Southern accents are tough

The only thing that could make a spelling bee harder is a strong Southern accent.
#sotrueyall #itsasouthernthing

[@toshawhatareyoudoing6410]

If the English language is the hardest language to learn, then Southern English is dern near impossible.

[@Bacopa68]

Some dialects of Southern US English, including the now dominant Inland Southern dialect are closer to the English of Shakespeare than any current dialect of southeastern England. A random Inland Southern speaker from a larger city in the South could easily understand a performance in the Globe Theater than any current person speaking any RP adjacent dialect in southern England. We did not lose our British accents. They gained theirs. Excuse me now; Me and my pal Billy Shakes are heading out on the town. That other time traveler just can't make himself understood.

[@weirdlanguageguy]

@@Bacopa68 there are definitely plenty of things about southern american english that are conservative, but there are also many, many innovations

[@Bacopa68]

@@weirdlanguageguy Wheteves. Yeah, we got innovations, but I still bet I could make myself understood to Shakespeare better than a contemporary person from Kent or Surrey could.

[@DavidCruickshank]

Language difficulty is generally based on what languages you know rather then a language being universally hard. E.g, Korean is easier for a Japanese person to learn and German is easier for an English person to learn.

[@jeremiahpace6533]

True it is but even harder is Texas English cause you got 7 different regions in Texas

[@TheKeenTribe]

I'm from NJ. My wife is from Pensacola. Our kids are bilingual.

[@wesleysturgis7356]

I've lived in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Ask me how I pronounce 'water' or 'get'. It all depends on whose listening.

[@TheKeenTribe]

@@wesleysturgis7356 Wudder?

[@marmitenot.]

Lol! I am too...dad from Buffalo, NY, mom from hicksville, Louisiana. 😁

[@TheKeenTribe]

I now live in southern Alaska. :)

[@TheKeenTribe]

@@wesleysturgis7356 I git a bucket of wudder from the crick

[@KellieAnn71]

This struck home. Having moved to Tennessee from Michigan as a very young child, I was in a second grade spelling bee. My word was "far". "F-a-r" I announced with pride and confidence. "Wrong!" said the teacher. "It CAN'T be wrong, I cried, "it only has THREE letters!" The teacher responded " No, it's FAR spelled f-i-r-e, like when you set something on far". I was incredulous (which is a word that would have been much easier to spell, I think)...

[@fosterfuchs]

The minister who married my wife and I (in Charlotte, NC) told us that the Three Wise Men wire firefighters. 'Cause it says in the Bible they came from afar.

[@KellieAnn71]

@@fosterfuchs 🤣🤣 Yes!

[@zac3392]

Well fer one thang, you wasnt fur off; for letters is only one more than three, thatta burnt me up like a house on far!

[@KellieAnn71]

@@zac3392 🤣🤣

[@belo621]

You are spot on🤣🤣

[@CoastalKite]

I once got corrected in Chicago for pronouncing 10 as “tin” instead of “ten”. And there were no BoBerry Biscuits nearby to calm my nerves. Bothers me to this day.

[@alanlight7740]

People who call carbonated beverages "pahp" don't have a right to correct anyone's language usage about anything. ;-)

[@jaykun182]

@@alanlight7740 what would you say? Pope??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@alanlight7740]

@@jaykun182 - where I live it's called soda or coke, but if we were to say pop we would pronounce it normally. ;-)

[@LukeRDavis]

@@jaykun182 Like Papa but you cut it off before the last "a"

[@wiman3332]

chicago doesnt have boberry biscuits?

[@CortexNewsService]

Matt: "Chesterdrawers" Kid: Yeah I'm out. Died laughing there

[@BxCortez2050]

killed meh

[@tippy651]

Same 😂🤣

[@derekfarley5899]

I was much older I learned things were more than one word: Chesterdrawers - "Chest of Drawers" Intensapurposes - "Intents and Purposes"

[@BxCortez2050]

Dying ... They had me a pen or pin or pein. ...

[@wdtaut5650]

I started laughing even before the girl left.

[@veejordan3788]

When practicing for my 3rd grade spelling bee my mom gave me the word "lion". I asked her, "Which one?" She was confused and said, "What do you mean which one? There's only one." I said, "Well, there's lion, as in the animal and then there's lyin', as in `You're lyin' to me´." She found that funny.

[@slcRN1971]

As soon as I read the word lion (as used in the South), I took it to mean lyin........example: “you better stop that there lyin!” That’s how my Kentucky relatives say and use this word.

[@qqq1q1qqqqqqq]

I was thankin it could be the chawk lion that thu poleece was a'drawin around that there dead body rightch over yunder. I am from East Texas. This is how my family talks. I often hang my head in shame (while covering my ears with my hands and humming, trying to drown out the sound of their voices). I am proud to be from the South, but I don't have to talk like it 😁😂😂

[@johnw2026]

@@qqq1q1qqqqqqq I feel your pain in a way. I live in Arkansas. I always thought we had a pretty thick southern accent here. Then we got a pastor from Texas. The words "cord," "chord," and "card" all have the same pronunciation to him. He buys cards for the church P.A. system, plays cards on his guitar. But that's not the worst of it. He invited an evangelist to come up from south Mississippi and preach. I thought I was gonna need a translator, his accent was so thick! 🤣😂

[@qqq1q1qqqqqqq]

@@johnw2026 Oh my goodness!!! On behalf of Texas, I am so sorry. 😜 Our former preacher would always say we are not to wary (worry). And he would say ...In Jesus Christ's name.... like Chritstis. He is an East Texas bumpkin. Guess it can't be helped sometimes. Blessings, John!!

[@johnw2026]

@@qqq1q1qqqqqqq Blessings to you as well. And Casey, don't forget to charge the batt'ry on that cardless microphone! 😂🤣

[@Emper0rH0rde]

The toughest thing in the world is for a non-southern person to imitate a southern accent in a way that doesn't sound insulting. I literally couldn't make it through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

[@annap7678]

You are SO RIGHT. It’s pretty excruciating to hear most actors try. It’s often way overdone or just “off” in undefinable (at least to me) ways

[@echt114]

Do you think Lucas Black sounds real?

[@JungleJim737]

I think the walking dead does a good job

[@inconnu4961]

so why even be offended? boredom? Just laugh and acknowledge that we are a nation separated by a common language!

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

@@JungleJim737 you must not be from the south a real southerner can hear the fake a mile away....... did you know the rick character was English? his fake attempt is awful

[@jennifermcguire8867]

I lived in Belgium for a while in a small village. My neighbors had me over for dinner and asked me why they could understand my English, I’m Californian, but the soldier that lived in my house before me , he was from Atlanta, was not understandable. I just chuckled. Our accents are worlds apart.

[@nathaliem9597]

At age 9 I moved from Belgium to Mobile Alabama not even speaking English only Flemish....the challenges I had...!

[@ATruckCampbell]

@@nathaliem9597 Some Belgian and some Alabama, you must have one hell of an interesting accent.

[@austinhawkins1443]

California is not southern…

[@jennifermcguire8867]

No shit Sherlock!!! The soldier that lived in my house before me was from Georgia he had an accent that the Belgian French speaker could not understand. Californians do not have accents.

[@jennifermcguire8867]

@Austin Hawkins- thoroughly read ones comment before commenting. That way you don’t look so ignorant of the English language.

[@janieclaypool9842]

I can’t remember exactly how old I was when I figured out the Chester drawers was really chest of drawers, but I was at least 35. Yes, I grew up in the South. Lol

[@NYD666]

I just learned that.

[@LisaHall1014]

@@NYD666 Same here bro

[@Ceares]

was an adult before I realized that osh potatoes were irish potatoes which were to differentiate them from sweet potatoes . I have no idea if that was common usage or not. I'm Texas by way of Louisiana it's a mash up

[@bethshadid2087]

Grew up hearing it all my life and still repeat it

[@sparrowwest9183]

Didn't you mean to say I can't remember "azachly" when

[@languagelearningdabbler]

I’m here for the sweet tea in a mason jar.

[@johnw2026]

High Five! 🤚

[@fosterfuchs]

You mean the jar of sugar with tea mixed in.

[@MtPilot-mh3zl]

How about Moonshine in a mason jar !!

[@johnw2026]

@@MtPilot-mh3zl no. Sweet tea. 😐

[@MtPilot-mh3zl]

@@johnw2026 Sweet Tea for chaser

[@genesisnaturevideos5427]

I was born in the north and raised in the south so I have a mix of influences. However, I was extremely confused when someone asked me in the store where the All was. I assumed they were talking about the laundry soap. Turns out they wanted to know where the oil was.

[@NicoleM_radiantbaby]

I was raised in Atlanta and one of my first jobs was at a grocery store (Winn Dixie -- LOL!). I was a 'courtesy clerk' (basically the fancy way of saying a 'bagger') and one of our jobs was to get the cigarettes from this locked cabinet for the cashiers for the customers they were ringing up. One day a woman asked me for 'Pall Mall' cigarettes. I'd never heard of them and her accent was a very thick Southern one and she just kept repeating 'PAAAAWWL MAAAAWWL' and I was just like a deer in headlights. Thankfully my manager came over and was just like 'Oh, Pall Mall?'' and then took me over to the cabinet and pointed them out to me. I was SO MORTIFIED!

[@13_cmi]

I was born in the south but raised like who knows. Definitely not a southerner

[@kenhayes3448]

In GA it was ohl

[@avalerie4467]

Lol. My grandma had just moved to Atlanta from Europe. Friend comes over and makes a request. Coffee made, brought out and accepted. They sit a spell. Friend fidgets after a while. Thank you. Very gracious. I really need your help. Can you help me with cahfeh ? Back to the coffee pot. Starts another brew. Friend comes in kitchen, figuring out the problem. Speaks slower Thank you, Honey, can you please loan me money for car fare ??? 😂 They laughed all the way home. Grandma just gave her a lift home !!

[@turn-n-burn1421]

I kind of split the difference there. I do say oil, but I don't accentuate the vowel. Sometimes I pronounce it OH el, and other times hoy l.

[@sherryjacobs3907]

When we moved to Georgia from Maryland my kids were 6 and 8. We all had a difficult time understanding what the southerners said most of the time. Seven years later we finally know what fixin' to git us some grits and boilt peanuts for supper means.

[@charliedaniel718]

Go back

[@dubyalast3734]

@@charliedaniel718 no.

[@corbinhbucknerjr558]

Only a yankee carpetbagging spy would have grits and boiled peanuts for supper.

[@johnd5398]

If they're eatin' that for supper, it means a long night on the toilet...

[@turn-n-burn1421]

I heard a comedian once make fun of a typical thing us southerners say. I probably still do it at times. "I'm fixin to get ready to..... The words are easy, but the sentence structure is 💩.

[@jeanbean1390]

When you said he's Southern because he's wearing Carhart with actual dirt on it, I literally spit my cereal out. Seriously. That was funny as hell 🤣🤣🤣

[@JTRtv]

next clue was the jar of tea lol

[@gretchenrednour8207]

If that makes you southern then I’m REALLY southern

[@pokeyboss429]

Me and the fellas joke about that at work all the the time. When we see all the nice clean carhartt stuff people wear these days

[@Praise___YaH]

Guys, HERE is Our TRUE Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"

[@desiraerivas9940]

@@gretchenrednour8207 - x. X z z,,Xz, ,, ,-, , z z,,,

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Why did the spelling bee champion go to the doctor? Irregular vowel movements

[@presau]

👏

[@jennifergragg1850]

I love this 😂😂

[@TheKeenTribe]

I absolutely love this channel! THAT IS EPIC !!!

[@southerndigest8996]

😂🤣

[@jcrefasi1]

Dad jokes FTW

[@pineappleunderthesea5731]

The teacher over our elementary school spelling bees LITERALLY had a bad speech impediment. Not worth it, man. Ah, public school.

[@johnd5398]

actually had a bad speech impediment*

[@partlycloudyoptimist809]

I can never tell if someone has a southern accent. It just sounds like regular talking to me. I’m Part Russian Part Rural Virginian. Raised in the hills all my life. I speak Russian... with a southern twang. Oh how that side of the family laughs. “ Have her talk for them!! It’s hilarious!” Thank you Babushka ( MeMaw).

[@kleinemaus6094]

Fellow Russian/Southerner! Add to it my family are Russian Romani so our version of Russian is catywumpus anyways lol.

[@tsugaru-writings]

And I suddenly want to hear your accent because it sounds like it would be 100000% amazing.

[@Sun_Dayzzz]

You'd be surprised how many young Americans know what babushka means

[@rivercat26]

@@Sun_Dayzzz Yeah lol I knew babushka but not MeMaw sjsbjsbsj

[@JohnWilliams-zu8wg]

Nostrovya, yall!

[@ausomtiger]

I lost the 8th grade spelling bee by spelling barbecue as "barbeque." My Southern roots betrayed me.

[@remaguire]

You were robbed!!! That's a valid spelling!

[@bethshadid2087]

Thought it could be spelled either way.....after all the sings say BBQ

[@stephaniearnold1738]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheKb117]

@@bethshadid2087 good point, ma'am... Noice!!!

[@annap7678]

I’ve definitely seen it spelled that way on signs. I AM from Louisiana though, so that spelling reflects the French influence and I bet you 20 Mardi Gras doubloons that “barbecue” was the original spelling.

[@katannep7798]

I’m not from the south, but totally grew up saying “Chester drawers”

[@jyow-xe7pw]

At the time I was 26, I had just moved out and looking for a dresser. So I went to the furniture store and asked for a Chester Drawers. They said you mean Chest of Drawers........ From NC btw

[@jcrefasi1]

I was in my 20's before someone told me I was saying it wrong!

[@ryanpate3535]

The word comes from Britten and is chest of drawers

[@patriciabentley850]

Me too

[@CTback]

Heard it as Cheshire drawer growing up.

[@genesiscda4847]

The real crazy part is that southern accents are so diverse from state to state! I’m in SC and NC accents are very different than ours, as are TN, MS and LA accents.

[@jamesrogers1554]

Heck they vary within the state itself. In VA people who live in Tidewater near the coast have a different accent than people who live in the central Piedmont. But then the mountain folk sound different from either of them.

[@floppy401]

@@jamesrogers1554 I've got the Piedmont accent and a slight bit of mountain in there as well, but the mountain folk sound damn near like they're from another country xD

[@blooddiamonds7834]

Born and raised in Cherokee,NC I can totally relate. Heck Bojangles can't even understand my order half the time and just say pull around to the window 😂

[@eddieboggs8306]

@@blooddiamonds7834 Been there. Done that.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I'm from NC and I don't think SC are THAT much different. There's some difference but my granddaddy was from Florence, SC and he sounded very similar to us in the Triad area of NC.

[@acts9531]

I had a flat tire in rural Tennessee. Changed it and took it to a garage. Asked the guy to fix it. He said "Yup, no parblem." Asked how long it would take. He said "Oh, 'bout uh air". I said "How long is an 'air'"? He said ... "Sitty minits, yah stewpid Yankee."

[@jb6712]

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a "Stupid Yankee," but was married to a Canadian man who was adopted by a Southern woman and a Michigan man (they were married, and I never did find out how they met, but it was right after WW2, I know that much). I learned to listen to, and then translate, Southern accents, so I wasn't terribly lost when the monster-in-law let her accent loose in anger (usually directed at me just for being northern).

[@twintwo278]

Omggggg😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@amysanchez3699]

Bostonians are annoying too. I had a guy working for me sent from a temp agency who said he needed a cot. I seriously asked if he was OK or needed to go home. He got angrier and kept screaming for a cot. Marched off and came back with a shopping cart like I was the crazy one.

[@CantankerousDave]

In Indiana, it's stick pin and ink pin. They're pronounced the same, so they came up with a way to specify.

[@ChibiPanda8888]

that's handy.

[@rachelmoody1520]

where in Indiana? I have lived there my entire life and I've never heard that before

[@marcushoward6560]

Same as where I live. I've never heard the two pronounced differently but even if they were, the two are so close, context is useful anyway.

[@jimbomclimbo7467]

Why dont you just say it correctly

[@cherry.basket]

@@jimbomclimbo7467 not sure if this is a joke or not but they can’t change it, it’s an accent and they were born with it

[@rickycoker5830]

My sister and brother in law want to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. At breakfast my brother in law ordered grits and sawsage. The waitress asked what country he was from. He said South Carolina.

[@lorenstribling6096]

I went to Vancouver on business and told someone I was from Mississippi. They asked what state that was in.

[@beckybryant6858]

Wahaha

[@catherinecooley3254]

Great reply.

[@dalesmyth7398]

Go into Canada, and try ordering a chicken fried steak or sweet tea. I got some looks. I told the gal how to fry it up, that didnt' work, then they brought me out a freaking aluminum can of tea.

[@tomsmith5216]

@@catherinecooley3254 I learned soon after going to the South while in the Army, never serve instant grits...

[@Rose-wg7hm]

*crys when Siri can’t understand your accent*

[@jimpemberton]

My family moved South from the Midwest when I was in the middle of the 5th grade, back in 1978. My first day in English class, I slid into the back row in the last remaining desk in the class right next to this pretty little blonde-haired girl in a frilly dress. At some point she asked me, and I'll spell it phonetically: "Kin ah borry a piyun?" I replied, "I don't have a pin." She laughed and said, "That thang yore holdin' in yore hayund, silly." "Oh! You mean 'pen'. Sure, you can borrow it," I said. A little later she said something about, "You shouldn't buy a pig in a poke." I looked at her like she was speaking a foreign language. She said, "A poke is a bayg lahk a growshry sayk." I was starting to understand that I had a lot to learn about the Southern language. But the story continues. I had never seen a tick before, and one came in the door in the back of the classroom and started making its way in front of my desk toward the pretty little blonde-haired girl. I though I might impress her with my fearlessness in squishing what I thought was a spider. So I got up and stepped on it. It paused a moment and continued its journey. Puzzled, and not wanting to be shown up by a little spider, I got back up and ground it under my foot a little bit. This didn't work at all. It still continued on its way. This whole time, the pretty little blonde-haired girl in the frill dress was watching me with a look of bemusement on her face. She finally spoke up. "Silly, you cain't squeesh it. You gotta poke it with a piyun." I had a lot to learn about the Southern language.

[@wdtaut5650]

Overheard a Mississippian say to a Yankee, "Caint chall tawk raaht?"

[@Dappersworth]

That southern accent makes me want to vomit.

[@jimpemberton]

@@Dappersworth Not sure why. It's just a variation in the language. Nothing more. I hear it everywhere, like when I hear a difference between regional dialects of Arabic or especially in India. I was in Bangaluru teaching a small group of people how to use an MRP system I developed for their plant. They each spoke at least 5 languages: English, Kannada, Tamil, Telegu, and Hindi. They would occasionally discuss some concepts among themselves and switch to an alternate language, or mix of languages. At one point, I picked up that they were actually speaking mostly English, but doing so so quickly and with such a heavy accent that I could barely understand them. Nevertheless, it was English. Their linguistic skills put me to shame and among themselves it was very efficient. So I have learned to appreciate regional dialects and accents.

[@frigglebiscuit7484]

@@Dappersworth i bet your accent or lack of one is quite disturbing itself. just remember, you tell a southerner that to their face, youre gonna go home with your feelings hurt

[@Dappersworth]

@@frigglebiscuit7484 lol you think I don't know that?

[@D1sNeYfAn4EvEr]

Now, I know I'm not the only one who thought the word he was looking for was "pEn"

[@monikasannoh7517]

He would have said ink pen if that were the case.

[@tracigresham7164]

Or he could have been talking about pee-n (peeing)😂

[@michaelmerck7576]

I would have gone with pin because Matt emphasizes the point putting your eye out

[@CortexNewsService]

Same here

[@D1sNeYfAn4EvEr]

@@michaelmerck7576 Correct, but wouldn't a writing pen do the exact same thing, if the point was out?

[@wesleysturgis7356]

The mason jar with the sweet tea (southern water bottle) was a nice touch.

[@leegraves101]

I thought it was a spit jar at first

[@wesleysturgis7356]

@@leegraves101 "It's A Southern Thing" is good about staying away from smoking, drinking and chew and I greatly appreciate that.

[@tracigresham7164]

@@wesleysturgis7356 But.... I thought I heard one of them say a cuss word a time or two before & mentioned or referenced to drinking before.

[@tracigresham7164]

@@wesleysturgis7356 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@wesleysturgis7356]

@@tracigresham7164 If'n they did, I missed it.

[@painfish208]

Growing up in the South with a mostly neutral US accent, I was eventually able to deduce that it was a very southern drawl saying “chest of drawers” - when I was 27.

[@ijustdocomments6777]

Maybe the first generation to screw it up was saying "chest of drawers", but I guarantee anyone saying it that way now is genuinely saying "chesterdrawers".

[@kenhayes3448]

Me too

[@wayneeddy3261]

I was so expecting Matt to give the word "y'all"...👍😂😂

[@NewOrleansGrey1]

I love the fact that “cattywampus” was on the list!

[@djawnsjhilson218]

I love that caddywompus is on there too!

[@skyydancer67]

What is that? Would older Floridians have said that before Florida became the wonder it is?

[@djawnsjhilson218]

@@skyydancer67 I think it means crooked, out of alignment. Anyone have any other meanings? Uh oh, the living room is all caddywompus! Better pick up in here before mom gets home.

[@NewOrleansGrey1]

@@skyydancer67 “Cattywampus” Adjective - Southern meaning of something crooked, askew, or just ain’t right. Example: “Hank, next time you put up a shelf use a level because it’s all cattywampus.”

[@erinwillyard3274]

@@djawnsjhilson218 I grew up hearing my Grans and Granny saying kiddywompus for small things like picture frames but kaddywompus for big things like a foundation being messed up from a storm

[@kelcidavis8013]

Anyone else never have a spelling bee at their school, but wondered what it was like....🤚🏾ME.

[@avad4244]

no sadly

[@christycook7805]

We started in our classroom and then the winners of each room would be pitted against each other. I was cast out in the first round in the classroom.

[@CorreaoFyrestarr]

Yeah, it’s not fun, and they trick 5th grade you with words like guerrilla, when you don’t even know there is more than the animal.

[@jeremiahpace6533]

Yes and i sucked bad at it cause i could not say my r's for the most part i can now but still get tongue twisted

[@fernandod4046]

My teacher had a British accent for that.

[@choirkitty]

In PA - DJEET? did you eat? Lol!

[@turn-n-burn1421]

Jeff Foxworthy used to pretty much have it nailed, with jeet chet?

[@katannep7798]

When I was in our 5th grade spelling bee, the teacher said the word “yearn”, but the way she said it made it sound like “urine”... so all of us kids took turns trying to spell urine in a variety of ways. I don’t know how she kept a straight face!

[@allaboutthemurzic]

yern

[@kenhayes3448]

well I have to that you can say how are urine doing?

[@piggynatorcool668]

Urn

[@justincase1919]

That's cuz of the state urine.

[@barbs-q]

How about "Is that pen yern's?"

[@suem6004]

We moved to the south when I was in fourth grade. I ran home crying that my teachers cannot speak English. ‘Put up your peeen?’ Huh? We actually got a southern dictionary.

[@MountainGirl420]

Ho do you like it now???

[@vivianblakely8573]

Sue, me too! It took me a while to get used to southern dialect.

[@MountainGirl420]

@Derek Jackson So accurate! It's a very harsh, nasal, exasperated way of speaking. Are you still in the South, Derek? And how do we compare to BAHSTON? Lol

[@MountainGirl420]

@Derek Jackson According to my proper Appalachia mountain accent, they DO rhyme. I never say to the ladies & make athletes in my family “Y’all wanna take a waLk after supper?” It’s never been said. Please God, tell me they at least set you right on pronouncing Appalachian “app-uh-latch-un”. My Alma Mater.

[@oyecommonii7870]

same! I moved from New Jersey to Georgia and it took me a while to get used to the southern accent.

[@2PimpsADream]

I'm from south GA. I lost in the 1st round on the word "endow." I thought the judge said "endial," cause he was SUPER southern. It still haunts me to this day. I'm 44. lol

[@zac3392]

I feel ur pain. I’m 45, I went to the state spelling bee in 5th grade and went to final round. Next year, first round at the school, I get “mascara...” No clue... I used a q somewhere, and probably some numbers...

[@TyrelWhilden]

Hierarchy got me.

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

My 8th grade English teacher liked to pronounce the state we live in and the state fruit (Florida and Orange respectively) with an A sound in place of the O, which always pissed me off. He also pronounced sentient as sen-shint for some ungodly reason too. Sen-she-int makes sense, I've heard literally everyone else say sen-tee-int, myself included, where did he get the idea to say sentient like that? I mean I guess it's different here since it's less "what word are they even saying?" and more "who says it like that?"

[@cristianz7]

The kid with glasses did a great job. Great acting 👏

[@licitchaos]

I lost a spelling bee to the word "ranch" because I thought she said "wrench"

[@e_e550]

Judge: pen Me: I don’t know anything

[@thekingking4254]

XD

[@celiab.french4627]

Our office has people from LA, MS, FL, SC, NC, TN, an VA... The word "for" is pronounced using a different vowel depending on who you're talking to.

[@michaelmayo2489]

As a native South Carolinian I can tell you this is true here we say fooor and really drag out that o

[@bethshadid2087]

Here in Georgia (with alabama) it's fer

[@johnmuse6626]

@@bethshadid2087 Fer is a distance measurement in Tennessee. 'It's a pretty fer stretch to Uncle Clyde's house."

[@zd3365]

"Eight" and "ate" where I'm in NC. I've found I really need to stress the "t" on the "eight" when speaking on the phone...only to have the person on the other end of the line ask me if I'm okay. And depending on the call, "ache" also gets thrown in the mix.

[@localsatanist]

u for me lol

[@Youtubeuser20225]

I was failing my spelling tests in 1st grade. My mom (who has no accent) asked me what the problem was because I did well when we practiced at home. My teacher was from georgia. I told my mom the teacher didn’t say the same words she did. 😄😆

[@Juacline]

This hits home. I failed the 4th grade spelling bee because I spelled court instead of quart.

[@PsychedelicChameleon]

I once had to explain to a friend that in other parts of the country, the two words "pen" and "pin" sound different from each other.

[@bethshadid2087]

Yes they do

[@suzannew4239]

I had to do the same! 😂

[@elizabethb9551]

Ummmm.... not in my world 😂😂😂

[@echt114]

Yes, E and I are different letters, like with "bid" and "bed." Looks like it would be pretty obvious.

[@BobPapadopoulos]

@@echt114 Those also sound pretty much the same.

[@shanegainer9640]

Totally the best line: “I’m out...”

[@usmapiper88]

I grew up in Virginia. My wife grew up in Idaho. Even after 30 years she still has to ask me what kind when I ask for a pin or pen. She also gives me grief because where I'm from, crayon is pronounced the same as crown.

[@delaney6413]

Also grew up in south-easern VA, but I say them distinctly different.

[@HunterShows]

Why would you be asking for a pin anyway?

[@usmapiper88]

@@HunterShows because I need a long pointy thing that holds another thing in place. But normally when I ask for a pen, she thinks I say pin

[@HunterShows]

@@usmapiper88 You must need pins a lot.

[@usmapiper88]

@@HunterShows definitely not as often as I need a pen

[@DevilTravels]

Yea, I'd like to see an actual southern spelling bee. North vs South.

[@beverlyhigh620]

I was done raised by Southerners, I "warsh" everything!

[@idkwhoknew908]

I use that word all the time,, Because that is the way I say WASH..

[@sophierobinson2738]

Warsh things with a rag. Warsh rag for baths, Dish rag for warshing dishes.

[@kleinemaus6094]

Thats more a slightly southern midwestern thing I think. Only people Ive ever heard say it that way were in Missouri (born and raised)

[@beverlyhigh620]

@@kleinemaus6094 My Alabama born and raised Granny would be insulted

[@faithsue2354]

One time I was out because I thought she said court and it was quart. It’s a real thing down here. (Edit, this happened when I was in third grade, and it’s haunted me ever since.)

[@marywebb_22]

Ohhh no 😆

[@shenanigann1449]

Spendthrift.....I heard spinthrift....like it's not a word, but I spelled what I heard. 🤣

[@Allyne42]

Wait. How do YOU say quart? Is it like “quark” with a t?

[@faithsue2354]

@@Allyne42 it’s pronounced like court but with “qu” sound at the beginning

[@wakeup6995]

Quarter is also pronounced "korder."

[@savvy_592]

That girl is so pretty though! I also died when she said “yeah I’m out” LMAO

[@googleuser2426]

This is so hilarious. I am dyslexic and southern...and believe me spelling has been a life long struggle!!! Lol

[@spicydramarama852]

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17.

[@emilyanne1311]

This may or may not have just gotten shared to a group chat of former spellers...

[@kellyjoevans223]

I grew up eating aigs and bacon for breakfast. Didn't have eggs and bacon til highschool. My mom also uses a "pancake turner" not a spatula.

[@godloveswomen2672]

I still call it a pancake turner and have to explain what I mean sometimes🤣

[@annap7678]

That’s right! I’d forgotten about that. We used to call it “pancake turner” too! At some point it just became “spatula.”

[@stonewall01]

My grandmother always called it a "flipper."

[@isabelpeirce4803]

I got teased sm for saying “aigs” in school😭

[@Steadfast_Steady_Strong]

Yes! My husband says, “aigs!” It makes me laugh every time! He also lays his head on a “pellow.”

[@jbw53191]

I was once babysitting my little nephew from Texas and he asked me "Where's my type?" Me: "Your what?" "My type!" He meant "tape."

[@stillwatersfarm8499]

Me with a linguistics degree trying to teach my child to read - puh - eh -nn - pen (emphasis on eh). Him - oh “pin”. You can’t train the south out of a family even when they live in the Midwest 🤣

[@turn-n-burn1421]

Living in the Midwest currently for the last 6 years, being from Tennessee, I ain't got no plan to lose my accent. Unfortunately I'm so old now, I can't charm the women, although I've only seen a couple of lookers, by calling them Miss (whatever their name is) My wife hates that I call a lot of women darlin' but call her booger. She doesn't understand that booger doesn't go to just anyone. Darlin' in the south is kind of universal. Where I worked, we had to pass through a guard shack to enter and leave, and there was a black female security guard, who used to call everyone honey or baby. My wife would overhear on the phone and think she was flirting. I told her she calls everyone that.

[@collegebro85]

I got a word for ya, wash machine, pronounced “warsh mah-sheen” here in Tejas...

[@Banapis]

...or in some parts of Tennessee, warsher machine. 😄

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

If yinz are from Pittsburgh, it's a worsher, or the more formal: worshin machine. Use in a sentence: "Ay, yinz gonna help me redd up iss mornin and do the worsh? It's been sittin dahn 'air for 3 days n'at. Geeze Louise, dont make me tell yinz kids again for crine aht laud. 😉

[@jimmychandler586]

Ain't that the darn truth

[@CantankerousDave]

Around Peoria, IL, they say "worsh" for anything containing "wash." Worshington, do the worsh, Worshburn...

[@LilyGarden528]

Now in my part of the lone star state. We say Warsheen Masheen. I think it depends on you geography it's a big ole state. Still very similar tho.🤔😂

[@adrianchatman5734]

He's wearing Carharts with actual dirt on them.🤣

[@druid_zephyrus]

Chester's drawers In a sentence: Chester's drawrs are in the dresser drawers. Origin: Down at the Wal-marts

[@godloveswomen2672]

Walmarks😉

[@bubbiesdad]

"Down to" the WalMart's

[@sarahsanders7127]

@S Ragsdale chifferobe???

[@amystrickland6876]

THE Walmart’s! You, sir speak fluent Southernese.

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

I sympathize, kid, I was screwed over by pin/pen too. One day years ago my manager at Starbucks said “Hey, you’ve been here 5 years now! Your anniversary p?n is going to come in the next delivery.” I was really looking forward to it, having a cool pin I could wear on my hat or apron, or even on my shirt when I wasn’t working if it was pretty enough... It was a pen, though, which stopped working after3 days because coffee dust gets *everywhere*

[@Menolly1233]

I'm not sure how he missed it. A pen is never in a drawer. It's in a desk. A pin is in the drawer

[@TheKeenTribe]

It depends where you're from. :)

[@paulwayne8367]

Please stop, I'm frim the Midwest and I can barely hang on.

[@TheKeenTribe]

@@paulwayne8367 The midwest accent is like the land; it's flat, straight, and goes on forever. :)

[@SRPDunn]

what if it's pin money?

[@usa3479]

My pens 🖊 are all over the house and my pins are with my sewing 🪡 kit.

[@sketchyskies8531]

Me: *doesn't even know what the first word means*

[@Canalcoholic]

I was 63 years old when I learned what autochthonous means. A day when you learn nothing new is a day wasted.

[@sofiabranco8544]

A species native of a certain area. Could be plants, animals,...👍🏼

[@tracigresham7164]

Well, today I just learned something new 😁

[@annap7678]

@@sofiabranco8544 Could be people-Southerners, Texans, Floridians, Georgians Maybe the word wasn’t randomly chosen. It probably was, but it relates

[@doomsdayaddams2894]

No joke, I thought “potluck” was the Northern word. We always call them “covered-dish suppers” here.

[@LeannWebb61]

We always called them “dinners” or if it’s at church “dinner on the grounds”

[@juanita_rocksteady2761]

I'm a southerner that lived in Indiana, they call them pitch-ins.

[@rivercat26]

I'm from the west-coast, I had no idea there was any other name than potluck

[@doomsdayaddams2894]

@@LeannWebb61 Oh man, “dinner on the grounds” takes me back too.

[@HikariFortes]

I was an adult before I realized that the small stand that goes next to your bed is called an end-table and not an intable 😭

[@annap7678]

Hmmm... I’m from Louisiana and if these pieces are in a living room they are “end tables” or sometimes “sofa tables.” If they are in a bedroom, however, we have traditionally called them “night stands”... but as I type this I can now see one or two reasons why this designation might best be avoided.

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

I always knew that as a night stand

[@anthonyreed3682]

" Talia Lin's daughter" great stage name :) I watched this twice, it's funnier the second time around.

[@thegodlessvulcan]

Well shoot me. Receipt might have the PIN number on it showing the last three digits. Over thought it.

[@katespencer4038]

When my parents moved from upstate NY to Ga I got a phone call from my youngest brother still at home. He was so up set " his teacher spoke a foreign language" and he was afraid he was going to fail 6th grade

[@alanlight7740]

At the end of 6th grade a small group from the "talented and gifted" class at my rural North Carolina school took a tour to Europe organized by the school. My mother was one of the chaperones. On our way to Brussels we had a layover in New York City. I had previously grown up in a university town and had furthermore visited northern states and even Canada during summer vacations, so I was familiar with a wide variety of English pronunciations - but several of my peers had only been out of the state because they lived next to the state line (with South Carolina). So although i didn't have any problems several of them went off to some of the shops at the airport and came back to my mother crying. They said that they knew that they wouldn't be able to understand anyone once they got to Europe, but they hadn't expected it to happen before they left the United States.

[@katespencer4038]

@@alanlight7740 love it 😂

[@canavero4288]

@@alanlight7740 i laughed way too hard at this

[@bethlee8968]

My husband grew up saying "skeewhompus", while I have always used "cattywhompus". It's one of our petty arguments. Every time I hear / see cattywhompus used, I point it out to him and feel as though I have won the argument all over again....

[@auntl1]

My New Yorker friend insists that skeewhompus isn't a real word. The Yank...

[@cmyk8964]

What the bloody hell is a “skeewhompus”

[@bethlee8968]

@@cmyk8964 it's a synonym for cattywhompus.

[@cmyk8964]

@@bethlee8968 What the fresh hell is that

[@tweetthang96]

Y'all got my drawl comin out!

[@TheKeenTribe]

It's A Southern Thing: This is a Top 10! Fantastic job!!! Blessings from southern Alaska!

[@KaiM2583]

Those kids are better actors than some of the actual Hollywood actors. Very well done!

[@kynn23]

I seriously feel bad for the kid spelling "pen/pin." He looks so dejected.

[@annap7678]

I thought so too! His expressions and hesitations, removing his glasses and wiping his face with his sleeve, the way he put a slight questioning into the letter “E” were just perfect for the stressful and strange situation he was in.

[@okesoncharlie]

You guys are hilarious 😂. You make me laugh so hard, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@CuriousGinger]

I was born in the south and I can relate😂 You guys are awesome!

[@sabrinaedde4024]

This is the most hilarious thing I've seen ever

[@rebeccahenderson7054]

“Chester drawers” lol yup. It’s a “chest of drawers” but every kid (including me) that grew up in the South thought it was “chester” until adulthood.

[@rivercat26]

I keep seeing comments about this, but we don't even say "chest of drawers" on the west coast? It's a piece of furniture that you keep your clothes in, right?

[@ijustdocomments6777]

My family drops the 's'. A "chesterdrawer" is that big piece of furniture with all the drawers in it that's somehow different from a "dresser", perhaps due to its vertical alignment.

[@ijustdocomments6777]

@@noneofyourbusiness3096 Ah, for us a "hutch" is the weird shelf/cabinet thing you put plates and knickknacks on in the kitchen.

[@calliehall8034]

Y'all should make s video on how southern grandmas drive!🤣🤣

[@BelowTheYellowLine]

Won my school spelling bee a couple years ago in 6th grade. I live in Arkansas and our town is small so our superintendent was the reader. She had such a southern accent (as we all do here in the Natural State) but we could hardly understand here. I got out at the White County bee, but at least we got Pizza Hut!

[@spicydramarama852]

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17.

[@colorfulldeath]

Such a good, clean humorous joke. This, this indeed put a smile on my face, a chuckle in my belly, and a bit of warmth on my cheeks. 10/10

[@j.darrel517]

This was a genius skit. these guys just never fail to amuse. Keep them coming y'all. Haha

[@IEnattI]

I actually witnessed this, when a girl from New Zealand needed a pen and a poor receptionist from the US had no idea what she wants from her :-D

[@djawnsjhilson218]

At an international call center, Puts customer on hold,"what is zed, what is ZED?!"

[@MrMoridinalthor]

That's one of the easiest ways to differentiate New Zealand and Australian accents. Aussies don't say their e's like i's.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I win every spelling bee I'm a god

[@tylerlewiswardle]

I KNEW he was gonna say “I reckon it’s this piece of paper right here” before he said it lol

[@alocinnospmoht4063]

This reminds me of my mother; she’s from Jamaica and moved to America and she’s been here for years (25?) but she’s retained her accent the entire time. When my sister was younger, we had a door in front of the front door of our house that she called the “staam door”, since that’s what our mother said it was, and whenever she said it, my sister and I were like “oh yes, the staam door”. I’m a full adult now and I only learned three years ago that it’s spelled “storm door”, not “staam door”.

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

Oh my goodness I think I peed my shorts laughing. Best channel on KZbin.

[@avabrant4503]

you didn’t even watch the full video-

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

@@avabrant4503 yes I did.

[@avabrant4503]

@@MrsAlmaTrumble you posted your comment two mins after the vid was posted, the video is 4 mins long?

[@avabrant4503]

@@MrsAlmaTrumble also i like your profile picture, good on your family 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

@@avabrant4503 I watch and comment as I watch the video.

[@Socasmx]

Matt needs to do a lesson on long and short vowels Southern style.

[@voltastudios5226]

I actually had this very word catch me out in boarding school, thirteen miles from Manhattan. As the only Southerner ever to have attended, I asked one of the other girls for a "pen" which I pronounced "pin". She promptly loud and proudly "Yank-plained" the difference (thanks Pamela). After that, I learned to change my accent on the plane. When your eleven, it's just easier.

[@spicydramarama852]

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17.

[@corbinhbucknerjr558]

I have refused my whole life to let anyone shame me about my heritage, my accent, or where I am from. I've known too many Southerners who let some know it all with their own stupid accent bully them into changing to suit them. It's a rotten shame. Southerners need to stick up for themselves more. I don't recall any time in my life hearing a Southerner insult some yankees accent, but I have yet to go north of the Mason Dixon that at least one yankee will literally mock me to my face about my accent.

[@corbinhbucknerjr558]

@@spicydramarama852 That's truly wonderful, but so out of context here.

[@avoria13]

Y’all laugh but this actually happened to me for the county spelling bee as a kid. That lady pronounced atone like attune and I just got so confused

[@donDiegoEstebanMgLKenNDJohnson]

Origin of the word please? This item is commonly found in a Danish Butter cookie tin.

[@LilyGarden528]

You have met my grandmother I see.😂

[@JTRtv]

We were at the dollar store the other day and I saw them cookies and asked the wife if she needs a new sewin kit

[@donDiegoEstebanMgLKenNDJohnson]

@@JTRtv That sure sounds like one of them fancy dollar stores. We only have the dollar stores that magically grow from carefully placed bales of hay beside a highway.

[@JTRtv]

@@donDiegoEstebanMgLKenNDJohnson nah it was a dollarama. round these parts, they magically grow beside walmarts

[@michaeldalessandro3020]

Another awesome video well done Matt Mitchell

[@peaches15]

And all the southerners say it with me now , "bless y'alls heart" 😊

[@big70booty]

Yeah, had flashbacks on this one...my word was "genes" and I spelled "jeans"...it was the '80s it could have gone either way...they mixed up the words so they weren't going in order, I forgot to ask for a definition/sentence.

[@CantankerousDave]

"Solder" caught me once.

[@djawnsjhilson218]

Orchard and orchid for me. I was in speech too. For my R's.

[@KettuKakku]

@@djawnsjhilson218 ...which one did you think was the other?

[@djawnsjhilson218]

@@KettuKakku I didn't think they were the same word visually but I couldn't hear the difference, because I couldn't speak the difference.

[@kale6921]

Now we need one with a Wisconsin accent

[@prettypointlessvideo]

This is great how the whole video is themed i love it

[@firebladetenn6633]

My mom and I were somewhere up north helping a friend move. We were staying at a relatively nice hotel and were having some breakfast when I look over to see three young lady’s staring at us as if we were the most fascinating thing they’d ever seen. Suddenly one reaches out to us like an excited kid, “Say something!!” My mom and I looked at eachother realizing why they wanted us to talk. So.. “I do declare mamma, I think these little things haven’t heard a southern accent befoow.” Think of those stereotypical old fashion rich southern family’s. Mamma caught on to what I was doin and smiled, trying not to laugh, and we had only one more sentence before we bust out laughin. It took a short bit before those northern girls caught on to what happened and blushing they left. Mom and I have laughed at that memory for a long time now and probably forever. All I gotta do to make her laugh is say “I do declare mamma.”

[@blackcatstho8666]

Oh God this is giving me flashbacks to 5th grade when I won my class spelling bee and went to county finals, and got stumped by how the presenter said "catch." Sounded like ketchup. I'd never heard it said like that before in my life.

[@zac3392]

I went to the state spelling bee in 5th grade and went to final round. Next year, first round at the school, I get “mascara...” No clue...

[@InDisskyS131]

@@zac3392 This is the second time I’ve seen you post this comment and still have no clue what you’re talking about.

[@spicydramarama852]

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17.

[@stanwolenski9541]

Pin as in ink pin? Flyers as in I got me a bunch of flyers for my wife on her birthday.

[@fireball1518]

WAIT just a danged minute! What fresh batch of Granny's hale are y'all tawkin' about? We warsh arr carhardt!! 😆 🤣 😂 👍 👌 Great job! Funny as ...HALE!! Keep 'em coming!

[@Braedenfish]

Why them 2 lil churns deserves en ward fer actin'! So cute!

[@faithcastillo9597]

" Thisun" was on your list, too, right?

[@CantankerousDave]

"Yermomanem."

[@faithcastillo9597]

@@CantankerousDave you know it!

[@ryanstockdale3413]

I love how he checks the list again to make sure he spelled pin right😂

[@GeekandGlory]

Omg this hits home! My grandpa was from SC so my mom pronounces some words with a southern accent and I do too. Go ahead and and this one along side worsh.

[@OnePassingMoon]

The definition def helped me out

[@BoyAditya]

That boy's got instant depressed 🤣