The LAWyer pronunciation has always bothered me. They go to law school not Loy school, so therefore it has to be pronounced LAWyer
@katrinaboleware61033 жыл бұрын
I'm from the north and I say it that way. Everyone up north thinks I'm wrong. 😏
@nicks.55523 жыл бұрын
As a teen I worked in a movie theater concession stand. This following was typical... CUSTOMER: “Can I have a Coke?” ME: “What kind?” CUSTOMER: “Diet Sprite.”
@SarahLandry5773 жыл бұрын
You should have just given them all actual Cokes.
@yurmabeechaudits35223 жыл бұрын
@@SarahLandry577 he did. After asking which flavor. If you want what you call an "actual coke" you need to say co-cola or coca-cola. Although coca cola owns the trademark on the term coke now, it wasn't always like that. They stole the term from southern culture basically. Do a Google search on when coca cola trademarked the term. You'll find it was 1945 and only after years of advertising trying to get the public to stop calling it that. With that said, carbonated water was previously described as soda because it was thought to cure illnesses. People referred to coca cola as coke only after they learned it contained cocaine with its original invention being for easing pain, particularly on the battlefield. When the stigma surrounding cocaine came around everyone believed all dark carbonated beverages contained cocaine thus the label for all things to be coke. Truly speaking, saying you want a coke would refer to you wanting a carbonated beverage containing cocaine. Why they are still all called cokes today is simply heritage. Calling them by their individual name or sodas as a whole is the only proper designation as sodas are their original name
@doughesson2 жыл бұрын
Or order a Coke in a restaurant & the waitress rattles off"Ok,we have Coke,Diet,Tab,Dr Pepper,...."& you make your choice. No muss,no fuss. Why Yankees have to complicate things is beyond me.
@doughesson2 жыл бұрын
@@corrineanders6373 Soda is what Yankees drink. I know I've lived among them & learned their ways without becoming suborned by them.
@doughesson2 жыл бұрын
@@corrineanders6373 Tennessee & Alabama drink cokes & you make your selection from what the waitress names. Even when I lived in Paducah,it was coke
@stephenriggs8177 Жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Texas. Scored in the top half percent on my English Achievement Test. Southerner is right, on all counts.
@Mayaa24243 жыл бұрын
You know you’re southern when you couldn’t tell what was the problem with the words he said 😂
@janicehousley48333 жыл бұрын
I know!! I am like “ What? He said it right!”
@whoisjohngault32703 жыл бұрын
Amen
@roserollins98003 жыл бұрын
South Carolina in the house
@forgettheworld42773 жыл бұрын
I never knew it was called a semi truck
@elultimo1023 жыл бұрын
Ex of Southside of Chicago, and understood every word. I used to dispatch trucks, and we called them "semis." (18 wheeler was usually on the CB). BTW, a semi can have as few as 10 wheels, on small "city rigs."
@timeflies723 жыл бұрын
I remember asking my 5th grade teacher how to spell “wallago,” and learned it was “a while ago.”
@danielleking2623 жыл бұрын
lol oh wow 😆
@the_real_littlepinkhousefly3 жыл бұрын
Oh, my gosh, me too! That was the moment I realized Texan and English were not always the same language. That was a long wallago.
@MelissaThompson4323 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@RedDevilRaspberry3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣 this made my sides hurt 🤣🤣
@Caeric773 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... we pronounced it with an 'h'... whallago, but otherwise the same :)
@mimimcbroom7413 Жыл бұрын
Being half Japanese I didn't think I had much of a southern accent until I heard an audio recording of my voice. Nothing is more discombobulating than hearing Japanese spoken with a Texas accent. konichiwa ya'll
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
Try German! Lol! With a slow drawl.
@Donna-cc1kt Жыл бұрын
🤣😂🤣
@coryv5679 Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of Rush Hour 3 with Jackie Chan getting told by Chris Tucker to tell the Asian dude who speaks French to talk right.
@nmelkhunter1 Жыл бұрын
Now that’s funny. I mean very, very funny! 😂🤣😂🤣
@loriparker7755 Жыл бұрын
🤣 I snorted.
@TheDragonBloom3 жыл бұрын
Only a southerner can hear the subtle difference between jewelry box and jury box.
@chrispile38783 жыл бұрын
Unlike some yahoo saying "joolery".
@misseselise38643 жыл бұрын
there’s a silent L in there... somewhere
@mssendfitness3 жыл бұрын
I was born in the south, and raised in the midwest but i could still hear the difference!
@Bacopa683 жыл бұрын
I mean come on. The middle vowel is totally different. Linguists would say that "jury" is a bunched "r" and "jewelry " is a retroflex "r" and that they are fully distinct. These sounds are widespread in the US and are a part of the standard Inland Southern dialect of the US. This is one of the most strongly rhoitic dialects of English in the world. The bunched and retroflex "r" are found only in a few places in the UK today, though they were more common in the 1600's. The bunched and retroflex "r" sounds are difficult. They are the last sounds a child can make if the child grows up in a community that has these sounds. "Jewelry" is an "L" to retroflex "r". "Jury" is the more commonplace bunched "R" sound. Take heart that we sound more like Shakespeare than anyone in the UK today.
@the_real_littlepinkhousefly3 жыл бұрын
@@Bacopa68 Bless your heart, it's "rhotic" not "rhoitic". And I'ma have to run this by my degreed linguist son to see if you're actually speaking linguist-ese. (This is the kind of stuff I've had to listen to coming out of my son's mouth since he was 15 -- he's 27 now and still talks to me for hours about what he's studying in grad school, and I still have very little clue what he's saying. Except "rhotic". That one I know.)
@LadyAnuB3 жыл бұрын
"What are you going to use that 'hamburger meat' for?" "Ummmm…tacos" Totally busted up at this. 🤣
@icannotcomeupwithanything46093 жыл бұрын
He just called out my entire family with one question. 😂
@jeffreysmith2363 жыл бұрын
Taco is the whole thing, not an ingredient. So hamburger meat tacos is in fact correct.
@LadyAnuB3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffreysmith236 The meat by designation is for hamburgers, to use it for something else means it then becomes that dishes meat. In this case, taco meat. 🤣
@lward96753 жыл бұрын
Why? Lol.
@clv20152 жыл бұрын
@@icannotcomeupwithanything4609 same!! 😂😂
@richardhaganjr78912 жыл бұрын
I was 21 when my dad (mid forties at the time) called me to let me know he had just learned it is actually chest OF drawers.... That day changed both of our lives.
@Sabbathissaturday7 ай бұрын
I was about the same age when I learned.
@CeliaBordeaux6 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂 i totally get him. I always thought it was chester drawers….remember when my nephew set me straight😂😂😂
@jasonreed19213 ай бұрын
Chester drawers
@my2cents493 жыл бұрын
"I'll speak my Southern English just as naturally as I please" 👋😂
@sallyphillips91753 жыл бұрын
Except it's "I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please." I love that song, even though my home's in Georgia. I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me.
@maryplaidy68143 жыл бұрын
@@sallyphillips9175 No, ma'am! The Heart of Dixie is in the great state of Alabama. It's on their license plates.
@markeaton64353 жыл бұрын
Okay, folks, I was today years old when I learned that it wasn't "Southernese", but "Southern English". Bless my pea-pickin' heart.
@nickydancy40873 жыл бұрын
I know datz right...sookie sookie nah..
@reesaserik3759 Жыл бұрын
We say 'nachally'. Texas here.
@ladiel793 жыл бұрын
I’m from AL, and I totally heard the difference between the “jery” box and the jury box.
@cletust.darrell83633 жыл бұрын
Honestly it just sounded like 'jewlery' to me
@dianaklien15603 жыл бұрын
I heard jewl-ry and jury. How did he suppose to say it I wonder?
@ashley28833 жыл бұрын
I'm from the north and heard the difference lol
@decorummortis51753 жыл бұрын
@@ashley2883 me too
@justanoldman6973 жыл бұрын
I'm from Ohio and I heard the difference!
@reflexxuns767 Жыл бұрын
My family was from Arkansas and moved to the north. When my kids were in school, they were required to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. They were the only two kids who understood it. The teacher spent the next three days "interpreting" that book for the rest of the class!
@CoyoteSeven Жыл бұрын
Now did you pronounce it "saw-yer" or "soy-yer"?
@hishealer Жыл бұрын
Alabama folks went right to breaking down the story. 3 days max and on to the next book.
@JadeDragon407 Жыл бұрын
That's dedgum hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That was the day we figured out who was smarter than a 5th grader.
@hanskloss13319 ай бұрын
how about Uncle Remus stories ?
@EmpressEdyn25 күн бұрын
I read that book when I was like eight. I did not know that non-southerners cant understand it
@andreaashley87832 жыл бұрын
I'm from Germany, been here for 32 years in the south..... imagine my german accent that I have not lost ... together with southern speech. It's hilarious 🤣😆🤣😆🤣
@MalfosRanger2 жыл бұрын
That does sound like a roarin good time.
@country_flyboy2 жыл бұрын
Now I can only imagine what my German sounds like! Ich spreche Deutsch, aber nicht sehr gut. Ich komme aus Tennessee.
@johnhamburn38452 жыл бұрын
my great grandfather was from germany was shipped to the US as a young boy he ended up marrying a cajun from south Louisiana imagine being exposed to cajun English its like a whole other language. oil is pronounced earl, bearl is boil, though much of our words are french but even our french is completely different and is nothing like the common french language.
@backyardr.c.62802 жыл бұрын
Fredericksburg Texas might be worth visiting. There are several German descendents around that area.
@andreaashley87832 жыл бұрын
@Nate Byers....... perfect in spelling and grammar!!😊
@davidstoyanoff3 жыл бұрын
A girlfriend once invited me to visit her family Boone North Carolina. They offered me a beverage and I said "I'll have a soda". Then they blessed my heart.
@joycegallowayparker96523 жыл бұрын
lol, we southern women will "bless your heart" when we're angry at you, when we feel sad for you, when we see you do something nice for a person, and when we see you do something stupid. It's just all in the tone of how we say it as to which one we're referencing.
@TheDragonBloom3 жыл бұрын
"Bless your heart" is the southern equivalent to politely calling someone an idiot to their face.
@andrewharrison13203 жыл бұрын
Oooww that had to hurt
@keepinstepoutdoors33643 жыл бұрын
🤣 and sorry you were called that
@dominiquewright8963 жыл бұрын
Bless your heart. (You’re an idiot)
@adriennefriend Жыл бұрын
This was so much fun. Before you said each word, I guessed it from the picture - and I was delighted to hear you say the same thing I was thinking. I am from rural north Georgia and you nailed it! From hamburger meat to man-aise, coke machine to Chester drawers! ❤
@maryhirsch86910 күн бұрын
It's not "man-aise"? No one around here would know what "may-o-naise" even is. lol
@clovismerovingian22393 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that other regions didn't call it hamburger meat.
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
We do. In the mid-west they call it "Ground Chuck", but the rest of us just call it hamburger. Only the USDA calls it "Ground Beef". If we mean "patties", we say "patties", as in "Grab some burger patties from the store."
@jacobliedtke98213 жыл бұрын
@@rowynnecrowley1689 I live in the midwest and I have never heard one person call it "ground chuck" or "hamburger meat". I have only ever heard "ground beef" where I am from.
@luannecates84813 жыл бұрын
Ground meat Ground beef Chuck meat Hamburger meat (especially if you use it to make burgers!
@cameronwhyte72233 жыл бұрын
Mince meat.
@cruzmissileoutdoors3 жыл бұрын
The 18wheeler bit. He is correct there is 18 wheels there, also incorrect because Semi truck means just the truck (tractor) without the trailer.
@amandabaddeley-davis62183 жыл бұрын
I know im southern, but I never really thought I spoke like a southerner. After this video, I realize I was wrong about that lol
@manxgirl3 жыл бұрын
Apparently, I'm bilingual. Cause I use both versions of a lot of those pictures. Awesome!☺
@e-chantheapple1983 жыл бұрын
Same
@sarahr30763 жыл бұрын
This reminds me a bit of when I was in North Carolina a few years ago. The very first day my family and I were there, someone told us, "We don't really have Southern accents around here." My family and I just smiled politely. We all heard the Southern accent the second she opened her mouth!
@ayakotami33183 жыл бұрын
I'm can speak both ways but my Southern side comes out with most things like these items. XD
@sid21123 жыл бұрын
I'm southern and carefully cultivate my accent to reproduce Rhett Butler as closely as possible. Makes the wife swoon :)
@duphasdan Жыл бұрын
The Coke part made me laugh as I had an experience when I first moved to the south as a kid. I went to a Wendy's and asked 'How much is a pop?'. The worker asked what I said, and I repeated. The worker asked that I point and I pointed up to the Diet Coke and said 'Like the Diet Coke'. The worker then replied 'Oh, you want Coke'. While I was still pointed confused I said 'No, I want Diet Coke' and everyone just started laughing. I then found out later that Coke is a term southerners, mostly in Georgia, refer to pop and other soft drinks.
@stephschubring9693 Жыл бұрын
I'm a Midwesterner. None of you southerners know what a ,"bubbler" is. HA. But went on a mission trip to Surfside Beach, TX. One of the things we were warned about by our originally Southern chaperone who drove the van I was in was that all soda is "coke" And we had Sonic for the first time.
@duphasdan Жыл бұрын
@@stephschubring9693 You must read too fast. I am originally from Minnesota.
@taniawilliams3427 Жыл бұрын
No one in the South calls Coke "pop".
@Blakethornton66.7 ай бұрын
@@taniawilliams3427Pop is a straight dumbass term too
@Blakethornton66.7 ай бұрын
@@duphasdanMinna-soda-….budum tss-…get it-…no- just me?
@nancymills18843 жыл бұрын
I remember when my Southern uncle asked why I had an accent. My true Southern aunt said,”Danny Ray, she’s from the North, she cain’t hep it.” His response was I needed to stay in Mississippi so I could ‘learn to talk right’.
@rickymcgowen67762 жыл бұрын
I'll drink to that.
@AJM24082 жыл бұрын
Love stories like this.
@UKCrazy0072 жыл бұрын
I mean where's the lie?
@dragonson722 жыл бұрын
I visited my friend up in RI, his friends ask about my accent, I Ask What Accent?
@jettahammond29162 жыл бұрын
Lol 😂
@nicoleabed24803 жыл бұрын
My mom used to call the washing machine the warshing machine 😂
@PirateLeota3 жыл бұрын
My mom did too, whenever she did the warsh! :D
@jrnestreehouse44053 жыл бұрын
I thought my mom had a speech impediment 💀
@lili197433 жыл бұрын
My friend's mom called the fridge an "icebox" and when something was spilled she'd say "wap it up".
@RevRedmondFarrier3 жыл бұрын
I inherited my grandmother's house when she passed and I still find shopping lists and such tucked away where she actually spelled out stuff like "warshing powders" and "squarsh"
@thistlefield243 жыл бұрын
My grandma did that
@sweetelisum2 жыл бұрын
I made my mom FINALLY watch your channel as she's not good with the internet, but she watched it twice and said she laughed her a** off. bravo!
@jadebirdsong15633 жыл бұрын
"Are you sure I shouldn't be the one teachin' this class?" Ain't it the truth?!😄
@jacobliedtke98213 жыл бұрын
*Is that not the truth?!* English, please.
@Bacopa683 жыл бұрын
Yeah, sure . I spent some time up north and got along fine with my most formal speech. There were still a few quirks they thought were weird. They asked me to say "acorn" a lot. They thought it was funny I said "eh-kern". Funny thing is I think I never saw more than a few oak trees up there. They did have some good trees, just not the water oak and live oak I was used to. They had a tulip tree, a kind of deciduous magnolia that becomes massive. In the spring it dropped slimey bracts that smelled bad and made sidewalks slippery with slime. They had other cool trees too, but few oaks. Maybe no oaks. I never saw acorns. Maybe since they don't have that many acorns they don't understand "eh-kern" is the better way to say it.
@lr_laura3 жыл бұрын
@Just Shane you know you’ve messed up when a southerner tells you “bless your heart” 😃✋🏼
@tristancoffin2 жыл бұрын
@@Bacopa68 um I grew up with oaks. Acorn or you better start saying kern on da cob
@kova15772 жыл бұрын
@@jacobliedtke9821 English isn’t a language that has a proper way of speaking or spelling. If it did, it sure wouldn’t be the American version of English
@southerndigest89963 жыл бұрын
“I was really hoping you could tell me who Chester was.” 😂 At least he knew it wasn’t a chiffarobe!
@flossyphp3 жыл бұрын
He's the guy who make the drawers
@jeanpresley12203 жыл бұрын
now a days how many people know what a chiffarobe is ?? most young folksand and northers dont
@siljatanner13183 жыл бұрын
I said chiffarobe first before I caught myself
@lili197433 жыл бұрын
@@jeanpresley1220 I used to hide in the chiffarobe. No one ever thought to look there.
@ruthanngalt74023 жыл бұрын
It's a bureau, pronounced beer-o.
@ratsumatra3003 Жыл бұрын
Yes sir. And iced tea is automatically sweet. I laughed real hard at this one. It's real. Thank you for the smile.
@TheAmandajoy46023 жыл бұрын
Coke for everything... so true! What kinda Coke you want? I got Dr.Pepper, Sprite and Mountain Dew😆
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
If I ask for a Coke, and you ask me what kind, I'll punch you in the face.
@jerryturner23103 жыл бұрын
@@rowynnecrowley1689 ...Looks like we found the Yankee.
@leannes51003 жыл бұрын
In SC we say soda so it’s not all of the south that says coke for everything.
@belle3143 жыл бұрын
Depending on what part of SC. We call all carbonated drinks "Coke" in the Lowcountry. Drove my relatives crazy when they would come to visit. And their reactions when they realized tea in our house was always sweet. I wish more video camera where around then!!!!
@jamespruitt67183 жыл бұрын
@@belle314 we do in the upstate too.
@center4nerds4 жыл бұрын
you could make almost a whole channel out of this alone ;D
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
You could. But expect the comment section to become quite heated. It's be like a Verbal Civil War. Which the North will in. Cuz the South can't talk. Or read. #shotsfired
@uniquematerial24413 жыл бұрын
Hoot & 1/2. Southern Yankee in da house!
@schippendale913 жыл бұрын
They did. 😏🤠
@ajcarr19653 жыл бұрын
@@rowynnecrowley1689Well bless your heart. You need to tuck your tongue behind your teeth, sugar, 'cause your stupid is showing. #ShotsReturned
@dannyisdaddy80983 жыл бұрын
there is a channel made almost out of this alone. This man has made guest appearances on it but it's about the south and skits about it
@ChristysChannelYall Жыл бұрын
I’m from southern Mississippi and he sounds perfectly normal to me ❤
@AuntieMaru4 жыл бұрын
I'm proud that I got all of these right. 😁 And I was in my late 30s before I saw "chest of" in print and finally realized that that was chester. Brilliant video. Made me laugh out loud at the reaction to coke machine.
@ckhirikasvoncpf65483 жыл бұрын
Oh. Chest ‘er drawers.
@bx22able3 жыл бұрын
This is not a joke. I'm 44, from south Louisiana and I just realized I've never seen it written. I stopped saying Chester drawers in my teens and adopted "dresser" or just "drawers" You just made me feel like an idiot, though.
@ckhirikasvoncpf65483 жыл бұрын
@@bx22able I figured chest'er drawers was Chester wood drawers
@AuntieMaru3 жыл бұрын
@@bx22able Thumbs up, but you aren't an idiot. If I had never seen it written I still wouldn't know that it wasn't some set of drawers named after some guy named Chester. You aren't alone!
@Ben_Chillin3 жыл бұрын
Been living in Alabama all my life and never heard anyone call them 'chester drawers'. It's a chesta drawers!
@stacimentus3164 жыл бұрын
I've often wondered who Chester was....😁
@susanparker98734 жыл бұрын
me too😂
@kbs85864 жыл бұрын
Thought he was the man who made it
@cowboy4jesus3N13 жыл бұрын
@@kassieblackmon4761 got that right. People would be surprised at what a smile and a drawl would get ya.
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
My gramma also said that, but she meant the short kind, not the tall dressers. Those were just dressers.
@redstateforever3 жыл бұрын
And why we had so many of his drawers.
@MarleyMania1 Жыл бұрын
I literally come back to this video multiple times a year because it's so accurate and funny!
@davidyoungquist60743 жыл бұрын
I did get to act as a translator between a lovely you waitress at a Stucky's in Alabama and a couple from London once.
@redstateforever3 жыл бұрын
The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language- George Bernard Shaw (I think).
@davidyoungquist60743 жыл бұрын
@@redstateforever For sure
@terraalbritton64053 жыл бұрын
London, KY?! 😛
@AaronnaPhiliou3 жыл бұрын
I had to do it at a plant sale in Gainesville GA
@Mrs.buildingblackwealth3 жыл бұрын
lmaooo
@allisonshaw93413 жыл бұрын
Native-born Southerner here. When I was a kid, my great-grandmother would take her walking stick and whap on the fanny or legs any of us who mispronounced words or used incorrect grammar. She was a native Cherokee speaker, spoke better English than most white folks, and I doubt there was a word in the dictionary she couldn't spell, know the definition of, pronounce, or use, and she and my mother had us learn and use 10 new words a day. What this meant was that other kids made fun of us for sounding high-faluting, and I got called "Harvard" a lot. I was, however, very popular as a partner for Spelling Bee teams.
@MelissaThompson4323 жыл бұрын
I have had somebody accuse me of "using all them college words."
@enfynet3 жыл бұрын
Good thing you’re not in England getting smacked in the fanny... because that’s something women have and men don’t.
@allisonshaw93413 жыл бұрын
@@enfynet You Brits have an entirely different lexicon of slang, and I find sometimes that I say something that comes across in a way I never intended... usually to the amusement of said Brits. I think I can venture what your definition of fanny is, and it's not one's bum, is it?
@enfynet3 жыл бұрын
@@allisonshaw9341 I’m not Bri’ish And you’re correct, it’s not your behind. 😂
@goudagirl60952 жыл бұрын
But your grandma was RIGHT. 👍 People do judge by how one speaks, it's simply human nature. I come from a long line of teachers, and you had better believe they did not put up with my saying things like "me and so-and-so" or any other type of "cheap" talk! Today I am an executive assistant, where my job is to make my bosses look (and sound) good. And let me tell you... _how_ some of the people I have worked for _ever_ made it into management, let alone business in general, is a mystery I will never figure out! 🙄
@daviddavid5880 Жыл бұрын
I'd love you to make this a short series involving some of the seriously incomprehensible Southern dialects. Some of these hollers and swamps produce accents that would stump Farmer Fran.
@alexr44682 жыл бұрын
As a Russian, southern English is more understandable for me🌸 You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar✨
@DD-gi6kx Жыл бұрын
You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar...why do people keep repeating this stupid saying....you catch the most flys with cow shit
@TTFSZ Жыл бұрын
Heyo I'm Russian too, I was born and adopted from Russia, and I've lived in the South my whole life and this Goes to show the south do have a culture of its own.
@dimeballs333 Жыл бұрын
@@TTFSZ same!
@angelousmortis8041 Жыл бұрын
@@TTFSZ Despite what most Yanks believe, we really do, by and large, try to be a melting pot of culture these days, I grew up with friends from all walks of life and from all sorts of cultural backgrounds and everyone was treated pretty much the same. Sure, the Lawmakers may not be the best, but the average folk you'll meet on the street'll usually be as friendly as can be.
@aprildriesslein5034 Жыл бұрын
Makes sense...southerners speak slower, which I imagine would be helpful.
@pineappleunderthesea57313 жыл бұрын
I never understood why people thought we sounded so different. But as I heard Matt say everything exactly like I do then heard the alternate....omg they’re right! Eye opening.
@aaronpanesar2 жыл бұрын
Ear opening
@vertderferk Жыл бұрын
I recently found your channel and have been watching older videos. This absolutely tickles my funny bone. I am in Illinois and my cousin grew up in Michigan. She has lived in Alabama for many years and I tease her accent every time we talk, so this brings a huge smile to my face.
@Briansgate3 жыл бұрын
Southerner: I do speak English! Northerner: You, you speak Southern, we speak English. English person: No, we speak English, you speak American. And yes, Brits love Southern accents.
@mweskamppp2 жыл бұрын
all those pesky colonial english speakers.
@belladonnatook88512 жыл бұрын
Ah, but I can assure you today's Beeb does *NOT* deliver in the clipped tones of the "received" English of 50 years ago!
@thevirtualtraveler Жыл бұрын
I feel like Southern is more akin to British than yankee accents are. Like sometimes on GBBO, someone says something and I swear for just a moment I think, "are they Southern?"
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
I watched a documentary once for British audiences and they had subtitles. I couldn't understand why until I realized the people being interviewed were from the deep South. Lol!
@littlet-rex8839 Жыл бұрын
@@janetprice85 my wife raised in Michigan has lived in the south for over 20 years, she still has trouble understanding people
@elizabethsteen5813 жыл бұрын
In 1992, I was in college and said something to my friends about the "chester drawers" in my dorm room. Everyone started screaming laughing, and I didn't know why. I was a sophomore in college before I realized that piece of furniture is a CHEST OF DRAWERS, lol!!! 😂😂
@joseph_p2 жыл бұрын
Classic r/boneappletea
@momentsformoms94672 жыл бұрын
Is that what he meant? lol we call it a dresser and I was expecting him to say armoire.
@harrissl292 жыл бұрын
I didn't get it until you explained it. I was like what's wrong with what he is saying. I turn 40 in one week and now know it's "chest of drawers" and not "Chester drawers".
@artfuldodger8702 жыл бұрын
Can relate!
@jasonours69572 жыл бұрын
Never really heard anyone call it a chest of drawers maybe bc a a southerner we call it Chester drawers bc it’s easier to say
@randyduncan4004 Жыл бұрын
Honest truth: my grandfather kept an old “want ad” in his pocket of funny paper clippings for Chester Drawers. Our favorite however was “ Free dog, all shots, eats anything especially fond of children “. Thanks for clean true southern humor.
@kellij74253 жыл бұрын
Ouch! I fell out of my chair at the Coke machine. Soo true.
@Bacopa683 жыл бұрын
All carbonated beverages are coke, even when they are not. The picture was clearly a Pepsi branded coke machine. Some coke machines are like that. It's all coke unless it's Coke. And even when it isn't, if it's from a machine it's a coke even if it isn't. Machines are even more coke than Coke itself whatever they have in them. Even the movie Dr Strangelove supports the idea that machines have coke. And yes, you should never damage a coke machine unless you are an authorized person who needs to speak with The President. Otherwise you will have to answer to Coke if you order a Coke machine to be vandalized with a machine gun and do not get through to The President. Even if the machine had been stocked with Pepsi products, Mandrake would have been accountable to Coca-Cola. It's just how it works. Impending nuclear war under false orders does not change that.
@thejohnbeck3 жыл бұрын
Pepsi sux
@leegraves1013 жыл бұрын
@@thejohnbeck and Coke wants us to be “less white.”
@TexasRose503 жыл бұрын
I still call a refrigerator an ‘ice box.’ Guess I’m telling my age now. Love this video!! Lol!
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
I don't regularly, or on purpose, but it does occasionally come out. I was raised by a bunch of old fucks.
@TexasRose503 жыл бұрын
You mean old folks? My dad, when he was young was actually an ice man who delivered ice blocks to people with ice boxes. It just stuck with me all these years.
@brianmurphy10003 жыл бұрын
Heh
@Briansgate3 жыл бұрын
Granny used to call it the Cabinator.
@whoisjohngault32703 жыл бұрын
It is an “ice box” 😂. (58 year old Virginian)
@jondobbins1256 Жыл бұрын
Both my parents were Depression Era, Dad from rural Missouri. Mom from Wilmington NC. You, Mr. Mitchell are fabulous! Mom learned to loose her accent when she came to Missouri so people could understand her. However, she could turn it on/off like a switch. If she wanted you to listen, she flipped the switch to on. Southernspeak is meant to be spoken slow and with deliberation. The best is to listen to an old time minister read King James bible verses.
@csimmonsjr3 жыл бұрын
I bet the English teacher can’t say pecan right either.
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
P'kahn. Eat it.
@csimmonsjr3 жыл бұрын
@@rowynnecrowley1689, let’s answer this with a question. What is the aluminum container that you drink your beer or coke out of? Is it a kahn?
@asphodelale3 жыл бұрын
@@csimmonsjr Kan or khan, it requires a 'koo-zee'.
@jaydee37303 жыл бұрын
45% of the South says pee-can, 55% says puh-con. So it's pretty evenly divided, and a source of daily arguements. But, since I'm from Georgia, the largest producer of pee-cans in the world, I'm gonna say that the way I say it is correct. Pee-can.
@csimmonsjr3 жыл бұрын
@@jaydee3730 can South Carolinians and Georgians finally agree on something?
@whitebeardInn3 жыл бұрын
Georgia boy here: Born late 50's, formative years 60's, teen years 70's. I understood every single word he said. And they were all correct! But now I live in a state I never heard of as a kid (and still can't find on a map)... Warshington!
@coolfeet13 жыл бұрын
Worshington*
@yurmabeechaudits35223 жыл бұрын
@@coolfeet1 wor as in wore out and war as in warshington are the same
@redstateforever3 жыл бұрын
I’m a southern girl who married into the Navy, did some time in WA. It’s like being an attraction in a freak show, I volunteered at my son’s school and it was like I was from another planet, they’re always asking you to say stuff like you’re speaking a foreign language. In a way, I guess we do, lol. That place is way too cold and wet, btw. I once counted how many days in a row it rained, got to 40 something and gave up. And then there was the 4th of July when I watched the fireworks wearing a thick hoodie while huddled under a wool blanket. That is just sick and wrong, I tell ya. Sick and wrong.
@rickymcgowen67762 жыл бұрын
Hopefully you got some rain boots. Or a boat.
@rickymcgowen67762 жыл бұрын
@@redstateforever Bless your heart.
@Trockenmatt Жыл бұрын
My mom went to college in Texas, and the one big thing she learned was to use the word Y'all. I was raised with that, and now despite living in Oregon for most of my life I still use it, because it's honestly a really useful word
@sissinoklahoma20573 жыл бұрын
Ever go to the frijraider to get ey-sss? (They couldn't say ice on this channel because we all say it like an elongated country cussword!) Love everything Matt does!
@MelissaThompson4323 жыл бұрын
I don't think you can SPELL the correct pronunciation of "ice." It's almost "ahss," but with something close to "ass" for good measure. At least you didn't go to the Frigidaire. I don't think we've ever owned a Frigidaire brand appliance in my entire extended family, but guess what they call it?
@Briansgate3 жыл бұрын
my granny called hers the 'cabinator.'
@bibbiana4Lyfe3 жыл бұрын
My granny : "Frigidaire" for all brands of refrigerator.
@vicpeck65093 жыл бұрын
NOT THE FRIJRAIDER
@supergene2563 жыл бұрын
@@bibbiana4Lyfe amazing…my parents are from Haiti and that’s what they call all fridges in their language
@emmerphant3 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Alaska and living in Texas has been a trip 😂 I can’t understand half of what anyone says
@thuggins20863 жыл бұрын
Oof...Texas isn't even that bad when you compare it to the Southern states East of us. Lol
@zacharyfeller41873 жыл бұрын
@@thuggins2086 hey we Tennesseans don't talk that strange. You might here some occasional bad grammar but it ain't all that bad. Just remember plum=very and they are can become them is. Other than that can become 2 syllables like "uh'r'nat" but once you got that down your fine.
@ajcarr19653 жыл бұрын
@@zacharyfeller4187 "Over there" is "ovair" in east Texas & much of Tennessee.
@zacharyfeller41873 жыл бұрын
@@ajcarr1965 yeah that's true. Can't say i personally day that but people do indeed say that
@joyces55933 жыл бұрын
Excuse me!! Texas is not considered the South......totally different. And I never heard "warsh" til my friend's mother (who was from Indiana or Ohio or one of those) say it.
@kenziethemom Жыл бұрын
I only watched the first bit by myself, but I went to my oldest kid to watch the rest, because I say I speak Texan, not English. I live in PA now, so you can imagine the jokes I get about my language selection lol. My daughter was dying because I said the last few, especially coke (my co workers will laugh and say "yes ill take a pop" and I'll be like "ok, I'll get you a coke. You want mountain dew?") And as soon as you showed the picture, I said "chester drawers" and she damn near died when you said exactly what I did LMAO
@bettynewberry13 жыл бұрын
Well scuse the hell outa me! Who knew we was speaking a whole nother language.
@rowynnecrowley16893 жыл бұрын
What you speak barely qualifies as "language". :P
@bettynewberry13 жыл бұрын
@@rowynnecrowley1689 Bless your heart.
@yurmabeechaudits35223 жыл бұрын
@@rowynnecrowley1689 language is anything that allows two people to communicate 🙄 you not understanding it has no bearing on the definition of language.
@mew53953 жыл бұрын
The non southern version still has a southern accent which makes this great
@kova15772 жыл бұрын
Does he?
@grassroot0112 жыл бұрын
Cuz it's by the same guy, Eh?
@Howiesgirl Жыл бұрын
Bless you for the Randy Owen/Alabama reference! I finished that sentence in my head while you were speaking it. But now that song is stuck in my head, so I know what music I'll be listening to tonight, lol. I'm a Yankee Pennsylvania girl, but there's a ton of us country music lovers up here... especially in the rural areas. Many of the sayings & pronunciations are the same as southern folk too. Except we don't say "y'all", we say "yinz" or "you's"-- depending on the region you're from. I have family in Tennessee, so I really enjoy watching your videos, as they remind me of my visits there as a kid.
@deeprollingriver58202 жыл бұрын
I love being southern. I feel privileged to sound like a southerner!
@foechicken8023 Жыл бұрын
Me too. I live on the GC of Texas but have family in east Texas and after visitin' when I come home I have a heavier draw. I can't help it either but I don't mind. When I finally get moved to deep north Texas I will sound even more so and that is also just fine by me.
@americapie9214 Жыл бұрын
That's right, speaking English from the south. It sounds good to me. Heehaw.
@TheRealToejam2022 Жыл бұрын
Texas is not in the south.
@carlablair98982 жыл бұрын
Living all my life in South Carolina. My mom from South Dakota affected my Southern accent, but after she was here for a while she finally learned to speak correctly.
@brianmatthews4323 Жыл бұрын
I've spent my whole life down here, and even I can relate to the man's frustration.🤣
@TokenFlvme3 жыл бұрын
I'm 24, and it was last week shopping for baby furniture that I learned it is in fact pronounced, "chest of drawers" I was mind blown to say the least 😅
@FarmgirlFriday Жыл бұрын
I’ve never been to the south, but I spent some time living in Australia. They also call them ‘Chester drawers’ and they will even spell it that way if they are selling one on Facebook marketplace. Made me laugh to see it, but I didn’t know it was a southern US thing too!
@eggsman63 Жыл бұрын
Wait no… it cant be…
@midnari Жыл бұрын
Thank you for that. I didn't get the joke. "Why is he walking away? Those ARE Chester Drawers!"
@slartybartfast1112 Жыл бұрын
I blame my mom for Chester Drawers. Ive never heard anyone other than her say it but I knew that’s how 99% of us southerns say it lol. I don’t have much of an accent these days but I do occasionally say Chester drawers.
@KSeigY Жыл бұрын
I'd have just called it a Dresser, personally. That's probably something else entirely, but... it'll do for me.
@steroidbaggins29362 жыл бұрын
I’m from Florida and moved to nc when I was 12, so my vocabulary is a weird mix of mostly southern English with the odd yankee word and pronunciation here and there. Being from Florida and being Latin, I’d also say that while I have a southern accent, I do talk faster than most other southerners I meet, they often have trouble understanding me. Let’s just say that the southern accent is meant to be spoken with a drawl, not a time limit😂 Also, Florida is DEFINITELY the south. It’s just that once you hit Orlando it becomes Latin America and the southerners stick to the rural swampy areas in between the yankee retirement communities and latin cities.
@alperdue2704 Жыл бұрын
Or as a friend says, “My southern ears can’t hear that fast.”
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
Very true. And the old saying that north Florida is really south Georgia is true. Lol!
@corywilliams9895 Жыл бұрын
@@janetprice85 yeah I’m from Tallahassee so… yeeeaaah. Spot on. Just moved to Tampa and it’s a whole different state.
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
@@corywilliams9895 I have relatives that are Yankees who retired to New Port Richie and they were afraid of the geckos. Lol!
@NevilofMars Жыл бұрын
I used to work in a call center. I had two different callers from Florida. I asked each one of them, what part of New York they were from. Both seemed offended and told me that they were born and raised in Florida. Which lead me to believe, that so many New Yorkers moved to Florida, that some Floridians who have never been to New York, have New York accents!
@cheekymonkey56212 жыл бұрын
When we moved up north they tried to put my son in speech classes. I said you cannot put someone in speech classes because he has an accent. Previous school in the south said he was the most articulate young kid they had ever had, coming from a teacher who had taught for twenty years.
@jakobofcincy6 ай бұрын
that is plain sad, if the teacher doesn't understand his accent that his not his damn fault, make that damn teacher learn southern English!
@teresacryer58723 ай бұрын
I wonder if they'd have attempted if the child had an accent from a foreign country while speaking English?
@sburris653 жыл бұрын
I had no idea Matt had a channel! Love this since I always say I speak 2 languages..1. English 2. Southern
@living4mylord3 жыл бұрын
I didn't either 😂💗
@Bill_N_ATX3 жыл бұрын
Hell, I speak three. Texan, Southern, and English. I was once giving a presentation in France to a bunch of people from all over the world, all of whom spoke English for work. One of them stopped me after about three minutes and said, “I know you are speaking English but I’m not understanding but half of it.” I had to be careful and keep it simple and enunciate like a TV announcer.
@ven0m.4514 жыл бұрын
Lawyer!! 😂😂 I got so many looks when I moved to Pittsburgh
@cowboy4jesus3N13 жыл бұрын
Ever see the Madea movie when she goes on a roll about Lawyer n Liar ?
@ven0m.4513 жыл бұрын
@@cowboy4jesus3N1 I have not
@meganjoelyn2207 Жыл бұрын
I love this. I'm from the west coast and some southern accents are hard for me to understand...yet I like how they sound. This was very funny!
@sallyannburke26072 жыл бұрын
Although I’m a northerner I can relate. My mom would always scream I have the right-A-way when someone cut her off in traffic. I was always confused by what that meant but just figured I learn what it meant when I learned to drive. So when I went out to learn to drive the driving instructor pronounced it correctly the right (OF) way and it dawned on me. I was raised Catholic and my mom and the priest had thick Providence accents so they called the apostles creed something sounding like the Opossums creed. Figured opossums must have been in the Bible🤷🏼♀️. Also you a quat of milk for a dolla and a quata. I swear Rhode Island doesn’t even speak English
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
I love regional accents. My great aunts from the W.Ky, St.Louis, SW Illinois area had an interesting accent that was unique. It sounded kind of southern but also kind of midwestern too.
@andyhuebschmann5616 Жыл бұрын
My wife grew up in Seakonk, Mass. Every once in awhile, her heritage comes out! I LOL and ask her yo repeat what she just said!
@ChibiPanda8888 Жыл бұрын
Possums creed 🤣🤣🤣
@Secret_Takodachi Жыл бұрын
As someone from the south shore of Massachusetts: you think people in R.I. don't use the letter R?! The name of the baseball team in Boston is the RED Sox but you won't hear them called that. Nope! Locals always just say "The Sox ah on tonight!" or "I gotta wicked headache kid, the Sox won last night so me and the boys went out ta pahty!" To non-sports people out there: The MLB also has a team called the White Sox: Bostonians are *so dedicated* to eliminating the letter R at every opportunity that the locals have managed to remove a prominent R from everyday use via a nickname that isn't even distinct enough to specifically apply to their team. Hell, I'm not convinced Sox fans even really hate the Yankees anymore. In retrospect, a lot of that animosity might've been triggered by all those Rs in Derek Jeter's name lol
@NotKyleChicago Жыл бұрын
Your reference to opposums reminded me of when I turned raccoons Jewish by saying that I read they had rabbis (instead of rabies). I hadn't heard "rabies" before so pronounced it as "rabbis".
@thegodofalldragons3 жыл бұрын
He's got a point about "lawyer," though. Phonetically, that IS how it should be pronounced.
@henrynoel42233 жыл бұрын
Low-yer is more to the point.
@okaydetar8213 жыл бұрын
@@henrynoel4223 No one says low-yer, they say loy-er
@karachristiansen1922 жыл бұрын
But "oil" is pronounced "Ole"...
@Beanie262 жыл бұрын
@@karachristiansen192 no...? oil is said like oy-ill (ill as in hill) and Ole is said like in "Hole"
@dawnfire822 жыл бұрын
@@Beanie26 Not in Texas.
@sc0rch3d10 ай бұрын
I couldn't even say "coke machine" without already laughing at myself!
@infinity-82503 жыл бұрын
The whole hamburger meat for tacos I feel targeted when he said sure 😂😂😂
@RedT...TheOriginal.NotANumber3 жыл бұрын
"I'll speak my 'Southern English' just as naturally as I please." Because My Home's in Alabama. Southern-born, and Southern-bred. (I had to pause and squee on hearing that line. Thank you, Matt!) Edit: And then you clarified right after, and I saw why no one else had commented on it. But I still love that it's in there.
@Briansgate3 жыл бұрын
American by birth, Southern by the Grace of Gawd.
@sarahb9240 Жыл бұрын
😂 I'm from PA, and I grew up pronouncing things the same way as Matt. All sodas were coke, and ground meat is hamburger. ❤ Love this channel.
@ellariel74573 жыл бұрын
Today, I was in a Walmart in Hannibal, MO ... one place, if any, I’d think, where a displaced Southerner might hope to be understood. Just needing a quick bottle of body wash, I left my shopping & stepped off the main aisle. Meanwhile, an associate came through with a palette jack, fully loaded. I came back and asked him whether he’d seen my buggy. He didn’t just look at me funny - he actually said, “Wha??!” I quickly remembered my code-switching and asked for my cart instead. Voilá! Reunited with my shopping in no time. Nice fella! But really, it’s just so sad when people don’t know the language, isn’t it? LOL 😂.
@LadyAnuB3 жыл бұрын
Try that with an Australian. Shopping with my roommate, an Aussie, and she's calling a shopping cart a trolley which is a streetcar here in the US. Thank god I knew about this beforehand. 😄
@bed_betch_frangelica98803 жыл бұрын
Omg.. this had me in tears 😭. I knew what you meant by buggy but haven’t said it in years 🥰🥰🥰
@ellariel74573 жыл бұрын
@@bed_betch_frangelica9880 LOL. And imagine my surprise when I once said it accidentally in Canada - and was perfectly understood! 🤣🤣
@Bongo2k3 жыл бұрын
THE language? You mean the language you took from another country and butchered? Cute.
@ellariel74573 жыл бұрын
@@Bongo2k I thought so, thanks! LOL Actually, I was referring to the Southern dialect(s), which I’m sure you know are considered closer than any others to their original English forbears. But it’s okay … go ahead and be your disgruntled self, sugar. We have an expression for that, too: Bless your heart, darlin’
@freedomcat3 жыл бұрын
Lawrance Brown from Across the Pond both the channel and in real life did a so each analysis and he found that the southern way of speaking is closer to that of England.
@sandragreen95603 жыл бұрын
Truth, especially in Virginia and South Carolina.
@nancyjanzen56763 жыл бұрын
Appalachian is practically 17th century English from west coast England. An English actor once explained why Americans never thought of Cary Grant as English. If you slow down Cary Grant's speech pattern it is Appalachian English. Because he is from the same place the majority of colonists came from.
@johns96523 жыл бұрын
Lost in the Pond? Yeah, he's interesting, watched a few of his videos before.
@janejones76383 жыл бұрын
I agree. It's interesting how many Brits were cast in Gone With the Wind. They didn't have to change their accent much.
@dawnfire822 жыл бұрын
That piece of trivia tends to drive Yankees crazy. They've completely internalized the idea that Southerners are ignorant and wrong (because of course they have), and it galls them to think that Southern-accented English is actually purer and more 'correct' than theirs.
@jeffreydickson43732 жыл бұрын
Boy howdy. This is so spot on. Chester Drawers. 😂😂😂
@ohionative52374 жыл бұрын
You deserve so many more subscribers.
@shelpippg22024 жыл бұрын
I could legit watch Matt do anything. He needs a camera just following him around all day.
@sleddy013 жыл бұрын
There should be a law forcing people to subscribe.
@AKHWJ3ST3 жыл бұрын
@Angela Lee Two more!! I followed him on facebook, but then I quit fb and haven't been able to find him anywhere till now!
@jgjg38483 жыл бұрын
You did a great job with this video, not only the acting, but your "interview" editing is stellar.
@Secret_Takodachi Жыл бұрын
2:15 This. This is what drives educated Northerners the most crazy. As a born & raised kid of the Commonwealth, laughing at the proper pronunciation of a word followed by anecdotal evidence as to why the southern way is right is just... 🥰 it makes for great entertainment every time my scattered family manages to get us all together 🤣
@bwilliams64084 жыл бұрын
I was today years old when I found out it isn't Chester drawers.🙃
@jenniferbates28113 жыл бұрын
I've always called it a bureau
@cristallatus3 жыл бұрын
What is it though
@paulpysher113 жыл бұрын
It's a dresser!
@jenniferbates28113 жыл бұрын
@@paulpysher11 what's the difference between a bureau and a dresser?
@Vulnavia3 жыл бұрын
@@paulpysher11 That particular piece is a highboy dresser.
@lorimav3 жыл бұрын
The think that got me when I first moved to the South was when an employee at Food Lion asked me if I wanted a "buggy." I almost cracked up when I visualized this big horse drawn thing. To be fair though in Western New York I used to wheel around my doll "buggy." Also, I died laughing when an Englishwoman told me she used to read under the covers with a "torch."
@redrock4252 жыл бұрын
Torch so much easier to say than "flashlight" 😉
@lorimav2 жыл бұрын
@@redrock425 Easy to say, but cracked me up when I first pictured someone reading under the covers holding something they light the Olympic fire with. The alternate in the US would be a "blowtorch", which also would not be that safe or practical.
@camden336 Жыл бұрын
So you either live in NC, VA, SC, MD or GA..those the only food lion stores I know of!
@lorimav Жыл бұрын
@@camden336 VA and since they decided to stock a full line of organic produce and other products I can avoid the higher prices and the male employees wearing skirts at my local Kroger.
@camden336 Жыл бұрын
@@lorimav oh wow
@Acts2-38 Жыл бұрын
I found this video to be very good!!! I've been raised all my life in Pennsylvania, and I still live only a half an hour from my home. And yet most of what he has said are things that I say till this day! I'm guessing that my grandmother who was from the south must have taught all of us to say the same words as so we still say it that way to this day. I never knew until right now some of those things sound like Southern. I've had people tell me that they thought I was from the south and perhaps this is why LOL! There were only two things on there that I don't use, and that would be the jury box and also the Coke machine.
@YoSpiff3 жыл бұрын
When I was stationed in the UK with the Air Force, my in laws came to visit. My British neighbour referred to my born-and-raised-in-Arkansas mother in law as a "Yank" and my MIL got quite offended, declaring "I am NOT a Yank!". (Over there, anyone from the US is a Yank.) My MIL then went down to the Sainsbury's market looking for hamburger meat and came back complaining that they didn't have any. The girl at the shop had offered her a can of premade hamburger patties. My wife told her "No, Momma, you have to ask for "MINCE". It was a fun visit.
@cstrosetta3 жыл бұрын
I try to warn non-US people about the use of ‘yanks’, they could find themselves in a dangerous situation if they don’t mind their p’s & q’s
@nathaliem95973 жыл бұрын
Yeah I moved from Mobile Alabama to the UK and get called a Yank. Scary that I forgot I once used to call mince hamburger meat! 😂
@MelissaThompson4323 жыл бұрын
I am not even amused any more by the sad, sad, British "biscuit and gravy" jokes....
@LadyAnuB3 жыл бұрын
This gets better when you deal with Australians. They have a derogatory term for us Americans that can double blow Southerners, septic tank Yank.
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
Yes, never call a southerner over a certain age a Yankee anything. You might get a history lesson about what a skunk General Sherman was as he burned down Uncle Willie's barn even if Uncle Willie was in Florida. Lol!
@pearlg64112 жыл бұрын
I love the confused looks when I call detergent "washing powder"
@starfleet8689 ай бұрын
I call is washing powder, even if it's liquid in a bottle
@pearlg64119 ай бұрын
That's what I'm talking about @@starfleet868 😂🤣😂
@TTFSZ Жыл бұрын
Yo the Chester drawers is so true lmao when he pulled up the picture I was like "Chester drawers," lol
@jennfurr3 жыл бұрын
Missed a classic.. Hold up a can of Castrol. It's it oil, awl, or earl?
@electricia3 жыл бұрын
Ole.
@MelissaThompson4323 жыл бұрын
Try saying "coal oil" correctly. (Hint: "kerosene.") I grew up saying cole ole.
@lili197433 жыл бұрын
It's ol. The i has no sound.
@Briansgate3 жыл бұрын
oal
@whoisjohngault32703 жыл бұрын
Awl
@doctorteethomega3 жыл бұрын
Born in Maine, lived most of my adult life in Kentucky. I can hear both voices. And i admit i'd call a dresser a chester drawers nowadays. I just wish there was a series like this for the Maine accent. It's just as crazy as any southern accent.
@belladonnatook88512 жыл бұрын
There you go. You are officially *bilingual*! 😂😂😂
@lincolnlove18552 жыл бұрын
A dresser is long and low. A chest of drawers is stacked high. Why the confusion?
@kaelanmcalpine2011 Жыл бұрын
My dad had a similar thing but in the opposite direction, born in Tennessee but raised in Maine. Though he then moved down to Virginia with my mom and later Florida when my mom was pregnant with me
@marahdolores89302 жыл бұрын
He is right about "law yer". And the rest - ground beef, tractor/trailer rig, mayOnaise, pop machine, jew el ree box, joo ree box, and a highboy. LOL, at least Matt didn't try for "pecan". As a native Michigander who joined the military as a young adult, traveled a bit, and has now lived about 40 years south of the Mason-Dixon line, (plus was raised by a native West Virginian), my accent, accronyms, and regional terms are all over the map, quite literally. And we live about an hour away from New Orleans, and that's a whole 'nother southern accent right there, cher.
@charlotteshanagher48163 жыл бұрын
I was in raised and learned to speak by a southern Mama. Chest a drawers.
@mariabarker20363 жыл бұрын
I was anxiously waiting to find out the Southron word for Bureau. But was foiled by Chester Drors
@ihaveproblems97793 жыл бұрын
xD
@yurmabeechaudits35223 жыл бұрын
The fedral Buerah of investuhgations
@LoserManic6 ай бұрын
As someone who's never lived in the South, nor have I ever been born there, I could clearly hear the difference between a jewelry box and a jury box. Whoever's teaching him English is out of his mind.
@BananaGrace3 жыл бұрын
He’s right about the Mayo... unless it’s miracle whip it’s definitely man-aze
@yourlocalbarb20182 жыл бұрын
If you’re saying “Mayo” you say the o but if you’re saying “mayonnaise” you don’t 😭 it actually frightens me how some people up north day mayonnaise
@gloriaalex11 Жыл бұрын
I grew up saying may-naze up north, but when I moved south I was quickly informed that it's called Duke's or nothing. 😂
@RideTheSkies Жыл бұрын
don't get the big deal. I say mayonnaise the same way. everyone in the US knows what you mean when you say man-aze. as long as you don't forget how to spell it or pronounce it correctly when you have to, it's not a big deal
@hildia54392 жыл бұрын
Y'all should do a round two on this. My midwestern background and Southern upbringing kept butting heads.
@SaharaM18 Жыл бұрын
I love the accents and the jokes too, of course, but the frustrated way he threw down his glasses was so perfect - that made me laugh the most. The way Matt can act so differently in both voice and body language is amazing. All his jokes land because it looks so flawlessly like two different, and real, people.
@KenFromchicago3 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! My mom called it a "chester" too. I grew up calling it "chester" vs the shorter wider "dresser" yet everyone else around us called it a "bureau". I didn't realize it was because she was Louisiana. Also, "lawyer" makes way more sense than "lore-yer". That's just logic.
@misswintertime3 жыл бұрын
As someone from central Illinois, I have the dubious honor of understanding all of these without saying any of them myself. It comes from the strange balance of herds of Southerners settling in the south end of the state and herds of everyone else in the world settling in Chicago.
@Starstreaka2 жыл бұрын
Also from central IL, can confirm this true. I usually have heard/used both versions in cases like this.
@xgcskiman2 жыл бұрын
Im from the St. Louis metro east area. Being in southern IL, but so near to St. Louis, has done the same for me. It seems to lean more towards Southern ways of life around here in the smaller towns. The larger town have a good mix of "city folk" and suburban people, so I hear/see it all. I can relate to so many of his videos as a result.
@janetprice85 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. My great aunts could too.
@sandybruce9092 Жыл бұрын
I’m a Yankee, raised in Arizona and now live in North Carolina! I did have a few problems with Southern pronunciations at first - pins/pens! But I’ve been here for over 20 years now and fund that I’m sometimes saying the same things! I,love living in the South !!!!!!!
@PokeRanger942 жыл бұрын
My mother came from a northern family and my dad a southern family. We also moved all around because of the military. In college, my roommate from northern africa could understand me all right, but people with thick southern accents she couldn’t understand a word they were saying. We went to a college in the south. She learned that I understand everyone just fine so I became her translator for when she needed to talk to southerners until she got the hang of it.
@lisaripley19584 жыл бұрын
So glad I stumbled upon this channel!
@gingerleamcwow435 Жыл бұрын
Omg when he said "coke machine" I lost it. Thats exactly what we call all sodas down here. When you ordered you say, "I want a coke." And then they ask you what kind 😅
@Caeric773 жыл бұрын
The one that was most problematic for my stepmom was hearing us country kids talk about 'wrainchin our hands off for dinner'. I have no way to spell it, but that's as close as I can get to the sound of it in writing. I can still clear as day hear my Nana say, 'Ya'll kids go wrainch yer hands off for dinner'. For us it was perfectly normal, but for my stepmom it evoked visions of us pulling our hands clean off - even after we explained that it simply meant 'rinse our hands' or 'wash up for dinner'.
@ogg59493 жыл бұрын
9 months late to the party but this is golden! We gotta see more of this!
@buggdell Жыл бұрын
I lost my cat Taco at 3 am RIP . Ive been crying since. Thank you for the laugh 3:04
@CritterLizard3 жыл бұрын
I literally thought half of this was considered normal everyday speech. 🤣
@kimberlycarder77303 жыл бұрын
Matt has got it dead on!! He talks just fine, ain't nothin' wrong with his speech at all!
@wolfegaming36 Жыл бұрын
As someone who was raised in the south by parents who moved here from the north, this was a super fun game to see which ones I use and which ones I got from my parents. I missed 18-wheeler, and I couldn't tell what was in the mayo picture. But I feel like I should get a bonus point because I totally called it that you were gonna use the hamburger meat for tacos because that's what I'd be using it for 🤣 Also I totally lost it at "coke machine," I'm from the area where Coke's HQ is located so I've called it that all my life. One time Pepsi put up a billboard near the Coke building that said "This is Dew country" and a week later Coke responded with a billboard just past that one, that said "Don't believe everything you read" 😂
@Peter_Morris3 жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard. When he held up that vending machine it was reflex. I said Coke machine. When I lived up north my friends were constantly confused when I’d ask them what kind of coke they wanted.
@lili197433 жыл бұрын
I just say drink machine.
@inconnu49612 жыл бұрын
What part of the north? In eastern PA it would be called 'soda', while in western Pa they called it 'pop'!
@Peter_Morris2 жыл бұрын
I was in the middle part of New Jersey, outside Trenton.