As a New Yorker, I'm kinda shocked only the Northeast and South Florida call those shoes "Sneakers". My whole life I thought the majority of the US used that word.
You probably think it’s more common because Hollywood portrays the country that way. I’ve spent my life West Coast then the South then the Midwest, and I don’t think I know anyone who says sneakers. Not saying there aren’t any in these regions but I think they are a minority. Matter of fact I’m bilingual and grew up in Southern California. So I will tell you the tennis shoes thing isn’t just an English speakers thing there. I and all the Spanish and bilingual speakers I know whether speaking in English or Spanish called these shoes as tenis (pronounced like tenneys). Tenis is tennis in Spanish. I wonder what Spanish speakers in New York call them? Or Spanish speakers in Latin America? If you google zapatos tenis you will see what pops up.
@@anndeecosita3586 I speak Spanish also. It’s my first language. Here, Spanish speakers also call them “tenis” but every bilingual Latino calls them “sneakers” when speaking English.
"the devil beating his wife". That's the explanation I got for when it was raining while the sun is shining as kid growing up in Haiti. Didn't expect to find out that people in the US said that too. Or maybe this guy has Haitian origins.
It's a pretty common phrase in parts of the south, especially within a certain demographic (like small town middle aged/elderly folk). I heard it a lot growing up. Sun shower is also super common.
Had a lot of fun comparing different words and accents! With the US being so large, there are so many accents and slang to learn in each region~ Hope you guys enjoyed the video! -Christina 🇺🇸
I live in Oregon and I do hear “drinking fountain” too. You can also hear crawdads and crayfish here too because of the people moving here. But everything else I feel like I can relate with! :) (It could also depend which side of the Cascade Range you’re on
@@latviism definitely some variation! To be honest I don’t think I ever have even said crawfish before, that one just felt right 😂 and to me water fountain just feels like more casual than drinking but you for sure hear both!
Omg all of ours was the same, I also said crawfish and I ALWAYS say crawdad 💀 and the sun thing? I thought they were talking about a light rain and I said “sprinkle”
Wow, even Americans admit having accents. As a foreigner I’m having hard times expressing myself but this video shows me anyone has an accent . Thank you @worldfriends
Hum the California girl don't even sound like a typical Cali girl. 😂 the more you travel the states you will hear so many different accents. I do not see southern folks sounding like Cali folks. To be honest flek does not have a dc accent but she also said she lived in Florida. Dc has a deep accent and language that you know they from dc and Flek's do not sound like the average dc person. However I love flek on these shows. I watched them backed to back because of her. Bias much. 😂😂😂
One I've heard in New England is that the devil's moving his furniture when it's thundering, but that other expression is making me think that the person I heard it from is probably a southerner.
7:10 nah I think most people just talk normally now… It’s not California talk because they are also starting to sound normal. California talk is surfer dudes and valley girl accents and all of America is DEFINITELY not starting to sound like that
As a native Californian I say caramel with 3 syllables, crayon with two. Definitely called the little buggers "crayfish" when I was a kid, but nowadays crawdad or crawfish is popular. (Norcal rivers/lakes/streams are full of them)
5:59 In Dominican Republic and I’m not sure if any other Latin American countries when it rains while the tan is out, we say that a witch is getting married. We also think that it’s good luck. 🤷🏻♀️
I wish they would get a Hawaii local to compare accents! In Hawaii, our English accents are quite different. Mixed with American English and Asian accents basically.
DC folks call random people “Bama” they have a local type of funk music called GoGo (chuck brown), “mug” for mother ㅋucker, “sice” for excited. Home of under armor wear and five guys burgers. Boston folks say “wicked” meaning very, “kid” as fella, “pisser” or “shitter” as the toilet, “packy” is the convenient store. Home of Dunkin’ Donuts, new balance shoes.
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South Carolina was the best place ever. And we went to myrtle beach just hang out of the water with my uncle. Going have some much great experience time!!!! 100000%
The plumbing fixture company, Kohler (@redsippy02 will probably know them well. It's a Wisconsin company) used to make a fountain (water or drinking, your choice) called..."The Bubbler", which apparently sold very well here in New England.
(From CA) If someone asked me where a water fountain was, I would point them to a public park. If they asked about bubblers, I would point to an aquarium. We use drinking fountain.💧Also maybe it's a generational thing, but Crayons, have always had a Y in the middle, but I would understand "crans". Coke is generic, like Kleenex, or Band-Aid, where the brand became the item. But I will still say soda (but not pop) and specifically root beer, 7Up, or orange drink. And I will ask about soft drinks at a restaurant.🥤
Maybe it’s generational and location. I lived in SoCal until I was 12/13 and crayon ALWAYS was pronounced around me like it had a Y in it when I heard people around me speak. Also caramel could be heard with two or three syllables but Lexie says she’s only heard it with two.
@@anndeecosita3586 Native Californian here, though living in the PNW now. Agree about "caramel" - I've heard both 2 and 3 syllabels. "Crayon" also heard both. "Drinking fountain" more commonly than "water fountain". Definitely "soft drink" or "soda", not "pop". Heard "sun shower" before and knew what it meant, but don't think I've ever used it unprompted. Some like "hella" I don't hear a lot in my own circles. The other one I find funny is "dude" and "guys" which on the West Coast is absolutely usable for men, women, animals, inanimate objects, whatever; when I worked in Chicago I caught some crap for that usage in fact. I suspect that the West Coast sees so much in and out migration and moving around that it all gets scrambled quite a bit, especially up and down the coast. My favorite is how people refer to the interstate 5 - in L.A. it's "The 5", in the Bay Area it's just "5", and in the PNW it's "I-5".
I grew up in Chicago, and this was how we "talked" during my formative years: Crayon = "cran" Caramel = "car-mull" Soda = "pop" and on formal occasions "soda pop" Crayfish = crayfish People throw coins in to water fountains. We drank from a drinking fountain. The footwear was primarily called "gym shoes" though we were familiar with all the other terms, as well as "trainers" and "runners/running shoes." Rain from the blue sky was a "sun shower"
Grew up in Chicago and I agree except for me, Caramel = Ca-ra-mel Soda = Soda (but I’ve heard people call it soda or pop growing up) A water fountain is where you drink from & the thing people throw coins in is just a fountain lol. Crazy to see the differences even from the same city
I have lived in California, the Gulf Coast and the Midwest. I say: 1. Crayons with the y sound 2. Caramel as ca ra mel 3. Soda 4. Crawfish 5. Drinking fountain or water fountain I pronounce the t in all these kinds of words. Mountain, sentence, curtain, I pronounce the T. I have noticed in previous videos Christina doesn’t pronounce the t. 6. Tennis shoes 7. The Devil Is Beating His Wife or Sun Shower Yankees do have a reputation for rude. Southerners will say “bless your heart”. What it means depends on the context. If the California girl’s aunt says Devil’s Rain she probably had Southern roots.
Just an added note, my folks come from the mid-atlantic & that's where I was exposed to the 'devil beating his wife' thing. I wonder what the origin is. I looked it up & I see something about a French play, but I also wonder if it could be tied to some traditional hoodoo/superstition in black american communities.
@@MrJovon321 That’s really interesting about the French connection. Some parts of the South are heavily French influenced. Recently I read an article that lagniappe was the most mispronounced word in the US. the author claimed no one ever heard of it but I hear lagniappe all the time. So there are cultural differences. I know my family members are black Southerners and we have our superstitions. For example, we refer to evil spirits as haints. My grandfather had us kids scared of haints. There is a tradition in the South of painting houses a color called haint blue that is supposed to keep evil spirits away. This color, known as "haint blue," is associated with the Gullah Geechee people. These descendants of enslaved Africans in parts of Georgia and South Carolina have maintained a rich cultural heritage, and among their traditions was the belief that haint blue repels haints, or ghosts. The idea was that the color would trick haints into thinking the ceiling is either water or the sky. Haint blue was first used in Charleston during the early 1800s and continues to be popular today.
Would it be an idea to test the sound, before recording the clip? I have the feeling that the mics of Joseph and Lexi are working well, but the others sound so distant.
Christina from the suburbs y’all need someone like me who talks straight Boston 😂😂 her accent is standard American. There’s a difference. No share luv but not a representative of Massachusetts when it comes to an accent
Welcome back Christina, I’m not used to seeing her in blue before! My stand out points as an US outsider, Craons sounds very different, may’ve heard about that pronunciation once somewhere. Soft drink maybe used rarely by Americans but as expected Soda is the most common term there. It’s Soft Drink in Australia. I’ve been noticing more recently Christina doesn’t pronounce the T in some words especially impor(t)ant. I would’ve loved Shannon with her southern accent to be included for this topic.
I had picked up on that very thing about Christina’s speech pattern and have commented on it in several prior videos. It’s very noticeable IMO so I don’t get why people on here don’t hear speech differences between the ways many of the Americans who come one the channel. She often doesn’t pronounce the T in the middle of words like fountain, important, and so on. I’m American and like Von I always pronounce this t in similar ones like curtain, sentence, straighten, kitten. People talk about Brits dropping t in the middle of words but some Americans with accents like Christina’s do also. All accents are fine but I have noticed when I tell people who do this I don’t consider them to speak with the so-called “Standard American/Newscaster accent” or that there is a difference in how they speak some have become upset with me. Like a lot of people drop g at the end of ing but in the News business we can’t speak like this on air. There is no difference between dropping that end g and dropping a middle t. Either way is not fully enunciating. There is a woman who runs a channel called Rachel’s English or something to that effect who was instructing ESL learners not to pronounce the t in these types of words so that they would sound like native American English speakers. This pissed off a lot of Americans because she suggested those of us who don’t have this accent aren’t or don’t sound like native speakers. It would have been more appropriate to say it’s optional.
It's a very common thing to replace the odd t or d in a word when you're speaking fast, and I'm honestly surprised you picked up on it, it took me years to notice (we kinda replace them both with an n). Additionally, at least where I come from (western Connecticut) a lot of the s sounds end up being very harsh sounding, to the point where people will occasionally inadvertently whistle with their teeth while speaking.
A lot of news articles I’ve read address differences in NorCal and SoCal accents. Lexi saying crans for crayons intrigues me since I pronounce the y. I’m interested to know how Lexi and other Californians pronounce these words: 1. Mirror - I say it as 2 syllables meer rur 2. Mayonnaise- I say it as 3 syllables may o naze 3. Almond - I pronounce the L 4. Sierra Nevada- I say See eh ra Ne vaH daH
No offense to the California girl, but the generic American accent we're all slowly adopting is not a California accent. It was based off of western New England and eastern Midwest accents. Though obviously at this point it's spread all around the country, some places more than others, and California people generally came from the northern East Coast or Midwest, so they would have taken it with them.
The white Anglo California people maybe. California is 1/3 Hispanic and was previously part of Mexico and Spain. So there was already a large Spanish speaking population in place with the English speakers arrived. IMO the mesh of English and Spanish impacts California’s accent.
I agree. Most Californians sound like the predominant accents in the Mid-Atlantic and much of the Midwest. California is just where a lot of people from those areas ended up. When people from other countries think of "generic" American accents, this is what they are thinking of.
@@anndeecosita3586 There was a tiny Spanish speaking population in California when the English speaking Americans arrived. At the time of the US-Mexican war there were 6,500 Spanish speaking "Californios" in California. There were 25,000 recent Anglo settlers and 300,000 Native Americans speaking their own languages. Basically, there were very few Spanish speakers here in the mid 1800s. You could fit them all in a small stadium. Very few Anglo Californians speak with any influence from Spanish speakers unless they were raised in a majority Hispanic neigbhorhood. Other the other hand Chicano English is a real thing and they definitely has their own accent and speech patterns.
@@jeffmorse645 This is my opinion on this. I said that the Anglo Saxon white people must be the subject of her comment about Californians sounding just like they are from the Nebraska area. For one thing to say MOST Californians is problematic because Anglo white people are not the majority in California. They are like 35 percent. I lived in San Diego until I was 12. I always lived in very culturally diverse neighborhoods and went to diverse schools where most people. It’s not that likely that you can group people from many different backgrounds together and expect ZERO affect on their accents over time. I was taught state history. A lot of the towns including San Diego were established as mission towns in order to create indoctrinate, assimilate the natives into converting into Catholicism. This went on for centuries. We got this whole school history lesson about the benevolence of Padre Serra which is a whole other discussion. This could not have been done without also getting them into speaking the Spanish language. So some of those natives you speak of are also Spanish/Mexican and they along with an influx of Mexicans that came in starting into California around early 1900s made their mark on how we sound. I have an example in another comment that I’m currently in the Midwest and I struggle to not mispronounce the cities here because they way they pronounce them is totally unnatural for me. They say Salina as Sa lie na and El Dorado as El Do Ray Do. The list goes on. And even in general conversation I notice a difference in how they tend to say vowels. So as someone who has lived in California and currently lives in Kansas which is right next to Nebraska, I do NOT feel the people here have the exact same accent I do. It’s not light years apart but not identical. I noticed the people here can’t tell I’m not a local, however, when I meet someone from San Diego they can usually tell immediately by my accent without me telling them where I’m from. I listen to rhythm, timbre, where raised inflection falls which also creates accent. California also ran a segregated school system back in the day that had to be struck down through court proceedings. One these school districts’ defenses at trial to segregation was claiming these children had limited English proficiency skills. If pretty much everyone spoke English like a Nebraskan that would make no sense. The reality was these children spoke both Spanish and English as do I. I’m not Hispanic. Unless they live in a white bubble I don’t see sounding like Nebraskans. When the Anglophones went into Louisiana and English became the dominant language there where still leftovers from the French accent that remained even in the way English was spoken. That’s my thoughts.
@@anndeecosita3586 you make an excellent point! I won't say my comment referred to only white people (I'm puerto Rican and black, lived in a diverse area, bad AAVE all around me) but I was raised speaking only English (unfortunately). Thanks for pointing out my short sightedess 🥲 I'll be more careful with statements like that in the future 💕
I liked it. Honestly, I've always recorded or downloaded every video from this world friends channel that has an interesting conversation in English as my study reference.
I grew up and live in the Mid-Atlantic part of the country. To me, the California accent sounds like our accent (unless it is an exaggerated Valley accent). We had it first, so I would reverse the theory and say that Californians are amplifying the original Mid-Atlantic accent.
This was a fun video! I especially loved seeing Christina again and I love her outfit and boots!! As for the accent challenge, the California girl said Crayons pretty much the same way I say Crayons (she said "Craons") and I'm from the Chicago area. In the inland north of the USA, there's a type of accent or slight accent called the "northern cities vowel shift" and some just call it the inland northern accent. It spans from Upstate New York all the way to Minnesota, including Chicago. I'd love for this RUclips channel to do a video on the northern cities vowel shift, maybe do like a reaction video and they can learn about it and try talking that way!
You would think a New York City accent would have to be included. For all those that don't know, the famous New York City/Brooklyn accent is only found in NYC. Upstate and Western New York do not have that accent.
I'm from Guatemala 🇬🇹 and studied for two months in Vermont. I had the opportunity to listen to the northeastern accent and even I got a phase that I like very much, "have a good one". Then when visiting LA it was a totally different experience. People talk faster, buying fast food was a mess for me 😅😅😅. Not only in the US you get these difference im accents, Guatemala is a small country and depending on the region you are visiting they have their own accent. It's like you know when someone is from Guatemala City. I think accents are part of our identity.
Maybe. I would be curious to know what part of California she is from. I think the California accent where I’m from is a hybrid and depends on culture. I spent most of my childhood on the Southern border where most people were bilingual which I think affects our accent. I’m currently in the Kansas and they can’t tell a difference in my accent and think Im from here. However, I can hear a difference in their accent. I noticed them leaving out syllables that I don’t and pronouncing vowels in ways I don’t. For example there is a city named Salina that I constantly mispronounce because it feels unnatural to me how they say it. When I told people that they said “you’re probably from California”. I noticed the California lady here said y’all where most people I grew up around were a you guys kind of people.
@@anndeecosita3586 There is a street and train stop (on the Red Line) in Chicago called Paulina. I think the last two syllables would be pronounced similarly as Salina. 😄 Didn't know you're currently in Kansas .. Lived there before moving to Chicago
@@JosephOccenoBFH Yes. The people are okay but not the weather. As someone who grew up in SoCal I would instinctively pronounce Paulina as Pah Lee Nah. And Salina as Sa Lee Na. But they say Sa Lie Na. They also say El Do Ray Do which sounds unnatural to me as a Californian because I would instinctively say El Do Rah Do. I’m not saying I’m right and they are wrong but that it’s a cultural difference that inclines us into different directions. I don’t pronounce Merry, Mary and Marry the same way but a lot of people here do. I detect a difference in the way people pronounce their vowels and notice they tend to elongate their vowels. I’ve even caught myself elongating my vowels so I think they are rubbing off on me. 😂
When I saw the title, being British, I thought it was comparing east and west accents in England!🤣 Americans might speak English, but they have an American accent! This was about differing American accents across the country! Also, American English is different to British English!😉
@@Haywood-Jablomie British refers to the whole of the UK! That includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland! You'll have to be more specific which accent cos there's LOADS of them within each country and province!🤣
@@Haywood-Jablomie I AM Welsh!🤣 Such clichéd, antiquated "jokes" are typical from those who have never visited my lovely homeland 🏴 and could easily be used about New Zealanders!(which they too wouldn't appreciate) I've visited Canada, both west and east sides, numerous times so I'm not susceptible to make such hackneyed stereotypes of people from your country! I found Canada a very beautiful country and the people I met very friendly, even those from Quebec!😆 Don't be a sucker to stereotypes, or ridiculing "jokes" about certain people that have developed from political propaganda.😉 The only sheep us Welsh "like" ( as do the rest of us Brits) are the ones on our plate! A nice Shepherd's pie or a juicy lamb chop, with lashings of gravy and fresh mint sauce!😋
@@andiemorgan961 yeah but it'll be hilarious if you do make the jokes , humour is something that the world needs more of. and yes, I don't doubt that new zealanders like sheep as well... a well-raised sheep is always willing to go the extra mile in order to express love. 🤪
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As a New Yorker, I'm kinda shocked only the Northeast and South Florida call those shoes "Sneakers". My whole life I thought the majority of the US used that word.
You probably think it’s more common because Hollywood portrays the country that way. I’ve spent my life West Coast then the South then the Midwest, and I don’t think I know anyone who says sneakers. Not saying there aren’t any in these regions but I think they are a minority. Matter of fact I’m bilingual and grew up in Southern California. So I will tell you the tennis shoes thing isn’t just an English speakers thing there. I and all the Spanish and bilingual speakers I know whether speaking in English or Spanish called these shoes as tenis (pronounced like tenneys). Tenis is tennis in Spanish. I wonder what Spanish speakers in New York call them? Or Spanish speakers in Latin America? If you google zapatos tenis you will see what pops up.
@@anndeecosita3586 I speak Spanish also. It’s my first language. Here, Spanish speakers also call them “tenis” but every bilingual Latino calls them “sneakers” when speaking English.
It is Tennis shoes
Good see my favorite US member , Christina 🇺🇲 is finally back
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Christina I’ve been waiting for you to come back. You’re one of my favorite members on this channel.
Christina is always the favorite! 🤗👍
Yeah the rich girl from Boston who did her first job as a manager at a restaurant before going to college 😂😂
Dude , poor Lexi , the only one from the West Coast in the video 😂
The guy in the red sweater isn’t from any coast. Tennessee is landlocked.
🥲 I tried my best to represent lol
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@@anndeecosita3586no doubt that's definitely landlocked in there 😢😮
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"the devil beating his wife". That's the explanation I got for when it was raining while the sun is shining as kid growing up in Haiti. Didn't expect to find out that people in the US said that too. Or maybe this guy has Haitian origins.
It's a pretty common phrase in parts of the south, especially within a certain demographic (like small town middle aged/elderly folk). I heard it a lot growing up. Sun shower is also super common.
I live in the desert area of the West Coast. The moment she asked "What do you call rain during sunshine?", my mind went " a miracle!".
Golden Shower !!!
Had a lot of fun comparing different words and accents! With the US being so large, there are so many accents and slang to learn in each region~ Hope you guys enjoyed the video! -Christina 🇺🇸
Thanks for showing us your pretty face again. Missed you .. 😟
Welcome back Christina, you've been missed in the channel 😊🥳
So good to see Christina back on WF again! World Friends, please bring back Christina more!!
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In Connecticut we say "soda" but my friends in Boston say "tonic" (taw-nic). Everyone I knew in Iowa said "pop".
i’ve never heard anyone say tonic in boston. people say soda
@@waterfaerie9 These are older people in Arlington.
Oregon here ❤
1. Crans
2. Car mel
3. Soda
4. Crawfish
4. Water fountain
5. Sneakers or tennis shoes
5. No term?
I live in Oregon and I do hear “drinking fountain” too. You can also hear crawdads and crayfish here too because of the people moving here. But everything else I feel like I can relate with! :)
(It could also depend which side of the Cascade Range you’re on
@@latviism definitely some variation! To be honest I don’t think I ever have even said crawfish before, that one just felt right 😂 and to me water fountain just feels like more casual than drinking but you for sure hear both!
Omg all of ours was the same, I also said crawfish and I ALWAYS say crawdad 💀 and the sun thing? I thought they were talking about a light rain and I said “sprinkle”
Wow, even Americans admit having accents. As a foreigner I’m having hard times expressing myself but this video shows me anyone has an accent . Thank you @worldfriends
Yes we have accents. I don’t know why some Americans say we don’t unless they lack comprehension of what an accent is.
Of course we do! I'm from New Jersey and when I'm speaking with people across the country I try to pronounce everything more slowly and clearly.
@@jtidema I love a New Jersey accent. Are you a North or South New Jerseyan?
Hum the California girl don't even sound like a typical Cali girl. 😂 the more you travel the states you will hear so many different accents. I do not see southern folks sounding like Cali folks. To be honest flek does not have a dc accent but she also said she lived in Florida. Dc has a deep accent and language that you know they from dc and Flek's do not sound like the average dc person. However I love flek on these shows. I watched them backed to back because of her. Bias much. 😂😂😂
Von, you’re not the only one! I’ve also heard that when it’s raining and the sun’s shining.
I have heard it too. I think it’s mostly a Southern expression.
I'm from North Carolina and I say the same thing.
LOL see! I knew I couldnt be the only one!
One I've heard in New England is that the devil's moving his furniture when it's thundering, but that other expression is making me think that the person I heard it from is probably a southerner.
Caught I flek in 4K “ you’re weirdddd”😂😂
OMG!!! I know 😅
Finally my request thank you so much world friend
7:10 nah I think most people just talk normally now…
It’s not California talk because they are also starting to sound normal. California talk is surfer dudes and valley girl accents and all of America is DEFINITELY not starting to sound like that
Please do something similar about Brazil, from different regions. The way some vocabulary and accent change can be fun
Can you guys do more this pleaseeeee! I’m so into American accent! This is VERY interesting!!!
Pop isn't a young/old thing. Its a Midwest vs. the rest of the country thing.
In the south we say pop or soda pop. It depend on where in the south
I grew up always saying 'pop', and I am from Idaho.
As a native Californian I say caramel with 3 syllables, crayon with two. Definitely called the little buggers "crayfish" when I was a kid, but nowadays crawdad or crawfish is popular. (Norcal rivers/lakes/streams are full of them)
I say caramel as ‘caremul’ and and crayon as ‘cran’ as in cranberry
Finally Christina appears
Im from Texas and when its raining and the suns out we just say its raining.
Why?
@@LearnRunes because it’s raining
5:59 In Dominican Republic and I’m not sure if any other Latin American countries when it rains while the tan is out, we say that a witch is getting married. We also think that it’s good luck. 🤷🏻♀️
Yo we say the witch is having a baby. 😂
Welcome
2:16 I say it like that too I’m from MA&FL
6:23 also never heard that it was just a normal thing to happen in FL so never really called it anything
I'm from XZ and HG
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I’m from LMNOPQRS
@@creativesparks2164 You and I must be long lost cousins !
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😧must be…
Gonna go pick up a DNABCD test
I wish they would get a Hawaii local to compare accents! In Hawaii, our English accents are quite different. Mixed with American English and Asian accents basically.
This was very fun to watch! And btw it’s “ bubbler” 😌😉
DC folks call random people “Bama” they have a local type of funk music called GoGo (chuck brown), “mug” for mother ㅋucker, “sice” for excited. Home of under armor wear and five guys burgers.
Boston folks say “wicked” meaning very, “kid” as fella, “pisser” or “shitter” as the toilet, “packy” is the convenient store. Home of Dunkin’ Donuts, new balance shoes.
Off top, "packy" sounds like a questionable word for a convenience store. I see that it comes from the term "package store". Interesting
Packy is a liquor store, not a convenient store... We call a convenient store a Convenience Store.
Haha you are so right Bama is a triggering word for me 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve been called that way to many times
I want the Texas girl from the other video. Forgot her name. Miss her.😍🤣
Yolisma is her name! Found it. Haha
@Bibash Grung YES THANK U SO VERY MUCH ADD HER N SHANNON WITH THESE PEOPLE THIS WOULD BE THE BEST VIDEO (REQUEST/IDEA) CAN N WILL YA'LL WORLD OF FRIEND'S PLESE NEXT TIME WORLD OF FRIEND'S CAN U DO ANOTHER WORLD FRIEND'S VIDEO WITH SHANNO N YOLISMA ADDED WITH THESE SAME USA 🇺🇸 😊 😀 ❤️ ☺️ NATIVE'S THANK U
Yolisma def should have been in this video 😍🤣
South Carolina was the best place ever. And we went to myrtle beach just hang out of the water with my uncle. Going have some much great experience time!!!! 100000%
I remember hunting for crawdads under rocks in streams when me and my siblings were young
New Zealand accent - Cray ons, Ca ra Mel, Fizzy drink or soft drink, shrimp,
water fountain, tennis shoes, sunshower
In NZ accent, "air" sounds like "ear" eeah .. 😄
That's not shrimp lol. Shrimp is a different fish entirely
Those aren’t shrimp.
0:18 Hi my name is Reflexshun 😂
Wtf lol.
@AndI I THINK THAT'S HER RUclips/SOCIAL MEDIA NAME THAT'S WHY SHE SHORTEND IT N SHE JUST INTRODUCED HER NAME AS FLEX
Haha. Yes my brith name is Reflekshun. Pronounce * Reflection * my nick name is FLEX 😊
In Australia everyone calls it a bubbler. A fountain is a type of decorative garden feature.
I’m a Victorian and I remember in school I used to call them bubble taps. I agree that a fountain is a garden feature ⛲️
Same in New England
Never called it a bubbler in my life and never heard anyone around me call it that either. It's always been a water fountain.
From the sate of Wisconsin we call it bubbler
The plumbing fixture company, Kohler (@redsippy02 will probably know them well. It's a Wisconsin company) used to make a fountain (water or drinking, your choice) called..."The Bubbler", which apparently sold very well here in New England.
(From CA) If someone asked me where a water fountain was, I would point them to a public park. If they asked about bubblers, I would point to an aquarium. We use drinking fountain.💧Also maybe it's a generational thing, but Crayons, have always had a Y in the middle, but I would understand "crans". Coke is generic, like Kleenex, or Band-Aid, where the brand became the item. But I will still say soda (but not pop) and specifically root beer, 7Up, or orange drink. And I will ask about soft drinks at a restaurant.🥤
Maybe it’s generational and location. I lived in SoCal until I was 12/13 and crayon ALWAYS was pronounced around me like it had a Y in it when I heard people around me speak. Also caramel could be heard with two or three syllables but Lexie says she’s only heard it with two.
@@anndeecosita3586 Native Californian here, though living in the PNW now. Agree about "caramel" - I've heard both 2 and 3 syllabels. "Crayon" also heard both. "Drinking fountain" more commonly than "water fountain". Definitely "soft drink" or "soda", not "pop".
Heard "sun shower" before and knew what it meant, but don't think I've ever used it unprompted.
Some like "hella" I don't hear a lot in my own circles. The other one I find funny is "dude" and "guys" which on the West Coast is absolutely usable for men, women, animals, inanimate objects, whatever; when I worked in Chicago I caught some crap for that usage in fact.
I suspect that the West Coast sees so much in and out migration and moving around that it all gets scrambled quite a bit, especially up and down the coast.
My favorite is how people refer to the interstate 5 - in L.A. it's "The 5", in the Bay Area it's just "5", and in the PNW it's "I-5".
"What the crawdads sing" ;)
idea for the video : germanic vs slavic vs latin europe
I grew up in Chicago, and this was how we "talked" during my formative years:
Crayon = "cran"
Caramel = "car-mull"
Soda = "pop" and on formal occasions "soda pop"
Crayfish = crayfish
People throw coins in to water fountains. We drank from a drinking fountain.
The footwear was primarily called "gym shoes" though we were familiar with all the other terms, as well as "trainers" and "runners/running shoes."
Rain from the blue sky was a "sun shower"
Grew up in Chicago and I agree except for me,
Caramel = Ca-ra-mel
Soda = Soda (but I’ve heard people call it soda or pop growing up)
A water fountain is where you drink from & the thing people throw coins in is just a fountain lol. Crazy to see the differences even from the same city
So... like 90% of the country has no expression for a sunshower? That seems odd...
Christina 🥰♥️
I have lived in California, the Gulf Coast and the Midwest. I say:
1. Crayons with the y sound
2. Caramel as ca ra mel
3. Soda
4. Crawfish
5. Drinking fountain or water fountain
I pronounce the t in all these kinds of words. Mountain, sentence, curtain, I pronounce the T. I have noticed in previous videos Christina doesn’t pronounce the t.
6. Tennis shoes
7. The Devil Is Beating His Wife or Sun Shower
Yankees do have a reputation for rude. Southerners will say “bless your heart”. What it means depends on the context. If the California girl’s aunt says Devil’s Rain she probably had Southern roots.
Just an added note, my folks come from the mid-atlantic & that's where I was exposed to the 'devil beating his wife' thing. I wonder what the origin is. I looked it up & I see something about a French play, but I also wonder if it could be tied to some traditional hoodoo/superstition in black american communities.
@@MrJovon321 That’s really interesting about the French connection. Some parts of the South are heavily French influenced. Recently I read an article that lagniappe was the most mispronounced word in the US. the author claimed no one ever heard of it but I hear lagniappe all the time. So there are cultural differences. I know my family members are black Southerners and we have our superstitions. For example, we refer to evil spirits as haints. My grandfather had us kids scared of haints. There is a tradition in the South of painting houses a color called haint blue that is supposed to keep evil spirits away.
This color, known as "haint blue," is associated with the Gullah Geechee people. These descendants of enslaved Africans in parts of Georgia and South Carolina have maintained a rich cultural heritage, and among their traditions was the belief that haint blue repels haints, or ghosts. The idea was that the color would trick haints into thinking the ceiling is either water or the sky. Haint blue was first used in Charleston during the early 1800s and continues to be popular today.
Would it be an idea to test the sound, before recording the clip? I have the feeling that the mics of Joseph and Lexi are working well, but the others sound so distant.
Christina from the suburbs y’all need someone like me who talks straight Boston 😂😂 her accent is standard American. There’s a difference. No share luv but not a representative of Massachusetts when it comes to an accent
Welcome back Christina, I’m not used to seeing her in blue before! My stand out points as an US outsider, Craons sounds very different, may’ve heard about that pronunciation once somewhere. Soft drink maybe used rarely by Americans but as expected Soda is the most common term there. It’s Soft Drink in Australia. I’ve been noticing more recently Christina doesn’t pronounce the T in some words especially impor(t)ant. I would’ve loved Shannon with her southern accent to be included for this topic.
I had picked up on that very thing about Christina’s speech pattern and have commented on it in several prior videos. It’s very noticeable IMO so I don’t get why people on here don’t hear speech differences between the ways many of the Americans who come one the channel. She often doesn’t pronounce the T in the middle of words like fountain, important, and so on. I’m American and like Von I always pronounce this t in similar ones like curtain, sentence, straighten, kitten. People talk about Brits dropping t in the middle of words but some Americans with accents like Christina’s do also. All accents are fine but I have noticed when I tell people who do this I don’t consider them to speak with the so-called “Standard American/Newscaster accent” or that there is a difference in how they speak some have become upset with me. Like a lot of people drop g at the end of ing but in the News business we can’t speak like this on air. There is no difference between dropping that end g and dropping a middle t. Either way is not fully enunciating. There is a woman who runs a channel called Rachel’s English or something to that effect who was instructing ESL learners not to pronounce the t in these types of words so that they would sound like native American English speakers. This pissed off a lot of Americans because she suggested those of us who don’t have this accent aren’t or don’t sound like native speakers. It would have been more appropriate to say it’s optional.
It's a very common thing to replace the odd t or d in a word when you're speaking fast, and I'm honestly surprised you picked up on it, it took me years to notice (we kinda replace them both with an n). Additionally, at least where I come from (western Connecticut) a lot of the s sounds end up being very harsh sounding, to the point where people will occasionally inadvertently whistle with their teeth while speaking.
A lot of news articles I’ve read address differences in NorCal and SoCal accents. Lexi saying crans for crayons intrigues me since I pronounce the y. I’m interested to know how Lexi and other Californians pronounce these words:
1. Mirror - I say it as 2 syllables meer rur
2. Mayonnaise- I say it as 3 syllables may o naze
3. Almond - I pronounce the L
4. Sierra Nevada- I say See eh ra Ne vaH daH
1. Meer-er
2. Man - naise
3. Amond
4. See-air-ra Nuh-va-da
We are legit opposites haha. Are you from SoCal?
@@tj_and_lex yes. Diego 😂
Interesting. We usually hear about North vs South differences and not so much East vs West. Thank you guys.
No offense to the California girl, but the generic American accent we're all slowly adopting is not a California accent. It was based off of western New England and eastern Midwest accents. Though obviously at this point it's spread all around the country, some places more than others, and California people generally came from the northern East Coast or Midwest, so they would have taken it with them.
The white Anglo California people maybe. California is 1/3 Hispanic and was previously part of Mexico and Spain. So there was already a large Spanish speaking population in place with the English speakers arrived. IMO the mesh of English and Spanish impacts California’s accent.
I agree. Most Californians sound like the predominant accents in the Mid-Atlantic and much of the Midwest. California is just where a lot of people from those areas ended up. When people from other countries think of "generic" American accents, this is what they are thinking of.
@@anndeecosita3586 There was a tiny Spanish speaking population in California when the English speaking Americans arrived. At the time of the US-Mexican war there were 6,500 Spanish speaking "Californios" in California. There were 25,000 recent Anglo settlers and 300,000 Native Americans speaking their own languages. Basically, there were very few Spanish speakers here in the mid 1800s. You could fit them all in a small stadium. Very few Anglo Californians speak with any influence from Spanish speakers unless they were raised in a majority Hispanic neigbhorhood. Other the other hand Chicano English is a real thing and they definitely has their own accent and speech patterns.
@@jeffmorse645 This is my opinion on this. I said that the Anglo Saxon white people must be the subject of her comment about Californians sounding just like they are from the Nebraska area. For one thing to say MOST Californians is problematic because Anglo white people are not the majority in California. They are like 35 percent. I lived in San Diego until I was 12. I always lived in very culturally diverse neighborhoods and went to diverse schools where most people. It’s not that likely that you can group people from many different backgrounds together and expect ZERO affect on their accents over time. I was taught state history. A lot of the towns including San Diego were established as mission towns in order to create indoctrinate, assimilate the natives into converting into Catholicism. This went on for centuries. We got this whole school history lesson about the benevolence of Padre Serra which is a whole other discussion. This could not have been done without also getting them into speaking the Spanish language. So some of those natives you speak of are also Spanish/Mexican and they along with an influx of Mexicans that came in starting into California around early 1900s made their mark on how we sound. I have an example in another comment that I’m currently in the Midwest and I struggle to not mispronounce the cities here because they way they pronounce them is totally unnatural for me. They say Salina as Sa lie na and El Dorado as El Do Ray Do. The list goes on. And even in general conversation I notice a difference in how they tend to say vowels. So as someone who has lived in California and currently lives in Kansas which is right next to Nebraska, I do NOT feel the people here have the exact same accent I do. It’s not light years apart but not identical. I noticed the people here can’t tell I’m not a local, however, when I meet someone from San Diego they can usually tell immediately by my accent without me telling them where I’m from. I listen to rhythm, timbre, where raised inflection falls which also creates accent. California also ran a segregated school system back in the day that had to be struck down through court proceedings. One these school districts’ defenses at trial to segregation was claiming these children had limited English proficiency skills. If pretty much everyone spoke English like a Nebraskan that would make no sense. The reality was these children spoke both Spanish and English as do I. I’m not Hispanic. Unless they live in a white bubble I don’t see sounding like Nebraskans. When the Anglophones went into Louisiana and English became the dominant language there where still leftovers from the French accent that remained even in the way English was spoken. That’s my thoughts.
@@anndeecosita3586 you make an excellent point! I won't say my comment referred to only white people (I'm puerto Rican and black, lived in a diverse area, bad AAVE all around me) but I was raised speaking only English (unfortunately).
Thanks for pointing out my short sightedess 🥲 I'll be more careful with statements like that in the future 💕
I liked it. Honestly, I've always recorded or downloaded every video from this world friends channel that has an interesting conversation in English as my study reference.
Why can’t I hear some of them, unless my volume is right up then the others are damn loud.
Rain and sun together is "a monkey's wedding" in South Africa.
I grew up and live in the Mid-Atlantic part of the country. To me, the California accent sounds like our accent (unless it is an exaggerated Valley accent). We had it first, so I would reverse the theory and say that Californians are amplifying the original Mid-Atlantic accent.
I live in north florida and they say tennis shoes or chucks
Yay Christina is back!🎉🎉🎉
This was a fun video! I especially loved seeing Christina again and I love her outfit and boots!! As for the accent challenge, the California girl said Crayons pretty much the same way I say Crayons (she said "Craons") and I'm from the Chicago area. In the inland north of the USA, there's a type of accent or slight accent called the "northern cities vowel shift" and some just call it the inland northern accent. It spans from Upstate New York all the way to Minnesota, including Chicago. I'd love for this RUclips channel to do a video on the northern cities vowel shift, maybe do like a reaction video and they can learn about it and try talking that way!
Need some Rocky Mountain, Pacific North in there. Crawdads, coke, rain with sun? flash flood warning, I've never heard that devil's wife term..
Who was responsible for gathering a representative sample of the population?
for the shoes i say tennies tennis shoes and sneakers just depends on how i feel
Crawfish?
Crawdad??🤣🤣🤣
Crayfish👍👍👍
Meanwhile in Australia we call them yabbies.
Y'all needed someone from Texas on there...we say coke...for ALL soft drinks!
No one: absolutely nothing...
Girl sitting on the right: ... because in Massachusetts..
😂😂
They forgot the other Western accents
Or maybe they are just limited to those living in Korea?
should’ve put someone from SoCal too
Yeah her accent isn’t giving me SoCal.
Lol, flex’s facials expression had me 😂
😂😂😂 my face always gives me away. I can’t hide nothing 🤣
tennessee guy was the only one without the general american accent
Y'all had a guy from Connecticut trying to do a North Carolina accent.
Well bless your heart is an insult, but not in every context or situation.
Always fun shooting with world friends! Hope you guys enjoyed the video 💖 - Lexi
Little Miss DC kinda cute 😍
Lexi must be from NorCal, no one pronounces words like caramel as carmel, crans, or call a drinking fountain a water fountain down here.
I am from SoCal and "Crans" I understand...but "carmel" and water fountain are pretty common where I'm at anyway...
6:54 I think it has to do a lot with the media.
“Drinking Fountain”
Haha fun video
the guy in red speaks like a NPC from Red Dead Redemption 😀
Obviously they never heard of Persephone, Hades' wife. More of a Greek background but still...the "devil" does have a wife.
first i thought eastern uk accents vs western uks accents
Caramel if it’s by itself, “Carmel” if it’s with something (like “a Carmel apple”).
Why? No idea, it’s just how I say it.
Like Mount Carmel in Israel?
Don't know where it came from...but I call sunshine with rain "rainbow weather.
As a Puerto Rican i always heard my mom or grand ma say “the witch is getting married” when it rains and the sun is out.
I mean, Mr. Beat do be from the East
Y'all needed a PNW rep in there!😅
Hee hee !!!!!!
Fuuuuuniiiii !
LIKE it!
Is Lexi from NorCal or Socal because there are differences.
norcal because she says hella, no one in socal says that lol
You would think a New York City accent would have to be included. For all those that don't know, the famous New York City/Brooklyn accent is only found in NYC. Upstate and Western New York do not have that accent.
BRING FLEX BACK
Yyaasss. I’ll be back for sure!!!
those two lads got to shut the ftheir legs
Another video where y'all didn't turn on Christina's microphone. This time, Von's neither. Do y'all never do a microphone check before starting?
Im from Maryland and we also said the devil was beating his wife when it rained while sunny. Thunder while sunny was "god is bowling" haha
me as a chicagoan waiting for someone to say gym shoes lmfao
i was born in chicago but raised in the west coast and i was saying gym shoes 😭😭
Chrysteenuh fum Bahstun !
Where in Massachusetts are you from that you said "mad cool"??? It's all wicked cool up here.
Is there any problem with mic, or it seems to me
I’m from MA and say crayons like “crans” 🙃
I’m from Connecticut and I feel like I’ve seen equal amounts of people pronounce caramel as either car-mull or cair-a-mel
I'm from Guatemala 🇬🇹 and studied for two months in Vermont. I had the opportunity to listen to the northeastern accent and even I got a phase that I like very much, "have a good one". Then when visiting LA it was a totally different experience. People talk faster, buying fast food was a mess for me 😅😅😅. Not only in the US you get these difference im accents, Guatemala is a small country and depending on the region you are visiting they have their own accent. It's like you know when someone is from Guatemala City. I think accents are part of our identity.
Huh, I didn't know that was a unique phrase that we used. I feel like non-native speakers are better at picking up on this kind of stuff.
they all sound the same except Mr Tenneseee
Hi
Fun fact: the California accent is originally from Nebraska, because a lot of early settlers came from there.
Maybe. I would be curious to know what part of California she is from. I think the California accent where I’m from is a hybrid and depends on culture. I spent most of my childhood on the Southern border where most people were bilingual which I think affects our accent. I’m currently in the Kansas and they can’t tell a difference in my accent and think Im from here. However, I can hear a difference in their accent. I noticed them leaving out syllables that I don’t and pronouncing vowels in ways I don’t. For example there is a city named Salina that I constantly mispronounce because it feels unnatural to me how they say it. When I told people that they said “you’re probably from California”. I noticed the California lady here said y’all where most people I grew up around were a you guys kind of people.
@@anndeecosita3586 There is a street and train stop (on the Red Line) in Chicago called Paulina. I think the last two syllables would be pronounced similarly as Salina. 😄 Didn't know you're currently in Kansas .. Lived there before moving to Chicago
@@JosephOccenoBFH Yes. The people are okay but not the weather. As someone who grew up in SoCal I would
instinctively pronounce Paulina as Pah Lee Nah. And Salina as Sa Lee Na. But they say Sa Lie Na. They also say El Do Ray Do which sounds unnatural to me as a Californian because I would instinctively say El Do Rah Do. I’m not saying I’m right and they are wrong but that it’s a cultural difference that inclines us into different directions. I don’t pronounce Merry, Mary and Marry the same way but a lot of people here do. I detect a difference in the way people pronounce their vowels and notice they tend to elongate their vowels. I’ve even caught myself elongating my vowels so I think they are rubbing off on me. 😂
Who said crayins?
😁
Hella and craon are used in NYC. The word soda is used as well.
The Buffalo area talks like the Midwest
Tbh, I was surprised more people didn't say craon.
When I saw the title, being British, I thought it was comparing east and west accents in England!🤣
Americans might speak English, but they have an American accent!
This was about differing American accents across the country!
Also, American English is different to British English!😉
I'm Canadian... I think both the British as well as American English sound funny. 🤪
@@Haywood-Jablomie British refers to the whole of the UK!
That includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland!
You'll have to be more specific which accent cos there's LOADS of them within each country and province!🤣
@@andiemorgan961 Wales !! They like sheep. lololol
@@Haywood-Jablomie I AM Welsh!🤣
Such clichéd, antiquated "jokes" are typical from those who have never visited my lovely homeland 🏴 and could easily be used about New Zealanders!(which they too wouldn't appreciate)
I've visited Canada, both west and east sides, numerous times so I'm not susceptible to make such hackneyed stereotypes of people from your country!
I found Canada a very beautiful country and the people I met very friendly, even those from Quebec!😆
Don't be a sucker to stereotypes, or ridiculing "jokes" about certain people that have developed from political propaganda.😉
The only sheep us Welsh "like" ( as do the rest of us Brits) are the ones on our plate!
A nice Shepherd's pie or a juicy lamb chop, with lashings of gravy and fresh mint sauce!😋
@@andiemorgan961 yeah but it'll be hilarious if you do make the jokes , humour is something that the world needs more of. and yes, I don't doubt that new zealanders like sheep as well... a well-raised sheep is always willing to go the extra mile in order to express love. 🤪
FIRST THIS ONE THE BEST WORLD FRIEND'S EPISODE'S EVER CAUSE IT HAS FOUR USA 🇺🇸 ❤️ ♥️ 😀 💙 NATIVE'S THAT I KNOW OF ON THIS WORLD FRIEND'S RUclips CHANNEL N THEY R CHRISTINA,VOHN (SO VERY SORRY IF I SPELLED YOUR NAME WRONG) N THE GIRL ON THE LEFT WITH THE SPACE BUNS IN HER HAIR (SO VERY SORRY IDK N/OR REMRMBER YOUR NAME) N I'VE SEEN THE GUY NEXT TO HER BEFORE TOO (SO VERY SORRY IDK/REMEMBER YOUR NAME EITHER) IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE SHANNON ON HERE TOO NEXT TIME ALL USA 🇺🇸 😀 😊 😄 PEOPLE COME TOGETHER AGAIN ❤️ 😀 😊 IN ANOTHER WORLD FRIEND'S VIDEO
Also Skye who has the most authentic Southern accent..
Thanks for enjoying the videos!
@@JosephOccenoBFH I THINK THE BOY IS TOO (I FORGOT HIS NAME SO VERY SORRY)
If they were asked about how to say Nevada, that would have been fun and interesting
oh my god that would be
@spawwnn_ ^^^^ i’m from nevada and i approve this message
@spawwnn_ And THAT is the way we say it in Idaho.