Texas Twang

[@texasturner2313]

People should be proud of their accents. No matter where you're from.

[@maryplaidy6814]

I'm proud of my Southern accent. Why should I not?

[@envy690]

Texas Turner We Texans ARE proud of our accents. We love having them. However, we can no longer hear them when speaking to one another. It’s more pronounced to people outside of Texas.

[@USA00STEVEN]

If i had a texan accent, i'd never shut up.

[@doc7785]

Most of us don't 😀

[@michellecrybaby7662]

Bless your heart. I'm pure Texan and wouldn't have it any other way.

[@xanox23]

I from texas but I got a new york accent 😭😭😭

[@sethshepherd3221]

@@doc7785exactly!

[@rebel8114]

I lived in East Texas until my teens. Now I live in Ft. Worth. Different accents. Texas has a few different accents. East Texas is the end of a deep South accent.

[@wades2132]

I always say it’s a southern accent that doesn’t even try anymore.

[@demonmyshira]

As a young child with Dyslexia entering into kindergarten in the early 80s in the DFW area, I could not spell at all. THAT older texan twang got me every time. Teachers kept trying to tell me to "sound it out". Wellll.... for example when "wash" sounds like "warsh" with the mid texan accent, of course everything I spelt was wrong. Damned accent adding in letters or missing letters like the "rt" in Fort Worth. Or the "o's sounding more like "a" or "aw". Couldn't spell for anything until we moved out of Texas and lived in California for a couple years and was able to "drop" the accent. Now as an adult I tend to "sight read" 95% of the time... and still have trouble "sounding out" unfamiliar words to be able to pronounce them. Sometimes I still catch myself mixing in that texan accent and messing me up, LOL.

[@sjs-stev]

We used to joke that Fort Worth was spelled just like it sounds-Foat wuth 😂

[@soflynolitherealest7908]

I'm from Austin TX, and I love my accent. I'm tired of explaining to Californians what fixin to means. If you come to my city, you're the one who should conform not the other way around.

[@samypons3185]

you're doing great job

[@olir6910]

Californian here. I love the texan accent. I can understand it perfectly

[@sjs-stev]

My friend from California told me that fixin’ to and the way we say “it’s farther on down” or “fuhther on down” instead of further really mixed her up.

[@kenzie1256]

When my mom moved from East Texas (Lufkin) to Dallas, she worked super hard to lose her accent. It still slips out when she’s tired or mad lol.

[@stickofbutter4043]

Hate that. I love the accent.

[@valerieaustin5432]

What we need is all the generations of Texas dialogues. Come on, let’s get 1 of every generation and show the real

[@gailgray2438]

Austin is no longer Texas. It's now a bunch of imports, pisses me off that those of us with authentic Texas roots would be ridiculed .

[@mattman6759]

Gail Gray Austin Houston Dallas all blue areas now with nothing but big mouth yankees!!!

[@coril9547]

The only "authentic roots" that are being criticized are the unethical ones.

[@doc7785]

@@mattman6759 there is a few here in Houston holding strong.... But it ain't getting no easier.....

[@paladinsix9285]

Back in '04, I came from Western Washington state (born in Seattle, but moved to a more rural area in the 90's); and served in combat with a Company of the Mississippi Rifles, from the Gulf Coast. They called anyone from North of Jackson, a "Damnyankee!" Considering where I came from, they called me a "Gawddamned Canadian!" I could understand all but a few of the Cajuns... a dozen years in the South, mostly at Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, or MacDill AFB, taught me the lingo. I can mimic it pretty well too.

[@CoolArrow78233]

This makes me sad, the accent needs to be encouraged not critiqued. #bringitback

[@ronmcmillan5667]

Found this video searching for Appalachian dialect in Texas. The Lady shown in BW film sounds just like my mother n law. Watching further I found out why, Eastern TN connection. Be proud of your dialect. Still consider that area home.

[@crazyplantkatie]

That last interview, Ernestine Robertson mentioned Collin County and as someone raised in Collin (technically born in Dallas because that's where my mom's OB/GYN was) and proud of Collin and my home city of Plano, I would like to hear more. I worked for 6 months at the Plano Interurban Railway Museum and learned SO MUCH about Collin and Plano history. I believe Collin County was the only county in Texas to vote against secession during the Civil War

[@sjs-stev]

People in Houston call Dallas South Oklahoma 😂

[@danilaird8360]

Why would you want to get rid of your accent? It's where you come from. Who the heck cares who likes it and who doesn't?! Especially the Texan accent.

[@HeavymetalHylian]

Because people will treat you like you're dumb because southern accents are used for stupid characters on tv. They just associate southern accents with being stupid.

[@adamleite4707]

I particularly love that accent.

[@monalisa4878]

My grandma and biology teacher talk with the more east Texas accent

[@br549times3]

This is because central Texas is a "melting pot" of different people. People coming from other countries, the north, California, etc.. All the accents rub off on each other. Eventually, we won't have an accent, because we are all going to talk the same. If you go to some other part of Texas, like Kilgore, TX, you will hear that true accent.

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

It is imperative to refuse the marxist melting pot narrative and to express traditional values

[@monalisa4878]

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess lmao nothing wrong with cultural sharing, and that's not inherently Marxist

[@sjs-stev]

My mother was from there.

[@JLil]

It’s extremely difficult to be taken seriously in a professional setting if I sound like I just wandered out of the woods in Quinlan, TX. I can tell a substantial difference in my accent post-college, and especially now that I’ve lived in a more metropolitan setting as opposed to my being born and raised in Hunt County. Don’t worry. It always comes back when I’m tired, drinking, or anywhere outside of the city. :)

[@sjs-stev]

I changed my speech patterns because I went to college and worked in a college. But now that I’m over 60, I’m tired of doing that and I’m beginning to slip back into my native speech. I guess it helps that I don’t care what anyone thinks about it anymore. 😅

[@SheaHarris]

It is true that you can change it easily. I can speak with a thick tang or more neutral. Depends on mood/situation.

[@sjs-stev]

It depends on who you’re with, too

[@valeriavagapova]

3:02 _"to pronounce the word "face" as "face" - did you hear that difference?"_ me, a hopeless non-native speaker: _No..._ :(

[@JLil]

Valeria Vagapova “face” vs. “faice”

[@bancoran]

"Face" vs "Fuh-ace"

[@Jess1234]

Transplants ruined Austin..

[@abdulbasit-cn9ek]

3:04 exactly how an Australian pronounces this word.

[@charitybardot4600]

The lady in the video sounds a lot like some of my kinfolks did . I have been told I have a Dallas city accent.I was raised around the North Dallas area and I cant change the way I pronounce some of my words .

[@AtariForeva]

Keith Urban took all of what's left of twang for his songs.

[@paladinsix9285]

From Australia?

[@stevehammel2535]

That is the way we used to talk until the Yankees moved here

[@danilaird8360]

This "yankee" loves Texas and pretty much all the South

[@jonahs92]

@@danilaird8360 Texas is not part of the South.

[@Tripps2564]

@@jonahs92 Statistically its the South-Central Region, so it is a part of the South

[@jonahs92]

@@Tripps2564 Nope. The US Census Bureau doesn't know what they're talking about. Texas is distinct.

[@calebhowell7008]

@@danilaird8360 y’all bunch of carpetbaggers and Yankee dominated tv has just about destroyed the Texan dialect. Thanks for that.

[@TheMichaelStarbuck]

I learned today that I have a conservative twang to my accent.

[@gaborkevlar2821]

the original Texas accent was the best, go back to that,

[@sjs-stev]

I’m very sad to see the Texas accent fade away. I remember the way my East Texas family spoke in the 60’s-70’s, but now my Midwestern Husband doesn’t even believe me when I try to explain it to him. My stepfather tried to make sure we didn’t pick up our mother’s East Texas accent by making us say words and punished us for saying “lack,” instead of like, or back instead of bike. We learned to speak Texas slang with our friends, but around people who didn’t speak that way, we reverted to more standard English. With the advent of technology, internet, national TV, we are all beginning to sound alike-sadly.

[@ms.tonielizabeth8530]

The old Texas accent sounds much more charming, unique, and beautiful than the more current Texas accent

[@Maya_Ruinz]

The Texas Twang is still very much alive all throughout the smaller towns, you just have to leave the city. Boerne and Taylor Texas are 2 towns I know from experience that still have strong accent speakers, check out local bars and restaurants and you will hear it. Honestly I hear far more spanish accents these days with the larger population of bilingual speakers starting to move from the south part of the state to the north.

[@mcbgermanrapper2359]

where can i watch the documentary from 1960?

[@Bokie469]

wait you’re not supposed to say “seament” and “umbrella” wtf legit been saying seament all my life. Didn’t know it was anything weird or crazy. I’m from Murphy Texas 😅

[@sweetbrown89]

Seh-ment

[@sjs-stev]

My East Texas cousins would say am-buh-LA-YUNS. 4 syllables. One of them called me on the land line way back in the day and my kids couldn’t understand a word they were saying 😆

[@jessicaanderson750]

"a.) it's changing, 2. it's getting used less"

[@mustardseed3624]

Its because of the influence of television and people imitate what they see and hear.

[@lukemacfee3491]

Hey, I'm from Collin County! That was cool.

[@jakebustillos9]

Luke Macfee bro same

[@mgtowp.l.7756]

Bette Davis was very good as a New Englander to speak like a southerner.. Bette Davis talked about it in a interview..

[@Mylovebug0405]

La Belle Vie rgyujj

[@mauroantoniomontalto9028]

thanks

[@stevehammel2939]

i think it's important to to keep our cultural heritage and dialects as Texans, I don't cotton to foreigners comin' to Texas and makin' a mess of it here

[@sylviacarlson3561]

I wonder if we will ever have all accents obliterated. I hope that doesn't happen.

[@120masterpiece]

The twang bit sounds like looney toons. The only people that have the twang are old people out in the country and kids who are infatuated with diesel trucks. Most people, at least where I'm from, have a laid back, raspy draw.

[@kenzie1256]

I’m from Collin County!!

[@michellecrybaby7662]

Maam I'm sorry to tell you this but your accent has NOT changed much from your mommas. You talk just like she does.

[@leroybarron6005]

98% of Texans do not have a Twang accent. We speak General English like everyone else. People who speak that way are seen as hillbilly or, just dumb. You won't even hear country music anywhere but small little towns in deep west Texas. You'll hear Tejano, mariachi, Cumbia ,Reggaeton, Techno, Hip/hop everywhere.

[@sjs-stev]

Where are you from? I hear Texas accents all the time in South Central Texas. You just think you don’t have an accent. When you travel outside of Texas, people point it out all the time. Even outside the country people didn’t say to me you sound like you’re from America, they said- You sound like you’re from Texas. And that was in Southeast Asia.