People in SW Virginia are so friendly. I love it. In Tidewater people are polite, but not as friendly or as warm. I love SW Virginia. Nicest people I have ever met. I was excited to find out I have ancestors from Giles county.
I love your accent! It's the closest match to that of some of my southern West Virginia relatives that I've heard yet in this accent tag videos. You're also very good at analyzing language, including your own. Good job!
hey i’m from SWVA! this is so nice to hear people who talk similar to who i grew up around. where i’m from we always called it pop and my mawmaw and them called it coke.
I’m from northern Virginia. Such a different world in terms of accent! When I’m in the south people say I sound like a yankee. When I’m in the north they think I have a slight southern drawl 🤷🏻♂️
Your accent is similar to the way my mother’s parents spoke. They were from the Ozarks of northern Arkansas and that region was settled by people from East Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, so it stands to reason that the accents are similar. My grandmother’s family came to Arkansas largely from Virginia and Tennessee. Further south, the accent gets much heavier like in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, etc. My dad’s parents were from south Arkansas and definitely a heavier accent.
I used to watch a lot of the accent tag videos. And, just now, the podcast I’m watching is trying to guess someone’s accent and they guessed Virginia. I came to TH-cam to hear what y’all sound like, and, I’m surprised by how Southern you sound to my ears. My background is: born in Washington State 🌲 but, I’ve been living in California for 20 years now. 🌴 Thank you for recording yourself. It’s cool to peek into someone else’s life for a minute. ❤
Southwest Virginia is a different from the rest of Virginia. I have a Southern Appalachian accent, if you go 2 hours east of where I live, Southside Virginia, they have the old Virginia accent which is vastly different. The Tidewater accent is pretty much the same as the old Virginia accent. A lot of people when they hear Virginia, automatically goes to Northern Virginia or NoVa. Due to a lot of outsiders moving there, mostly due to government jobs, the southern accent has all but died there.
@@zacharyjarrells7084the accent has faded a lot over the whole South. I grew up hearing accents from my grandparents both sides who were all from Arkansas but moved to WA state before I was born. We moved to Texas when I was young and because of my background and familiarity with the accent, I fell right in talking that way and still had an accent into my early twenties. Even then a lot of Northerners were moving to TX back in the 1980s. I have lived back in WA state now since 1986 and I went to visit family in Arkansas last year and I noticed that the accent with the younger generation is so faded if not completely gone. My family told me it’s due to TV and a lot of outsiders moving in and changing the dynamics of the speech and culture. It was pretty shocking to me not hearing what I always remembered going back there.
I was born and raised in Big Stone Gap,Va. about 40 minutes from Kingsport,Tennesse..I moved to Greenville, SC in 1988 at 19, and I just recently, moved to Charleston SC back in September of 2018..I can relate to everything that you said on however, now when I call home it does sound a little different. like my aunt still calls a lamp a lamp with a longgg sounding A and P on the end of it and the same goes with panties ..I can remember getting laughed at when I first moved to SC I told a couple of my co-workers that I had to go "Trading" after work and they asked trading for what? I said you know going to the store to buy some food..That was the last time I went "Trading" I now grocery shop..I also say Pepsi and Coke instead of Pop that I grew up hearing which is just something that I picked up over the yrs without thinking about it ..I haven't tried to sound different like my cousin she is so phony but when she is put in a room with all of our relatives she looses her fake proper sounding accent in about 2.3 seconds..Lol!! Anyway I loved your little clip to my birth state thanks for taking the time to share it with everyone.
My grandparents and older relatives use the long a for words like ranch, dance, damp, etc. so I know what you’re talking about. I saw everyone else doing these accent tags, so I figured I’d try it out. Glad you enjoyed it.
I live in the heart of SWVA, been here since I was born. Everything that was said is identical to what we say here too. The thing about St. Paul is that there's a mix of different accents but mostly that Appalachian accent. Anybody that hasn't been to SWVA and you're looking for a scenic place to visit, we have plenty of scenic and historical areas around here. Also, talk to the locals and even ask about the sights around here and the local businesses. It's definitely worth it!
I'm from southwest Virginia too. I would argue that our accent isn't as extreme as other accents from the south. Its definately noticeable, but still more subtle.
Ethan Kast It's different for everyone. I grew up with my grandparents and great grandparents. I think I have a thicker accent than most my age. The Southern accent dies a little more with each generation. Go around major cities in the South and you'll hear the accent go away, almost completely.
Here are some words and pronunciations that I brought with me as a young child from “The Hurricane” in Wise, Virginia to Fairfax, Virginia in the early Fifties: “Poppy” for my grandfather. “Granny” for my grandmother, “Putt” for put, “Bary” for bury, “Wyar” for wire, “Warsh” for wash, “Warshington” for Washington, “Holler” for small isolated and rugged valley, “Lieyar” for lawyer, “Devanet” for couch, ”crawdaddy” for crayfish, “Sodi or pop” for soda, and Dinner for lunch. I had such a heavy SW Virginia accent that no one understood what I was saying, and I remember having a Fairfax County Speech Teacher helping me pronounce words in front of a mirror. My first name is Everette, not Everett, and I have only known men with the name Everette (with the extra e) from SW Virginia. When I visit Wise now, I don’t hear as strong of an accent as I had back in the 1950’s. I think television and movies have softened the accent today. We lived in “Greene Holler” (named after the Greene family who settled it and remained there), but the road sign now reads “Green Hollow”.
Im Here in Southern Virginia. We called them rollie polles, sow bugs or pill bugs. I think when i was younger sow bugs was the most common name, then rollie polle. The doodle bug thing around here is a ant lion and we called it a backa doodle. We use to have a little song were it starts off like backa doodle, backa doodle...i don't remember the rest, but you would fish it out of its sand trap. We use to love feeding them bugs and just start making the jaws teme song lol. The devil thing is the same here...I too dont understand it. We have a folklore of the wampus cat and a saying. If you said you feel like a wampus cat it ment your tired or don't feel right. Then we had a sport at night that involved catching birds in bags, lets just say I dont know anyone personally that bagged one lol.
🇨🇦We say ‘pop’, never ‘soda’. I didn’t even know what people meant by ‘soda’ when I’d first heard it over there in the U.S. Our accent here basically sounds exactly the same as CNN newscasters. We don’t say, “I don’t never...”, we say, “I don’t ever...”. ‘Gym’ or ‘tennis’ shoes are ‘running’ shoes to us. I do sometimes hear the odd person say Q-pon here but that’s like nails on a blackboard for me. It’s ‘Coo-pon’ for most here. You say roof exactly as we do. (I live in a border city; across from Detroit. I hear ‘ruff’ over there for ‘roof’.) “Y’all”....love it! We do not use that for sure but they do in Detroit. I enjoy listening to yours and other southern accents. To me, it’s like Gone with the Wind, but in real life :) For the most part, it sounds so refined. (Except for the ‘y’all’.) I usually enjoy other’s accents. I do not like New York, Boston accents, they sound the opposite of classy, (no insult intended) or blue collar to me, not that there’s anything wrong with blue collar as I was a blue collar worker too. I also don’t care for Michigan accents with the way their A is pronounced. HACKey instead of HAWkey. (Hockey) Thank you for sharing. :)
There’s a lot of different dialects in Virginia. Old Virginia/Tidewater, Appalachian, NoVa and other big cities have a lot of transplants so their accent is either nonexistent or very slight, etc. One of the many reasons I love Virginia is that it’s so diverse in its people, accents, geography, cuisine, etc.
Meade Music Yeah, I think so. I think that's the farthest Northeast I would consider Southwest Virginia. I live about an hour south of Roanoke. Anything north of Roanoke would be the Shenandoah Valley and anything to the east would be the Piedmont.
I spent a month in Charlottesville when I was a teenager, and my SW Va. accent stood out like a sore thumb..You get a lot of the Tidewater sound up there and some will let you know how hillbilly that you sound if they feel like it
@@zacharyjarrells7084 Yup. Currently live in Roanoke and they call it soda. Originally from Trammel where they call it pop. In Bristol, they say pop as well.
Yeah, I live 35 minutes south of Blacksburg. I'm from Pulaski County. I bleed Maroon and Orange. I've always said cray-ahns for some reason. Most people here do say crowns.
Enjoyed the video, thanks! Your accent is very similar to my husband's, who is from Durham, NC. However his family was originally in Virginia and over the last 200 years migrated south to Granville County, NC, then on to Durham, Wake and Orange counties. Definitely can hear that SW Virginia accent in both of y'all. My hubby's video: th-cam.com/video/MqfV28At5Pw/w-d-xo.html Take care!
My aunt lives in Appalachia and I of course grew-up in Big Stone Gap,VA..I have not been back in about 16 yrs however, I keep in touch with family weekly..I miss those mountains especially in the fall and winter..I would love to experience some actual snow but sadly, that doesn't happen that often here in Charleston,SC..I can remember rolling my window down when I was a little girl when we were driving to Appalachia..So I could smell the sweet scent that came from that water fall that came down the mountain beside the road. I believe it was called Roaring Branches or something like that and I never missed a chance to smell it that's for sure..I could not pronounce Appalachia when I was little I called it Appy lactchey which I got laughed all the time by my cousin..My Gran always called a paper bag a Poke anyone else remember that one?
You are the real deal. You nailed every word!
People in SW Virginia are so friendly. I love it. In Tidewater people are polite, but not as friendly or as warm. I love SW Virginia. Nicest people I have ever met. I was excited to find out I have ancestors from Giles county.
Very glad you’ve had that experience. I’m in the county below Giles and also have family there.
Wythe County here and you sound like everyone here .
My entire family is from Carroll County, and you pronounced everything exactly the way we do!
I love your accent! It's the closest match to that of some of my southern West Virginia relatives that I've heard yet in this accent tag videos. You're also very good at analyzing language, including your own. Good job!
hey i’m from SWVA! this is so nice to hear people who talk similar to who i grew up around. where i’m from we always called it pop and my mawmaw and them called it coke.
I live in southwest Virginia, and your accent is much more handsome than others I hear!
I’m from northern Virginia. Such a different world in terms of accent! When I’m in the south people say I sound like a yankee. When I’m in the north they think I have a slight southern drawl 🤷🏻♂️
Northern Virginia has no southern identity anymore. People from all over.
You’re a transplant.
Your accent is similar to the way my mother’s parents spoke. They were from the Ozarks of northern Arkansas and that region was settled by people from East Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, so it stands to reason that the accents are similar. My grandmother’s family came to Arkansas largely from Virginia and Tennessee. Further south, the accent gets much heavier like in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, etc. My dad’s parents were from south Arkansas and definitely a heavier accent.
You forgot Eastern Kentucky.
I used to watch a lot of the accent tag videos. And, just now, the podcast I’m watching is trying to guess someone’s accent and they guessed Virginia. I came to TH-cam to hear what y’all sound like, and, I’m surprised by how Southern you sound to my ears. My background is: born in Washington State 🌲 but, I’ve been living in California for 20 years now. 🌴 Thank you for recording yourself. It’s cool to peek into someone else’s life for a minute. ❤
Southwest Virginia is a different from the rest of Virginia. I have a Southern Appalachian accent, if you go 2 hours east of where I live, Southside Virginia, they have the old Virginia accent which is vastly different. The Tidewater accent is pretty much the same as the old Virginia accent. A lot of people when they hear Virginia, automatically goes to Northern Virginia or NoVa. Due to a lot of outsiders moving there, mostly due to government jobs, the southern accent has all but died there.
@@zacharyjarrells7084 very interesting!
@@zacharyjarrells7084the accent has faded a lot over the whole South. I grew up hearing accents from my grandparents both sides who were all from Arkansas but moved to WA state before I was born. We moved to Texas when I was young and because of my background and familiarity with the accent, I fell right in talking that way and still had an accent into my early twenties. Even then a lot of Northerners were moving to TX back in the 1980s. I have lived back in WA state now since 1986 and I went to visit family in Arkansas last year and I noticed that the accent with the younger generation is so faded if not completely gone. My family told me it’s due to TV and a lot of outsiders moving in and changing the dynamics of the speech and culture. It was pretty shocking to me not hearing what I always remembered going back there.
I work retail in Michigan and I'm literally the only person here to say coupon like you do. I love this whole video.
I was born and raised in Big Stone Gap,Va. about 40 minutes from Kingsport,Tennesse..I moved to Greenville, SC in 1988 at 19, and I just recently, moved to Charleston SC back in September of 2018..I can relate to everything that you said on however, now when I call home it does sound a little different. like my aunt still calls a lamp a lamp with a longgg sounding A and P on the end of it and the same goes with panties ..I can remember getting laughed at when I first moved to SC I told a couple of my co-workers that I had to go "Trading" after work and they asked trading for what? I said you know going to the store to buy some food..That was the last time I went "Trading" I now grocery shop..I also say Pepsi and Coke instead of Pop that I grew up hearing which is just something that I picked up over the yrs without thinking about it ..I haven't tried to sound different like my cousin she is so phony but when she is put in a room with all of our relatives she looses her fake proper sounding accent in about 2.3 seconds..Lol!! Anyway I loved your little clip to my birth state thanks for taking the time to share it with everyone.
My grandparents and older relatives use the long a for words like ranch, dance, damp, etc. so I know what you’re talking about. I saw everyone else doing these accent tags, so I figured I’d try it out. Glad you enjoyed it.
Beautiful accent.
I live in the heart of SWVA, been here since I was born. Everything that was said is identical to what we say here too. The thing about St. Paul is that there's a mix of different accents but mostly that Appalachian accent. Anybody that hasn't been to SWVA and you're looking for a scenic place to visit, we have plenty of scenic and historical areas around here. Also, talk to the locals and even ask about the sights around here and the local businesses. It's definitely worth it!
I'm from southwest Virginia too. I would argue that our accent isn't as extreme as other accents from the south. Its definately noticeable, but still more subtle.
Ethan Kast It's different for everyone. I grew up with my grandparents and great grandparents. I think I have a thicker accent than most my age. The Southern accent dies a little more with each generation. Go around major cities in the South and you'll hear the accent go away, almost completely.
I would argue that it is because we have more of a mountain dialect than a southern one as heard by those in the deep South.
@@joshuavestal6379 you mean the accent spoken by all in the upland south?
I'm from northern Neck and we say everything the same way.
Here are some words and pronunciations that I brought with me as a young child from “The Hurricane” in Wise, Virginia to Fairfax, Virginia in the early Fifties:
“Poppy” for my grandfather.
“Granny” for my grandmother,
“Putt” for put,
“Bary” for bury,
“Wyar” for wire,
“Warsh” for wash,
“Warshington” for Washington,
“Holler” for small isolated and rugged valley,
“Lieyar” for lawyer,
“Devanet” for couch,
”crawdaddy” for crayfish,
“Sodi or pop” for soda, and
Dinner for lunch.
I had such a heavy SW Virginia accent that no one understood what I was saying, and I remember having a Fairfax County Speech Teacher helping me pronounce words in front of a mirror.
My first name is Everette, not Everett, and I have only known men with the name Everette (with the extra e) from SW Virginia.
When I visit Wise now, I don’t hear as strong of an accent as I had back in the 1950’s. I think television and movies have softened the accent today.
We lived in “Greene Holler” (named after the Greene family who settled it and remained there), but the road sign now reads “Green Hollow”.
I’m from a little south of Beckley, southern West Virginia ,and everything was spot on for here except we call it fizzy drinks “pop”
Not too far from me. I’m about 35 minutes from Peterstown and 50 minutes from Princeton.
We sound exactly the same! Love it.
Im Here in Southern Virginia. We called them rollie polles, sow bugs or pill bugs. I think when i was younger sow bugs was the most common name, then rollie polle. The doodle bug thing around here is a ant lion and we called it a backa doodle. We use to have a little song were it starts off like backa doodle, backa doodle...i don't remember the rest, but you would fish it out of its sand trap. We use to love feeding them bugs and just start making the jaws teme song lol. The devil thing is the same here...I too dont understand it. We have a folklore of the wampus cat and a saying. If you said you feel like a wampus cat it ment your tired or don't feel right. Then we had a sport at night that involved catching birds in bags, lets just say I dont know anyone personally that bagged one lol.
It sounds friendly!
'Can't'....All my family called Soda 'Pop' when I was little, no one does now. Covington VA.
it's funny how many things we say differently even though I've lived in the next town over from Virginia Tech my entire life.
it's weird how we live in the same state, yet our accents are complete opposites
Also from Southwest Virginia, born in Norton and raised in Dickenson County.
I'm from Wise County and our accents are identical. I love how we sound, haters be damned:)
I'm from Dickenson County, spent a lot of time in Wise County too.
I’m from Pulaski. My granny was from a holler down in chilhowie and she spoke with an accent and used words that confused me to death.
I sound like this man but more refined. I’m from Winchester Shenandoah Valley.
🇨🇦We say ‘pop’, never ‘soda’. I didn’t even know what people meant by ‘soda’ when I’d first heard it over there in the U.S. Our accent here basically sounds exactly the same as CNN newscasters.
We don’t say, “I don’t never...”, we say, “I don’t ever...”.
‘Gym’ or ‘tennis’ shoes are ‘running’ shoes to us.
I do sometimes hear the odd person say Q-pon here but that’s like nails on a blackboard for me. It’s ‘Coo-pon’ for most here.
You say roof exactly as we do. (I live in a border city; across from Detroit. I hear ‘ruff’ over there for ‘roof’.)
“Y’all”....love it! We do not use that for sure but they do in Detroit.
I enjoy listening to yours and other southern accents. To me, it’s like Gone with the Wind, but in real life :) For the most part, it sounds so refined. (Except for the ‘y’all’.)
I usually enjoy other’s accents. I do not like New York, Boston accents, they sound the opposite of classy, (no insult intended) or blue collar to me, not that there’s anything wrong with blue collar as I was a blue collar worker too. I also don’t care for Michigan accents with the way their A is pronounced. HACKey instead of HAWkey. (Hockey)
Thank you for sharing. :)
Finally someone who says SYRUP right!
syd wachs seer-up
This was really cool!
My BF is from Salem VA, I love his accent 💕💕🥺🥺
From Galax love this
After seeing a bunch of these videos, I'm starting to question whether I'm really from Virginia.
There’s a lot of different dialects in Virginia. Old Virginia/Tidewater, Appalachian, NoVa and other big cities have a lot of transplants so their accent is either nonexistent or very slight, etc. One of the many reasons I love Virginia is that it’s so diverse in its people, accents, geography, cuisine, etc.
Martinsville here
Is Roanoke considered part of Southwest Virginia?
Meade Music Yeah, I think so. I think that's the farthest Northeast I would consider Southwest Virginia. I live about an hour south of Roanoke. Anything north of Roanoke would be the Shenandoah Valley and anything to the east would be the Piedmont.
Some people say Lynchburg as well, but to me that is too far east. Lynchburg is South-Central Virginia.
Meade Music Yeah, Lynchburg is definitely South Central VA. I live close to the Piedmont, so our mountains aren't as big as down in Smyth or Tazewell.
Not to we Wise Countians. lol
I spent a month in Charlottesville when I was a teenager, and my SW Va. accent stood out like a sore thumb..You get a lot of the Tidewater sound up there and some will let you know how hillbilly that you sound if they feel like it
I too have an aunt nay nay
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thank you for ur video 👍🏾💯
I live in Bluefield, WV and I say you guys most people do say y’all though. My grandparents have a really strong accent though.
I'm from Southwest VA too born in Tazewell Country
Dannie Love iam from Tazewell country to
Anyone related to the horns?
People call soft drinks pop in Tazewell County but I’m not sure what they call it in Roanoke or Bristol
Carolina Bass Outlaw I’d say Roanoke and Bristol are soda. But you’d probably hear more “pop” in Bristol than Roanoke.
I’m from Bristol and I just call it soda or or coke lol
Pop in Bristol, Soda in Roanoke
@@zacharyjarrells7084 Yup. Currently live in Roanoke and they call it soda. Originally from Trammel where they call it pop. In Bristol, they say pop as well.
Yup! The Devil is beatin his wife!
Spot on.👍
I’m from southeast Virginia we say all y’all
I'm from southwest Virginia two
I live in Washington county in Bristol
Pulaski here (I'm from Giles)
@reallyoriginalname God bless you sir
Norton Va
Chillhowe va
Love the Hokies hat
Where in southwest Virginia are you from?
Nobody says soft drink or soda in southwest Virginia ITS POP
That’s awesome. I say soda or soft drink.
My hometown is hillsville
Used this for a project reference. Coolio!
im from wytheville and i say pop. and take off that hat down with VT
Cool story
Ayo, I'm from Danville
1-I appreciate the VT Hat (Go Hokies!). You're not from SWVA if you don't support VT.2-you don't say "Crowns" (crayons)?
Yeah, I live 35 minutes south of Blacksburg. I'm from Pulaski County. I bleed Maroon and Orange. I've always said cray-ahns for some reason. Most people here do say crowns.
when I was very young I would say crowns and my mom really set me to say cray-ons. that and coo-pon (coupon)
I’m from Roanoke
Mamwaw:)
Dead on. The only way to improve this is to hit him in the head a few times to slow him down.
Enjoyed the video, thanks! Your accent is very similar to my husband's, who is from Durham, NC. However his family was originally in Virginia and over the last 200 years migrated south to Granville County, NC, then on to Durham, Wake and Orange counties. Definitely can hear that SW Virginia accent in both of y'all. My hubby's video: th-cam.com/video/MqfV28At5Pw/w-d-xo.html Take care!
Go HOKIES!!!!
Rough game last night but I still love em!
me 3 hahaha im from appalachia
My aunt lives in Appalachia and I of course grew-up in Big Stone Gap,VA..I have not been back in about 16 yrs however, I keep in touch with family weekly..I miss those mountains especially in the fall and winter..I would love to experience some actual snow but sadly, that doesn't happen that often here in Charleston,SC..I can remember rolling my window down when I was a little girl when we were driving to Appalachia..So I could smell the sweet scent that came from that water fall that came down the mountain beside the road. I believe it was called Roaring Branches or something like that and I never missed a chance to smell it that's for sure..I could not pronounce Appalachia when I was little I called it Appy lactchey which I got laughed all the time by my cousin..My Gran always called a paper bag a Poke anyone else remember that one?