florida accent north florida cracker accent

[SuperRip7]

Your not gonna find any Cubans ?

[ihatemath44]

I am from Fort Lauderdale. I have lived here and was raised here forever-my parents are from Jacksonville and Boca Raton. I have an accent that most people can't pick up on-I say some words like I'm from Georgia and other words like I'm from Pennsylvania or Connecticut. But yes, many people here in south Florida have southern accents as we are very much in the South, although Miamians dont seem to think so.

[sarahmfjayne]

POLK COUNTYYYY :D

[jkitsunej]

I've got a an accent similar to this.I was born in Melbourne, a bit north of Ft. Pierce. I've got grandparents in Ocala. I live in Sarasota now, and I've gotta laugh cause we get alot of people from up north and other places that didn't think Floridians have an accent.

[maddogg1987]

Greetings from Glasgow, Scotland. I know this will sound very odd, but thank you for letting me to stumble accross this video and hear your voice. I say thanks as you sound like my my dad as i remember from my younger years (he lost his accent a little over time).He was from Crestview, FL. However, he died a few years ago and it was just so nice to hear a Florida accent. Thanks again.

PS For all my dad lost his accent a little you sound identical to my uncle. :P

[adammotox]

your fucking stupid, arguing with people about your accent. yea floridians have a southern accent thats you, but your no cracker ill tell you that much.

[tejaspics]

Cool video! Thanks dude!

[MPG350]

Yeah you have a distinct accent.....I was also born in florida outside tampa... have a more mid western accent. Yeah I can tell your accent is from Georgia.

[MPG350]

@MPG350 I mean not from Georgia.

[MrLighterknot]

im from wewahitchka fl my great great dad joined the confeneracy on the banks apalachacola river at iola in 1861 .my family has been here since the early 1800s .what has ruined florida is yankeys i say run them back north !

[JCtwilighters]

@misterkojakk SOUTH FLAWDA ISN'T PART OF THE SOUTH?? WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN BOUT

[touggie2000]

@JCtwilighters they stupid!! they listen to to much TV and what the media portrays!! real floridians and the intelligent people know better!

[adammotox]

i like northern fl. but give us boys down here in central fl. a break. this IS cracker country. Im from plant city east of tampa, a small town farming community know for farming strawberries. i dont see how you can count us out although we got alota mexicans cause of the farms. cracker and cowboy are an every day word around here and my family has run cattle for 76 years in this town. pastures, pines and palmettos is the lay of the land here. dont call us yankee or rude cause were proud crackers

[touggie2000]

@adammotox im sorry u have to explain yourself.. a lot of people think souther florida is just old retirees from up north and resort towns which is far from the truth.

[misterkojakk]

the term "Florida Cracker" is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their families has lived in the state for many generations. It is considered a source of pride to be descended from "frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens

[chaos0691]

@misterkojakk I to am from Florida, My family came here in1763. I love to travel but I would not want to live anywhere else.

[brackinslds]

I grew up in the farm country surrounding Lake Okeechobee (I'm a 7th generation Floridian with family originally from the panhandle). This is how folks talk there. This is what my ear heard growing up. Now I live just outside of Gainesville. True native Floridians living around here talk like this too. My accent isn't real thick, but it's there. When are folks gonna get it...FLORIDA IS THE SOUTH! No matter how many outsiders we get, it don't change that truth. Spread the word!

[misterkojakk]

@brackinslds I use to live in fort pierce it 30 miles east of lake Okeechobee l love that area originally from the eastern panhandle

[brackinslds]

@misterkojakk Yeah I grew up in Belle Glade. Still have family down in Clewiston.

[touggie2000]

@brackinslds i know i hate that..what they dont understand is that this is going on in other southern states as well..like look at atlanta, houston, new orleans, charlotte etc.. so what u have a lot of people from the north and the caribbean moving to "SPECIFIC" areas of florida that does not take away from Florida being a southern state! even in south Florida u still find southern pride and culture and the "accent" it just depends on

who u talk to!

[misterkojakk]

lol you don't know much about the cracker dialect do.u YOU DO KNOW IT A REAL ACCENT RIGHT I'M talking about the north florida cracker accent start with not cracker culture in south I don't care about cracker culture in south Florida OK I'm just talking about the north Florida cracker accent IM A NATIVE TO you are slow buddy lol not the only folks in Florida that crackers look up southern accent and you will see the accent fades around gainsviille FL south Florida nothing but fucking Yankees

[wldsthrnboy]

And the Accent of Crackers is much more of a slow drawn accent than the Southern Appalachian Twang that you speak with. There may be more of the population that speak like you do in North Florida Than what still speak with a Cracker Drawl down here. But that really has nothing what so ever to do with being a Florida Cracker

[misterkojakk]

@wldsthrnboy I NEVER MENTION THE SOUTH FLORIDA ACCENT TO BEGIN WITH MY VIDEO IT ONLY TALKS ABOUT THE NORTH FLORIDA ACCENT WITCH IS CALLED THE CRACKER DIALECT YOU DO KNOW THAT WHAT THE SOUTHERN ACCENT IN FLORIDA IS CALLED THE CRACKER DIALECT RIGHT IM NOT TALKING ABOUT SOUTH FLORIDA CULTURE MY SLOW FRIEND LOL

[misterkojakk]

Respond to this video... I HATE TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE DOWN YONDER BUT LETS GET REAL MOST OF NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORIGA TALKS LIKE ME WITH THAT GOOD OLE Southern Appalachian Twang lol AT LEAST 75% OF US MOST OF SOUTH FLORIDA TALKS LIKE NORTHERNERS 80% OF SOUTH FLORIDA THE REST IS CUBAN LOL LETS FACE IT. YOU ARE JUST A REDNECK FROM SOUTH FLORIDA BUDDY WHAT ONLY 2% OF YOU TALK WITH UR ACCENT NO BODY CARES SOUTH FLORIDA IS NOT EVEN PART OF THE SOUTH LOL YOU FUNNY ARE YOU CUBAN ?

[thatway221]

@misterkojakk come on down to zolfo springs florida we will show you how to work cattle more cattle comes from south florida then north florida an i tell you what all true crackers have there accents an it dont matter if north or south come to south florida in the middle of the state not them big citys 

[touggie2000]

@misterkojakk i bet your not even from Florida by this comment..real floridians with southern pride dont say shit like that and we know better then what most people including the guy on the video thinks! have u ever been to ft myers, clewiston, la belle, arcadia, punta gorda, indian town, east collier county everglades city, west palm beach county etc???? we are still southern down here! dont let this nothern white folk colonistic way of thinking fool you!

[SemperFi1789]

@misterkojakk South Florida is Southern, like it or not. I live in South Florida, there are many people with that Southern accent. The thing is in 1959 the dictator Castro from Cuba took power, so all the Cubans fled into Miami and South Florida. Then Castro released all the murderers from jail into Miami, and they spread into South Florida. The South Floridians then moved away and that is why a lot of South Florida doesn't have the Southern accent. But it is the South.

[misterkojakk]

@wldsthrnboy The first Florida crackers arrived in 1763 when Spain traded Florida to Great Britain. The British divided the territory into East Florida and West Florida, and began to aggressively recruit settlers to the area, offering free land and financial backing for export-oriented businesses. The territory passed back to the Spanish crown in 1783, and then to the US government in 1819. Spanish rule in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

[wldsthrnboy]

Or just do a search of Florida Cracker; The Movie and you will get a peak at what Cracker culture is, where it originates, and interviews with some amazing folks still living it.

[misterkojakk]

@wldsthrnboy your funny the southern accent cuts off around gainsville if you don't believe me look it up yall accent sounds more a mixture of southern and Midwestern the counties you mention I know because my aunt lives in Highlands county that the heart of rancher country

[misterkojakk]

@wldsthrnboy that funny I'm 5th generation Floridan everybody sounds like me for the most part.. all of rural north Florida meaning The Florida Panhandle has a cracker dialect. we don't sound like southern Appalachian English your just hearing a true North Florida cracker accent is only in south Georgia and north Florida you forgetting your from a whole nother region you also got to remember your accent is not as strong as the rest of south you from south Florida should I say more

[wldsthrnboy]

@misterkojakk So they can participate in the Rodeo, Livestock shows, and Livestock actions that is their family business. I think you are confusing history and what Florida Cracker culture and heritage actually are with some pop culture meaningless definition that actually has nothing to do with Florida Cracker other than being born in Florida. Florida Crackers have always been from the swamps, Cypress heads, and hardwood hammocks of Central and Southwestern Florida.

[wldsthrnboy]

This is where the cattle working folks you speak of are. And have been for generations. Since before Florida was a State. Hundreds of thousand acre ranches. No offense, but you are what we refer to down here as a Yankee. lol Drive on down the turnpike and stop in at the Red Gator Lounge in Keenansville, or The Desert Inn in Yeehaw Junction. I'll by you a beer and introduce you to some of the crackers that are still living strong and proud in our great stae and have no plans of going anywhere.

[wldsthrnboy]

Lol that's hilarious Dan the Man. What you have there is a southern Appalachian dialect. similar to what is spoke in Georgia and Alabama. And truly sounds nothing like a Florida Southern dialect. I'm not sure what your definition of research is but if it is giving you incorrect results. If you come on down south here from southern Osceola thru Polk, Desoto, Highlands, Okeechobee, Glades, Hardee, Lee, Collier, and Hendry counties. you will hear a true Florida dialect.

[misterkojakk]

@wldsthrnboy that  hilarious the further south you go the further north you go as far as culture and accents goes. most of south fl are northern transplants and snowbirds all you have in south florida is a few areas where they have ranches I've heard the so call cracker accents from down there its really flat sounding to me it don't sound all the southern to me it more of a mixture of Midwestern speech and southern TRUE Cracker CULTURE IS IN NORTH FL

[wldsthrnboy]

@misterkojakk I wasn't trying to bag on Northern Florida. And no doubt Florida Cracker culture hes been being diluted by "foreign invaders" and development in general. But your understanding of Cracker culture is pretty much 100% the opposite of reality. Florida Crackers are cattlemen . And by inlarge the Florida cattle industry is located from the Kissimmee River Valley starting in Osceola County in the headwaters of East and West Lake Toho, and Shingle Creek. South to the Northern edge of

[wldsthrnboy]

@misterkojakk Lake Okeechobee. Then southwest to the North Western boundries of the Everglades, and West to the Gulf. This essentially is and always has been the cattle region of Florida. And is where Florida Crackers are from and have been for many generations. That why the largest Rodeo east of the Mississippi. Is located here. That is why All of the largest Cattle ranches east Of the Miss. are here. That is why Kids still get out of school twice a year for Rodeo Day down here.

[nagantm44]

Yep you sound nothing like a Texan.

[misterkojakk]

@nagantm44 yeah ur right Texan is more flat.. I have the cracker dialect witch is rare not less you from rural North Florida or south Georgia we pronounce The strong [aː]" sound or Ah more this is a type of SAE is older SAE southern accent witch is dying out this originality came from southern England farmer sound... New SAE is some what  Different a younger speaker is more likely to speak this way. New SAE is the accent you hear folks stereotyping alot I call it the Nashville sound lol

[SealandishKittens]

Moved to Florida when I was two, and I pronounce it as Flor-i-dah. Not Flahr-da. Flahr-da is what everyone else calls us.

[akaboo69]

sounds southern honestly

[Blackcat0x66]

Here in vero beach fl people talk in a Californian accent (I guess) It's not strange to find people with the southern accent but we do notice it. I didn't even know people in north Florida had the southern accent :P

[DragonFly122]

One way to distinguish a true Florida accent is to hear the pronunciation of Florida: A Floridian will say "floor-ihda" instead of "flah-rda."

[touggie2000]

this is bull shit I live in Ft myers and the locals have accents and most of the blacks def have the accents. this is going on all over the south Atlanta houston charlotte etc..they only pic on FLorida cuz of its image as a retire state. NO need for Floridians to explain yourself let these ignorant you tubers who stay in miami hotels and in disney world and college campuses and say thats the florida accent..

[CrackerFloridaWoman]

Dan, bless your heart for this vid. I'm Marie Vickie. A White female in my 30's.. I have moved to Utah. I was born and raised in a very small town in central/north Florida. Persons here in Southern Utah don't understand a word I say. Persons have called me "hillbilly" etc. I can understand these persons just fine, but they can't understand me. The persons from Vegas are rude in disposition. Yes MUCH more than in Miami. Any advise from any is greatly appreciated. In Christ Jesus, Amen.

[NeoxideMolten]

It's not really georgian. It's more texan if anything. It is flatter than georgian and more drawn out.

[rnrbobby]

Hey Dan the Man! Love the accent and am working on doing one for a play in Los Angeles. Can I contact you directly? Bob

[TheGardnerj23]

Lake City born and raised, military shipped me up north to newyork, but there is nothing like north central florida.. definitely aint no southern accents up here like back home...

[bmused2]

I'm from starke and have a very distinct accent. People are usually surprised when they find out I'm from Florida. And yes I agree with you, if you drew a line across the state a little south of Ocala it's like night and day. I deal with a lot of people through my job who live in south Florida. Very rude and sound lime they're from new York but they were born there. Weird. Glad I live in NORTH Florida lol

[myrandomspaces]

Most texan don't have an accent well not here in dallas...

[touggie2000]

i dont understand how an accent just stops mid way through a state? If ur a native or local...

[GamingGuru21]

i want to learn improv and im studying diffrent accents.any tips for florida.

[southerngal256]

I'm from Gordon Alabama...20 mins. from the FL. State line. I have your accent..lol My Dad is from Port St. Joe.

[BountyHuntFH95]

Im from central florida but I more have a North FLordian accent Which i never knew XD

[TheGravygun]

You know when you leave the south that accent does not appeal to many people i have found.....You sound well mannered but slow.

[NARproductions]

I live in central Florida, near Tampa. I have a slight southern accent, but not much. My parents are from Kentucky and Texas lol

[stephanielapco1]

its so rude you call us people from southern florida "yankees"... i mean, c'mon... what is that? immature....

[LiveJoyDivision]

Btw here in Kendall it is rare but you can catch people with southern accents (Kendall is near Miami but it is one of the least Cuban neighborhoods in Miami, must be why). Also in Homestead you can see it too.

[kuntrigrl850]

I was raised in northwest Florida near Pensacola. Everyone here has a Southern accent. Mostly sounds like Alabama accents though since we live so close to there.

[BananaGinny]

I'm from Okaloosa county, under Alabama, and it's funny it's pretty hit and miss as to who has a cracker accent and who doesn't. Like even though we all grew up in the same town some of my friend sound like you and some have completely neutral accents. I have a slight southern accent I think, not as heavy as yours. I only notice it when I go up north lol.

[manny2189]

I live in Miami and I can say that yes we are very rude but since I was born and raised here I guess I'm used to it... And when I go up north it's totally different. Everyone says hi to each other and people say please and thank you and asking how they're doing and it felt weird for me to be in such a nice place lol

[tlyn4cin]

Panama City woot!!! You sound like my family!

[jacqi47]

Born in Starke.. Florida "Cracker" thru & thru... had an adorable drawl until I moved to Southeast FL at age 13 and lived among the Yanks. My origins still come through though when I'm around Southerners :) Ya'll

[Momus121]

I'm from St.Pete and you catch the accent here and there. I have one but I live in Seattle now. Still got it though, I'm always told it sound like I'm from Mississippi. But these are by North-westerners so I take it with a grain of salt. The mans right about SoFla though, they always got some sand in the pussy for some reason.

[gatorgurl7]

I was born in Gainesville and have a southern accent lol I have ppl ask me if I'm from Tx, AL, or Ga all the time

[XAcidRainbowX]

@gatorgurl7 I live there! :)

[gatorgurl7]

@XAcidRainbowX Kewlio!!! Go Gators!!!!

[XAcidRainbowX]

@gatorgurl7 Boo Seminoles!!!!! :D

[gatorgurl7]

@XAcidRainbowX :O No!!!!!!!! XD

[Thepolicekid101]

i hate FLORIDA 

[chaos0691]

@Thepolicekid101 Sorry to dear that. Bye have a nice trip.

[patricknelson]

PS: I think part of the reason why you're noticing it "dying out" is because native Floridians starting from around the 70's 80's came before a much larger migration to the area from other areas, like the Northeast or Spanish speaking areas.

[Charmedlassie18]

Oh wow, I didn't know Florida had a, what I would call a southern drawl! I'm from Scotland btw and have never been to America!

[spliffgame]

Lol it's funny that northern Floridians call southern Floridian's yankees even though they are farther north than them, only in Florida.

[miagator]

This is fantastic. Florida cracker here, family in the panhandle pre-dating the Civil War. I live up north now (bleh) but I also get accused of being from Texas. Accent fail. They're four states away, yo--and Louisiana's "Yat" is between em! My accent was never this strong, but hearing this is like the warm embrace of home, haha.

[cheeveka3]

I think why I they say your from Texas is that most people think that all cowboys are from Texas but they don't know that there was some still here in Florida too also in Georgia so ya

[gatorgurl7]

I'm from gville and sound super southern XD but not as strong as his

[getreadyish]

Cool i always thot we didn't have an accent but some of my family members from Philly laugh @ how i pronouce some words..they basically ask y i say it like that. But im from Tampa and i do notice that some of my friends say bike when their tryin to say back...also listen to the way Plies pronouce some of his words lol water is whoada

[Nyogtha]

Best comparison I can give is Dickey Betts or Ronnie Van Zant, stereotypical yes, but effective, haha, a bit flatter. It's more in the pronunciation and enunciation of words than the drawl, so-to-speak. So it isn't dying off as much as some people thing, just evolving. Either way, like that you're sharing this states culture a bit.

[Nyogtha]

Really glad you did the accent video. I'm actually a history major studying Florida history (also born and raised outside of Clearwater.) I've been looking up about the cracker accent and your video gives me alot of ideas what to search. Down here (excluding Tampa/St. Petersburg, the accent has kinda permeated a bit more into the younger generation, my age. The accent is in so much of a flux it seems. It's come down here more, outside Orlando and stops around Sarasota. ...

[BabyCakes343]

I agree people always think I am from Texas or Alabama or somewhere besides Fl, but I am from Jacksonville Florida and Macclenny Florida(Baker county) and I say I'm from both, because growing up I spent every other week in Macclenny with my Dad which is where I picked up my southern accent..But yes, North Floridians do definitely have their own unique southern dialect..

[shiterbored]

@BabyCakes343 I was born and raised in Jax and do not have a southern accent. My dad is from detroit and i probably got his accent but my mom has a somewhat of a southern accent, you really couldnt tell and shes from jax too.

[ri10fk]

i'm from gainesville and some of the natives have southern accent, but some of them have been yankeefied by all the people coming to school from down south

[smileitsallison]

i live in north florida(northeastern ish kinda like bryceville area)

and i HATE it when people say florida isnt the south,

cause it definently is, thanks for provin it.

[WillieG1990]

All people from Florida used to have accents before all the Northerners move down there. Frankly, I think all Southern people should speak with Southern accents!

[SnapEtaco]

I needed to do a Floridian accent for a performance and I have to say I must have listened to this video over 50 times and I absolutely nailed the accent when I performed. Thank You!!

[gatorage850]

iam so lost iam in tallahassee and i sound nothing like that and i realy dont live in the city. you know 27south like going to parry. if you dont think what you have is and Accent your so loss. why i say this i can go any where and no one could tell where iam from. the funny thing i went from one high school in tallahassee to another and some of the people there thought i was from miami. but that was only the people that sound close to your Accent. i can make my self sound from the south.(hard)

[patteel]

MY mothers family has been in the state of Florida since 1818. So I'm one of those near extinct people.

[brackinslds]

@patteel Same here

[JustPlainDorky]

I'm from Florida, I lived in Ocala for nine years and then I moved south near Tampa. I don't have a clue what my accent is, it's not quite southern or standard. I find that most of the floridians that have accents tend to be older (60 +). alot of people my age (20's) don't really have accents. I think the florida accent is dilluted because alot of northerners move to our state. When I was in highschool only a small portion of the students were native floridians.

[wollffeey]

Thank you for doing this video. It makes me miss my home. I was born and raised in Niceville, FL and I grew up hearing the Boggy sub-dialect of the Cracker accent. To me, it sounds a bit more mumbly, but that could just be because all the people I heard speaking it mumbled. I, however, only have a slight native accent since I grew up watching national television, but sometimes my accent does come out, especially at the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival.

[IXCHEL64]

I am from Lake City FL an African American female, I have what I think is a north florida cracker accent lol. My accent is unique in that, people think I am from GA and in the fact that I do not speak the black dialect or ebonics. It may be a mix because my father is from the Macon area.

I also use many old english words that I picked up from my grandparents who by the way were tobacco farmers. Just want say glad you are here explaining that North Floridians do have southern accents.

[misterkojakk]

yeah believe it or not i use to live in fort pierce i live there 2 years its like my second home north beach is really nice

[mongoose0986]

@misterkojakk You gotta love the cove!!! I'm also from central florida and moved to St Lucie County a few years ago and the accent here is now "New York" accent. Eventually I will move back home to Orange county where I don't get people saying where are you from, your accent is different.

[Rileysport1]

I live in Ft.Pierce it's a good place to be from.Born and raised Florida Cracker and 3rd Genaration Cracker Horse breader

[thecarlosway]

south fl is the shit

[clerecy]

My accent's kind of a mutt. My father lived up in the Carolinas for a good while before he moved down to FL, I was born in VA and my grandparents lived in FL most of their lives, so it's a sort of mix, plus I got accustomed to listening to Yankees speaking and Ebonics, so they're all familiar to me and when I speak normally it probably sounds weird to everyone. I live about an hour south of Orlando right now though.

[SixFive175]

I LOVE North Florida. I've been through there many times enroute to St. Pete. To me, THE most Southern part of the USA ("Dixie", I mean) is from about Tallahassee to Jax. You even hear tobacco auctions on the radio there! The most beautiful part of N. Fla., to me is around Alachua: horse country. Beautiful! I'd LOVE to live in a shack back up some bayou, sit on the porch........with some sweet iced tea. Too bad I'm in E. Peoria, IL; but my heart remains in Dixie.

[WPwrestler05]

People from Central Florida don't have accents our voices are a perfect medium and sound completely normal. Yankees from up North have accents and rednecks from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee and all the other southern states have accents but we don't

[misterkojakk]

@WPwrestler05 i don't know about Central Florida but most of north florida has a different accent from the rest of the state the reason being is north florida was settled first by navite southerners witch would become known as florida crackers so everyone whos floridain is not a florida cracker meaning navite southerner after all florida is part of the old south lol we had it made before northerners fuck up our state

[celosams]

@WPwrestler05 dats a lie folk n polk county doe cuh i gt one n my fam gt one so ion no wat yu talm bou mayb nt n orlando or tampa but n polk county we do.

[Trinacria1973]

sounds like texas language

[misterkojakk]

@Trinacria1973 lol no you hearing navite florida language youre only hear in rural parts of north florida back in the swamps lol

[sammyman95]

I live in Orlando and don't have an accent

[samater16]

@sammyman95 Same here!

[WPwrestler05]

@sammyman95 Yeah because people from Central Florida don't have accents, our voices are perfect and accent free.

[DissidentDescendant]

Don't forget us central Florida Crackers. Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Glades counties. Judging by your accent we sound pretty similar.

[Chrispisz12]

I'm From Clearwater right outside Tampa and I've never heard anyone ever talk like you.

But I live in the boonies in Kentucky now so I have no where to talk bc accents here are flippin crazy!!

[misterkojakk]

@Chrispisz12 lol Clearwater is a long way from hear lol i live in rural north fla

[kutelilnelly]

Well im from orlando fl and everytime i go up north they consider me having s small southern accent and i was raised in orlando lived here 20 years and i'm hispanic so i don't think the different culturs are the case of the change in accent it's TV and media!...

[toounfazed]

Interesting...I grew up in Gainesville and have the same accent as my grandmother in Tampa and my uncles and aunts in West Palm. I pronounce Mary, merry, and marry exactly the same. I pronounce Florida as "floor-dah". My friends in Pennsylvania call it Flah-rid-dah. I think of our accent in our family as a central Florida accent without much influence from either the southern states north of us or the snowbirds.

[blueduck7711]

In the South Dade area of Florida you can still find people with that Cracker accent.There are still pockets.Mostly in Homestead(where I'm from)or the Redlands

[MrJoshieWashie]

WOOT! Marianna! Nice video.

[saintfletcher]

Try hold onto your accents as much as you can. It's part of your identity. I've lived in Arkansas and Texas in school. Your accent is a little different. People were always polite and fed me so much food, I put on weight when I was there, had some great times. I'm in Sydney Australia, born here. The accent is changing here too. The accent is more cross-Atlantic or standard American, here in Sydney. Melbourne and Perth notice that Sydney has become more more American lately. Blessings Fletcher

[misterkojakk]

@saintfletcher would you beleave alot of my speech is got old english words in it lol i call homeless people tramps all the time and my clothes britches and lazy people lay a bout lol

[TheAvocadoRepublic]

Hah, I have a floridian accent. Not this one, though. More of an everglades accent. Not too many of us have these accents, though. D:. All these snowbirds here. :s

[misterkojakk]

@TheAvocadoRepublic you can say that again lol

[wtfkitten6590]

@TheAvocadoRepublic yeah 561 here..

[LiveJoyDivision]

@TheAvocadoRepublic I have an everglades accent too ;D

[empirerecords13]

um...

[gmenfan48]

wow ive always known that north florida was more "southern" than south florida but u have a deep accent. i love florida and i definetley want to move there though ill probably move to a more developed and southern area since i dont think i could get away from the lifestyle i grew up in. what areas (south of Ocala and daytona beach) are the best. i really dont mind diversity but would like to live somewhere with good people. central florida i have always liked. wheres good around there?

[kruzito91]

@gmenfan48 try sarasota or bradenton, maybe venice

[gmenfan48]

@kruzito91 thanks what area of orlando would be the best? (and affordable too)

[Daniellekh0592]

I don't have a florida accent. Probably because I'm from central.

[misterkojakk]

@Daniellekh0592 yeah buddy north & central florida is like to different states

[touggie2000]

@misterkojakk why the hell do people actually think southern or central florida does not have accents??? the natives all have accents!!

[cumulo25]

@misterkojakk I believe what would be a cent florida accent (as I've heard in St. Petersburg the 15 years I've lived there) would be it's simplicity

1) words like "cot" and "caught" are pronounced exactly the same not with the slight variation sounding like caht and cawt

2)we smoetimes use some cliche southern mannerisms like "y'all" and "reckon" but without the drawl of say someone from alabama.

3)the cracker drawl sometimes slips out, but it's rare also we don't have that californian sound.

[BlairSilverWolf]

@Daniellekh0592 you probably do you just dont notice it. I went to japan and to the few people that spoke english when ever I spoke to them in english they asked if I was from miami and I dont have a hispanic accent. its just that everywhere has an accent its just sometimes very slight

[miegaha]

it's a common misperception to think accents are dying out b/c of TV and broadcast media. this is false. in fact, accents have not only persisted, but are thriving across the u.s. according to the latest linguistic studies released by UNC and Duke. florida has many different accents (there is even a miami accent believe it or not). often, people don't distinguish if they are immersed in it all the time.

[ktFame]

Accents are dying because popular culture (TV, radio, etc) has diluted cultural differences. There were no cowboys in colonial times, and Florida was Spanish for most of the time until Andrew Jackson defeated the Spanish during a war. The reason the north is more distinctive for its accent is because it is more rural. The big cities and the south are more populated by people moving from the rust belt or other countries, so the Southern accent is overwhelmed.

[patteel]

@ktFame Wrong, there were cowboys in Florida during colonial times. When Florida was annexed in 1819 there were over 20,000 Anglo-Floridians 40,000 Spanish, 10,000 Free and enslaved blacks, Seminole Indians and smaller of groups French, German and whatever. watch?v=VDEQIAJkKjg

[chaos0691]

@ktFame Wrong! The Cracker cowboy is the original cowboy! The first horses and cattle came to Florida in1521. Cracker horses are the descendants of these Spanish horses. The use of the term cracker goes back to before the British era. The term was used to describe the Florida cattlemen even before 1763.

[mt80008]

What about sumter and pasco county? I'm from their how do you think the accents are in those areas

[davidbeethoven17]

50 states, 50 different accents

[TearsofWolves]

I'm from Altamonte Springs in central Florida and NOBODY has that cool accent.

[pikegirl123]

i used to live near there. and ur right. no cool accents : /

[dopey41]

me from canada and u sound very southern

[akaboo69]

sounds almost like the Georgia accent

[misterkojakk]

@akaboo69 little different north fl accent is more flat then ga accent

[purzheen]

My relatives south of Okeechobee have a thicker accent than this, but only those that are over 50 (they were all born and raised in the Glades).

[shredderman4]

im from a town called oakland in florida down in central florida and a lot of people including me speak southern. but like you said a lot of it is dying out

[misterkojakk]

@shredderman4 yeap its sad but true

[patricknelson]

@misterkojakk Hey, I don't really talk like this. When I grew up, my accent was VERY similar to yours. Most of the people who were born/raised in the area I'm from have a very similar accent to yours, and I'm from the Leesburg area, originally (south of Ocala and northwest of Orlando).

[ddelfao]

@misterkojakk Southern accents, in my opinion, are the most adorable. Does Tom Hanks portray a southern accent of some sort in Forrest Gump ? :)

[jumpyourbone]

you have a thick north fl accent