Accents and Dialect in North Carolina

This video is about Accents

[@skaterdude14b]

“Carolina” is conveniently a great word to hear the accent

[@nikibailey819]

Yes. Sometimes it's "Curlyna" and sometimes it's "care-uh-lyna".

[@gwho]

cerruLAAAnuh

[@lgbtqisahategroup9781]

Care Lina.

[@c.i.m.1600]

👍👍

[@meredithwilliams4671]

These younger people might feel pressured to tone down their accent because of how people perceive them. That's a damn shame.

[@joshn938]

This is very true, and probably the reason southern accents are disappearing faster than others.

[@Casey-zk8op]

Josh Nixon shit lol come to union county NC

[@TheJosephPrice]

Well, the thicker accents are harder to understand. My accent has faded considerably.

[@joshua.johnson]

Very true

[@malcolmsaunders4622]

I'm from North Carolina and have felt this my whole life. My mom is from Chicago and her parents lived in Philadelphia, so my whole life going up to visit I had to deal with constantly being mocked by people and made fun of. I live out west now and deal with it here to. Over the years it's made me really insecure about my accent to the point that I assume anyone meeting me just assumes that I'm a dumb hillbilly. I can't tell you how many times I've considered going through accent reduction therapy to at least try to tone it down if not get rid of it completely. I hate that society has bred such a discontenment in me over it, because I really do love where I'm from and I'm proud to be from there, but I've gotten to a point that it almost feels like a curse at times. It fucking sucks having to walk into an interview with the thought in the back of my mind that I might not get the job because the employer thinks I'm too stupid to handle the job.

[@myhearteu5128]

I’m from Raleigh, the funny thing is, all of these people’s accents are way thicker than mine, you wouldn’t guess that I’ve lived her my entire life😂

[@stinky9706]

I live in Raleigh too! My family has been in NC since 1604! My family has thick North Carolinian accents but since I live in the city mine isn’t thick.

[@stinky9706]

Arlersern Potato The way I hear it is that it’s a “proper” southern accent similar to a New York accent in the 30s (very rich, a lot of “uhh” and “umm” with intense vocabulary) but with a slight southern inflection. On the east coast you have the same basis of the accent but with gravely voice, it’s heavier and more solemn whilst on the west side of the state it’s much lighter with a traditional southern accent you’d find in a 1980s movie about a cowgirl finding a horse she loves

[@macandcheese3592]

mYheArTeU I have lived here my entire life as well and I have the thinnest accent ever.

[@tab4691]

I don’t think I have a accent but I don’t think any of these people have accents either so I don’t know

[@Tinyminq]

mYheArTeU I live in kannapolis bruh

[@mikaelamijaro9388]

i have a crush on this one person, they’re from nc. kinda dig the accent.

[@itz2256]

Damn ima from nc people say we force our accent it’s just nature

[@zaria4627]

@@itz2256 ikr!

[@babbezilla]

My favorite!

[@Larrylee2019]

The accent in NC definitely depends on the region. In the cities, you are starting to see the accent neutralize due to the amount of new people. However in our rural areas, the accent remains strong and different depending on your location!

[@zaria4627]

defff!!! if you go to dunn or smithfield you'll hear more country but in raleigh it's way different

[@foodchewer]

Oh my friend believe me you are more right than you know. I am from Cary and most people here and around here have this nondescript Yankee-California-Suburbanite "accent" that's impossible to place. It's only gonna get worse once Apple and them come here; I can't wait to see how many noxious yuppie-types crawl in from New York, California, etc. And as sad as it is to see a place's living history fading away and its unique identity dissolving before our eyes, it is still interesting none the less to see a new dialect and history forming here. I can't even imagine where it goes either.

[@tylerk4641]

If your down in New hanover county and specifically neat the wilmington area it's a very strong southern accent

[@MrRalboi919]

We have lost are Southern accents up here in Raleigh unfortunately lol

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

​@@MrRalboi919Just go 20 miles east to JoCo and you'll hear plenty of genuine southern accents still around.

[@vonzuchter]

This is my favorite english accent. Clean crisp and easy to understand. As a Greek and a non native English learner I always founded american accents easier and always had better results while learning with american teachers. But of all american accents I would say Dixie has the most pleasant to the ear accents. Again this is for non native speakers.

[@funkaddictions]

Dixie? I think you meant Tristan. She does sound more neutral than the rest, but I can still hear some southern accent in there. It's funny because it doesn't matter so much where a person is from, but who they pay more close attention to that defines their accent. I know a brother and sister that at the time lived together for all their lives and the brother spoke very southern while she was much more neutral. It was very ear opening.

[@tradespacetech7162]

​@@funkaddictions They're just referring to "Dixie" as a term for the southern group of American English language, area, and culture.

[@souledout3791]

Well honey Thank You for appreciating our Southern sound.

[@samuelmontypython8381]

You should have had them say the word “Appalachian” so the rest of the world could get educated on the proper way to say it. Ladies and gents, it’s “-Latch-uhn”, not “-Lay-shun” 😂.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Thank you! That is such a trigger for me when people use a long a in that word. They should say it the way the natives do.

[@thestockmarketcrashof1929]

THANK YOU

[@Fozanat0r]

It's sad to hear them say "bad accent". As if the more different from what you hear in movies an accent is, the worse it is. There is nothing wrong with having a strong accent. It's cultural diversity, it's beautiful, and it's a sad thing to see suppressed.

[@mattglasgow4383]

I was born in NC, my accent was never really so thick but I then moved to El Paso for a few years and Los Angeles later. Though I’ve drifted to using a mostly general accent, I always find it amusing when I say a word with a Carolinian accent.

[@Fozanat0r]

@@mattglasgow4383 Nice! I'm from southern california, so my accent is very much like what you hear in movies and tv shows. But my grandpa is from Texas, and he took care of me a lot when I was little. There are a few words ("thing", "theatre") that I say in a way that's different from people around me. They laugh about it sometimes, and I'm happy to have fun with it too. But it's also a nice reminder of where part of my family comes from, and a connection to someone I love who is gone now.

[@lebeautymarq8834]

The guy in the blue t-shirt has a definite Irish sound to his accent...I thought he was an Irish person who had moved to North Carolina when I first heard him talk!

[@rightcoast7049]

Le Beauty Marq A lot of people around the Outer Banks still have remnants of an Irish Accent. Look up the Ocracoke brogue!

[@eoghana315]

He sounds the most like me. I'm from the Piedmont but I got exposed to a lot of British music/TV growing up so I speak this weird hybrid of Southern, English, Irish, and Scottish accents.

[@patrick9876]

The dude has a brogue accent, courtesy of the Scotch-Irish and English colonization. My grandmother, when she was very little, had a very similar accent; as she grew up in Morehead City, NC.

[@Abby-pb7ud]

That is so funny!! When I was in New York City visiting, someone asked me if I had a British accent!! And that’s not the first time my family and friends have been asked that! So interesting.

[@sparksfly5877]

A lot of Scottish and Irish inhabited North Carolina, especially into the 1770s when the English were getting desperate for settlers. Actually, the Scottish and Irish were probably the biggest perpetuators of the American Revolutionary War (1770, not to be confused with the civil war).

[@shavinmccrotch9435]

"...people might think I’m stupid ‘cuz of, like, the way that I speak." Nooooooo! 😆 Bless your, like, heart. 😂

[@gwho]

HAHAAH

[@lgbtqisahategroup9781]

We say ‘like’ a lot, like, a lot.

[@mikefire98]

"Arnge" I live in NC and southern accents crack me up because in the cities here most people don't really have southern accents.

[@poisonpotato1]

Most of the people I met in Raleigh and Cary, their families were from Pennsylvania or New York

[@vedangsinghal3038]

@@poisonpotato1 I'm from cary. I was born here though. We have an acronym for what has happened. Concentrated Area of relocated Yankees. Cary

[@davidsnyder7341]

@@vedangsinghal3038 containment area for retired Yankees yeah haha

[@QuigleTheGnome]

@@poisonpotato1 I’m from Smithfield area and I’m told I have like no accent so

[@JordanStuffGamer]

I’m from Mecklenburg county and everybody in my family says I talk “proper” sense they’re all from Louisiana but I was raised here and I speak really with a “generic” sharp accent like the ones you hear on TV 😂

[@dannywearsthecrown567]

I’ve lived in bossier city for a bit and to me the accents in NC seemed a bit thicker than where I was at......

[@BRG13DEAN]

Y'all ain't even got the best accent up here. You gotta have that brogue, that hoi toid. Any small community around the sounds and banks will speak it. I've been asked if I was Irish many times.

[@johnnycolon3208]

The Hoi Toid accent sounds really familiar to my ear. It sounds like the West Country accent my cousin's speak in the UK. They are from Somerset and Devon. Give it a listen.

[@VitalityMassage]

Few of these people have heavy accents.

[@naughtydorf18]

mostly transplants

[@melissacurtis7216]

Different region. I live in the western portion. Appalachia. Its heavy here.

[@VitalityMassage]

@@melissacurtis7216 I live in Burnsville. Come visit me cutie. :)

[@TheJosephPrice]

@@naughtydorf18 my family has lived in NC for over 300+ years and we don’t have thick accents either.

[@siralcatraz9049]

I'm from Orange County myself, and most of the people I've met in NC tend to have an incredibly subtle drawl to them, including my sister and myself. We can go full southerner if need be, but overall, the accent is incredibly subtle.

[@johngarnergarner6724]

That's exactly how the NC accent sounds. I'm from Wake county (Rolesville area) and the NC accent is definitely softer, more subtle and not quite as pronounced as a lot of the south. You definitely hear it. It's very distinctive.

[@kerrieeliza9239]

Proud of my eastern NC accent ☺️

[@skaterdude14b]

1:56 the girl from asheville just **loooks** like she’s from asheville. like her face and hair not even her clothes how is that a thing

[@vedangsinghal3038]

Asheville just built different.

[@Ayana613]

laughing so hard pronouncing these words. im like yep exactly how i say it. Yadking county nc

[@chrisholzhauer3698]

Now I can place an old school North Carolinian right away, likely lived their all their life when they certain phrases like "mother and daddy." I just watched a video from a professional dialect person who said that North Carolina especially had a very variety of accents. Interesting stuff!

[@DrReplaySC2]

What an amazing study in the origin of accents. So well done and so well thought out.

[@AngieWarhol]

I’m from Los Angeles and have lived in Raleigh for almost 10 years. I hear a range of accents from people here that I had to get accustomed to! Some people speak faster and combined with an accent I couldn’t understand them. I’m a lot better now, but I can tell when someone has an accent that’s NOT from NC. Example, Alabama and Louisiana accents are a lot harder to understand.

[@mo9504]

TOO MANY YANKEES IN N.C.

[@richardheilman7708]

50 years later I still have tar on my heels

[@himanimore5538]

🤣🤣🤣

[@yufen2124]

Idk why this made me laugh so much. Hehe, go Tar Heels

[@teddbear63]

I'm from North Carolina and I don't really have a Southern accent. But maybe it's because I grew up near Charlotte

[@snowylove2002]

I don’t have much of a Southern accent either, and I also lived mostly in Concord/Charlotte 🤣🤣🤣

[@NoriMori1992]

"Run around like a chicken with your head cut off" is a common expression, not at all regional to the South.

[@beverlyhill6783]

That young lady from Asheville has worked hard to erase her southern accent - I don’t think she wants to have one - she comes across as wanting to be more up town and not sound like she’s from here -

[@TaylorL.X.K]

I grew up in Rural Hall NC Which is near Winston-Salem. My accent is strong. I don't hear it with many of my family members. I will use ain't and other words when I am not working. I travel to other southern states and cities here in NC for work. I can tell a huge difference.

[@mickroyster6442]

Yeah same for me I have a bit more of an accent than my parents but my mom’s college made her get rid of hers. I live in Pfafftown

[@theiyareexperience]

King, NC here. Been living overseas for almost 20 years. My accent is pretty much gone...until I go back home!!

[@swish007]

asheville is kinda unique it seems. lots of people (especially young ones) don't have much of an accent. but even the tiniest bit outside the city, you get really thick accents. that lady in black though sounds exactly like my mom

[@floraline7153]

The elder woman in black does sound like both of my parents, though my mom is from west-central Georgia and daddy was from south Georgia. However, his entire family was from west-central North Carolina. The difference with him and all his family was that they dropped their Rs, aka, were non-rhotic. "Heah (here) dahlin (darling), I brought you some peanut buttuh (butter)." Both my parents said mother and daddy, though of course, my daddy would say, "muthuh".

[@swish007]

@@floraline7153 yeah my mom was actually from georgia originally and that's spot on

[@DimitriNakos]

I'm from Charlotte, NC and have lived in Wilmington and traveled to the outerbanks a bunch. If you want some crazy NC accents ask some Eastern NC people from the inner coastal areas and OBX to talk. It was hard to understand some of my friends family when I'd visit sometimes.

[@1Lonesomefortexas]

I have relatives from Charlotte NC. They say their O's different than Us from Tennessee.

[@scifyry]

I born at Presbyterian(downtown) but never lived in Charlotte. Lincoln, Cabarrus, Stanly... but never Mecklenburg. Lol

[@ronaldpippen8164]

I'm from northeast NC and our southern accent is way stronger than anybody in this video.

[@carmenwrestlingwithlife3500]

I lived in the West Coast for years then moved to North Carolina for about four years. My sister said, I picked up a southern accent. LOL, I refused to believe her.

[@rightcoast7049]

Born and raised in Wilmington aka "Wimiton" lol it's changed a hell of a lot. You hear just as many NY accents as you do natives. Funny, they're always complaining but nobody retires and moves up north.

[@myhearteu5128]

People at school get so triggered when I said “Ain’t” or “Y’all” it’s actually really funny (about 30-40% of the kids haven’t lived here too long, including my closet friend)

[@thatswhatbellasaid3453]

mYheArTeU I’ve lived in North Carolina my whole life and I hate saying ain’t and y’all

[@babbezilla]

I hope your friend gets a real room one day

[@dontlaxk]

i guess that's kind of an accent thing, but you can adapt those words and not have an accent at all, or just prefer to say those words

[@rhondajohnston3084]

I have never used either one of those when speaking.

[@jrhalstead]

Ain't y'all got nothing better to complain about?

[@ryanboyce5271]

So we’re doing bright star for my schools spring show, so I was told to learn the Asheville accent because mine was too Northern😅so this is helping😅

[@johnphillips9379]

I have lived in New Orleans for the last 15 years, but am from North Carolina, and have worked hard to hide my account. it only comes out when I am around one of my own.

[@dannywearsthecrown567]

Naw man it’s where you’re from be proud!

[@molerat3461]

Blue shirt man sounds suspiciously Australian. :)

[@canofbeanss]

MoleRat ocracoke accent

[@schlattypatty4713]

I mean it's how a good portion of people speak here

[@agoogleuser4443]

Not to this native North Carolinian!

[@UnbackClient9]

I’m from Charlotte and people say I sound like I’m from New York. 🤨

[@snowylove2002]

That because a lot of people in the piedmont region are from New York and California, so the accent is neutralizing with time

[@yufen2124]

Snowy Love unless u are from reiidsssvilllle

[@snowylove2002]

Yufen true, I’m from the metropolitan area 🤣

[@kxd13flow]

That country still come out of us when we talkin

[@redboy09100]

@@yufen2124 rural and midsize cities in the Piedmont still feel very southern lol. Especially rockingham county

[@83quez]

I grew up in Durham and when I go other places folks know I’m from the south , I’ve been all over the us and folks always say , “you’re from the south ain’t u “ 😂. I live on the west coast and everyone knows I’m from the south I didn’t realize I pronounced Uber as uba 😂so people were laughing when i said I’m here for an uba eats delivery but My family are from wilton nc, creedmoor , and franklinton . My great grandma says hen nall instead of hell nall 😂 but my great grand father sounds different, he’s from ahoskie nc and instead of burnt he said bunt , it’s wild all The different accents u find in nc . lol go down to Robeson county that’s a different ball game all together lol .

[@floraline7153]

My dad's entire family were from Wilkes, Allegheny, and Alexander Counties all the way back to at least the early 1900s and they were also non-rhotic. Bunt for burnt, buttuh for butter, hen nall for hell no are utterly how they spoke. I deeply believe they retained their English accents because they were isolated and had little or no radio or TV for so long.

[@moviewriter93]

I am from Burke County North Carolina and almost everyone talks like that including me 😂

[@gin3645]

Thank you for this video. I've been in outside of my southern NC for 7 years now (mainly Texas), and I miss home. Lot of Texans hardly speak with a distinctive accent

[@mosleepeesful2319]

Yesaday=yesterday, anyone else say it like that? I'm from NC but have lived in Alabama 26 yrs. Since no-one can pin down my accent I wonder if I've combined the 2 to make my own. Oddly enough most people think I'm from Louisiana, which is funny to me. Thanks.

[@Cutiekiwi9]

I'm from Onslow county NC and, even though I've lived in northern Wisconsin for the past 17 years, I still get asked where in the south I'm from 😤

[@wroughtironmgtow9558]

I was born and raised in San Antonio,TX and my cousin from Santa Clarita,CA said that the San Antonio accent sounds like the Riverside,CA accent.Weird.At any rate our next door neighbors are a newlywed couple from Charlotte and they claim they can pick up the NC accent right away when they have conversation with other people here in San Antonio.Its like you North Carolinans have a built in radar for each other lol.

[@mattglasgow4383]

I was at a hotel a few years back, I was speaking with my family and this random person came and was like is that an NC accent? We said yeah, didn’t tell him the city, somehow he specified it down to the place we lived there 😂 it was correct and kind of creepy.

[@patronedoss213]

Chic from Asheville is very gorgeous and lovely.

[@canyonparkerfirebird]

The point he made about teachers from other parts of the states that thought southerners wrote how we talked was on point frfr.

[@daveycooper4336]

I went to Carolina with my poke bag, then I found my woman down in the holler and found a peach

[@ameddock]

Poke = bag so you'd never say both.

[@daveycooper4336]

@@ameddock then you obviously ain't from Carolina

[@gdn6a6ylarry31]

It’s really what part you was raised in on how thick your accent is

[@isabelleepstein5214]

I'm from Craven/Carteret County. Kinston folks in this video sound the most like me. Davidson County folks sound more like my grandparents who are from the deeper South.

[@fionawinterfield2635]

I love the girl from Asheville who’s in denial, haha. Super cute. But gotta give it up for only having it really come out around the edges. Definitely the closest to General American accent of all the interviewees.

[@brittbrat9328]

It's the schools she went to and the tv she watches. Both my parents had strong accents. When I was in school, I didn't have one. Outside of the school system, it cane on strong

[@xemericaxx]

Now if you grew up in Robeson County like me then you know there's a whole nother accent down there

[@KP-vg3zn]

I'm from Craven/Pamlico County. I found out a couple years ago we're one of the last areas with a British dialect. I was 25 before I realized not everyone calls the trunk of a car the Boot.

[@dfinlen]

That's crazy.

[@breakingthechainusa1007]

Northern chics love a man with a southern accent

[@lifeoftaj786]

Im also From North Carolina

[@nikibailey819]

North Cakalaky says "mother and diddy". Lol I grew up with people that said this. I grew up with a Tennessean dad who lived many different places, my mom from NC, and I have lived NC, Louisiana, and Hawai'i. I can detect the accent in people visiting Hawai'i but I don't totally sound like I am from NC. Rural Piedmont NC.

[@brittbrat9328]

The Diddy or Deddy always made my skin crawl.😂 Sounds hillbilly

[@janelleparker3755]

I have the thickest accent in my family, but also talk really fast too. Certain words I say sound really country. I definitely got teased when visiting Boston. I like my NC accent ( lived in various parts of NC)

[@Ketten]

wait is water not pronounced woot-er

[@k_claire1084]

From Moore County, NC originally until the USMC moved us everywhere but the accent is still there. Even my youngest son ( born in JAPAN) has a mild southern accent because of me. Haha

[@kelliekoval6874]

I’m from Jackson springs!

[@k_claire1084]

@@kelliekoval6874 I used to work at the sycamore lodge in jackson springs!

[@kelliekoval6874]

Small world 🌎

[@Koutouhara]

I'm from Taylorsville NC. Small town not that far from Hickory, and mine was really strong before I moved to Texas and my family on my dad's dad's side is very strong! That old lady is really close to my dad's mom's voice.

[@patrick9876]

I am from Benson, and even in Durham County (around an hour away, due Northwest) people were guessing where I was from and were shocked to find out that I am from Johnston County!!

[@hitemup8938]

May I say that Kelly Pickler gave NC a comedic reputation on American idol when she had her first television debut. With the exception of other celebrities that are out in the mainstream media, Michael Jordan, Chris Daughter, Clay Aken, do not have the southern twang as much. Scotty McQuerry, Jaime Pressly, and not to mention Kelly Pickler are the ones who represent us country folk.

[@PreacherLevi]

I'm from Savannah y'all's accent isn't much different.

[@brittbrat9328]

Its amazing a lot of people from arkansaw sound like georgian/carolinian

[@hyewonts]

i have a mix of a boston and north carolina accent so its not a strong southern accent but also not like a strong boston accent

[@jeffgessner9764]

Richard Petty has a cool North Carolina accent.

[@83quez]

I didn’t know they said pop instead of soda in west va 😮 and my great grandma from wilton nc says hanithea instead of hand it here 🤣🤣 she will say gone out dows instead of Go outside 😂

[@eoghana315]

Native Carolinian and I don't trust anybody that pronounces the 'o' in Carolina. It's Care-line-uh. Care-uh-line-uh is passable.

[@joshn938]

Keer-o-lahna is more how I say it. My family's from Hyde County but I grew up in Harnett county so I have a weird mix of High tide brogue and piedmont accent.

[@khionebca5684]

I feel personally attacked as a North Carolinian that pronounces the “O” in Carolina (I’m from right in between the Concord and Charlotte area btw)

[@eoghana315]

@@khionebca5684 Ohhh, sorry but that area hasn't been NC for a long time now.

[@Hey_its_Koda]

From the southwest United states. i noticed the heavy accent in the mountain areas but in the city like charlotte didnt notice it. I kept hearing yall and git.

[@Ocinneade345]

Oh my god, Vicky from Davidson said “diddy” they all say diddy in central NC

[@disracenboi336]

What about cities compared to these small towns? Asheville is the only city on this list. Charlotte Raleigh Greensboro Durham Winston salem Wilmington Fayetteville High point Cary Chapel hill Only listing cities over 100.000

[@thestockmarketcrashof1929]

i'm from the triad and i just realized how light my accent is compared to everyone else 😭

[@levity90]

What's the triad?

[@thestockmarketcrashof1929]

@@levity90 Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point area

[@NeonAnt]

My grandma's accent is slightly different from my mom's. Both of theirs are different from my Uncle's. My siblings and I, despite living in NC our whole lives, also have different accents from each other, too. :/

[@joeheafner2495]

Fellow Albemarle native here.

[@scifyry]

Grew up partly in Oakboro/Midland/Lincolnton and went to school at West Stanly. I've lived in AZ wince 2015 and I hope to move back soon. (West Stanly High > Albemarle High) Had to say it lol.

[@mo9504]

I am from Clayton N.C.AND I LOVE N.C.

[@agoogleuser4443]

Clayton here too!

[@scifyry]

Love this video. Lived in Phoenix 5 years now and I just need to hear the accents like mine sometimes.

[@brittbrat9328]

Nothing like the sounds of home😢

[@jasiahmedley9816]

Davidson County where u at?!

[@agoogleuser4443]

I used to live in Davidson Co (near Welcome). Does that count?

[@jasiahmedley9816]

@@agoogleuser4443 yeah....i actually work at the bojangles in welcome

[@agoogleuser4443]

@@jasiahmedley9816 I lived there so long ago, there was no Bojangles then. It didn't have much of anything then, come to think of it. It was a nice place to live though!

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I like Davidson County. It's nice!

[@Sony187ful]

I'm from NC . These people barely have an accent . Do I have more of an accent than I think?

[@adb8003]

We have accents lmfao we’re just used to them

[@joewillis3845]

I grew up in Rutherford county in Western NC. Moved 30 miles south to Spartanburg SC 3 years ago and there are sublte differences even for that small distance.

[@lionheart4529]

How much of a difference?

[@skyybutter1]

Well Done. My mother went to North Davidson High School and I grew up in Rowan County. My biggest giveaway is calling people, hun, darlin', suger, etc. Its just what I do and I love when someone does the same to me. Its personal and how southerners let each other know that were in the same club, the Southern club!

[@hitemup8938]

Well im from Davidson county and people do tend to think you are a little more backwoods depending on how thick your accents is. Throughout the community there still is the social norm for southern people to have southern accents, but the great melting pot of NC is growing with diversity every day and year. People from all regions of the USA are flocking here with the reason to live life at a slower pace. I would like to add that the young lady pronounced pronounces the word "OR" within her own dialect. Not picking at her just something im not used to.

[@VitalityMassage]

Yur just flirten you horny thang!

[@agoogleuser4443]

Ha, my best friend went to North Davidson also!

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

How many accents are there in total, i'm surprised at the variation i've heard in just the first 20 seconds ?

[@larrystotts7813]

I use to ♥️ Far new England accents. I'd tell them I love your accent. They'd say accent? You have the accent! 🤣

[@I-85SouthExt]

Im from Davidson County NC

[@patronedoss213]

Lady from Asheville has a definite southern accent. I don't know why she thinks she doesn't have an accent. It is very nice. I'm from Charlotte.

[@trulyjnt6639]

We’re all normal until we see trey: hi my name is trey I got a basket ball game tomorrow I’m point guard I got shoe game

[@sammoore6365]

you know everyone is trying to talk proper here jaja why u hating on ya country backgrounds

[@cynthiarossershay7471]

Oh! I Sure Have A North Carolina Accent Lol! 🤔😄😄

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

Im a 12th generation Virginian

[@floraline7153]

I am 11th generation North Carolinian. We go way back, don't we?

[@123HappyMad]

Boyyyyyy, I live in Texas, and some of these accents are thicker than mine 😂

[@asmrbat]

Harnett county where you at???

[@rhondajohnston3084]

I am from NC but lived in NYC for years and was married to a guy from there. Now I have an accent no one can identify. LoL

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

There`s a few videos available in YT which treats the way my accent goes. Its a North Lincolnshire accent. There`s a bloke in North Lincolnshire called Farmer Wink, and you`ll find videos about him and his visit to London. It is rather amuzing. Some people might not quite catch what he says but I, being from the same part of England, understood virtually every word he said.

[@Kitarinki]

That dialect is so attractive to me

[@dannywearsthecrown567]

My name is Danny and I’m from Cumberland County NC! Nice video

[@moviewriter93]

Danny Wears the Crown I'm from Burke County

[@timothypaulino8454]

Fort Bragg baby I live there right now. I lived in Columbia SC, but Carolina is in the bigger picture are one group of people.

[@0mgtj]

i’m from cumberland county too,, would you say you have a thick southern accent ?

[@dannywearsthecrown567]

@@0mgtj I ain’t never think I had one until I moved out to Raleigh. It ain’t thick its enough that folks from that part of the state recognize it. I met a few people from Cumberland county this way and some are very thick and some are moderate and some neutral.

[@johnnygaming4599]

WHERE IS THE R SOUND? WHERE IS IT?

[@anandadaquino3604]

I LOVE these accents! Firts time I've heard I asked where the dude was from, he said NC, but he didn't like his accent :(

[@thefabulousoogabooga6410]

I lived there all my life but most of my friends and I dont have an accent. But I pronounce Milk like Melk

[@gamayun1224]

Love this and love this way of speaking! So different and interesting.

[@danw3750]

Definitely some british accent with some of the words 'phrases' for example and 'some' and 'take'

[@ryanlevin1912]

just moved here after living in maryland for 20 years

[@travisreifke4356]

My name is Travis and I'm from Onslow County, North Carolina.

[@taay_thegreat2057]

I love onslow 💜💜💜 beautiful place

[@urphakeandgey6308]

I was born outside of the USA, but North Carolina was the first state I lived in and kind of where I learned English. I think parts of it remains in my accent to this day.

[@deanoallen5096]

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