I feel like "about" is the stereotype everyone uses but I usually notice Canadian accents by the "pro" prefixes. That long O is really different than the American pronunciation. Or just a "sorry". I never catch the "right" sounds and only hear a difference with "about" half the time. Sometimes I just think they're from way up north in Minnesota.
Actually any words that have the vowels of "OU" in them. That IS the ONLY way an American can tell a Canadian. Not just "aboot" or " aboat". Americans pronounce it as "bout", like in "doubt", Silenced "b" ... We have known this for over a Century. Again Thanks England, you Nutters , lol jk. It's the Atlantic that's to blame. The last time the English sailed across to teach the Americans a lesson, it did not go swimmingly for our Cousins. And France also ensured that, lol. Side note, Thank you France, your Lady is Our official Colossus, The Statue of Liberty.
@@skippercalantian2952 yeah same, like people who aren’t from Cali I’ll most likely say Cali. But people within California I will say SoCal and NorCal bc that’s just what I’ve always said.
@@cassandrarodriguezalmaguer8943 Lol I live in the Bay Area, but I've rarely heard anyone say they are from NorCal or SoCal. We just say we are from SF(San Francisco) or the Bay Area. Is this something new or what?
@@nikhilnagboth8425 no yeah but if I’m saying sum like a city I’ll say NorCal or here in SoCal, I’m from SoCal and a lot of people say Nor or SoCal when saying a city or sum if they don’t know where that is. Other then that I will say I’m from the I.E. (Inland Empire) in SoCal if people don’t know where that is
It’s crazy everyone thinks that people in Los Angeles sound like surfer dudes and valley girls but I’ve been here all my life and don’t believe we talk like that over here 🤷🏽♀️. The thing he said about how we pronounce TA-day or BUH-cause is true tho
@@strpdhatldy honestly, I was shocked the guy said we talk like that. I think the people who talk like that do it on purpose and give us a bad name lmao
@JB Yes it is there for sure, but not all the time. We don't all sound like Bill and Ted on every word. I definitely hear the buh-cause and tuh-day. There is also a drawl, but it is not so much LA or even San Diego, but more IE and rural areas.
@@Kim-427 😄 I know I do! I visited New Jersey one summer and couldn't say water 'correctly' for about 2 years. I tend to pick up little bits everywhere I go. I've traveled a lot, but have only lived in 2 areas (both SW) in my life. Most people assume I am from the mid-west, unless I really exaggerate the surfer/stoner aspects of it. Language is weird.
Funny thing is despite being born and raised in Southern California, I never developed a typical Socal Latino accent, despite growing up in a Hispanic household. I assume that it's because, while Spanish is technically my first language, I never really developed it much besides basic phrases, so I didn't speak it much with my family (apart from the occasional "Span-glish") aside from my grandmother. I mostly developed my English language amongst them. Also I kinda grew up in a more American-ized environment, school and neighborhood.
I'm kinda curious about what my original speaking voice may have been. I grew up in City Terrace in Filipino family. I generally think of myself as having learned English from the television, though my parents spoke to me exclusively in English. Most of the kids in school were Mexican-American. During college I had so much fun learning dialects as a drama major that I'm not sure how much my speech changed.
It's weird though, now that I live in Chicago hearing the sound of my old neighborhood is a rare comfort. I got oddly nostalgic during the documentary of the Night Stalker because the sheriff in that show reminded me so much of home. I'm just NOW realizing that the speaker said that this accent had some place here in Chicago, but I haven't heard it in any of the neighborhoods where I've lived.
Erik the accent guy has made many WIRED videos on actors attempting accents in movies (either succeeding or failing miserably) and on attempting the accent of just a particular person like the Queen of England or Harry Truman. Those would be good to react to if you are interested.
@@artchick2002 To be honest, I don’t think people in the west have much of accent. Most of the people speak with the standard or General American English accent. The linguist’s normal accent sounds like how people speak in the west.
@@lucthin6245 There is the Mexican and Native American influence on the language. The last few decades of Californians moving into the valley has influenced the accent. Plus, in the East Valley there is some LDS influence from Utah. When we moved to Colorado, we certainly noticed some accent changes (slightly different vowel changes), than what I spent the first 35 years of life in Arizona.
He was right, this was a brief overview. He could have done an episode on California alone...and not just the stereotypical Surfer Dude / Valley Girl thing...although those are a real thing.
I just realized being from Arizona I speak chicano english as far as my vowels go lol....REALLY COOL video! You have been stepping up your content and I'm loving it man! I love learning w you, keep it up!
Toronto has huge influence from the Carribian and UK language, especially in the african american community. youll here lots of UK slang in Toronto actually
I've never stuck around in toronto enough to hear anyone without a foreign accent anyway, I don't trust to get food or buy stuff in toronto from someone with a Canadian accent 🤣🤣
UK slang in Toronto? Where? By whom? I grew up an hour away from Toronto and never picked up on that. The Caribbean influence, I suspect, is quite a recent development caused by the high rate of immigration from Jamaica mainly since the 1980's.
Maine has a very, very strong accent. He does it well. You have to pronounce almost every letter in every word. The city of Bangor, Maine. Down in the south, we would say "Bang-er, Maine." But they pronounce it "Ban-gore."
Here in the far North end of California there's a little town called Bangor and we call it "BAn-gore" too. But, we have a city in the Bay Area called Concord and we say it "Con-kerd". Go figure!
That's because it's what you're used to, so you don't notice it. That's why almost *everyone* will claim that everybody else has an accent and they don't have one. It's because nobody can recognize their accent as an accent, because it's what you've been hearing coming out of your mouth for your entire life.
Maybe you don't, or maybe you just don't notice it. Don't take this as everything that's happening: he just cherry-picked a couple things in some people's speech. The full story is a multi-decade evolution of certain vowel changes and uptalk, that have been spreading into more people's everyday speech, and may someday become standard dialect features. Or not. I hope uptalk doesn't become standard.
Canadian fan here! Could you react to some Canadian culture or Canadian weather/nature vids in the future? A couple good ones are “Canada and the United States compared” and “Geography now! Canada”, Canada’s a really cool and under appreciated country so I think you’ll want to learn more about the country after watching these videos!
I hear you, dude! Look at all the Yanks on here obsessing over regional California accents getting passed over, while he skipped over all regions in Canada, except for Toronto and Newfoundland. Tunnel vision, eh?
“Cali” is exclusively used by people outside of California 😅 People from California will either say “C.A.” or just “California”. More commonly though we don’t refer to it as one thing. The different regions are very different places. The most common distinction you’ll hear is “SoCal” (Southern California) and “NorCal” (Northern California). Often the SF Bay Area will be spoken about separately from either of those, though.
most people from central california (where im from) dont usually say "SoCal" or "NorCal". That tends to be more of a SoCal thing. everything else is 100% accurate
Omg, your California "Valley Girl" imitation has me dying 😂 idk why, but people with English accents always sound so hilarious when trying to imitate a strange American one
He spent like one minute talking about Southern California and he used the most stereotypical (“surfer dude”) accent. I’m disappointed. The majority of us don’t sound like that (it is similar to the stereotype, just decrease it by like ten) - we sound more like the news anchors you see on the national news. Hardly anyone born and raised in Southern California calls California “cali” lol. We just say “California” or “SoCal”
Yes, to demonstrate the particulars of an accent or dialect, it helps to exaggerate them so that people can hear them clearly. You do the same thing when learning a new sound in a foreign language. This isn't complicated.
I'm from the Sacramento region in the Central Valley, and you can hear a definite combination of the SoCal, the Pacific Northwest, and San Francisco here. Our accent is a little different than the rest. Like in the name of our city, Sacramento, we don't say the t. And I've only heard people from our region say it like that. Also I feel like the further south you go in the Central Valley like towards Bakersfield you get like a country twang.
I live an hour north of Sac and "North State" definitely has its own accent. Its pretty heavily influenced by Oregon and other Western states. And you're right - I didn't realize I don't voice the "T" in Sacramento. You're also right about the "white" accent of the San Joaquin Valley. Older folks especially have that leftover "Okie" twang from people who moved there from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas during the Depression. My accent is kind of a mess. I was born in Butte County, and raised in Stanislaus County so I have kind of a combo North State/San Joaquin Valley accent.
No Latinos I know use "Latinx". Polls I've seen more than 90% never heard of it & 97% say the disagree to the use of the term. You can't ungenderize the Spanish language, or several other languages common here like Tagalog.
Preach to em, my friend. Lol I find it so annoying. And not to bring politics into it, but I swear the main group of people pushing this on Hispanics are white liberals.
I mean i only use it since I'm nonbinary and i don't like placing people in a box when it comes to gender which is probably the main reason other people use this term as well (Id have to agree with the white liberals thing though cuz not a lot of people who are of latin descent go out of their way to be gender neutral, and a lot of times it simply isn't possible in a lot, if not all, latin american languages to be non gender specific)
@@AdamCorley316 So 25% of Hispanics heard of it & only 3% use it. The whole language is gendered, to remove the gendered language it wouldn't even be Spanish anymore, it would be unintelligible to any Spanish speaker. You'd just be creating a new language nobody understood or would care to. www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/
@@stanzb1yall Be whatever you want to be, just be happy. That being said I don't buy the "nonbinary", you will never convince me that anyone doesn't lean at least 50.00001% male or 50.00001% female. I'm not learning an entire new set of pronouns for 2 reasons, 1 I just couldn't remember them all of them & 2 I along with possibly most people don't believe anyone doesn't lean ever so slightly more to 1 gender than another. And if you express yourself slightly more male & I use male pronouns you shouldn't be offended or vice-versa. Because once you parse something beyond binary, there's an infinite number in-between be it gender or anything else that's categorized. Thus 3 genders becomes 62 becomes 3,062. Or LGB, becomes LGBT becomes LGBTQ etc. And NOBODY with a real life has any time for that including most people in those categories. They work, pay taxes & rent/mortgages like anyone else. Only 25% of Hispanics heard of Latinx, & only 3% use it. The whole language is gendered, to remove the gendered language it wouldn't even be Spanish anymore, it would be unintelligible to any Spanish speaker. You'd just be creating a new language nobody understood or would care to. The same with so many other languages common around California like Tagalog. www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/
@@stanzb1yall I mean, if you wanna use it, go ahead. But I just think it's kinda redundant to basically make up words so that we don't accidently 'misgender', or offend, someone in some way. And I harbor no ill will toward trans people, or "non-binary" people. In fact, I think they, like most rational people, are perfectly capable of understanding when someone makes what may be an honest mistake in the way they address said person. I just don't like it. Especially when Hispanic folk seem to uniformly dislike the change, as well.
yeah the previous two were like 20 mins long and this one was a sad 11 mins where they could have talked about Hawaii accent. Instead he kept doing Canada when its not even part of the U.S. I mean by land mass sure, we're connected, but at least add a state that's actually part of the country even so it is across the ocean. Their accents are super interesting just like Creole and Native American accents.
@@WoWGirl6 He never claimed this was a video series about the United States. He said from the beginning: "North America." I would have been glad to hear about Hawaii dialects/accents too, but technically speaking Hawaii is not part of North America.
I’m from “cali”(socal) and my moms side of the family has lived here in LA since the 1930’s, I can guarantee you that we do not speak like the 80’s valley girl/surfer dude. I’d say we sound a lot like the pacific northwest. My dad has a subtle Persian Armenian accent though.
“Going Back to Cali" is a 1988 single by LL Cool J from the Less Than Zero soundtrack as well as his third album, Walking with a Panther. The song was co-written and produced by Rick Rubin. - Wikipedia It’s definitely used by people who are not from California.
@@Ojisan642 ah ok. That makes sense, but nowadays no one calls it Cali. A lot of us think it's cringey like calling San Francisco 'Sisco or anything other than just SF.
I was born and raised Northern California, and I know of a few families who have been here for generations. I mean when the state was admitted into the union- 1850. There is a tendency to believe that native Californians don't really exist, not true.
I’m a born and raised Southern Californian lol, although I’ve traveled to different places and you are 100% right when you say most people living in California are from other places. (But that’s the same for every state though)
I'd say that the most common ACTUAL accent you hear in California isn't the "surfer" sound, but more like the one he uses at the beginning @ 1:20 when he says "Let's talk about California -- let's talk about Southern California". THAT is, on average, how I hear natives here speak. I don't do the bid -> bed thing, but I totally do a little bit of that chicano vowel lowering and I didn't even know it until I saw this! I spent a lot of time with family in East Los Angeles as a kid, so that makes sense.
Watch a YT video called "when people from SoCal meet people from NorCal" by Trevor Wallace. Its a comedy skit, with literal stereotypical California accents 🤣🤣
I'm not Chicano, but the sounds that she was pointing out in Chicano English are the way I say words. I have a friend from St. John's, Newfoundland, and she sounds just like that.
I'm from New Mexico and Hispanic and we have a very pronounced Chicano English accent and I have been told it sounds a bit Canadian when talking to people from near canada.
I'm surprised they did not cover any of Hawaiian Pidgin/Hawaiian English. I grew up in Hawaii and it is far different from any accent in America. Not sure if anyone can actually do the accent right unless you grew up there. Example: "I know how for talk da kine hole language yeah but it sound mo bettah like this aaah"
thank you. I left my complaint about it on the actual video lol. Hawaii no represent. It's just as interesting and distinct as Creole and Native American accents.
I love how us white americans are telling latin people that they're latinx now because latinx is gender neutral eventhough the word latin is already neutral
The only part that seemed to apply was when they did the Chicano English examples like "because" and "together" (whether or not you have Mexican heritage)
Honestly man, I think it's just because you're so used to it, it's all around you. But to those of us not from your pad, yeah man, your accent is incredibly recognizable and sometimes overbearing
@@RozenockDoll Do you think I don’t know how I talk or something? If he was talking like how we do, I would’ve recognized it. He’s overdoing the “surfer talk.”
He didn’t touch at all on valley speak. It is a genuine dialect and not just a joke. Also in oregon, we have american short speech. That’s where unnecessary words are removed from talking with people of the same region.
White, urban Minnesota resident here. Something I think he might have missed is the fact that the true Minnesota accent is largely reserved to the outer suburbs and rural areas, as well as the older population. My family, full of farmers, speak with a thick accent, though I don’t have the same accent since I grew up in Minneapolis, which has mostly used the larger northern city accent, similar to chicago or detroit. Hope people find this interesting 🫡
NorCal has a different sound but a lot of people forget about us. This is disappointing because there is a difference between NorCal, SoCal, and the other areas of California.
I had been really impressed with his accents but I’m from California and I didn’t think the surfer accent was very good. Maybe the other accents sound good to me since I’m not familiar with them.
Don’t forget there’s also a huge Spanish speaking community in the southwest, Miami, & NY, each of them with distinctive Spanish accents influenced by different people from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, etc which also influences their English accent-or Spanglish (bilingual Spanish/English slang)
I live in San Diego and no one I've ever met sounds like how the guy was saying our accent was. How the lady at 4:55-5:11 was saying those words is true. Those words are often said like that. I hadn't noticed that we said those words with a "Tuh" sound until that lady pointed it out. I noticed I say "Tuh-gether" instead of "To-gether" We also excessively use the word "Like" even when it isn't necessary. We also use "Bro", "Bruh", and "Dude" a lot. Lastly the stereotypical idea of how everyone from Southern California sounds originates from the White Starbucks Girls. In fact I've never met anyone who sounds like those Stereotypical White Girls.
I'm from that "dialect island" and what he says is true; we were even known for never saying "hella" like the rest of our state, although "dude" and "gnarly" were staples in our communication. (been out of Cali for a decade now, so my info may be out of date)
Born and raised in Sacramento I can say that dude and hella are super common there, but I don't think I've ever actually heard someone say gnarly (in its slang usage) in real life before.
@@anix712 maybe it was just a Santa Cruz thing... "gnarly" was used to describe waves, injuries, epic skills, and so on... not sure it's still used today, but for sure in the 90's
Something I’ve noticed in California, or at least Socal, is that some of the older generation has a much more distinct accent. I’ve heard “Wednesdee” instead of Wednesday a lot. Also, I think that the glottal t thing on words like “button” is common (at least in our generation) where I live in the central valley.
My Sister has lived in LA for 35 years. When I visit her, her friends always have me say words for them and I don’t know why they find it so entertaining. Maybe it’s because I’m her Sister from...... New York.
Surfer Accent...bra!!! From Sacramento which is NorCal so I'm not surfing everyday but the accents do blend. It's not like we are saying Bed for Bid or Mess for Miss but after repeating myself, I do feel we round words off to make them easier? So for "Bid", I'm dropping more of the sharp "D" on the end and extending a little bit of the "e" sound in the middle. Miss and Mess, I have no clue, I feel I say them differently lol. Oh, and I reduce all my vowels and had no clue.
The video briefly touched on this but a lot of the extreme accents are kind of going away as the more west coast accent becomes the main one in the US. I always think that the overall American English accent is a mix of California/west coast with some southern influence. A lot of younger people speak in either of those but since southern slang is becoming way more mainstream, you will find southern accents influenced everywhere.
Y'all don't have hurricanes and tornadoes over there...a massive one just laid waste through Central Alabama and is headed to the Carolinas...I's love to see you react to some storm chasers over here...
Lol about your first question on which celebrities talk like that from southern California... literally any of the Kardashians lmao. Its your typical "Valley girl" accent
Hey as someone from the San Francisco bay area I feel cheated. He barely talked about us. Apparently our accents aren’t very interesting. The so-cal surfer accent was hilarious and very accurate although not everyone in Southern California sounds like that.
We also have Cajon and Creole languages in Louisiana. There are also area accents NY and NJ have two different accents and people who live in the Bronx have their very own sound.
There's an online quiz from The NY Times that will try to pinpoint your English accent...both North American and British. It was very accurate for me. It picked two cities rather far apart. One was where I spent the first half of my life and the other the second half.
As someone from Los Angeles who doesn’t really have the accent, it’s really annoying to hear it all over the US now. For example, the NY and Boston accents are so cool, I don’t get why people want to sound more and more like valley girls in LA.
As someone from the metro Detroit area, I have to ask, what's up with the Lions logo as your profile pic. You have to be a tortured soul to be from New England and be a Lions fan.
As a Newfoundlander I can tell you, that a lot of our ancestors are from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. Also as a Newfoundlanders it drives me when people, especially someone who’s a dialect specialist can’t say Newfoundland correct.
S. California is full of affectations---things that draw attention to oneself. For example: Valleytalk=Valtalk is all teen affectation. It's all made up for effect. Spread from coast to coast in a year or two back in the 80's. then there was the slang-----marvy, groovy, etc all so cute. Anything but clear distinct speech.
People from Toronto are "Torontonians". Also, many early Canadians were Scottish and Irish, especially in the Atlantic provinces. Canadian accents can be fairly diverse, people from Toronto don't sound like people in Vancouver or Winnipeg.
If you haven't seen the Netflix series Longmire, it is about the white Sheriff of a county in Wyoming having to deal with crime that often crosses over onto the local Indian Reservation making him have to work with the Native American Sheriff. The native American & the western American accents, culture, and ways are contrasted excellently. Excellent series. Excellent accurate accents. Beautiful scenery.
Also he didn’t really talk about it but there’s a large French speaking area of Canada and it leaks into the voice of people from bordering areas including NY and Vermont. I’m from northern New York and everywhere north of Syracuse it’s common to travel and be asked if your Canadian. It’s also common for the Ontario province to ad Aye to LITERALLY everything they say to the point to actually don’t want to talk to them. I have friends with dual citizenship and my stepdad as mom and several other family members are French Canadian born or live there and I can’t handle them most of the time bc they say it so much!!!
I usually don't pronounce R's or T's or "thick" sounds. I say Bri'ish, Accense, Oi ma'e, cup of watah (or wa'a, sometimes). Jamany🇩🇪, granma, kahma I also say other things differently. Like "unnecessary sounds": Mou-ain, Kurea, Br'ish
Growing up in San Diego, I don't remember anyone I knew actually talking with the Bill & Ted accent...but watching these videos, I just realized that I pronounce mountain as "moun'n".
Although not technically accurate in the strictest sense, North American English-speakers generally mean Canadian and American when using the term "North American". Mexico isn't included, even though it is on the North American continent, because they speak Spanish rather than English and, therefore, Mexico is often grouped in with Central and South American countries as part of Latin America". Btw, a person in Toronto is called a Torontonian.
The BC/Vancouver bag/beg or Tag/teg pronunciation migrated into Seattle. We have a lot of people who pronounce bag as "beg." If you want to react to native American culture, look at this channel. ruclips.net/user/MagikDragon My favorite is "Buffalo Horns Riot Guy roasted by Native Americans."
The 'surfer accent' is 10000% how every tik tok influencer sounds lmaooo
so damn true
Thank god us east coast surfers don’t sound like that 😂😂
Because a lot of them are from LA.
they only did socal :(
"Influencer" is the most pretentious self-appointed title anyone has given themselves in at least the past several decades.
- "Are you a Valley girl?"
- "I'm like no, I'm a surfer, because like before there was the mall, there was the ocean, okayyy."
The walls in the mall are like totally, totally tall.
Ha ha I remember, "the walls in the mall are totally totally tall" line from Tiny Toons. Ha ha
is that from something?
@@Jzombi301 - It's from Whoopi Goldberg's one-woman Broadway show -- so long ago it was what made her famous enough to get "The Color Purple" (1985).
I never realized that we Canadians said words like “about” and “right” differently until I visited Boston in 2017 and heard them say it
Lmaoooo
I feel like "about" is the stereotype everyone uses but I usually notice Canadian accents by the "pro" prefixes. That long O is really different than the American pronunciation. Or just a "sorry". I never catch the "right" sounds and only hear a difference with "about" half the time. Sometimes I just think they're from way up north in Minnesota.
Did you know that you Canadians all say “The Moose is oot and aboot and loose aboot the Hoose”? 😆
Actually any words that have the vowels of "OU" in them. That IS the ONLY way an American can tell a Canadian. Not just "aboot" or " aboat". Americans pronounce it as "bout", like in "doubt", Silenced "b" ... We have known this for over a Century. Again Thanks England, you Nutters , lol jk. It's the Atlantic that's to blame. The last time the English sailed across to teach the Americans a lesson, it did not go swimmingly for our Cousins. And France also ensured that, lol. Side note, Thank you France, your Lady is Our official Colossus, The Statue of Liberty.
Sorry too. Most canadians I hear say it like sore-y
even here in the california central valley, you hear a ton of that SoCal/LA accent. its taken a heavy influence on the west coast
How far up are you? Bakersfield here.
@@GreenJeepAdventures small town of Galt, in between Elk Grove and Lodi, right near Sacramento🤝
@@AndrewL209 Ah yes. I had a friend that lived in Walnut Grove when I was younger. Galt is right next door. I lived in Vallejo then.
@@GreenJeepAdventures gotcha
@@redletter2008 It could be possibly from all the Okies that migrated here during the Dust Bowl days.
All my family have that Chicano accent, but I’ve deadass never heard someone say Cali. I always said SoCal or NorCal 🤷🏽♀️
I.E 📍
only non-Califorian's say Cali. That's how we know you aren't from around here. ;)
I use Cali, SoCal, and NorCal depending on the situation.
@@skippercalantian2952 yeah same, like people who aren’t from Cali I’ll most likely say Cali. But people within California I will say SoCal and NorCal bc that’s just what I’ve always said.
@@cassandrarodriguezalmaguer8943 Lol I live in the Bay Area, but I've rarely heard anyone say they are from NorCal or SoCal. We just say we are from SF(San Francisco) or the Bay Area. Is this something new or what?
@@nikhilnagboth8425 no yeah but if I’m saying sum like a city I’ll say NorCal or here in SoCal, I’m from SoCal and a lot of people say Nor or SoCal when saying a city or sum if they don’t know where that is. Other then that I will say I’m from the I.E. (Inland Empire) in SoCal if people don’t know where that is
It’s crazy everyone thinks that people in Los Angeles sound like surfer dudes and valley girls but I’ve been here all my life and don’t believe we talk like that over here 🤷🏽♀️. The thing he said about how we pronounce TA-day or BUH-cause is true tho
Totally true! You hear it in movies about us, but the only people who sound that way are the transplants who are trying to hard or the stoners.
@@strpdhatldy honestly, I was shocked the guy said we talk like that. I think the people who talk like that do it on purpose and give us a bad name lmao
@JB Yes it is there for sure, but not all the time. We don't all sound like Bill and Ted on every word. I definitely hear the buh-cause and tuh-day. There is also a drawl, but it is not so much LA or even San Diego, but more IE and rural areas.
@@strpdhatldy No one ever thinks they have an accent.lol
@@Kim-427 😄 I know I do! I visited New Jersey one summer and couldn't say water 'correctly' for about 2 years. I tend to pick up little bits everywhere I go. I've traveled a lot, but have only lived in 2 areas (both SW) in my life. Most people assume I am from the mid-west, unless I really exaggerate the surfer/stoner aspects of it. Language is weird.
As a native of SoCal I never realized how I do that TA-day thing lol
Fr I didn't realize the "bUcause" thing and I'm shocked lol
Same, I kept saying it and I’m like wow I never noticed lol
@@taj9257 totally LOL
@@willbeach87: It's called a schwa, and it's the most common vowel sound in English.
Cool. I'm a Chicana/Latina, Hispanic, born and raised in Southern California. Spanish was my first language, so excited what he says about my accent.
I was very much looking forward to that, having grown up in East Los.
Funny thing is despite being born and raised in Southern California, I never developed a typical Socal Latino accent, despite growing up in a Hispanic household.
I assume that it's because, while Spanish is technically my first language, I never really developed it much besides basic phrases, so I didn't speak it much with my family (apart from the occasional "Span-glish") aside from my grandmother. I mostly developed my English language amongst them. Also I kinda grew up in a more American-ized environment, school and neighborhood.
I'm kinda curious about what my original speaking voice may have been. I grew up in City Terrace in Filipino family. I generally think of myself as having learned English from the television, though my parents spoke to me exclusively in English. Most of the kids in school were Mexican-American. During college I had so much fun learning dialects as a drama major that I'm not sure how much my speech changed.
It's weird though, now that I live in Chicago hearing the sound of my old neighborhood is a rare comfort. I got oddly nostalgic during the documentary of the Night Stalker because the sheriff in that show reminded me so much of home.
I'm just NOW realizing that the speaker said that this accent had some place here in Chicago, but I haven't heard it in any of the neighborhoods where I've lived.
I'm Hispanic from New Mexico and I was excited as well, Granted our accent is a bit different vs Califonia. Kinda bummed out it wasn't covered
Erik the accent guy has made many WIRED videos on actors attempting accents in movies (either succeeding or failing miserably) and on attempting the accent of just a particular person like the Queen of England or Harry Truman. Those would be good to react to if you are interested.
Holy crap! He spent a total of 17 seconds speaking about the entire Pacific Northwest! As an Oregonian, I feel cheated! 😆
And to add insult to injury, he stopped talking about us to go back to California?!?
I feel ya, as an Arizonan living in Colorado- neither got any attention!
@@artchick2002 To be honest, I don’t think people in the west have much of accent. Most of the people speak with the standard or General American English accent. The linguist’s normal accent sounds like how people speak in the west.
@@lucthin6245 There is the Mexican and Native American influence on the language. The last few decades of Californians moving into the valley has influenced the accent. Plus, in the East Valley there is some LDS influence from Utah. When we moved to Colorado, we certainly noticed some accent changes (slightly different vowel changes), than what I spent the first 35 years of life in Arizona.
He has other videos that go more in depth in the areas y'all mentioned.
He was right, this was a brief overview. He could have done an episode on California alone...and not just the stereotypical Surfer Dude / Valley Girl thing...although those are a real thing.
I just realized being from Arizona I speak chicano english as far as my vowels go lol....REALLY COOL video!
You have been stepping up your content and I'm loving it man!
I love learning w you, keep it up!
Toronto has huge influence from the Carribian and UK language, especially in the african american community. youll here lots of UK slang in Toronto actually
Yeah 90% of people in Toronto with that accent are faking it to sound cool
I've never stuck around in toronto enough to hear anyone without a foreign accent anyway, I don't trust to get food or buy stuff in toronto from someone with a Canadian accent 🤣🤣
UK slang in Toronto? Where? By whom? I grew up an hour away from Toronto and never picked up on that. The Caribbean influence, I suspect, is quite a recent development caused by the high rate of immigration from Jamaica mainly since the 1980's.
@@zewasplays FYI: It is a Canadian city, after all.
Maine has a very, very strong accent. He does it well. You have to pronounce almost every letter in every word. The city of Bangor, Maine. Down in the south, we would say "Bang-er, Maine." But they pronounce it "Ban-gore."
Here in the far North end of California there's a little town called Bangor and we call it "BAn-gore" too. But, we have a city in the Bay Area called Concord and we say it "Con-kerd". Go figure!
I was born and raised in Los Angeles California and I hear a lot of American people speak like this but I personally don’t think I sound like this 😬💀
This video is full of shit. No one from LA sounds like that in real life.
That's because it's what you're used to, so you don't notice it. That's why almost *everyone* will claim that everybody else has an accent and they don't have one. It's because nobody can recognize their accent as an accent, because it's what you've been hearing coming out of your mouth for your entire life.
I was hoping he would do an *la* la accent, black la :/ it's so distinct in music so the crenshaw/inglewood accent should've been shown
Maybe you don't, or maybe you just don't notice it. Don't take this as everything that's happening: he just cherry-picked a couple things in some people's speech. The full story is a multi-decade evolution of certain vowel changes and uptalk, that have been spreading into more people's everyday speech, and may someday become standard dialect features. Or not. I hope uptalk doesn't become standard.
@@sluggo206 what is uptalk again? is that where you say a statement but like a question like with the rising inflection at the end?
Canadian fan here! Could you react to some Canadian culture or Canadian weather/nature vids in the future? A couple good ones are “Canada and the United States compared” and “Geography now! Canada”, Canada’s a really cool and under appreciated country so I think you’ll want to learn more about the country after watching these videos!
I hear you, dude! Look at all the Yanks on here obsessing over regional California accents getting passed over, while he skipped over all regions in Canada, except for Toronto and Newfoundland. Tunnel vision, eh?
“Cali” is exclusively used by people outside of California 😅 People from California will either say “C.A.” or just “California”. More commonly though we don’t refer to it as one thing. The different regions are very different places. The most common distinction you’ll hear is “SoCal” (Southern California) and “NorCal” (Northern California). Often the SF Bay Area will be spoken about separately from either of those, though.
most people from central california (where im from) dont usually say "SoCal" or "NorCal". That tends to be more of a SoCal thing. everything else is 100% accurate
@@Jzombi301 I live in Silicon Valley and we say SoCal/NorCal here 🤷🏻
@@toomanyopinions8353 im from Santa Cruz. i guess central california is very different in itself
Omg, your California "Valley Girl" imitation has me dying 😂 idk why, but people with English accents always sound so hilarious when trying to imitate a strange American one
He spent like one minute talking about Southern California and he used the most stereotypical (“surfer dude”) accent. I’m disappointed. The majority of us don’t sound like that (it is similar to the stereotype, just decrease it by like ten) - we sound more like the news anchors you see on the national news.
Hardly anyone born and raised in Southern California calls California “cali” lol. We just say “California” or “SoCal”
yeah this 3rd part video was very little effort on them
Yes, to demonstrate the particulars of an accent or dialect, it helps to exaggerate them so that people can hear them clearly. You do the same thing when learning a new sound in a foreign language.
This isn't complicated.
@@ems7623 you’re right
Yea, we dont call it Cali and we dont call it SanFran either lol
I think the term you were looking for is Influencer. RUclipsrs and Instagram models fit this category.
I'm from the Sacramento region in the Central Valley, and you can hear a definite combination of the SoCal, the Pacific Northwest, and San Francisco here. Our accent is a little different than the rest. Like in the name of our city, Sacramento, we don't say the t. And I've only heard people from our region say it like that. Also I feel like the further south you go in the Central Valley like towards Bakersfield you get like a country twang.
I live an hour north of Sac and "North State" definitely has its own accent. Its pretty heavily influenced by Oregon and other Western states. And you're right - I didn't realize I don't voice the "T" in Sacramento. You're also right about the "white" accent of the San Joaquin Valley. Older folks especially have that leftover "Okie" twang from people who moved there from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas during the Depression. My accent is kind of a mess. I was born in Butte County, and raised in Stanislaus County so I have kind of a combo North State/San Joaquin Valley accent.
Fun fact: most Californians don’t say they’re from “Cali” 😝 at least not any1 I know!
lol that's how you distinctively know that when they say "Cali" they aren't from California lol...
Yeah, anyone saying “Cali” literally makes me cringe.
@Nicholas Negosian u bet.
No Latinos I know use "Latinx". Polls I've seen more than 90% never heard of it & 97% say the disagree to the use of the term. You can't ungenderize the Spanish language, or several other languages common here like Tagalog.
Preach to em, my friend. Lol I find it so annoying. And not to bring politics into it, but I swear the main group of people pushing this on Hispanics are white liberals.
I mean i only use it since I'm nonbinary and i don't like placing people in a box when it comes to gender which is probably the main reason other people use this term as well
(Id have to agree with the white liberals thing though cuz not a lot of people who are of latin descent go out of their way to be gender neutral, and a lot of times it simply isn't possible in a lot, if not all, latin american languages to be non gender specific)
@@AdamCorley316 So 25% of Hispanics heard of it & only 3% use it. The whole language is gendered, to remove the gendered language it wouldn't even be Spanish anymore, it would be unintelligible to any Spanish speaker. You'd just be creating a new language nobody understood or would care to.
www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/
@@stanzb1yall Be whatever you want to be, just be happy. That being said I don't buy the "nonbinary", you will never convince me that anyone doesn't lean at least 50.00001% male or 50.00001% female. I'm not learning an entire new set of pronouns for 2 reasons, 1 I just couldn't remember them all of them & 2 I along with possibly most people don't believe anyone doesn't lean ever so slightly more to 1 gender than another. And if you express yourself slightly more male & I use male pronouns you shouldn't be offended or vice-versa. Because once you parse something beyond binary, there's an infinite number in-between be it gender or anything else that's categorized. Thus 3 genders becomes 62 becomes 3,062. Or LGB, becomes LGBT becomes LGBTQ etc. And NOBODY with a real life has any time for that including most people in those categories. They work, pay taxes & rent/mortgages like anyone else.
Only 25% of Hispanics heard of Latinx, & only 3% use it. The whole language is gendered, to remove the gendered language it wouldn't even be Spanish anymore, it would be unintelligible to any Spanish speaker. You'd just be creating a new language nobody understood or would care to. The same with so many other languages common around California like Tagalog.
www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-heard-of-latinx-but-just-3-use-it/
@@stanzb1yall I mean, if you wanna use it, go ahead. But I just think it's kinda redundant to basically make up words so that we don't accidently 'misgender', or offend, someone in some way.
And I harbor no ill will toward trans people, or "non-binary" people. In fact, I think they, like most rational people, are perfectly capable of understanding when someone makes what may be an honest mistake in the way they address said person.
I just don't like it. Especially when Hispanic folk seem to uniformly dislike the change, as well.
This one seemed slapped together, not nearly as thorough as the previous two.
yeah the previous two were like 20 mins long and this one was a sad 11 mins where they could have talked about Hawaii accent. Instead he kept doing Canada when its not even part of the U.S. I mean by land mass sure, we're connected, but at least add a state that's actually part of the country even so it is across the ocean. Their accents are super interesting just like Creole and Native American accents.
@@WoWGirl6 Also only talked about 1 accent in Alaska, the one that some of us barrowed from Missouri.
@@WoWGirl6 To be fair, it's a **North American** English accent tour, not a U.S. accent tour.
@@WoWGirl6 He never claimed this was a video series about the United States. He said from the beginning: "North America." I would have been glad to hear about Hawaii dialects/accents too, but technically speaking Hawaii is not part of North America.
His best videos are those that analyze when actors/actresses do good jobs with accents in roles and when they don't.
I’m from “cali”(socal) and my moms side of the family has lived here in LA since the 1930’s, I can guarantee you that we do not speak like the 80’s valley girl/surfer dude. I’d say we sound a lot like the pacific northwest. My dad has a subtle Persian Armenian accent though.
well yea, he's talking about south cali, not north
Its there, just more subtle. Almost anyone - especially women - under the age of about 50 have that little bit of "Valley" going on in their speech.
I was born in LA and I’ve never heard anyone call the state “Cali”. If it’s ever abbreviated it would just be SoCal.
yep. only SoCal and NorCal here. only people outside of California call it Cali lol
Or NorCal if you're talking about the north
“Going Back to Cali" is a 1988 single by LL Cool J from the Less Than Zero soundtrack as well as his third album, Walking with a Panther. The song was co-written and produced by Rick Rubin. - Wikipedia
It’s definitely used by people who are not from California.
@@Ojisan642 ah ok. That makes sense, but nowadays no one calls it Cali. A lot of us think it's cringey like calling San Francisco 'Sisco or anything other than just SF.
Only drug producers say they are from Cali.
I use to watch "this old house" and loved the baaaastan accent everyone had on the show.
Every time he says "Cali" I feel the cringes of a million native Californians.
Most excellent little tour of language dude! Keep the content flowing little brother and we'll keep watching!!!
Most people living in California aren't from there.
Katy Perry would be a true native you actually know.
Most celebrities you mean. From a born and raised NorCal.
I was born and raised Northern California, and I know of a few families who have been here for generations. I mean when the state was admitted into the union- 1850. There is a tendency to believe that native Californians don't really exist, not true.
I’m a born and raised Southern Californian lol, although I’ve traveled to different places and you are 100% right when you say most people living in California are from other places. (But that’s the same for every state though)
Someone from Toronto is a Torontonian.
I live in San Francisco and nobody ever says, Cali
SoCal or NorCal
Wow, I say Mary, Marry, and Merry all differently. That’s interesting to know people say them all the same.
I really like your content and personality. Like can’t just watch these videos by themselves must watch from your channel haha
I'd say that the most common ACTUAL accent you hear in California isn't the "surfer" sound, but more like the one he uses at the beginning @ 1:20 when he says "Let's talk about California -- let's talk about Southern California". THAT is, on average, how I hear natives here speak.
I don't do the bid -> bed thing, but I totally do a little bit of that chicano vowel lowering and I didn't even know it until I saw this! I spent a lot of time with family in East Los Angeles as a kid, so that makes sense.
Watch a YT video called "when people from SoCal meet people from NorCal" by Trevor Wallace. Its a comedy skit, with literal stereotypical California accents 🤣🤣
I'm not Chicano, but the sounds that she was pointing out in Chicano English are the way I say words.
I have a friend from St. John's, Newfoundland, and she sounds just like that.
I'm from New Mexico and Hispanic and we have a very pronounced Chicano English accent and I have been told it sounds a bit Canadian when talking to people from near canada.
As a Newfoundlander I only ever here people over the age of thirty talk like it.
In L.A., only surfers and people from the San Fernando valley talk like that.
I'm surprised they did not cover any of Hawaiian Pidgin/Hawaiian English. I grew up in Hawaii and it is far different from any accent in America. Not sure if anyone can actually do the accent right unless you grew up there. Example: "I know how for talk da kine hole language yeah but it sound mo bettah like this aaah"
thank you. I left my complaint about it on the actual video lol. Hawaii no represent. It's just as interesting and distinct as Creole and Native American accents.
@@WoWGirl6 yeah I did too
I was literally just looking for part 3 last night and it came out today lol
I love how us white americans are telling latin people that they're latinx now because latinx is gender neutral eventhough the word latin is already neutral
It came from the latino community and not all of us care one way or another. It's used instead of latino/a, not latin.
@@redletter2008 most of us liberals dont speak for other people and assign titles to them bud
Minnesota more air time than the whole Pac NW!
yeah no kidding...
And they gave our "ag" pronunciation just to Vancouver. Could have probably just attributed it to the whole PNW
I’m from Los Angeles and the SoCal accent he used is not at all how we talk 😂
The only part that seemed to apply was when they did the Chicano English examples like "because" and "together" (whether or not you have Mexican heritage)
It was pretty close to mine, from San Diego.
Honestly man, I think it's just because you're so used to it, it's all around you. But to those of us not from your pad, yeah man, your accent is incredibly recognizable and sometimes overbearing
@@RozenockDoll Do you think I don’t know how I talk or something? If he was talking like how we do, I would’ve recognized it. He’s overdoing the “surfer talk.”
Bring back Lavish Reacts soon bro I miss it :/
"In from Cali" 😭 I feel attacked 💀
Bay area is very different from SoCal.
He didn’t touch at all on valley speak. It is a genuine dialect and not just a joke. Also in oregon, we have american short speech. That’s where unnecessary words are removed from talking with people of the same region.
White, urban Minnesota resident here. Something I think he might have missed is the fact that the true Minnesota accent is largely reserved to the outer suburbs and rural areas, as well as the older population. My family, full of farmers, speak with a thick accent, though I don’t have the same accent since I grew up in Minneapolis, which has mostly used the larger northern city accent, similar to chicago or detroit. Hope people find this interesting 🫡
You hear a lot of Caribbean influence and slang in Toronto. As well as a huge Somalian community
Outside of Toronto you still get that classic Southern Ontario accent though
@@ogdentaylor7473 yeah for sure, leave the city and people sound very Canadian
He skipped northern California
NorCal has a different sound but a lot of people forget about us. This is disappointing because there is a difference between NorCal, SoCal, and the other areas of California.
Listen to Hank Williams sing Jumbalya - yes it is a language to be preserved. Poke and pole refer to a flat boat...
I had been really impressed with his accents but I’m from California and I didn’t think the surfer accent was very good. Maybe the other accents sound good to me since I’m not familiar with them.
The San Francisco Bay Area gained tons of Europeans many decades before the rest of the West Coast of the USA (and of Canada).
Don’t forget there’s also a huge Spanish speaking community in the southwest, Miami, & NY, each of them with distinctive Spanish accents influenced by different people from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, etc which also influences their English accent-or Spanglish (bilingual Spanish/English slang)
I live in San Diego and no one I've ever met sounds like how the guy was saying our accent was.
How the lady at 4:55-5:11 was saying those words is true. Those words are often said like that. I hadn't noticed that we said those words with a "Tuh" sound until that lady pointed it out. I noticed I say "Tuh-gether" instead of "To-gether"
We also excessively use the word "Like" even when it isn't necessary. We also use "Bro", "Bruh", and "Dude" a lot.
Lastly the stereotypical idea of how everyone from Southern California sounds originates from the White Starbucks Girls. In fact I've never met anyone who sounds like those Stereotypical White Girls.
Lav, the easy way to remember is the west coast is close to Pacific Ocean & the east coast in close to the Atlantic Ocean.
I'm from that "dialect island" and what he says is true; we were even known for never saying "hella" like the rest of our state, although "dude" and "gnarly" were staples in our communication. (been out of Cali for a decade now, so my info may be out of date)
Hella is pretty much Nor Cal only, but yeah, even though it was brief, the stuff he hit on was pretty close.
Born and raised in Sacramento I can say that dude and hella are super common there, but I don't think I've ever actually heard someone say gnarly (in its slang usage) in real life before.
@@anix712 maybe it was just a Santa Cruz thing... "gnarly" was used to describe waves, injuries, epic skills, and so on... not sure it's still used today, but for sure in the 90's
Woohoo! Part 3!
Definitely have that SNL sketch "The Californians" popping into my head now. 🤣
It makes me want to get on the 405 north and never look back 😭
@@momoandmiz At this time of day? It's gonna be jammed
Whooo!!!! Matsu valley, Ak. We rarely get mentioned for anything so it’s so cool when we do!!!
Something I’ve noticed in California, or at least Socal, is that some of the older generation has a much more distinct accent. I’ve heard “Wednesdee” instead of Wednesday a lot. Also, I think that the glottal t thing on words like “button” is common (at least in our generation) where I live in the central valley.
I'm not sure if anyone has answered this question but people from Toronto are called Torontonians.
My Sister has lived in LA for 35 years. When I visit her, her friends always have me say words for them and I don’t know why they find it so entertaining. Maybe it’s because I’m her Sister from......
New York.
Surfer Accent...bra!!!
From Sacramento which is NorCal so I'm not surfing everyday but the accents do blend. It's not like we are saying Bed for Bid or Mess for Miss but after repeating myself, I do feel we round words off to make them easier? So for "Bid", I'm dropping more of the sharp "D" on the end and extending a little bit of the "e" sound in the middle. Miss and Mess, I have no clue, I feel I say them differently lol.
Oh, and I reduce all my vowels and had no clue.
The surfer accent had me thinking of fast times at ridgemont high 😂
The video briefly touched on this but a lot of the extreme accents are kind of going away as the more west coast accent becomes the main one in the US. I always think that the overall American English accent is a mix of California/west coast with some southern influence. A lot of younger people speak in either of those but since southern slang is becoming way more mainstream, you will find southern accents influenced everywhere.
Y'all don't have hurricanes and tornadoes over there...a massive one just laid waste through Central Alabama and is headed to the Carolinas...I's love to see you react to some storm chasers over here...
He’s got tons of storm chasing reactions. That’s one of the things that got his channel popular.
Rip to all who died
Just sitting here in Atlanta, listening to the weather get louder and angrier outside, hoping this tornado watch isn't upgraded to a warning.
@@cattfink5036 Well, good luck.
@@Ojisan642 There's never been one like this...especially with the miles wide debris ball that helped level everything in it's path =((
Lol about your first question on which celebrities talk like that from southern California... literally any of the Kardashians lmao. Its your typical "Valley girl" accent
Dude, if you’re not biting your nails, you’re popping zits.
You really should do more vids on Erik Singer. Guy is a beast and super fascinating to watch.
Please react to Geography Now Mexico! 🇲🇽
Hey as someone from the San Francisco bay area I feel cheated. He barely talked about us. Apparently our accents aren’t very interesting. The so-cal surfer accent was hilarious and very accurate although not everyone in Southern California sounds like that.
My family settled in Nova Scotia, from County Tipperary.
I’m from the suburbs of New York & I say marry merry and Mary 3 different ways.
I was feeling bummed in part I when he started in Boston and seemed to skip over my home region of northern New England, but here it is at the end!
We also have Cajon and Creole languages in Louisiana.
There are also area accents NY and NJ have two different accents and people who live in the Bronx have their very own sound.
Erik Singer makes the study of Linguistics fascinating
There's an online quiz from The NY Times that will try to pinpoint your English accent...both North American and British. It was very accurate for me. It picked two cities rather far apart. One was where I spent the first half of my life and the other the second half.
As someone from Los Angeles who doesn’t really have the accent, it’s really annoying to hear it all over the US now. For example, the NY and Boston accents are so cool, I don’t get why people want to sound more and more like valley girls in LA.
I've lived in Northern New England my whole life and haven't ever heard someone sound like that
😞😞
Stephen King sounds like that. At least to my ears.
As someone from the metro Detroit area, I have to ask, what's up with the Lions logo as your profile pic. You have to be a tortured soul to be from New England and be a Lions fan.
As a Newfoundlander I can tell you, that a lot of our ancestors are from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.
Also as a Newfoundlanders it drives me when people, especially someone who’s a dialect specialist can’t say Newfoundland correct.
Lol I was waiting the whole 3 parts to see what he’d say about my accent (PNW) and he talked about it for like 3 seconds.
Lezzzz goooo So-Cal Gang Represent
S. California is full of affectations---things that draw attention to oneself. For example: Valleytalk=Valtalk is all teen affectation. It's all made up for effect. Spread from coast to coast in a year or two back in the 80's. then there was the slang-----marvy, groovy, etc all so cute. Anything but clear distinct speech.
being a canadian i never thought i'd hear an american educate me on my own accent lol
I was born and raised in San Diego, California and wasn’t aware that I even had an accent lol
Vancouverite, Edmontonian, Calgarian, Torontonian, Montrealer, Ottawan
People from Toronto are "Torontonians". Also, many early Canadians were Scottish and Irish, especially in the Atlantic provinces. Canadian accents can be fairly diverse, people from Toronto don't sound like people in Vancouver or Winnipeg.
If you haven't seen the Netflix series Longmire, it is about the white Sheriff of a county in Wyoming having to deal with crime that often crosses over onto the local Indian Reservation making him have to work with the Native American Sheriff. The native American & the western American accents, culture, and ways are contrasted excellently. Excellent series. Excellent accurate accents. Beautiful scenery.
Also he didn’t really talk about it but there’s a large French speaking area of Canada and it leaks into the voice of people from bordering areas including NY and Vermont. I’m from northern New York and everywhere north of Syracuse it’s common to travel and be asked if your Canadian. It’s also common for the Ontario province to ad Aye to LITERALLY everything they say to the point to actually don’t want to talk to them. I have friends with dual citizenship and my stepdad as mom and several other family members are French Canadian born or live there and I can’t handle them most of the time bc they say it so much!!!
I usually don't pronounce R's or T's or "thick" sounds.
I say Bri'ish, Accense, Oi ma'e, cup of watah (or wa'a, sometimes). Jamany🇩🇪, granma, kahma
I also say other things differently. Like "unnecessary sounds": Mou-ain, Kurea, Br'ish
Growing up in San Diego, I don't remember anyone I knew actually talking with the Bill & Ted accent...but watching these videos, I just realized that I pronounce mountain as "moun'n".
Although not technically accurate in the strictest sense, North American English-speakers generally mean Canadian and American when using the term "North American". Mexico isn't included, even though it is on the North American continent, because they speak Spanish rather than English and, therefore, Mexico is often grouped in with Central and South American countries as part of Latin America". Btw, a person in Toronto is called a Torontonian.
As someone who studied Linguistics at university this series is like crack to me 🍿
Being a Minnesotan who studied linguistics, I concur, and I’ll join ya with a bayg of popcorn. XD
@@Uffda.
Oh yah, you betcha
The BC/Vancouver bag/beg or Tag/teg pronunciation migrated into Seattle. We have a lot of people who pronounce bag as "beg." If you want to react to native American culture, look at this channel. ruclips.net/user/MagikDragon
My favorite is "Buffalo Horns Riot Guy roasted by Native Americans."
He clearly had no intention of walking into the minefield of Quebecois English accents...
9:12 we are called Torontonians
Epic, part 3 is here.
I feel that accents change as you get older. My californian accent has changed some since the 90s.
Valley girl accent is the classic term for la/Cali accent