50 People Show Us Their States' Accents | Culturally Speaking | Condé Nast Traveler

In this episode of 'Culturally Speaking,' 50 people from the 50 United States of America attempt to demonstrate the accent from their home state. Does your state have an accent? Do you accent your "r's" or do you let them hang? Can you really tell where someone is from based on their accent? Find out!
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[@visitingstatue171]

As a foreigner, I can pretty much only hear 2 accents: Southern and not southern

[@juandoe8879]

That's all I hear and I am american.

[@magpie7938]

Where I live in the U.S., there's a lot of accents so I'm pretty keen on it

[@bransonjallim2620]

XxDepthsOfShadowsxX there’s plains,southern,northern,north east accents

[@tasnimuddin902]

Yeah pretty much

[@CoatHanger25]

Moonlit Waters Me too

[@braxton5264]

When the Massachusetts girl said “hsidhfbisjdvfhsjsbisjhfbrujahfhfjd quateah foah some chowdah” I felt that

[@victoriagrace5855]

Braxton Collett park the car in Harvard yard and the guy a quarter for some chowder

[@aprilford9670]

She went dkeiwodkeodfowprkfoffftt chowdah

[@alessiaomari7845]

Lmao only a small amount of people in Massachusetts sound like that

[@WRsdO0djebeuR_WY7bllWqzfmo]

You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder. It's a Southie accent (not South End).

[@darria3492]

Braxton Collett 😂😂😂

[@JSterling812]

"I definitely notice it when I'm travelling" That's the Jersey way of saying "Our accent comes out when we swear"

[@beccaesten7709]

i dont notice it until people call me out after saying things like coffee, dog, walk😭

[@SmokinSesh]

Jersey here lol. Coffee. Dog and drawer.

[@beccaesten7709]

@@SmokinSesh yup drawer too! lol no matter how hard i try it always just comes out like "draw"

[@SmokinSesh]

@@beccaesten7709 I’m so glad it’s not just my family hahahahaha. It’s a draw to me too.

[@GomuxGomu]

My aunt swears a lot and she does it in her jersey accent 😂

[@somedude8380]

saying that you don't have an accent is like saying that this comment doesn't have a font.

[@stillnotstill]

Oh I like that comparison

[@Exayevie]

I see no font here.

[@coledeko]

@@Exayeviesigh.

[@Exayevie]

@@coledeko I'm just saying, it's a way less compelling argument than he thinks it is when you look at these letters. Honestly, it demonstrates what the "i don't have an accent" crowd means really well, technicalities aside.

[@BazookaGamingGirl]

@@coledekoPeople who say/think they don’t have an accent are saying that because their accent sounds “normal” to them. They don’t think about their way of speaking as an accent, even though it is. The font comparison is similar because yeah it’s obviously a font, but it’s a very basic font that we’re all used to seeing so it doesn’t feel like a font, if you get what I mean.

[@Dinadarya]

literally everyone: we don't really have an accent

[@RiceEater483]

I think when people say that, they mean they believe they have what they consider to be the "standard American accent". I'm guilty of it myself. I've said that before because I felt mines wasn't attached to a certain area or region. Even when people say they have a certain accent, I find it kind of hard to notice. The differences throughout the entire country is pretty subtle to me besides certain ones that are thicker than most like the stereotypical NY or Southern accent.

[@Dinadarya]

And I know what they meant when they said we don’t have an accent I was just Quoting them lmao

[@global4.284]

they don't know what accent means lmao

[@mazystar74able]

Basically, they all sound the same (maybe southern accent can be distinctive..) compared to the accent differences in Britain.. cockney, scouse .. they all crazy ..

[@finnwindu]

Title should have been "50 People claim they don't have accents"

[@Aaron-is8yt]

Texas woman sounds like she's about to burst into tears

[@pascho1057]

Her beta t shirt says it all

[@offusyoufus4278]

@@pascho1057BAHAHAHAHA

[@adventure_lewis3354]

2:26 you lost me at "you gotta park the car"

[@prajwalam5092]

Hey bro, I took the pic in your profile photo.

[@ahuman3749]

She sounds like Sadness in Inside out

[@leejohnson3209]

As a British person, I find it difficult to distinguish subtle differences between states. I think I could correctly identify a Californian, New York, Southern and Appalachian accent.

[@wawerungugi2869]

tbh if you heard it the dialect in real life you would FOR SURE hear it

[@owyni7523]

​@@ayin_northstandard southern British is not a thing

[@Cloudyb01]

Not hawaiian?

[@cram23]

honestly americans do the same thing with british accents i know theres a few but they all sound the same to me whereas i can hear different american ones since ive lived here my whole life yk

[@Le_Petit_Lapin]

Yeah it's definately not the same stark variations like there is in the UK where you go 20 miles up the road and everyone speaks different.

[@DeanMcCain]

One of the things about Texas is that depending on where you are, you have a different accent. Like where I live, the accent is very Latino-based. A lot of words have Spanish pronunciations.

[@BrewsBrownies]

Where I live we don't really have an accent until we pronounce certain words. Sometimes I'll accidentally slip into a more Southern accent for no reason.

[@DeanMcCain]

@BrewsBrownies neat...yea I don't really have an accent either but more the phraseology that I use is what sets me apart. Like I'll just use a Spanish phrase for certain situations

[@fatdinosaur6845]

For me I live in Texas, and I would say I have a Mexican and southern accent that come out with different words

[@DeanMcCain]

@Luigi_Luigington no but the Texas version of it is. There's a difference between every version of it in every culture it's used in.

[@weskerrun4647]

@@fatdinosaur6845Yep, absolutely, same here. I say things like “Winda” for “Window”, I say stuff with i’s real long like line or wide with more of an A sound. I roll the R and say ‘tortilla’ real fast and sharp though.

[@sweetmash477]

This is literally a bunch of people who have intentionally lost their accent and are now trying to imitate it.

[@trishalennex4630]

And after a while in Ohio especially you lose you’re accent often when u grow up too I couldn’t tell with her

[@JigglePhysics3000]

Maybe it's because they took a bunch of metropolitan liberal millennials to do this video.

[@trishalennex4630]

kledo5778 mmmmmmmmmm I don’t know

[@JigglePhysics3000]

@@trishalennex4630 Well, I think you can tell. I mean, you can see the age. None of them look like they're poor, they look pretty middle-class. Also, some of them are even wearing political (democratic) shirts. I think it's pretty obvious they didn't interview random people.

[@trishalennex4630]

kledo5778 okay so yes maybe that but what I meant was that millennials would probably still have their accent, I’m assuming a lot of these people have lived out of the state for a while and have faded their accent

[@fullm3tal_jacket121]

50%: we dont really have an accent Other 50%: yEe HaW

[@dollartreejadenyuki6046]

Edgyboi117 is that a tally hall pfp i see or no?

[@fullm3tal_jacket121]

@@dollartreejadenyuki6046 yes

[@garbage_man9290]

Tally hallll

[@kristineplummer7607]

Hahahha 😂

[@natsudragneel2258]

It’s literally 50% 50% in Maryland depending on where

[@user-yg5oh7kv4n]

Tennessee’s accent is so adorable 🥺 I can also listen to the missouri accents all day it’s so nice

[@LailaShippy]

As a Missourian, i found this comment nice😌

[@Its_Finnex]

As a Missourian too, we have a lot of different accents based on where you go but they’re all very smooth and calm in a way :)

[@ColtonMack]

I love how none of these people had the accent they were talking about

[@Staples-Giftbag]

The Texas girl sounds like she’s talking into a fan

[@itsalysssaa]

sounds like she’s bout to cry at any second

[@michaelf5185]

shes likely nervous. i do the same

[@pawlpstv7115]

FR

[@XMissCupCakejeee]

I was looking for this comment😹

[@THE-NC2]

Her vocal chords vibrate way too much lol

[@SatireDepartment]

“California like- we say Like” Accurate

[@bruhyoulowontime9009]

Heh

[@morelandlesswater8656]

We should get another word to say at some point though

[@nnuveohombre]

We do say that too much

[@jonp3890]

Devin..?

[@ProcyonAlpha]

Fun fact, we do that in Ireland too, put a like on the end of everything

[@capnkraken8802]

The Utah girl only say “Wanna go skiing in the moun’ains” is spot on. That is the extend of the accent. But I have heard a lot of older people say things like “Thursdie”.

[@IMAMONGUS]

I thought she was going to say "oh my heck"

[@p1zzabagel]

Cells instead of sales and melk instead of milk for me

[@inktea256]

We definitely draw out our “R’s” , “A’s” and “O’s” more in the Midwest. I’ve also noticed we tend to really stress the “ar” and “er” sound at the end of a word almost to the point of sounding Gaelic, at least in Minnesota. “Car” often sounds like “caer.”

[@bocamocha.]

only toward wisconsin, minnesota, and the dakotas though. toward michigan and illinois and whatnot that is not typical

[@ShellyLeit]

Most of the MN accent is German and Norwegian with some Swedish and some farm lingo thrown in. Farmers have the most Minnesota accent of all.

[@KpopWrldSTAY]

Can agree

[@AlexanderofMiletus]

The thing with Illinois is that there’s the Chicago accent, the Chicagoland accent, and the downstate accent. All different

[@zakar......]

Half of them: "I don't really have an accent" Other half: "HEY YALL!"

[@addie_is_me]

Zakaaar Offnanyan I thought they came across that way though, Middle American vs Southern. That was cute.

[@_addi_1428]

Zakaaar Offnanyan Nah Nah nahhh north east and west America: u think we sound pretty normal South: HEY YALLLLL WHAT YALLL DOIN TONIGHTTT???? the south already knows lol

[@bassnation986]

Addi Wright yup 😂🤣

[@Johnny_64]

SCOTT HERE

[@raph485]

@@Johnny_64 dude i appreciate your scott the woz reference

[@saraasher1052]

The Texas girl sounds like she was being held at gunpoint behind the camera.

[@mortisthemagnificent376]

That’s because she is

[@airfallgamer6435]

Ha

[@codeinecowboy8607]

A Texan with a beto shirt? Probably was held at gunpoint with a fully semi auto with a .30 caliber clip

[@wcf312]

@@codeinecowboy8607 I hear it's able to dispense 30 rounds in half a second**

[@fouralot]

@sophia lazzaro wait she does???? i feel like a jerk now :/

[@upsethooker]

I like that the North Dakota girl stood up a straight as possible, that's part of the accent.

[@alylisab]

Oh Jersey definitely has an accent 😂 that guy just hasn't realized it yet I guess 🤣

[@CoolScratcher]

as a Jerseyan... yes we most certainly do. I have the mild kind, as do most people, but there are some people in the more well-known areas who have the accent cranked up to the max.

[@alylisab]

@@CoolScratcher I see.

[@nightmareeyes4116]

All of them: “I don’t have an accent”

[@cassidysmith6512]

Alabamians (me): I ain't got no accent

[@technosauruswrex]

Mass though was just: "Here is the Boston accent you all thought of when you clicked this video."

[@niet3191]

Michiganders don't have an accent

[@NostalgiCrazy]

To be fair, most of them were right! We tend to go for the "General American accent" when speaking to strangers, presenting, etc.

[@notstarboard]

I think by "I don't have an accent" they mean "I speak with a standard American English accent". If you sound like people usually do on national news broadcasts or in American shows, I think that's fair to say. Everyone has an accent, of course.

[@VanDriphoven]

The Cali dude looks like the actual physical embodiment of his State

[@Jgeraus]

yup and he still somehow managed to uptalk. If he had said hella it would have been the coup de grace.

[@facelessandnameless]

girlmathnerd Exactly

[@megb9057]

i wish that guy didnt represent my state

[@ShutYourFaceUp]

iRememberY0U he really does 😂

[@KrispyKitty66]

He was hella accurate. I live in Cali and he was, like, totally on point.

[@lukeslc-xd8ds]

Linguistically speaking, one cannot say that any given state has an accent. Very often it breaks down into socio-economic factors and regional differences more than differences in states.

[@glohkamp]

Yeah, I'd say there's definitely a different accent for rural Oregon than there is for the cities. Once you get out past the suburbs it gets real hick, real quick.

[@ryanmahoney1109]

"We gotta go up to bah hahbor to get some lobstah suppah" 😂

[@whataboutthis10]

I'd go with her

[@keylafrolden7537]

The Texas girl sounds like she is on the verge of tears

[@littlebirdie1956]

For real

[@domjonas]

She was just mocking the Texas accent but did it badly.

[@NiceDog17]

Cause she was forced to wear a Beto shirt

[@tytube3001]

she got dem hips tho

[@mai.vancon]

She was probably trying to play it cool but her nervousness was showing through.

[@WarvelsWarvengers]

Favorite moment: "People in California have like... They say 'like'."

[@raynarounds8957]

Each state deserves its own video

[@dead_channe1]

@@raynarounds8957 Exactly. California got skipped over and I kept waiting for it to come back to be elaborated on but it never happened. T^T

[@lunakitty1990]

I'm very guilty of saying that a lot and also awesome or dude

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

We're really nasal in our voice, our a's we hide in our noses We also do vocal fry more often than other place 'All right' Some vocal fry in the 'a' & 'i' I'm working on voice training & north Carolina female singer of the Band "Squirrel nut zippers" whom sang 'winter weather' has a goal voice Its cool we individuality taylor our vocal Communication in accents!

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

@@denesetler I mean, we kinda like . . . Do that It's funny

[@Matthew0640]

The Massachusetts one. Perfect. The classic phrase. A single sentence! No introduction needed! “We gotta park the car in harvard yard and give the guard a quarta for some chowda”

[@navsnipe]

We gutta pahk the cah in Harvid yahd and give the gahhd a quarta fa sum chowda

[@kelseyjaffer]

I grew up in Illinois and can tell you that there are kind of 3 distinct accents I've heard here: The famous Chicago accent, which kind of sounds like a watered down version of the Wisconsin guy's accent but which sometimes uses "d" in place of "th" sounds; the more country accent that sounds kind of like the Tennessee girl when you get to the southern or more rural parts of the state; and what I like to call the "Suburban" accent, which is a very light version of the Chicago accent.

[@AlexanderofMiletus]

Finally someone else who noticed. Also, the Chicagoland accent (suburbs) can replace th with d too. Just depends on the person

[@lifeoflilriccy6052]

the Texas girl sounded like she was trying not to cry lmao

[@SnovvVilliers]

That's the stage fright accent.

[@numberonesoadfanreal]

*laughs in timid Texan*

[@depresseddan8210]

*Happy Texan noises*

[@lostinsauce4515]

We do NOT sound like that. Unless we have severe stage fright.

[@patrick.collins.3624]

She just seemed a bit afraid

[@davidfirth]

45 people saying they don't think they have an accent. 5 that clearly do.

[@cautionshebites7461]

Lol didn’t expect you here! Snd yeah lol

[@danielgomezjr]

Hi

[@screaminggecko4280]

Wait hold up, u came

[@gamesandculture]

Whoa. David. Still slinging brutal truth.

[@justaguyontheinternet1556]

Wut are you doing here?

[@pygmysnake4623]

I like how two of the most interesting dialects/accents in the country Appalachian mountain talk and cajun/creole were completely unrepresented in this video

[@zakdaq]

Connecticut dropped the ball. Depending on which part of the state you live in, you either get part of a Boston accent or you get part of a New Yorker accent, it's inevitable. If you're central CT, well then you get a mix of both

[@LivFallon-wz6jy]

no, not at all. we’re pretty neutral

[@BerserkEnjoyer636]

Eh not really. I don’t hear the Boston accent much where I am and I’m pretty much as close to Boston as you can be in CT

[@mkornacki]

I grew up in Norwich and when I went off to college (in Middletown) I got so many ‘where are you from’s due to my accent. I made an effort to lose it ASAP.

[@Lalo3001]

With all due respect, you should have put older people, at least 55+, who still speak in their states' original accents.

[@ikbeneenaardbei4896]

Agree. That would be way better

[@bealtesandfloyd]

I agree but the NY guy was 👌

[@joeyedmond6587]

All due respect, there's no such thing as "original accents"

[@markhenley3097]

@@joeyedmond6587 Correct, but some of the States' accents are lost with increased inter-connection. For example here in the UK where I live, in the 1950s many people in parts of the country spoke in more regional accents, with certain phrases and forms of grammar dating back to Middle English, but not used in Standard English. I read a story of a child during WWII who left London during the Blitz, to a small town in Northern England, and heard completely unique forms of pronunciation and grammar, which were leftovers of the more complex grammar structure English had in the past. When he visited the town again a few years ago, he couldn't find anybody who spoke like they used to.

[@hardwirecars]

texas was fairly spot on for women with texas you have to have a girl and a guy we speak very different to each other.

[@fruitloopes8173]

yes all of us Texas people sound like we’re going to cry each sentence

[@daltonmiller5590]

Can confirm lmao

[@creativeinking]

Does beyonce sound like that. I think so but I'm not sure 🤔

[@BooSki29]

LMAO

[@carscad03]

Ah yes. Maybe just because I may or may not be sad 90% of the time but most of the time I speak... how i speak

[@evandrake8095]

I’m am very guilty of saying oyl instead of oil

[@What-xg1kw]

Everyone: talking about accents Utah: asking nicely if you want to go skiing in the moun'ains

[@aldonroe4558]

“Oh you betcha” sums up Minnesota almost perfectly. Add an Ope and you got it

[@sarahchavez3882]

i promise us texans don’t sound like we bouta cry all the time

[@rondee]

Are you sure you don't sound like you're having a panic attack?

[@winterine4827]

I thought it sounded like talking through a fan for a bit

[@luzd4515]

Right I sound nothing like that and not everything is cowboy or cowgirl and not everywere is a desert

[@mushmelloh]

I can hear the crying through your comment

[@namadila5066]

Her voice is so shaky

[@serinalopez6046]

The Texas girls voice sounds like me when I do class presentations 😂😭

[@Seokjinnnnie]

I could feel the tears in her voice

[@caseylamb7544]

Serina Nicole Omg so true

[@a-paige]

Serina Nicole literally she sounded so nervous haha

[@allygab3906]

Yess her voice was bout shaky😂😂😂

[@natcau]

i was looking for this commect

[@janrupertalfeche8959]

The Chicago one had me on the floor 'cause I realized I sound exactly like that HAHAHAHAHA

[@G3kk0852xbox]

Grew up in three different heavy accent states, Texas, Georgia, and Florida. My accent is a typical midwestern accent with a pinch of southern spice. Sometimes it comes out, sometimes it doesn't. I have to fight the "fair to midland" phrase sometimes.

[@benjamindemarbieux1468]

Why does the Texas girl sound like she’s speaking through a fan

[@tyleryoung306]

I think she was just mad nervous lol you could hear her heart pounding through her chest with every word

[@ulisesortiz7921]

Tyler Bodies True, she looked at the camera for like a millisecond

[@texasisfortexans7170]

thats beto people

[@Imsleepeebruh]

@@texasisfortexans7170 😂

[@tonywong303]

IKR

[@eightsclone]

should of made all of them say a word for example “water” to hear the difference

[@TrekkieBrie]

Maryland: Wuuder

[@stantwiceandloo1208]

Georgia: Wata

[@catherinesmith8483]

California: like waterr

[@macyturner7263]

Philadelphia: wooder

[@beschil13]

Connecticut: wahder

[@sirrom5155]

thank you for this frenetic three-nanosecond burst of accents. i really appreciate the format.

[@McDonough01]

don't watch if you don't like

[@LianaE]

Montana only there for one word is so real 💀

[@nathanielkhoo3460]

Nebraska didn’t even exist

[@LexusFox]

*”Well, California has like a... we say “Like”, like a lot.”* Sadly true.

[@jasi7313]

Honestly that's kindof everywhere in the US though...

[@0elli085]

Soooo true. A lot of us have valley girl accents too

[@shaylas.2896]

Like foreals

[@sweetpotato3427]

When I lived in California I picked that up and when I moved to Illinois every one pointed it out 🙄

[@milly6018]

@@sweetpotato3427 I've lived in california all my life except now I live in Texas. Does that mean I'm gonna pick up a Texas accent?

[@kevinkotur4804]

This video needs more linguists and old people who actually have the accents.

[@junab3743]

This!!

[@gecksandponies4320]

Yeah

[@quietbox2627]

exactly kids don't really have accents due to people moving around since the old days and the internet being able to talk to people around the world

[@danfaeh9264]

AMEN

[@veganconservative1109]

I think so. Too many 'basin' states sounded exactly alike to me.

[@justCommando]

Most of em sounds the same to me, the Wisconsin one was enlightening, it will light up in my head whenever I hear it now, “I gotta go PEYAAACK my suitcase”

[@alejandropower]

If you people come to Colombia, you will find many accents, so different as mexican and argentinean are. Our accents are: Rolo, Paisa, Costeño, Nariñense... the other accents are not easy to differentiate when you're a foreigner, but the other could be grouped as standard, pacific accent and indigenous accent.

[@sinclairsbakery]

Suggestion: Rather than choosing people to impersonate others in their state who have accents, choose people who actually have the accents.

[@zacharycannabis3109]

when you're in California it's hard to outsource i guess

[@BooneDavey]

Eh idk. These are pretty accurate for the not-so-accented... accents. But also would know the thicker-accented people by association.

[@Britenus]

Seriously, I live in a Ohio and we are surrounded by so many accents. Northern Ohio “My MAm” hard As. Middle Ohio sounds like a standard news caster, Southern Ohio twangs, and rural Ohio accents that are different than southern. Above is Michigan with the lakes accent, and below is northern KY with a faster speaking twangy sound than the rest of KY.

[@whatthefuckisthis7]

the minnesota and california ones were both on point

[@dontmindmyname7563]

@@Britenus Michigander here 👋

[@margotlopez9964]

No one: Half the people in this video: we don'T reaLly havE an aCcenT

[@manillargo]

Margot Lopez Rivera i live in arizona and i swear to christ we don't have an accent

[@AudieDiddle]

@@manillargo As a native to AZ I personally think I mix California valley girl and Texas twang ever so slightly. But in general we are very accent neutral.

[@juniorm3683]

@@manillargo but to whom you dont have an accent? like everyone has an accent

[@misslanchi5178]

@@AudieDiddle I'm european but I sound the most like New York & California bc of Pop culture

[@Burrick]

Everyone in the world has an accent, but it's indistinguishable to us because we can't see the way we speak our whole lives as being out if the ordinary.

[@autumngalix4616]

Oregonian here - I did not know I had an accent until a little book pointed out that I say "super salad" instead of soup or salad. I was born in Washington though and sometimes that comes out.

[@user-hv4ep6oj7c]

As an Oregonian that was also born in Washington I will say I do the same thing lol

[@pedroalvesguitar]

You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder

[@guilhermebraga9773]

Funny how the US is so gigantic, yet the changes in their accents are not that dramatic when you compare to Britain’s size and how it changes so much across much smaller distances

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Samsung Ericsson

[@sylar2a]

In croatia, we don't understand people who live 100 km away

[@fabiofdez]

Yeahh, most likely since the US is so much younger than GB, which existed for hundreds of years even before ppl started moving around much. In comparison, more than half of the US isn't even 200yrs old. And in that time there was a lot of movement so there was never the chance much for distinguished dialects to pop up like back in Britain

[@SuperSkipMaster]

Oh look a european finding something else to claim is better in Europe on the internet. Loser.

[@HopperGround]

@@SuperSkipMaster you must be American with that comment, really you’re the loser lol

[@laurenkerr2971]

The Texas girl sounded like she had the alien filter on

[@alyssa-ws7si]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@anaispersephone6041]

😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hannahhaesen609]

Waahhahhhahahah 😭😂💀

[@woody9278]

All of these reply’s are cancerous

[@yae5063]

@@woody9278 replies*

[@JosiahSCooper]

The notion of "accent" implies intonation to a flat note. If you speak according to the way the English language is taught, it gives you pronunciations that are not inflected. This is what we call non-accented / non-slang speech. Yes, everyone has their own unique voice, but not everyone has an added intonation upon the English language.

[@Mrcrawly2021]

As a Marylander, I can confirm there is a distinct Maryland accent. It’s basically a mix of average American and British

[@bitchycunty]

I came here for my Texas representation and this girl sounds like she’s in emotional pain-

[@Lesbun03]

sad hours ikr im like, “honey are you ok???”

[@bitchycunty]

Brianna O-o Exactly! Now I feel like people think we all sound like that.

[@ethanwilliamson902]

Same

[@xixsportsnetwork]

sad hours lmfao fr

[@crunchi6383]

Same here

[@annique9186]

Me, German, listening to this: So basically there's normal, southern, and straight up unintelligible. Gotcha.

[@poopfart65]

Which one is unintelligible? The New York/Boston one?

[@annique9186]

@@poopfart65 Uhh I think mainly that one, yes

[@joaocritico]

Es ist besser nur ein Paar Akzenten haben, als verschiedene Dialekten, die voneinander total unverständlich sind, wie in Deutschland.

[@MyUnquenchableThirst]

Floridian here. it's a normal speaking state with some southerners and then of course half the state is Hispanics

[@MyUnquenchableThirst]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw what's the difference between General and California and northwest?

[@animals4lyfe]

colorado with the dog is so real....we love our dogs!

[@Irate_Beau]

it's probably just me but "yall" has invaded my vocabulary and i love it.

[@tommyknops6048]

Everyone: “We don’t really have an accent.” Everyone not in THAT state: “Yes you do!”

[@nate5353]

In my opinion a lot of the people who said they don't have an accent actually all sounded very similar. So they are kinda right

[@derekarter6886]

Indiana though

[@dancepants3399]

I'm your 1k like

[@testiechimp9856]

1000th like

[@testiechimp9856]

@@dancepants3399 no u ain't I was 😂😂

[@isabellalaylaa]

There are like 50 different accents in New York but we’re all still loud.

[@audreyc4976]

Isabella yeah about

[@BuckleyBrittany]

TRUE 😂

[@pavelchekov7833]

Agree

[@espynwisniewski9013]

Isabella yous

[@luvria_]

accurate

[@animal0mother]

They chose the most SoCalifornian valleygay accented-dude to represent Nevada.

[@ali14chahrour]

There’s something to be said for the wide variety of accents in America. One phenomenon I’ve noticed that I haven’t really heard when looking at English accents in other countries is the African American accent that developed and covered almost the entire continent with their own variations within other regional accents. I don’t know if it’s a taboo topic to bring up, but I never hear it talked about in any accent videos. I think it’d be interesting to learn the history of how it developed and continues to evolve.

[@L.O.Hammmm]

I like how the Floridian accent was just straight up Spanish

[@dinoflagella4185]

Turtle Vision Films lots of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, & South Americans in South Florida. North Florida is very Southern American.

[@vinucete]

I actually don’t like this girl’s responses that much, they’re all about Miami, specifically, not about Florida as a state. I have seen 4 videos so far.

[@compulsivecommenter990]

Caribean Spanish

[@biancaa861]

@@vinucete yeah, most florida has latino accents except north florida which has more of a southeren one haha

[@dexterlee6938]

It’s pretty accurate tho for a miamian

[@georgealvarado5060]

The Florida girl, “I don’t think we have an accent” Then proceeds to speak a DIFFERENT language.

[@someonerandom2164]

Gobi Vertefeuille oh you meant literally 😂

[@WarriorsPhoto]

LoL

[@mitchderise73]

Yeah, I don't think thats Florida's accent either. Thats a hispanic accent lmao

[@thebackpackingnigiri6800]

Well um Florida actually was originally Hispanic so its prolly genes

[@mitchderise73]

@@thebackpackingnigiri6800 Interesting, I didn't know that. It does sound like a Spanish name. Thanks for sharing

[@osvaldopulido2553]

as someone born and raised in LA( the hollywood LA) I;ve heard every state's accent here and most of the people who say they don't feel like they have one really are the middle of the road in accent but the vernacular is how you tell them apart.

[@Benwut]

The Alabaman guy rubbing his hands together literally made me feel in danger. Like, I was about to throw hands with my monitor

[@tirigapara]

Texas girl sounded like she was getting a back massage

[@daltongriffis]

@@nick-zc9xv It served its purpose - Making college kids even poorer so they want to vote for handouts more than ever.

[@e-m335]

Definitely not Texas

[@JimboAverage]

Tiri Gapara she sounded like a goat

[@MR-cb7pe]

Sooo disappointed. Couldn’t they have had Matthew McConaughey do it at least????

[@maniacalmichael7632]

@@MR-cb7pe he also sounds like a goat. But a cool goat who drives a nice luxury car

[@painperdu13]

As someone who lives in Oregon I’ve never heard someone hear say soda pop

[@magpie-yf8gf]

as a southern massachusettsian, "yagaddapakdacaangeddagiffcaadifawansumchowder" roughly translates to "you gotta park the car and get the gift card if you want some chowder"

[@peachypineapple3528]

Why did the Texas girl sound like she was about to cry??? 😂

[@Mrs.Adrian]

Peachy Pineapple she sounded super nervous. Bless her heart.

[@laurenyglesias1350]

That's what I was wondering, but I felt her

[@_bewitchedbyyaz]

Either she was nervous or just sounds like that. I’ve met someone who just constantly sounds nervous even when they genuinely aren’t

[@piggy476]

Cuz beto lost lol

[@quenlinb2156]

Peachy Pineapple i know a couple of people who genuinely just sound like that

[@thekiss2083]

"I don't really have an accent" 25 times

[@lyonking1820]

Majority of em do (Understood that technically everyone has an accent)

[@deadeyes2803]

its very suddle, if you cant hear the detail in the accent you are accent blind and you should get that check with a doctor, buddy.

[@illuminazi9208]

@@deadeyes2803 *subtle

[@Jamie-tx7pn]

@@deadeyes2803 "accent BLIND" "get that checked by a doctor" You may be projecting about that doctor bit, my man

[@brandonwoohoo]

I feel like almost everyone in the video who said this, was right. They just sounded 'general American'. Not all though.

[@MrWhelly]

Missouri is definitely on point. …there is no defined accent…it is ALL over the place

[@user-ll1nc2ru4t]

I always thought Tennesse sounded like they had a ball in the back of their mouth. I literally love it though. Its so endearing

[@aploah]

Texas girl: iTs ReAlLy DrAwN oUt Me: is she at gun point or?

[@Cflenoury]

April Tostevin 😂

[@trashcantacos]

@_Sqpney_シ *Right

[@scarves4evanoregano]

GIRL YES bless her skinny soul...

[@scarves4evanoregano]

Lol Sqpney be like "I SAID WHAT I SAID"

[@yrnluke731]

I was wondering

[@goofbob8]

They picked the worst people to represent their states accent

[@jakesmidt7016]

100% The lady for my state said something that was blatantly false.

[@Ejexion]

#Diversity

[@geraldtheseal6050]

Litterally had a Democrat for Texas 🤔🤔

[@Reenar1201]

Lilpeanut8888 yeah he was

[@jackanderson1534]

except the wisconsin guy, his was BANG on

[@leekdageek4700]

the last one was hella funny haha

[@sjjs444]

People in Southern Indiana most definitely have an accent lol. My BFF was born and raised in Southern Indiana. Most small Indiana towns have a Southern accent. I was born and raised in Iowa. Same thing, the further south you go in Iowa to small towns, the more of a Southern/"Mizzourah" (Missouri) accent they have.

[@KlumSyTurtl3]

I think that's interesting because in northern Missouri I don't hear much of the accent but as soon as I get a little further south I feel like I'm in the deep south.

[@Therealhoopangel]

Other states: *Talking normally* Texas: *S H A K E*

[@MerkhVision]

Poor girl was jus nervous lol

[@Minceraft69]

Florida man pfp

[@davidclayton1670]

i don't think that you can say the east coast people spoke normally.

[@raeechil]

@@davidclayton1670 they were referring to the stronger accents which in person do sound so ridiculous that it must be fake.

[@natethegreat7881]

VeEeRy WIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiIiDe SyLlAbLeS

[@laughingkidd815]

Half the “accents” they promised us were just “oh we don’t have an accent...”

[@alis_stairs2270]

@LAUGHING KIDD Yah. Nevada has like a more chill, laid back kinda thing. But still energized. It is also very lispy. So the s’ sound like c’s and we hold onto the s a bit longer.

[@camarodriver6475]

LAUGHING KIDD Oregon is just like "what's an accent" we all just chill Americans that miss the beach XD

[@zacsanders597]

@@camarodriver6475 LMFAO in Oregon all we care about is smoking our trees, and brewing our beer 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

[@matthewlang737]

Arizona is straight on, non accent. Maybe a few people have native american or slightly southern accents.

[@asmith9655]

Northeast Indiana - "warsh" [wash], "torlet" [toilet], "maysure" [measure], "ruff' [roof], "rut" [root], pop [soda]

[@chalabread]

I live in Bellevue, I am Middle Eastern, grown up in Washington, and the area I live in is full of immigrants! So now I have the definition of blank accent. Literally a transformation of every accent possible

[@b5Bart]

i learned english in new jersey, im in chicago now, i get a funny look each and every single day

[@willbundy6661]

As a Texan I can confirm every time we talk it sounds like we are on the brink of tears

[@nekrataali]

Yeah I'd probably be on the brink of tears too if I lived in a barren wasteland where God threw whatever was leftover after making the rest of the world.

[@melodyflemming5066]

@@nekrataali wow lol dude harsh

[@kennethjames1837]

@@nekrataali wym

[@lowkeythegoddd]

@@nekrataali Somebody hates Texas.....

[@-Xennii-]

@@nekrataali what the-

[@elysemcclure148]

People ARE losing their accents though. They should've asked old people to talk in their accents.

[@ConceptJunkie]

Good point! I think it was the North Dakota woman that mentioned the same thing.

[@captainblacktail8137]

They will still have an american accent

[@antheosenigma]

Ok boomer.

[@wildin1170]

Amelia Ok Boomer

[@hasuoka]

Ok boomer

[@-VoDkAsVengeance-]

As a Washingtonion, I dont think I've ever heard a Washingtonian say "Wershington." The whole "wershboard," "worter" thing is midwestern and southern, especially in older folks.

[@doritocoolranch]

The California one was really accurate we really say “like” a lot...

[@evn1531]

Oh god we do...

[@cupid384]

we do say like a lot tho 😭

[@awkwardbean1504]

Guilty as charged 😭😭

[@maxs2845]

Yeeeeeee

[@mooshka_z]

Lol we do say like a lot where my California people at?

[@biscuit564theiii5]

People born in California first words as a baby is “like” and “um”

[@wrestlinghe2638]

Like that's so like true um like wow so true like um

[@Veenbuen1]

You might just be talking to too many valley girls

[@marioselva7762]

And hella, I also say dude sometimes haha

[@yourmother3696]

I agree

[@alexcheung658]

Honestly man

[@UnFrSaKn]

Came here for Oklahoma and by-golly it was the first one! 😂

[@yoymama7]

Tulsa Oklahoma has its own accent. I grew up in Midtown and instead of saying the ea in meal we drop it and just say mill...same with deal. My hypothesis is that we didn't want to have a strong southern drawl like our parents. My mother would say "deeyal or meeyal". It's very interesting. I love studying this stuff!

[@elenasobran2748]

lmao “boston accent but cooler and a little drunk” as a mainer, that’s accurate

[@secretary3785]

Truth I care so maybe you should just back off

[@aiyanapoulin3528]

I live in Maine to

[@kekzkrieg]

#TeamMaine Bub

[@tyrelhumble2006]

@@truth803 WTH is wrong with you?

[@kevinchenr]

The video part came when I read this lololol

[@451asians]

49 States: West Virginia: *pass me those* t a t e r s

[@CADAVRR666]

451asians bruh I live in West Virginia and I said that sentence before I watched this😂😂

[@electricfanta8008]

50*

[@ellissmith4545]

451asians P A S S M E D O SE T A T E R S

[@emileerose6955]

As an West Virginian I agree to that statement, my family has this potato bin that literally just has the word “tatters” carved into the top of it instead of the actual word 💀

[@marcusleech8304]

What about Montana

[@janlyss]

So funny Floridian just spoke Spanish 😂

[@dorrymayne6819]

Watched the video whole video waiting for Kansas, got to the end, and apparently all we do is say “woof”

[@jeneseaugsond4647]

why does the texas girl sound like she’s gonna cry

[@leilacollins4594]

Jenese Augsond I thought that too!

[@motelkitty]

my first thought

[@ekd4594]

Nerves probably.

[@112188Francisco]

She sounds like sandy

[@crem2121]

She's probably really nervous to be on camera. She did a good job playing through though

[@jacksonkolevich5328]

As an Australian, I heard like 5-6 accents out of 50.

[@jvyeknom]

That's because the accent is really only applied to certain words

[@jansojele289]

@@jvyeknom really? That's fascinating

[@jevon4206]

It’s because they chose a bad selection lol a lot of the southern states have a different accent then what they put in this vidro

[@SalvableRuin]

@@jvyeknom That's not really true. The accent is easier to hear in certain words, but it's always there.

[@Teddy-ApolloW1tness]

Same though... up that to about 7-9 tho ;-;

[@worldsyoungestphilosopher]

2:26 my South Carolinian brain could not handle this

[@katetrout5172]

Not sure if this is true of all of California but I’ve noticed that a lot of us here in SoCal take the ‘g’ off the end of words. Like walkin’, talkin’, goin’. I especially say goin’ a lot, like I’m goin’ to the store. But we don’t really elongate the vowels like other states, we just take off the g’s. It’s weird when I think about it lol

[@dominoot2652]

So basically it’s: Standard Americans, Southern people And Dakota people.

[@justinpaquette4970]

Boston is definitely not standard American accent lol

[@dominoot2652]

@@mossyeyec5816 The Alaska guy is what i'd consider standard. Although he isn't regionally where most people sound like that.

[@hollowlord8548]

@@dominoot2652 dont forget Iowa apparently the only thing that represents our accent is BAGEL

[@medlawar8645]

And my accent, fake canadien

[@cupids3]

And east coast

[@GUGU8b]

50 Americans go on camera to tell us they don’t *really* have an accent Bish ofc u do

[@lvciab]

that genuinely stresses me out so bad like. what do they think an accent is???? lmaonfjfjf

[@rorykillen1811]

I dont think Americans understand what the word "Accents" means

[@mikkat8613]

Gudbjørg Poulsen 💀💀💀

[@amytheprettyweirdfangirl3786]

I live in NY and I don't think I have an accent... 💀

[@JDlovescats979]

I think they mean in comparison to the stereotypical american accent, that's usually what people here mean.