I will absolutely confirm the accents he describes in the state of North Carolina, specifically the Outer Banks, as I lived there 30 years. The High Tider dialect is still spoken today, turning the words "high tide" into "hoi toide".
Piedmont & Western NC here. Grew up & lived in Mecklenburg Co. from the late 1960s, then moved to the Foothills of NC 14 yrs ago. My extended family is from here & I still do a double take when I hear a couple Appalachian words thrown around. ✌🏻
My Appalachian grandma, who lived her entire life in Eastern Kentucky and was born in 1918, spoke with a very Irish dialect that she inherited from her immigrant mother. Appalachia, especially in those days, was a very insular part of America, and it didn't change much generation to generation, so many of them still spoke like their ancestors did in the late 1700s or early 1800s when they came over. I spent a week in Ireland back in 2007, and it shocked me to hear several pronunciations and entire phrases that have now largely died out in the US except in Appalachia, but they still existed more prominently in Ireland. I felt very at home because of it, too.
Hey Diane. Being a Southerner and an American, this guy nails it. I've seen others of his and I hear my kith and kin in the expressions and dialect from the mid-South. Cheers from Tennessee
When I was growing up near Salt lake City in Northern Utah, between 1952 and 1969, the replacement of ‘t’s with glottal stops was occasionally heard, but was considered to be substandard.
They need to make an American accents video on how each dialect pronounces "bone" 🦴so Chewie can watch and decide which regions he would like to visit. 🐶
Don't worry Diane, not very many of us here in the United States ever hear a Cajun accent. It is funny she uses the term "LatinX". Only 3% of the U.S. Hispanic population use the term and 60% of the population favor using the term Hispanic to describe themselves.
It's not funny, it's simply because she's an activist. Never mind that something like 90% of hispanics find it actually an offensive white-culture patronizing term....but politics > reality in 2023.
I don’t think their own speech is intended to be representative. They’re language enthusiasts so they’re predisposed to use the most modern language developments and word choices whether or not those are widely accepted
Well, lets keep in mind that not all Latin people are Hispanic. There are people from Latin countries who speak Portuguese and other Latin languages too, which is why LatinX is an umbrella term.
it was great to see the Great Lakes accent get some notice. it's often overlooked in favor of the more stereotypical accents (Southern, New York, Boston, etc.). i wasn't even aware i had an accent until i moved out to Arizona 9 yrs ago and was asked why i talk like that.
It drives me crazy when people insist on saying "LatinX". It is a term that certain people tried to force on Hispanics rather than using Latino or Latina which are grammatically correct.
I am a native New Yorker who lived in New Orleans in my youth. I was amazed by the similarities of the accents, sometimes felt like I was back in Brooklyn when in "The Big Easy". One thing I didn't hear in the video that always amazed me was the tendency for Louisiana Cajuns to reverse the order of numbers. For example they would always say It is three or two miles away, rather than two or three. It seemed very unique was a sure sign someone was Cajun when he said it that way. One last thing, the Cajuns were among the most friendly and hospitable people I ever met.
Obviously you're talkin about the city. I grew up in Upstate New York . It's not hard to figure out who's from the city and who's from upstate New York. Worlds Apart.
The introduction to the great New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole: “There is a New Orleans city accent… associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans.”
@@davidcollver6155 even the old buffalo and Albany accent sound similar. Upstate accents have changed much more recently. They used to be much more similar to new York city accents
As a native Texan, his Texas accent is what I would call ‘Texas Lite’ (Like Miller Lite Beer) in that it’s a very watered down accent. You will find the ‘real’ accent to be way more intense and far closer to his piney woods belt accent.
This is a great video. I’m a Texan and everyone else has a accent. 😂 you should look into doing a video on how people give directions in different countries. Just a suggestion. I’ve been enjoying your videos. Thank you.
It's amazing how many accents there are in any widely spoken language and the subtle differences between them, and the ability of the human mind to make sense from it regardless of which accent of their language they speak or hear.
I absolutely love different accents from everywhere. I’m not great at all of them, but splendid at a few different ones. I admire Diane’s study of them. Edit: Diane I have been arguing with Patrion the last couple of months and I am trying to sort it out. I’m so sorry.
Thank you! Anything I can help with? Pop me a DM over there or to my email in the about section. Unfortunately their customer service has gone way down hill
He's doing a good job on Cajun. I live in central Texas and we run into the diaspora often (Hurricane Karina) to the extent that I can go several close places, mom and pop joints, and get some boudin (cajun sausage). The force language shift into English has come full circle inasmuch as my daughter has ESL (English Second Language) certification as a teacher specifically because with the influx of Spanish only children into the schools, the emphasis, from the parents, is that their children will learn fluency in English specifically so they won't be disadvantaged academically and in the business world. My grandchildren (Anglo) have Spanish class from kindergarten(small very mixed private school). My daughters class (50%+ hispanic Public school) learn to read from kindergarten English which is then assimilated into reading Spanish in in the normal Spanish curriculum starting in Fifth grade I believe.
My first thought when he slipped into Cajun was Diane needs to watch some Swamp People, with captions on. The pronunciation and dialect are very distinct.
I spent my grade school years in Southern California and the rest in southern Arizona. Their accents are very different. Southern Arizona is loosing it’s mild twang, though you can still hear it with elders in small towns. Southern California is very different. The “Valley Girl” accent is still very strong.
One thing I'll contribute is that many years ago I talked to a Chicagoan who'd gone to Catholic school, and she asserted the Chicago accent was influenced by nuns sent up from New Orleans to teach, and they'd conveyed some of their southern Louisiana vowels northward. This made sense to me, as I'd been trying to figure out which part of Louisiana she was from based on listening to her talk. Another hyper-local accent I have experience of is Tidewater Virginian, which is similar in some respects to the Ontario Valley (Toronto, Ottawa) accent. Both accents are noted for turning the "ow" in "about the house" to "aboot the hoose," or "əboʊt thə hoʊse" in the IPA alphabet. My wife's grandmother, born in 1912 at the extreme end of Virginia's Northern Neck, spoke a strongly marked version of Tidewater all her long (95 years) life, and when we last went down that way to visit after her death, her great-nieces and -nephews spoke in much the same accent.
Nice to see you continuing the series. I have a Cajun friend whose accent comes out noticeably during conversations and this man's version of it is spot-on.
Them different types of Texas talk we got hood talk where we like black we got east Texas like from king of the hill we got the west Texas like when I here them talk I can tale where they from
I had an Aunt that grew up on a farm in Kentucky and got married to a Boston Massachusetts man where she lived and developed the Boston accent. Her identical twin stayed in Kentucky so it was weird hearing the two having different accents. I missed you Friday and the weekend just didn’t seem the same🙁 Great video! Thanks for sharing it. ❤️🫵🏻☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
I find accents so fascinating and how regions can vary so much. Diane listening to you it's fairly obvious to most that you are from Ireland, yet my grandmother who was from Cork sounds like she is Irish but not quite like yourself. The difference is definitely noticable
This is an excellent excellent excellent example of the accents and dialects. I've lived in Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. He nails those regions very well.
Hello Diane As a member of the Southwest Natives, you have not gotten to my style of accents. Hope you find time to get to Part 3. I also hope that you get around to listening to Linda Ronstadt. it would be a musical 'crime' to skip her. She literally was the most influential singer of her time. Have a great week!!
Woohoo, hometown got mentioned! Syracuse doesn't have anything an untrained ear would associate with NYC, which surprises a lot of people. I get mistaken for a Midwesterner all the time (in part because I purposely changed my accent a couple steps toward what I call "American newsreader accent" (due to being a university instructor and wanting my accent to be the most approachable to all my students). When folks ask me what I did, it's exactly as this video describes: I undid some of the vowel shift, plus I tried getting rid of two more obvious of the "strangeness" markers of the accent: 1. A lot of folks with the northeast/midwest vowel shift will also pronounce "across" with an inferred T at the end: "accrost". I hear it mostly in sports announcers. 2. In Syracuse, the word "right" is instead pronounced like "rate", but only in certain situations. If it means "correct", it's pronounced "rite". But if it's an adverb (as in "right now", "right away", "right there in front of me") it gets pronounced "rate".
I'd love to see a Canadian version I grew up in small town (mainly aboriginal) BC then lived in Alberta before moving to Texas. I can now pretty clearly identify a Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton or Toronto accent. The quebecoise and Newfie accents are a whole different subject.
He put the lines on the map right for the distinction between the Southeast and Deep East Texas accents, and got the now dying Southeast accent I grew up with correct, but he spoke too slowly. We speak fast and choppy, and used to use a lot of pitch. The Boomhauer voice from King of the Hill is basically an obscure SE Texas accent.
Happy Monday to you Diane! This was a very interesting video to watch. It's fascinating to hear about the different types of accents that are spoken by different types of people in other parts of this country. Thanks for sharing this video with us. Have a great rest of your week! 😎✌️♥️🤓
11:00 OK this is fascinating. I'm from Chicago. That's complicated about the vowels moving all over the constellation. Gonna have to learn more about that. I have always noticed how we say "melk" when we mean "milk" whereas southerners do the opposite and say "pin" when they mean "pen". 🤔
Hi Diane! Interesting video, I've seen his first one. Being originally from Louisiana, I am a Cajun on my father's side and Piney Woods on my mother's. My accent is more Cajun, though having lived in Texas for many years it's become bastardized. The same thing that you were talking about, being forbidden to speak your native language happened in Louisiana too. My grandparents were punished if they spoke French at school. I studied French in college, so my Cajun got corrupted! In Cajun a lot of the verb tenses are now taught as literary forms. Imagine it's 1700, and you're dropped off in a very isolated place with little contact with the mother county. They just adapted as best they could. Chewie seems very laid back, give him a hug for me. I love you and goodbye for now!
There’s a good reason especially Western NC has an Irish influence. Because of the English imposing taxes on Whiskey many Irish and other Britts immigrated and landed in the Appalachians they brought the Irish accent with them. Kudos to pronouncing Appalachian correctly. When the U.S. started taxation Bootlegging was born & NASCAR followed inspired by bootleggers running from the law tearing through the back woods. In Western NC they breakdown single syllable words into two. Day-da-ay swooping up at the end. Tea-Tay-ay. The say it as one word but in two parts. One of my favorites is Far for fire.
Had to listen to the beginning twice as when he said R's sounded like arse to my ear first time, having an accent that is a mix of RP (Dad) and SE London (Mum). Had to modify the RP when I changed schools (private to state) as got fed up with the piss being taken by both teachers and other pupils.
Language is so fascinating. I'm german but somehow I'm still curious about the U.S. accents. And of course it's more awesomer to watch you watch the video than to just watch the video. :) And that's a great segway to segway into suggesting a new band to you. If you ever run into Tool, "Vicarious" is a great introduction to their music. TH-cam will fite you for it but they fite everyone anyway. Hope you had a good start into your week, Diane. :)
The "World Friends" channel has been comparing Spain Spanish to the variants from a few Central and South American countries this past week, if you want to see what that's like too. They've done it before also, but with a few different countries.
I'm from the Chicagoland area (northwest suburbs) and almost everyone on my dad's side of my family has that northern cities vowel shift kind of accent. I have it too, of course! You know Diane....a lot of Irish immigrants came to Chicago, as well as German, Polish, and Italian immigrants which helped influence our accent!
And not accent, but unique Chicago still describes buildings as “flats”, like a three flat, six flat, 48 flat, etc. always call the local as “des and dem” (these and them)
I spent a summer in the Canadian wilderness and came back to the states with the accent. It's kind of funny though, I didn't spend a whole lot of time actually amongst our neighbors, maybe visiting families and businesses once a week or so. It was like I was picking up the accent just by being there surrounded, as it were, by Canadians. It makes me wonder if there is more to this kind of thing, such as picking up an accent or having dreams, that is due to the presence of other people in a broad sense, within miles, of being nearby rather than direct exposure. Is direct exposure and and the gradual forgetfulness of a visited person the cause of learning an accent or just living and sleeping in the region enough to pick up an accent? Do people living near the border kind of cycle back and forth because they are on the edge? Doesn't seem likely does it. Now I thought it was cool that I was speaking like my neighbors, and when I got back to the states the accent didn't last long. Again, was that loss of the accent due to forgetfulness of the people I visited, or due to the fact that was now living and dreaming amongst the "Unitiedstatians" or "USAliens" again. There was more than just the accent as well, I also felt "Canadian" while there, how does a Canadian feel you ask? Well, more opened minded, less paranoid, easy going. Where I grew up in the states we were paranoid, we didn't know who to trust, so we were closed off. We had rednecks versus cityslickers and they didn't really get along, I didn't sense that in Canadians. Canadians seemed more likely to make friends easier.
I'm from the ozarks, if i have an accent it's pretty subtle. But yeah he nailed, he sounded like just about anyone that i was around growing up. Kinda sounded like my dad, and my oldest friend that i've known since we were 6 years old.
I live in Michigan... the Midwest accent. Where we'll tell you we don't have an accent, even though we clearly do. The further north you go in the state though, the thicker said accent is and sometimes will depend on what part of the north you're in too. Our neighbors to the west and in Canada sound an awful lot alike with the "a" or "eh" sounds. 🤣 We also have a tendency to combine words that don't require combining. See Ryan Redoute on TH-cam for further explanation. 😆
Brilliant vid Diane!! This was absolutely entertaining!! Thank you for all your videos!! Keep up the awesome work and please stay Safe!! Excelsior! Heff
Accents are fun and yes, there are definitely some areas where they are much more pronounced. Sometimes a town or a county within a state will have a very specific accent because of immigration and settlement patterns.
I had course in collages that discussed the various accents in the U.S. My own personal experience when I stop off in Alabama on my way to Ft. Jackson. The waitress there, sound like those southern bell on television depicting the 19 century south. I note that spelling sometimes is hard for me because of the pronunciations
I don't know if it is true or not, but I had heard that the pronunciation in Spain where there's a "th" sound for some words "grathias", "Barthelona" etc. came from some king or other royal way back when having a lisp. It then became accepted in court, and later in the country as a whole to replicate this lisp. As I said, the story may be entirely invented.
It's not true. The story is that King Pedro of Castile spoke with a lisp, and people in his court started imitating him so that he wouldn't feel bad for lisping--and that it took off from there to the general population. The only problem is, Pedro lived in the 1300's, and the sound change didn't start taking place until the 1500's. That sound change hasn't reached either southern Spain or Latin America to this very day.
I grew up in northern Michigan. We speak more like Canadians. When I was in Australia, they thought I was Canadian, until they saw my ID. In Michigan's upper peninsula, there is a strong Finnish influence.
I Java a Great Lakes accent having lived in Cleveland, Ohio my whole life. I have to admit that this north inland vowel shift is a little overstated. To hear a real Great Lakes accent I would suggest watching the TH-cam video of Mike Polk and the Cleveland accent. It’s very close to what we really sound like.
Diane, I would say that I may have a knowledge of certain variations of the Louisiana, Oklahoma and Western Texas accents. My mother is from southeastern Oklahoma, my dad spent his childhood split between south central Oklahoma and the Texas high plains. They met and married in central Oklahoma and moved to the Louisiana river delta region where they had my sister and me. We moved back to central Oklahoma, so now I have a truly strange and shifting speech pattern. Even after a university degree in English, I do not have a definitive regional speech pattern.
I lived most of my life growing up in Memphis, and I can add one particular point of the accent that isn't mentioned here. A lot of us say "man" like "main/mane." We say things like cummown, main." instead of "Come on, man." Just an interesting addition in my opinion.
Acadia is the old French colonial name for what are now Canada's Maritime Provinces. Quebec was Lower Canada; Ontario was Upper Canada. Acadia is also the local name for the eastern coast of Maine; the border between Maine and Quebec/New Brunswick took a long time to settle.
One very neat & interesting thing about Accents is that deaf people don't notice Accents as readily as us "Hearing" people do. Many of my friends are reading the English Subtitles to watch Online Videos, but the sound of the person's Voice in the Video(s) and/or whatever his/her Accent is typically never reaches people who are deaf; this is one thing I often find to be quite fascinating. So whether a person in a Video has an Irish, Scottish, UK/British Accent, etc....The deaf person watching the Video might (likely) not even be in-the-know about the Videographer's Accent unless formally informed by a "Hearing" person. Isn't that really neat? Well, I think it is, anyways...
@Diane Jennings But, you didn't get that far. You may find it interesting when he explains the Newfoundland accent, because the similarity to the Irish accent is eerily close. It's because at least half of the population of the province emigrated from Ireland and they live in small fishing villages where there's been relatively little interaction with people from outside their communities since their ancestors arrived from Ireland.
Fascinating, appreciate your reaction and the acting insights. While it's been called a "melting pot" (which would blend everything evenly), it's more a Mulligatawny stew--with regional differences in the recipes. Oh Yeah, a part three to come! We have many different accents in Michigan, depending on location. Have a great week, Irish Girl💚☘ Slàinte Mhath!
My moms from Michigan. I didn’t know this for yrs. I grew up in south Mississippi, on the coast. (My dad is from here.) When I was in elementary school I remember thinking, my mom doesn’t talk right. 😂
My start with accents were my paternal grandparents who were raised in TX, but I was from OR and though in my mind, we just don't have our own, though living in AR, I did pick up one and even moving back to the PNW, I still had it, even ine of my classmates got mad at me since she lost hers and was a native Arkansan.
I think my accent would be considered Coastal California English, so I'm guessing he'll get to me in the third video. We pronounce cot and caught the same way, and I think some of our vowel sounds change when words end in -ing compared to the rest of the country. He'll probably touch on Valleyspeak too, which is fun!
When in Florida I did a Latino accent when with a Central American. It was not appreciated. I wasn't even thinking when I did it, I just do accents, kind of a "when in Rome" situation. I think it was spot on.
Oooo-kla-homa, Where the winds come sweeping down the plains. With the waiving wheat, that sure smells sweet, when the winds come right behind the raaaaains. SING IT GIRL!
My parents were from the Chicago area, but I was born on the west coast. Halfway to adulthood, my family moved to the southeast, and now I live in Miami. Most people can't identify where in the USA I'm from by how I talk.
If you want to hear a New Orleans accent, listen to an interview with musical legend Dr. John who grew up there. As someone from Cajun ancestry, a good depiction of the culture is a little known movie called Passion Fish. All other movies seem to get the accent wrong.
Unfortunately, the boarding schools as a tool to force English only use was used in the late 1800s and early 1900s in more than just Ireland and the USA. They were definitely used in Canada, Australia, and likely also in New Zealand, India, Pakistans, Bangladesh and South Africa. The Spanish and Portuguese probably also had similar policies in their American colonies. I could be wrong, and am willing to admit it if I am, so please let me know. If you look at these regions, you probably can detect a trend in that all regions that had these schools were regions with native groups who were colonized by Europeans and their descendants of one kind or another.
Fun fact most ppl with a Latin heritage in America can't stand the term LatinX & refuse to use it. I have found this to be true in my everyday dealings w/ the extensive variety of Latin Americans that live here in Houston Texas.
That jumped out at me, too. Megan apparently didn't get the memo that "La-tinks" is highly unpopular and considered by many as an insult. She's a little behind on her PC pandering.
Indeed, the vast distances in the USA create large differences in accents....on my first submarine, one of my fellow sonar techs was 1st generation immigrant from Ireland. But his accent sounded the like Chicago accent you see in this video, as he was from Chicago. I don't remember him having an Irish accent at all, though his father was born in Ireland (my shipmate himself was born in USA). 🙂 btw New Orleans, Louisiana, USA to Chicago, Illinois, USA, is 1491 km. That's why we don't do HSR here; population density is really low, and the distances from one population center to another are typically great. 🙂Of course, we do have a means to travel between those two places at high speed: we would get on a jet aircraft, and get there in two hours. As opposed to a HSR which would take four hours (at least, best case scenario). 🙂
I didn't see part 1 yet (I didn't realize this was part of a series before I started) but I think he mentioned having already done New Jersey. I'm from the part of Jersey (northwest) which is considered to be "accent-less English." I've lived in the south for most of my life, though, and have picked up a couple of words, although apparently still not picked up an accent. I say "y'all" and that was intentional. It's a perfectly useful contraction. I grew up say "you guys" but found y'all to be better.
There's no such thing as accent-less English. What you hear as an accent is the difference in pronunciation between your own dialect and that of somebody who speaks a different dialect. No one hears his own manner of speaking (or that of the people he grew up with) as having an accent--but an outsider will certainly say that he has an accent.
@@neutrino78x I used to have a friend in high school and at Cal (Berkeley, for you out-of-staters; lesser universities call themselves UC Whatever) who got his bachelor's in linguistics. He claimed that linguists considered our home town of Berkeley to be the point of linguistic dispersion for American English, as there were people speaking every variety of English there, and their speech influenced the locals to homogenize their accents. Of course, he used to tell me ridiculous lies for sport, just to see what I'd believe.
Accents are much less noticeable today around the US than 50+ years ago. Back then there were many parts of the country where speakers were unintelligible to people from outside the region.
I believe what you meant to sing was, "Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet, When the wind comes right behind the rain."
I'm from an especially odd part of Texas, where the natives have no accent to speak of; it sounds like standard Midwestern US English. If you go slightly south, you're in Mexico, but if you go east, west, or north, you start hearing that twang. It's weird--we're just this isolated pocket of "normal" English (although we can easily lapse into stereotypical Texan when provoked). By the way, nothing rhymes with the Texas pronunciation of "dang." It's kind of like "dine" with a G at the end, kind of.
Texans for sure have a Southern drawl, speak slower and use words many Midwesterners don’t. Someone from Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis or Milwaukee would not sound like most Texans from my experience traveling to Texas.
@@mic1240 Depends on what part of Texas. East Texas--the spooky side of the "Piney Curtain"--is like another planet (I have relatives in Nacogdoches). Fort Worth is definitely a hick town, and Dallas is mostly strip clubs and Baptist churches. Austin's not nearly as weird as it used to be, unfortunately. Houston is a nightmare.
Another great reaction to a cool video. New nickname for DJ should be Dancing Queen based on the beginning of this video. Question, what accent is ED and where did it come from? ;-)
I will absolutely confirm the accents he describes in the state of North Carolina, specifically the Outer Banks, as I lived there 30 years. The High Tider dialect is still spoken today, turning the words "high tide" into "hoi toide".
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@@DianeJennings It's a beautiful place to visit if you ever get the chance.
Can also confirm the various accents in NC. The High Tider is very striking in person.
I've lived in NC for a quarter of a century, and I will confirm that it's incredibly diverse, moreso than anywhere else I've lived or visited.
Piedmont & Western NC here. Grew up & lived in Mecklenburg Co. from the late 1960s, then moved to the Foothills of NC 14 yrs ago. My extended family is from here & I still do a double take when I hear a couple Appalachian words thrown around. ✌🏻
My Appalachian grandma, who lived her entire life in Eastern Kentucky and was born in 1918, spoke with a very Irish dialect that she inherited from her immigrant mother. Appalachia, especially in those days, was a very insular part of America, and it didn't change much generation to generation, so many of them still spoke like their ancestors did in the late 1700s or early 1800s when they came over. I spent a week in Ireland back in 2007, and it shocked me to hear several pronunciations and entire phrases that have now largely died out in the US except in Appalachia, but they still existed more prominently in Ireland. I felt very at home because of it, too.
Hey Diane. Being a Southerner and an American, this guy nails it. I've seen others of his and I hear my kith and kin in the expressions and dialect from the mid-South. Cheers from Tennessee
Great to hear it!
When I was growing up near Salt lake City in Northern Utah, between 1952 and 1969, the replacement of ‘t’s with glottal stops was occasionally heard, but was considered to be substandard.
They need to make an American accents video on how each dialect pronounces "bone" 🦴so Chewie can watch and decide which regions he would like to visit. 🐶
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Don't worry Diane, not very many of us here in the United States ever hear a Cajun accent.
It is funny she uses the term "LatinX". Only 3% of the U.S. Hispanic population use the term and 60% of the population favor using the term Hispanic to describe themselves.
It's not funny, it's simply because she's an activist. Never mind that something like 90% of hispanics find it actually an offensive white-culture patronizing term....but politics > reality in 2023.
I don’t think their own speech is intended to be representative. They’re language enthusiasts so they’re predisposed to use the most modern language developments and word choices whether or not those are widely accepted
Well, lets keep in mind that not all Latin people are Hispanic. There are people from Latin countries who speak Portuguese and other Latin languages too, which is why LatinX is an umbrella term.
it was great to see the Great Lakes accent get some notice. it's often overlooked in favor of the more stereotypical accents (Southern, New York, Boston, etc.). i wasn't even aware i had an accent until i moved out to Arizona 9 yrs ago and was asked why i talk like that.
It drives me crazy when people insist on saying "LatinX". It is a term that certain people tried to force on Hispanics rather than using Latino or Latina which are grammatically correct.
Thank you
I am a native New Yorker who lived in New Orleans in my youth. I was amazed by the similarities of the accents, sometimes felt like I was back in Brooklyn when in "The Big Easy". One thing I didn't hear in the video that always amazed me was the tendency for Louisiana Cajuns to reverse the order of numbers. For example they would always say It is three or two miles away, rather than two or three. It seemed very unique was a sure sign someone was Cajun when he said it that way. One last thing, the Cajuns were among the most friendly and hospitable people I ever met.
That’s great to hear
Obviously you're talkin about the city. I grew up in Upstate New York . It's not hard to figure out who's from the city and who's from upstate New York. Worlds Apart.
@@davidcollver6155 Yes, correct.
The introduction to the great New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole:
“There is a New Orleans city accent… associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans.”
@@davidcollver6155 even the old buffalo and Albany accent sound similar. Upstate accents have changed much more recently. They used to be much more similar to new York city accents
As a native Texan, his Texas accent is what I would call ‘Texas Lite’ (Like Miller Lite Beer) in that it’s a very watered down accent. You will find the ‘real’ accent to be way more intense and far closer to his piney woods belt accent.
This is a pretty good series, I'm enjoying it. As an American Southerner, I've never actually heard some of these accents before.
This is a great video. I’m a Texan and everyone else has a accent. 😂 you should look into doing a video on how people give directions in different countries. Just a suggestion. I’ve been enjoying your videos. Thank you.
Great idea!!
He explains the Midwest accent pretty well. That's where I'm at LOL. Wisconsin specifically.
Why "LOL"? I wouldn't laugh at you for being from Wisconsin.
Me too. I live in a suburb in the metro area of Milwaukee.
5:29 Justin Wilson familiarised a lot of us with the Cajun accent on his cooking show
It's amazing how many accents there are in any widely spoken language and the subtle differences between them, and the ability of the human mind to make sense from it regardless of which accent of their language they speak or hear.
I absolutely love different accents from everywhere. I’m not great at all of them, but splendid at a few different ones. I admire Diane’s study of them.
Edit: Diane I have been arguing with Patrion the last couple of months and I am trying to sort it out. I’m so sorry.
Thank you! Anything I can help with? Pop me a DM over there or to my email in the about section. Unfortunately their customer service has gone way down hill
He's doing a good job on Cajun. I live in central Texas and we run into the diaspora often (Hurricane Karina) to the extent that I can go several close places, mom and pop joints, and get some boudin (cajun sausage). The force language shift into English has come full circle inasmuch as my daughter has ESL (English Second Language) certification as a teacher specifically because with the influx of Spanish only children into the schools, the emphasis, from the parents, is that their children will learn fluency in English specifically so they won't be disadvantaged academically and in the business world. My grandchildren (Anglo) have Spanish class from kindergarten(small very mixed private school). My daughters class (50%+ hispanic Public school) learn to read from kindergarten English which is then assimilated into reading Spanish in in the normal Spanish curriculum starting in Fifth grade I believe.
My first thought when he slipped into Cajun was Diane needs to watch some Swamp People, with captions on. The pronunciation and dialect are very distinct.
I spent my grade school years in Southern California and the rest in southern Arizona. Their accents are very different. Southern Arizona is loosing it’s mild twang, though you can still hear it with elders in small towns. Southern California is very different. The “Valley Girl” accent is still very strong.
One thing I'll contribute is that many years ago I talked to a Chicagoan who'd gone to Catholic school, and she asserted the Chicago accent was influenced by nuns sent up from New Orleans to teach, and they'd conveyed some of their southern Louisiana vowels northward. This made sense to me, as I'd been trying to figure out which part of Louisiana she was from based on listening to her talk.
Another hyper-local accent I have experience of is Tidewater Virginian, which is similar in some respects to the Ontario Valley (Toronto, Ottawa) accent. Both accents are noted for turning the "ow" in "about the house" to "aboot the hoose," or "əboʊt thə hoʊse" in the IPA alphabet. My wife's grandmother, born in 1912 at the extreme end of Virginia's Northern Neck, spoke a strongly marked version of Tidewater all her long (95 years) life, and when we last went down that way to visit after her death, her great-nieces and -nephews spoke in much the same accent.
Nice to see you continuing the series. I have a Cajun friend whose accent comes out noticeably during conversations and this man's version of it is spot-on.
Very cool!
His Texas accent was basically a Matthew McConaughey impression
That's what I heard.
You think? 😂
Them different types of Texas talk we got hood talk where we like black we got east Texas like from king of the hill we got the west Texas like when I here them talk I can tale where they from
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I had an Aunt that grew up on a farm in Kentucky and got married to a Boston Massachusetts man where she lived and developed the Boston accent. Her identical twin stayed in Kentucky so it was weird hearing the two having different accents. I missed you Friday and the weekend just didn’t seem the same🙁 Great video! Thanks for sharing it. ❤️🫵🏻☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
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I find accents so fascinating and how regions can vary so much. Diane listening to you it's fairly obvious to most that you are from Ireland, yet my grandmother who was from Cork sounds like she is Irish but not quite like yourself. The difference is definitely noticable
This is an excellent excellent excellent example of the accents and dialects. I've lived in Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. He nails those regions very well.
Excellent 😂
I lost it, when you started singing "Oklahoma!". You are the best. ❤
Hello Diane
As a member of the Southwest Natives, you have not gotten to my style of accents. Hope you find time to get to Part 3. I also hope that you get around to listening to Linda Ronstadt. it would be a musical 'crime' to skip her. She literally was the most influential singer of her time.
Have a great week!!
He nails the soup spoons pronunciation for the Mississippi region. When I said it out loud I had the same inflections and never even realized it
Woohoo, hometown got mentioned!
Syracuse doesn't have anything an untrained ear would associate with NYC, which surprises a lot of people. I get mistaken for a Midwesterner all the time (in part because I purposely changed my accent a couple steps toward what I call "American newsreader accent" (due to being a university instructor and wanting my accent to be the most approachable to all my students). When folks ask me what I did, it's exactly as this video describes: I undid some of the vowel shift, plus I tried getting rid of two more obvious of the "strangeness" markers of the accent:
1. A lot of folks with the northeast/midwest vowel shift will also pronounce "across" with an inferred T at the end: "accrost". I hear it mostly in sports announcers.
2. In Syracuse, the word "right" is instead pronounced like "rate", but only in certain situations. If it means "correct", it's pronounced "rite". But if it's an adverb (as in "right now", "right away", "right there in front of me") it gets pronounced "rate".
Having grown up in Chicago and moved to Tennessee, I agree with y'all he did a nice job of summarizing my experience too.
The rain in Spain falls mostly on the plain.
This guy always amazes me. He is so talented in accents and teaching how it works.
I'd love to see a Canadian version I grew up in small town (mainly aboriginal) BC then lived in Alberta before moving to Texas. I can now pretty clearly identify a Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton or Toronto accent. The quebecoise and Newfie accents are a whole different subject.
He hits Canada (Vancouver, Toronto, and St. Johns) in part 3.
He put the lines on the map right for the distinction between the Southeast and Deep East Texas accents, and got the now dying Southeast accent I grew up with correct, but he spoke too slowly. We speak fast and choppy, and used to use a lot of pitch. The Boomhauer voice from King of the Hill is basically an obscure SE Texas accent.
I was kind of hoping he'd cover the Yooper accent. It's really unique and interesting to hear the influences that created it.
Happy Monday to you Diane! This was a very interesting video to watch. It's fascinating to hear about the different types of accents that are spoken by different types of people in other parts of this country. Thanks for sharing this video with us. Have a great rest of your week! 😎✌️♥️🤓
Thank you! You too!
11:00 OK this is fascinating. I'm from Chicago. That's complicated about the vowels moving all over the constellation. Gonna have to learn more about that. I have always noticed how we say "melk" when we mean "milk" whereas southerners do the opposite and say "pin" when they mean "pen". 🤔
Diane is really cute,and so is her little white doggy.God bless them both.
Hi Diane! Interesting video, I've seen his first one. Being originally from Louisiana, I am a Cajun on my father's side and Piney Woods on my mother's. My accent is more Cajun, though having lived in Texas for many years it's become bastardized. The same thing that you were talking about, being forbidden to speak your native language happened in Louisiana too. My grandparents were punished if they spoke French at school. I studied French in college, so my Cajun got corrupted! In Cajun a lot of the verb tenses are now taught as literary forms. Imagine it's 1700, and you're dropped off in a very isolated place with little contact with the mother county. They just adapted as best they could.
Chewie seems very laid back, give him a hug for me. I love you and goodbye for now!
There’s a good reason especially Western NC has an Irish influence. Because of the English imposing taxes on Whiskey many Irish and other Britts immigrated and landed in the Appalachians they brought the Irish accent with them. Kudos to pronouncing Appalachian correctly. When the U.S. started taxation Bootlegging was born & NASCAR followed inspired by bootleggers running from the law tearing through the back woods. In Western NC they breakdown single syllable words into two. Day-da-ay swooping up at the end. Tea-Tay-ay. The say it as one word but in two parts. One of my favorites is Far for fire.
Had to listen to the beginning twice as when he said R's sounded like arse to my ear first time, having an accent that is a mix of RP (Dad) and SE London (Mum). Had to modify the RP when I changed schools (private to state) as got fed up with the piss being taken by both teachers and other pupils.
My barracks roommate when I was in the Army was Cajun this guy did a great job with the accent.
Language is so fascinating. I'm german but somehow I'm still curious about the U.S. accents. And of course it's more awesomer to watch you watch the video than to just watch the video. :)
And that's a great segway to segway into suggesting a new band to you. If you ever run into Tool, "Vicarious" is a great introduction to their music. TH-cam will fite you for it but they fite everyone anyway.
Hope you had a good start into your week, Diane. :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
The "World Friends" channel has been comparing Spain Spanish to the variants from a few Central and South American countries this past week, if you want to see what that's like too. They've done it before also, but with a few different countries.
I'm from the Chicagoland area (northwest suburbs) and almost everyone on my dad's side of my family has that northern cities vowel shift kind of accent. I have it too, of course! You know Diane....a lot of Irish immigrants came to Chicago, as well as German, Polish, and Italian immigrants which helped influence our accent!
And not accent, but unique Chicago still describes buildings as “flats”, like a three flat, six flat, 48 flat, etc. always call the local as “des and dem” (these and them)
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@@Tattletale-Delta thank you
I see what you did there!
I spent a summer in the Canadian wilderness and came back to the states with the accent. It's kind of funny though, I didn't spend a whole lot of time actually amongst our neighbors, maybe visiting families and businesses once a week or so. It was like I was picking up the accent just by being there surrounded, as it were, by Canadians. It makes me wonder if there is more to this kind of thing, such as picking up an accent or having dreams, that is due to the presence of other people in a broad sense, within miles, of being nearby rather than direct exposure. Is direct exposure and and the gradual forgetfulness of a visited person the cause of learning an accent or just living and sleeping in the region enough to pick up an accent? Do people living near the border kind of cycle back and forth because they are on the edge? Doesn't seem likely does it.
Now I thought it was cool that I was speaking like my neighbors, and when I got back to the states the accent didn't last long. Again, was that loss of the accent due to forgetfulness of the people I visited, or due to the fact that was now living and dreaming amongst the "Unitiedstatians" or "USAliens" again. There was more than just the accent as well, I also felt "Canadian" while there, how does a Canadian feel you ask? Well, more opened minded, less paranoid, easy going. Where I grew up in the states we were paranoid, we didn't know who to trust, so we were closed off. We had rednecks versus cityslickers and they didn't really get along, I didn't sense that in Canadians. Canadians seemed more likely to make friends easier.
I'm from the ozarks, if i have an accent it's pretty subtle. But yeah he nailed, he sounded like just about anyone that i was around growing up. Kinda sounded like my dad, and my oldest friend that i've known since we were 6 years old.
It also happened in Australia (the residential schools)
4:03 I wouldn’t have noticed the music if not for the dancing😂
I live in Michigan... the Midwest accent. Where we'll tell you we don't have an accent, even though we clearly do. The further north you go in the state though, the thicker said accent is and sometimes will depend on what part of the north you're in too.
Our neighbors to the west and in Canada sound an awful lot alike with the "a" or "eh" sounds. 🤣 We also have a tendency to combine words that don't require combining. See Ryan Redoute on TH-cam for further explanation. 😆
Brilliant vid Diane!! This was absolutely entertaining!! Thank you for all your videos!! Keep up the awesome work and please stay Safe!!
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Accents are fun and yes, there are definitely some areas where they are much more pronounced.
Sometimes a town or a county within a state will have a very specific accent because of immigration and settlement patterns.
I had course in collages that discussed the various accents in the U.S. My own personal experience when I stop off in Alabama on my way to Ft. Jackson. The waitress there, sound like those southern bell on television depicting the 19 century south. I note that spelling sometimes is hard for me because of the pronunciations
I don't know if it is true or not, but I had heard that the pronunciation in Spain where there's a "th" sound for some words "grathias", "Barthelona" etc. came from some king or other royal way back when having a lisp. It then became accepted in court, and later in the country as a whole to replicate this lisp. As I said, the story may be entirely invented.
No way! Also omg your member badge is a cool colour now!!
It's not true. The story is that King Pedro of Castile spoke with a lisp, and people in his court started imitating him so that he wouldn't feel bad for lisping--and that it took off from there to the general population. The only problem is, Pedro lived in the 1300's, and the sound change didn't start taking place until the 1500's. That sound change hasn't reached either southern Spain or Latin America to this very day.
I grew up in northern Michigan. We speak more like Canadians. When I was in Australia, they thought I was Canadian, until they saw my ID. In Michigan's upper peninsula, there is a strong Finnish influence.
I Java a Great Lakes accent having lived in Cleveland, Ohio my whole life. I have to admit that this north inland vowel shift is a little overstated. To hear a real Great Lakes accent I would suggest watching the TH-cam video of Mike Polk and the Cleveland accent. It’s very close to what we really sound like.
Thanks for reacting to it Diane!
No problem 😊
This is so interesting. Thanks for sharing your learning Diane. I'm learning with you. 👍
Diane, I would say that I may have a knowledge of certain variations of the Louisiana, Oklahoma and Western Texas accents. My mother is from southeastern Oklahoma, my dad spent his childhood split between south central Oklahoma and the Texas high plains. They met and married in central Oklahoma and moved to the Louisiana river delta region where they had my sister and me. We moved back to central Oklahoma, so now I have a truly strange and shifting speech pattern. Even after a university degree in English, I do not have a definitive regional speech pattern.
I lived most of my life growing up in Memphis, and I can add one particular point of the accent that isn't mentioned here. A lot of us say "man" like "main/mane." We say things like cummown, main." instead of "Come on, man." Just an interesting addition in my opinion.
Waiting for part 3! Native Southern Californian here. These videos are so interesting.
Glad you like them!
love this guy's videos. he had a fun one breaking down actors playing US presidents.
7:27 😂 every time I drive into OK I do this in my head
I think the heavy Minnesota accents sound similar to the irish in alot of ways. And I chalk that up to the heavy Scandinavian influence on both groups
Cajun is from the word Acadian-Canadian to
Us normals!
Acadia is the old French colonial name for what are now Canada's Maritime Provinces. Quebec was Lower Canada; Ontario was Upper Canada. Acadia is also the local name for the eastern coast of Maine; the border between Maine and Quebec/New Brunswick took a long time to settle.
One very neat & interesting thing about Accents is that deaf people don't notice Accents as readily as us "Hearing" people do. Many of my friends are reading the English Subtitles to watch Online Videos, but the sound of the person's Voice in the Video(s) and/or whatever his/her Accent is typically never reaches people who are deaf; this is one thing I often find to be quite fascinating. So whether a person in a Video has an Irish, Scottish, UK/British Accent, etc....The deaf person watching the Video might (likely) not even be in-the-know about the Videographer's Accent unless formally informed by a "Hearing" person. Isn't that really neat? Well, I think it is, anyways...
My mother's father (maternal granddad) was cajun. He was spot on with his accent.
Not just American accent. Title of his video says NORTH American accents, which includes Canada also.
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@Diane Jennings But, you didn't get that far. You may find it interesting when he explains the Newfoundland accent, because the similarity to the Irish accent is eerily close. It's because at least half of the population of the province emigrated from Ireland and they live in small fishing villages where there's been relatively little interaction with people from outside their communities since their ancestors arrived from Ireland.
North America also includes Mexico. What's your point?
Fascinating, appreciate your reaction and the acting insights. While it's been called a "melting pot" (which would blend everything evenly), it's more a Mulligatawny stew--with regional differences in the recipes. Oh Yeah, a part three to come! We have many different accents in Michigan, depending on location. Have a great week, Irish Girl💚☘ Slàinte Mhath!
Thanks for the info! You too!
My moms from Michigan. I didn’t know this for yrs. I grew up in south Mississippi, on the coast. (My dad is from here.) When I was in elementary school I remember thinking, my mom doesn’t talk right. 😂
My start with accents were my paternal grandparents who were raised in TX, but I was from OR and though in my mind, we just don't have our own, though living in AR, I did pick up one and even moving back to the PNW, I still had it, even ine of my classmates got mad at me since she lost hers and was a native Arkansan.
I’m from the area referred to as cajun country South Louisiana. He’s pretty close to how a lot of us sound.
I think my accent would be considered Coastal California English, so I'm guessing he'll get to me in the third video. We pronounce cot and caught the same way, and I think some of our vowel sounds change when words end in -ing compared to the rest of the country. He'll probably touch on Valleyspeak too, which is fun!
2:50 LOVE the Disclaimer Dance!
I’ve been enjoying these accent videos
I’m southern born and southern raised and I am proud of my Southern Accent
When in Florida I did a Latino accent when with a Central American. It was not appreciated. I wasn't even thinking when I did it, I just do accents, kind of a "when in Rome" situation. I think it was spot on.
Oooo-kla-homa, Where the winds come sweeping down the plains. With the waiving wheat, that sure smells sweet, when the winds come right behind the raaaaains. SING IT GIRL!
My parents were from the Chicago area, but I was born on the west coast. Halfway to adulthood, my family moved to the southeast, and now I live in Miami. Most people can't identify where in the USA I'm from by how I talk.
If you want to hear a New Orleans accent, listen to an interview with musical legend Dr. John who grew up there. As someone from Cajun ancestry, a good depiction of the culture is a little known movie called Passion Fish. All other movies seem to get the accent wrong.
There's a YT channel called NollaGirl504. I love her accent!
I was in a production of Oklahoma when I was in high school! Also Once Upon a Mattress and Little Shop of Horrors 😁
15:03 they did this in OZ too
The Hoi Toide accent is from 17th century English who first settled there
All very fascinating. Thanks Diane
Unfortunately, the boarding schools as a tool to force English only use was used in the late 1800s and early 1900s in more than just Ireland and the USA. They were definitely used in Canada, Australia, and likely also in New Zealand, India, Pakistans, Bangladesh and South Africa. The Spanish and Portuguese probably also had similar policies in their American colonies. I could be wrong, and am willing to admit it if I am, so please let me know. If you look at these regions, you probably can detect a trend in that all regions that had these schools were regions with native groups who were colonized by Europeans and their descendants of one kind or another.
Fun fact most ppl with a Latin heritage in America can't stand the term LatinX & refuse to use it. I have found this to be true in my everyday dealings w/ the extensive variety of Latin Americans that live here in Houston Texas.
That jumped out at me, too. Megan apparently didn't get the memo that "La-tinks" is highly unpopular and considered by many as an insult. She's a little behind on her PC pandering.
And some with Latino heritage, me, don't think it's a big deal and will use it if someone wishes to be identified as such.
@N C Better pandered to than flat-out hated by the other side.
🎶Chicks & ducks & geese better scurry🎶, that play once gave me a horrid ear worm. It took a long time to get de-wormed😂
Indeed, the vast distances in the USA create large differences in accents....on my first submarine, one of my fellow sonar techs was 1st generation immigrant from Ireland. But his accent sounded the like Chicago accent you see in this video, as he was from Chicago. I don't remember him having an Irish accent at all, though his father was born in Ireland (my shipmate himself was born in USA). 🙂
btw New Orleans, Louisiana, USA to Chicago, Illinois, USA, is 1491 km. That's why we don't do HSR here; population density is really low, and the distances from one population center to another are typically great. 🙂Of course, we do have a means to travel between those two places at high speed: we would get on a jet aircraft, and get there in two hours. As opposed to a HSR which would take four hours (at least, best case scenario). 🙂
I didn't see part 1 yet (I didn't realize this was part of a series before I started) but I think he mentioned having already done New Jersey. I'm from the part of Jersey (northwest) which is considered to be "accent-less English." I've lived in the south for most of my life, though, and have picked up a couple of words, although apparently still not picked up an accent. I say "y'all" and that was intentional. It's a perfectly useful contraction. I grew up say "you guys" but found y'all to be better.
There's no such thing as accent-less English. What you hear as an accent is the difference in pronunciation between your own dialect and that of somebody who speaks a different dialect. No one hears his own manner of speaking (or that of the people he grew up with) as having an accent--but an outsider will certainly say that he has an accent.
@@bigscarysteve Clearly, we in the San Francisco Bay Area don't have an accent. It's the rest of you heathens that have one. lol 🙂
@@neutrino78x LOL! See, I can laugh at a joke--when it's actually funny.
@@neutrino78x I used to have a friend in high school and at Cal (Berkeley, for you out-of-staters; lesser universities call themselves UC Whatever) who got his bachelor's in linguistics. He claimed that linguists considered our home town of Berkeley to be the point of linguistic dispersion for American English, as there were people speaking every variety of English there, and their speech influenced the locals to homogenize their accents.
Of course, he used to tell me ridiculous lies for sport, just to see what I'd believe.
Watch swamp people if you want to hear Louisiana bayou. As for my accent, it's a hodgepodge of new york and south Florida.
Cajun is the accent Gambit from X-Men is supposed to have.
Minnesotan here, I’ve always thought our home state sounded more oddly Canadian than actual Canadian stereotypes
Some parts of south dublin sounds like new york accents probably crossed over from Ireland
Accents are much less noticeable today around the US than 50+ years ago. Back then there were many parts of the country where speakers were unintelligible to people from outside the region.
I believe what you meant to sing was, "Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet, When the wind comes right behind the rain."
THATS IT!!!
Utah: Has anyone else heard older generations that pronounce fork, corn, horse with more of an a sound similar to car rather than like door?
Haha I’m from Southern California, so they really left us hanging for part three 😂
I'm from an especially odd part of Texas, where the natives have no accent to speak of; it sounds like standard Midwestern US English. If you go slightly south, you're in Mexico, but if you go east, west, or north, you start hearing that twang. It's weird--we're just this isolated pocket of "normal" English (although we can easily lapse into stereotypical Texan when provoked).
By the way, nothing rhymes with the Texas pronunciation of "dang." It's kind of like "dine" with a G at the end, kind of.
Texans for sure have a Southern drawl, speak slower and use words many Midwesterners don’t. Someone from Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis or Milwaukee would not sound like most Texans from my experience traveling to Texas.
@@mic1240 Depends on what part of Texas. East Texas--the spooky side of the "Piney Curtain"--is like another planet (I have relatives in Nacogdoches). Fort Worth is definitely a hick town, and Dallas is mostly strip clubs and Baptist churches. Austin's not nearly as weird as it used to be, unfortunately. Houston is a nightmare.
Another great reaction to a cool video. New nickname for DJ should be Dancing Queen based on the beginning of this video. Question, what accent is ED and where did it come from? ;-)
Awwwww, Chew looks so sweet in the background.
You seam to be in a song and dance mood today Diane! Awesome! 💃🎵
Too bad she couldn't actually remember the lyrics!