Regional Dialect Meme -- New England

[absyniancat367]

Background music is a nice touch.

[BryannaMae12321]

NH is tottaly different from the new england accent! (TRUST ME I have two houses I live in NH and MA) anyway down in Mass it is NOT a remote, its a clicker! If we adress a group of friends we say: "What's up guys?".

[clermeil]

You're about 90 years to late to be a flapper (your music).

[Mayallusion1]

lol you got no accent

[besthungergamesfreak]

Minnesota has a relatively normal accent, yours sounds mostly the same...

[cheeveka3]

Who does even we up north in the Midwest dot say it it an southern most people mistake me you new Englanders sometimes lol but expect for a few words we do sounds almost a like I can see why some people would confuse us lol

[IloveSPIDERZ]

You will almost never hear anyone say "y'all" anywhere in NY or Rhode Island. haha

[forensicbutterflie]

Where in NH are you from if you don't mind me asking?

[PCglides]

You are adorable, and you have a twin in Edmond OK

[TheSandbar136]

(I'm from MA, and we say pretty much the same words, except the only words you pronounced differently than I do are; caramel -carhmel, water - waddah, New Orleans - Orrlyns, lawyer-loy'ya, spitting image - spittin, coupon you say Q-pon I say COOpon, pajamas- puh'jarm'iz, sneakers-sneak'iz) You say granmaw & granpaw. I say gramma & granpuh, or gram & gramp, more often.  I say carriage, not shopping cart. I say, sh%#, it's rainin... We don't say anything for it either. :)

[FreeKwinsie]

Caramel... lol

[rockerdriver]

I like the way you played the Charleston and Moonlight Serenade in the background:) I'm from Hartford,CT and pronounce a few things differently than you. Most notably you said "CUE-pon". I myself and most peopledown here pronounce it " COO-pon"...

[lexichronicle2]

I'm from England.

I'd pronounce aunt, ant. Theatre would have a softer ending, theatreh. Caramel would be carahmel. Coupon would be coopON. Syrup, sirhup. Pyjamas, pahjamas. TP on a house, vandalism? :D Bug curls into a ball? A hedgehog? :P

Bubbly drink, fizzy. Gym shoes, trainers; trainEEs (slang). Trolley. April shower. Remote.

Bigger difference would be; colour, missile, semi, petrol, pasta, aluminium, water?

[lordjoesnow]

Where's the dialect? All i hear is an accent...

[Tommymaq]

Your cricket-sounding feedback is killing me.

[unfad1ng]

no you look hot :)

[trilobright]

You have a very cute voice!

[wickedmainah524]

Im from maine, I call the thing that you change channels with on the tv the "clickah"

[waislandres]

You sound like you're from my area Seattle, are you sure you are not a transplant ? /anyway think it would be better if you were just yourself and read something from a book.

[LilzLolzCoolio]

Some people call a shopping cart a "trolley" ... My mom learned English in England and that's what she still sometimes calls it after decade of living in America ... :)

[beaker347]

in New England when it rains while the sun is out, we call it "typical weathah, wait a minute"

[beaker347]

I find that the New England accent can vary north to south and east to west. "car" become "cah" "water" becomes "watah," but "dear" becomes "dea-ah" almost said as two words. In NH we are pretty much a hodge-podge blend of Maine, Vermont, and Mass. accents. You'll hear stuff like "ye-ah, I took my dog in the cah down the road a piece to the pahk . On the way they-ah I saw a a wicked piss-ah 3 cah accident that had traffic backed up fa miles."

[ebenezer1690]

i still call it tonic, lets keep it alive new england!

[JesusRad20]

I HATE THE SAYING YA'LL!!!! SOUNDS SOOOO BAD!!!

[Spottygiraffe4]

I'm from NH too!:) nashua baby! <3



[promixcuous]

"I'm from New Heee-ampshire"



[SBwingman]

Violet! You're turning violet, Violet!

[nhbiglake]

i want to live in New Hampshire soo bad! i hate Rhode Island!!

[foREVerAddicted2a7x]

I'm from Maine, we're practically neighbors :P

[QUIKKSTAR]

I'm from Chicaaago and I think that gap of yours is sexy!

[XXxshaboomxXX]

Im from massachusetts lol and my granparents call it tonic too! I felt telepathic cuz i would answer the question in my head then u would say it haha

Only i call it a clicker not a remote(:

[uncleswell]

You seem like an INTP. look it up. lemme know if im right.

[RobertBeowulf]

Lucky New England! You are gorgeous!

[OMGitsTaylorB]

New Hampshire= best state in the country <3

[1dalgon1]

Just by the way you are gorgeous!

[Chapstick817]

"Carriage" is also a common way to say shopping cart in Massachusetts.

TRIPLE POST YAAAY.

[Chapstick817]

A few other New England phrases:

A drinking fountain is usually a "bubbler".

A roundabout is a "rotary"

Those chocolate and rainbow sprinkles are called "jimmies".

[Chapstick817]

For more variety if anyone's interested here's Massachusetts:

I call a group of people "you guys" instead of y'all. I think that goes for most americans exept those in the south and midwest.

I say remote control, but MANY of my friends say "Clicker" (or clicka :))

Grand parents might also be "Nana and Papa" or ethnic names like vovo in portuguese families. I say Grandma and Grandpa (pronounced gramma and grampa, of course).

[mbsmbudge100]

your wrong on the tv remote in new england we call them clickers

[WellThatWasRandom]

i don't think you have an accent much different than mine, and we're on opposite sides of the country!

[getreadyish]

@mortalcottonslasher1

omg thats exactly wat i wuz told it wuz called..wen i asked y it rains while the sun shines my mom wud say cuz the devil is beating his wife lol

[uptheskunks]

this would be a much better video if you didnt look so bored durring the whole thing.

[bub777]

is it true that New England ppl will typically say "draw" instead of "drawer"?

[cherst1031]

@bub777 LOL Yep, I work in a store and they actually put labels on our "draws", as in "Draw 1" "Draw 2" etc. (Mass.)

[mortalcottonslasher1]

2:35 "The devil is beating his wife."

[turetskygambit]

Nice Video! The girl seems to have a very warm personality and a good sense of humor. Can someone PLEASE tell me what music starts at around 3:00 It's so beautiful and so familiar! BTW I'm from New York and I am lucky to have a rare Midatlantic accent (if I try and usually on Sundays)

[KC1971J]

@turetskygambit I don't know what it is either, but it's a grand old song. Sounds like something from the 40's.

[MsPebbles2010]

Most people overseas refer to a "shopping cart" as a trolley.. :)

[IrishmanNH]

Born and raised in New Hampshire been here for 23 years, I live in the southwest part of the state, I think we have kind of a lighter version of the mass accent, I've always called it N'Hampsha never New Hampshire. We don't say "Shire" it's "Sha" Most people i know drop the 'G' from the end of words like "hunting" they say huntin, But sometimes we also drop the 'R' sound like saying car, I've heard people say "Cah" but not as harsh as mass people use it,

[Hampshirian]

NOOOOOO it's a CLICKER!! Not remote. Ugh comon girl your killing our shared NH vibe. People at my school in DC make fun of me by asking how many moose I've shot? wtf?? K I hunt but I don't shoot moose...the lottery is too hard to get into haha

[itachiz2]

woot! NH is the best evea! (from another New Hampshire citizen XD)

[Hbbt82]

Everyone has an accent, there is no 'normal' or non-regional diction. Its all relative. Also there is a distinction between eastern and western new England Accents. Eastern is basically hats called the 'Boston Accent" dropping the Rs and using long "A" sounds. In Western New England we also use long As alot, but we do pronounce Rs. But we drop Ts and other consisnents depending on words. 'Vermont' and 'Great Briton' are 'Vermo' and 'Grea Bri-in' to me (I'm from the Western Massachusetts)

[viarockgirl]

@Hbbt82

Some of the more "hick"-ish people around here say things like "Great Briton'" and "New Hampsha'"

I usually think it's Maine folk who drop the "r"s off of a lot of words, but who knows!

I agree with you that it's all relative. I think this meme is interesting not just because of the region but because of the individuality of it all :)

[EasyBakeSmiles]

@viarockgirl im from nh..and I don't sound like that.

[baggedyman]

@viarockgirl How do you look gross?

[TheSandbar136]

@viarockgirl Hickish? My teachers would say New Hampsha. It's just an accent, not a matter of education.

[pho1pho]

@Hbbt82 neutral accents are normal accents. listen to someone from toronto for neutral accent

[teddyv7]

@Hbbt82 its been decided that that the ohio area speaks with the least "accent". meaning that they speak english in its most phonetic form.

[TheGazzman31]

In England we call a shopping cart a shopping trolley, I dunno if you wanted to know that but when you said "what else would you call it?" I thought i might just throw that in >.<

[shawnw585]

What is the song that is playing at about 3:00? It's really cool.

[WheresPoochie]

@shawnw585 "Moonlight Serenade" by Glenn Miller

[XXXKiwiBird2821]

"Park the car in the havard yard" ;)

[weedipikia]

I thought you New Englanders would call the remote a clickah... lol. Sorry, just kidding. As a New Yorker, I concur with most of this.

[Jakezilla829]

The Charleston makes this video epic win!

[Shemegan2012]

i live in new hampshire and i got the same answers and you sound normal (:

[frankdrac]

northern, aunt or Ont and tonic means NwEnglnd

[viarockgirl]

Wow, everyone! I'm not alone! Ha :)

[adil1011]

How did you possibly think of this music???

[viarockgirl]

@adil1011

I'm weird. This is legit in my itunes library. What can I say?

[NormbrettaMod]

@viarockgirl

why do you sound english?

[viarockgirl]

@NormbrettaMod

I didn't think I did! Nope. I'm pretty sure I'm rather american sounding on the whole

[NormbrettaMod]

@viarockgirl

on the whole yh but there was a little twang of english i thought i heard...do you have any english relatives? or watch a lot of english TV?

[CanadianMaster1]

@NormbrettaMod In a way , she is English....New English!!!! LOL I am from Britain, from London, and here the english language is used a lot differntly to American English. For example we call gym shoes trainers, sidewalk = pavement, etc

[brokendisease]

@viarockgirl Great big band music (:

[IrishmanNH]

@viarockgirl What part of NH you from, Im from the southwest area, Cheshire country.

[adil1011]

@viarockgirl

u have interesting facial expressions too haha

[uncleswell]

@viarockgirl thats awesome. for reals.

[milousoda]

@viarockgirl What's it called? I love it! :D

[dude3390]

@orange10125 Dude, creepy. She looks about 15

[viarockgirl]

@dude3390

While I might not be that young, I appreciate you fending off the creepers (though i didn't see this orange10125's comment) :)

[abandonednh]

ha, i'm from new hampshire and my mom calls soda "tonic" too.

[abandonednh]

ha, i'm from new hampshire and my mom calls soda "tonic" too.

[dustin2006]

your accent sounds very normal and plain to me and i'm from north carolina.

[malloryt19]

woah i'm from new hampshire too! got all the same answers lol