Australian Discovers the Diversity of American State Accents
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- G'day guys, today we are reacting to 50 American accents. This was an eye opener I didn't realise each state a slightly different accent.
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and there are even further tweaks to the state's accent in each state (keep in mind most states themselves are really large)
Think of the United States as the European union and each state is a different country, hence the different accents.
😂😂😂 great video brother. Greetings from Texas!! 👍🏼😁
Back in the day, a lot of news outlets would send their on air reporters/anchor people up to Toronto (Canada) to learn our non descriptive accent. I think that's why you don't hear many accents when you watch television.
Dude you can find about 10 more accents in each State we have an absurd amount of dialects in the States! :)
“50 american accents” proceeds to pick the people with the least amount of accent humanly possible
Right? Call me back when you pull in an old man or woman from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and we'll talk lol
Right? Half the people were exaggerating an accent which makes it totally off. Get real people with real accents and just have them talk normally.
Agreed, probably went to the biggest city in every state.
@@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210 Paw? You'll hafta pry him off his cheer, he's set in by the crick castin' fer trout supper.
@@mfree80286 haha yeah, this exactly! 😅
I think most of these accents were fairly muted. Go out into America's small towns and you'll get it raw.
alot of em' toned it down alot probably because they were on camera.
@@NoirL.A. I probably would have too, to be hobest.
@@lostmypocket1333 i was in oz 3 years ago and for alot of ozzies esp. younger folks the australian accent is becoming more americanized (canada too) that really tripped me out when i was there i think it's a shame diversity is better but then when you look at it that way it's not hard to see why american regional accents are getting big time watered down or disappearing all together.
@@NoirL.A. That's incredibly disappointing to hear. Unique accents from around the world just gave our whole planet a little spice. Sadly, when things like this happen there is little to do to get it to slow down.
@@lostmypocket1333 yep i love me some internet but that accent leveling does seem to be a by-product. i'm 51 so i def. remember a time when it was different.
"Park your car in the Harvard yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder." Boston, Mass.
Its illegal to park in Harvard yard
What does tht mean? I’m American but some slang or saying are just out the box for me🙈
@@blackheart66v73 it is a phrase that people came up with that displays the Boston accent to best effect. Another thing is that “car keys” sounds like khakis.
@@sparkybish oo thanks! lol where do they come up with these phrases? Like that’s the craziest phrase I’ve ever heard besides “u can’t have ur cake and eat it too”🤔🤣
As a Mainer I can tell you, we do the same thing. Take all the words and remove the Rs.
As a Carolina girl, LMAO, I met a Boston guy, and we ended up spelling to each other. We could not understand each other.
I totally get that.
When I was a teen working at McDonalds, a super hot football player from Boston was trying to talk to me, but I couldn't understand his Boston accent. (I think he was flirting 😍).His friend started teasing him and translating for him even when he was ordering. The three of us were laughing so hard that we could barely finish the order.
This was in the 90s, but it was so hilarious that it stuck with me. My first exposure to a Boston accent.
Lmao Carolina here too!
Mountains of North Carolina here and I can only imagine how funny that was🤣🤣
😂
These accents were extremely mild. The “true” accents from the U.S. are actually much, much heavier!
Dawn Wheeler-Hogwood are you from the US because that’s not really true
Get into deep West Virginia and you can’t understand a word they are saying
ELGRINGO88 it’s funny because you don’t think it’s heavy when you have an accent
I agree! My SO is from the deep South, and sometimes I have to ask him to repeat himself 3-4 times. I just cannot always understand him ... even after 5 years together! LOL.
@@elgringo8878 it's very true actually...especially when you get deep into rural areas and also inner city areas of big cities.
They didn’t even get any deep southern Cajun accents in there. They have their own little world in the Deep South. Eeesh!
Nor a Yat, Creole, or swamper accent from around New Orleans (much less the more typical NOLA city/burbs accent). The video he watched missed a TON of regional accents. No rural PA accents, no regional Carolina accents, no Appalachian accents, no Green Bay accent, etc... I was born & raised in Michigan, and they got the basic Michigan accent wrong, too. Because there is a Yooper & a troll basic variant of Michigan accents. (If you live in the U.P. or the lower peninsula.) It sure seems like they only got people from heavily urban areas with homogenized accents pretty much USA-wide, thanks to monolithic US media.
They're litterally a different breed
I went to college in college in North Louisiana. It was a lot like Arkansas, but South Louisiana is not just a different state. It’s a different country, and kind of Mediterranean in its culture.
Right. I'd have loved to hear an authentic creole accent in the mix.
@@cassandrahepp6445 call me and you'd get an earfull.
The thing with accents is it depends on what part of the state you are and how you were raised. Like New York could have 15 different accents depending on the part of the city or state you live in and your ethnicity even
Agreed, And how old you are.
Very true! Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan all once had completely distinct accents. Now, they've all kinda converged. Except the lingering Brooklyn accent among the older generation. I'd also say that Manhattan is kinda split between that now-general NYC accent and a General American accent, considering how many people move to NYC from other parts of the US.
Upstate is a completely different matter, split between the Western half of the state and the Hudson Valley + Capital Region + North Country.
And then there's Long Island, or as I grew up saying it, "Lanwguyland." 😆
@@John_Weiss as a born and bred long islander there are so many accents just on long island itself. i can confirm that some of us do say lawnguyland, its scary but true. 😬😬😄
@@yankees57 Well, in case you missed it, I grew up on Long Island. In Nassau County. Back in the 1970s.
Accents seem to be not as strong or evident now a days. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 70s and 80s, the accents seemed more noticeable back then
When I worked in Boston, one of my co workers, said don't forget you Kahkeys, it took me 10 minutes to figure out she was saying car keys, and not my pants.
I'm from Missouri. I met this guitarist years ago from Boston. He'd say Kah, and guitah. I was giving him crap about it one night, and he said, "At least I don't warsh my clothes." Touche!
😂😂 I have a Boston accent, and Yeah, car keys and khakis sound very similar.
That's hilarious!
@@olydriver 🤣🤣🤣
“You gotta park the car in Harvard yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder”
I'm from Maine, Megan LOL I get this!
Very much a Kennedy sound in my opinion.
I'm a New Mexican and I had a hard time understanding her.
She was exaggerating the Boston accent.
All I got from her was ‘park the car in __ yard and give ___ a quarter for some chowder’. Got most considering
I drive a truck here in the US. Those accents were mild compared to what the general population of those areas sound like.
Me too, I've noticed more distinction from Chicago, Green Bay, down to Louisiana, over to upper New York, very distinctive.
It's like they chose the people with the most mild version of their accent to represent each state lol
I'm from Missouri and that last wasn't even close ha
@@s.m.crowley6710 Bunch of transplants, man.
Yeah I'm a michigander and they totally got the Michigan one wrong
@@noahpaulette1490 Michigander? Is that like a bunch of geese from Michigan?
I was born in South Korea, but spent my first 10 years in Virginia then moved to California. Whenever people speak to me and I reply back, some people get surprised that I'm Asian yet with a Southern/Southern California accent.
Corbinator there used to be an Asian comedian from Atlanta GA. that was born in Georgia and grew up redneck. He talked countryier thanI do.! He was a great Comedian.!
“You gotta park ya car in Harvard yard and pay the guard a quarter for sum’ chowder” -a Texan who can understand Boston
i missed a few word o'er here im Georgia but i got close lol
"How are they from the same country?" This is actually a great point not many foreigners realize about Americans. They will say things like "Most Americans never leave their country!" Especially Europeans, but the distance that most other people travel to leave the country isn't even far enough to leave some states. America is huge and full of different accents, cultures, types of people, types of land, etc. These people over there living in a country that could fit ten times into the state of texas judging Americans for not traveling lol
@@mbrewer421 Not to mention the many areas around the world that we can get to with no passport. I was surprised just how many areas/countries.
thank you!!! I've said this so many times. People just don't seem to understand how large the US is. My state, Georgia is larger than the whole country of England and they have TONS of different accents.
@@225kristent Do you happen to like British accents?? Ever heard of a website called Quora?
When I travel for work over seas I get asked where I'm from and I tell them Texas, "Oh I love that country." Like they see our stats more as countries than states. The best way to explain it to them if you want to compare is like comparing the European Union to the United States.
People tend to forget that USA stands for United States. Each state has their own government and culture and they are individuals but united.
Going from Wisconsin to Louisiana is similar to going from Finland to Italy.
If you visit one new state a year , you'll be 50 before you finish.
And right now with most Americans living paycheck to paycheck... true vacations are rare.
America is huge. Traveling state to state is like traveling country to country in Europe. You can drive for 5-6 hours and be in the same state.
And in Texas you can drive for 12 hours and still be in the same state.
@@elizabethr9304 Same with most states in Australia. My state, New South Wales, is one of the smallest, but it's bigger than Texas (just).
@@ulujain NSW is only slightly smaller than QLD. It's like nearly 3 times the size of VIC.
@@audreydoyle5268 NSW has 809444 sq. km, total area QLD has 1730620 sq km total area - more than twice the size of NSW, not "only slightly smaller". You're right about Victoria, so no argument there.
In hawaii you can drive for 30 minutes and be on the other side of the island
Him knowing Rhode Island because of the chicken is 10 times funnier to me than him not understanding "Pahk the Cah in Hahvahd Yahd"
A Brazilian🇧🇷 watching an Aussie reacting to the different accents of USA... ok. 😅 I’m glad I understood most, enough to understand what’s going on 🤷🏻♀️ Agreed, it’s weird (although a little understandable when we stop to think about geography and history) the huge variations of English accents, it’s scary, funny and cool at the same time. So, now you understand a little of non English natives struggles when learning your language 😅🙂🙃 I liked the video, thank you!
They literally have the most generic people talking about accents they need to get old people who are native and from their major cities lmao
Find people who have lived in the state for 3 generations...these examples were not the best. I was born in CA and my mom was born in Texas, I can sound Southern real quick!
Just find a random guy off da street on the nort shore and you ain't finna understand them
Yea for real. Most of these "accents" sounded like most people here where I live. The lady with Oklahoma didn't sound like she had an accent to me. And I live in the Pacific Northwest. Neither did most people, other than a couple
@@Sp00kq my Oklahomie's analysis wasn't too far off though. The accent can range from being indistinguishable from a texas accent to a pretty generic midwest accent. My favorite folks to talk to come from deep in the country, they just have a monotone mumble till they get excited.
Yeah us southerners weren't represented. Not exactly smart to put the young weirdo up there😂 don't get me started on Mississippi. Nothing you don't see, but it definitely wasn't common
The woman who said, “our accents are kind of all over the place” describes the entire of the USA.
I wanna see someone from southeast missouri where everyones got more of a southern draw and arent in a rush with their sentances
@@hans4379 my Nana grew up there, she pronounces fork like “fark” and four like “far” my great grandpa would always greet us with “hey! You’ns want some sodie? It’s in the icebox” I grew up in kan-city, missourah. My accent is completely different than Nana’s. But people in the north sound a little more like Iowa and in the south, more like a southern drawl. The south East is southern mixed with some of Pennsylvania. They didn’t cover even half the accents in this state alone.
Hans Especially down in the Ozarks!
@@hans4379 im from northwest Missouri and we all just have a Nebraska and Kansas accent with a bit of Wisconsin just a little bit
I was disappointed they did not mention the North Carolina mumble. I guess he said lazy.
New Yorkers have different variations on their accents, long island, the bronx, brooklyn, harlem and queens as well. Love accents. West indian accents Jamaicans vs Trinidad vs Barbados etc. Thanks for sharing. Was fun!
Oh my God, they didn't get any of the good accents! Where is that heavy classic New York City accent? I live in Atlanta, GA, and you can go 30 miles west of here and hear the most hick accents you've ever heard! They sound like Bill Elliott or Gomer Pyle over there. And what about that beautiful Charleston, South Carolina southern accent, or the heavy Texas accent with the haarrrrd R. Or the cool sounding Cajun accent. I've heard a Midwestern accent so abrupt and nasally and clipped off that even I couldn't understand it, and I'm American LOL. I'm disappointed. He didn't get to hear any of the really good ones.
In his defense, he was reacting to a video of 50 state accents. I've seen the original. Yeah, that video doesn't represent in the slightest.
Dude. America is so big, the accents are so different and hilarious to even Americans. Trust me... we’re laughing with you.
British people: that's cute
Nick Almer that's because half of ours came from y'all's shires and towns and such.
In basic training in the Air Force, it was a def surprise to hear all the different accents AND what things were called. My friend from Tenn. could barely understand a hard Boston accent, an vice-versa. I'd have to interpret ! And a water fountain was called a "bubbler" by some, and a laundry center was called a laundramat by most Northerners, while southerners said " wash-a-teria" a lot . It was fun figuring it out.
@@KindCountsDeb3773 dude I'm from Alabama I'm 25 not once in my whole life have I ever heard anyone say washiteria we call it a laundry mat
Nick Almer Eleven US states: Awe, look at how LITTLE that old lady is!
The girl from Texas sounded like she was on the verge of bursting into tears.
I was concerned for her.
Yeah, that's called a loony lefty accent. They're always on the verge of tears or screaming; definitely a poor representation of Texas.
She was so nervous! Her voice was shaking! Poor thing.
@@deaconblooze1 omg i just thought that she was hella nervous. . . . Thats a thing? Whhhaaaaat
They definitely should have asked someone from somewhere other than Austin.
I am from Philippines and lives in Indiana.. The first time we did the trip going down south to Florida I could tell the wave of the accent was changing.. We get gas and the people speaks different or sounds different from each states ..
"You gotta park your car in harvard yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder"- this is what the girl from Massachusetts said
"How are they from the same country?" The country's *huuuuge* that's why. What I want to know is how the British have so many accents when they're such a tiny group of islands.
The United States is only 1.3 times larger than Australia. True about the Brits.
See, my question is how is it, that almost all Texans have a different accent. See, you go to north Texas? At least 14 accents. Central? 5-6. Like why!?!
Kallum’s Darling Skull accents develop it’s not a thing we can control America is built off immigrants and accents from immigrants combine together to form our accents
Devin Last name not needed I understand that, I mean I lived in Texas and had a Texas/British accent. I understand that accents are built off of each other. I was taking the piss, and using a phrase that a friend of mine from Texas used. Like they said, “We’re a literal melting pot, both in heat, and culture.”
@@cloudygamessometimes idk in my opinion the accents kind of sway from the monotone stereotypical American accent and a southern accent....maybe some hispanic accents near the border towns but thats about it.
One problem is that these are people imitating accents, not actual accents.
Very much so, Tennessee and Kentucky were just terrible, and North Carolina which is where my grandpa was from was not remotely close. 90% of these guys all sounded the same, which is not how it is.
I'm from Alabama and the southern states accents sounded spot on
Oklahoma accent was spot on
The Missourian could have gone on for 5 minutes, easy. St. Louis is very different from Kansas city and rural Missouri, and different parts of rural Missouri are different from each other.
There was a wonderful Imo's pizza commercial that illustrated how a lot of St. Louisans talk, with little or no exaggeration.
If you've found it online, please let me know. I've been searching for it for years.
@@jacobdenham3885 I'm from Alabama and lemme tell you right now, nahhhh. They do not speak that slow.
Being from Pittsburgh, yes we have our own accent or dialect here. Yinz . nthat. Pop. N so on! Great show...thanks..
She said “park the car in Harvard yard and give the guard a quarter for chowder” our accent can get pretty heavy in Massachusetts
That was like 10% of America's accents, each state will have two to five.
There are distinct differences with rural, suburban and urban, ethnic, education levels, and socioeconomic differences.
going to school in florida it’s almost like every single person has a different accent
@@DatIceBear Florida is considered by some to be the standard English. That's because Florida is composed mainly of people from different states. Native Floridians are few and far between except in the middle part of the state.
@@lazylady8591 Tell me about it. I'm native and I think our slang can be whack sometimes but unless you're from the Panhandle we have pretty neutral accents.
@@landenmelvin7626 I had teachers in Florida from different states. Plus neighbors. That was an experience in different accents without traveling.
"Each state has its own accent? Wow!"
Bold of you to assume there's only one accent per state. NYS has a minimum of 6-7 easily definable accents.
This!! Western New York has a more Midwestern-type accent versus say a Long Island accent
Not sure, but aren't there even a few different borough accents in New York City alone, not counting the rest of the state?
D in Dixie yeah, the Bronx I think has a pretty distinctive accent, and if you’re in Buffalo area I think sometimes a little bit of a Canadian accent sneaks in??
@@SymphonySoundtracks I'm originally from Michigan, and a LOT of Canadian accent (how much depending on how close) can drift over the border. (Ever heard a Yooper or Green Bay, WI accent, eh?)
So true! People always seem to know I’m from Queens. And you can definitely tell a Bronx or Brooklyn accent.
3:54 I knew the Boston "Southie" accent would blow your mind. lol
“You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder”
I understood them all perfect and there is way more accents then that within each state.
You did not even get the real thick accents.
I love this!!! I love how we talk!!! I love it!!! All of it!!!!
Seeing an Aussie react to the Boston accent....perfect!!!!! Don't worry the rest of us Americans don't understand them either. XD
Fack you
True we hardy understan them. Maybe if we see more of them in ny
My aunt came from Boston and sounded exactly like her!!
Yeah, I am from Boston...
All I understood was "pahk the cah" and "fah some chowdah"
"How are they from the same country?"
We basically aren't! Consider each state a tiny country that answers to the same central government as the other 49.
The US is more akin to the EU than say, the UK or Germany.
@@benn454 people always forget this, but it literally explains most of the current instability in the country if you remember.
@@fifthcolumn388 no, that instability is the result of some of the states trying to force their ideas and laws on others instead of letting the other states function on their own
Texas and Alaska can be a small Country
i mean yes. if i remember right (feel free to correct me if im wrong) the original structure of government was actually intended to be more like that. as a result of the instablity that caused though, the federal gov became more centralized, but you can see the remenants of that.
Enjoyed this. Suburban Philadelphia here. Love Australia 🇦🇺
"You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder."
Florida: the only state where the more north you go... the deeper into the south you get...
Truth
North Florida = South Alabama
In Miami there's that atrocious spanglish and in most of it's districts has no English speakers and islanders who have horrible Spanish accents.
@@modanmardaanye I went to Florida about a year ago & before I left my friend asked me how my Spanish was? I had no problems... this was Miami ( island)...
@@NoNo-cx7zd mhhm
These people aren’t good candidates for their states. Most of these people don’t have THEIR state’s accent anyway. You have to talk to more older or rural people to really experience the diversity of accents
This is the truth! We are loading our accents!
sad truth, not sure if its cuz us being a melting pot of cultures or wat, but most accents in america seem to be dying off. Hell here in texas i dont ever hear an accent unless I go out to the country and talk to my grandies
Yeah gotta talk to older folks to get the true flavor and it can vary alot from which part of the state they are from cause its huge
I didn't feel like the girl from Arkansas sounded very southern; but I've also been told a few times that I don't have an Arkansan accent even though I was born and raised here lol, so what do I know? My grandparents on my mom's side (especially my grandpa) definitely had the drawn out southern accents, and they were both from south AR. If you've ever seen 1922 on Netflix (don't know if it's still on there), the way the main character spoke was very similar to my grandpa.
I believe the loss of accents is the result of a combinination of globalism and the prevalence of TV/social media.
Way back in the day you learned your accents from your social groups. That's why, for example, there are so many different accents in Great Britain which is only a small island. Communities were more isolated and travel more difficult.
Nowadays you can listen to people from all over the country or even the globe with the click of a button.
LOL That's great! They are amazing! Pure joy. Sending love and gratitude.
The US has so many regional accents because it's so friggin' huge...
I grew up in north Texas with a local accent sounding "like a Texan" then moved to the California coast (LA and SF) and after about a year there I was told I "talked like a Californian".
We didn’t even hear the Appalachia or Cajun dialects. Very interesting.
Can't fake those. Appalachian guy working in Lake Charles...
I’m from South Louisiana and they definitely missed the boat on us 😂😂
I'm from Southwest Louisiana they should have definitely had a coonass on there
@@kylemoseley2239 right ! Or someone from down da bayou in Dulac ! 😳😂🤣
I can think of about six just from GA from Geetch to Gullah to ATL to Savannah to Macon, to Valdosta that would flat OUT hang him up. lol
I almost fell over laughing when Massachusetts said, "yougottoparkthecarinharverdyardandpaytheguyaquarterforsomechowder". Ha haaaa. Oh Boston, I love you.😂😅
Love the Boston accent they did in the new car commercial with Smart Park (or Smaht Pahk) technology from Chris Evans (Captain America) Rachel Dratch (SNL) and John Krasinski (A Quiet Place). " Hey, did ya pahk it in the hah-bah? Translation: Hey, did you park it in the Harbor?
I understood it first listen, I have some family up there so it’s second nature. Kinda crazy how we all sound so different
She is so Boston
I'm from Ohio. I had to listen to her twice before I understood her.
@@onendfan525 omfg LOVED that commercial LMAO "it's ah ghost kah!!!" 🤣😂 The new boston lager commercial gets me too!
These reaction vids from foreigners are so funny. I love my fellow Americans. They are awesome!
good thing you did this video because as an American myself it does bring attention to all the different regional ways of speaking in the United States
This sounded like a bunch of buzz feed people that have lived in cali for 15 years
😂😂😂 you NAILED it!!
This seems more like Cali tries to do US accents
Or Huffington Post!
I mean, Tennessee wasn’t bad.
SERIOUSLY
Aussie on Massachusetts accent: *IS THAT EVEN ENGLISH???*
Me who has family from Massachusetts: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m from Massachusetts lmao
I'm from CT and I understand that perfectly 😂
I feel like people from Massachusetts have really pretty smiles
I’m from MA and have no fucking idea what she said
@@theohendricks8634 LOL
I grew up with a mix. I was born in Tennessee. My mom was too. My dad was from upper state NY. We traveled a lot between the two when I was learning to talk. Then we moved to AZ. So I picked up different ones and can start a sentence in one and finish in a couple of others. Somehow I also picked up midwest probably from friends when I was still young.
The accent you heard was from boston. Thats the capital city of Massachusetts. That accent is very distinct and is used in most movies portraying american gangsters from 30s to the 80s. Sounded crazy but, she said "Park the car in the Harvard yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder"(clam chowder). Clam chowder is amazing there.
These were all people with no accents doing impressions of their state accent. How strange.
Yes! It's weird how they chose the most bland-spleaking people to demonstrate an accent.
Well, they gotta pick people that are handy.
There's people from Jersey who are incomprehensible.
Yeah it’s really weird.
@bones You hit the nail on the head lol
Exactly
This wasn’t really people with those accents, it was people trying to imitate them.
Agreed.
I think it was more like they were trying too hard to describe their local accent(s). You gotta get someone comfortable and talking freely if you want to catch them using their natural dialect.
Yeah it was a shit video. Not this video, but the one he watched.
I think this is a BuzzFeed-esq channel so all the people in this represent the same portion, just from different states...that being modern, big city living where you don't have an accent.
I could probly do just as good myself trying to imitate 50 accents
@@freakstarrguy Agreed. I’m from the southern U.S. I do have a southern accent but it doesn’t come out all the time and when I’m in front of people that I don’t know well, I tend to hide my accent unconsciously.
I'm from the Massachusetts/New Hampshire area. And what the Maine girl and the Massachusetts girl said were relatable. The French Canadian thing... you don't hear that unless you live in the mountains.
Also "you gotta park your car in Havard yard and give a guy a quarter for some chowder". Everyone talks about how crazy New England accents are but you gotta remember that we're pretty much the oldest areas of America, so the accents are very diverse and British derived.
Hey there, the lady from Massachusetts is saying Chauder. She talking about Clam Chauder . A very common popular dish of the New England States.
I truly believe that Boston is the Liverpool of the US.
Isn't Liverpool the Boston of Britain? Lol but seriously yea it probably is, not that I know London that well, or British counties or townships or whatever they're called
Hahaha, luckily most people in Boston don't talk that way
The most experience I have with it is a grandma that slips every now and then and says qwautah or however you spell a Boston accent lol. That kinda thing, just slips through once in awhile. Can't really imagine trying to talk to someone saying "park the car in the yard and get a quarter for chowder" or whatever, in that heavy of an accent. It took me awhile to piece that together lol if every Bostonian talked like that I couldn't imagine anything getting done round there at all
What is Liverpool like?
@@NicolasKruzel I had a neighbor in college from Gloucester. Took me half a semester to figure out what he was saying 😂
"How are they all from the same country?"
*Because the country is almost the size of the continent of Europe*
Lol that and we have a bunch of different nationalities here all lending accents some local words and cadences of speaking.
@@AlexBabcock-hw9iz Yeah, the New Mexican accent was a bit strange. A LOT of New Mexicans speak Spanish fluently (more than speak English) and the Native Americans have their own accents, with the Pueblo People having 3 in their tribal area. So what she was speaking sounded a lot like Santa Fe English.
Australia's pretty fuckin' big bro. It's not just the size of the country, it's the diversity of immigrants, the long periods of isolation caused by long travel times, and a bunch of other factors.
@@fell5514 Australia is big, but it still isn't the size of the U.S., flying commercial from one end of the U.S. (let's say Alaska) to the other (Maine or Florida) can easily take a couple days with only a few connections. I'd love to visit Australia some day though.
@@Krieghandt Think Spanish is spoken more in NM then English is there's like 60% illegals inhabiting that state.
I lived in Melbourne for a year 2009-2010 and is that English is what I thought about y'all. Loved it there!
There is a wide variety of cultures. Most people outside the US don't realize how diverse we are.
Even some people who live in the U.S. don't realize it haha.
Woman spoke in Boston accent, “is that even English?!” Man I died lol
That's jersey normally
Hahha I was born in Boston and then moved down to GA and went to speech therapy in elementary school cus they couldn’t understand me and thought I just couldn’t speak properly. So now I just have a confused accent.
That's pretty much the reaction that any American *not* from the North East would have to that accent.
But is that really your average Bostonian accent, or did she intentionally make the accent thicker to make it more obvious or something? I mean, the Bostong accent really is fairly unique and distinct, but this seems unusually thick.
United States is huge mate, California alone is larger than the UK and they’ve got a bunch of different ones.
Not to mention California has like 4-5 arguably different eco zones tho the majority of the plains states while comparing to most European countries in size they are just flat corn fields
Decanus Severus yup so given how much variety of accent these much smaller European countries have in terms of accent it’s a miracle the USA isn’t a nightmare of vastly different accents. Especially with how much immigration played a roll in our creation.
Fr. America is a giant melting pot of people too. You’re gonna find just about every accent possible here depending on where you’re at lol.
Doss yeah there’s like a town in Texas where they speak Texas-German
Decanus Severus exactly. were big enough to be 10 different countries lol
I grew up in Massachusetts and have lived in Rhode Island as an adult. You cracked on both. Haha
When I was in the USMC everyone would ask "You from Boston?" as soon as I started talking.
I love seeing what people think about the accents from where I live I love introspective stuff.
American here, can confirm the US is 50 countries in a trenchcoat masquerading as one.
Yeah. Even though some are literally exactly the same. Like DC and Virginia. Or, as a hoosier, Indiana and Ohio
By design. It’s a feature not a bug.
Exactly
S C that’s the best description of us I’ve ever heard
Fun fact, since the definition of an Empire doesn't require the central athroity to be a single person, but can be an organization or institution, the USA is actually a Democratic Imperium, not a Republic.
I'm from Boston and im fu*king dying. "Was that even English? " I can't! Lol
Boston accent sounds similar to Australian. Like Cah instead if car.
I’m from Maine and I understood it perfectly lol.
Park the car hop the fence and give the guy a quarter for some chowder
Nobody here talks like that
Hello from Southeastern Louisiana
I'm surprised that they didn't record the reeeeeally heavy accents that are in the different states. Someone else in the comments mentioned Cajun and I believe Navajo; both are beautiful. Also Appalachian is very distinct. I feel like, there are so many different variations it's surreal at times. Most of the people talking on the video sound very similar to my ear (Californian) and not heavy. I hear some pretty amazing accents everyday around here because there are so many people. These people in the video are very metropolitan in a way, while different, very similar. The Boston and the northern states like Wisconsin are some of the closest for true hard accents. They are all so cool and unique. Thank you for sharing.
In my province, Newfoundland, we have a common phrase of "Drop the H in Holyrood and pick it up in Avendale" because people tend to put the H sound where it doesn't belong and remove it where it does. A chunk of people say "at" instead of hat and "hafter" instead of after, for example.
Most of these people were NOT representing the accent of their state! Most of the southern states people didn't even have a southern accent! That Boston girl in red nailed her state accent though!
I agree that the video didn't do a good job of showing the diversity of accents. Those southerners did sound accurate to their areas, though. I was born and raised in Mississippi, and I have next to nothing of any typical "southern" accent. I can't even fake a good accent. Lots of people in those states just don't have any particularly unique accents.
I live in NC and I didn't hear the NC accent 🤷🏾♀️
Near every American state is larger than your average country so its kinda understandable that they couldn't get one person to represent a linguistic set of groups that can be separated by hundreds of miles or even language variations, for instance of they had someone with a cajun accent represent Louisiana it would be completely different than standard
Minnesota and N Dakota were pretty close to legit. Wisconsin was contorted. Michigan was fake.
@@keybladesrus say go ahead, then say goat head.
Thats about the one thin I remember everyone from Mississippi to Oklahoma sayin' with a accent.
Otherwise the southern sates tend to pronounce Anglo-Frank word far better then the rest of the states and the South does speak slower and cut short some words.
But most of the accent is in the syntax.
I feel like the people in the video just moved to the individual state they’re representing and are describing the accents they’ve heard so far lol
My theory is that the locals with the naturally strong accents are less likely to participate in a video like this. I've lived all over the place and any accent I might have started to develop when I was a kid was lost long ago. My wife grew up in NYC and when I met her she had a very strong NY accent, cracked me up ... she moved away 30 years ago and she's lost most of it; she'll occasionally drop a word where we'll laugh and ask 'what did you just say?'
Straight up. Some people actually put on an accent and then went to their regular voice 🙄
The mass. accent takes a local to produce. Granted no says "park the car in Harvard Yard". The accent is spot on.
Nah, the California boomer zoomer has prolly lived there his entire life.
For other states, tho, i agree. Especially north carolina, nevada, washington.
When we visited Maine and Massachusetts, I was disappointed in not hearing accents.
My husband is from western NY state and I am from south Texas. We had fun understanding each other with him not understanding me more. My dad was from Pennsylvania and my mom lived in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. I guess I was used to a bit of the northern accent.
I'm from a military family and have lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Kentucky, Maine (just for two summers), Missouri, and now Tennessee. It's interesting how there can be so many different dialects even within the same state!
Some of these people didn't even have the accent they were representing...
for real wtf. i have relatives from Rhode Island and they really couldnt get someone with a RI accent? it's one of the most obvious accents and its such a small state, it can't be that hard to pluck literally anybody off the streets of RI to represent the accent properly.
A big part of that is what's called code-switching. I used to be an ESL teacher and one of the things they ask for if you want a job is "Neutral Accent". Teaching you'll never guess I'm from Georgia, but as soon as I met someone from Atlanta while abroad it would come right out. Even just in normal conversation depending on who I'm talking to and what we're talking about, my accent will be different.
This
Im from the Ohio Kentucky border and people has such an accent the sound scottich
I was so sad Maryland didnt do the Baltimore accent!!! Its hideous, but man it'll get a laugh every time hon LOL
I love how no one outside of the us can understand what a Boston accent is
@Lucky Luice Have you seen the (search for) 'Boston Super Bowl commercial'? Fabulous!
To me Boston and other lower New England accents sound very similar to Scouse (Liverpool, England, UK) accents.
Yeah, I'm from the Alabama, and I'm pretty sure that's a whole other language she was speaking.
Dude, I'm in Texas and all I understood was chowder.
@@justinyoung9055 Ah, there goes my guess that it was any British accent except for English, plus some Dutch. Well, it is true many Patriots in the Revolutionary War were English in the colonial times. And my grandparents came from Liverpool, one by way of Ireland.
I’ve moved basically every two years, I’ve picked up the ability to mimic whatever accent I’m speaking with -in the us anyway
I like that nobody flung any shit at you. We know how we sound. A lot of these accents were exaggerated, we all grew up listening to accent-less television. But if you get old people riled up, you'll hear the real thing. The girl who dropped the Pennsylvania "Heyna" was the real deal. Heyna means "Ain't it?" As in "It was cool that nobody got rude with the Aussie guy, heyna?" Then it transcends into double negative implied affirmative, "Heyna or no", like "We should go get some beer, heyna, or no". You have to be local to converse in that swamp talk.
They are literally the Weakest American accents on these people.
I have an uncle in CANADA who sounds more Southern than any of them.
The Georgia one wasn’t too bad. It was close. I’ve heard people that sound like that but not the majority and usually they sound like that in big cities.
Nebraska and Iowa where right on the money tho
AHart Thats a Zack Galifinakis accent. Most people in GA don’t sound that effeminate. That guy was putting it on
@@gurgy3I didn’t include the effeminate part as that has nothing to do with the accent and is probably just cause he is gay. Although, I have heard straight men in GA sound like that so..
Fun fact:
There are over 200+ southern accents in the US.
Bonus fact:
There are at least 4 southern dialects used in huckleberry finn by mark Twain
Another fun fact: some US southern accents are the closest American accents to a few English ones.
Another fact: Louisville, KY, has at least four accents.
don't forget french Cajun in Louisiana.
Correction: There are only 2 accents in the US, Boston and not Boston.
The southern accent can change county to county let alone state to state.... lol
Boston has a crazy accent. Rhode Island is between Connecticut and Massachusetts. The southern accent developed from a mix of British Isles and Scot. They were the original immigrants for the most part. It developed from there. Here in the US we enjoy Aussie and British accents and the slang.
From Michigan originally. Drove with my x to his home state of Kentucky, and along the way made a stop in Tennessee. I went into a convenience store to get something while he waited in the car - but I had to go get him to translate because I simply could not understand the sales clerk.
There are more than 50 accents in America. Native American tribes have their own accents, different regions in each state that have high concentrations of immigrants have those accents sometimes. In Minnesota we have the Iron Range that is much different from how people speak in the North Western part of the state and people in the Twin Cities speak differently from the more rural areas. It's more complicated than each state having a certain accent.
very well put!
Yep, I swear there’s a different accent in every county of Kentucky
I’m from the Iron Range, I completely agree with this
Why does the Texas girl sound like she’s trying not to cry
My guess is something medical having to do with her vocal folds
Because she realized that she was about to be socially dissected for her overdrawn accent and was nervous as hell
She could be very nervous. That’s how I sound when my anxiety gets really bad
I've lived in Texas for 35 years and I've definitely heard this type of voice before. It's not what you'd call typical but it's around.
Maybe she is still upset Beto lost?
I'm quite familiar with the Appallachian accents now; Kentucky and North Carolina after listening quite a lot of Dolly Parton shows over thw years. The Appalachian accents are by far the most intereting to listen to. It sounds cheerful and joyful.
Loved it.thanks
They failed to mention how incomprehensible the Appalachian West Virginia accent is.
Also, yes, Boston is English, I think.
Or the Cajun accent of Louisiana.
Currently live in WV, but having grown up in VA, I cannot express how true at least the comment on WV's accent is.
I'm from Cape Cod so I speak fluent Bostonian. It's easy to understand if they aren't speaking really fast, but Bostonians (like New Yorkers) are fast talkers. It's basically just every "r" is pronounced "ah" so "You gotta park the car in Havard Yard" turns into "Ya gotta pahk tha cah in Hahvahd Yahd"
@@SerLoinSteak thing is though, Bostonian accents on average aren't that exaggerated anymore, unless you're SoUtHiE proud and feel the need to let everyone know you have the obnoxious accent. My family has been here a LONG long time and i can say the only people in my family that have an accent are the ones from southie.
Whatchu talm bout imcomperhensable axnt in whes virginyur? We tohk normal like
The woman from Massachusetts said, “You got to park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder.” People from Massachusetts say r’s as “ahh”, or basically drop the r’s. I laughed my butt off when you asked if it’s English, and yes it is, but it’s an interesting one.
I've lived in Massachusetts all my life and I don't drop my R's lol. Maybe it's just because I didn't grow up in Boston? Sometimes I can't understand their accent either lol
@@adrianortiz8121 Could be! The accent is strongest in the direct suburbs of the city like Charlestown, and also pretty prevalent in some of the other largely working class communities like Haverhill, Methuen, Lowell and Lawrence. Seems to become less strong elsewhere in Mass.
Not all R’s get dropped tho, it skews more so toward R’s that split syllables or end sentences (which seems like all of them, but isn’t). Also depending on how old the person is, and which suburb they’re from, they will sometimes add R’s to words that don’t actually have them. Like my entire family on my dads side say “are” instead of “um”, and “carscious” instead of “Conscious”.
I’m from a town called Haverhill in Mass, north of Boston, and pronounce my words as “car,” and not “Cahh”. But I find when I’m at school during the semester on Cape Cod I do tend to slip into a more Boston esqe accent. My accent tends to change by which part of the state I’m in 😂
@@adrianortiz8121 I can't drive my car because I lost my khakis
Listening to British TV shows, I can get an idea of how you feel listening to American accents.
My wife and I like watching UFC and there's been several "TUF" seasons are episodes with a lot of people from the UK.
A lot of times they're talking with passion & emotion, and their accent gets as real and raw as they come.
It's those times when I realize there are drastically different accents even among native British people.
It's similar to the US and the way that those from the bigger cities are more generalized but those from the small towns or country can be very strong.
Just like you, I've sat there shaking my head going, "what in the world did they just say? Someone needs to teach those English people ...how to speak English."😂
And I've got news for you bud... you Australians have an accent too! 😁 Some are VERY strong ones!
I'm of the opinion, that unless the word when spoken sounds like it looks when written, then the person has an accent.
And all of us, even Australians ...even folks who have lived in London all their life, along with their previous 80 million generations of ancestors.... We all have some form on accent.
When you stop and think about how you say words.... Not how you THINK you say them, but record yourself, and listen to how it REALLY sounds when you say them! Then you try to spell it exactly how it sounds....
Compare those words to proper English spelling, and you'll see that you do indeed have some form of an accent.
But I will admit, of all the "native English speaking" countries, you Aussies probably have the most "uniform nation wide" accent AND, as a whole, in general, most every native English speaker can usually understand most of what your average Australian is saying.
... And that is not true about ...really anywhere else that I'm aware of.
It gets even more complex when you go down to the Louisiana Bayou area beause you have the cajun accents with a French twist. When I was in customer service we had a client in Morgan City, LA and it took me awhile to understand him, its a soft spoken accent but with cajun and french blends very unique. I'm from the Pacific NW and for me the cajun bayou accent and the heavy Boston accent are the harder ones to understand everywhere else is pretty easy.
Within each state are different accents, a NY Bronx girl doesn’t sound like a Long Island NY girl who doesn’t sound like a Brooklyn NY girl and that’s within the Manhattan boroughs alone...forget mid NY and Up State NY...again totally different. It’s what I love about American English.
Yes, im from upstate NY by Lake Ontario, You would have to do a whole video on NY State.
Suffolk County has a stronger accent than Nassau County. New York City is losing its famous "Coffee Talk" accent. Only a few people speak it anymore, mostly in Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Bensonhurst or Sheepshead Bay. The suburbs immediately surrounding New York City are full of people who moved in from elsewhere so there isn't much of a Westchester accent anymore.
Black people spoke with a New York City accent until maybe the 80s when people from Virginia and the Carolinas moved in. Like in Detroit, the Black people in New York now speak with a drawl.
I second that. You can actually pick out which boro they're from. Same with Maryland. We have everything from West Virginia influence, southern MD waterman which is like Cajun, eastern Shore, and about 3 different accents from around Baltimore itself!
Bang on and Upstate New York could be subdivided with 4 regional accents
The _I_ ofTheFox yep I’m from buffalo and we have a very distinct one. Just listen to how gronk says “tide pods” in that old commercial. Sounds like “tyyd paads”
Texas was completely off and she seemed to be doing it at gun point.
Yeah she sounded like she was going to breakdown
And she didn't even talk about coke!
@@the_boozer Which kind of coke do you want?🤣
Well just from her shirt kind of just says she isn't from Texas.
@@WARSCOOBY88 There are some people here that support Beta, but they're few and far between.😁
howdy, y'all. hope y'all have a kickass day.North Carolina boy here.
I understood the last half of what the girl from Massachusetts said, it was about buying chowder, a soup, for a quarter.
Many accents are different in cities in states. I’m from the Pittsburgh area and I grew up saying ‘yinz’, t means ‘you’ plural. When I moved to Ohio I had to ditch the Pittsburgh accent. But I did have a guy ask me about 20 years after I moved here if I was from Pittsburgh. I don’t think I sound any different from any other Ohioan. The central states and California and west coast sound much the same. I’m just happy I don’t have a New Jersey accent, sounds like Bugs Bunny.
"Every American accent....if that person lived in California for the past 4 years"
California has lots of different accents, some of which are very distinct... And the California guy was like "I guess we say 'like'"
I'm born and raised in Southern California, and yes we say "like" a lot, but he didn't sound like he's from California, it's just weird..
@@Cruxador Totally
San Francisco natives have different accent from the East Bay natives.
@@rjohnson1690 it's weird because he doesn't even sound like he's from the states 🤔🧐
"Park the car in harvard yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder."
But in a Bostonian accent is like "pahk the cah in hahvad yahd and give the ghad a qwater fa some chowda"
Also Boston is the most well known place in Massachusetts so thats why she chose that accent.
I realized that when I watched the Heat.
This is how the scene with the family sounded out to me." Aw you aw, aw you knhot a noc." That is how it sounded to me , but I understood what he meant only because of what movie I was watching, but if I had met a Bostonian and just heard that I would be like what in the hell is he saying.
was that a tongue twister or what
I'm going to Boston if I can get chowder for twenty-five cents.
The accent you had the most trouble with was from South Boston, known as Southey's. They have an accent that I believe is most adjacent to the most hard to understand UK accents. I have worked with people from all over the world and have become very good at understanding accents on English to the point where I have virtually no problems understanding someone who is basically proficient. This includes many different backgrounds but the most difficult I dealt with was an Egyption man that had an office beside mine and had migrated to Germany and then to America. He had an Egyption accent on top of a German accent on top of a British English accent and I learned to understand him in a couple of weeks. Despite that fact the one accent I had the most problem with was my cousins wife from South Boston. I could only understand about every third word she said, partly from the twang on the vowels and partly on the speed in which the words were spit out, very fast.
The phrase in this video was, "I parked my car on Harvard Square". The dialect was, "I pocked my cae on havad squaw".
Was born in Colorado and went to Elementary School in San Diego, California, Jr High School in Miami, Florida and then High School in Austin, Texas. Live in Maine, Virginia, Ohio also and currently living in the western foothills of North Carolina.
Love this country I do!
whoever put together the vid used some very MILD accented people.
The problem is how diverse the array of accents can be in every state. North Carolina, for example sounded right to me, but you can also get very country accents in NC as well.
John M True but most of these people gave an example of how people in those states might talk rather than having it themselves. It would have been nice to have heard one sentence being read by each person rather than whatever came to their minds...which a lot was “I don’t think we have an accent”
@@bobbyray9760 My dad's side of the family is from the Shreveport area. During one conversation with some cousins, the word 'sure' came up and they thought my pronunciation of it was hilarious.
Long vowels with no deviation from the root sound, such as 'a' instead of 'aee'. Many consonants are spoken towards the front of the mouth, especially the 'r'.
Don't get me started on running words together, either. We'll be here all day! :-D
Agreed. I work on the phones taking calls from all over the US, and there are some very strong accents that I can barely understand. I’m from Washington state. People born and raised here don’t call it “worshington.” That’s how people from West Virginia say it. My grandparents were from there and they’d say things like pilla (pillow) yella (yellow).
Yeah,Oklahomans have like,kinda obnoxious for some reason,and I know this because tada,I'm from there. -3-
They literally picked the most un-new jersey guy to do New Jersey.. when we have one of the thickest accents in the country.
I 100% agree
Bro your forgetting about Cajun. My family’s from there and I can barely understand them😂😂
Nah Texas and Minnesota have the strongest
@@InTheTrenches4015 bro you have absolutely no idea😂😂
What native person in New jersey has a thick accent, you must mean North Jersey, and thats not even strong
the famous “park your car in harvard yard and give the guard a quarter for some chowder”- massachusetts
The girl was from Boston - the one that flustered you lol, I love the strong Boston accent. She said " Park the car in the yard and give a girl a quarter for some chowder" haha
the midwest can be summed up in this one word: “ope”
Let me squeeze right past ya....!!
Oh ya der eh
pop
Ope, let me squeeze past ya there
Come on in ge'et yet we've food 'ere if ya hungry
I had ta ope like 7 times inna row once, menards is nut righta bout now
Who else thinks that Louisiana was misrepresented for the half second it had?
I'm from LA, and I have a pretty neutral accent (trained myself that way from an early age), but it definitely slips out a bit in certain situations. Lots of strong accents down here, though
I had a sous chef I worked under once from Louisiana and the shit he would say, I couldn't understand half of it but he got a kick out of none of us understanding his slang
@@CammyVonBruce For Louisiana you need to listen to Ed Orgeron.
agreed!
They all were terribly misrepresented these people have all lived in California for too long
I was born in 1961, and I think radio, movies, and television have changed the American accents considerably. My family comes from in a small fishing-boat building town twenty miles north of Boston, a small town. Grandfather had a very pronounced _Yankee accent._ My Father had a _Yankee accent,_ but not anywhere near as strong as my Grandfather's.
I admit to a bit of an accent, but much more _American Neutral_ with a smidgeon of Mid-Atlantic (think of the Cary Grant-ish; not quite the posh English/ mixed with American Neutral) than did my progenitors; but I have also traveled extensively and that too makes a difference.
I lose my hard R's, or maybe I should say, I lose my hahd ah's, when I'm tyid, owah when i've been drinking.