@evn1531]

Oh god we do...

[@cupid384]

we do say like a lot tho 😭

[@awkwardbean1504]

Guilty as charged 😭😭

[@maxs2845]

Yeeeeeee

[@mooshka_z]

Lol we do say like a lot where my California people at?

[@Peneyasmin123]

They all sound different, but keep saying they dont have an accecnt! oh shoore bud, oh shoore.

[@mons3020]

it's also harder to judge when you compare individual voices.

[@elsagreen1476]

Great editing, and Alabama was a perfect choice to end the video. He really did brighten my day.

[@laughingkidd815]

Half the “accents” they promised us were just “oh we don’t have an accent...”

[@alis_stairs2270]

@LAUGHING KIDD Yah. Nevada has like a more chill, laid back kinda thing. But still energized. It is also very lispy. So the s’ sound like c’s and we hold onto the s a bit longer.

[@camarodriver6475]

LAUGHING KIDD Oregon is just like "what's an accent" we all just chill Americans that miss the beach XD

[@zacsanders597]

@@camarodriver6475 LMFAO in Oregon all we care about is smoking our trees, and brewing our beer 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

[@matthewlang737]

Arizona is straight on, non accent. Maybe a few people have native american or slightly southern accents.

[@asmith9655]

Northeast Indiana - "warsh" [wash], "torlet" [toilet], "maysure" [measure], "ruff' [roof], "rut" [root], pop [soda]

[@anusikajegan7180]

As someone living In California, I can confirm that almost everyone I talk to says “like” at least once in a sentence.

[@amberj3816]

Y'all spread it to Texas why'd you do that

[@evelynsantarosa4957]

I AGREE LIKE WTF IS WRONG WITH US 😂HAHAHA

[@수빈-f3l]

OMG I just thought like ... *sigh*

[@HelloHello-gq9jr]

I do that but I live on I diana and apperently I'm the only person I know that says like way too much

[@meaghanvyne]

So true 😭

[@Chance-loss]

50%: we dont really have an accent Other 50%: yEe HaW

[@dollartreejadenyuki6046]

Edgyboi117 is that a tally hall pfp i see or no?

[@Chance-loss]

@@dollartreejadenyuki6046 yes

[@garbage_man9290]

Tally hallll

[@kristineplummer7607]

Hahahha 😂

[@natsudragneel2258]

It’s literally 50% 50% in Maryland depending on where

[@tommyhubbard342]

3:40 Californians do this as well. Sacramen(t)o. San(t)a Monca. San(t)a Cruz. We never usually say the hard T, we kind of just fill it in with our minds.

[@rachelamitrano9094]

C'mon Jersey you know we have a distinctive accent

[@bigsmells3671]

whalecome tew new joisey

[@caleigh013]

my part of NJ does not have an accent.

[@battery8792]

I am a such have an accent Yes I know I am aware of the bad grammar doing it on purpose

[@adriansookai]

Do you want a glass of wooder

[@gracehannigan158]

dreefree like this is literally a philly/delco accent but go off

[@CandorHispanus]

"I don't feel like I have an accent" said everyone ever.

[@guykruger1]

... not realizing that every single person on Earth (who talks) has an accent... You can say many things about it (that it is not distinct, or not particular to a state or a region, or I dunno what), but you can't not have it.

[@heyheyheyheyheyhey76]

The amount of them saying so was outrageous, these people didn't know what they were talking about. The New Jersey guy saying they had no accent, I could not disagree more.

[@slarbiter]

We do have an accent in Arizona. In Tucson and small towns it sounds like we were raised by people who's parents were raised with Spanish but never spoke it themselves. A dirty Spanglish is the only way I can describe it lmao

[@Boomdude67]

Oregon Washington Alaska and Delaware don't really have any accent I agree, I have experience with 3 of them

[@guykruger1]

@@Boomdude67 There is no such thing as not having an accent.......

[@annique9186]

Me, German, listening to this: So basically there's normal, southern, and straight up unintelligible. Gotcha.

[@poopfart65]

Which one is unintelligible? The New York/Boston one?

[@annique9186]

@@poopfart65 Uhh I think mainly that one, yes

[@joaocritico]

Es ist besser nur ein Paar Akzenten haben, als verschiedene Dialekten, die voneinander total unverständlich sind, wie in Deutschland.

[@MyUnquenchableThirst]

Floridian here. it's a normal speaking state with some southerners and then of course half the state is Hispanics

[@MyUnquenchableThirst]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw what's the difference between General and California and northwest?

[@rubysmith3947]

I love how easy it is to use, and it’s made my convos so much better

[@butterfly-oz9zb]

y’all literally chose the wrong ppl for most of the south. 😂

[@viceb7]

The f was the texas girls voice lol

[@campcamptrash9517]

Yes 🤣 being southern

[@marshabazan863]

Texas girl got me, I personally don’t think we sound like that but we do have a strong accent😂

[@urbanizedpizza]

@@viceb7 she was singing or something

[@jaedalopes5468]

that girl NAILED massachusetts. we talk wicked fast, blend our words together, and never say r, and sound angry

[@Mothalas]

And just the word wicked used like that.

[@yosidelrey]

Kik-Cookieキククッキー 2:26

[@fudgecake76]

I didn’t even understand what she said lol

[@user-ey9bf9bz1o]

Only in Boston do people talk like that I rarely hear anyone pronounce er ah

[@Orangecat-np3xy]

fudgecake76 me too

[@QuizzicalSoup]

Pretty much all the Americans I've met (I'm Australian, living in U.S for a while) say they don't have an accent. They definitely do.

[@TarantellistofHeart]

Stories in California: "So I was like....." "And She was like..." "And then I was like...." Edit: I don't know about NorCal, but it's definitely a thing in SoCal.

[@sophiaolson7149]

I don't live in California but I kinda do that...like mostly in my texts😂

[@DezhdaBear]

I didn't even live in California until like I was 9 and like now I'm like... yeah.

[@casshope8785]

Raychel Michel i do that and Im Canadian so

[@nayeliecamacho3191]

That is so us😂😭

[@KatV1Beta]

I live in SF Bay and 100% - like is in EVERY sentence.

[@VimVinyl]

I'm sorry but not a single soul in America says Connecticut like "connect-i-cut." We all say "connedicut."

[@catherinevirginia947]

Vim POP aha you would think my brother says it that way and I hatebut

[@UnitardZZack]

Most people refer to our accent as the “Naugatuck Valley Accent.” And most of us pronounce it “Connedicud.” Our hard T’s are obvious, but our soft T’s are pronounced as D’s unless they have a pop or importance.

[@ivelis14]

I’ve been living in Texas for 5 years and I sometimes get “corrected” how to say Connecticut. 😅 I always told them I have been saying it that way all my life and never seen it as mispronunciation. But noooow I get it 😂

[@ahryanaa61]

Nickolas Krause right i live in connecticut & forget about ct 🤣

[@biberflub]

Nickolas Krause thanks 😑

[@sydneyisaacs3008]

It stresses me out an incredible amount when people talk slowly. I guess that’s what being raised in New York does to you

[@zhi4452]

Same, LIKE HURRY UP AND SPEAK! I also hate when people walk slow, it stresses me out

[@Maggie-dh1jy]

Zhaire Felton !!

[@courtneymichelle5746]

Sydney Isaacs It’s stresses me out some people talk fast 😂

[@anicasey9868]

Connecticut and same here lmao I'm daydreaming by the end of the sentence if you take too long. Things move fast, you gotta keep my attention lol

[@rosygarrido]

@Sydney Issacs and @ Zhaire Felton, as a New Yorker it took time for me to get over this part when it comes to dealing with other states or certain countries. Lol

[@natehubbard5062]

in michigan we speak reaaally quickly and words mush together but we still understand each other perfectly-we also pronounce most of our Ts as Ds

[@RievYT]

As a European I hear new York, texas and American...

[@erica8950]

Yeah same lol

[@chefboiyougay3304]

Nah there’s way more 😂

[@mxya707]

24_ow As an American I only hear southern, regular(?), and New York.

[@saulmarin5431]

So we’re just gonna ignore Boston and Phili 😂

[@diegoaespitia]

There are a lot. Mid West, New York, Boston, Southern, Texan, Cali, South West. But I wouldnt call many of these STATE accents but rather city or racial background. Most of them are just generic American accent. In fact prob 90 percent of the are just generic accent.

[@surprisinglyokay2357]

Like....none of these people had their state's accent naturally?

[@gregm8871]

They're probably all transplants

[@Caiatl]

bs. colorado was head on😭

[@billsfan8082]

Hawaii

[@defsouul3127]

Oklahoma for sure. Literally everyone sounds like that lady

[@ColaCoca700]

Californication.

[@autumnlindseyart]

Everyone who said they "didn't have an accent" DEFINITELY had an accent 😂

[@katelynd2978]

Autumn Lindsey everyone has an accent lol

[@haileyrose9800]

Freal lol

[@MaxMax-qh5eo]

@@katelynd2978 no shEt

[@tourmii]

Literally everyone has an accent. It irks me so bad when people say they don’t lmao

[@autumnlindseyart]

@@tourmii exactly. That's why it's funny. Everyone has an accent, whether they'll admit it or not. Even "general American" is an accent lol.

[@keyboard5494]

Kentucky, Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska and Missouri were easy to understand for me beeing German. Very interesting, thanks a lot.

[@Gapeaches77able]

The Latino one wasn’t an accent, that was an entirely different language.

[@thecatonacouch9371]

Exactly wtf 😂

[@chanviratea3686]

IKR but Florida kinda have surfer dude type of accents but typically they speak in a neutral accent

[@ordie6120]

In the north they have a southern accent, and in the south they have a white/Latino accent. So when the Florida girl was talking, that’s a perfect south Florida accent/Miami accent. It’s very funny, south Florida is less southern in culture than north Florida.

[@ordie6120]

Chanvira TEA it depends where. The surfer accents are found more of in central Florida, like Orlando, and on the west coast of Florida, like Tampa.

[@Asstronut]

@@ordie6120 i can attest, we all wear boots and carry guns in Citrus haha

[@LottieTargett]

i swear that literally everyone says ‘Connecticut’ like that?

[@wargodest]

For real I was like um sis... no

[@Oliwera595]

Was searching for this comment, i'm not the only one yass haha

[@paisleyfoxkait6383]

Literally.

[@alyssagard]

idk bout u i say conneticut

[@naeemaha2167]

im british and i say it like that too haha

[@biscuit564theiii5]

People born in California first words as a baby is “like” and “um”

[@wrestlinghe2638]

Like that's so like true um like wow so true like um

[@Veenbuen1]

You might just be talking to too many valley girls

[@marioselva7762]

And hella, I also say dude sometimes haha

[@yourmother3696]

I agree

[@alexcheung658]

Honestly man

[@boaconstrictor2001]

As a Marylander, we do have an accent in some ways. Baltimore has a very specific one, and older rural Marylanders (such as my grandmother, aunt, and father) have a very noticeable one as well.

[@ShotzInTheLight]

OMG THIS!!! They got such a short clip of some girl being like "I don't think we really have an accent" and I'm just sitting here like "well clearly you've never met my uncle, and you've never heard anyone talking about 'the O's game'"

[@aerin699]

The moment that Boston girl spoke I just zoned out like,,all I heard was “get some chowder”

[@MiaBakes]

“You gotta park the car in Harvard yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder” my entire dad’s side of the family has Worcester accents which are similar so it just sounds normal to me lol

[@jamesoncaps4238]

Proud of the Hawaii girl-seems like she actually talks local instead of just doing a parody of a Hawaii accent. Wish she had more time since she actually knew what she was talking about

[@b-radg916]

Well, Hawaiian Pidgin is a language, not just an accent. Many locals switch it on or off, depending on the situation. If you're not a local, most people won't just fall into it like you can a southern drawl.

[@kokolatte825]

Most locals, like local to da max only speak pidgin and don't switch it on and off. Or even if they do kind of switch it off (i.e. in professional situations) they are still speaking pidgin.

[@mxtty5633]

kokolatte825 I don’t really know how fo speak normal cuz

[@SP_Sour]

Seriously I was going to say this, she sounded perfect, but she only got that one line and no time to explain anything

[@tropicallad3962]

Honestly I was really expecting the girl to go full on heavy Pidgin after she said that line.

[@adrenpulsifer787]

The Texas accent was not accurate why’d it sound like she talking through a fan.

[@carvman217]

I think she was about to cry

[@spranzini29]

Seemed like she was nervous

[@matthewruzanski]

The beto shirt explains it

[@giancarlo_music]

@@carvman217 LMFAOOOO

[@alextaylor9750]

@@matthewruzanski They found the only Beto supporter in Texas for this video

[@WinnDoggieLOL]

*other states getting multiple clips and sentences and explanations* Minnesota: Oh YaH yOu BeTcHa one line, guys. ONE line. less than five seconds. It does sum it up completely though.

[@georgealvarado5060]

The Florida girl, “I don’t think we have an accent” Then proceeds to speak a DIFFERENT language.

[@someonerandom2164]

Gobi Vertefeuille oh you meant literally 😂

[@WarriorsPhoto]

LoL

[@mitchderise]

Yeah, I don't think thats Florida's accent either. Thats a hispanic accent lmao

[@thebackpackingnigiri6800]

Well um Florida actually was originally Hispanic so its prolly genes

[@mitchderise]

@@thebackpackingnigiri6800 Interesting, I didn't know that. It does sound like a Spanish name. Thanks for sharing

[@robbiec4198]

Let me imitate them all at once: “we don’t really have an accent”

[@pupupurin143]

i think you need a decently high iq to hear the accent

[@josephdavis1704]

ma rk no that’s like that rick and morty bs. That’s not true at all

[@Ziggy_Layne]

IQ isn't credible science. Pass it on.

[@vlz.matthew]

alabama didn't say that

[@Purp1ePeregrin3]

As a native Northern Virginian who had traveled a lot around the country and the world, I have been told countless times that I have absolutely no accent at all

[@tilman4164]

They picked probably the Wrong people to ask about their states accents

[@leladubuclet1715]

Tilman they did **hits woah**

[@jackskellington8720]

Amen

[@faithmckenzye4420]

Tilman right..

[@Bekindtopeople]

Yeah like Florida!

[@eczotiic8026]

Noelle The best 😂😂😂

[@yoitselisa]

Texas girl's eyes started watering and she sounded like she was making an apology video for doing something wrong

[@Speedj2]

@sophia lazzaro its still a bad representation of a typical texan accent. after they used a latino to represent floridians in this video, i dont believe any of these accents.

[@wuestion9473]

Speedj2 k

[@missbeaussie]

@@Speedj2 rude

[@danielpuckett7917]

She did do something wrong look at her shirt

[@abdulkerimdino7641]

LMAO