9 Difficult Texas Accents You WON'T Understand
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🐎 Everything is bigger in Texas-even the accents! How well do you know your twangs from your drawls? I found 9 wild accents that I’m convinced y’all won’t understand. Let me know how many you got right in the comments. And if I’ve missed your accent, never fear! It might show up in the next video.
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It's pronounced "Boo-ee", not "Bough-ee" when you're referring to Jim Bowie, or the town of Bowie,TX.
Texan here. Just spent 12 beautiful days in Scotland. Loved the food, countryside, people, and trains. I experienced the same thing with the Scottish accent. I did pretty well. However, I had to translate for my wife🙃
South Eastern Okie here (I can throw a rock and hit both Texas and Arkansas). I just spent 22 minutes trying to figure out what it is that is supposed to sound so weird, lol.
Life-long Texan here and this just sounded like Thanksgiving dinner to me lol. I barely even register that those accents are different. They all just sound like rural Texans to me.
Yeah - me too!
Houstonian here, they all sounded the same to me.
Half of the clips I was just like "wait they're supposed to be talking with an accent??" It just sounded so normal to me lol
Hahaha same!
@@Lazurikittiesame!
It’s South Texas, not Southern Texas. We don’t add that -ern business.
Yer dern right
@@spicyjoeflaminfajitaswhy did you type like that
@@snickerswo1f519 why did you ask that question
Just like "northwest" no, that's either west or oilfield, ain't non that north shit bout it. Least he called out panhandle for being the handle not west like us.
Yep
I’m 74, a native West Texan, understood ever word just fine.
I didn't hear any accent
I worked with a woman who told me “You have a thick accent”. I said, “I have an accent! You’re from Boston. You have an accent!” LOL
Boston, she has no idea of how to use the letter R.
As a native Texan, I can say this was mostly spot-on, however, I kept waiting for the video to include the HUGE German influence - especially in the middle of the state! From Brenham, to San Antonio, Fredericksburg to Austin, and even more southern - German had an absolutely enormous influence on the state and accent. Most people (Texans included) don’t know that German was almost the official language of Texas before English! Spanish was a close third! True story!
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Agreed, there's a lot of German influence (which heavily influences Hill Country), San Antonio has it, in addition to Central / Coastal / Southern / and Eastern Texas accents on that note. Along with a variety of Spanish accents from different parts of Mexico/Latin America.
That’s mostly gone, though. In my region, we called those old timers with the German influence “hanyaks.” It was “dat dere,” not “that there.” That accent died with the WW1 and WW2 generations.
Right? I’ve heard plenty of people around Brenham with a German tinge to their accent.
My boyfriend and I are from Dallas, and we went to London a couple times last year. He’s a cowboy, so people were drawn to him, asking him to say “Howdy” and “Y’all”.
Hi fellow DFW peeps! I'm in Plano :D
@@lizardsofozz Richardson & Rowlett!
M Streets!
@@lizardsofozz I-35 is dadgum zoo ain't it.
@@adamdrake2020 lovely area, and close to all the Lower Greenville fun
I was in Tech Support in Texas for the US and Canada. Sometimes I’d get a call from NYC. Now we needed to know what was going on before we shipped them thousands of dollars worth of hardware. I had quite a few call, talk real fast, and demand parts with no troubleshooting. Honestly it pissed me off. But I laid on my slow Western Texas accent, like “well,seems like you’re in a bad way. Why don’t we take a look at this critter, and see what’s goin on”. 90% of the time they agreed, or couldn’t understand what I was talkin about. Hilarious!
Yep, dealt with a new Yorker the other day. I got slower and slower and he confessed where he was from.
My daughter was born in Conroe & had a SUPER East Texas drawl. We moved to San Marcos when she was 7. (To me, those people seemed to have NO accent unless they had a Spanish one. And they talked FAST!) By the time she was in Middle School, when she got excited I would frequently have to tell her, "Slow down! I can't even LISTEN that fast!"
Malicious code switching 😂
When i lived in Dallas and Florida, I was around people from New York. They talk fast and sound very abrupt and to the point. They do not sound friendly at all, but that is just how they come across. Some were very nice.
Yes, they are rude and abrupt, I worked on the phones for a health exchange company and was licensed in NY and no one wanted that state for that reason but I loved talking to people from New Jersey because they were just really nice and down to earth.
Moved to Texas 2 years ago. My favorite expression is "fixing to", in the sense of "I'm fixing to go to the store" or "I'm fixing to go mow my lawn"
Yeah! 🤣 We live in Oklahoma & my 10 year old nephew was at my house once when my neighbors had company from CA. They had a boy his age & they were out tossing the ball. We started to leave so told him to tell him. He looked at him & said, “we’re fixin’ to leave”. The kid said “WHAT?” He repeated it & he still didn’t get it. Finally I said “we’re leaving”. The kid was like “ahh, ok!” 🤪🤣
Well, you're close. It's fixin' not fix-ing. Run it together and drop the g.
On my first work trip to California, I said to the hotel clerk "I'm fixin to go up to my room" and it took a few minutes to explain that nothing was broken and I was not trying to 'fix' something myself.
@@scottballentine1846 🤣
@@scottballentine1846 lol!
It cracks up my friends that I understand Boomhauer just fine, i didnt know until I got to college that Boomhauer wasnt supposed to be easy to understand.
Boomhauer sounds like half of my family reunion.
Very similar experience. I got buddies talk just like him. I didn’t know other people couldn’t understand him until this girl I liked told me about it.
Dang ol Boomhauer, talkin' 'bout I tell ya what man.
Yeah, like... in the clip shown here he's talking about Seinfeld and how Kramer slides into his apartment. As far as that accent is concerned Boomhauer's is pretty easy to understand. I know a fella who has that accent here near Tyler and it takes me a while to aclimate to his speech cuz he talks has that accent, plus he talks quieter and with a deeper voice that's gravely.
Me too! Boomhauer sounds normal to me
I'm a native Texan. Lived most of my life on the Gulf Coast. I don't have a thick accent but I'm guilty of saying fixin to, over yonder, & I use y'all a lot. Word of warning, if you ever hear a Texan say "Ah hell no!" RUN!
jajajahahaha! ya betcha! And where is the Ft. Worth to Microplex lingo?
True statement. RUN AND RUN FAST
I'll never forget the response of someone from Maine when he heard me say "fixin' to".
Yeah, and don't stop till you run out of road.
My Texas roots run deep, ancestors where at the Battle of San Jacinto.
I am from Amarillo and I spent a lot of my life in Houston and Austin. I understand all those people perfectly. My mother was a stickler for perfect English, and she taught me to speak beautifully with proper grammar and a large vocabulary. But I do it with my Texas accent. I have lived all over the world and people always recognize that I am from Texas.
I too speak Standard American English, learned from my English teacher mother. But nobody is fooled; they know immediately I'm Texan.
I too am from Amarillo. The only accent that's kinda hard for me to understand is Cajun.
being a Texan i can totally relate to the fact that our accent really comes out when we're talking about Texas😂😂
We really get so excited and it amps right up for real!
Ikr? 😂😂 lol
I’m from Houston and I’ve heard every one of these accents
Same here. I hear them all
That's what made King of the Hill wonderful. We ALL know people that talk like every one of them.
@@petertrudelljrMmmmhmm, I tell you h'what
Same
Are you from Houston or Uston? 🤪
My late father-in-law was raised in Plainview. His Texas speech was the prettiest English I ever heard. RIP Doss.
Well done! Native Texas, born in Sweetwater, raised in Uvalde, went college in Apline, ran ranches Kilgore, Ft. Stockton, Floresville, Florence. Moved to Seguin and to Lubbock and back to Seguin and retired in Yoakum. When I speak everyone knows who I’m because of my Texas accent! Long Live Texas!🤠🇺🇸
You got to travel the whole country
Howdy neighbor!! Gonzales, Tx. here. Come And Take It.
@@rosssmith4748 want a cannon for my gate entrance, like you see in Gonzales
I’m a native Texan, the accents do change by just driving a hundred miles. I can be anyplace in the world and I know when someone’s from Texas. The easiest accent to spot in Texas is the east Texas twang.
Issa Texas Thang
I always know because my great aunt is from east Texas so every time I hear someone it's 🔔🔔🔔.
It's funny though, the women talk with a twang and the guys with more drawl, but both are distinctly East Texas (and not Deep East Texas like Beaumont.) Terrell, Texarkana, Tyler, Palestine, Athens area.
People still say y’all in Texas. I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could - 40 years and growing. Best people in the world.
So funny. But soooo true.
I live in San Antonio. People here say ma’am a lot. My two year old picked up “yes sir/no sir” from day care. She told her father - “Don’t wake the baby. No, sir.” Regarding everyone looks like a cowboy - ranchers, people from rural areas or small towns dress in cowboy style and it’s not a costume. It’s a very common to see and it doesn’t look unusual.
it is the military influence in SA
We moved to San Antonio when i was in Kindergarten and my sister was in second grade. She went with my mom to enroll in school, and excitedly answered "yes!" when the secretary asked her if she liked school. The teacher mean mugged her and asked "Yes what?" and my poor sister broke down crying because she didn't know she was meant to say "Yes, ma'am!" and for that matter, neither did my mom, lol.
tru
We do our kids a disservice if we don't teach them "yes, sir" and "no, ma'am". To us native Texans, a young person who doesn't "ma'am" us has very poor manners indeed. Brought up in a barn, or worse yet, a Yankee.
I thought we used "ma'am" & "sir" all over TX. We certainly do in SE TX. When I was in my 20's, teaching in Conroe, the other teachers convinced me it made them feel old, so I gradually stopped using it so much. But my 45 yr. old son still calls me "ma'am". It feels a little weird, but sounds nice & well-mannered. He is also ex-military.
I'm from Austin and yeah the younger generations have lost most of the accents, but the farther you go outside of the major cities the thicker the accents get.
Thanks for the video ❤
Dang. As a Southern resident of the USA, I appreciate your appreciation. Thanks for not trying to badmouth us. We our own people round here. These are great folks.
I said y’all while I was in NYC. The guy in front of me in line turned around and said, “Did you just say y’all?”
😂
I travelled all over New England and was surprised at how many people said y'all. They did find it hilarious every time one person in our group said, "big ol" as in, "that's a big ol house" though
@trey85031 lol I was having lunch with friends and as we left the restaurant I saw a huge tree across the way.
"Dang!" I says, "Look at that tree!"
Someone says "You know what kind of tree that is?"
"No, what is it?"
"That is a biggo tree."
Yup... had that happen to me too. Lol
My nieces, who are 4 and 6 years younger than me, grew up in Michigan and would tease me all the time for saying y'all and ain't. 😂
The police officer at 5:35 is the sheriff of the county I grew up in out in west Texas. Pretty funny running across him here. And, I don't have an accent, y'all do.
hahahajajaja! absolutely!
I actually made it in This video at 4:40. How many beers did I have in me when I did that interview with Markian? I don’t even know!😂 God Bless Texas! Thanks for adding me and and my buddies in the clip!
Do you remember doing the interview? 🤣
I was thinking you'd had a few when I watched 😂
I’m a native Texican - born in Juarez but grew up in El Paso. I’ve lived a long time in Houston & Galveston. The Gulf Coast is the best. My husband & kids are native Texans! We moved up to Indiana for 9 years & folks always thought it was funny to hear the phrase “all y’all”. Living with these “Yankees” took some doin’ in learning how they speak & their mannerisms. Boy howdy - God called us back home & now we’re living in high cotten! God bless Texas & thanks for the nice video! ❤🇨🇱🇺🇸
never seen a video being this specific on texas accents. as a houstonian who has lived in a bunch of cities in texas, youre spot on right for the areas
He skipped right over the Houston accent, which is very distinctive from those folks up in Dallas.
@@luddite4change449 no he didn’t. he included thesouthern/houston accent in the gulf coast
@@4evrtrenchbaby The Houston accent isn't like Beaumont, Corpus, or Victoria/Port Lavaca.
@@luddite4change449Those are Houston suburbs. 😊
@@Hornsfan64 LOL
They certainly are now. I drove San Antonio to Austin a couple of weeks ago along I-35. It should be listed at the worlds longest continuous strip mall.
This Texan understood everything that was said in the video and of course, while I don't hear my own accent, I was pegged as a Texan at Gatwick Airport in London once. When a Californian moved to Fort Worth for work and she brought her Californian boyfriend to lunch one day, when I asked, "What are y'all doing for lunch?" he looked at her in disbelief that I said "y'all."
When I arrive on an international flight and the agent asks where were you born and I say Sweetwater Texas, I get a look of recognition, a stamp and a pass.
Wait'll they get a load of the plural: "all a' y'all"!
Everyone is saying y'all now, even NewYorkers
@@poeticaddictionful It's kind of unfortunate tbh
Y'all is just an efficient combination of you all. I don't understand why the folks from other parts of the country don't embrace this efficiency.
As a former Texan lived in Fort Worth and never heard some of the Dallas lingo but some guys in junior college had a real twang. Have used ya'll, plus 'been there, done that'. Grew up in north Texas and had no problems understanding other Texans even when traveling to Houston or west Texas.
You just made me seriously homesick. I don't sound particularly Texan until I've had a bit to drink, but it's always there. One of my favorite experiences was being in a pub in Nottingham very late one evening (early in the morning?) and talking about accents. I said I was fascinated by how you could localize someone very accurately in England by the accent. I was then told, "Yeah, you Americans really don't have that many accents." I proceeded to take them on a 10 minute tour of accents around the USA. The best compliment I got was the bartender you just said, "That was magnificent!" after I finished. A great time was had by all.
Your North West Texas is what we call West Texas. I have always referred to El Paso as Far West Texas. I live in San Angelo.
San Angelo here also. Nice to meet you.
I live near the Wichita Falls metropolitan area (most of my life), and the land between Childress and Nocona has consistently been referred to as Texoma as far I can recall. He mentioned Bowie (pronounced "Boo-wee") and Puducah being in NW TX, but the distance between those towns are over 165 miles let alone the geographies are heck of a lot different. I've also resided in Ft. Worth, Midwest TX (i.e., Big Country) and San Antonio areas. I wasn't a fan of the latter two.
Yup I live in Fort Stockton close to Odessa/Midland. El Paso is far west
Dad was born in Eola, raised in San Angelo. I was born in Houston and after moving around a bit, lived in San Angelo for 23 years before moving to Kerrville last year. Sure miss it! (And for those who have lived there awhile, it all runs together…S’nangelo
@@SATX2000 I as born in San Angelo, moved to Midland for about 4 years and then to Austin for 1 year. After that we high tailed it back home to San Angelo. This will always be home to me. My grandfather was born in Eola also. Small world…
This makes me so happy. I'm a Texas native and have been saying this for ever! My family is from East Texas, my husbands family is from West Texas. Our accents are very different. Throw in that my mom's family is from Michigan and my accent can vary.
Lol. Mine varies. I moved to a small town near Fort Worth, Texas with my family when I was about 4. I picked up an accent while growing up. Sometimes it's stronger, sometimes weaker. My maternal grandmother and step grandfather raised me with my half aunt and uncle like I was one of their own kids. I lived a short while with them in Michigan, where my step grandfather was from. My grandmother is from South Carolina. I grew up with all sorts of accents around me, and sometimes one of those pops up unintentionally. When I first talked to my bio dad on the phone 3 years ago, he told me I sounded like a Southern Belle, lol. 😂 Now he brags he has a daughter with a Texas/Southern accent. 🤦🏽♀️🤣
Same here. It's funny how I tend to shift my accent to accommodate who I'm talking to. Otherwise, they don't understand what I'm saying.
As a Houstonian who married a man from Lubbock and spent most of our life in Dallas, I can say East and West Texas are very different. They even Two Step a bit different. My husband teases me about my twang getting thicker when we visit my family.
From Lubbock TX, husband is from the Piney Woods. I am used to but to others his accent is strong as is his parents. Most of these represent more rural accents. It is less prominent in cities. However, EVERYONE says “y’all” in both speaking and written countless times a day. Many Scots migrated this way and you hear it in common sayings and phrases. Our community is between 50-75% Hispanic so that is a whole other accent and influence.
Mine will vary as well I’ll use the city accent when I’m talking to customers on the phone at work and when I’m off work my thick accent drops in and I can speak fast and slow in both 😂
From East Texas, when I moved to California for a while I worked in restaurants and they thought it was so funny how I said "tin foil" and they finally figured out that I was talking about aluminum foil. In Texas we say foil and oil with one syllable.
Cracks me up when people put that "tin" in front of foil. My TN relatives do that some times. I am like "Dude, it's just foil. We all know what it's made of! (Aluminum)"
I hear "y'all" world wide. A of mine in colleague in France uses it, loads of my Asian friends, and a few British TH-camrs. Best export ever is "y'all" and "all y'all!" Now we just need to get the rest of the world on board with "fixin' to"
I never feel like I have much of an accent but light, right, tight, fire, eye, oil and foil are definitely the words that are the most heavily accented for me lol
@@micheleb2558 just what we called it, guess to distinguish it from all of the other foils 😅😅😅
Can I just say, thank you for making this video! As a native South Texan who has been all over this beautiful state, I have long appreciated the variance in our accents. A super special thanks for covering the tejano variance too, its often left out, but it's what I hear in the voice of my people daily.
He honestly barely covered the tejano accent, what he put for west Texas sounded closer to the average south Texan accent
I was going to point out that the Selena looking girl had more of a Corpus Christi accent and then I realized that was Selena, and she had more of a corpus accent than Tejano accent
Central Texas here. Dude went all around and left us out 😂😂
San Antonio Sad Face here...
Hill county?
Well they did highlight us Central Texans, they had Matthew McConaughey on for a bit and lumped us in with enchanted rock too. If you blinked you might have missed it. 😁
Same kept waiting for central Texas.
They always do 😩😩
Thank you for covering Texas accents. People don't know how diverse accents are in Texas going from Spanish mexican accent in the South to Cajun accent in the East
"I ain't got no ack-see-int, ya'll mafakkas got ta ack-see-int."
-Texas
As a native Texan, I can tell you that my daughter turns the word “legs” into a 4 syllable word, and after a few beers or when I get pissed off, you’re gonna need subtitles to understand me. 😂
When you hear 'oil' pronounced as 'awl', or 'Highland' and 'Allen' sound exactly the same.... you're somewhere close to Marshall, Texas!
Yep down near Houston its “ohl”
"Marshall, Texas!" My birthplace, y'awl. Also lived in Yewston.
@@hwgray Skeeters the size of small helicopters
Some great southern variations: “all” and “erl”
I was born, and raised in Marshall,Texas.
I'm from Central Texas, with deep roots in Williamson, Burnet, Llano and San Saba counties, and am an 8th generation Texan. I lived in PA for a while and people couldn't understand me. One time someone thought I was saying 'white' when I was saying 'black'! I'm proud of being a Texan and I love the old terms we use: 'might shoulda', 'used to could', 'shouldn't oughter', 'might be gonna', 'he's all horns and rattles'...
Yup. My family has been in Texas since before it was part of the Union. We are mostly from the southeast, around Victoria. (Little 'ol Edna, Tx)
@@Blinkerd00d I had dinner with a lady from Edna, just this past Thursday! LOL!
@@Miesque1973 my uncle owned an auto repair shop in town for years, Dennis Ray Repair. The building is still there, but he passed away a couple of years ago.
Houston native, moved to central PA. First time I heard "you'ins" I thought I was being insulted. Had to repeat myself over and over so I could be understood sometimes, Never lost my accent, now in NC and boy hidey do they have an accent. lol
I can’t imagine how black and white could get mixed up. That’s really wild.
When I was 4 years old my family moved to Nacogdoches, very East Texas, from Southern California (LA County). We moved back to SoCal when I was 9½ years old.
I remember being tormented by other kids because of my very intense accent, and words they'd never heard of before.
I was bullied so badlyI had to remove these words completely from my vocabulary. The first word was fixin'.
It seemed like I used that word in every sentence. Each time I said it, everyone would try to mimic the way I said for at least 5 minutes.
The other word I was constantly bullied for saying was, "ya'll". Just like when I said "fixen" everyone would mimic and mock me for at least 5 minutes afterwards with every person taking a turn saying it.
I don't know how long it took before I was able to stop stop saying these two words in every single conversation I had, but I do know it was years.
Another kids loved to torment me over how I pronounced it was birthday.
They would exaggerate how slow I spoke by drawing out the syllables of the marking it last much longer than it should have. They also placed emphasis on the first syllable changing the sound of the first vowal, AND the'th' sound to a very long extended 'f' sound. It would sound like I was saying "b•u•u•u•r•r•r•f•f•day".
Although I eventually lost my accent, whenever anyone from back there called, if the call lasted, within a half hour my accent immediately returned lasting several hours before being able stop speaking like that.
I'm sure there were many other words I was tormented over how I said them, but these 3 had the most prominent affect on me.
To this day I still can't pronounce the words iron, bear, and poem correctly. They come out sounding like ion as a single sylable or if I attempt to consciously pronounce the letter "r", it'll sound like I'm saying "I- URN", bear sounds more like bare or beer, poem will sound like "pome" or "poi•ēm" similar to saying 'boi' but with a 'p'.
Then there are a few words that I pronounce reflecting a tinge of a Boston accent due to my mother not completely losing the accent from the city she was born, a few words reflect the influence of an ex who was a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, with two or three words reflecting a strange accent combo mix from my father's early childhood in Kansas City, Kansas, & Denver Colorado before growing up in SoCal. And of course, my accent will be heavily influenced by ESL speakers, with a heavy East LA sound sprinkled into the mix also.
My accept will often depend on the accents of the person of who I'm conversing with, reflecting their accents mixed in with how I pronounce certain words.
I'm South Texan but subconsciously out of fear of judgment, I suppressed my accent growing up.
When I turned 21 I moved to California and everyone said in dismay
"Texas? But you don't have an accent!"
lol. The only dead giveaway was my use of "y'all" which my coworkers always made fun of me for but I thought they sounded weird every time they said "you guys"😂
Y'all is so much better. Way more efficient.
"Y'all" is better. "You guys" is way too white bread. More people should use it.
Boomhauer! Nobody talks like that, but King of the Hill is the most accurate representation of Texas on TV.
I have the Texas Gulf Coast accent and was pleasantly surprised to hear it in the video. I don’t live in Texas anymore, but I kept the accent and I say y’all as often as I can. I also say all y’all when it’s called for.
The creator of King of the Hill is from Texas. So he would know his Texas accents. 😊
Mike Judd also created Beavis and Butthead. 😅
I feel like theyre known to talk like that in College Station, you hear Aggies start talking about Gig em they can start to sound a bit like that.
@@olliolivine9770 lol! Hook ‘em.
Heard someone behind me talkin' just like Boomhauer one day in the HEB. I've heard all the accents in King of the Hill around town.
Mike Judge is from Garland. A suburb of Dallas. Drop the first and last letters and you have, Arlan, the setting of King of the Hill. And there are people who talk exactly like Boomhauer. We sat in front of a guy at at a Rangers game once that sounded just like that.
12:25 Wow, Selena! My favorite Texan singer of all times. She’s an icon in Latin American.
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She’s only iconic in Texas. Not so much in the rest of Latin America
@Andomalo She has a far-reaching influence within the U.S. among Hispanics.
That was a pleasant surprise to see Selena! 😊😊
The old Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips had that Golden Triangle accent from around Beaumont-Port Arthur area.
Believe it or not, my boyfriends deep Texas accent is what MAJORLY attracted me to him. I'm sad that nowadays I don't quite hear it anymore since I've picked up the accent too. But when my mom who isn't from Texas visited, I told her beforehand he's got a very Texan accent and the first thing she said when she met him was "dang you really do have a southern accent"
Anyways I find Texas accents SO attractive, even the stronger ones.
Of course
Loved that you launched your accent journey with a “Howdy!” from a girl Aggie from Texas A&M University, one of the largest schools in the country. That traditional campus greeting has helped meld generations of students from all parts of Texas, the US, and the world into a unified, though diverse, student body.
“Howdy” is a delightful sound, particularly when uttered by a native Norwegian or Japanese or Nigerian or even Californian Aggie student.
Howdy is definitely an Aggie tradition. And would say not as widely used outside of College Station, the good old boy Aggie network is very strong through many professions especially engineers.
Gig ‘em! 👍🏻
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 we say howdy out in the world, too, when we're greeting other Ags.
Daughter and son in law are Aggies. Now their son is an Aggie. Absolutely love that University! I’m not an Aggie but love saying howdy to Aggies when I’m visiting A&M. 🤍
@@sarapiburn2523 You can be an honorary Aggie! 👍🏻
That was fun. I'm a Texas girl. Born in east Texas piney woods, lived most my life on the Gulf coast in Corpus Christi. Since my mom had the strong east Texas accent, that one can come out in me easily. I was once teased by a New Zealand friend for being the only person she knew who could put 3 syllables in the word "dog" pronounced "daw-oo-guh"
East Texas girl here, these folks all sound normal to me and I struggle to hear the difference in most of the examples but see how they might sound different to non Texans. Thanks for the fun video!
Born and raised just outside of Houston(by Texas standards, meaning it's about an hours drive to the city) and people around here tend to move and travel to other parts of Texas so much that the only reason I was guessing right on where the accents were from was because I was looking at the scenery in the background! Also, after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, there was a mass move to Texas because everyone realized how good we had it when they took shelter here. Lot of folks simply went back to pack so they could move here after! Next generation might have more Louisiana in the accent as a result!
Thank you for covering Tejano, this is something that many accent videos fail to mention. I wish you would have expanded it, though. All of border Texas speaks it, not just the South. The accent also differs from generation. The first generation differs from the second and third. Either though, thanks!
So true! Beyond the accent though, its an entire way of life with its own music, food, and art.
The entire border and a large chunk of San Antonio!
I am on a campaign to legitimize the exceedingly useful Texas phrase, "fixin to". I have not heard another English word that means the same. "Fixin to" is a courtesy announcement or declaration that an event or change is imminent: "It's fixin to start. It's fixin to rain. We're fixin to leave". The implied courtesy indicates that some degree of preparation or adjustment would be prudent on your part. Now, what other English words can do that? Whoever in England is in charge of deciding the legitimacy of an English word - I submit this proposal to you.
My two future tense phrases I used all my life are 21:36 fixin' to and "I'm gonna go". I have a San Marcos accent with some northern Mississippi thrown into it. I've visited New York City and I definitely used my accent with a lot of y'alls. I'm proud to be a native Texan with my distinctive accent.
@NelsonClick head on down to southeast Texas and “fixin to” becomes “finna” or “fittin to.” Lol I can’t say those phrases have never come outta my mouth before. 😂😂
Yeh, that phrase is used just about everywhere. I remember a girl I worked with about 7 years ago used to say it...on the east coast.
I'm a Kentuckian transplanted in to Texas. I've heard this phrase since I was 5. I'm in my 50's now.
YES!! I totally agree there. That phrase deep in my brain for sure. Even when I try to tamp down my Texas accent. "Fixin to", pops right out without me knowing it. I will be talking to someone and sooner or later I will hear from them. "'Fixin to?' what is that?". But I love to use it. As far as I can tell it is pretty much just used here in Texas.
As a Texan that grew up in Cali and moved back home to Texas...these accents sound normal to me. Side note. Selana and I sound a lot alike. But hey we're from Corpus and she lived a couple of houses down from my granny in Molina😊
I'm a Texan. l love the accents and drawls of Texans. This video was very interesting to me, since I haven't been to every part of Texas. Thank you for sharing.
I am an instructor for a car manufacturer from north Texas and have students that I've taught periodically for 25 years. I am amazed at immigrant accent evolution. South Tezas twang on a Swede, East texas drawl on top of German, West Texas accent on top of Farsi. "Oil" is a word that can be pronounced in an almost infinite number of ways.🎉
I lived and still have family that lives in Odessa, which is West Texas. I LOVE how we talk y'all
I'm your neighbor in Seminole.
@@cookielady7662i used to live there. I miss it. Love Seminole❤
Yay for Odessa❤i love our west texas accent too
I was born in the Bronx, lived in New York most of my life. Moved to Odessa, TX nearly 19 years ago. Lived in Lubbock for about 10 years, now living in Midland, TX. I wish I could afford to move back east, I've never been able to adjust to the heat here.
Hey y'all....Big Spring here!
Y'all and yonder and might could are ESSENTIAL Texas conversation❤
Fixin' to. Used ta could.
@@wordforgeryep, I was surprised that ‘Fixin to’ wasn’t discussed.
Don't forget about 'reckon' .
Texas isn’t just a State but a State of mind!
Girlfriend is from West Texas, I'm from deep Southeast Texas. She absolutely loves the " Vidor twang " I have when I get too excited talking about something and I start shortening ten word sentences down to four or five compound words.
It's funny how accents work. I love it when Olly speaks Spanish because all of a sudden -- no more weird British accent!
Yeah; he'd be a much better teacher if he learned to speak without that weird Island tone.
@@dutchreagan3676truly.
I didn't know people couldn't understand what Boomhaur was saying until I moved to Florida for a year. 😂 I also understand everything Tater says on Yellowstone. My husband's from Iowa, and sometimes he will pause the show and ask me to translate what she's saying. 😂
I'm a Native Texan (SE TX, Beaumont area) & I think THIS is the first time I understood ALL of what Boomhauer said. My first hubby (raised in Conroe - 40 mi. North of Houston) used to say "tar" & I had to look around & figure out whether he was talking about tar, car tires or a radio tower.
I lived in IA for a bit and my ex (that’s from HI) had to translate for me everywhere I went….used to drive me crazy trying to order food at a restaurant lol
Isn't Tater supposed to be from Texarkana, but she has a Beaumont accent?
@@Jaster832 I kept waiting for him to go over the Texarkana accent! I always thought that's why she was so hard to understand!
From Florida but understand Boomhaur, I think it just depends on a combination of your class & location here. There's many different Floridas all on top of each other.
6th gen Texan here, 18 years in south Texas, 10 in Central, 10 in East Texas and a very brief stint in Dallas with a few quick comments...
The Ham orchards clip was grouped with West Texas but Ham's is in Terrell (about 9 hours from El Paso and just East of Dallas). I pass it almost daily. Also the west texas segment had multiple distinct accents, one of which is common all along the nearly 2,000 mile Texas / Mexico border.
Matthew McConaughey is from North East Texas (Longview) but he did talk about him moving around and he does have significant time to Austin. Austin is in central TX but don't be mistaken, Austin is NOT Central TX and should never been identified as such (caution should be used in even grouping it with central Texas and to be clear it hardly qualifies as Texas even though its in the middle of the state) Lol
I second what someone else said about "southern" TX. It's South Texas..the ern is an unnecessary waste of syllables.
The coast of Texas is about 367 miles so there's quite the variety of accents just in this region alone.
Finally, how did San Antonio not even get a passing mention?
Grew up in Fort Worth Texas here. But My Sister in Oregon, (whom I reconnected with years later and who grew up in Oregon) loves to put me on speaker phone so her girlfriends can hear the way I speak. They think it's fascinating and sexy. lol.. But I got to say, my ears perk up when I hear a Gal from Alabama speak. Reminds me of a song. "That's right you're not from Texas
But Texas wants you anyway".
Hey there. I'm from East TX. I got 6 of these right, the 1st one most definitely. This is very educational, learning more accents in my native state. Cool. Texas Pride!
Long-time viewer here. So nice to hear accents of my home discussed. Couple of notes: We consider anything west of I-35 "West Texas." El Paso is El Paso. Ask a Texan about El Paso, and you'll likely hear it's "closer to LA than Houston." It feels kind of disconnected from the rest of the state (from the viewpoint of someone east of I-35). Oh, and there aren't mountains in the RGV (roughly Laredo to Brownsville. I'm sure a local will correct me). That thumbnail pic made me chuckle. We were taught in school that they called it a "valley" to lure settlers down there in the 1800s.
Glad I’m not the only one that noticed this😅 I thought I was just being picky
El Paso isn’t Texas 😂.
Lol it depends on what part of Texas you’re from. I grew up in Abilene and I really thought of west Texas as Odessa (though I’ve lived in DFW for 12 years and I started referring to Abilene as west Texas not long after moving here). My mom grew up in Odessa and she considered west Texas to be Big Bend. Her mom grew up in the Arklatex region and her definition was more in line with yours. To be fair, growing up in Abilene when I got on I-20 there was a sign that El Paso was 399 miles west. And it’s 762 miles from El Paso to Longview on I-20 so there is more Texas west of Abilene than east of it.
As a central Texan, there's west Texas (Abilene, Lubbock, Odessa, Del Rio all qualify) and Far West Texas (that's El Paso, the Big Bend area, etc). West of 35 is the Hill Country (Blanco, Fredericksburg, Junction, Kerrville) before it ever gets to West Texas.@@jennifercarter1265
El Paso pre 80's was def Texan through and through. Its different now though, sadly. My mom is Born and Raised in EL Paso and she doesn ever want to go back to that city as it is now. Im used to the Guf Coast and East Texas. Every time I go to the hill country my allergies kick up 5 times more lol.
Nice video! I’ve lived in Texas my entire life. I was raised in Fort Worth, went to college in Lubbock and then went into the Marine Corps. I was stationed on the east coast. I told one of my Marine buddies that I didn’t think I had a very strong Texas accent. The dude was from Duluth Minnesota. He laughed out loud! After that I worked I the airplane business for 30+ years with people from all over the USA and the world. I have always thought that then Texas accent, all of them, were fascinating.
Im from the Rio Grande Valley, my ears always perk up when I hear the local accent when I'm browsing you tube!
I'm really glad you brought up the "don't make fun of other people's accents" bit, I grew up in the town next to Enchanted Rock, and I spent a good chunk of my childhood getting rid of my natural accent, which is basically like 1:00 . I replaced it with a made-up accent that's somewhere between a newscaster and "Mid-Atlantic", because I saw people on TV making fun of people that talked like I did. I'm in the process of getting it back, though, and it's fun to watch people's reactions. It is nice to see someone point out that there are several different accents in Texas, though!
Fredericksburg?
You really missed out on covering Houston which, because of its incredible diversity (over 145 native languages spoken in the city), there are a number of, lack of a better word for me, pidgin accents as all the different language groups mix together.
I agree! I think people don’t realize Texans separate Houston/Galveston and the Costal Bend as two different regions. Houston’s history and diversity makes it distinctly different, even though it’s all along the Gulf of Mexico.
My favorite shop owner was this little Vietnamese woman. Now picture her dressed to the nines in cowboy duds and when she talked a Vietnamese accent with a deep East Texas drawl
@@danielemmons3513 The Vietnamese diaspora is huge in Houston so that is not an uncommon site.
Htown here
I'm in the middle of everywhere, texas I-10 90 and 77 all run through my town, main streets, actually. You have all these city folk stopping for gas and vapes, grabbing a bite to eat just to deal with some country fucks in a town with a German name they cannot pronounce, and watching then is gold.
My mom and her side of the family was from Texas. These accents bring back good memories of living in Edinburg Texas many years ago.
I was told by a true blood Glascow,Scottish friend that if I ever travel abroad,don't claim to be an American,claim your Texas heritage because then you're like a rock star! My dad also once told me when he passed through a diner in Michigan everybody kept asking him to say something, just to hear his accent. And if you live here in Texas long enough, you'll get an accent too😂😂
Like a whole other country.
The ascents are spot on but "y'all", we must definitely still use y'all! We know how to citify our speech when we feel the need but don't let that fool you.
I moved to Texas from Michigan in 1962. I was a child then but I never picked up a Texas accent. People in Texas still ask me where I am from, and I am in my 70's now. If I travel up north people will also ask me where I am from. I don't sound like anything in particular. It is not Texan except for my word choices, not my accent. As for this lovely video, I understood every single Texas accent. I live in deep East Texas and believe me the accent is very thick here. Have a good'un y'all.
I'm from Texas A&M. Sometimes I get so used to hearing other people from different backgrounds talk, and it's getting to a point I can't understand other Texans.
Love Texas A&M! Great University. The band is the best military marching band ever!🤍
I'm from Texas. It was fun watchn' all the different accents.You did a great job with that video.
Native East Texan here with a very thick, undeniable Texas accent. I even text in accent, and didn't realize it, until my wife(from another state) informed me of this. According to Her I vary the thicknesses level of my accent depending on the Accent level of whomever I'm talking to. Apparently as She has pointed out, I can also speak right along with other dialects from neighboring southern states like her State of Arkansas. For me it's just normal conversation with other country folk.
I'm the same way, don't get me around my cousins who have lived their entire lives in Van Zandt. If I'm with them for longer than an hour or two my accent goes from midway between Dallas (where I was born) and East Texas to damn near as thick as their accent. I don't fight it though, I live out here now too and ain't ever going back.
Born and raised in TX. My family traces back to before TX was TX. Scary times but im the same. I didn't get an accent detectable at work on the phone from others in different states until i lived in East TX. Lol it comes out thick if i talk to others with a thick accent from any state.
I was born and spent the first 5years of my life in Texas. I then moved to Nebraska, my Texan accent was so strong, I was put into speech therapy to get rid of it.
I wish they wouldn't have, I love the Texan accent. I do have some of it left...but not much.
I'm sure you sound lovely :)
I had a thick Italian American accent growing up. It was kind of a Brooklyn accent. Then I had speech therapy for something entirely different and the therapist decided to teach me things like, it's not dis, dat and de odder ting, its this, that and the other thing. Now I do not have much of my accent left either. It comes back when I talk to relatives or sometimes it pops out on words like qwadaah, which is quarter. I catch myself correcting it., or my adult children do. Bummer huh? It was like Marisa Tomeh's character on "My Cousin Vinny." Not any more.
Awww, I enjoy different accents. It’s a shame when people in “authority” want us to sound the same.
How boring the world would be if we were all the same!
Thaaaat's chilllld abuuuuse! Lol!
Born in Texas, but started school in Kansas and went back to Texas in 6th grade. I started new schools three times in Kansas (K, 4th, 5th grades) and every single time everyone asked me where I was from. No one asked me where I was from when I got back to Texas in the 6th grade. Was wonderful.
I've been and lived in Texas my entire life. I have talked to people from all over the country and most people say I don't sound Texan at all 😩🤷🏻♀️
Peach man reminds me of my paw paw. From the hill country here. Lakes, hills, and lots of beauty.
1) the guy at the beginning in the titleist hat - he's an actor on Young Sheldon if I'm not mistaken.
2) Teeter is an actress. You can't judge Texans by the accent actors and actresses put on television.
3) I'm from west Texas/panhandle plains region - the 806 y'all - and my accent changes depending on who I am speaking with. It will change if I'm sleepy, excited, or speaking to an elder vs speaking to one of my kids. Speaking to a business professional vs speaking to a church lady. My family came west via Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and finally Texas during the dust bowl with a little bit of Bama thrown in back in the Tennessee days for good measure. We all have shades and inflections that have traveled along with us. Throw in the relatively recent - early 1900's - from England and Scotland on my paternal side and my sister and I are a mishmash of Granny's English and Gramma's Okie/Arkansas dialects. I lived with her during college so I picked up quite a bit more of it then. And yes, it gets stronger when we're angry, defensive, or being questioned kindly about it. Met a cpl gentlemen from Greece I believe, when we traveled to Jamaica. I was just talking to my husband and inlaws, all Texans also, and they asked me if we were from Texas. Yes'ir. And with that one word, any doubt was vanquished. Lol.
28 years a Texan from about 50 miles north of Houston, I couldn't tell you where any of those accents came from but i understood all of them lol
Moved from Austalia in 2002 in high school couldn't understand the history teacher 😅 felt like he was speaking fast with thick texan accent. I remeber the teacher thinking weirf when called the trash can a bin.
Well done. I was born in the panhandle and that's where my family is from, but I lived in Austin for 40 years. I reckon you nailed it!
I love this video.. thanks olly. Im from Texas 6th generation...Reminds me of my family from different parts of texas.
Lived for a long time in SE Texas...that accent is pretty unique as well...kind of a blended hill country & gulf coast with a ton of cajun/creole influence
I'm a native Texan!! How are y'all doing?
I grew up at the eastern edge of America's Midwest. School and later my career took me to Chicago, then Georgia, before settling in Texas. Each of those places had their accents, although I've never had an issue understanding someone. I now fit into none of those places as my accent has verbal quirks from every place I've lived. My northern friends say I sound southern/Texan whereas my southern friends say I sound like a Yankee. There is one phrase in Texas to be particularly aware of: "Bless Your Heart." Depending on the circumstances of its uttering, it can either be a sincere compliment or an insult calling into question your cognitive ability.
As an East Texan I really appreciated your video, in grad school I took a linguistics class and we took a quiz to determine what region of the U.S. our dialect originated. Needless to say, my dialect was way South of the Mason Dixon Line, although I expected no different. I can relate to the elderly woman, whom expressed down playing her accent, I also consciously hide my accent when at work or professional setting. However, while I may down play my accent, my turn of phrase will always be Southern. It is also important to note the cultural differences as it contributes to our speech. Thanks for the video.
While I'm not a Texas Native, but I got here as quick as I could 37 years ago. An old boy here told me that "Fixin to" came from fix a team to a wagon. And it morphed to preparing to do nearly anything, as in, "Ahm fixin to open up a number 10 can of whoop ass onat sucker"
Mundee, Tuesdee etc is how I pronounce the days of the week and I'm English (in my 70s). Remember the rhyme Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday - to rhyme with Grundy. A lot of older people in the UK say the days of the week like this and it's how you can tell their age as Stephen Fry once remarked.
Awww the lil old man talking about buying acres and growing peaches reminds me of my Grandpa! That's why I love the Texan accent and being a Texan! Some of us speak a little slower and take life a little slower but those are the best kind of people - manners and kind nature, honest and true. 🥰
Grew up in Texas. I didn't notice any problems with understanding any of these folks.
You should try finding a sweet young gal from North Texas, they'll just melt your heart ❤️
When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time on my grandparents ranch west of Waco. There was an old man who lived in the area who was a real throwback.
His accent was unique and he talked exactly like Festus on Gunsmoke. Don’t know where he got it, but it was genuine for sure.
Olly, I’m so glad that you got to visit Texas. You know you barely scratched the surface, right. You need to do a follow up. Come to Odessa and I’ll introduce you to a few more accents heard around the oil patch (Permian Basin).
I was surprised he didn't mention the Permian Basin accent. My grandma has it, and and people LOVE the way she talks. Although, so many people pass through there working in the oil field that it's starting to blend in with other Texas accents. Maybe that's why he didn't cover it. My grandma is 94, so her accent is pretty unique and an excellent example of how accents slowly shift over time.
@@amandagfuller our OOs and OHs are emphasized. It’s unique.
Luke Wilson’s parents were from Boston. His father was the president of the Dallas PBS station. So he has a lot of outside influence on his accent.
Getting married to an east Texan in 2 weeks! Can confirm etx accent is southern. It's weird how you stop hearing it after you get accustomed though!
As someone who used to live in Texas, I only missed two outright: the Far West Texas one where I thought it was Panhandle and the Austin one(thought Michael McC. was from San Antonio) but I was too specific on a few others: I said the Permian Basin for West Texas(was an easy one for me since my Grandpa had a very strong West Texas accent from working in the oil business for most of his life), the Valley for South Texas, and Houston for the Gulf Coast.
I was too specific on most of them too. 😅 Except for the Hill Country. Enchanted Rock gave that one away.
The section for West Texas had two different accents in my opinion so that kinda messed me up. I’m from Midland but I’ve never heard that area be called “Northwest Texas.”
There's a lot of crossover in the video, so it's hard to pinpoint. Lipan Apache one on Coastal could also be from border or Southern.
I got most of them, but I'm a fairly well traveled Texan. I currently live east Texas (probably the "gateway" to east Texas) near a town called Gun Barrel City.
Canton here.
I adore the many dialects of the south and Midwest. It’s so cool to learn that Texas has so many.
Originally from the Panhandle, moved out to Central Texas a few years ago. Same state but the biome couldn't be more different. Thanks for taking me on a little tour. It even made me a little homesick for tornadoes and dust.
South Texas here and I’m so glad you used SELENA as an example, that’s the perfect accent of what people sounds like here
Excuse me? Nothing about Houston? We are different from Dallas, you know. I grew up using the word 'tump' to describe the action of something falling over, as in, "I almost tumped over the milk." And we old timers have a non-standard pronunciation of the word 'bayou,' which we pronounce 'BI-oh.' And it goes on from there. Lots of outside influences from French Louisiana, Mexico, the American South, etc. Also, and this is common in a lot of the south, accenting tends to be on the first syllable, as you heard in a lot of other Texas accents. FI-nance, IN-surance, MON-roe, etc.
I feel like he could do a whole episode on how we say words in H-Town. Kuykendahl, Alief, Fuqua, etc.
@@jennifermauricio2300 Always said I could tell a long-time Houstonian by how they pronounced Kuykendahl and San Felipe.
Thanks for pointing this out, I kept waiting for Houston as well. I definitely say all the words you mentioned, just like you wrote it 😅
Tump! Yes!!! My husband makes fun of me saying this all the time. Like what's the problem. It's dump and turn combined. Duh!!!😂
Trump! My husband used that word earlier today!
I'm a native Texan and its funny to hear about our accents when I'm just used to it because I hear it every day. And yes, we do say "y'all"!! lol