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You were misinformed. "You" is singular in modern times; "Y'all" is plural. Texas notwithstanding (I was halfway to California before I hit Texas), "y'all" is most definitely plural.
I'm from Kansas. Some people say "y'all" when speaking to one person and they say "all y'all" when speaking to a group. Not everyone says that, of course. We also say "you guys" to our friends.
That's strange. "Y'all" was always plural here in Texas. Since it means "You all" it was always plural. (You/ya, y'all, all y'all, all of y'all, all y'all's, all of y'all's, etc.)
When you speed up the video, the voice patern is distorted. We love our accents unaltered. If Joel & Lia were at played at 1.5 speed, you would lose your wonderful British charm.
I'm a West Virginian and I call myself a hillbilly with pride. I was born in and continue to live in the hills. Due to the hilly terrain in West Virginia, there are many accents in the state. Before the wide use of motorized vehicles, many groups of people were isolated and developed destinct family and/or community accents.
I’m also from the Appalachian region and I find “hillbilly” to be offensive….because it’s meant to be. We’ve done a commendable job at embracing a derogatory term and making it positive, but the perception outside of Appalachia doesn’t seem to be complementary and I don’t feel good about accepting and/or validating degrading terminology.
@@chastitybrookslee3468 I'm a Hillbilly and I'll die a Hillbilly. Mountain Mama with very old roots and when I go I want put in the hills. I'll validate my giving two sh!ts if someone uses it as a derogatory term with my middle finger, Ya take the power back out of the word and tell the rest of the world to F right off. Then after the middle finger you continue on with cooth. I don't care if it's looked at as positive or negative, either way works for me because how other's see it means nothing to me.
It changes rapidly as you go from southern Kenton/Boone/Campbell counties (near Cincinnati) to Gallatin/Grant and Pendleton Counties just below those three. Somewhere in there i the line where people in this region go from saying "pop" to "Coke" as a generic name for a soft drink.
Same in Mississippi. I live on the coast and there’s def a noticeable difference from accents in central/north MS. I think it’s because we have such a French influence down here(like Mardi Gras). We definitely have a typical “southern” accent here but not nearly as bad as the rest of the state 😂 we don’t elongate our “i’s” like they do. And apparently the way we pronounce our “o’s” sounds British to other Mississippian’s. (like coke, soap, boat etc) 🤷🏼♀️ They make fun of us 😑🤣
Tucson = Too-Sawn. Also, there are very distinct accents in the northeast. You need to compare Connecticut, New York, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Massachusetts.
Don't forget Maine, and the metropolitan new York city area has a few different accents, Long Island, (has more than one, maybe as many as 3 accents,) Brooklyn and New Jersey are all different accents too
Joel, you're waving that pencil around like you got it at Ollivander's. The name hillbilly refers to anyone from the hills of the Appalachian mountains which covers most of eastern Kentucky. Maybe a while ago hillbilly had a negative connotation i.e. poor, illiterate, unsophisticated, but today it more refers to a Heritage and rich cultural identity that goes back many generations
@@louisbloom4568 really? People find it offensive over there? I’m from L.A. and thought it’s more ancient; like referring to southerners of a specific time (late 19th century-ish). Thanks for letting me know how it sounds to you guys’ ears. Possibly saved me from making an ass of myself one day.
@@scoville7707 I think that many people still associate ‘hillbilly’ with exactly what Joel described (without the hay that Lia added😛). I think to many people’s ears it is unusual. Much more unusual than the urban accents of the populated Northeast, which don’t have a negative connotation. I wish the would have run all the video clips at normal speed. Americans would likely be able to pick up differences that might be missed by Joel and Lia, including word usage.
@@NostalgiCrazy I can totally understand people saying it as it's spelled. There are a great many words that make me scratch my head. Lol Definitely are not as they are spelled. Lol.
My theory is were moving from England area, we all had a southern drawl (not the standard American accent. The reason I think this is because when you go in the backwoods area of any state, they always have the drawl and commonly use words from middle English
The earliest English colonists in the US would have spoken Early Modern English. Middle English would have been three centuries earlier; think Chaucer.
@@MichaelScheele sorry, I didn't feel like looking up the actual time line....people with a southern drawl use words that are different than the rest of the country uses For instance a mess is a portion of food....people in Apalachicola still use that term...it is probably where we get the term mess hall
I am a hillbilly from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. There's no shame in that. Don't fall for stereotypes. Hillbillies are as diverse as any group, some highly educated, some physically beautiful. Also, toothless people exist because of poverty and inability to afford dentistry. They still are usually hard-working, honest, and decent people. Their unfortunate circumstances does not make them lesser humans than the privileged.
You guys are hilarious! Connecticut is how it's spelled and the second 'c' is silent. You two do live in a country where you drop whole syllables, yeah? Like Leicester, Worchester, etc. LOL Also, Tucson is pronounced "Too-sahn". Another silent 'c'. :D
They cracked me up... Tucson.. Silly.. they don't have an accent since its a place where many people from ALL over move to... so we are a mish mash.. As for CT.. really no accent.. I worked HARD to get rid of mine.. its more like a NYC and Boston combined depending where you live in the state.. Cowfee.. Hot Dawg... But the People in England.. they all sound the same to us.. but to each other they have different accents in the country..
@@XCerykX I wish they would have played all the videos at normal speed. I think Americans might pick up subtle sound and word usage differences that Joel and Lia could miss. I don’t think the Arizona couple sounded just like the girl from Connecticut, at all. Differences exist across the country. There is a standard accent that is used for news by the national networks, of course. Ever heard a news anchor with a thick Texan accent on the CBS Evening News?
Have to inform you that the girl from WV isn't a typical accent for the entire state or even for Petersburg, WV....she sounds like she's more from the southern portion of the state, closer to a Kentucky accent. One thing you need to understand that no one accent defines each state, as the accents can vary from region to region and even from county to county. We don't typically take the "ing" off the end of our words....I've lived here all my life and I don't know anyone who consistently removes the "ing" off their words. FYI, to an Appalachian, the term "hillbilly" isn't a derogatory term....we take pride in being a hillbilly, which pretty much means being from the Appalachian mountains and having a mountain culture or way of life.
I live in Connecticut. We're kind of sandwiched between New York and Massachusetts with a side of Rhode Island haha. Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island all have accents but we don't really. The funny thing is we don't pronounce our "T's" much...if a "T" is in the middle of a word we tend to make it a "D" sound. Maybe that depends on what part of Connecticut you're from.
I would suspect you’re right. It depends on where you come from. People in Connecticut that live pretty close to New York City probably have more of a New York accent, in eastern Connecticut it might be more of a Boston accent, but in Hartford or other places, I haven’t really noticed one.
I grew up in Eastern Connecticut and you can notice a big difference in accents between us and Rhode Islanders. I’d say most on the eastern side don’t have an accent but the “D” sound could be a thing. 🤔
It’s so funny they thought the opposite about the CT accent. We don’t pronounce the middle of words. Especially the “t” and we smash words all together because we don’t have time to pronounce everything. So the CT girl was probably from outer space pretending to be from CT lol. 😂
The Irish that moved here were called Billies. The Irish that settled in the mountains in isolation were called Hill Billies. The girl from Kentucky indicated that hers was a hillbilly accent because Eastern Kentucky mountain accents are very different from the rest of Kentucky.
"Connecticut" and "Tucson" aren't pronounced the way they're spelled. This is similar to, say, "Edinburgh" and "Gloucester." This is pretty common in English. Does anyone pronounce "Wednesday" as it's spelled?
The way you pronounced Tucson reminded me of the time where I corrected my mom. She was pronouncing it the way you guys were and I told her how to pronounce it (it's pronounced "Too-sahn") and we went through it a couple of times til she pronounced it right, or close enough to pronouncing it right. As an Arizonan, some of us might have a mexican accent because of our parents.
@@SMATF5 I've actually never heard of AAVE-I had to look it up. This may sound bad, but I can't tell different regional differences between Black voices. I just thought the two differences were Northern and Southern
@@SJHFoto No, there are huge differences. I'm African American and can tell someone from Detroit, Baltimore, California, and New York easily. Lots of accent variation, but similar grammar and structure across the country.
@@MrJovon321 I'm African American as well, but I can't tell the difference in region by different "Black" voices. I can tell the difference between NY and California as standard voices, but not "Black" voices. I honestly would have no idea what someone from Detroit or Baltimore would sound like though. Hmm, I wonder, Mr Jovon, can you tell where I am from from my voice (watch one of my videos where I am talking)?
@@SJHFoto I'll say, it's difficult for me to put the defining features of Detroit into words, but something I've noticed is how much more rhotic their accents may be vs other African American accents, and also that most differentiate between cot/caught. Baltimore is easy, they have a weird way of saying words like 'couch' (that ow sound) and 'you' (the 'oo' sound in many words). People from Norcal & Socal often have distinct vowel shifts in words like dark, park, car. It's a darker, heavier vowel that sounds more dork, pork, core. People like Snoop and Nipsey Hussle sound distinctly Black Californian, Jess Hilarious has the Black Baltimore sound. I'll take a look at your vids.
9/10 times this really means *AAVE or African American English. African Americans and other ethnic groups in the country have distinct ways of sounding. I feel like in the suburbs across the country you'll be more likely to find flatter, more general American English. Or the young people, especially the girls, will have that pseudo-valley 'like, oh my god' thing going on in the suburbs.
Hillbilly isn't derogatory if it's coming from someone in Appalachia (southern Appalachians typically say Appalachia) -- I'm proud to be a hillbilly from southern WV and I own my accent and my hillbilly ancestors.
Having family in the south but being born in California I can tell you this If you go below the mason Dixon line ( between South Carolina and Louisiana) you hear people who talk like they’re sleeping on they tongue ruclips.net/video/EzkCOnq4kLU/видео.html
I'm in North Florida and its about the same as southern Georgia/Alabama. If you go further south you'll start hearing people talk with out accents or northern accents.
I'm from Arizona and I think we have a standard American accent for the most part. I live in the southwest corner of the state bordering California so our accent has a mixture of SoCal slang and pronunciations. Some people have a Mexican accent as well.
Did you guys realize that the southern accent is actually a British accent. Watch a video on RUclips on how the southern accent is broken down sped up and slowed down and it’s the British accent.
I can't remember which US Southern accent it was, but I watched a video by a linguist who said "X" accent in the US had a 80-90% similarity to the British West Country accent. Maybe one of the Texan ones?
@@losonamission kind of. But pretty much the same roots. Black southern accent has roots in the white southern accent. The person I watched was actually black and she used her accent as an example.
@@losonamission the southern black accent and white southern accent is similar. Of course they have major differences but They both have roots in British accent.
Off the top of my head, here are some other distinctive accents in the USA: 1) Upper Midwest around Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and Michigan. These are the ones that are most nasal. 2) High Tide accent of the Outer Banks of North Carolina 3) Cuban-Americans of South Florida 4) Greater Chicago. There's also a good amount of variety among Southern accents between those with drawls and those with twangs. The "hillbillies", as that one young lady describes herself, are more likely to speak with a twang. Both accents with twangs and drawls are delightful to listen to.
For Arizona accent I’d say refer to John Wayne he’s the closest to it that I can think of unless someone else knows a better reference. You’re not gonna find it as much in Tucson or Phoenix due to them having so much out of state traffic. You’ll find it more on the outskirts and in the smaller towns.
West Virginia and Kentucky accents have a twang - not a drawl. Drawl is another type of southern accent. But, I loved listening to them. The people from Connecticut and Arizona weren't the best choices to represent those regions. Listen to a true Minnesota accent for a real treat.
As people are pointing out the plural for "you" depends on your region, "yinz" in Pittsburg, "y'all" in the south, "you guys" in much of the USA, "youse guys" in some places. Places in the south that use "y'all" for the singular use "all y'all" for the plural.
As an Indian... I would pronounce Tucson AS IT IS --- TUK-SON We don't have an Accent... whatever are the Letters ,we Just Jog over it. Connect-tea-cut... Minn-eh-sota AS IT IS. lol WE basically follow British accent ,The Posh London Accent , where they don't eat Letters.
How can you play people at 1.5x and expect to hear their accent? Honestly guys, that's a stupid move. I wouldn't expect that from you. Connecticut is very close to NYC.
Have you seen the video: accent expert gives a tour of u.s. accents I think you guys will love it. This is a quick and fun video to review most north American accents. They also cover African, latinx, and native American accents around the continent. As well as a few from the UK 😁
i suggested that one a long time ago. Great video. My guess is it's too long and academic for them. Like notice in this video Joel and Lia can't really let the video run w/o jumping forward. So i wonder if the Eric Singer vids might just be too involved for them. i'm guessing they'd just ffw the whole time. But it's a great video.
West Virginia accent is actually part of the Appalachian Language accent group that is similar to the southern accent but different as the sounds in certain vowels is much longer and words might drop sounds all together and have extra syllables added like hunting becomes a-huntin Connecticut is part of the Boston/ nyc accent line with the whole park your car in Harvard yard debate as it sounds so different between the two areas. Also it forms the caught/ cot merger as they sound exactly the same in some places but not others. Arizona is heavily Native American with it sounding slightly higher towards the end also Spanish is common that is derived from Mexico bringing a L sound that’s less pronounced but is there. Watch the wired three part series on US accents as it covers most of the accents you will hear in America and Canada. There are accents you really need to know about and how they actually work. There are UK based accents here that became something slightly different. The Newfoundland accent is based primarily on the accent from county Wexford in Ireland. The Gullah accent is a evolved form of many African languages and English merging together into a unique language used by the African Americans of the Gullah islands from the Carolinas to Florida. True English accents died out except for places in Pennsylvania and some areas in Boston. The Amish use a English style accent in regular English speaking but default to their Amish language based on old German when not speaking English though if they leave the Amish altogether they tend to pick up whatever accent where they end up settling down in.
You have to remember that each state has a lot of different accents. So not everyone sounds the same. There are people in the same town that I can't believe their families are really from here because of their horrible accents. The girl from Kentucky, though she seems very sweet fits in that category for me. We do not all have that accent.
West Virginia and Kentucky border one another and are part of the Appalachian region hence the similarity in accent. I live in Louisville Kentucky on the other side of the state and our accent is not as pronounced. I think each southern state has it's own accent. And the east coast cities have differences too-Charleston, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphai, NY, Boston are all a bit different.
About hiding your West Virginia accent I can relate due to my family moving to California when I was a kid. Especially my older sisters (teenagers) were strongly motivated to drop their WV accents ASAP to blend in with the other teens. It would be like a Newfie moving to BC, or a Geordie moving to Kent. That WV girl sounds just like my family back home!
Nutmegger (A person from Connecticut) here. You nailed it: Connecticut doesn’t have a distinct accent. Our State’s name is an anglicized spelling of a Native American word, and the pronunciation excludes the c in the middle.
I’m American, from Utah. I just looked at a map, and Kentucky and West Virginia are right next to each other. That’s probably why we all agree the accents from those states sound so much the same.
Speeding up their speech hides some of the subtleties that I would listen for for geographic clues. To me they just sounded sped up, not "normal American". (Mid-Westerner here)
I have lived in Texas my whole life and generally feel like I have the average American accent, but whenever I travel I suddenly notice more of a drawl in my voice. I definitely would add Midwestern in as an accent to check out. My extended family all live up north and I love their accents!
I am in Chicago, and that is the first time I have ever heard “granddaddy long legs”! We say “daddy long legs” just like in England. My first thought when I heard that was terror! I feel like all bugs are bigger in the Southern US than the North, so now I am wondering if a granddaddy long legs is like an absolutely enormous daddy long legs. Oh my God-so gross!
The Connecticut and Arizona accents -- and it's pronounced Too-Sahn, not Tuck-sun -- are generic American accents. As we mix more, accents are going away. Northerners are moving to the south and the southern accent is disappearing. One way of determining where people are from is what they call certain things. In some parts of the country, any soft drink is called a Coke, elsewhere it is Soda, or Soda Pop, or just a Pop. My late in-laws were from Kansas where the stream of water I called a creek was a crick. Bedcoverings were counterpanes and a commode was a chest of drawers usually kept near the entry to the home. In my part of the county -- Oregon -- a commode is a toilet.
The fact that they found the people from Tucson to be extremely slow speakers really goes along with the stereotypes about people from Tucson 😂 it's a slower paced life down there compared to Phoenix
The term hillbilly depends on where you're coming from as to what you think of the term. Where my step-dad is from it mostly just means a more down-to-earth person. Who they are in private is who they are in public. They don't change just because of how someone else thinks of them and they're proud to be that way.
I think accents can generally be divided by a few things 1. Region: obviously different accents developed in different parts of the country due to distinct ethnic influences over time and in isolation until the mid 20th century began a process of cultural assimilation 2. Race: White, Black and Native Americans generally have different accents due to history of segregation and reservations systems, but they generally speak English natively, so these are existing accents of English. 3. Immigration distance: The children or grandchildren of immigrants are likely to have influence from their foreign-born ancestors who do not speak English natively. In the 21st century, we see this with mostly Latino Americans and Asian Americans, who are largely the 1st/2nd generation born in the US. Speech patterns are affected by the home language either via bilingual cross-influence, or even the American child picking up the non-native English their family speaks to them (this can be observed commonly with Filipino and Indian Americans who often understand but don't speak their parents' language)
Way back when I was 27 years old, my friend and I both from the New York metropolitan area were in London, it was a Saturday night and of course as young guys we were high on some weed and looking for Piccadilly circus. Stopped in traffic, a biker was next to us, so we asked him how to get to Piccadilly circus, I guess he was talking to us in a heavy Cockney accent that was barely understandable, we were hysterical! I've come across this with people from England a number of times, traveling through America many times I have never come across an American that I could not understand if they spoke English, even if it was broken English or a heavy accent from the region where they lived.
I'm from central New York State, where there is a district accent. I've done a little research and it comes down to switching vowels when we speak. We generally do not pronounce t's, as in mountain. I believe the accent comes from northern British, and Irish immigrants. Also, it is the only place that I know of where the word elementary is pronounced elli-men-terry, and not elli-men-tree. Love your channel!
I'm a clevelander with Hillbilly parents. Someone told me my accent was very deep. I replied - i have an accent? Really? 😁 I honestly didn't think i did - guess i was wrong
The Southern / Appalachian "i / ah" sound is distinctive enough, but you should hear how we say "oi" (as in "oil" and "boil"). Thats a vowel sound that I'm pretty sure only exists in certain Scandinavian languages.
@@jrooksable We don't have a real accent in California because most media and movie production for the nation uses a Californian accent, so it's exported everywhere. We have the least amount of dropped consonants and we pronounce our R's - they are in words for a reason. Lol
From Kentucky not shy at all LOL. Funny story my husband is from England. My father-in-law and I had a long conversation about me saying right there. As in the pencil is right there. He says just there. This was like a 45 minute conversation one night
My mom is from West Virginia. When she first moved to Ohio she had a hard time finding a job because of her accent. She had to work hard at hiding it/getting rid of it so she could get a job 😔
I'm from Central West Virginia, of course there are different WV accents, people from the northern panhandle don't sound WV to me, the Charleston area is more cosmopolitan with many outsiders and you'll hear people without WV accents, then in the "real West Virginia", the isolated mountains, you'll hear very strong WV accents.
@@RichardDCook I was born in Mercer, spent my summers as a kid in McDowell with my mom's family. We all ended up moving to Virginia, and you can definitely hear the difference 😂 Panhandle I think has more of a NOVA/DC accent
I know why the first person hid her West Virginia background. My mother is from West Virginia(WV), and I know it well. The state is considered backward, and the people are considered ignorant, lazy, and tribal. People outside the Applachian region thought my mother had a generic Southern accent. But people in the Appalachian region, Pennysylvania(PA), Maryland, Ohio, and Virginia, knew she was from West Virginia and instantly attached all of the bigoted beliefs about WV to her. The woman who was interviewed moved to PA to start a career, and I imagine she switched to a Pennysylvania accent which she would have been able to reproduce easily. Using a PA accent would avoid the inevitable "Where are you from?" question that another American accent would attract, and she could say she was from Pittsburg if anyone caught the WV accent. My mother didn't care and never hid her heritage, but her sister and brother moved to Ohio and Virginia, and they did alter their accents. (This is all my opinion, but I am from Ohio and Michigan and live in Seattle. I hear the putdowns and bigoted statements about West Virginia and West Virginians all of the time, still.)
Born in Boston, moved to California 5yrs ago at age 57...my accent sticks out like a sore thumb...some thinks it's a NY accent! You can take the girl out of Boston, but you can't take the Boston out of the girl 😊☮💜
I’m a native born speaker from Arizona. The accent here varies a lot, as we have a lot of tourism (think Grand Canyon). The city folks speak more a bit more like Southern California, while the rural areas are more like Texas. A lot of our words have influence from many cultures, including Mexico and the local Native American tribes. No, it’s not pronounced as Tux-San, but too-sahn. Do you know how to say “saguaro”, as in the cactus? Maybe try saying coyote?
Hillbilly refers to the people who originally came from Scotland and Ireland and settled in the mountains of the Southeastern US, Kentucky, etc. They also moved to parts of the Midwest. They also have traditional music from the UK and Ireland in their traditions.
There was a McDonald's commercial a few years back where they had people read a script in different New England accents. Famously, it ends with them asking a woman to read it in a Connecticut accent, and she says "What's Connecticut?" because we have no accent (I'm from Connecticut, and no we don't pronounce the second C), lol. Here's a video of the ad: ruclips.net/video/tQSx3OAzvb0/видео.html&ab_channel=truebnb
Accents from the southern Appalachian mountains tend to differ from southern accents closer to cities. I think the Kentucky girl's reference to a "hillbilly accent" was a reference to this fact. There was lots of Scots-Irish settlement in the Appalachians, so the rhoticity there tends to be stronger than the city areas that may have had more English immigration and continued interaction with England after independence.
Nobody ever guesses my accent correctly. I was born in Alabama, I now live in Arizona, and have lived in Nebraska, Louisiana, California, and the UK. Most of the time, when someone is trying to guess where I'm from based on my accent, they guess Connecticut. My natural accent is neutral. I speak nine different languages and have been told that I don't sound American in any of them. I also do convincing RP, Glaswegian, Yorkshire, Cockney, and Southern Welsh accents.
I would love for you to hear my Husband talk is accent is so thick Appalachian you would have trouble understanding him. We grew up about 45 miles apart and he had way more draw
I don't blame the girl from WV hiding her accent. Alot of people hear any southern accent, especially Appalachian ones, and they look down on the speaker. There's a stigma to it if you go somewhere else. I live in Eastern Kentucky, we carry a mix of the "Kentucky" accent that people think of and that Appalachian accent. When I travel I try to hide it unless I'm going south. In the low country area of Georgia and South Carolina they love my accent.
Im 67 yrs old born and raised in West Virginia. We wear the name,' Hillbilly' with pride amunst ourselves, however, I would not advise an 'outsider' use that term.
The term HILLBILLY......Starting in about 1740-1745 Northern Ireland Protestants began emigrating en masse to the Colonies. The coastal areas had already been settled heavily by the English and others. So these "Scots-Irish", as we call them here in the States (better known in the U.K. as Ulster Scots) settled further inland, mainly in the Appalachian Mountains area. Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee etc. all the way down the mountain chain. Being Ulster Scots and Protestant, they were largely supporters of Protestant King William of Orange (often referred to in Britain as "King Billy") back in the old country. Back in those days, these people would be referred to in some circles as "Billy Boys". The fact that they settled in the hills and mountains of Appalachia led to them being referred to as "Hill Billies" by many on this side of the pond. There's much more to the story and these people have a very interesting history and culture over here but in the interest of not writing a novel here in the comments section I will end it here. Hope this helps.
Fun video. I'm from Connecticut (which yes, is spelled correctly with a silent C 🤣), and you're pretty much correct that we have nearly nothing distinct about our accent. If anything, I'd say we're just inconsistent with how we pronounce our T's. Sometimes they're T's, sometimes they're D's, and sometimes they're glottal stops. Funny enough, we don't pronounce either of the T's as T's in "Connecticut." That's about as exciting as it gets.
I love your accent videos, they're so interesting! Part of what I think makes the development of American accents so different is there are so many factors in their creation. There are so many influences in our history! Where immigrants from other places settled, what native sounds/words they borrowed from their "home" languages, and how groups interacted and melded together over time all play into it. My mom grew up northern Missouri (with ancestry from Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and further back ancestry from Germany and Ireland) -- she basically has the "mostly flat, you can't tell where she's from except for a few words" thing. My Dad's ancestry is from southern Missouri (with ancestry from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, and further back ancestry from England and Scotland) -- He and most of his family speak with the thicker more typical southern accent closer to in the videos you saw. Being a child of these two vastly different upbringings, I myself can go back and forth between the two!
Sugar, y’all said it right the first time!😉. We don’t pronounce the “c”, so it is “Conneticut”. To us, the only time the phrase, “hillbilly” is used w/o any negative connotation is when it’s used by other hillbillies.
The girl from West Virginia has no reason to be ashamed of her accent. Plus, as a Marylander, she pronounces the name of the state exactly the way you're supposed to. ☺ Also, Baltimore has no t in it... lol.
Us Nutmeggers pronounce it more like Connedi-kit. Connecticut comes from a Native American term. Our T's sounds more like D's. Tongue goes to the roof of our mouth instead of the teeth.
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Y’all should react to the Baltimore or Philly accents
Y'all is a word I would avoid until I needed a term to address a group of people who have non-binary people in the group.
Tucson is pronounced two son ! The "c" is silent! Should get someone from the Range here in Minnesota to speak!
The inventor Steve Wilhite created the gif file in 1987 and he said the correct pronunciation is. JIF
Watch MUA Mikayla Nogueira on TikTok for a nice thick Boston accent.
Brits: "Connecticut" is spelled wrong!
Also Brits: It's spelled "Worcestershire" but it's pronounced "Banana"
This Texas girl has always been told “y’all” is singular and “all Y’all” is plural. It’s kind of an inside joke.
You were misinformed. "You" is singular in modern times; "Y'all" is plural. Texas notwithstanding (I was halfway to California before I hit Texas), "y'all" is most definitely plural.
I'm from Kansas. Some people say "y'all" when speaking to one person and they say "all y'all" when speaking to a group. Not everyone says that, of course. We also say "you guys" to our friends.
That's strange. "Y'all" was always plural here in Texas. Since it means "You all" it was always plural. (You/ya, y'all, all y'all, all of y'all, all y'all's, all of y'all's, etc.)
@@thegreatalyssa You contradict yourself. It was never plural, but it was always plural.
@@louisbloom4568 Thanks for the catch. I was too busy when typing it, LOLOL.
When you speed up the video, the voice patern is distorted. We love our accents unaltered. If Joel & Lia were at played at 1.5 speed, you would lose your wonderful British charm.
Absolutely!
Yes, don't speed up we want the full effect or what's the point righto? Lol no shade love u guys
Agreed. I think the pace of speech is as much of a regional accent as anything else.
Yeah you can't pick up the subtleties at full speed. That being said, I was most of RUclips (J&L included) at 1.75x speed. It's a lot haha!
Good lord you guys are so catty. You two have to see any way to make fun of people or ridicule for the sake of being catty.
I'm a West Virginian and I call myself a hillbilly with pride. I was born in and continue to live in the hills. Due to the hilly terrain in West Virginia, there are many accents in the state. Before the wide use of motorized vehicles, many groups of people were isolated and developed destinct family and/or community accents.
Totes, I just posted how mine varies from hers, lol.
I’m also from the Appalachian region and I find “hillbilly” to be offensive….because it’s meant to be. We’ve done a commendable job at embracing a derogatory term and making it positive, but the perception outside of Appalachia doesn’t seem to be complementary and I don’t feel good about accepting and/or validating degrading terminology.
@@chastitybrookslee3468 I'm a Hillbilly and I'll die a Hillbilly. Mountain Mama with very old roots and when I go I want put in the hills. I'll validate my giving two sh!ts if someone uses it as a derogatory term with my middle finger, Ya take the power back out of the word and tell the rest of the world to F right off. Then after the middle finger you continue on with cooth. I don't care if it's looked at as positive or negative, either way works for me because how other's see it means nothing to me.
I live in Northern Kentucky and there is almost a literal line where accent begins to twang towards the Southern drawl...
It changes rapidly as you go from southern Kenton/Boone/Campbell counties (near Cincinnati) to Gallatin/Grant and Pendleton Counties just below those three. Somewhere in there i the line where people in this region go from saying "pop" to "Coke" as a generic name for a soft drink.
Seems to do about the same in WV.
Same in Mississippi. I live on the coast and there’s def a noticeable difference from accents in central/north MS. I think it’s because we have such a French influence down here(like Mardi Gras). We definitely have a typical “southern” accent here but not nearly as bad as the rest of the state 😂 we don’t elongate our “i’s” like they do. And apparently the way we pronounce our “o’s” sounds British to other Mississippian’s. (like coke, soap, boat etc) 🤷🏼♀️ They make fun of us 😑🤣
@@TheAirwky AYO REPRESENT
Tucson = Too-Sawn. Also, there are very distinct accents in the northeast. You need to compare Connecticut, New York, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, Massachusetts.
Don't forget Maine, and the metropolitan new York city area has a few different accents, Long Island, (has more than one, maybe as many as 3 accents,) Brooklyn and New Jersey are all different accents too
And New Hampshire!
At first I didn't know where they were talking about. "Tucksin". 😂
Don't forget Rhode Island!
Ahah when he said Tuck Son I was like 😮 “Nooo Joel” Aha love them though
It would be great if you heard a French Cajun talk. You would be mystified.
I second that! They need to do a reaction video with just Louisiana Cajun.
Totally agree! There are elements of French, Southern, and Northeast all blended into one…
As are the French.
@@maryannebrown2385 THAT would RULE, as it's where I'm from!
One of my friends was from "Lousyana" and his mom had this very raw Cajun and it's different from a "standard" southern accent!
Joel, you're waving that pencil around like you got it at Ollivander's.
The name hillbilly refers to anyone from the hills of the Appalachian mountains which covers most of eastern Kentucky. Maybe a while ago hillbilly had a negative connotation i.e. poor, illiterate, unsophisticated, but today it more refers to a Heritage and rich cultural identity that goes back many generations
Im from america and i didnt even know that!
100% agree with Dave’s description. That word has recently gone through some changes with the turning of generations
No, it still is pejoritive. Native of South Carolina here.
@@louisbloom4568 really? People find it offensive over there? I’m from L.A. and thought it’s more ancient; like referring to southerners of a specific time (late 19th century-ish). Thanks for letting me know how it sounds to you guys’ ears. Possibly saved me from making an ass of myself one day.
@@scoville7707 I think that many people still associate ‘hillbilly’ with exactly what Joel described (without the hay that Lia added😛). I think to many people’s ears it is unusual. Much more unusual than the urban accents of the populated Northeast, which don’t have a negative connotation.
I wish the would have run all the video clips at normal speed. Americans would likely be able to pick up differences that might be missed by Joel and Lia, including word usage.
The way you guys say “Maryland” lol so cute! 😂
Ikr, lol. I've never heard anyone in the states Cally it that. Lol
@@Lexielouwho Idk why we don't say it that way when it's how it's spelled lol.
@@NostalgiCrazy I can totally understand people saying it as it's spelled. There are a great many words that make me scratch my head. Lol Definitely are not as they are spelled. Lol.
@@NostalgiCrazy regardless of what ever English you speak, English is just a weird language
@@NicholasJH96 True that lol. No wonder non English speakers have such a hard time!
My theory is were moving from England area, we all had a southern drawl (not the standard American accent.
The reason I think this is because when you go in the backwoods area of any state, they always have the drawl and commonly use words from middle English
The earliest English colonists in the US would have spoken Early Modern English. Middle English would have been three centuries earlier; think Chaucer.
@@MichaelScheele sorry, I didn't feel like looking up the actual time line....people with a southern drawl use words that are different than the rest of the country uses
For instance a mess is a portion of food....people in Apalachicola still use that term...it is probably where we get the term mess hall
West Virginia and Kentucky are part of Appalachia.
Not all of Kentucky is in Appalachia. But West Virginia is the only US state entirely in the Appalachian mountains!
I am a hillbilly from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. There's no shame in that. Don't fall for stereotypes. Hillbillies are as diverse as any group, some highly educated, some physically beautiful. Also, toothless people exist because of poverty and inability to afford dentistry. They still are usually hard-working, honest, and decent people. Their unfortunate circumstances does not make them lesser humans than the privileged.
You guys are hilarious! Connecticut is how it's spelled and the second 'c' is silent. You two do live in a country where you drop whole syllables, yeah? Like Leicester, Worchester, etc. LOL
Also, Tucson is pronounced "Too-sahn". Another silent 'c'. :D
They cracked me up... Tucson.. Silly.. they don't have an accent since its a place where many people from ALL over move to... so we are a mish mash.. As for CT.. really no accent.. I worked HARD to get rid of mine.. its more like a NYC and Boston combined depending where you live in the state.. Cowfee.. Hot Dawg... But the People in England.. they all sound the same to us.. but to each other they have different accents in the country..
Some of them drop letters and add entirely unrelated ones. Like the whole Anna Banana turning into Anner Bananer thing.
@@XCerykX I wish they would have played all the videos at normal speed. I think Americans might pick up subtle sound and word usage differences that Joel and Lia could miss. I don’t think the Arizona couple sounded just like the girl from Connecticut, at all. Differences exist across the country. There is a standard accent that is used for news by the national networks, of course. Ever heard a news anchor with a thick Texan accent on the CBS Evening News?
>Leicester, Worchester
Also New England town names!!!!!!
As an Indian..I wouldd pronounce Tucson AS IT IS.......TUK-SON
BAAM!!!
Have to inform you that the girl from WV isn't a typical accent for the entire state or even for Petersburg, WV....she sounds like she's more from the southern portion of the state, closer to a Kentucky accent. One thing you need to understand that no one accent defines each state, as the accents can vary from region to region and even from county to county. We don't typically take the "ing" off the end of our words....I've lived here all my life and I don't know anyone who consistently removes the "ing" off their words. FYI, to an Appalachian, the term "hillbilly" isn't a derogatory term....we take pride in being a hillbilly, which pretty much means being from the Appalachian mountains and having a mountain culture or way of life.
"Sweet girl..." I'm gonna use that to get out boring explanations. Lol
Hillbilly's have taken that appellation to heart & use it with pride!
I live in Connecticut. We're kind of sandwiched between New York and Massachusetts with a side of Rhode Island haha. Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island all have accents but we don't really. The funny thing is we don't pronounce our "T's" much...if a "T" is in the middle of a word we tend to make it a "D" sound. Maybe that depends on what part of Connecticut you're from.
I would suspect you’re right. It depends on where you come from. People in Connecticut that live pretty close to New York City probably have more of a New York accent, in eastern Connecticut it might be more of a Boston accent, but in Hartford or other places, I haven’t really noticed one.
I grew up in Eastern Connecticut and you can notice a big difference in accents between us and Rhode Islanders. I’d say most on the eastern side don’t have an accent but the “D” sound could be a thing. 🤔
Everyone accents you don’t hear your own
I laughed when they said Connecticut people must say their T’s, not saying them is the only thing I know to be typical of the Connecticut accent!
It’s so funny they thought the opposite about the CT accent. We don’t pronounce the middle of words. Especially the “t” and we smash words all together because we don’t have time to pronounce everything. So the CT girl was probably from outer space pretending to be from CT lol. 😂
I'm literally laughing out loud at the "granddaddy longlegs" reaction. I'm in North Carolina and yep - it's the same here. I love you guys!
I’m from Washington State and we just call them Daddy long legs. So it made me laugh too 😅 I’ve never heard Grand Daddy aha
The Irish that moved here were called Billies. The Irish that settled in the mountains in isolation were called Hill Billies. The girl from Kentucky indicated that hers was a hillbilly accent because Eastern Kentucky mountain accents are very different from the rest of Kentucky.
Refers to the Scots -Irish
Who were supporters of William of orange
Hence hillbilly
"Connecticut" and "Tucson" aren't pronounced the way they're spelled. This is similar to, say, "Edinburgh" and "Gloucester." This is pretty common in English. Does anyone pronounce "Wednesday" as it's spelled?
The way you pronounced Tucson reminded me of the time where I corrected my mom. She was pronouncing it the way you guys were and I told her how to pronounce it (it's pronounced "Too-sahn") and we went through it a couple of times til she pronounced it right, or close enough to pronouncing it right. As an Arizonan, some of us might have a mexican accent because of our parents.
Pati Jinich is especially adorable when she says 'Tuk-son' - but she's especially adorable all the time!
I've said this before, to hear different accents, you should hear a Black American speak. Many have a VERY different accent as well as way of talking
Definitely. And even within AAVE, there are some really interesting regional differences and overlaps with other accents.
@@SMATF5 I've actually never heard of AAVE-I had to look it up. This may sound bad, but I can't tell different regional differences between Black voices. I just thought the two differences were Northern and Southern
@@SJHFoto No, there are huge differences. I'm African American and can tell someone from Detroit, Baltimore, California, and New York easily. Lots of accent variation, but similar grammar and structure across the country.
@@MrJovon321 I'm African American as well, but I can't tell the difference in region by different "Black" voices. I can tell the difference between NY and California as standard voices, but not "Black" voices. I honestly would have no idea what someone from Detroit or Baltimore would sound like though. Hmm, I wonder, Mr Jovon, can you tell where I am from from my voice (watch one of my videos where I am talking)?
@@SJHFoto I'll say, it's difficult for me to put the defining features of Detroit into words, but something I've noticed is how much more rhotic their accents may be vs other African American accents, and also that most differentiate between cot/caught. Baltimore is easy, they have a weird way of saying words like 'couch' (that ow sound) and 'you' (the 'oo' sound in many words). People from Norcal & Socal often have distinct vowel shifts in words like dark, park, car. It's a darker, heavier vowel that sounds more dork, pork, core. People like Snoop and Nipsey Hussle sound distinctly Black Californian, Jess Hilarious has the Black Baltimore sound. I'll take a look at your vids.
They need to do American hood accents 🤣, they sound different than the regular ones.
9/10 times this really means *AAVE or African American English. African Americans and other ethnic groups in the country have distinct ways of sounding. I feel like in the suburbs across the country you'll be more likely to find flatter, more general American English. Or the young people, especially the girls, will have that pseudo-valley 'like, oh my god' thing going on in the suburbs.
Hillbilly isn't derogatory if it's coming from someone in Appalachia (southern Appalachians typically say Appalachia) -- I'm proud to be a hillbilly from southern WV and I own my accent and my hillbilly ancestors.
Pardon me, Appalatcha as opposed to Appalaytia
for those challenged by "Appalachia" it's apple-latch-uh.
From Nelson County in Virginia here. The accent here is called the Appalachian accent but we have just always called it the mountain twang😂
Southern accents are always the most interesting to me! Would love to hear a comparison of other southern accents!
Having family in the south but being born in California I can tell you this
If you go below the mason Dixon line ( between South Carolina and Louisiana) you hear people who talk like they’re sleeping on they tongue ruclips.net/video/EzkCOnq4kLU/видео.html
I’m southern… I don’t hear a difference in our accent and northern accents
@@faiththomas1749 The Mason Dixon-Line is Md-Pa border, you must not have been to maryland and virginia
I'm in North Florida and its about the same as southern Georgia/Alabama. If you go further south you'll start hearing people talk with out accents or northern accents.
@@lk7195 that's because the majority of FL is flooded with Northern "transplants" 🤣🤣
I'm from Arizona and I think we have a standard American accent for the most part. I live in the southwest corner of the state bordering California so our accent has a mixture of SoCal slang and pronunciations. Some people have a Mexican accent as well.
Did you guys realize that the southern accent is actually a British accent. Watch a video on RUclips on how the southern accent is broken down sped up and slowed down and it’s the British accent.
The white southern accent it is the British accent. So you are right, but the black southern Accent is different.
I can't remember which US Southern accent it was, but I watched a video by a linguist who said "X" accent in the US had a 80-90% similarity to the British West Country accent. Maybe one of the Texan ones?
@@losonamission kind of. But pretty much the same roots. Black southern accent has roots in the white southern accent. The person I watched was actually black and she used her accent as an example.
@@kita3256 black accents don’t come from white accent
@@losonamission the southern black accent and white southern accent is similar. Of course they have major differences but They both have roots in British accent.
West Virginia and Kentucky was settled by Scottish and Irish and England
So happy you like our Kentucky accent ! I love different accents too.
Off the top of my head, here are some other distinctive accents in the USA: 1) Upper Midwest around Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and Michigan. These are the ones that are most nasal. 2) High Tide accent of the Outer Banks of North Carolina 3) Cuban-Americans of South Florida 4) Greater Chicago.
There's also a good amount of variety among Southern accents between those with drawls and those with twangs. The "hillbillies", as that one young lady describes herself, are more likely to speak with a twang. Both accents with twangs and drawls are delightful to listen to.
Michigan!?!? Michigan is as standard as it gets lmao
Fun fact. Daddy Longlegs isn't actually a spider. 🤯
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
For Arizona accent I’d say refer to John Wayne he’s the closest to it that I can think of unless someone else knows a better reference. You’re not gonna find it as much in Tucson or Phoenix due to them having so much out of state traffic. You’ll find it more on the outskirts and in the smaller towns.
I took a Joel & Lia break for a few months but this showed up in my recommended and I remembered why I love this channel so much
Sorry, but speeding them up ruins the nuances of the dialect. You needed to listen to them normally!
Joel, I have a question since you studied linguistics. Why do accents ,for the most part, disappear when singing?
West Virginia and Kentucky accents have a twang - not a drawl. Drawl is another type of southern accent. But, I loved listening to them. The people from Connecticut and Arizona weren't the best choices to represent those regions. Listen to a true Minnesota accent for a real treat.
As people are pointing out the plural for "you" depends on your region, "yinz" in Pittsburg, "y'all" in the south, "you guys" in much of the USA, "youse guys" in some places. Places in the south that use "y'all" for the singular use "all y'all" for the plural.
"Awkward amount of sexual chemistry between the brother and sister." Didn't see that coming. Almost choked on my tea! I'm dead!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Upper Midwest has their own accent.
And it changes between Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan!
As an Indian... I would pronounce Tucson AS IT IS --- TUK-SON
We don't have an Accent... whatever are the Letters ,we Just Jog over it.
Connect-tea-cut... Minn-eh-sota
AS IT IS. lol
WE basically follow British accent ,The Posh London Accent , where they don't eat Letters.
The south side Chicago accent is very distinctive
There’s like 6 accents alone in SC (lower, beachside, upstate, Belle…
I'm Upstate .
@@victorwaddell6530, you mean "the upstate." I'm from Columbia, and "upstate" without the definite article refers to parts of New York upstate of NYC.
Pee Dee
How can you play people at 1.5x and expect to hear their accent? Honestly guys, that's a stupid move. I wouldn't expect that from you. Connecticut is very close to NYC.
An interesting point to note: Dropping the "g's" began with the British upper classes and transferred to the Americas.
Why would she hide her accent one state away?! I am from Maryland and there is quite a blend of North and South here.....
Have you seen the video:
accent expert gives a tour of u.s. accents
I think you guys will love it. This is a quick and fun video to review most north American accents. They also cover African, latinx, and native American accents around the continent. As well as a few from the UK 😁
Erik Singer on the Wired RUclips channel.
i suggested that one a long time ago. Great video. My guess is it's too long and academic for them. Like notice in this video Joel and Lia can't really let the video run w/o jumping forward. So i wonder if the Eric Singer vids might just be too involved for them. i'm guessing they'd just ffw the whole time. But it's a great video.
West Virginia accent is actually part of the Appalachian Language accent group that is similar to the southern accent but different as the sounds in certain vowels is much longer and words might drop sounds all together and have extra syllables added like hunting becomes a-huntin Connecticut is part of the Boston/ nyc accent line with the whole park your car in Harvard yard debate as it sounds so different between the two areas. Also it forms the caught/ cot merger as they sound exactly the same in some places but not others. Arizona is heavily Native American with it sounding slightly higher towards the end also Spanish is common that is derived from Mexico bringing a L sound that’s less pronounced but is there. Watch the wired three part series on US accents as it covers most of the accents you will hear in America and Canada. There are accents you really need to know about and how they actually work. There are UK based accents here that became something slightly different. The Newfoundland accent is based primarily on the accent from county Wexford in Ireland. The Gullah accent is a evolved form of many African languages and English merging together into a unique language used by the African Americans of the Gullah islands from the Carolinas to Florida. True English accents died out except for places in Pennsylvania and some areas in Boston. The Amish use a English style accent in regular English speaking but default to their Amish language based on old German when not speaking English though if they leave the Amish altogether they tend to pick up whatever accent where they end up settling down in.
As an Arizonan, I speak rather quickly, but the "tusk-on" killed me
You have to remember that each state has a lot of different accents. So not everyone sounds the same. There are people in the same town that I can't believe their families are really from here because of their horrible accents. The girl from Kentucky, though she seems very sweet fits in that category for me. We do not all have that accent.
“This is an accent video, WHO ARE WE?!” 💀
West Virginia and Kentucky border one another and are part of the Appalachian region hence the similarity in accent. I live in Louisville Kentucky on the other side of the state and our accent is not as pronounced. I think each southern state has it's own accent. And the east coast cities have differences too-Charleston, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphai, NY, Boston are all a bit different.
About hiding your West Virginia accent I can relate due to my family moving to California when I was a kid. Especially my older sisters (teenagers) were strongly motivated to drop their WV accents ASAP to blend in with the other teens. It would be like a Newfie moving to BC, or a Geordie moving to Kent. That WV girl sounds just like my family back home!
not y’all thinking Connecticut was spelled wrong 😂 y’all are hilarious!
Nutmegger (A person from Connecticut) here. You nailed it: Connecticut doesn’t have a distinct accent. Our State’s name is an anglicized spelling of a Native American word, and the pronunciation excludes the c in the middle.
I’m American, from Utah. I just looked at a map, and Kentucky and West Virginia are right next to each other. That’s probably why we all agree the accents from those states sound so much the same.
As a Connecticut resident, I’m glad my state’s existence is finally recognized!
Speeding up their speech hides some of the subtleties that I would listen for for geographic clues. To me they just sounded sped up, not "normal American". (Mid-Westerner here)
Tucson, Two-son. You say Tuck-son and you will broadcasting your uneducated tourist. Do you say War-cesster (Worcester)? ;)
I have lived in Texas my whole life and generally feel like I have the average American accent, but whenever I travel I suddenly notice more of a drawl in my voice. I definitely would add Midwestern in as an accent to check out. My extended family all live up north and I love their accents!
There are quite a range of Midwestern accents as well, even in Iowa there is quite a difference between northern & southern!
Um…”does anyone want to hear your life story?” Funny from these two! lol
I am in Chicago, and that is the first time I have ever heard “granddaddy long legs”! We say “daddy long legs” just like in England. My first thought when I heard that was terror! I feel like all bugs are bigger in the Southern US than the North, so now I am wondering if a granddaddy long legs is like an absolutely enormous daddy long legs. Oh my God-so gross!
I’m originally from AR, and I think you nailed the explanation.
If you haven't already, you should check out the cajun accent from Louisiana.
I was waiting for a Harry/Hermoine “wingardium leviosa” moment with that pencil! 😅✏️
The Connecticut and Arizona accents -- and it's pronounced Too-Sahn, not Tuck-sun -- are generic American accents. As we mix more, accents are going away. Northerners are moving to the south and the southern accent is disappearing.
One way of determining where people are from is what they call certain things. In some parts of the country, any soft drink is called a Coke, elsewhere it is Soda, or Soda Pop, or just a Pop. My late in-laws were from Kansas where the stream of water I called a creek was a crick. Bedcoverings were counterpanes and a commode was a chest of drawers usually kept near the entry to the home. In my part of the county -- Oregon -- a commode is a toilet.
The fact that they found the people from Tucson to be extremely slow speakers really goes along with the stereotypes about people from Tucson 😂 it's a slower paced life down there compared to Phoenix
The term hillbilly depends on where you're coming from as to what you think of the term. Where my step-dad is from it mostly just means a more down-to-earth person. Who they are in private is who they are in public. They don't change just because of how someone else thinks of them and they're proud to be that way.
I think accents can generally be divided by a few things
1. Region: obviously different accents developed in different parts of the country due to distinct ethnic influences over time and in isolation until the mid 20th century began a process of cultural assimilation
2. Race: White, Black and Native Americans generally have different accents due to history of segregation and reservations systems, but they generally speak English natively, so these are existing accents of English.
3. Immigration distance: The children or grandchildren of immigrants are likely to have influence from their foreign-born ancestors who do not speak English natively. In the 21st century, we see this with mostly Latino Americans and Asian Americans, who are largely the 1st/2nd generation born in the US. Speech patterns are affected by the home language either via bilingual cross-influence, or even the American child picking up the non-native English their family speaks to them (this can be observed commonly with Filipino and Indian Americans who often understand but don't speak their parents' language)
4:46 I mean……. HOW ELSE ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO SHOW THE ACCENT 😂😂😂
Way back when I was 27 years old, my friend and I both from the New York metropolitan area were in London, it was a Saturday night and of course as young guys we were high on some weed and looking for Piccadilly circus. Stopped in traffic, a biker was next to us, so we asked him how to get to Piccadilly circus, I guess he was talking to us in a heavy Cockney accent that was barely understandable, we were hysterical! I've come across this with people from England a number of times, traveling through America many times I have never come across an American that I could not understand if they spoke English, even if it was broken English or a heavy accent from the region where they lived.
I'm from central New York State, where there is a district accent. I've done a little research and it comes down to switching vowels when we speak. We generally do not pronounce t's, as in mountain. I believe the accent comes from northern British, and Irish immigrants. Also, it is the only place that I know of where the word elementary is pronounced elli-men-terry, and not elli-men-tree. Love your channel!
I'm a clevelander with Hillbilly parents. Someone told me my accent was very deep. I replied - i have an accent? Really? 😁
I honestly didn't think i did - guess i was wrong
The Southern / Appalachian "i / ah" sound is distinctive enough, but you should hear how we say "oi" (as in "oil" and "boil"). Thats a vowel sound that I'm pretty sure only exists in certain Scandinavian languages.
As the Arizona woman said, it's Too-sun, not Tuck-sun.
Another thing Brits pronounce wrong. "Tucson".
I am from Connecticut and I don't think that we have an accent.
I'm from California & growing up WE assumed WE didn't have accents!😜
@@jrooksable We don't have a real accent in California because most media and movie production for the nation uses a Californian accent, so it's exported everywhere. We have the least amount of dropped consonants and we pronounce our R's - they are in words for a reason. Lol
@@thehigherevolutionary there are several different dialects and accents in California unique to each other and the rest of America
@@thehigherevolutionary:you're confusing a commonality with an absence!😜
@@jrooksable Thank you for clarifying.
“Mammary”, “Mother’s milk” I cringed so hard …I mean, just eww haha idk y those words bugged me haha
From Kentucky not shy at all LOL. Funny story my husband is from England. My father-in-law and I had a long conversation about me saying right there. As in the pencil is right there.
He says just there. This was like a 45 minute conversation one night
West Virginians are typically heavily made fun of over their accents 🥺 As a fellow West Virginian, I used to hide it too. So I get it.
My mom is from West Virginia. When she first moved to Ohio she had a hard time finding a job because of her accent. She had to work hard at hiding it/getting rid of it so she could get a job 😔
I'm from Central West Virginia, of course there are different WV accents, people from the northern panhandle don't sound WV to me, the Charleston area is more cosmopolitan with many outsiders and you'll hear people without WV accents, then in the "real West Virginia", the isolated mountains, you'll hear very strong WV accents.
@@RichardDCook I was born in Mercer, spent my summers as a kid in McDowell with my mom's family. We all ended up moving to Virginia, and you can definitely hear the difference 😂 Panhandle I think has more of a NOVA/DC accent
I know why the first person hid her West Virginia background. My mother is from West Virginia(WV), and I know it well. The state is considered backward, and the people are considered ignorant, lazy, and tribal. People outside the Applachian region thought my mother had a generic Southern accent. But people in the Appalachian region, Pennysylvania(PA), Maryland, Ohio, and Virginia, knew she was from West Virginia and instantly attached all of the bigoted beliefs about WV to her. The woman who was interviewed moved to PA to start a career, and I imagine she switched to a Pennysylvania accent which she would have been able to reproduce easily. Using a PA accent would avoid the inevitable "Where are you from?" question that another American accent would attract, and she could say she was from Pittsburg if anyone caught the WV accent. My mother didn't care and never hid her heritage, but her sister and brother moved to Ohio and Virginia, and they did alter their accents. (This is all my opinion, but I am from Ohio and Michigan and live in Seattle. I hear the putdowns and bigoted statements about West Virginia and West Virginians all of the time, still.)
You two crack me up! I subscribe to all of your individual and collective channels, but the Joel and Lia is a true gem!
Born in Boston, moved to California 5yrs ago at age 57...my accent sticks out like a sore thumb...some thinks it's a NY accent! You can take the girl out of Boston, but you can't take the Boston out of the girl 😊☮💜
same here. Kentuckian in Cali for 32 years....
I’m a native born speaker from Arizona. The accent here varies a lot, as we have a lot of tourism (think Grand Canyon). The city folks speak more a bit more like Southern California, while the rural areas are more like Texas. A lot of our words have influence from many cultures, including Mexico and the local Native American tribes. No, it’s not pronounced as Tux-San, but too-sahn.
Do you know how to say “saguaro”, as in the cactus? Maybe try saying coyote?
Hillbilly refers to the people who originally came from Scotland and Ireland and settled in the mountains of the Southeastern US, Kentucky, etc. They also moved to parts of the Midwest. They also have traditional music from the UK and Ireland in their traditions.
There was a McDonald's commercial a few years back where they had people read a script in different New England accents. Famously, it ends with them asking a woman to read it in a Connecticut accent, and she says "What's Connecticut?" because we have no accent (I'm from Connecticut, and no we don't pronounce the second C), lol. Here's a video of the ad: ruclips.net/video/tQSx3OAzvb0/видео.html&ab_channel=truebnb
Accents from the southern Appalachian mountains tend to differ from southern accents closer to cities. I think the Kentucky girl's reference to a "hillbilly accent" was a reference to this fact. There was lots of Scots-Irish settlement in the Appalachians, so the rhoticity there tends to be stronger than the city areas that may have had more English immigration and continued interaction with England after independence.
People from Appalachia (like me) learn to hide the accent because it is viewed the way you would view a Doncaster accent.
Kentuckian here! But I grew up in New York so I’m a weird hybrid lol. Love y’all!
Nobody ever guesses my accent correctly. I was born in Alabama, I now live in Arizona, and have lived in Nebraska, Louisiana, California, and the UK. Most of the time, when someone is trying to guess where I'm from based on my accent, they guess Connecticut. My natural accent is neutral. I speak nine different languages and have been told that I don't sound American in any of them. I also do convincing RP, Glaswegian, Yorkshire, Cockney, and Southern Welsh accents.
East Kentucky and West Virginia both in the Appalachia hills probably why same accents
Or Applachian. :) Darn auto-correct!
Yes but auto correct never understood me I am from Appalachia lol
I would love for you to hear my Husband talk is accent is so thick Appalachian you would have trouble understanding him. We grew up about 45 miles apart and he had way more draw
I don't blame the girl from WV hiding her accent. Alot of people hear any southern accent, especially Appalachian ones, and they look down on the speaker. There's a stigma to it if you go somewhere else. I live in Eastern Kentucky, we carry a mix of the "Kentucky" accent that people think of and that Appalachian accent. When I travel I try to hide it unless I'm going south. In the low country area of Georgia and South Carolina they love my accent.
Im 67 yrs old born and raised in West Virginia. We wear the name,' Hillbilly' with pride amunst ourselves, however, I would not advise an 'outsider' use that term.
Is it stereotyping to think that Joel sounds exactly like Nigel Thornberry at 0:14? Lol
The term HILLBILLY......Starting in about 1740-1745 Northern Ireland Protestants began emigrating en masse to the Colonies. The coastal areas had already been settled heavily by the English and others. So these "Scots-Irish", as we call them here in the States (better known in the U.K. as Ulster Scots) settled further inland, mainly in the Appalachian Mountains area. Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee etc. all the way down the mountain chain. Being Ulster Scots and Protestant, they were largely supporters of Protestant King William of Orange (often referred to in Britain as "King Billy") back in the old country. Back in those days, these people would be referred to in some circles as "Billy Boys". The fact that they settled in the hills and mountains of Appalachia led to them being referred to as "Hill Billies" by many on this side of the pond. There's much more to the story and these people have a very interesting history and culture over here but in the interest of not writing a novel here in the comments section I will end it here. Hope this helps.
Fun video. I'm from Connecticut (which yes, is spelled correctly with a silent C 🤣), and you're pretty much correct that we have nearly nothing distinct about our accent. If anything, I'd say we're just inconsistent with how we pronounce our T's. Sometimes they're T's, sometimes they're D's, and sometimes they're glottal stops. Funny enough, we don't pronounce either of the T's as T's in "Connecticut." That's about as exciting as it gets.
Y'all call a group of people "you lot." Hahahahaha! Yet you, too, are valid. You do you. Peace out.
I love your accent videos, they're so interesting! Part of what I think makes the development of American accents so different is there are so many factors in their creation. There are so many influences in our history! Where immigrants from other places settled, what native sounds/words they borrowed from their "home" languages, and how groups interacted and melded together over time all play into it. My mom grew up northern Missouri (with ancestry from Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and further back ancestry from Germany and Ireland) -- she basically has the "mostly flat, you can't tell where she's from except for a few words" thing. My Dad's ancestry is from southern Missouri (with ancestry from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, and further back ancestry from England and Scotland) -- He and most of his family speak with the thicker more typical southern accent closer to in the videos you saw. Being a child of these two vastly different upbringings, I myself can go back and forth between the two!
Sugar, y’all said it right the first time!😉. We don’t pronounce the “c”, so it is “Conneticut”.
To us, the only time the phrase, “hillbilly” is used w/o any negative connotation is when it’s used by other hillbillies.
The girl from West Virginia has no reason to be ashamed of her accent. Plus, as a Marylander, she pronounces the name of the state exactly the way you're supposed to. ☺ Also, Baltimore has no t in it... lol.
This is a joke video, but it's horribly accurate. I love the Baltimore accent so much. ruclips.net/video/bnI-SADSMEc/видео.html
Us Nutmeggers pronounce it more like Connedi-kit. Connecticut comes from a Native American term. Our T's sounds more like D's. Tongue goes to the roof of our mouth instead of the teeth.