I like to think I don't have a Philly accent anymore, but my wife constantly makes fun of the way I talk....she sounds like she's doing a New York accent though.
@@JDirty-w-tha-30 It's really not subtle at all. It's the "o"s and "a"s and "er"s. Also, about 30-40 Philly-only words that puzzle everyone else in daily conversations
@@mikeet207 😅😅😅 My wife does the same thing, she makes fun of my accent but use New York slang...lol. Living outside of North Philly for 16 years and I still can't escape my accent.
I'm from Philly and I wish someone would do something with real Philadelphians from different parts of the city; we have at least four different accents.
Dude I'm from South Jersey. The accent is slightly different. But I mean Go to South Philly then go to Kensington. Two different dialect. Yes I know Jersey sucks ass. That's why I left.
@@colindavis2166 same I was originally from Gloucester County in west deptford same place my parents grew up. I haven’t lived there for 9 years and people still pick up on my accent and I’ll get a real strong accent when I’m riled up or someone cuts me off on the road 😂
@@mathewpickels2745 born and raised in Philly and I had to teach myself to say hoagie and water without my accent 🤣 It's THE dead giveaway Oh and also saying "yous" lol
Kevin Bacon made a movie right in my neighborhood, 16th n Snyder right in front of my house. The movie, “The woodsman” I’ll never forget it. He had a tent set up. It was awesome!
Also to my earlier point why the South Jersey and actual 'Philadelphia' are so similar in dialect is due to the fact that plain and simple a lot of people who grew up in Philly during the 60's 70's moved out of the city to start families for better school and such, and either moved to South Jersey or Philly Suburbs in Montco/Delco/Bucks.
I’m from Reading, and I have the typical PA Dutch-Infused way of speaking. “Dontcha know” and the like. I was skiing in Colorado when I was seventeen, when I thought my speech was nonregional, and someone asked me if I was from Australia. I didn’t know how to take that. I hadn’t admitted to myself the truth
I was in a store in Santa Barbara, CA and the owner said, “You’re from Philly.” She was a transplant from, I think, one of the inner suburbs like Ardmore or Bryn Mawr. 😂
I honestly think Philly accent also sounds like the stereotypical NYC accent. I think as a New Jersey native, I think Baltimore is a small version of Philly, D.C is Philly but without the skyscrapers, and NYC is a larger version of Philly. All these cities are very similar culturally, and what make up the majority of the Mid-Atlantic Northeast.
@@NorthPhilly-zr7xche's from a renowned philly family. his father was a nationally recognized urban planner who wrote a well received book on the topic. Edmund Bacon has his own wikipedia page. Kevin's father was cozy with the power elite and the blue bloods of the city. Edmund went to high school in Swarthmore and then onto the Ivy League. Kevin was raised in center city around 17th and spruce. so yeah, he's a philly guy in the sense that he was born and raised here. but he's not a blue collar city rat. and the fact that he's not a philly sports fan has always rubbed me the wrong way. his choice. he says he's a new yorker now. i've lived in nyc for 16 years and I am a diehard philly sports. and i will die with the curse of being a philly fan :)
South Jersey born and raised, everyone knows about us saying wooder instead of water, to get a Delaware Valleyean is to say “don’t get mad” and “don’t get sad” Mad and sad shouldn’t rhyme if they got the Philly accent
Yup. I realized this is a big reason I love Bruce Willis so much. South Jersey accent. I'm from Delco. He was one of the first people I saw on TV who sounded like me.
@@mamaharumi Watch the film. In the scene where his wife confronts him about coming from a mob family, his nondescript drawl goes Philly. Not sure if it was intentional or not. And you guys can be the judge of how Hurt did with his
@@wakeupmrwest4357 Check out Bill Burr ripping everyone in Philly after they were booing every comedian.It was Brutal!He says you guys worship an athlete who isn't even real!!1Rocky,ha,ha
@@johnrwalker53 seen it. Not impressed. Also not how I was expecting someone to bring up Rocky. I was expecting someone to bring up Rocky's accent and say they thought that was a Philly accent.
@@wakeupmrwest4357 It was Scary i thought Burr was gonna get hit by a thrown beer bottle when he said he hopes everyone at the show from Philly Gets Aids.
I've always found Kevin Bacon to be one of the most likable American actors. He seems genuinly down to earth, and not a self-promoting hack from Hollywood like Robert DeNiro and the rest of them. Whenever I come across something featuring Kevin Bacon, I'm always intrigued.
The only time I ever heard an authentic Philly accent was a small scene in the first Rocky movie (not Rocky). He walked a little girl home and as he left she said "See you later creepo", and the way she pronounced the o -- eo -- short e -- was spot on. Clearly no Philly dialect coaches in Hollywood, she was probably really from Kensington. And yes the cheesesteak hoagie is a thing (or at least it was a thing).
I find producers and directors use NYC accent as the stand in for Philly and Baltimore. To the uninitiated, NYC can sound like Philly and Balto, but there are distinct differences in each dialect.
I was born and grew up in South Philly and living in Florida now. All my Florida born friends get a kick out of the way I talk lol. They have me repeat what I'm saying just to hear my accent 😂
The old South Philadelphians have the strongest accents. I was born n bred in Philly, my accent is strong and very distinctive. My father was bilingual Italian and wow he sounded like the godfather, lol everyone was afraid of him when he opened his mouth, a very distinctive strong dialect. South Philly today is losing its accent because people (yuppies) moving in and with it the accent is dying!
@@HouseJawn Keeping it real my friend. And yes, the yuppies have also screwed up a lot of accents down here in North Carolina. The Hoi-Toider on the outter banks. The Hillbillies in the Smokies & Blue Ridge. And RTP have almost zero locals that still live there. Edit: Down in South Carolina too. The old Gullah or Geechi is also dying out. Sad as hell
There is a county just south west of Philadelphia called Delaware County. The DelCo accent is a Philly accent times 10. Check out videos by Aunt Mary Pat for examples:-).
This feels like my country accent. It just happens, can’t really do it on purpose. Lived split between city and country, grew up around a lot of people who talked that old southern slang.
When I was really young, I was watching some movie in a theater and left to use the bathroom. On the way back, I accidentally walked into Footloose in the theater during the big dance scene, and I thought I was seeing something so naughty! I still feel guilty 😂
Grew up in Northeast Philly my whole life but I never really ended up with a Philly accent unfortunately, but my ears always perk up when I hear it lmao
so I'm Jamaican, and I most often only hear New Yorkers. I heard a Philly girl speak, and her accent stood out. Before, I thought that there were just 3 accents Ghetto, Normal, and Country
Waz gud witchu is the sentence that taught me how bad of an accent I have. I said it to some dude from Ohio and he said, “what’s good with chew? I don’t dip.” I said goddamn I gotta figure this out 😂
since i was born and raised in philly, i never hear the accent really because it is natural to me. It is how I talk. The only word I can definitively hear the accent is with the word water
It’s funny that these Covid era interviews have no laughtrack or audience so Conan and his guest have these awkward laughing moments to fill the space.
EinieN J - a friend of mine’s mother knew someone who was killed in the Bay Area in a Zodiac style, and her family wonders if it may have been Z... we’ll never know, but it’s interesting to be so close to such an unsolved case
One of the weirdest regional things in the US is how people talk about soft drinks. Where I grew up (IN) everyone called every drink a coke. If you were in a restaurant and asked for a coke, they would then ask you what kind you wanted. Not as in "diet coke, or cherry coke" but as in "do you want a regular coke, a sprite, a root beer, a dr. pepper, etc). I was staying with a friend in Michigan one time, and everything was a pop, "what kind of pop do you want?". Now I live in a big city out on the west coast and (I think) everything is referred to as "soda". It's kind of weird out here, though, since there are a lot of transplants so you might hear a bit of everything depending on where you go.
Of course we say 'cheesesteak hoagie' - thats a thing. Its not a regular cheesesteak, its one with lettuce, tomatoes, and onions.... like a hoagie. And yeah they're really good.
But - we definitely DON'T say 'wiz wit'. Only the tourist places ssy that. And most of us would never have 'wiz' on a cheesesteak anyway .... we have Provolone.
the wife and I met and live out west. While visiting DelCo where I grew up once at the Hoagie shop gettin' a steak (cheese steak) listenin' to the guys behind the counter, she assed me "What does boreass mean" ? That's exclusive DelCo / Philly talk.
Philly pride baby!! I call it hoagie consciousness where ever there is a WaWa! they have them in Florida now cuz Philly people only go down the shore and Disney. At least a lot of the South Philly folks I know! WaWa forevahhhh
I’m from the eastern panhandle of WV and our country twang shares some features in common with the philly accent and the Pittsburgh yinzer accent because we are about 200 miles from both cities even though our twang is more slow
Is it just me? Or does anybody else from PA hear Kevin Bacon's Montco accent _all_ the time? I remember my parents watching "Footloose" for the first time on HBO or whatever and Dad quipped... _"Chicago? My ass. That boy's from Conshohocken."_ Sometimes I watch the video of John Cappelletti's Heisman speech just to listen to his thick Delco accent. And call me crazy, but Toni Collette sounded more Lehigh Valley than Philly in _Sixth Sense._
You gotta say really long Os and choke on your Ls like a speech impediment. The comic David Brenner had a very distinct Philly accent and many people thought it was an in ability to say the letter L. Too funny!
KB broke out his Philly accent to play the pervy juvenile detention center guard in Sleepers. I've all but lost mine from being away for decades, but my sister's is so thick I call her Eliza Doolittle 😆
Gail Radcliffe that was a Baltimore accent or some conglomeration of something else. I’ve watched it, I enjoyed her performance, I love Kathy Bates. But that wasn’t Philly.
@@stephenmartin308 I know she's from UD. She trained herself how to speak without the accent so she could be an actress, but now her Delco accent sounds fake. Aunt Mary Pat on RUclips sounds legit. Kevin Bacon sounds legit. Wayne the Cannabis Chef on RUclips has that he lives in Florida as part of his channel, as soon as I heard him talk, I knew he was not from Florida and was from this area. I think maybe she tried so hard to get rid of it, now she has to exaggerate, she does not sound very natural.
That my friends is a spot on Kensington maybe south Philly or Northeast Philly accent. But as someone who's been born and raised in Philly....what irritates me is that they act nationally like South Philly IS Philly. Black Philadelphians who are a huge majority of the city do NOT have that accent like Kevin. Meek Mill or Eve yes...destinctly Philly but not saying"youse guys" and stuff. AND for facts.. black Philadelphia s are the only ones saying or using JAWN. That's isn't Philly slang its specifically black Philly slang. There's a short linguistics lesson for you. Your welcome lol.
@@Dave-om4kv white people have also been appropriating blaccents and dances for social media since ...🤷. So I said nothing but facts. JAWN is a black Philly colloquialism. Using JAWN as an occasional quirky urban gentrified addition by choice doesn't mean that word comes from or is part of white peoples natural language patterns in Philly. No more than black Philadelphians saying "youse guys". We know it's a Philly thing...but it's not OUR thing....and that's ok to acknowledge!
I think jawn crossed over to the general Philly accent from Black neighborhoods in North and West Philly around 2010 or so. You'll rarely hear it out of older middle aged Port Richmond, Kensington, South Philly or Northeast people, but it's now common among younger(born in 80s or later) people of all backgrounds.
@@hello_04 it has more to do with how integrated ppl became during certain decades. Black Philly most certainly have w different accent than white Philly. Even we don't know everything we say that is distinct to us until someone points it out of town. Some Older black Philly talk a little more closer to white Philly. No bap I heard an elderly black woman say Iggles before and she really old. My dad is in his 70s he still says fatigue like fatigg. We most certainly only sound like Philly and water isn't the only word we say different in black Philly.
The best way to sum up a philly accent is to take a Baltimore accent and make it have a baby with an Amish or PA Dutch person, that's where the sing songyness comes from. Also Kevin has a hella WHITE PHILLY accent.
I'm from the suburbs around Philly but it wasn't until I waitressed in my early 20s that I worked with someone who had THE thickest Philly accent I'd ever heard. It was so thick I thought she was doing it on purpose like a cartoon character. She was a terrific person & had waitressed for years & had even waitressed at a restaurant that the Eagles team would frequent (she always said "I can tell you exactly which players - the Michael Vick & Donovan McNabb years- I'd waitress for & which ones I'd pray would get traded based on how they responded to service personnel. Some I loved. Others... Was happy to see em leave."
I am a native Lancasterian, but years ago I worked as the receptionist in Lancaster for the non food division of Acme Markets and the salesmen who came in all thought that I had transferred to Lancaster from 15th and Arch. LOL,
My gf has a Philly accent. "Bar" sounds like "baaawr" and Home sounds like "hewm." I've heard Kevin say these words in his movies and he sounds the same. So unique
I'm from Philly and I can't mimic the accent on demand, but sometimes it comes out when I'm not thinking. It's weird
I like to think I don't have a Philly accent anymore, but my wife constantly makes fun of the way I talk....she sounds like she's doing a New York accent though.
@@JDirty-w-tha-30 It's really not subtle at all. It's the "o"s and "a"s and "er"s. Also, about 30-40 Philly-only words that puzzle everyone else in daily conversations
@@mikeet207 😅😅😅 My wife does the same thing, she makes fun of my accent but use New York slang...lol. Living outside of North Philly for 16 years and I still can't escape my accent.
yeh, same. it's weird.
When I’m drinking, it gets reaaaal delco
I'm from Philly and I wish someone would do something with real Philadelphians from different parts of the city; we have at least four different accents.
Forreal. Germantown accent is way different than the stereotypical Philly accent
Right it’s a big city and we have so many accents
I notice two distinct ones are south Philly and north east philly( also known as Delco)
Dude I'm from South Jersey. The accent is slightly different. But I mean Go to South Philly then go to Kensington. Two different dialect. Yes I know Jersey sucks ass. That's why I left.
@@colindavis2166 same I was originally from Gloucester County in west deptford same place my parents grew up. I haven’t lived there for 9 years and people still pick up on my accent and I’ll get a real strong accent when I’m riled up or someone cuts me off on the road 😂
"The people of Boston don't want to be happy." Truth spoken by a native.
I hate to break it to him, but I heard some Philly come through on and off through the whole interview.
definally ;)
Same, I thought I heard more of it tbh when he wasn’t trying to do it!
I think it was slippin in through that winda.
Yes! He’s got them dipthongs!
100%
He’s totally into his Philly mode. The Wawa tawk was spot-.on.
Most can't do it but he nailed it
Naaoo dahhbtt
All I need somebody to say is Hoagie and I can tell if they are for real or not
Philly jawn*
@@mathewpickels2745 born and raised in Philly and I had to teach myself to say hoagie and water without my accent 🤣 It's THE dead giveaway
Oh and also saying "yous" lol
Kevin Bacon made a movie right in my neighborhood, 16th n Snyder right in front of my house. The movie, “The woodsman” I’ll never forget it. He had a tent set up. It was awesome!
My dad new him from back then he's from walnut st
He was incredibly good in that movie
Also to my earlier point why the South Jersey and actual 'Philadelphia' are so similar in dialect is due to the fact that plain and simple a lot of people who grew up in Philly during the 60's 70's moved out of the city to start families for better school and such, and either moved to South Jersey or Philly Suburbs in Montco/Delco/Bucks.
The Philly "O" sound used to drive me up the wall when I lived in the area. That and "wooder" for "water".
RI does something similar, end is different. "Woortah"
🤣
Apparently I have an accent. I am from Philly. I just thought where is the accent? He is just speaking normally.
Grew up in Philadelphia and left 50 years ago. When I hear someone talk normal I know there from Philly.
The only thing I know we say differently is water , pronounced wooder... aside from that, I don't get it either
I’m from Reading, and I have the typical PA Dutch-Infused way of speaking. “Dontcha know” and the like. I was skiing in Colorado when I was seventeen, when I thought my speech was nonregional, and someone asked me if I was from Australia. I didn’t know how to take that. I hadn’t admitted to myself the truth
@@mysharona6754 watch the news & notice the difference between the way the news anchors speak compared to the people on the street that they interview
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As a Philadelphian living in Boulder, I have to repeat myself like 5 times when talking about home since almost *no one understands what I’m saying*
I was in a store in Santa Barbara, CA and the owner said, “You’re from Philly.”
She was a transplant from, I think, one of the inner suburbs like Ardmore or Bryn Mawr. 😂
Two of the best heads of hair in the business!
As someone from Baltimore, it's truly amazing how similar our accents are to Philly. We say wooder too.
facts!
Baltimore is the closest accent to Philly..
Please don't compare Philly with Baltimore.
It really is. Your vowels are slightly longer
I honestly think Philly accent also sounds like the stereotypical NYC accent. I think as a New Jersey native, I think Baltimore is a small version of Philly, D.C is Philly but without the skyscrapers, and NYC is a larger version of Philly. All these cities are very similar culturally, and what make up the majority of the Mid-Atlantic Northeast.
He looks like commissioner Gordon from Batman.
Hahaha
I thought he was
@JENIFFER ! 19 I WANT SЕЕХ !!!! OPEN MY VIDEO !!!! reported, called CIA and FBI
Thanks for specifying, I sometimes get him confused with commissioner Gordon from Planet of Apes
It's about time we need to use Philadelphia for movies and TV shows again... Love, Philly Girl😉💖
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!?
I’m from philly and I’m trying to hear the accent but I can’t he’s sounds normal 😂😂
He hasn't been in Philly for year's
@@NorthPhilly-zr7xche's from a renowned philly family. his father was a nationally recognized urban planner who wrote a well received book on the topic. Edmund Bacon has his own wikipedia page. Kevin's father was cozy with the power elite and the blue bloods of the city. Edmund went to high school in Swarthmore and then onto the Ivy League. Kevin was raised in center city around 17th and spruce. so yeah, he's a philly guy in the sense that he was born and raised here. but he's not a blue collar city rat. and the fact that he's not a philly sports fan has always rubbed me the wrong way. his choice. he says he's a new yorker now. i've lived in nyc for 16 years and I am a diehard philly sports. and i will die with the curse of being a philly fan :)
South Jersey born and raised, everyone knows about us saying wooder instead of water, to get a Delaware Valleyean is to say “don’t get mad” and “don’t get sad” Mad and sad shouldn’t rhyme if they got the Philly accent
Yup. I realized this is a big reason I love Bruce Willis so much. South Jersey accent. I'm from Delco. He was one of the first people I saw on TV who sounded like me.
It is terrifying how accurate that conversation was because it definitely has happened before 😂
Interesting is how the north Jersey accent takes cues from the New York accent, but central and south Jersey sound like the Philly accent.
proximity
A bit of Bawldimore too?
Facts.
I grew up in Union County, and South Jersey was a different state to us. I look at a map now and can't believe it's like an hour away
Katherene Wedic You mean Bahl-more?
Philadelphia accent is considered one of the hardest american accents to imitate where only Philly actors can handle it
Yep. That's true.
A History of Violence?
@@LindaC616 ?
@@mamaharumi
Watch the film. In the scene where his wife confronts him about coming from a mob family, his nondescript drawl goes Philly. Not sure if it was intentional or not. And you guys can be the judge of how Hurt did with his
Wow I'm from Philly never knew it was hard
I’m from Philly born and raised.. and this is accurate 🤣
Waiting for someone to bring up Rocky.
Me too! He sounds legit.
@@wakeupmrwest4357 Check out Bill Burr ripping everyone in Philly after they were booing every comedian.It was Brutal!He says you guys worship an athlete who isn't even real!!1Rocky,ha,ha
@@johnrwalker53 seen it. Not impressed. Also not how I was expecting someone to bring up Rocky. I was expecting someone to bring up Rocky's accent and say they thought that was a Philly accent.
@@wakeupmrwest4357 It was Scary i thought Burr was gonna get hit by a thrown beer bottle when he said he hopes everyone at the show from Philly Gets Aids.
A very under-rated actor and seems like a decent chap to boot. City on a Hill is excellent.
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"Peppers and onions." Perfect. Nobody can do that except a native Phuldelphian.
As a Philly native, I loved this. So true 😂
Philly in here it's definitely tough here
Only with Caucasian Philadelphians, Black Philadelphians don't have that accent or slangauge.
north and south philly have the strongest it's closely resembles Baltimore DC
I am also!
I wanna hear Kevin Bacon and Bill Hader and Fred Armisen have a conversation about what they plan to eat for dinner
Not sure if Jeff Goldblums accent is a Philly accent but it's definitely a Pennsylvania accent
I've always found Kevin Bacon to be one of the most likable American actors. He seems genuinly down to earth, and not a self-promoting hack from Hollywood like Robert DeNiro and the rest of them. Whenever I come across something featuring Kevin Bacon, I'm always intrigued.
The only time I ever heard an authentic Philly accent was a small scene in the first Rocky movie (not Rocky). He walked a little girl home and as he left she said "See you later creepo", and the way she pronounced the o -- eo -- short e -- was spot on. Clearly no Philly dialect coaches in Hollywood, she was probably really from Kensington. And yes the cheesesteak hoagie is a thing (or at least it was a thing).
Most of the extras in that movie were from Philly (as were many in Balboa).
Cheryl DellaRoyle she is indeed from Philly. Her name is Jodi Letizia.
I find producers and directors use NYC accent as the stand in for Philly and Baltimore. To the uninitiated, NYC can sound like Philly and Balto, but there are distinct differences in each dialect.
Yea if you're from Philly it might sound natural but that "eo" sound is very prevalent when you think about it.
What about A History of Violence?
People love Kevin enough to not ask for selfies and risk killing him XD
I miss WAWA lol
If you got a Sheetz.... Its a ok replacement.. Just ok.
Same 😩 But I miss their old hoagies
@Miss Gonzalez 😢 you get me sis 😂😂
@@violetpotato7072 If you live in the DMV, you'll be lucky to have both
"How are you?"
Everyone: Oh great Im doing this blahblah that blah really fine yeahh
No one except Kevin Bacon: im doing oh kaaaaaaaaaayy
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@@devkrisss4213 I'm half Indian but dont speak hindi, thanks for nothing I have no idea what your stupid Indian language video is about
I found it surprising and refreshing.
Ohh this tickled me! What a cool guy, that Kevin Bacon
I’m from South Philly and the South Philly accent is different than the rest of Philly
I was born and grew up in South Philly and living in Florida now. All my Florida born friends get a kick out of the way I talk lol. They have me repeat what I'm saying just to hear my accent 😂
As a Philly native, I’ll give this a solid 80%.
This was a great interview… and funny!
The old South Philadelphians have the strongest accents. I was born n bred in Philly, my accent is strong and very distinctive. My father was bilingual Italian and wow he sounded like the godfather, lol everyone was afraid of him when he opened his mouth, a very distinctive strong dialect. South Philly today is losing its accent because people (yuppies) moving in and with it the accent is dying!
Yuppies everywhere unfortunately
I'm from north philly
@@NorthPhilly-zr7xc
Damn bruh. You have the condolences of the entire RUclips community.
@@donarthiazi2443 lmao 🤣
@@HouseJawn
Keeping it real my friend.
And yes, the yuppies have also screwed up a lot of accents down here in North Carolina. The Hoi-Toider on the outter banks. The Hillbillies in the Smokies & Blue Ridge. And RTP have almost zero locals that still live there.
Edit: Down in South Carolina too. The old Gullah or Geechi is also dying out. Sad as hell
I think I just heard a philly accent for the first time and I can’t even describe what I just heard
The older Kevin Bacon gets, the more he looks like Ben Stiller.
That's who I thought it was on the thumbnail
@@nyy190343 Steve O with hair
i don't know which one of them that's unkind to...
@@MisterTingles ha
Do you know who Ben Stiller even is, mate? LOL fucksake!
I'm from South Philly and I have no clue what he just did 🤣🤣🤣🇮🇹
He sounded philly thru the whole interview lol
He's got the accent on blast this whole interview, it's great :D
Wo Conans hair keeps getting higher every time I see him !
Lolol
Since he has played characters from Boston, and he does it so well, I thought he was from there.
I’m from Trenton and went to Temple University. Oh man he nailed that accent and he’s right you can’t imitate it. You have to live it!
There is a county just south west of Philadelphia called Delaware County. The DelCo accent is a Philly accent times 10. Check out videos by Aunt Mary Pat for examples:-).
Delco in the house 😂
@@mysharona6754 Have you seen those Aunt Mary Pat videos? She works at the Ackamee in Folsom:-D. He's got that accent down like nobody else:-D.
The way he says the word coke almost like there is a w between the o and k is spot on
I find that only in certain areas of Philadelphia.
Who else thought it was a younger vs older video due to the thumbnail similarity? 😂
This feels like my country accent. It just happens, can’t really do it on purpose. Lived split between city and country, grew up around a lot of people who talked that old southern slang.
All these people in the comments claiming they're from philly when they're really from the burbs....
Burbs or from Philly, you still have the accent. It's not like you leave city boundaries and it goes away.
This guy is the best
I have been a fan of Kevin Bacon since Animal House!
When I was really young, I was watching some movie in a theater and left to use the bathroom. On the way back, I accidentally walked into Footloose in the theater during the big dance scene, and I thought I was seeing something so naughty! I still feel guilty 😂
Grew up in Northeast Philly my whole life but I never really ended up with a Philly accent unfortunately, but my ears always perk up when I hear it lmao
You might have traces of the accent and not realize it
so I'm Jamaican, and I most often only hear New Yorkers.
I heard a Philly girl speak, and her accent stood out.
Before, I thought that there were just 3 accents Ghetto, Normal, and Country
Thanks Bam Margera for introducing me to this accent in the early CKY movies.
Waz gud witchu is the sentence that taught me how bad of an accent I have. I said it to some dude from Ohio and he said, “what’s good with chew? I don’t dip.” I said goddamn I gotta figure this out 😂
If u want strong Philly accents you won’t ever find em in Philly. Always right around Philly man I swear
You 2 have matching faces!!
since i was born and raised in philly, i never hear the accent really because it is natural to me. It is how I talk. The only word I can definitively hear the accent is with the word water
58 years dealing with the Philly Accent. SPOT ON..LOL 😆
Moyk Whoyt 🤣
i saw philly accent and had to click
Same and I'm not even from Philadelphia.
@@LadyEowyn I am!
3:32
“You ever slip into your Philly accent?”
“Ew Yia”
It’s funny that these Covid era interviews have no laughtrack or audience so Conan and his guest have these awkward laughing moments to fill the space.
My boyfriend is from Delco and I love his accent. Its just...different haha
They both have guitars in the background. Cool!
The dahntahn Pittsburgh accent is similar. Growing up in central PA, you get a mashup of both with Pennsylvania Dutch vocabulary thrown in.
I’m from philly and lived in Pittsburgh for a while. Our accents are completely different. You all sound like the mid west to me
The most accurate blue collar philly accent lol. Walk into Wawa and 😉you’ll understand.
Is it just me or does conan look like the zodiac killer when his glasses are on
Or Edmund “the Coed Killer” Kemper’s equally tall ginger stepbrother
😄😄😄😄
@@jonathannagel7427 I don't know why, but I feel weird sympathy toward Kemper.. out of all the horrible people out there..
EinieN J - for whatever it’s worth, he has denied parole hearings several times because he believes he can’t be trusted outside of prison
EinieN J - a friend of mine’s mother knew someone who was killed in the Bay Area in a Zodiac style, and her family wonders if it may have been Z... we’ll never know, but it’s interesting to be so close to such an unsolved case
we in Canada, Toronto, call it subway face! To create space 😎
I have been a fan of Conan since he went to Greenland
Dead on Philly accent except NO ONE from Philly would ever say "Chessesteak Hoagie". For shame Kevin Bacon
Was hoping he would say "Wiz with"...
huh? Philly born and raised here. cheesesteak hoagies are good! Not from wawa though
One of the weirdest regional things in the US is how people talk about soft drinks. Where I grew up (IN) everyone called every drink a coke. If you were in a restaurant and asked for a coke, they would then ask you what kind you wanted. Not as in "diet coke, or cherry coke" but as in "do you want a regular coke, a sprite, a root beer, a dr. pepper, etc). I was staying with a friend in Michigan one time, and everything was a pop, "what kind of pop do you want?". Now I live in a big city out on the west coast and (I think) everything is referred to as "soda". It's kind of weird out here, though, since there are a lot of transplants so you might hear a bit of everything depending on where you go.
Of course we say 'cheesesteak hoagie' - thats a thing. Its not a regular cheesesteak, its one with lettuce, tomatoes, and onions.... like a hoagie. And yeah they're really good.
But - we definitely DON'T say 'wiz wit'. Only the tourist places ssy that.
And most of us would never have 'wiz' on a cheesesteak anyway .... we have Provolone.
😭😭we need movies on philly
the wife and I met and live out west. While visiting DelCo where I grew up once at the Hoagie shop gettin' a steak (cheese steak) listenin' to the guys behind the counter, she assed me "What does boreass mean" ? That's exclusive DelCo / Philly talk.
Use it in a sentence. Quit boreassin' me.
Interpretation : Don't be a pain in the ass. or Quit bothering (bother'n) me.
Hoagie from WaWa Hon!
Philly accents have a similarity to Baltimore accents, I’ve always thought.
they are very closely related. delco trash accent is almost identical to baltimore
Yes indeed. Very similar
From my experience in both areas - Caucasians sound similar. African Americans - noticably different.
@@4ba88f5 that’s interesting
@@4ba88f5 wow I never even thought about that. Good point
Moved from Philly years ago but STILL miss it! I have a WAWA sticker on my car!
Philly pride baby!! I call it hoagie consciousness where ever there is a WaWa! they have them in Florida now cuz Philly people only go down the shore and Disney. At least a lot of the South Philly folks I know! WaWa forevahhhh
Salt,Pepper,& Ketchup!!!!
I’m from the eastern panhandle of WV and our country twang shares some features in common with the philly accent and the Pittsburgh yinzer accent because we are about 200 miles from both cities even though our twang is more slow
Is it just me? Or does anybody else from PA hear Kevin Bacon's Montco accent _all_ the time? I remember my parents watching "Footloose" for the first time on HBO or whatever and Dad quipped... _"Chicago? My ass. That boy's from Conshohocken."_ Sometimes I watch the video of John Cappelletti's Heisman speech just to listen to his thick Delco accent.
And call me crazy, but Toni Collette sounded more Lehigh Valley than Philly in _Sixth Sense._
You gotta say really long Os and choke on your Ls like a speech impediment. The comic David Brenner had a very distinct Philly accent and many people thought it was an in ability to say the letter L. Too funny!
KB broke out his Philly accent to play the pervy juvenile detention center guard in Sleepers. I've all but lost mine from being away for decades, but my sister's is so thick I call her Eliza Doolittle 😆
Kevin Bacon and Tina Fey are the only 2 I’ve heard do a FR FR Philly accent.
Cathy Bates did something that sounded pretty Philly in the carny season of American Horror Story.
Gail Radcliffe that was a Baltimore accent or some conglomeration of something else. I’ve watched it, I enjoyed her performance, I love Kathy Bates. But that wasn’t Philly.
Kevin sounded legit, Tina sounded over dramatized... like she was trying to talk like she was from Delco instead of just speaking from the heart
@@mysharona6754 She is from Delco. Upper Darby. She has a Delco(ew) accent.
@@stephenmartin308 I know she's from UD. She trained herself how to speak without the accent so she could be an actress, but now her Delco accent sounds fake. Aunt Mary Pat on RUclips sounds legit. Kevin Bacon sounds legit. Wayne the Cannabis Chef on RUclips has that he lives in Florida as part of his channel, as soon as I heard him talk, I knew he was not from Florida and was from this area. I think maybe she tried so hard to get rid of it, now she has to exaggerate, she does not sound very natural.
If I want to try channelling Boston accent, I'd go... "I gaht dis holl fakin tauwn in mah rarevooow!!" works every time (no, it did not)
That my friends is a spot on Kensington maybe south Philly or Northeast Philly accent. But as someone who's been born and raised in Philly....what irritates me is that they act nationally like South Philly IS Philly. Black Philadelphians who are a huge majority of the city do NOT have that accent like Kevin. Meek Mill or Eve yes...destinctly Philly but not saying"youse guys" and stuff. AND for facts.. black Philadelphia s are the only ones saying or using JAWN. That's isn't Philly slang its specifically black Philly slang. There's a short linguistics lesson for you. Your welcome lol.
White people have been using jawn since like 2011
@@Dave-om4kv white people have also been appropriating blaccents and dances for social media since ...🤷. So I said nothing but facts. JAWN is a black Philly colloquialism. Using JAWN as an occasional quirky urban gentrified addition by choice doesn't mean that word comes from or is part of white peoples natural language patterns in Philly. No more than black Philadelphians saying "youse guys". We know it's a Philly thing...but it's not OUR thing....and that's ok to acknowledge!
Whites use jawn all the time, the whole northeast does
I think jawn crossed over to the general Philly accent from Black neighborhoods in North and West Philly around 2010 or so. You'll rarely hear it out of older middle aged Port Richmond, Kensington, South Philly or Northeast people, but it's now common among younger(born in 80s or later) people of all backgrounds.
@@hello_04 it has more to do with how integrated ppl became during certain decades. Black Philly most certainly have w different accent than white Philly. Even we don't know everything we say that is distinct to us until someone points it out of town. Some Older black Philly talk a little more closer to white Philly. No bap I heard an elderly black woman say Iggles before and she really old. My dad is in his 70s he still says fatigue like fatigg. We most certainly only sound like Philly and water isn't the only word we say different in black Philly.
Hey Conan how's Jordan doing
I bet he doesen't mind self-isolation
Kevin Bacon's accent is more of a Mainline (suburban) accent than straight up Philly accent.
nothing makes me happier to hear about how celebrities or rich people clean their own toilets ))
That was dope, luv Kevin in that investigation csi show
The best way to sum up a philly accent is to take a Baltimore accent and make it have a baby with an Amish or PA Dutch person, that's where the sing songyness comes from. Also Kevin has a hella WHITE PHILLY accent.
You really got it. Linguists say the Philly accent is a southern accent different from Maryland but similar. We talk faster and compress our vowels.
Conan looks like borrowed his mom's sunglasses
Ug,fml with the cleaning of the toilet ,the removal of crumbs from my sight. it never ends.
I'm from the suburbs around Philly but it wasn't until I waitressed in my early 20s that I worked with someone who had THE thickest Philly accent I'd ever heard. It was so thick I thought she was doing it on purpose like a cartoon character. She was a terrific person & had waitressed for years & had even waitressed at a restaurant that the Eagles team would frequent (she always said "I can tell you exactly which players - the Michael Vick & Donovan McNabb years- I'd waitress for & which ones I'd pray would get traded based on how they responded to service personnel. Some I loved. Others... Was happy to see em leave."
I am a native Lancasterian, but years ago I worked as the receptionist in Lancaster for the non food division of Acme Markets and the salesmen who came in all thought that I had transferred to Lancaster from 15th and Arch. LOL,
"Gowin WahWah to git mea Hohgee anna dyin' Colt."
So they’re talking about the Southern version of “resting bitch face” for men? Love this interview !
I have a very strong Philly Accent. I cringe when I hear myself on audio.
And a real philly cheesesteak dose not have PEPPERS on it!!!!
Wooder, doorter, throw in a jawn or 2 and you got it. I'm from Philly and I approve this message.
boy yull some crabs🤣
They're practically wearing the same glasses XD !!!!!
My gf has a Philly accent. "Bar" sounds like "baaawr" and Home sounds like "hewm." I've heard Kevin say these words in his movies and he sounds the same. So unique
"Hoagie" = "haowgie" Coke = "Kewk"
I feel Philly works with particular kinds of voices.