Excuse Me!? "7 Southern US Accents You WON'T Understand"

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[@6906Gaming]

I understood them all just fine. I don't see any issues here.

[@PatrolNation]

Lol.

[@staceysmith8173]

😂😂

[@claytontwilliams6096]

I understood every word too. I was born, raised, and lived all my life in eastern North Carolina and there are 3 completely different accents from western, central, and Eastern North Carolina. I work in Raleigh, NC (central NC only 1.5 hours away from where I live) and my coworkers make fun of my accent.

[@lorin6673]

I grew up in metro NY and I understood them all too.

[@Firemedic361]

Accents are difficult everywhere! Sydney is easy, Darwin a lot harder. Or Cockney in England. It just takes listening lol

[@marydearing1300]

I am a Southern girl… and yes I have a Southern accent and proud of it!!!!!’ I did not say anyone said anything derogatory- I just said that I am proud of my Southern accent and heritage!!!!!

[@kierstenridgway4634]

I'm sure it's beautiful. I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. ❤️✌️

[@kierstenridgway4634]

I'm sure it's beautiful. I hope nobody is saying it isn't. ❤️✌️

[@marydearing1300]

@@kierstenridgway4634 I didn’t think anyone did.. don’t understand why would say that.

[@marydearing1300]

@@kierstenridgway4634 Nor did I think that!!!

[@brians2869]

I understand them fine, but they're thick, definitely..

[@timesthree5757]

Im a southerner and it all sounds like talking to me.

[@51953bdog]

Right! 🤣

[@user-vw1ow7mk1c]

🤷

[@worldpaz9633]

Namtalmbout

[@trainingwheels1029]

The only one I still can't understand is Cajun but the rest perfect southern english

[@timesthree5757]

@@trainingwheels1029 yea I give you that one.

[@wtk6069]

There's a ton of Scots-Irish influence to at least the Appalachian part of the South. When I traveled to Ireland and to Scotland, I was able to communicate in both places with no serious issues. I even detected certain ways of pronouncing words and some phrases that I had never heard anywhere else outside of Appalachia. These language artifacts had survived for hundreds of years on both sides of the ocean! It caused me to feel a genuine connection there, especially in some parts of rural Ireland.

[@IgoZoom1]

My great-grandmother grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians (where the GA/TN/NC borders meet). She used words that I haven't heard since, but I've discovered they were derived from her Irish ancestors. That is fascinating to me.

[@kellychamplin1800]

The Irish influence, in particular, is very heavy in the Piedmont and Eastern NC… My family hail from Ireland, settled in Jones, Lenoir, Carteret, Onslow and Duplin Counties in NC starting around 1700… Sounds weird, but “Who your people?” is almost a survival method - I’m related to half the damn families - including Lumbee! - in Eastern NC! It’s why I married a guy from Illinois!!😂😂

[@mescko]

We also have this influence to thank for Bluegrass, which I love.

[@johnstewart150]

On a bus trip in Queensland the European girl sitting next to me asked if I understood the bus driver. I said no. She was relieved. Later at a small town stop, the driver and store clerk had trouble understanding each other, both Aussies! I've been everywhere in Oz and never ran into this before. I am an American world traveler

[@J-rt9ez]

It’s also English influence. It depends on the states. Our cantor is switched up but this guy sounds southern himself and don’t even realize it lol

[@JustMe-vk4fn]

We lived in TX for a few years in the early 80's. While I was paying for items at the local grocery store, a check out girl said "Hah" which I knew was "Hi" and I smiled and said "Good morning. How are you?". She said "Fahn" which I knew was "fine". As I paid for the groceries she looked up at me and said "Yew mus be frum summer's else becawse yew don't talk du-uh-um lak we dew". I'd never heard the one syllable word d-u-m-b have three syllables when it was pronounced but I knew enough to smile and tell her that *both* of us have accents because of where we grew up and there was nothing "dumb" about either one of us. She lit up like a candle. When it's all you hear around you as a child, it's just an accent and I guarantee they view *you* and *me* as having accents too.

[@rhondacrosswhite8048]

Well day-um. You sound lak a smart lil gal.

[@JustMe-vk4fn]

@@rhondacrosswhite8048 Nah. Ah ain't so verry smart atall. :) I just follow the Golden Rule as best ah can.

[@user-rk4jx4zc5d]

@@JustMe-vk4fn I don't have an accent. I think I may be mistaken for Texan. I've been told that I put spaces between my words and I guess that makes me easier to understand. I was born in Kentucky.

[@user-yt5xf5vi1p]

we do not talk quite that bad

[@JustMe-vk4fn]

@@user-yt5xf5vi1p It was wonderful to hear. :D

[@GorillasAndGardens]

Oh wow! Many us GenXers grew up watching Justin Wilson cook Cajun recipes on PBS when home sick from school. ❤ “I gawr-on-tee” lol I guarantee.

[@jdstep97]

That's how I remember him! Thanks! I kept thinking he was familiar. Man this brings back memories now.

[@nicks3935]

Now that some goood stuff right there.

[@kathenson606]

Got your onnyun? You know you need. Onnyun.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

I loved him so much!!❤️🐝🤗

[@draperamanda]

Yup! Watched him all the time.

[@Mvtobebo]

All from the same country speaking the same language but 200 accents. God bless America!

[@justinwilson2282]

❤

[@jazzupthejazz]

ok i didnt realize how southern i was until i watched these type of videos and understand everything these people are saying lol

[@PatrolNation]

Lol.

[@mm-ou5ux]

I'm from the PNW (Pacific Northwest) and still understood them.

[@ToAoDd]

Same here, every word of the whole video he was watching lol. I've been in Arizona for 15 yrs and people here tell me I have a thick accent all the time. I can't hear it until I'm having a conversation with a fellow Southerner.

[@maryefromky]

me too, even the cajun people LMAO. i'm from Kentucky. every bit of it! its just my people talkin to each other in slightly different dialects, i love it

[@ashleymcgriff270]

Alabama girl here! I am proud and blessed to be a Southerner. Love my accent, love my state and I love all y'all!❤

[@51953bdog]

Alabama here too. Have friends in Cali who like to make fun of my accent lol.

[@amyfarley2305]

@@51953bdog Alabama the Beautiful! Ain't it though!

[@bamakat8531]

ROLL TIDE ROLL

[@janismitchell3122]

Mobile here and yes indeed ROLL TIDE

[@ashleymcgriff270]

@janismitchell3122 hey girl! I live in Daphne, we're neighbors.😊

[@CaptainJacksIsland]

5:50 guy was saying "kin", as in kinfolk, or people you're related to, not "can" or "can't" 😆 "We're all kin somewhere, ain't we, Gene?" "Yeah. Along the line, yeah."

[@fllthdcrb]

Makes sense. Although Lyle here was thinking not of "can", but of Scots (and Middle English) "ken", meaning "to know". Not a completely crazy idea. But yeah, you're right about the word that was actually being used.

[@ViviFuchs]

​@@fllthdcrb you're right but I find it hilarious that with some Southern accents can and kin are homophones which means that this person's interpretation isn't wrong lol.

[@no_rubbernecking]

He wasn't saying "can", he was saying "ken". 🌝

[@cantstopcooking929]

@@no_rubbernecking kin

[@no_rubbernecking]

@@cantstopcooking929 No. The Australian-Scots guy hosting this did not say "kin", because _he didn't even know that's what they were saying!_ He said "KEN". He even helpfully defined it for those of us who might not know.

[@moorek1967]

And beyond that, black people have an accent, Hispanic people have an accent, Jewish people have an accent, Native Americans have an accent.

[@vapoet]

An accent? Dozens of accents within those ethnic groups as well.

[@sunshine13546]

I'm dying at his reaction! "I can't understand what they're saying," me knowing exactly what they're saying!!! But I am from South Carolina, so that might help

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Did you understand that one singer from Louisiana? I'm from Ohio, and I had no trouble with the others, but that guy... I don't even.

[@shivan1209]

@@jonadabtheunsightly I had the same reaction and in CA. I think it's because that gentleman was speaking Cajun which is its own dialect.

[@Daehawk]

I felt like a universal translator from Star Trek.

[@sunshine13546]

​@jonadabtheunsightly I could pick out a few words , it was a love song, I think.

[@wordforger]

Texas and same.

[@avtomatt554]

I'm from West Virginia and my mom and her family are from Georgia. It's kinda funny how you don't realize you have an accent until you hear yourself on a recording. In my head I sound like I could be from anywhere. When I hear myself played back, I realize I sound pretty much like the way the guy talks at 18:57 in this video. Also, the guy at 7:30 was a legendary moonshiner named Popcorn Sutton. He was actually from North Carolina. He got busted for making moonshine, and took his own life rather than go to jail for it. KZbin has been weird, so I don't know if I can even share what his self-made tombstone said, but suffice to say it was badass. He's definitely worth checking out if you get the time.

[@jdstep97]

2:13- "Why I talk the way I do? Because the good Lord blessed me with this accent. I like it. I like it just fine."

[@iamsquatty]

I'm from Alabama, and I was able to understand pretty much every person speaking 😂😂 its funny to watch others react to southern accents 😊💜💜

[@user_angelmum]

Yes to you because you are American The guy commentating is an Aussie .. Americans say the same about our accents .

[@debvit2353]

When we moved from Connecticut to South Carolina, understanding the “natives” was pretty tough initially. After 7 years of living here, we can understand most southern accents.

[@tweetbleat487]

I also moved from Connecticut to South Carolina in 2016. I didn't really have trouble understanding the accents because my sister has been living here since 1976 and she has a heavy southern accent. The difficulty I had was getting used to southern culture. I lived in CT for 46 yrs up until 2016.

[@MsVakong]

My niece had that issue moving from CT to GA. I heard she came home from school crying for almost 2 months because she had no idea what the teacher was saying.

[@kellychamplin1800]

😎You have been officially “assimilated”. You’re no longer “that damn Yankee kid”, just the kid who moved down from Up North!🤣🤣🤗🤗

[@1-God1-Truth1-Life1-Forever]

Please tell me y'all left your CT behind and embraced the culture you chose to join.

[@debvit2353]

@@1-God1-Truth1-Life1-Forever Absolutely! When I left CT, I left all their BS behind. I love everything about SC, from religion to politics

[@patrickholland6848]

As a Midwesterner I went down to Alabama for a visit and stopped in at a Cracker Barrel restaurant and the young lady who was serving us had a beautiful southern accent that just sang but she was so embarrassed by it that she actually apologized for her accent and I just had to tell her how beautifully musical her accent is and that she didn't have an accent, being from there, but that we were the ones with the accent. I know it sounds like is was contradicting myself a little.

[@DWeezy62]

I'm from Southeastern Ohio, Appalachia. I understand all of these accents perfectly. I speak pretty plain American English, taught to us in school, but if I get excited and start talking faster, my Appalachia accent starts coming out. 🙂

[@TimberWolf762]

I worked for one of the major oil companies in the late 1980s and I was in Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana for years. If you turned on the TV early-morning in Lafayette, you could catch the weather forecast in Cajun French. They also had billboards in French. If you travelled down the back roads to one of those great Cajun restaurants with no sign out front and an oyster-shell parking lot, French was used as often as English.

[@sharonporter7132]

I hope we never lose that part of our culture in Louisiana. Cajuns are wonderful people.

[@LairdKenneth]

While I do now live in Oregon, I am a native Appalachian. Working at Lowe's, there have been several occasions in which Southerners come in and ask questions that my fellow workers cannot understand. I will respond appropriately, of course, and my co-workers look at me like, you understood that?. Funny.

[@galaxyrider1391]

My family has lived in central Missouri for 200 years. I wanted to clear up that those men said "Kin" that means someone that is related to you, i.e. family.

[@carolburnett190]

You need to clean out your ears, Lyle! I understood every word. When you said the word “ken” that’s what Scottish folks use. That guy was sayin “kin” (sometimes said akin) which means related. The guy talking about moonshine was the late legendary Popcorn Sutton. The lady talking about the weather was Cajun. The guy talking about chickens (blue shirt, red suspenders) was Justin Wilson, a famous Cajun chef whose catch phrase was, I gar-on-tee!” The Southern Appalachian region supposedly has the closest to a Shakespearean accent. I gotta a story about a Cherokee storyteller! He was a facilitator at a retreat I attended close to the NC and TN line. Most of the attendees were either yankee or midwestern, so we would have a wonderful time entertaining the fellow attendees by the Cherokee guy saying something in Appalachian and me translating. They would be completely baffled that I could understand every word. I grew up in the same basic area, but eliminated my accent. He didn’t even touch on Virginia tidewater or NC coastal accent. I can barely understand them! They don’t go out in a boat-they go “oot in the boot.” When I was in my last couple of years of college, I dropped my accent. I’m glad I don’t have the mountain nasal twang anymore, but I regret the loss of my southern accent. Unfortunately, way too many people think if you’re from the mountains or even from the south, that you’re automatically dumber than dirt.

[@nicks3935]

"oot in the boot" reads more like a Minnesota thing to me but I was born and raised here in West Virginia. I was able to understand everyone on the video the cajun was the closest to throwin me but I was able to understand it well.

[@KentuckyLadyLiberty]

@@nicks3935 So are you getting out your kittle to cook down some ramps with taters? I wasn't able to get back to the old homeplace this spring, so I had someone mail me ramps this year and I kind of felt sorry for my mailperson. I could smell them through the mailbox.

[@LisjeVal]

My French teacher in suburban Chicago seemed so native to the language that most people assumed he was Quebecois. He was actually from the Kentucky Appalachians, and he could easily drop back into that accent (when we goaded him as high schoolers). But it proved to many that accents are not that hard to learn properly.

[@Lorrainecats]

​@nicks3935 oot in a boot sounds a bit Canadian to me. I live in lower Michigan, and we have at least four accents. People near Lake Michigan sound a bit like Chicagoans. Detroit suburbs sound different than Flint and Saginaw.

[@tommym5023]

Understood most of them and that's coming from a bloody SCOT!!!! 😉

[@Meg0307]

That's because your people influenced a lot of these accents. Lol

[@tommym5023]

@@Meg0307 all our accents are still way better than Australian 🤫😁

[@PatrolNation]

Lol my first accent was Scottish.

[@Fulano.de.Tal.]

Do you know why the aussie accent is so different?

[@ambvurt3739]

I find it funny that people all over the world accuse Americans of being uncultured but when it comes to them understanding America they can’t. I can understand almost all accents (broadly speaking) internationally including my fellow Americans. I’m not trying to be mean I just find it ironic.

[@Ann12681]

Americans outside of the south don’t always understand them either

[@CrazedPop]

I can't understand the kids these days with all their made up lingo. Learn one thing, and they have four more they are using. I can make out what they are saying, but still won't know what they are saying.

[@Strawberryfearsforever]

@@Ann12681That’s not really true now is it. I’ve never had an interaction with anyone from anywhere else in this country where there was a problem because of anybody’s accent. I was a flight attendant for 15 yrs and I’ve never seen anybody have this problem.

[@marianncadmus9572]

My parents were from Czechoslovakia. When I moved from New Jersey to North Carolina I NEVER had a problem with anyone’s accent.

[@Stephanie-kt9vh]

My Family is from Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, I am the only Tar Heel baby from my Family, I was born In North Carolina. I can tell you, I cannot for the life of me understand a lot of the precious people from Louisiana but I LOVE to hear them talk. I live about 2.5 hours South East of where my family was born and raised and the lingo is quite different. For example, we say Bag, they say Poke. Do you want that in a poke? (WHAT???) We say 'Drink' for everything. They say Pop. So you want a glass of pop. We say PANTS they say PAINT. My Aunt said I love your paints.. I said I. Not wearing make up, she grabbed my pants or britches and said, no, paints. Your paints. If you're driving fast down the highway, we say he was stretching it out. Or, running like a scalded dog. ... Or flying minus the 'G' so they were flyin' A Skunk in Virginia is called a pole cat. We say Taters and maters for potatoes and tomatoes. Little tomatoes are Tommy Toes. This was Fascinating for me. Where I live to ME I sound like everyone else, to everyone else having been raised with a Appalachian born and raised family, I have a Southern Twang, which in these parts is called "County" ... They say my accent is Country! You either sound County or City, which is still Country they just don't want to admit It. Thank you kindly for sharing this. It was GREAT! Be blessed and safe y'all. From NC,USA This

[@jeanettereno4045]

My old neighbor was from the same Mountains. Her mother was a midwife and the father's family stood guard over the first red delicious apple tree! Her daughter was Cascade Anderson who was a great person to bring herbal medicine into the Mayo clinic back in the early 1970s.

[@harpintn]

I am an East TN native. I learned to understand Cajun from a girl I dated for a while when I was in my early 20's, as well as a couple of trips I made to NO. It is a hard dialect to understand if you are not exposed to it very much.

[@S.D._777_]

Southwest Virginian born and raised. We're good for dropping the 'g' off words, 😂. Mornin', Evenin' walkin'. I notice we tend to end -ow words an -a. Window becomes winda. Pole cat isn't used everywhere where here though. When I moved from Southwest to cenral Va for a bit people would look at me like I was nuts. Apparently the further down 81 you go the more 'hickish' it gets. 'Friends' spent years trying to teach me to speak properly, it didn't work. Imma keep calling 'soda' 'pop' and they caint stop me, lol.

[@JupiterN624]

Anyone that says that America has no culture has never been to Louisiana.

[@joshuaeason3426]

Or anywhere else. I've been all over this country and things are different culturally city to city and state to state. Hell, ask someone from Dallas how they feel about Houston 😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-ok1eu4tn7l]

I’m from Alabama born,raised and permanently living proudly there and I have a very Strong Southern Accent because when I have to travel up towards DC people literally will purposely engage me in Conversation just to Hear It.

[@tomratcliff3755]

My name is Tom, when I first moved to New Orleans I turned around every time someone asked what TIME it was

[@angielofton6372]

My parents were from southwest Georgia so i understood most of the accents. You cracked me up, Lyle. The guy who was talking about “kin” was talking about one’s family. ”Ken” is used for understanding or knowing.

[@IgoZoom1]

Were your parents from the Albany area? My family has been in North Georgia for 200 years. It's fascinating how Georgia alone has at least 6-7 dialects.

[@angielofton6372]

@IgoZoom1 Hey there! My parents were from Baker County, around Albany, Newton, area. I still have a ton of family all over Georgia and Florida.

[@OrganMusicYT]

I'm from Scotland and we say "ken" here to say know. Someone could say "ken how" - Know how.

[@chadm6981]

My wife is from Bainbridge.

[@cantstopcooking929]

​@@IgoZoom1 Alabama is the same. Probably way more dialects than that. Each city or town here has different dialects depending on certain areas and how far up in the country people live. Also generational dialects.

[@billh5923]

At Montana State University I had a physics professor from South Carolina that was difficult for us northerners to understand. One day he said "we have a 'coal' of 'war' 'producn' a 'lectric' feel". I turned to the guy next to me and said "how do you spell 'war'?" (rhymes with tar). Now I know he meant wire but it didn't sound like wire.

[@SkyFlower-hn5wg]

I never noticed I had a southern accent till I went skiing in a Utah and everyone sounded so weird to me lmao

[@echt114]

Prior to the Utah visit, did you never have access to a TV, radio or internet where you could hear other people speak?

[@user-xz4wd9zg4h]

Understood them all. These are warm loving people

[@mimic1176]

Dude, those of us born and raised in this country don't have any less trouble understanding some of these! I didn't get even one location right! Big props to you for not giving up. I'm willing to blame it on the Scots, too. Well done! Had to edit when I saw Justin Wilson! The guy in the red suspenders was Justin Wilson, The Cajun Chef. He had a TV show for a long time and they're worth watching if you can find them online just to listen to him! He also made some awesome Southern dishes. I miss his show.

[@patrickholland6848]

Justin Wilson was the bomb! I gawrontee!! 😆

[@mimic1176]

@@patrickholland6848 I totally heard that in his voice! Thank you!

[@bethshadid2087]

I loved Justin....RIP. Someone has a channel here on utube of his shows.

[@mimic1176]

@@bethshadid2087 That rabbit hole has been added to my bookmarks! Another cooking show to get sucked into. Can't wait! :D

[@bethshadid2087]

@@mimic1176 one of the best shows.....don't forget the wine 😊

[@odemusvonkilhausen]

For some reason, I'm glad you were stumped on my beloved home state of West Virginia. And I understood everyone in this video, with the exception of a few of the Cajuns, but even with them I could pick out enough to get the basic gist.

[@eacole72]

New Orleans also gets influenced by a mid-Atlantic/upstate New York influx that happened around the Civil War. It is hilarious to hear a self-described "swamp rat" speaking in the same accent as someone from Albany, NY. If you get a chance to hear the Gullah accent from South Carolina & Georgia, it is a very specific accent & dialect that came about in a similar way to the Lumbee Tribe. Miss Kardea Brown is a chef with a TV show that showcases her home cooking style who grew up on an island in the Atlantic coast Low Country, and she has a moderated Gullah accent.

[@GeauxMAB_n_Gumbeaux]

A New Orleanean would not call themselves a "swamp rat", not ever. Videos always focus on Cajun and forget the Creole, Black Louisianians, and Natives. We dont all talk the same.

[@mizdeb7287]

Heh. I've been here in the Gullah/Geechee corridor so long that I don't notice the accent anymore.

[@Traci2000]

This cracked me up!! 😂 I could follow along with everybody but I'm from Alabama so that's probably why, lol. This was so fun!

[@ESUSAMEX]

When people talk about the NY accent, most people are referring to the NYC accent. As a native New Yorker from the NYC area, I have that famous NYC accent. But I must tell you that New York State is much larger than just NYC. I lived on the US border with Quebec, Canada for a couple of years while at college and the people up there do not sound like me. Most sound like Canadians and others sound like French Canadians who speak fluent English. And then if travel westward toward Buffalo, NY, the accent changes yet again. Buffalo is famous for the Buffalo chicken wings and their accent sounds like a mixture of Canadian and the US state of Michigan. Plus there are many more as you head south toward the Pennsylvania border.

[@douglasharveyii]

THANK YOU! I am from upstate (near Saratoga) and our accent is similar to a Vermont accent, minus the soft 'R's (VT's accent is also getting softer as well as Georgia's, as it was pointed out in this video) And in my own dealings, I was in a southern state which I will refrain form mentioning, where a dish was recommended for us to try. After three different times the waitress tried to get us to understand, we gave up. 'Bald penis'. Seems that's what 'boiled peanuts' sounds like where she's from! (I would turn it down either way!)

[@jdstep97]

I'm a native southerner, and when I hear someone from NY state (Not NYC), I always think they are from somewhere other than NY, like Michigan or Wisconsin. So many of us, especially southerners, think everyone in the state of NY should sound like the people in NYC.

[@MsVakong]

​@@douglasharveyii​ Hearing "bald penis" instead of boiled peanuts is hilarious! 😂😂😂

[@Gutslinger]

14:21 - That's Justin Wilson. He had an awesome cooking show. He was funny too. A lot of southern folk know and love him.

[@Timotimo101]

Being originally from the South (USA) I'd say that I understood 99.9% of what they all said. Also, I understood your Australian accent very easily. On the other hand, there are some strong accents from Great Britain and/or Ireland that I can find very difficult to understand (and if it's in a video I'll need subtitles.) Of course, RP - such as what is on the BBC, is easy to understand. Accents are fascinating, and dialects too, and I thank you kindly for sharing your reaction with us.

[@carolburnett190]

The hardest one for me to understand is the Welsh! Although I did meet a guy from Liverpool once, and couldn’t understand a thing he said.

[@jdstep97]

Tennessee here. I'm with you 100%. I have to listen real hard to understand folks from Scotland.

[@wordforger]

There's some footie fans from somewhere up North (Manchester, I think?) that I was completely lost understanding. I had to ask an English friend if he understood them... and he did. It was almost a reverse Boomhauer.

[@Timotimo101]

@@jdstep97 TN is where i'm from originally - Nashville. Will visit in June and anxious to get back and see friends and family.

[@KentuckyLadyLiberty]

Never drink with a person from Glasgow who is trying to teach you to say "Edinburgh" properly. Trust me on this. It's now my goal next time we meet that I teach this friend to say "sh!t-fire" like a rural Kentuckian.

[@pamelahughes341]

Hey, The Best Whiskey comes from Tennessee!! We claim Dolly Parton as ours too (we choose to share her with the world because she is so special). A "Bless They're Heart" would be a give-a-way for anyone from the South! God Bless America and all of the people from the South who don't mind being teased about the way they talk! GO VOLS!!

[@harpintn]

My wife's family is from Pigeon Forge, so I am sure she has some common ancestors with Dolly.

[@KentuckyLadyLiberty]

This made me laugh. My mother's family were from West Virginia and moved up to Ohio for jobs. Grandma never lost her WV accent, though mom did quickly due to prejudices against it. Then when I was a girl we moved to Kentucky. I went to the mountains with a friend once to visit her daughter (she was orignally from the Washington DC area), and every time someone said something in a store, my friend would lift her eyebrows and finally said to me, "You don't talk exactly like them, but you understand what they're saying. You'll have to translate for me." I still tease her about that. People used to say Appalachian dialects were very old English, but modern linguists have linked them more to Ulster Scots, which is where many of them actually originated from. And it's not pronounced Appa-lay-shun," it's "Appa-Latch-un."

[@ruthsaunders9507]

My Mom grew up in Ohio with that accent and when she left home she worked really hard to get rid of it. Now she wishes she hadn't. I have a tape of her when I was a baby and she sounds adorable.

[@KentuckyLadyLiberty]

@@ruthsaunders9507 It was Ohio that made fun of the West Virginia accent in my mother. When I was 18, I'd go visit relatives in Ohio and everyone would make fun of my accent up there, too, because I picked up a Kentucky accent. In fact, I once blacked out a tooth with makeup and put on a pair of overalls to go to the store with a cousin in Ohio, because we thought it was hilarious.

[@dngillikin]

I was born and raised just outside Norfolk, Virginia. My normal adult accent approximates North American Broadcast Standard English. My Southern was a little stronger when I was a child. My mother's family came down from the mountains and had more of a sharp twang. My father's side of the family came up from North Carolina and had more of a drawl. I'll let my Southern out occasionally . . . If I'm angry or exasperated, I'll deploy the twang. If I'm trying to appear charming or nonthreatening, I'll let loose the drawl. I'm pretty okay with deciphering most of these accents. Cajun's difficult, but if I concentrate hard enough I can usually work it out. The same goes for some of the deeper mountain accents. Additional exposure makes comprehension easier.

[@IgoZoom1]

BTW, if anyone is wondering about the woman talking about her sister getting married later in life (TN accent). That is the hilarious Leanne Morgan from TN. She has her own Netflix special and she is becoming a comedy superstar!

[@susandavis7192]

My mom was born in central Louisiana and had a strong "twang" in her speech. When she was in the Marine Corps in WW2 she was an air traffic controller at Cherry Point NC. The pilots complained that they couldn't understand her so she got taken off the radio and given a desk job. LOL

[@peggysoutherland1183]

LOL. I understood all of them too

[@normora5857]

OMG my fist language is not English, and I speak a couple of other ones, but THIS.... I couldn't understand anything. I would never have guessed this was supposed to be English.

[@stephanietip]

Born and raised in the Smokey mountains in Tennessee, and I understood every one of them

[@sherismith2890]

I understand everyone but I am from kentucky and my husband is from Georgia. Everything sounds fine to me.

[@danielkirk2649]

Kentuckian myself...all understood, but no chance I could go deep Louisiana

[@danielkirk2649]

Alt-Bayerisch is the only dialect that is truly out of this world; learnt a LITTLE by eating lunch everyday with this very elderly couple in no-where Bavaria. Probably less than 100 people still speak it/understand it. People always say Latin is a dead language haha...alt-Bayerisch will be completely forgotten within a decade...hopefully some Bavarian's read this.

[@mrnosaj71]

I'm northern US and I understand the southern accent fine, I've been to England and that cockney accent I still have trouble with.

[@hackermusic3355]

When I was a kid I lived in a valley in north Alabama and I could tell the difference in the accent of valley people and Lookout Mountain people a mile east and Sand mountain people a mile west. Now so many people move around that it would be harder to tell the differences. More and more people don't have a strong accent because of media. When I moved to Illinois and northern Missouri people would ask me why I didn't have a southern accent. I would tell them I did. One time my younger brother was watching TV and somebody from Britain was talking. My brother said, "Why don't they just speak English?" I told him they do and that we are the ones that butcher it up.

[@RebelCowboysRVs]

Sand Mountain native here. It was easy to tell 30 years ago, not so much now. The valley has more of an Alabama draw. Sand mountain sounds more like The Tennessee Mountain twang. Lookout sounds like Chattanooga on its north end.

[@randallross7683]

Valley head ala

[@user-ol2so9ce2q]

I had never been to the South until the last seven years. Pick a spot and travel the backroads for a couple of days. You will encounter the loveliest, big hearted people you'll ever meet. You won't even notice an accent until closing time at the bar. One tip though, if you make a statement and someone replies "Why! Bless your heart!" You have just said the dumbest thing they have ever heard. 😊😊

[@hunterwolfe6295]

Yeah I understand them all..

[@kiekie84]

He's my kin.” (Meaning that he's related.) It's often paired with the word “folk”. Like this: “Invite your kinfolk over for dinner tonight.” (Meaning to invite your relatives.)

[@nancyfried7239]

Except someone referring to kinfolk would invite them to supper.😊

[@Aurora-cv5to]

I grew up in Michigan but have been in all 50 states. The only person I absolutely couldn't understand was from the Tennessee Hills. My x was from Louisville, Kentucky, and he had to translate for me. (Best coaching on Louisville I can do is: Loo a vul, but the end has to be said deep in your throat like you're swallowing it.)

[@mswitch936]

You can really tell where someone is from based on how you pronounce Louisville.

[@nicks3935]

I have herd it pronounced like louie vil it's about 200 miles west from where I live by I-64 .

[@zackster1973]

While I was in college I worked offshore in the oilfield, off the coast of Louisiana. We had an Australian rig engineer come out and watching him try to communicate with all the Cajuns was hilarious!

[@hotrod2804]

Sounds normal to me.

[@tessab.5379]

Proud southern lady born and raised in Florida. We are dwindling in numbers now. I have people ask me if I'm from north Georgia. I'm from north central Florida.

[@kristenb5177]

A lot people now living in the South are from up North .

[@echt114]

"Proud"? What's behind that? Are you saying you're superior to others in some way?

[@echt114]

@@kristenb5177 You're not the one that wrote it.

[@echt114]

@@kristenb5177 Happy has a different meaning and feeling from proud. Seems any mountain building is coming from you since you also weren't asked the original question.

[@echt114]

​@@kristenb5177 I asked a question and you use that to extrapolate, lie and personally insult. What would cause someone to do that? Did you originally come from some dysfunctional culture or did you achieve that on your own through defiance?

[@CindyNavarro]

They all sounded normal to me, but I live in Alabama. 😀♥ By the way, I did live in [Thurso, Caithness,] Scotland for 3 years and I usually understood any of the accents I heard. I thought Billy Connolly was hilarious, but my husband (from Hawaii) never understood anything he said.

[@SayYoJ]

I’m from Louisiana born and raised and our accent is just like our gumbo a mix of a little bit of everything southern!

[@CaptainJacksIsland]

I've had to stand between two people and translate for them because one of them couldn't understand the Georgia accent, but it looked like a comedy skit to me because I'm so used to accents that they both sound like plain English, so it felt like I was just repeating everything.

[@LoriMooreThompson]

They are all perfectly easy to understand!

[@leeannkaplan57]

Of course he was highlighting the accents of folks in the most isolated or rural parts of those states, so naturally the accents would be more pronounced and unique. Like I mentioned in one of the zoom calls, in Georgia for instance, the further from Atlanta you go, the more drawl or twang you’ll get. Of those accents, Cajun is the only one that really flys straight over my head.

[@SeanMcGeeWebDude]

Same with Texas. If you grew up a native english speaker in a town over 50,000 people, you probably can be understood by most folks. But the more rural you get, the more extreme the accent.

[@RaeThomas-hh5gv]

not really, though? new orleans couldn't be called isolated by any means and it was featured, along with atlanta. i think he did a good job of demonstrating how urban areas and rural areas had significant accent differences to what would be considered "broadcaster" American english. urban American accents are now understood a bit better simply because of the proliferation of RnB and hip hop music/culture. thirty years ago, no one outside of the US would be able to easily understand an AAVE dialect with accent.

[@Denalicat]

Since I have actually lived in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and was born in Alabama and have "kin" in Tennessee, Georgia and Texas I understand all but let me tell you when we first got to Bogue Chitto Mississippi (the place of my husbands family) I felt like I was in a foreign country. My daughter did the TikTok Shakespeare southern accent challenge and

[@bobwallace9814]

I've lived in the South my whole life and these all sound normal to me. Want a stupid sounding accent? Try a New York on for size.

[@Swampzoid]

I'm 62 born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. I speak with a slight accent. You would understand me easily. These people in the video have very strong accents. It's funny that you can't understand them. I could understand them no problem.

[@hellefur7861]

I remember when you listen to Austin Brown's song "Earn it", and you are just as confused now as you where then 😂😂😂 And yes I understood most of it, exept the Bayou 😂😂

[@cricketpitts3744]

I understood everything they all said 😊

[@parkerbrown-nesbit1747]

Born and raised in Western Kentucky but I don't sound like it (people have thought I was from Boston, Canada, and England). I had no problem understanding any of them.

[@zarahbelle3627]

Resident Georgia Peach & Atl Shawdy in the chat, lol! The sound he made is in fact a real thing. He basically said "You know what I'm saying?"

[@TexasDonna-xu6fq]

😂😂😂😂

[@franciet99]

Funny your example at the end… I worked with someone that I could swear his accent was from New York City. He was from New Orleans. As he was speaking about in the video, there are so many influences in Louisiana and you will see so many variations in one state. I think more variations than any other state.

[@mage1439]

I'm a little bit freaked out. When I saw the clips from WV, I thought "that looks like Matewan," and sure enough.

[@dngillikin]

I've never been to Matewan, but I did live for nine years in Beckley over in Raleigh County. When we had the two guys talking next to the truck, I initially wondered (before the reveal) if they were up near Thurmond in my former section of WV, which doubled for the real Matawan in the John Sayles film.

[@ikreer9777]

First man said "man-trip" and it confirmed my initial thought-my home, WV. My grandpa was a coal miner, so the lingo confirmed the accent.

[@patriciabock4299]

I have a southern accent that is only recognized as a London, KY accent. So, in each state you can have a large range of different southern accents. When I say the word tire it sounds like tar. The longer you listen to southern accents the more you will start to understand what is being said!

[@Nolefan.Since.80]

This was absolutely epic!! 🤣🤣🤣 I was laughing my ass off the whole time. I didn't realize I spoke so many languages 🧐🤔🤪🤣🤣🤣

[@teresacartwright5406]

I remember the first time you played Austin Brown's song "Earn It". After the first verse you said something like "I didn't understand a word of it!' and then played the verse again. I'm Canadian but there's a world of accents here and I'm pretty good at understanding almost any accent from almost anywhere.

[@willjohnson8446]

Kin (for family), not ken (to understand something). Both come from old English roots: cynn and cennan. The two were discussing how they were related, with the older man explaining it was through the other’s grandmother.

[@PatrolNation]

Man, I thought I understood at least one word. Lol, I'll have to listen to it again.

[@echt114]

Since English is a Germanic language I wonder if this "kin" is related to the German "kennen," to know or to be aquainted with.

[@willjohnson8446]

@@echt114 Kin and ken are both from different Old English words, so likely both Germanic. English “kin” (related) is likely from the same root word as German’s “kinder”(child). It would be English “ken” (to understand) that likely is related to German “ken”.

[@AngieCurl]

This is hilarious. 😂 I understood all of it.. ❤ #Texan

[@batrn7236]

In this case, "kin" refers to their relatives.

[@emilyb5307]

Lol. "The Other Lady in the car" said: "Why I talk the way I do - cuz the good Lord blessed me with this accent! I like it. I like it just fine!" These are all pretty easy for me to understand...are they really that difficult to track for non-Americans? 6:46 "I been a lotta places when I was in the Marine Corp by gosh, and drove a truck - and I aint never been nowhere I wouldn't wanna be back. I like it. Wouldn't live nowheres else."

[@shawnsmith780]

Yep. Understood them all. Lived/worked in the southern Missouri Ozarks. There's a good mix there of heavy and not so heavy southern accents (even though it's not deep south) I can go into the deep south and understand everyone.

[@misslora3896]

I had the great pleasure of getting to live in Mobile, Alabama for 6 years during the 90's. I fell in love with the people and place. It truly broke my heart to have to leave. Anyway, maybe it's because of the years I lived in the deep south, but I umderstood everyone in this video just fine. And shout out to all you beautiful southerners, I love y'all.

[@Haderask247]

The Island you speak of is Roanoke Island,NC. The accent you shared was Ocracoke,NC. Roanoke was where the lost colony was. Ocracoke is miles south. The Ocracoke accent is called Brogue. You can drive to Roanoke you can only fly or take a ferry to Ocracoke. The Brogue is probably the most interesting accent in the US. It will also be gone soon.

[@CherryBlossomDragon]

Don't feel bad that you can't understand us, even voice programs have difficulty with Southern accents. I've completely given up on using them because they can't seem to understand a dang thing I say. I despise running into them over the phone because I know I'm going to have to endlessly repeat myself. And the older I get the thicker my accent seems to become. 😂

[@rebeccas79]

I was born and lived the first 18 years of my life in West Virginia. I have worked hard to overcome the accent; however, when I get excited or angry, it creeps back out. I had trouble understanding a lot of the accents in here but I did get some of them. This was a fun video. Especially watching your facial expressions as you tied to understand these people.

[@johnwellbelove148]

I'm from southern England. It used to take me a day to re-familiarise myself to my Welsh relatives' accent every time we visited.

[@geostall]

I love your reactions! Too funny.

[@JessicaWade-ef3jg]

I'm what they call a "damn Yankee" because I haven't left yet. LOL!

[@tangerinesky1293]

It's all good lol. I'm from Florida and I can't understand half of them either =P

[@TexasDonna-xu6fq]

Bwahahahaha "sub titles"! Good one Lyle! Born and raised in Texas and I had difficulty with some of it! lol Of course the crew found the most extreme cases to film!!! 🤠

[@baritone_vocalist]

Native Kentuckian here. I could immediately recognize the accent. Though in west ky where I am from, we sound more like our southern Tennessee brothers. To the people who think we are midwestern, let a native tell you that while Ky isn't part if the deep south, we are still southern and get mad when we are called midwestern (at least I do). If Missouri is the "Gateway to the west", then Kentucky is "The Gateway to the South".

[@pamelascott5702]

Lyle, I told you about the Lumbee bc I AM LUMBEE PAPA.... LOL

[@jessicacole7981]

Geoguesser for accents? 😂

[@PatrolNation]

Lol.

[@girrl88]

I love the confused expression on his face. It's ok mate, you should have seen my face when I first watched Trainspotting.

[@myrk3471]

What a fun time watching you be absolutely gobsmacked at the accents. Wait til you hear some of these after a pint of moonshine, whooo weee that gets rough.

[@harpintn]

A guy I used to work with sounded like he was 1/2 a pint into a bottle all the time even though he never drank.

[@AchimE]

Hahaha, I guess partly you didn’t understand much more than me… and I‘m German… cool dialects! 😉😆👍

[@Meg0307]

You would probably understand the north Midwestern American accent the best. The accent there has been influenced heavily by the German language, as well as Scandavian languages. Over half the population in Wisconsin alone are decendants of German immigrants... A lot of Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Swiss, and Italian, as well. But German is the most prevalent and shows in the accent there.

[@user-qp8jh9vl7v]

LoL! Accent? What accent? My mama is from Alabama and my Daddy was from Georgia so i understand most of them. The only difficulty i sometimes have is with the Cajun accent and deep in West Virginia.

[@bimm7930]

Obviously you're from it. Jfc

[@user-qp8jh9vl7v]

@@bimm7930 I'm from Florida. LoL. Evidently, no one can actually decide if we are southern or not down here.

[@rhondaross3144]

I was born and raised in the South! I understand all of em!

[@patriciabock4299]

In the mountains of Eastern Kentucky they speak what is called the "Queen's English." Scottish people settled in those mountains and still carry on Highland Culture to this day!

[@_ChristyMuz]

Clear as bell… Don git it Lyle…

[@staceysmith8173]

😂😂

[@hellefur7861]

Georgia?

[@schawk8709]

I've never thought that I had an accent, then I started making KZbin videos. I sound like cornbread! South Carolina, BTW...