YES! when I teach kids how to act I use "dude" as an example of how the meaning of words and phrases are completely dependent on what you're trying to convey
@@CecilyJamelia aw, I'm sorry! hopefully it was more nostalgic than homesick! Sometimes I've thought about moving to pursue my career, but I think I'd really miss it here myself (Bay Area).
@@chocolateru6866 bro i NEVER said it was a “race.” You don’t even know your own history. Your call yourself “ Hispanic” when you don’t even know the meaning to it. The white man brainwashed you into calling yourself “ Hispanic” . The white man calls you Hispanic and you agree. Know your history carnal. The south west belongs to the true people of this land. The Mexica ( mechica) ….aka….Mexica chichimeca….aka…..MEXICAN. You probably fly the current Mexican flag i bet…..you don’t even know the true Mexica flag looks like huh?…..I’ll give you a hint…..look at the calendario azteca…..it’s right in front of your face. Know your past. Read.
Man so much of this is true. I was born in "mownt in vioo" lived in "stawktin" then "plehsint hill" which is right next to "cawn kurd" then finally "elderawdoe hills" which is east of "Sacramennoe" Hahahah "Water" "Wawhddurr" "Do you wantsum wawhder? "Right on!" Sounds like "ride on" "That's hella funny" is used when you find some thing funny or amusing, but you're not really laughing you just say "that's hella funny". If some thing is kind of surprising you can say "duuuuuude" like saying "whoa". Or if you think of something important or figured something out and you're with your friend you say in all seriousness: "Dude." Before saying whatever it is your going to say. Or if your friend is telling you something about someone who was being mean they can say something like:. "it's like, dude i know you're going through a hard time but you don't have to be rude, you know?" Also, in California girls refer to each other as dude too. Everyone can be called dude, it's not gender specific. Also, generally the word dude is used amongst friends. Like one typically doesn't go to a cashier or a waitress and refer to them as "dude".
And we up here in northern California say totally and seriously .. and ummm and rad then again I grew up in bay area and my older bro skated with Steve caballero aNd Tony hawk...they were total valley boys...
Grew up in Stockton, now livin' in Lofyet near you Bro. Should cruise over up I-680 and chill. Or use Pleasant Hill road as a frontage road. Git some grub at In N Out and Kale chips from Trader Joe's, yeahhh. That'd be, you knowwww like so hecka cool, man!
I didn't notice we talk differently until a friend from so cal said, hey say "santa" I said santa. He said say "Santa Rosa", I said "Sanna Rozah"(how it came out). He goes wtf happened?
I grew up in San Jose... for the most part everybody just refers to the freeways by the number alone, dropping the SoCal "the", e.g. "101", "280", "880", "17". When driving "down south" (another NorCal phrase, meant to refer specifically to SoCal instead of the American South), I would use "5" or "Interstate 5" long-form, instead of the letter "I". Also, traffic reports (and I think some older residents) occasionally use the freeway's official name, a.k.a. 880 = "The Nimitz"
I never realized that. I never used "the" before a freeway number. Just the other day I was on the phone telling a friend I was "stuck on 80 because of an accident at Carlson". No "the 80". Never said it that way.
You know, you forgot to mention in this that we tend to drop the T/D completely, replacing them with glottal stops. Say Sacramento. "Sacramen-oh" "San-ah Clara" "coun-ee" rather than County.
I've lived in Michigan most of my life, moving here when I was 7 and I just got into an argument how pronounce "stock" and "stalk". To me they are pronounced exactly the same. Same with "walk" and "wok" but Michiganders pronounce the L! Blew my mind. Apparently, I say "pond" weird, too. I may have only lived in NorCal for my first 7 years of life, but that was enough for the way of speech stick
This video was hella dope. I had never really thought about how we kind of glue our words together. I think it has to do with the cannabis and lazy speech. it always drives me crazy whenever I have to make a phone call and and people want you over enunciate the word Concord. We pronounce it conquered.
3:40 Most of those things are words that I was taught were homophones. We were straight up told that they are pronounced exactly the same and sometimes I hear that they're supposed to be pronounced differently but I literally have no idea how.
I have the same accent and I haven't heard a lot of people with this strong of an accent. I was born and raised in san francisco and I feel like we talk super fast almost like slurring our words together like "wouldja" and "didja"
I'm from SoCal, and the way you talk definitely sounds different to me. The examples helped me realize how I take the time to say the word and not rush over it, ...but I don't slur my speech either. I pronounce "pecan" the same way you do ..along with a few of the "twists": details, decade, department, gravity, espresso.
Thank you for calling out this accent in Northern California. I’ve always heard a slight western twang in this region but many accent expert videos brush over this.
Same, my whole family has that NorCal twang, which we countryspeak even more if we go out to ranch territory or high Sierras. It's always slightly annoying when the accent people say there's only a Western accent from Rockies and west.
Lol all the places I lived in the bay - Berkeley, Richmond, San Pablo, bay point, Pittsburg, Rodeo, and concord 😂 I moved around a lot but never out of the Bay Area. What where my parents thinking? It’s hella expensive 😂😂
And those aren't really even the expensive places. Lafayette: $1.6 million for a 1900 sq foot 60 year old unremodeled (old) home on a unremarkable lot, but in the hills. Just because its proximal to 24, 680 and downtown Walnut Creek.
Carmel is near the southern portion of Northern California, or is considered part of the Central Coast/Central California. I'm from SoCal and I pronounce most of those words the same as you. Not everyone in SoCal speaks Surfer Dude or Valley Girl.
The Dust Bowl caused a large migration from Oklahoma to California. Steinbeck captured it well in "The Grapes of Wrath" (the book and Henry Fonda movie, which has Oklahoma's own Woody Guthrie in a cameo role, a must-read and a must-watch). I grew up in Suisun/Fairfield/Vacaville and the Okie influence is alive and well, whether folks know or not.
You do, you just don’t realize it because you’re ear blind. Anyone from Nor Cal or other Western states can identify it pretty easily-though, there is admittedly some overlap between Nor Cal and So Cal. I live in Las Vegas, and we have a ton of people from both parts of California. Being from Northern California myself, I can differentiate where a Californian is from based on if they sound normal to me or like a love child between a vocal fry (sustained monotone vs Nor Cal twang), slow, and somehow fluid while also actually pronouncing all of the letters in a word.
I'm from nor cal THE BAY AREA. there are some things that are ok and there are somethings that are inaccurate. But I have to say there is a lot of diversity people say things differently but what I've noticed is you either drop the T in words or you soften it
Dropping/swallowing the “T” is more of an Idaho/Wyoming/Utah thing, so maybe folks from the extreme North East…?, but everyone I know from Nor Cal use “d” instead of “t.”
yeah, i'm from the bay area too and there are some things i didn't say. Like i've never called crawfish crawdads, in fact i just call them lobsters, and i've never heard "montisello" in my life.
I'm from around Chico, and my English is even still a bit different from yours. I have the "close/clothes" and "taos/towels" thing going on. But I don't have the "cot/caught" merger. While my vowels there aren't the /a/ verses /ɔ/ (like in a New Yorker accent), they still haven't merged. It's more like cot /kʰat/ and caught /kʰɑt/.
We do have an accent, especially working class city guys. So much of the gentrification of accents is via transplants and University people. Local rooted people have a way of speaking almost anywhere you go. I grew up in SF. Would you like to go to the store? = Tryna go-tuh-duh storr... San Francisco= Sa-rin-cisco... We talk quiker and more sharply than Socal people, in fact ive had a few people mistake my accent for a northwestern or Canadian accent, we smash our words together, and you can hear an easy coast tint to the way some of the old natives talk too, the city natives say bud alot as apposed to dude. Just a few observations of mine.
belldanime pay attention he was talking about the beach town called CARMEL which is in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. He didn't say a damn thing about Caremel mountain.
There are plenty of places with a beach all over California called Carmel something or another. I apologize, I didn't realize this is so dear to your heart.
#1 name ALL the other places in California named Carmel and their location. #2 You don't realize a lot of things. #3 I accept your apology. I know it was heartfelt and sincere. LOL
Maybe. But we tend to be nasal, like the Simpsons voices. My sister and daughter sound like Lisa Simpson. My Mom has a different nasal sound. But, at least with my family, we have distinctive voices and mannerisms. We're actually kinda unique that way. You heard my voice. I wear it with honor.
Accents do change with time. 20 years ago, we had old fogies still drinking “melk” and fishing at the “crick” and munching on “ammons.” I live in the South now.
That reminds me of my grandparents, they said ammens. They lived in Paradise for something like 50 years, but they weren't native Californians, they got married in "Calleradah" and my grandma grew up bouncing around the lower mid-west during the depression. I always assumed my dad's saying crick and warsh was from his parents' mid-west/Colorado influence. My dad and uncle have both lived in the state of "warshington" for many years. I grew up in Oregon, along I5, and I drank "melk", but once I grew up I started drinking soy milk instead of dairy "melk." I never noticed before now that I pronounce regular dairy "melk", but soy or almond is milk.
I don't get it. You say NorCal speakers don't drop consonants, but then you say "Taos" and "towels" have the same pronunciation, meaning you drop the L.
The only thing I pronounce differently is "tour." I don't say "terr." I say "too-er." I'd like to know which state's accent I picked that up from! I grew up in six different states.
It's very typical for us to refer to the highways as simply the number and nothing else ("101," "280," "80"). That swallowing of consonants and rushed compression of words is definitely one of our distinct characteristics. For example, how us native San Franciscans tend to say something that sounds kinda like "Sehrincisco." It might make us sound mumbly to other people. I think it reflects our local character, which is both urban and laid-back. Nobody is better than us at somehow being fast yet relaxed at the same time. Something that I also think sets us apart, ESPECIALLY from the East Coast, is that we tend to speak with a very "warm" tone and inflection. This reflects our local social culture of openness and a genuine desire to positively connect (unless you're a gentrifier destroying our community 🙃). When we meet people, we try to mesh our vibes, and that comes out in our speech patterns. In other words, we do the opposite of what East Coast people do, especially New Yorkers. Honestly, they come off as hella cold and selfish to us. Sorry, it's the truth. It makes us sad. 😢
I am from Sacramento. I recently have had a Brit and an Aussie both tell me I have the strongest California accent they ever heard of. I didn't realize I have a distinguishable accent hahaha.
I've lived in northern Californian and when people say Californian accent they think valley girl and finally this is noticed! But I have the thing where for some words I drop consonants like "city" is "ciTy" because I overenunciate the T but "mountain" is "mountin"
I noticed that he kind of says something between San Fransiscoo and San Franciscuh. Maybe San Franciscah. It's definitely pronounced differently than someone from another part of the country that might say San Francisc"oh". The tongue just like stays in one place near the lower teeth rather than dropping a bit back in the throat to allow for the "oh" sound.
The "the" thing was something my grandparents in San Diego would do. Used to drive me crazy. Living in Florida now. They like to call it "the Interstate."
This is a leftover from when the freeways had names. For example: "THE Arroyo Seco Freeway" became "THE 110". - Anna (from northerly situated Carmel). : )
You guys... He’s not wrong if his accent is a little different. You know how crazy this place is? I’ve got fricken bits and pieces of dialects and accents from literally everywhere. I’ve got friends who speak completely different from other friends and yet they’re also not different and also use expressions you wouldn’t think they would. My sister Kiley talks like a valley girl and my filipino friend speaks with a lot of chicano speak. Well we all sound pretty similar when we’re all hanging out together and having fun. And then we go home and it’s slightly different.
You forgot Monterey we say moner-ey. Funny part about your video was how i realized i speak a blend of both norcal and socal. I live in Salinas (Monterey county), though based on my accent and surroundings, i gotta say i do have a norcal/western accent. like your video though. I've always wondered what type of accent northern Californians had because i find it offensive that other states think we all speak with a southern California's surfer/beach bum accent. We don't. Matter of fact, socal and norcal and central-cal often feels like different states. 👍
I met an Iranian fellow whose English was excellent and he pointed out that I don’t say “water”, I say “wadder”, and he was right! A lot of pronunciation depends on what is easier and faster to say: pronouncing the “t” in “water” takes a bit more time and energy than softening the “t” to a “d”. Northern Californians only pronounce the “t” in “water” when they are emphasizing the word “water”. Another example is the word “the”, which we pronounce “thuh” unless we are stressing the word, in which case we say “thee”. Example: “People used to call Ukraine ‘THEE Ukraine’, but that’s probably because people associate it with ‘THEE Crimea’ which is correct because it is short for ‘THUH Crimean Peninsula’”.
Oh, and Carmel is NorCal bro, but that's kinda the border on the coast. Hell, even the Central Valley is practically our first cousin, considering damn near everyone moved out there starting in '97 (we know why)..kinda like how the Tri-Valley is MSJ West
I'm from Santa Rosa, CA. and never felt I had any accent until I went to TN and worked there for about 2 years. The Southerners thought I was from Minnesota. I do say my so's like them but don't know why. I definitely don't speak like a 'valley girl' which sounds very dumb. I use alot of the words the guy is talking about though and my voice inflections are very NorCal.
I certainly detect a slight western to southern twang in your speech tho. The way you say "time" sounds like "tai-me" and "right" sounds like "raght" I do detect it.
The part of California I grew up in had a lot of migration from the Dust Bowl, so we definitely have that twang. Not Texas twang, more like Oklahoma twang.
San Francisco native, and only half of this, at most, is true of me (or most anyone I know). No "I" before the number, no "ape" in apricot, it's definitely "car-a-mel" in SF proper (or, more the beginning "car" sound of that, but with the middle "a" sound skipped over or replaced with almost an aspiration... "care'mel" rather than "care-a-mel" or "carmal") , "tourist" is more "t'rist" than "terrist" (sort of the same, but "-er" sounds too drawn out), etc... The D/T thing is VERY true, as is the caught-cot merger. Slurring is definitely common... ex: "sehnf'encisco" instead of "San (pause) Francisco" (also, at least in SF specifically, there's a slightly not-quite-rhotic "r" with many people born before the '90s, at least when talking fast... I think it's more down to slurring, as is replacing certain sounds with an almost-aspiration, than its own thing). "G" (last "g" in "garage") and "sh" sounds are dragged out. Herb Caen actually wrote a very apt description of the SF accent in the '80s, at least when it comes to inflection and pronunciation (the slang is long gone, though... except the overuse of "yeah" for literally everything). Further north, and it becomes a little more, er, stoner meets professor meets gay stereotype meets small traces of surfer/valley girl. A little nasal and raspy at the same time, if that makes sense (some of it exists in the Bay Area: SF and the North Bay tend to err on the raspy + stoner/professor side, East Bay and South Bay on the nasal and "gay"/Southern California side). I think the issue *in* the Bay Area is that there have been so many waves of transplants that any regional accent has become so fluid and varied, so it's tough to really pinpoint a "Bay Area accent" anymore - still, find anyone born and raised *in* SF prior to the '90s and the accent will be very different than any other Bay Area accent. It's also funny the Bay Area has adopted NorCal (there was a time, probably only about a decade ago, that abbreviation was scoffed at... but yeah, it's definitely Northern California, both geographically and culturally - but Carmel is the central coast, not SoCal... San Luis Obispo is sort of the divide there). tl;dr, my bad. Interesting video.
yeah, i’m from the more central/northern part of the valley and this is 100% how i say everything, so when he said that the accent was specifically from sf locals i was lowkey like hmm
Central Valley is very distinct from S.F. and most Bay Area. Much of the Central Valley speaks with a twang. Due to the 40's Dust Bowl okie migration. I'm Hawaiian Filipino from Stockton and have a twang.
Used to .date a girl from Rex, Georgia in early 2000. She told me I had an accent. Naturally she had a Southern drawl. But, I never considered myself to.have one. I more associated it with the way I spoke, interms of words and emphases
I almost hear a hint of almost a southern accent. Are you originally from Sac or Davis? I’m originally from the Concord area, and it used to freak me out when people on the radio called it Kon Kord. It’s Conquered damit! That always sounded hella weird. Another was when people called Benicia Ben I kya or Suisun some other weirdness. The worst was when people called The City Frisco. Old school Bay Area natives love the 9ers and hate the LA Traitor. We never forgave Al Davis for moving to La La Land.
Sometimes I hear a little of a southern accent when I talk. I grew up in San Rafael, just 20 miles or so north of San Francisco. The speech in the Bay Area is more drawn out (not clipped) but not valley girl talk (exaggerated).
Yes! I moved away from Nor Cal as a kid and have been fielding questions about my “accent” since. I’ve gotten Southern accent, European accent (from a group of Mediterranean Europeans), and Midwestern accent. My theory is that in Nor Cal, we have influences from the Okies, Spaniards (NOT Latin Americans from Central America), folks who came over during the Gold Rush, Mormons fleeing West (Upstate New Yorkers, Midwesterners, and European emigrants), and some Asian influences. Also, you forgot to say “Ah-mun” instead of Almond… my grandma from Chico cannot say almond even when she tries. 😂 I also got teased mercilessly in college for saying “woof” instead of “wolf.” 😅 I have to try very, very hard to pronounce that “L.”
I have recently moved out to New England from the Bay Area, I lived in the bay for all my life and most of the things you list in this video are very valid and true, like how we have the nicknames for all the surrounding towns/cities/counties. I also always refer to the highways as 101, or 880 etc without the in front of them. Hella is definitely a word of NorCal, and I honestly did not realize how much I said it until I moved to the East Coast. I also find that the fact that we tend to slur our words is Super accurate, and we tend to pull together our words (sanno-zay for example). Great video though! I did not realize how much of an accent us NorCalers have until I thought about it😂
Yes. I am from NorCal and live in Michigan. I hear it all the time from people in Michigan same like I hear it in California. I seem to have a mix of both. I can hear it clearly in my father and step-mother. There really is an accent. I get sick of the accent jokes when I'm in a live stream with friends. The guy from Boston gets his balls busted the most. When my dad says, it's my daughter! I hear it too.
I grew up in SoCal but lived in the East Bay for a good 8 years. We say freeway in SoCal, and up north no one thought that was weird. Plus I went to Cal, with an L at the end, not a w, and I never caught the w. I wonder where he grew up in NorCal.
Love the city names. I married a girl from Petaluma, though, and as far as I can tell, we always pronounced it "Pet-a-lu-ma" (with a voiceless t rather than the voiced d).
well youre not really norcal then- youre like midcal? lol. norcal is more associated with the pacific northwest than it is the rest of cali. having a good day?
I believe there is no standard accent in the Bay Area because everybody is from different backgrounds, so the accents are merged, the way we say things vary from person to person. I feel pretty much everything on here is a 50/50 depending on who you ask.
We grew up saying we were going to 'the city' which meant S.F.. I said 'um' and 'like' as fillers. I coined the phrase "Get Out" in my family when someone was trying to pull the wool over my eyes. I usually talked and enunciated my words pretty good, although, sometimes I'd get lazy. I find different dialects interesting. I especially like the Scottish accent and the Liverpool accent interesting. I can't stand the Southern accent though.
NorCal born and raised now in SoCal. Great video and presentation. I’ve been told NorCal doesn’t have a discernible accent, been told we do the “Keeng” for “King” thing but that’s about it. Proud of my NorCal accent, will hella recommend this video 👌🏻
I grew up in Houston, live in Austin, I pronounce everything the exact same way. I feel like this is just a general American accent, not specifically Nor Cal. The only weird ones are "terr" and stuff like "newdunn"
Californians especially norcal has a weird combination of texas and surfer accent and its most likely because most norcal residents came from the dustbowl in the 1930s. We still have a piece of that accent left over
@@plugmanjohnson7456 This! People always think I’m from Texas/The South/The Midwest. 😂 Twang for days… but also surfer. We basically sound linguistically bipolar.
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Recently moved to Southern California. Can confirm they just have the standard US accent. The ONLY time I notice a regional idiosyncrasy is with words like COMpost, CONcentrate, COMmon, dot COM, etc etc etc. For whatever reason, that one vowel sound is wildly different from how most people in the US would say it. Best way I can describe it is that it sounds like an exaggerated version of the "aw" in caught.
I’m a Bay Native...didn’t notice a distinct accent, because that all seems normal to me. It’s the people outside of the Bay that speak with weird accents. Lol!
Never hear anyone saying “crik” for “creek” no matter what age here in the SF Bay Area. My dad said “crik” because he was from the mid-west. Otherwise much of what is shared here is “ride-ahn.” 😂
I have a lot in common but a lot of differences with your accent I noticed. I distinguish cot and caught. I don’t say expresso but espresso. I say Vallejo the way you do however. When traveling I’ve been accused of sounding east coast albeit very it’s subtle. My family is 5 generations in the bay area.
How does one distinguish cot from caught? I'm originally from the Bay Area (Fremont) and I sound very similar to the narrator in the video. Especially the t's for d's
+Anderson Prime there are many things I say differently down the person in the video. I hear many people talk like him mainly when I head north to Santa Rosa for example. But I certainly say towel as two syllables and not like tao. Cot and caught are different. I also don’t say. NorCal. That sounds like surfer talk to me.
I don't say NorCal either, I'd say Northern California. I don't understand the difference phonetically between cot and caught. How is caught supposed to sound? I definitely pronounce towel as "towl' instead of "tow-el"
Whats the cut off line for Nor Cal and So Cal? I grew up in Siskiyou county and we split California in Nor Cal, Central and So Cal. We thought it was ridiculous that San Jose was considered Nor Cal
Stockton on down = Central. SOCAL is south of the Grapevine. NORCAL is basically everything north of Stockton. Siskiyou, Yreka, etc. are technically NORCAL but it starts looking like the "Free State of Jefferson" or even southern Oregon.
Funny. I never thought we talked differently. I don't know how one even pronounces any of these words differently. Can someone tell me how to say 'cot' and 'caught differently? Carmel is not in Socal ' It's Central Coast, which to me is still Bay Area NorCal.
I'm a native bay arean (and 8th generation Californian) and I call crawdads crayfish. Also I don't say pee-cons I say pi-cahns. So there is some variation. Oh, and Carmel is not in SoCal it's on the central coast. Good video otherwise. :)
I'm a first generation northern Californian and i have realized that I've always had to keep in mind that crawfish and crawdads are the same and many people don't know them as one or the other so i often times need to use both words for others to understand.
I want to hear a really thick accent though. You get bits of it in music sometimes, dude from the RBL Posse, Rose Melberg from Tiger Trap, but it's actually pretty hard to find good examples.
I'm a Norcal transplant to AZ, one of my boyfriend's buddies loves to poke at my accent, for saying stuff like "shremp" for shrimp and "shrems" for shrooms.
San Francisco,- "The Siddee." Lol! It's the same way in Northern Illinois (where I grew up,) when referring to Chicago. Not the same, here in Missouri though, where I have spent the last half of my life so far. People wouldn't know if you meant Kansas City or St. Louis (that's LEWIS, btw and NOT Lou-ee) SURE FIRE WAY to stand out as a tourist is getting that one wrong.
I definitely differ in more ways than one, but overall kinda sound the same. I do say tals for towels and it doesn't matter if I'm speaking fast or not tah-wuhl sounds hella weird.
Let’s face it: we’re all from NorCal and we just want to see what we sound like
no
Not only that, we're watching this video and wondering "how is this unique and any different from General American/Midwest accents?"
you caught me! i'm from the bay area
@@frzferdinand72 There is a slight difference to those accents tho.
yes
Can we all just agree that "dude" can mean literally ANYTHING
FUCKIN A, FUCK YEAH, WHY THE FUCK NOT!
YES!
when I teach kids how to act I use "dude" as an example of how the meaning of words and phrases are completely dependent on what you're trying to convey
Dude! I’m so happy that someone feels me on this!
You made me miss home
@@CecilyJamelia aw, I'm sorry! hopefully it was more nostalgic than homesick!
Sometimes I've thought about moving to pursue my career, but I think I'd really miss it here myself (Bay Area).
I’m a hispanic from norcal and i pronounce all my words like this but i thought everyone in california spoke like this.
George Luz I’m also Hispanic. LOL!
I’m white and would say I sound white if that makes any sense (no foreign accent) and I pronounce stuff like this too
Hispanic???.. Bro you white washed 🤦🏻♂️
@@naynay197 Hispanic not a race
@@chocolateru6866 bro i NEVER said it was a “race.” You don’t even know your own history. Your call yourself “ Hispanic” when you don’t even know the meaning to it. The white man brainwashed you into calling yourself “ Hispanic” . The white man calls you Hispanic and you agree. Know your history carnal. The south west belongs to the true people of this land. The Mexica ( mechica) ….aka….Mexica chichimeca….aka…..MEXICAN. You probably fly the current Mexican flag i bet…..you don’t even know the true Mexica flag looks like huh?…..I’ll give you a hint…..look at the calendario azteca…..it’s right in front of your face. Know your past. Read.
We definitely shorten words. Like California is just "CalFornia"
What he said about the way we pronounce San Jose is hella accurate, I never thought about it but I do say Sanno Zay
Yes! I didn't even think about that until now!
San hoesayee 😂😂😂 THANOSAYEEE
Wow, that's an eye opener.
😂😂😂😂 True
Damn I really do say “Sanna Zay” lmao
Man so much of this is true.
I was born in "mownt in vioo" lived in "stawktin" then "plehsint hill" which is right next to "cawn kurd" then finally "elderawdoe hills" which is east of "Sacramennoe"
Hahahah
"Water" "Wawhddurr"
"Do you wantsum wawhder?
"Right on!" Sounds like "ride on"
"That's hella funny" is used when you find some thing funny or amusing, but you're not really laughing you just say "that's hella funny".
If some thing is kind of surprising you can say "duuuuuude" like saying "whoa".
Or if you think of something important or figured something out and you're with your friend you say in all seriousness:
"Dude." Before saying whatever it is your going to say.
Or if your friend is telling you something about someone who was being mean they can say something like:. "it's like, dude i know you're going through a hard time but you don't have to be rude, you know?"
Also, in California girls refer to each other as dude too. Everyone can be called dude, it's not gender specific. Also, generally the word dude is used amongst friends.
Like one typically doesn't go to a cashier or a waitress and refer to them as "dude".
And we up here in northern California say totally and seriously .. and ummm and rad then again I grew up in bay area and my older bro skated with Steve caballero aNd Tony hawk...they were total valley boys...
You nailed it! I'm from LasatosHells Hella!
Martinez. We are neighbors
100%. You can distinguish right away if someone is from Sac or Nor Cal because we never pronounce the "t" in Sacramennow lol
Grew up in Stockton, now livin' in Lofyet near you Bro. Should cruise over up I-680 and chill. Or use Pleasant Hill road as a frontage road. Git some grub at In N Out and Kale chips from Trader Joe's, yeahhh. That'd be, you knowwww like so hecka cool, man!
Don't forget we say "Fur Sher" when we say For sure or say Fa Sho a lot and shit like that
Fo sho duuude
Haha, Carmel is NOT in SoCal. It's really just a hop, skip and a jump outside of the South Bay when you think about :)
I was thinking the same thing. Most SoCal folks would tell you it's in NorCal.
People get triggered cause I live in SoCal now..
@R P Yes, but the Central Coast region is still within what is considered northern California boundaries.
@R P Carmel is 100% Central Coast, which I would define as Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.
I’ve always considered it part of NorCal, and then everything south of Carmel is Central Coast
I didn't notice we talk differently until a friend from so cal said, hey say "santa" I said santa. He said say "Santa Rosa", I said "Sanna Rozah"(how it came out). He goes wtf happened?
Yoo veryy true
Yep. That's my hometown: Sana Rowsuh
Haha so true
Easiest way in my experience to pick out SoCal transplants in NorCal is calling all the roads with the in front of it. The 50, The 80, The 5.
weird you added Vacaville. I always have to tell people it’s in between Fairfield and Dixon just to hear them say “ohhh where the outlets are” lol
yep i concur
I grew up in San Jose... for the most part everybody just refers to the freeways by the number alone, dropping the SoCal "the", e.g. "101", "280", "880", "17". When driving "down south" (another NorCal phrase, meant to refer specifically to SoCal instead of the American South), I would use "5" or "Interstate 5" long-form, instead of the letter "I". Also, traffic reports (and I think some older residents) occasionally use the freeway's official name, a.k.a. 880 = "The Nimitz"
seattlesharksfan what's up SJ squad :D
Yup! SJ squad represent
This is true. I’ve never put “the” before a freeway.
I never realized that. I never used "the" before a freeway number. Just the other day I was on the phone telling a friend I was "stuck on 80 because of an accident at Carlson". No "the 80". Never said it that way.
San Jo represent bruh
Ngl we can literally have a conversation saying dude, bro and bruh in different tones.
This the realest thing I've ever heard
You know, you forgot to mention in this that we tend to drop the T/D completely, replacing them with glottal stops. Say Sacramento. "Sacramen-oh" "San-ah Clara" "coun-ee" rather than County.
I've lived in Michigan most of my life, moving here when I was 7 and I just got into an argument how pronounce "stock" and "stalk". To me they are pronounced exactly the same. Same with "walk" and "wok" but Michiganders pronounce the L! Blew my mind. Apparently, I say "pond" weird, too. I may have only lived in NorCal for my first 7 years of life, but that was enough for the way of speech stick
This video was hella dope. I had never really thought about how we kind of glue our words together. I think it has to do with the cannabis and lazy speech. it always drives me crazy whenever I have to make a phone call and and people want you over enunciate the word Concord. We pronounce it conquered.
I know, like, I livn Lofyet man, yeahh.
3:40 Most of those things are words that I was taught were homophones. We were straight up told that they are pronounced exactly the same and sometimes I hear that they're supposed to be pronounced differently but I literally have no idea how.
I have the same accent and I haven't heard a lot of people with this strong of an accent. I was born and raised in san francisco and I feel like we talk super fast almost like slurring our words together like "wouldja" and "didja"
I'm from SoCal, and the way you talk definitely sounds different to me. The examples helped me realize how I take the time to say the word and not rush over it, ...but I don't slur my speech either. I pronounce "pecan" the same way you do ..along with a few of the "twists": details, decade, department, gravity, espresso.
You forgot. Samfransisco. All one word. Thats how my Grandma and Mom pronounced it. RIP
Samfsico haha yes
You haven't been in NorCal until you could have sworn you'd already reached Oregon.
Is there an Oregon accent?
@@2degucitas no, rural NorCal just looks like Oregon
@@ienjoydrpepper5938Wellll for me personally I can tell when I’ve exited Oregon after a trip there because suddenly nothing is as green anymore
@@ienjoydrpepper5938 Is Oregon the same as WA state accent?
You Humboldt, Mendicino or Trinity?
Thank you for calling out this accent in Northern California. I’ve always heard a slight western twang in this region but many accent expert videos brush over this.
Yes! I get Southern or Midwestern accent all the time! They’re always disappointed when I say I’m from Northern California. 😂
The twang is what took me by surprise, coming from the east coast and expecting to hear the LA accent because I thought California was basically LA
I wonder if the Western twang thing is a leftover of migrant miners who settled in that area from the gold rush era?
Probly haha
Same, my whole family has that NorCal twang, which we countryspeak even more if we go out to ranch territory or high Sierras. It's always slightly annoying when the accent people say there's only a Western accent from Rockies and west.
Lol all the places I lived in the bay - Berkeley, Richmond, San Pablo, bay point, Pittsburg, Rodeo, and concord 😂 I moved around a lot but never out of the Bay Area. What where my parents thinking? It’s hella expensive 😂😂
Sacramento is cheaper tell your parents that
And those aren't really even the expensive places. Lafayette: $1.6 million for a 1900 sq foot 60 year old unremodeled (old) home on a unremarkable lot, but in the hills. Just because its proximal to 24, 680 and downtown Walnut Creek.
That's crazy listening to the intro of your video because I'm from CT now living in Redding California
Carmel is near the southern portion of Northern California, or is considered part of the Central Coast/Central California. I'm from SoCal and I pronounce most of those words the same as you. Not everyone in SoCal speaks Surfer Dude or Valley Girl.
Virtual Assistant Alana well duh.
Yup I live by Carmel. We are no where near SoCal
From rural NorCal here and as for the old folks saying crick and stuff like that it’s true, I feel like there’s a lot of of Okee influence where I am.
The Dust Bowl caused a large migration from Oklahoma to California. Steinbeck captured it well in "The Grapes of Wrath" (the book and Henry Fonda movie, which has Oklahoma's own Woody Guthrie in a cameo role, a must-read and a must-watch). I grew up in Suisun/Fairfield/Vacaville and the Okie influence is alive and well, whether folks know or not.
Def mad Okie in NorCal, dude. My paternal grandparents were all Okies and Kansas. In Humboldt, older folks would say warsh and crick.
yep i agree, im from walnut creek and lived in martinez for a while, but my grandfather was from sweden and adopted in oklahoma. he always said crik
I used to live in socal and I have never met anyone who actually talks like a surfer dude
Stereotypes
You do, you just don’t realize it because you’re ear blind. Anyone from Nor Cal or other Western states can identify it pretty easily-though, there is admittedly some overlap between Nor Cal and So Cal. I live in Las Vegas, and we have a ton of people from both parts of California. Being from Northern California myself, I can differentiate where a Californian is from based on if they sound normal to me or like a love child between a vocal fry (sustained monotone vs Nor Cal twang), slow, and somehow fluid while also actually pronouncing all of the letters in a word.
@@RandeeRobyn Nor Cal guy living in Vegas here. Where in Nor Cal you from?
I'm from nor cal THE BAY AREA. there are some things that are ok and there are somethings that are inaccurate. But I have to say there is a lot of diversity people say things differently but what I've noticed is you either drop the T in words or you soften it
Dropping/swallowing the “T” is more of an Idaho/Wyoming/Utah thing, so maybe folks from the extreme North East…?, but everyone I know from Nor Cal use “d” instead of “t.”
yeah, i'm from the bay area too and there are some things i didn't say. Like i've never called crawfish crawdads, in fact i just call them lobsters, and i've never heard "montisello" in my life.
I am from Pacifica and people on The Peninsula have a slightly different accent . The vowels are a bit stretched out , like o , a , i , e and u .
I'm from around Chico, and my English is even still a bit different from yours. I have the "close/clothes" and "taos/towels" thing going on. But I don't have the "cot/caught" merger. While my vowels there aren't the /a/ verses /ɔ/ (like in a New Yorker accent), they still haven't merged. It's more like cot /kʰat/ and caught /kʰɑt/.
We do have an accent, especially working class city guys. So much of the gentrification of accents is via transplants and University people. Local rooted people have a way of speaking almost anywhere you go. I grew up in SF. Would you like to go to the store? = Tryna go-tuh-duh storr... San Francisco= Sa-rin-cisco... We talk quiker and more sharply than Socal people, in fact ive had a few people mistake my accent for a northwestern or Canadian accent, we smash our words together, and you can hear an easy coast tint to the way some of the old natives talk too, the city natives say bud alot as apposed to dude. Just a few observations of mine.
Carmel is in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA! Nowhere near SoCal.
Caremel mountain is in SoCal
belldanime pay attention he was talking about the beach town called CARMEL which is in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. He didn't say a damn thing about Caremel mountain.
There are plenty of places with a beach all over California called Carmel something or another. I apologize, I didn't realize this is so dear to your heart.
#1 name ALL the other places in California named Carmel and their location.
#2 You don't realize a lot of things.
#3 I accept your apology. I know it was heartfelt and sincere. LOL
it's not that it's near/dear, it's just wrong. Carmel is NorCal, right by Monterey.
I’m from LA and honestly if you told me you were from LA I’d never think twice about it 😂 I think the difference is pretty subtle.
Maybe. But we tend to be nasal, like the Simpsons voices. My sister and daughter sound like Lisa Simpson. My Mom has a different nasal sound. But, at least with my family, we have distinctive voices and mannerisms. We're actually kinda unique that way. You heard my voice. I wear it with honor.
Accents do change with time.
20 years ago, we had old fogies still drinking “melk” and fishing at the “crick” and munching on “ammons.”
I live in the South now.
Accurate… My aunts, uncles, and grandparents say “melk,” but only my grandparents say “ah-mun” and “crick.” 😂
People around Yuba still say ammond
That reminds me of my grandparents, they said ammens. They lived in Paradise for something like 50 years, but they weren't native Californians, they got married in "Calleradah" and my grandma grew up bouncing around the lower mid-west during the depression. I always assumed my dad's saying crick and warsh was from his parents' mid-west/Colorado influence. My dad and uncle have both lived in the state of "warshington" for many years. I grew up in Oregon, along I5, and I drank "melk", but once I grew up I started drinking soy milk instead of dairy "melk." I never noticed before now that I pronounce regular dairy "melk", but soy or almond is milk.
Only point I'd contest is the local pronunciation is more like Buh-nee-shuh.
Yes, and some Benicians will say "buh - ni - sha'. Heard that many times when I lived in Vallejo.
You forgot to end every question with HUH?
Huh (Agree)
I hate when people ask where I'm from and I have to say SF bc they don't know that SSF is a different city
I don't get it. You say NorCal speakers don't drop consonants, but then you say "Taos" and "towels" have the same pronunciation, meaning you drop the L.
I was born and raised in Chico and I cannot agree with the whole "our own twists" page. Sounds more like someone from Denver to me, lol
One I noticed growing up in NoCal was hell and hail sound quite similar.
The only thing I pronounce differently is "tour." I don't say "terr." I say "too-er." I'd like to know which state's accent I picked that up from! I grew up in six different states.
No worries, I am 6th and 7th gen N California and never.lived anywhere else... And I say it like you do- as does my entire extended family.
It's very typical for us to refer to the highways as simply the number and nothing else ("101," "280," "80").
That swallowing of consonants and rushed compression of words is definitely one of our distinct characteristics. For example, how us native San Franciscans tend to say something that sounds kinda like "Sehrincisco." It might make us sound mumbly to other people. I think it reflects our local character, which is both urban and laid-back. Nobody is better than us at somehow being fast yet relaxed at the same time.
Something that I also think sets us apart, ESPECIALLY from the East Coast, is that we tend to speak with a very "warm" tone and inflection. This reflects our local social culture of openness and a genuine desire to positively connect (unless you're a gentrifier destroying our community 🙃). When we meet people, we try to mesh our vibes, and that comes out in our speech patterns. In other words, we do the opposite of what East Coast people do, especially New Yorkers. Honestly, they come off as hella cold and selfish to us. Sorry, it's the truth. It makes us sad. 😢
AND PEOPLE HAVE VALLEY ACCENTS IN NOR CAL WE ALL HAVE IT 😂 it comes randomly
That is sooooooo true ..i would say totally but then I'd be accused of exaggeration ..but whatever
omigod! fer sure, like, y'know?
Ye the dudes usually dont but chicks definitely have it
Literally every region everywhere has an accent though. That's just how language works as it grows...
I am from Sacramento. I recently have had a Brit and an Aussie both tell me I have the strongest California accent they ever heard of. I didn't realize I have a distinguishable accent hahaha.
I've lived in northern Californian and when people say Californian accent they think valley girl and finally this is noticed! But I have the thing where for some words I drop consonants like "city" is "ciTy" because I overenunciate the T but "mountain" is "mountin"
My mind is blown! Best video on RUclips. I been wondering if we really do have an accent and he explained it perfectly!
Damn Danville. Only rich people can afford to live there lol 😂
I noticed that he kind of says something between San Fransiscoo and San Franciscuh. Maybe San Franciscah. It's definitely pronounced differently than someone from another part of the country that might say San Francisc"oh". The tongue just like stays in one place near the lower teeth rather than dropping a bit back in the throat to allow for the "oh" sound.
The "the" thing was something my grandparents in San Diego would do. Used to drive me crazy.
Living in Florida now. They like to call it "the Interstate."
Yeah, because they only have ONE! (I'm from Central Florida, so I know. I've have lived in NorCal [the Bay Area, which IS NorCal] all my adult life.)
This is a leftover from when the freeways had names. For example: "THE Arroyo Seco Freeway" became "THE 110". - Anna (from northerly situated Carmel). : )
You guys... He’s not wrong if his accent is a little different. You know how crazy this place is? I’ve got fricken bits and pieces of dialects and accents from literally everywhere. I’ve got friends who speak completely different from other friends and yet they’re also not different and also use expressions you wouldn’t think they would. My sister Kiley talks like a valley girl and my filipino friend speaks with a lot of chicano speak. Well we all sound pretty similar when we’re all hanging out together and having fun. And then we go home and it’s slightly different.
You forgot Monterey we say moner-ey. Funny part about your video was how i realized i speak a blend of both norcal and socal. I live in Salinas (Monterey county), though based on my accent and surroundings, i gotta say i do have a norcal/western accent. like your video though. I've always wondered what type of accent northern Californians had because i find it offensive that other states think we all speak with a southern California's surfer/beach bum accent. We don't. Matter of fact, socal and norcal and central-cal often feels like different states. 👍
I met an Iranian fellow whose English was excellent and he pointed out that I don’t say “water”, I say “wadder”, and he was right! A lot of pronunciation depends on what is easier and faster to say: pronouncing the “t” in “water” takes a bit more time and energy than softening the “t” to a “d”. Northern Californians only pronounce the “t” in “water” when they are emphasizing the word “water”.
Another example is the word “the”, which we pronounce “thuh” unless we are stressing the word, in which case we say “thee”. Example: “People used to call Ukraine ‘THEE Ukraine’, but that’s probably because people associate it with ‘THEE Crimea’ which is correct because it is short for ‘THUH Crimean Peninsula’”.
Forty Wadder. That’s my guy
Oh, and Carmel is NorCal bro, but that's kinda the border on the coast. Hell, even the Central Valley is practically our first cousin, considering damn near everyone moved out there starting in '97 (we know why)..kinda like how the Tri-Valley is MSJ West
I'm from Santa Rosa, CA. and never felt I had any accent until I went to TN and worked there for about 2 years. The Southerners thought I was from Minnesota. I do say my so's like them but don't know why. I definitely don't speak like a 'valley girl' which sounds very dumb. I use alot of the words the guy is talking about though and my voice inflections are very NorCal.
I certainly detect a slight western to southern twang in your speech tho. The way you say "time" sounds like "tai-me" and "right" sounds like "raght" I do detect it.
The part of California I grew up in had a lot of migration from the Dust Bowl, so we definitely have that twang. Not Texas twang, more like Oklahoma twang.
San Francisco native, and only half of this, at most, is true of me (or most anyone I know). No "I" before the number, no "ape" in apricot, it's definitely "car-a-mel" in SF proper (or, more the beginning "car" sound of that, but with the middle "a" sound skipped over or replaced with almost an aspiration... "care'mel" rather than "care-a-mel" or "carmal") , "tourist" is more "t'rist" than "terrist" (sort of the same, but "-er" sounds too drawn out), etc... The D/T thing is VERY true, as is the caught-cot merger. Slurring is definitely common... ex: "sehnf'encisco" instead of "San (pause) Francisco" (also, at least in SF specifically, there's a slightly not-quite-rhotic "r" with many people born before the '90s, at least when talking fast... I think it's more down to slurring, as is replacing certain sounds with an almost-aspiration, than its own thing). "G" (last "g" in "garage") and "sh" sounds are dragged out. Herb Caen actually wrote a very apt description of the SF accent in the '80s, at least when it comes to inflection and pronunciation (the slang is long gone, though... except the overuse of "yeah" for literally everything).
Further north, and it becomes a little more, er, stoner meets professor meets gay stereotype meets small traces of surfer/valley girl. A little nasal and raspy at the same time, if that makes sense (some of it exists in the Bay Area: SF and the North Bay tend to err on the raspy + stoner/professor side, East Bay and South Bay on the nasal and "gay"/Southern California side). I think the issue *in* the Bay Area is that there have been so many waves of transplants that any regional accent has become so fluid and varied, so it's tough to really pinpoint a "Bay Area accent" anymore - still, find anyone born and raised *in* SF prior to the '90s and the accent will be very different than any other Bay Area accent. It's also funny the Bay Area has adopted NorCal (there was a time, probably only about a decade ago, that abbreviation was scoffed at... but yeah, it's definitely Northern California, both geographically and culturally - but Carmel is the central coast, not SoCal... San Luis Obispo is sort of the divide there).
tl;dr, my bad. Interesting video.
That said, I never realized I say "melk" until right now. Hm.
Sounds like the Tech Industry has changed things in SF. It's a completely different town than what I remember from 20 years ago.
I agree with you totAlly...and I'm from south bay silicon valley...i think he is from way up north or central valley ...
yeah, i’m from the more central/northern part of the valley and this is 100% how i say everything, so when he said that the accent was specifically from sf locals i was lowkey like hmm
Central Valley is very distinct from S.F. and most Bay Area. Much of the Central Valley speaks with a twang. Due to the 40's Dust Bowl okie migration. I'm Hawaiian Filipino from Stockton and have a twang.
Used to .date a girl from Rex, Georgia in early 2000. She told me I had an accent. Naturally she had a Southern drawl. But, I never considered myself to.have one. I more associated it with the way I spoke, interms of words and emphases
I almost hear a hint of almost a southern accent. Are you originally from Sac or Davis?
I’m originally from the Concord area, and it used to freak me out when people on the radio called it Kon Kord. It’s Conquered damit! That always sounded hella weird. Another was when people called Benicia Ben I kya or Suisun some other weirdness. The worst was when people called The City Frisco. Old school Bay Area natives love the 9ers and hate the LA Traitor. We never forgave Al Davis for moving to La La Land.
Sometimes I hear a little of a southern accent when I talk. I grew up in San Rafael, just 20 miles or so north of San Francisco. The speech in the Bay Area is more drawn out (not clipped) but not valley girl talk (exaggerated).
Born and raised in San Francisco and spot on LoL 😂
NorCal gang unite
Yes! I moved away from Nor Cal as a kid and have been fielding questions about my “accent” since. I’ve gotten Southern accent, European accent (from a group of Mediterranean Europeans), and Midwestern accent. My theory is that in Nor Cal, we have influences from the Okies, Spaniards (NOT Latin Americans from Central America), folks who came over during the Gold Rush, Mormons fleeing West (Upstate New Yorkers, Midwesterners, and European emigrants), and some Asian influences. Also, you forgot to say “Ah-mun” instead of Almond… my grandma from Chico cannot say almond even when she tries. 😂 I also got teased mercilessly in college for saying “woof” instead of “wolf.” 😅 I have to try very, very hard to pronounce that “L.”
Yours is a very interesting comment! From which town are you? Why do think country people in Nor Cal speak different from city people?
I have recently moved out to New England from the Bay Area, I lived in the bay for all my life and most of the things you list in this video are very valid and true, like how we have the nicknames for all the surrounding towns/cities/counties. I also always refer to the highways as 101, or 880 etc without the in front of them. Hella is definitely a word of NorCal, and I honestly did not realize how much I said it until I moved to the East Coast. I also find that the fact that we tend to slur our words is Super accurate, and we tend to pull together our words (sanno-zay for example). Great video though! I did not realize how much of an accent us NorCalers have until I thought about it😂
Bay is in Socal
@@MrGuestYT no it's not..San Fran,etc. are part of NorCal
Yes. I am from NorCal and live in Michigan. I hear it all the time from people in Michigan same like I hear it in California. I seem to have a mix of both. I can hear it clearly in my father and step-mother. There really is an accent. I get sick of the accent jokes when I'm in a live stream with friends. The guy from Boston gets his balls busted the most. When my dad says, it's my daughter! I hear it too.
I was born in Northern Cali but currently live in Socal, and I have to agree, I pronounce words a lot differently than a lot of my friends.
I grew up in SoCal but lived in the East Bay for a good 8 years. We say freeway in SoCal, and up north no one thought that was weird. Plus I went to Cal, with an L at the end, not a w, and I never caught the w. I wonder where he grew up in NorCal.
Lol: as a world traveller, dual-citizen, and having lived in both NY and now, CA? I'm getting quite the education here.
Additionally, I find that the word "too" does not follow the d/t rule nor does "to" when the beginning of the next word is stressed.
Love the city names. I married a girl from Petaluma, though, and as far as I can tell, we always pronounced it "Pet-a-lu-ma" (with a voiceless t rather than the voiced d).
Commenting on this super old vid... but just observing how your Os are so different than I'm used to hearing, and I grew up in Sacramento.
well youre not really norcal then- youre like midcal? lol. norcal is more associated with the pacific northwest than it is the rest of cali. having a good day?
@shyferr Sacramento is north of SF
NorCal does the highway thing, too. I'm from Humboldt and we called it "the 101" and "the 5."
I believe there is no standard accent in the Bay Area because everybody is from different backgrounds, so the accents are merged, the way we say things vary from person to person. I feel pretty much everything on here is a 50/50 depending on who you ask.
The town of Carmel is not in Southern California. It's only 2-3 hours from San Francisco whereas LA is like 8 hours.
L.A. is 4 hours from San Jose with a quick driver
We grew up saying we were going to 'the city' which meant S.F.. I said 'um' and 'like' as fillers. I coined the phrase "Get Out" in my family when someone was trying to pull the wool over my eyes. I usually talked and enunciated my words pretty good, although, sometimes I'd get lazy. I find different dialects interesting. I especially like the Scottish accent and the Liverpool accent interesting. I can't stand the Southern accent though.
People from northern Central Valley pronounce Almonds “Ahmens”
Florida thought I was crazy saying 'aamons'. I asked how they would say 'saammon' (salmon).
Yes! When it falls off the tree it knocks the l out of it
Facts thats how i say it and in from placer lmao
I never realized that these words were supposed to sound any different... other then san Fransisco, where I'm at we say San Fran
Raypokemon sea where is that? I always thought san diegans say San Fran. I cringe when I hear that.
NorCal born and raised now in SoCal. Great video and presentation. I’ve been told NorCal doesn’t have a discernible accent, been told we do the “Keeng” for “King” thing but that’s about it. Proud of my NorCal accent, will hella recommend this video 👌🏻
I grew up in Houston, live in Austin, I pronounce everything the exact same way. I feel like this is just a general American accent, not specifically Nor Cal. The only weird ones are "terr" and stuff like "newdunn"
That's only because the rest of the country love to emulate us Californians...otherwise Texans really sound like hicks
Californians especially norcal has a weird combination of texas and surfer accent and its most likely because most norcal residents came from the dustbowl in the 1930s. We still have a piece of that accent left over
@@plugmanjohnson7456 This! People always think I’m from Texas/The South/The Midwest. 😂 Twang for days… but also surfer. We basically sound linguistically bipolar.
That's really useful, thanks buddy. Is there a good film to watch for the NorCal accent? You mentioned The Big Lebowski for SoCal . . .
Id suggest Sucker free city. It was directed by spike Lee. It was originally meant to be a pilot episode for the channel showtime but it fell thru unfortunately.
Lady Bird.
Zodiac
I hate when people think of NorCal they think of the bay are, I think of the redwoods forests, the best part of NorCal
from the bay & "melk" is highly looked down upon. it's mILk
jaden m HAHA I say melk and always get roasted on jt
I say melk lol and I’m bored and raised in SF
Recently moved to Southern California. Can confirm they just have the standard US accent. The ONLY time I notice a regional idiosyncrasy is with words like COMpost, CONcentrate, COMmon, dot COM, etc etc etc. For whatever reason, that one vowel sound is wildly different from how most people in the US would say it. Best way I can describe it is that it sounds like an exaggerated version of the "aw" in caught.
Huh
dude, im from the ESSJ, you nailed this video!
I’m a Bay Native...didn’t notice a distinct accent, because that all seems normal to me. It’s the people outside of the Bay that speak with weird accents. Lol!
Never hear anyone saying “crik” for “creek” no matter what age here in the SF Bay Area. My dad said “crik” because he was from the mid-west. Otherwise much of what is shared here is “ride-ahn.” 😂
I have a lot in common but a lot of differences with your accent I noticed. I distinguish cot and caught. I don’t say expresso but espresso. I say Vallejo the way you do however. When traveling I’ve been accused of sounding east coast albeit very it’s subtle. My family is 5 generations in the bay area.
How does one distinguish cot from caught? I'm originally from the Bay Area (Fremont) and I sound very similar to the narrator in the video. Especially the t's for d's
+Anderson Prime there are many things I say differently down the person in the video. I hear many people talk like him mainly when I head north to Santa Rosa for example. But I certainly say towel as two syllables and not like tao. Cot and caught are different. I also don’t say. NorCal. That sounds like surfer talk to me.
+Frank Taylor sorry for typos. I’m on my tiny little touch screen.
+Frank Taylor www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/San-Francisco-accent-California-speech-dialect-sf-12966260.php
I don't say NorCal either, I'd say Northern California. I don't understand the difference phonetically between cot and caught. How is caught supposed to sound? I definitely pronounce towel as "towl' instead of "tow-el"
The rest of the country outside of NorCal never says the word “Tao” and would never even think to include it on a list.
Whats the cut off line for Nor Cal and So Cal? I grew up in Siskiyou county and we split California in Nor Cal, Central and So Cal. We thought it was ridiculous that San Jose was considered Nor Cal
Stockton on down = Central. SOCAL is south of the Grapevine. NORCAL is basically everything north of Stockton. Siskiyou, Yreka, etc. are technically NORCAL but it starts looking like the "Free State of Jefferson" or even southern Oregon.
Funny. I never thought we talked differently. I don't know how one even pronounces any of these words differently. Can someone tell me how to say 'cot' and 'caught differently? Carmel is not in Socal ' It's Central Coast, which to me is still Bay Area NorCal.
Add an “awe,” like “awe… the baby’s so cute” to the middle. The jaw thrusts down and out, instead of just slightly up like a long vowel.
I'm a native bay arean (and 8th generation Californian) and I call crawdads crayfish. Also I don't say pee-cons I say pi-cahns. So there is some variation.
Oh, and Carmel is not in SoCal it's on the central coast.
Good video otherwise. :)
mike gonzo That's awesome! There aren't a lot of us. :D My great grandma spoke Spanish and her family was descended from the Californios from Mexico.
So cal starts in bakersfield on down , everything in between fresno and bakers is the central coast
I'm a first generation northern Californian and i have realized that I've always had to keep in mind that crawfish and crawdads are the same and many people don't know them as one or the other so i often times need to use both words for others to understand.
I want to hear a really thick accent though. You get bits of it in music sometimes, dude from the RBL Posse, Rose Melberg from Tiger Trap, but it's actually pretty hard to find good examples.
Im from NC but raised in Lancaster, ca and we used 9/10 of those you used. So-cal and nor-cal is vocabulary is pretty much the same. :)
I'm a Norcal transplant to AZ, one of my boyfriend's buddies loves to poke at my accent, for saying stuff like "shremp" for shrimp and "shrems" for shrooms.
The way you said “show” definitely sounds like my San Jose husband’ accent but other than that I can’t really tell you have any accent at all.
We often say Tal for towel, such as go get me a tal from the dryer. We also often say cheps for chips. and we say yer for year.
I can’t believe this man wrote a whole god damn google slides about this. Fair play dude
YEP!! SF born, and live in Sonoma county ur right!
Dude! My sisder and I, in Sacramenoe, are laffin r buts off. Love the commends.
When people say carmel I think of the desert topping. When people say it like care-uh-mel I automatically think of carmel by the sea
San Francisco,- "The Siddee." Lol! It's the same way in Northern Illinois (where I grew up,) when referring to Chicago. Not the same, here in Missouri though, where I have spent the last half of my life so far. People wouldn't know if you meant Kansas City or St. Louis (that's LEWIS, btw and NOT Lou-ee) SURE FIRE WAY to stand out as a tourist is getting that one wrong.
I definitely differ in more ways than one, but overall kinda sound the same. I do say tals for towels and it doesn't matter if I'm speaking fast or not tah-wuhl sounds hella weird.