Billy Anderson on the different flavors of Southern Accents - Dry Bar Comedy

[@betterburial]

I don't know why people go out of their way to not sound Southern. I like the Southern accent and hope it never goes away.

[@rosalinecapulet]

Probably because of the cultural perception of people with southern accents as less intelligent. Or at least that's this Virginian's reason.

[@JohnnyRanks-s7z]

Jose Stevenson exactly, I would think an Ebonics speaker would feel more comfortable around a southern accent

[@raymonds7492]

@@JohnnyRanks-s7z as an ebonics speaker, i like subtle souhern accent

[@sethwestbrook8263]

I'm a true Georgian and proud of my accent. I'm fine with people assuming i'm ignorant, racist, whatever...shame on them really. I won't allow people to put shame on me. The southern accent is the closest in similarity to our original ancestors from the UK than any other american accent. At any rate, I didn't really think this was funny. This guy acts like he's ashamed to be from Georgia and I guess that explains why he moved. He's not a true southern man.

[@justinbrothers9022]

Everyone thinks we're stupid and racist if you go up North or out west but if you stay in the south people think it's either normal or charming, at least in my experience

[@hilderbrandish5033]

He actually has a bit of a southern accent. You can hear it in some of his vowels.

[@kaylafuller8662]

My fiance was born in Kentucky and his accent comes out in his Rs.

[@soleilsoleil716]

Yes! Especially how he says Alabama

[@m3gami_]

Mine comes out in my r’s and when I’m incredibly tired

[@zacharyconner9319]

Hardly. The vowels should be more flat and smooth. That's Texan at least.

[@robertsproull6750]

@@zacharyconner9319 Ehhhh. Pay attention to the way he rounds his o's. It's definitely there

[@writerspen010]

I would like to add one more Southern accent to the list: it's what I call the "Southern belle" accent. It's similar to the plantation owner one, but softer and pouty. Think Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara or Ouiser's friend in Steel Magnolias, or maybe Blanche Devereaux.

[@hyacinthdibley2420]

Oh yes. Definitely Blanche. lol

[@vampjoseph]

Or Cindy from Final Fantasy XV

[@tracierainey8200]

I speak that way most people in South Carolina speak what is referred to as Magnolia Southern accent

[@hyacinthdibley2420]

tracie rainey ///magnolia...never heard that before

[@cathipalmer8217]

Analogous to the Utah "Spiritual Woman Whine."

[@osmanshah5046]

He still has a southern accent it's just subtle

[@thesocialistsarecoming8565]

@Kai Evans every once in a while it slips in when his voice changes pitch.

[@meadeskelton3350]

he doesn't have any accent to me.

[@deadrevolver1505]

@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 that happens to me too

[@Udontkno7]

Tbh, it's there

[@opaljade98]

@Kai Evans his words have dipthongs on the vowels (i.e. his vowels are ever so slightly longer than necessary) also "t" and "d" are very soft

[@westpeace]

DON'T mock the sweet tea. NEVER mock the sweet tea!

[@darkmothersvessel7782]

Desea Green, I do declare! I agree.

[@andrewclover1462]

Gaming Dude As an upper Midwestern boy I can tell you that it's true. I've had sweet tea made by a southern lady, my aunt, 2 or 3 three times in my life. There's nothing else like it.

[@matthewhickman-jackson9550]

😁

[@thecageofinsanity.6968]

Desea Green Diabeetea

[@cammysixx]

Exactly. And if your teeth don't hurt when you drink it, you're not trying hard enough.

[@chiroptera626]

Plantation owner accent AKA civil war documentary reading a letter accent. "With love, Beauregard."

[@DS-wk1kn]

Like Yosemite Sam as a plantation owner.

[@chexhcatialo3889]

The non-rhotic one?

[@manicpixiefangirl4189]

I remember every 90’s era PBS documentary even Southern adjacent had that same accent for quotes. Bless their hearts. 😶

[@0x404-w5w]

@@chexhcatialo3889 Yes.

[@0x404-w5w]

Just watched Kens Burns - The Civil War, can confirm.

[@Sargaxiist2022]

I live in Alabama. Can confirm these accents.

[@carlidolphin4521]

I'm from Alabama and then i moved to Houston

[@tabathabloodsworth8348]

Me too

[@nengyang5664]

*sweet home Alabama*

[@5roundsrapid263]

He’s so right about the “plantation owner” accent. Until recently, almost every Southern character in TV and movies had it. It hasn’t been common in real accents for at least 50 years.

[@thedarknutsackreturns431]

Be honest I actually really adore that accent and I must ask for your forgiveness for this may sound random however I like to create my own version of historical characters and I've been on George Washington recently and one of my versions is that he has well my version will be that he is a plantation owner and he was in real life and he would have that same accent and I would like him to have that because my version of Washington like real life you would look bolder than he is and a lot more smarter and mature than he is now my version of Washington would not be stupid however he would not be as many would think of him as if that makes sense so this accident will reflect

[@thedarknutsackreturns431]

*accent not acciy

[@starcityrc3298]

It actually is very close to a British Accent just a different melody

[@elizabethh4855]

For some reason I associate that plantation owner accent more with Louisiana or like New Orleans in particular.

[@taziologlisi6751]

Ive heard it a few times and they were quite wealthy southerners down here in Georgia

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

The true test of a southern accent? How someone says "bless your heart".

[@VannyV1221]

The sarcastic way for me 99.99% of the time, but i'm not in the south anymore.

[@Dee29140]

I remembered when someone said that to me when I first moved to the south. I busted out laughing saying "what??!!!" And asking what that means. They couldn't explain😂😂😂

[@rochellethundercloud346]

Awww,bless your haahrt

[@Dee29140]

@@rochellethundercloud346 😆😆

[@FAMINE_R1]

Blessyerart - GA born and bred

[@CoachEgg]

Sooo very tired of people thinking we are uneducated. I was born in Georgia, live here still, and have three degrees.

[@danduryea]

+CoachEgg - "When Will I See You Again?"

[@zoielijah6573]

You one of them that's ashamed of his accent

[@Martinvdzzz]

Good for ya ‘

[@WillBlindYouWithLight]

It will never end as long as assholes like him are from here and continue to insult us, rather than prove what the title of the video insinuated.

[@tanman1994]

@CJ DUNROVIN I'm from Kentucky and you made me burst out laughing because I can relate to how a lot of people talk here. There are the exceptions. Northern Kentucky is basically Cincinnati, OH (Totally different accent). Louisville is a mix too (Where I grew up).

[@leslieyancey5084]

He sounds like Foghorn Leghorn with the "plantation owner" accent. 😂

[@gryph3714]

Haha! I wondered if I was the only one who thought of that!

[@wyattcollins957]

Also Doug Dimadome

[@starcityrc3298]

Foghorn Leghorn was actually based on a real guy. A Southern Politician

[@dot6823]

@@starcityrc3298… 🤣

[@nathanbranson9149]

"I hate that accent. I hate it because I know when I hear that accent in a movie I am about to hear some ignorant stuff go down. . .That is not how accents work."

[@b.strong9347]

Lawayne Hayes Actually, having lived several years in south Montgomery County (Alabama), I can attest that your statement is not entirely true. There are still many people here that speak like that - though not quite as exaggerated.

[@atomicdancer]

"...I can attest that your statement is not entirely true" I automatically read that phrase in a Southern 'plantation owner' accent

[@tradssalesone6334]

Nathan Branson Most likely ignorant because it came from Hollywood, not the south.

[@karikling8812]

To an extent, it is how accents work, though. It's party because rich people tend to congregate in the same neighborhoods and partly because people tend to use the slang and accents of the social class they either are in, were raised in, or want to identify as. If accents didn't work this way, then we wouldn't see a difference in the way different social classes speak in areas like New York City.

[@musicalcharge]

@@karikling8812 was about to say the same thing. People both consciously and subconsciously change the way they speak in order to fit in with the group they either are or want to be a part of. Just look at "posh" received pronunciation in England.

[@mikeylikesit525]

As a Southern person, also from Georgia, I can say that every aspect of this is accurate. Edit; he forgot the Southern Belle accent. And the Old Atlanta accent.

[@fayknaym7094]

You mean just because I'm polite, I'm not going to get rich? :O

[@reinapanda6852]

Ashton Michael oh gosh the atlanta accent😂 im from Virginia and we cannot understand the atlanta accent at all

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

The Atlanta accent has disappeared from the earth. It was was lovely. The Charleson (S.C.) accent has also disappeared. If you find a native Charlestonian in the late 80's or early 90's you might hear it. The late Fritz Hollings was a perfect example of the accent.

[@qazwsxedc562]

@@reinapanda6852 most people from Atlanta don't even have a strong southern accent anyone. It's sounds like a general American accent with a sprinkle of southern twang

[@nathanadkins2985]

@@BlueRidgeMtns100 that's because Yankees have taken over that area.

[@santaclaus4119]

I also was born in the south n lost most of my accent in early adulthood. Now it just just pops out every no n again

[@tashamarks2168]

SANTA CLAUS Same. Mostly with Is and Rs. And when I'm mad.

[@bilwhitley7381]

mine is when I'm tired. My accent is softer then "plantation owner" but I am told I sound "rich southern" whatever that means.

[@swisscheese13wyles11]

SANTA CLAUS especially in grammar.

[@chamllis]

SANTA CLAUS I used speak in a southern accent until I was around 5 I was put into a speech class, cause I mumbled as a kid. The teacher was from somewhere around Chicago I think and I would make her mad cause the first thing I did was mimic the way she spoke. So after taking the class for 3 years I came out talking like an Elvis born from Chicago. Lol 😂

[@jabbafo]

Yep, same here. I think growing up being exposed to so much television, movies, and radio, we all start to sound the same.

[@MoveInSilence23]

I'm from a small town in Georgia as well. I live in the PNW as well. So glad I never lost my Southern accent!!

[@silversky778]

Southern Accents are grotesque

[@galndixie]

I haven't lost my Southern accent, and don't intend to. Proud of my Southern Heritage.

[@fanmate8384]

Derrick Hathaway you wouldn’t know, cause you’re not southern. But there’s a lot of southerners no matter the color, that don’t want to be anywhere but the south. We respect people down here for the most part

[@tcp612ww3]

fanmate People like Derrick are ignorant and think all southerners are racist slave owners.

[@tcp612ww3]

@Skrooge Lantay Derrick was implying it.

[@romanr.301]

@@tcp612ww3 In 9 letters, none of which even remotely allude to that? Yeah, this is called “putting words in others’ mouths.”

[@tcp612ww3]

@@romanr.301 Okay, and?

[@cooterskoal4397]

There’s nothing wrong with southern accent

[@sandybeach123]

I enjoy America's regional accents.

[@bonnie3232]

Shreveport, La. here, southern accents sound " normal " to me. Some northern accents sound rude or abrasive to me. But, I'm not fixen to get all riled up, ya'll.🤭

[@johnross4605]

I like the charm of a Missipian backwoods red dirt accent with an extra syllable. C'mon over hee yer! My grandmother from N'Rlins use to say, "gon to da stoa, taget me some erngez , cookin erl, and scowrin powda to scrub ma zink. An berl me some potaydas an eggs.for ma craw -fish berl. Afta bowlin, we' playin cawdz. Weah-ya-at?, cumpny's cuminova! Dahlin.

[@fanmate8384]

John Ross only people from the south understand what you just typed i swear 😂

[@Carra_Mell0]

@@TheodoreGrevers-bg3zw Bruh I’m crying😭

[@goldielocksetx]

Meanwhile accents are alive and well in small town Texas. Lol

[@AlphaMom55]

goldielocksetx Gat Dang Right. LoL 😂

[@kellysh8519]

And in the upstate (lower half of NC/upper half of SC)

[@LHRMaterial]

Not just small town Texas it's alive in cities also

[@carlidolphin4521]

I'm from Alabama and then i moved to Houston put the strongest accent I've ever heard was from my little cousin who is 7

[@Udontkno7]

Same in rural Florida lmao

[@peytonbarrus9257]

The plantation owner sounded like John Mulaney's impression of Bill Clinton.

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

He's not funny. He knows nothing about accents generally and is ignorant as dirt about Southern accents specifically.

[@j.elizabeth4621]

Deep woods Appalachian /West Virginia is the best tbh. I don't hide mine or anything though not at all.

[@joecoolmccall]

J. Elizabeth southeast Ohio here. We are often called translanted West Viginians. And yes, West Virginia has a very unique dialect. Easy to tell from the "south" dialect he's talking about.

[@appalachiangunman9589]

I live in southeast KY, near the VA state line, I know about the mountain dialect fore sure.

[@KJ-tn6ed]

I haven't lost my accent and I don't even in live Texas any more

[@kaydincathey728]

Good! Don't lose it! Y'all have the best accents...EVER.

[@blackwaterblades2098]

Born in the south raised in the south never been out of the south. Lost my accent through years of speach therapy due to how thick it was(you are correct when reading you realize you mispronounce soo much) but any time im with a group of people with thick accents mine comes back or when I get reslly fustrated. Odd how them things work

[@elsajones6325]

Those of us with an ear for it, do change, and pick up whatever accent we hear around us

[@livinglargeonasmallbudget1027]

True southern accent is how you say the word yellow or oil. In the south yellow is pronounced "yal-lo" and oil is pronounced "oh-l". I love being in the south because people are friendly and wave at you even if they don't know you but do watch out... when a southern woman says "well bless your heart". that is not a compliment. And if she says she is fine...everything is not fine!!

[@nicelittlestyleslad]

I agree with the "oh-l" part, but in my experience we tend to say "yell-uh" for yellow instead of "yal-lo".

[@kaylafuller8662]

Bless your heart is the best insult ever. Growing up in Indiana with a southern family all from Kentucky pretty much you realize quick when a southern woman says bless your heart she just insulted you in the politest way she could. Bless your heart is how a southern woman says you are a few fries short of a happy meal

[@TubaGlider2]

Bless your heart is pretty bad, but it's nothing close to "Oh, honey..."

[@veryaveragegamingstud274]

living large on a small budget dude, that can be said for women in general

[@gregorybrian]

@@nicelittlestyleslad I was born and raised in southern Alabama. There's a noticeable difference between the coastal (where I grew up) accent and the mountain (the northern part). I would say "YELL-uh" but my grandfather, who grew up in northern Alabama would say "YELL-ur."

[@HrvojeSL]

I'm not southern or even american, but I like to hear various accents of the English language. It adds personality to the language. If you have a pronounced accent don't lose it. Where I live in PA, people speak pretty flatly, yet interestingly in some parts of the state people have a southern-like twang.

[@Darkestdarkify]

people when attempting to pronounce washing machine say raushing raachine in your state lol

[@karikling8812]

@@Darkestdarkify Taht depends what part of the state. In southwestern PA, they do, but I'm from the Philly area. Nobody there adds r's to washing machine.

[@caitlinirelan5641]

I’m born and raised in a northern city in the south. My grandma is from a farm in Mississippi and my granddad was a rich kid in Kentucky, I grew up around everyone’s souther accents but compared to them I have none at all but when I visited my friend in Colorado they all said I kinda had a southern accent

[@caitlinirelan5641]

Oh yeah, I live in Alabama

[@Kaibigan39]

I am born & raised above the Mason-Dixon line, and people from Washington said I had a southern accent...

[@moodsmoods9565]

I’m from Tennessee born and raised, 22 years strong and people constantly ask me if I’m from up north because I have no accent unless I’m mad or I start to talk super fast. Then, if you aren’t a red blooded southner you can’t understand us when we get like that, we throw all our words together and create our on enunciation of the word. That’s what kills me, people think we’re stupid because of how we talk. In reality, we’re smarter. We’ve created our own language basically, that only we can understand and we work smarter not harder. Toss all those words together, we’ll understand.

[@sarahlear7881]

I didn't think I had an accent when I was growing up since I didn't sound as cartoonish as those with southern accents in movies, TV shows, or cartoons, but I eventually realized, yes I have a southern accent. I realized it in college when a few northerners said they liked my accent. It's funny how I remember as a teenager online telling people "a lot of us from South Carolina have a neutral accent". Looking back it's hilarious that I thought I had a neutral accent.

[@moodsmoods9565]

I’m from Tennessee, born and raised never lived anywhere else a day in my life. People think I should’ve had a southern accent, but I’m always asked if I’m from up north. I only have a southern accent when I talk super fast, or when I’m mad. Then my hillbilly comes out, it gets bad and anyone who’s not southern can’t understand me. 😂 Something most people don’t know, is that a southern accent is basically just all the words thrown together with your own pronunciation but dammit everyone in the south knows what you’re talking about.

[@cynthiaaaa5204]

Moods Moods The well-placed "dammit" was all it took to place your true roots! 😋

[@soleilsoleil716]

Yes, darlin! Born and raised in Tennessee. My husband is a yankee (Indiana) and he can’t understand a word I say sometimes. It took me 2 hours and a diagram to explain to him cattywhompas is!

[@kaylafuller8662]

@@soleilsoleil716 I am from Indiana and my whole family and my fiance's family are from Kentucky 5 to 20 minutes from the Tennessee state line and I can understand everything he says when he starts using southern sayings. He will sometimes call a buggy a cart and it throws me off because I grew up calling it a buggy. I over use the word y'all and bless your heart is my favorite insult.

[@CailinnNoT]

This is true on so many levels. When I get to talkin real fast my accent is full flourished and I'm from Texas

[@windyhawthorn7387]

I sadly from Texas and don't have an southern accent. Apparently I sound Irish and when I really get mad an thick Scottish brogue comes out from nowhere.

[@L.Spencer]

He's a linguist at heart. This was hilarious.

[@PBNrandom]

"Plantation Owner Southern" is basically Lindsey Graham in a nutshell.

[@RexTheDinosaur1]

That says a lot don't it.

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

Senator Graham's accent in upstate S.C. He sounds nothing like coastal S.C. (think Charleston). "Plantation owner" indicates land ownership and social status. A plantation owners in North Mississippi and Delta Mississippi, coastal South Carolina, South Georgia, Middle Georgia, the Albemarle area of Virginia, etc. would all have different accents. We won't even throw in the large planters in East Texas. :)

[@jocelyncooper1738]

@@BlueRidgeMtns100 I’m from South Carolina and the rule of thumb is the whiter the county the less likely you are to hear a plantation southern accent. More white people means less slaves, meaning less plantations. Lindsey Graham is from Pickens county which is about 90% white. Not all Costal counties have a significant amount of people with a “plantation southern” accent. Horry county certainly doesn’t.

[@Dbb27]

@@jocelyncooper1738 do you think perhaps he’s faking it a bit?

[@trishawhitehouse4226]

Billy, really gifted accent shifting! Excellent work! I traveled the reverse way and hope to return shortly.

[@1purplerose]

The "southern plantation owner" accent was spot on. Funny stuff.

[@circekus2769]

Soo.. what was the idea with the background? 1 person : ,,So I need few baskets." 2 person: ,,soo like 4?" 1 person: ,, No like a 100."

[@seangenette2949]

I mean..... it IIIIIIIIS Utah.... XD

[@nyancat2221]

Have you ever walked into a Cracker Barrel?

[@circekus2769]

@@nyancat2221 hahaha never, I live in eastern Europe

[@bigboynow7936]

I feel attacked at the sweet tea thing. I am addicted to it.

[@paulknight5300]

There are a few different dialects of the southern accent. I've lived in the south all my life and never heard anyone with the plantation owners dialect. But they view us as ignorant and uneducated

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

This Twig Boy doesn't know what he's talking about. There is no such thing as a "plantation owner" accent. Plantation in coastal Virginia? Plantation in Southern Alabama? Plantation in coastal S.C. or the midlands of S.C., etc. There are numerous Southern accents and he seems unaware of that. He's just pitiful.

[@RexTheDinosaur1]

That's because a majority of people with that accent is dead.

[@iamrosie2468]

He was saying “Hollywood” depicts southerners as having that language, but in reality no southerner speaks like that irl. I think that’s the joke, I agree Hollywood thinks southerners talks like Scarlett O’Hara

[@paulknight5300]

@@RexTheDinosaur1 how do you know? We're you there? I don't think so. The South does not sound like Foghorn Leghorn

[@jlstout7807]

I thicken my Midwestern accent when I go to the West Coast; If Californians aren't hating, your doing something wrong.

[@sniperman6180]

From Indiana

[@97musicaddict]

Words to live by

[@natashka1982]

I don't think Midwest has any accents

[@erinmeral6499]

Yooper accents are heavy.

[@jadefire2817]

"Leather-bound books that I don't own. " BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! If you've ever met any uppity rich people in certain areas, you *KNOW* how incredibly accurate that is.

[@chotzrary]

I love my East Texas accent. These area of Texas is the South parts of state. Once you leave the area, you get the twang then the West Texas famous accent. The Valley parts is where you hear, hushed toned like Farrah Fawcett accents. The girls there whisper when they talk. I find it so charming and beguiling.

[@RibbonVintageGirl]

"THE GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS" 😭😭😭😭 *where they kindly served us with the refreshing taste of their finest Faygo*

[@lrishsighs3689]

Dude from the South has fake Southern accent. Bless his heart

[@nyancat2221]

😂. But in all seriousness, have you ever heard people who aren’t from the south try to have thick southern accents for movie portrayals or game portrayals? God it hurts to listen to...

[@soundersiren07]

I'm from Virginia, parents are from North Carolina and Tennessee. I've lived in Africa, Asia, Oceania and now Europe. I lost most of my accent along the way and now I'm often asked what part of Canada I'm from. Southern pronunciation sans accent I guess.

[@dellamaevanneste8571]

That moment when people say you don’t have an accent because you actually pronounce words correctly

[@jeffreyhoward6319]

Many of us West Virginians have an accent and dialect that sounds northern to most people in the deep south but most northerners mistake us for being from the deep south.

[@ParisAlexandros]

As a someone going to school in the north but family from the south, I can confirm that the southern accent thickens itself when I'm around them

[@dianeaishamonday9125]

My Texas accent is very subtle because a) I'm from West Texas and the further West in Texas you get the more Midwestern it sounds, and b) my childhood was primarily spent watching television and old movies since my primary caregiver had a lot of migraines, and all the actors in those had perfect Mid-Atlantic accents. But every now and again, the twang slips out if I get annoyed. :-)

[@kellysh8519]

SuperWhoLocked Browncoat Haha. We travel alot for business and we have to go out west quite a bit so for some reason I have been able to automatically stop the twang (NC/SC) until someone ticks me off then all twang breaks out and I sound like I belong on a front porch of an old farm house with about 5 kids running around barefoot, a baby on my hip with a Marlboro hanging out of my mouth while yelling at the dog to stop chasing the chickens. Whew.😧 that was alot I know but I hope ya get the picture. :) Can you imagine the looks I get when that breaks out in a public setting? It's entertaining to say the least.

[@dianeaishamonday9125]

kelly sh Friend, I hope you don't take offense to this but I would pay good money to be witness to that event! 😂

[@dianeaishamonday9125]

kelly sh whereabouts are you from in the South?

[@EpimetheusLC]

West Texas represents! The Llano Estacado calls, friend.

[@elana_piranha2662]

Brilliant! Im from Texas born n raised. I think my only southern thing is saying yall.

[@cherylfranklin8617]

I am from north Alabama (north and south Alabama have very different accents) and live in Texas. Texans have a drawl, we chop our words. We say coo for cool, skoo for school. We say ya ( rhymes with Pa) instead of yall, round yonder instead of around there. I hope we never start sounding all alike.

[@whydat684]

I think he has turned his back on his southern heritage. Well see ya.

[@5050TM]

No, he's just having some fun. Every comic pokes fun at their own.

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

@@5050TM He lacks wit and he doesn't know enough about the subject to be funny. Dull as ditch water.

[@5050TM]

@@BlueRidgeMtns100 Well, that's a different matter than what I was talking about. If you don't find him funny, then you don't find him funny. Can't all enjoy the same things in life.

[@gaphoogys]

Nice man. This is pretty accurate. I was raised, but not born in Augusta. Lived there for about 20 years and never heard very Deep South accents. Women had more of an accent than the guys do. I recently moved to Knoxville for my job, and the accents are much stronger up here. What I’ve noticed is there is more of an ‘ar’ accent in words. For example the word ‘pear’ the fruit is pronounced like ‘par’. ‘Maury’ instead of ‘Marry’. When I ‘tear’ this piece of paper compared to when I ‘tar’ this piece of paper. You get the picture. They actually make fun of my Georgia accent, which I didn’t think I had one. It’s funny that where you’re from, you really don’t think you have an accent until someone points it out.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

The Plantation Owner one is non-Rhotic like the British accent, so doesnt say R's much. Hardly > Ha'hdly. Poor > Poo'ah In Virginia, it's super common. Think of Tim from the show "Moonshiners".

[@geekinutopia5899]

It's even moe common in Louisiana!

[@augustgirl]

When I am stoned the southern accent comes out. I guess I remember my roots while stoned.😂😂😂

[@johneverette699]

From East Tennessee born and raised spent time in the Philippines little while back with my wife every fillipino " what nationality you?" " You talk with such slung(slang)" I'd tell em Amurican. "Oh you American" 'Yessir or yessam' ''not new York right you sound like cowboy kind of hehehe'' "Tennessee were not cowboys were mountain men'' them people loved hearing me talk my wife loves hearing me talk I love hearing her talk she has such a beautiful voice a voice like an angel.

[@rowdyrussell4192]

The line about sweet tea had me rollin 😂

[@elicox1886]

Whatever I’m from Tennessee! I love the Accents! They make you stand out! You gotta love that SWEET TEA THOU!!😂😂😂

[@rickitysplitz7035]

Fellow Southerner here. I think the Tennessee or Texan accent is the best.

[@SageKStroke52]

That's me; every time I travel, someone catches my slight southern accent and are disappointed I'm not Kevin Spacey House of Cards southern.

[@BillyAndersonYT]

Fun Fact: I have stopped bringing up Kevin Spacey when telling this joke because people now associate him with a lot of things NOT related to southern accents haha

[@SageKStroke52]

@@BillyAndersonYT Probably a good idea lol. You can always use DiCaprio in Django though. I also find it funny they never actually cast a southern actor to play these parts.

[@Youarestillhere]

Kevin Spacey is from New Jersey. Let's leave it right there.

[@gaynorpatterson2915]

I love love southern accents.. any of them .. I find them very comforting ….

[@radiationshepherd]

People don't realize there is a huge distinction between different southern/country accents

[@iteilejm]

He needs to practice the Matthew McConaughey. Its the one every actor trys to perfect....alright alright alright.

[@kongatron2983]

Thought the creator of gravity falls was doing stand up comedy....this guy is pretty funny tho

[@Bones97000]

Haha, thought I was the only one. He and Alex Hirsch bear a striking resemblance with the beard and flannel.. XD

[@grinningintheirface2685]

He's trans by the way...they all are.

[@sigurdfenrisson2446]

My dad was from Izard county, true Ozark boy. But lived most of his life in Washington state… and he never lost a single bit of that twangy drawl. And he was one of the smartest people I ever knew.

[@GeekChicForever21]

Bro did anyone else immediately think of Leo in Django Unchained when he said "Plantation Owner" accent? 😂

[@captainthunderbuns677]

Had a landlord in NC once told his son to ‘run out to the truck and fetch me a lat bub (light bulb).

[@wvu05]

Everyone has an accent, but nobody admits it. I remember when I lived in Long Island, and someone said to me, "People from Law-ung Guy-land don't ta-wock with accents, do we?" When I was in basic, literally just about everyone there thought that he/she spoke in a neutral way. Heck, I didn't realize I had an accent until I went to Long Island, and watching Andy Griffith reruns, it is still hard for me to hear Barney Fife's accent.

[@johnross4605]

Having an interview with a hotel magnate . I met him at a lounge in one of his hotels In Shreveport, La. I asked where he was from. And in a Bostonian accent he answered Georgia. I said," you don't sound like you are from Georgia." He replied," Ifen I wuz to tawk like I wuz frum the south, people would think I wuz stupid." Taken Aback, I answered, " The real reason we Southerners, tawk lak this, is so you Bostonian wannabe's underestimate how smart we are." After a moment he said, " You're Hired."

[@dainaward4322]

I keep watching this video to hear him talk in these accents. He's so cute 💜😂

[@vonpupees]

in the uk the aristocracy does have its own accent, so in many ways "wealth" does have it own accent. comes about from proper pronunciation of english rather than regional pronunciation.

[@Brynwyn123]

vonpupees RP isn't really how the words are just meant to sound, it's simply a choice people made by looking at common trends a while ago that places like Eton and Cambridge beat into every generation to go through their doors (often literally)

[@jarodh-m6099]

All accents in a language are equally correct. It is the social status of its speakers that give it is value in society.

[@midlwestern3237]

1:57 listen to the way he says "notes" with his supposed current no southern accent...he still has it.

[@rosierose9787]

As a child from the South, I wanna thank you for this

[@angelat.8997]

Born and raised in the South. My family moved to Vegas when I was ten. (Culture shock!) Kids teased me for my accent, so I lost most of it, for years. Not anymore, y’all!

[@rachaelbeck3862]

Dude, thank you.

[@lillylunapotter8079]

The plantation owner accent to me is the most common and most likely to be in personated southern accent that there is.

[@kellibellefox2123]

Proud Belle from North Carolina here. I have been told since I was a teenager that my accent is the epitome of Old Southern Belle. It doesn’t bother me a bit. I’m not often made fun of, I find that people are often curious about it. And if I was made fun of by anyone, I’d simply say “To Hell with ‘em” and I’d keep laughing! Our accents don’t define us, they just give a little peek into the world we’re from!

[@bethhoward8471]

Leather bound books lol the plantation owner is my favourite southern accent

[@thecageofinsanity.6968]

He got the gathering of the Juggalos right for Alabama.

[@tonysasser2012]

I had a job interview in California. The manager said he was disappointed that I didn't have an accent when he found out I was from Texas

[@amandahallows5444]

Woop woop for that juggalo ref in there, no matter where you from you be fam

[@BillyAndersonYT]

At least someone gets me

[@sweettee6827]

If he didn't sound like Leonardo DiCaprio in Django imitating the Southern plantation owner 😂😂😂

[@geraldjohnson4013]

You don't have to change your accent to be intelligent. My math teacher my freshman year in high school was a Texas lady with a lovely southern accent. My English teacher at the University of Kansas was from Alabama and she was highly articulate with her southern accent. I find southerners tend to be extremely articulate and have a large word vocabulary despite the stereotypes.

[@Tracks777]

Awesome video,Keep it up!

[@a.b6889]

I needed a good laugh today ☺☺☺

[@LittleMongoosie]

I always knew my two southern accents as the twang and the drawl

[@jasonblack4208]

so basically, he's doing "Greater Appalachia" vs "Deep South" from Collin Woodard's book American Nations.

[@StefanBile]

Long live the southern accent. If you are born in the south and were blessed with a southern drawl, embrace it, and encourage it in your children.

[@hewehawi]

I didn’t hear a word he said over how handsome he is.

[@BillyAndersonYT]

I've never felt so happy to be objectified haha. Thank you, miss

[@juniper9251]

Before he even said it, I said, "and the other is Plantation Owner" 😂

[@michelleschulz4903]

I've never heard that accent from any Southerner except in movies and I have family in the South.

[@BillyAndersonYT]

Thank youuuuu

[@alondracaros9527]

The plantation owner southern accent sound exactly like Asmodeus from Supernatural

[@superiorgas294]

Your folks are so proud.

[@spiritisalive1]

He sounds like some characters off of Django or Dr. Lucius off of Wild Wild West. I'm from Alabama...the accent was off but the flamming Cheetos, & brother in prison. VERY ACCURATE. LOL

[@rochellethundercloud346]

My accent is straight up hee haw. Years of speech classes have pretty much eliminated the drawl. Thank god.

[@trishawhitehouse4226]

I am from the PNW and now residing in SC. I enjoy the fun of having an accent. The native SC accent is very smooth and rolls. Its weird when I do the accent and no one looks at me strangely because they all sound like that. Since where I am at , there are people from all over the world, there are lots of accents. It’s a cornucopia of verbal flavors here. One time recently, I was talking in my normal dialect, non -accent West coast, and someone said, “ Where is your accent from? “ Accents are fun!

[@missaqua75]

Trisha Whitehouse r

[@texasbeast239]

My Southern accent actually became more pronounced as I grew up. I just stopped trying to sound "proper" to my teachers or employers, and embraced my family's and friends' passionate manner of self-expression, at times. It doesn't pervade my every utterance. But it sure does add some juicy flavor to the occasional joke, complaint, criticism, or exclamation. Much like how actors can benefit from being able to take on different accents, I consider it a useful skill to affect a Southern persona on occasion, or to revert to formal book-learnin' English, as the situation warrants. It shows diversity in one's communication capability.

[@cathipalmer8217]

I totally get that whole changing-the-way-you-talk-when-you-learn-to-read thing - except we lived in Utah. How can I-R-O-N spell arn? How come there's no "ai" in egg? Why are there so many extra letters in ignernt? But yeah, I getcha.

[@PoopShitz]

Or "May" in measure

[@YSLRD]

Not southern but can we please keep nuclear to one u?

[@famguy218]

That’s a bummer most southern children lose their accents; they sound really nice

[@entertainme7523]

If they move out west or up north they might

[@Kim-oe1qn]

He makes it sound like ppl from the south are stupid & ignorant. There are plenty of very intelligent people from the south. And actually people from the south have crafts that they don’t teach in schools. Southern people are very smart & most of them have never been to jail. They are the most friendliest & most respectful folks I have ever met.

[@entertainme7523]

GIMME THE SWEET TEA, MOMMA

[@3rdrevant]

Yeah I sort of slip into one occassionally. Especially with "Thank ya, Ma'am."

[@snookumsjack]

I lived in Rexburg, Idaho for 3 years. I was told once, "Don't worry, you will lose it". My answer was: "I plan on keeping it"(and I did).

[@joerandom756]

Man, are those some original jokes. It's not like they have been told a million times over.

[@bigass197]

Well shucks Billy Bob , mind blown!

[@indmonisraptor6918]

Yeah boy I also live in a Georgia in a small town and hell do you tell the truth!