If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent

[521i]

NY accent is kinda mixed up basically

So...

I can't complain

[UltimateVenom]

i need to watch goodfellas again now

[thehegemonik]

Shit REAL New Yorker's say.

[BASSAROVER]

my wife has a Cleveland accent

[psychogirl324]

So many people say its hard not to talk with the New York accent, but I can't do it right! I'm gonna be in a play an dthe director said I need to have a new york accent. But I can't do it right!

[philly442]

watch goodfellas and boom

[NEXTLOVER]

Hey now, I'm from Queens (HEY!) but us Queenies really don't got one... we're the ones ppl can't really distinguish. When I moved to Los Angeles, ppl were like, "I expected a NY accent. What happened?" But sometimes the "haard, tawk, Staahbucks Kawfee" comes outta me from nowhere then they go, "Oh there it is!" LOL.

[Sonorense815]

What does the bold man at 0:27 says??? Someone please answer :)

[ThePunkIrish27]

@Sonorense815 thirty third and third :D

[PatricianOfDarkness]

haha uh its 33rd and 3rd = 33rd street and 3rd avenue

[rumanaire]

@Speedyhobbit you are SO right!! Houston St is a good test....and the look of confusion is priceless :-)

[xoxo2shy]

No matter how much you try to deny it, if you were raised in new york ...you have a slight accent. For example, my best friend sounds like a white girls from Cali but when she says certain words like cawfee instead of coffee and tawk instead of talk.

[ClassicHolic]

"kish mein tuchas", which means "kiss my ass", lol.

[FD347]

I dunno know what dese guys is tawkin about. All da rest of yous tawk funny. Not me.

[bpeck77]

Too bad most good New York accents have gone the way of reasonable rent prices in the city. Now it seems everyone in New York just got here from somewhere else.

[ArthurGurevitch]

What NY accent??

Whaata ya talkin' about?

[ShmorgelBorgel]

It's of an exaggeration to talk of NY accents divided by boroughs and neighborhoods--however, thereare divisions in the NY accent based on ethnicity. Italian New Yorkers sound different from Jewish New Yorkers, who sound different from Irish New Yorkers, who sound different from Puerto Ricans and the original languages of these ethnic groups influence the various NY accents, etc. Of course, these ethnic groups (in the past at least) dominated certain neighborhoods and boroughs.

[ShmorgelBorgel]

Therefore, since certain neighborhoods in certain boroughs were dominated by certain ethnicities--some people think there is a borough/neighborhood-specific accent--but not exactly. A Bensonhurst, Brooklyn-Italian NY accent is not that different from a Staten Island-Italian NY accent, and a Jewish NY accent from Forest Hills, Queens is not that different from a Jewish NY accent from Canarsie. A Puerto Rican New Yorker from the South Bronx sounds like a Puerto Rican from East Harlem, too...

[ShmorgelBorgel]

But--there is bleedover, too. Sometimes you can have an Italian New Yorker who grows up around Jewish New Yorkers and sounds Jewish, and vice versa. So there is also somewhat of a neighborhood accents, but it's more ethnically based. And yes, the accents are disappearing, at least in Manhattan and large swaths of Brooklyn (the parts that have been gentrified and settled by Americans from other parts of the USA).

[vichiousfishes]

I was adopted by a lady from Greenpoint i the 40's and a man fro Hicksville. Bron from a Filipino and Puerto Riacan couple in Brooklyn. spent 2 years in the orphanage in the 80's. And now live in Oregon. I don't know what my accent is. But I say "duh fuck cha ass'ole" alot.

[pen24]

I'm from Minnesota and I never knew I had an accent (scandinavian to this vid) until I went to New York. Some lady started bitchin at me for some reason or other. But acutally funny enough we learned it was a nice welcome to New York, or maybe she was from Jersey idk I'm from Minnesota what do I know...

[rocketsauced]

@pen24 Yeah, youse got funny accents out there.

[MiaDepRockRionII]

We sound really rude. I don't hear any accent.

[scallly64]

It's that "Direct Directness" got it? lol

[scallly64]

I'll give ya a boot in the ass!! lolol

[kalina1017]

"Idiots come in and they blow their horns to loud.. usually they're from New Jersey" haha

[mikehattan]

As an Englishman who lived for 10 years in New York...I loved, LOVED all the different accents!

[NinJaMamasita]

Everything is on point, HOWEVER, that guy at 0:19 I'd say he's off, I don't hear anyone ever saying stuff like that, unless, of course they are just making fun...

[1982JoseB]

@NinJaMamasita can you teel me what he says please: come to my house, is that what he says?m

[NinJaMamasita]

@1982JoseB Yes, thats what he says, "Come to my house, get in my car."

[ALBIONTYKE]

I'm from England & think NYC is the coolest accent ever. "Hey get the fuck outa my face bozo" luv it !

[GimmeKitty]

That Black chick, the one from Brooklyn, sounds EXACTLY like ... Jennifer Lopez!!

Bronx Puerto Rican, ba-by.

[GimmeKitty]

OK, this is more like it ....

[speedyhobbit]

If you want to distinguish a tourist, ask them to pronounce Houston Street. XD

[liveandlaughangie]

@speedyhobbit

HOW-STIN!:)

[humanonthetube]

Thoirdy- thoird and Thoird...Atsa poifict acksent!!

[Sharkbait1213]

My accent is pretty noticeable, so whenever I go out of state, even to places like Philly, I get the "Oh, you're from New York?" My friend from Philly calls me New York too.

On a completely unrelated note, go Yanks! ^_^

[soccrroxmysox]

god i love the guy in the round harry potter glasses.

[thepuppetstv]

nice work...too short and a bit disjointed tho...still enjoyable! ty!

[BrendanIsCool]

english origin

[NotoriousPimp24]

NEW YORK FUCKIN CITY

[OctoroonToYou]

@NotoriousPimp24 New Fuckin York City.

[liverpool80000seater]

thats right

[froibio18]

What a fuckin way to start a video! haha

[jenforyou]

im from australia! i want a new york accent..i always try to do it

[MrSportsFanatic1]

I am a New Yorker and love being a New Yorker

[DoryokuFiripin]

@MrSportsFanatic1 and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, this is the greatest city in the world, took my one year in a shitload capital like Manila to realize that.

I ♥ NY!!!

[Musashib00]

@Caledonia62 How can you live in Queens and be racist? Or anywhere in NY for that matter? Why don't you move to Tennessee or Iowa where you can feel right at home with almost no diversity.

[Musashib00]

@Caledonia62 First off, if you wanna insult my ethnicity, insult me correctly, I'm Italian and Puerto Rican. So the word "gook" does not offend me. Second, I was born in Booth Memorial Hospital and I live/grew up in Forrest Hills.

[MOONFACEx2]

@Musashib00 yay, another person from Forest Hills.

[Musashib00]

@MOONFACEx2 Yep, been living here since 1982. I'm originally from Astoria but I moved to Forest Hills when I was 4.

[gmenfan48]

everyone of ya's who thinks new yawkers are rude is a cawk sucka. suck my bawls mudda fuckas.

[OctoroonToYou]

The opening line made me watch the rest of the video.

[VTwinty]

Anyone notice, Falco from StarFox has a New York Accent?

[yorkiedog89]

i have a new york accent and they make fun at me at work.

[optimisticsmiles1]

This needs to be made into a doc. movie! Anymore things like this, its my fave vid!

[MartinUnterlaa]

""TruMorbid "You know wat, if you don't like the way I tawk, fuk you!"

Perfect line to start this video off. Lol ""

Would be a great line to start EVERY conversation :-)))

[no1wwefan96]

get de fock outta ma cooaa.

ur nuts get outta hea

[Fersomling]

One more thing. I know a guy who changes accents every few sentences. He'll start out, say, talking with a Brooklyn accent, then switch to Russian, then to German, then to Southern, then to Italian...He's really entertaining.

[musikmo89]

@Fersomling i would really like to hear someone talk like that. it sounds so cool. Im from long island so i gotta bit of the accent

[Fersomling]

We in Vancouver love the NYC accent also.

[TruMorbid]

"You know wat, if you don't like the way I tawk, fuk you!"

Perfect line to start this video off. Lol

[VivaLaTrumpet]

Being from Ohio, I love New York Accents. I always think I have no accent, but guess everyone does. I have mid-western accent. I noticed in movies mostly it's either New York or Western Accent.

[stevolim]

freakin nykers have no respect of anything no wonder they have more criminals than anywhere else lol. stay the same, the world need crazy drama

[Rach84]

right, that's why NY has been repeatedly named the safest big city in the country. We have tons of criminals...

[stevolim]

ya right those FBI stats- which B stands for bullshit.

land of the free, home of the deprave.

[Rach84]

take it from me, whose live in NYC since the 80s. It was a LOT worse then.

[VivaLaTrumpet]

Naw, actually last time I checked it was Detroit.

[badmuthahubbard]

@stevolim Wait, cause it sounded like you just said "Detroit"

[SuperNumber19]

lol i have a thick new york accent i try to suppress but it still comes out.. i mean.. i don't know why they say new yorkers don't have much of an accent anymore.. that's a load of bologna.. anyway.. god bless my big apple. :)

[gruzzo18]

Yeah these people are full of shit, I'm from the Bronx, people in Brooklyn sound no different. It's all bullshit. Noone can tell what borough you're from let alone what neighborhood you're from.

[NyYankees1985]

thats such bulshit the boros all have the same fukkin accent.......except manhattan cause noone that lives there is from ny.....the irish and itralians sound mor similar to eachother then the dirty jew accent ....i can spot a dirty jew from 43 miles away but not 44

[cleansnyder]

u don't know shit... fuck you

[NyYankees1985]

i dont know shit fuck you?..........oh ok whatever you say there genius......i have a suspicion that you what i call a "jew" or a "jew lover".....either way your a douche bagg

[SuperNumber19]

you're everywhere like a plague aren'y ya mac?

[NyYankees1985]

ahh a fan

when i was little we used to chase the little jew kids around and smak the yamakas off thier head and then play kick the jew

[SuperNumber19]

rofl.. nice hobbies there chief. But i'm not a jew man.. I think jewish gals are pretty delicious lol

[3o5Miami]

I love the new york accent

we dont have an accent

in miami

[JohnnyMidnight1]

yeah you do it's called the Miami accent

[ShmorgelBorgel]

@3o5Miami

Everybody has an accent of some sort unless they are completely silent.

[beer41192]

i love my new york!

[Saugidaug1]

I love Knishes and the way they tawk. No one speaks like New Yorkers and that's why they are so special. More mustard please !!

[TigerRocket]

Actually...it's ''Maw mustid please!''

Not fer nuthin' but you must be an out-a-towner. Is dat da King's English yer usin'? Jeez, yer gonna get takin' real fast if ya keep tawkin' like dat. Don't go ta Brooklyn if yer plannin' on dressin' the way ya tawk. Dey'll eat you alive!

[VivaLaTrumpet]

Can I git watah with that mustid?

[haras11]

cool video