For a third time, dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Host: Erik Singer
Director: Alice Roth
Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Production Manager: Morgan Winters
Editor: Justin Sloan
Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio
Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti
Linguists: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark
Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn
Language Nest Revitalization Efforts in Hawaii footage courtesy of ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le
A huge special thanks to:
Pamela Vanderway
Eliza Simpson
James N. Stanford
Nacole Walker
Justin McBride
Zachary Cooper
Reg Charging
International Dialects of English Archive
The Language & Life Project
Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
Dr. Walt Wolfram
ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le
For more reading and resources check out:
The American Dialect Society:
Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:
Indigenous North American accents:
African American Language:
New York Latino English:
Appalachian English
North Carolina accent and dialect variation:
Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:
Language variation and education:
Language discrimination and racism:
Lots of accents:
Harvard Dialect Survey
Podcast Resources:
Lingthusiasm podcast
The Black Language podcast
Because Language podcast
The Vocal Fries podcast
00:00 – Intro
00:16 – Southern California
01:07 – Surfer Accent
01:30 – Chicano English
02:51 – Navajo English
03:23 – African American English in California
03:55 – Pacific Northwest
04:13 – San Francisco cot-caught merger
04:30 – Vancouver, Canada
04:44 – Matanuska-Susitna Valley
05:29 – Northwest Territories, Canada
06:16 – Toronto
07:27 – Newfoundland
08:44 – Northeastern New England
09:58 – Conclusion
10:57 – Resources
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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents – (Part 3) | WIRED
Andrea Levinson
March 26, 2021 at 12:39 am
this series is going to get so many people interested in linguistics and I’m so here for it
nobecausereasons
March 26, 2021 at 12:39 am
The most infuriating part is that he can pull off a Newfoundland accent half decently but he can’t pronounce the name of the bleedin province correctly
Tesslikesstuff
March 26, 2021 at 12:41 am
I hope Erik does a video on Australian accents <3
wooagyu
March 26, 2021 at 12:44 am
YEAYY NEW ERIK SINGER VIDEO!!!
Gregory Gladkov
March 26, 2021 at 12:45 am
Very disappointed that Asian Americans have been glossed over completely in this series. 🙁
Eemil
March 26, 2021 at 12:46 am
And he’s back 😎
Aimee Friedman
March 26, 2021 at 12:46 am
Can you do a report on how Latin people stress the “e” before the letter “s”, though there is no letter “es” in the Spanish alphabet?
ex. Steven is pronounced, E-Steven.
I’m not mocking. I’m Latina.
Noah Lorenzo
March 26, 2021 at 12:46 am
The lying linen invariably mend because tortellini appropriately tire following a harmonious bomb. tense, regular string
DrRockkso
March 26, 2021 at 12:47 am
The other videos were great but this one was actually really disappointing. California is barely covered at all, his attempt at the SoCal “surfer” accent is just completely wrong, he skips the Pacific Northwest (Northern California is NOT part of the PNW), and totally glosses over the Bay Area except for a brief bit about the “caught-cot” merger. No background about how NorCal accents are historically influenced by Northeastern migration while SoCal accents are influenced by Southern and Midwestern migration. Nothing about the many Asian accents in California and their influence on the wider population, nothing about the Basque and Portuguese influence on accents in the Central Valley, no discussion of the distinct differences between African American accents in NorCal vs SoCal, etc.
Ryley Foshaug
March 26, 2021 at 12:47 am
I came here for a better breakdown of a thick newfie accent, and I was disappointed. I know it’s English but it’s nearly impossible to understand.
Dreadpirate
March 26, 2021 at 12:50 am
I’m a simple man. I see Erik Singer I click.
Jacqueline Albin
March 26, 2021 at 12:51 am
Love Megan Figueroa and the Vocal Fries pod so much! I was so happy to see her in this series 🍟
Laphad
March 26, 2021 at 12:54 am
Love the series but hate how they continually use ‘Latinx’. Especially weird that they say Chicano and not ‘Chicanx’ since it’s gendered in the exact same way. If you’re gonna virtue signal at least be consistent.
Marina Kyriacou
March 26, 2021 at 12:57 am
This has been a brilliant series.
Action Kid
March 26, 2021 at 12:57 am
You should do new york
Cap't Jack
March 26, 2021 at 1:03 am
“What are you doing here Stewaaaart”
LilacAce
March 26, 2021 at 1:03 am
bro no wonder “maths” is so difficult to pronounce ive been using the unvoiced s this whole time
Alyce McKnight
March 26, 2021 at 1:04 am
This was so fascinating and engaging! I’d love to see you do other countries/continents!
Los Shabos
March 26, 2021 at 1:06 am
Mexico is part of North America too!
devon
March 26, 2021 at 1:07 am
finally the next part!
Clos MasMas
March 26, 2021 at 1:10 am
I wonder if Hawai’i will ever be covered 🤔
Ivan White
March 26, 2021 at 1:16 am
That was a pretty good Newfoundland Southern Avalon accent… A lot of older people add a “sure” sound to the end of their sentences.
Charlotte Corwin
March 26, 2021 at 1:20 am
Not bad on the Newf, only thing: Newfoundland rhymes with understand. 👍🏻
Æthelred the Unready
March 26, 2021 at 1:23 am
You better make that ten times as long, comprehensive video Erik
Olivia C
March 26, 2021 at 1:24 am
Atlantic Canadians all came to the comment section because we never get recognized like this (shoutout to my PEI accent)
Chen Sh
March 26, 2021 at 8:59 pm
This was so great thank you 💓
Ray W
March 26, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Interesting, but YouTube is doomed with the ad-choked videos.
30 second forced upfront video? I turn it right off.
Inky Scrolls
March 26, 2021 at 9:04 pm
“Latinx” sounds so stupid. Just say Latino like a normal person.
phun309
March 26, 2021 at 9:09 pm
Can you do the UK, the Indian subcontinent, or Oceania next?
Nicholas Walsh
March 26, 2021 at 9:25 pm
But what about Washington though
Rob Abrams
March 26, 2021 at 9:35 pm
DO THE LONG VIDEO ERIK.
Zarsla
March 26, 2021 at 9:37 pm
I have that mary/marry/merry split but I was born and raised in nyc and then move to the south ~11/12.
Kimi Carlile
March 26, 2021 at 9:44 pm
We need more on the PNW accents like Seattle and Portland!
Ontario Traffic Man
March 26, 2021 at 9:49 pm
It’s wild that I definitely follow those rules about raising particular vowels before an unvoiced consonant, even though I wouldn’t know which words are actually voiced unless I stopped to think about it!
Naci Dilekli
March 26, 2021 at 9:54 pm
Please give us more of this!
Tom Cuming
March 26, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Nice to hear Atlantic Canada! Good attempt at the Newfoundlander accent!
Sébastien A
March 26, 2021 at 11:01 pm
6:05 “I have tremendous HOPE for the future of Native American languages” — I see what you did there, Kalina!
Cristian Franzén
March 26, 2021 at 11:02 pm
I love this series! It’s amazing! As a Swede that have moved to Chicago little over a year ago and with a decent (at least to myself) language ear it is fun to hear and learn more about the details in vowel sounds.
I noticed some scandinavian cook books in the shelves in the second video. It would be interesting with a break down of the scandinavian English dialects. They are quite different but there are things I just can’t make right despite almost 30 years of learning English.
lyadmilo
March 26, 2021 at 11:14 pm
No Montreal?? It’s a very distinct English. Of course there’s French but even first language Anglophones have a unique accent.
Jimmy Miller
March 26, 2021 at 11:29 pm
What causes that little cot/caught island near San Francisco?
Just Giulia
March 26, 2021 at 11:44 pm
Please do the UK next!!!
MooCubeNZ
March 26, 2021 at 11:48 pm
I’d love to see you do all the New Zealand accents. There are some interesting differences, but I haven’t seen anyone identify, label, and explain them
Professor R.
March 26, 2021 at 11:56 pm
When he said “Canadian raising”, I thought it was about “eh” ↗️.
Figgy5119
March 27, 2021 at 12:07 am
In the lower peninsula of Michigan we have the ai diphthong version of Canadian raising.
Heather Holliday
March 27, 2021 at 12:43 am
I would 10 hours of this…so, please keep creating more videos and go into more depth.
James Stoddard
March 27, 2021 at 12:51 am
Very enjoyable. Thanks
Garrett Hoover
March 27, 2021 at 1:13 am
I’m interested in accents and dialects just out of personal curiosity and this is the best series on NA dialects I’ve seen yet. It’s really hard to find authentic examples of speakers with a lot of these patterns but this one does such a good job at getting them right and providing linguistic support.
Lorde
March 27, 2021 at 1:20 am
My face instantly shifted to a smile upon seeing this video on my recommended!
Brandon Rempel
March 27, 2021 at 1:27 am
PNW guy waiting weeks to hear what a PNW accent is, only to hear him spend literally 3 seconds talking about it, then remember how San Francisco isn’t like the PNW, and then just moves on to talk about Canada for the rest of the video. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kieran Walker
March 27, 2021 at 1:28 am
I would definitely watch a full length documentary presented like this very good! 😁
Chrissi H
April 3, 2021 at 2:06 am
I got so giddy to see the nod to the Atlantic Provinces, as brief as it was! I’d love a breakdown of NB, NS, PEI, and NFLD – especially NB and NS, as there are some wild accents, due to a constant power struggle between English, French, and Scottish powers, and so, SO, much Irish immigration.
Kuzter
April 3, 2021 at 2:30 am
This videos are amazing, can´t get enough of this guy!
But please as an argentinian myself I beg you to not use Latinx, just don´t.
Primitive Primate
April 3, 2021 at 3:18 am
Please full in-depth videos! Teach us the accents 🙏🙏🙏
JustMeLauren
April 3, 2021 at 5:29 pm
What about upstate NY? There was nothing on this (that I could find) in any of the videos
Tom W
April 3, 2021 at 5:29 pm
Great! Now do a tour of British accents, please?
Hazel Dell
April 3, 2021 at 7:19 pm
We wanted the videos to be longer. The first was like 21 minutes, and the last two were kind of rushed. I think the Midwest on towards the West coast could have had more detail, and I would have loved to have heard about accents in Hawaii, but I enjoyed the videos. Hopefully in the future they will do this again as a “part 2” for the places they didn’t do.
Kamwick
April 3, 2021 at 11:46 pm
Yes, let’s make a more thorough study of the various regions.
redchic
April 4, 2021 at 6:34 am
Growing up I had heard on occasion that the Pacific Northwest doesn’t have an accent. As an adult I figured that lack was an itself accent. But given the small areas mentioned, maybe it’s true given that we’re not mentioned much? Or is our boring sound considered to be an accent? Lol.
Stav Lefler
April 4, 2021 at 1:47 pm
dɪˈlaɪtf(ə)!!
XanderShiller
April 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm
Can y’all please discuss transliteration aka translation in context.
XanderShiller
April 4, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Yes some Canadian and Minnesota dialects sound made up or funny until you realize that it’s how they speak. Smh
XanderShiller
April 4, 2021 at 6:05 pm
*How &why does one become a dialect coach?* And what’s the job description
FlyingFalcon01
April 4, 2021 at 10:45 pm
Oregonian here — definitely felt like he got the wrong vowel for the cot-caught merger…like it was too “aww” sounding instead of a shorter “ah” (not a linguist, don’t know the actual symbols for the sounds!). Also a little sad he didn’t go into more depth for the PNW. I feel like this area has a lot of interesting speech patterns that could’ve been expanded on. 🙂
Alyss
April 5, 2021 at 1:27 am
*Vowel* VAOWWWel 😉
Sam Hutchison
April 5, 2021 at 4:35 am
You skipped over Alberta and Zapp Rowsdower!!!
Tyler
April 5, 2021 at 4:46 am
Alberta please?
D M
April 5, 2021 at 5:01 am
WHEN WE NEED HIM HE APPEARS 😩
Mx Rochelle
April 5, 2021 at 6:28 am
Please please react to all of the different accents Tatiana Maslany does in Orphan Black!
Alejandro Cortes Morales
April 5, 2021 at 4:52 pm
Beautiful.
Elizabeth S
April 5, 2021 at 5:56 pm
I’d love to see a video specifically on Canadian accents, because they can be SO varied because of the history. This video touched on it a bit, but there are some really interesting accents that didn’t get mentioned. As a Torontonian, we have dozens of accents just in our one city. And this video didn’t even get into the prairie accents or other maritime accents!
Noah Schmitt
April 5, 2021 at 6:37 pm
That girl is scary!
Mike G
April 5, 2021 at 7:55 pm
I was waiting for them to get to Northern California and nearly choked when they lumped us into PNW 🥵 Like, NO. Just NO 👎
Nathalie Buzaglo
April 6, 2021 at 12:46 am
So sad you skipped over Montreal. A little pocket of English in Quebec. : (
Nathalie Buzaglo
April 6, 2021 at 12:46 am
This was a great series! Thank you! : )
zmurf24
April 6, 2021 at 1:16 am
There should be an entire episode on Newfoundland
Ryan DePauw
April 7, 2021 at 3:10 am
What abt the Midwest 🙁
scruffy nerfherder
April 7, 2021 at 5:44 am
There are waaay more accents in SoCAL.
G Hutchinson
April 7, 2021 at 9:19 am
I thought Eric’s facility was remarkable, to put it mildly. I was disappointed only in the short shrift that was given to the English of the Pacific Northwest, but that’s almost always the case. One exception was Robert De Niro’s uncanny portrayal of the domestic abuser in “A Boy’s Life.” He caught the working-class hick accent of rural Western Washington. Where did he learn it? The way he said things like, “Now you’re a real Concrete boy” was so accurate.
Daniel Molina
April 7, 2021 at 1:51 pm
This covers too many areas in a single video.
Vito Lebommil
April 7, 2021 at 5:09 pm
The vocal fry is strong with this one
Jennifer Glatz
April 7, 2021 at 6:19 pm
also how come the maine accent sounds like obi wan kenobi but maybe a little tipsy
Aaron El Sabrout
April 7, 2021 at 9:54 pm
i nominate the caribbean for episode 5
Xavier Domenico
April 8, 2021 at 1:18 am
I have a friend in Vancouver and the way they said words like “already” and “really” is like “ullready” and “rully”
Nathaniel Thrush
April 8, 2021 at 1:25 am
You missed out on a lot of CA, the northwest, Canada, and Hawaii. I get that the east coast is overall more intricate because of it’s density and longer history but I think you guys missed out on a couple topics here.
Steve Arch toe
April 8, 2021 at 3:19 am
Still gotta try to slip that white imperialism in there with the LatinX. Such racist ignorance.
OsKarMike1306
April 8, 2021 at 5:58 am
I was sad that he completely ignored Quebec, but I guess it’s not exactly an English-speaking part of North America. More of a begrudgingly English-speaking part of North America
Patrick Plouffe
April 8, 2021 at 11:11 am
I was hoping you could answer a question I’ve always had when I learnt english: why are there two pronunciations of the word “again”, one as in “gain”, the other as in the letter N. In french, those are two distinct é and è sound. Looking forward to an answer! Thanks.
rose ?!?!?!
April 8, 2021 at 7:36 pm
as an edmontonion.. why do i sound more newfie than edmontonion
TiggyTiger4
April 9, 2021 at 1:43 am
Please do one of accents in England. Your New England accent sounds just like RP English to me.
Pam’s
April 9, 2021 at 3:56 am
Yer Newf was bad. Did sound more Irish than Newf though. Newf is super distinct. The other islands have their own accents too. Manitoba and the coast sound different as well.
Saul Porter
April 9, 2021 at 10:04 am
I am Scottish and although Maine to my ears sounds similar to transatlantic english, those differences mentioned are definitely still present in Scottish English.
rvrmn
April 9, 2021 at 3:39 pm
So is there an accent that’s kind of all over the place? You know, spoken by people who are connected by media. Something that probably exists in cities more and among middle class people who might move around more. I’m not a linguist, but this seems to me like how.
Theo O.
April 9, 2021 at 4:05 pm
No!!! this cant be the end
Chad Wells
April 9, 2021 at 5:33 pm
LatinX. STFU 😅
Kappa
April 10, 2021 at 12:56 am
Please continue making videos forever about everything. I just want to listen to you talk about humans making sounds with their faces.
oLYRICSo
April 10, 2021 at 1:28 am
Wtf is “Latinx”? .. you mean Latino/Latina?
Conrad Nelson
April 10, 2021 at 3:10 am
What an interesting lecture. I live in Oklahoma and a true deep okie accent is great. You did not cover it and I don’t how widespread it still is but my mother in law had one and she was hilarious. What turned into whaaaaaaa? I’ll swear was ‘I’ll swan’. Of course she might just have been crazy.
itsthecolleenlife
April 10, 2021 at 7:48 pm
I would gladly pay actual money to see a 10x longer version of this series
Evan Demers
April 11, 2021 at 1:20 am
Now, I understand skipping Quebec because it’s not an English-speaking province and this is a series on English accents, but I’m slightly disappointed that you didn’t mention the influence of French on Canadian English at all, especially after you had spent so much time highlighting the influence of Spanish on American English.
Bumble
April 11, 2021 at 3:02 am
Kinda skipped over the East/West Canada devide in words like car, and how parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan have people who speak in very similar ways to those of parts of the south. I’ve met those people and no, I don’t know why they sound southern
Gia A
April 11, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Excellent video as always! My first language is Spanish and while I don’t speak it often (or very well) anymore, I’ll randomly get a devoiced z pop up when I’m speaking. It’s extremely rare but I’ve always wondered why. Nice to have more info on it!
b nasty
April 11, 2021 at 7:57 pm
Latinx? GTFOH.
Alfred Hitchcook
April 11, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Just gonna skip over Nor Cal like that? Dude, hella not cool
need4speed5353
April 12, 2021 at 4:27 am
I’m just waiting for him to talk about Maryland/Delaware accent
Ainsley Gritter
April 12, 2021 at 1:54 pm
We need a video of just Canadian accents. He didn’t even touch on Quebec!
Laundromat Jones
April 12, 2021 at 3:08 pm
Hey! Only a Newfie can call a Newfie a Newfie!
Fadista
April 12, 2021 at 5:49 pm
Watched all 3 parts. You’re my new favorite channel, what a brilliant series this was! Would love to see even further breakdowns such as dissect all of Florida ex how the midwest influenced the SW southern sound NY and environs influenced the SE sound, etc. Also concepts such as media influence on accents etc.
D T
April 13, 2021 at 4:08 am
I was hoping to see the Penna Dutch accent and dialect mentioned, it seems rather unique in the country
gretchman
April 13, 2021 at 7:09 am
“And now up to the Pacific Northwest, where they don’t really have anything of particular interest going on. So… Let’s talk about San Francisco instead.”
Chase Adams
April 13, 2021 at 8:43 am
Pretty disappointed that they didn’t mention Asian Americans once in this video series, despite being millions of people, being a huge part of NYC and California history, and having interesting linguistic histories as well.
D Parker
April 13, 2021 at 1:10 pm
THANK YOU, so, so much, for pointing out the difference in accents between the Vancouver, BC area and the rest of the PNW. My mom was born and raised there and we lived down in Seattle for a few years- neighbours always asked about her accent but we’ve never been able to catch much of a difference.
Katrina with a K
April 13, 2021 at 1:21 pm
9:22 the Northern New England bit must be in regards to an extremely wealthy affected Bostonian because my Dad who is 70 and lived in Northern NH his whole life WOULD NEVER 😭😅
Maeve
April 13, 2021 at 3:34 pm
erik my beloved you’ve done it again
robbycan
April 14, 2021 at 1:24 am
What does Central Florida have as distinguish for accents?
sweiland75
April 14, 2021 at 2:15 am
Americans just talking about Canada always inevitably involves stereotypes.
Isaac Shapiro
April 14, 2021 at 3:25 am
Conor McGregor has that distinct Irish split t pronunciation in his speech
Donald Martell
April 14, 2021 at 5:45 pm
The Newfoundland Irish sounding accent is SO true. My cousin married into a native Newfoundland family and when I met his wife’s father, I legit thought he was born and raised in Ireland.
apatternedhorizon
April 15, 2021 at 1:18 am
Erik Singer forever.
Michelle Carlisle
April 15, 2021 at 5:42 am
And Nova Scotia is distinct too. Very enjoyable videos!
Matthew Schulz
April 15, 2021 at 6:34 am
What about north california to Washington?? We kinda skipped over them…
mhp0810
April 15, 2021 at 10:20 am
Stopped when you mentioned “latinx”. Latinos laugh at this term – it is made up language of the woke white.
Commando Raptor
April 16, 2021 at 12:47 am
A little disappointed not to see anything about Central Canadians in the Prairies.
Alikanuiokalani Achong
April 16, 2021 at 2:40 am
I wish there was more about the Hawaiian accents in this video
Braddah Leeks
April 16, 2021 at 2:40 am
I wish there was more about the Hawaiian accents in this video
Short Tree Boy
April 16, 2021 at 3:54 am
The bag and agriculture pronunciations mentioned in the Vancouver part are also pretty common down in Seattle.
Ego Jones
April 16, 2021 at 5:37 am
LatinX 😐😐
Jochiba Jochiba
April 16, 2021 at 7:33 am
This guy is amazing
Alvaro's cancer
April 16, 2021 at 11:17 am
I thought he was ian hecox for a second.
The Average Californian
April 16, 2021 at 10:34 pm
listen to a bay area californian, especially a younger one, say “Hooey”, it’s basically the easiest way to distinguish them
Jeremy J Hopkins
April 17, 2021 at 12:25 am
Sensational. Wow, this is the best content about accents I’ve ever seen anywhere!
Rayna Charles
April 17, 2021 at 2:01 am
One line about the Hawaiian language is not enough.
ichichu
April 17, 2021 at 5:19 pm
Hawaiian accents and western U.S. asian accents were left out entirely. I guess asians don’t count…
Jessica Turner
April 17, 2021 at 10:39 pm
I love you, Eric Singer.
b3nzay
April 17, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Wish he went into the Pennsylvanian-Canadian English connection. After the American revolution, a bunch of Pennsylvanian loyalists fled North and settled. That’s why Canadians sound generally closer to Americans rather than Britons
alison moore
April 18, 2021 at 5:05 am
So very interesting!
Thanks for the history.
FilthyManatee
April 18, 2021 at 5:44 am
latinX huh, interesting.
Aidan Johnston
April 18, 2021 at 6:31 am
4:20 “Just a little dialect island” *references bay area*, casual 10 million people lolol
PUBG Player991399
April 18, 2021 at 7:14 pm
Did you really say latinx? You’re cringe.
Heather Wagar
April 18, 2021 at 9:46 pm
This is fascinating
benito martinez
April 19, 2021 at 11:56 am
Excellent información
benito martinez
April 19, 2021 at 11:57 am
I love the cajun stuff
**
April 20, 2021 at 3:03 am
Please: an episode on why most native British English speakers lose their accents while singing
(to sound like an American “General” English accent)
BUT Americans do not change to a British English accent while in song? 🤔
Examples: Ozzy Osbourne, Adele, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Mick Jagger, Ed Sheeran, etc.
arielle elleira
April 20, 2021 at 3:59 am
heard some new mexico in the chicano english section, but would’ve loved to hear more!
Paul Zollinger
April 20, 2021 at 11:40 am
This was so much fun and too mauch for a layman to take in all at once…thanks!
Foodington
April 20, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Cincinnati’s (and the Ohio river valley region) accent was noticeably absent.
john saints
April 21, 2021 at 10:21 am
blah blah blah
The Shire
April 21, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Completely skipped over Nevada. Do we not have an accent or a general way of speaking?
Chiefster
April 21, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Completely skipped over Nevada. Do we not have an accent or a general way of speaking?
I will bite
April 21, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Completely skipped over Nevada. Do we not have an accent or a general way of speaking?
1eljugo
April 22, 2021 at 5:19 am
And here I am just glad they didn’t say “Chicanx.”
Ricky Xayavong
April 22, 2021 at 5:37 am
Y’all ever been to Oakland CA? Lol
Shelly
April 22, 2021 at 12:20 pm
We need an entire Canadian episode. Event Toronto to Northern Ontario has different accents. This was still super fascinating though thank you.
Mark J
April 22, 2021 at 5:02 pm
7:27 Newfinese!!
Sofia Lifson
April 23, 2021 at 3:14 am
its so interesting to see the obv influences spanish and latine accents have had on socal english
Strawberry Rose
April 23, 2021 at 3:32 am
Only watched this series to see if Washington had accents or not- Thanks for the 16 seconds of talking about the PNW tho (minus San-Fran) gonna go back to living my life wondering if I have an accent or not 👋🏻
Silver Letter
April 23, 2021 at 5:42 am
Online dictionaries say that cot-caught sound the same. I don’t know what you mean when you are talking about them. It’s normal for them to sound the same.
Flyboy207
April 23, 2021 at 6:20 am
So I fall into the Southern California area, at the very north coastal corner. I definitely associated the accent with surfers as soon has he transitioned to it. The one thing I’ve seen in these videos that I know I do is the vowel reduction where “to” becomes more like “tuh” and rhymes with “the” (thuh). I think we probably best fit with the western/Rockies accent.
stairway2000
April 23, 2021 at 12:15 pm
I love these videos so much. Please do a UK map. I’d love to hear your take on it all.
mike golh
April 23, 2021 at 10:44 pm
In Toronto, there is a rising millenial accent emerging that is carribean influenced… It is our equivalent of multicultural london english. You missed that somehow.
A A
April 24, 2021 at 6:54 am
I’m born & raised in LA. You guys got “because” right, we say “bee-cuz”. But for together we don’t say “too-gether” we say “tu-gether” and for today we don’t say “too-day” we say “tu-day”.
JGC
April 24, 2021 at 9:30 am
More please
graceinspace
April 24, 2021 at 1:59 pm
my guy calling The Bay a “little pocket around San Francisco” 😭😭😭
Milton The Great
April 24, 2021 at 4:05 pm
Totally missed the Quebec accents affecting English.
Julian Baranyi Nicholls
April 24, 2021 at 4:13 pm
He missed a rlly important accent in Toronto, and the Franco canadian accents
JSharpie
April 24, 2021 at 10:19 pm
I guess we (the people who grew up in the bay) isn’t all that special in American accents
vinceb85
April 25, 2021 at 6:11 am
Minnesota is very similar to a canadian accent. and you missed out on the quebec accent.
Jorge Flores
April 25, 2021 at 6:11 am
Mexico “ceded” yeah right!, with a gun in the head, that’s ceding, not robbery
Muskeg Mudsuck
April 25, 2021 at 9:31 am
Thanks loads!!!
Erik Lorenz
April 25, 2021 at 5:24 pm
This is so cool haha
LNC,Jr.
April 25, 2021 at 8:26 pm
I’ve lived in MA my entire life, and I have never heard that Northeast accent outside of a civil war movie. I’m sure they’re about, but I really don’t know where. I’ve been all over my own state and here and there throughout New England.
Hotlog
April 25, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Can this guy just get his own series already?!
Ragath Nor
April 26, 2021 at 3:32 am
Loved this! I was born and raised in Brooklyn and took a year of voice and diction at university so I could sound “professional”…boy was that an epic fail!! Lived in Georgia for a year and picked up some “strange” pronunciations and then wound up in Miami. I dont understand most of what folks say down here but that’s ok cause its mostly gibberish anyway.
Josh Knorr
April 26, 2021 at 1:23 pm
Fred Gwynn’s accent was quintessential Maine 😁
Cian Chatten
April 27, 2021 at 2:17 am
2:18 But Megan! What did he do! What were the things! I must know!
Athan Iannucci
April 27, 2021 at 8:15 am
LatinX?! Stfu. Are you Guna change every word in THEIR language too? Dumbasses. The ENTIRE language is “gendered” as are all the “Romance languages”
Liam
April 27, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Wouldn’t mind a video on different uk accents now the US accents have been covered
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April 27, 2021 at 7:08 pm
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April 27, 2021 at 7:08 pm
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April 27, 2021 at 7:08 pm
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April 27, 2021 at 9:30 pm
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Kinsley Lam
April 28, 2021 at 8:32 pm
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CeBePuH
April 28, 2021 at 11:04 pm
Stop apologizing…
Watt DeFuque
April 29, 2021 at 12:45 am
I’m a Bay Area native, and didn’t realize I did the cot/caught thing until i watched this then said it out loud. Crazy
alpha mare
April 29, 2021 at 5:58 am
please make a vid 10x longer, I find the subject interesting And important. Thanks to All who made them! More, please.
p0std
April 29, 2021 at 11:37 am
I’m sad your talent can’t do Quebec.
Chika Dunga
April 29, 2021 at 10:43 pm
Southern accents so so gentlemanly
Asian Monsoon
April 29, 2021 at 11:54 pm
Very nice to include all the different regions (I’ve watched all Parts 1, 2 and 3), as well as, the different groups of people that influenced the accents in America. I would love for you to have something more for Hawaii, which is also part of the USA although the accent there is totally different. It was very, very briefly mentioned here but that was barely touching the tip of the iceberg.
Denise Macalino
April 30, 2021 at 5:47 am
can u do a series where Erik Singer guesses people’s accents
Mayeoli22
April 30, 2021 at 6:52 am
I love these videos and I think you all did amazing and I appreciate how you all explained and tried to represent the accents as best as possible. I was so distracted though because Erik Singer sounds like Matthew McConaughey and I think that’s lovely.
Woney Malian
April 30, 2021 at 8:36 pm
Great video!! Can someone please explain why sometimes people pronounce the word IDEA with an “r” at the end, like IDEAR? Thank you!
Luis Fernando Cantu
May 1, 2021 at 7:59 am
Mexico “ceded” territories. Riiiiiiiiiiight.
Jennifer Ward
May 6, 2021 at 5:32 am
Riiiight? I “caught” that, too. WTF? That POV certainly doesn’t align with history or the speakers’ woke use of the term Latinx.
Meles meles
May 1, 2021 at 7:52 pm
Please do a British version of this!
Damon & Tracy Vis
May 2, 2021 at 2:14 am
Northern New England- I’ve lived in Maine for 15 years now, though I’m a Georgia native, and I’ve. Ever heard anyone speak like that here. The “down east” accent is hilarious though and would have been better to include. It seems New England was rushed through. Otherwise loved the series! Great job with those southern languages!
Lauren
May 2, 2021 at 5:40 am
so maine has a caught cod merger got it
David Jones
May 2, 2021 at 5:49 am
This was an excellent series. I’ll bet you could make dozens of these. There are even micro-accents. In Chicago, you can tell what part of the city they (or their family) grew up in based on a few words. Roosevelt Road is Rose-ah-velt in one part, and Ruse-uh-velt in another. Heck even the way they say Chicago can be different. Shic-AH-go and Shic-AH-guh and Shic-AU-go. Even the Chi can be Shih or Chih. Accents are amazing.
Arcturys
May 2, 2021 at 8:32 am
Was hoping to see something about my state (Colorado) beyond getting broadly lumped in with the rest of the west, but oh well. Enjoyed the video nonetheless.
Mrs Boss
May 2, 2021 at 5:07 pm
When I was in CA, they thought I was black or trying to sound black when I said the word Aunt , like RI accent. Do all African Americans say Aunt like RI accent? I have never heard any African American talk about their “ant”
Jennifer Ward
May 6, 2021 at 5:28 am
I don’t know the answer, except to say that I have always heard “aunt” pronounced “awnt” in African American communities.
Alex Coffman
May 2, 2021 at 7:15 pm
Central California has a lot of those southern california influences as well. We also tend to pronounce where and were the same
rbrtgrdn
May 2, 2021 at 10:23 pm
Please stop with the Latinx. Just stop.
Megan Birdsong
May 3, 2021 at 3:39 am
way to skip the Washington/Oregon accent. Ask a Washingtonian how to say roof.
Andrew Fuller
May 4, 2021 at 4:54 am
Is there a kansas city accent?
Philip Lane
May 4, 2021 at 5:56 am
MARY MARRY MERRY. I’m a speaker of British RP and I pronounce each of these three words as in NE New England.
kimmykun
May 4, 2021 at 6:04 pm
I guess the Caribbean, Belizean, Bahamian, and Bermudan accents don’t count even though they’re all also North American.
Don’t say “North American” when you only mean the U.S. and kinda Canada.
B dun
May 5, 2021 at 4:19 am
latinx?? gtfo of here we don’t rep that
Valerie McDonald
May 5, 2021 at 9:15 am
I wish he’d mentioned the Ottawa Valley accent. My grandma had it but I think it’s fading out. The words ‘berry’ and ‘bury’ rhyme with ‘furry’ in Ottawa Valley accent.
Josh Ommen
May 6, 2021 at 2:32 am
nice thanks
sonomabob
May 6, 2021 at 5:03 am
I was waiting on the “San Francisco” accent of working class people in SF. Sounds like Boston or part of NYC to me. I don’t know if any of those folks are still in the City anymore. I heard it spoken in the 70’s.
Jennifer Ward
May 6, 2021 at 5:25 am
It’s fading fast.
sonomabob
May 6, 2021 at 2:35 pm
@Jennifer Ward thanks for the news. I expect you are right. I always enjoyed hearing it.
Dare Nettles
May 6, 2021 at 4:03 pm
Is Florida in here somewhere? I swear the guys in Magic Mike talk exactly right for Florida, but I can’t put my finger on it.
Jon Bailey
May 7, 2021 at 12:12 am
About the Canadian “Mouth Vowel”, Nova Scotia has an interesting feature where “Mouth” rhymes with “Oath”, “About” with “A boat”, and “House” sounds like “Hose” but with an unvoiced “S”. So, the diphthong is simplified really..
raindownchoas
May 7, 2021 at 7:57 am
Maybe it’s cuz I like changing my voice up as I talk, but I noticed after this that I say the same word differently. For example 2:34 I use all of those interchangeably.
Médéric
May 7, 2021 at 11:25 am
What about Quebec? 😮
freethinker1
May 7, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Erik Singer is too goddam good.
Logical Psycho
May 8, 2021 at 5:33 am
Maine has a,lot if interesting features to their accent. My favorite is that they have the same ending for Augusta and bluster. It’s sort of a midpoint between the two which makes it seem like they’re saying auguster and blustah.
matt wodziak
May 8, 2021 at 7:38 pm
I really want to hear more about why the MN accent exists. One theory I have is speaking with a cold face which aligns with your still jaw description.