PhillyTawk: Overview of Mid-Atlantic English, Part 1

This is part 1 in my Overview of Mid-Atlantic English. In this segment, I describe the Mid-Atlantic region itself, and discuss the long-O and long-U.

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[MrUtube0987654321]

hahaha i love this. im from South Jersey about 2 minutes away from Camden (Mt. Ephraim to be exact) and this is exactly how I can always tell if someones from philly/sNJ/delaware. i love all these videos parts 1-6. keep it up and is there any further reading you'd suggest to a fellow accent-lover?

[smonahan09]

@MrUtube0987654321 Thanks for the positive feedback, man... Half the people that post on here are just total douches haha. I'm glad you're as into this stuff as I am. For further reading, the linguistics department at our very own Penn is on the cutting edge of american sociolinguistics. Youtube won't let me post a link on here, but search for the UPenn linguistics department page, then go to "resources", then "linguistics laboratory", then "first drafts of chapters 1-16".

[rhodesee20]

Sorry, it's just really offensive. I'm born and raised in eastern PA, 15 min from NJ and I can safely say the majority of the people there don't like New Jersey, particularly their accents. People from PA do not tawk awll the time like someone from would from New Jorzey (as someone from New Jersey would say). Just if your watching this and you don't know Philly/ PA accents don't let this mislead you.

[smonahan09]

@rhodesee20 Thanks for remaining calm, bud. Totally wrong guess about me being from Maryland or New Jersey - I'm born and raised in Philly and the PA suburbs. Allentowners don't have the Philly accent at all - that might be your issue.

[renaccio]

The video is right on about the "O" sound in the Phila accent. I went to high school in Delco and our choir director was always getting after us to correct our "O" sound, to make it rounder and bring it to the front. Coke, home, phone, hoagies., movie.. towel becomes "tal", now is "nal" etc. and "shtreet" for street. When I get tired I can feel my accent kick in.

[smonahan09]

@renaccio Haha exactly! I think I'll talk about Ls in the next video (popping up in words they don't belong, like "nal", "braln", "bolth"), and the SH at the beginning of words like street. Good call!

[Rizzy55]

THE MID ATLANTIC accent has nothing to do with your idea.

It is named for people who spent time in England and the US and merged those 2 accents

Think, Gary Grant, James Mason, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Bette Davis, and Canadians Christopher Plummer...

You dont really hear it today. It s a beautiful way of speaking that is all but gone in younger generations

[jfbecks17]

@Rizzy55

Yup. I was very confused when I heard him talking... I was like, this isn't mid-atlantic...

[KristinaPaulk]

What part of Philly are you from?

[baahhhFATALITY11]

@Rizzy55 AAUUUGH!! I'm trying to find that accent......I can't find it! I think it sounds lovely, classy.

[xuptowngirlx]

@gatolupas Haha, I'd take that bet!

[gatolupas]

@xuptowngirlx how much you wanna bet he's an aspiring comic from the Midwest?

[TheOrderoftheOwl]

Very Interesting. I come from Virginia, and i'm told we have to smoothest of all the southern accents. Very interesting, keep up the good work.