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The term Scots-Irish is mostly a US term.
It primarily describes people from Northern Ireland, with Scots ancestry -
thus , they are primarily Protestants (often Presbyterians) as opposed to Irish Catholics.
At one time people felt the need to make this differentiation very distinctly.
The Scotch Irish originated from the Scotland-England borderlands and fled to primarily Ulster (the Ulster Scots are 'cousins' to the Scotch Irish from this common origin)
Many of these people were border reivers fleeing the political changes of the borderlands
You can see this in stereotypes of the Scotch Irish being clannish (Hatfields and McCoys) and putting more resources into their vehicles than their homes (border reivers built temporary homes and relied heavily on their horses)
Ha-ha, you brush over the tension with broad strokes :P Though, getting into the weeds would take probably years of research.
@@mokomothman5713 Yes, yes it would. :-)
Scots-Irish is also called Ulster. There was a lot of racism towards Irish immigrants, they were labeled as subhuman. The Northern Irish wanted to distinguish themselves from this.
This series is fantastic. So detailed and interesting. The Ocracoke Island accent is very unique to hear in person, even for other North Carolinans.
North Carolina is so diverse with accents and dialects.
@@tjhorne82 Oh I know, I live in western North Carolina.
@@JasonMoir my family is from the high country to the coast, so I get a taste of it all mixed into my speech.
Very true. I'm from the foothills of North Carolina so a mix of the two
Shame he skipped another Island accent--that of Smith and Tangier Islands in the Chesapeake which, even today are not connected to the mainland by bridges. The dialects there have been associated with Elizabethan English which is because these islands were settled very early in the 17th century and then remained isolated.
As a Baltimore native, I can with certainty confirm his "Down the Ocean" pronunciation!! But, I'm disappointed he didn't add in "Hon"... :D
Baltimore = "Baldimore"
Maryland = "Murrilan"
Many Baltimorians also say "warsh" and "warter"
Love when the CumTown guys make fun of their Maryland accent
@@FreezyBreeze14 "Iron" and "Iyern"
Just a heads up since he didn't reference it, when we in America say "Scotch Irish", we're referring to what y'all over there call the Ulster Scots.
This guy is crazy good at this. His North Carolina accent spooked me, he sounded like everybody I grew up with. I come from a family of five, we all have drawls, but none of us sound the same. My mother's accent was as thick as cold molasses, and us kids used to make fun of her (while drawling like Dukes of Hazzard extras ourselves), but I definitely see what he is saying about regional similarities. This was fascinating !!
I don't personally know anyone from North Carolina, but every time I hear that part of the video I instantly think of Andy Griffith.
A very interesting and informative series. Accents are like "ear candy" for me. Maybe because I was a speech communications major in college. I just enjoy the unique sounds of different accents and tones. It is part of what makes us who we are !
These videos are great in learning about accents and their history and lineage, my only critique is the some of fhe terms they use. For instance Latinx is a nogo. Not one Hispanic ever uses that term and in fact find it highly offensive (I know being part Mexican) and trying to be politically correct just turns people off over here. Other than that you should also go visit Thomas Sowell and black culture and you will be shocked to learn that the Ebonic language used in inner cities among African Americans actually comes from The western region of London from about 250 years ago.
Yeah, I could've done without all of their ham-fisted SocJus commentary.
Yes, it was too WOKE.
@@deaconblooze1 That whole commentary wasn't just ham-fisted, but entirely made up. There is zero evidence that any of the speech patterns of black people in America originate from African languages aside from the people that have more recently immigrated from Africa itself. Also the idiocy of using the term colonizers is ridiculous considering that aside from the Muslims in the east, Europeans really didn't make any serious colonization attempts until well after the Atlantic slave trade was shut down simply due to the fact that it was nigh impossible for general Europeans to survive for any extended period of time in Africa due to the diseases and ailments.
Then there is the fact that they claim that black people were kidnapped when in reality they were sold to the traders by other tribes that were keeping them as slaves
He is very accurate in these accents overall! In my daily travel all over USA I hear lots of accents and in my experience this guy is accurate.
He's actually not that accurate though.. I grew up between south central LA and the deep south, then joined the Army, and then became a truck driver, so I've heard them all. He gets so much wrong in this video, as do his "experts".
@@FahimibnDawud I'm a retired truck driver myself, and I didn't find any mistakes that he made. And the other experts, just like him, we're doing in general terms. I personally found it impressive that he was able to do so many accents himself. Saying that, I'm looking forward to your video.
This truly is the great American melting pot of people,languages,and culture. Welcome to America🇺🇸
There are a few videos on North American accents on TH-cam, but this one is by far the best. This man is terrific,, and he gets at the fact that accents have nothing to do with state boundaries. Glad Millie is getting the chance to see this one.
Louisiana can have like 4 or 5 different accents depending on what part you go to
New Orleans itself has 4 or 5 accents alone, never mind the rest of the state
Cajun, Creole, N'orleans, Bayou... those accents hits you hard when your hear it
That Baltimore accent is real (and you know it when you hear it), but it is pretty defined by region (the eastern or southeastern parts of the city and suburbs), race (primarily white), socio-economic status (working or middle class) and generation (it skews older). But even without having the classic accent, many Baltimore natives' speech is still influenced by it.
after moving here from Long Island, i had a little difficulty catching on to words like "OOL " for OIL "ZINK' for "SINK" "BLAIR" for "BEL AIR". also, the accents start to fade once you get out of 'baltimore city area towards the suburbs of Howard, Anne Arundel, and Carroll couties.
Being from Baltimore, I wholeheartedly agree.
I dunno how but we have a tendency of slur vowels or skipping vowels.
I usually define the proper from the accent by comparing:
"I am from Baltimore, Maryland" with "Iyem fromm Ballomoar Murrlynn" and also "Bel Air Road" with "Blair Row"
@@MarloSoBalJr Right. Also "Norf Abnew" and "up air in Lootherville" and "fry 'em up in a skillwet."
Watching “The Wire” you can tell which actors are actually from Baltimore.
I’ve heard it jokingly referred to as a “coke jaw” accent.
It’s like if Philadelphia was the south.
Being a truck driver here in the US, it’s actually crazy hearing all of these different accents for real. You can quite literally get into your truck hearing one accent, and get out 700 miles down the road and you’d think you’re in a different country entirely by the way people speak.
It must be fairly easy for some English people to speak in Southern accents. There have been a lot of English actors that play Southern characters in movies and they do the accent much better than American actors that try to do the same accent. As a Southerner I appreciate the people who can get the accent without butchering it.
16:45 Millie doing “price smoothing” was 🔥😃😁😂
Coming from a southern Appalachian “price smoother” this was great!
I thought the same thing and I’m from South Ga.
I thought the same as a Georgian.
'hit' for "it" is actually a holdover from previous forms of English, instead of adding an additional sound to the word. In Old English, the word for "it" was 'hit', similar to the Dutch 'het' for "it". During the Middle English period, 'hit' softened to 'it' and both forms, 'hit' and 'it', remained in usage until standardisation (Chancery) occurred in the early 15th century. So 'hit' is actually the more historically correct form of the word "it". Additionally, some other languages related to English, like West Frisian, also softened the 'h' from Old Frisian 'hit' to Modern West Frisian 'it' ("it") , while others, like Dutch have kept the initial 'h' sound ('het' = "it")
As someone who spent much of his life in Raleigh, NC, nobody guesses where I'm from, and all of them are surprised when I say Raleigh.
Same
I don't know if they cover this, but I'm sure exposure to people via tv, movies, music, radio, podcasts etc further affects accents of people without actually living with or meeting them. Like with people from other countries sounding "American" when they sing.
According to something I saw ( and if I’m explaining it right), the thing with singing is that things like projecting your voice and controlling pitch push your voice toward a more “neutral“ sound so it’s like when he mentioned “general American” accents just lacking really really obvious localizable distinct features, likewise many singers sound very neutral when they’re singing which is taken as sounding American because the baseline “general American” sound happens to be very neutral.
Interesting! I live in Florida and the accents and dialects have a wide range of annunciations from deep south in the panhandle to Caribbean in south Florida and everything in between. I find that I can sometimes not understand words being spoken in English in different parts of the state based on dialect and regional accents. Thanks for sharing!
I just spent a week in the panhandle of Florida (along "The Forgotten Coast") and there was zero difference between the accents there and in Georgia. I was completely surprised by the strong southern drawl in that part of Florida. (My previous trips to Florida were Orlando and Clearwater, and I didn't remember much difference from my own Michigan accent.) I have to say that I loved it! There's nothing like a southern drawl to make you feel welcome! 😀
@@thebirthmentor3683 I'm from and currently live in Orlando and grew up with a light Southern accent which has mostly been lost from living for years out of the state; but you can really hear it come out when I'm emotional (angry/upset/etc.) or drunk. The area has been losing its accent for over 30 years (which is why my accent is/was light) due to the large amount of out of state people moving in, which is pretty typical in Florida's larger cities on the peninsula part of the state, but the northern Florida cities have really retained most of their accents.
@@thebirthmentor3683 the Floridian accent is more rare these days in Southern Florida. I hear it with my great aunts and uncles but less so with my cousins.
This dude is fascinating. All of his reactions/segments on Wired are worth a watch, especially the one where he reacts to actors playing real people. His knowledge of accents, and ability to reproduce them, stretching back like, forever, is completely wild to me.
Erik Singer is a linguistic beast. A few years back he did a series on wired, where he critiqued actors in movies putting on accents, reviewed con-langs (made up languages for books, shows, movies etc), and actors playing real (historical) people, how well they perform these accents, what they got right and wrong. I'd recommend ^^
As a veteran and a truck driver, I have been exposed to a very wide variety of accents and dialects from the people in the US. There's so much more. I can't wait for you guys to see the rest of this.
Look up the video for "Aaron earned an iron urn" it's a guy from Baltimore and it's hilarious. He says " urn urned an urn urn" then it hits him how he sounds. Then he pronounces it clearly with a more Midwest accent and it's clear.
🌸 As an air force brat, who went to school with other kids from all over the US, I feel some dialects may have been lost as we picked up on other dialects. I am, as were my parents, from the south. With that said, I suppose the service members themselves picked up on other dialects. .....as the world turns🙂 I enjoyed the video and look forward to the next one.
I am an Army brat from Wyoming and I seem to have a general accent. A coworker from England said I have no accent. However, when I visit family in Texas, my southern I got from being in Tennessee many years ago comes out. I have been very curious how other brats ended up accent wise.
@@secolerice 🌸 I do have a southern accent now, but I think I can 'neutralize' it somewhat if I choose to. When we were stationed in Delaware our next door neighbors were from Alabama. Our families became fast and longtime friends. Hmm .. birds if a feather flock together? Another family we became lifelong friends with were from NC - I never thought about it before, but I wonder if that friendship began because of the southern roots. 🤔
Air Force brat from Tennessee here. My dad was from Michigan, so I got the mixed accent from the get-go, not to mention all the moving around.
Love this video, please do part 2! There's a tiktok exploring a Baltimore accent in which the sentence 'Aaron earned an iron urn' is said, although all the words (except 'an') sound the same.
lol that makes me laugh. I’m from Pittsburgh and we say a few words the same way as well, but these I can differentiate the differences. Dawn and Don? No?? We also have made up words that are used in regular conversation 😂 no one understands us either Baltimore!
Love the video, but a couple of the 'experts' made some pretty politically-slanted explainations on a source video that claimed to be apolitical? 😵
My fiancee from Mexico City has said that even in Mexico there are accents in regions. She also hears different accents in Spanish speaking people of other Latin American countries.
Definitely react to part 2! I grew up in Louisiana, and even Louisiana was (and still is?) pretty isolated from the rest of the US...so it was SHOCKING to see this guy get the Cajun accent right. I'd say he was about 90+95% accurate, and he even threw in a little bit of history too! Cheer guys from SoCal(I live there now lol) enjoy watching your channel ~
That guy is amazing. Love the many cultures that make up our country
My southeastern Ohio accent is really similar to the Appalachian north Carolina accent, albeit it less pronounced. I'm just a college-educated hillbilly.
I've long since stopped saying warsh, but still say crick instead of creek. I definitely use the (h)it syllable and say a-fishin' all the time. Speaking of which, we drop the G on -ing words so fishing becomes fish-in, and often even more distinct as it'll morph into feeshin the further southeast you go. Those i syllables becomes ee syllables.
Most people in the US Military speak a General English, because of the ,,mixing'' of people from all over the US. My Friend from Southern Georgia had a very thick southern accent. He's been in the Military for 7 Years now, and now speaks more ,,generalised'' it's hard to explain but you know what I mean. Same thing for me. I'm from southern Missourri, and I used to sound Midland-ish somewhat southern, but now I barely have an Accent at all. Kinda weird cuz my Parents still have southern Accents, but I don't anymore.😅
yes. My friend and I were in military for years. We went to the Virgin Islands, where everyone to some degree have an island accent. We had an islander tour guide who sounded the same as us, during the conversation he said he had been in military also for many years. Mystery solved.
I'm from Alabama and was in the Marines for 4 years. I never lost my thick Southern drawl mainly because the majority of people I hung out with were all Southern. We did have different variations of Southern accents amongst ourselves.
@@chadwaters6218 in that case that makes sense. For my friend and I, most the people we hang out with are from Everywhere really. Some guys from Ohio, some from Washington, some from the Dakota's and a couple dudes from Texas. Oh and one guy from Boston, who we make fun of cuz he's only been in a year and has a classic Boston Accent. 😅
All I heard was Matthew McConaughey! 🙃
Yes! Part 2, new sub here from Michigan 🇺🇸 really enjoying your channel 😊
I always refer to this video when people say North Jersey vs South Jersey distinction isn't real. Clearly the Northern and Midlands accents division starts right in the middle of New Jersey!
A lot of Americans slip in and out of accents and dialects without even knowing it.
I live in Vermont, When I visit family in North Carolina, I pick up up some of the Southern Accent but not from my family as they were all born in Vermont, it is mostly picked up from their in-laws .
Ocracoke is a beautiful Island 🏝️
I have a very typical So Cal accent and I thought it was just general American until I went to Indiana and people kept asking me to say words lol
I would think all of California is either General American or Valley girl accents😂 mostly because my family in Cali sounds like that.
@@kevinprzy4539 Oh no, not at all. I was born in so cal grew up just south of Yosemite that sounds very different, came back down south when I was 17. The bay area, and coastal areas sound completely different from the central valley. I've been all over the state but didn't notice the differences until I was 17.
You do chop off middle & last syllables sometimes, Bees. 😀 4:46 South African?? I don't hear that at all (rewinds dutch/english accents I have heard). I think people are trying to relate your accent to their limited experience. I don't hear South African at all.
This is really interesting! I have a love for language and why we sound so different. So much history there.
I'd love for you to find one on the U.K... broaden it out to include South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
What's "cute" to me is that most people grow up believing they do not have an accent, it's everyone else that does! ❤️🙂
Another principal difference between the Boston and Providence/RI accents is that the Boston accent has the cot/caught merger, while the Providence/RI accent does not.
The pronunciation of on to rhyme with dawn is an American extension of the lot-cloth split, which took place in southern England in the late 17th-early 18th centuries. It is analogous to the bath-trap split, where a is broadened in bath, glass, staff, but with short o instead. Words like off, cloth, cross are pronounced as if they were spelled awff, clawth, crawss. In American English, the word "on" was affected by this (so pronounced like "awn") in some areas but not others, creating the ON line. In the 1890s, Charles Grandgent found the line in the same place as shown in the video, separating the North (where on rhymes with don) from the Midland and South (where on rhymes with dawn).
4.6K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 Thanks for information! 🎞️ Aha! So others are aware of people putting an, "r" in "wash"!
This is the best on American language. Now your talking!
You should watch the Philadelphia Eagles Underdog Super Bowl season! Best moment of my life
In the Pittsburgh one he forgot to add the saying ‘n nat. “Do yinz wanna go dahntahn n’at? We call that way of speaking Pittsburghese.
As an aside, it was primarily the British and Dutch who kidnaped Africans and brought them to the "New World". Also, remember that most of this was going on while the eastern parts of America were British colonies.
You can still pick up totally different accents from area to area and different generations that he doesn't cover.
Fact check they where not kidnap they where sold and traded and I live near Pittsburgh east Pittsburgh sounds different then west
History tends to forget as touched for a second on here the Irish were used as slaves before Africans for a time in the Caribbean and America, but when they escaped it was harder to find them as they would hide among other free Irish. When I moved to Puerto Rico I noticed in the mountain area people with my last name. Very interesting.
I have a southern accent, from south Alabama. I almost need subtitles to understand some of what y’all say. 😄
"we cant pause or we will be late" - proceeds to pause every 30 seconds.
You might get to me in part two. I'm from Louisiana, although I have a stronger southern accent speaking French than English. Don't ask me why, it's just like that. 😊
YES. Do more. Hang on tightly to your accents and history. It's important.
His video is good except for the "please dont cancel me" part where he pretends to believe that accents are exclusive to particular races. There's no such thing as a "white" accent. Black New Yorkers speak with those same accents, same in the South. He states that New York accents are based on socioeconomics, and then he flips only moments later because he doesn't want to be called racist. And the black women who speak immediately following his statements doesn't sound "black". Is it racist for me to speak Chinese?
Most African slaves were sold to the slave traders by their own tribe or by others that they kidnapped from other tribes. Not all were kidnapped.
The US, UK, GERMANY AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES BOUGHT THE BLACK PPL TO BE USED AS SLAVES, THE BLACKS , WHITES AND OTHER RACES IN AMERICA LEARNED THIS IN SCHOOLS IN AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS.. STILL ALL BLACKS PURPOSELY WILL NOT ADMIT THIS FACT… IT GOES AGAINST THEIR HATEFUL RACISM AGENDA… IT CREATES A BIGGER PITY PARTY FOR THEM. SLAVERY WAS INDEED AN INHUMANE AND DEMEANING HORRIBLE EVENT FOR THE ACTUAL PPL THAT AFRICA SOLD TO SO MANY COUNTRIES TO BE USED AS SLAVES. THAT HAPPENED IN THE 1700’s & 1800’s , HOWEVER, THE BLACK POPULATION IN US HOLD THE WHITE POPULATION HERE TODAY AS RESPONSIBLE.. IM WHITE, AND NOT A SINGLE ONE OF MY ANCESTORS OWNED SLAVES, I DID HAVE ANCESTORS WHO DIED IN THE CIVIL WAR TRYING TO FREE THEM.. HOWEVER, IM RACIST, IM EVEN A WHITE SUPREMEST ACCORDING TO THEM. THEY CONTINUALLY STIR THE POT CREATING RACISM IN AMERICA AND REFUSE TO GET OVER THEIR ANCESTORS BEING SLAVES… THEY SAY WHITES OPPRESS US…BULLCRAP…. THE BLACKS OPPRESS THEMSELVES BY THEIR REFUSAL TO MOVE ON FROM LONG AGO HISTORY. THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS , INCLUDING MYSELF BELIEVE THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE IN US, THE HUMAN RACE! THE DIVISION AND RACE TENSIONS WOULD DISSOLVE ITSELF IF THE BLACKS WOULD REALIZE THEY ARE EQUAL TO THE WHITES IN EVERY WAY… THEY EVEN WANT THE WHITE POPULATION OF TODAY TO PAY REPARATIONS FOR SOMETHING NONE LIVING TODAY WERE INVOLVED IN. SO, NOW YOU SEE THAT RACISM IN AMERICA COMES TOTALLY FROM BLACK PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT MOVE ON FROM THE PAST OF THEIR ANCESTORS. THIS RACISM FROM BLACKS WILL NEVER END. SOME OF THE WHITE POPULATION TODAY DO REGRET THAT THE BLACK SLAVES EVER ENTERED OUR COUNTRY. THATS SAD , SO SAD, BUT IT IS ,WHAT IT IS.. WE CANT UNITE TOGETHER ANYMORE AND THAT HAS DIVIDED OUR COUNTRY. btw, the reason I commented this is because the black woman describing different dialogs here in this reaction video stated whites kidnapped the black ppl of Africa to bring here to be used as slaves. It continually blows my mind when I hear that , this black lady seemed well educated, but obviously she wasn’t. She must have slept thru American history class too.
This is a great series. You should do the rest. I'm from Appalachian North Carolina, and can confirm that part of it.
I'm from the South but lived in the Philly area for years. I notice they drop prepositions a lot: "down ocean," "up mountains," "down shore," "done work."
Very interesting video, more please. I've heard some, or most, of the different accents he presented(now showing my age), but your reactions are what make it entertaining. Safe travels. ✝
Interesting in itself, but this series is even better with The Beesleys reactions. Made me notice the differences even more with our honorary Americans chiming in. Keep up the good work and we look forward to the rest of this series!
Happy Easter! Love the picture y'all posted earlier ❤️
19:54 I know exactly what she’s talking about from having heard the famous retired NFL WR Randy Miss speak- Perfect example of an African-American Appalachia accent
You both are such a cute couple. Enjoyed your video.
I've learned so much by watching these videos. Glad you are reacting to them. Fascinating.
Lol at Millie not understanding her own in-laws.
I think there’s three parts. Definitely do the rest. Fair warning the last one is shorter than the others and seemed to wrap up in a hurry. Still watch it, it’s not bad just short and a bit less detail than I expected after the first two.
Not all African tribal members were kidnapped. Many were traded by tribal chiefs and it was often when one tribe fought another tribe, the victor would trade excess people from the losing tribe to merchants.
It is not true that merchants simply invaded and then hunted down African tribals people and kidnapped them against their will. While that might have happened in a few instances? It was the exception and not the rule.
Actually, exactly zero Africans were kidnapped by europeans. They hung out off the coast in ships waiting for other African people to bring them to them. There's no way white people entered the jungles and snatched people out of there. Did not happen
Even if the circumstances are more complicated then mentioned, If they we’re denied the option to leave then I think it’s safe to call it an kidnapping.
To be fair slaves were still treated as humans in Africa and amongst Africans the trading of slaves was more akin to that of slaves in the Roman empire. Also slaves eventually became part of the family.
Basically slavery and chattel slavery are two different things. Both wrong but one fair worse than the other.
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Ooo... that's not true. They were prisoners of tribal war. They were not treated well. Once the Dutch began slave trading on the Ivory Coast, Africans would "herd" their prisoners there. It was all for greed, on every side.
Once they were captured, traded or not, they were not "free" to move about. Certainly weren't free to go home.
It was a harsh treatment. No need to try and make anyone involved sound somehow better.
@@JustKrista50 okay since you're so well versed in African kingdoms, what source are you pulling your claims? I'm referencing the kingdom of Mali's doctrine "Kurukan Fuga".
I grew up in Ohio, moved to Florida, then Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina. It takes a while living in a new place to understand the native tongue. He is right about NC, there is a lot of variety here.
Clicked 👍because you are acknowledging Minnesota with the license plate. Sweet!!!
I really think you should do all of these. I truly enjoyed it, and the two of you interacting drew me in so much. To be honest, I will probably watch this video a few times, it might be the best with you two so far, with the exception of the jelly bean challenge, which I have watched 5 times and try to share with everyone I know, and I may share it in my sister's funny but bad Facebook page. Keep up the great work, I adore your videos and at times even stop work on my farm just to watch your videos when they come out, I think the alpacas might be a bit jealous 😀.
Living near Pittsburgh for a lot of my life, I gained a mild annoyance at words like "yinz".
it's funny you say that about joey on friends he's actually from Massachusetts.
How annoying is the woman @8:42 ?
Not annoying at all?
Megan Figueroa and Nicole annoy me a lot more
It's Nicole for me, as well as the fact research by writers like Thomas Sowell directly contradict the information she is presenting.
@Covid psyop Why?
Accents are getting less noticeable.
Please watch part two
Love that Gullah accent but people definitely find it hard to understand especially when it’s heavy😂😂😂
Please do the rest of this series
I would love to see you do this on accents from the UK. I don't know where GUY MARTIN is from but I don't even know if he speaks english. lol
Growing up in the U.S., I was exposed to lots of different accents as my family moved around quite a lot (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, California, Arizona, etc.). That's probably why I developed a keen interest in accents and enjoy playing around with them. I think it helped me when I moved to Japan. My grammar wasn't the best, but my accent is pretty spot-on. It's also been fun while I've been living in Singapore and able to speak a bit of "Singlish" with friends for fun.
Living in different places, I've had the opportunity to work and be friends with English speakers around the world, and we always had fun with each other's accents. It's really changed my perception of the English language and my view on accents.
I'd be very interested to hear/learn more about the unbelievable variety of accents in the U.K.!
he does the accents very well
As a North Carolinian this video answered my question why non locals think I may be from Australia or somewhere else like that...
Joey from friends is from Boston Massachusetts
Very interesting vid...never really thought about it, but... Born in West Texas (native Texas drawl), family moved to Chicago/Milwaukee areas, where I was educated, and rapidly learned "native" accents there (Midwest), then Indiana (new accent), then Southern California (new, again), then back to west, north central, and then to east Texas (each with own accents), and finally (now) to Florida (new accent)...coupled with travelling/extended stays throughout all of North America (usually on business)... well, I can instantly "blend" into whatever area I visit, or live in. I honestly don't do that on purpose...it's just "natural" for me now. Hard to explain. I've also had so much contact with Aussies & New Zealanders, that frequently, new friends there ask why I "moved" to America!!! Then I'm immediately aware I've just switched accents again, unconsciously. Doesn't help that I'm fluent in more than a dozen foreign languages, too.
This really was a very good vid. Thank you so much for posting it....loved your comments, as well. All the best from Florida, USA. --- Doug
Accents, although very tegional, can eadily be picked up on. I spent 8 weeks in the Biloxi, Ms. Area. When i finally got
home, to Pennsylvania, my family questioned me as to why i was talking like i was born n raised in mississippi!!! younz( local dialect here in western Pa) do a great job at tgese videos. You keep them interesting. Nice react.
This guy is really accurate!
If I hadn't worked with a Yorkshireman "Teddy", teaching English in Hamburg, the replacement of "th" with "f" would Have been a mystery. Gelling his 5th graders to say "a cup of tea" (cuppa tay )without sounding like they grew up in Manchester was a challenge. My other colleague from "Cheltenham Ladies College" (Rosalind) was VEDDY posh. "Good morning boys and GELS, and how are YOU today!? (Eat my dust Queen Elizabeth!) We had happy times together.
In my area of Pennsylvania, about 90 minutes north of Philly. The accent here has developed to be a new version of southern New England. We sound NOTHING like Philadelphia or New Jersey. NOTHING at all. Pennsylvania has a HUGE variation in accents. Travel as little as 30 miles and it begins to change in many locations. I say "ahn" for the word "on". Hoagie is just simply "hoe ghee". And "water" is "wah-ter" not "wudder". The Pennsylvania Dutch accent is all but gone now here. When I was a child it was heard quite frequently especially amongst older people. In the last 40 years it has become nearly extinct. Although, my girls (22 and 19) will frequently call me out for how I say "milk". I say it with the "ilk" as the accented part. So, it comes out lik m-ILK. Dialects and accents are definitely fascinating, but are VERY hard to discern in US.
I'm late to this party, but, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio, we say "please" yes, please...or please? as in I didn't understand you....even out west people would say "Oh, your from Cincinnati " who knew?
I live near Pittsburgh and yes, he is spot on! Yinz r great!! Awesome video you two!
I just started watching your videos. I really like your very open reactions. This video especially interested me for a few reasons. I was born and reared in Central Kentucky in the US. Especially when i was younger i had a very fluid accent. If i listened to an accent for a while, i would start talking like that, without intending to (a few people thought i was being a jerk). I could do it on command as well; look up the 1980s term “Valley Girl.” I had an entire school thinking i was from California for which the whole phenomenon began. I spent my teen years in a very small town, i moved from a city where the whole elementary school i was in before i moved was about 6,000 students. The county i moved to had just over that amount in the whole population, the town itself only about 1,500. Culture shock, and i was not teased exactly, but my friends on occasion got a little behind while listening to me. I went to a special party kind of thing upon going in as freshman at university, ironically known as UK, (age 18) and we split into groups to “get to know each other” and we all introduced ourselves, blah blah and finally someone asked me where i grew up. I told them KY, they actually argued against me. They tried to get me to admit i was English or Australian (this was 1985 accents were only movies or TV). One of my dad’s brothers called me and my mom “Yankees” which refers to Northerners, rarely nicely. I still dont speak exactly like a native, but closer.
My husband and I are from Houston, Texas. We took a weekend trip to New Orleans, Louisiana once. We were in a cab, and asked a question to our driver. 😳 The gentleman gave us a rather long answer, but we couldn’t understand a word he said! We just smiled and said thank you. I’m thinking he was speaking Creole, which I’d heard many times, but his accent was really heavy. I found that to be very interesting.
The "Southern Accent" became more of a thing, AFTER the Civil War and during Reconstruction. It was a way for Southerners to easily distinguish themselves from the Northern soldiers and carpetbaggers, i.e. cultural identity.
Wow! I was wondering if y'all were going to mention the Lumbee accent! I am from the area and even my accent is a combination of North Carolina (the general one..lol) and Lumbee accent. I was just talking about the Irish and Scottish influence in how the Lumbee people say "Osh tater", if you say ,"Irish" in an Irish accent, slowly, that is what they are saying, Irish potato. It is very interesting and distinct. Thank you for the video.
I was having a discussion with one of my friends some years ago and the topic of oil came up. As we were talking another guy walked in and heard us and coirrected us: "Oil (oy-yul) ? It's not 'Oy-yul'. It's aawwwlll." He was from Louisiana. 😄
As an Appalchian North Carolinian, im muddled because of 1. Education (college) and 2. Lived 22 years in the middle part of the state and 11 years in east tn. That said, most educated Carolinians will tell you that Ocracoke and Eastern NC Coastal Communities around the Bay areas speak the closest english to British english of any of the American dialects. When i traveled to London as a 17 yeR old in high school, shopkeepers in London would speak to me friendly and openly, even commenting on my speach and how they recognized it. Students from Philadelphia and Chicago that were also on the trip were ignored or spoken to like unwanted interlopers. Us “southern” kids from Carolina fit right in.
First off, those first accents are not “white”. I know blacks, Asians, Indians with heavy regional accents. Also in parts of the south, there are white people who sound “black”, especially in the Deep South. Secondly, slaves were not kidnapped, they were captured and sold/traded by Africans to Europeans at well established markets in exchange for weapons, iron and other commodities
Lol. I am part Lumbee(NC Native American tribe). They did a pretty good job with Lumbee accent. I just wish they would have threw in some of our unique words. I live in a county over from Robeson county where the Lumbee are based. People in my county sometimes have no idea what Robeson Lumbee's say. I have stepped in to "translate". Lol.
Hi James and Millie, great video as always. Please react to Geography King's "San Francisco- An Urban Analysis". Thanks.
He was pretty close with that Pittsburgh accent, not quite there though. He said, yinz wanna meet down town go shopping for couches? (yinz wanna meet dahn tahn go shoppin for cauhches? When it would’ve actually been, Hey! Yinz (you guys, y’all) wanna go dahn (down) tahn (town)? I need a new cauch (couch) n’at (and that). Then we can go to Primanti’s (Pittsburgh restaurant) n (and) order some samiches (sandwiches) then go dauhn (down) by da (the) river n’at (and that) and drink some irun (iron, as in iron city beer)
Interesting. My parents are Norwegian, and I just realized that I replace the "th" for "d" or just the "t" sound.. Like, "ting" "Nort for thing amd North. Huh...
@14:48 "God down the Ocean" refers to Ocean City, Maryland. Baltimore's accents are amazing.
He's done a much better job than just about anyone I've heard on accents before, and he's right about accents being very local and not conforming with many boundaries. Often the more rural the community is the accents become thicker and more defined
I live in the Piedmont-Triad region of North Carolina and you can start from the border with Virginia on I-77/74 and come down through Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and then to Charlotte and experience at least 4 fairly noticeable differences in the accents.