I Was Blown Away by These American Accents

[@Lina_unchained]

12:25 The girl singing said "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, all I need is a pretty lil girl to feed him when I'm gone" 😂😂😂 Even though I'm from Boston, my late partner was from the south so I can pick up on various different southern accents pretty well.

[@european-reacts]

oh wow, ty

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

While in the Marines, I had a friend from Boston and he had a strong Boston accent. I always liked hearing him talk. It took some time to realize that he didn't use R's. I had him say Car Park a few times and that was were I finally got the missing R's.

[@2009kygal]

The Creole accent is the hardest because of the French roots. It's in Louisiana.

[@2009kygal]

There's Trae Crowder. He's from Tennessee. He is the Liberal Redneck. He's funny, but a little profane. You can tell he's highly intelligent and educated because of all the topical humor in his routine.

[@Lina_unchained]

@@putteslaintxtbks5166 I never realized I had an accent (a lot of my family has a much thicker accent than I do) until I moved out of the region and people kept asking me to repeat things or trying imitate my accent 🤣 My late partner Christopher and I made such a pair because he had a barely understandable southern accent and it was hard for people to understand my Boston accent too. We ended up where our way of talking got so mixed up he would say very Boston phrases with a thick drawl but also missing Rs and I would say southern phrases like I was in a Mark Wahlberg movie 🤣🤣

[@cmudd9788]

The hardest American accent to understand is the accent of a NASCAR driver being interviewed after he's won the race.

[@thesevendeadlysins578]

True. 😂

[@fandore12]

hahaha

[@LydiaKrow]

@@fandore12 Agreed!

[@millertime3864]

Car ran real good. Just not sure what I should do with my hands.

[@JimmysMoooom94]

💀💀💀💀

[@actmyage2149]

Years ago, we moved from Connecticut to Maryland. Our house was being built and the foreman (Billy Ray) was from West Virginia. My wife began talking to the man and he said, "Yalls ferners?" My wife said, "Excuse me?" and he repeated "Yalls ferners?" She said she didn't understand. He took out a piece of paper and wrote, "You all is foreigners?" She said "We're from Connecticut." He replied, "Yep, yalls ferners."

[@mels607]

definitely checks out for a West Virginian fella XD gotta love em

[@corinnem.239]

😂

[@42Ccastro]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Non-rhotic accents from the Northeast can sound foreign to people from rural rhotic areas who haven't traveled much. They tend to sound like Commonwealth accents (British, Australian, South African, etc.) to rhotic speakers, because the non-rhoticity stands out as the most noticeable feature of the accent (and apart from being non-rhotic, New England doesn't sound anything at all like Deep South, which is the best known American non-rhotic accent by a country mile). My mom used to attend YMCA pool-exercise classes, and there was another lady in the class who had moved here from Boston and had a very strong non-rhotic New England accent; one day when she was absent, somebody else who hadn't been in the class as long, asked her if she knew where "that foreign lady" was. My mom, who had enough prior exposure to know where that accent was from down to the city, thought it was hilarious (once she figured out who they meant) and has retold the story many times.

[@Xabraxas]

​@@jonadabtheunsightlyNutmeggers don't have non-rhotic accents though. You have to go farther north and east before people start dropping Rs.

[@CharliReef]

The hardest American accent to understand is definitely the commercial airplane pilot mumbling into the intercom

[@TX-WI]

😂❤😂❤

[@dany-lgoten2273]

😂

[@splehcar]

Nah, it's the drive through speaker.

[@DentZilber]

You've never heard the Swamps...

[@TX-WI]

@@splehcar 😂🤣😂

[@bbsbmi]

The number one hardest accent for me to understand is Cajun accent. Deep Louisiana

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Yes, they pronounce “oil” as “earl” and “oysters” as “ersters”.

[@TamiRuiz-vs2qk]

Me to swamp people need sub titles

[@dotsie]

Hardest for me is Ocracoke. That language feels like they wrote a word on paper, crumpled it, and then tried to read it. Of course, they misspelled the word too....

[@earlonaweary9155]

​@@dotsieWhere is that from?

[@aaronburdon221]

Yup. That was mine. my old sergeant major was straight up from DEEP louisiana when I was in ROTC. I had to have him write a few things down because I had no clue what he said.

[@snowwhite5842]

I was talking with two Texans about their accents. The older slower speaking Texan said he couldn’t understand “that Northerner”. I reminded him, the other guy was also from Texas. “Yeah, northern Texas”.

[@aronicus.]

as a central texan this made me smile

[@Brin-en8bl]

As a Texan this made me laugh

[@jacquelinejohnson9447]

@snowwhite5842 as a displaced Texan, this made me howl with laughter. I really miss Texas and the Texan humor. 😅🤣😂😊

[@I_recommend_suicide]

He's right, though. North Texas and (for example) East Texas and South Texas/Valley are very different. T. Hill Country boy

[@rodolfosantiago1826]

As an old visitor in Texas I love their accents, but more the ones near the border with México.

[@klown83]

I used to be ashamed of having an Appalachian accent but the more I start talking to people online, the more I realize that people find the accent very comforting.

[@FlyOverZone]

"southern accent" covers about 12 States. There are about 27 Southern dialects in the US

[@annadam]

I think there are way more than that. Accents and dialects can change from county to county in each of those states.

[@Broomer52]

my accent is all over the place, I was born in Indiana, half my family is from Kentucky, I was raised in Virginia. My accent is like a mood ring because that changes depending on how i feel. Sarcasm is usually met with a midwestern accent, Insulting people comes with a southern accent and my everyday voice is just the general accent

[@mrjaspersrevenge]

@@Broomer52 I was born in Ohio, raised in Indiana. My parents were from Newport and Foulmouth Ky. To this day people still ask where In Ky I am from. To make things funnier, my wife is from Switzerland and was taught British style English as a kid.

[@UncleTriangle]

True, Alabama has at least 4.

[@KittyDillion]

truth!! Finally, a person who understands, "southern" is extemely regional, and specialized per region.

[@terpcj]

Now you've hit the nail on the head why American's don't typically learn a lot of foreign languages...we use all of our language energy trying to just understand each other. (Kidding, not kidding.)

[@susantamas5400]

Never thought of it that way, but so true.

[@KuroChiShikaku]

That explains so very much

[@swordsmancs]

I may not know Spanish but I know roughly twenty different flavors of english

[@KittyDillion]

Valid point

[@forestevans5453]

Speak for yourself

[@dragons.universe]

Heyyy californian here. The accent they used for us is actually a valley girl/surfer accent, but while most of us have that vocal fry, most of us don’t actually talk like that until you get to LA

[@susansawyer2475]

Add to the Southern California (SoCal) sound is that Central and Northern California has a different sounding accent!

[@nxdboi]

Valley native here. People only sound like that in 70s movies. I've literally never spoken to anyone that sounded like that. The surfer accent might be somewhat correct, but it is actually more common amongst SoCal transplants trying to sound like surfers, and I'm not convinced that harsh valley girl accent was ever actually a thing.

[@maybebecca7513]

I’m native to so cal and who ever says supper? I mean besides my relatives from the Midwest?

[@piperhurtado4945]

I don’t talk like that and I’m from L.A.

[@craigorr9713]

I am an American who lived in The UK in the mid-1980s. I was travelling in the Highlands of Scotland and I had to translate between a New Yorker and a Highlander. They could not understand each other, but they could each understand me.

[@ellavader8262]

I translated for my southern born dad and his Scottish coworker once. English to English translators 👍

[@renaissanceman7145]

The only time I've ever heard English as a foreign language, I was talking with a Scott. I couldn't understand a word he said unless I was looking a his mouth. I'm from Georgia and I don't believe I have much of a Southern accent, especially compared to some of my relatives, though I'm sure some would disagree.

[@tunatuna711]

I had this play out at a Fortune 500 I used to work for. No one from the U.S. offices could understand the Dublin office, so the unfortunate Paris office employees (for whom English was a second language) had to translate everything the Irish said for our ears.

[@michaelmitchell6509]

My dad tells of an educational trip his company had put him in while working for an international company. They had him, a southwestern American, as well as people from Nigeria, Asia (can't remember exact country), and British guys there. My dad could understand everyone, but many could only understand him! 😂 He became the unofficial translator between their English accents!

[@debmuel]

I had a Scot visit us when I was teaching in China. I had to have one of my students translate. Felt like an idiot.

[@Malhaloc]

Yeah, they did us dirty for the southern accent. That's WAY too broad to just put under one label. There was a Tennessee or Kentucky accent, an Alabama one, a Georgia one, and a Louisiana one. You cannot just put all southern accents into one category like that. I've never even heard the last two! That was awesome!

[@yensia10]

Right, the first "Texas" accent was also a Louisiana accent. Though I suppose it could be someone who lives in Texas right near Louisiana.

[@patrickmahoney3172]

I agree with you, we Americans know there is an accent from each southern state, and even multiple accents within each state. But as a general rule we can say there is a "northern" accent and a "southern" accent that all Americans can identify more broadly. I can't tell a Tennessean accent from a Georgian accent, but the moment you start talking, I can say you are from the "south" just as you would immediately know I'm from the "north". I'm just saying they didn't necessarily "do you dirty", they can only fit so much in one video 🙂 And yes, this changes as you go farther west in the U.S., as that hard and fast rule doesn't quite apply in the same way. Either way, it's definitely fun and interesting to see just how many different accents there are in the U.S.

[@Wasthere73]

Same for California. Its not talked about a lot but there are many distinct accents here as well.

[@Malhaloc]

@@Wasthere73 That surfer accent do be iconic though lol

[@pplesforthis]

I felt the same way about them grouping Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island together. That was so odd -- they're so different, they don't belong in the same category.

[@dtshifter]

Listen to Pennsylvania Dutch English accent. The Pennsylvania Dutch are people that moved from Germany and Austria in the 1700's and 1800's for religious freedom. They continued speaking low German in their communities and have their own accent when speaking English. My Mother was Pennsylvania Dutch and I grew up listening to this accent from her side of the family.

[@kimricautumn6918]

You're correct that calling all of those "the southern accent" was a complete cop out.

[@justininnes6260]

As an American- I disagree saying it's a cop out. If someone is from Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia etc. I just call em all southern accents cuz thats what they are in general

[@kristinwright6632]

Agreed. Americans can all pick out a "southern" accent but where? I live in the PacNW and raised in New Mexico and while I can tell there are differences I have a hard time telling which region. I think I can get Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia but outside that? Maybe if you sounded just like Trae Crowder (which they did feature) I might get West Kentucky/East Tennessee but no guarantees. Well, no guarantees at all! I have about as much luck picking out UK accents if they aren't BBC or Edinburgh (and other Scots accents).

[@justininnes6260]

@kristinwright6632 That's because honestly, most ppl don't know what State someone else is from specifically based off accent, just region. It's a reach to expect someone from say, NY to distinguish a Tennessee accent from a Texas accent. The "cop out" comment is unrealistic in every day life

[@AM-jj3rj]

As a Southerner, I also say "it's a cop out." NC alone has 27 dialects. That are completely different then a Bama (Alabama) accent or anything you'd hear in FL. And I agree, it's due to the SIZE of the USA. Spain for example, has many variations of Spanish, many dialects. But is smaller in size then some USA States. In NC, people who are local to the mountains and outerbanks have their own words for things. Words not found in any other dialect of English. Really look at the size of UK. How many different dialects are there. If you compare that to the size of the USA. It's no wonder there are so many different ways to speak English. The cultures vary greatly as well.

[@kristinwright6632]

@@justininnes6260 you make an excellent point. I cannot tell except I know they are different.

[@CelestialKitsune13]

Appalachian Kentuckian here! Those deep Appalachian accents are something you can only find in the backwoods and hollers. And I'm glad you think our accents is beautiful. 😉

[@bigalexg]

The Beverly Hilbillles (immensely popular 60's TV show) made not only all of Appalachia look like it had barely gotten out of the stone age but stereotyped the entire US South - that and countless TV shows that always had "red necks" and "good old boys" as fair game for ridicule. Sadly, there was some truth in it but still . . .for many Northerners the South was just the butt of jokes. (I'm from the former capital of the confederacy, LOL, and moved to Massachusetts for a few years.

[@CelestialKitsune13]

@bigalexg Yea, we get pretty stereotyped thanks to what people have seen on tv. But Appalachia is truly still a bit of a wild region of the United States. And the people who live here still seem to have some of that wild spirit in them. We're a tough lot. Lol

[@PsRohrbaugh]

​@@bigalexgMy grandparents loved Beverley Hillbillies called em "Real Americans"

[@timcarr6401]

@@bigalexg The Beverly Hillbillies were supposedly from the Ozarks which comes from the area of Southern Missouri, North Arkansas. and NE Oklahoma.

[@bigalexg]

@@timcarr6401 right you are. For some reason I thought Appalachia. It was my favorite show in the 60s'. Apparently "Hillbilly" refers to rural mountain people of the US primarily from Appalachia or the Ozarks, according to Chat GPT anyway. Makes sense the Clampits were further south and west since they were sitting on that Texas tea. I can't say I know a whole lot about Hillbillies but I suspect Appalachian and Ozarkian hill folk have a lot on common? Flatt and Scruggs - who performed the iconic theme song and appeared a few times in the show - were from Tennessee and NC area, closer to where I live in Virginia. Perhaps this is why I associated the show with Tenn.

[@StoneWolf99801]

LOVE your accent by the way! The Russian has always been one of my favorites, we have a lot of Russian speaking in southeast Alaska.... We have a few old Russian churches still from when Russia still owned Alaska.

[@NotAnnaJones]

Yep, lots of Russians in central Alaska as well 🙂

[@bluemanbrad]

It’s awesome that a foreigner describes American accents as beautiful. Some of it becomes a bit blind to me, traveling over the states. Btw your accent is beautiful.

[@lw6084]

14:00 “He didn’t say nothing. He just brought me the whole thing. I don’t eat much of that stuff. I had a little bit for supper, but the rest of it is going to go bad in there.” You are far easier to understand. Your English is outstanding. ❤️

[@BTinSF]

Mass-a-choo-sets . Once you get that, you'll be perfect.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

That guy's speech was unclear for reasons that had nothing directly to do with accent. Sometimes old people tell so many pointless stories and get so used to everyone just smiling and nodding when they talk, that they stop bothering to enunciate anything clearly at all. I live in central Ohio, where the mainstream speech pattern is remarkably close to the "General American" from the beginning of the video, but I know a couple of old people here who talk like that. Nobody has any idea what words they're saying, and nobody cares either, because they're not actually communicating any important information. It's not an accent, they're just old mumbling yammerers.

[@CloverEleven]

The last bit is, "rest of it's gonna go bad if somebody don't eat it."

[@AxelFoleyDetroitLions]

Massa-Choo-Sets

[@BTinSF]

@@jonadabtheunsightly Yeah, at a young 79 my tolerance for those old codgers above 80 and their rambling is limited.

[@ai-aniverse]

hardest for me was keepin up with yall from the South when I hit boot camp lmao

[@bayoulafourche]

I'm from south Louisiana, bootcamp was torture for me.

[@mbourque]

While the 'Southern' accent spans the Southern region of the US, there are 'sub-regions' of dialects that span about 200-300 miles only and change in the next 200-300 miles. These sub-regions are spotted all over the South, and can even be several in a single State...

[@corryburton9834]

I live in south alabama... I can barely understand southwest Mississippi Cajun lmao

[@AlexofZippo]

I was gonna say, that last man was closer to Louisiana than straight Texas. The Southern accent is a hydra, sometimes you meet some folks who last got news of the outside world in 1980 something and those fuckers have entire lexicons unique to them.

[@michaelsoper3610]

In fact, I would assume most Americans were, like myself, naming the states and regions from which each of the speakers hailed. Using such a broad term as 'southern' is simply impractical in most instances, when it is second nature to take the next step and identify the state/regional accent (what we would call the actual accent; 'southern' is like the catchall 'British', sub-divided into Irish, Scotch, English, etc). In the same way, natives often break down the New York accent into the clear differences between the accents of the borroughs that combine to make the city. Language has historically diverged based on geographic isolation, so one wonders if the current ease of communication will lead to a consolidation to fewer languages/accents or if digital isolation with like-minded people will accelerate development of new ones.

[@corryburton9834]

@@michaelsoper3610 the UK is smaller than what we call the south is a good example.....just for clearance....you can fit ALL OF THE UK 3 times in alaska

[@Ridley369]

Just from Maryland, to the Carolinas, you have more Southern accents than one could even comprehend.

[@BabyloniaBlu3]

Enjoying your videos!! I'm a Cajun from the Deep South. I speak English, Cajun French, and Haitian Creole. I never thought I had an accent until I left my state and others would know where I'm from because of it. 😂

[@countrygirl5579]

I LOVE that accent!! ❤

[@KathyStrickland-nh9vx]

Raised my son on Grand Isle. Loved it

[@BabyloniaBlu3]

@KathyStrickland-nh9vx That must have been amazing. We love Grand Isle, how did everyone make out with Hurricane Francine? Hope all is well. We would camp out on Elmer's Isle when I was younger. Such great memories.

[@KathyStrickland-nh9vx]

@@BabyloniaBlu3 That was in the 80s. Later moved to Slidell. It was the best place to raise my son. Things were much different then. Most of the people were native to the island. All our friends were Cajun natives. They were cliqueish but when you were in, you were in. My son was blue eyed and blonde hair and came home from school upset because he wasn't dark with dark eyes and hair. Hurricane Ida destroyed it. It will never be the same. Now it's like Florida, transplants, weekenders and tourists. My heart often goes back there. Glad you have fond memories of a very special place.

[@BabyloniaBlu3]

@KathyStrickland-nh9vx Yes, many fond memories. Things change with time, it's up to us to keep the memories alive.

[@skadifrozenfury9266]

You’re adorable and I love the perspective of seeing a non-native American speaker react, i think it can help American travelers learn ways to adopt accents to ease communication barriers. As an American ex-pat living in Europe I find adopting the accent where i am and adjusting the way i pronounce letters helps.

[@xenialafleur]

The first woman talking was doing a TV presenter accent. It's purposefully clear.

[@angie38]

She is/was a news anchor. Her name is Jeanette Reyes.

[@christinelangin7209]

She is a RIOT!!🤣🤣

[@trishgels]

I was raised in NC, & we're slowly moving to our house in Appalachia in SW Virginia. We say "eye" for the letter "i", always. Biggest mistake you can make here & in MS where all my relatives on my Dad's side is from is to ask "how you" unless you've got time to hear all about everything. Better to just say hey. We're also chatty in the South. When I carry my buggy to the cashier in a store, for ex, I'll chat w/whoever in line. You can learn ppl's whole life history if you have time! Northerners don't seem to engage much, tho. In NC, we take BBQ seriously - it's got a distinct vinegary flavor, & it means pulled pork. A cookout is when you eat hotdogs & hamburgers, not a BBQ. If you say BBQ, we're thinking a pig in a big ole smoker that ppl are babying for hours. We drop the "L" off a lotta words, too, like "coslaw", which means coleslaw. If I try to shed my accent, I sound like I'm hooked on phonics or slightly touched! I prefer listening to southerners, too, bc I understand it. Also, words w/"ar" sound like "fah-r", & we put a pause before certain words for emphasis. Only time I'm thoroughly understood is when typing. Oh, & we say git instead of get. Like "git you some" means help yourself. Also, bless your heart isn't a compliment, & I don't mean to be ugly is a warning that a criticism is coming. Hope this helps.

[@laurahemenway4608]

The absolute hardest accent is outerbanks off north Carolina. They have preserved 1600s England English. So bizarre! They're descended from sailers and pirates that colonized the islands and have been very isolated for several 100 years. Geechi and gullah are also tough. These are coastal south Carolina and incorporate several African tribal languages and coastal Indians. Tough, very tough.

[@tlew9429]

Cajun accents 😳😳😳😳

[@EdWatch-yx7hy]

As someone from the 🇧🇸 bahamas I find the geechie sound JUST like us, use the same words, but add some southern/NC words, and sounds. Like if u took a southerner and bahamian and merged them lol. Baltimore, Louisiana, Georgia.. hell no for me. 😂 like please open your mouth when you talk..accent is one thing..but we can't understand nothing if u don't open your mouth at all 😂 ❤❤❤

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Gullah is so unique among accents that interviews with speakers of it are subtitled _in the same language they're speaking_ .

[@robertireland4589]

Same thing Maryland's Eastern Shore where we have an island, Hoopers where the natives still speak Elizabethan English. Forget understanding it at all. I also believe Tangier island speaks on earlier English, possibly also Elizabethan. These languages harken back to the very early 1600s settling of the Chesapeake bay region. Most the shore and good part of native Marylanders are southern boys and we have even here on the Shore a colloquial language with interesting sayings and ways to pronounce words, tire is tar, sink is zinc, potatoes is taters, then there's "hope my die" a sort of oath, swearing what said is truthful, " hope my die, I she did". Always loved that one. The Shore until the construction of the two bay bridges was in 3 newspapers/magazines called a land time forgot in around 1898-1900. Life took a very slow pace and not until the 1970s did it really begin to open up. Now come to Germany and just in my area a 35mile ancient crater you start at one rim a d by the time you leave the opposite side you've experience at least 3 to 5 of the 75 dialects and even I couldn't understand half of them. Completely different language and words for same items. This is precisely why Germany has an official language, hessian, or high German hailing from the middle of the country.

[@alanjameson8664]

I once encountered a man with a vaguely British accent. It turned out that he came from an isolated area of North Carolina where many people (including slaves and criminals) escaped to because it was so rugged that no one would try to come after them.

[@lorrainehirsch]

Even born Americans have trouble with other accents. We were in the South at a restaurant, and before we were led to our table, the hostess tried to say "We're having a special tonight: buy one, get one free." What she said was "Bow on, get on free." My husband was utterly confused and thought she was asking him to bow to her, so he gave her a deep bow from the waist. 😂

[@Heatherrenee424]

Omg were you in Alabama? 🤣🤣🤣

[@lorrainehirsch]

North Carolina!

[@jesslake7260]

When I was working in Kentucky, I dealt with a lot of people from Appalachia, and I really struggled to understand them. I had a woman say, very quickly, "Kinna geh a spry?" And when I didn't understand, she just started yelling, "A spry! A spry!" As though yelling it would help me understand. 😅 I had to get a coworker who was from Eastern KY to translate for me. She wanted a can of Sprite. 🤦

[@ginadisbrow9324]

Lifelong resident of north FL here. We're mostly rural and our country twang sounds like a perfect combination of all the deep south accents. YEE HAW Y'ALLl! 😘🇺🇲🍊

[@TheYates27]

I’m dying over his experience with the Pittsburgh accent. Pittsburgh area resident. Nothing funnier than watching outsiders try to understand Pittsburghese 😂😅

[@cjt-rex7852]

I'm married to a guy from Pittsburgh And listening to his family talk for the first few years. I had no clue what some of the words meant. I've since picked up on everything but I'm from Philadelphia which is the same state and I couldn't get it.

[@ValerieDee123]

His face said it all! Wish someone had said jumbo, nebby, sliberty!

[@bridgetn2575]

I didn’t even know Pittsburgh had its own accent until I met and married my husband! He is relatively accent-free, but his parents have the accent. And his uncles…man, when they’ve had a few drinks in them, I can barely understand them! 😄

[@TheYates27]

@@bridgetn2575 The standard Pittsburgh accent is actually what they modeled newscaster speak after. Pittsburgh accent is actually considered the most average accent in America because it’s the only one that uses things from every region, and is thus kind of understandable by everyone. However there’s everyone’s proper accent then there’s tbd street accent, or common vernacular. Thats where stuff starts getting crazy. Like standard Pitt or NYC is easy to understand. But pluck a blue collar person from either place then try to understand them 🤦‍♂️. Especially in Pittsburgh right. No one can ever identify my accent being from Northern WV except people from Ohio WV and Pa. And really only eastern Ohio and western Pa. Everyone else is always way off with me.

[@TimeToBreathe-ntmf]

Grew up in Alabama, south of the USA, we got more accents than ingredients in gumbo 😂 some of them I can't even understand. I did a travel contract in Minnesota, Midwest. Had a patient tell me he loved my accent and how he wished they had an accent😂 Buddy didnt even hear it

[@marsbase3729]

Yeah, it's funny how something you grow up with and seems so normal can be so different to others from different locations. I didn't realize I had an accent until I moved from Pittsburgh to Houston 😝

[@robynbumgardner959]

Six distinct differences in Virginia.

[@jeansteele7685]

@@TimeToBreathe-ntmf most people don't think they have an accent until they meet someone with an accent. Then you can tell the difference. Southern California having an accent is so funny to me. It's not an accent. It's the words people use. Standard American accent sound like my customer service voice. Lol 😂🤣

[@alexnicklay8626]

As someone who has lived in Minnesota all my life and traveled all around the state, I've only heard someone talk with that accent a few times. It's not a Minnesotan accent, it's an old Scandinavian/English accent that you'll rarely hear from only the older generations from smaller towns, it's far more common in rural Michigan and Wisconsin. It's by no means a common accent at all and the only reason it's thought as such is because of the movie Fargo. I work at a gas station on a major interstate and I get out of state travelers disappointed all the time 😅😅

[@miamendoza5649]

Minnesotan here too. None of the MN examples were people speaking naturally. The real thing is so much milder, except the older folks upstate where it sounds like the UP Michigan examples.

[@landfyoung]

I used to have this accent from living in MN. My entire family who still lives there has this MN accent- also the Michigan accent included.

[@bbsbmi]

Boston is on Massachusetts. But Massachusetts is in the area of the United States called New England

[@BTinSF]

Which (New England) is part of the northeast.

[@NathanielDixon-em7qe]

It’s not Massachusetts, it’s massushets.

[@SeanWinters]

​@@NathanielDixon-em7qeMass of two shits

[@bunnyluv2535]

Home of the massholes..😂

[@jjbud3124]

And Europeans say Americans are all alike. I'm happy to say I got all but a few of these accents. That's probably because of my profession of many years, listening to people from everywhere. What makes some of them hard is the speed with which they're talking.

[@BTinSF]

Exactly. I think I could understand all of them if they slowed down a bit. Also, in at least one case, I think the audio quality of the clip wasn't very good and the girl talking would have been easier to understand live.

[@NotPrincessButLeia]

13:00 Wow that voice... He must be a good singer with that bass.

[@tiawarren5403]

Cajun accent around Louisiana area is the hardest for me as an American to understand! I am from the state of Washington ( Pacific Northwest, native to the state and foreigners I have met usually think I am British...lots of Washingtonians tell me that too, lol, to be fair..personal inflection on my words I suppose

[@loosilu]

It's because it's not just an accent, they are using a LOT of French Canadian words. I know because my late mother was from Quebec and that was my first language.

[@Rouxgarou96]

@@loosiluThat’s because we are French Canadian, our Acadian French ancestors were exiled from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and moved to south Louisiana under Spanish rule. There they adopted the Creole culture and mixed it with their Acadian culture to create Cajun culture.

[@loosilu]

@@Rouxgarou96 I know!

[@NotAnnaJones]

It’s that Canadian creeping in… ya?

[@sgtrosie7859]

There is also an American military accent, which has influences from Midwestern, Southern, African American from all kinds of regions. It's a pretty neutral American accent.

[@Taratreehugger]

Oh that’s really interesting.

[@SaanMigwell]

Yep, I'm PacNW after my time in the army I had incorporated words and grammar rules from all of the states. I'd say the military accent is a softened NE accent with a hint of the south and touch of Norcal. Y'all and finna are both common words in the military accent.

[@ai-aniverse]

Can attest to this.

[@houseofmargot2871]

you can tell someone in the US was/is in the military if they say *"Outstanding"* a lot.

[@ai-aniverse]

@@houseofmargot2871 lmao guilty

[@chadmarsh5356]

Thank you for looking as baffled as i do talking to these people everyday. I even speak it. With love from Pittsburgh.

[@lw5836]

I LOVED this video. As a SOUTHERNER I was in stitches seeing your reaction.

[@kelliefish6259]

Andre, 😂 "corn is the only word I understand " .😅

[@OBSDCC7]

Boston is a city in the state of Massachusetts (Mass-uh-chew-sits) but the region is often referred to as New England, since it’s mostly where the Colonists landed and began to settle

[@JIMBEARRI]

Andre, Boston IS in New England. There are six states in New England : Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

[@knotwool]

My grandma had a Tennessee hillbilly accent until the day she died even though she moved to NY at age 14. It never faded & it was adorable.

[@SpiritWolf209]

19:55 Boston is in Massachusetts but Massachusetts is part of New England. New England is an area that includes Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

[@jacquelinejohnson9447]

The old guy was fussing because someone brought him food that he doesnt care for and brought him this food for his dinner. But he brought too much and now the old man is fussing because the food will go bad before he can eat it all. He obviously hates waste and is upset over the fact that the food will go bad before he can finish it all. It's food he doesn't normally eat because he doesn't like it, and now he has too much food that he doesn't like that will go to waste. For old folks on a budget, this is a major irritation. Wasting money and food and putting him in obligation for food he didn't ask for, doesn't like, and now has to try and get rid of before it goes bad.

[@AlexofZippo]

And here I was thinking he was hungry and was saying he needed to eat before he started getting hangry. Well shit, yeah that’s some shit to put on an old man. Hope he got something straightened out.

[@noahtekulve2684]

Thanks for the translation

[@MaiTai16]

As a Marylander who struggles to understand people in my own state sometimes, I think you did a great job.

[@swtsoph]

I'm so impressed with how well you identified so many area accents - well done!

[@stormeart]

I have worked in nationwide call centers for years. There are many difficult accents to interpret, even as a born American English speaker talking to another born American English speaker. Whereas, I have no trouble interpreting your accent.

[@blueskieskoda2833]

I got a giggle outta all that. I swear people keep thinking we speak English, sorry we speak American. Trust me it is different. lol

[@summerohara554]

It used to be English lol

[@blueskieskoda2833]

@@summerohara554 Absolutely, I guess things just change.☺

[@pennydink72]

👍🏽 that's RIIIIIIIIGHT!

[@grenadier4702]

American English and British English. That's it

[@mayathedreamgirl1357]

@@grenadier4702ever heard of a joke?

[@cherilynne1946]

I’m from North Carolina-born and raised at the coast and transplanted in the mountains. The southern dialect differs from the coast to the Appalachians. One NC dialect that often gets overlooked is what we call the “High Tider” accent-spoken by those whose ancestors settled on the Outer Banks (islands) and were cut off from those who settled on the mainland. High Tider’s accent and phrasing is similar to British cockney.

[@anangrytexan2244]

Texan here, there's regional accents here for sure. If you've lived here long enough you'll pick up on the differences in East Texas, Houston, South Texas, West Texas, The Heartland, DFW... they all sound a bit different and use different words. You'll be able to tell where people come from IN the state after long enough. I myself have a blend of East Texas and South Texas accents. I used to be ashamed of my accent when I moved up north. Yankees laughed at it. Now I'm prouder than hell of it. Keep up the great content friend! See y'all down the trail :).

[@CMeri-sl6bt]

Texas girl here. I've been watching a shit ton of videos to help with hiding my accent. 😂

[@ardentlions6636]

Dfw is not the heartland, that would be Waco, Tx called the heart of Texas, Dfw is considered North Texas.

[@anangrytexan2244]

@@ardentlions6636 My guy the Texas Education System failed you. There's a comma between The Heartland and DFW. A comma typically indicates a distinction between two things. Never said DFW was heartland. I know what the heartland is, I grew up an hour east of Waco.

[@rachelk4805]

Y'all are arguing about a lot of petty details lmao. Waco is part of DFW at this point, the metro absorbed it.

[@anangrytexan2244]

@@rachelk4805 You go sit your Yankee self down somewhere. Adults are talking.

[@OB_GYN_Kenobi]

Southern Californians don’t use the word supper - that was a terrible impression. Yes, we say dude and bro more than most other places - when I was a kid those were exclusively so-cal words, but they’re pretty common everywhere now.

[@johntaylor7029]

And usually the vocal fry is rare and not super pronounced.

[@Kieselmeister]

​@@johntaylor7029the vocal fry is more of a Pacific Northwest thing. (An accent which historically sometimes also include adding in extra 'R's into words, like pronouncing "wash" as "warsh", though that has become rarer over time outside of rural areas of "Warshington" state.)

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Smile]

Yeah, I was gonna say I have never heard anyone say supper. And I grew up in so-cal

[@ronnieking3848]

It was mostly "you guys" in California when I lived there...and back in Texas it's y'all. I felt well-traveled as a kid when using "you guys" as a gender neutral form of address in the 90's.

[@amandaheck7897]

I'm from Pittsburgh...I understood him completely 😂😂😂😂

[@aaronburdon221]

Yea, that Cajun one is rough. I'm pretty good with accents but holy hell that one is tough to understand.

[@beckishelton7155]

I’m impressed with you actually pronouncing Appalachian the correct way. Very nice. I live in the Smokey mountains of East Tennessee

[@alanjameson8664]

I am from northern California (and nearly 80 years old), and my native accent is what was the general American accent of my youth--- the old Chicago accent. The Chicago accent has changed somewhat since then, but if I listen to a recording of, for example, Harold Washington, that's my accent exactly. I have long lived in the San Joaquin Valley, which is said to retain a bit of an old rural southern accent that has completely disappeared in southern California. I have never perceived it (because I don't expect it), but people who study such things say that around here the same vowel sound is used in "pin" and "pen." To make myself a bit of a curiosity, I have reversed the "Mary, marry, merry" merger in my speech, but (disappointingly) it does not seem to be noticed. We were taught to enunciate words--- no "Monerrey" Sacramenno" or "Artic" for Monterey, Sacramento, or Arctic. I have tried to emulate an upper-class Boston accent, but gave it up as a bod job; the closest I came sounded roughly like an Irish gangster.

[@zrlansbery]

20:02 New England is the region containing Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts

[@randallsunderland4331]

Is PA New England?

[@abbywilson5988]

​@@randallsunderland4331no. Neither is New York.

[@randallsunderland4331]

@@abbywilson5988 Really? What defines New England then?

[@abbywilson5988]

@@randallsunderland4331 you responded to the comment that says what New England is...

[@randallsunderland4331]

@@abbywilson5988 never mind. I was asking from a cultural standpoint how it’s defined not by what states constitute New England, and why NY and PA aren’t a part of it but I’ll look it up.

[@supersolomob422]

14:00 “She didn’t say nothing, she brought- sent me a whole thing I don’t eat much that stuff. Ate little bit for supper. But that there might go bad if someone don’t eat.” this is half of the customers that I serve where I work. My family originated only 150 miles from where we live in West Virginia, but the accent is so different. I know West Virginia isn’t on the map in the video, but trust me, it’s definitely another dialect

[@theWightRabbit]

Californian here, and I'd say the first guy as an example of a Californian accent sounded more like Bam Margera-- like a Pennsylvania accent. It's an odd one!

[@aolsweetsew]

Your face during the southern accents was hysterical! Thank you for the laugh. Hey, I've been speaking American English my whole life and some of those accents I had no idea which region they were or what they were saying. So, you're doing fantastic!

[@Taratreehugger]

Right?

[@MollyPitcher1778]

I love all accents. It tells me how big and beautiful the world is. I was a little stumped on the Minnesota/Upper Peninsula accents because I'm smack dab in the middle and we have those too. Southern Wisconsin is more like the Chicago accent, and the further north west is the Scandinavian & Swiss, east is German, north is Native American/Canadian accents. It's a beautiful state too and you should come see it sometime. A long time ago our High School had a well loved geography teacher who traveled every summer with some of his best students. When asked what is the most beautiful place he'd been and would recommend to anyone, he said, Wisconsin. I agree.

[@vesper180]

There definitely isn't only one southern accent! Southern accents can vary from state to state....and sometimes from different areas within those states

[@gzh619]

I'm from SoCal (San Diego) and we don't have a valley girl accent, we don't speak like the Kardashians, ect. It depends where you're from but one comment I hear often is: why do you guys enunciate all the words? One time I called a car maker branch in Canada and he ask where I was locate, I said California USA. He said: funny you don't have an accent.😂

[@AliceBunny05]

Yeah same with me, also from SD. The socal accent tends to be associated more with LA and it's surrounding areas.

[@twinkincarnate]

Yeah I'm from Orange County and I have a pretty thick surfer boy accent with vocal fry lmao

[@kburdett]

I’m from Tampa bay, Fl, I have a general American accent. However, my husband’s entire family has been in Georgia for generations, and I adore their slow drawl southern accent. It is so comforting.

[@aciec777]

Born and raised in east Texas! I feel like the accent varies every few dozen miles. Some people have it thicker, and some areas pronounce words slightly different.

[@k_469]

The old man clip @ 13:59 is made harder to understand by the fact that the clip starts while he is ending a story it seems - so context clues are just impossible. For anyone interested the man is saying: "She didn't say nothing, she just brought me a whole thing - and I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper but the rest of that in there is gonna go bad if somebody don't eat." -source: born in the south.

[@Greg_Andrews]

Well said.

[@monicacollins8289]

THANK YOU!

[@TriciaStewart84]

That old man is just precious! I caught the gist of what he said (about 94%) and thanks to your translation, I pieced it all together.

[@ricklanders9951]

I am from Alabama and when I was in Europe years back, people thought I was from South Africa or maybe Australia as that is how my accent sounded to them.

[@mels607]

I can see how it might be mistaken for Australian, their accent always felt like the "southern" version of British English to me lol

[@KuroChiShikaku]

I can see it, if the lads over at HowRediculous are anything to go by for the Australian accent

[@loosilu]

I'm from NY and Boston. The Alabama accent to me is the funniest shit I ever heard! love it!

[@jeansteele7685]

I didn't realize Southern California had an accent. But I picked on your Russian accent right away. I have to admit your accent is quite beautiful. 😊

[@nathanhall9177]

My wife is from Dallas I’m from Austin. She’s got a real hard twang where’s I’ve got a slow roll.

[@Linda-jn9gk]

Don't let it get you down, I have lived here all my life (74 years) and I missed most of them.

[@jgnauman22]

It's wild how many accents we have here. I live in Eastern Pennsylvania and there are folks (particularly older people) North of here that I can barely understand.

[@2009kygal]

I speak Engkish and Hillbilly with a northeastern Kentucky twang.

[@myratrent4942]

so like hillbilly and redneck. for example mayonnaise really mean mayonnaise a whole lot of people here today

[@ShawnIndigo]

I love you my friend. I literally heard that Creole French speaking today in Michigan at a southern style restaurant for the first time. SAME DAY Later I watch you hear it for the firsttime as well. So cool!

[@LoriCarrollSCLori]

You actually did pretty well! Some of those clips were really hard. And don't worry, a lot of Americans struggle with Massachusetts. "mass-uh-CHEW-sits" :)

[@colinedmunds2238]

@7:26 to pit it in a European perspective, Texas is just a little bigger than France. Lots of room for variation

[@chriskelly9476]

It's not necessarily to do with the size of the state. Western Australia (which is also a state) is four times the size of Texas and we all sound pretty much the same. Texas has 10 times the population and has been 'settled' a lot longer than W.A so accents have had more time to develop.

[@colinedmunds2238]

@chriskelly9476 thats true. Time and separation are crucial to develop divergent accents

[@terrencemgentry]

I hate when people act like there's only one southern accent. The south is the most diverse region in America

[@kilroy2517]

LOL, "The south is a very diverse region in America." There, fixed that for ya. As usual, southerners thinking they're exceptional.

[@minecraftfox4384]

​@@kilroy2517 no, it is the most diverse. Ethnically we're not homogeneous like the Northern and Western parts.

[@kilroy2517]

@@minecraftfox4384 nothing i can say would change your mind. you just keep believing that.

[@minecraftfox4384]

@@kilroy2517 yeah, because nothing you say is factual. While everything I've said is backed up by data.

[@cmykat7839]

@@minecraftfox4384 Cite your sources

[@astra.nautica.]

Louisiana here! Loved the video, it was very fascinating and I learned so much, I haven't even heard some of accents before! Really cool :)

[@pjf2675]

Your ear for accents is wonderful. I'm from Chicago and i have a difficult time with some of those accents, and truth be told, a lot of southerners have some difficult times trying to understand my accent. Helpful tip: If you want to be able to ecognize a Minnesota accent, watch Fargo in english (maybe with subtitles) and you'll never forget a Minnesota accent. This was a fun video. Thank you.

[@carolgrosklags8933]

@@pjf2675 not all Minnesotans sound like the people in Fargo . I'm f you get far enough North they might sound like that

[@pjf2675]

@carolgrosklags8933 it's one of my favorite accents. 😍

[@willcool713]

So, not like a class thing, but about accents. You've got like a business, hospitality, political, academia level of accent, which is regionally characteristic, but fully understandable. But you also have a grocery store, public school, bar and grill, church level of accent, which is deeper and more localized. The ground level local accent includes slang and sayings and unique words or phrasings and in many places becomes more of a dialect. Often when speaking to people with a thick patois there are words that don't strictly convey meaning if you're from another region of the US. Many people ask for clarity, but often you can hook into the gist of what they're saying regardless. And we all know this, so we all just use the words we're comfortable with and everybody rides with it until accuracy becomes necessary. The color variety in the US accents of big cities can be dizzying in places where there's a lot of people from all over. English is a stew.

[@KoolKats5]

Exactly. New York has so many different accents it's dizzying. Chicago does too, but I'm not sure about L A..

[@girsmom]

I’m from Maine and even we have levels of the accent depending on where you are from northern near Canada,down Eastern, western and border of Massachusetts

[@techfixr2012]

My second wife was from Kentucky and my Grandma was definitely a Vermonter. I had to translate between them, because they didn't understand each other.

[@AreYouKittenMeRtNow]

The Minnesotan accent had me screaming 🤣🤣 I’m from a big Swedish family, some family in New England some in Minnesota… our reunions are hilarious! Only thing that needed was a few “Uff-Da”s. Lord this just had me cackling, thanks for the entertainment!

[@lionheartfarmandgardening]

I will add that not only does each region in each state have its own variation of an accent which can vary slightly to massively, but also people might change the way they speak in different settings. In professional sertings they may try to annunciate words more, whereas in a more laid nack setting they may not, or in my case, I try to speak clearly and have less of an accent, but as I get more tired I've been told and its been pointed out, I get bits of a country accent and southern draw. 😂

[@MMcCoy-yh4ho]

Pretty sure he said "I am reacting to FARTING american accents" @0:15

[@Seeräuberei]

Das exactly what he said

[@Doom_State]

13 farting

[@chrispmar]

Great video! I love your reactions and the kindness and humility (of admitting you don't understand an accent).

[@BlastedKat]

Im from the deep South. Back in the 80's I went on a hunting trip up North. We went out to a bar\comedy club one night. Though out the entire night we had people just coming up to us saying please just talk to us. The people were just amazed. Lol The owner of the club wouldn't let us pay our tab and said everything was on the house if we came back the next night. We did and had a blast. All due to our deep Southern accent.

[@JohnFromSC]

I'm from South Carolina and we have several accents in the state. Growing up here you can tell whether someone is from a certain part of the state by how they talk.

[@ritayprice3510]

This South Carolinian agrees.

[@dolphinbear661]

Right? Low-country, foothills, there's at least 3-4 distinct accents in each southern state. Bless their hearts.

[@TinaD1110]

Former South Carolinian here. Gullah and Gicchi get my vote.

[@wolfsblade88]

Lived in SC and east NC. South of Columbia up to Virginia the culture is similar. Good folks. Very particular about their BBQ

[@Sydoku]

The Carolina’s have some of the most diverse dialects in the world

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

After decades in the US west where my god given Boston accent started to slip away, my Mother said "Petah, Petah! It's wicked haad to unnastand yah!" If you want to blend in around Minnesota just reply "no shit, eh" no matter what anyone but a cop says to you.

[@JeanStAubin-nl9uo]

Too funny!🤣

[@SirTrollerDerby]

I grew up near Boston. But after 35 years in the Midwest I sound more like the general American accent. But when I get back to visit my old accent starts creeping back into my voice after a few days.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Or walk around in shorts and a t-shirt when it's 10 F, asking questions like "So, do ya think it's gonna get cold this year?"

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

@@jonadabtheunsightly down east Maine reply "umm, maybe"

[@mimikannisto4418]

Accurate 😂😂😂😂

[@danielpearl923]

You are a great person to comment on the regional accents! You got many of them correct, including the most difficult.

[@CaraWeston]

I have a TV presenter accent. I grew up in San Diego. I’m 63. Not everyone in Southern California has the accent shown in the original video. In fact I mostly don’t hear that accent in my daily life.

[@Taratreehugger]

Ditto. But I think that might be part of being a white Californian. We aren’t used to noticing subtle accents. I live with someone from the Midwest and she is much more aware of accents than I am.

[@CaraWeston]

@@Taratreehugger I might not notice subtle accents, and that’s actually why I admit to having an accent. And to agree with you in a short anecdote, I never noticed my mom’s subtle Texas accent, but friends said they noticed it. But as for the very noticeable accent given in the video, I should have said I rarely encounter it. Because if I did, I’d sure “hear” it.

[@mimikyutie3936]

As someone from Missouri it's one of the biggest mixing pot of accents and cultures due to us being in the dead center of the USA

[@bryanroberts3671]

Agreed. Not everybody is black and not all of them talk like that.

[@alanjameson8664]

And here I thought it was way hellangone back east. But you go any farther west from where I grew up and you're going to need a boat.

[@Cashcrop54]

Really enjoyed Andre! I knew Minnesota. Louisiana. Boston. Couple others. Yess I did have trouble with the rest. #7

[@TheLegendaryEevee]

The best way to handle Massachusetts is to break it into sounds: Mass-Uh-Chew-Sits

[@mikecarew8329]

I grew up in and around NYC and went to law school in Boston. I assure you, those accents are utterly and completely different. Your confusing Pittsburgh with Boston is proof that it is indeed hard for a non native speaker to pick up the differences in accents. Could see this when you reacted to the excellent Wired Tour of North American accents with the dialect coach. And yes this should prove to you that we will easily understand you with your accent when you eventually visit the US. Boston is in Massachusetts but Massachusetts is one of the 6 states that make up New England region: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

[@emilyb5307]

New York City and Boston are definitely different - but for non-native speakers, it is definitely hard to tell and I can understand why. Both can sound sort of nasally or rough, both are influenced strongly by Irish and Italian roots, both can be non-rhotic, and if you try too hard to be Boston, you can bleed into a New York accent. It's the same reason that Maine accents and Rhode Island accents can be easily mistaken for Boston if you are not familiar. Seen that happen too!

[@JesusOurGoel]

True.

[@loosilu]

@@emilyb5307 Rhode Island accent cracks me up because it's half Boston and half NY!

[@girlinvt]

Yes they are different.

[@sagittarius420cheefie]

Yeah, Boston and Pittsburgh are quite different. Like you know how you can write out a word the way it sounds when you say it? Pittsburgh got words that I feel like you can't do that with.😂 Like when folks say "Downtown", it sounds like "Dinetine". No, wait more like "Dahntahn". Like you see what I mean. How would you spell that the way it sounds??😂😂

[@medusakatt757]

Russian English accent is my favorite 🤌🏻 My dads family has the Appalachian accent, because most are from eastern Kentucky. My mom's is upstate New York. I knew the Tangier and Outer Banks accents were gonna be 1st 😆 Tangier was what he said was a Chesapeake Bay accent, but they only speak that on Tangier Island. It's accent is pretty cool, but very hard to understand.

[@nunnyabznz]

Talking about where all the nearest Dunkin Donuts are is the most Boston conversation you can have, after whatever the local sports teams are up to.

[@Uffda.]

22:28 If anyone is interested- As a Minnesotan, born and spent my childhood on the Range, these accents sounded very put on/exaggerated (evoking Fargo, but not necessarily what most people actually talk like here. I studied linguistics in college, I am well aware of how distinctive it can sound. But these weren’t quite correct- like the ‘put on to play to tourist expectations’ thing.) I’m not saying that nobody sounds like that, but it’s more like what people sound like when they’re trying to sound Minnesotan- if that makes sense. If you’re interested in hearing a Range accent (from a mining region of the state with a different settlement pattern than the rest of the state and this some distinct accent/dialect features) I recommend the channel “Get in there outdoors.” The guy has a great Range accent. The only person I have ever heard who actually nailed a Minnesota accent and didn’t sound fake was Charlize Theron in the film ‘North Country’- happens to be set on the Range, but literally the only one I have personally come across to be able to sound like a local. Like , literally reminded me of one of my aunts. Edit 25:21 Yooper is actually *very* similar to Range because of the iron ore mining industry (and how they sourced workers in the very late 19th and early 20th centuries in both regions. So also fairly recent. The Range just has a bunch more immigrant countries of origin. It was said that in the first couple decades of the 1900s you could walk down the street in Hibbing and hear a dozen different languages- in a town of, iirc, less than 20,000 people not connected to any metropolitan area. The UP is the only place in the US with predominantly Finnish ancestry, but the nearby Iron Range is the only other place with a sizable population of Finnish descendants. You could easily find people who speak almost exactly like that in Hibbing. Wouldn’t sound out of place. -So the UP is not quite the only place you’ll find people talking like that 😉)

[@Uffda.]

The dialogue, btw, more or less verbatim) 😊 1: “So where you going to for Christmas?” 2: “Oh, well first we’re going to get the family together- we’re going to go to Famous Dave’s Barbecue. You know, around Calhoun Square. 1: “Oh, haven’t you been to Hibbing? Cuz Hibbing’s so nice, especially around this time of year.* You could go to Finley, or maybe you could go to Grand Marais.” 2: “You know, I have, but actually we were gonna go to Hinkley. Had you ever seen the museum there? Apparently the whole city caught fire once.” 1: ? (she’s trying not to laugh at this point in the skit so it’s a bit garbled) but she said something like: “Eugene” (a town)? It counted it as a location, so my best guess? Then, “the 494 to Mall of America.” (Highway I-494) (I suspect this was an attempt to rack up points at the end when she wasn’t sure how to roll it into the conversation?) *this is funny. The whole thing is apparently some kind of ‘Most Minnesotan contest’ sketch for the Colbert Show, so the ‘fake/exaggerated’ accent and comedy thing makes sense here. But Hibbing is up on the Range. At Christmas tim it would be real cold, and it’s like a forested mining region that’s pretty out of the way. Tourists come for lakes and outdoors stuff in the summer. But having the same inland climate as (some of the milder, to be fair) parts of Siberia, this is hilarious. No one besides people who live for ice fishing or dog-sledding or something would ever say this. 😂 So nice this time of year! And Hinkley is a popular spot to stop for a bite to eat on the route to Duluth from the metro area, and less a destination itself.

[@Zorgot.]

I was about to say- I haven't really heard anyone sound like that even though I lived in Minnesota all my life. But I've only lived in St Cloud and the Twin Cities area so ig I haven't heard much of Minnesota besides that

[@VICKIJOYANDERSON]

This was the comment I was looking for. I was born and raised in Minnesota and yes, we do have a very distinct accent (the long O being the most well known feature) but I have never heard anyone talking like the ladies in this example--not even my great grandparents who spoke English as a second language with a very thick Swedish accent.

[@donnaroberts281]

It was strange to have Taylor Swift doing the Fargo accent. And the woman before her from the Holderness Family video was doing a put-on accent too. It’s a shame that Ollie didn’t find clips of actual Minnesotans speaking. The Yooper accent was kinda put-on as well. It’s heavily influenced by the Finnish, Cornish and Italians who came to work the copper and iron mines in the Upper Peninsula. I’m from Michigan, but I don’t think I sound anything like Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

[@sarahpauline4904]

@@Uffda. Absolutely, I noticed with the taylor swift clip the way she pronounced out, people who live around me would say 'oat'. Just little things like that.

[@sandyjones45]

Massachusetts is in New England. By the way, you will never see "New England" on a map.

[@CG68810]

I am from Pittsburgh. The accent they did was the working class accent in Pittsburgh. It actually covers the entire region that includes Western & Central Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia &, part of Eastern Ohio.

[@babyfry4775]

That guy was Joe Manganiello from True Blood series and he’s from the burgh (as am I) and he was married to Sofia Vergara. He’s a big Penguins fan as am I. I don’t have the accent too bad but can go into it if I want to. Still use some classic words!

[@kilroy2517]

As an East Coaster, the Pittsburgh accent sounds to me like it's the love child of a NYC accent and a Chicago accent.

[@adahkopacko7304]

I'm from the Mon Valley in W PA. and people speak the same way in Eastern Ohio

[@melissabrecosky6520]

I have never heard anyone say our accent is beautiful before (Pittsburgh).

[@CG68810]

@@melissabrecosky6520 Me either. Most people say it hurts their ears! 🤣

[@kerim.peardon5551]

I'm from East TN (Cumberland Plateau accent). I don't think anyone outside of Louisiana can understand the Cajuns when they start Cajuning. The Outer Banks people aren't too hard to understand for me, though. Some of their speech is Appalachian dialect (of which Cumberland Plateau is a sub-type). The lady talking about ironing a dress sounds a lot like my mother's mother. She had that really deep dialect, where fire = far, iron = orn, etc. My mother's accent is probably about half her mother's level and mine is about half of hers. For instance, my grandmother would say "yeller," my mother "yella" and me "yellow." I still have just as much drawl as they have, but my pronunciation of the words themselves is closer to the way they're actually spelled.

[@dantean]

I went to school outside Boston after growing up in New York and BELIEVE ME, once you spend any time in both you totally know one accent from the other--they are NOT interchangeable. Love the vid, btw. 👍

[@esmooth919]

As an American, some of my favorite English accents to listen to come from my home town New York City, Britain, the Caribbean (especially Jamaican Patois), And I admittedly love the Midwestern accent as well.