7 Difficult American Accents You'll NEVER Guess
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0:23 - Accent #1
2:25 - Accent #2
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5:27 - Accent #4
7:55 - Accent #5
9:29 - Accent #6
11:13 - Accent #7
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When I was growing up in the 1960's, Geechee, what Gullah is called in Georgia, was the common dialect & accent, so it sounds normal to me.
We used to say "Soon this morning", instead of "Early this morning". Not sure, if that's from Geechee or not?
The Ogeechee River is around the coast of Georgia, so Geechee may have the same root or even be named for the river?
I love you mentioning our dialect. It’s never called Yoopernese. I’m an Ojibwe-Yooper and this was accurate-ish. We have our own flare of it on the rez. It’s the Central to the West of the Upper Peninsula. Very well den, very well.
Please, dont give miami that much cred. Those are not accents you are hearing from South America. That is pure unadulterated IGNORANCE and refusal to even want to learn English. They dont like to follow any rules of the U.S. and they refuse to acknowledge black whites or asian if they dont speak their language. They are a pack of low lifes there, NOT an accent.
Olly you are alittle off on alot of these . As for new England states , just listen to any of Kennedys speaking that new England accent . But not a NY accent is very distinct , it is rough and alittle raunchy. You completely missed the Chicago accent !!! Most appearent in Bridgeport/south side accent, listen to a white person talk and you'll get it ( that's because if you are listening to Africa America talk in this area it will be mixed with their accent. We in Chicago are very nasal sounding . You missed completely the California accent !!! Then there's the Wisconsin/Minnesota accent it sounds kinda Canadian. You need to re-do this video, sorry buddy but you missed most of America's accents !! And there is a sharp difference between, NYC, new England, and the Mainers !! Mainers accent is very very distinctive from all others . The naw'lands accent in Louisiana again is very distinctive. Sorry you missed the most distinctive accents in US !!!
The Cajuns definitely deserve a highlight, yat is much more known outside of my neck of the woods, but Cajun in much more interesting
In the US we Native Americans also have what is called the Rez accent in addition to our tribal accents (and every single one of the 500+ languages has its own accent).
Soooooo true! You can usually tell what rez someone is from by subtleties in the accent or slang.
My mother grew up on the Coeur d'Alene Rez in Idaho. She and her brother and parents were the only white family on the Rez. (Her parents ran the general store).
She and my uncle grew up there and they had a bit of the Rez accent.
Canadian FN has a Rez accent as well.
Hi. American here from Oklahoma, wanting to add my 2 cents to the conversation…. Other than the host ( sorry I don’t know your name, because it’s my firs time in your channel) I don’t even understand the majority of the speakers! Crazy extreme accents. I understand the Pirate/ one, the Cuban Carrabean one, the Finnish Scandinavian one, the Yooper, and the African influenced one. That’s it! I have had African friends and Spanish Speaking friends, so that might help explain why I understood those too. I have had Yooper exposure to a point too. My regions accent is not represented( that’s understandable and fine with me. Just mentioning.) I say insurance both ways and so does my whole family. We are from Texas , Oklahoma, Kansas) I hear and say “ prolly” a lot. And that’s about it, as to what is mentioned. I do think, from my experience, it is true about the hotter the place, the slower the talk. Fun video. That cute little girl with the African influenced accent was so adorable and she made me laugh. Thank you for an interesting entertaining video. I( oh, I also learned I can’t understand a Bostonian accent. Funny, when it comes to foreign accents I usually do really good at understanding.
Would love to see a video exploring the diversity of Native American accents.
I'm retired from the US Navy. One ship I was in made a port call in Scotland. We needed work done on our copier and had a technician come out from Glasgow. A Black sailor from Alabama was this technician's escort. The two of them were reduced to writing notes to each other because neither of them could understand the other's accent. But if you'd ask them, they'd both have said they were speaking their mother tongue, English.
I believe it. I’m pretty good at understanding even the thickest non native speaker accents, but I had a friend from the area of England that’s close to the Scottish border. It was an interesting friendship because he was a baritone and his accent was so ridiculously thick that I literally couldn’t understand a single word he said. We resorted to just texting each other even when hanging out.
@peterhobson3262
The speech I’ve had the most difficult time understanding is Pidgen Hawaiian; Though that was probably more vocabulary than accent.
omg this is hilarious. absolute opposite ends of the english spectrum, i would have loved to see this
One was speaking American
A colleague from Liverpool was trying to communicate with a Texas ticket agent, who claimed she wasn't a speaker of English. The agent ended up putting on the manager, a Spanish speaker from Spain, and my colleague--who spoke Mexican Spanish (strongly accented), but nonetheless was finally able to get her point across.
I’m a decendant of Gullah people. I love to hear my relatives from Charleston talk. ❤
A lot of American linguists think pre-civil war southerners didn’t have the drawl common to post or antebellum southerners. The drawl started as a result of reduced migration and interactions between northern and southern people. Also, the example from Gone with the Wind is a non American doing a southern accent that was taught to her by a non southerner.
I can hear the British in her accent. It doesn't sound authentic at all to me.
This isn't the first time I've seen Scarlett used as an example of a southern accent. (In this case, he might have been using her more as comedy, because we're all familiar with her.) So annoying.
Wrong. Not all the southeast was like this. There were a lot of Scottish Irish and German influence that carried the drawl long before the uncivil war
I used to work with a number of gullahs in Charleston. If they spoke to me one on one, I could understand them just fine, but if they were speaking to one another, forget it. But I liked hearing it.
Shout out to Gullah Gullah Island. Good kids show in the 90s.
Me: "I SPEAK American English, I will know ALL of these..."
Me 5 seconds later: "wtf is he saying?"
Anyone from the south will tell you there is no southern accent, each state is completely different. If you have a Texan, a Georgian, & a Tennessean in a room and you'll see how different it is.
EDIT: It's like saying someone from Maine, Illinois, and New York all share an accent.
Agreed. You could put five Georgians in a room together, and they could all have completely different accents, and the one from Atlanta can't understand any of the others. Augusta, Savannah, Appalachia, Valdosta, Columbus... all completely different.
Very true. It's definitely true in Virginia. I'd be willing to bet it's the case in every state. Look at how big Texas is--it's bigger than a lot of countries. It's bound to have a variety of accents.
The south is a horrible region
I was confused when he first introduced the southern speakers because they all had different accents I wasn't sure where he was going with it 😂
@@marisapollock4703 If anyone noticed the Gone with the Wind actress, that was fake, so was the one before that; she is a TH-cam person who loves to act silly.
Glad you brought up that "southern" is not just one accent. I have lived in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. All those states touch each other, and all have different accents. I'm origionally from Arkansas, and I'm proud of my accent. It embarassed me as a kid when I visited other places, but I like it now.
Yes! I live in NWA and I feel like we have a different accent than other parts of the state even.
@heatherbaker7661 I lived in costal south Texas for a while, and there were multiple times someone asked about my accent. And like he alluded to in the video, Louisiana has many accents! It's neat stuff
I’m from a military family but have lived the longest in Central AR, and even just going to NWA I feel like I’m hearing a different accent, which ironically is the closest to my mashup of accents
Louisiana has five separate dialects itself.
@rosemorris7912 I knew it was multiple but I wasn't sure how many. Thanks for the info
I grew up in Hialeah, Florida. I’m not even Hispanic and I still use terms like Digame, or dale. Most people in Miami don’t speak English so I learned Spanish as I grew up.
My husband is a yooper and I ended up moving to the U.P.
I tell you, the amount of culture shock I got from the accent 😂 it’s been a year up here already and I still don’t understand some sentences these people be saying 😂😂😂
Lol, I live Hollywood right up the road from you and I confirm you speak facts Dale .
I live in Hialeah
Moved to Hollywood from Seattle area 15 yrs ago. I think I've adopted some of the Miami accent and def know ppl with it
@@tuffylaw Man have you seen what they been doing to Hollywood, High rises everywhere.
Welcome to Michigan - despite the culture shock, I hope life here has been treating you well!
im from Maine and the guy doing the directions is PEAK.
The East LA Chicano accent is also another pretty well known influenced by Mexican Spanish and made popular by Mexican-Americans creating a lot of terms in "Spanglish" and also having a distinct sound and slang.
The first time I heard someone from Miami speaking Spanish, I couldn't really understand what he was saying!!! I was very confused!!! Lol I barely get by in Spanish, throw in an accent, I'm toast lol
@@menopausemaddy6222 Hi, former Miamian here. Most of the Spanish speakers in Miami speak Caribbean Spanish, where all the words in a sentence are combined into one rapid-fire blast. It can be very difficult -- even for Spanish speakers -- to understand. I live in California now, and I can assure you that the predominant Mexican Spanish spoken here is much slower and easier to understand.
@@LeftCoastGator I’m native Californian 😎
I was expecting for us Califorños to come up but guess not.
@@menopausemaddy6222 Unlucky
As a southerner, the idea that there are only 7 southern accents is hilarious.
I know right, and I bet that’s only accounting for white American accents too. The number of black southern and white southern accents is VAST
Yeah, 7 in one state maybe.
Yep, in the upstate of South Carolina Black people like me speak a Scots-Irish (Appallachian) and African mix. The men in my Family have very deep voices with a southern drawl. My accent was so strong that it stood out when I left SC. My Grandfather told me in 1995 when I was 16 that I sounded indentical to his Father that was probably born around 1890. My accent is completely different from the Geechie accent on the Coast and Lowcountry. Also, the accent in the Midlands and Pee Dee regions of SC are lighter than the Upstate. Within the Upstate the Aristocratic Southern accent is strong in North West SC.
@@meatthenole5601 i know louisiana has 3 by itself so you guys can share the other 4 XD
Right?!?! I'm from East Tennessee but my entire family are from Appalachia. Ya know where we say haint instead of ghost and use phrases like more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs. My accent is a combination of a southern drawl and Hillbilly English.
Thank you SO MUCH for understanding the New Orleans accent. When movies portray people from New Orleans with that southern drawl you know they have never spoken to a single person from there. Drives me up a wall 😂
Yes! Like NCIS New Orleans... totally fake. They need some NATIVE New Orleans folks to TEACH them. !!!!!!
dude seriously! i hate it SOOO much! like wtf we don't sound like that!!!!
That was surprising to me when I was researching the New Orleans dialect for a play. Learned about the YAT dialect, but wasn't allowed to use it because audiences were so used to the southern drawl they've heard in most films/plays. Sorry to know you are never really represented.
@@pamelagood8077 I’m Cajun in Acadiana so I don’t actually have any skin in that game, but I go to NO enough to know what’s up haha
Credit where it’s due though, Princess and the Frog did the Cajun accent pretty well 😅
I've lived in yooper Michigan for 50 years and you can't imagine how many times I've been asked where I'm from when I've traveled.
As someone who’s from Michigan, the Yooper accent is WAYYYY thicker and harder to understand than what is portrayed in this video 😆 it’s very reminiscent of Canadian accents.
Yeah, I’ve heard them. I thought my accent was bad, their accent is like trying to understand a foreign language sometime.
What the hell s wrong with Canadian accents??? Perfectly clear.
@@nicfarrow sure thing bud… you think that.
@@nicfarrownothing is wrong with them! They're just saying that sometimes they're very hard to understand if you're not used to it! I've had people from northern states not be able to understand me and in my head I sound perfectly clear lol
TRUTH. I moved from the lower peninsula to the UP, and the accent can be THICK.
I actually thought the first accent sounded from the New York region so makes so much sense when you said that the accents came from similar immigrant populations interacting with eachother
New Orleans has what is dubbed as a "Brooklynese" dialect. I live and hour away from, but I can say it is not as prevalent as it used to be. The older generation still sounds like this, but the younger sounds more like the "valley girl".
That’s interesting because I’m from NY and that accent sounded the most foreign to me
I thought that too! I knew it sounded like Brooklyn and Philly but at the same time some parts were hard to pinpoint and it made a little sense when I heard it was New Orleans “N’Ourlans”
Love this! Growing up a military brat and moving all around the US, I have always been fascinated by accents/dialects and how they have evolved.
I’m glad you highlighted the Gullah accent! It’s such a unique dialect and it has an immense amount of history behind it.
You could do a whole video on the Carolinas alone.
Hoi Toider, Gullah-Geechee, Appalachian, Piedmont Southern, Low-Country, the Charleston accent, Lumbee English, Waccamaw Siouan, Inner Banks Brogue, and the Green Swamp's isolated Crusoe Island dialect of French-influenced English.... Insanely diverse region.
I'm from coastal South Carolina, and most people think I'm from Ohio! 🤣
This is true. I ran into a Lumbee in Denver and he was amazed that I recognized his accent. I have had conversations with people from Appalachia in front of native New Yorkers who later asked me ‘did I really understand what that person was saying?’
Southern Appalachia has its own documentary.
th-cam.com/video/iHIJfbYhQFg/w-d-xo.html
Yeah to a video on Caroline. . The Lumbee accent is a great one. Seems to me the Tidewater, Va., is a milder version of Hoi Toide, like Gullah influences Charleston.
I’d love to see a video on this.
Hey, I want to point out something interesting, I've noticed that in all the American accent videos I've watched, there's rarely any mention of a unique American accent that I'm quite familiar with: the Hawaiian accent. It's fascinating how this distinctive accent, influenced by the rich cultural blend of Hawaii, often gets overlooked in discussions about American accents.
Also, they have their own district form of pidgin English.
Reckon it's almost more of a Pacific Islands grouping than what we think of when we say American accents, but you have a point there.
Hmmm. Since Puerto Rico is 'only a territory' and not a State, we can't really call it an 'American accent', right? How about Guam? American accent?
@@dutchreagan3676 I mean, you could argue either way, for sure. Personally though, I wouldn't necessarily say so. They're kinda their own entities and developed quite differently than the language dialects & accents of the Lower 48.
Kinda like how Greenland is technically part of Denmark, a European country, but Greenlandic isn't a European language.
Maybe it was a bit nieve of me to group the Hawaiian accent together with the mainland American accents. I know that many Hawaiians identify as both Hawaiian and/or American. Regardless, I think it’s a beautiful accent, pidgin and culture.
I am from the south and have always been proud of my southern heritage. I have family up the coast to Boston and we have at least five different dialects all within our family. All of the dialects you have mentioned have the most vibrant, outgoing and kindest people America contains. Thank you for your video and treating our dialects with the appreciation and respect they each deserve. God bless you and your family.
I love the diversity of accents in my country. Thank you so much for this video!
Fun fact: The "French Quarter" in New Orleans was most built by the Spanish. When the French gave up Louisiana to the Spanish, the Spanish found the building standards in NOLA to be inferior. They put in fire breaks between buildings and the distinctive wrought iron railings.
that's because most of the quarter burned down and the spanish rebuilt
Yep heard that. He missed a couple lesser known but yet huge accents: Pennsylvanian (Amish AND Non-Amish), New Jersey, Vermonter, Atlantian/No. Georgia, Alabaman, Idaho/Utah all have their own accents.
New Orleanians have a Brooklyn accent.
Scarlet was played by a Brit. Her accent was a miss.
@@MarieJackson-sp3beAccents in New Orleans vary by neighborhood. Often you can tell what neighborhood of the city someone is from by the accent. It’s similar to New York in that way.
There could be an entire series just doing a deep dive into Southern accents. And there's much more than just 7 southerner accents.
He doesn't have the North and South West on this or mid west
There's another guy who's a language coach, on his channel he dives into a bunch of accents, talks about some of the technical terms, but in a friendly way. He hits a lot more US accents, but I don't remember his name.... ah here it is: th-cam.com/video/H1KP4ztKK0A/w-d-xo.html
Da Bearse, Da Bullse (South Chicago?)
Displaced Yooper here - so happy to see us on the list :) And I love the inclusion of a recording from Da Yoopers (a band).
The amount or researched packed into this video is astounding
There’s really not that much
My Dad was a Yooper and I recognized the accent immediately (the snow mobile also gave me a clue). We grew up in the lower penisula of Michigan (a different accent entirely) but never noticed the odd way our Dad spoke until we got older and moved away. It still blows my mind how many born and raised Americans have no idea what "da yoop" is, born culturally and geographically.
yep i tell people i basically live on wisconsin since i’m closer to wisconsin than down state (on the border) because if i say michigan, they assume down state.
I was going to mention the yooper accent for this video. It’s definitely a unique thing. A lot of Finnish immigrants up there and it certainly rubbed off!
My dad's family, my aunts and uncles are all from Wisconsin, specifically Prairie Du Chien but have a very yooper accent. As they got older and moved around they lost their accent a bit so it's noce to hear it again. I dont get up North often enough.
I grew up in North Eastern Wisconsin, and had da Yoopers accent
Getcher buck yet?
My mom is a yooper but when I heard it in the video it didn't sound think enough until Da Yoopers.
I’m born and raised in Baton Rouge, LA. The variety of accents just in Louisiana is astounding. There are different accents around New Orleans. Someone from the Florida Parishes sounds different than someone south of the Lake. Cajun people from the prairie around Ville Platte sound different than Cajun people from down the Bayou around Thibodaux. Then you throw in the different racial accents it makes this a unique place and you feel like your in a foreign country when visiting other states sometimes.
Yes indeed
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Yeah we all over the place. Funny story, I worked at Brown's Velvet in the 90s. Some of the milk semi drivers had that thick Acadian accent. The guy on the receiving dock was urban slang. Two people speaking English that couldn't understand one another. Have you ever had to translate to people speaking the same language?
I would love to hear the Florida parishes accent - my grandfather’s people were from there, but he died before I was born.
BR gang rise up 💪🏿
@@davidwickboldt712 Yes. That part. Pepple used to call me and ask me to translate for someone from Louisiana. The shock when I would tell them the person was speaking English. Parlez vous Louisiane?
Lol.
Getting flashbacks of spending summers on my Aunt and Uncle’s farm in rural Minnesota with those “Oh ya, you betcha’s”.
Such a wholesome accent 😂
Oh, fer fun!
I spent some time around Minneapolis and St. James, and I never heard a single person talk like they did in the movie Fargo. I was kind of disappointed.☹️
I'm Minnesotan and I love it, you can really hear how some have a stronger Minnesotan accent than others
Happy to say, I was able to place most of these! (U.S. native, here!) Fascinating video. Only had no clue about South Carolina--never knew that there was a separate Outer Banks accent!
A Brit calling out the adding and dropping of the letter "R" is a real "pot calling the kettle black" situation 😂 What's especially funny is that he seemed to be surprised that anybody would do that 🤣
My dad's family came from Manchester, England, and although he was born in the US, he retained many quirks of their speech. He always inserted an r between two words that ended and began with vowels, which we thought was very funny.
Weally?
Well because they only really speak with intrusive R when it comes before another vowel. For example "Australia*r* and the United States" because in British English they always pronounce the R when it comes between vowels ("interesting" not "intah esting") But I don't think many British people put an intrusive R at the end of the word when there's no word after it such as "idear", "the state of Virginiar", etc.
I think the intrusive R in American English dialects may come from overcorrection. Maybe they're trying to speak without dropping the R because they're trying to use a more standard dialect, and end up sticking Rs on words that didn't have them to begin with.
No kidding.
@@theradiumgirl9298 There's a guy from York, England where I work - lots of intrusive Rs in his accent. Melissa is Melisser, Spa is Spar, etc. Maybe it's a northern England thing.
My grandmother born in 1934 actually spoke the Southern aristocracy accent she got from her parents who were born in Mobile, Alabama around 1910. Instead of "TV shows" she watched "teelaveesion proagraams."
Violetta says I creep like the kudzu vines that are slowly but surely strangling our Dixie
So she sounds like the governor of Alabama? Kay Ivey?
@@_Mr.Tuvok_ No, my grandmother's accent doesn't sound like Kay Ivey. Ivey has a more standard Southern accent that's not as specific.
A bit like Shelby Foote?
my mother was born in Mobile in 1937 and her siblings followed close after. She grew up as a true 20th century Southern Debutante.. I even have a photo of her in her "cotillion" style formal dress. Her parents were from western Kentucky and East Point (ATL) Georgia, so that led to a fascinating mixture, but she absolutely had a lot of that Southern Aristocracy flavor.
Lovely to hear Yat. I love the accent so much I created a character for one of my stories who spoke it. No one could understand him!
Thanks for sharing and explaining. So many of us get tunnel vision we forget how many other cultures with different ascents and life styles make up our country.
Here in the Hawaiian Islands we speak Hawaiian Pidgin. Our islands brought in workers from The Philippines, China, Japan, Portugal, Western Europe and a 100+ countries to work the sugarcane and pineapple plantations. Every class of our population uses Pidgin to communicate. “Mo bettah!”
Yes, my grandpa speaks the pigeon Hawaiian. When we were dirty and sweaty he’d say “you smell like port-u-geez” you smell like the Portuguese from way back from the sailors who visited the island
True dat
Portuguese? 🤔
I say tick instead of thick. I’m from Hawaii.
Yeah, the Hawaiian accent is English that sound like they have a bunch of shit in their mouths
Watching someone from the UK covering American accents is one of the best things ever
I was from away but grew up in Maine from a young age, and it was nice to hear us mentioned as it'sown thing and not just an extension of Boston
Thanks for highlighting our Mainah accent!
There is a super interesting accent that was not on here which is Appalachian which isn't just a southern accent or dialect. ITs very much its own. There is at least 2 dialects within it. Would love to see a breakdown on that one.
THAT'S IT! I grew up on the very border of Appalachia, and that would explain a lot of memories this video woke up for me. I still hear a few people from where I grew up talking about (forgive the phonetic spelling) "wrinching out that pan" or "warshing the car". Stuff that drove our English teachers crazy and that they acted very quickly to train out of us. :)
@@karinna3w528 I knew people in Oregon who said "warsh" instead of "wash" though not everyone talked that way. Perhaps the ones who did were descendants of people from Appalachia.
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Appalachia being so isolated n dirt poor was quite stagnant for a long time in all aspects
It was a country in a country, honestly
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It is very unique, sometimes depending on the holler. I've heard many say it has a strong influence from the earliest Scottish immigrants arriving at the coastlines of North Carolina down to Georgia and the Scots pushed on inward. Settled in and around the mountains, hills and valley's . There must be influences of native American tribes, also as they were the first people of that land . Fascinating people and place.
Our regional dialects are rapidly eroding (in America). When I grew up, I learned to recognize people from their state/region. It’s very hard to do that these days. With a constantly moving populace, syndicated Television, and now the internet, has changed our regional dialects rapidly and drastically.
Another reason for it is prejudice. You could have a Ph.D but if you speak with any amount of a southern drawl people unfamiliar with it will immediately take you less seriously/doubt your intelligence. Not even just Americans. Had a friend from Alabama get made fun of in Canada for the way she spoke
@@MrThatblueguy I agree 100% with you. As a Georgia Born, South Carolina raised man, I have experienced the same prejudices and wrong assumptions. In business, I dealt with people from all of the US and the World as well. While I do have somewhat of a southern draw, it’s not nearly as bad as many of my local peers. I’ve made a conscious effort to speak well to overcome the judgements that come from being a southern born and bred human.
Language is also just always evolving. That Miami accent wasn’t really prevalent or recognized until recently. So while some fade, new accents and dialects develop.
@@bethr.2331 Great point and perspective. Definitely lots of factors!
Ya I realize I don’t have much accent until I say certain words or I’m around my more southern family members. Like my every time I say my step dads name it’s far more southern and then most words that follow that carry the accent a bit. I think I do it more often tho the more country or southern media I consume tho so it’s weird. But overall I don’t really have an accent like 99% of the time
This was so interesting. I had to subscribe to learn more from you . Thank you.
Regarding my mother's aunt and uncles, the older half were born in Norway and the younger group were born in Minnesota. Aunt Amanda was the youngest and had never been the Scandinavia., but had the thickest Norwegian accent. I used to tell my mom her aunt sounded just like the Swedish chef on the Muppet Show to me. Fifty-five years later, I wish I could hear it one more time, if only for a moment.
I mentioned this to a younger second cousin and replied, "Remember, they didn't speak English in the home". So of course she would have an accent. Thank you Carl.
Another fun fact about the Northern Midwest/ Yooper accent (or dialect): the urge to start verbs with "take" (as in, "Okay, take and set up the tent over there" or "take and back the truck up to the edge of the dock") comes from Scandinavian languages, where the verb "to take" is closely related to the verb "to do."
Aye, and also heavy Finnish influence. Iron Range is a close cousin. Hii!
I have a very heavy Yooper accent, pretty much most of the Northern half of Wisconsin and Minnesota also share a similar accent
They say “pop” instead of “soda”
@@flightattendantangela7248 well it’s pretty spilt here, I normally say soda but some of my friends say pop. At least we don’t only say Cola 😂
North Alabama here, we say "yall want a coke from the store? Yes. Ok, what kind? Dr.Pepper!"
My son was telling me a story about when he first went to college in Colorado. He found a friend who was also from Hawaii and were so happy catching up on Hawaii events, speaking full pidgin English to each other and laughing. A group of students sitting next to them asked what language they were speaking!
They also speak Pidgin in different African countries as well and each country’s is different from the other.
Pidgin Creole English is a full and true reality in US and outside of US too.
Vídeo muito esclarecedor! That's a great video. Thank you from Brazil!
One overlooked accent is Pennsylvania Dutch aka Pennsylvania Deutch (Dietsch in the dialect) It's spoken primarily the southern and eastern counties of Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks, Schuylkill, Northampton, Lehigh into York, Dauphin and Northumberland. Its roots are primarily in the old German dialects from the German Palatinate, Alsace, Rheinland, Wurttemberg, and Switzerland . As you move further west in Pennsylvania it takes on a more Scots-Irish/Appalachian influence
Born and Raised. I can always detect it,
I'm from the Netherlands and speak dutch. Looking at the names of the counties it has more in common with german, is this right?
@@hoiikbenhet100 yes, heavily populated by Germans as well
@@paulabizzak9532it’s crazy how natural boarders can change so much. I live in south western Pennsylvania and those Pennsylvania Dutch names destroy my brain when I try to read them. After you get into and past the Appalachians you really start to get a mix of Appalachian and Mid West influences even though you are technically still in the North East. You also have the Pittsburghese accent found in some sections of Pittsburgh and a light influence of that is also mixed in the accents found in the larger metro area around the city.
I noticed that. He needs to add in Pennsylvania Dutch.
i’m from miami and i heard literally two words from accent #3 and smiled so wide. i’m not even hispanic but growing up there will have it slip into your voice every now and then.
I hit the "Like" button just when you told me to. I'm amazed at how many accents I knew immediately. I could tell you where they were from before you even said it. I was born in Chicago, but I've traveled around the USA a bit. I've come across at least one person with each of these accents.
Thank you for acknowledging that there are other parts to our country besides the south, & they all have their own cultures, too. This was very interesting & you gained a follower. 👍
New Orleans accents are immediately recognizable (there are several)...yat, uptown, chalmatian, lots more. Depends on where you live in the city and the neighborhood/culture you grew up in.
ya the black dudes accent immediately reminded me of where i grew up.
7th ward ya heard me! How U do dat there!🤣👍🏾
Yeah. There are defiantly more than just one. Mine is more strongly southern while my husband has none to speak of and my brother in law has a strong Cajun accent and we all grew up within 25 miles of each other.
@gheechiedan9299 the 9th warders I worked with in high school in Chalmette said "yeard meh"
And none of them sound like that first dude (coming from a 60-something New Orleanian, 7th Ward born and raised).
As someone from Louisiana, I can say that my grandparents have a pretty strong accent. Neither of them were raised close to New Orleans but French was their first language spoken at home.
The parts of Louisiana outside of New Orleans are definitely different and the accents are more Southern, except for West Louisiana, where the Cajun accent comes in. I lived down there for almost a year and traveled through the state. It was interesting to learn all of this, considering I am from the Midwest.
That’s so cool!! Are your grand parents Acadian descendants??
@@nancyherzog8780 west? I guess you can say west but I'd say we're more south central.
@@brittaniepicard8209 What do you mean? They said West Louisiana. As in west within the state of Louisiana. Unless I'm missing something here.
Are you sure it was French and not Creole?
Thank you for acknowledging that the Gullah extend from n Carolina, Ga, on down to Florida. Many ppl try to reduce them to just n Carolina.
Welcome junior member of accent differentiation. From a brit......where a drive down a road of just 20 Km yields a totally new language challenge...Bravo!
This video itself is just part 1 of the US accent. There's a lot of accents that weren't covered. I could drive down the road from where I am and it's actually a new language, not even an accent. Each state pretty much has it's own accents. And within a state, multiple accents.
I visited Sweden in the mid-90’s and in general they speak excellent English. I grew up in Minnesota and their accent was so similar I couldn’t hear it, so for the first few days I was asking people where they were from because I thought I was talking to a fellow American. They gave me some strange looks when they would respond with “well obviously, I am from Sweden”. After that I quit asking because I finally figured out why I couldn’t hear their accent.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 That’s really interesting, because for some people I heard a slight accent and for others I couldn’t really hear an accent. Thanks for that information about the wonderful country of Sweden.
Let me guess, did you grow up outstate Minnesota? I'm from the Twin Cities (though I spent my early childhood in Northern VA,) but my father's side is from Little Falls, and we ended up spending a lot of time there, and farther north as well. Once you get north of the cities you start to hear the accent you describe. Iron Range might be a bit different, as well as North Shore, haven't spent a lot of time there.
Just went to Finn Fest in Duluth, MN. They had some people on the stage they were interviewing. The older generation had a strong accent. My grandfather did for spoke Swedish until started school. Same for a second cousin and grandmother, but they spoke Finnish. Sadly in parts on Minnesota the accent is being diluted. When I come back to St Louis from visiting, people tell me I still have my Minnesota accent from the trip. You betcha I do.
@@vardekpetrovic9716 I found your comment interesting never thinking about accents within Sweden.
Do you happen to know... My grandfather was Swedish but I do not know what part of Sweden he was from. He always said Yea instead of "J". So my brother's name was "Yames" vs English version "James". My English Canadian Grandmother always pronounced the "K" in Knute. I remember recently hearing someone silencing the "K" and said "nuut" instead, which surprised me. Can you pinpoint the location of Sweden by these clues or are they too common to identify? Thank you for any response!
Yup. Norwegian too.
I currently live in Southern Maryland and the local accent of people whose ancestors have been here for hundreds of years is like a combination of New Orleans and the Carolina accent. Today it's pretty specific to local watermen. When we first moved here, I couldn't understand people. For example my name is Erin. Locals pronounce it as "urn." The name "Mary" becomes "Murray" and "Maryland" is "Murlin"
Agreed! I live in Southern Virginia and the Carolina accent and southern accent is definitely there !
"Erin ironed an iron urn"
Aaron earned an iron urn!
Also the Baltimore, Virginia, and North Carolina accents are closest to Bermuda ones
Wash is warsh or wursh
Iron is also "Arn", Water is "Wooder", No is "New" and Fire is "Far". Accent prominent in Maryland, Baltimore, Delaware area and extends to north Philadelphia and even west to Pittsburgh.. People in Baltimore will say.. "Down at the Ocean" as..."Danny A-shin".
I'm originally from Wisconsin, have travelled widely, and have lived in Northern Michigan, Baltimore, Chicago, and Southern California. The only accent in this video I've never heard before was High Tider English from the coast of North Carolina. Some of my favorite accents are Rhode Island, Philly, and Baltimore-it's incredible how those places can retain totally distinctive speaking patterns and slang, despite being major cities near New York and New Jersey.
I'm from Charleston, SC and I grew up around (and even learned to speak) Gullah and a bit of Geechee. I pray that these beautiful dialects never disappear. Unfortunately my town is becoming so heavily over populated with people not native to the area that it is increasingly hard to find someone that still speaks it. 😞
Every once in a while, you come across someone who still speaks it.
Something to keep in mind with Gullah especially: a lot of white people native to the area speak it too. It's a part of the local accent. It just may not sound identical because our voices are different. White people have a bad habit of always wanting to fit in with the world though so we get rid of it. I fought my accent for years and tried to "unlearn" it, but these days I love it because people know I'm from Charleston!
My dad is from Maine and we always had a good time putting on our accents in public. It was the best time when people heard a Down-Easter Yank talking to his sandlapper son! 😂
Same thing with my Valley-Girl mom (San Francisco, CA)!
Yes I tired to change accent to, I’m from ga. But I’ve learned to love accent. Get back to our roots. 👍🏻👍🏻
Here in Canada, the province of Newfoundland has the most distinct accent that is sometime incomprehensible to the rest of Canada. The inhabitants of Nfd are descendents of Ireland and Scotland from 1700s and 1800s. One time my 6-year-old asked her friend's mother who was from Nfd, why "newfies" spoke differently. Her reply: "We think the English speak proud."
As a teen in the 1990s, I made a Canadian friend at a summer camp. While Americans at the time were fond of "Blonde" jokes, Canadians told "Newfie" jokes!
Some Canadian friends warned me about the Nova Scotia accent and I was like, "I dunno, to me they just sound like they're from Minnesota."
Aye bay, where you too? Stay where our too, and Oil come where youz at. We can heads up to the jug store and get us some bears... head ov'r da pond an' do some troutin'
My parents were from Ireland. They had a friend named Bridie who, for YEARS, I thought was from Ireland cause of her accent. She was from Newfoundland.
Already a video with it
'Gullah' blew my mind. I can hear the West African, Caribbean and Black Deep South accents all up and down their speech
If you ever find yourself in Charleston, take a Gullah Geechee history tour. It’s the same history from a different perspective, which is incredibly interesting and the influence the Gullah Geechee have had on American culture is mind blowing. Food, music, even paint colors. It’s fascinating.
Gullah is a language, not a dialect of English. English is just one of its parent languages.
Like Haitian Creole is not French, even though some words are the same or similar.
definitely bahamas. ❤❤❤
@@that_auntceleste5848 Gullah is also the name for the people who speak it, isn't it?
Happy to see tangier in here. It's a classic case learning dialectology, especially for programs focused on preservation.
I'm an acoustic phonologist, who's thesis was on new dialect formation in Alaska, but most of my work is on endangered languages/dialects. Popped in to see if I can guess, but stayed bc this video is quality. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of Gullah, but I got the region at least 😅
This was a great and very interesting video. I've lived in Florida and Georgia for almost my whole life, (40+ years) and I don't think I've ever heard that last coastal accent (#7) before.
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Sharp division between the UP and LP in culture and dialect! While they are called Yoopers, we are referred to our northern friends as Trolls - as in, the trolls under the bridge (the Mackinac Bridge).
Flint's own accent is a bit southern in some people for being so far north, thanks to a lot of folks from Georgia, Arkansas, and Tennessee moving north to work at GM between the 30's through the 50's or so.
Don't forget Missouri! There's that whole neighborhood at Bristol and Fenton Rds that's called "Little Missouri".
A lot of Southeastern Michiganders also do that glottal stop that's really prominent in Cockney English. It's not Brighton it's Bri'en. Not Fenton it's Feh'in.
Our vowels are really nasally, too. I've heard it call "the Michigan Uni-vowel" before.
Oh wow. I lived in Linden as a kid, which means the Flint accent is another piece in how I ended up with a more Southern accent despite never living further south than CInci. The other main part is the city I lived in for Junior High, which straight out has an east KY accent even though it's in west Ohio, but some of those sounds I had to pick up earlier and some aren't right for KY.
Graduated class of '90 from Linden. @@MuriKakari
I visited Ocracoke Island in 1990 and fell in love with the place. The accent featured the Goat Fronting you described, but also an absence of long O sounds. They called the island "Eck-ruh-keck." Because it is 2 and 1/2 hours by ferry boat from the North Carolina mainland, the economics and language of the island remain distinct. Drinking water for the few businesses and homes in the village of "Eck-ruh-keck" has to be brought in in huge tanks every few days. The 16 miles of beach outside the village is so undeveloped and remote, you could be in the Caribbean, or event the Pacific. Ocracoke was as close to being a separate nation as any place in the contiguous 48 states I had ever seen.
As an American watching this is hilarious! I grew up as a military child and use a lot of these phrases. But I have never heard any of the names of the accents you mention!
Got most of them at least close, but didn’t know much about any of them. Great video!
Thank you for taking my advice about the New Orleans accent! I believe you saw my comment in the last video and I wont believe anything else! ⚜
😂
Good work bro
I grew up between the Laguna/Acoma, Zuni and Navajo reservations. The tribes all had their own distinct way of speaking.
You from Gallup? Lol
Thanks so much for including the "Yooper" accent!
It's a specific type of spoken word that's for sure, eh!
My grandpa is from the UP and that sound clip about bein in Green Bay was like hearing one of his stories over the phone! Especially how he says 'restrunt' and how subtly pleased he sounded about someone being a genuine yooper!
Appreciate you identifying specific tribes whenever you say “Native American”. A lot of people don’t, which is wild given how diverse the different tribes are.
People don't distinguish when they refer to whites, and look how diverse THAT population is. That level of distinction is rarely necessary in general conversation among lay people.
As a native Floridian, it's easy for me to hear the different accents in Florida alone. Miami, like you presented, Central Florida with a slightly New England accent (snowbirds), while north Florida melds with the Southern twang in Georgia. Go too far West, and you get into the "New Orleans" accent on some words.
Panhandle has a very nasally twang
My family is from Louisiana and my dad used to always talk about the Florida parishes. Ranging from Louisiana of course all the way to Florida. All of it was owned at Sandpoint by the Spanish who wanted to colonize the area as Catholic. My understanding is that they actually recruited some of the French who were Catholics and had been deported from Acadia Nova Scotia Canada. The British wanted the French and the region to swear allegiance to the British crown. Which would have also forced them become protestants instead of Catholics. So there were many many reasons why the French settlers there did not want to give up their identity not to mention the fact that they had intermarried with the Iroquois nation in many cases. I read somewhere that they were afraid of losing their land, their language, their culture and their religion. The British force them out, and what is called the Great Expulsion in French it was called le Grand Dérangement. Queen Elizabeth, the second in 2003 as the monarch of Canada agreed to commemorate this time. which was many years of terrorizing, burning cities and families, being separated, and shipped all over the united states, and the world, you will see it sometimes on British calendars as the great upheaval. It is really the expulsion of the French Acadians. Some of them eventually found their way back to the original area of Nova Scotia but many of them settled in Louisiana where they settled, and called it Acadiana back, And that’s how we got the Cajuns. What is so sad is that I never really learned this history until recently. I am a 50 year old native Louisianan, my maternal relative all spoke Cajun French and English, but never felt safe to teach as the language. And we definitely did not learn this part of French history and school that we did learn an awful lot about New Orleans.
I used to live in the Detroit area in Michigan. I went to college someplace else in Michigan. It had students from the different suburbs in the Detroit area and I was able to tell which suburb they were from. Believed it had to do with the high schools in those suburbs. I find accents simply amazing and interesting.
That Miami accent is specifically Kendall and Miami Lakes. Throw in a Bro and a Dalè and you got it perfectly
The Cuban Spanish accent is dominant in Tampa, while the Puerto Rican Spanish accent is dominant in Miami.
Great video! Although I was kinda disappointed that the accent we have up in the area around Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Colorado wasn't included
They are not as distinctive to a Brits ear is why. And there's actually a lot of them! Arizona, too.
What a fascinating video!
The "yat" accent is actually the dialect of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, which has several accents that interact daily. And the similarities that you hear to New York accents you will also hear in Chicago, San Francisco, and other major port cities.
It's also in Chalmette, which is a suburb just east of New Orleans proper.
came to the comment section to say the same thing 😎
New Orleans city accents are clearly unlike other parts of the state. Lived in NO for 2 years and the North Shore for around 6 years. Might as well have been 500 miles away.
I would say that y'at accent is more from Metairie, followed by the Irish Channel (uptown). By "ninth ward", I'm assuming that you mean the "lower ninth" -- you know, Bywater/Marigny, as the upper ninth is entirely black. However, the lower ninth's original inhabitants were black, and the y'at accent is a white accent, so... yeah, I gotta disagree with you about the origins of the y'at accent.
I was honestly thinking it was some New England accent even though I've been to New Orleans many times. I haven't encountered that accent at all.
I did my training in NOLA and was *mighty* confused when I heard the “yat” accent for the first time and wondered why my Metairie nurses sounded like they grew up in New York. This particular accent-as demonstrated by the WGNO reporter-is more prevalent in the greater NOLA area while the “typical” accent (the rest of the people shown in the video) is more common in the city.
No matter what the accent, though, New Orleans is the most fabulous and unique city in the US! ❤❤❤
It's always interesting how Brits, and some others, will pronounce the city's name as New Or-LEENS, while native speakers put in that slow drawl and call the city N'waaalins! Same with Los Angeles, a Spanish name that would be pronounced with short vowel sounds and the H sound given to G, found in Spanish. Original: Los ANhehless - Brits will commonly pronounce the city as Los anjeLEEZ. Americans usually pronounce it as Los anjehliss.
@@Mistydazzle That's because the original city of Orleans (that New Orleans is named after) is pronounced that way.
The yat accent was confined to Kenner and saint Bernard parish when I was a kid but after Katrina it's gotten more popular. Older people from new Orleans proper or old Metairie did have a kinda drawl more like Peyton Manning
And the Westbank
St Charles is kind of a yat/cajun mixture depending on which part you're in. That's how I sound anyway🤷♂️
I got the Tidewater accent pretty quickly since I'm from NC & I got the Upper Midwestern accent after a little bit since I spent 2 summers in Northern Ohio. Never been all the way to the UP though.
I lived on Tangier Island for a few years and I love their accent.
Having grown up in South Carolina, mainly in the Low Country (Beaufort, Frogmore out by Harbor and Hunting Islands) it was so soothing to me to hear Gullah featured in this video. It was like I was back home. When you get into Frogmore, Land's End area (Anyone from that area seen the Land's End Light lately?) and the areas closer to the beach, it does get more difficult to understand. I haven't been there for years, but at the state museum in Columbia, they had a Gullah portion where you could hear someone read a story entirely in Gullah. It could be very difficult to understand but so beautiful to hear.
How would you describe Alex Murdaugh's accent?
There's a tuna fishing show on TV, I forget the name, but it's usually off the coast of SC, so I recognized the location. Didn't know it was called Gullah, ofc, but I agree with your last sentence.
@eileensullivan4924 that's the standard "lowcountry" accent that Alec Murdaugh has but where I'm from in Charleston white people have a mixture of like a Tidewater and Cajun sound (influenced mainly by the Gullah) called the Charleston brogue but it's almost dead only the old-school folks have it strong.
As a native Yooper who is always expecting to never see the Yooper dialect to make an appearance, I was very happy to see it included in the video, thank you for bringing our dialect to the spotlight.
However, in my entire life of living in the UP and speaking Yooper, I have never heard it referred to as "Yoopanese" in any other form than a joke/mockery, or from non-Yoopers who aren't aware.
Anywho, have a nice day, eh!
Lol Troll here..
I corrected them too.
Got you're back bru, ehh.
( it's a Michigan thing)
He also said it was upper Midwestern and never said it was the Upper Penninsula of _Michigan_ . That seems like a key fact
@@jenniferpearce1052
1. Yooper specifically refers to the upper peninsula of Michigan
2. He shows a map of Michigan when referring to the UP, not of just the Midwest
3. The map that shows the Midwest only has the UP highlighted
4. Enlighten me on what other "upper peninsulas" there are, surely there is a quaint region known as the "Upper Peninsula of Maine" or the "UP of Minnesota" I've never heard of... -_-
Yooper and Yoopers are upper Midwestern, but it's obvious that he is not being that general/broad.
@@dontlookatender9282dunno half of Pennsylvania calls soda, pop which is super Midwestern influence
funny even from someone from NC I was able to pick up the location of your accent instantly. (because of some of the similarities between you guys and Canadian English)
I love to learn other languages and learning about languages, this kind of content is very interesting to me. I came from the PNW of the US in wa state and I was told that the little area of western wa I came from we had an accent but that may have stemmed from my early family settlers moving from Kentucky and West Virginia and somehow we might have said things differently I never noticed it much until I moved to Missouri and down here in southern MO they have an accent of southern twang and when I hear someone from home I can notice a little bit
I’m from CA and when I went to NY people seemed to know where I was from just from speaking. Then came the debate “I’m not the one with the accent, you are!”
As a southerner, I have never personally heard an accent quite like what's used in the video and in movies. That's like an elegant middle ground, and I'm skeptical that even exists lol
Same. That Gone with the Wind accent is Hollywood all the way.
Ive heard it in texas, but Im suspect its forced
People used to talk like that in the south, but not anymore! Every southern state has a different accent, and as an Alabama native, I have heard different accents in different regions of my state.
@orangehillcomics7830 are you talking about the trans Atlantic accent
It doesn't exist. Billy Bob Thornton schooled everybody on that years ago. Southerners despise that fake Hollywood accent.
I went to Argentina on an exchange for two months and developed a native accent. I’ve been told by countless native speakers that I have it, but not everyone developed it. Now my Spanish teachers sound strange since they have no accents
Rioplatense accent?
South Carolinian here and happy to say that I guessed every one accurately, but I chalk this up to being big into languages and accents. I listen closely because I enjoy them. It may be because I live in the same town I was born and reared in, but I am constantly asked where I’m from. I had a speech impediment as a child and had a Pennsylvanian speech therapist. The influence left on my speech is enough that loads of people think I’m not even American. It’s amazing.
Great video!
I'm a linguist, and I grew up in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas; I never really heard the non-rhotic southern accent in this video outside of movies (like Forrest Gump). It appears to be quite a rarity these days.
I'm Canadian , and I find that some of those "Accents" occur within Canada as well...and not by affectation.
Yooper for instance sound like much of western Ontario in such places as Thunder Bay, Sault Ste, Marie and Sudbury.
The Maine dialect sneaks across the border too, into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
That Piratey accent starts to sound like Newfoundland Irish.
Much of western Canada is influenced by Mid-west America, where as Eastern Canada has much more Irish, Scots and French influence.
One thing I noted is that Tidewater English definitely shares some features with Newfoundland English and even Canadian English when it comes to how the words 'boat' and 'house' are pronounced. The expression 'from away' heard in Maine is also heard in Newfoundland, except Newfoundlanders are more likely to say 'come from away'.
Sault Ste. Marie is a stroll across the bridge from being Yooper!
@@stevestruthers6180 Oddly Canadian English isn't one dialect. In y part the idea of House and Boat sounding like Hoose and Boot ....is a non thing.
People have said I sound Canadian. I live an hour away from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 and on a good day we could get a tv channel from Thunder Bay.
As a Sault native, who left for AZ at age 16, I am still accused of Canadian leanings 43 years on!
Maybe it's the fact that 3/4 of my ancestors arrived to the UP via Montreal and Ontario...some after spending many generations in Canada. Many Yoopers can say this.
Or maybe it's the LaBatt's Bleu in my hand.
The miami accent is similar to US puerto rican accent, especially that "light L". What may surprise some people is that many with this accent are not Spanish-first speakers, nor even bilingual, but entirely Anglophone!
I once worked at a Latino based non profit, one day a client came who spoke no English. We had about 3 staff who could speak fluent Spanish, and the only one there thst day was a colleague who's first language is Spanish (emigre from S. America) but he was out for lunch..the rest of us ran around into ec other like the Keystone Cops and soon realized that among 8 or 9 staff there that day, (95% of us Latino) *not one of us including boss could speak conversational Spanish*. It was like a farce.
I was nominated to attempt communication, due to a childhood in San Diego + 4 semesters of college Spanish and so bravely (and very sheepishly) spoke to her. Veeeery sloooowly, in only present tense, with the vocabulary size of a toddler, lol. I managed to welcome her to sit, got across that our interpreter would be back in 30 minutes and offered her water and tea. Luckily she was content to wait, patient and not in crisis smh.
Definitely also big difference in US latino accents based on Caribbean vs Mexico origin too.
Being from South Florida but a bit older, that tsk tsk Miami accent is annoying! Look up Southern California Valley Girl accents from the early 80s and there you go!
Lots of first-generation, NY-born Dominicans talk like the Miami accent people in the video.
@@jsphat81 oh man!
I live in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan and certainly, yooper accent is present here too! English is not my first language and we've been moving a lot, since my husband was in the military when we met. I our first 4 years of marriage we've moved four times. The first one was to Germany, were I hung out with friends from all over the world. It was fun to learn so many accents and dialects.
I was born and raised in the northern lower and I never thought I had an accent till I moved further south and my friends from Detroit kept having me repeat and reword stuff. I thought everyone dropped the last letter of words and read t's as d or ch
I'm learning Spanish for fun (a student but taking Latin formally) and where I live there are a lot of Mexicans, descended from migrant workers. I have extended family who married into Mexican families, so it's really cool to slowly connect words and phrases and understand another language.
Agree! I’m also retaking Spanish for fun! My teacher is Mexican and some things I say, my friends from other Spanish speaking don’t understand. Then in high school when I took it, my teacher is from
Spain, and I had to in-time remind myself from using vosotros because no one who I’m speaking with uses it and I haven’t been to Spain yet lol
Olly, If you haven't seen a short Documentary on American accents called, "American Tongues" I absolutely recommend it. It was my favorite documentary from my Undergrad in Anthropology. It's a documentary on accents for American students studying Anthropology and it is- well, it is a gateway drug into Linguistics. it's so so good and so fascinating and eye opening to even Americans. And they also talk about the Tangierian accent.
As a native Mainer I can assure you that there are elements and details of the downeast accent that you missed. For example, the common "agreement placeholder," _ayuh_ is often said while breathing in through the word. I no longer speak with a Maine accent, I've traveled too much and lived too many places. And I've spent my entire life trying to normalize my accent and failing.
Yes! I noticed that among our older relatives when I used to visit Prince Edward Island. I've heard it also referred to as an "aspirational affirmative"!
I'm sure he missed more than 1000 details 😂😂
I'm glad you failed in normalizing it lol.
I used to listen to my elderly relatives speak with AYUH a constant refrain
Western NY but New England descendants
NYS says ALOT of YEAHs too…
R u going? Yeah
Do u want it? Yeah
Ok? Yeah [lol]
I grew up in metro Atlanta, but have lived in Wisconsin for the past twenty years so I recognized Yooper right away!
I like the way people from Minnesota talk
Being a Navy brat, I've heard so many American dialects and accents in my life. My maternal grandfather had a German Yooper accent, my maternal grandmother a Bawlmer accent, my paternal family a Cape Cod accent, and I spent my childhood in Texas and Louisiana surrounded by people from all over the country. Being back in New Orleans, the way the Baltimore accent merges into the local Yat is fascinating and comforting. I ended up with more of a drawl, but the Bawlmer comes out and gets going. The influence of German in both accents is so clear to me as I research the history of New Orleans and read German language documents from here. It's so overlooked as a part of New Orleans culture, but it's so present, just hiding beneath the surface like an alligator in the swamp.
"Goin' downy ohcean, gownna git sohme craybs."
Lotta warder round Bawlmer, huh?
How did German get to New Orleans?
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@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music They probably walked there from somewhere else.
In the Army, among guys from the East Coast down to Philadelphia, the hardest to understand English speaker I've ever known was from Aroostock County, at the top of Maine. There were two guys from that area, and one, not quite so cryptic, translated the other for us. After a month or so, we understood him better, but not well.
Guy I worked with a few years ago had a story like that...
"Mike" was a military brat, moved everywhere as a kid. He settled in South Carolina.
His aunt came to visit from Pennsylvania, and her car broke down.
The mechanic that they went to - despite being at a dealership - was a country boy from a blink-and-you-miss-it town in South Carolina.
Mike had had to translate for both of them, while trying not to laugh!
I grew up in southern Maine & could never quite do the Downeast accent - or Northern Maine.
Ever hear "Bert and I?" by Marshall Dodge? @@pamelag.00
This is so cool!!!!
Had an English Literature professor from Alabama.
Beowolf and Chaucer had us rolling on the floor.
One of the most interesting accents I've heard, that always gets overlooked, is Utah. Especially rural Utah. I can pick out a rural Utah speaker even when I'm on the other side of the world. They swallow the "t" sound and talk really fast. Urban Utah speaks really fast too. Interestingly, Utahns will also interrupt each other as a compliment. If someone is speaking and everyone is totally quiet, they will think nobody is interested. But if the listener(s) is saying "oh really" "OMG" or adding their own thoughts while the speaker is still speaking it's seen as interest and engaging. Utah culture is centered around making everyone feel accepted, I think that's why they do this. I say "they" but I am from Utah and lived there for over 30 years. I miss the accent. People where I live now always think I'm from somewhere outside the US. I have also had to learn to not interrupt. :)
I’m from Southern Utah and this is our accent. It differs from the folks in Salt Lake.
Short creek fundamentalists Mormons have a weird accent I’ve never heard before. I work with a whole family of ex polygamists and they have a weird southern kinda Dutch German sounding Accent.
Oh golly gee. Dakotas got the best accent don't ya know. You betcha
Love this comment. Love your insight:) Am movin outta utah soon to avoid The Arsenic™️ and i know am gonna miss how people talk, and the beautiful diverse landscape. Hate a lot of the people, but that will happen anywhere🤣
Native Utahn here, there was definitely a native accent present even in the salt lake region. I had a grandfather with it pretty strong. I would hear him say stuff you don't really hear other places than United States like " motorsackle" for motorcycle. T's could be silent too. It's basically a unique type of Midwestern accent.
I was happy to hear the Y'at accent featured by itself. It gets lumped in with Cajun so frequently that most people dont even realize that New Orleans actually has its own accent and dialect.
When i moved to the West Coast, I spent the first year saying the word "baby" at least 3-4 times a day. Why? Because for some reason, the way i said it (with my natural accent) was so charming (I guess). I think the charm of it is that the Y'at accent tends to do this scoop/rise thing on single-syllable words or the first vowel sound in a multi-syllable word (think of the word "baby", but you treat the "a" like a Nike swoosh with your voice).
thank's a lot 😊
The second I went into online school, there were people from all across the world, and they all said I had one of the strongest Idaho/Spanish accents they’ve ever heard.