The Accent Tag Eastern Texas Accent

I somehow got to watching these videos today & decided to make my own. Sorry I didn't dress up for y'all. Enjoy laughing at everything I say.

[@santoniahooser4446]

I didn’t know this was an accent, I’m from east Texas and it sounds normal too me

[@garrett3948]

It also sounds normal to me...

[@Semper_]

Me too

[@Zones33]

it sounds normal cause that's how you sound too, but to others they hear an accent

[@jaclynmcnutt9976]

Everyone everywhere has an accent. It all depends on where you are and with whom you are speaking with.

[@justindexter2810]

What really makes the accent is the speed. I'm from northeastern Dallas, and this sounds normal for the most part to me. But everyone I know from East Texas speaks real fast, and it kinda makes the words sound a little off

[@scottrobinson9752]

I'm from East Texas... Coke covers all sodas, even though Dr. Pepper is the preferred drink. My Dad is 83, also from East Texas, people his age often use the term "soda water", that also covers all carbonated beverages. The word "Oil" is like a syllable and a half, which makes it weird to Texans, so we say "awl" phonetically. Its less work. Much of East Texas is rural... A common statement is "I'm runnin' to town"... which sounds like just a statement of fact...but its really a question. It implies to all who are listening, that if they want anything from town, they need to speak up now. The word "runnin" means you are only there for a quick stop. So if anyone asks for something, it needs to be as convenient, or more convenient than your own errand. Your statement of intent is often met with, "What are you running to town for?...". That allows the person a guage for what they can ask for. If you say "I'm goin' to town, do we need anything?...". That implies that you are willing to go a little more in depth and stay a little longer, while in town.

[@jordonspurger1445]

This video should be used to teach East Texas to those wanting to know the dialect. From Tyler TX and she sounds like everyone I know.

[@raydunlap1654]

palestine an yep holler

[@samypons3185]

thanks

[@joant9425]

I've been in Central Texas for 30 years, originally from Tyler, moved here when I was 32. Your accent makes me homesick. ❤️

[@420Alrighty69]

I live 30 miles east of Tyler and she has a very slight accent.

[@latraviusblanton9390]

Longview 903!!

[@Kamoblue]

Dang, I just realized how southern my accent might be. I'm Texan also.

[@dmobibj1401]

Only east texas is the south

[@samypons3185]

@@dmobibj1401 lol

[@mattcook56]

I'm from Tyler. You sound very familiar to what I'm used to.

[@mackenzie3649]

Matthew Cook same

[@lexiquick9897]

Matthew Cook I’m close Sulphur Springs

[@erkyderky]

Frankston

[@adalineboone7616]

Hey I am in Bullard

[@wylieisnothere5062]

who here is from Gladewater or at least been to Gladewater

[@hathbeenslain]

Me, a Canadian, trying to learn an East Texas accent for a monologue: ✍🏽 ro ✍🏽 llie ✍🏽 po ✍🏽 llie ✍🏽 bug ✍🏽

[@tlsmith4605]

we talk through our nose, and from the backs of our throats. Then we truncate consents.

[@masterflex0367]

Y'all I hear every word sound normal

[@leslieligon3565]

I listened to your tag to get a reference for some TX voices I'm doing for an audiobook. I think you're dry humor is really funny - thanks!

[@tlsmith4605]

I know this is old but our humor is very self depricating and having a sense of humor is very important in Texas.

[@mtnbiker49]

Not laughing at your accent because I think it is awesome and I'm totally jealous, but your reactions to some of the questions are priceless!

[@mikethomas773]

I grew up in nacogdoches. All that you said sounds right to me. I got made fun of for the way I said Friday just a while ago. Apparently saying it like fridi is wrong lol

[@arieldanielle23]

Mike Thomas Hey, I'm from Nacogdoches too! Not much accent though. My boyfriend grew up all over Texas mostly, and when he says tour he pronounces it "too-er". I laugh every time.

[@Vettefan83]

I'm from Nacogdoches too. I'm Mexican-american, so I don't think I have an accent.

[@elmariajin9805]

I say ee instead if day- Like "sundee" "mondee" "Tuesdee" Wedee" Thursdee" Fridee" and "Saturdee"

[@starporpoise492]

I loved this video, I was looking up Texas accents and none of them were anything like me. It was kind of sad to see. Your accent is thicker than mine and probably because I grew up not far from Houston, but other than that and two words ("day-tah" for data) and (doodlebug instead of pill bug) we say all of the words and phrases the same.

[@tommyg.6542]

I grew up in El Salvador (central America) but my family is from Lubbock (the panhandle) and my accent is pretty much like yours....growing up i never realized i had a Texan accent, but now it's so amazing because I'm not even from Texas yet i relate to Texas so much...

[@stormyseaward5939]

I grew up in houston and the accents in actual east texas have me rollin.. I'm also in Longview - quite posdibly the funniest place on earth. When I'mbored, I sit in the Wal Mart parking lot and take pictures of hillbillies being alive and doing hillbilly things. Like, even black folks are mad country here. It is the most hilarious thing ever. I was trying to find an East Texas accent because I'm with a friend from here right now and a friend who is from Chicago and insists she doesn't have an accent (she said Da Bears 32 times in the process). The second I clicked on this, my first thought was awwww, she's adorable, she looks like a tech girl... AND OMG!! So right!! We may not have a presidential library, but we will always have the cutest girls!! Raider Power, baby. Guns up and whatnot!

[@feliksheikkinen171]

Are you the cute waitress on Hotel Hell episode 4 of season 2 ? :)

[@MxVenator]

What accent? I didn’t hear any accent!

[@MunthApollo]

OH MY WORD YOU SAY PECAN "CORRECTLY." I got a little too excited and I had to pause the video. I grew up in east Texas, and now I live in east Tennessee and most everyone here says it peekan hahahaha.

[@slichtyler]

I had the same reaction! I’m a homesick Texan who has lived all over the world, and it made me so happy to hear someone say pecan exactly right. Puh-con, puck-on, something like that. (Just as a note, my wife and I have fought over how to pronounce caramel. She’s from Ohio, and she says it like Mt. Carmel.)

[@MunthApollo]

@@slichtyler I say caramel probably how you wife says it. In my home town (Jefferson) I feel like most people said it "carmel," but I'm not sure. My mom's familly is northern though, so I have a hybrid accent.

[@nothingworks230]

Amazing

[@k1ttyF158er]

It's funny, I've moved around a lot and after watching a bunch of these Accent Tags no one seems to say "Sun Shower" for when the sun is shining and it's raining. Dunno where I picked that up from,

[@Maisybo1999]

Hi, I’m from Lufkin & my grandparents on Mama’s side were Mommaw & Poppaw; Daddy’s side were Grannie & Grampaw. Always have called wheeled wagon in store a buggy, too; I moved to Houston in the 90’s & all my co-workers laughed at me every day because of my so-called “accent”, LOL! My uncle’s wife is my Aint. not my Ont...if milk is sour, it’s rurnt, not ruined...my grandparents had some doozies...one of my favorites was “juberous”, which means you feel nervous, uneasy....you sound a lot like me, but I think I sound more “country” than you, LOL! 😄

[@TetraResinstone]

Lmao I’m from North Texas y’all sound different from us! I like it tho! I says cokes too for all soda lmao 😂

[@tiptonloyalmc]

I love girls with ur accent remimds me of magie from walkimg dead

[@pilotboy3328]

Born and raised in Beaumont. That girl does not have an accent.

[@brianacarr9440]

I live in east Texas lol I don't hear what kinda coke you want lol and longview

[@bigounce5155]

i'm from houston and we just say coke

[@jettabobetta2192]

Briana Janae I live in Mabank....East Texas. I used to be a waitress. Most of the time, I always had to ask, "What kind of coke do you want?" That was after telling me that wanted cokes. Then they would tell me the brand.

[@rodgerbrown2430]

DAMN! she is CUTE

[@trickniggajoe4041]

I'm from Central Texas . I love Texas Tech! 👆☝️ I really can't hear your accent though. I like soda also, it makes more sense I think. I'm alright with calling soda coke also, since I'm Texan and it's just a generalization to us aheee. Legit video yo. I like comparing our differences, even though we are in the same state. I don't think you could ask homies,"hey fool, what do you call this or that?", that would be weird I think. You call it a buggy, but I just call it a basket. Grandparents. My moms parents we call Momo and popo..... I have no idea how that started. Uhh.. I promise I'm smarter than I seem. Haha

[@tightywhitey9779]

Southeast Texas to Lubbock? That must’ve been the longest drive in the state lol

[@jettabobetta2192]

I call my grandparents nanny and papaw. Lol

[@hamidrazgandhi8894]

I'm not a native speaker and I was expecting a stronger accent with some deep southern accent with exagerated drawal and twangs but I heard mostly general american accent which was ordinary and conventional to my ear, I enjoyed the facial expressions though

[@fernandoortiz8875]

East TX accent is way different from North Tx accent (Dallas) area

[@travisray2934]

We grew up calling shopping carts, "baskets". I'm from southeast Texas btw.

[@jettabobetta2192]

My great grandmothers were called Momma followed by their last names which were Momma George and Momma Reedy.

[@latraviusblanton9390]

Longview tx 903 East Texas!!!!

[@howardbaxter2514]

After learning that sun showers are sometimes refered to as "Devil Beating His Wife", I've turned towards using the latter terminology when such events occur.

[@cbwoods57]

“What do you call it when it rains and the sun is shining?” That’s easy, What the hell

[@thommyvictory]

haha first it looked you're in prison. Orange t-shirt 😀😉

[@kevinrussell2674]

I graduated from Tech. I generally don't like the accents but yours isn't too noticeable. Hope all is well.

[@Volksmusiker89]

+Kevin Russell Texas Tech is nowhere near East Texas...

[@Effervescent_Smegma]

She sound normal to me.

[@ernestomera-saade2994]

Hi hi, here Livingston 🙂

[@rraiders99]

Wreck em Tech!!

[@tommyg.6542]

I say papaw for my great grandpa

[@AlexandraHaag]

Very helpful -- thanks!

[@kidneykid77]

YUP! I'm from Texarkana, this is pretty much how everyone (including me!) talks. Love it.

[@maconwills4009]

Wreck 'Em!

[@AllenGarvin]

Rolypoly bug? Pillbug?? No! They're doodlebugs, least in Hopkins county.

[@blueblue9410]

Hi

[@elmariajin9805]

dont know bout yall but instead of "headphones" i say "Het-phoes", instead of "I" i say "ah", instead of crayon i stan "cran" I call any type of soda coke, oh my god every, single. Texan. and i mean this, city or country says yall. If somone hates the weather you usually say "wait a few minutes, it'll change" and wait, buggies arent normal? i thought everyone says that-

[@Fartbox719]

OMG you say caramel how I do!!! I'm from Dallas, you're the only person I have ever heard besides myself who says it that way!

[@myopiniondoesntmatter8958]

Shit when you said Data I about fell over laughin. I don't say data I say TOWER but it don't sound like Tower it sounds like tire! HAHAHAA! Everybody laughs but I don't care. and I had a papaw and a mamaw and a pawpaws and mawmaws. and a granny. I love my accent. it's served me this far I think I'll keep it. and don't be embarrassed by yours, call them shopping carts buggies if you want. hell I do!

[@intrepidvirgo938]

I’m from “Big-D”....and you sound just fine to me. And I don’t have the time either!

[@ravemaster7405]

I'm from California and I don't even notice an accent.

[@rogeriacatto5633]

I really like your Accent. I call coke, for example I am getting coke

[@cowboyjohnn]

Surprisingly similar in a lot of ways how we talk in the Ohio valley the words and how their said not the accent its self

[@billybob9964]

I say ol cuz I ain't got time for i. I say y'all cuz you all is too much. But soda or pop? We got got plenty of time fer soda

[@josephcarvalho5849]

At least in the NE Rain on a sunny day is called a "Sun Shower"

[@jx1668]

That's how I talk and I'm not from the south

[@wades2132]

Doodlebug!!

[@Maisybo1999]

Wade S That’s what we called them in Lufkin! My Mommaw even used to sing a little song about them!

[@wades2132]

Dana Boulware I know right! From Beaumont myself. We always said doodlebug too!

[@stevesemar7106]

She shure sounds like one of us i rekon

[@cliffordblack5186]

wanna see if you like a northern accent?

[@ThomasJAdams-vw5wq]

keep on wrappin' ! soda pop for bubbly drink I like root beer.so beer.

[@Stefan_Van_pellicom]

In Dutch (Belgian flavour) we call the sunny rain “duiveltjeskermis”, that translates to “devil’s carnival”. So strange that across the globe both expressions are somewhat similar ...

[@nancyekern3774]

It’s a doodle bug!

[@scrimp37]

“Dammit, it’s raining.”- HAHAHAHAHA!!! That’s hilarious! 😂👏🏻

[@madasahatterinwonderland9465]

Liquid sunshine ...

[@masterflex0367]

What's a buggy!😅

[@samiii529]

Forest gumb

[@7550375503]

Nailed it. More please !!

[@wylieisnothere5062]

Im so east Texan that west Texans sound like Midwesterners😂

[@ZigbertD]

I dated a woman who grew up in Lufkin but who had gone to college in the Northeast and then lived and worked abroad for several years. She had lost most of her East Texas accent, but for me the telltale sign was that when she said words like “hill” or “pill”, it sounded more like “heel” or “peel”.

[@tlsmith4605]

Mist kids from the South East have a problem with the "i - e merger" basically short i and short e sound similar in certain situations. Like Kin, Ken, Hill and Heel, Pin and Pen so on and so forth. Also on is pronounced "own" and so that confuses people as well. Talk is pronounced tawlk

[@goddessfourwinds5174]

@@tlsmith4605 That's how we're taught. I can almost swear I learned that pin and pen were pronounced the same (I know they aren't). I grew up in Louisiana. It's regional. As long as you can understand me... I think we can still get our points across. 🙂

[@JoshuaMichael4-hn4tu]

Winona tx!

[@robertmoore1839]

Liquid sunshine

[@katherinealexandra9115]

I'm an Aussie and the voice and accent of Bradley Cooper in American Sniper is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Not to mention his looks. Mmmmmm.

[@damienkun8786]

***** ikr

[@kayajackson176]

Where is the accent

[@michellekahlez2105]

YEAH I WAS LOOKING FOR IT THO

[@ThomasJAdams-vw5wq]

it's called sweet summer rain when it rains on sunshiny day.thanks okie Texas gal, are you single?

[@noelt2303]

I grew up in Houston and I really don’t think I have a Texas accent??