Excuse Me!? "7 Southern US Accents You WON'T Understand"
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- G'day guys today we are reacting to 7 Southern US Accents you won't understand.
I hope you find something on my channel that interests you and you like. Please let me know if you like a video in the comments section.
To Sponsor a song on RUclips you can use these links- streamlabs.com... , www.paypal.com...
Tiers for Music Reactions:
Free: Leave your suggestion in the comments and it will be added to our list for random selection.
$10: Guaranteed reaction within one week (per song- less than 10 mins)
$15: Guaranteed reaction within 24 hours.
(For other requests please let me know)
Want to send me something? You can send them here: PO BOX 5781, Brendale QLD 4500
Patrol Gaming Entertainment: / @patrolnationentertain...
For donations/ reaction requests via PayPal: www.paypal.com...
If you would like to support me make quality content please check out my Patreon, link here: / patrolnation
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @patrolnation
I do not own this content, content used under the fair use policy*
*Copyright Disclaimer
Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS*
Original video link here: • 7 Southern US Accents ...
Follow me on Twitter: / patrolnation
Like me on Facebook: / patrolnation
Patrol Nation Discord: / discord
Im a southerner and it all sounds like talking to me.
Right! 🤣
🤷
Namtalmbout
The only one I still can't understand is Cajun but the rest perfect southern english
@@trainingwheels1029 yea I give you that one.
I understood them all just fine. I don't see any issues here.
Lol.
😂😂
I understood every word too. I was born, raised, and lived all my life in eastern North Carolina and there are 3 completely different accents from western, central, and Eastern North Carolina. I work in Raleigh, NC (central NC only 1.5 hours away from where I live) and my coworkers make fun of my accent.
I grew up in metro NY and I understood them all too.
Accents are difficult everywhere! Sydney is easy, Darwin a lot harder. Or Cockney in England. It just takes listening lol
Anyone that says that America has no culture has never been to Louisiana.
Or anywhere else. I've been all over this country and things are different culturally city to city and state to state. Hell, ask someone from Dallas how they feel about Houston 😂😂😂😂😂
@@joshuaeason3426 L.A., but with hurricanes.
Bruh fr
Agreed. Our oldest, raised in Ga all his life, like his two younger brothers, married a BatonRouge girl and that’s where they stayed to live and our three granddaughters are growing up on part public education and part private school depending on their subject matter, etc. Our two youngest granddaughters have been educated in the hard rolling nasal “r” sound so prevalent in southwestern Louisiana. As for the rest of our family, I have a long drawn out southern drawl as does my wife. Our youngest has an accent and speech pattern different from the rest because he had to go through speech pathology because he wasn’t picking up on common phrases and speech patterns we later found out was due to hearing disorder due to chronic otitis with immobilization of his ear drum. We finally got all that stuff cleared up and we all communicate well with each other. That takes care of the family. It isn’t uncommon to run into someone who grew up just 20 miles from you and you pronounce “hey” as “hay” and they pronounce “hey” as an 8 syllable word! After you hear a few of these you just pickup on it and just run with it.
One of my pet peeves is for someone fake a southern accent or possess a natural southern accent or drawl and try to put it on thick - over the top thick like what we heard with Hillary and then Kamala.
@@blorkflorkernorp9773Ask florida and louisiana about hurricane costs 😂
As a southerner, I understood it all. Kin is family members
Have you ever heard 'Kith and Kin'?
:)
'Kith' is like kin, but a bit farther down the tree. Like a 3rd cousin, twice removed, on Uncle Tom's side... by marriage.
Or someone you know and are close to. Like your neighbor a couple miles down the creek. He ain't kin, but he might as well be.
Kin is a Scottish word.
Yup
@@FIAFTIDF In the south Kin as in Kin folk, our relatives. Sotts use it to mean understand. They say you Kin? rather than you understand?
He was talking about the Bible, how Adam and Eve were the first people, so if you "go far enough down the gean line, we're all kin/family". It's a friendly way of checking to make sure you're talking to a fellow Christian, and a good person. If they were raised property, they have some bible study, and know this. Otherwise, if he ain't too friendly, you may never come down out of those mountains, cause there's a lot of "ways to get lost" up in those hills. : )
Born and raised in Atlanta, Ga and lived here 63 years. I understood all the accents, but he is right about something. The southern accent is disappearing as millions have moved here from the north and Midwest the past 40 years.
Yup. Sad to see. That's why most of us have already moved. They hate the south, but they don't mind coming here for opportunity from the places they voted to destroy. They're doing the same thing here.
Besides accents, the Yankees is the reason we say sweet tea now! All tea in the South was sweet until the Yankees brought the unsweet tea!
😟
That's a damn shame about the accents.
@@janremongalura5713 more of a damn shame about the unsweet tea
Oh wow! Many us GenXers grew up watching Justin Wilson cook Cajun recipes on PBS when home sick from school. ❤ “I gawr-on-tee” lol I guarantee.
That's how I remember him! Thanks! I kept thinking he was familiar. Man this brings back memories now.
Now that some goood stuff right there.
Got your onnyun? You know you need. Onnyun.
I loved him so much!!❤️🐝🤗
Yup! Watched him all the time.
ok i didnt realize how southern i was until i watched these type of videos and understand everything these people are saying lol
Lol.
I'm from the PNW (Pacific Northwest) and still understood them.
Same here, every word of the whole video he was watching lol. I've been in Arizona for 15 yrs and people here tell me I have a thick accent all the time. I can't hear it until I'm having a conversation with a fellow Southerner.
me too, even the cajun people LMAO. i'm from Kentucky. every bit of it! its just my people talkin to each other in slightly different dialects, i love it
I'm Alaskan and I understood everything they said
I am a Southern girl… and yes I have a Southern accent and proud of it!!!!! I’m from Alabama (RTR!!)
I did not say anyone said anything derogatory- I just said that I am proud of my Southern accent and heritage!!!!!
I'm sure it's beautiful. I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. ❤️✌️
I'm sure it's beautiful. I hope nobody is saying it isn't. ❤️✌️
@@kierstenridgway4634 I didn’t think anyone did.. don’t understand why would say that.
@@kierstenridgway4634 Nor did I think that!!!
I understand them fine, but they're thick, definitely..
Bless y’all’s hearts. I understood ‘em all just fine.
And we know what “ bless yer heart” means…
@@Hallyboodle There are 2 bless your hearts meanings.
If a young'n cuts himself, that person runs to his mommy or Granny, she'd say, bless your heart, let's get you to the doc.
She ain't saying that sarcastic bless your heart if a young'n was to cut himself?
Me, a native Appalachian: omg I sound like that, don’t I?
5:50 guy was saying "kin", as in kinfolk, or people you're related to, not "can" or "can't" 😆
"We're all kin somewhere, ain't we, Gene?"
"Yeah. Along the line, yeah."
Makes sense. Although Lyle here was thinking not of "can", but of Scots (and Middle English) "ken", meaning "to know". Not a completely crazy idea. But yeah, you're right about the word that was actually being used.
@@fllthdcrb you're right but I find it hilarious that with some Southern accents can and kin are homophones which means that this person's interpretation isn't wrong lol.
He wasn't saying "can", he was saying "ken". 🌝
@@no_rubbernecking kin
@@GabriellaTifaine No. The Australian-Scots guy hosting this did not say "kin", because _he didn't even know that's what they were saying!_ He said "KEN". He even helpfully defined it for those of us who might not know.
I’m a southerner. I understood every word. It’s funny seeing someone react to the way we talk. 😂😂😂
2:13- "Why I talk the way I do? Because the good Lord blessed me with this accent. I like it. I like it just fine."
It’s funny because the Southern accent is a throw back to our British ancestors! 😂😂😂 That man said kin, like kin folks, meaning family, not ya ken, like you understand.
Some of it is, yes. Although it has morphed some from the old Brits.
My family is from Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. I can understand every one except the Cajuns! lol
Once, when I was at the parts store, I had a Cajun ask me where Da Water-skeeters? He was looking for windshield wipers!! 😂
There's a ton of Scots-Irish influence to at least the Appalachian part of the South. When I traveled to Ireland and to Scotland, I was able to communicate in both places with no serious issues. I even detected certain ways of pronouncing words and some phrases that I had never heard anywhere else outside of Appalachia. These language artifacts had survived for hundreds of years on both sides of the ocean! It caused me to feel a genuine connection there, especially in some parts of rural Ireland.
My great-grandmother grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians (where the GA/TN/NC borders meet). She used words that I haven't heard since, but I've discovered they were derived from her Irish ancestors. That is fascinating to me.
The Irish influence, in particular, is very heavy in the Piedmont and Eastern NC… My family hail from Ireland, settled in Jones, Lenoir, Carteret, Onslow and Duplin Counties in NC starting around 1700… Sounds weird, but “Who your people?” is almost a survival method - I’m related to half the damn families - including Lumbee! - in Eastern NC! It’s why I married a guy from Illinois!!😂😂
We also have this influence to thank for Bluegrass, which I love.
On a bus trip in Queensland the European girl sitting next to me asked if I understood the bus driver. I said no. She was relieved. Later at a small town stop, the driver and store clerk had trouble understanding each other, both Aussies! I've been everywhere in Oz and never ran into this before. I am an American world traveler
@@IgoZoom1that’s amazing!!!
All from the same country speaking the same language but 200 accents. God bless America!
❤
UK has 200 accents in 200 miles! Far, far more wild
Yes but can you understand what they are saying? I mean at least you can tell what part of the UK they are from lol. When you are so far away from each other it's different. The only comparison would be that half of the accents are in New York. So a UK vs New York comparison would be closer to what you are saying. There so many levels to each of the 200 accents in America depending on social status and how far north south east or west you are. So really it's 200x? Lol
I’m a southerner live in Tennessee and understand just fine !! 💖💕💫
Me too, i'm from Tennessee and i understood them fine!
I live in TN and recognize the blonde lady, comedienne Leanne Morgan, as having a Knoxville/East TN accent.
I'm from up North in the US and I can honestly say I understand half, and my brain fills in the other half. It feels like listening to someone while you're consumed with another task.
As a NC native, I had no trouble understanding it. I love watching foreign English speakers trying to understand how we speak.
SC southerner. We speak slowly but the longer you are here the easier it is for you to understand. I understand them all. I have a hard time with Scottish and Australian accents.
Yeah they totally missed out not including geechee and "white geechee" accents from Southern South Carolina (the low country) around the Charleston area
As a Midwesterner I went down to Alabama for a visit and stopped in at a Cracker Barrel restaurant and the young lady who was serving us had a beautiful southern accent that just sang but she was so embarrassed by it that she actually apologized for her accent and I just had to tell her how beautifully musical her accent is and that she didn't have an accent, being from there, but that we were the ones with the accent. I know it sounds like is was contradicting myself a little.
That is so lovely that told her that💚.
I'm dying at his reaction! "I can't understand what they're saying," me knowing exactly what they're saying!!! But I am from South Carolina, so that might help
Did you understand that one singer from Louisiana? I'm from Ohio, and I had no trouble with the others, but that guy... I don't even.
@@jonadabtheunsightly I had the same reaction and in CA. I think it's because that gentleman was speaking Cajun which is its own dialect.
I felt like a universal translator from Star Trek.
@jonadabtheunsightly I could pick out a few words , it was a love song, I think.
Texas and same.
While I do now live in Oregon, I am a native Appalachian. Working at Lowe's, there have been several occasions in which Southerners come in and ask questions that my fellow workers cannot understand. I will respond appropriately, of course, and my co-workers look at me like, you understood that?. Funny.
My parents we're from the south and I always get made fun of in the north, but I will always "worsh" my clothes lol!
I understood the majority. The Alabama accent I knew right away as a native. I now live in Georgia😂, and the only real reason why they say the accents are starting to lean towards a Californian accent is because the Californians keep moving here like an infestation. 😂
As a native North Carolinian; we do in fact have a very diverse accent combination. In some places you'll hear the stereotypical Biscuit loving southern boy accent, in the west you may hear a bit of a Scots-Irish accent along with the usual Appalachian dialect, in the east you can hear some usual southern accents though in the far far east you'll hear the most unique ones ever, such as Hoi Toider. Of course in some areas you may hear mostly the "northern" accents, as if you're unaware the southern accent and dialect is slowly becoming less prevalent as tons of Northern and Western citizens move here
Hoi toid on the sound soid. Lol ocockers unite
From NC also. There is quite the range. My father's family is from Appalachian Mountains and they're very different. They don't say y'all. They say yens.
@@albatraozgirl yins is also commonly heard in Cleveland
Y'all definitely do. Being from Birmingham, Alabama everyone would always ask me where am I from.
And beyond that, black people have an accent, Hispanic people have an accent, Jewish people have an accent, Native Americans have an accent.
An accent? Dozens of accents within those ethnic groups as well.
@@vapoet yes
The Boston accent 😎
Black people don't have a real accent it's like when the gays speak its a fake inflection they add when they're around whites
Phraseology; or accent? Those actually have...differing grammer as well.
Alabama girl here! I am proud and blessed to be a Southerner. Love my accent, love my state and I love all y'all!❤
Alabama here too. Have friends in Cali who like to make fun of my accent lol.
@@51953bdog Alabama the Beautiful! Ain't it though!
ROLL TIDE ROLL
Mobile here and yes indeed ROLL TIDE
@janismitchell3122 hey girl! I live in Daphne, we're neighbors.😊
I'm from Alabama, and I was able to understand pretty much every person speaking 😂😂 its funny to watch others react to southern accents 😊💜💜
Yes to you because you are American
The guy commentating is an Aussie ..
Americans say the same about our accents .
I'm born, raised and live Alabama ROLL TIDE but have learned conversational Arabic and Swahili. So now imagine someone with a Alabama accent speaking either one of those languages. Surprisingly people who speak both languages understand me!
@@user_angelmum I understand Australian people just fine and I'm southern. Nothing wrong with not understanding an accent that you're not used too. Hell, even I didn't fully understand what some of those people were saying. IN person is always a different experience though. Usually a lot more clearer.
@@trailryder5813ROLL TIDE!
i know that's right!
I'm American but my dad is from England. He moved here young enough that he has a general American accent, but he can turn on the English if he wants to. My grandmother has been here for so many decades that she sounds English to Americans and American to the English. My great-grandfather, I only knew him when I was young, nicest man in the world, and I couldn't understand a word he said. He was from Shropshire. People say Geordie is hard to understand. No that's easy. PS. I could understand most people in this video. There were a couple that were a challenge.
I'm definitely from the deep south. I understood everyone of them. Love the fact he used Popcorn Sutton for this too. Edit: As another bonus there should've been the gullah/ geechee accents that percolate through the Beaufort, Charleston, and coastal counties of South Carolina that has a mix of drawl, AAEV and creole for a unique accent that the lady from the Lumbee tribe sounds close to but with more carribean flair, some almost sound jamaican when talking.
I’m from Alabama born,raised and permanently living proudly there and I have a very Strong Southern Accent because when I have to travel up towards DC people literally will purposely engage me in Conversation just to Hear It.
My son and I visited DC and had a long conversation with the hotel concierge that was from South Africa. That was two different worlds colliding but with a lot in common.
I worked for one of the major oil companies in the late 1980s and I was in Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana for years. If you turned on the TV early-morning in Lafayette, you could catch the weather forecast in Cajun French. They also had billboards in French. If you travelled down the back roads to one of those great Cajun restaurants with no sign out front and an oyster-shell parking lot, French was used as often as English.
I hope we never lose that part of our culture in Louisiana. Cajuns are wonderful people.
@@sharonporter7132 thank you I’m from New Iberia, Louisiana.
I swear...im from Kentucy and honestly I can't understand a lot of Louisiana speak! But...I love it anyway ❤❤😂
Born and raised in the Smokey mountains in Tennessee, and I understood every one of them
I'm in Brevard but my Murphy family has members buried in Sevier County Tenn.
I'm from Georgia. Born and raised. I understand them all just fine!
I understood them all fine but that was hilarious watching you be confused. Subscribed
Kentucky is an absolutely gorgeous state and there are so many different accents within it.
Absolutely. I'm from the largest city, Louisville, born and raised, but my parents and grandparents all came from south central KY (Adair County) and you can tell the difference in our accents. One of my brothers moved away to the southwest (Paducah) and his kids sound very southern in comparison to my central KY cousins, who have more of what I call the country accent. Then there are the Appalachian accents in the far east with the mountain folks who I find the most difficult to understand. Regardless, in all of America there are nowhere near as many dialects as you'll find on the British Isles and some of those people out in the rural areas of Scotland do not sound like they are speaking anything close to English. LOL
❤ southeastern ky gal
Lord have mercy I concur. I'm Georgialina and I went to Kentucky once and it is a beautiful state! Lord.
@@bradparnell614 I’ve lived in western Kentucky my whole life and always noticed the accents much more southern than the rest of the state
You need to clean out your ears, Lyle! I understood every word. When you said the word “ken” that’s what Scottish folks use. That guy was sayin “kin” (sometimes said akin) which means related. The guy talking about moonshine was the late legendary Popcorn Sutton. The lady talking about the weather was Cajun. The guy talking about chickens (blue shirt, red suspenders) was Justin Wilson, a famous Cajun chef whose catch phrase was, I gar-on-tee!” The Southern Appalachian region supposedly has the closest to a Shakespearean accent.
I gotta a story about a Cherokee storyteller! He was a facilitator at a retreat I attended close to the NC and TN line. Most of the attendees were either yankee or midwestern, so we would have a wonderful time entertaining the fellow attendees by the Cherokee guy saying something in Appalachian and me translating. They would be completely baffled that I could understand every word. I grew up in the same basic area, but eliminated my accent.
He didn’t even touch on Virginia tidewater or NC coastal accent. I can barely understand them! They don’t go out in a boat-they go “oot in the boot.”
When I was in my last couple of years of college, I dropped my accent. I’m glad I don’t have the mountain nasal twang anymore, but I regret the loss of my southern accent. Unfortunately, way too many people think if you’re from the mountains or even from the south, that you’re automatically dumber than dirt.
"oot in the boot" reads more like a Minnesota thing to me but I was born and raised here in West Virginia. I was able to understand everyone on the video the cajun was the closest to throwin me but I was able to understand it well.
@@nicks3935 So are you getting out your kittle to cook down some ramps with taters? I wasn't able to get back to the old homeplace this spring, so I had someone mail me ramps this year and I kind of felt sorry for my mailperson. I could smell them through the mailbox.
My French teacher in suburban Chicago seemed so native to the language that most people assumed he was Quebecois. He was actually from the Kentucky Appalachians, and he could easily drop back into that accent (when we goaded him as high schoolers). But it proved to many that accents are not that hard to learn properly.
@nicks3935 oot in a boot sounds a bit Canadian to me. I live in lower Michigan, and we have at least four accents. People near Lake Michigan sound a bit like Chicagoans. Detroit suburbs sound different than Flint and Saginaw.
When we moved from Connecticut to South Carolina, understanding the “natives” was pretty tough initially. After 7 years of living here, we can understand most southern accents.
I also moved from Connecticut to South Carolina in 2016. I didn't really have trouble understanding the accents because my sister has been living here since 1976 and she has a heavy southern accent. The difficulty I had was getting used to southern culture. I lived in CT for 46 yrs up until 2016.
My niece had that issue moving from CT to GA. I heard she came home from school crying for almost 2 months because she had no idea what the teacher was saying.
😎You have been officially “assimilated”. You’re no longer “that damn Yankee kid”, just the kid who moved down from Up North!🤣🤣🤗🤗
Please tell me y'all left your CT behind and embraced the culture you chose to join.
@@1-God1-Truth1-Life1-Forever Absolutely! When I left CT, I left all their BS behind. I love everything about SC, from religion to politics
I am from CA and when I first moved to the south for school I heard an ad on the radio that was pure gibberish to me. After about three months I could understand that he was selling cars! 😂 Now I've been living in the south for 35 years and I understood everyone of those fine folks! 😊
"Hey honey. You don't even like honey. You're allergic." 😅😂
Understood most of them and that's coming from a bloody SCOT!!!! 😉
That's because your people influenced a lot of these accents. Lol
@@Meg0307 all our accents are still way better than Australian 🤫😁
Lol my first accent was Scottish.
Do you know why the aussie accent is so different?
@@Fulano.de.Tal.I thought an Australian accent is related to a rural Irish accent?
I find it funny that people all over the world accuse Americans of being uncultured but when it comes to them understanding America they can’t. I can understand almost all accents (broadly speaking) internationally including my fellow Americans. I’m not trying to be mean I just find it ironic.
Americans outside of the south don’t always understand them either
I can't understand the kids these days with all their made up lingo. Learn one thing, and they have four more they are using. I can make out what they are saying, but still won't know what they are saying.
@@Ann12681That’s not really true now is it. I’ve never had an interaction with anyone from anywhere else in this country where there was a problem because of anybody’s accent. I was a flight attendant for 15 yrs and I’ve never seen anybody have this problem.
Internationally, Americans ARE generally the most uncultured in my experience and many travels. When I spot fellow Americans abroad, I avoid them as much as possible because they will invariably embarass our country with what they don't know. Also, our English vocabulary is in general deplorable compared to what I will call International English. So many people from other countries speak English better than we do and know more about history than we do.
I'm Mainer and have zero issues with these dialects. If anything, southerners have a tough time understanding me. We evidently speak very quickly.
As a West Virginian born and raised I instantly recognized #7
I'm from Georgia, my family is from West Virginia and I live in North Carolina.
We lived in TX for a few years in the early 80's. While I was paying for items at the local grocery store, a check out girl said "Hah" which I knew was "Hi" and I smiled and said "Good morning. How are you?". She said "Fahn" which I knew was "fine". As I paid for the groceries she looked up at me and said "Yew mus be frum summer's else becawse yew don't talk du-uh-um lak we dew". I'd never heard the one syllable word d-u-m-b have three syllables when it was pronounced but I knew enough to smile and tell her that *both* of us have accents because of where we grew up and there was nothing "dumb" about either one of us. She lit up like a candle.
When it's all you hear around you as a child, it's just an accent and I guarantee they view *you* and *me* as having accents too.
Well day-um. You sound lak a smart lil gal.
@@rhondacrosswhite8048 Nah. Ah ain't so verry smart atall. :) I just follow the Golden Rule as best ah can.
@@JustMe-vk4fn I don't have an accent. I think I may be mistaken for Texan. I've been told that I put spaces between my words and I guess that makes me easier to understand. I was born in Kentucky.
@@Dana-r3s It was wonderful to hear. :D
That depends on where in Texas you are and who you're talking to. You could do an entire video like this just on the regional accents of Texas. People in Houston are very different from people in Dallas/Fort Worth, who are very different from people in Austin, who are very different from people in San Antonio, who are very different from the people in the rural areas. -a native Texan who's been everywhere.
My family has lived in central Missouri for 200 years. I wanted to clear up that those men said "Kin" that means someone that is related to you, i.e. family.
The Island you speak of is Roanoke Island,NC. The accent you shared was Ocracoke,NC. Roanoke was where the lost colony was. Ocracoke is miles south. The Ocracoke accent is called Brogue. You can drive to Roanoke you can only fly or take a ferry to Ocracoke. The Brogue is probably the most interesting accent in the US. It will also be gone soon.
Came to say this was the ocracoke brogue.
No, there's some words and sounds in Lumbee that are shared with the down east or "hoi toid accent" people call Ocracoke Brogue because many of the people that ended up marrying in with the Tuscarora and other tribes come through those same coastal islands first .
So there's words and things they share like mommick and cooter and pocosin and wreckly. But you're not going to hear the Lum talking about sitting on the pizer or watching the wind whip up hoi toid on the sounds soid. And you're not going to hear most down easterners saying they bes getting some ellick and collard sandwiches directly, but right now I am been at homecoming looking for some grape ice cream.
Not sure if anyone not from Eastern NC will pick up 2/3 of that, but they are two very different cultures and accents. The tie between them is that it's theorized that the accent on the Outer Banks comes from geographical isolation and that the accent and similarities among Lumbee come from the English colonists who joined and married in with some of the Indian tribes in the area, which later settled down around the Lumber River in Robeson County and married in with some of the people native to there.
(Hopefully this made since, I've been awake too long and I'm dog tired typing this).
AYEE!!!! I love D.L Menard! Welcome to Cajun country boo! Good luck trying to understand us cause half the time we don’t understand each other too 😂
My parents were from southwest Georgia so i understood most of the accents. You cracked me up, Lyle. The guy who was talking about “kin” was talking about one’s family. ”Ken” is used for understanding or knowing.
Were your parents from the Albany area? My family has been in North Georgia for 200 years. It's fascinating how Georgia alone has at least 6-7 dialects.
@IgoZoom1 Hey there! My parents were from Baker County, around Albany, Newton, area. I still have a ton of family all over Georgia and Florida.
I'm from Scotland and we say "ken" here to say know. Someone could say "ken how" - Know how.
My wife is from Bainbridge.
@@IgoZoom1 Alabama is the same. Probably way more dialects than that. Each city or town here has different dialects depending on certain areas and how far up in the country people live. Also generational dialects.
I understand everyone but I am from kentucky and my husband is from Georgia. Everything sounds fine to me.
Kentuckian myself...all understood, but no chance I could go deep Louisiana
Alt-Bayerisch is the only dialect that is truly out of this world; learnt a LITTLE by eating lunch everyday with this very elderly couple in no-where Bavaria. Probably less than 100 people still speak it/understand it. People always say Latin is a dead language haha...alt-Bayerisch will be completely forgotten within a decade...hopefully some Bavarian's read this.
In the mountains of Eastern Kentucky they speak what is called the "Queen's English." Scottish people settled in those mountains and still carry on Highland Culture to this day!
I live in North Carolina and I can tell you that Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgian accents sound just like the people around me here in the mountains. The only guy I didn’t understand was the one speaking Cajun. But unless you speak Cajun I don’t think anyone understood it lol
I'm in WV and I gotta say everyone seems to think we only have one accent in the state, which I never understood, because we got like 6 accents depending on county your in at the time.
I grew up in Central NC and couldn’t hear the difference in our accent until I moved to Atlanta. My family was mostly from the foothills and had pretty strong accents. Now that I’ve been in Atlanta over a decade I can clearly hear the difference between NC and GA southern accents.
I'm not Cajun but I used to watch Justin Wilson's Cajun cooking show, so I got it. Also MS, KY, WV, & of course GA, although my particular dialect was not shared here. I forgot about TN, but I didn't recognize any certain accent. I recognized Miss Dolly!
6:25 That's Ruby Falls, without a doubt. I've been through there many many times (edit: as boy scouts cleaning the walkways and rails we would get private tours). It's located under Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and that water, is coming from the Tennessee River which is less than a click from that spout. Truly beautiful place.
I've lived in the South my whole life and these all sound normal to me. Want a stupid sounding accent? Try a New York on for size.
At Montana State University I had a physics professor from South Carolina that was difficult for us northerners to understand. One day he said "we have a 'coal' of 'war' 'producn' a 'lectric' feel". I turned to the guy next to me and said "how do you spell 'war'?" (rhymes with tar). Now I know he meant wire but it didn't sound like wire.
BTW, if anyone is wondering about the woman talking about her sister getting married later in life (TN accent). That is the hilarious Leanne Morgan from TN. She has her own Netflix special and she is becoming a comedy superstar!
I knew the West Virginia one right away by how happy I was when listening to the first man talk. Then, when the guy started singing, I had a huge smile on my face, and my eyes lit up. My Appalachian heart was so happy!
I’m a southern lady, & to be quite honest, whenever I travel, I receive compliments on my accent, & I’m quite proud of it. If I wasn’t raised with manners, I could poke fun at your accent, but my mother raised me to be kind. As we say in the south, “bless your heart, hun.” If you know, you know. 😏
Love that they pulled ol' Popcorn Sutton in this video. RIP Popcorn - all the damn revenue men are well behind you now.
My parents were from Czechoslovakia. When I moved from New Jersey to North Carolina I NEVER had a problem with anyone’s accent.
I am also from New Jersey and I can understand most people but I have had people say they can’t understand some things I say I grew up in south Jersey
Come to Timmonsville SC or Charleston SC and you'll see 😂
Because in NC they open their mouths wider to speak. They have lovely accents
New Orleans also gets influenced by a mid-Atlantic/upstate New York influx that happened around the Civil War. It is hilarious to hear a self-described "swamp rat" speaking in the same accent as someone from Albany, NY.
If you get a chance to hear the Gullah accent from South Carolina & Georgia, it is a very specific accent & dialect that came about in a similar way to the Lumbee Tribe. Miss Kardea Brown is a chef with a TV show that showcases her home cooking style who grew up on an island in the Atlantic coast Low Country, and she has a moderated Gullah accent.
A New Orleanean would not call themselves a "swamp rat", not ever.
Videos always focus on Cajun and forget the Creole, Black Louisianians, and Natives. We dont all talk the same.
Heh. I've been here in the Gullah/Geechee corridor so long that I don't notice the accent anymore.
I'm from Northwest Georgia, almost Tennessee, almost Alabama. There were quite a few I couldn't understand. Partly b/c they talked too fast, & perhaps also b/c I have some aphasia left by a stroke. Sometimes I "hear" the sound, but my brain doesn't make it into words. I use CC a lot for that reason. BTW, I have nearly as much a problem w/ accents from Y'all's British Isles/Aussie English as you do ours!! I got 5 correct. Louisiana, should have been difficult, but wasn't, b/c I used to watch a Cajun Chef on TV & he was in that clip. I LOVED to hear that man talk!! His name was Justin but he said it like "Zhoos-tahn". I used to work in a call center & callers would often compliment my accent. I've lived in many places, including Germany, & I was afraid I'd lose my accent, so I "practiced" it wherever we lived. Luckily, I also found other Southern friends, except for in AZ. I've lived in Chicago, NC, KY, & 2 places in Germany & never lost my drawl. Mine is somewhere between Appalachian & South GA Coastal, but a touch more Rhotic than Savannah or Charleston. Slow & smooth, mostly!
Popcorn Sutton is a true legend. He is actually from NC also.
He lived with n Wilkesboro NC. My Paw Jack and his brothers run shine for him and Jr johnson.
Hello! I'm from Brevard and met Popcorn's nephew! We go to Biniond all the time where Popcorn's Still sits in the foyer!
For some reason, I'm glad you were stumped on my beloved home state of West Virginia. And I understood everyone in this video, with the exception of a few of the Cajuns, but even with them I could pick out enough to get the basic gist.
I'm from Central Florida and definitely have a draw. One day, at work, I had a woman from NYC make fun of my dialect. I told, " Shug, you might not like the way I talk, but you put your husband on the phone and he sure will." Yes, she hung up on me. And, no shug is not a term of endearment 😂
Ah yes, the one constant of living in Florida - New Yorkers complaining 😅
He could have done a whole episode covering North Carolina. The coast, central carolina, and both sides of the Appalachian mountains all have their distinct accents!
I was born and raised in Pennsylvania but I still understood every word of everyone. I know love in Florida. Moved here 4 years ago. Starting my 5th year next month.
14:21 - That's Justin Wilson. He had an awesome cooking show. He was funny too.
A lot of southern folk know and love him.
My name is Tom, when I first moved to New Orleans I turned around every time someone asked what TIME it was
Dude, those of us born and raised in this country don't have any less trouble understanding some of these! I didn't get even one location right! Big props to you for not giving up. I'm willing to blame it on the Scots, too. Well done!
Had to edit when I saw Justin Wilson! The guy in the red suspenders was Justin Wilson, The Cajun Chef. He had a TV show for a long time and they're worth watching if you can find them online just to listen to him! He also made some awesome Southern dishes. I miss his show.
Justin Wilson was the bomb! I gawrontee!! 😆
@@patrickholland6848 I totally heard that in his voice! Thank you!
I loved Justin....RIP. Someone has a channel here on utube of his shows.
@@bethshadid2087 That rabbit hole has been added to my bookmarks! Another cooking show to get sucked into. Can't wait! :D
@@mimic1176 one of the best shows.....don't forget the wine 😊
Born and raised in the south. I have no where near this heavy of an accent, but i understood most of them. My mother and her parents were from Michigan. My father and his parents were from southern Alabama and Florida. So I have a mixture of both.
I was born in Ohio, and moved from Connecticut to NW Florida...i was 8 when we moved there. I have a slight southern accent...unless im tired, then it comes out. We used to call NW Fla, LA...but not the one youre thinking about. We meant Lower Alabama
When people talk about the NY accent, most people are referring to the NYC accent. As a native New Yorker from the NYC area, I have that famous NYC accent. But I must tell you that New York State is much larger than just NYC. I lived on the US border with Quebec, Canada for a couple of years while at college and the people up there do not sound like me. Most sound like Canadians and others sound like French Canadians who speak fluent English. And then if travel westward toward Buffalo, NY, the accent changes yet again. Buffalo is famous for the Buffalo chicken wings and their accent sounds like a mixture of Canadian and the US state of Michigan. Plus there are many more as you head south toward the Pennsylvania border.
THANK YOU! I am from upstate (near Saratoga) and our accent is similar to a Vermont accent, minus the soft 'R's (VT's accent is also getting softer as well as Georgia's, as it was pointed out in this video)
And in my own dealings, I was in a southern state which I will refrain form mentioning, where a dish was recommended for us to try. After three different times the waitress tried to get us to understand, we gave up. 'Bald penis'. Seems that's what 'boiled peanuts' sounds like where she's from! (I would turn it down either way!)
I'm a native southerner, and when I hear someone from NY state (Not NYC), I always think they are from somewhere other than NY, like Michigan or Wisconsin. So many of us, especially southerners, think everyone in the state of NY should sound like the people in NYC.
@@douglasharveyii Hearing "bald penis" instead of boiled peanuts is hilarious! 😂😂😂
Oh man,that explains Chef Derek Sarno's accent. It sounds almost Canadian, portions of the time.
@@douglasharveyiioh, I forgot that one. Bowled for boiled. Which rhymes with how to say oil. It rhymes with bowl.
I’m from Louisiana born and raised and our accent is just like our gumbo a mix of a little bit of everything southern!
This made me laugh. My mother's family were from West Virginia and moved up to Ohio for jobs. Grandma never lost her WV accent, though mom did quickly due to prejudices against it. Then when I was a girl we moved to Kentucky. I went to the mountains with a friend once to visit her daughter (she was orignally from the Washington DC area), and every time someone said something in a store, my friend would lift her eyebrows and finally said to me, "You don't talk exactly like them, but you understand what they're saying. You'll have to translate for me." I still tease her about that. People used to say Appalachian dialects were very old English, but modern linguists have linked them more to Ulster Scots, which is where many of them actually originated from. And it's not pronounced Appa-lay-shun," it's "Appa-Latch-un."
My Mom grew up in Ohio with that accent and when she left home she worked really hard to get rid of it. Now she wishes she hadn't. I have a tape of her when I was a baby and she sounds adorable.
@@ruthsaunders9507 It was Ohio that made fun of the West Virginia accent in my mother. When I was 18, I'd go visit relatives in Ohio and everyone would make fun of my accent up there, too, because I picked up a Kentucky accent. In fact, I once blacked out a tooth with makeup and put on a pair of overalls to go to the store with a cousin in Ohio, because we thought it was hilarious.
@@KentuckyLadyLiberty my sister has a very strong Kentucky accent and she tries so hard to get rid of it shes tells people she’s from California because she lived there when her husband was stationed in San Diego when he was in the military , it only makes her sound worse 😅
You know I spent half of my life in Texas because I understood every word in the video. Lol. ❤❤❤❤ love your channel!
The drawl comes from the British, The twang comes from the Scotch Irish that settled in the Appalachians
My mom was born in central Louisiana and had a strong "twang" in her speech. When she was in the Marine Corps in WW2 she was an air traffic controller at Cherry Point NC. The pilots complained that they couldn't understand her so she got taken off the radio and given a desk job. LOL
Southern gal here! Understood them all! Proud of my accent too!
This was absolutely epic!! 🤣🤣🤣 I was laughing my ass off the whole time. I didn't realize I spoke so many languages 🧐🤔🤪🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Fascinating and lots of fun listening to everyone’s input. Thank you for doing this 😊.👍🌎
Southerner here, I’m laughing way too hard watching this.
Being originally from the South (USA) I'd say that I understood 99.9% of what they all said. Also, I understood your Australian accent very easily. On the other hand, there are some strong accents from Great Britain and/or Ireland that I can find very difficult to understand (and if it's in a video I'll need subtitles.) Of course, RP - such as what is on the BBC, is easy to understand. Accents are fascinating, and dialects too, and I thank you kindly for sharing your reaction with us.
The hardest one for me to understand is the Welsh! Although I did meet a guy from Liverpool once, and couldn’t understand a thing he said.
Tennessee here. I'm with you 100%. I have to listen real hard to understand folks from Scotland.
There's some footie fans from somewhere up North (Manchester, I think?) that I was completely lost understanding. I had to ask an English friend if he understood them... and he did. It was almost a reverse Boomhauer.
@@jdstep97 TN is where i'm from originally - Nashville. Will visit in June and anxious to get back and see friends and family.
Never drink with a person from Glasgow who is trying to teach you to say "Edinburgh" properly. Trust me on this. It's now my goal next time we meet that I teach this friend to say "sh!t-fire" like a rural Kentuckian.
I'm from Southeastern Ohio, Appalachia. I understand all of these accents perfectly. I speak pretty plain American English, taught to us in school, but if I get excited and start talking faster, my Appalachia accent starts coming out. 🙂
Understood them all. These are warm loving people
It's Closer to the original early ENGLISH than in the North
I'm a Southerner from Southwest Virginia, and I understand just fine and dandy y'all.
LOL. I understood all of them too
Hey, The Best Whiskey comes from Tennessee!! We claim Dolly Parton as ours too (we choose to share her with the world because she is so special). A "Bless They're Heart" would be a give-a-way for anyone from the South! God Bless America and all of the people from the South who don't mind being teased about the way they talk! GO VOLS!!
My wife's family is from Pigeon Forge, so I am sure she has some common ancestors with Dolly.
My Family is from Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, I am the only Tar Heel baby from my Family, I was born In North Carolina. I can tell you, I cannot for the life of me understand a lot of the precious people from Louisiana but I LOVE to hear them talk. I live about 2.5 hours South East of where my family was born and raised and the lingo is quite different. For example, we say Bag, they say Poke. Do you want that in a poke? (WHAT???)
We say 'Drink' for everything. They say Pop. So you want a glass of pop. We say PANTS they say PAINT. My Aunt said I love your paints.. I said I. Not wearing make up, she grabbed my pants or britches and said, no, paints. Your paints.
If you're driving fast down the highway, we say he was stretching it out. Or, running like a scalded dog. ... Or flying minus the 'G' so they were flyin'
A Skunk in Virginia is called a pole cat. We say Taters and maters for potatoes and tomatoes. Little tomatoes are Tommy Toes.
This was Fascinating for me. Where I live to ME I sound like everyone else, to everyone else having been raised with a Appalachian born and raised family, I have a Southern Twang, which in these parts is called "County" ... They say my accent is Country! You either sound County or City, which is still Country they just don't want to admit It.
Thank you kindly for sharing this. It was GREAT!
Be blessed and safe y'all.
From NC,USA
This
My old neighbor was from the same Mountains. Her mother was a midwife and the father's family stood guard over the first red delicious apple tree! Her daughter was Cascade Anderson who was a great person to bring herbal medicine into the Mayo clinic back in the early 1970s.
I am an East TN native. I learned to understand Cajun from a girl I dated for a while when I was in my early 20's, as well as a couple of trips I made to NO. It is a hard dialect to understand if you are not exposed to it very much.
Southwest Virginian born and raised. We're good for dropping the 'g' off words, 😂. Mornin', Evenin' walkin'. I notice we tend to end -ow words an -a. Window becomes winda. Pole cat isn't used everywhere where here though. When I moved from Southwest to cenral Va for a bit people would look at me like I was nuts. Apparently the further down 81 you go the more 'hickish' it gets. 'Friends' spent years trying to teach me to speak properly, it didn't work. Imma keep calling 'soda' 'pop' and they caint stop me, lol.
We don't call skunks pole cats in Virginia.
@@S.D._777_it's coke, not soda or pop.
Kentucky: Unpredictable weather was the most relatable thing he said 😂
Hiya from Nashville TN I use to hate my accent but I've been in the south all my adult life since like 1997 and have learned to luv it
Yep. Understood them all.
Lived/worked in the southern Missouri Ozarks. There's a good mix there of heavy and not so heavy southern accents (even though it's not deep south) I can go into the deep south and understand everyone.
I was born and raised just outside Norfolk, Virginia. My normal adult accent approximates North American Broadcast Standard English. My Southern was a little stronger when I was a child.
My mother's family came down from the mountains and had more of a sharp twang. My father's side of the family came up from North Carolina and had more of a drawl.
I'll let my Southern out occasionally . . . If I'm angry or exasperated, I'll deploy the twang. If I'm trying to appear charming or nonthreatening, I'll let loose the drawl.
I'm pretty okay with deciphering most of these accents. Cajun's difficult, but if I concentrate hard enough I can usually work it out. The same goes for some of the deeper mountain accents.
Additional exposure makes comprehension easier.
I grew up in Michigan but have been in all 50 states. The only person I absolutely couldn't understand was from the Tennessee Hills. My x was from Louisville, Kentucky, and he had to translate for me. (Best coaching on Louisville I can do is: Loo a vul, but the end has to be said deep in your throat like you're swallowing it.)
You can really tell where someone is from based on how you pronounce Louisville.
I have herd it pronounced like louie vil it's about 200 miles west from where I live by I-64 .
My mom is from the south. She moved to the Midwest when she was in her 20s. Still has her southern accent. It's so funny to me because other people can't understand what she's saying but I get every word. She has me order for her in restaurants to save time since she nearly always has to repeat herself.
Good lord, they went backwoods for these accents. I’m from South MS and it’s not like that.
OMG my fist language is not English, and I speak a couple of other ones, but THIS.... I couldn't understand anything. I would never have guessed this was supposed to be English.
My family walked out of North Carolina in the mid 1700's with Daniel Boone, to what would become Eastern Kentucky.. They settled deep in the Appalachian Mountains in an area that was close to both West Virginia and Virginia, it was very isolated, very few strangers, or flat landers as they were called, made their way there until the turn of the 20th century.. It was very isolated and they spoke the "King's English" (thee, thou etc) until the mid 1950's when television made its way into our homes (my great great Aunt spoke that way until she died in the 1960's) The southern United States has a plethora of accents, each with a story and a melodic cadence that makes them uniquely American! FYI no one but another Cajun has any idea what the Cajuns are saying either, we just smile, shake our head knowingly and occasionally pat them on the arm and laugh like we get it....😂
My family was from McMinn and Polk County Tenn at the same time as Boone too. Wonder if they were n neighbors lol! They were Murphy's.