British Couple Reacts to 50 American Accents

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[@johnevers3531]

Being from Alabama, I can tell you there are three distinct dialects in this state. NEVER use Texas to describe ANY other Southern accent, that is both an insult to Texas and the other Southern States........each US state has their own distinctive dialect(s). We Americans can generally tell where each of us is from by our accents.

[@elizabethsjourney701]

This is so true. People use Texas as a way to describe what a southern accent sounds like, when every southern accent is different. Some are even thicker thank Texas, especially where I’m from

[@reanimated]

OOOH LISTEN. I can tell you four Texas accents, and I know I'm missing something somewhere. And I was SHOOK in Georgia.

[@reanimated]

@@elizabethsjourney701 I was teaching and the book we were on was written in this insane WV accent. Like, all dialogue was SO phonetic you had to read it out loud to understand. At the same time, NPR had this cool interactive map of US accents. So we checked it out. I was teaching in Houston, where I grew up, and the kids did not believe they had any kind of accent. But I figured it out and told them to listen to each other in conversation, not when they were thinking too hard about it. You can pontificate on a lot of the finer points, but the #1 sign you might be from Texas: You can't say "I." No matter what, no matter where, to some degree, it turns into "ah."

[@reanimated]

@@elizabethsjourney701 Texas is Texas. The South is something else. We dead center and take up way too much real estate. It was bound to get weird.

[@dlshady]

This 51 year old native Alabamian agrees. Millie would be so confused if she were to watch a Hannah Barron video...

[@neonoires]

Even as a southerner I cannot believe Millie thinks all Americans sound like this Tennessee girl lol.

[@caseynicholson9190]

Tennessee girl was using a very fake, exaggerated southern accent. Thats when I turned the video off.

[@elizabethsjourney701]

@@caseynicholson9190 yesss. As a southern I can easily tell when something is exaggerated and that girl gave a prime example of exaggeration

[@Superbatmanbro]

In The Pacific Northwest area in Washington state we got a mixture of rural countryside accents and city side accents to

[@caitlingoins2103]

She's talking like how somebody from California thinks people from Tennessee sound like

[@lollyolchum]

@@caseynicholson9190 Thats what alot if people I know in the rural parts of Kentucky sound like.

[@chriscarpenter3276]

When discussing American accents we also have to be aware of code switching- when people speak differently with friends and family than they do at work or in public.

[@Bob-jm8kl]

That's especially true with black people.

[@castlecorn593]

That's mainly a black thing

[@YoungBuck7912]

I'm Canadian and around friends I have a pretty standard accent but the moment I'm around family it sounds like I'm speaking maple syrup

[@jermieluera7988]

It's an NFL thing

[@GrimmsHouseofHorror]

@@castlecorn593 nah people have a professional voice at work, then they have a casual voice with friends and family

[@chriscarpenter3276]

Oh dear. The Tennessee accent is nothing like a standard American accent, if there really is such a thing. I live in Iowa, which is widely considered to have a fairly neutral American accent, but I can definitely tell the difference between someone who lives in eastern Iowa and someone who lives in western Iowa, and between people who live in more rural areas and those who live in more urban areas.

[@mikephillips1043]

Its very similar in Ohio too. If your not in 1 of like 5 major cities its all country and farms. I went to school in the suberbs but spent my summers in the country with my moms family and because my grandma was from west Virginia I picked up that accent young and people always thought I was a redneck haha. So going to school in a rough area where white kids were the minority and I was always saying yall and over yonder they would always call me Bubba. One of my english teachers said I was the only person in their life they ever heard use a quadruple negative in a sentence.

[@MarcoHernandez-gi8bl]

I live in Nebraska and would say that we don’t have an accent.

[@sarahberkner]

She said it was "her" Standard American. She said at the beginning she could distinguish between only three accents so you can assume she's not saying she's an expert. But also the Tennessee girl did kind of have a basic white American girl voice so I don't get the big deal. Secondly, you can't tell if someone lives in western or eastern Iowa, or a urban or rural area, unless that's where they grew up. My uncle's lived in several countries and now lives in Texas and still has a strong Northern Minnesotan accent.

[@SherriLyle80s]

You should react to Accent Expert Gives A Tour Of U.S. Accents Part 1, 2, and 3. Much more detailed and kind of goes into it. "Standard American" isn't a thing.

[@aboutthat1440]

I completly agree with this. it is a far superior video. this is an ok video. But that one is great and so spot on.

[@tamarakaddatz9955]

I was going to suggest these videos. Great mind! 👍

[@tejida815]

I was just about to recommend the Wired accent series. It’s way better.

[@biggie_2p1stols7]

I second this

[@PhotonBread]

Didn’t he say at the beginning he was gonna react to that?

[@the1creativej]

Lol... saying that a Minnesota or North Dakota accent sounds like "Standard American" is the equivalent of saying Millie sounds like she could be from Newcastle!

[@MKNguyen15]

for real though

[@jackjacobson3893]

I live in centeral MN we have heavy Scandinavian accents then anything else

[@Bob-jm8kl]

I think Minnesota depends if you're rural or urban and what generation you're from. If you're from Minneapolis, you sound a lot different than your grandparents from the farm. Still, vowels tend to be a little longer than standard American...and saying ope is common.

[@hennysaid7729]

@@Bob-jm8kl I was born in a different country but grew up in Minneapolis. I barely have a Minnesota accent except for when I say 'bag". Learned that when I went to the west coast lmao

[@andygeary3531]

Geordie shore, Jersey shore, its a Jersey thing, I can definitely see people getting these confused 😉

[@williamcarter1993]

I can't believe Millie thinks Tennnessee is standard american. americans overall have varying groups of accents- a midwestern immigrant one, a New York one, a New England one, a hodgepodge of Southern ones

[@thomassnapp1341]

The accent of most North Eastern Tennesseans truly is fairly "standard" language. There is hardly any Southern drawl at all.

[@momentary_]

@@thomassnapp1341 To people in California or New York, they still sound like hicks.

[@jhbyer]

I relate to Millie. I struggle to distinguish Scottish, Irish, and Australian accents. They all sound like Millie to me :)

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@thomassnapp1341 I’ve never met anyone from Tennessee who didn’t sound Southern to my ears.

[@thomassnapp1341]

@@anndeecosita3586 Well good for you!

[@jartstopsign]

Sorry Millie, but Beesley's got the win on this one. I've lived in areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa most of my life and there's like 4 or 5 accents per state based on region and that's just the 3 I've lived in.

[@DEAR7340]

Same is true of Georgia. If you have a good ear and have traveled the state, you can definitly pick them up.

[@Itshollymoon]

Oh definitely. I live in Iowa and I know of 4 distinct accents in the state. Where I live we sound almost North Dakotan, especially the old farmers

[@SLKRR]

Accents in Minnesota get thicker the farther north you go. Coming from Kansas, I could hear a distinct accent in Minneapolis, but it was easily understandable. When I got up to Ely, there were people I literally could not understand because their accent was so strong.

[@bethshadid2087]

I'm from Georgia but live north....not mountainous areas but my accent is so thick ppl think I'm from south Georgia. Of course spending time with kin in Alabama just gives me a different accent

[@ohcanada8084]

@@SLKRR Agree!

[@Wiley_Coyote]

This is the rare video where Beesley can successfully get away with mocking Millie. She's clearly not even hearing the differences. To be fair, vocabulary is also part of the differences.

[@joshblumer2624]

good point with the vocab

[@DTOptics]

I don't think accent is quite the right word here. Regional Dialect would be a more apt way to describe the combination of the way people pronounce words, and the phrases they say in those accents.

[@sarahberkner]

True. It's called pop not soda or coke :)

[@OuterHavenMedia]

There's definitely more than 3 accents that you can hear the difference. "It's the same, just different tone of voice" - That's basically the definition of an accent 😂

[@andygeary3531]

Not even close. Accents are the way a word is pronounced, not the tone used. Tone is usually used to express a feeling or emotion, like shock or anger, it has nothing to do with where your accent is from.

[@andrewjones9991]

@@andygeary3531 The Webster dictionary definition of an accent "an individual's distinctive or characteristic inflection, *TONE* or choice of words "

[@HistoryNerd808]

If anybody's wondering what we mean when we say we don't have an accent(everybody does), is that it's a generic American accent. It's the accent that is all over tv, in movies, etc. so we often just think of it as default, even though if we go abroad, our accent sticks out. Like my accent is kind of generic but mixed with a lot of Southern elements and when I went to Romania for a few weeks, a few years ago, on an archaeology abroad thing, there were also a couple Australian people there, who poked fun at the way I say water because how hard we pronounce the r in our accents is really very distinctive and unlike anywhere else in the English-speaking world.

[@Bob-jm8kl]

They say Chicago is the "standard" American English, but I don't think so. Chicago is pretty distinct, and even locals say that can tell if someone is from the north or south side.

[@HistoryNerd808]

@@Bob-jm8kl Yeah, it's not. Generic American is more like the Midwest or the Pacific NW but it really is its own thing, in a lot of ways too. Chicago generally has a very distinct accent so it's not that.

[@evangelicalcatholics]

The northern accent (my accent) is one of the heaviest accents in the USA. Northern Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin. It's very influenced by French Canadian and Scandinavian. Lots of "youbetchas" and "don't ya know" and "ooh yah" and very nasal. The word "bicycle" for example sounds like "bouycycle". The heavy O's and U's are everywhere. And very annunciated "R" sound. It's as heavy as New York and Boston, but for different reasons. I direct choirs time to time, and the hardest thing in the north is getting singers to drop the "R" sound in their vocalizations. It's like pulling teeth.

[@jackjacobson3893]

As someone from central we got heavily Scandinavian more then anything else no joke went to the dentist and she sounded like she just moved from Iceland ☺️

[@joelwillems4081]

From Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota and the nasal and heavy vowels are right on. Almost none of Wisconsin has that "R" sound and the youbetchas are usually Twin Cities or northern. Most of it in the south is said in jest or by only the older population. My pronunciation of the word "bag" and "dandilion" normally are noticed by different areas of the country. Unless I'm on the telephone and then I adopt some kind of formal radio voice like I'm reading from the church bible. LOL!

[@sarahberkner]

Put da bayg in da bo-uht why dont'cha?

[@tamifaulkner4103]

Absolutely do the accent tour. So dang good. Millie conflating a Nashville accent with an Oregon one is hilarious. They do not say Ya'all up here at all. And yes Texans speak slowly.

[@user-lf7nf3kl7t]

"Park the car in Harvard yard, and give the guard a quarter". We typically drop the R at the end of words and replace it with an AH. Very much left over from the British colony way back when. Boston has several accents including a long A that is very similar to Millie's accent.

[@MichaelScheele]

English, on both sides of the Atlantic, was mostly rhotic in colonial times. In the UK, they dropped their rhoticity over time. In contrast, most of the US retained rhoticity. I have been told that Massachusetts was settled by people from parts of England who had non-rhotic accents at the time.

[@cm5838]

Many of those were horrible imitations of accents. If you really listen you can hear differences is states, even Oklahoma and western Arkansas is a little different. California, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona even have subtle differences. Alaska is one state that I will say has no accent of their own except in the native communities, their population is made up of people from all over. People don’t hear the differences because they don’t really listen, or maybe I have a fascination with accents who knows

[@hunterstrong3318]

Ya and michigan isnt so nazallu, mire like between indiana and wisconsin tones.

[@joelwillems4081]

Mine is Minnesotan but not "Fargo", which is more Canadian. I live in Wisconsin and could notice the difference but not much now. Central and southern Illinois is different too when I hear it.

[@kevinprzy4539]

@@hunterstrong3318I’m from South east Michigan and I’ve been all over the state and I found the only part of Michigan I’ve heard people have a nasally accent is in the far north.

[@KPA78]

not a very helpful or well thought-out video. There are other vids on USA's regional accents that are far better representations of the differences.

[@sarahberkner]

I think they're actually from those states but it can be hard to do a strong version of your own accent. Also, some Minnesotans think the Fargo accent isn't accurate while I think it unfortunately is for some people.

[@robertblackburn1869]

Texas has a lot more the one accents. All depends on which part of Texas you are from.

[@karenhamrick9210]

Yes! The plays Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas portray many of the Texas accents.

[@reanimated]

I can think of 4, probably too low. Even word choice is telling. Trivia: "Feeder" is 100% specific to Houston.

[@Zenas521]

America has many different accents. - Standard - Surfer - Valley Girl - Deep Southern, East - Deep Southern, west - Minnesotan - Boston - New England - Wise Guy - Long island - Manhattan - Native - Chicago Hood - Latino / gringo - Rust Belt - Snob - Feminate Male - Butch Female I know their are more than this, but this is all I can remember off the top of my head.

[@Fanwithnblades]

Yes and the you have the AAV dialect of English for some black people at least

[@derek2593]

Accents have been slowly disappearing since the information age. Small towns tend to still have local accents, but really, the accents were more pronounced a couple decades ago.

[@jacket5456]

Argh, I wish Millie knew more about American Accents. I know the video is for fun, it's not all serious. But you don't have to dismiss half of the country as all having "General American" if you think Tennessee is General.

[@philliefan94]

I’m a New Jerseyan, so I can tell you that we basically have 2 accents here: North Jersey and South Jersey. The North Jersey accent is closer to a New York accent, while the South Jersey accent (my area) is closer to the Philadelphia accent. For example: Ill admit that I say “wooder” instead of “water”.

[@mlee-w664]

New Jersey should really just be considered East Philly or South New York 😅 jk

[@tonycardone990]

Northern New Jersey accents even vary by what mood you're in. A lot like New York and Connecticut accents. I'm from Connecticut on the border of Port Chester NY but if I get pissed off it sounds more like I'm from the Bronx NY.

[@sarahberkner]

My geography teacher was from New Jersey, she taught us how to say 44 and perpendicular (foyty fouh and poypendiculuh)

[@danielmeadows9821]

Being from Hawaii, we speak “proper english” and what we call “pidgin english”, which is a mish mash of shortened words which was done so the different nationalities that worked here a long time ago during the sugar/pineapple plantation days could communicate to each other. That being said, every island also has their own variations of words/slangs that they use. Does get a little more complicated than that though…lol. 🤙🏼

[@flakyanddelicious]

I'm from Arizona, which doesn't really have a very distinctive accent. The first time I heard a Hawaiian accent spoken amongst each other, I could have sworn it was a different language. The more I hung out with the guys, the more it made sense. It's incredible really. Love them native boys, super funny.

[@1cynik]

Very true!

[@ericgill5069]

I feel great, great shame, that the girl “From Michigan” literally had NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what she was talking about. Not only does Michigan in general have a certain accent, but the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (which I’d bet the girl in this video doesn’t even know exists) has a very distinctive, very identifiable accent, that any true Michigander would have known about and mentioned. Shame shame shame.

[@concernedcitizen1]

Agreed. Most non Americans hear Michigan and only think of Detroit and assume the entire state is the same when everything here is very diverse. Landscape, speach, basically all living experiences.

[@jaredsaunders2505]

I agreed exactly lol I was like who tf is this she’s going with more of the Detroit accent instead of the whole state more of a “ope sorry der bud”

[@yugioht42]

Honestly Millie needs to watch the 3 videos on accents. Seriously there is literally no general American accent, every state has a accent and even southern accent has different forms. The southern accent is so divided by type like piney woods is distinct from both Cajun and Texas. They are complete opposites of each other plus the harder to find Gullah accent. California is very different depending on what part of the state you are in like the California surfer accent which is like from Wayne’s world is the extreme form of it but normally very simple and direct. Certain parts of New England right around Plymouth still speak with a London accent somehow. Boston is a very distinct accent all it’s own. New York Manhattan accent is very upfront and in your face but heavily borrows from Italian immigrants who spoke broken English but changed it when they actually learned English. Miami is very Cuban and you hear the L much heavier in words. The US is massive and learning accents can at least help you understand what people say.

[@YankeeBlues21]

I think what Millie’s thinking of is most present in parts of America that are pretty transient or younger as far as being major population centers and so tend not to have a strong regional accent. Places like Southern CA or South Florida (where I grew up to parents from NYC & Western PA and ended up with a pretty “generic”/neutral American accent). Sure those places also have regional accents of their own (kind of like NYC has the “New Yorker accent” but also a strong presence of people with little to no discernible accent), but any part of the US that serves as a strong melting pot within the country ends up without much of an identifiable accent

[@raynemichelle2996]

There is literally a dialect called General American and it is found in every state

[@mlee-w664]

@@YankeeBlues21 I don't know if I agree with you fully on that, the big cities of the northeast and Midwest definitely have distinct accents, And they are very cosmopolitan areas

[@YankeeBlues21]

@@mlee-w664 Those big cities are older and had the time and generational populations to develop those accents (they still attract outside accents though). That’s why I used “younger” areas. Like there’s no Orlando or San Diego accent. There’s an extension of accents from nearby regions in cities like that (like Latin American countries, or the South), but cities/areas that really booked after travel became easier and cheaper post-WW2, don’t tend to have the same kind of 3, 4, 5+ generational enclaves that NYC, Boston, the Upper Midwest, the South, and other places that developed distinctly unique cultures. They’re more a clear mishmash of existing cultures and it’s way more common to find fairly neutral accents in the people who are like first or second generation native to the area despite parents from other parts of America (or outside of it).

[@reneehomen2226]

Exactly!

[@carolewhite6356]

Way more then 4 accents. There are 100s. We have at least 4 just in Virginia.

[@kroberts8866]

It was fun after two decades of living overseas, sitting at a NATO conference and hearing Tennesseans on the other end of a video conference. My multi-national European colleagues asked me if I could interpret for them and wanted to know if what was spoken was English. Of course, I could, I was from there. Then I just reminded the Germans it was just as varied as Bayernish and Oestreich from German or Route French.

[@wildwulf7065]

Hello brother, TN here as well.

[@pjo1964]

My last name is taken from Oestreich. Kingdom of Austria.

[@saiyongdawn7756]

I've been living up north for decades, and now my southern accent seems to be more noticeable for some reason. It could be bc of increased communication with my southern relatives via phone. 😅

[@ernestwadehyche510]

The South is much larger than just Texas

[@tymatter5070]

I've lived in the US All my 55 years and there is no such thing as a standard American accent it simply does not exist people from each state and also from each different region ot each state will sound different im from south central Pennsylvania and people from each county can sound very different and this is true all around the world I loved your reaction you will just have to visit the US and experience it your self

[@mlee-w664]

Hey I'm from Dauphin county! I agree there are very distinct accents only a couple miles away from each other. I went to school in Philly and they have a very different accent than they do in Pittsburgh or even central PA

[@CMV314]

That's not true. There's a Standard American accent which is found in Film and TV and is widely spoken across the country.

[@sarahberkner]

"I've lived in the US all my life" is the key. As an American I can hear when someone sounds European and it sometimes takes me a little while to figure out which part of Europe, let alone country, they're from, and I assume Europeans view American accents the same way, they could probably tell I'm American easier than being able to tell I'm from the midwest.

[@yossarian6799]

@@mlee-w664 I'm from Easton and I speak what sounds to my own ears proper, educated American English. I don't get my "hairs" cut or refer to a group of people as "alls yous all". But even as nearby as Lebanon or Wilkes-Barre, people say they can tell I'm from The Valley. I just don't hear it.

[@erinnswan7063]

NY accent is New York City accent. I live in Western NY and we do not sound like a NY City. Also I have to agree with Beesley, Millie missed the accents.

[@JackNoetz]

Dude, having lived in Michigan for my entire life (28 years), that is definitely not how we sound. I've literally never heard anyone that sounds like that, she did the Valley Girl accent for some reason 😅

[@yossarian6799]

As a non-Michigander, I find Tim Allen and JK Simmons have the arch-typical nasal Michigan accent. Lee Majors never lost his southern-laced "Ypsiltucky" twang. And of course there's the UP....

[@ya4girls1]

Californian here, didn't think I had a standout accent until I visited Indiana, soooo many people asked me to say certain words and phrases.

[@mlee-w664]

Yeah I'm visiting California right now and everyone definitely has an accent here😅

[@ya4girls1]

@@mlee-w664 There are different accents all over the state too. I have a very typical so cal accent, but people in the bay area sound completely different. Hope you are enjoying your visit.

[@jeffburdick869]

6:10 Oh Millie Millie Millie...all of those Harvard sweatshirts and the part of that phrase that you miss is Harvard Yard. What she says is: Ya gotta park the car at Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder.

[@Momsbasement354]

My ex girlfriend was from Minnesota and I would laugh when she pronounced bag as beg. We went to her parents’ for Christmas and I had never heard so much “Oh yah for shore, (sure)” in my life. Her friends told her that she had a California accent and she said no, you guys have an accent! lol There are obviously differences throughout individual states, but whether you’re in northern or southern California, we all say like and dude a LOT!! lol

[@DEAR7340]

I married into a Wisconsin family. I was raised in Georgia. Everytime I hear, "you betcha," I respond with "sho 'nuff." For the uninitiated, that translates to "of course."

[@evangelicalcatholics]

No we pronounce it somewhere between "beg" and "bAg", with a long A sound. Most short words with A as the primary vowel have a long A sound (bag, flag, tag, rag, sang, etc.). The further north, the longer the A and if you got more Finn or Swede in you than German or Polish, it's more Baeg (or what you call "beg"). But yes, we all tend to "O" a lot of our words too. I think it's because we have this habit of not moving our lips all that much when we speak, or so I've been told. And I can tell you that it really bothered me when I lived in the deep south - people had no issue showing their teeth. In the north, we don't like doing that and I don't know why. For us, as little mouth movement as possible to make words and we're happy.

[@yashar6595]

Her standard American is southern??? SOUTHERN????? WOW, I am teem Beesley now lol. Just joking, just fyi the generic American is actually a Midwestern accent. A lot of the news anchors in the 60s 70s were midwestern men, so many actors imitated their accents. So standard is more Northern/Midwestern.

[@Haldurson]

I'm from New York, and there are several New York accents -- There's Upstate, Long Island, Bronx and Brooklyn, for example, all with their own accents. Furthermore, if you ever go to New Orleans or that part of the country, you may have to deal with a Cajun accent, and even I, as an American, have had problems understanding half of what a person with that accent is saying (part of the problem is that it's not just the accent, but the expressions and so on). I have lived in Pasadena, California, Jacksonville Florida, and (for a long while) the Columbus Ohio area, so I thought I was losing my Bronx/Brooklyn/Jewish accent. I did kind of pick up a little bit of an Ohio accent. But I always would come back to my New York accent. That said, because of Television, there is a kind of 'neutral' American accent that you hear on television a lot, and while it hasn't yet given the US one uniform accent, you can see the trend.

[@castlecorn593]

How did Clevelanders sound to you people say a lot of us sound like Canadian New Yorkers lol

[@pollypurree1834]

The lower Naugatuck Valley area in Connecticut has a Manhattan accent.

[@yossarian6799]

@@pollypurree1834 Fall River and New Bedford Mass. have a unique accent that's different from Boston on Rhode Island.

[@yossarian6799]

The working-class white New Orleans accent sounds just like Brooklyn or the Bronx, with some Boston thrown in. No shred of the "Southern" accent whatsoever. If you live in Louisiana long enough, you can pick up the three distinct Cajun varieties: the familiar accent of the "Cajun Heartland"; the variant spoken in the River Parishes between Baton Rouge in New Orleans, an area first settled by Germans, with its strong German vowel intonations; and the third variety spoken in the peripheral regions, which were settled not by Acadians but by immigrants primarily from France, and has the pronounced Celtic gutteral tones typical of Brittany, Normandy and Northwestern France.

[@pollypurree1834]

@@yossarian6799 When I was a tourist in England, I was approached by the British several times. They would say that I sound very British but they could also hear an occasional American tone. I was asked if I was born in England and moved to the USA. My accent from the lower Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut is obviously a British accent converting to an American one but not quite making it. The lower Naugatuck Valley is one of the oldest regions in the USA. It was settled in 1639. It is obviously an old colonial accent from the 1600s and 1700s. It sounds just like a Manhattan accent to American ears. I was watching two British guys on KZbin who were critiquing an old Abbot and Costello video. One commented that they sounded very British 😂. New York City accents.

[@nwj03a]

I grew up in Texas and it’s always a bit jarring hearing myself talk on a recording. I don’t hear it day to day, but play my voice back to me… how does anyone, not from the south, even understand me? Lol, it’s funny in a way.

[@teresak9543]

That video example definitely did not do justice to the amount of accents in America. Each individual state may have a wide range of accents. For example, Eastern Kentucky residents have a very different accent to Western Kentucky. Southern Georgia sounds different than Northern Georgia. I was waiting in line behind a woman from Massachusetts at a tourist spot and she asked me a question and neither of us had any idea what the other was saying. 😂

[@mikephillips1043]

@Jason Mistretta dude I love the southy (sp?) accent from south Boston. I had family from there and its like having 6 Bill Burrs when he exaggerates his accent.

[@edwingonzalez3184]

The ones that stick out the most are the New York Boston Texas Tennessee New Orleans south Carolina and Georgia accents.

[@raymondjones616]

The issue with this video is only 5-6 of these people actually have discernable accents from the area they claim. The rest just have traditional American accents and are faking it. As so many others have said here, if you want actual accents you should watch the accent tour videos.

[@patriciagarrett5526]

Southern twangs vary from southern state to state, Eastern which includes NY City...not the whole of the state, and then New England, Midwestern, and Western. I was born in Brooklyn but not raised there to a Brooklyn father and Bronx mother. My mother's parents came from Ireland. You also have to remember we have alot of citizens from all over the world with their unique ways of speaking English.

[@jenniferbasford709]

You have to remember our states are similar to different countries (in Europe). They're very large, and often have different dialects depending on where you live in each state. For example, the girl from Florida is obviously from South Florida - Miami area. No one speaks like that anywhere else in Florida. Definitely agree with the guy suggesting to watch the dialect pro.

[@SynthwaveSire]

I’ve never heard anybody from Tennessee talk like that 😂😂 and I’ve been here mostly my entire life lol

[@desdainart]

As a Californian who has a very Californian accent, I think that's hilarious that you said our accent sounds like fame hahaha! Most of the time I think we just sound ditzy and airheaded. And yes, like we say like a lot and we like to silence our T's sometimes. Like Santa Claus would be Sanna Claus. When I say interesting i actually say in-ner-rest-ing, softener is sofner, often is offen, beaten is bee-en, important is im-por-en, and so on.

[@b1xssom838]

Better than my southern accent lol I speak fast but sometimes the accent makes it hard to understand what I say because it’s more dependent on a longer drawl and pronunciation of my words.. Georgian with a very Georgian accent lolol

[@yossarian6799]

I'm from PA and went to Grad school at Berkeley. I went down to LA often and I noticed there are two (caucasian) LA accents. One is that nerve-grating Kaley Cuoco typical "california girl" accent. The other is flat, mid-America with a slight drawl redolent of Oklahoma or Texas.

[@americansmark]

This is a bunch of hipsters mocking actual accents. The Accent Tour video series is accurate and really fun to watch. You'll even get a play on the "British" accent in Ocracoke Island.

[@jacobpickering3057]

Thank you Beesley and Millie for doing this video.

[@codygates7418]

I can NEVER get over the injustice that was the Kentucky accent. She HAS to either be a midwesterner who moved here OR someone from Cali. There is literally NO WAY she could be a native Kentuckian this was a bad representation overall lol

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

to me british have cockney and everything else.... going by Millie's reasoning 😏

[@TheWindsofWonder]

When she said the Southern accent sounded standard I was like :^O whaaaaaat

[@DevanLund]

8:02 The Alaska guy is actually quite wrong about Sarah Palin. She was born in Idaho, but her family moved to the Eagle River/Wasilla area of AK before she was 1, so she was raised in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Thing about Mat-Su is that it's one of the most pronounced non-tribal accents in the whole state, because a lot of settlers from the Great Lakes region (Wisconsin, Minnesota, "Yooper" Michigan, etc) moved there, which is why Sarah and her family sound like characters from "Fargo".

[@garryfletcher893]

Millie might have too much wax buildup in her ears. To each their own. I enjoy different accents and tones, that's what makes us unique.

[@davidcopple8071]

I've lived in Texas my entire life. I was born in North Texas where there is one type of Texas accent, then south Texas have a little different accent, as do Central Texas and East Texas. Some differences are stark some very minute.

[@appaappa9808]

So as a American myself i catergorize it in regions. 1. Southern accent (Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, etc.) 2. Midwestern accent (North Dakota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, etc.) 3. Western accent (California, Washington, Oregan, Idaho, etc,) 4. Northern accent (New York, Maine, Massachusetts, etc.) Every American know what region you are from based on accent. Currently, i live in the south, but born and raised in the Midwest. From a mile away southern people immediately know im not from the south.

[@an_anishinaabe_son]

There are dozens of regional accents and thousands of community-centric accents!

[@jdub8325]

Love you both!! Been here since 40K subscribers and have been cheering you two on to 100,000 ever since! Can't wait! 😀❤🙌

[@derek2593]

You should do a video on Hawaii accents, traditions and such. Have you ever had spam sushi? They are the most uniquely their own out of all 50 states.

[@sarahberkner]

It's funny to me how Hawaiians love Spam but it's made in Minnesota, some people here like it but most don't.

[@doctor-aesthetic]

@@sarahberkner This is because they used to trade with GIs during WWII. Since Hawaii is an island, they don't really have the space to keep a ton of livestock, so meat products like that used to be a commodity. :) So they happily took it and found ways to make it much more palatable than it is straight from the can. Spam musubi is one of those ways, but in general, pan frying it makes it taste a thousand times better. The saltiness makes SPAM and rice a perfect pair. So tasty. 🤤

[@ohcanada8084]

People have a hard time figuring out where I’m from as I have lived in different regions, globally. But, when I say I’m from Minnesota, it never fails, I have to prove it by saying, “Ja, sure, you betcha Sven! Let’s go ice fishing Sat-erdee, and maybe Ole wants to go, too, you know?” Actually, that’s more northern Minnesota accent, and it’s regional. Lovely folks, friendly and, yep, family. When you’re in Minnesota, you’re home.

[@dianatopoulos5602]

I’m from Boston, Massachusetts. I used to work for a Printer and I was always on the phone buying paper and ink from all over the USA. They always knew that I was from Boston, because we barely pronounce our “r””s. Instead of “are you”, we tend to say “ahhh you”! Proud to be from Boston though! Love you both! You are AWESOME people & so entertaining!

[@laurakennedy9250]

I've always lived on Chicago's North Side and it still surprises me when people talk about a "Chicago accent". I think we have a pretty standard Midwest sound. Now the South Side of Chicago is a very different story, they have their own accent. They often drop their r's from the end of words, for instance saying "flow" instead of "floor". Plus they have quite a few "made-up" words of their own such as "finnin'" and "conversating".

[@whoishim2998]

Very true me being from the south side I noticed people in other areas just sound like typical Americans

[@whoishim2998]

South side people talk fast to so that’s probably why flow instead of floor it’s quicker to say and Da instead of the

[@laurakennedy9250]

@@whoishim2998 Hello Him, my friend is from the South Side, she doesn't drop her "r's" but she does say "finnin". So, everyone is different.

[@sikksotoo]

I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and have ALWAYS said y'all. It is more widespread but I don't say it with a drawl. The heyna from PA is a real thing. I think it's rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch. Millie definitely needs the Accent tour. Her grasp of American slang is really good but her accent recognition needs a hand and that guy is amazing. Also the "sh%t southern women say" series is quite funny.

[@zona999]

I'm from southern AZ, too and nobody says ya'll.

[@judyhorstmann6332]

Cracking up with "Standard American!"

[@kevinbrown3075]

I was born in Georgia, live in Northwest Arkansas and a few years back went to Minnesota for the first time. I literally thought I was in a different English speaking country. It isn’t just about accents, it’s also about mannerisms.

[@sarahberkner]

Well, you're welcome to come back and visit anytime, don'tcha know. :) I just wouldn't recommend visiting in the dead of winter though.

[@mikephillips1043]

Being from Ohio I dated someone from Vancouver and they always mocked my accent. I may have started by imitating Canadians first haha. But man I also dated a girl from Oklahoma and she was 100% southern Belle accent and god damn she stole my heart at the second she talked.

[@castlecorn593]

What part you from I'm from Cleveland

[@PatricenotPatrick]

I’d love to see y’all make a video about Jersey and the language, culture, etc there. All we know is that New Jersey is named after it but not much else. Would be cool to hear from people who actually live there!

[@isabellagonzalez5695]

The girl from Massachusetts said a famous line that people always associate with the Boston accent. She said, "You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder."

[@NancysFanciesDesign]

My mother's family is in New Mexico, my father's family is in Mississippi. I have family in Arkansas, Louisiana, California, New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Ohio. I've lived in three states myself and have traveled to over 25 states. There are definitely more than 3 distinct dialects in each state due to the various settlers/immigrants who came to this country and settled in communities near each other. Americans familiar enough with each area can tell each other apart from their dialect, and no matter how much education and travel you have beneath your belt, when you get back "home" your accent comes back with a vengeance!

[@ulisesurbina7184]

I really enjoy watching your reactions a lot! Yes you guys need to watch the Tour Accents of America.

[@maxdurk9611]

The main groups of accents in America I would say are 1) typical midwestern (standard American accent), 2) southern accent, 3) Boston/ New England 4) New York/ Long Island and 5) Upper midwest (Minnesota/ North Dakota).

[@poodlegirl55]

I live in Illinois and people have a standard midwestern accent but I moved to Central Illinois and then Southern Illinois after retirement and people definitely have a southern accent. People always ask me where I'm from!

[@dafien530]

umm the west coast accent? here.. hell some of us Natives in Norcal have a dialect all our own

[@starstef2014]

@@dafien530 Well in their defense yall's accent isn't really that distinct yet, mainly just some minor vocabulary differences and tone of voice. Really it's only that "warsh" thing and sometimes the abomination of something closer to "malk" instead of milk, but other than that it's pretty close to standard American.

[@cpMetis]

@@dafien530 West Coast accent isn't really of much significance. Outside of very strong but limited accents like stereotypical valley girl or latino, "west coast" accent is just midwest accent. Average California is basically average Ohio with a few minor changes.

[@starman5754]

The Boston girl is saying "You've got to park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder".

[@suzannewhitten2205]

From Minnesota here everyone says my accent is Wild but I sound like you both to my own ears. Much love enjoy your videos looking forward to more!

[@jennifersmetanko6631]

There can be up to 3 or 5 slightly different accents in one state here in America. I live in the state of Ohio and my grandmother is originally from Kentucky. And you can tell she came from there by her accent and some of the old timey slang she uses. I been spending so much time with her and sometimes I slip-up and kind of say something's how she does. It's kind of easy for me to slide into the southern accent without realizing I'm doing it. People sometimes point out to me I can't say coffee right or syrup or potatoes or aluminum foil ride either😂🤣😭🤷‍♀️❤

[@kittycatgaminghayley6210]

I’m from Massachusetts and the girl said “you gotta park the car in Harvard yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder”

[@ChrissaTodd]

i've heard that quote before so i knew what she said haha

[@Sandman60077]

Close, it's "give the guard a quarter"

[@wideawake5630]

A Chicago accent is a version of Midwest that sounds dipped briefly in New York whereas the southern part of Illinois is trending into southern.

[@castlecorn593]

Same with Cleveland

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

5:57 and “hawk the yawn”

[@danielchapman6032]

Also shocked that Mills cannot hear how heavy the Tennessee accent is. It is the thickest of our Southern Accents. So very pronounced.

[@cpMetis]

Have to disagree hard there. TN isn't exactly a light accent but it pales in comparison to how distinct Mississippi/Alabama accents are.

[@wildwulf7065]

@@cpMetis Bro I’m from TN and people ask if I’m from Bama when on Xbox. So I don’t think that holds a lot of truth Edit: also have a Canadian friend and blew her mind when she first heard me talk.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

It's a very oversimplified video. Watch the Wired channel videos, of course, for accuracy.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

This one was by Wired too. But yes definitely do the North American accent tour, where real professionals explain and demonstrate. Forty people saying they don’t have an accent is pointless.

[@roxismith6122]

In Missouri, Kansas City, St Louis and southern Missouri all have very different accents.

[@yetherapperreacts]

yall are some of my favssss

[@colleenmonell1601]

Lol, Millie saying the California accent sounds like fame? I wish my bank account looked like fame. 😁

[@Sonnie0325]

Same, lol 😄

[@woolcifer]

There's really a Northern and Southern California accents

[@Sonnie0325]

@@woolcifer true, NorCal (where I'm from) is quite different from the SoCal accent.

[@brandonthejobber3674]

@@woolcifer agreed

[@wagvancil9941]

Texan here. You can tell by an accent if someone is from East Texas vs West Texas. East Texans, to me, sound more Deep South, where West Texans have more of a drawl. BTW, love y’all!

[@HistoryNerd808]

Fellow Texan. Can verify.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Peace to Texas. I'm from tiny Connecticut. Never been to Texas. I would be scared that I couldn't leave Texas.😆

[@RICHIERICH875]

Another fellow Texan. Midland, Tx. In West Texas.

[@Sgt-Gravy]

20 year reunion of this video: revisit with hearing your kids accents 😆

[@wanderingspaceman1871]

Nobody here in Washington State says “Warsh-ington” lol it’s pronounced “Wah-shing-tn” or “Waa-shing-tn” Idk who that guy was or where he’s from but he had no clue what he was talking about haha. Fun video though, thanks guys!

[@LizbetPCB]

Nice video, but so, SO WRONG. Every state, especially large ones like Texas and California, have several accents. Here on NY, not only are there a few, but arguments over actual names of items varies region to region. My husband and I are in a mixed marriage of NYMetro and waaaay upstate, WNY, specifically. We rib each other all the time. Enjoy your channel, guys!

[@paulobrien9572]

Being from Boston the accent basically boils down to we don't pronounce our R's and it's replaced with an Ah sound like Car is Cah and Millie Harvard is pronounced Hahvid we also usually just drop any second R sound. Chowder is chowdah

[@thehulk1177]

ChuckTown guy knows he ain’t from Charleston speaking slow. Geechi boi, be talking all fast as heck 😂 He probably was high.

[@JohnStark72]

Got news for you. The Vermont accent has been warped over the past 50 m,years. Vermont accents used to be somewhat like that of Maine. You'd hear it in words like "kiows," which is how we would say "cows." And we also use terms like "down cellar" instead of "down in the basement."

[@jeffburdick869]

3:10 you're killing me, Millie. Tennessee your standard American?! That would be like me telling you that you sound like a Scouser.

[@newdaze11]

Millie got it! New York, Texas, and Standard American! 🤣🤣 You both crack me up!

[@Tu_Padre31]

Nobody: Beesley: TEXAS

[@angelathomas5515]

So Massachusetts said " Gonna park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder."

[@pacmanc8103]

Hah! That Tennessee accent was not at all what I’d consider Standard American like that guy from Portland, Oregon spoke.

[@stevenj2380]

'Pure' or 'true' accents are getting diluted or destroyed by diversity and mass communication.

[@krispyair]

I think the Massachusetts girl is saying, you gotta park the car and get outside to give the guy a quarter for some chowder.

[@nikkis7375]

I’m from Michigan and even one state away from me, 2 hour drive people make fun of my Michigan accent lol. Nasaly and we say our A’s differently. Since we’re “up north” it’s an unspoken rule that we’re not allowed to say “y’all” 😂and we call drinks Pop not soda

[@poohbearsmom2964]

Just remember that most of these people don’t actually have regional accents. They are just mimicking them for camera. It’s such a poor representation.

[@PatricenotPatrick]

Texas isn’t an accent, we don’t sound like the rest of the south except old school houstonians and east of there. Anything west or south can vary.

[@samueldocski4426]

You never started off with the usual “absolute legends”. I feel less of a legend now.

[@TheMtVernonKid]

As a New Yorker we have accents in accents. For example a most New Yorker can tell which Burrogh your from either The Bronx or Manhattan or Queens or Brooklyn or Shoalin aka Staten Island. Even Northern New Yorker sound different from Southern New Yorkers.

[@harrietbredehoft6578]

Alabamians have at least 3 different drawls, depending on what part of the state they're from.

[@Velbar_]

Ya'll HAVE to react to the american dialect videos if you think there's only 3 accent types

[@Honeypot-x9s]

Firstly, it’s almost an insult to measure how Southern it sounds. Texas is not a measure that any other southern state wants to be measured by no offense to Texas but I think it’s mutual Texas probably doesn’t wanna be measured by any other state either. Secondly, as an ex Virginian, I can confirm that our accent is just one of being a bit lazy. The letters you hit and stuff like that you’re just a little bit too lazy to crest of them so you draw them out just a little. It’s a relaxed way of talking a little bit slower without being slow or drawn out.

[@arcky508]

Being a Masshole myself, a brief run down about how we speak; Pahk the cah in Havaahd yahd... Somewhere in time we lost the ability to use "r" in certain places. Wicked pissah state though!