I don't think non-Americans understand how enormous the US is. Texas is as big as as multiple European countries combined. So yes, there is more than one accent in Texas.
What makes accents extra hard is that there are a lot of regional slang that when combined with an accent make even other Americans scratch their head.
@@claregale9011 Way more than 40. Some of them you can't even believe that it's English until you listen to them for a moment and even then you will not be able to make out every single word.
"Appalachia" runs along the Appalachian mountains, up and down the East coast. There are variations of the accent - the south gives it a twang and drawl, the north speeds it up.
I've lived all over the U.S. and traveled abroad. The trick to some American accents is sort of like those seeing eye pictures. You just have to relax your ears and let it flow through them. You won't catch every word, but you'll pick up the gist of what they're saying. If you try to listen to each specific word, you'll get lost.
@fippodegyeoolies3629Yeah but you guys are diet Americans to begin with. You used to be British, you have a me weird area with way too many French people, you have a bunch of identity politics, and you do war crimes. That’s diet America. You’re literally us but with slightly less racism.
As an American I can agree. I can basically understand what everyone is saying here, but that sweet old man was pretty clear. Reminds me of the old timers I grew up around in NC 🥲
@fippodegyeoolies3629 TY. My biomom's people only speak Cajun. My adopted parents raised me in the "hills" Blue Ridge mnts just over duh hill from day Partons. Currently I in an international zoom group w/ 3 members from Toronto and 1 from Vancouver. I understand every word they say. Confusion comes in when I beginst to tawkin. Canada is awesome! Mad respect for y'alls hockey enthusiasm.
Fun fact about the general American accent (also sometimes called the Midwest accent), it's been documented as being the American accent closest to the English accent at the time of the American revolution.
It has its roots in the accent of Western Massachusetts during colonial times. To this day, those people speak in a way that’s a lot more neutral sounding to our ears than the people on the coast in places like Boston.
To be fair, Ohioans (at least northeastern ones) have an accent closer to Pittsburgh than the regular midwestern. It isn’t nearly as extreme but its there
The Irish and other UK accents influenced the southern accent a lot with the "R" sounds and such, so I'd be really curious to see some of the anthropological data about how the Midwest accent is 17th century English but also influenced the other accents it did - of course continued immigration being the main factor I'm sure
I went to Ireland and came upon 2 Scots drinking Guinness. I tried to strike up a conversation and soon realized that my English and their English were not compatible
I have a friend from Scotland and another from France, both have very strong accents. When were all together having a conversation, I get a headache trying to go back and forth between the two. I asked my French friend how well she understood the Scot and she said oh we really don't understand each other. The only time we really talk is around you.
Sounds like you needed some Guinness to get on the same page. 😂 I learned some Scots and a lil Scottish Gaelic so I know the exact thing you're talking about.
The problem there is you approached them while they were drinking, the moment you attempted that it was over. Honestly that applies to any people the more they drink the harder they lean into their accents.
There was a reality show called "Swamp People" filmed in the Louisiana swamps. They were speaking English to an American audience and they had to use subtitles in order to be understood.
Late, but fun fact: In America, our highways often have smaller roads that run alongside them, to put a buffer between driveways/intersecting roads and the fast-moving traffic on said highways. Sometimes they're called "service roads" or "frontage roads", BUT! If a person refers to it as a "feeder road", they are 100% from Houston, Texas, because it is not called that ANYWHERE else.
Appalachian man said "They didn't have electricity or running water when he was a kid, they got their water out of a spring." Which is fairly common here lol
Northern Minnesota for sure. Of course; my wife is born and raised St Paul and her accent is as strong as the deep woods minnesotans. It's funny as hell because no one believes she was raised in St Paul
@@averyhuelsbeck3116 yeah but every accent dialect or regional vocal pattern has its own words taken from other languages or their own slang so if cajun is disqualified for that the you have to disqualify almost all of the other ones on the list too.
@@jacobburns115 Listen to it again man. Half as in half. It's half not English. I perfectly understood every person in this video but the Cajuns because it's not English. The language expert dude even says it's a type of French.
@@averyhuelsbeck3116 While Cajun does use a lot of French words it also uses a variety of Spanish, English, and African pronunciations depending on the area it’s spoken. If you spoke some Cajun dialects to a French person they probably wouldn’t even think you were saying French words because the words themselves could sound different. Cajun could probably be counted as its own language in some places because it uses so many different pronunciations. Point is, it really depends on the location it’s spoken in some places it might just sound like a southerner speaking French but is others it might sound like a French person speaking Spanish with a southern English accent. It really is a fascinating Accent/Dialect/Language😅
While in the military, I was blessed with the most magical of radio calls. One Louisiana man with a strong Cajun accent, a man from Florida with an AAVE accent and a speech impediment, and myself with a Midwestern accent. I can dictate and articulate with ease, but listening to these two argue over the radio was a nightmare scenario of noise, with the only words coming through being Sayin' and Bitch. So I'm obviously struggling, and just sort of dip out. And then a South Korean second generation man hops on, and he's trying to calm the situation, but getting angry and all we can understand from him was Fuck. So to recap, all I hear is a whirlwind of Sayin', Bitch, and Fuck, intertwined with twangs and drawls of what I believe to be words. We completed the mission, but I'm still not sure what the mission was to this day though.
I'm from Appalachia and the more excited I get the harder the accent gets for people. It's kind of funny at my job, because I'm the creative lead for a fiction writing company, and when I get talking to the clients on a video call, I try my best to be as "general American" as I can be (which also surprises people, because the company I work for is based in the UK), but the more excited I get about a story concept I'm trying to pitch the more my Appalachia slips through and it catches people off guard sometimes.
I'm from Michigan and LOVE the Appalachian accents. I used to spend my summers all over the range. I could NOT understand the accent, especially in rural areas, but man, now that I'm used to it, I think it's just the best. Truly the best accent for storytelling, you found the right career
@@BubbleNova1991 Much appreciated! I needed this boost today. I've got a call with a big potential new client coming up. The accents are going to be fun, because we've got me, our sales person from NYC, our CEO from London, and the client is based in Montana. That's one fun thing about working remotely.
I'm also from Appalachia, and I've never been a fan of the Appalachian accent. I resisted it as a kid, and oddly enough, I ended up with the general American accent despite never living in places like Ohio where it's actually used. That being said, I've noticed that I do get a little bit Appalachian if I'm doing business with Southerners. I think it's the subconscious need to fit in. The drawl is there when I need it, although I rarely use it.
The older guy that sounds like Boomhauer from King of the Hill basically said that somebody brought him “the whole thing, but I don’t eat much of that stuff. I’ll eat a little bit at supper, but the rest is gonna go bad because I don’t eat it.”
The thing that'd really make this British lad cook his noodle is that Boomhauer is also speaking perfect Americanized english. It's never total gibberish and he's actually speaking real sentences, albeit with occassional stutters and interjections.
I understood him right away and I don't even live anywhere near the south.. or east lol. I'm on the west coast and I could understand him right away. Must be growing up around my grandpa, along with Boomhauer actually teaching me because now I can understand Boomhauer 100%! As a kid I thought he was just mumbling nonsense but now it's hilarious to watch King of The Hill. Boomhauer is the most sane person on that show and constantly tries to warn people and they just ignore him
The UK, hell England alone absolutely blows the US out of the water when it comes to native English accent diversity. And it's not even close. That's the entire US, not one state, compared to tiny England. The size doesn't matter much.
@@HuckleberryHimBy density absolutely. Its also got over 326 year headstart on history with 100-248 years of separation give or take on direct influence. Given the history of the English language, the US's accents will quickly surpass the UK's accents in the next 100 years. Its quite insane how quickly American English itself is evolving with its slang and contributions becoming controversially equally as iconic as British English
@@HuckleberryHim Was I ever claiming otherwise? I don't think so. I was simply saying that it is silly to assume a state the size of Texas would have only one single accent. The fact that England, like the other commenter said, has a much longer history definitely helps in this regard.
@@BVKrealitycheck You have to take globalization and the internet into account though. I think in this new world, accents will only become more homogenized. You already see it with lots of localized accents becoming rare or disappearing (I am from NYC and can tell you that only old privileged white people still have the "New Yawk" accent; same in much of the south, especially big cities, etc). Meanwhile even British English incorporates lots of Americanisms these days. I doubt we will just see history do what it has always done, though if things were the same then yes, the US is in a good position to have massive accent diversity like England.
You know what's the funniest thing about this? The deep Appalachian accent is actually much closer to what original English (yes as in England) sounds like, than the modern British-English accent.
Fun fact: there are more than 350 languages in regular use in the US. These include French, Spanish, Tagalog, Gullah, Arabic, and German. And of English, there are 30 dialects, each with a variety of accents.
I've spoken to many foreigners who are all like "My English is no good", and I'm like we barely speak English in the US, my native language isn't English, so your fine, doin excellent. They're all like no, and I'm like I could go to the store right now and there would be people who don't speak no English so you actually are a rather advanced speaker. Like I said before, southerners generally translate to English in order to communicate with English speakers. The language split off hundreds of years ago, and like that guy was saying we have alot of African influence in our modern language too. Theres alot of instances where I don't say a TH sound, and hardly ever a G at the end of a word on which the preceedin letters are "in" We even have a different gramar/syntax structure on how to speak of a thing (thang). Im thirsty, so ima go get a drank. 😅 #Fax
@@Monkchelle_Kongbama English is like, to language as 10 is to Log. Just a base. In my experience a lot more needs to be known about the language than its base in order to understand communications around the world. The base is just the starting point. Hand communication and facial expression is still some of the most vital parts of inter dialect communications used world over.
Europeans like to say Americans are untraveled because they don’t have passports. I can drive 2 hours and be in a state with its own unique culture and dialect. And there are thousands.
If you are in Los Angeles 30 min drive will do that 😆 sometimes less 😆 . Lots of people move here and speak multiple languages or live in an enclave so they don't need to learn English to get by. It sure is interesting. Spanglish is mandatory. If you grow up in LA you can prob speak Spanish than someone who took it for a couple years in highschool
Im from Mississippi, and the "southern accent" is a very general term. There are so many different accents amongst my relatives in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Southern US accents alone have tremendous variation. I can tell what southern region someone is from by their accent, from Appalachia to the South West. There's a great video by a dialect coach reviewing the many accents of the US and how different they sound.
I'm from Eastern KY then lived almost 20 years in East TN. I got made fun of in TN even though the accents are so close. I now live in Pittsburgh and I was surprised that some of the words they use are the same I used growing up. Words like "buggy" for shopping carts and even though they say "yinz" we said "yunz. And people in my hometown say "warsh" like those in western PA as well so I feel comfortable there, even though the rest of my accent definitely differs from Pittsburgh. 😄
Being from the South, I can tell also. For instance, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi are all different. They also have regional accents too.
A guy from LA (Lower Alabama) once asked me for "rotten pepper" at work. I was clueless. He just kept saying "rotten pepper" over and over until grabbing a sheet of paper, held it up and rattled it at me and shouted a final "ROTTEN PEPPER!" Oh, writing paper.
That's the Piney Woods price smoothing for you. I'm from just over the border in FL, and every I sound from a local is an ah sound unless we're specifically thinking about it.
@moldetaco2281 Yep I live in northern Missouri and most people have the general accent but then you'll get heavy Midwest all the way to the hickest most hillbilly southern you can imagine and it will vary in family members
16:11 “So where you going to go for Christmas?” “Oh well first we’re gonna get the family together, we’re gonna go to Famous Dave’s barbecue you know around Calvin Square,” “Oh haven’t you been to Hibbing? Because Hibbing’s so nice especially around this time of year, or you go to Fridley or maybe you go to Grand Marais,” “You know I have been, actually we’re gonna go to Hinkley, have you ever seen the museum there? Apparently the whole city caught fire once,” “You take the 494 to Mall of America?”
So the old man you couldn't understand said "you didn't say you gonna bring me a whole thing of it. I don't eat much of that stuff. I eat a little bit til supper. It's liable to go bad before i can eat it all." I was born and raised in North Carolina. He has the Appalachian mountain accent that a lot of the older people here have. Fun fact: it's the closest accent to the old English the settlers spoke when they came to America.
I drove through Alabama back in the early 90s on a Harley from Georgia to West Tennessee. I took a break in the town of Jasper, AL at a gas station. I talked to the attendant while there and his accent was so thick that every time he spoke to me, I stared at blankly at him for 5-10 seconds as my mind deciphered what he was saying so that I could respond.
You were amazed that there were multiple accents in Texas but I’ll tell you that there are multiple accents in New York CITY. I’m Italian American and born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. As I grew up my accent became filtered through the professional world, but it’s always an amazing time bringing it out like a super power when I’m amongst family or others who are from the area.
People online love to say that the different boroughs don't have their regional accents but I was born and raised in The Bronx and sound different from dudes in Queens or Brooklyn.
My gf does this (she grew up in Brooklyn) and I love it every single time. It's so amazing how little of that I have having grown up elsewhere in the state.
I work at a guest service desk. So, at my job I hear a number of different accents. One day a man came in with a heavy Cajun accent. He asked me if I knew where he was from. I dropped my customer service voice to use *my* natural accent and told him, "I can't guess exactly where y'all are from. But, I know there's some dang good food there!" Boy, did that get him tickled. XD I'm from East Texas, so Louisiana is right next door to us. Cajun/creole food is SO good!!
@@callumlavigne2463re: Tony’s - I was doing food prep not an hour ago for our 4th of July dinner and had to hunt past the regular which I already had out to get the blue Herbs and Spice (we wanted more heat but had enough salt on the green beans already). We have a whole section of the spice rack with the different varieties, and no one in my family is from Louisiana. Guess it’ll be Bourbon Chicken tomorrow. P.S. for those not in the know, we’re talking about Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning. Use it as an upgrade to any seasoned salt. Comes in several varieties but you really need two: green (Creole Seasoning) and blue (Spice N’ Herbs). If you have to cut the salt that’s purple, and if you can’t handle spice at all then learn to love it (there is a Lite, but I think you’re better off using Spice N’ Herbs and adding salt instead).
Adam, I was born in the Chicago area, but had a grandmother from Alabama. When I went to school in Michigan, they all wanted to know what part of the south that was from. I told them I was from the south side of Chicago. At 75, I still say crick instead of creek. If they heard my grandmother speak, they wouldhave trouble because she was Scol/irish on her dad side, and on her mother‘s side she was Choctaw Indian. There’s another whole influence right there.
A few years ago I was in Amsterdam on business and took a taxi from the airport to my hotel in the city center. The taxi driver was a lady probably in her late 50´s early 60´s and we got into a conversation. When we arrived at the hotel and I was paying she turned around and said "You have the sexiest voice and Southern accent. You sound just like in the movies". Apparently she liked my East Texas drawl.
I mostly have a general American accent-but I’ve been told while traveling that when I say certain words it gives away that I live close to Chicago. But if someone directly from Chicago heard me speak, they’d know immediately I’m from the suburbs.
@@whiskeytom4847 except when its chi-cahg-oh but I livid in Joliet for years and had southsider friends. That's two accents and we aren't even done with the City and the 'burbs.
Um yeah, the moment you're out of Cook County we expect you to not include yourselves in Chicago and instead say Chicago Suburbs😂😂. You guys only show up for sports games and the tourists stuff!!😂
Cajun woman here. Definitely caught the Cajun accent from the old man at 11:37. He said he doesn't usually eat that much, even at supper, but he felt he had to because it might go bad if he didn't eat. If I had to guess it was likely a tray from a crawfish boil.
I'm from MN, and I was able to understand him, lol. He just said his words really fast which cut them very short. Was gonna come in here and write what the man said in case know one else had.
I believe he's from the midwest, but since he doesn't have his dentures in he's slurring. What he actually said was, "...she didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me, a whole thing. I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper. The rest of that is starting now to go bad, If somebody don't eat it"
I'm from the South and people make fun of me all the time lol. That one guy that said he was from North Cacalaky, he was talking about North Carolina, that's where I'm from. We say that a lot here 😆
I'm a North Carolinian, born and raised. I live in a little town just across the river from the big city of Charlotte. I've noticed the accents around here have changed over time as more and more people move to this region from places outside of the South.
As someone who is southern, the old man said “I didn’t say nothing, but she brought me a whole thing and I don’t eat much of that stuff. I ate some for supper but it’s going to bad if I don’t eat it”
"...she didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me, a whole thing. I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper. The rest of that is starting now to go bad, If somebody don't eat it"
@@allang216 yeah mine was the rough translation because I could understand what he said. But then I would go to write the comment and be like ….”Now what did he say?” Because I have the memory of a goldfish
@@rainbowrocks1020 I kind of figured that, that's why I commented. I wanted to see if it was just lost in translation! We all get the gist tho! I listened like 6 times while replying!
The old man sounded like my pa pa before he passed away when I was a teen. So I don’t think it was too hard to understand him lol. Most of the elderly where I live sound like that so years of practice helped in understanding
I think the thing that people across the pond don’t realize about the US is that our states are the size (or bigger) of countries in Europe so we’ve got a lot of different people with a lot of different accents. Plus these accents have usually evolved from the combination of accents of people who settled here when colonization and settling first started. Then those accents mix with accents from our surrounding countries such as Mexico or Canada. We also have the effect of slavery on linguistics depending on where you’re at.
Now I'm confused. Every country has accents within its language because every country has different areas which where influeced slightly differently with history and culture. If anything I woudl be shocked if there is country which has same accent all across, that would be creepily uniform. So USA is no different...
@@NagadirGame Cause most attribute it to a country, but then ya bring up that individual states have accent variations, and regional variations, and some get a bit weird about it cause no, not all europeans realize how big the USA and it’s States are.
@@thejestor9378 I do not know which Europeans you met but USA literally takes almost half of the North America, of course it is big? Also it is pretty apparent on map which we needed to ingrain into our brain in my country.
I'm so glad he included the Pittsburgh dialect. We call it Pittsburghese. I grew up there, and even though I moved away 30 years ago, every time I go home to visit, the accent comes back right away and takes about a month or so to fade away once I've left.
13:02 as a fellow Vermonter born and raised i understood him perfectly. My freinds always said i have an accent but i could hear it until I heard myself speak
In south Louisiana you know the gossip is good when your grandma goes from English to Cajun French in 2.5 seconds lol. And I love the Boudreaux and Thibodaux jokes. There’s a restaurant in Houma, LA called Boudreaux’s and Thibodaux’s. They have the jokes everywhere in the restaurant it’s awesome. My grandmother never taught me to speak Cajun French but I’ve picked it up a bit as I grew up. Most of my cousins and I learned the curse words first though lol.
If my grandparents wanted to talk shit they would do it in French. My cousin brought his new girlfriend to a crawfish boil and they sat there and said some pretty rough shit right in front of her about her. She wasn’t from here so she just nodded her head and smiled. Also when I was little I would go with my dad to the airport where he flew crop dusters. There was a little store we would go to for breakfast and there would always be a group of old farmers there drinking coffee only speaking in french. I miss being little hanging out in a hanger while they played Cajun and zydeco taking apart planes
My family's french canadian and when they wanted to say something secret while I was nearby, they'd use a patois that kind of was a french version of pig latin. I learned that one real quick but kept it to myself ;-)
I'm from Minnesota and I married someone from Mississippi, who moved to Minnesota when he was 13. He never lost his Southern accent. It stayed with him til his death almost 2 years ago. I still miss him.
When I took French in high school we read an article about the Cajuns. It’s not just an accent, but actually a language. A lot of the language has been lost/forgotten because they only taught English in their schools. I believe that when I read about it they said that they are trying to reteach it to the youth so that it doesn’t get completely lost. I also could have gotten some info wrong, it’s been a few years since I read that lol
You can take Cajun French classes here usually as a college course. Maybe more common with younger kids in the more rural areas of the state. For the most part in high schools it’s the regular languages you’d imagine. French Spanish German Italian. I’m from New Orleans and they don’t teach it there but New Orleans isn’t a Cajun area.
@@grubalaboocreosote4774 in the US maybe. But they don’t speak Cajun French anywhere but here. And schools actively forbade the teaching of it for a long time to try and eliminate it.
I had a chemistry teacher's assistant (TA) with such a strong Boston accent that I couldn't understand for the first 20 minutes of class. Until I finally realized he was pronouncing his "r"s as "ahh"s. So "Caahh-bon" was actually "Carbon", which is important to understand in an organic chemistry class.
Lmfao my boss was from Boston. She could hide her accent until she got mad. One day she was running around asking everybody WHERES THE COD. she was looking for a birthday card that she brought in for everyone to sign.
He's got probably as many words as he does filler like tal'mbout and/or dang ol' or da-gum. That is to say, about half of what he says is just that type of thing
King of the Hill was based in Richardson, TX. Which is a Dallas suburb. They got the name Arlen from Arlington and Garland. Which are both also Dallas suburbs. It’s a North East, TX accent. Has hints of Creole. I’m from South East, TX… the accent gets a little thicker the farther south you go, and the closer you get to Louisiana.
I can understand boomhaur pretty well actually. A lot better than I could a lot of these other ones, especially towards the end of the video. I'm from the south (georgia).
As someone who teaches English as a second language, I've never been more thankful to be from the Midwest. I've never had to re-train how I talk in order to teach someone I tutor - I've got the bland, generic American accent and I'm totally cool with that. :)
Midwestern isn't generic. It's Midwestern. Yall speak in a very specific way. Also, everyone learns to speak clearly because of judgments that get made based off accents. Like how a southern accent makes people think you're less intelligent
My dad's family is from the depths of Louisiana and my mom's family are all Yoopers. The amount of slang you have to remember when calling up one or the other is truly staggering. I sometimes think about learning another language but I just think about them and realize I've already had to learn a few growing up. Also watching the different sides interact at family get together is a real treat!
I think you can understand about any accent if you take it slow, but it’s the regional words that get you! Until pretty recently I would have had no idea what a “jawn” was.
@@blueberryyogini I didn’t know it was Moon Zappa in that song for many years. I had a copy of the album “have I offended someone?” which was more like a compilation of songs I didn’t play around certain people. 🤣
"He didn't say anything but he brought me a whole thing and I don't eat much of that stuff i eat a little bit of it for supper and recon it would go bad if I didn't eat it" is what the old guy pretty much said at 11:40 ish
Most of us Yinzers don't speak Pittsburghese all the time. The accent is usually only barely noticeable, but our words will always identify us. The accent gets much stronger when we're around other Yinzers and don't have to worry about the other person understanding what we're saying. Pittsburghese has kind of died out because the school teachers think it isn't "sophisticated" enough for a city and region trying to modernize itself. Jagoffs. It's part of our identity as a city and all of Western Pennsylvania, we should be preserving it.
Even when the accent is strong you guys sound familiar to me as a southern Ontarian who grew up in the countryside. Kind of like a cousin from two towns over. There's a bit of difference there, but not enough for my brain to go, "Aaah! A foreigner!"
I think it’s true but it might be that too many outsiders moved to the burgh….jagoffs!…still my favorite word that I’ll still use while in Colorado but usually just to my son and husband. Btw, my mom was a teacher and for a while we lived in New England and she threatened us not to pick up that accent. Ha!
As someone from Texas who deals with a lot of Cajuns, you basically just have to listen for words you understand sprinkled in. The order of those words will tell you what they are saying. If you are too far off they will let you know
11:40 "He brought me a whole thing, I don't usually eat much of that stuff, I eat a little bit for supper, but it might go bad if I don't eat it." Assuming he's talking maybe potato salad. You're also thinking of Boomhauer from King of the Hill. It's fun listening to accents, especially ones where you're adjacent to those states or regions but you can still understand them, even the crazy ones. Because you'll probably be exposed to several of them throughout your life. Just stumbled on your channel!
This was a great video. As an American who has lived in multiple major cities I am so used to many accents I thought it was a joke that people couldn’t understand them. This opened my eyes and gave me a new perspective
Black guy born and raised in South Arkansas, I understood everything that older man said @ 11:37. He said, "He didnt say nothin' still brought to me a whole thing, I dont eat much of that stuff, ill eat a wee bit (little bit) at the supper. The rest of that stuff is liable to go bad if somebody dont eat". Basically he didnt expect a guy to give him that much of a particular food that he's not crazy about. The rest will rot if he's stuck with it. Understood every southern one completely except the Cajun one. The first guy I'd say about 50 percent, but the second guy I understood completely
As an Appalachian southern person I've heard it all. I understood every person in this video 😁 (maybe not every single word lmfao but I could tell you what they were saying) Love how America is so diverse
Rural backwoods of West bygod VERJINYA for me (Best Virginia). I always feel a sense of camaraderie when I see others post from Appalachia, even if not in the same area let alone the same state. Mostly because you all get it - you know how it is to be spat upon and mocked by everyone else by being stereotyped as “uneducated backwards hillbillies” for our dialect and slang. The further you go into the backwoods hollers, the more of that Appalachian (gonna’ throw an Apple-atcha) drawl comes out, and I love it. Absolutely loved growing up and sitting with my mamaw out on the porch and listening to her talk to other old timers that’d come around and visit, and when we’d go down south, we’d converse with locals so smoothly … our dialect and slang would compliment theirs. Complete opposite when traveling up north ‘round the city slickers, though lol. Went from “oh, I love that Appalachian accent” down south to “HAHA SAY MAYONNAISE, SAY SUNDAY, SAY WASHING MACHINE” for kicks up north upon speaking - gets old really quick after the first few times, that’s for sure. Made me feel like I should be embarrassed of the way I talk or something with how every word was made out to be a hilarious joke I just told. 😒
That is also my neck of the woods (southern Appalachia near Georgia). It always makes me chuckle the way they tell stories. They always have to say the exact road, nearby landmark (like that ole hickory over yonder by the hill), weather, and exact day and year. It’s also the most mundane hick shit you’ve ever heard where they were trying to push their old pickup truck up a hill because it couldn’t make it to the top lol.
I grew up in northern Virginia which was more sothern in it's culture when I was growing up. Washington DC kind of crept into NVA and the only people with southern accents now are the ones who grew up here 40+ years ago. When I get around southerners my accent starts coming to the surface. I just can't help it. It does confuse some of my friends and they think I'm "putting on" the accent. Little did they know, it's the mid atlantic newscaster accent that's "put on".
there’s so many accents in american even us americans don’t understand or find it funny from people across the country. and not to make it a race thing but black and white people even of the same area tend to have a much different accent. everyone has their own unique sound it’s pretty cool
@@thaismatsumoto I don’t feel like I have one at all compared to like Revere or Brockton (which are different on their own), but people from outside NE always say I do. 😅
Chicago native here, and I love the showcase of that good ol' "da Bears" accent, but I can't believe he didn’t mention that there's even enough of a distinction between a northside and a southside Chicago accent that you can tell very roughly what part of the /city/ they're from based on that!
I've been told I have a Pittsburgh accents... but I live in North Carolina and I LOVE the southern accent. Consider there are words in every regions that are different.... kind of like a dialect. For example, in Texas, every type of soft drink is a "Coke", where I grew up (northern Ohio) we say "Pop" for a soft drinks... and in California (like other areas of the US) they call it soda. Have fun trying to understand us, y'all. ;)
Also Appalachia mountain range is pronounced apple-at-cha. Fun fact it's the same mountain range that is the Highlands in Scotland (millions of years ago when the continent split)
@@animalhouseinthewoods8457 mountains in Norway too, all part of that old range, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. The orogeny that created the Appalachians, Highlands, and Scandinavian mountains literally occured before _bones_ of all things were evolved Mountains older than bones
The phrase is "my dogs are barking", saying his feet hurt. It's a common southern phrase said the (Fat Black guy with the Glasses) also said "Marky Mark" (Mark Wahlberg) in the same sentence, that is CLEARLY a Boston Mass. Accent.
Umm, "Appalachia" isn't a "State"... :P ;) It's a region of the backwoods Appalachian mountains & surrounds that crosses several States. ;) ----- Err, ohh, you meant just through West Virginia. Missed that part... My bad. Yeah, presumably it varies along the length of the Appalachians, from one local region to the next. Probably based on who settled there & whatnot, so how the dialects evolved.
@@MGmirkin No worrries! Yeah, I was referring to the state of West Virginia. The only state that is completely in the Appalachian Mountains. Yes, it varies all the way across the state!
From VA here and the Appalachian accent is here too and if someone has a thick accent, it can be like listening to gibberish . My dad on the other had can understand every word
When my dad got drafted at the end of WWII there were these guys in his army barracks who were really freaked out because they couldn't understand anybody, and when they talked, nobody could understand them. My dad and the other guys asked their sergeant, "What country are those guys from?" and he said, "West Virginia!"
You get that kind of accent in the backwoods of Eastern Kentucky. I grew up here and and it's pretty normal to find it back in the hollers and back roads.
Nice reaction. I grew up around the foothills of Appalachia, and I understand those accents much better than some of the other accents that non-americans consider to be most challenging. Very funny to see you react to these 😂
I married into a family from the woods of NC and SC and yeah, they sounded like him. We ate a shrimp boil and drank homemade peach brandy. I miss those folks.
A man walks into a pub and over heard two women speaking with an accent. He asks are you ladies from England? One shot back with a snarl Wales! The man said, I am very sorry, are you two Whales from England? When he came to, he said he couldnt remember how he hit the floor!
Aaayyy Iowan here and we have a bit of the Yupper in us We all do the OPE and "ope, lemme just sneak right past ya there" And the good old *slaps thighs * "welp I suppose" * proceeds to take an hour to say good bye before standing in the drive way saying goodbye for another hour before leaving * 😂
11:32 “she didn’t say nothing, she brought me a whole thing and I don’t each much of that stuff. I ate a little bit at supper and the rest of that stand there and go bad if come I don’t eat it.”
Louisiana French Creole is one of my favorites for making foreigners' eyes cross 😂 Edit: I live in rural Minnesota. Vast majority Norwegian descendants (the largest population of Norwegians outside of Norway). That endearing accent is rapidly disappearing, and is mostly just heard from the old farmers.
I grew up in northern Virginia and when I was kid, most people had a southern/ Appalachian accent. Maybe not as strong an accent as mountain folk or people way down south but we definitely had one. Most everybody now talks like the newscasters around here, not counting the 30+ percent who were born in another country (NVA has extremely high levels of immigration.
As a Minnesota resident, just want to say that accent is really just the far north and rural areas of the state. I think we've all got some level of the accent, but usually nowhere near that bad haha
I know! I moved here a year ago and was very disappointed to hear that no one really sounds like that. The most accent I hear is on the word bag, or “baeg”
In the Great Lakes states, your accent absolutely depends on how close to the lakes you are... If you're on the lakes, most likely you've got the Inland North accent and not one of the twangier or more nasal Midwest accents
@@jessica3548 Yep. I live close to Milwaukee and I feel like I don't hear the "wisconsin accent" strongly but every now and again in rural areas further in I get blindsided by a super strong wisconsonite accent.
@hanjis5894 exactly. I happen to be a Minnesotan living in Milwaukee, haha, and it was really neat learning the differences between the two. Cuz before I moved here, I figured Minnesota and Wisconsin were pretty much the same, and maybe they are to outsiders, but to me there are some significant differences (and more nuanced ones too, of course). 😉
@@reneeyohe8864 Haha, I went to summer camp with kids from all over the country, and to make fun of us Minnesotans (in a fun way), we kind of all together came up with an insult that used the main distinguishable accent markers: you sorry, soaked bag hag. 😂 Our 'sorry' has a pretty nasal O sound like sahrry, our long Os are very pronounced and drawn out and almost shaped smaller with the mouth like in 'soaked'; and you called it with bag, hag, nag, flag, etc. Like we've added Ys to all of them: bayg, hayg, etc. 😂😂
As a Canadian, I LOVE so many American accents, but my FAVOURITE has to be the Appalachian accent! It's so endearing! I don't know what it is, but I feel like they are so honest sounding and it's slower paced, you need to focus, which is refreshing honestly instead of speaking over each other!
Said "Yins ready to go?" In a Las Vegas restaurant and the people next to us were like, "We was wondering where you guys were from, now we know, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania" aka a Yinzer
I'm a third generation Irish immigrant. Raised all over the US as a military brat. Living in North Carolina, there are 3 solid accents here alone. You covered them in the video. Appalachian accent from the western NC mountains and foothills. Neutral American accent in the central parts of NC and cities. Last, the Outer Banks accent. My great grandma still spoke with a Gaelic accent, my grandpa made sure we got rid of our accents because the family was looked down on, and now we absorb accents wherever we go. Tbh, your accent is just as difficult for us. lol
that pittsburgh girl was speaking english. "i've got a pig in a pen i feed him when i'm home, all i need is a pretty little girl to feed him when i'm gone" it's a very old bluegrass song
@@lyssassong well pennsylvania isnt a southern state but there is a lot of country around there out in the county. there are lots of farmers and amish people who both tend to like bluegrass style music.
the old guy at 12:00 was saying someone had sent him a whole block of something, but because he doesnt eat whatever it is that often its likely to go bad before he can finish it. Hard accent for anyone who hasnt been around it.
Can’t forget about the Amish whose first language is called “Pennsylvania Dutch” basically a mix of German and Dutch. They have a very very thick rural American and Germanic accent.
Pennsylvania Dutch (or Pennsylvania German) isn’t a mix of German and Dutch- which, interestingly, themselves exist on a linguistic spectrum as you travel from one linguistic heartland to the other- but a German dialect deriving ultimately from the Palatinate and Pfalz regions. “Dutch” is just the old word for German (remember that Germany hasn’t been a country for even as long as the US), a corruption of “deutsch.” In PA Dutch, it’s “Deitsch.” And the Dutch for Dutch, to complicate matters… is Nederlands!
You need to delete this reply, because it's blatantly incorrect and complicates the already significant problem of linguistic misinformation; especially in American linguistics. Another replier beat me to why your reply is incorrect. Please delete and refrain from posting linguistic information in the future unless you're 100% it's true.
@@xibear4341 Sorry I’m not an expert, just thought it was interesting and wanted to point it out since no one else had. And no, I will not delete that reply but thanks for your concern!
Boston accent when he says, "My dahgs ah bahkin' (My dogs are barking), it means his feet are throbbing painfully. We say that expression here in Virginia also. Just found you recently and am loving your content, keep it up!
When I started the video I was convince Creole was gonna be the hardest to understand accent. It is for me. When you said "At what point is it no longer english?!" I confidently said "creole" and I stand by that lol.
just an observation from a Californian on 9/11. I worked for the State of California, and watched the planes collide with the WTC that morning while getting ready for work. I arrived at my office two blocks from the California capitol to find every state building surrounded by police, CHP, and National Guard members. It was surreal. We knew nothing, except that every airport was closed and we were essentially cut-off from the rest of the country. It was confusing, emotional, and gut wrenching as news became available. I appreciate that you and others see these stories and react. It honors the memories of those who died that day and in the following years. There may be many opinions about Americans, especially these days, but when we need to, we are one people!
Just starting this one, but my guess? Cajon, Creeole, or Nawlins accents. They're the only ones of all the different accents members of my family have that I can't mimic. When my uncle is drunk, I need an interpreter.
My wife's ex was from deep in Louisiana. When his dad or grandad spoke, she had to look at him to be told what they said. She said, "No insult intended, but they sounded just like that guy in the movie 'Waterboy" that no one could understand."
Afro-Haitian Creole is a hybrid language, not just an accent. Same with Hawaiian Pidgen. Both can be near incomprehensible if you've no experience with them.
@@tattooedman42 I laughed so hard when that Waterboy clip came on... NGL. Bruh was so completely incomprehensible. I honestly don't know whether he was speaking actual Cajun/Creole words or just making up Cajun-sounding nonsense... I love how the rest of the team was like "The fvck did he just say?" Literally none of them had a clue what he was saying either. I love that movie so much...
21:48 I'm Appalachian and this ol' feller's story was actually pretty funny. He was recounting pranks he used to pull on his buddy (or maybe father???) when they would ride to town in a buggy. a BUGGY. "I came out with him every time and it'd take us a long time to get into town in that old buggy! He'd tell me to work the brake. We'd start to go up a hill, I'd kindly push the brake on him. He'd tell that ol' mule "get up there!" Basically whenever they would go uphill he would trick whoever was "driving" into thinking it was the mule's fault they couldn't get up the hill when really ole homeboy was pulling the brake super slowly as a prank. He also said that his friend (dad?) had to save 3 years of corn to feed it at lunch, making fun of how damn much that mule would eat.
22:32 he says "no, we didn't have no electricity. No electrics or runnin' water either. We'd run it out of the spring! But, they eventually got electricity up through there."
African American raised by an educated, professional parent, and a under educated, inner city, parent, both raised by undereducated southern, plantation born parents. I understood every dialect and accent expect Cajun, because it is extremely rare outside of Louisiana and Mississippi area. However, African Americans are the most diverse American English speakers because we had to adapt due to slavery, education restrictions, poverty, immigration, different levels of employment and our own language barriers! Also older people without their natural teeth have a different slur added to their accents, so it gets tricky with our elders!!! Great video. The man at 11:36 is not from the south he is from the Midwest, without his teeth in and is slurring. "...she didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me, a whole thing. I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper. The rest of that is starting now to go bad, If somebody don't eat it"
was waiting for someone to say it cause our english comes from a million and one different places me personally i was born in texas moved to alabama lived in north carolina florida and michigan however i grew up in a suburban area mostly but i had to learn to understand all of these accents as my family is from lousiana and michigan! our accents mixed with regional accents can be crazy haha
I have traveling under my wings and personally from Iowa, and have lived/visited Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Iraq, Germany, Kuwait, Qatar, Washington State, New York, and many others in between. As a veteran, in the US Army, I’ve also been exposed to unique accents from doctors. Also exposed to different cultures, mannerisms, etc. by working for a worldwide cosmetic brand. Louisiana, where I currently reside in, has been the most challenging, because of the Cajun-French accent. Coming from the “Golden” accent of America, with no accent, I think I’ve come to love and appreciate all languages, cultures, and dialects, to include yours 😊
it's so crazy that i didn't struggle with all but like 2 accents on here (and not even the hardest 2)... but i struggle with most british ones. i imagine foreigners feel the exact same way about American ones that i do about British ones lol
Honestly as an American I don't struggle with any European accents or American accents. However Asian English accents bro.. I can't. The only ones I kinda understand are like Korean/Chinese/Japanese English accents. Just bc I watch a lot of them on RUclips. But I have a professor who is Indian and i struggle to understand him so hard.
I know how you feel on some of those. I used to play an online game with an international group. We had members from all over the US, Japan, and Europe. There was one particular British guy that I could not understand. I don't remember where he was from, but whenever he spoke I would ask for a translator. The other British players would tell me he's speaking English and I'd just tell them, "I understand that but I still can't understand him" 🤣🤣
Non native english speaker here. Some of them were difficult to understand, but not impossible. The only time I've thought "There's no way this is english" was when I saw the newsclip with a sheep farmer from Kerry, Ireland. Absolutely hilarious 😂
Grew up in Boston. Played football with these 2 brothers from Louisiana. Known these boys now for like 25 years still can't understand a word they say. That Cajun accent is tough.
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I don't think non-Americans understand how enormous the US is. Texas is as big as as multiple European countries combined. So yes, there is more than one accent in Texas.
Hell, there’s more than one accent in buc-ee’s!
Alaska...
@@rome8180 shoot there’s more than 10 accents in Tennessee. Some people have such a thick backwoods drawl, I need an interpreter to understand them.
Hell there's more than one accent in Indiana.
What’s Alaska?
What makes accents extra hard is that there are a lot of regional slang that when combined with an accent make even other Americans scratch their head.
The British Isles has many different dialects and accents over 40 in fact pretty impressive considering the size of it. 😊
@@claregale9011 Way more than 40. Some of them you can't even believe that it's English until you listen to them for a moment and even then you will not be able to make out every single word.
Cajuns.
"Appalachia" runs along the Appalachian mountains, up and down the East coast. There are variations of the accent - the south gives it a twang and drawl, the north speeds it up.
I've lived all over the U.S. and traveled abroad. The trick to some American accents is sort of like those seeing eye pictures. You just have to relax your ears and let it flow through them. You won't catch every word, but you'll pick up the gist of what they're saying. If you try to listen to each specific word, you'll get lost.
Fun reaction.He said that these are accents that "NON AMERICANS" voted as hard to understand. Not Americans.
Adam's ADD kicked in again.🤭
Louisiana is the problem child when it comes to accents. What a bunch of inarticulate weirdos.
@fippodegyeoolies3629Yeah but you guys are diet Americans to begin with. You used to be British, you have a me weird area with way too many French people, you have a bunch of identity politics, and you do war crimes. That’s diet America. You’re literally us but with slightly less racism.
As an American I can agree. I can basically understand what everyone is saying here, but that sweet old man was pretty clear. Reminds me of the old timers I grew up around in NC 🥲
@fippodegyeoolies3629 TY. My biomom's people only speak Cajun. My adopted parents raised me in the "hills" Blue Ridge mnts just over duh hill from day Partons. Currently I in an international zoom group w/ 3 members from Toronto and 1 from Vancouver. I understand every word they say. Confusion comes in when I beginst to tawkin. Canada is awesome! Mad respect for y'alls hockey enthusiasm.
Fun fact about the general American accent (also sometimes called the Midwest accent), it's been documented as being the American accent closest to the English accent at the time of the American revolution.
It has its roots in the accent of Western Massachusetts during colonial times. To this day, those people speak in a way that’s a lot more neutral sounding to our ears than the people on the coast in places like Boston.
To be fair, Ohioans (at least northeastern ones) have an accent closer to Pittsburgh than the regular midwestern. It isn’t nearly as extreme but its there
Idk what Midwest parts they getting that idea from to be anywhere close to American. Probably big city folk
Most of Iowa sounds like that, outside some southern Iowa.@@PurplePoppyMallow
The Irish and other UK accents influenced the southern accent a lot with the "R" sounds and such, so I'd be really curious to see some of the anthropological data about how the Midwest accent is 17th century English but also influenced the other accents it did - of course continued immigration being the main factor I'm sure
I went to Ireland and came upon 2 Scots drinking Guinness. I tried to strike up a conversation and soon realized that my English and their English were not compatible
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have a friend from Scotland and another from France, both have very strong accents. When were all together having a conversation, I get a headache trying to go back and forth between the two. I asked my French friend how well she understood the Scot and she said oh we really don't understand each other. The only time we really talk is around you.
😂@@wordup897
Sounds like you needed some Guinness to get on the same page. 😂 I learned some Scots and a lil Scottish Gaelic so I know the exact thing you're talking about.
The problem there is you approached them while they were drinking, the moment you attempted that it was over. Honestly that applies to any people the more they drink the harder they lean into their accents.
"I'm gonna go ahead and assume that it's the southern accent that's gonna be the hardest"
Cajun accent: Hold my beer
Technically it is southern
It's that bayou accent
Unice, louisiana.
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Yes, I'm a southerner and Cajun has to be the toughest.
There was a reality show called "Swamp People" filmed in the Louisiana swamps. They were speaking English to an American audience and they had to use subtitles in order to be understood.
Cajun English takes the cake, for true- and I say that as a native of the deep South.
@@sabrecrafted7409 yep them and the Appalachian
Isn't the guy at 25:16 one of the original cast members? If I recall correctly his name was Troy?
@@dio361I KNEW it. The voice and the way he looked into the camera, I could hear him sayin “SHOOT EM, SHOOT EM” already
CHOOT EM CHOOT EM
Late, but fun fact: In America, our highways often have smaller roads that run alongside them, to put a buffer between driveways/intersecting roads and the fast-moving traffic on said highways. Sometimes they're called "service roads" or "frontage roads", BUT! If a person refers to it as a "feeder road", they are 100% from Houston, Texas, because it is not called that ANYWHERE else.
Appalachian man said "They didn't have electricity or running water when he was a kid, they got their water out of a spring." Which is fairly common here lol
Best damn water there is 😂
@@JacobE-23 Sweet as sugar an cold enough to break your teeth 😂
Sounded like my grandpa, who also got his water out of a spring all his life.
Texas born and raised. My granddad used to bring us spring water. Best water ever. I miss him and the water.
As someone from West Virginia, I believe it.
Im Minnesotan and I went down to Louisiana and the amount of people who immediately knew we were Minnesotan was hilarious.
Oh you betcha!
Granted if you are from Wisconsin they’d never guess though we know they sound weird.
Northern Minnesota for sure.
Of course; my wife is born and raised St Paul and her accent is as strong as the deep woods minnesotans. It's funny as hell because no one believes she was raised in St Paul
Just wait until you meet our state cryptid. The Uff Da Man. He waits outside curling rinks with fresh tater tot hotdish and say goodbye for 2 hours.
My family is from MN and I spent my teens there, WI, IL, but have been in TX since 2000. My accent now is just confusing to everyone.
I love how he says” at what point do you not count it as english”, and steps right into Cajun
Honestly their deep voices doesnt help to understand them too
Half the damn words are French. That's not even an accent at that point. He even said it's a dialect of French. Kinda silly to include tbh
@@averyhuelsbeck3116 yeah but every accent dialect or regional vocal pattern has its own words taken from other languages or their own slang so if cajun is disqualified for that the you have to disqualify almost all of the other ones on the list too.
@@jacobburns115 Listen to it again man. Half as in half. It's half not English. I perfectly understood every person in this video but the Cajuns because it's not English. The language expert dude even says it's a type of French.
@@averyhuelsbeck3116 While Cajun does use a lot of French words it also uses a variety of Spanish, English, and African pronunciations depending on the area it’s spoken. If you spoke some Cajun dialects to a French person they probably wouldn’t even think you were saying French words because the words themselves could sound different. Cajun could probably be counted as its own language in some places because it uses so many different pronunciations.
Point is, it really depends on the location it’s spoken in some places it might just sound like a southerner speaking French but is others it might sound like a French person speaking Spanish with a southern English accent. It really is a fascinating Accent/Dialect/Language😅
While in the military, I was blessed with the most magical of radio calls. One Louisiana man with a strong Cajun accent, a man from Florida with an AAVE accent and a speech impediment, and myself with a Midwestern accent. I can dictate and articulate with ease, but listening to these two argue over the radio was a nightmare scenario of noise, with the only words coming through being Sayin' and Bitch. So I'm obviously struggling, and just sort of dip out. And then a South Korean second generation man hops on, and he's trying to calm the situation, but getting angry and all we can understand from him was Fuck.
So to recap, all I hear is a whirlwind of Sayin', Bitch, and Fuck, intertwined with twangs and drawls of what I believe to be words. We completed the mission, but I'm still not sure what the mission was to this day though.
I'm from Appalachia and the more excited I get the harder the accent gets for people. It's kind of funny at my job, because I'm the creative lead for a fiction writing company, and when I get talking to the clients on a video call, I try my best to be as "general American" as I can be (which also surprises people, because the company I work for is based in the UK), but the more excited I get about a story concept I'm trying to pitch the more my Appalachia slips through and it catches people off guard sometimes.
I'm from Michigan and LOVE the Appalachian accents. I used to spend my summers all over the range. I could NOT understand the accent, especially in rural areas, but man, now that I'm used to it, I think it's just the best. Truly the best accent for storytelling, you found the right career
@@BubbleNova1991 Much appreciated! I needed this boost today. I've got a call with a big potential new client coming up. The accents are going to be fun, because we've got me, our sales person from NYC, our CEO from London, and the client is based in Montana. That's one fun thing about working remotely.
I have family in Appalachia and when I visit them I understand them fine until we’ve had a couple drinks and they try to show me something cool 😂
@@mcdevitt10 Sounds about right!
I'm also from Appalachia, and I've never been a fan of the Appalachian accent. I resisted it as a kid, and oddly enough, I ended up with the general American accent despite never living in places like Ohio where it's actually used.
That being said, I've noticed that I do get a little bit Appalachian if I'm doing business with Southerners. I think it's the subconscious need to fit in. The drawl is there when I need it, although I rarely use it.
The older guy that sounds like Boomhauer from King of the Hill basically said that somebody brought him “the whole thing, but I don’t eat much of that stuff. I’ll eat a little bit at supper, but the rest is gonna go bad because I don’t eat it.”
Yup
The thing that'd really make this British lad cook his noodle is that Boomhauer is also speaking perfect Americanized english. It's never total gibberish and he's actually speaking real sentences, albeit with occassional stutters and interjections.
Its incredibly fascinating and hilarious to me, being able to understand this dude and watching Adam lose his shit 😂
Dang ol' tell ya somethin' man
I understood him right away and I don't even live anywhere near the south.. or east lol.
I'm on the west coast and I could understand him right away. Must be growing up around my grandpa, along with Boomhauer actually teaching me because now I can understand Boomhauer 100%! As a kid I thought he was just mumbling nonsense but now it's hilarious to watch King of The Hill. Boomhauer is the most sane person on that show and constantly tries to warn people and they just ignore him
"State larger than the UK"
"WHAT? This state has more than one accent??"
All states have multiple accents because people move, it's relatively a mic of how u were raised and your area
The UK, hell England alone absolutely blows the US out of the water when it comes to native English accent diversity. And it's not even close. That's the entire US, not one state, compared to tiny England. The size doesn't matter much.
@@HuckleberryHimBy density absolutely. Its also got over 326 year headstart on history with 100-248 years of separation give or take on direct influence. Given the history of the English language, the US's accents will quickly surpass the UK's accents in the next 100 years. Its quite insane how quickly American English itself is evolving with its slang and contributions becoming controversially equally as iconic as British English
@@HuckleberryHim Was I ever claiming otherwise? I don't think so. I was simply saying that it is silly to assume a state the size of Texas would have only one single accent.
The fact that England, like the other commenter said, has a much longer history definitely helps in this regard.
@@BVKrealitycheck You have to take globalization and the internet into account though. I think in this new world, accents will only become more homogenized. You already see it with lots of localized accents becoming rare or disappearing (I am from NYC and can tell you that only old privileged white people still have the "New Yawk" accent; same in much of the south, especially big cities, etc). Meanwhile even British English incorporates lots of Americanisms these days. I doubt we will just see history do what it has always done, though if things were the same then yes, the US is in a good position to have massive accent diversity like England.
Hahahaha 😂😂 your face during the Appalachia was priceless 😅❤ I was screamin Apple-at-cha! The whole time since my daddy from dere 😂
You know what's the funniest thing about this? The deep Appalachian accent is actually much closer to what original English (yes as in England) sounds like, than the modern British-English accent.
Was gonna say this as well
correct! Isolation is REAL.
They say the deep southern Louisiana accent was attributed to English royalty, I can't understand that atall
Cockney English perhaps. I long suspected that but not The Kings English.
It's almost gone.
Fun fact: there are more than 350 languages in regular use in the US. These include French, Spanish, Tagalog, Gullah, Arabic, and German.
And of English, there are 30 dialects, each with a variety of accents.
And on top of that, each region has its own dialect in influential languages. German Texan and French Creole are particularly fun to hear.
@@hatleyhoward7193 German Texan sounds horrifying in my head, ngl
I've spoken to many foreigners who are all like "My English is no good", and I'm like we barely speak English in the US, my native language isn't English, so your fine, doin excellent. They're all like no, and I'm like I could go to the store right now and there would be people who don't speak no English so you actually are a rather advanced speaker. Like I said before, southerners generally translate to English in order to communicate with English speakers. The language split off hundreds of years ago, and like that guy was saying we have alot of African influence in our modern language too. Theres alot of instances where I don't say a TH sound, and hardly ever a G at the end of a word on which the preceedin letters are "in" We even have a different gramar/syntax structure on how to speak of a thing (thang). Im thirsty, so ima go get a drank. 😅 #Fax
sure...but you'd have about 15 repeating 9's if you tried to turn the amount into a percentage.
It really is just english
@@Monkchelle_Kongbama English is like, to language as 10 is to Log. Just a base. In my experience a lot more needs to be known about the language than its base in order to understand communications around the world. The base is just the starting point. Hand communication and facial expression is still some of the most vital parts of inter dialect communications used world over.
Europeans like to say Americans are untraveled because they don’t have passports. I can drive 2 hours and be in a state with its own unique culture and dialect. And there are thousands.
In Texas, a 2 hour drive will get you from one side of Dallas Ft Worth to the other on a good day. It's the same in the Houston Metro area.
@@jeanfrancis8121In Atlanta, a two hour drive will get you 1 mile down the road in traffic. 😂
If you are in Los Angeles 30 min drive will do that 😆 sometimes less 😆 . Lots of people move here and speak multiple languages or live in an enclave so they don't need to learn English to get by. It sure is interesting. Spanglish is mandatory. If you grow up in LA you can prob speak Spanish than someone who took it for a couple years in highschool
Flying from Madrid to Moscow is 5:22. Flying from New York City to Los Angeles California is 6 hours.
@@M98747🤣🤣🤣
When he said “wtf are these people saying?” I perfectly understood what ny fellow Rhode Islander was saying 😂 14:10
Im from Mississippi, and the "southern accent" is a very general term. There are so many different accents amongst my relatives in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Me too and I notice right away even if someone is from a little bit north of
Southern US accents alone have tremendous variation. I can tell what southern region someone is from by their accent, from Appalachia to the South West. There's a great video by a dialect coach reviewing the many accents of the US and how different they sound.
Dude I love that video
I'm from Eastern KY then lived almost 20 years in East TN. I got made fun of in TN even though the accents are so close. I now live in Pittsburgh and I was surprised that some of the words they use are the same I used growing up. Words like "buggy" for shopping carts and even though they say "yinz" we said "yunz. And people in my hometown say "warsh" like those in western PA as well so I feel comfortable there, even though the rest of my accent definitely differs from Pittsburgh. 😄
Comedian Tim Wilson has a great bit on Southern accents. 😂. Very underrated comedian imo.
Being from the South, I can tell also. For instance, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi are all different. They also have regional accents too.
Louisiana has about half a dozen alone
A guy from LA (Lower Alabama) once asked me for "rotten pepper" at work. I was clueless. He just kept saying "rotten pepper" over and over until grabbing a sheet of paper, held it up and rattled it at me and shouted a final "ROTTEN PEPPER!" Oh, writing paper.
That's the Piney Woods price smoothing for you. I'm from just over the border in FL, and every I sound from a local is an ah sound unless we're specifically thinking about it.
I'm a vermont transplant to NW florida. There are people here who literally sound like Larry the cable guy.
I immediately knew what you meant. Because this happened to me in the workplace. Another one was "ass wadder" (ice water)
HAHA
@moldetaco2281 Yep I live in northern Missouri and most people have the general accent but then you'll get heavy Midwest all the way to the hickest most hillbilly southern you can imagine and it will vary in family members
16:11
“So where you going to go for Christmas?”
“Oh well first we’re gonna get the family together, we’re gonna go to Famous Dave’s barbecue you know around Calvin Square,”
“Oh haven’t you been to Hibbing? Because Hibbing’s so nice especially around this time of year, or you go to Fridley or maybe you go to Grand Marais,”
“You know I have been, actually we’re gonna go to Hinkley, have you ever seen the museum there? Apparently the whole city caught fire once,”
“You take the 494 to Mall of America?”
So the old man you couldn't understand said "you didn't say you gonna bring me a whole thing of it. I don't eat much of that stuff. I eat a little bit til supper. It's liable to go bad before i can eat it all." I was born and raised in North Carolina. He has the Appalachian mountain accent that a lot of the older people here have. Fun fact: it's the closest accent to the old English the settlers spoke when they came to America.
I'm from the piedmont but I've been asked many times if I'm British. It's really interesting! Both sides of my family are from NC.
I'll be honest, even I barely understood about ½ to ¾ of it, and I'm from Oklahoma. Enough to get the gist of it though
@whitneyhuskins3677 Hayesville in the house! But yes, the older man most likely can define words like sigogglin, poke, and say 'THEY LAWWWW"
It's hilarious I'm from Kentucky and could understand what the older gentleman said lol
I'm from between Pittsburgh and Appalachia and I understood him quite easily. Is that strange? Then again I understood most people on this list.
It's always funny seeing Europeans astounded that there is/can be more than one accent per state when Britain has like one per county lol
That's not true. In England alone is several different accents.
That would be exactly what I said, yes
One per county, not country
@@WhatsCookingTime ah reading comprehension, such a rare gift
Definitely. Mass us a good example. Florida too because of all the transplants.
I drove through Alabama back in the early 90s on a Harley from Georgia to West Tennessee. I took a break in the town of Jasper, AL at a gas station. I talked to the attendant while there and his accent was so thick that every time he spoke to me, I stared at blankly at him for 5-10 seconds as my mind deciphered what he was saying so that I could respond.
My dad had a similar story when he stopped at a Gulf station in Arkansas.
Ohhh! West Tennessee, land of whiskey and hills, flooding and trash
I am from Alabama and can confirm jasper mfs speak another language at times
Yeah I just moved to a town close to jasper. From Oregon. The accent out here is actually insane. I say huh to the point people just give up
Can confirm, as a native myself, Alabamians can be hard as hell to understand sometimes
12:29 i could understand the old man
Same 😂
Same 😂
You were amazed that there were multiple accents in Texas but I’ll tell you that there are multiple accents in New York CITY. I’m Italian American and born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. As I grew up my accent became filtered through the professional world, but it’s always an amazing time bringing it out like a super power when I’m amongst family or others who are from the area.
People online love to say that the different boroughs don't have their regional accents but I was born and raised in The Bronx and sound different from dudes in Queens or Brooklyn.
Amen to dat bro
Lawng Eyelindas have thier own accent too. I grew up on Long Island and have an accent my hubby calls the Queens english, lol. Like in Queens, NY.
Lolz, "benson-hoyst"!
My gf does this (she grew up in Brooklyn) and I love it every single time. It's so amazing how little of that I have having grown up elsewhere in the state.
Bro, the fact that I could understand what all of them were saying is wild.
That's crazy ya'll
Y'all take care now, ya hear?
Dontchaknow
It’s y’all stop faking it
Same
@@AbrielMcPierce
Y'all brinya truck wichadicha?
I work at a guest service desk. So, at my job I hear a number of different accents. One day a man came in with a heavy Cajun accent. He asked me if I knew where he was from. I dropped my customer service voice to use *my* natural accent and told him, "I can't guess exactly where y'all are from. But, I know there's some dang good food there!" Boy, did that get him tickled. XD
I'm from East Texas, so Louisiana is right next door to us.
Cajun/creole food is SO good!!
Southwest Louisiana native myself, I hear a lot of people from East Texas all the time. Even got a few friends on that side every week or so
NW FL here, and I put good ole Tony's on everything. They ain't kidding when they say it goes on everything. Creole and Cajun are both elite cuisine.
Oh yeah our food is the best
It takes some effort for me to get back into my southern accent
@@callumlavigne2463re: Tony’s - I was doing food prep not an hour ago for our 4th of July dinner and had to hunt past the regular which I already had out to get the blue Herbs and Spice (we wanted more heat but had enough salt on the green beans already).
We have a whole section of the spice rack with the different varieties, and no one in my family is from Louisiana. Guess it’ll be Bourbon Chicken tomorrow.
P.S. for those not in the know, we’re talking about Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning. Use it as an upgrade to any seasoned salt. Comes in several varieties but you really need two: green (Creole Seasoning) and blue (Spice N’ Herbs). If you have to cut the salt that’s purple, and if you can’t handle spice at all then learn to love it (there is a Lite, but I think you’re better off using Spice N’ Herbs and adding salt instead).
Adam, I was born in the Chicago area, but had a grandmother from Alabama. When I went to school in Michigan, they all wanted to know what part of the south that was from. I told them I was from the south side of Chicago. At 75, I still say crick instead of creek. If they heard my grandmother speak, they wouldhave trouble because she was Scol/irish on her dad side, and on her mother‘s side she was Choctaw Indian. There’s another whole influence right there.
The guy who put this list together clearly never heard the Amish talk. It's about as hard to understand as an authentic Jamaican accent.
The Amish use a different language called Pennsylvanian Dutch, which is like Germlish.
Once.
It's not english
@@GeneralTotoss Neither is Acadian or Cajun French.
@@TJR93 true
A few years ago I was in Amsterdam on business and took a taxi from the airport to my hotel in the city center. The taxi driver was a lady probably in her late 50´s early 60´s and we got into a conversation. When we arrived at the hotel and I was paying she turned around and said "You have the sexiest voice and Southern accent. You sound just like in the movies". Apparently she liked my East Texas drawl.
East Texas accent here..
Everyone loves it
East Texas is that Piney Woods one Olly shared. Talk Amarillo, El Paso, Brownsville, SanAntonio, Dallas. All very very distinct
There are about two Accents in America that's hard, not impossible but hard. Louisiana and the outer banks of the Carolinas.
Texas accent isn’t as nice as Tennessee Or Alabama.
I'm from the Northeast, and was playing in VR and this guy came in with the coolest accent, I thought he was from Texas, but it was Oklahoma, so nice.
I mostly have a general American accent-but I’ve been told while traveling that when I say certain words it gives away that I live close to Chicago. But if someone directly from Chicago heard me speak, they’d know immediately I’m from the suburbs.
Tell me about it. Plus Chicagoans are very touchy about saying you’re from Chicago if you’re from the suburbs.
It's Chicaga not Chicago. Raised in Rockford but my family is from the city
@@whiskeytom4847 except when its chi-cahg-oh but I livid in Joliet for years and had southsider friends. That's two accents and we aren't even done with the City and the 'burbs.
@@ActionNerdGo Da BEARS!
Um yeah, the moment you're out of Cook County we expect you to not include yourselves in Chicago and instead say Chicago Suburbs😂😂. You guys only show up for sports games and the tourists stuff!!😂
at 2:30 that transition was actually so simple and smoothed over, i made sure to leave a like and sub. (i don't have twitch)
Cajun woman here. Definitely caught the Cajun accent from the old man at 11:37. He said he doesn't usually eat that much, even at supper, but he felt he had to because it might go bad if he didn't eat. If I had to guess it was likely a tray from a crawfish boil.
I'm from MN, and I was able to understand him, lol. He just said his words really fast which cut them very short. Was gonna come in here and write what the man said in case know one else had.
I believe he's from the midwest, but since he doesn't have his dentures in he's slurring. What he actually said was, "...she didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me, a whole thing. I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper. The rest of that is starting now to go bad, If somebody don't eat it"
He reminds me the older peoples accent from southeast kentucky (70 y.o and up)
I'm from the South and people make fun of me all the time lol. That one guy that said he was from North Cacalaky, he was talking about North Carolina, that's where I'm from. We say that a lot here 😆
Half yawz makin funna me an da udder haff is obsessed with wit da way I tawk. Is dadgum raggedy.
I'm a North Carolinian, born and raised. I live in a little town just across the river from the big city of Charlotte. I've noticed the accents around here have changed over time as more and more people move to this region from places outside of the South.
Am I the only one who had to put on my “school” voice just to not be questioned and imitated all day
Oxford nc here what up yall
@@janwilcox4777Are you in Gaston County? I'm in Mount Holly, lol. And I agree with you 100%
As someone who is southern, the old man said “I didn’t say nothing, but she brought me a whole thing and I don’t eat much of that stuff. I ate some for supper but it’s going to bad if I don’t eat it”
"...she didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me, a whole thing. I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper. The rest of that is starting now to go bad, If somebody don't eat it"
@@allang216 yeah mine was the rough translation because I could understand what he said. But then I would go to write the comment and be like ….”Now what did he say?” Because I have the memory of a goldfish
@@rainbowrocks1020 I kind of figured that, that's why I commented. I wanted to see if it was just lost in translation! We all get the gist tho! I listened like 6 times while replying!
The old man sounded like my pa pa before he passed away when I was a teen. So I don’t think it was too hard to understand him lol. Most of the elderly where I live sound like that so years of practice helped in understanding
I’m surprised that the Cajun accent wasn’t mentioned it’s by far the most difficult I think
As an American I’d think either Creole or the unique accent that’s only spoken on a single island on the east coast.
I think the thing that people across the pond don’t realize about the US is that our states are the size (or bigger) of countries in Europe so we’ve got a lot of different people with a lot of different accents. Plus these accents have usually evolved from the combination of accents of people who settled here when colonization and settling first started. Then those accents mix with accents from our surrounding countries such as Mexico or Canada. We also have the effect of slavery on linguistics depending on where you’re at.
Now I'm confused. Every country has accents within its language because every country has different areas which where influeced slightly differently with history and culture. If anything I woudl be shocked if there is country which has same accent all across, that would be creepily uniform.
So USA is no different...
@@NagadirGame Not different, just bigger and extremely diverse.
@@ronjones-6977 Well yeah? So why it should be surprising that there are accents? When tiny European ones have tons of them too?
@@NagadirGame Cause most attribute it to a country, but then ya bring up that individual states have accent variations, and regional variations, and some get a bit weird about it cause no, not all europeans realize how big the USA and it’s States are.
@@thejestor9378 I do not know which Europeans you met but USA literally takes almost half of the North America, of course it is big?
Also it is pretty apparent on map which we needed to ingrain into our brain in my country.
I'm so glad he included the Pittsburgh dialect. We call it Pittsburghese. I grew up there, and even though I moved away 30 years ago, every time I go home to visit, the accent comes back right away and takes about a month or so to fade away once I've left.
Fellow yinzer!!
13:02 as a fellow Vermonter born and raised i understood him perfectly. My freinds always said i have an accent but i could hear it until I heard myself speak
As an Appalachian your pronunciation killed me xD. Forget the argument of "Appa-latch-un vs Appa-lay-shun", the new pronunciation is "Pa-pa-lapisha"
That's how you break those long standing pronunciation feuds. If someone asks me to pronounce .gif, I don't say "giff" or "jiff", I say "guh-jyfe".
My mom is from the Appalachian mountains and I about died when he tried to say it XD
@@patsyhughes7130 lmao Ms Patsy haha
Say he talking gibberish
Sounds like hip dysplasia in a dog lol
Papalapsha 😏
He said Appalachian right. I'm from Appalachia. It's a north vs south thing
In south Louisiana you know the gossip is good when your grandma goes from English to Cajun French in 2.5 seconds lol. And I love the Boudreaux and Thibodaux jokes. There’s a restaurant in Houma, LA called Boudreaux’s and Thibodaux’s. They have the jokes everywhere in the restaurant it’s awesome. My grandmother never taught me to speak Cajun French but I’ve picked it up a bit as I grew up. Most of my cousins and I learned the curse words first though lol.
If my grandparents wanted to talk shit they would do it in French. My cousin brought his new girlfriend to a crawfish boil and they sat there and said some pretty rough shit right in front of her about her. She wasn’t from here so she just nodded her head and smiled.
Also when I was little I would go with my dad to the airport where he flew crop dusters. There was a little store we would go to for breakfast and there would always be a group of old farmers there drinking coffee only speaking in french. I miss being little hanging out in a hanger while they played Cajun and zydeco taking apart planes
My family's french canadian and when they wanted to say something secret while I was nearby, they'd use a patois that kind of was a french version of pig latin. I learned that one real quick but kept it to myself ;-)
Nobody learns the nice words first, we all learn curse words first LMAO
@@SteffaniePrice if your first Cajun word you learn ain’t Couyon you ain’t really from here I swear 😂
I'm from Minnesota and I married someone from Mississippi, who moved to Minnesota when he was 13. He never lost his Southern accent. It stayed with him til his death almost 2 years ago. I still miss him.
im american from california we have what you call californian accents im from the central california i sound easy to talk too
Im from Texas and understood all of them. I have family from all over the country so I've been hearing it all my life
When I took French in high school we read an article about the Cajuns. It’s not just an accent, but actually a language. A lot of the language has been lost/forgotten because they only taught English in their schools. I believe that when I read about it they said that they are trying to reteach it to the youth so that it doesn’t get completely lost. I also could have gotten some info wrong, it’s been a few years since I read that lol
You can take Cajun French classes here usually as a college course. Maybe more common with younger kids in the more rural areas of the state. For the most part in high schools it’s the regular languages you’d imagine. French Spanish German Italian. I’m from New Orleans and they don’t teach it there but New Orleans isn’t a Cajun area.
I had a friend come over from France to New Orleans and heard Cajun and was surprised and said they were were speaking ancient French.
Meh, Irish is far more endangered than Cajun. You’d be shocked at how many towns in the Bayou still speak Cajun in day to day speak.
@@grubalaboocreosote4774 in the US maybe. But they don’t speak Cajun French anywhere but here. And schools actively forbade the teaching of it for a long time to try and eliminate it.
Cajun French isn’t especially endangered.
I had a chemistry teacher's assistant (TA) with such a strong Boston accent that I couldn't understand for the first 20 minutes of class. Until I finally realized he was pronouncing his "r"s as "ahh"s. So "Caahh-bon" was actually "Carbon", which is important to understand in an organic chemistry class.
lol I said it out loud
As a Bostonian once told me, "Welcome to Bahston, where pronunciation is made ahp and the ahs don't matta."
Car keys and khaki sound the same with a strong boston accent and it's hilarious
Lmfao my boss was from Boston. She could hide her accent until she got mad. One day she was running around asking everybody WHERES THE COD. she was looking for a birthday card that she brought in for everyone to sign.
The funniest part is that Boomhaur from King of the Hill is actually saying words. Just need an ear for the accent to catch them.
I felt like I had broken the Enigma code when I could finally understand what Boomhauer was saying.
He's got probably as many words as he does filler like tal'mbout and/or dang ol' or da-gum. That is to say, about half of what he says is just that type of thing
King of the Hill was based in Richardson, TX. Which is a Dallas suburb. They got the name Arlen from Arlington and Garland. Which are both also Dallas suburbs. It’s a North East, TX accent. Has hints of Creole. I’m from South East, TX… the accent gets a little thicker the farther south you go, and the closer you get to Louisiana.
I can understand boomhaur pretty well actually. A lot better than I could a lot of these other ones, especially towards the end of the video. I'm from the south (georgia).
Did boomhaur die? @@bassage13
watching this as an american, is really funny. him predicting that southern will be the hardest made me laugh.
As someone who teaches English as a second language, I've never been more thankful to be from the Midwest. I've never had to re-train how I talk in order to teach someone I tutor - I've got the bland, generic American accent and I'm totally cool with that. :)
Yes!!!! This is very true
It's as flat as the region lol
KC MO concurs!
Side note, I understood all but the Cajuns!
Midwestern isn't generic. It's Midwestern. Yall speak in a very specific way. Also, everyone learns to speak clearly because of judgments that get made based off accents. Like how a southern accent makes people think you're less intelligent
My dad's family is from the depths of Louisiana and my mom's family are all Yoopers. The amount of slang you have to remember when calling up one or the other is truly staggering. I sometimes think about learning another language but I just think about them and realize I've already had to learn a few growing up. Also watching the different sides interact at family get together is a real treat!
I think you can understand about any accent if you take it slow, but it’s the regional words that get you! Until pretty recently I would have had no idea what a “jawn” was.
My parents are from two different southern states but I grew up in the North woods so I feel like I grew up a bit similarly 😆
that’s really interesting, i’d hate having to deal with that 😂
Dang, half my family is from Minnesota, and the other half is from Puerto Rico. Gotta learn me some Spanish and good 'ol English.
@@linpittsburgh2375you're from Pittsburgh then? Yeah that's Philly lingo, I'm curious what you think a jawn actually is lol
That vocal fry thing used to be called "valley girl"
That's a
fun one to gag you with a spoon.😅
Barf out
Grody. Grody to the max, I'm sure
@debramoore
Good examples:
-Moon Zappa's song of that name
-opening dialogue in "Baby Got Back" song
-the entirety of the "Clueless" movie
@@blueberryyogini
I think that was Moon Zappa in Frank Zappa’s song “Valley Girl.” 😊
@@karacrawford6472 Yes you're right, it was dad's song/album, not hers.
@@blueberryyogini
I didn’t know it was Moon Zappa in that song for many years. I had a copy of the album “have I offended someone?” which was more like a compilation of songs I didn’t play around certain people. 🤣
"He didn't say anything but he brought me a whole thing and I don't eat much of that stuff i eat a little bit of it for supper and recon it would go bad if I didn't eat it" is what the old guy pretty much said at 11:40 ish
I think every American recognized the Minnesota accent in an instant.
"I can't go back, I snap chatted Nick Bakarak a Kodak of my ass crack" lol
I'm just surprised he didn't bring up the Minnesota catch phrase "yea sure you betcha"
You betcha
"Don'cha know" is how I have it mentally bookmarked.
This accent is also spoken in Wisconsin!!
Most of us Yinzers don't speak Pittsburghese all the time. The accent is usually only barely noticeable, but our words will always identify us. The accent gets much stronger when we're around other Yinzers and don't have to worry about the other person understanding what we're saying. Pittsburghese has kind of died out because the school teachers think it isn't "sophisticated" enough for a city and region trying to modernize itself. Jagoffs. It's part of our identity as a city and all of Western Pennsylvania, we should be preserving it.
Even when the accent is strong you guys sound familiar to me as a southern Ontarian who grew up in the countryside. Kind of like a cousin from two towns over. There's a bit of difference there, but not enough for my brain to go, "Aaah! A foreigner!"
I think it’s true but it might be that too many outsiders moved to the burgh….jagoffs!…still my favorite word that I’ll still use while in Colorado but usually just to my son and husband. Btw, my mom was a teacher and for a while we lived in New England and she threatened us not to pick up that accent. Ha!
You guys are pretty identifiable outside of Pittsburgh lol. It's just the pronounciation of vowels
I'm from the south and I completely agree. Ww should preserve our heritage, whatever amd wherever it came from.
As a Clevelander, I love Pittsburghese. Don’t yinz ever change!
As someone from Texas who deals with a lot of Cajuns, you basically just have to listen for words you understand sprinkled in. The order of those words will tell you what they are saying. If you are too far off they will let you know
11:40 "He brought me a whole thing, I don't usually eat much of that stuff, I eat a little bit for supper, but it might go bad if I don't eat it." Assuming he's talking maybe potato salad. You're also thinking of Boomhauer from King of the Hill.
It's fun listening to accents, especially ones where you're adjacent to those states or regions but you can still understand them, even the crazy ones. Because you'll probably be exposed to several of them throughout your life.
Just stumbled on your channel!
This was a great video. As an American who has lived in multiple major cities I am so used to many accents I thought it was a joke that people couldn’t understand them. This opened my eyes and gave me a new perspective
Black guy born and raised in South Arkansas, I understood everything that older man said @ 11:37. He said, "He didnt say nothin' still brought to me a whole thing, I dont eat much of that stuff, ill eat a wee bit (little bit) at the supper. The rest of that stuff is liable to go bad if somebody dont eat". Basically he didnt expect a guy to give him that much of a particular food that he's not crazy about. The rest will rot if he's stuck with it. Understood every southern one completely except the Cajun one. The first guy I'd say about 50 percent, but the second guy I understood completely
Did you translate "dang near" as "liable" . Thats hilarious 😂
@@PhyllisLane-xj5uf He definitely said "liable" even though its very warped. Heard it a million times. Other people on here caught it too.
As an Appalachian southern person I've heard it all. I understood every person in this video 😁 (maybe not every single word lmfao but I could tell you what they were saying)
Love how America is so diverse
Appalachian yell yeah, just spent a year in north carolina love it there
I'm from the southern part of Appalachia too
Rural backwoods of West bygod VERJINYA for me (Best Virginia). I always feel a sense of camaraderie when I see others post from Appalachia, even if not in the same area let alone the same state. Mostly because you all get it - you know how it is to be spat upon and mocked by everyone else by being stereotyped as “uneducated backwards hillbillies” for our dialect and slang.
The further you go into the backwoods hollers, the more of that Appalachian (gonna’ throw an Apple-atcha) drawl comes out, and I love it. Absolutely loved growing up and sitting with my mamaw out on the porch and listening to her talk to other old timers that’d come around and visit, and when we’d go down south, we’d converse with locals so smoothly … our dialect and slang would compliment theirs.
Complete opposite when traveling up north ‘round the city slickers, though lol. Went from “oh, I love that Appalachian accent” down south to “HAHA SAY MAYONNAISE, SAY SUNDAY, SAY WASHING MACHINE” for kicks up north upon speaking - gets old really quick after the first few times, that’s for sure. Made me feel like I should be embarrassed of the way I talk or something with how every word was made out to be a hilarious joke I just told. 😒
That is also my neck of the woods (southern Appalachia near Georgia). It always makes me chuckle the way they tell stories. They always have to say the exact road, nearby landmark (like that ole hickory over yonder by the hill), weather, and exact day and year. It’s also the most mundane hick shit you’ve ever heard where they were trying to push their old pickup truck up a hill because it couldn’t make it to the top lol.
I grew up in northern Virginia which was more sothern in it's culture when I was growing up. Washington DC kind of crept into NVA and the only people with southern accents now are the ones who grew up here 40+ years ago. When I get around southerners my accent starts coming to the surface. I just can't help it. It does confuse some of my friends and they think I'm "putting on" the accent. Little did they know, it's the mid atlantic newscaster accent that's "put on".
😂😂At 5:57 that’s the actor for Georgie from Young Sheldon which takes place in Texas so I knew instantly
there’s so many accents in american even us americans don’t understand or find it funny from people across the country. and not to make it a race thing but black and white people even of the same area tend to have a much different accent. everyone has their own unique sound it’s pretty cool
British people always confuse New York & Boston accents at first and it’s like a stab in the heart every time 😂
Not sure which side youre on but as a New Englander I can relate haha
@@Thricethelove06 Masshole here 😁❤️
Ditto..and I'm from western Massachusetts and it's amusing to me that people are amazed that I don't have a Boston Accent.
@@thaismatsumoto I don’t feel like I have one at all compared to like Revere or Brockton (which are different on their own), but people from outside NE always say I do. 😅
They’re so different!!
Chicago native here, and I love the showcase of that good ol' "da Bears" accent, but I can't believe he didn’t mention that there's even enough of a distinction between a northside and a southside Chicago accent that you can tell very roughly what part of the /city/ they're from based on that!
Da Bears ! 🐻
Go bears. But yeah, and what makes it crazier is how different it is from the rest of Illinois.
I've been told I have a Pittsburgh accents... but I live in North Carolina and I LOVE the southern accent. Consider there are words in every regions that are different.... kind of like a dialect. For example, in Texas, every type of soft drink is a "Coke", where I grew up (northern Ohio) we say "Pop" for a soft drinks... and in California (like other areas of the US) they call it soda. Have fun trying to understand us, y'all. ;)
And in the south east, you just call whatever soft drink by its brand name
21:03 Calling St Louis "Saint Lewie" like it was some regal place. Nah bruh, that's "sent lew is" 😂
The musical would disagree with you, but I have no idea if the lyricists were from Missouri 😂
The Lou
@@emilyrln as a stl native, it absolutely is pronounced Loo- iss
As a st louisan when I hear people say "St. Louie" I know for a fact they ain't from the lou.
And that accent where "iron" and "earn" are pronounced the same wouldn't be St. Louis, correct? I know that as the Baltimore accent.
The phrase is "my dogs are barking", saying his feet hurt. It's a common southern phrase said 😊
Also Appalachia mountain range is pronounced apple-at-cha. Fun fact it's the same mountain range that is the Highlands in Scotland (millions of years ago when the continent split)
@@animalhouseinthewoods8457 mountains in Norway too, all part of that old range, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world.
The orogeny that created the Appalachians, Highlands, and Scandinavian mountains literally occured before _bones_ of all things were evolved
Mountains older than bones
The phrase is "my dogs are barking", saying his feet hurt. It's a common southern phrase said
the (Fat Black guy with the Glasses) also said "Marky Mark" (Mark Wahlberg) in the same sentence, that is CLEARLY a Boston Mass. Accent.
I am from West Virginia. The Appalachian accent is pretty strong but it changes throughout the entire state! Love you reactions!!!
Umm, "Appalachia" isn't a "State"... :P ;)
It's a region of the backwoods Appalachian mountains & surrounds that crosses several States. ;)
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Err, ohh, you meant just through West Virginia. Missed that part... My bad. Yeah, presumably it varies along the length of the Appalachians, from one local region to the next. Probably based on who settled there & whatnot, so how the dialects evolved.
@@MGmirkin No worrries! Yeah, I was referring to the state of West Virginia. The only state that is completely in the Appalachian Mountains. Yes, it varies all the way across the state!
From VA here and the Appalachian accent is here too and if someone has a thick accent, it can be like listening to gibberish . My dad on the other had can understand every word
When my dad got drafted at the end of WWII there were these guys in his army barracks who were really freaked out because they couldn't understand anybody, and when they talked, nobody could understand them. My dad and the other guys asked their sergeant, "What country are those guys from?" and he said, "West Virginia!"
You get that kind of accent in the backwoods of Eastern Kentucky. I grew up here and and it's pretty normal to find it back in the hollers and back roads.
Nice reaction. I grew up around the foothills of Appalachia, and I understand those accents much better than some of the other accents that non-americans consider to be most challenging. Very funny to see you react to these 😂
The old dude at about 12:10 basically said he couldn't eat all of something and that it was going to go bad lol
I married into a family from the woods of NC and SC and yeah, they sounded like him. We ate a shrimp boil and drank homemade peach brandy. I miss those folks.
@@KerplunkyGames I've never known anyone super rural I'm just good at figuring out fast speaking. but that sounds lovely
A man walks into a pub and over heard two women speaking with an accent. He asks are you ladies from England? One shot back with a snarl Wales! The man said, I am very sorry, are you two Whales from England? When he came to, he said he couldnt remember how he hit the floor!
Very funny 🤣
We Minnesotans have quite the accent, but it really come out when we say things like “Ope”, “You betcha!”, and “Dontcha know.”
Easiest accent to recognize in this whole video 😂
I absolutely love it though!
Aaayyy Iowan here and we have a bit of the Yupper in us
We all do the OPE and "ope, lemme just sneak right past ya there"
And the good old *slaps thighs * "welp I suppose" * proceeds to take an hour to say good bye before standing in the drive way saying goodbye for another hour before leaving *
😂
@@Ed_Gein_crafts This is scarily accurate bud!!😭🤣
Dontcha know isnt just minnesota. Its michigan, north dakota, wisonsin, Iowa...
@@TheHyde8875 Yea, I know bud, but he mentioned Minnesota, that’s why I said it, hopefully no offense to the other great states!!☺️
11:32 “she didn’t say nothing, she brought me a whole thing and I don’t each much of that stuff. I ate a little bit at supper and the rest of that stand there and go bad if come I don’t eat it.”
FUN FACT! They there's a whole German dialect in Texas! Its in New Braunfels and I'm fluent!
oh that's awesome! Kennschde haeppene Pennsylvaanisch Deitsch verschteh?
Gruene, TX too! Great people there in Hill country Texas! Used to live in Seguin. Now I'm in the panhandle.
Louisiana French Creole is one of my favorites for making foreigners' eyes cross 😂
Edit: I live in rural Minnesota. Vast majority Norwegian descendants (the largest population of Norwegians outside of Norway). That endearing accent is rapidly disappearing, and is mostly just heard from the old farmers.
yashureyoubetcha!
As a Minnesotan from the city, that accent is much rarer than people think
@@breadboi3476 grew up in eastern north dakota...and yes, while it stands out when you hear it, its not all that common to hear
I grew up in northern Virginia and when I was kid, most people had a southern/ Appalachian accent. Maybe not as strong an accent as mountain folk or people way down south but we definitely had one. Most everybody now talks like the newscasters around here, not counting the 30+ percent who were born in another country (NVA has extremely high levels of immigration.
I love it! My cousin married a guy from way down in Louisiana… they don’t share recipes! Haha
As a Minnesota resident, just want to say that accent is really just the far north and rural areas of the state. I think we've all got some level of the accent, but usually nowhere near that bad haha
I know! I moved here a year ago and was very disappointed to hear that no one really sounds like that. The most accent I hear is on the word bag, or “baeg”
In the Great Lakes states, your accent absolutely depends on how close to the lakes you are... If you're on the lakes, most likely you've got the Inland North accent and not one of the twangier or more nasal Midwest accents
@@jessica3548 Yep. I live close to Milwaukee and I feel like I don't hear the "wisconsin accent" strongly but every now and again in rural areas further in I get blindsided by a super strong wisconsonite accent.
@hanjis5894 exactly. I happen to be a Minnesotan living in Milwaukee, haha, and it was really neat learning the differences between the two. Cuz before I moved here, I figured Minnesota and Wisconsin were pretty much the same, and maybe they are to outsiders, but to me there are some significant differences (and more nuanced ones too, of course). 😉
@@reneeyohe8864 Haha, I went to summer camp with kids from all over the country, and to make fun of us Minnesotans (in a fun way), we kind of all together came up with an insult that used the main distinguishable accent markers: you sorry, soaked bag hag. 😂 Our 'sorry' has a pretty nasal O sound like sahrry, our long Os are very pronounced and drawn out and almost shaped smaller with the mouth like in 'soaked'; and you called it with bag, hag, nag, flag, etc. Like we've added Ys to all of them: bayg, hayg, etc. 😂😂
As a Canadian, I LOVE so many American accents, but my FAVOURITE has to be the Appalachian accent! It's so endearing! I don't know what it is, but I feel like they are so honest sounding and it's slower paced, you need to focus, which is refreshing honestly instead of speaking over each other!
Said "Yins ready to go?" In a Las Vegas restaurant and the people next to us were like, "We was wondering where you guys were from, now we know, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania" aka a Yinzer
The fact that youse guys say “slippy” will always annoy me lol. They make em strange in that valley.
@@SoupSultan "youse" sound like you might be a Philly guy. If so, your inferior Wawas annoy me, lol. :)
@@SoupSultan TBH I've never heard that haha we say nippy when it's cold, but a lot of different places say that
Or Youngstown.but close enough. Lol
When I moved to PA I had no idea what people were saying until I kept saying y'all and they kept saying YINZ back 😂
I'm a third generation Irish immigrant. Raised all over the US as a military brat. Living in North Carolina, there are 3 solid accents here alone. You covered them in the video. Appalachian accent from the western NC mountains and foothills. Neutral American accent in the central parts of NC and cities. Last, the Outer Banks accent. My great grandma still spoke with a Gaelic accent, my grandpa made sure we got rid of our accents because the family was looked down on, and now we absorb accents wherever we go. Tbh, your accent is just as difficult for us. lol
that pittsburgh girl was speaking english. "i've got a pig in a pen i feed him when i'm home, all i need is a pretty little girl to feed him when i'm gone" it's a very old bluegrass song
Ooh. I understood her but didn't catch the area. I just assumed Southern. rofl
@@lyssassong well pennsylvania isnt a southern state but there is a lot of country around there out in the county. there are lots of farmers and amish people who both tend to like bluegrass style music.
the old guy at 12:00 was saying someone had sent him a whole block of something, but because he doesnt eat whatever it is that often its likely to go bad before he can finish it. Hard accent for anyone who hasnt been around it.
Can’t forget about the Amish whose first language is called “Pennsylvania Dutch” basically a mix of German and Dutch. They have a very very thick rural American and Germanic accent.
Pennsylvania Dutch (or Pennsylvania German) isn’t a mix of German and Dutch- which, interestingly, themselves exist on a linguistic spectrum as you travel from one linguistic heartland to the other- but a German dialect deriving ultimately from the Palatinate and Pfalz regions. “Dutch” is just the old word for German (remember that Germany hasn’t been a country for even as long as the US), a corruption of “deutsch.” In PA Dutch, it’s “Deitsch.” And the Dutch for Dutch, to complicate matters… is Nederlands!
You need to delete this reply, because it's blatantly incorrect and complicates the already significant problem of linguistic misinformation; especially in American linguistics.
Another replier beat me to why your reply is incorrect. Please delete and refrain from posting linguistic information in the future unless you're 100% it's true.
@@xibear4341 Sorry I’m not an expert, just thought it was interesting and wanted to point it out since no one else had. And no, I will not delete that reply but thanks for your concern!
@@huntersorenson7261Don't let him get to ya. Mistakes are how one learns and trying to act high and mighty about it achieves nothing.
Boston accent when he says, "My dahgs ah bahkin' (My dogs are barking), it means his feet are throbbing painfully. We say that expression here in Virginia also. Just found you recently and am loving your content, keep it up!
he said my dogs a barker Boston accent is literal local here
When I started the video I was convince Creole was gonna be the hardest to understand accent. It is for me. When you said "At what point is it no longer english?!" I confidently said "creole" and I stand by that lol.
Immediately thought of Creole when he said that!!!!!
just an observation from a Californian on 9/11. I worked for the State of California, and watched the planes collide with the WTC that morning while getting ready for work. I arrived at my office two blocks from the California capitol to find every state building surrounded by police, CHP, and National Guard members. It was surreal. We knew nothing, except that every airport was closed and we were essentially cut-off from the rest of the country. It was confusing, emotional, and gut wrenching as news became available. I appreciate that you and others see these stories and react. It honors the memories of those who died that day and in the following years. There may be many opinions about Americans, especially these days, but when we need to, we are one people!
Just starting this one, but my guess? Cajon, Creeole, or Nawlins accents. They're the only ones of all the different accents members of my family have that I can't mimic. When my uncle is drunk, I need an interpreter.
My wife's ex was from deep in Louisiana. When his dad or grandad spoke, she had to look at him to be told what they said. She said, "No insult intended, but they sounded just like that guy in the movie 'Waterboy" that no one could understand."
Afro-Haitian Creole is a hybrid language, not just an accent. Same with Hawaiian Pidgen. Both can be near incomprehensible if you've no experience with them.
Those otherwise being:
"Cajun," "Creole," and "New Orleans"... ;) [When not written phonetically/incomprehensibly. ]🤣
@@tattooedman42 I laughed so hard when that Waterboy clip came on... NGL.
Bruh was so completely incomprehensible. I honestly don't know whether he was speaking actual Cajun/Creole words or just making up Cajun-sounding nonsense... I love how the rest of the team was like "The fvck did he just say?" Literally none of them had a clue what he was saying either. I love that movie so much...
My husband is usually good with thick accents, until he met my best friend's grandpa the first time 😂
21:48 I'm Appalachian and this ol' feller's story was actually pretty funny. He was recounting pranks he used to pull on his buddy (or maybe father???) when they would ride to town in a buggy. a BUGGY.
"I came out with him every time and it'd take us a long time to get into town in that old buggy! He'd tell me to work the brake. We'd start to go up a hill, I'd kindly push the brake on him. He'd tell that ol' mule "get up there!"
Basically whenever they would go uphill he would trick whoever was "driving" into thinking it was the mule's fault they couldn't get up the hill when really ole homeboy was pulling the brake super slowly as a prank. He also said that his friend (dad?) had to save 3 years of corn to feed it at lunch, making fun of how damn much that mule would eat.
22:32 he says "no, we didn't have no electricity. No electrics or runnin' water either. We'd run it out of the spring! But, they eventually got electricity up through there."
Not years, ears, it's corn!
@@garycamara9955 haha! You're right. What a funny fella.
African American raised by an educated, professional parent, and a under educated, inner city, parent, both raised by undereducated southern, plantation born parents. I understood every dialect and accent expect Cajun, because it is extremely rare outside of Louisiana and Mississippi area. However, African Americans are the most diverse American English speakers because we had to adapt due to slavery, education restrictions, poverty, immigration, different levels of employment and our own language barriers! Also older people without their natural teeth have a different slur added to their accents, so it gets tricky with our elders!!! Great video. The man at 11:36 is not from the south he is from the Midwest, without his teeth in and is slurring. "...she didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me, a whole thing. I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper. The rest of that is starting now to go bad, If somebody don't eat it"
was waiting for someone to say it cause our english comes from a million and one different places me personally i was born in texas moved to alabama lived in north carolina florida and michigan however i grew up in a suburban area mostly but i had to learn to understand all of these accents as my family is from lousiana and michigan! our accents mixed with regional accents can be crazy haha
Is that so? Because you overwhelmingly don't sound like it and fail in English classes....stats don't lie, but your ignorant reality does apparently
I have traveling under my wings and personally from Iowa, and have lived/visited Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Iraq, Germany, Kuwait, Qatar, Washington State, New York, and many others in between.
As a veteran, in the US Army, I’ve also been exposed to unique accents from doctors. Also exposed to different cultures, mannerisms, etc. by working for a worldwide cosmetic brand.
Louisiana, where I currently reside in, has been the most challenging, because of the Cajun-French accent.
Coming from the “Golden” accent of America, with no accent, I think I’ve come to love and appreciate all languages, cultures, and dialects, to include yours 😊
22:48 “Where the heyall is- is papah- appal-isha??”
As an Appalachian, this was insanely amusing to me so I figured I’d point it out
Ik that was hilarious
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it's so crazy that i didn't struggle with all but like 2 accents on here (and not even the hardest 2)... but i struggle with most british ones. i imagine foreigners feel the exact same way about American ones that i do about British ones lol
Honestly as an American I don't struggle with any European accents or American accents. However Asian English accents bro.. I can't. The only ones I kinda understand are like Korean/Chinese/Japanese English accents. Just bc I watch a lot of them on RUclips. But I have a professor who is Indian and i struggle to understand him so hard.
It's weird seeing a Brit surprised at the amount of accents in the US when the UK has a different accent every other street 😂
Yeah, the guy in the video sounds Scottish
@@clonecommandermike332 sounded Irish to me
I’m from deep Appalachia and I love seeing people react to our very specific foothill accents! 22:47
I know how you feel on some of those. I used to play an online game with an international group. We had members from all over the US, Japan, and Europe. There was one particular British guy that I could not understand. I don't remember where he was from, but whenever he spoke I would ask for a translator. The other British players would tell me he's speaking English and I'd just tell them, "I understand that but I still can't understand him" 🤣🤣
Non native english speaker here. Some of them were difficult to understand, but not impossible.
The only time I've thought "There's no way this is english" was when I saw the newsclip with a sheep farmer from Kerry, Ireland.
Absolutely hilarious 😂
Grew up in Boston. Played football with these 2 brothers from Louisiana. Known these boys now for like 25 years still can't understand a word they say. That Cajun accent is tough.