9 Difficult Texas Accents You WON'T Understand

[@storylearning]

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[@chuckburroughs6427]

It's pronounced "Boo-ee", not "Bough-ee" when you're referring to Jim Bowie, or the town of Bowie,TX.

[@earlewilliams4262]

Texan here. Just spent 12 beautiful days in Scotland. Loved the food, countryside, people, and trains. I experienced the same thing with the Scottish accent. I did pretty well. However, I had to translate for my wife🙃

[@Bugg...0_o]

South Eastern Okie here (I can throw a rock and hit both Texas and Arkansas). I just spent 22 minutes trying to figure out what it is that is supposed to sound so weird, lol.

[@kellyhacker969]

@@Bugg...0_oSame here! I grew up in and around Tulsa and it all sounds normal to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@chucky_lucky6768]

I don't get it every single person in this video was speaking perfect English I heard every word clear as day

[@jennifercarter1265]

Life-long Texan here and this just sounded like Thanksgiving dinner to me lol. I barely even register that those accents are different. They all just sound like rural Texans to me.

[@ReckFamily]

Yeah - me too!

[@vw2rover]

Houstonian here, they all sounded the same to me.

[@Lazurikittie]

Half of the clips I was just like "wait they're supposed to be talking with an accent??" It just sounded so normal to me lol

[@erinvelasquez3316]

Hahaha same!

[@cheder1980]

Jmho, the deep east/southeast Texas accent is the most distinct. There's just no hidin' it.

[@NavySooner]

Anyone that says y’all isn’t used anymore need to come to Texas. Because YALL ARE CRAZY!

[@UltraMaga39]

I say y’all all the time.

[@bakinblack90]

damn near a daily occurrence for me.

[@pjackson8322]

Wait y'all isnt a real word? Well they better learn it if they come to Texas lol

[@NavySooner]

@@pjackson8322 y’all gall dern right.

[@PhyreReighn]

Any American knows its- Alls Yall !!

[@IRLtrolls]

I’m born and raised in Houston and every accent here just sounds like a day on a blue collar job site 😂 You can have a mixed group of White, Black and Hispanic guys all with different types of Texas accents and we all understand each other perfectly

[@jimk9290]

I'm 74, and I grew up in the south part of Houston and went to Austin High School. 61% Spanish-surname, 10% Chinese (they lived over near what's called Emancipation Street now, which bordered on the part of Houston where most black folks lived back then). The rest were Anglo or something else. I totally agree that you can hear all of these accents on any given day, or just plain old Spanish. Houston supposedly has the most diverse language culture of any city in the world, when you take into account all the languages spoken at home by Houstonians. I lived 40+ years in Temple, and the video left out the influence of German and Czech immigrants, which is huge in Central Texas, from Schulenburg to Cameron/Marlin, over to Fredricksburg and Kerrville, and on down to New Braunfels. The video said they sound like they have terbakky in their jowls, and they may just - even the girls. And they sound rill good.

[@weather4lifeyar509]

You got that right

[@Ejexion]

I find the accents so endearing. If I ever encountered such an accent in real life, I'd get goosebumps.

[@dennisthornton4434]

Sounds like me talking. 😊

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

Howdy yall yes gat some Christy fried chicken huh babe

[@cejay5288]

I’m 74, a native West Texan, understood ever word just fine.

[@CozyCornPop]

I didn't hear any accent

[@JaneSmith-rx6kx]

My das was stationed in Texas for two years...never had a problem understanding them...to my moms dismay I spoke " Texan" within a few weeks😂 and still drawl and twang to this day 30 years later

[@hardrockminer-50]

I'm 74 and originally from New Mexico. There were so many Texans around working in the oil and gas businessand a bit snotty. folks all sound normal. Not the Brit. He's hard to understand

[@briseismercado6163]

I'm a texan and whenever I say "probably" I say prolly

[@joy-to7dx]

I live in Dallas Texas I have a hard time understand white people language and black hood language.

[@amyroundtree2204]

I worked with a woman who told me “You have a thick accent”. I said, “I have an accent! You’re from Boston. You have an accent!” LOL

[@Sam2sham]

Boston, she has no idea of how to use the letter R.

[@WhispersFromTheDark]

😂

[@JeffreyElliott-ps2jn]

I had a similar experience when I moved to Connecticut. I walked into a store at the mall, bought a hat, and listened to the salesman for a minute. I then said, "You sound funny." He then retorted, "If you asked me, you're the one who sounds funny." 😂 I never criticized anyone's accent after that. Of course, now, several decades later, I have lived on both coastlines and in the South, so I probably sound like a goofy duck to most people. 😂

[@Mantis-yg6fv]

@@Sam2sham okay, I’ve got to ask this. I’ve heard folks from the NE actually add an R to a word that ends in an A, e.g., Thelma = Thelmer. Where is that from exactly in the NE?

[@Sam2sham]

@@Mantis-yg6fv yes, in boston pak the cah. Kennedy used to say cuber during the cuban missile crises. I was only 10, but thought it was funny. My brother in law from connecticut also had this patten. I think they leave out "r"s and have so many left over, they just stick them anywhere they can.

[@cliffm8846]

Living in Texas for decades, and y’all need to know that we are so proud of this state, period.

[@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx]

My boyfriend and I are from Dallas, and we went to London a couple times last year. He’s a cowboy, so people were drawn to him, asking him to say “Howdy” and “Y’all”.

[@lizardsofozz]

Hi fellow DFW peeps! I'm in Plano :D

[@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx]

@@lizardsofozz Richardson & Rowlett!

[@adamdrake2020]

M Streets!

[@dodgermartin4895]

@@lizardsofozz I-35 is dadgum zoo ain't it.

[@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx]

@@adamdrake2020 lovely area, and close to all the Lower Greenville fun

[@EFeffie]

As a native Texan, I can say this was mostly spot-on, however, I kept waiting for the video to include the HUGE German influence - especially in the middle of the state! From Brenham, to San Antonio, Fredericksburg to Austin, and even more southern - German had an absolutely enormous influence on the state and accent. Most people (Texans included) don’t know that German was almost the official language of Texas before English! Spanish was a close third! True story!

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[@EFeffie]

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[@Native_Creation]

Agreed, there's a lot of German influence (which heavily influences Hill Country), San Antonio has it, in addition to Central / Coastal / Southern / and Eastern Texas accents on that note. Along with a variety of Spanish accents from different parts of Mexico/Latin America.

[@bluesdealer]

That’s mostly gone, though. In my region, we called those old timers with the German influence “hanyaks.” It was “dat dere,” not “that there.” That accent died with the WW1 and WW2 generations.

[@xiabelle]

Right? I’ve heard plenty of people around Brenham with a German tinge to their accent.

[@CarolanneTitmus-Greene]

I am British and my Late husband was from West Texas I miss it every day...warm, friendly, generous and kind.

[@AN-12345]

It cracks up my friends that I understand Boomhauer just fine, i didnt know until I got to college that Boomhauer wasnt supposed to be easy to understand.

[@jamessloanofficial]

Boomhauer sounds like half of my family reunion.

[@Hun_Uinaq]

Very similar experience. I got buddies talk just like him. I didn’t know other people couldn’t understand him until this girl I liked told me about it.

[@stephenaulds2925]

Dang ol Boomhauer, talkin' 'bout I tell ya what man.

[@Jaster832]

Yeah, like... in the clip shown here he's talking about Seinfeld and how Kramer slides into his apartment. As far as that accent is concerned Boomhauer's is pretty easy to understand. I know a fella who has that accent here near Tyler and it takes me a while to aclimate to his speech cuz he talks has that accent, plus he talks quieter and with a deeper voice that's gravely.

[@magustacrae]

Me too! Boomhauer sounds normal to me

[@4evrtrenchbaby]

never seen a video being this specific on texas accents. as a houstonian who has lived in a bunch of cities in texas, youre spot on right for the areas

[@luddite4change449]

He skipped right over the Houston accent, which is very distinctive from those folks up in Dallas.

[@4evrtrenchbaby]

@@luddite4change449 no he didn’t. he included thesouthern/houston accent in the gulf coast

[@luddite4change449]

@@4evrtrenchbaby The Houston accent isn't like Beaumont, Corpus, or Victoria/Port Lavaca.

[@Hornsfan64]

@@luddite4change449Those are Houston suburbs. 😊

[@luddite4change449]

@@Hornsfan64 LOL They certainly are now. I drove San Antonio to Austin a couple of weeks ago along I-35. It should be listed at the worlds longest continuous strip mall.

[@kimberlyrodrigues2998]

It is so refreshing to see someone appreciating our accents, instead of making fun of them. Thank you so much

[@introusas]

Nobody makes fun of Texan accents. Don’t make stuff up

[@piperbarlow1672]

​@@introusassouthern accents have a stereotype of sounding stupid which is unfounded imo and comes from a lot of civil war era animosity that i dont think has ground anymore

[@dawiecful]

I was in Tech Support in Texas for the US and Canada. Sometimes I’d get a call from NYC. Now we needed to know what was going on before we shipped them thousands of dollars worth of hardware. I had quite a few call, talk real fast, and demand parts with no troubleshooting. Honestly it pissed me off. But I laid on my slow Western Texas accent, like “well,seems like you’re in a bad way. Why don’t we take a look at this critter, and see what’s goin on”. 90% of the time they agreed, or couldn’t understand what I was talkin about. Hilarious!

[@dessaarnold7540]

Yep, dealt with a new Yorker the other day. I got slower and slower and he confessed where he was from.

[@lindariley7037]

My daughter was born in Conroe & had a SUPER East Texas drawl. We moved to San Marcos when she was 7. (To me, those people seemed to have NO accent unless they had a Spanish one. And they talked FAST!) By the time she was in Middle School, when she got excited I would frequently have to tell her, "Slow down! I can't even LISTEN that fast!"

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Malicious code switching 😂

[@donnalovintexas8760]

When i lived in Dallas and Florida, I was around people from New York. They talk fast and sound very abrupt and to the point. They do not sound friendly at all, but that is just how they come across. Some were very nice.

[@deedeeseecee9294]

Yes, they are rude and abrupt, I worked on the phones for a health exchange company and was licensed in NY and no one wanted that state for that reason but I loved talking to people from New Jersey because they were just really nice and down to earth.

[@thefceUSMC]

The police officer at 5:35 is the sheriff of the county I grew up in out in west Texas. Pretty funny running across him here. And, I don't have an accent, y'all do.

[@deborahmatherne]

hahahajajaja! absolutely!

[@sanjuanaruben8346]

Quite the surprise I got while watching this video, to see my brother 5:35. That’s was Sheriff George DeLaCruz. He was born in Laredo TX and raised in the Lubbock Tx. Area (West Texas). Past away November 2024. RIP bro🪽

[@thefceUSMC]

@@sanjuanaruben8346 he was a good man. I was saddened when my brother told me what happened. My brother happened to be at the ceremony when George fell ill. RIP.

[@CC-lm1tw]

From East Texas, I never think I have an accent until I get mad or passionate about something, and that twang comes right ‘n out 🤣

[@MatildaisAwesome5674]

Or when I am tired my twang comes out as well

[@shannonberentsen1990]

Yep. My thing is I talk pretty fast, too, so when I'm worked up and you get the twang sped up, good luck understanding me.

[@PhyreReighn]

And I bet it aint Spanish !!

[@beenaplumber8379]

I'm from Minnesota, lived in Tennessee for just 2 years. Somehow I picked up a mild drawl, which my brother gave me no end of grief about. Decades later, whenever I find myself in the company of Southerners, that drawl comes back, and I hear myself talking in a way I swear I never did. That's what triggers it in me. And I say y'all all the time, even when there are no Southerners around. It's so convenient.

[@kroguegaming8891]

On me my exs thought it was cute but I was like shii I’m light skin chemistry a lil off😂😂

[@moxdonalds925]

I’m from Houston and I’ve heard every one of these accents

[@nasanerd4321]

Same here. I hear them all

[@petertrudelljr]

That's what made King of the Hill wonderful. We ALL know people that talk like every one of them.

[@jonathanvandagriff7515]

​@@petertrudelljrMmmmhmm, I tell you h'what

[@rsmcroberts]

Same

[@Stargatesleuth]

Are you from Houston or Uston? 🤪

[@nubbyrose87]

I live in San Antonio. People here say ma’am a lot. My two year old picked up “yes sir/no sir” from day care. She told her father - “Don’t wake the baby. No, sir.” Regarding everyone looks like a cowboy - ranchers, people from rural areas or small towns dress in cowboy style and it’s not a costume. It’s a very common to see and it doesn’t look unusual.

[@bdwon]

it is the military influence in SA

[@TheSightOfTheStars]

We moved to San Antonio when i was in Kindergarten and my sister was in second grade. She went with my mom to enroll in school, and excitedly answered "yes!" when the secretary asked her if she liked school. The teacher mean mugged her and asked "Yes what?" and my poor sister broke down crying because she didn't know she was meant to say "Yes, ma'am!" and for that matter, neither did my mom, lol.

[@amv._yxor]

tru

[@williamsstephens]

We do our kids a disservice if we don't teach them "yes, sir" and "no, ma'am". To us native Texans, a young person who doesn't "ma'am" us has very poor manners indeed. Brought up in a barn, or worse yet, a Yankee.

[@lindariley7037]

I thought we used "ma'am" & "sir" all over TX. We certainly do in SE TX. When I was in my 20's, teaching in Conroe, the other teachers convinced me it made them feel old, so I gradually stopped using it so much. But my 45 yr. old son still calls me "ma'am". It feels a little weird, but sounds nice & well-mannered. He is also ex-military.

[@randyarnold6361]

Great program! I am 6th generation Texan but have lived outside of Texas off and on for about 30 of my 80 years. Nobody can tell where I am from but when I am around family the questions tend to fall away. And yes, I always knew what my grandmother (who was born in the Jail in Ozona, TX in 1900 because her daddy was the marshal!) meant when she told me to go over yonder and that I had better get whatever she needed in 2 shakes of a lamb's tail... I live near the largest US Army base in the world in Central Texas. Not long ago I was walking back to my car in the grocery store lot when I said Howdy to a young man walking towards me. He unexpectedly stopped and then came closer, then he hugged me! He then told me that he was Army and that he had gotten home about 36 hours before from deployment in the Arab world and that I was the first person to say Howdy to him! He was awfully glad hear it and he then knew that he was Home! We are Texans!

[@kg1966]

Your North West Texas is what we call West Texas. I have always referred to El Paso as Far West Texas. I live in San Angelo.

[@missy9355]

San Angelo here also. Nice to meet you.

[@locknload4691]

I live near the Wichita Falls metropolitan area (most of my life), and the land between Childress and Nocona has consistently been referred to as Texoma as far I can recall. He mentioned Bowie (pronounced "Boo-wee") and Puducah being in NW TX, but the distance between those towns are over 165 miles let alone the geographies are heck of a lot different. I've also resided in Ft. Worth, Midwest TX (i.e., Big Country) and San Antonio areas. I wasn't a fan of the latter two.

[@432Tx]

Yup I live in Fort Stockton close to Odessa/Midland. El Paso is far west

[@SATX2000]

Dad was born in Eola, raised in San Angelo. I was born in Houston and after moving around a bit, lived in San Angelo for 23 years before moving to Kerrville last year. Sure miss it! (And for those who have lived there awhile, it all runs together…S’nangelo

[@missy9355]

@@SATX2000 I as born in San Angelo, moved to Midland for about 4 years and then to Austin for 1 year. After that we high tailed it back home to San Angelo. This will always be home to me. My grandfather was born in Eola also. Small world…

[@csebesta84]

I said y’all while I was in NYC. The guy in front of me in line turned around and said, “Did you just say y’all?”

[@jmwild22]

😂

[@trey85031]

I travelled all over New England and was surprised at how many people said y'all. They did find it hilarious every time one person in our group said, "big ol" as in, "that's a big ol house" though

[@mikemilne]

​@trey85031 lol I was having lunch with friends and as we left the restaurant I saw a huge tree across the way. "Dang!" I says, "Look at that tree!" Someone says "You know what kind of tree that is?" "No, what is it?" "That is a biggo tree."

[@Blinkerd00d]

Yup... had that happen to me too. Lol

[@misstasha]

My nieces, who are 4 and 6 years younger than me, grew up in Michigan and would tease me all the time for saying y'all and ain't. 😂

[@AWC_Football]

I’m from San Antonio, and I say Y’all more than I should.

[@dsoule4902]

"All y'all" is preferable to the NYC "yous"

[@larrianncurtis8078]

No, you use y'all just the right amount!!

[@ChristopherCCF]

No such thing.

[@Jeff-w9j]

@@AWC_Football Ever said y’all in the singular tense? If talking to an individual, a friend or neighbor, directly to that person, a Texan will ask something like “Are ya’ll going to the football game tonight?”. We are actually speaking directly to that person. Not what are YOU doing tonight? Because it’s rude to not invite others and gets the person to spread any rumors. Well I WOULD but…

[@kimberlyrodrigues2998]

Also from San Antonio, and there is no such thing as to much Y'all

[@cindot2520]

I'm a native Texan. Lived most of my life on the Gulf Coast. I don't have a thick accent but I'm guilty of saying fixin to, over yonder, & I use y'all a lot. Word of warning, if you ever hear a Texan say "Ah hell no!" RUN!

[@deborahmatherne]

jajajahahaha! ya betcha! And where is the Ft. Worth to Microplex lingo?

[@bren7777-SouthernSista]

True statement. RUN AND RUN FAST

[@brendaduncan4347]

I'll never forget the response of someone from Maine when he heard me say "fixin' to".

[@laurakaszuba6785]

Yeah, and don't stop till you run out of road.

[@marshahamilton1329]

My Texas roots run deep, ancestors where at the Battle of San Jacinto.

[@lizardsofozz]

This makes me so happy. I'm a Texas native and have been saying this for ever! My family is from East Texas, my husbands family is from West Texas. Our accents are very different. Throw in that my mom's family is from Michigan and my accent can vary.

[@misstasha]

Lol. Mine varies. I moved to a small town near Fort Worth, Texas with my family when I was about 4. I picked up an accent while growing up. Sometimes it's stronger, sometimes weaker. My maternal grandmother and step grandfather raised me with my half aunt and uncle like I was one of their own kids. I lived a short while with them in Michigan, where my step grandfather was from. My grandmother is from South Carolina. I grew up with all sorts of accents around me, and sometimes one of those pops up unintentionally. When I first talked to my bio dad on the phone 3 years ago, he told me I sounded like a Southern Belle, lol. 😂 Now he brags he has a daughter with a Texas/Southern accent. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤣

[@New517creation]

Same here. It's funny how I tend to shift my accent to accommodate who I'm talking to. Otherwise, they don't understand what I'm saying.

[@kathleenkirchoff9223]

As a Houstonian who married a man from Lubbock and spent most of our life in Dallas, I can say East and West Texas are very different. They even Two Step a bit different. My husband teases me about my twang getting thicker when we visit my family.

[@KristinMorton-q5r]

From Lubbock TX, husband is from the Piney Woods. I am used to but to others his accent is strong as is his parents. Most of these represent more rural accents. It is less prominent in cities. However, EVERYONE says “y’all” in both speaking and written countless times a day. Many Scots migrated this way and you hear it in common sayings and phrases. Our community is between 50-75% Hispanic so that is a whole other accent and influence.

[@Talon18136]

Mine will vary as well I’ll use the city accent when I’m talking to customers on the phone at work and when I’m off work my thick accent drops in and I can speak fast and slow in both 😂

[@nothingheretowatch]

I was living in Pennsylvania [South Central] and a 70 year old from Texas was having problems with DMV. I had just renewed my license. She got every document they asked for and they still wouldn't accept it. The woman told her to leave. The Texas had to have been a Rodeo Queen in her youth because she had the looks still. Her accent was Southern Drawl with strong Texas in it. She told the person telling her to go that she wanted to see the manager and she was going to sit there until she laid an egg or saw the manager. The idiot threatened her with the police. Suddenly she was pure Texan, "Honey, this ain't my first Rodeo." She got the manager and got her license. Those guys behind the desk were not use to Texans. I cheered her on. 😁They did NOT know what to do with her.

[@Miesque1973]

I'm from Central Texas, with deep roots in Williamson, Burnet, Llano and San Saba counties, and am an 8th generation Texan. I lived in PA for a while and people couldn't understand me. One time someone thought I was saying 'white' when I was saying 'black'! I'm proud of being a Texan and I love the old terms we use: 'might shoulda', 'used to could', 'shouldn't oughter', 'might be gonna', 'he's all horns and rattles'...

[@Blinkerd00d]

Yup. My family has been in Texas since before it was part of the Union. We are mostly from the southeast, around Victoria. (Little 'ol Edna, Tx)

[@Miesque1973]

@@Blinkerd00d I had dinner with a lady from Edna, just this past Thursday! LOL!

[@Blinkerd00d]

@@Miesque1973 my uncle owned an auto repair shop in town for years, Dennis Ray Repair. The building is still there, but he passed away a couple of years ago.

[@MsAmericanMaid]

Houston native, moved to central PA. First time I heard "you'ins" I thought I was being insulted. Had to repeat myself over and over so I could be understood sometimes, Never lost my accent, now in NC and boy hidey do they have an accent. lol

[@artugert]

I can’t imagine how black and white could get mixed up. That’s really wild.

[@Breathe-In-and-Out]

This Texan understood everything that was said in the video and of course, while I don't hear my own accent, I was pegged as a Texan at Gatwick Airport in London once. When a Californian moved to Fort Worth for work and she brought her Californian boyfriend to lunch one day, when I asked, "What are y'all doing for lunch?" he looked at her in disbelief that I said "y'all."

[@deborahmatherne]

When I arrive on an international flight and the agent asks where were you born and I say Sweetwater Texas, I get a look of recognition, a stamp and a pass.

[@baronhausenpheffer]

Wait'll they get a load of the plural: "all a' y'all"!

[@poeticaddictionful]

Everyone is saying y'all now, even NewYorkers

[@samuraibat1916]

@@poeticaddictionful It's kind of unfortunate tbh

[@TTUfirebird2008]

Y'all is just an efficient combination of you all. I don't understand why the folks from other parts of the country don't embrace this efficiency.

[@BrianDBacon]

Native Texan here. Great catch on Matthew McConnaughey growing up in Del Rio. A very interesting accent I think you’d be particularly interested in exists in the Mexican heritage populations in south central Texas from the valley and Corpus Christi all the way to Laredo, and then in its biggest aspect in San Antonio. Not sure what the technical nomenclature would be. But it’s a perfect blend of Tex Mex Spanish English. Incredibly charming when you hear it, and it exists in large swaths across South Central Texas. Theres one particular KZbin video that is iconic amongst locals. It’s a Spanish speaking telecast interview with a San Antonio spurs (basketball) fan. You can probably find it searching for “Nambre shut up, go spurs go.” The perfect blend. An accent that is well known in my hometown. Thanks for this video. Really appreciate all the history and work you put into this.

[@MikeV8652]

I'm not in either Uvalde or Del Rio, but I'm close; and I can tell you that Uvalde people would have you know that he grew up in Uvalde, not Del Rio.

[@BrianDBacon]

@@MikeV8652 dude You actually jogged my memory. Had a hs gf in San Antonio and her mom went to uvalde with him. Well done!

[@MikeV8652]

@@BrianDBacon Thank YEW, and bless your heart.

[@bellathereader1328]

Moved to Texas 2 years ago. My favorite expression is "fixing to", in the sense of "I'm fixing to go to the store" or "I'm fixing to go mow my lawn"

[@sharoncruzen1942]

Yeah! 🤣 We live in Oklahoma & my 10 year old nephew was at my house once when my neighbors had company from CA. They had a boy his age & they were out tossing the ball. We started to leave so told him to tell him. He looked at him & said, “we’re fixin’ to leave”. The kid said “WHAT?” He repeated it & he still didn’t get it. Finally I said “we’re leaving”. The kid was like “ahh, ok!” 🤪🤣

[@jstringfellow1961]

Well, you're close. It's fixin' not fix-ing. Run it together and drop the g.

[@scottballentine1846]

On my first work trip to California, I said to the hotel clerk "I'm fixin to go up to my room" and it took a few minutes to explain that nothing was broken and I was not trying to 'fix' something myself.

[@sharoncruzen1942]

@@scottballentine1846 🤣

[@bellathereader1328]

@@scottballentine1846 lol!

[@marygillies5452]

My late father-in-law was raised in Plainview. His Texas speech was the prettiest English I ever heard. RIP Doss.

[@internet_internet]

Plainview is accurately named. The view is a very plain view of the plains.

[@CarrieMHB222]

I was born and raised in a suburb of Dallas, moved to Minnesota at 21, still living here at 46 because I have kids in middle and high school here now, and I still say y’all. My kids say my southern accent comes out when I get mad, when I read out loud, when recalling a memory, or after talking to my mom on the phone (who lives in TX). Even now, typing this out after having heard Texas accents, I hear my inner voice speaking with a TX accent.

[@randykelso4079]

I grew up in Duncanville, Carrie...

[@cebrinachandler1708]

You’re thankn too heard 🤣😉

[@LisaHooverdharma]

Boomhauer! Nobody talks like that, but King of the Hill is the most accurate representation of Texas on TV. I have the Texas Gulf Coast accent and was pleasantly surprised to hear it in the video. I don’t live in Texas anymore, but I kept the accent and I say y’all as often as I can. I also say all y’all when it’s called for.

[@briansmith48]

The creator of King of the Hill is from Texas. So he would know his Texas accents. 😊 Mike Judd also created Beavis and Butthead. 😅

[@olliolivine9770]

I feel like theyre known to talk like that in College Station, you hear Aggies start talking about Gig em they can start to sound a bit like that.

[@LisaHooverdharma]

@@olliolivine9770 lol! Hook ‘em.

[@petertrudelljr]

Heard someone behind me talkin' just like Boomhauer one day in the HEB. I've heard all the accents in King of the Hill around town.

[@assignments5094]

Mike Judge is from Garland. A suburb of Dallas. Drop the first and last letters and you have, Arlan, the setting of King of the Hill. And there are people who talk exactly like Boomhauer. We sat in front of a guy at at a Rangers game once that sounded just like that.

[@ivorybow]

I am from Amarillo and I spent a lot of my life in Houston and Austin. I understand all those people perfectly. My mother was a stickler for perfect English, and she taught me to speak beautifully with proper grammar and a large vocabulary. But I do it with my Texas accent. I have lived all over the world and people always recognize that I am from Texas.

[@williamsstephens]

I too speak Standard American English, learned from my English teacher mother. But nobody is fooled; they know immediately I'm Texan.

[@Amanda-w4z5k]

I too am from Amarillo. The only accent that's kinda hard for me to understand is Cajun.

[@MrVonMengesdorf]

Amarillo native here too. Still here

[@EricaRivas-te2ob]

Amarillo, Texas ❤

[@Rattamooo]

FUN FACT! Texas also has a whole German dialect! Its centered in New Braunfels and its awesome as I'm learning!

[@johnnyshell2839]

Dang. As a Southern resident of the USA, I appreciate your appreciation. Thanks for not trying to badmouth us. We our own people round here. These are great folks.

[@Danilo111]

Thank you for covering Texas accents. People don't know how diverse accents are in Texas going from Spanish mexican accent in the South to Cajun accent in the East

[@musicmaniac32]

The African American Dallas accent is something else. That one I recognized right away because no one else in Texas talks that way.

[@GatesCompton-c4d]

Well done! Native Texas, born in Sweetwater, raised in Uvalde, went college in Apline, ran ranches Kilgore, Ft. Stockton, Floresville, Florence. Moved to Seguin and to Lubbock and back to Seguin and retired in Yoakum. When I speak everyone knows who I’m because of my Texas accent! Long Live Texas!🤠🇺🇸

[@samuraibat1916]

You got to travel the whole country

[@rosssmith4748]

Howdy neighbor!! Gonzales, Tx. here. Come And Take It.

[@GatesCompton-c4d]

@@rosssmith4748 want a cannon for my gate entrance, like you see in Gonzales

[@bec_in_tx]

Howdy, Stockdale here.

[@sharonp4446]

Hi Tyler, TX here by way of Palestine/Elkhart, Houston, Tyler, Pensacola, Georgia, Houston, Richards, Tyler

[@vworre2589]

I’m a native Texan, the accents do change by just driving a hundred miles. I can be anyplace in the world and I know when someone’s from Texas. The easiest accent to spot in Texas is the east Texas twang.

[@highschooloutcastrecords1055]

Issa Texas Thang

[@LateNightHam]

I always know because my great aunt is from east Texas so every time I hear someone it's 🔔🔔🔔.

[@Jaster832]

It's funny though, the women talk with a twang and the guys with more drawl, but both are distinctly East Texas (and not Deep East Texas like Beaumont.) Terrell, Texarkana, Tyler, Palestine, Athens area.

[@Lunacat33]

People still say y’all in Texas. I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could - 40 years and growing. Best people in the world.

[@Swt.Designs]

So funny. But soooo true.

[@TheVikingActual]

Love Texas, very diverse people, but we all have one thing in common, our love and pride for Texas.

[@LB-gi7dx]

Can I just say, thank you for making this video! As a native South Texan who has been all over this beautiful state, I have long appreciated the variance in our accents. A super special thanks for covering the tejano variance too, its often left out, but it's what I hear in the voice of my people daily.

[@scoobsshrooms109]

He honestly barely covered the tejano accent, what he put for west Texas sounded closer to the average south Texan accent I was going to point out that the Selena looking girl had more of a Corpus Christi accent and then I realized that was Selena, and she had more of a corpus accent than Tejano accent

[@ChukBxr]

Texas isn’t just a State but a State of mind!

[@artiglesias9317]

God Bless Texas.

[@ryer8691]

​@@artiglesias9317 ✔💯🎯👍😊

[@artiglesias9317]

@@ryer8691 God Bless Texas.

[@Texas466]

It’s a lifestyle

[@kafka35]

Being a Texas girl, born in El Paso and raised in Houston we DO NOT ALL RIDE FLIPPING HORSES. Or wear cowboy boots and hats…. Dallas, Houston, and Austin are kind of international cities with people from all over the world who’ve come here to live and work. I know there’s an accent that’s supposedly only comes from Galveston island and is not broadly applied to the gulf coast. This is according to my friends who come from the island.

[@lauralee5722]

True but a lot of us do

[@billlong8385]

But, you better know HOW to ride a horse.

[@kafka35]

@@billlong8385 oh yeah, for sure 👍!

[@cmay7429]

True. But I kinda wish we all rode horses. 😍

[@wingedflyingforce5139]

​@@cmay7429but that's so expensive and when you have loud mental kids and teens, that will spoke in training horses to go out of control. Not fun

[@radfoo72]

I'm South Texan but subconsciously out of fear of judgment, I suppressed my accent growing up. When I turned 21 I moved to California and everyone said in dismay "Texas? But you don't have an accent!" lol. The only dead giveaway was my use of "y'all" which my coworkers always made fun of me for but I thought they sounded weird every time they said "you guys"😂

[@TTUfirebird2008]

Y'all is so much better. Way more efficient.

[@hetzer5926]

Y’all just makes you sound cooler too. And it puts people more at ease, not as grating as saying “Hey, all of you!” Or “You all over there!” Sounds more friendly too.

[@greenvortex7]

Similar growing up in Houston, but it was not out of any fear I just didn't resonate with the accent and never developed...even an English teacher in High School said he found me accent-less. I also moved to Cali and when telling folks I was from Texas they would also say but no accent...and similar only if I said " y'all" would people figure it out lol. But here is the kicker when I left Texas then I finding the Southern accent beautiful and actually sometime sexy depending on the region but yeah that was an interesting thing to happen.

[@thesportgoofball5387]

I thought everybody used yall

[@terrimobley6067]

Y'all and yonder and might could are ESSENTIAL Texas conversation❤

[@wordforger]

Fixin' to. Used ta could.

[@franciet99]

@@wordforgeryep, I was surprised that ‘Fixin to’ wasn’t discussed.

[@kathleenherzik9858]

Don't forget about 'reckon' .

[@introusas]

No. They’re not

[@theresadepp2132]

I’m 74 and a born and bred Texan. When I moved to Montana my roommate says she had to learn a whole new language.

[@blindbookworm8019]

LOL! I’m from Texas as well, but I took a lot of foreign languages so my accent is not the stereotypical Texas accent.

[@VagabondTexan]

You just made me seriously homesick. I don't sound particularly Texan until I've had a bit to drink, but it's always there. One of my favorite experiences was being in a pub in Nottingham very late one evening (early in the morning?) and talking about accents. I said I was fascinated by how you could localize someone very accurately in England by the accent. I was then told, "Yeah, you Americans really don't have that many accents." I proceeded to take them on a 10 minute tour of accents around the USA. The best compliment I got was the bartender you just said, "That was magnificent!" after I finished. A great time was had by all.

[@maryssalynnemedley8871]

Same, my texan family, same.

[@McJulieO]

Loved that you launched your accent journey with a “Howdy!” from a girl Aggie from Texas A&M University, one of the largest schools in the country. That traditional campus greeting has helped meld generations of students from all parts of Texas, the US, and the world into a unified, though diverse, student body. “Howdy” is a delightful sound, particularly when uttered by a native Norwegian or Japanese or Nigerian or even Californian Aggie student.

[@kathleenkirchoff9223]

Howdy is definitely an Aggie tradition. And would say not as widely used outside of College Station, the good old boy Aggie network is very strong through many professions especially engineers.

[@rwtx7781]

Gig ‘em! 👍🏻

[@williamsstephens]

​@@kathleenkirchoff9223 we say howdy out in the world, too, when we're greeting other Ags.

[@sarapiburn2523]

Daughter and son in law are Aggies. Now their son is an Aggie. Absolutely love that University! I’m not an Aggie but love saying howdy to Aggies when I’m visiting A&M. 🤍

[@rwtx7781]

@@sarapiburn2523 You can be an honorary Aggie! 👍🏻

[@Meeka8074]

Yeah I'm from South East Texas. I have a bad habit of saying "what'cha" or " y'all" and "nah." The worst one is "gonna" and "ain't" 😂 😂😂. Almost everyone I meet says ma'am or sir when they greet you. I didn't notice all this until I started traveling.

[@virginianance4051]

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time on my grandparents ranch west of Waco. There was an old man who lived in the area who was a real throwback. His accent was unique and he talked exactly like Festus on Gunsmoke. Don’t know where he got it, but it was genuine for sure.

[@158tmail]

Hey there. I'm from East TX. I got 6 of these right, the 1st one most definitely. This is very educational, learning more accents in my native state. Cool. Texas Pride!

[@laurenshwarts2149]

🤣🤣 9th Generation native Texan here, and when I lived in the UK, my accent came out heavy and THICK!

[@vcwloves9864]

Thank you for covering Tejano, this is something that many accent videos fail to mention. I wish you would have expanded it, though. All of border Texas speaks it, not just the South. The accent also differs from generation. The first generation differs from the second and third. Either though, thanks!

[@MM-cj6kk]

So true! Beyond the accent though, its an entire way of life with its own music, food, and art.

[@reneep4269]

The entire border and a large chunk of San Antonio!

[@nohzazu3395]

12:25 Wow, Selena! My favorite Texan singer of all times. She’s an icon in Latin American.

[@jmwild22]

❤

[@Andomalo]

She’s only iconic in Texas. Not so much in the rest of Latin America

[@frankiemendez4601]

​@Andomalo She has a far-reaching influence within the U.S. among Hispanics.

[@Mantis-yg6fv]

That was a pleasant surprise to see Selena! 😊😊

[@jbratt]

She didn’t sound like she had any accent but I have lived in Corpus Christi my whole life. Also I have friends that were friends (and family) with her.

[@kimberlywiley5455]

I’m in south Mississippi, like coastal, i understood all of the words, and we definitely say y’all

[@jaymemcbee4821]

Long-time viewer here. So nice to hear accents of my home discussed. Couple of notes: We consider anything west of I-35 "West Texas." El Paso is El Paso. Ask a Texan about El Paso, and you'll likely hear it's "closer to LA than Houston." It feels kind of disconnected from the rest of the state (from the viewpoint of someone east of I-35). Oh, and there aren't mountains in the RGV (roughly Laredo to Brownsville. I'm sure a local will correct me). That thumbnail pic made me chuckle. We were taught in school that they called it a "valley" to lure settlers down there in the 1800s.

[@ninadreams127]

Glad I’m not the only one that noticed this😅 I thought I was just being picky

[@jeanniearnold6726]

El Paso isn’t Texas 😂.

[@jennifercarter1265]

Lol it depends on what part of Texas you’re from. I grew up in Abilene and I really thought of west Texas as Odessa (though I’ve lived in DFW for 12 years and I started referring to Abilene as west Texas not long after moving here). My mom grew up in Odessa and she considered west Texas to be Big Bend. Her mom grew up in the Arklatex region and her definition was more in line with yours. To be fair, growing up in Abilene when I got on I-20 there was a sign that El Paso was 399 miles west. And it’s 762 miles from El Paso to Longview on I-20 so there is more Texas west of Abilene than east of it.

[@loverlyredhead]

As a central Texan, there's west Texas (Abilene, Lubbock, Odessa, Del Rio all qualify) and Far West Texas (that's El Paso, the Big Bend area, etc). West of 35 is the Hill Country (Blanco, Fredericksburg, Junction, Kerrville) before it ever gets to West Texas.​@@jennifercarter1265

[@D940]

El Paso pre 80's was def Texan through and through. Its different now though, sadly. My mom is Born and Raised in EL Paso and she doesn ever want to go back to that city as it is now. Im used to the Guf Coast and East Texas. Every time I go to the hill country my allergies kick up 5 times more lol.

[@claycaster3838]

I actually made it in This video at 4:40. How many beers did I have in me when I did that interview with Markian? I don’t even know!😂 God Bless Texas! Thanks for adding me and and my buddies in the clip!

[@KelseyMc6]

Do you remember doing the interview? 🤣

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

I was thinking you'd had a few when I watched 😂

[@linbin7273]

Born and raised in East Texas, and yes ma’am my accent is thick! And proud of it!

[@argophontes]

I'm really glad you brought up the "don't make fun of other people's accents" bit, I grew up in the town next to Enchanted Rock, and I spent a good chunk of my childhood getting rid of my natural accent, which is basically like 1:00 . I replaced it with a made-up accent that's somewhere between a newscaster and "Mid-Atlantic", because I saw people on TV making fun of people that talked like I did. I'm in the process of getting it back, though, and it's fun to watch people's reactions. It is nice to see someone point out that there are several different accents in Texas, though!

[@hojichaisfarsuperiortochai9309]

Fredericksburg?

[@oakblaze433]

What in the hell kind of a coincidence is this? My situation is wildly similar to yours. I'm from closer to dripping springs though, but sometime in middle school I replaced my accent with a weird mix of a translatlantic accent and a PNW accent. Only recently did I start to lean back into the central texas accent.

[@paulawashington3175]

@@oakblaze433 I'm a New Yorker but I once had an Englishman tell me that my accent was middle of the Atlantic. He didn't mean mid-Atlantic as in the states between New Jersey and Virginia. He meant half way between the USA and England. Go figure.

[@cathiesmith0812]

I lived and still have family that lives in Odessa, which is West Texas. I LOVE how we talk y'all

[@cookielady7662]

I'm your neighbor in Seminole.

[@whopper526]

​@@cookielady7662i used to live there. I miss it. Love Seminole❤

[@whopper526]

Yay for Odessa❤i love our west texas accent too

[@suzanneballou97]

I was born in the Bronx, lived in New York most of my life. Moved to Odessa, TX nearly 19 years ago. Lived in Lubbock for about 10 years, now living in Midland, TX. I wish I could afford to move back east, I've never been able to adjust to the heat here.

[@luckynumber2305]

Hey y'all....Big Spring here!

[@jackjumper4231]

2:46 I am 38 years old. I have lived every year of those 38 years in the great state of Texas when he said if you get away from the cities and you’ll find slow talking countryfolk, he is absolutely correct. I grew up in the countryside. Anything worth saying is worth saying slowand there is a natural friction between those of us from the country and those who are from the city city people are always in a hurry

[@imelda512atx]

I'm from Austin and yeah the younger generations have lost most of the accents, but the farther you go outside of the major cities the thicker the accents get. Thanks for the video ❤

[@MariaAdele]

Me too! I have an American accent when talking normally but I can turn on a Texan accent + certain words bring it out

[@markreynolds9888]

I'm originally from Ohio (actually all over since I'm a military brat and prior military) but I've lived in Texas for almost 30 years. Yes there is the rural Texas accent, the piney woods Texas accent, the Dallas Texas accent and the Houston Texas accent, but the one I find most interesting is the South Texas accent. To me the South Texas accent is English spoken with Spanish cadence and some Spanish pronunciation. BTW... San Antonio has an almost completely flat American accent because all the military here brings in accents from all over the U.S.

[@rethinkery]

Austinite here. I would say our accent is like the Midwest accent of Texas accents.

[@BethOvertonCPMmidwife]

That was fun. I'm a Texas girl. Born in east Texas piney woods, lived most my life on the Gulf coast in Corpus Christi. Since my mom had the strong east Texas accent, that one can come out in me easily. I was once teased by a New Zealand friend for being the only person she knew who could put 3 syllables in the word "dog" pronounced "daw-oo-guh"

[@delicate_genius]

I was born and raised in SW Houston but the rest of my family is from Chicago. The kids in school made fun of me for saying, "you guys" instead of y'all. Loved this video. Don't forget that Alief has a huge Asian population. Best food ever!

[@joeysanders4094]

Native East Texan here with a very thick, undeniable Texas accent. I even text in accent, and didn't realize it, until my wife(from another state) informed me of this. According to Her I vary the thicknesses level of my accent depending on the Accent level of whomever I'm talking to. Apparently as She has pointed out, I can also speak right along with other dialects from neighboring southern states like her State of Arkansas. For me it's just normal conversation with other country folk.

[@Jaster832]

I'm the same way, don't get me around my cousins who have lived their entire lives in Van Zandt. If I'm with them for longer than an hour or two my accent goes from midway between Dallas (where I was born) and East Texas to damn near as thick as their accent. I don't fight it though, I live out here now too and ain't ever going back.

[@wildershoney2439]

Born and raised in TX. My family traces back to before TX was TX. Scary times but im the same. I didn't get an accent detectable at work on the phone from others in different states until i lived in East TX. Lol it comes out thick if i talk to others with a thick accent from any state.

[@lreece60]

I’m a native Texican - born in Juarez but grew up in El Paso. I’ve lived a long time in Houston & Galveston. The Gulf Coast is the best. My husband & kids are native Texans! We moved up to Indiana for 9 years & folks always thought it was funny to hear the phrase “all y’all”. Living with these “Yankees” took some doin’ in learning how they speak & their mannerisms. Boy howdy - God called us back home & now we’re living in high cotten! God bless Texas & thanks for the nice video! ❤🇨🇱🇺🇸

[@dsoule4902]

All y'all were glad yer here

[@BackseatAlpacas]

My grandmother says “warsh” for “wash” and I just can’t ever get over that for some reason lol. I also have family who say “Sarah” like “Sir”. So now, I respond when I hear someone say Sir.

[@paulawashington3175]

I have a friend from Kansas who puts an r in wash. She has lived in NYC for decades, but even puts that r in my name.

[@bpsparklez]

The ascents are spot on but "y'all", we must definitely still use y'all! We know how to citify our speech when we feel the need but don't let that fool you.

[@SSBailey77845]

Nice video! I’ve lived in Texas my entire life. I was raised in Fort Worth, went to college in Lubbock and then went into the Marine Corps. I was stationed on the east coast. I told one of my Marine buddies that I didn’t think I had a very strong Texas accent. The dude was from Duluth Minnesota. He laughed out loud! After that I worked I the airplane business for 30+ years with people from all over the USA and the world. I have always thought that then Texas accent, all of them, were fascinating.

[@lesliet6515]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE from a Native Texan and lifelong Lubbockite!

[@ZeeCapp]

Yup I’ve lived in Texas my whole life then moved to Mississippi for a bit, joined the Air Force and got stationed in Idaho. I didn’t think my accent was very strong but from basic training to now every body just calls me cowboy 😂

[@aflyingfig]

I grew up in East Texas and had a boss from Minnesota. I had to read his lips to understand what he was saying and sometimes that didn't work and I would have to ask him to say it again.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

​@@aflyingfigMy mama is from Dallas. She dated a boy from RI, and had to translate everything he said for my grandfather. 😂

[@aflyingfig]

@@Mick_Ts_Chick I spend a lot of time in RI and completely understand.

[@suanneleepool]

All of them sound the same to me. Born,bread and raised native Texan here. All of my 55 years! Great video!

[@CrayolaCrack]

Central Texas here. Dude went all around and left us out 😂😂

[@petertrudelljr]

San Antonio Sad Face here...

[@MrJim5280]

Hill county?

[@kathleenherzik9858]

Well they did highlight us Central Texans, they had Matthew McConaughey on for a bit and lumped us in with enchanted rock too. If you blinked you might have missed it. 😁

[@maxlil6161]

Same kept waiting for central Texas.

[@t.thompson8985]

They always do 😩😩

[@bhami]

It's funny how accents work. I love it when Olly speaks Spanish because all of a sudden -- no more weird British accent!

[@dutchreagan3676]

Yeah; he'd be a much better teacher if he learned to speak without that weird Island tone.

[@paulawashington3175]

@@dutchreagan3676 Hey! Just about everyone on this thread is proud of their Texas accent. He's a Brit. What is he supposed to sound like?

[@andreakubsch8428]

Well I'm a born and bred Texan and I love your accent and all the British accents as I'm also a child of the 60's and the British Invasion!!!!

[@HistoryNerd808]

As someone who used to live in Texas, I only missed two outright: the Far West Texas one where I thought it was Panhandle and the Austin one(thought Michael McC. was from San Antonio) but I was too specific on a few others: I said the Permian Basin for West Texas(was an easy one for me since my Grandpa had a very strong West Texas accent from working in the oil business for most of his life), the Valley for South Texas, and Houston for the Gulf Coast.

[@amandagfuller]

I was too specific on most of them too. 😅 Except for the Hill Country. Enchanted Rock gave that one away.

[@ninadreams127]

The section for West Texas had two different accents in my opinion so that kinda messed me up. I’m from Midland but I’ve never heard that area be called “Northwest Texas.”

[@Native_Creation]

There's a lot of crossover in the video, so it's hard to pinpoint. Lipan Apache one on Coastal could also be from border or Southern.

[@amandagfuller]

I didn't know people couldn't understand what Boomhaur was saying until I moved to Florida for a year. 😂 I also understand everything Tater says on Yellowstone. My husband's from Iowa, and sometimes he will pause the show and ask me to translate what she's saying. 😂

[@lindariley7037]

I'm a Native Texan (SE TX, Beaumont area) & I think THIS is the first time I understood ALL of what Boomhauer said. My first hubby (raised in Conroe - 40 mi. North of Houston) used to say "tar" & I had to look around & figure out whether he was talking about tar, car tires or a radio tower.

[@mistydawn-4884]

I lived in IA for a bit and my ex (that’s from HI) had to translate for me everywhere I went….used to drive me crazy trying to order food at a restaurant lol

[@Jaster832]

Isn't Tater supposed to be from Texarkana, but she has a Beaumont accent?

[@WTHshedoingnow]

@@Jaster832 I kept waiting for him to go over the Texarkana accent! I always thought that's why she was so hard to understand!

[@jukesngambits]

From Florida but understand Boomhaur, I think it just depends on a combination of your class & location here. There's many different Floridas all on top of each other.

[@billlong8385]

Originally fron California, moved to Houston, married a "gal" from East Texas. I now understand the language quire clearly and have become quite fluent. Just takes patience and practice.

[@dutchreagan3676]

When you hear 'oil' pronounced as 'awl', or 'Highland' and 'Allen' sound exactly the same.... you're somewhere close to Marshall, Texas!

[@WranglerAg96]

Yep down near Houston its “ohl”

[@hwgray]

"Marshall, Texas!" My birthplace, y'awl. Also lived in Yewston.

[@dutchreagan3676]

@@hwgray Skeeters the size of small helicopters

[@jrm2fla]

Some great southern variations: “all” and “erl”

[@reddmutt1916]

I was born, and raised in Marshall,Texas.

[@ktcarl]

The old Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips had that Golden Triangle accent from around Beaumont-Port Arthur area.

[@Hija.De.Luna25]

2:56 for me yes. I’m city folk but my accent comes out when I’m talking to my neighbor, Lorabelle (southern nana), I’m texmex 😊

[@Hija.De.Luna25]

Lora is a southern lady~ absolute joy from east texas but moved to the gulf ❤

[@lamp8112]

Love these accents! My husband was in the Navy for 20 years and we moved around a lot. Made friends from all over the US. I have an Italian American Northeast accent which was softened in speech therapy. I loved the southern accents. One guy was from Alabama and pronounced penny pineee. It took me a good 10 minutes to understand a sentence he was saying. "Youer Daugta lahst herrrr pineee." LOL! You're daughter lost her penny. I loved meeting all those people! So great! I now live in the North Minneapolis area. Its fun to bump into Minnesota small town people who still have their Minnesota accents. Oooo dawn che know! Accents are just fun! I like your accent too! 😊

[@phronsieone]

My bestie, from MN, woukd call up and say, “Would ya ever wanna take the kids to the zoo today?” Or “Would ya ever wanna meet for coffee at 10?”

[@lamp8112]

@@phronsieone Also, can you borrow me that pen? I was first tempted to ask if I was needing a pen which obviously I wasn't since I was being asked to lend the pen. Very confusing LOL!

[@phronsieone]

@@lamp8112 funny! I lived for a few years in the KC area, we had lovely peonie bushes. I was surprised that everywhere I’ve lived in the US, some people called a peony a “Pinney” . We pronounced it “Pee oh’ knee”.

[@LilliLamour]

As a Texan that grew up in Cali and moved back home to Texas...these accents sound normal to me. Side note. Selana and I sound a lot alike. But hey we're from Corpus and she lived a couple of houses down from my granny in Molina😊

[@margiem5173]

I was born and raised in Los Angeles California and I was able to understand 90% of the Texan accents. There were some words i couldn’t make out, on the first time listening to this video.

[@LarryRobinsonintothefog]

As a former Texan lived in Fort Worth and never heard some of the Dallas lingo but some guys in junior college had a real twang. Have used ya'll, plus 'been there, done that'. Grew up in north Texas and had no problems understanding other Texans even when traveling to Houston or west Texas.

[@busterbluesun]

I’m native to Fort Worth and I hate how we always get lumped in with Dallas. Totally different mindset. Fort Worth is so much more laid back.

[@SugarBooger10]

From East Texas, when I moved to California for a while I worked in restaurants and they thought it was so funny how I said "tin foil" and they finally figured out that I was talking about aluminum foil. In Texas we say foil and oil with one syllable.

[@micheleb2558]

Cracks me up when people put that "tin" in front of foil. My TN relatives do that some times. I am like "Dude, it's just foil. We all know what it's made of! (Aluminum)" I hear "y'all" world wide. A of mine in colleague in France uses it, loads of my Asian friends, and a few British KZbinrs. Best export ever is "y'all" and "all y'all!" Now we just need to get the rest of the world on board with "fixin' to"

[@eemeelee]

I never feel like I have much of an accent but light, right, tight, fire, eye, oil and foil are definitely the words that are the most heavily accented for me lol

[@SugarBooger10]

@@micheleb2558 just what we called it, guess to distinguish it from all of the other foils 😅😅😅

[@Cletus_McBob]

My guy is from CA. He also calls it tin foil. I live in OK.

[@dsoule4902]

That's bizarre. Used to be Californians called it "tin foil". Tin, not to be confused with the number "tin".

[@MrDameius]

You really missed out on covering Houston which, because of its incredible diversity (over 145 native languages spoken in the city), there are a number of, lack of a better word for me, pidgin accents as all the different language groups mix together.

[@ninadreams127]

I agree! I think people don’t realize Texans separate Houston/Galveston and the Costal Bend as two different regions. Houston’s history and diversity makes it distinctly different, even though it’s all along the Gulf of Mexico.

[@danielemmons3513]

My favorite shop owner was this little Vietnamese woman. Now picture her dressed to the nines in cowboy duds and when she talked a Vietnamese accent with a deep East Texas drawl

[@MrDameius]

@@danielemmons3513 The Vietnamese diaspora is huge in Houston so that is not an uncommon site.

[@EDDY_D26]

Htown here

[@LateNightHam]

I'm in the middle of everywhere, texas I-10 90 and 77 all run through my town, main streets, actually. You have all these city folk stopping for gas and vapes, grabbing a bite to eat just to deal with some country fucks in a town with a German name they cannot pronounce, and watching then is gold.

[@zanepetty7854]

Olly, I’m so glad that you got to visit Texas. You know you barely scratched the surface, right. You need to do a follow up. Come to Odessa and I’ll introduce you to a few more accents heard around the oil patch (Permian Basin).

[@amandagfuller]

I was surprised he didn't mention the Permian Basin accent. My grandma has it, and and people LOVE the way she talks. Although, so many people pass through there working in the oil field that it's starting to blend in with other Texas accents. Maybe that's why he didn't cover it. My grandma is 94, so her accent is pretty unique and an excellent example of how accents slowly shift over time.

[@zanepetty7854]

@@amandagfuller our OOs and OHs are emphasized. It’s unique.

[@rheabelltower84]

My grandma asked me one time if i could bring her reading glasses from "down yonder". Still cant find them glasses.

[@TexaSurvival]

I’m from Kerrville but now live outside of Houston, and I always get asked where I’m from. My Mom says my favorite Texan’ism: “y’all better start bein-have” (behaving). My accent has gotten more neutral, unless I’m drinkin, but I still say y’all, ain’t, and dang all the time. Big respect with the Selena clip, I grinned and teared up at the same time.

[@dsoule4902]

"Doon make me come up theere n spaynk ya nekid & hide yer clothes"

[@sinatrassunshine]

I can tell how many drinks in my mom is, judging by how heavy her accent is. LOL

[@k.t.1641]

Kerrville! Represent. We just moved ourselves to San Antonio. Kerrville is just getting way too expensive!

[@MLPowell691]

I thought that was her!

[@lightbearer972]

I'm a native Texan who has lived in the suburbs of Dallas all his life. I'm definitely atypical when it comes to accent, though, as my parents are from New York and I have a General American accent with some New York influence. I don't use many "Texasisms" at all but I was able to pin down most of the accents you featured. Thanks, Olly!

[@Danmcdowell1]

Howdy from Hondo, Texas. 30 miles south of Bandera. As a lifelong Texas resident (Gen Y), I can honestly say the accent shift is sad. Your video was great! The era of my grandparents seems to be the end of the proper Cowboy accent of the Texas Plains. Have a look at Barry Corbin (Northern Exposure, Tulsa King). He is a great representation of the Texas Plains Cowboy accent.

[@cellgrrl]

I moved to Texas from Michigan in 1962. I was a child then but I never picked up a Texas accent. People in Texas still ask me where I am from, and I am in my 70's now. If I travel up north people will also ask me where I am from. I don't sound like anything in particular. It is not Texan except for my word choices, not my accent. As for this lovely video, I understood every single Texas accent. I live in deep East Texas and believe me the accent is very thick here. Have a good'un y'all.

[@RockinLocks4u]

Lived for a long time in SE Texas...that accent is pretty unique as well...kind of a blended hill country & gulf coast with a ton of cajun/creole influence

[@spunas1]

My favorite Texan saying is " He's so dumb, he couldn't pour sand out of his boot even if the instructions were on the heel!" also "A woman's love is like morning dew, it settles on the petal of a rosebud the same way it can settle on horseshit!"

[@jimmyaber5920]

I am an instructor for a car manufacturer from north Texas and have students that I've taught periodically for 25 years. I am amazed at immigrant accent evolution. South Tezas twang on a Swede, East texas drawl on top of German, West Texas accent on top of Farsi. "Oil" is a word that can be pronounced in an almost infinite number of ways.

[@lindeleasley]

I got most of them, but I'm a fairly well traveled Texan. I currently live east Texas (probably the "gateway" to east Texas) near a town called Gun Barrel City.

[@dmtm1111]

Canton here.

[@jesusislord88]

I'm a born and raised Texan, 35 years old, East/South East Texas area close to the not too far from the Lousiana border. I used to to not like my accent growing up, so I tried to learn how to speak without it, but as I got older and appreciated my culture and upbringing more, I let it slide more lately, especiallybeing in Africa for around 3 years now and being married to a Ghanaian who loves my accent😅. To answer your question about our Texas pride, absolute yes, it comes out when I'm feeling zealous about something. Thanks for highlighting our lovely state.

[@shayarnold3149]

You said Bowie wrong. But I really enjoyed hearing you cover the different accents of Texas. I didn't think we had any. You found some very strong ones for sure!

[@busterbluesun]

Yeah it’s Boo-wee😀

[@roddlunt234]

Came to the comments looking for this

[@FoolisH409]

Didn’t realize how much of a “Texas accent” we all got until one specific day.. me and the wife took a work trip up to Maine/New Hampshire. We were there for a few months already, I had been around several locals during my time there and my ears had gotten adjusted to the accent of these east coast folks, one morning we woke up and started heading out the door of the hotel we were staying at and as we walked out the door we ran into another couple as they were entering, generally because of manners we had small talk, told the couple hello, and when they spoke back to us I instantly felt at home! I looked at the car they got out of and the license plate said Texas! I knew it! We all had a laugh.

[@shavinmccrotch9435]

I have a friend who I have trouble understanding sometimes. For years I was afraid I was losing my hearing! Turns out he has a slight Hill Country Boomhauer accent! He mushes strings of words into a single word with just 2-3 syllables! He also talks softly. That’s why it took so long to figure out what the real problem was.

[@christopherfairs9095]

Mundee, Tuesdee etc is how I pronounce the days of the week and I'm English (in my 70s). Remember the rhyme Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday - to rhyme with Grundy. A lot of older people in the UK say the days of the week like this and it's how you can tell their age as Stephen Fry once remarked.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Wow that's interesting. I thought it was just U.S. southerners (myself included) who said that. You learn something new every day!