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As a Southerner I can fully confirm and ascertain that Southern accents can be thicker than sausage gravy.
Lol❤
"I can fully confirm and ascertain" Someone doesn't know what "ascertain" means.
Every single accent sound like different parts of NC
Being from the south myself...also stupid sayings like you just said :D
@@Cj-mj4xg In NC myself and yeah some i guessed as NC, others louisiana.
Little known fact, even in the US: Southern accents are CONTAGIOUS. You hang around with someone from a southern state for a few days, and they're drawling and twanging, yer vocab gunna shift
Thats weird considering ive been living in nc for 24 years and that hasnt happened, if anything the opposite has.
@@elliepurser7867where in NC?
My husband is from Detroit, and I had him sayin "y'all" within 6 months lol
Same with Midwestern accents in my experience. I was born and raised in Oregon but a lot of my family is from North Dakota and we'd visit them every summer while I was growing up. Every once in a while I'll let out an "OPE!", or an "oof-da!" or an "Oh fer cute/cool/etc".
Lololol, my cousins from New York make fun of me because every once in a while a Tennessee accent pops up when I'm talking.
My family is from the deep south. 40 years ago, my grandparents were vacationing in London. They were at a restaurant, and as they were talking, everyone was looking at them and listening to them.
They noticed and decided to have some fun. My grand dad went full fog horn leg horn, and my grandmother went full southern bell on them. Long story short, the locals were so charmed that they got their food and drinks for free.
Thanks for the tip, maybe will try that as well.
I've done this too! Went to a bar in Italy and the owner was obsessed with old Hollywood Westerns. When he found out I am from Texas, I got free shots and half-off mixed drinks all night!
@@MonumentToSin Oh nice, which part of Texas are you from because I know our state can have different accents too. My dad is from West Texas near the panhandle, north of Midland and Odessa while my mom is from San Antonio (I was born there). My dad and his side of the family sound a lot different then my mom's family.
@@Zodia195 My family lives northwest of the Houston area. We have a twang, but not the slow-as-molasses accent that some of the bayou boys have on the other side of the city. It's not strong, and I never thought it was noticeable, but Europeans pick on on it fast. And they love cowboy culture, so you can get very popular telling them stories about cows running down the freeway and people driving tractors to school!
I’m from Georgia. When you said Texas, I was like “nope, that’s definitely Georgia”.
I've lived in both states, definitely a difference
Well, thing is the black guy when he said the one word I swore it was a Texan cuz I've heard other texans talk like that. Oh well, I might be southern but I ain't country.
The Rs gave it away for me Texas Rs are different than Georgia Rs but erthang else is almost the same
When the rapper came on.....I KNEW it was Georgia.
Same, knew it was Georgia from the start lol. I only got the first two wrong myself but I only had trouble understanding one or two of the people speaking 😂
Being southern means you understand every single word. I personally get a stronger accent when I’m sleepy, intoxicated, or angry. Also, being around people with strong accents makes yours come out more and get stronger
That's so true. My mother in law is like that with her family in Alabama.
Yep! My mother was from Virginia. When she was tired hair was har and fire was far. She tried to lose the accent. Fortunately, I got my dad’s north Florida accent and I love it.
Being around people with ascents makes me acquire one. As a child imitating a southern accent was my favorite thing. As an adult who once worked in a call center, my childhood habit kept me in danger of getting in trouble. One of the things they emphasize is don’t imitate accents. I would fall into a southern accent every time a southerner called. Was blessed that they weren’t offended. They usually thought I was from their area until I told them that I automatically start speaking in accents I hear when talking to people.
Facts.
I'm the same way. My cajun accent only comes out slightly when im sleepy, but a ton when im drinking.
“Is Kentucky near Texas?”
Oh sweet summer child…not even close
Lolol
Not close - linguistically, geographically, or culturally.
@8cladgamer210 I think the phrase you meant to say was bless his heart🤣
@@RedLine9109😂
See, it's not just us. 😅
I’m Texan. My husband and I were in Rome, dining al fresco. A man at the table next to us asked us something. My husband nodded, and the guy got up. I asked my husband why he just pretended to speak a different language. He looked at me confused and said “That dude was British and was just asking if we could keep an eye on his bag while he went inside.”
I’m from East Tennessee, and the accents shown are accurate. I’ve been stopped by people from the northern US and asked to pronounce certain words because they found the Appalachian accent so charming. The fellow they showed for the moonshine is the late, legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, who was married to my friend Pam. She’s still carrying on his tradition of making moonshine in his memory. Popcorn had a slightly heavy accent, but that’s because he spent a lot of time in the mountains where the Appalachian accent is still very strong. Dolly Parton definitely has a strong accent. She’s as country as cornbread, as the saying goes. Pretty typical accents for the Smoky Mountains range of the Appalachian Mountains.
I’m from East TN, too! We Love Dolly! ❤️🦋. She is our Queen!
Omg you're friends with Pam? Some of my kinfolks worked with Popcorn many moons ago!! ❤❤❤
Her little sister Vanessa was one of my best friends all the way through school. Pam was a couple years older than us, closer to my sister’s age. She was always so sweet to me. I just love her!
Meanwhile I'm from memphis so my accent is way different, but I understand Appalachian accents well and they're one of my favorite to listen to
No way that’s awesome. You and this other lady in the comments know the legendary Popcorns wife? That’s amazing
I'm from Texas, and all I can say is "Bless your heart"!! 😂🤣🤣🤣
Me living most my life in both TX and FL... Listening to him and in the back of my mind screaming irony 🤔😂🤣
@@peterryan4199yes! I had to listen very carefully to him to understand all that he was saying.
*"Bless your heart," translates into so many things, including "Fuck you."*
@@saristaa1 right like the difference of Disney employees day Have a Disney day vs have a magical day.
Not sure if the quote is on point but one is polite the other is when you've pissed the person off. 😂
I'm from Texas and I didn't guess any of these states right. Except for Louisiana.
As an American it was funny watching you be so confident that West Virginia was Texas 😂
Literally what I said. Everything else aside, it was so lush & green & Texas is a desert 😔
@@Unchainedmelody151 Huh? Texas isn't a desert! Have you ever even been here?
@@ShannonR1969 a lot of it is desert. Maybe not every square inch.
😂
Lmao. Same. It was so obvious West Virginia. Nothing about the accents or the landscape was similar to Texas.
Fun fact, the Southern accent in America is the original English accent. It is different from today’s English accent in England because Englands accent has changed over the past 400 years.
I’ve heard that but I’ve also heard Appalachian accent is as close to 16th century English as we can get because of how isolated they are.
@@heatherlynn1974the EXACTLY correct. The accent is a linguist fossil. My mama, mamaw and family all spoke it. I recorded them because I knew how special and historical it is. They were shamed for it by very ignorant outsiders sadly. But it got stronger as the years passed 😊
Tangier Island off the coast of my home state Virginia has what they presume the most authentic English accent. It dates back to 17th century. Due to their isolation they were not as influenced by different accents.
Just like Cajun French has diverged from Canadian and Paris/Provencal, etc. I had a French teacher from Provencal in high school. And I could have sworn New Orleans and my Dad did not have an accent at all, until I'd lived in NM for several years ... At which point, my Dad, born and raised in Virginia and lived in Louisiana for decades, suddenly sounded Southern.
@@Realalma Oh you are so brilliant to have done that! Make sure you keep several copies so your family will always have that treasure.
I was in New Orleans when a woman I was talking with said: "Y'all from St. Louis, ain't ya? " When I said I was and asked how she knew, she said: "I could tell by y'all's accent." She was from Louisiana. I was loving hearing HER accent!
My family is from St. Louis. My parents spent a lot of time in Paris when they were young married. Once, on vacation, they met a woman from New Orleans. Couldn't make heads or tails of what she was saying in English, but they could understand her in French just fine.
15:15 " Sometimes we start our conversation in French and finish it in English, Sometimes we start in English and finish in French, we go back and forth" is what he said. As a southerner it was plain as day.
Same for someone from the swamp lol
As someone who grew up in Acadiana, it was easily understood. My mother and grandmother would switch between English and French so much, we thought they were talking about us. It was simply because my grandmother didn’t know the English words.
I’m from Nebraska and it was still plain as day soooo
I heard it too but I'm from South Louisiana so...
My French teacher was a Cajun. I had a hard time. LoL. Had great fun but definitely struggled a little.
Texan here, and while in London last year, I had the HARDEST time understanding this waiter talking about the “woke up”. Turns out he was saying “World Cup”.
And it's mind buggling for me a french Canadian girl that i drink "WATER" but english folks be drinking "WOTHER" 😂😂😂
Lol farkwad???
😂
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Yes!!!!!!!!
I am from California and I lived around Lumbee people for six months. I love Pembroke. I rode with a guy and he spoke for about 5 minutes straight and I turned to him and said “I have no idea what you said.”
I’m a NC Southern lady. I understand everyone and got a laugh at y’all.
Same and I understood every lick of what they’re saying
Him yelling "WISCONSIN!" to guess a Mississippi accent had me cackling 😂
I'm pretty sure he yelled WYOMING. Ha-ha!
That was his disrespectful guess for Tennessee @@jeanvignes
🤣
Being a yooper, had me chuckling too.
I understand all of them till Louisiana. I have heard Georgians speak such a strong accent I couldn't understand them though. LOL
As a person from Louisiana, I’m proud of you for getting our state right. I was also shocked that they used a clip of my grandfather in the video. Kinda cool.
I bet your granddaddy would be quite fond of this video.
I knew it was Louisiana because everyone there sounds stereotypically black lol
@@maxterbait4438 yeah, we are definitely a mixture of Creole, Cajun, French, Spanish, Native American and European influences down here. We love each other.
Bayou Lafourche is amazing, every 15 miles you have a different accent lol
@@LangenmayrSYou from Lafourche Parish??? I’m from Terrebonne Parish! Cajun as can be!!!
The Southern Accent is a built up from many combined cultures and countries. The north Houston area has street names like Kuykendahl - German influence. My former father-in-law spoke German in his home as a child until the teachers complained that they didn’t understand what their students were saying. This was in Penelope, Texas close to Waco. He was born in 1933 and grew up with Willie Nelson.
Southern is easy once you know certain catchphrases for the area.
Now, them Yankees, those north of the Mason Dixon line, are a different kettle of fish to understand.
She said "Steel Magnolias", it's a famous movie, especially in the south.
I think it's famous all over. I'm in Oregon and I love that movie.
Love that movie and Fried Green Tomatoes
Im from Louisiana. We speak English in my parish. If you drive south on Hwy 1 about 20 miles, you will hear the accent of those who came to Louisiana directly from Lyons, France. They speak archaic or poets French. It's like stepping back in time to the 1700s in France.
Every little village has a distinct accent. What a luxury to hear.
I grew up very close to Cajuns but unfortunately never learned the language. I still sound like a regular southern boy but hanging around so many Cajuns has definitely affected the way I say some words.
I'm so jealous ❤
@@damonhinson4005 I grew up with my family speaking cajun french and ofc the accent.. but the french mostly when they didn't want the kids to know what they were talking about lol
im from around Lafayette and Acadiana parish but im not entirely sure what accent i have but i thinks its either slight Creole or Cajun
@MaeMayBCrz teach those puppies French. Or it dies in Louisiana.
I’m killing myself laughing, 😂 I have understood every one of the accents. Born and raised in Cajun country Houma, Louisiana and I’ve lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for 28 years! You are killing me trying to copy all of our accents. Everyone born in the South understands everyone else’s Southern accents…so funny!
That is so true! It's weird how we can all understand each other but hardly anybody can understand us!😂
Hello! Native from Denham Springs here, but I moved to the midwest. I understood it all, too! I have lost some of my accent, but whenever someone hears me talk for a bit, they always get a funny look and go, "so, where are you from?" 😂
@@shirw😂😂😂😂 and here in Cajun country they just leave out the "are" and say "where you from"?
I'm from Kentucky with an almost nonexistent accent and I understood all these people.
I'm born and raised in Wisconsin and can understand each one 😀
When he said “holler” I knew he was talking about West Virginia! 😅
Butcher Holler, KY. Loretta Lynn! ❤️
My parents were from the same West Virginia county. Daddy's brother used to say my mother was from Possum Holler. (Not true) She grew up on a farm, he was from a town.
The famous Moonshiner talking about how he bought everything he used to make his "Likker", was actually born and raised in the Southern Appalachian Mountains in Western North Carolina.Some of my kinfolks might used to have worked with him. 😉
He moved to Tennessee as an adult but his area was super close to Western North Carolina where he was born and raised. ❤
This is how I feel listening to British accents. I always have to watch with the captions on.
Me too!! 😆
I’m from NC. Went to graduate school in St. Louis. Was watching My Fair Lady in a restaurant on campus. The Rathskeller. One of the guys said, “Do you understand that? I can’t understand a word they’re saying.”
ME TOO!!!
At least we don't throw a random r in place of an a in words. How do you ever pass a spelling test?
100%
I WAS SCREAMING AT THE TV THAT IT WASNT TEXAS! 😂
Why would it be Texas? Texas and Florida are not the real South. 😉
Georgia here..
Somebody needs to tell him that Texas isn't part of the Deep South.
Same lol
Yep that west VA for sure
People ask me all the time if I’m from TX. Nope! WV!
I'm from South Carolina and a genealogist. The Southern accent, in South Carolina is three-fold. The low country around the Charleston area - their accent is based from English, French and African. The mid-state - their accent comes from English, Scottish and German. In the upstate, the mountain region, their accent comes from English, Irish, and Scottish.
Absolutely love the video! I'm from North Carolina and from a town not far from Lumberton "the home town of the Lumbee" and I can tell you that the breakdown was bang on! I love watching your vids, I could listen to you read a phone book, that's southern for "I like your accent/the way you talk or another way to say someone is attractive".
If you spent your whole life in the hollers of Kentucky or West Virginia, you know that the accent changes just over the next valley.
I did and, you're right, it does! There are actually very rural areas right outside of Louisville, which is where I grew up. There were different accents within the same county!
Potters probably from East KY.
The isolation of those hollers lets the language develop and change from the Scots-Irish origins into their own unique beings and it's beautiful.
I am from. Nc I dated a girl. From KY.... I never knew what a Hollar was before that... Now I do, 😂
Lolol, it's like that in Tennessee, too.
The funniest part is that UK has accents that are just as strong but they're just the next town over
I experienced that living in the UK as an american. I lived in Birmingham, but one county over was Dudley. That region is called the Black Country because of the industrial era. But that accent is THICK compared to Birmingham’s “Brummie” accent
A cockney accent is the hardest for me to understand.
agreed! reminds me of Geo Bernard Shaw’s Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion & how he could distinguish her accent almost to the to street she lived on!
Exactly!
Yes, Maggie from "the Walking dead" was actually Australian, but in the show she played a southerner from Georgia. She did a good job. I was born and raised in the south and can understand everyone, but the Cajuns in Louisiana are the toughest because of the French words and dialect.
I'm from Louisiana.. there is lots of different languages here and different types of food. No place like it in America
😂😂😂😂😂 "Sometimes we start a conversation in French and finish in English." He did NOT say what you thought he said 😂😂😂😂😂
I find this a funny video because have you ever tried to understand many people who saying they are speaking english that live in Scotland and other parts of England?? they are very hard to understand and you different words for object than we do. like taking a piss there means getting a drink of alochol
East Alabama/West Georgia line here. I understood ALL the accents, including most of the Louisiana accents except the ones with French words thrown in. I really love hearing the Tennessee Mountain accents and colloquialisms - reminds me of ours here in Alabama/Georgia..
Alabamian and now Georgian here! The lady at 5:57 is talking about a movie called "Steel Magnolias". The man at 8:25... ive had to translate a video of men hunting deer... let just say it took me over 3 hours translate it! That accent is hard to understand.
Some Southern accents arent so bad, if you notice, its just an extremely slow british accent. Try it! Speak in a British accent but just do it incredibly slowly. Makes me laugh everytime :D Another accent I could barely decipher is Louisiana...it has a french twist and stumps me everytime.
Can’t believe he talked about Louisiana and didn’t even bother to mention Creoles. The backbone of Louisiana’s culture.
Thank you! It's so frustrating.
At 5:57 she is saying "Please don't ever talk to me like this, and I'm fixing to do it in a fake southern accent, the ones they use in the movies, like Steel Magnolias." "Fixing" is a word we use in the south that means "about to" like "I'm fixing to go to the dollar store, do yall need anything?" And Steel Magnolias is a movie that is set in the south.
After my time in the south "fixin to" has never left my vocabulary.
It really adds some flair to whatever you are fixin to do.
Sweet pea, as a Southerner from Georgia I can promise you that if I go to your pub, by the end of the night they will ALL be .my friends.
@@FadedRose2007 And now Gen Z has claimed it for themselves and changed it to "finna".
@@DevanLundnah that was more Millenials, maybe even some Gen X round my way.
A Brit trying to do a southern accent…. Priceless. 😊
North Carolina native here. Just started watching/subscribing and catching up. Love your energy and authentic positivity! Our state is very diverse in dialects from the mountains to the coast, and it’s something I have enjoyed experiencing when I travel around the state. Love that the video you watched here mentioned the Lumbee dialect. They are a unique and wonderful people!
I'm in Alaska which is a state in the USA on the other side of Canada. We are about 65 miles from Russia. I love your show, I just found it today.
Not him guessing Texas with mountains being in the background of almost all the videos for West Virginia 😂
I live in the smokies and was just sitting there looking at the mountains in the background lol.
Guess we cant blame him though, mountains aint something many people keep track of.
I’m from Morgantown and Im like “Honey there aint no mountains in Texas 😂”
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Coal got it for me
That’s what I was thinking. I’m sitting here looking out my window thinking “I WISH Texas looked like that!”
You crack me up with your British accent trying to imitate a southern accent. I needed a good laugh for the day. You are very likeable and have a great sense of humor..
Vivian Leigh was English and that supposedly helped her in her portrayal of Scarlet O'Hara. Apparently, the English do southern accents pretty well.
@stephaniefoster1964 I agree 100%. Vivien Leigh also mastered the art of a Southern accent by practicing and that's all it'll take for these guys to be able to Master of the art of Southern Accents also.. there are so many different Southern Accents even some that it's hard for me to understand and I'm Southern..
Oh sweet Jesus, child. You've only heard "Hollywood Southern," which isn't Southern. What you think is Texas is really MGM Backlot.
I grew up in Florida and there's DEFINITELY a southern accent here, in the center of the state. Countryside, not the beaches. 😂
Genuinely curious, where in central FL? I’ve lived in Orlando for 44 years and no one I know that hasn’t moved here from the south has a southern accent. I know north FL has a southern accent.
Florida definitely has rednecks, every state does lol the wetlands go from Florida to SE Texas where I am
@@susanstetson3435the cities usually don’t because everyone is from somewhere else. It’s the same in southern Florida- places like belle glade and pahokee are country but you drive 45 min east and your in west palm beach and it’s completely different.
Haha loved this. As an american southerner I loved seeing this reaction.
Fun Fact: the Southern drawl, when sped up, is a British accent. And the word “y’all” was actually a British import. Way back it was a British colloquialism for a time that came here but died out in Britain. We still love it because it clarifies the lack of “you plural” that English is missing. Plus, it’s really cute!
I thought that all ya'll was the plural of ya'll.
@chrisstevens410 It is. Ya'll is the short form of "you all", so technically it's already plural.
It’s spelled y’all but most places I’ve been it’s pronounced “yaw”
It's actually y'all, a contraction of you all, not ya'll, which is a misspelling.
@@stevenfisher6670"y'all" not "ya'll"
A guy from LA (Lower Alabama) asked me for "rotten pepper". Rotten pepper? Who wants rotten pepper? Why would I have rotten pepper? He kept repeating "rotten pepper" over and over. Finally, in frustration, he angrily rattled a sheet of paper shouting "rotten pepper"! Oh, writing paper. 😂
Ah yeah I live on the Alabama/Florida border. That's a sheeah pape (sheet of paper) to most of us but some the older folk call it rotten pepper. I guess to distinguish it from rolln pepper...
I worked in a grocery store and a kid asked me about "choco." I thought he meant something like Ovaltine or Nesquik. So I asked him and he said it's what you put in a grill. "Oh, charcoal!"
@@margaretschultz6209 lol. Used to have people ask me about the "pup meal" and it took me forever until I figured out they were talking about the pulp mill on the river.
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Now you've got my husband staring at me saying writing paper over and over again.
I'm a Florida native. I've heard all of these here, but the blonde with a cap talking about having all her teeth is the most common.
Ayyyyy…what’s up fellow swamplander!
It’s definitely all drawls and twangs down here, ain’t it? 😂
They left Florida out. I’m a native here and if you ain’t in the cities, you know you’re in the south.
I got 5 out of 7!! lol I nailed WV!! Thats where my family is from 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m from south Louisiana and this is how I feel listening to you 😂
Same here. (Also Louisiana, but not below I-10!)
Same. I can understand him, but to my ear he slurs his speech a lot.
Which part? I'm on the northshore.
Same here but I’m in Alabama.
Louisiana represent!
The Mississippi lady at 06:22 was referencing the movie Steel Magnolias, a movie about southern women and their lives and relationships.
Thank you! I was hollerin at the computer MAGNOLIAS and smh! 😂😂
I went to MG and the people there said my voice sounds beautiful like I'm singing my words mom them mam very strange oh I'm native American I do not sound like the people on res dogs 😢they make us look and talk dumb
Steele Magnolia was filmed in Natchitoches, LA. Bet he can't pronounce that name. Lol
He didn't do Georgia justice in the accent department. There are several very different accents depending on the location. The coastal and middle Georgia are amazing!
I’m from Louisiana, the old man said, “Sometimes we start a conversation in French and finish in English, and sometimes we gotta start in English and finish it in French. We go back and forth na.”
I have to translate for friends all the time when they meet some of my family bc their accent is this thick or much thicker.
As a Midwestern we call the thick Louisiana/Cajun accent the bayou babble. There's a few things that are always guaranteed with anyone who speaks this. 1) They have the best dang cooking. 2) once you get to know them they are the greatest huggers you will ever meet. 3) when you care about them they will care about you in return.
Yes if you're not used to ever hearing it, it is strange and different at first but really it's beautiful sounding after the initial shock.
I'm from Louisiana and we will love ya to death for sure
You are absolutely right! The Cajun culture is small, but very unique. That neck of the woods is almost like a foreign country to the rest of Americans, but it's a widely beloved part of the US because the culture is almost as rich as the food. :)
Omg so true about the food.
They are also the only state where those with the thick rural accents REALLY could benefit from walking subtitles. 💯🤣
I'm a Louisiana Cajun. We do have the best cooking 😊
I moved from Missouri to North Carolina. I introduced my sons to some of my friends. As we drove away my youngest son said “what language do they speak here?”
Sometig bout like da dare...🤔
I live in NC, and met a guy from out of state while on a hike. A couple of sentences into our conversation he said, “I can’t understand a thing you’re saying “.🤣😂🤣
I moved to Asheville a few years back and it took like 2 years before I could understand some of my coworkers.
@@coondingee where did you move from? Asheville grows on you.....kinda like a fungus..lol. stay away from eagle st. But the river arts district isn't to bad if you don't mind the homeless, trash, and needles. Just don't swim in the French broad river. I worked on the river arts district for 3 years doing the roads, paved trails Bridges....ect
I went to Med School at Duke. Many of my classmates were from all over the US; places like NY and California. Naturally, we had to take medical histories from people who came to Duke Med Center from the farthest reaches and backwaters of NC. Sometimes communication was a real problem. Any clue what “smilin’ mighty Jesus” is? Turns out it’s spinal menengitis. That was a favorite.
I'm born n raised inTennessee, east Tennessee, I'm half black n half Choçtaw Indian and my accent is pretty strong but I moved up north to Massachusetts about 12 yrs ago so I think I lost some of my twang. But hey dude, you did àlright guessing accents, better than some people who live here in the US. This is the 1st video of yours I've seen and you're funny, dude. You've ĝot a new sub! God bless!
P.S. I absolutely ĺove British accents and I'm always joking w/my friends pretending to speak British, they laugh so hard at me!!😂
I’m from the South and I understand everything these people were saying! And yes, the Scot-Irish were all over the South!
Old dude with the guitar said “sometimes we start a story in French and then finish it in English” I got you for all the Louisiana accents. It’s weird that I understand all this plainly but I grew up around creole and Cajun accents everywhere
Same, none of the accents were very difficult to understand because I grew up in the south and encountered people who spoke like that. But give me a heavy wales or scottish, or even liverpool accent and I am likely going to be lost.
And this is part of why citizens of the U.S. love Scotland.
Citizens of Appalachia and the Deep South 😂
As a matter of fact, the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands, are both a part of the exact same mountain range, separated due to continental drift.
100% yes!!
Absolutely!
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Spent 20 years in the Army, having all the southerner's telling me to slow down my speech. They couldn't understand me. I was talking too fast.
I'm a Southern Appalachian. One of those weird ones who most of the time, and especially when I'm excited, talk a mile minute.
My folks constantly have to tell me to slow down because I'm talking too fast and they can't understand me.
People from outside of the region who don't have that Southern Appalachian accent also have to tell me to slow down, because they can keep up with the speed, but not the accent and I guess talking slower helps them, (a tiny bit), to understand what I'm talking about. 🤦♀️😭🤣
20:37 "This has to be Texas bro". Texas here, not even close at all.
I am so proud to be a southerner. We all have our little accents and I love them.
We speaks the Queen's own English--- Elizabeth the First.
I once had to translate for a New Yorker so she could understand a Georgia electrician. 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣I'd be that New Yorker!!!
Heard that one before.
You are not kidding 😂😂😂 when I moved to Georgia for 2 yrs, it took me 1 yr to understand what was being said to me.
Ha!!!😂😂😂😂
Was the electrician named Mr. Battles? I have a similar experience. Lol.
There are like 5 Georgian accents because some can overlap neighboring states. We have coastal, listen to Kirby Smart coach of UGA Dawgs, and South GA, then Atlanta or 404 accent, then north GA has west which sounds very Bama/ TN and the East sounds more North Carolina Tar Hill like. Hillbilly in every southern state sounds different than red neck of that state.
Honestly love how respectful you are
As a southern (Texas) seeing him try to figure out what they were saying while I completely understood them made me realize how the Scottish feel when people talk about them.
I’m from North Carolina and can verify the state has several different regional dialects. 😊
Yes, yes we do. I remember hearing Jeffery Donovan use a NC accent. Had to actually repeat his lines, I was shocked how close he got it
Aaand we hate havin' tah repeat ourselves.
Why are y'all requestin' any more effort put into my talkin'!?
Listen better!!! 😁
Being in the Charlotte area, it feels like a accent soup.
At least they didn't break him with the High Tiders.
@@peirlandspirit5709at least, that's a loop.
As a South African who lived in Southern England for 16 years, and worked at a very culturally diverse university in Luton, I just want to say how much I love the different accents - in the UK and also in the US. Visited Tennessee last year for 2 weeks and absolutely loved every minute of it. Please, don't lose your accents, it makes you unique and so interesting and is part of your heritage. ❤
I’m from England originally, the Manchester area. Moved to Mississippi in 1972 and picked up the accent very easily. I did go back to England with my daughter in the 90s, she was 14. Everybody wanted to hear us talk. It was funny when people would want to stand and talk to us just to hear the Southern accent. And I was half British lol.
@lynnegulbrand2298 Even after 16 years in England, I did not lose my South African accent. My daughter spent the first 10 years of her life in England, came back to South Africa, and now works on a contract basis in South Africa and the US, usually in Tennessee or the Carolinas. There's a mishmash of accents for you!
I'm from Tennessee Ive been told I "don't have an accent," interesting.
Tennessee actually has about 4 different accents. It's hard for many people to appreciate just how long the state is, even though it's not very wide north the south. The east of it is entirely Appalachian while the west is miles of flat Mississippi river 'delta' (meaning the flat mud, not actually "delta" in the mouth of a river sense). Between those extremes are the hills that blend into the Kentucky hills, which overlaps with the Nashville culture, and between there and Memphis it overlaps east Mississippi's and Alabama's cultures that were mostly outside the major plantations but still farming. That's perhaps the least known southern cultures.
Glad you had fun here in TN 😊
6:30 "The fake accent, the one they do in the movies, like Steel Magnolias." It might be Steal Magnolias. It's a 90's movie about Southern women who frequent a salon. Star studded cast. It's good.
I'm from Arkansas, and it depends on which part of the state you're from that determines how you sound. Some of my cousins in NE Arkansas have that country twang. Instead of saying "sick" they say "seek" as in, "I had to go to the doctor 'cause my horse was seek." I'm from Little Rock, where the accent isn't super thick, but we're definitely southern. I do a lot of voiceover work and I have to really be careful not to say "yer" and "fer" in place of your and for. Funny story - we went to see the Great Lakes when I was a kid, and we were having trouble finding one of the lakes, My mom stopped into a shop to ask them and they could not understand that she was saying Lake Erie. It took her a few tries to communicate it, and then the shop owner called his wife out of the back and made my mom say it again because he was so fascinated. 😂
And now you know how we all feel when we first start watching you. 😂
Lmaoo for real 😂
While in Ireland recently, an Irish man described my accent as “twang” 😂 (I’m from North Carolina).❤️
I'm from North Carolina too, just went to Canada and you weren't lying, its a whole different ball game out of country
You would have a drawl, wouldn't you? Alabama here!
@@AslanreturnMy husband’s family definitely has a drawl (they’re from the Durham area). My accent is very different from theirs.😄
that's like the kettle calling the pot black. i'm from michigan. it's easier to understand the southern accent then an irish accent.
That is rich!
About 6:15 she's talking about the movie "steel magnolias"
I live 15 minutes away from Natchitoches Louisiana where Steel Magnolias was filmed...Also was born there as well
I knew it.
@@SeeTheWorldAsIDo78 I was about to say it. My grandparents lived there and the house is shown in the credits briefly. Also they say parish in it. Still one of my favorite films.
I only wish we had Piggly Wiggly stores here in California. Just so I could say I'm headin' over ta the Piggly Wiggly
@@monkeyweather yea but y’all got el pollo loco. I lived in Vegas for years. I miss in and out and el pollo loco lol
I’m southern born and raised. Still laughing 😂
Happy to hear y’all enjoying the richness of of the accent diversity of the American Deep South. (I was raised by US Yankees born in NY, who were raised by an English national. It matters what one hears regularly.
Shh sounds are mountain sounds. NC TN
I'm from WV, and it's so funny to watch you react to these accents.
The perfect Texas drawl is none other than Matthew McConnaughey. Alright alright alright, I just keep on livin’. 🤠
From Uvalde, which is west of San Antonio.
As someone who has a southern drawl, its always entertaining to see people from the UK or Europe fascinated with southern accents
I feel like the brits are more facinated. Atleast for me, as a european, ive been exposed to so many different accents that Im used to the variety and can understand most of them. I watched a lot of mtv when I was younger and there were a lot of southerners on those shows, so maybe thats it 😂
She said: “Please, please don’t ever talk to me like this and I’m fix’n to do it in a fake southern accent. The one they use in the movies. The one like they do on Steel Magnolias. Drives me Crazy!” (referring to the movie)
I grew up in the Midwest and have lived in North Carolina for almost a decade. I hadn't really thought much about Southern dialects until this video. People from the Midwest here can easily my northern vowels. North Carolina is so diverse. I will say I got a few of these accents wrong, but I could pick up what region of the south they were from and I could understand 99% of these southerners with the exception of the Cajun accent.
Tennessee was a little misleading using Popcorn Sutton.. he died there, but was actually from North Carolina.
Yeah that threw me off. It's why I though just Appalachian.
I actually thought it was West Virginia. East TN, Middle TN (Nashville), and West TN (Memphis) all have different accents.
@@birdie12345memphis is VERY different! I live in mid tn
As an Alabama boy I enjoyed watching you guess and rewind the video so you could understand. Thats how we watch your videos.😂
My cuzin moved from north dakota he stayed in Mississippi 10 years he just came home and he looked like the guy on the video even dressed like them! He can't handle the cold because his been gone so long he said omg I need a winter coat and it was 58 above I'm like what this is warm people walk into a store with trunks on 😂from. 70- to 50 above is a major change for us up north
Born Alabama raised in Indiana I understand Every Word Completely! BTW the movie reference she used who used a TERRIBLE FAKE Southern accent is Steele Magnolias.
My family is from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri , but I was raised in Arizona and every summer we would go to Missouri to visit relatives. My mother would have to translate what my cousins were saying to us. It was funny when my cousin came to Arizona and tried to say the name of our towns and the food we eat here.
Black Southerners often have a distinct accent...especially when they are talking jive. I was standing with two Black Friends and this Black dude that none of us knew just walked up and started up with some jive talk. My Black friends answered back by occasionally saying things like "yeah brother...tell it"....or "Uhhhh Huuuuh!. Eventually the dude walked off and one of my Black friends looked at the other and said "You understand what he was talking about?"....and the other said "Nah man...not a thing."
Jive talk?! I havent heard that description of my black people talking since the 70's. That's right up there with Negro spirituals.
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😂Pretty much. I have cousins from Atlanta Ga. on my father's side and cousins from the woods in southeast Georgia on my mother's side and their accents are like night and day. Same state but completely different.
This reminds me of that scene from Airplane (the movie). "Just hang loose blood, pretty momma be back in a minute wit thuh medicite"
My mother grew up in Virginia. One time my parents were driving in the mountains of West Virginia and their car broke down. Within minutes people started coming out of nowhere to help. They thought they were completely alone in that forrest and were getting ready to walk out. All of a sudden they felt surrounded. You hear stories about mountain people being scary... Not true for my parents. They were very grateful.
Oh that's standard experience in WV. Helping people out is almost like a sport in a way. Everyone wants to be the most capable, most self sufficient. You want your truck to be the one to tow the Jeep out or whatever. Plus we're more aware that you are off how remote it is. We'd rather change your tire and have a chat than have to mount a proper search and rescue. Helping someone in need is a necessary way of life so may as well enjoy it.
@@sarahconner726 Well they certainly did! Very kind people in those hills! 😀 Wonderful People! 💕
I love mountain people, more often than not they're some of the nicest, most down to earth folk!
The reclusive part of living in the mountains just causes people to make up rumors, myths and legends that scare people and cause misunderstandings.
Like that one movie... I'll brb with the title.
Update: The movie is called
"Tucker and Dale vs Evil"
@@blackcat8104 I'm laughing so hard at the mention of that movie! 😂 My husband and I only recently heard about it. Very funny and so ridiculous at the same time 🤣. Poking fun at people who think they're so much more civilized and better than the mountain folk. Sooo true!
@@blackcat8104 I watched Wrong Turn, which is supposed to take place in Greenbrier County, while in Greenbrier County with a handful of locals that grew up in those woods.
Y'all, I know it was supposed to be horror but it was straight comedy to us. Well, comedy and geological commentary. "WTF, that rock formation doesn't exist here!" "Those are NOT the kind of trees we have!" "WTF did that waterfall come from!?"
I’m from middle Tennessee and I thought this was hilarious. My niece didn’t think she had a southern accent. We talked to some girls from London and asked about it. They looked confused and confirmed it. She was shocked which made me laugh.
I understood what everyone was saying. Lol
These accents are my comfort zone, it's lowkey relaxing for me.
From Tennessee here. People tell me that I sound like Dolly Parton, makes sense. I understood every accent. My favorite is the French Cajun.
From TN too - different accents depending on what part of the state you're talking about. Even then, it can vary greatly over short distances.
West Tennessee here. Close to the middle tn line but Dolly is the epitome of Tennessee. I just love her! This was interesting. Some of the words from North Carolina I have never heard. (Ellick and coffee?)
As someone who grew up in Memphis and now lives in East Tennessee, I will co-sign all that y’all have said. West Tennessee is definitely deeper south, and the further east you go, the more that mountain accent comes in.
Most people -- even in the deep south -- don't realize that there are Cajun, Creole, and true French accents in Southern Louisiana, plus all kinds of flavors that are not French, e.g. the Irish Channel accent in New Orleans. Our food reflects all the many kinds of people who settled here, from Acadians, to Germans, to Spanish, what I call France-French, English, Irish, Scottish, eventually Vietnamese, and of course every southern tribe, and Africans from all over, etc. etc. etc.
As a Southerner, allow me to inform you that the correct response to "How you doin?" is "I'm hangin' in there like a hair in a biscuit!" Remember that an American biscuit isn't the same as a biscuit in the UK, too. Haha.
It is also true that everyone in each Southern state has a slight variation. My Kentucky accent ain't the same as a Tennessee accent, even though we're right next to each other. You can always tell by 1) how they drive and 2) how they talk. And if you come down here and see us for longer than two shakes of a lamb's tail, you'll leave talking like us, I promise. As far as understanding OTHER Southern accents...not a lick of trouble in the world. I understood every person who spoke just fine. Only time I have any trouble is when folks from Louisiana start throwing old Cajun French words in the mix. Around here the Amish and Mennonites also speak a dialect of German isolated in USA for 400 years called "Pennsylvania Dutch." (It's not actually Dutch. "Deitsch" is the Pennsylvania Dutch word for "German"). Ich kann Pennsylfaanischdeitsch schwetze auch!
One mistake lots of folks make with me is thinking because I have a drawl, I'm stupid. Usually such folks have that particular erroneous perception ameliorated with a quickness.
Personally, it's so cool to see other people doing with English what I do with other languages I've studied. That is to say, I go out and find videos with different accents. This is how I learn without travel. While to me it's just your average, every day, run-of-the-mill conversation...to many of you it's new and novel.
"One mistake lots of folks make with me is thinking because I have a drawl, I'm stupid. "
I worked for a colonel years ago who told me that the scariest words in the English language are, "Well, I may be just a dumb country boy, but..."!
True about the drawl and “being stupid” misconception! My husband can speak 3 languages but when he speaks English he sounds like a redneck, twangs and everything! Don’t underestimate the intelligence of a southerner!
The other response is `fine as frog hair split three ways'
@@irishis3 That ain't all of it...the rest goes: "...on the broad side of an axe."
What’s truly remarkable is how much variation there can be in a small area. I have cousins that live 40-50 miles away and don’t have any accent at all. Meanwhile, all of us that grew up in the country have a strong accent
You @ 2:55: For a Brit, you do a GREAT Southern accent! I was born and raised in New York and have that accent, but I have lived my entire adult life in North and South Carolina and LOVE women with the accent down here.
"Uhenhuhh" = "I don't know"
Get with the program! 😆
Depends on the inflection. That's why he said he just said about 5 different things.
it can also mean "i don't care" or even "f*ck off" depending on inflection
"This one has to be Texas! I bet my bank account on it!"
Me, A Texan: *Sips my sweet tea*
😆
I moved from Minnesota (northern US, next to Canada) to Tennessee 15 years ago, I did not understand half of what people were saying, now I can understand it all 😆, took several years of being actually immersed in the culture.
For those Brits who really want to learn to understand the American Black accent, you must watch the American TV series, The Wire. The Black cultural accent is not just an accent. It's a cultural dialect complete with distinct words, phrases, and cultural references. It has it's own rules and verb tenses. Sometimes it's called Jive, or Ebonics.
As a person from Tennessee I can say that is how we speak and r.i.p. popcorn Sutton
In a country 3000 miles wide, you have to expect quite a few! Even for Americans, Cajuns are ridiculously hard to understand! 😂
Worked with a man who had the strongest Cajun accent I had ever heard. I literally thought he was speaking another language. And we are both from LA, lol
Midwest out here! You make me smile. Thanks for the videos.
I'm from MemphisTennessee and thats 15 minutes from the mississippi border and Arkansas. All of the southern accents sound the same other than Louisiana.
Yes! I live on the border of Memphis/Southaven, MS. We’ve got that country twang but I can always recognize a Louisiana accent. It’s so distinct if you’re from the south. Lol
That old man talking about making Moonshine is a National Treasure and a Legend. The last moonshiner.
Oh He ain't the last.
My freezer can attest to that.
-XXX-
He was a good one for sure.
Popcorn is indeed a legend.
All hype.... it's all hype and media made legend , I've tried his liquor some years back and I can tell you that there's a lot better made up in the high country of NC and the border counties in VA
Lol... lots of moonshiners still round these parts 😂
I'm from North Carolina. I've been to England twice. Both times, English folks had a pretty difficult time understanding me. 😂
My wife is a native North Carolinian. Her first husband was a Brit. She said her mother in law had a strong Cockney accent and loved the southern drawl.
Lenior here.
Raised in Hickory. Hang out in Boone. Vacation on the coast. Hillbilly friends and redneck coworkers. City folk on the phone and mountain folk provide the XXX liquor. Native Americans have their own dialect in Cherokee beside the Tennessee peoples that trickle into the west.
All very different dialects.
And we speak em ALL!
I love who when they do an American accent they always go country.😂
15:06 if you're wondering he said "sometimes we start a conversation in french and end in English and sometimes we start a conversation in English and end in french"
Steel Magnolias is an old, and much loved movie.
1989.. that's not very o.. never mind.