🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To A USA ACCENT TOUR - PART 2!
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- 🇬🇧 BRIT Reacts To A USA ACCENT TOUR - PART 2!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To AN ACCENT TOUR OF THE USA - PART 2!
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As an American, especially when watching content from Non-Americans, I do have that moment of realization and re-realization of just how massive this country is. When you bring up the 2 hour drive example, my first thought was "you drop a marker on Google Maps anywhere mainland US and drive 2 hours there's a good chance you haven't left that state yet, let alone region."
As an Aussie, I have the same thing. I was talking to a Dutch person a few weeks ago, who was complaining about having to drive to the other side of the country…. And it would take them two and a half hours. I could drive ten times that distance and still be in my state (Queensland), and I have. The Brisbane-Cairns- Mt Isa trip is a long one. It’s about 2000km as the crow flies from Brisbane to both Cairns and Mt Isa, but it’s about 3000 if you’re doing the trip up to Cairns and then across to the Isa. And that’s not even anywhere near the north most of west most of the state. If I were to jump in the car and head due west, it’d take me about 26 hours of driving, no stops, to reach the western border, and my state is a lot taller than it is wide. It’s 33 hours from the bottom to the top, again, no breaks.
But, that’s because while Australia isn’t that much smaller than the contiguous United States, we divided it up into only 6 states and 2 territories, rather than 48. So our states are considerably larger than that of the US. Also, there’s a lot less in the middle. So you drive for much longer without there being anything around. A much larger distance between towns. And if you live out west like I used to, it’s about 6 hours to the nearest big shopping centre (that is, anything bigger than a corner store).
So listening to Europeans talk about distance, it’s very weird. Though I’ve found that Americans aren’t as willing as we are ro drive long distances. They’re much more likely to want to jump on a plane, and while Aussies will do that to go between the capital cities, anything else, you drive. Americans thought it was unusual that I took a day trip two and a half hours north to go to a game, and then the same straight back to where I was staying. But, I used ro drive that distance for a GP (PCP) appointment, so to do it for an event isn’t unusual at all.
Took 2.5 days of driving 80-90 mph to get to California (I lived in AL at the time), fun times.
@@katherinemorelle7115 the Americans driving long distance thing depends on where we live. If you live near a large airport, you might fly to save time. I live 2 1/2 hours drive from a major airport. You're supposed to get to the airport 1 to 2 hours early for security checks. Then, when you land, it takes a 1/2 hour to deplane and get your luggage. I have a friend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a nine hour drive to his house. I'd rather drive and spend the gas, toll, and food money, than pay for airport parking and plane tickets, to only save half the time.
@@katherinemorelle7115 as an American I thought aussies were more likely to fly. I guess it just depends on the individual
@@shake4259 nah- we don’t have that many airports. They’re in the major cities, but a lot of travel is from a major city to somewhere that isn’t a major city. I’d take a plane from Brisbane to Melbourne, but not from Brisbane to Charleville.
I love how they're doing their due diligence to incorporate racial and ethnic diversity, because it is soooo critical. I've noticed that the Black accents in New Orleans and Chicago are very different from their white counterparts. It would have been great for them to highlight the Black Chicago accent and its roots in the Great Migration.
I just skip those parts.
I feel like they missed out on the black Baltimore accent but other than that it was very detailed
@@KamilaDalmate every time I think of a Black Baltimore accent...I think of The Wire
yeah i could easily watch a video this length on Black accents
I absolutely agree. I do have to say that Nicole needs to stay in her lane though. She stepped into the realm of history a few times where she made herself sound very ignorant.
Obama doesn't really have a stereotypical Chicago accent, at least to my ears. But Obama didn't grow up in Chicago. He was born and raised in Hawaii and spent a lot of his growing up years there. He even lived in Indonesia for a while when his mom married an Indonesian man. He lived in various places during and after college. He did live in Chicago for a few years before he became president. If you want to hear a strong Chicago accent, remember the TV show NYPD Blue? The character Sipowicz had a very strong one. And I always found it funny that he was playing a New York City cop with that accent. I also found it amusing that Columbo (remember him?) played an LA cop, but Columbo had a very strong New York accent. I love accents too. :)
I don’t know how common Chicago accents are for any Chicagoans anymore. I was born in Chicago and grew up near Chicago and I don’t have a Chicago accent. I honestly can’t say I know anyone who does and I’ve lived in the area almost all of my life (that’s been a pretty long time but I’m not going to give my age away…women don’t tell😉).
@@pjschmid2251 That's why I wrote "stereotypical." I agree, because I live near New York City, and I don't know many who have that stereotypical sound you hear in some movies that's attributed to New York. Some have it, but many don't. So yeah, it depends on the person.
He doesn't have an accent, but his speech patterns are kinda Chicagoan. He uses a lot of stretched out interjections combined with quick-burst phrases.
@@jpanici well based on the things that he pointed out in the video I would have to say I don’t have a Chicago accent I don’t pronounce my vowels that way. Maybe the thing they were queuing in on is that you don’t have a St. Louis accent. A St. Louis accent is a thing and someone that grew up in the Chicago area would not have one.
@@pjschmid2251 I know people I used to go to high school with who moved from Chicago after living there their whole life. They definitely had an accent, almost like a Wisconsin one but less farmery.
Every 20 miles in Louisiana you will get a different accent. It’s super fascinating. Even to people here.
Yes! I've only been to Louisiana a few times but indeed found it fascinating how different people sounded who could have been neighbors. I love the way people sound there. And that's so cool to hear even the people there find it fascinating. Louisiana is the most interesting place to me. Such good people, good food, music and just so unique.
Native Chicagoan here…. The classic “da Bearhs” accent is pretty rare. Most of us have the more softened mid-western accent. There are a few neighborhoods in the city that’s it’s still somewhat common (I’m looking at you, Bridgeport, and a few other Southside Irish spots), but even there, it’s spoken predominantly by older people. The strong Chicago accent just isn’t very common anymore.
Side note: Kabir, I freaking adore how you giggle at your own jokes. And your trying the accents! Makes me giggle too.
Thanks Rebecca :)
Right. I mentioned this on another thread. It's a very working class Southside accent spoken by older people. You can hear them a mile away when they move up north.
As another native Chicagoan, I agree. We're mostly generalized american now, very flat with a few regional specificities (Ope, lemme jus squeeze by you here.)
Ehh shot it to Bridgeport lol! I never see use mentioned 🎉
I have a massive appreciation for this man's ability to comprehend and recreate these accents so incredibly quickly. My brain is having trouble processing the differences in the specific examples as he's giving them. He not only has processed them, he's learned how to physically mimic them seemingly without even thinking about it.
I’m a Texan living in Oklahoma. A lot of Oklahomans sound just like Texans. Some though, sound more like midwesterners. Then you’ve got the native Americans so it’s a really interesting mix
I was born and raised in Oklahoma and I’d agree that most Oklahomans (Native American accents aside) sound like Texans.
Another Okie reporting in. My wife is Latina and from the Texas Gulf Coast and - while our accents are nearly identical - there are definitely tiny things that set her apart as Texan and as Latina. It's pretty neat.
Funny example, at college one of her sorority sisters was from Boston. When they were first meeting, she immediately picked up on how my wife's accent was slightly different from the Okies in the room even when nobody else could tell a difference.
Oklahoma is somewhat of a crossroads of different regions. Tulsa feels like more like the Midwest whereas Southern and Southeastern Oklahoma feel more southern. Western OK and the panhandle feel like West Texas. And OKC feels like mix of everything. The accents can vary as well.
Yep. Much of the Southern white Oklahomans are just "country" Southern accents, and black Oklahomans have more of a tendency to take from NW Louisiana and "country" Southern accents. Native American Oklahomans are just flatter Southern accents in my experience, none of the NA friends or family I've been around ever was in a reservation, that's old-school.
What messed with me when I moved from TX to OK is the word 'depot'. When talking about Home Depot, Oklahomans tend to say it like me 'dee-po'. In a few other contexts (namely when speaking about a major road named Air Depot), they would say something like 'd'po'. Never got the hang of it. Some of the towns names are uniquely pronounced as well (Ada (Ay-da), Boise City (boy's), Durant (I've heard it dure-ant and doo-rant) but that trend isn't unique to only Oklahoma. Mostly Oklahomans had an issue understanding MY rural Texan accent, not the other way around. I had to mime the word 'fire' because I APPARENTLY pronouce it 'far'. Haha!
Being Cajun from south Louisiana, the mix of Native American, French, German, Spanish, African, Philippines, British, Irish, and many other nationalities and dialects has given me a true respect for culture and thier dialects. Never really understood or appreciated the diversity until later in my life when I moved around and lived in different states.
His cajun accent was so bad wasnt it? Maybe 50 years ago or so it may have been accurate but what I would call a cajun accent sounded notbing like what he did.
@@roguecivilian6958he sounded like Mawmaw and pawpaw who were both native Cajun speakers, but less like my great aunts and second cousins. You can probably track it to the suppression of the language in the early to mid 1900s where children were forced to use English in schools and many families lost the language in younger generations
My observation on the "Minnesota" accent... I have found that it is strongest in areas (towns) with a strong Norwegian heritage.
You can hear it in the Upper Midwest - but also (though not as commonly) in the Pacific Northwest.
That accent is the SINGLE most annoying accent in the US. I quite literally, broke up with a BEAUTIFUL girl from Marquette, WI because of that accent. Being from the south...I just couldn't deal.
@@scottbaron121 LOL LOL
Oregon is weird like that. Most people have a general American English sounding accent. But then you will go to certain towns or encounter old families where they sound like they are from Minnesota or Oklahoma.
@@saoirsecameron A lot of the old fishing ports had/ have big Scandinavian populations. Some via the Midwest, some direct.
@@scottbaron121 did we ask for ur opinion
Gambit was always one of my fav characters!
I was jealous of him, cuz Rogue
He's really good when he does a Southern accent he sounds like Matthew McConaughey. And I have to say I'm from Louisiana and I am Cajun French and he did it perfect that's exactly how we talk
I have to disagree on the Cajun accent. To me it still sounds like someone doing an imitation and not a native speaker of SW Louisiana.
I have to disagree I am Cajun and it depends on which part of Southwest Louisiana you're at. Cajun accent is a little different the closer you get to Texas. Cajun accent by New Orleans it's a little heavier than the other part of Southwest Louisiana by Texas. I know I live in lake Charles and our accent is different than in baton rouge by a little bit
@@cajungirl9010 Lafayette, Iberia, St. Mary and Lafourche Parishes here.
@@cajungirl9010 I agree, there are several different Cajun accents. I'm from Lafayette, and my Cajun French speaking grandparents were from Opelousas, so what this guy did didn't sound anything like what I think of as a Cajun accent. My grandparents had a much thicker accent.
Came here to say he sounded like Matthew McConaughey
Gambit needs his own damn movie!!
Co-signed!
Agreed!
I really think it's bullshit that Gambit didn't really have a big presence in the X-Men movies.
@@chrish1253 RIGHT! I completely agree. I loved Gambit's character.
Hopefully now that Disney owns the rights, they'll fix X-men. Also, Gambit was from New Orleans. 🙂
I love that he talked about ozark accent! It’s unique because if you do drive 2 hours away, you lose the accent altogether. It’s a very small area and it’s not a common accent!
As a Minnesota native, he nailed that accent
This young man is all set to be the pride of his family with all sorts of corny "dad jokes". I love how he admits and owns it.
My dad was born in a tiny town in North Dakota and that whole side of my family has a VERY pronounced "Fargo" sort of accent. I'm from Oregon but I visited them a lot growing up and I can't help but let a "oh fer cute!", "ope!", or "uff da!" slip out every once in a while.
"Tiny town in ND" that's pretty much any town in North Dakota haha. I'm born & raised in MN, but lived/worked all over the state of North Dakota for many years. I save my "oof da"s for special occasions, but "ope!" is definitely a daily occurrence.
@@Cory_Springer Same here. I'm a wisconsinite though, but my accent is very close to a MN one. Likely because my family just recently-like 3 generations-moved down from the North Woods to the Winnebago area.
Such a good accent, could be used for some great comedy but maybe that's just cause I associate it with Fargo itself
My dad used to get around his relatives and that accent would become very pronounced. It's a little different since the family has been in southeastern Montana for generations. But the ND accent is the closest I've ever heard to it
In the movie "The Green Mile", the actors are portraying people living in Southern Louisiana in the 1930s. Several of them capture the subtle nuances of the "nurse" words that he describes that were common in the area at that time. The actor playing Del does a great Cajun accent. Those are little details that make that movie (and those performances) even better.
I was thinking about that movie too when that accent came up.
When I lived just below New Orleans, I knew many people who spoke with the accent like Del’s. I had an aunt who married a Cajun man who sounded a lot like his accent. Unless something changes, my best friend & I will be heading to New Orleans in the fall. It’ll be a Mississippi/Louisiana trip lasting two weeks. We haven’t had a vacation trip like this in a number of years.
The problem with this is that the cajun accent is far and rew in between, often bleeding into creole depending on the individual.
I once worked with a gentleman from deep within the bayous of Louisiana -
the first time I heard him speak, I did not immediately realize that he was speaking English...
but once I adjusted to the rhythm and cadence, I could following him relatively easily.
I honestly love watching "swamp people" just to hear their accents and see if I can figure out what they're saying without the closed caption lol, it's fascinating to me
@@catara99 Lol. I do too!
How did you adjust? I’m bad with understanding strong accents.
@@Dirtysoda_ Languages have tempo and cadence as well as vowel sounds... If you listened, the vowel sounds were not that difference, but you had to adjust to the tempo and where he placed stress on his words. eg. we might say the word galoshes like "Guh-Lawshus" and he would say "GO- lahshus" did that make sense? I grew up hearing a lot of different accents - so I've had practice.
When I was a union pipe fitter I worked on a project that was so large we had to have people from other locals around the country come and fill out the needed workers. One was a Cajun named Jajune(sp) and he sounded like the Cajun in the movie The Water Boy. You may catch a word or two, but most of it was unintelligible.
It's weird, he skipped the Kentucky/Tennessee "Mid-South" accent, as well as Ohio/Indiana. In the prior, there us a chain shift happening. Pen is pronounced "pin," while pin is pronounced "peen" or even "pee-uhn." Stink becomes "steenk." However, that's East Tennessee, the Apalachian influence, and it's fading due to migrations from Michigan, and mass media smoothing and sharing regional variations constantly. I kind of "code shift" not just my vernacular, but my regional accent, based on where I am, and to whom I'm speaking.
I have lived all over the eastern U.S. as a child,, including Georgia and northern Illinois, then my teens in SW Michigan, and now over half my life in Knoxville,TN. I still get tripped up by outer county accents sometimes, as the cities have largely lost their thickness in the last quarter century.
Agreed! I'm in Memphis suburbs of Bartlett and I am more likely to say pee-uhn and steenk when I'm talking to someone in the family but in public I will make an effort to pronounce them in a way I reckon I feel is more acceptable.
Yep, I'm from Louisville Ky and he didn't go anywhere near us. I have that basic mashup accent he was talking about, some Northern, Midlands, and Southern of course. But there is a ton of folks here that speak completely different than I do. I guess we are a mixed bag bnb of nuts too crazy to deal with lol
I was a little disappointed that he didn't do the Arklatex accent. We talk very bright and we drop the last letter.
As a black Chicago native we have a distinct accent here, especially in predominantly black neighborhoods. I would have like for him to talk about it more 💛 The vowel switch is used heavily. My aunts name is Val and I have an uncle name Brad. I grew up pronouncing my aunt’s name Veil and my uncle, Bread.😂 I’ve changed that since I’ve gotten older. My mom says eyebra instead of eyebrow. Or deddy (we stretch the e sound) instead of daddy.
We also don’t pronounce the ending of words. So instead of car we say “cah”, sto (store), flo (floor), moe (more). Talmbout instead of talking about. We turn multiple words into into one word. Whatchu bout to do? (What are you about to do?) wuhshuhname ( what’s your name). Comear (come here). We also say finna a lot 😂 “I’m finna go to the sto” or “I’m bouta go to the sto”. We drop the “a” in about and blend bout to and make it one word. It’s so much more but I’m sure you get the picture 💛💛💛 I truly enjoyed watching these videos.
I live near Philly. If you go 2 hours in any direction, you get a different accent. North, you end up in NYC, south, DC and Baltimore. East, you have the Jersey shore. So 2 hours in America is still far enough to hear different accents.
While here in Texas 2 hours in any direction and you're usually still in the state. The biggest differences are between the East, Central, or West Texas which are noticeable to locals but you yourself probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Same here. North of Fall River , you hear Boston accent. East you here New Bedford, South you here Providence. And right over the border you hear R .I. you can put one foot In Massachusetts and one foot in R.I..
Only in dense metropolitan areas with a lot of historical immigration does that happen though.
Two hours further north of NYC into N. New York is another country from NYC. Funny, I've met some really old, native New York City dwellers of Dutch and German ancestry, whose families lived in NYC for centuries, who have harder, rotic and clipped accents more like N. New York state than NYC.
You left out 2-3 hours west of Philadelphia running in to Pittsburgh accent .
The dividing line is marked by the shift of the predominant local beer from Schmidt's to Iron City ( with a minor buffer zone of Rolling Rock ) .
This might seem like a joke, but not really . Both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia retained strong allegiance to their local hometown brewery much longer after most of the country had gravitated to the major nationally marketed brands .
Let me tell you, when I first moved to Louisiana from Georgia, I was expecting a modified southern accent. I met a really nice Cajun gentleman in a small town I was fishing at and it was really hard to understand. I love it here, it’s amazing.
As a Texan, GA accents TERRIFY ME LOL. Atlantans are cool tho. I relate more to TN (now I get why! Even though I'm from SE TX myself) but also Kentucky, and I am really curious about what connection there must be there. SE TX and Louisiana do start blending the closer you get to the border, though.
gambit was that dude supremely underrated
For sure, he definitely needs a standalone movie
There was a movie in the works, but they canceled the project 2 years ago after Disney acquired 20th Century Fox. 😢
@@beckycarlson8617 Here's hoping Channing Tatum is able to twist Disney's arm the way he did Fox's, and gets to make his movie with the new guys!
@@hellsingmongrel 🤞🤞🤞🤞
@@kabirconsiders his accent and backstory/origin are absolutely Cajun
The influence of the New York City accent on that New Orleans accent actually sounded really badass… I didn’t even know about that!
Bruh, when you hear it, your brain will exit stage left.
In the 1930s and 1940s actors in Hollywood were taught a trans Atlantic general accent , like Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant were good examples of that.
Lucille Ball also had a very different distinct American accent.
I like that old school newspaper press voice "it's 1940! And we are at war with the Germans!"
Yeah, it's a really interesting phenomenon where they essentially created an accent that doesn't actually exist.... It exists purely on the screen. People in real life didn't actually speak with that accent ...the actors were trained to speak in that accent. It's fascinating.
Once he left the NorthEast, I was lost... and I am from the States. This man is a Saint. He is holding the US together single-handedly.
Latinx (face palm) I've yet to meet a fellow Latino or Latina seriously use that word. I've only heard it in the context of making fun of the nonlatins that push its usage.
funny because from what I understand of the history behind the word is that it originated in latin america and it seems to be mostly people in the diaspora who have a problem with it.
that being said it seems its being phased out in favor of Latine
I'm from central Texas originally. My Dad is from Pittsburgh, my mom is from southwest Florida(but is a trained musician who learned to speak in what she calls a "continental" accent), and all three of my older brothers are from NY state. My husband is from NW Indiana right by Chicago(and has a lisp). I don't think you could definitively place any of us by our accents easily, as we all sound more or less just generally American. When I get angry though, or say certain words, I suddenly sound a whole lot more southern 🤣 I've now lived in Texas, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Hawaii.
When he was using certain southern accents, all I could picture in my mind was the actor Matthew McConaughey.
I *LOVE* his accent!
I live in Alabama. If I drive two hours South, the accent is much stronger. We say Thomas. They say Towmas. The vowels are much longer. I love different accents. And I love watching your reactions.
Thanks Ava :)
Where you from, hon? I lived in Fairhope and Orange Beach.
I’m from Michigan and have had people tell me they don’t understand what I’m saying in other states due to my accent. Cracks me up. 😂
I'm from Chicago and I tend to understand Michigan people like perfectly well, like sometimes it's a little hard to distinguish since especially those of us who are younger in northern cities vowel shift cities don't have as strong of a city-based accent as for instance somebody raised in Chicago or Detroit in like the '70s. I talked to someone who went to law school in Indiana for years but she was from the East Coast and said that I sounded like Jesse Eisenberg in Rio. I was so confused, since usually people just tell me that I sound like I slur my words together and have a funny accent when I go to places outside the upper Midwest. 🤷🏻♀️
People in Knoxville had a hard time with my west Michigan accent for a time when I moved here in 1993, and vice-versa.
I asked for a pin, and was handed a pen. "How am I gonna pop a zit with this?"
A coworker I was walkong out with a deposit told me her car was parked "over there, by the far stone." I kept saying, "I don't see that," thinking she meant some boulder I had somehow never noticed. She kept emphasising, "far," "the FAR stone, the FAR stone," so I'm thinking I need to look farther away, and she's thinking I'm dense as hell, "I don't see a _far_ stone! I don't see _any_ stones!" She was parked by the Firestone tire place. We had a good laugh.
@@injunsun lol! 😂
He only did it for once sentence, just a few seconds around 8:48, but his Oklahoma accent was spot on! He sounds like my local weatherman (David Payne if you want to find a video and listen), whose strong Oklahoma accent is an inside joke among my family and other people around our general area, so I recognized it instantly.
About accents in the UK, as he said in the previous video, it's about how long people have been speaking English there -- hundreds and hundreds of years. Also consider that for most of those centuries, towns and villages and rural areas were much more isolated than they are now. That two hour drive to Birmingham now might've been a twelve hour trip in a carriage two hundred years ago, and most people would never make that trip, in either direction. But it's about having more *time* for accents to diverge. This is how linguists trace language families around the world, and figure out which areas of, say, the South Pacific have been settled a longer or shorter time; places that've been settled longer will have more language diversity than places that've been settled a shorter time.
Interestingly, it's the same with genetics. More time means more opportunity for genes to mutate and the viable ones to spread. So since humanity originated in Africa, there's more genetic diversity in Africa than there is in the entire rest of the world put together.
The on line is one of the most pronounced shifts you can experience while traveling in the US.
Yes, you might get drastic shifts anywhere, but the on line is so strong that one minute you stop on a road trip for lunch and you're above it.... you're identifiably in the north. Get on the highway and drive south for 10 minutes when you need to rush into a gas station for a bathroom emergency and suddenly you're surrounded by the south.
Glad he talked about Utah. Pretty unique accent in some parts
I live in Southern Mississippi and New Orleans is about a 45 minute drive from where I live. I actually grew up in Manchester England so when I came to the US the kids at school just loved my British accent. It didn't take long for me to pick up the accent here. When I get angry my Brit shows itself lol. My brother never lost his English accent, and he was born in California. All my friends loved to visit our house and just listen to my mom talk with her somewhat posh British accent. I miss them both so much. They both passed away, my mom in 2008 and my brother in 2009.
Being a born & raised Minnesotan he has both accents dead on !!!
Elongating our vowels is very common.
That New York accent of yours had me rolling, plus X-Men was my jam back in the day.
Interesting that you, as a Brit, would pick up on that glottal stop on the T. When the Mormons first settled Utah, they sent missionaries all over the US, and a LOT to England ... and many of their English converts quickly moved to Utah, so you'll find a lot more British English constructs in Utah and the north/south corridor they settled into all the way into Canada and south into Mexico.
The part about the northern cities vowel shift floored me the first time I heard it. I knew there was a distinct Chicago accent, but I didn't realize it was because the vowels were displacing each other.
it's extra funny too because there have been linguistic tests of people with northern cities vowel shift accents and even they have trouble distinguishing words from each other because of the shifting vowels. I think the paper said that it's almost like we flip a coin in our head to figure out which word they are trying to say in our own accent. 😂
It is kinda weird, but me coming from the Midwest I can say it's true. An example is the A in bag and face sound like the A in ate.
Something I noticed this time was Kabir thinking that those cities scattered around the Great Lakes where it’s strongest are close together. I’m sure they’re strongly connected by the lakes but not physically close least of all by British standards.
Oklahoma actually has multiple accents within it based on settlement patterns regardless of race. Oklahoma was Indian Territory and many Native American tribes were forcibly removed and relocated to what is today Oklahoma (hence why there’s so many tribal nations in the state). Since those tribes came from various locations and had their own languages, the dialects vary. She gave two examples in the video, but there are others. My paternal great grandmother was full blood Blackfoot and spoke similar to the example given for the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota people. My paternal grandmother and her sisters grew up among the Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. So they spoke with a mixture of my great grandmother’s accent, that accent (as illustrated in the video for Cheyenne), and my paternal great grandfather’s white Northern California accent (which you’ll hear in part 3). My dad and his brothers and sister grew up in Northern California with my paternal grandmother’s accent and my paternal grandfather’s New Hampshire accent (which you’ll hear in part 3). Thus my dad, uncles, and aunt each speak with varieties of their parents and a Northern California accent. My maternal great grandfather was from Ohio when he helped found the city I live in (my paternal great uncle was an optimist from Ohio who worked for the Chickasaw and a town grew up around his practice that the Chickasaw named after him). My great grandmother was also from Ohio. Thus my maternal grandmother had a midwestern accent. My paternal grandfather’s parents were from Southern California (Pasadena) and so that is where his accent comes from. Thus my mom and her sisters speak with a variation of a midwestern and Southern California accent. In the part of the state I live in many people speak with some variations of midwestern accents since that’s where most white and black families came from that settled in this part. The western portions and panhandle of the state the accents sound similar to the example given for The Rockies towards the end of part 2. In north eastern Oklahoma the accents sound similar to Missouri, Tennessee, and Appalachia as that’s where many of the white and black settlers came from (the Ozark accent given in this video is also part of this area). The southeastern part of the state the white and black folks will have that “piney woods” type southern accent. This is often called Little Dixie. In the southern and southwestern parts of the state the accent is very similar to Texas since that’s where most of those white and black folks came from (the southwestern corner of Oklahoma was once part of Greer County, Texas, but after Congress changed the boundary definition and a legal fight that the Supreme Court settled, that area became part of Oklahoma...so strong Texas sounding accents there). Central Oklahoma accents is where there’s lots of mixing since people from all over the state as well as from elsewhere in the US have settled there over the years. The most notable new addition is the accents from Louisiana. After Hurricane Katrina, many people from Louisiana were given temporary housing in Oklahoma, especially central Oklahoma. Some of them decided to stay, start businesses, and settle so now that’s a prominent accent heard in central Oklahoma amongst whites and blacks whose families came from Louisiana only a decade ago. In Oklahoma besides accents for white, black, and Native American people, you’ll notice accents amongst the East Asian, South Asian, Arab, and Hispanic/Latino people. These tend to be a mixture accents. For example, many Hispanic people in Oklahoma (especially those that have lived here for multiple generations), have accents that mix other various Hispanic accents that this series has and will describe, especially in central Oklahoma. So when you say if I drive 2 hours will I hear different accents the answer is very much yes! Oh and since you mentioned thinking Oklahomans sound like Canadians, well you’ll meet some that do because their great grandparents or great great grandparents settled in Oklahoma from Canada! You’ll also hear some areas with Czech, German, and Polish American accents as many Czech, German, and Polish immigrants settled in Oklahoma in the late 19th century when some of the lands were opened up by the federal government for free settlement (through land runs, land lotteries, land lots, etc). In fact, the city of Prague, Oklahoma was founded by Czech immigrants and you can definitely hear bits of the Czech English accent from folks whose families founded the city (the city’s name is pronounced Pr-ay-g, though, an intentional change because while the founders wanted to honor where they came from they didn’t want there to be confusion when people speak about the two different cities). Like a lot of the US, Oklahoma is pretty diverse and we still have folks moving here from other parts of the US and the world. My mom literally works with people who’ve moved here from England, Germany, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, and the Marshall Islands. At the factory I was working at I worked alongside people from the Marshall Islands, Korea, Philippines, Ireland, Spain, Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Jamaica, Tonga, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. And at the convenience store near my house that I used to go to quite often, it was owned by a guy from Scotland. He sold it in 2019 after he got married. The woman he married owned some ferry company in Washington state so he sold his business here in order to move to be closer with her and start a new business there. The business is owned now by a guy from Texas (the guy still lives in Texas, he occasionally comes to check on the store but otherwise the manager and employees are who I usually see there).
I'm from Michigan and consider my self to be very mid-western in my speak but every once in a while I notice a Canadian, Wisconsin, Minnesota pronunciation come out, so weird, we've got water between us.
yeah, michigan does have its own weird niches because of the lake separation, and not just from the rest of the Midwest but also inhouse as the UP and LP are very different
Listening to the Minnesota accent, yeah it does sound similar to Canadian
@@Spongebrain97 we not tho tbh most people from minnesota come from Countrys like Norway Sweden ext.. it's just northern part that sounds like Canadian
@@jackjacobson3893 yeah I know, those immigrants from Scandinavia came to Minnesota in like the early 1900s
@@Spongebrain97 being on the Canadian boarder and even north of the lowest part of canada makes sense similarities would form aspecialy in the northern regions, but being a central Minnesotan who has been told has a Minnesotan sounding accent similar to the soft accent he demonstrated I can tell the difference talking to Canadians with the famous Canadian "aboot eh" accent its pretty different, and they have a few distinct accents as well being a very large country with two official languages.
Oklahoma is right on top of Texas. It's basically Texas's hat, so their accent is nothing like Canada's.
I absolutely love these videos. You are right, this dialect coach is very good. It amazes me how he can change so quickly. I am relatively new to your channel. I am glad that I found you though. Speaking of accents, I love yours. I am from Southern California, I do not have the valley girl or surfer dialect, I have more of a "General American" Accent. I find it fascinating to listen to people from different places speaking, accents are a beautiful part of humanity. Love your videos, cant wait for more!! :)
I'm currently re-watching the 90s X-Men cartoon. And Gambit was one of my favorite characters.
Non native american Oklahomans have a southern/texas accent. Native americans in Oklahoma have a different accent. Actually Oklahoma doesn't have reservations it has "Nations" meaning all the tribes in Oklahoma have there own land within the state and their own law enforcement and hospitals etc
Yeah, and that McGert ruling along with the other case, really screwed up what is supposed to be. On Google Maps, it now shows the whole of Eastern OK as NA land, yet we still don't enact the things you have to do for different countries, like passports, etc. We should've just scrapped that 1864 piece and just said well it's too late to just give NA's half of a state.
The Mountain West bit is pretty spot on, though he missed two key features. The first being that we hardly pronounce the G in the ING words he mentioned, and the RAD part of Colorado is pronounced like Radical instead of Raw.
-Guy born and raised in Colorado
Absolutely fascinating. What hurts my heart is the fact that there's so many that don't celebrate these accents and differences. Many people will immediately form a negative opinion of an individual based on an accent. That's tragic and displays the enormous ab=mount of ignorance that is sustained by hateful people.
Oh yeah. Ppl hear my deep southern accent n they immediately think oh hes dumb. We talk different. Were not dumb in the south.
@@therandomguy8927 100%
Think NASA. IJS.
Absolutely. My parents worked very hard to make sure my siblings and I had a very neutral, General American accent instead of a Western PA accent. They even got mad at me in high school when I started picking up some WPA characteristics from my peers, as they said it would make people think I was stupid.
It's interesting (and by interesting, I mean terrible) how most of the accents that people try to get rid of in the US are from regions typically associated with the working class/manual labor. You can always identify classism (and often racism) by what accents are viewed as inherently unintelligent.
Agreed!! Ebonics shouldnt be automatically disregarded as uneducated. Hopefully we (younger generations) can change this though.
I'm a Rochestarian. Around the Great Lakes, the "a" vowel in can, cat, and things like that have 'ee' sort of sound in them. It makes us seem nasally to people from outsiders. "Kyan I hyave thyat?"(Can I have that?) Another thing that we use a lot of is a schwa. In the sound 'ent' in moment. Almost sounding like Mo-mnt, or like in Roses, we don't say Ro-zehz it's more like Ro-zuhz, but even less emphasis. This part is really prominent when we say Rochester. It's Rah-chster.
Also, people in Rochester, and other northeastern inland cities around the great lakes tend to think we are general sounding, but we have no idea how nasally we sound or how our voices differ since for some, it can be really subtle.
Another note, if you go one county over, the accents people have are drastically different and sound more southern.
Huh, this is honestly an education for me as a Rochestarian. I was aware of the nasal “a” sounds (my least favorite part of my accent). Interestingly, I say the “Rah” part of Rochester, but I switch back and forth between “-chester” and “-chster”.
I moved from Elmira to Worcester and my boss wanted me to go to an office and speak to a woman named Paulie ( to my ear). Her name was Polly.
You made me laugh when you said "shine your shoes gov'na" 😆
Kabir, Thanks for the accent lesson. Accent is a mystery really in the USA. Because there are so many different, that will blow your mind.
In Louisiana it is very strange that we have what seems like our own version of a New York accent. It’s like New York with a southern twist. Lol
I'm not you , and don't live where you live . That said , you're probably speaking of New Orleans area specifically .
@@filianablanxart8305 exactly yes, the New Orleans area
Cedaredge,Colorado I'm on the western slope of the Rockies,half way between Denver and Salt Lake City.
Both the Utah & the plains state accent are pretty easy for an outsider to pick up on.
We have that "Mount-ins" pronunciation,Eric nailed it I wish I had that voice control he has,then again I'd probably get carried away with it.
I think this is fascinating. I am from Spokane, Washington. On the eastern border of Washington and western border of Idaho. We have a very formal speech, probably more clear or plain. I always get frustrated when people don't pronounce words correctly, but I get it now. They are, just for their location, and I'm an American!!
Yes you are, sugar!!
Honestly, you’ve probably got more of an accent than you think. I feel like people are pretty bad at accurately evaluating the way they speak, because it’s so subconscious. In my experience, people from Eastern Washington (where I’m also from) can sometimes sound a little Canadian, and tend to mumble.
Urban centers are bad places to judge uniquely regional speech, anyways, because of the transplants from other areas. People from Spokane sound a lot more typically Washington to me than Seattlites, though.
I didn't think people in Spokane (my hometown) had an accent until I was gone for 10 years. Y'all do!
@@adieljonsson864 I think some of it has to do with pre boarder back and forth with areas like BC and it's really interesting bc at times I think places like Washington and Oregon have more in common with Canada than the rest of the US.
I’m in Green Bay Wisconsin, the accent in Minnesota you can find this accent in Northern Wisconsin. When I talk to people on the phone, they always say your from the north, I tell them Green Bay. When I met my husbands family in Mississippi, his little brothers said to me, you sound like the people who do the news and so proper. The accents in Mississippi is to thick and talk so fast.I have a hard time understanding them, 26 years later, I still have a hard time but with only certain family members.
I love your accents! 😂 I’m from the St. Louis area and one thing they didn’t mention is something that is very distinctly St. Louis and the way some people pronounce words like “four” and “quarter.” One of our major highways is 44, so they would say “farty far” or it would sound like “quarrter.” I don’t talk like this, so it’s funny to hear sometimes lol
Thanks Andrea :) they probably need a lot of work though 😂
Oi, mate! Love your reactions. This vid is amazing, for the accent bloke is astoundingly good. As a Welshman, I get a lot of comments because I'm a posh sounding Swansea lad. My English mates love to TTP, yet the rest of the world is very complimentary. So, that is why I really liked your comment about 2 hours away from London. Hysterical, but true. Actually, here in Wales, traveling 30 minutes to Pembroke, there's an immediate difference. If I travel 50 minutes to Merthyr Tydfil, the accent is hugely different. So, in the end, keep up the brilliant work of sharing and bringing humans together. Cheers!
Thanks so much mate :)
To all my Americans, TTP= Take the piss, or "fucking with you."
@@Crossword131 thank you, I was wondering!
I am from the South in the USA KENTUCKY to be precise and I like you good job my friend !
I don't have an accent. You have an accent. 😁 Northeast Alabama here. Enjoy your vids young man. 👍
My dad's side of the family came from there. Cullman and Marshall counties.
Adding the racial and ethnicity difference is a plus, it really puts into perspective the major or minor differences.
Native Texan here! I used to have a really heavy Texan accent because I lived in a very rural area in south-central Texas-- the more rural the area, the heavier the accent here. I taught myself out of the accent because my family moved to California, and my sister and I ended up getting bullied for having such a strong accent. I now live in Central Texas and am starting to get a somewhat heavier accent than the general American accent I had developed.
I would say his Texan accent is pretty good but it's more mid-Texan accent than light-Texan or heavy-Texan accent. It wasn't as light as I thought it would be, but it also wasn't as heavy as someone from a very rural area would speak. Older Texans as well usually have a really heavy accent.
The mountain and button glottal stop happens all over the west and is very common in the PNW
I’m from Utah and moved to Maryland and I ALWAYS get called on mountain.
Also, something I found interesting is that my dad has a mild Minnesota accent and people in Utah don’t usually notice but everyone in Maryland can really tell.
I'm born and raised north Floridian. Tallahassee region. We have a different way of saying certain words. We tend to leave "i" out of a lot of words. Like..."Oil" for instance. We pronounce that "ool"...or "boil" being pronounced as "bool". He didn't go over that dialect for that region in his videos.
When he started talking about the Ozarks accent, I remembered watching Ozark because Julia Garner’s character Ruth sounds just like the accent he’s putting on. Julia must’ve had a great dialect coach!
Fun fact for the Utah accent and the Button/Mountain feature
Utah was founded largely of British immigrants and most white people in that state have a British lineage as a large portion of Mormon settlers were English converts that sailed over to the US and quickly were sent over the plains because of religious persecution. So that glutaral stop may be a relic of the accents of the pioneers that settled the land and were isolated for some time before they were able to incorporate back into the general US.
Also another feature of Utah accents is that we tend to condense and smooth our sentences to where we're barely even pronouncing them at all. Especially when asking a question. So in sentences like "So you think we can go?" or "Do you want to try this?" it would be more pronounced as "So y'thin we'cn go?" or "Ya wan try yiss?"
So the most Utah sentence you could possibly say is "Hey, ya wan'go hikeen up in'a moun'ns today, maybe g'down fisheen nea' the crick?"
White New Orleanian here. The "nurse" thing is definitely an "old people only" thing among white New Orleanians. Ever seen The Green Mile? You remember how Tom Hanks kept pronouncing "Percy?" Accurate. More widespread in the black accent.
Also, there's a little too much "Southern" in his Yat. It's more New York than the way he was doing it. There's also different varieties of Yat around the greater metro; Metairie Yat and Chalmette Yat are pretty different, but you'd need a whole video to catch all the varieties. And it all got displaced when a thing happened a few years ago.
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Nice try with the Cajun, but the Ls are usually lighter than the way he was doing them. Among other things. It's a beautiful accent, but really difficult to imitate properly.
I was born in Massachusetts and then moved to North Carolina when I was 12, so I have a very mixed accent. My husband, on the other hand, is born and raised in the Raleigh area of North Carolina. I realized right at the end of the video that, despite my southern-ish accent, I still use the northern “on” like dawn, and my husband uses the deeper, southern “on”. I also don’t tend to pronounce the “t” sounds in the middle of words like “mountain” or “button”, and then I also seem to omit the vowel sound that immediately follows the “t”, so they sound more like “mou - n” or “buh - n”. Still two distinct syllables, but separated by a complete glottal stop. My husband doesn’t omit these sounds in the middle of those words, so “mountain” and “button” actually sound like “mountain” and “button”.
Yeah as someone from Chicago you have to watch out because if I'm not paying attention my a's can get really harsh and how I say things. A Chicago accent can be very rough on the ears cause some of us are much worse than others. Like hearing someone in the inner city of chicago say garage key is hard to even understand. Generally I say the farther out in the rural great lakes Midwest you go though there is less accent. unless your in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Those rural places can have thick accents more than the cities.
I agree with you because I live in Michigan's thumb area and we do not talk like that. My mom being from North Chicago born and raised, moved here also when she was 22 doesn't even talk like that
I'm from Utah, and I honestly never noticed before that I use a glottal stop in "mountain." Sure enough! We also have a vowel I've never heard anywhere else, a sort of "uh" crossed with "ooh" in words like "shut." We say "hars" for "horse" and "born" for "barn." Hmm...I'm going to have to pay closer attention from now on. Fascinating!
When you did the Birmingham accent I immediately thought of wrestler Pete Dunne. That was spot on.
He did really well representing the cajun accent, love when my culture gets a shout. The only American culture alive since before the war for independence
Haha Gambit definitely has that NOLA accent 👌
Your right, the difference in the UK with such a small amount of distance is wild! Love it!
Accents in the UK are subject to the same variation due to settlement.
The difference is a couple thousand years of that language changing, moving, and meshing.
Whereas in America, it's only been around 4 hundred years.
Once you get to the Western region, we all sound a lot the same. But there is still sociolinguistic variation there, based on class, race, etc...
Exactly… You give people enough time living in one area and eventually it won’t even be just different ACCENTS across a small distance… It will be whole new languages
That’s why Europe has so many different languages spoken across a relatively small area… Same with Pre-European Australia, Africa, North America and the Indian subcontinent. People have been living in these places for a good few millennia
I love how he immediately goes into the area accent!
I was raised in the Chicago suburbs and my family has the Chicago accent, but I’ve lived in St. Louis now for over 15 years and yes or accent is very unique. Anytime I go anywhere people are so confused to where I am from because I have both accents depending on what words I’m saying 😭
His assessment of Texan accents is pretty spot on. I live in East Texas, not too far from the Louisiana line, and it's crazy how much difference there is between our accents here behind the Pine Curtain and those from West Texas. Always interesting to see how people from other countries see America, especially those from my ancestral homeland of England/Scotland.
I am from Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are very sing song here. My husband was raised by “Yankees” lol even though he grew up here, and my family has been here for many generations. (I am more than 1/4 Native American.) My accent is WAY different than his!
Something interesting to Look into is- the Oklahoma land run, (AKA- the Sooners) and the Irish migration here, it greatly impacted our accent.
His West Texas accent sounds like Matthew McConaughey, which makes perfect sense, since he's basically the mascot. 😁
One of the earliest distinct accent differences I ever picked up on was from St. Louis:
I had an Aunt who would pronounce the word "Fork" as if it was spelled "Fark" -
When we got a new elementary school teacher one year - I immediately knew where she was from -
because of her accent - but I haven't heard anyone speaking with that particular accent in at least 20 years -
and then it was rare.
An coworker from Pittsburg used to pronounce couch like Katch.
Love this guy, love the classic X-Men tv series (still the best version of Dark Phoenix), & I adore Gambit!
Great reaction!
Oklahoma has a very strong southern history, especially on the eastern and South Eastern part of the state. The western part is mostly associated with the South Western part of the country like, New Mexico and West Texas. Most of the people do not sound like the Native Americans. Most have a mix of country and southern which in turn becomes almost like a Hick sounding accent. Not fully southern, and not fully country. Believe it or not, the overwhelming majority of Oklahoma is not Native American anymore, and hasn't been for a very long time. Most (not all) People in Oklahoma have very small amounts of Native American blood in them. Even though Oklahoma does try to maintain the history and culture of the Native American.
I'm from Minnesota and when he dropped the heavy to a light accent that is a pretty accurate of what we sound like. Just a hint of accent. I was suprised he didn't mention how we usually drop the s from yes to yeh, yah or change it to yup. Or no to neh nah or nope. And of course the famous dontcha as well as whatcha and aintcha.
Here in Kansas it's a melting pot of accents. The lower Kansas is closer to Oklahoma, so the closer to that border you get, you hear a much stronger Texas/Oklahoma accent. And if you are closer to the top of the state you'll hear a much more "General American" accent.
Missouri and Kansas (and I'm sure other states, as well) have incredibly skewed accent lines. I live five minutes west of KCI and everyone has mid-south accents. But everyone five minutes south of KCI is without accent.
As I'm sure you know, in KS and MO, literally every five minutes the accent boundary changes.
Houstonian here. Just wanted to comment on how hilarious it is that we turn one syllable words into two syllable words. For example, instead of "that" we (some of us) say "thayat".
Also, some of us say things like "I was just sittin there" or "I useta could".
These just crack me up.
Love your videos Kabir! Fun fact with Utah and dropping the "t" in words. Lots of Utahans trace their families back to immigrants from the UK (England in particular). So maybe it's a carry-over :)
Thanks so much mate :)
I live outside Chicago and I've never heard anyone speak like that here in Illinois. Not even my grandmother who was born in the city. The place you do here that accent is when your cross over into Wisconsin. I feel like we are strong on some vowels but we are pretty mainstream here with the way we speak.
Next month the brand new museum First Americans Museum will open in Oklahoma City. It will have one of the largest collections of native american art/artifacts
This accent video is epic!! I think his accents and his co facilitators were super spot on and the host’s corny jokes are kind of adorable
I had to purposely learn how to change my pronunciation of the word "lawyer", because in my original dialect, it sounded a lot like "liar". So I had to purposely start pronouncing it as "low-yer".
The profession seems to prefer the term “Attorney“.😜
I’ve lived in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St Paul and the surrounding suburbs in Minnesota ) my entire life and my family (including myself) sounds like that. When I was traveling in Kentucky and Tennessee, people were commenting on how I pronounce “bag”, “boat”, “so”, etc and my use of “uff da”, “ope”, “pop”, etc. It’s so interesting to hear how people pronounce words such as “aunt” so differently from me even though they grew up only a state or so away.
The distance between accent groups in the US can vary pretty surprisingly - often depending on travel and migration patterns.
A few examples, would be North Carolina - with some big jumps going from the Islands, into the Appalachian mountains.
Also, generally speaking, the accent change between Kansas and Oklahoma is pretty marked -
Kansans sounding like Midwesterners, and Oklahomans sounding like Southerners.
One accent pool that nobody expects is in California's southern San Joaquin Valley -
the accent (especially in smaller towns) around Bakersfield ( about 2 hours from Los Angeles)
is distinctly a rural Oklahoma or sometimes even an Arkansas accent.
The famous "Country" singers, Merle Haggard, and Buck Owens are both from Bakersfield, California.
In New England, Boston is about 2 hours from Maine, and about 3 hours from New York City.
That San Joaquin Valley accent, as I understand it, is related to the migrants from Oklahoma and nearby states who came West during the Dust Bowl period of the 1930s.
@@johnalden5821 Yes, Partially - but earlier than that, Oil drillers came from Oklahoma in the late 1800s and early 1900s as oil was developed around Bakersfield, and the west side of the Valley (Taft, McKittrick, Derby Acres). The more isolated communities on the west side still have some of the most distinct accents.
I was once, in actual fact, asked:
"Yew ain't frum 'round here, are yew mister?"
To which I responded,
"No Ma'am. I'm just passing through."
I grew up in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St.Paul, MN) and he's totally right. People complain about how our accent gets over emphasized on the "ah" and "oh" drawn sounds but its the younger generations complaining. Mainly because its almost entirely died off with us. Probably stems from being mocked so much on it lol. However its very much alive in the older generations and northern regions closer/into canada. it can be even a shock to someone like myself when I hear it.
I was particularly interested by the discussion on the Great Lakes region accent shift, especially seeing as he mentioned that it is quite strong in Rochester, where I’m from. Now, admittedly, I’ve had a Rochestarian tell me that I don’t sound like I’m from Rochester, so it could be mine is weaker. I think the most prominent vowel change for me (and the one that I find really irritating), is that the “a” in words like hammer, apple, and so on is quite nasally. For me the sound resonates more in the nose area of my face than in my mouth. Now that I think about it, I guess I have a bit of the “bed” and “dress” sound being further back in my mouth, but not to the extent of his presentation of the Chicago accent. Some of the muting of these traits could be down to the fact that I was born in Northern California and started speaking while I lived there. Then add in the amount of British media I watch, and I’ve adopted some regional British sounds. For instance, when I say “Sertraline” the “er” sounds like a variation of a Scottish accent (and when I was in Scotland for a couple months, those sounds became more prevalent).
Born and raised in Dallas and his Texan is 100%, you really hear it in "white"
As far as British vs. American accents and distance, you gotta remember Kabir that Britain has been heavily settled by relatively large human populations for thousands and thousands of years longer than America. In those thousands of years, most peasants lived and died within a few miles of their birthplace. That gave time for tiny hamlets and villages to develop their own language styles with relatively little migration or interaction with others. And many of those villages spoke a number of languages over that time: French, English, Saxon, Norse, Gaelic, Welsh, and on and on... They eventually learned English, but there are always traces left behind that affect speech patterns or accents, too.
America, on the other hand, has only been around a couple hundred years with most of the major settlement patterns (west of the Mississippi River) happening in the past 100-150 years. The only people who lived before (Native Americans) were forcibly assimilated, genocided, and concentrated onto reservations, so their linguistic impact was limited. Additionally, America was settled by immigrants from many places, and research shows first generation immigrants almost always force their children to learn/speak as locals in order to help them be accepted by society. So, there wasn't nearly as much development of immigrant accents as there could have been.
Give it a couple thousand years, and Americans might be right there with the highly localized accents with the British. Then again, studies are showing that social media and television are beginning to affect people's accents in weird ways. Imagine a little American boy watching your channel every day. He might develop a bit of your accent naturally even while living in America. How interesting!
Anyway, that's my weird nerd wall of text. Sorry for the spam. Great video!
I highly doubt they're going to be speaking with any trace of an English accent. lol If that's the case, then...damn, that kid needs to stop living on the internet and actually get outside of his house.
He nailed to Utah accent something I really hadn't even thought of just how everybody speaks but I've been in and out of the state my whole life when I was younger there was a distinct difference between Southern Utah and Northern Utah the most common way to describe it is roof versus rough going up on the roof up on the ruff
Ayyy I'm one of those Californians he mentions that have the glottal stop for "moun'ain." I think we tend to make more of a "d" sound in "butter" tho.
Yes! I watched the animated X Men series, and always think of Gambit when I here New Orleans accents.