LOL! "Philadelphia" I like how none of the highlighted area covers Philadelphia..
I think Midland is supposed to be Midwest, and I think the "North" accent can be split up between the New England and Midwestern accents. Who made this video?? XDD
@SupremeAmerican its also the fastest. I cant tell you how many time these dumb ass southerners cant understand me, because their inbreed minds cant handle English at a human level..
@DaytonaRoadster If you cannot properly spell simple words like "inbred" or "times" on the first attempt, and if you do not know that contractions require apostrophes, then perhaps you just aren't very intelligent. So again, maybe the reason those Southerners cannot understand you is that you aren't literate enough to communicate clearly. I suggest remedial English. (Go ahead and look up "remedial".)
@Respect4Intellect I suggest you keep your suggestions to yourself, sorry i have a life, and dont spend a great deal of time proofreading posts on youtube...which is often full of delightful expressions like "Nigger" "faggot" and "bitch", i'll make sure in the future they are gramaticly correct so grammar nazis like yourself can sleep at night, knowing that they have some purpose and arent a complete waste of oxygen
@DaytonaRoadster I'm afraid that you are learning entirely the wrong lesson. The correct one would be: don't ascribe ignorant stereotypes to groups you don't like, and call them stupid, while mangling the language yourself.
@Respect4Intellect You're kind of a dick, aren't you? A grammar mistake does not mean that someone is, "not very intelligent". A person who made a grammar mistake, could have been: in a hurry to type what they wanted to type, tired, or preoccupied while typing. I am a southerner, and it doesn't bother me that DaytonaRoadster stated that, "southerners are inbred idiots that do not understand him." so it should not bother you either. It's not cool to say someone is illiterate, even if they are.
@TheWhh81194 Yes, I am a dick to intolerant, judgmental bullies who deal in ignorant, hateful stereotypes.
So you think it's "not cool" to criticize someone's grammar (even when that person asked for it by insulting others), but it is perfectly OK to call an entire geographical segment of the country inbred idiots?
In fact, I am a southerner and I am most certainly not inbred or an idiot. I am actually much more intelligent and eloquent than DaytonaRoadster, as anyone can see.
@Respect4Intellect I didn't say I agreed with DaytonaRoadster. I was trying to tell you it's unnecessary to take a statement personally and comment back with the same judgmental attitude. To the fact of grammar, I feel it's not cool to make statements to people whom have little education in the subject.I also find it to be uncool to correct people that make few grammar mistakes.I do understand being annoyed when people use grammar incorrectly, if they know better than to use grammar incorrectly.
You say Philadelphia when you highlight every part of Pennsylvania except Philadelphia. Perhaps you are having trouble distinguishing Philadelphia from Pittsburgh?
The qualms seem to be about the broad range of "southern dialects". I think the biggest divisions down there are Southern, Cajun, and, Appalachian. Those should be how they are classified
@luv4drums1 Florida has so many transplants that there is no dialect. When I lived in Tallahassee it sounded like southern Georgia, in Tampa/Orlando/central florida there is a mix, and in the south the dominant dialect is the spanish language.
Mostly people in rural communities have more of a southern accent. Does not really matter where they are at unless its really far north like minnesota or north dakota. Most northern metro area use generalized american accent.
This map is wrong wrong wrong. The midland accent does not dip this far south. I would recommend Googling the phrase "do you speak American" There is a PBS website that got the map correct.
@ACxii Sorry i had volume on mute when watching because my mum was watching tv. Is it called New England because, its the area that most resembles the britsh accent, architecture etc? or is just a simple name :L
not quite true, the south could be devided up into at least 4 or 5 dialects,certain areas of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virgina have a more gentiel sounther aristocrat dialect, then you have eastern kentuky and west virgina. norther florida has its own, the Texas and of course Cajun the mid-west has two centeral midwest or the NO accent accent, and nothern mid-west like what you hear in Minnasota or the Dakota's
@FanBoy1977 i agree the only parts of the south i havent been to is texas and my best friend is cajun as hell so i can say they are sound similar that you can tell they are southern but they are also all different lousiana is its own missippi is a cross between alabama and lousiana texas is kind of like alabama and alabama and georgia sound about the same and north alabama and tennessee are close then virginians just talk wierd and north carolinians talk different from the others
This is a map of Dialects, not Accents. They are two different things. An accent is the way you pronounce words and your intonation; a dialect is the words you use, how you combine them and the regional-specific grammar involved.
What I don't get is can you truly not have an accent? I mean isn't a dialectic accent how the accent differentiates from the British accent? So even if certain state like Pa, where I'm from, don't seem to have an accent relative to the north and south, we sit
@Carthaginianassualt dude im from oklahoma and people call me a redneck and shit its funny i say just because you think i have an accent dosnt mean im a redneck lol
But these classifications are still completely arbitrary. There are huge variations in language in New York City alone. And Texans don't talk like Georgians. Many of them don't even talk like Texans. At least, not the Texans you think of when you think of how Texans talk.
@csrivalry I agree, I'm from northeastern Oklahoma and the vast majority of people I speak to sound more southern than midland. This map isn't very accurate in my opinion.
@lordtomtom this isn't really accurate... Im from Texas and there is a notable difference between Northern Texas (where I'm from) and Easter/western/southern Texans.. and Louisiana accents are waaaaay different. And the other Southern States have different accents as well
The 1st time I heard a Norwiegin accent,it was an Ohio cop,and I thought he was Irish.I wound up in jail for trying to compliment his accent.Somehow,that was considered 'DISORDERLY'.
@Smartaz4U To be fair, it is really getting asked what country you're from all the time. Plus, anymore, someone complementing an accent could be considered a good way to make fun of someone...
@Smartaz4U I just mean that I'm from Indiana, but, apparently, I don't sound like I'm from Indiana. People have told me to go back to my own country because apparently I sound really foreign. It gets grating after a while. You always feel like people are judging you.
@Smartaz4U Ohioan's are very very very very very very very very bizzare. Not all, but seriously, they don't use words or inflection right...it is very strange. They start sentences wrong, it is hard to communicate. From experience. Not just once or twice. As a telemarketer, and then over time meeting people from Ohio. That's probably why cause he thought you were being insulting...it's almost like they learn definitions wrong or something.
@CocacolaCowboy1919 Yeah,I know,as I drive a truck and go there alot.I've always been able to get along with just about all of them I've talked to there,though.Usually,they're crazy but GREAT in bed!I met a girl there once that before she was done said,"You're not finished yet,you little bastard!"and left me curled up in a fetal position whimpering.WAS THAT WRONG?!WAS I BAD?!
@Smartaz4U Impossible, Norwegians are the nicest people on earth. Obviously you're to stupid and ignorant to realize that Irish and Norwegians don't sound anything alike.
I'm from farm country in lower peninsula Michigan and I've lived in FL, AR, and now NC. I'm definitely a Northerner to people in the South, but if I'm talking, say, someone from the Upper Peninsula, they think I have NO accent. I think the words that throw people off with me the most is the -ou sound.
@mattwo7 Boston is part of the eastern New England dialect - NYC and Boston accents are similar, but not identical. It's also worth mentioning that there are several NYC accents. Again, the NYC accents are all fairly similar to each other, but a trained ear can hear the difference.
@JoelMatton Yea I noticed there is indeed a difference. Not a trained ear mind, but I am perceptive like that. Well when it comes to my ears anyway....
@TheTrieutran i think you guys have midland accent. same as ohio and the lower midwest. It probably doesn't show up yellow on the map because you're outside that region. you're surrounded by west virginia, baltimore and the south.
should've highlighted more of the florida pan handle too, their accent is just as thick, then you go further down south, it's just it's own accent...more of hispanic or jamaican influence deeper down into florida.
A question to Americans: If you were to pick just one state that encapsulated the largest variation of accents, attitudes, and culture in the US, i.e. a sort of "epicentre" of the US, or the US in a microcosm, what would it be?
I've heard that the best bet would be Ohio - because it bridges the south, midwest, and northeast.
He showed Pittsburgh not Philly. PA has those 2 regions, the only state to have 2 cities that size with diverse accents. Philly also uses a lot of Britishisms, such as "pavement" instead of "sidewalk". And it is the most Rhotic ("R" pronouncing) area in the US.
As a German, I find it sad how regional accents are dying out in the huge US, while in little Germany they are flourishing and doing just fine. I blame crappy US sense of culture (or the complete lack thereof)
@GrizzlyRecoveryZone1 You've never even been here, so how would you know?? Our culture is just fine btw, its everyone else in the world copying us, so it looks like we have no culture.
@GrizzlyRecoveryZone1 Any excuse to bash the US. American regional accents are still alive, but may be diminished because of the mobility of Americans and the constant influx of new people. But there are many accents that still thrive.
And your comment about "complete lack" of culture is really quite ridiculous when considering how influential American culture has been over the past century... jazz, rock, blues, swing, etc. etc.
Don't know how accurate this is but I kinda find that rural Maine accent interesting.I also like that E.Co.accent.Tried to tone down my drawl but it keeps popping up.Read once that Mainers & other New Englanders Have a Cornwall Eng.accent & Southerners' drawl is f/ Scots-Irish settlers.
The South has so many different accents. A person from Alabama sounds nothing like a person from North Carolina, and a person from Louisiana sounds nothing like a person from Georgia. I'm from North Carolina, and when I went to Georgia for the first time, some people had accents so thick I couldn't understand them. Not to mention, there are true dialects, like Gullah and Creole.
The Dakotas and Montana are part of the northern dialect. The mountain region has a different dialect than that of the west coast which is also known as the "valley accent"
Not all of the wast have the same accent! Gezz! I live in Arizona and Califorina, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico all sound the same and for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana have more southern accents but for the rest they have more of a eastern accent! Get it right next time Dude!
@LibertyLuvr1969 I really meant words, i wasn't even talking about expressions like your 'three sheets to the wind'.
I'm talking about things like 'zat, meurreg, toeter, blau, ploaier'. And lot's more. But what i meant was, the last three expressions aren't used in the region i live in. They are however common in a city not so far from where i live.
I'm not from America, but even i know 4/5 expressions.
@LibertyLuvr1969 There are some mutual sayings but for the most part it's all different. eg. We have 50 words for 'being drunk' in different regions. But if you go 10km further, the people there don't know what the saying means.
Linguists have horribly simplified it if West Texas has the same accent as West Virginia, or Albany the same accent as Sioux Falls. They're not even in the same dialect families
@LibertyLuvr1969 Yes, there are some difference. But as seen in this vid, there are 7 major groups in 50 states. We have 6 major groups in 1/10000 of the surface
We don't have southern accents in Knoxville, TN (well, most of us don't). You'll find plenty of southern accents once you go anywhere outside it, though, especially in Nashville :P
I am from Cincinnati, OH, and was a theatre major in a college in eastern KY... I was required as part of my coursework to take "Voice & Articulation"... the professor ( a man with many years of newcasting experience) called my voice an example of nearly-perfect "Midwestern Standard" which is the ideal for which TV personalities strive. He only picked on two things : A slight nasal tone which most Cincinnatians have due to sinus allergies, and our use of "please?" instead of saying "Huh?" LOL
@TalvellaMaa That's because the only accent in Alaska is "AHHH! GET THESE WOLVES OFFA ME!" and the sound of Sarah Palin in the dark. J/k :P lol they never show Hawaii either.
@sonbuhitsunei That's actually spot on, LMAO! I'm okay with everyone & their stereotypes of Alaska bein' dark, cold & filled with ravenous wolves because that's how it really is, haha!
@TropicalJesusPlant Did she fuck up America like Obama did? He said he would bring back the troops, but instead, he send more. Sarah Palin didnt do that, so why get pissed at her? huh? Oh & how does Alaska suck? It has untouched forests & beautiful mountain scenery. You hate nature or something?
Why can't he English teach their children how to speak and in America they haven't used proper English in years!
electbassplayer24 6 hours ago
I WAS JUST GONNA COMMENT ABOUT THAT THEN I SAW YOUR COMMENT..... WHAT A DUMB FUCK.... THEY HIGHLIGHTED PITTSBURGH.
squarenut151 17 hours ago
The red only highlights NYC, which is great because its true. But you said Philly and then highlighted western pennsylvania
MIXEDUPTHROWNTOGETHR 3 days ago
YINZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bobbyhill789 5 days ago
LOL! "Philadelphia" I like how none of the highlighted area covers Philadelphia..
I think Midland is supposed to be Midwest, and I think the "North" accent can be split up between the New England and Midwestern accents. Who made this video?? XDD
Remix756 1 week ago
@Remix756 New England accent is far flung from the accent of the northern mid west.
Rhoticity is the most striking difference. NE accent is severely non rhotic, while great lakes accent is extremely rhotic.
pnoozi 1 week ago
no identity in fla
MrSouthphillyitalian 1 week ago
Wow I had no idea Philadelphia was in Western Pennsylvania. I learn something new each day!
aoj2108 1 week ago
I can't tell the difference between my dialect (Northern/Midwestern) and the Californian dialect.
AlimeProductions 2 weeks ago
midwest dialect is the most intelligent
SupremeAmerican 2 weeks ago
@SupremeAmerican its also the fastest. I cant tell you how many time these dumb ass southerners cant understand me, because their inbreed minds cant handle English at a human level..
DaytonaRoadster 2 weeks ago
@DaytonaRoadster Maybe the problem is simply that you speak as poorly as you spell.
Respect4Intellect 2 weeks ago
@Respect4Intellect yes, because i always proofread my posts on youtube of all places...idiotic handjob
DaytonaRoadster 1 week ago
@DaytonaRoadster If you cannot properly spell simple words like "inbred" or "times" on the first attempt, and if you do not know that contractions require apostrophes, then perhaps you just aren't very intelligent. So again, maybe the reason those Southerners cannot understand you is that you aren't literate enough to communicate clearly. I suggest remedial English. (Go ahead and look up "remedial".)
Respect4Intellect 1 week ago
@Respect4Intellect I suggest you keep your suggestions to yourself, sorry i have a life, and dont spend a great deal of time proofreading posts on youtube...which is often full of delightful expressions like "Nigger" "faggot" and "bitch", i'll make sure in the future they are gramaticly correct so grammar nazis like yourself can sleep at night, knowing that they have some purpose and arent a complete waste of oxygen
DaytonaRoadster 1 week ago
@DaytonaRoadster I'm afraid that you are learning entirely the wrong lesson. The correct one would be: don't ascribe ignorant stereotypes to groups you don't like, and call them stupid, while mangling the language yourself.
Respect4Intellect 1 week ago
@Respect4Intellect ya, so you got nothing, thats what i thought
DaytonaRoadster 1 week ago
@Respect4Intellect You're kind of a dick, aren't you? A grammar mistake does not mean that someone is, "not very intelligent". A person who made a grammar mistake, could have been: in a hurry to type what they wanted to type, tired, or preoccupied while typing. I am a southerner, and it doesn't bother me that DaytonaRoadster stated that, "southerners are inbred idiots that do not understand him." so it should not bother you either. It's not cool to say someone is illiterate, even if they are.
TheWhh81194 1 week ago
@TheWhh81194 Yes, I am a dick to intolerant, judgmental bullies who deal in ignorant, hateful stereotypes.
So you think it's "not cool" to criticize someone's grammar (even when that person asked for it by insulting others), but it is perfectly OK to call an entire geographical segment of the country inbred idiots?
In fact, I am a southerner and I am most certainly not inbred or an idiot. I am actually much more intelligent and eloquent than DaytonaRoadster, as anyone can see.
Respect4Intellect 1 week ago
@Respect4Intellect I didn't say I agreed with DaytonaRoadster. I was trying to tell you it's unnecessary to take a statement personally and comment back with the same judgmental attitude. To the fact of grammar, I feel it's not cool to make statements to people whom have little education in the subject.I also find it to be uncool to correct people that make few grammar mistakes.I do understand being annoyed when people use grammar incorrectly, if they know better than to use grammar incorrectly.
TheWhh81194 1 week ago
The west is not one dialect. WA people and ID and UT people speak differently.
Spiritofeowyn 2 weeks ago
This must be from 1912
silverwolfe3636 2 weeks ago
Florida has no accent :(
39galaxyZi 2 weeks ago
You say Philadelphia when you highlight every part of Pennsylvania except Philadelphia. Perhaps you are having trouble distinguishing Philadelphia from Pittsburgh?
BeccaG149 2 weeks ago 9
so Philadelphia = Western Pennsylvania??
shizoid123 2 weeks ago
wow i didn't know i had a dialect O.O i'm from california
sabridd45 2 weeks ago
@sabridd45 everybody has a dialect dumbass
shizoid123 2 weeks ago
Its is all about the WEST!!!!!
usterdboy 2 weeks ago
I love my northern accent, don'cha know, eh? (God that was really forced. Someone kill me)
Bradhahn14 2 weeks ago
notice that southern florida(or as i prefer, northern cuba) wasn't marked in terms of english accent.
honeybearlove65 3 weeks ago
Texas has a distinct accent - 90% I can tell someone who was born in West Texas from someone born in Arkansas
FunkyMothaFunksta 3 weeks ago
The qualms seem to be about the broad range of "southern dialects". I think the biggest divisions down there are Southern, Cajun, and, Appalachian. Those should be how they are classified
AugustusRay 3 weeks ago
Philadelphia is not antything like Pittsburgh.
Sismiques 3 weeks ago
@Sismiques I as a Pittburgher have to agree full heartedly since we have our Pittsburgese
VerboteneLiebe29 2 weeks ago
The Southern dialect? LMAO, I'm from Boston, and I know that there are dozens of different dialects down there.
Thelookoutslookout 1 month ago
Wheres the follow up vids to this ? I didn't see any indication of that...
gblueslover2 1 month ago
philly isnt in west pennsylvania..wtf?
xOMGjezzx 1 month ago
Of course us from jersey aren't included,
dumaisis 1 month ago
I guess Saginaw Michigan speaks Canadian, ey? We barely got missed
wallywows 1 month ago
ahhh, I guess us Floridians don't speak...
luv4drums1 1 month ago 41
@luv4drums1 the video is about american english dialects. You speak spanish...
jrmelotti 1 month ago
@jrmelotti oh yeah i forgot I don't speak English =/
luv4drums1 1 month ago
@luv4drums1 Don't worry, I live in Northern VA, and apparently we don't talk either. Lol.
427skies 3 weeks ago
@luv4drums1 It doesn't mean don't you don't talk it just means there isn't a distinct accent in your region.
rooooooby 2 weeks ago
@luv4drums: I would certainly recommend not writing, in any case, since it is more properly "ahhh, I guess WE Floridians don't speak." :-)
redcoat74 2 weeks ago
@redcoat74 ...
luv4drums1 2 weeks ago
@luv4drums1 Florida has so many transplants that there is no dialect. When I lived in Tallahassee it sounded like southern Georgia, in Tampa/Orlando/central florida there is a mix, and in the south the dominant dialect is the spanish language.
1nineeight4 2 weeks ago
@luv4drums1 Spanish, not english
coreyrayj 1 week ago
@coreyrayj pero, yo no hablo espanol
luv4drums1 1 week ago
@luv4drums1 Nah, Floridians just speak Spanish.
prejudicespaniard 1 week ago
@prejudicespaniard Nein. Wir sprichen Deutsch.
luv4drums1 1 week ago
@luv4drums1 *we Floridians and you can lump yourselves in with the NYC dialect.
FAITHandLOGIC 1 week ago
@luv4drums1 LOL!
multimediaperson 6 days ago
@luv4drums1 I wish...
MrLawFilms 2 days ago
I'm right on the boarder of Northern and Midland, but I don't really have either.
AlimeProductions 1 month ago
I like to fart
justdoitasshole 1 month ago
i have a north accent im from chicaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaago. LOL people always tell me i talk out of my nose alot and im like no and there like yes.
Al123456ize 1 month ago
@Al123456ize Funny, Chicago to a Wisconsite is the south. I like Chicago:)
americanpolitic1 1 month ago
I can't imagine texans NOT getting offended that they were lumped in with the rest of the south on accents.
Inferno41 1 month ago
Oh youve got to be kidding me.
America is so racially/ethnically/culturally diverse now this map is nonexistent now-a-days.
BlakeC94 1 month ago
I have the midland accent...a really really REALLY boring accent...
soulconverter 1 month ago
where's the rest of the video!?
spookygodess 1 month ago in playlist More videos from kmm0010
I guess people in South Dakota don't talk.
uofl3000 1 month ago
Mostly people in rural communities have more of a southern accent. Does not really matter where they are at unless its really far north like minnesota or north dakota. Most northern metro area use generalized american accent.
jmillstown 1 month ago
Northern Florida is still mostly "the South." Central and Southern Florida are populated mostly by people from the Midwest, New York, and New Jersey.
acthonic 1 month ago
no jersey?????? lol
greensoldier230 1 month ago
Ha! Florida doesn't count as the south. lol
mstenorsaxplayer 1 month ago
This map is wrong wrong wrong. The midland accent does not dip this far south. I would recommend Googling the phrase "do you speak American" There is a PBS website that got the map correct.
csrivalry 1 month ago
lol Philadelphia =/= W. PA. Not just geographically is that dumb, but Pittsburgh definitely has a different accent.
fosterslover 1 month ago
The west doesn't really have a "dialect" per se
jeffnix33 1 month ago
What does ENE? Stand for. Im British so wouldn't know Lol. i understand the rest. just not that one.
59AJ59 1 month ago
@59AJ59 He says Eastern New England.
ACxii 1 month ago
@ACxii Sorry i had volume on mute when watching because my mum was watching tv. Is it called New England because, its the area that most resembles the britsh accent, architecture etc? or is just a simple name :L
59AJ59 1 month ago
not quite true, the south could be devided up into at least 4 or 5 dialects,certain areas of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virgina have a more gentiel sounther aristocrat dialect, then you have eastern kentuky and west virgina. norther florida has its own, the Texas and of course Cajun the mid-west has two centeral midwest or the NO accent accent, and nothern mid-west like what you hear in Minnasota or the Dakota's
FanBoy1977 2 months ago
@FanBoy1977 i agree the only parts of the south i havent been to is texas and my best friend is cajun as hell so i can say they are sound similar that you can tell they are southern but they are also all different lousiana is its own missippi is a cross between alabama and lousiana texas is kind of like alabama and alabama and georgia sound about the same and north alabama and tennessee are close then virginians just talk wierd and north carolinians talk different from the others
thegreatkurt2013 2 months ago
This map shows that if you're in Florida, you're nothing Lol
jftfyu 2 months ago
I love how NY has its own dialect lol
scorpio333 2 months ago
This is a map of Dialects, not Accents. They are two different things. An accent is the way you pronounce words and your intonation; a dialect is the words you use, how you combine them and the regional-specific grammar involved.
Eivyll 2 months ago 4
@Eivyll Good information--TY
GriffinElliot 2 months ago
Still have one relative to the British....therefore there is an accent.
Tomroosevelt 2 months ago
What I don't get is can you truly not have an accent? I mean isn't a dialectic accent how the accent differentiates from the British accent? So even if certain state like Pa, where I'm from, don't seem to have an accent relative to the north and south, we sit
Tomroosevelt 2 months ago
in maryland we dont have accents then LOL
baltimore90mike 2 months ago
WRONG, there is no accent here in Michigan!
Carthaginianassualt 2 months ago
@Carthaginianassualt yes, there is
OneThirdLife 2 months ago
@Carthaginianassualt Actually i've heard people think we sound like we always have a cold
Surfergirl817 2 months ago
@Carthaginianassualt dude im from oklahoma and people call me a redneck and shit its funny i say just because you think i have an accent dosnt mean im a redneck lol
bloodysword100 2 months ago
Northern Illinois does NOT have the same dialect as Wisconsim and Minnesota!
AdamW1004 2 months ago
They're talking about dialects, not accents.
But these classifications are still completely arbitrary. There are huge variations in language in New York City alone. And Texans don't talk like Georgians. Many of them don't even talk like Texans. At least, not the Texans you think of when you think of how Texans talk.
kozmon0t 2 months ago
The midland dialect does not. I repeat does not reach that far south into Oklahoma.
csrivalry 2 months ago
@csrivalry I agree, I'm from northeastern Oklahoma and the vast majority of people I speak to sound more southern than midland. This map isn't very accurate in my opinion.
stammlager5 2 months ago
That's it? Big deal
MrSportsFanatic1 2 months ago
Puny Americans in my country we have new dialect every 4 km.
lordtomtom 2 months ago
@lordtomtom this isn't really accurate... Im from Texas and there is a notable difference between Northern Texas (where I'm from) and Easter/western/southern Texans.. and Louisiana accents are waaaaay different. And the other Southern States have different accents as well
superschwerkraft 2 months ago
@superschwerkraft I live in Deep East Texas and I read your comment and just thought "Oh God yes"
PunkCakes1 2 months ago
Yeah, that's it...skip New Jersey. Don't worry, we don't f*ckin' like you either!
JJFF08901 2 months ago
@JJFF08901 hahah that made my day xD
JaJaHerSelF 2 months ago
The 1st time I heard a Norwiegin accent,it was an Ohio cop,and I thought he was Irish.I wound up in jail for trying to compliment his accent.Somehow,that was considered 'DISORDERLY'.
Smartaz4U 3 months ago 35
@Smartaz4U To be fair, it is really getting asked what country you're from all the time. Plus, anymore, someone complementing an accent could be considered a good way to make fun of someone...
Rosebunse 2 months ago
@Rosebunse I don't make fun of anyone's voice...those things come back on you.
Smartaz4U 2 months ago
@Smartaz4U I just mean that I'm from Indiana, but, apparently, I don't sound like I'm from Indiana. People have told me to go back to my own country because apparently I sound really foreign. It gets grating after a while. You always feel like people are judging you.
Rosebunse 2 months ago
@Smartaz4U Ohioan's are very very very very very very very very bizzare. Not all, but seriously, they don't use words or inflection right...it is very strange. They start sentences wrong, it is hard to communicate. From experience. Not just once or twice. As a telemarketer, and then over time meeting people from Ohio. That's probably why cause he thought you were being insulting...it's almost like they learn definitions wrong or something.
CocacolaCowboy1919 1 month ago
@CocacolaCowboy1919 Yeah,I know,as I drive a truck and go there alot.I've always been able to get along with just about all of them I've talked to there,though.Usually,they're crazy but GREAT in bed!I met a girl there once that before she was done said,"You're not finished yet,you little bastard!"and left me curled up in a fetal position whimpering.WAS THAT WRONG?!WAS I BAD?!
Smartaz4U 1 month ago
@Smartaz4U Impossible, Norwegians are the nicest people on earth. Obviously you're to stupid and ignorant to realize that Irish and Norwegians don't sound anything alike.
jeenyus720 1 month ago
@jeenyus720 Yes,I can see that.You're Norwegian,right?
Smartaz4U 1 month ago
@Smartaz4U No, I'm an Italian American.
jeenyus720 1 month ago
@jeenyus720 BULLSHIT!You're Jewish and you know it,so QUIT LIEING!
Smartaz4U 1 month ago
@Smartaz4U seriously?
xjustin523x 1 month ago
I'm from farm country in lower peninsula Michigan and I've lived in FL, AR, and now NC. I'm definitely a Northerner to people in the South, but if I'm talking, say, someone from the Upper Peninsula, they think I have NO accent. I think the words that throw people off with me the most is the -ou sound.
drewbocop 3 months ago
Which one is boston in? After hearing the scout from TF2, I drew a connection to a NY accent.
mattwo7 3 months ago
@mattwo7 Boston is part of the eastern New England dialect - NYC and Boston accents are similar, but not identical. It's also worth mentioning that there are several NYC accents. Again, the NYC accents are all fairly similar to each other, but a trained ear can hear the difference.
JoelMatton 3 months ago
@JoelMatton Yea I noticed there is indeed a difference. Not a trained ear mind, but I am perceptive like that. Well when it comes to my ears anyway....
mattwo7 3 months ago
Okay so what accent do we have here in Northern VA, the DMV area? It's yellow on that map, does it mean we have general American accent?
TheTrieutran 3 months ago
@TheTrieutran i think you guys have midland accent. same as ohio and the lower midwest. It probably doesn't show up yellow on the map because you're outside that region. you're surrounded by west virginia, baltimore and the south.
Brettwbeyer14 3 months ago
I asked people from the south how I sounded (I'm from Alaska) and they said "I dunno... some kind of northerner!"
jonkbaby 3 months ago
I'm pretty sure they skipped whole chuncks of the country.
sparkles1410 3 months ago 70
@sparkles1410 every were else is considered neutral american dialect it is what happens if you combine them all
duchashes 1 month ago
um, not all Westerns speak the same. People in Utah sound nothing like people in Washington state. Just saying.
typicaldot 3 months ago
im a western
immabeast791 3 months ago
NY is a state not Just a CIty this video kinda fucks that up
safenders 3 months ago
Im in the South!
iguy4567 3 months ago
Jersey is a special place
robmoney 3 months ago
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I live in northern VA and I can tell you right now, we do not have the same accent as those in the south.
toxicjubilations 3 months ago
should've highlighted more of the florida pan handle too, their accent is just as thick, then you go further down south, it's just it's own accent...more of hispanic or jamaican influence deeper down into florida.
bigb771 3 months ago
thumbs up if you live in an area not mapped as an accent
GILLIGAN1080 3 months ago
A question to Americans: If you were to pick just one state that encapsulated the largest variation of accents, attitudes, and culture in the US, i.e. a sort of "epicentre" of the US, or the US in a microcosm, what would it be?
I've heard that the best bet would be Ohio - because it bridges the south, midwest, and northeast.
crapatev 3 months ago
@crapatev To answer your question, search "General American" on wikipedia. Great article.
j02356322 3 months ago
@j02356322 Interesting reading - thanks for the link.
crapatev 3 months ago
I'm from north Alabama and I have trouble understanding people from south Alabama
saradeanna 3 months ago
He showed Pittsburgh not Philly. PA has those 2 regions, the only state to have 2 cities that size with diverse accents. Philly also uses a lot of Britishisms, such as "pavement" instead of "sidewalk". And it is the most Rhotic ("R" pronouncing) area in the US.
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crapatev 3 months ago
@crapatev ""Philly also uses a lot of Britishisms, such as "pavement" instead of "sidewalk"
Also, I noticed that in an episode of TV series Brotherhood (set in RI), one character used the term "tap" (British English) rather than "faucet".
I guess the language usage of each state partly reflects how long ago the state was established, and the cultural influences it had at the time.
crapatev 3 months ago
Southern Illinois can be a mix though XD. A lot of them are very southern. Mostly in rural areas though.
shegostalker 3 months ago
I feel like most of the west doesn't have an accent. except for the california surfer thing
sivret20 3 months ago
wow, that was northeast centric ... way to lump in millions of people in the western and southern states together
Ash243x 3 months ago
everyone love black talk !
carnut476 3 months ago
the yank talk & the south talk the yanks don't like the south nothing else to it
carnut476 3 months ago
As a German, I find it sad how regional accents are dying out in the huge US, while in little Germany they are flourishing and doing just fine. I blame crappy US sense of culture (or the complete lack thereof)
GrizzlyRecoveryZone1 4 months ago
@GrizzlyRecoveryZone1 You've never even been here, so how would you know?? Our culture is just fine btw, its everyone else in the world copying us, so it looks like we have no culture.
bucs817 3 months ago
@GrizzlyRecoveryZone1 Any excuse to bash the US. American regional accents are still alive, but may be diminished because of the mobility of Americans and the constant influx of new people. But there are many accents that still thrive.
And your comment about "complete lack" of culture is really quite ridiculous when considering how influential American culture has been over the past century... jazz, rock, blues, swing, etc. etc.
CalifaJohn 3 months ago
Don't know how accurate this is but I kinda find that rural Maine accent interesting.I also like that E.Co.accent.Tried to tone down my drawl but it keeps popping up.Read once that Mainers & other New Englanders Have a Cornwall Eng.accent & Southerners' drawl is f/ Scots-Irish settlers.
Moonstalker1224 4 months ago
The South has so many different accents. A person from Alabama sounds nothing like a person from North Carolina, and a person from Louisiana sounds nothing like a person from Georgia. I'm from North Carolina, and when I went to Georgia for the first time, some people had accents so thick I couldn't understand them. Not to mention, there are true dialects, like Gullah and Creole.
prodigychild1988 4 months ago
No one Cares for Alaska and Hawaii, Okay?
holmesbinton 4 months ago
Apparently people in Florida and parts of Montana, North and South Dakota just don't speak at all.
rbsadler 4 months ago
Where was this taken from?
kliudrsfhlih 4 months ago
The Dakotas and Montana are part of the northern dialect. The mountain region has a different dialect than that of the west coast which is also known as the "valley accent"
dachicagoan 4 months ago
Not all of the wast have the same accent! Gezz! I live in Arizona and Califorina, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico all sound the same and for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana have more southern accents but for the rest they have more of a eastern accent! Get it right next time Dude!
woahmannn11 4 months ago
They forgot the midatlantic accent where water doesn't have an A in it.
valstar1000 4 months ago
@LibertyLuvr1969 I really meant words, i wasn't even talking about expressions like your 'three sheets to the wind'.
I'm talking about things like 'zat, meurreg, toeter, blau, ploaier'. And lot's more. But what i meant was, the last three expressions aren't used in the region i live in. They are however common in a city not so far from where i live.
I'm not from America, but even i know 4/5 expressions.
romanphoenix999 4 months ago
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All southerners sound like a bunch of ignorant rednecks who haven't gotten a 3rd grade education
KINGxTROLL 4 months ago
There's yankee talk and southern talk that's all y'all !
carnut476 4 months ago
@LibertyLuvr1969 There are some mutual sayings but for the most part it's all different. eg. We have 50 words for 'being drunk' in different regions. But if you go 10km further, the people there don't know what the saying means.
romanphoenix999 4 months ago
@LibertyLuvr1969 I'm only pointing it out.
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romanphoenix999 4 months ago
@LibertyLuvr1969 Isn't it already clear? Jezus.
We have 6 major dialects on 13k km². You guys 7 major dialects on 9.6million km².
romanphoenix999 4 months ago
Linguists have horribly simplified it if West Texas has the same accent as West Virginia, or Albany the same accent as Sioux Falls. They're not even in the same dialect families
NYisontop 4 months ago
@LibertyLuvr1969 Yes, there are some difference. But as seen in this vid, there are 7 major groups in 50 states. We have 6 major groups in 1/10000 of the surface
romanphoenix999 4 months ago
You guys only have roughly 7dialects in 50 states?
In flanders alone we have 6 dialects (= half the country)
romanphoenix999 4 months ago
@romanphoenix999
This is an ultra-simplified, completely inaccurate representation of regional dialects in the USA. The state of Louisiana has more than 7 dialects.
fredlburrows 3 months ago
Wheres the rest of the video?
HardKore5250 4 months ago 23
How wonderful. The only part of Ohio they didn't highlight was mine. -_-'
WTFFFFFFFF!?
99whatever99 4 months ago
fuck accents it's all english :)
Majkowski24 4 months ago
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dhksrksalem 4 months ago
@AwesomeNinjaTVFTW Why would you assume that? You don't live here, I do >.>
TalvellaMaa 4 months ago
Indiana people have a mix between southern and Midwestern accents come stay in central and southern Indiana and you'll hear it
jdawg951 4 months ago
I moved from michigan when i was 1year old to florida into Orlando to Daytona
and then south west to the city of the elderly Cape Coral. But when i go up north to visit everyone says i have an accent.
kingtigertank42 5 months ago
We don't have southern accents in Knoxville, TN (well, most of us don't). You'll find plenty of southern accents once you go anywhere outside it, though, especially in Nashville :P
LemonatoR32 5 months ago
I am from Cincinnati, OH, and was a theatre major in a college in eastern KY... I was required as part of my coursework to take "Voice & Articulation"... the professor ( a man with many years of newcasting experience) called my voice an example of nearly-perfect "Midwestern Standard" which is the ideal for which TV personalities strive. He only picked on two things : A slight nasal tone which most Cincinnatians have due to sinus allergies, and our use of "please?" instead of saying "Huh?" LOL
twist3535 5 months ago
THEY NEVER SHOW ALASKA, WTF!
TalvellaMaa 5 months ago 59
@TalvellaMaa That's because the only accent in Alaska is "AHHH! GET THESE WOLVES OFFA ME!" and the sound of Sarah Palin in the dark. J/k :P lol they never show Hawaii either.
sonbuhitsunei 5 months ago
@sonbuhitsunei That's actually spot on, LMAO! I'm okay with everyone & their stereotypes of Alaska bein' dark, cold & filled with ravenous wolves because that's how it really is, haha!
TalvellaMaa 5 months ago
@TalvellaMaa what's an alaska?
blahk04 4 months ago
@TalvellaMaa alaska sucks. its filled with sarah palin bullshit
TropicalJesusPlant 4 months ago
@TropicalJesusPlant SHUT THE FUCK UP MOST OF THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA HATE SARA PALIN ANYWAYS LIKE ME
lizardgizzard108 4 months ago
@lizardgizzard108 Sarah Palins Alaska On TLC
TropicalJesusPlant 4 months ago
@TropicalJesusPlant Did she fuck up America like Obama did? He said he would bring back the troops, but instead, he send more. Sarah Palin didnt do that, so why get pissed at her? huh? Oh & how does Alaska suck? It has untouched forests & beautiful mountain scenery. You hate nature or something?
TalvellaMaa 4 months ago
@TalvellaMaa WHAT THE FUCK IS AN ALASKA?!
BakuhatsuShojo 4 months ago
@TalvellaMaa sarah palin.... nuff said
ShaithMaster 4 months ago