Central New York accent

[toddvandongen]

I'm from Canandaigua N.Y. and this guy sounds like my grandpa! I only have a little of the accent.

[mansfield1721]

I grew up in this area. This is not Central NYS accent only its an upstate accent. I was born and raised in Troy NY and everyone sounded this way. Even more so around Oneonta, NY. I've lived in NYC for more than 2 decades but I still carry this sound although it's subtle.

We thought of ourselves as Knickbocker Yankees even though Yankees are traditionally from Vermont, Ma, NH, Maine, and Ct. i will always love home.

[NeighborhoodWatch315]

Holy shit I love it. I'm from Auburn but I've been living in MA and VA in the Coast Guard the past year and a half, this stuff makes me feel like I'm home.

[IloveSPIDERZ]

@welleslywon1 haha wow dude, you put the line right on my house. haha but i hear Albany talk more like this than downstate.

[IloveSPIDERZ]

i live in colonie (Albany county) and when i worked at a grocery store (this guy mentions Price Chopper, i worked at their direct competitor Hannaford before enlisting in the Navy) i noticed alot of the older people talk like this. but you got to think the younger generation no matter where you go will be varied due too TV.

[coolage89]

I live between Binghamton and Oneonta, sounds just like the locals around here.

[tommytompkins420]

Sounds drunk.... I hear no accent lmao

[tyobfarty]

I'm from cny lol I don't hear an accent

[JOESPP78]

what accent

[Dannoc100]

"oh i LOVED her!!!"

[glitterpandax3]

The sound of home. :)

[chris518ny]

lmao i live in upstate in albany and no one speaks like this. where the hell was this? back country?

[dlainhart]

@chris518ny Drive west about a half-hour to forty-five minutes.

[gissence]

Ya know, just maybe the crotch shot was unintentional and more the idea of trying to capture the audio without them knowing they were being recorded. Us back-water upstate types clam up real quick and are not ourselves when a camera or a microphone shows up. So I say BRAVO! Its rich indeed and I've shared with many European Skype friends to give them a taste of my twang.

[melissapeil]

This is hilarious! I am from there and laugh every time I go home to hear this accent. It's like no other! I've thought about digitally recording this way of speaking as well - glad you did! Haha.

[BaggedGnome]

Honestly sounds Canadian.. Lol. You sound like my contemporaries.

[RUPERTDOUGLAS90]

@BaggedGnome

I disagree lol, Canadians sound like wanna be british sometimes.

[BaggedGnome]

@RUPERTDOUGLAS90 It sounds closer to american.

[DipStick626]

Maybe it's because of the part of upstate ny I'm from, but I find it's usually just older people that speak with this accent.

[davidd320]

Canastota is in Madison County not Oswego County.

[dkfrey]

@davidd320 Canastota is also not on Oneida Lake. I wonder if he meant to say Constantia, which is on the north shore of Oneida Lake and in Oswego County. At any rate, this is the definitive accent of Central NY State.

[welleslywon1]

It's about time Upstate NY seceded from Downstate NY, maybe the Mohawk valley from Gloversville east to Albany then south down the Hudson, the Catskills, and NY city (obviously) and Long Island can be DS, or just Old or normal NY (anywhere the Dutch settled.) Everything that is cenrtal and Western NY, Syracuse to Buffalo throughout the Finger Lakes, north to Canada can be whatever we want to call ourselves (where mostly W. New Englanders settled, hence the nasal accent.) Just a thought...

[projectdarkness]

OMG! HOMEEE! <3

[XceptingDeniall]

Price Chopper! Ahh the only time I've ever seen a Price Chopper is when I lived in Potsdam.

[scr09828]

@BIGBAD431 I don't think that at all so I don't know who you're speaking for but don't speak for me. I'm from upstate New York myself so obviously I already know there's other parts and small towns. I have the NY accent and it doesn't sound like the person speaking in this video, it sounds like I'm from Brooklyn. Just quit speaking for me, thanks.

[scr09828]

this is no ny accent...you sound like a cowboy from the west.

[Amy4000]

Ahh this is the sound of home :)

[tugster19]

This guy sounds just like a guy I work with ar Price Chopper! I think it could be him!

[GSWarriors45]

GimmeKitty is right idk where this is in cny but it does not sound normal haha sounds more like Alabama nottttt cny

[marybob321]

i live in binghamton new york :)

[SonicFamilyGal]

@marybob321 Speaking of which, my dad and a bunch of my paternal relatives grew up in a village about forty miles east of that city and they obviously have that accent themselves, which extends toward southeastern Wisconsin along the Great Lakes.

[GimmeKitty]

Damn, this is more midwest than ... NY, sorry!

[Zeanu]

Why are we looking at your crotch, sir?

[AwesomeBuddy12]

@Zeanu

read the description

[120793Wes]

ok dude im tired of looking at ur crotch please just point the camera at the floor next time

[pishposhlemons]

i didnt think we had accents. even tho i wouldnt be able to tell lol but no one has ever said anything to me about one

[zivadavidfan]

yes! YAY FOR CNY! :D

[ThingsMarchBrings]

camera view. that's silllyyyyy

[yVONNiCAA]

lol he does sound like peter from family guy !!!

[raveynn182]

AWESOME! I'm from Syracuse, but I live out of state now, and I hate the boring accent around here.

People make fun of me all the time for my "accent;" I take it as a compliment

[dfabian914]

Upstate Represent!!

[agg22m]

where do you live none of us sound like that and we live in Cortland.

[madeinjapan99]

That's called redneck

[wearymachine]

PRICE CHOPPER!!!

[partyguy9]

dude.

we dont wana see your crotch!!

[catgumart]

Up in that neck of the woods Lake Ontario--finger lakes area (Oswego, Syracuse Watertown) there are unique accents and pronunciations of words..& it is kind of a cross Breed of Minnesota and Pennsylvania and Canada (at least in Watertown)..it is hard to describe it to other people because it is not a famous accent that has gained much media attention, but it is unique and I notice it quite a bit.

[catgumart]

I'm from Watertown N.Y. (now I live in Phoenix AZ) and this is pretty similar to how some people from where I come speak.

There are 3 or 4 maybe 5 different accent variations up in the Jefferson county, north country Watertown area...this is definitely familiar.

[Koubenlin]

that's so weird... i've lived in upstate NY my entire life and i've NEVER heard someone talk like this

[gmenfan48]

@Koubenlin its western ny...in buffalo almost everyone talks like this, maybe deeper.

[kirbivore]

I grew up just south of Syracuse and when I moved to Boston people thought I was from the midwest.

[nbnyart]

hilarious- makes me miss home- thanks!

[raveynn182]

@nbnyart

I agree

[green420jdubb]

Price Chopper batter mix. Ya know?? Cny is great, people at my college call me a redneck wtf haha

[hellonhighheels19]

omfg this is sooooooo funny!!!! some people here in chicago talk like that

[stpdass20]

hmm i wonder what words we say differently than most Americans

[stpdass20]

haha CNY ftw.

[carlrs15]

Spot on.

[lillandbill]

hahahaha i have a friend from canastota. her dad talks just like that!

[rbdemo17]

Lol thats how i talk too im from madison county and canastota is in madison county

[ProHatProductions]

why are you taping ur f****** penis?

[heftycat]

lofl

[XxNOxWAYxOUTxX]

To haras11: That's true he does sound kind of like Peter! lol. I laughed so hard when I saw your comment. That's hilarious! :)

[MADSEEN2009]

OF course there is a little Canadian blood in the people from upstate NY, NY and canada touch each other, so u get the point. (BTW its only 9-10 hour drive from NYC to Canada) iam from Brooklyn, so i have my set in italian accent.

[haras11]

the dude sounds like peter off family guy

[AkatsukiWolf123]

He kind of does except a little deeper

[monkeyls92]

right!!

[BlueHerself]

LMFAO! @ haras11..so TRUE!!!!

[untmdsprt]

what was the point of shooting your crotch for this video? Seriously, you could have put the camera pointing somewhere else if you just wanted to record the audio.

[CourtnieCHAOSisback]

no one wants to see that gross shit

[rbdemo17]

lol so funny sounds like my family

[potsdamlacrosse315]

its soda not pop dumb shit

[frrVegeta]

People from Oswego county sound like this. Thank God I hail from Oneida.

[marowak1337]

that doesn't sound anything like tony danza, robert de niro, fran drescher, rosie o'donell or joe pesci tbh lol xD

[4earth2water0]

upstates a diff world

[heartsspades28]

yes but actually it's pop.

[moedude420]

LOL from Utica

[lubeltri1]

Yeah---the "pop" stops by the time you get past Rochester. In Syracuse it's "soda."

[Achamps]

@lubeltri1 you don't even gotta get to cuse' for the "pop" stop. I'm from nassau, like half an hour from albany and it's soda. but seriously. How great is upstate NY? aha

[beakerthebio1123]

@Achamps Hehe, Im from the same area as you. When I went to Ottawa they couldn't stop laughing for an hour that I called soda "pop". XD.

[heartsspades28]

I moved from Michigan to Syracuse, NY, yes that is how ppl sound around here, lol "Beer" has a twang... and ppl say "Soda" It's POP!!!!!