A Southerner Learns English

Class is in session, and today your favorite Southerner is learning the English language. Again. Maybe Matt will finally figure out who Chester is.

[@shriker5969]

The lawyer argument was sound.

[@cristianz7]

Totally agree

[@jonathanmullins8854]

@Shriker please recognize the pun you made

[@shriker5969]

@@jonathanmullins8854 😆

[@stellingbanjodude]

The LAWyer pronunciation has always bothered me. They go to law school not Loy school, so therefore it has to be pronounced LAWyer

[@katrinaboleware6103]

I'm from the north and I say it that way. Everyone up north thinks I'm wrong. 😏

[@TheDragonBloom]

Only a southerner can hear the subtle difference between jewelry box and jury box.

[@chrispile3878]

Unlike some yahoo saying "joolery".

[@misseselise3864]

there’s a silent L in there... somewhere

[@mssendfitness]

I was born in the south, and raised in the midwest but i could still hear the difference!

[@Bacopa68]

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_littlepinkhousefly]

@@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.)

[@mimimcbroom7413]

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]

Try German! Lol! With a slow drawl.

[@Donna-cc1kt]

🤣😂🤣

[@coryv5679]

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]

Now that’s funny. I mean very, very funny! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@loriparker7755]

🤣 I snorted.

[@richardhaganjr7891]

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.

[@Sabbathissaturday]

I was about the same age when I learned.

[@CeliaBordeaux]

😂😂😂😂 i totally get him. I always thought it was chester drawers….remember when my nephew set me straight😂😂😂

[@timeflies72]

I remember asking my 5th grade teacher how to spell “wallago,” and learned it was “a while ago.”

[@danielleking262]

lol oh wow 😆

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

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.

[@MelissaThompson432]

😂😂😂

[@RedDevilRaspberry]

🤣🤣 this made my sides hurt 🤣🤣

[@Caeric77]

Hmmm... we pronounced it with an 'h'... whallago, but otherwise the same :)

[@nicks.5552]

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.”

[@SarahLandry577]

You should have just given them all actual Cokes.

[@yurmabeechaudits3522]

@@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

[@doughesson]

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.

[@doughesson]

@@corrineanders6373 Soda is what Yankees drink. I know I've lived among them & learned their ways without becoming suborned by them.

[@doughesson]

@@corrineanders6373 Tennessee & Alabama drink cokes & you make your selection from what the waitress names. Even when I lived in Paducah,it was coke

[@reflexxuns767]

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]

Now did you pronounce it "saw-yer" or "soy-yer"?

[@hishealer]

Alabama folks went right to breaking down the story. 3 days max and on to the next book.

[@JadeDragon407]

That's dedgum hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That was the day we figured out who was smarter than a 5th grader.

[@hanskloss1331]

how about Uncle Remus stories ?

[@stephenriggs8177]

Born and raised in Texas. Scored in the top half percent on my English Achievement Test. Southerner is right, on all counts.

[@davidstoyanoff]

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.

[@joycegallowayparker9652]

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.

[@TheDragonBloom]

"Bless your heart" is the southern equivalent to politely calling someone an idiot to their face.

[@andrewharrison1320]

Oooww that had to hurt

[@keepinstepoutdoors3364]

🤣 and sorry you were called that

[@dominiquewright896]

Bless your heart. (You’re an idiot)

[@Mayaa2424]

You know you’re southern when you couldn’t tell what was the problem with the words he said 😂

[@janicehousley4833]

I know!! I am like “ What? He said it right!”

[@whoisjohngault3270]

Amen

[@roserollins9800]

South Carolina in the house

[@forgettheworld4277]

I never knew it was called a semi truck

[@elultimo102]

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."

[@duphasdan]

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]

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]

@@stephschubring9693 You must read too fast. I am originally from Minnesota.

[@taniawilliams3427]

No one in the South calls Coke "pop".

[@Blakethornton66.]

@@taniawilliams3427Pop is a straight dumbass term too

[@Blakethornton66.]

@@duphasdanMinna-soda-….budum tss-…get it-…no- just me?

[@adriennefriend]

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! ❤

[@clovismerovingian2239]

I had no idea that other regions didn't call it hamburger meat.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

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."

[@jacobliedtke9821]

@@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.

[@luannecates8481]

Ground meat Ground beef Chuck meat Hamburger meat (especially if you use it to make burgers!

[@cameronwhyte7223]

Mince meat.

[@cruzmissile25]

The 18wheeler bit. He is correct there is 18 wheels there, also incorrect because Semi truck means just the truck (tractor) without the trailer.

[@ladiel79]

I’m from AL, and I totally heard the difference between the “jery” box and the jury box.

[@cletust.darrell8363]

Honestly it just sounded like 'jewlery' to me

[@dianaklien1560]

I heard jewl-ry and jury. How did he suppose to say it I wonder?

[@ashley2883]

I'm from the north and heard the difference lol

[@decorummortis5175]

@@ashley2883 me too

[@justanoldman697]

I'm from Ohio and I heard the difference!

[@cariwaldick4898]

These English lessons need to be a series. How about this one: I'm working a check in desk, and a Southern woman comes up. She pats her pockets, checks her purse, and tells her husband, "I lost my pin, (said with two syllables.)" Then she looks at me, and asks me if I've got a pin she could borrow. I check the drawers--no pins. "I'm sorry, I don't have any." She then looks frustrated and complains, "How am I gonna sign in, without a pin?!" Then it hits me; she needs a PEN.

[@PokeRanger94]

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.

[@my2cents49]

"I'll speak my Southern English just as naturally as I please" 👋😂

[@sallyphillips9175]

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.

[@maryplaidy6814]

@@sallyphillips9175 No, ma'am! The Heart of Dixie is in the great state of Alabama. It's on their license plates.

[@markeaton6435]

Okay, folks, I was today years old when I learned that it wasn't "Southernese", but "Southern English". Bless my pea-pickin' heart.

[@nickydancy4087]

I know datz right...sookie sookie nah..

[@reesaserik3759]

We say 'nachally'. Texas here.

[@LadyAnuB]

"What are you going to use that 'hamburger meat' for?" "Ummmm…tacos" Totally busted up at this. 🤣

[@icannotcomeupwithanything4609]

He just called out my entire family with one question. 😂

[@jeffreysmith236]

Taco is the whole thing, not an ingredient. So hamburger meat tacos is in fact correct.

[@LadyAnuB]

@@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. 🤣

[@lward9675]

Why? Lol.

[@clv2015]

@@icannotcomeupwithanything4609 same!! 😂😂

[@ChristysChannelYall]

I’m from southern Mississippi and he sounds perfectly normal to me ❤

[@steroidbaggins2936]

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]

Or as a friend says, “My southern ears can’t hear that fast.”

[@janetprice85]

Very true. And the old saying that north Florida is really south Georgia is true. Lol!

[@corywilliams9895]

@@janetprice85 yeah I’m from Tallahassee so… yeeeaaah. Spot on. Just moved to Tampa and it’s a whole different state.

[@janetprice85]

@@corywilliams9895 I have relatives that are Yankees who retired to New Port Richie and they were afraid of the geckos. Lol!

[@NevilofMars]

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!

[@nancymills1884]

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’.

[@rickymcgowen6776]

I'll drink to that.

[@AJM2408]

Love stories like this.

[@UKCrazy007]

I mean where's the lie?

[@dragonson72]

I visited my friend up in RI, his friends ask about my accent, I Ask What Accent?

[@jettahammond2916]

Lol 😂

[@andreaashley8783]

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 🤣😆🤣😆🤣

[@MalfosRanger]

That does sound like a roarin good time.

[@country_flyboy]

Now I can only imagine what my German sounds like! Ich spreche Deutsch, aber nicht sehr gut. Ich komme aus Tennessee.

[@johnhamburn3845]

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.6280]

Fredericksburg Texas might be worth visiting. There are several German descendents around that area.

[@andreaashley8783]

@Nate Byers....... perfect in spelling and grammar!!😊

[@sweetelisum]

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!

[@daviddavid5880]

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.

[@amandabaddeley-davis6218]

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

[@manxgirl]

Apparently, I'm bilingual. Cause I use both versions of a lot of those pictures. Awesome!☺

[@e-chantheapple198]

Same

[@sarahr3076]

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!

[@ayakotami3318]

I'm can speak both ways but my Southern side comes out with most things like these items. XD

[@sid2112]

I'm southern and carefully cultivate my accent to reproduce Rhett Butler as closely as possible. Makes the wife swoon :)

[@alexr4468]

As a Russian, southern English is more understandable for me🌸 You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar✨

[@DD-gi6kx]

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]

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]

@@TTFSZ same!

[@angelousmortis8041]

@@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]

Makes sense...southerners speak slower, which I imagine would be helpful.

[@Corsix]

As a Wyoming native I frankly sympathize with this more than I care to admit.

[@GeorgePetersIII]

Hey! I'm also a Wyoming native. So few of us we have to say hello. Spent my entire adult life in universities and the military; ten years in Japan and Germany. When I'm in Wyoming with family, I clearly do not speak like the rest of them. You'll never hear me say, "I seen it" or "eCscaped" or most of the things in this video. 😂 Howdy, on the other hand, is how I greet most people! 😉

[@MarieDahme]

Hey there fellow Wyomingites! Just popped in to say to hiddy ho ! Go U DUB Cowboys! Lol

[@cheekymonkey5621]

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.

[@tateranus4365]

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!

[@nicoleabed2480]

My mom used to call the washing machine the warshing machine 😂

[@PirateLeota]

My mom did too, whenever she did the warsh! :D

[@jrnestreehouse4405]

I thought my mom had a speech impediment 💀

[@lili19743]

My friend's mom called the fridge an "icebox" and when something was spilled she'd say "wap it up".

[@RevRedmondFarrier]

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"

[@thistlefield24]

My grandma did that

[@center4nerds]

you could make almost a whole channel out of this alone ;D

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

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

[@uniquematerial2441]

Hoot & 1/2. Southern Yankee in da house!

[@schippendale91]

They did. 😏🤠

[@ajcarr1965]

@@rowynnecrowley1689Well bless your heart. You need to tuck your tongue behind your teeth, sugar, 'cause your stupid is showing. #ShotsReturned

[@dannyisdaddy8098]

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

[@ratsumatra3003]

Yes sir. And iced tea is automatically sweet. I laughed real hard at this one. It's real. Thank you for the smile.

[@randyduncan4004]

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.

[@southerndigest8996]

“I was really hoping you could tell me who Chester was.” 😂 At least he knew it wasn’t a chiffarobe!

[@flossyphp]

He's the guy who make the drawers

[@jeanpresley1220]

now a days how many people know what a chiffarobe is ?? most young folksand and northers dont

[@siljatanner1318]

I said chiffarobe first before I caught myself

[@lili19743]

@@jeanpresley1220 I used to hide in the chiffarobe. No one ever thought to look there.

[@ruthanngalt7402]

It's a bureau, pronounced beer-o.

[@jadebirdsong1563]

"Are you sure I shouldn't be the one teachin' this class?" Ain't it the truth?!😄

[@jacobliedtke9821]

*Is that not the truth?!* English, please.

[@Bacopa68]

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_laura]

@Just Shane you know you’ve messed up when a southerner tells you “bless your heart” 😃✋🏼

[@tristancoffin]

@@Bacopa68 um I grew up with oaks. Acorn or you better start saying kern on da cob

[@kova1577]

@@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

[@Trockenmatt]

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

[@brianmatthews4323]

I've spent my whole life down here, and even I can relate to the man's frustration.🤣

[@csimmonsjr]

I bet the English teacher can’t say pecan right either.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

P'kahn. Eat it.

[@csimmonsjr]

@@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?

[@asphodelale]

@@csimmonsjr Kan or khan, it requires a 'koo-zee'.

[@jaydee3730]

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.

[@csimmonsjr]

@@jaydee3730 can South Carolinians and Georgians finally agree on something?

[@allisonshaw9341]

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.

[@MelissaThompson432]

I have had somebody accuse me of "using all them college words."

[@enfynet]

Good thing you’re not in England getting smacked in the fanny... because that’s something women have and men don’t.

[@allisonshaw9341]

@@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?

[@enfynet]

@@allisonshaw9341 I’m not Bri’ish And you’re correct, it’s not your behind. 😂

[@goudagirl6095]

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! 🙄

[@MarleyMania1]

I literally come back to this video multiple times a year because it's so accurate and funny!

[@jondobbins1256]

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.

[@bettynewberry1]

Well scuse the hell outa me! Who knew we was speaking a whole nother language.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

What you speak barely qualifies as "language". :P

[@bettynewberry1]

@@rowynnecrowley1689 Bless your heart.

[@yurmabeechaudits3522]

@@rowynnecrowley1689 language is anything that allows two people to communicate 🙄 you not understanding it has no bearing on the definition of language.

[@thegodofalldragons]

He's got a point about "lawyer," though. Phonetically, that IS how it should be pronounced.

[@henrynoel4223]

Low-yer is more to the point.

[@okaydetar821]

@@henrynoel4223 No one says low-yer, they say loy-er

[@karachristiansen192]

But "oil" is pronounced "Ole"...

[@Beanie26]

@@karachristiansen192 no...? oil is said like oy-ill (ill as in hill) and Ole is said like in "Hole"

[@dawnfire82]

@@Beanie26 Not in Texas.

[@Secret_Takodachi]

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 🤣

[@kenziethemom]

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

[@TheAmandajoy4602]

Coke for everything... so true! What kinda Coke you want? I got Dr.Pepper, Sprite and Mountain Dew😆

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

If I ask for a Coke, and you ask me what kind, I'll punch you in the face.

[@jerryturner2310]

@@rowynnecrowley1689 ...Looks like we found the Yankee.

[@leannes5100]

In SC we say soda so it’s not all of the south that says coke for everything.

[@belle314]

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!!!!

[@jamespruitt6718]

@@belle314 we do in the upstate too.

[@pineappleunderthesea5731]

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.

[@aaronpanesar]

Ear opening

[@vertderferk]

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.

[@meganjoelyn2207]

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!

[@davidyoungquist6074]

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.

[@redstateforever]

The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language- George Bernard Shaw (I think).

[@davidyoungquist6074]

@@redstateforever For sure

[@terraalbritton6405]

London, KY?! 😛

[@AaronnaPhiliou]

I had to do it at a plant sale in Gainesville GA

[@Mrs.buildingblackwealth]

lmaooo

[@Briansgate]

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.

[@mweskamppp]

all those pesky colonial english speakers.

[@belladonnatook8851]

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]

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]

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]

@@janetprice85 my wife raised in Michigan has lived in the south for over 20 years, she still has trouble understanding people

[@sarahb9240]

😂 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.

[@bottomlineupfront6209]

I’ve seen Chester several times on Facebook marketplace. Also saw a Slay Bed and multiple Dinning Tables. Didn’t have to worry about this growing up because the only furniture we had was the Card Table where we had meals.

[@mew5395]

The non southern version still has a southern accent which makes this great

[@kova1577]

Does he?

[@grassroot011]

Cuz it's by the same guy, Eh?

[@AuntieMaru]

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.

[@ckhirikasvoncpf6548]

Oh. Chest ‘er drawers.

[@bx22able]

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.

[@ckhirikasvoncpf6548]

​@@bx22able I figured chest'er drawers was Chester wood drawers

[@AuntieMaru]

@@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_Chillin]

Been living in Alabama all my life and never heard anyone call them 'chester drawers'. It's a chesta drawers!

[@redbelle648]

I always wondered who the wonderful man named Chester was so I could thank him for inventing the Chester drawers!😂

[@christophercole64]

For 40 years I wondered who Chester was, Before "it's a southern thing" taught me it was a Chest-of-Drawers

[@whitebeardInn]

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!

[@coolfeet1]

Worshington*

[@yurmabeechaudits3522]

@@coolfeet1 wor as in wore out and war as in warshington are the same

[@redstateforever]

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.

[@rickymcgowen6776]

Hopefully you got some rain boots. Or a boat.

[@rickymcgowen6776]

@@redstateforever Bless your heart.

[@stacimentus316]

I've often wondered who Chester was....😁

[@susanparker9873]

me too😂

[@kbs8586]

Thought he was the man who made it

[@cowboy4jesus3N1]

@@kassieblackmon4761 got that right. People would be surprised at what a smile and a drawl would get ya.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

My gramma also said that, but she meant the short kind, not the tall dressers. Those were just dressers.

[@redstateforever]

And why we had so many of his drawers.

[@darlenehoward2340]

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.

[@shannonducote5320]

As a Cajun from Louisiana, aka Coon-Ass, I can agree with most of the pronunciations except for the mayo part. We pronounce mayonnaise as "my-nez". And the factory default brand is Blue Plate mayo. At least most of us do unless they're a yankee transplant. Yankees use Duke's mayo which is similar but not exactly the same. Love your content brother.

[@pearlg6411]

I love the confused looks when I call detergent "washing powder"

[@starfleet868]

I call is washing powder, even if it's liquid in a bottle

[@pearlg6411]

That's what I'm talking about @@starfleet868 😂🤣😂

[@carlablair9898]

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.

[@DanTheVetteMan]

The southern accent and more specifically that of the Carolina Appalachian region is actually more close to how old English sounded than what the Brits speak now. The British English accent we Americans are familiar with was developed in the 1830's.

[@confederatepsycho6649]

Spot on brother. These brighten my day

[@kellij7425]

Ouch! I fell out of my chair at the Coke machine. Soo true.

[@Bacopa68]

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.

[@thejohnbeck]

Pepsi sux

[@leegraves101]

@@thejohnbeck and Coke wants us to be “less white.”

[@elizabethsteen581]

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_p]

Classic r/boneappletea

[@momentsformoms9467]

Is that what he meant? lol we call it a dresser and I was expecting him to say armoire.

[@harrissl29]

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".

[@artfuldodger870]

Can relate!

[@jasonours6957]

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

[@hollypotter6989]

I'm California born and raised. We've lived all over the country where sometimes it's soda and some times it's pop. In Mass. the girl in the grocery store didn't know what a tortilla was. I explained it was what a taco was made from. She brightened up and said oh you're looking for a tor-tilla (like in Godzilla). My jaw dropped but I just smiled and nodded. When we moved to the suburbs of Atlanta I met one of my husband's work colleagues. I didn't understand a word she said. Not only the slang, but the accent and she talked very fast. It truly was as if she were speaking a foreign language.😮

[@marahdolores8930]

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.

[@bwilliams6408]

I was today years old when I found out it isn't Chester drawers.🙃

[@jenniferbates2811]

I've always called it a bureau

[@cristallatus]

What is it though

[@paulpysher11]

It's a dresser!

[@jenniferbates2811]

@@paulpysher11 what's the difference between a bureau and a dresser?

[@Vulnavia]

@@paulpysher11 That particular piece is a highboy dresser.

[@AliceRose413]

He’s right about the Mayo... unless it’s miracle whip it’s definitely man-aze

[@yourlocalbarb2018]

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]

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]

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

[@JoJo86155]

I love your skits about Southern subjects. It reminds me of trying to figure out what my southern aunt was trying to say.

[@LoserManic]

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.

[@deeprollingriver5820]

I love being southern. I feel privileged to sound like a southerner!

[@foechicken8023rileylastname]

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]

That's right, speaking English from the south. It sounds good to me. Heehaw.

[@TheRealToejam2022]

Texas is not in the south.

[@TexasRose50]

I still call a refrigerator an ‘ice box.’ Guess I’m telling my age now. Love this video!! Lol!

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

I don't regularly, or on purpose, but it does occasionally come out. I was raised by a bunch of old fucks.

[@TexasRose50]

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.

[@brianmurphy1000]

Heh

[@Briansgate]

Granny used to call it the Cabinator.

[@whoisjohngault3270]

It is an “ice box” 😂. (58 year old Virginian)

[@jerryumfress9030]

As southerners we're blessed to be born and raised in the south. It's difficult for people to really understand us, our ways, our accent, and so forth and I'm fine with that. BTW, I'm from Tennessee

[@nativevirginian8344]

Your videos make me laugh out loud. Thank you!

[@iliketrucks]

I like how he tries to hide his accent in the teacher character

[@auntie.shannon]

"Coke machine" or "drank box" is acceptable.

[@bramlintrent1145]

Sometimes, there's a hybrid: "drank machine".

[@Acts2-38]

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.

[@dukediesel]

So true! I love it!

[@sissinoklahoma2057]

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!

[@MelissaThompson432]

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?

[@Briansgate]

my granny called hers the 'cabinator.'

[@bibbiana4Lyfe]

My granny : "Frigidaire" for all brands of refrigerator.

[@vicpeck6509]

NOT THE FRIJRAIDER

[@supergene256]

@@bibbiana4Lyfe amazing…my parents are from Haiti and that’s what they call all fridges in their language

[@infinity-8250]

The whole hamburger meat for tacos I feel targeted when he said sure 😂😂😂

[@SaharaM18]

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.

[@wessparkmon2395]

The jewelry box/jury box is all too real. I remember being in grad school in Mississippi after doing my undergrad there and we had another girl in class from Ohio. She would always get onto me about the fact that "bin" and "Ben" sounded the same when I said it. She would also get super confused when I mentioned the "crawfish bowl". I tried to make it easy and overenunciated "Boil" for a little bit until she got more used to my accent.

[@TokenFlvme]

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]

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]

Wait no… it cant be…

[@midnari]

Thank you for that. I didn't get the joke. "Why is he walking away? Those ARE Chester Drawers!"

[@slartybartfast1112]

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]

I'd have just called it a Dresser, personally. That's probably something else entirely, but... it'll do for me.

[@YoSpiff]

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.

[@cstrosetta]

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

[@nathaliem9597]

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! 😂

[@MelissaThompson432]

I am not even amused any more by the sad, sad, British "biscuit and gravy" jokes....

[@LadyAnuB]

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]

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!

[@annaalva2320]

A shoppin cart is a buggy, or a wagon, 😂i can't wait for some more of these!😂

[@jessicaspecht]

This is one of my FAVORITE videos. LOL

[@sallyannburke2607]

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]

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]

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]

Possums creed 🤣🤣🤣

[@Secret_Takodachi]

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]

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".

[@ven0m.451]

Lawyer!! 😂😂 I got so many looks when I moved to Pittsburgh

[@cowboy4jesus3N1]

Ever see the Madea movie when she goes on a roll about Lawyer n Liar ?

[@ven0m.451]

@@cowboy4jesus3N1 I have not

[@stuarteastman5623]

"Coke machine." This got me good. I grew up in Michigan, so when we came down here my whole family was all delightfully entertained how all soft drinks are, colloquially, cokes.

[@Adama85]

I'm probably going to confuse a bunch of people with this comment but that's ok. I was born and raised in the central valley of California, however I was also raised somewhat old-fashioned because my grandparents on my mom's side were from Oklahoma. I was raised very Christian, with traditional values, which made us seem very odd to the liberal Californians who we interacted with. I understood most of what the "southern guy" said and the "northern guy" was irritating. 17 years ago, my family finally decided to move out of CA to Southwest Missouri and we are so much happier. Living outside of the city off of a gravel road is so much better than loud, crowded cities. Oh, and the food is so much better too. I absolutely love your videos, great stuff.

[@freedomcat]

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.

[@sandragreen9560]

Truth, especially in Virginia and South Carolina.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

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.

[@johns9652]

Lost in the Pond? Yeah, he's interesting, watched a few of his videos before.

[@janejones7638]

I agree. It's interesting how many Brits were cast in Gone With the Wind. They didn't have to change their accent much.

[@dawnfire82]

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.

[@mariabarker2036]

I was anxiously waiting to find out the Southron word for Bureau. But was foiled by Chester Drors

[@ihaveproblems9779]

xD

[@yurmabeechaudits3522]

The fedral Buerah of investuhgations

[@colt45Cal]

I love Alabama, they are my favorite band. I got to go to there 50th anniversary concert, it was awesome. Sadly, o’l Jeff past away a couple moth after. So sad, he truly was a fiddlin’ legend. I know he is in heaven. 😀😀😀

[@JamesDavis-qg4jl]

I was having a conversation with my grandma from the hills of eastern Kentucky. She was talking about the "flares" and I couldn't understand what she meant. So I told her a flare was something you shot in the sky if you were lost. She said no, like a rose or a daisy. I said, Grandma, that's a "flower". She replied, that's what I said, a "flare". 😅

[@emmerphant]

Born and raised in Alaska and living in Texas has been a trip 😂 I can’t understand half of what anyone says

[@thuggins2086]

Oof...Texas isn't even that bad when you compare it to the Southern states East of us. Lol

[@zacharyfeller4187]

@@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.

[@ajcarr1965]

@@zacharyfeller4187 "Over there" is "ovair" in east Texas & much of Tennessee.

[@zacharyfeller4187]

@@ajcarr1965 yeah that's true. Can't say i personally day that but people do indeed say that

[@joyces5593]

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.

[@xxdrewxx6]

As a southerner living in the north I've had most of these arguments in the last few months

[@aidyncross7780]

I moved out of Georgia 5-6 years ago and I still talk this way

[@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155]

I am from the Midwest & Matt I totally understand what you are saying. Born in Tel Aviv & raised in Chicago.