Dialect coach Erik Singer once again 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 country.
Host: Erik Singer
Director: Alice Roth
Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer
DP: Charlie Jordan
Production Manager: Morgan Winters
Editor: Estan Esparza
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
Oklahoma Indeginous Accent demonstration courtesy of Dennis Sixkiller
Miami English Demonstration courtesy of Christopher Mendoza
Native Lakota Accent Demonstration courtesy of Reg Charging
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
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:
00:00 – Intro
00:28 – Southern Louisiana
01:27 – Miami English
02:48 – New Orleans “Yat”
03:26 – Cajun
04:00 – Texas
05:35 – Oklahoma
06:38 – Ozarks
07:03 – Chicago
07:13 – Northern Cities Vowel Shift
09:27 – St. Louis & Memphis
09:55 – Minnesota
10:47 – Lakota, Dakota, Nakota
12:23 – Iowa
13:05 – The Rockies
13:32 – Utah
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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents – (Part 2) | WIRED
Roy Patrick
February 18, 2021 at 1:01 am
“Dennis becomes a dialect expert”
Woishing Intensifies
February 18, 2021 at 1:02 am
More non Erik examples please. I know he’s an expert, but old live a whole video on each of the other speakers.
Phoenixwa _
February 18, 2021 at 1:05 am
Please… PLEASE do New Mexico!
Rose White
February 18, 2021 at 1:07 am
Can you do worldly accents too?? Not sure the US.
As a Canadian, and more specifically a Nova Scotian, I would love to hear you talk about accent…and the butt of Canadians jokes, the Newfies!
Jacob Mccarthy
February 18, 2021 at 1:08 am
Eric Singer:
“The over-broad, stereotypical Minnesotan accent just goes too far”
Minnesotans:
“Ohhhhh well ooor accents aren’t all theet different donchaknow?!?
Wuur just normal people like all-the-rest-of-ya!!!!
Now let’s go oot on the leeeke and catch us some wolllies ohhh ya youbetchaaaa”
AlphaFoxAdam
February 18, 2021 at 1:08 am
*Latin population
Magellan and Greyhound
February 18, 2021 at 1:08 am
Please talk about Army brats. I have spent over 40 years wondering where I got my accent, or lack thereof
Julian Blohm
February 18, 2021 at 1:09 am
LatinX isn’t a thing lmaoooo
Critdizzle
February 18, 2021 at 1:09 am
Goose fronting and price smoothing as phrases sound so Texan it took me a second to remember what he was talking about.
Antiques Restoration
February 18, 2021 at 1:10 am
How tragic to have lost so many Native American languages. Yeah…we’re all over the place with dialect here in southern Calif.
Duane Falk
February 18, 2021 at 1:11 am
Too many commercials! Worse than SNL
Thalia Velázquez
February 18, 2021 at 1:12 am
Why does listening to this man makes me so happy!?? ✨
Lucas Oliveira Silva
February 18, 2021 at 1:14 am
This is very well done, OMG
Jojo Quinoa
February 18, 2021 at 1:14 am
I’ve been waiting pretty anxiously for this and I’m not sure why but I’m so excited
Samantha Barona
February 18, 2021 at 1:15 am
This is so epic ♥️
Sabrina Hipps
February 18, 2021 at 1:16 am
Dialect daddy 😍
Brittany Rose
February 18, 2021 at 1:17 am
I have never questioned how Chicagoan I sounded until today. :’)
Jordan Tierney
February 18, 2021 at 1:18 am
I am so excited he talked about St Louis. I am absolutely devastated that he called it Saint Louie
PUGSRULE 1229
February 18, 2021 at 1:19 am
Can confirm Utah accent
Jacob Puckett
February 18, 2021 at 1:20 am
FINALLY!!!
chagildoi
February 18, 2021 at 1:25 am
There’s so much more to the Utah accent than he covered!!! But the “melk on sell” and “moun-un” are totally accurate.
shannen cj 22
February 18, 2021 at 1:25 am
The fact that he speak in the accent he’s explaining is sooo cool
Davis Richardson
February 18, 2021 at 1:25 am
As I’ve grown up in Utah and moved to other places in the west people would make fun of some of my pronunciations of those words awesome vid
Cassie Rodríguez Almaguer
February 18, 2021 at 1:28 am
Part 3 SoCal!
Californians stand up!
Hopefully they put the Chicano accent in it🤎
Maria
February 18, 2021 at 1:29 am
I can’t wait to see what weird features my Southern Californian English has that I think are normal.
Mikey Mike
February 19, 2021 at 12:43 am
Lost some street cred when he called it New Or Le Ans. Nawlins, man.
Adrian Padilla
February 19, 2021 at 12:44 am
It’s Latino not latinx
Ectaler
February 19, 2021 at 12:44 am
1:36 : Latinx… I shiver hearing that.
crazy 10 clan
February 19, 2021 at 12:48 am
Never say “circle back” again
xSHARK
February 19, 2021 at 12:48 am
“Latinx” is cringy AF, she said Chicano correctly but can’t be bothered to say Latino?
Shuaib Roberts
February 19, 2021 at 12:48 am
“Latinx” always rubs me the wrong way when used for the Latino population. If that person identifies as Latinx, fine call them that no issue. Most Latinos do not like to be called that, and a lot of people with Spanish being their first language it is very hard to pronounce. (Most just don’t like it or don’t even know what it is)
-Sincerely some Puerto Rican kid.
Jacob H 2004
February 19, 2021 at 12:56 am
I don’t understand why people want to take the gender out of a gendered language.
Fernando Martinez
February 19, 2021 at 12:52 am
Wtf… LANTINX??? stop saying that.
Say Latins or Latinos. Dont use your white people made up words on us.
Toad of Toad Hall
February 19, 2021 at 12:52 am
I’ve missed him so much.
Reese Hendricksen
February 19, 2021 at 12:54 am
To those who live in or near Chicago, how many of you actually experienced the “Chicago Accent”? As fun as it is, I’ve never witnessed it outside of film.
Sio Isel
February 19, 2021 at 12:59 am
Stop saying latinx
Ramadan Steve
February 19, 2021 at 1:02 am
I’ve always been interested in accents in the regions of the Midwest that border the south, places like Southern Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio. Do people there have a slight southern twang when they speak, being so close to Kentucky or West Virginia?
Judaea Kimberly
February 19, 2021 at 1:05 am
You hear mou-en and bu-en in Denver just as often as Utah
Bender
February 19, 2021 at 1:06 am
Minnesota deserved more discussion.
Sean Bradshaw
February 19, 2021 at 1:09 am
This is absolutely fascinating, one of the best Wired video series.
Shining Stars Farm
February 19, 2021 at 1:10 am
this man doesn’t even have to say full sentences. i could listen to him say random words in random accents for hours.
Hazel Dell
February 19, 2021 at 1:12 am
Only 14 minutes isn’t acceptable, but I’ll still watch. See you all in part 3.
Weilà Tom
February 19, 2021 at 1:15 am
This was a great video, really enjoyed this part. Thank you for sharing! I’ve long enjoyed Wired’s accent videos with Erik. He’s phenomenal and the rest of the team is as well.
Markastrophe
February 19, 2021 at 1:18 am
I don’t really ever hear that kind of Chicago accent. It might exist more in other areas around the Great Lakes, though.
Alvar Lagerlöf
February 19, 2021 at 1:20 am
Amazing
Hazel Dell
February 19, 2021 at 1:22 am
Erik: “Hand me the rent there.”
Me: 😍🥵
NS
February 19, 2021 at 1:23 am
i know no one in chicago who talks like that besides some older professors of mine
Michael Sotomayor
February 19, 2021 at 1:24 am
The internet does not have enough Erik Singer in it…
m00nyoze
February 19, 2021 at 1:25 am
Just say Latin. I hate what we’ve become.
Jordan Jones
February 19, 2021 at 1:26 am
That’s all we get for Oklahoma? 🧐
Booniedog G
February 19, 2021 at 1:27 am
Have fun explaining Hawaii
karen from finance
February 19, 2021 at 11:48 pm
YES A PART THREE!!!! LET’S GOOOOO
delaneyfayce
February 19, 2021 at 11:52 pm
Ok this man has evolved since I last saw him
Skepter
February 19, 2021 at 11:54 pm
6:41 heck yea! Best part of the US
AZOMBIERYO
February 19, 2021 at 11:55 pm
Stop trying to make “Latinx” happen, its not going to happen
Humphrey
February 19, 2021 at 11:59 pm
Latinx?
Jenlifer Fronester
February 19, 2021 at 11:59 pm
A fascinating thing about the “melk on sell” (milk on sale) feature of Utah that you mentioned is that I have noticed that specific feature in the accent of a Persian coworker. I wonder if that is common across Persian-accented English, or if it’s his idiolect–fascinating regardless!
Emma Peck
February 20, 2021 at 12:08 am
I’ve been waiting for thissss yes
parisire
February 20, 2021 at 12:10 am
The take on a Yat (New Orleans) accent is off. He needs to Benny Grunch a few times and practice saying “Ain’t Dere No More” like he really, really misses Schwegmann’s, K & B, D.H. Holmes, etc. and “How’s ya mom and dem?” Also, he’s leaving bayou Cajun, like, e.g. Bobby Hebert, out.
pink candy
February 20, 2021 at 12:15 am
native coloradans pronounce don and dawn the same (dahn), where non-natives might pronounce dawn differently.
Lisa Crews
February 20, 2021 at 12:18 am
I lived in the greater PHX, AZ the first 45 years of my life. The glottal stop in place of Ts in words like mountain and button is common there too among Gen X and younger generations. My kids and I, all born and raised there, do it.
Nakul M
February 20, 2021 at 12:21 am
I never thought I had a Chicago accent (or any idea what that was beyond a Ditka impression,) until this vid. Language is wild.
AnayaLator_221
February 20, 2021 at 12:30 am
I need to know more about the Great Lake cities and surrounding areas cause now I’m hearing my own midwestern accent 😖
Ferrule Bezel
February 20, 2021 at 12:36 am
I’m so glad I’m a westerner still living in the west where we don’t have an accent.
Kubun Music
February 20, 2021 at 12:36 am
wtf is latinx
Jonathan Hawks
February 20, 2021 at 12:37 am
The Mountain and Button thing is HUGE in Los Angeles
Ro Chambers
February 20, 2021 at 12:40 am
He did it! Louisiana accent. The best I’ve heard! 🤛🏽
Razvan Dobos
February 20, 2021 at 12:41 am
Australian accent is so similar to southern Louisiana accent
L A
February 20, 2021 at 12:54 am
LatinX?
ErikStrikes
February 20, 2021 at 1:03 am
Please dont say Latinx 🤢
Sparkey Jones
February 20, 2021 at 1:17 am
Will there be a part 3? I want to hear what you say about our accents in California 😉
Edit – Missed the last few seconds of the video. Looking forward to part 3.
streglof
February 20, 2021 at 1:20 am
Meghan sounds very accusatory and defensive. Her facial expressions look VERY contorted, like she’s not all well. Also, Latinx isn’t a thing.
LW
February 20, 2021 at 1:23 am
Hope he comes back to Montana. We have some very distinct accents among the ranching communities – in addition to the very unusual Hutterite accents.
TurtleDuck
February 20, 2021 at 1:24 am
That native map at 12:00 ish is inaccurate at least for the North-East corner.
Joe C.
February 20, 2021 at 1:24 am
No one in Chicago under the age of 60 sounds like that. I don’t know how this stereotype persists.
Andie Avalos
February 20, 2021 at 1:32 am
Can’t wait for that Cali accent lol
Saz C-Bennett
February 20, 2021 at 9:07 pm
You missed the Latino accents in Chicago. Especially in the South Side and North Side. Kinda of disappointed
Weird Boi
February 20, 2021 at 9:38 pm
Dialect coaching is the only interest I have in getting my mfa.
jowar
February 20, 2021 at 10:00 pm
Dialect coach why coach like someone ones in a battle “hey coach Erik, these guys are killing me with their knowledge for linguistics, What strategy should I do to out speech them”
Jeff Naslund
February 20, 2021 at 10:12 pm
As someone born in Chicago, the accents you were using were southside dialects. For instance, we pronounce the city not as Chi-CAH-go, but as Chi-COG-oh. Our A’s are also more elongated, such a ‘cyat’ (cat) and ‘cahr’ (car). The Chicago accent is also more nasal than most
Grace Bishoff
February 20, 2021 at 10:15 pm
ERIK YOU SKIPPED OHIO
xiabelle
February 20, 2021 at 10:31 pm
I’d have liked to have seen a bit more on Texas — there’s definitely distinct differences between more eastern and western Texas accents. And that doesn’t even get into some of the weirdness along the German and Czech belts where there are people with a strong German tinge to their accents.
Abel Delgado
February 20, 2021 at 10:31 pm
Did that woman call us Latinx….
We don’t call ourselves latinx….
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February 20, 2021 at 10:45 pm
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Michael M
February 20, 2021 at 10:53 pm
ugh I love him so much
Michael M
February 20, 2021 at 11:07 pm
don’t love the 50,000 adverts though. Making the video almost unwatchable.
Jacqueline Moleski
February 20, 2021 at 11:05 pm
Northern Cities vowel shift – why I can’t spell.
José García Rodríguez
February 20, 2021 at 11:05 pm
Where do can i get a Latin America Spanish accent tour?
Jacqueline Moleski
February 20, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Please do the Midwest! Especially the Northern Midwedt/Great Lakes region. You started covering it with the Vowel shift but there’s a lot more to it.
yakuza moon.
February 20, 2021 at 11:12 pm
he really nailed that midwest vowel pronunciation, spot on. i wanted to hear the sing songy black new orleans accent
Bethany Linebarger
February 20, 2021 at 11:15 pm
Really loving this series. So well done!
Only because I would love to hear even more…. Is the entire next section only going to be California then? Will Hawaii, Alaska and US Territories be looked at as well? Pacific Northwest? I was a little disappointed there wasn’t more to cover with western states accents. I do understand settlement there is way more recent… by hundreds of years… but what about “hur-i-cn” (Hurricane) Utah, and the vowel swap of the long ee for a short “i” sound?
smithryansmith
February 20, 2021 at 11:26 pm
Does anybody else feel screwed when your area comes up and you get one of the other people than Erik? It’s like, yeah, fine, but give us the teacher not the sub.
Danxoxox
February 20, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Yes! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I’m a native south Floridian and no one ever talks about the unique accent Miami natives have! You can even hear it in those who grew up in Miami but don’t speak any Spanish… it’s very interesting.
Jeanluc Fuentes
February 20, 2021 at 11:57 pm
Latinx😕
Julianna Versola
February 21, 2021 at 12:06 am
Thank you for sayin Appalachian correctly
Paine Thomas
February 21, 2021 at 12:18 am
I’d love to hear him use the southern Kentucky accent my parents used to speak. I haven’t heard it since they died long ago. I got a little bit of it through Justified, as my dad’s family grew up in Harlan, but it wasn’t a true southern accent. It was too twangy and Nashville-inspired.
Deutsch Amerikaner
February 21, 2021 at 12:39 am
Immediately facepalmed at “latinx” lol
Ila Hennig
February 21, 2021 at 12:47 am
Absolutely love the way he switches accents. I can do Spanish to Kentucky to Ohioan pretty fast, but he’s amazing. Waiting for part 3!!!!
togdochroise
February 21, 2021 at 1:12 am
Interesting–the glottal stop in “mountain” is also something I heard (and still possess) growing up in southeastern Colorado, too.
Free Speeches
February 21, 2021 at 1:16 am
Native Coloradans will almost universally not pronounce the t in mountain either.
avery
February 21, 2021 at 1:25 am
can’t wait for part 3
Ramsey Headrick
February 21, 2021 at 1:27 am
mountain and button without the t is typical of denver too
Hugo Torres
February 21, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Miami English is Cuban because of how close it is on the map. Not because we all fled communism to come here. Got it. Lmao.
John Smith
February 21, 2021 at 8:43 pm
latinx again,lol
Cheryl Sneeringer
February 21, 2021 at 8:47 pm
I really enjoy these analyses of accents. I’m a native central-Florida person, educated in North Carolina, and now living in Texas. I love analyzing how very different these three southern accents are. One comment for Megan: Your vocal fry is really pronounced, and for some people, that is somewhat grating and very distracting. It’s your choice whether to keep it or to cultivate a more melodious speaking voice.
logicVSpassion
February 21, 2021 at 8:55 pm
It’s Latino
Larry Lee Hensel
February 21, 2021 at 9:00 pm
I mean no disrespect, but how can Megan, as a linguist, not notice that she has severe “vocal fry” when she speaks? It’s particularly noticeable at the ends of sentences. It’s not healthy vocalism and unchecked, can lead to vocal problems. It’s become widespread across the US. Please go to a speech therapist??
Carrie W
February 21, 2021 at 9:38 pm
I love the Cajun accent so much, and I miss it!!!
lets ficks
February 21, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Colorado does mountain and button too!!
Bella Andryczka
February 21, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Wow! What a great source of accents knowledge <3 I love it! I felt so excited to hear about the accents for Part 2! I liked the most Miami & Native American English. Keep up the great work 🙂 I can't wait for Part 3, then 😀
Turnt Snaco
February 21, 2021 at 9:54 pm
Latin the 10th? But they all speak spanish… not latin. Fix your cultural appropriation
Bandgazebo
February 21, 2021 at 10:05 pm
There are a lot of weird, hyper-regional accents in Utah based on pioneer settlement patterns. Some valleys were settled by Danish, some by english, german etc and you get that reflected in local accents and weird ways you pronounce city names. For Example Duchesne, Utah is pronounced “Du-shane” and Hurricane is not pronounced like the storm system. My grandfather, a third generation immigrant grew up in a town still speaking Danish sometimes. There is also a big difference between more urban areas and rural areas. Urban/suburban areas sound pretty western or Californian, but “seal” “heal” “deal” rhyme with “dill” and “hill” along with the mountain thing. Rural areas sound very southern, like Texas.
Lisa M
February 21, 2021 at 10:26 pm
Erik, what’s it like to carry the entire channel of WIRED on your back? lol
Megan Burbage
February 21, 2021 at 10:55 pm
Absolutely loving this series!
Garybonz
February 21, 2021 at 10:58 pm
What I think Megan is saying is, most Spanish is Spanish-ish.
Megan Burbage
February 21, 2021 at 11:07 pm
Petition for Eric to make an accent tour of the British Isles!
Cosimo Serpolla
February 21, 2021 at 11:13 pm
So…Minnesota is America’s Yorkshire?
Fernan Fernandez
February 22, 2021 at 12:02 am
valiente mielda, y de la influensia chicana no dise un carajo el pavo…
Will Russell
February 22, 2021 at 12:42 am
Why did they only talk about Indian English for Oklahoma, I’m half Indian myself but I think the standard white Oklahoma accent is very interesting and it’s a shame that it was skipped over.
Miko Correcto
February 22, 2021 at 12:58 am
The changing the “T” sound to “UH” sound is the most annoying for me. It sounds like a lazy speaker. I have lived all over the U.S> and have only noticed this pronunciation in last few years. I am 67 by the way. I have heard similar pronunciation in areas of the UK.
juliet
February 22, 2021 at 1:02 am
Erik please hit me
Anton A
February 22, 2021 at 1:07 am
Do people really pronounce “mountain” differently in the rest of the country? Asking for a friend.
Elizabeth McClure
February 22, 2021 at 1:09 am
And once again Kansas and Western Missouri are forgotten because we have no real accent :'( haha
horisontial
February 22, 2021 at 1:11 am
Think we have to nuke them :/
TREK on the TUBE
February 22, 2021 at 1:11 am
I would like to special request a new video format.
Viewers can send in clips of themselves speaking and you breakdown what interesting things you notice.
Aaron Gonzalez
February 22, 2021 at 1:13 am
I’m sure the dislikes are because of latin(x)
Melissa Barker
February 22, 2021 at 1:17 am
Cajun accent: So-so, Certain parts of it were better than others. Some parts sounded a little too much like standard French, it didn’t sound quite right. Closer than most though, it’s usually fully butchered. 😆😆
Refried Water
February 22, 2021 at 9:16 pm
*Stares in New Mexico* 👁👄👁
Of Luxe
February 22, 2021 at 9:18 pm
I signed up for notifications JUST for this video yet still I missed it by 5 days. Sad.
spykeex69
February 22, 2021 at 9:19 pm
I love Dialect Daddy, but I hate the term “Latinx” as a latino myself.
Michael Doran
February 22, 2021 at 9:20 pm
13:48 I used to refer to the Intermountain West drop of “T”s as Snowboard Cockney. Then I heard West Coast “why are you sweh-en me?” and realized I had no clue.
Patrick Anderson
February 22, 2021 at 9:21 pm
I hope he covers, “Hella” in part 3! lol
Joygernaut M
February 22, 2021 at 9:33 pm
Can you please do a comparison between Acadian Canadian French/ Cajun French/English with a Cajun accent?
Adriana Moreno
February 22, 2021 at 10:05 pm
Lmao at people angry at Latinx. You can just ignore it you know, use it if you want, you’re not obligated to. Some non binary people prefer that term and that is okay, get over it, move on. Language is made up anyway, talk however you want.
– a Puerto Rican girl living in PR who doesn’t care if I’m called Latina, latinx, or latin.
Nathaniel Mitchell
February 22, 2021 at 10:09 pm
What is Erik’s native accent ?
KiloJKilo
February 22, 2021 at 10:11 pm
The lowered vowels thing is definitely outside of the Utah in some of those western states.
beet
February 22, 2021 at 10:12 pm
😩😩😩 finally California next
E S
February 22, 2021 at 10:24 pm
what are yall doin Chicago???
Ivy Cheang
February 22, 2021 at 10:30 pm
Video: North American
Title: U.S.
Snow White
February 22, 2021 at 10:33 pm
I’ve been waiting for this! I love this dude. Dialect is so interesting!
Cris & The Bear's Kitchen
February 22, 2021 at 10:50 pm
I’ve been waiting forever for this! About time!
fireicekills
February 22, 2021 at 10:54 pm
Everytime I hear the minnesota accent it makes me cringe.
Yvonne McCarthy
February 22, 2021 at 11:03 pm
And we don’t speak English in KANSAS, Erik??? Too boring, I suppose… “American Standard Dialect.” SIGH.
Shadi Razavi
February 22, 2021 at 11:06 pm
He sounds like Rust Cohle in the first minute of the video
ehknee
February 22, 2021 at 11:14 pm
Every time I hear Latinx I die inside
John Rodericks
February 22, 2021 at 11:21 pm
Do Canada!
XaZa8uh Itra
February 22, 2021 at 11:40 pm
Love this whole project. I would like to see a whole series on Native people’s different languages all around north america
Zephyr Biscuit
February 23, 2021 at 12:17 am
Midwest pt. 3? I know you covered the Ozarks and St. Louis but that leaves the rest of MO and many other Midwestern states.
Migthulhu
February 23, 2021 at 12:49 am
You assiduously avoided New Mexicans, Navajo and Pueblos, and White ranchers here. Btw, New Mexico is a State.
Eleanor Sharemet
February 23, 2021 at 1:11 am
Wish he mentioned something about Kansas City. Feel like it’s a good example of that “general American” accent like he mentioned in the first one. Still super fascinating tho!
Whiffy Queef
February 23, 2021 at 1:16 am
*spits on the floor, in queens English*
vers
February 23, 2021 at 1:23 am
It’s amazing how he’s talking about slavery and colonization, without saying slavery and colonizer
Teague Wilson
February 23, 2021 at 6:54 pm
In AZ, we have a middle position /t/ as a glottal stop. In HS, we used to tease a friend for pronouncing the /t/ in mountain, written, bitten, kitten, fountain
QueerBoy
February 23, 2021 at 7:02 pm
Most of the accent transitions are SO smooth, but then Ozarks to Chicago was JARRING lmfao
Luke Frazier
February 23, 2021 at 7:32 pm
Of course NM doesn’t have any accents 🤦🏽♂️
Marielle S.
February 23, 2021 at 7:33 pm
Cajun accent was spot on!
The New Orleans yat accent had a little too much Southern mixed in. It should sound more like New York or Boston.
Thomas Duffy
February 23, 2021 at 7:35 pm
Can’t wait for part 3, this is so interesting!
Foffing
February 23, 2021 at 8:03 pm
I’m Kansan, but I’ve never noticed that I do the glottal stops he mentions at the end with Mountain and Button, that’s really interesting
tokyo Mudblood
February 23, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Really enjoy your videos!
Can you do different accents in Britain? It’ll be interesting to see the reason behind them 😁
Juliette Dupere
February 23, 2021 at 9:03 pm
I really darn hope they at least mention the distinctive accents in Canada and its provinces and not just go for the ”abooooot” thing, I have no hope for Quebec since we are not english speakers but hey we’re our own little country 🙂
L t
February 23, 2021 at 9:51 pm
305 represent!!!!!!!!
Matt Wiebke
February 23, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Iowan here. Was really looking forward to him dissecting our lack of an accent. And then all he gave us was some people say on while other people say on very slightly different. While I’m disappointed, I can’t say I disagree…
Brenton Smith
February 23, 2021 at 10:12 pm
Utahns take the T out of mountain and put it into other words where it doesn’t belong. “Salsa” is frequently pronounced as “saltsa”
Jarrod Swint
February 23, 2021 at 10:13 pm
So why did he start speaking normally when he got to Texas?
fyxation
February 23, 2021 at 10:21 pm
Singer sounded so dead-on like my friend in Chicago that I immediately messaged my friend to see if he were secretly making youtube videos.
MyerithRae
February 23, 2021 at 10:27 pm
I’ve always said Nebraska doesn’t have an accent, this video is proof they skipped right over us.
Holden Caulfield
February 23, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Ohio so borrowing even in its accent it didn’t get a segment lol
T Welsh
February 23, 2021 at 11:17 pm
You’re way to clear in your pronunciation when imitating we southerners. 🤣
Beowulf Cadmus
February 23, 2021 at 11:39 pm
This Erik Singer channel needs more Erik Singer videos.
lol
February 24, 2021 at 12:01 am
I’m born and raised in Norcal and I also don’t pronounce t’s in the middle of words like mountain and button, excited for the california episode!
ajmilagros
February 24, 2021 at 12:12 am
Eric’s ability to change his accent with ease as we move through the map is amazing!
Austin E
February 24, 2021 at 12:49 am
Good thing that girl clarified that or else everyone would have thought every Latina and Latino person speaks perfectly the same without deviation 🙄
Angela M
February 24, 2021 at 12:58 am
I speak with the Northern Cities Vowel Shift and I really thought you were just repeating the same words over again
Downeaster MaineUSA
February 24, 2021 at 1:01 am
This Yankee flatlander is a fraud. Dafuq Bubba…. WTF is a LatinX ?? I lived in Mexico for 20 years.
I dont recall meeting whatever a Latinx , ever. Ever! Pfffffttttt Lame. Fail Delete. Unwatchable.
Leah Lasher
February 24, 2021 at 1:02 am
Paused before he started Chicago. As someone who lives in southern Indiana (and I mean ON the mighty Ohio river) I know I’m about to get mad.
Edit: so he didn’t mention it. I’m either gonna be mad in part three because he does or I’m gonna be mad in part three because he doesn’t. He really can’t win.
Phil Johnson
February 24, 2021 at 1:13 am
This is brillianat
William Cross
February 24, 2021 at 1:28 am
b-b-b-but lATiNx DoEsNt MaKe SeNsE iN sPaNiSh!!
bruh you watching a video about how language changes over time, get over yourself 🤣
Zeky Ahmed Murra Anton
February 24, 2021 at 6:32 pm
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Julie Gibson
February 24, 2021 at 6:51 pm
Anyone else think he sounds like Jeff Foxworthy when he was going over the Texas accent?
Coolio_
February 24, 2021 at 7:13 pm
This man flowed between accents so flawlessly
Aeroinon
February 24, 2021 at 7:16 pm
PART THREEEE
George Sodré
February 24, 2021 at 7:44 pm
I’ve read that Red Dead Redemption’s Arthur Morgan has a Louisiana accent. Is it so? Because I can’t really get it.
Tyler Eaves
February 24, 2021 at 8:07 pm
RIP my fellow Midwestern accent speakers
Edward Steigerwald
February 24, 2021 at 8:09 pm
Do you have a Pittsburgh accent video?
Jaydubs 357
February 24, 2021 at 8:23 pm
“latinx” wat?
Clint Rhoades
February 24, 2021 at 9:04 pm
Da latinx lmfao no thanks
shmook
February 24, 2021 at 9:34 pm
The way they just skipped over Kansas
LA Coopa
February 24, 2021 at 9:35 pm
So we just skipping the Midwest then. Basically.
Ohio has at least three distinct accents and 12 million people and were just going to ignore that?
kombijr
February 24, 2021 at 9:44 pm
This foo!
Mariah Dorsey
February 24, 2021 at 10:01 pm
You entirely ignored Pennsylvanian accents in this and the last video :/
Anna k
February 24, 2021 at 10:03 pm
i’ve been waitin for this one, turn it up!
Raven Babe
February 24, 2021 at 10:06 pm
I feel like he skipped over the entire Midwest, Nebraska especially. 😔
Denver-Rose Harmon
February 24, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Cant wait for the next one! Born and raised in Southern California in an area with a lot of Oklahoma influence.
Heather Lynn
February 24, 2021 at 10:42 pm
Ohmygosh I love this video. I’m in a city in Iowa just south of Cedar Rapids and totally must be part of the Des Moines pronunciation of on but I hear so many people who say it like CR. I’m so shocked to hear our little part of Iowa mentioned.
joecab
February 24, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Yes, Latinx is mostly definitely a “thing” and respectful. If you don’t think it is, they used to try to reject “African-American” too, so good luck with that.
Candice Smith
February 24, 2021 at 11:08 pm
This is SO fascinating!! And to watch him just change accents as he moves to the next state is amazing. I could watch this all day. lol
Melissa M
February 24, 2021 at 11:59 pm
Is it just me that is super distracted by the exaggerated mouth movements of that Nicole lady?
Ron Moses
February 25, 2021 at 12:08 am
I think Erik Singer and Glenn Howerton were separated at birth.
Josh Waisblatt
February 25, 2021 at 12:41 am
I have become obsessed with this series of phonetics videos, I love it. Is there a possibility of making this but with the UK or Great Britain? I will be so grateful.
Hailey Reynolds
February 25, 2021 at 12:50 am
waiting to hear about the PNW. I grew up there but I live in the south now. I am told by coworkers that I have a tiny tiny bit of an accent but I can’t identify anything about it
Eric Scavetta
February 25, 2021 at 1:17 am
The West is an interesting mix – In some cases “Mountain” and “important” have a glottal stop, and in others the t is clearly aspirated as in “mount” + “ten” (Hawai’i). Hopefully, Part 3 will include Hawaiian, Alaskan, Californian features (and maybe Guam, American Samoa too!).
Emma Ebener
February 25, 2021 at 1:26 am
Ironically enough I live pretty close to Chicago and I have literally never heard that accent? Only the Iowa one.
mrdonetx
February 25, 2021 at 1:17 pm
Ahhh… “Latinx”… A word invented by white colonists but in turn tell black and cultures they must use. How very colonial..
Amanda Shaheen
February 25, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Can you do an in depth look at Pittsburghese, please?
Medemkaba Jamir
February 25, 2021 at 3:07 pm
Dude’s grown a decent beard…
9 to 5 Voyager, Travel Blogger
February 25, 2021 at 3:34 pm
LATINO. LATINO. LATINO. Not Latinx, that’s dumb, and doesn’t change anything. LATINO. LATINO/LATINA. For the love of god.
Eugénie Molle
February 25, 2021 at 4:11 pm
this guy’s new teacher when he starts learning a new language: 👁️👄👁️
Billy Goatguy
February 25, 2021 at 4:45 pm
The other speakers feel more like a boring accent lecture when the main speaker tries his best to emulate every variety of accent.
Rachel Obertin
February 25, 2021 at 5:13 pm
not gonna lie, the northern vowel is kinda wrong
Harvey Herrera
February 25, 2021 at 5:43 pm
I can’t wait for part 3!
Talcum
February 25, 2021 at 6:25 pm
This video was actually kind of boring. But people are absolutely obsessed with accents. It’s weird
Talcum
February 25, 2021 at 6:31 pm
LatinX is an offensive, colonialist label placed on us by woke Americans. Please push back against this term.
Aakarsh Vishwakarma
February 25, 2021 at 6:38 pm
I wonder how Washington sounds like…
Talcum
February 25, 2021 at 6:42 pm
It’s gratifying to see all the pushback on that horrible, colonialist term, latinx. It ruined the video for me
Talcum
February 25, 2021 at 6:46 pm
TIL Eric Singer is woke
Maddie Boyd
February 25, 2021 at 6:57 pm
dialectdaddydialectdaddydialectdaddy
rjthegood
February 25, 2021 at 8:49 pm
Woo! Are you also going to cover Canada?
Jesse Shea
February 25, 2021 at 8:49 pm
“You notice this accent in Utah and some parts of California…” I feel like there is a HUGE STATE IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO PLACES!! XD
Hybrid Gaming
February 25, 2021 at 9:07 pm
As someone who lives in what would be considered his northern Ozark area, I don’t agree with what he found. In this area the accent he desribed doesn’t exist at all, but certainly gets stronger as you get closer to the Lake of the Ozarks itself.
MAX New
February 25, 2021 at 9:26 pm
My favourite word is ‘drawing’. I say ‘drr-awe -wing’ a picture. Can you guess my origin language/accent?
天使と遊ぶ
February 25, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Please talk about the Yooper accent in part 3!
Peach McD
February 25, 2021 at 10:37 pm
As a Milwaukeean, I was disappointed that he skipped over a place with such a notable and distinctive dialect – to do Cajun and not Milwaukeese is an affront, tbh. Granted, the Milwaukeese I learned growing up is all but gone now, but the German/Polish roots of the dialect are still heard in spots, ain’a? When I was a kid, there was actually a regular column in the paper with great examples of Milwaukeese – basically a variant of English with a lot of Germanic grammar features and specific local terms (e.g., bubbler for water fountain). Erik Singer could do a whole video about this!
DJ Sherman
February 25, 2021 at 10:43 pm
PROUD MARY KEEP ON TOININ!
Nancy Jaynes
February 25, 2021 at 11:29 pm
Okay, I know everyone’s a critic, but hearing how poorly he did a New Orleans, Cajun, and general S. Louisiana dialect, I’m skeptical of the rest of his delivery. I was impressed at the beginning of this video series, but please Erik Singer, never coach actors trying to do NOLA talk! Here’s a video you should watch for the real thing. It’s a bit dated but still good.
jant1213
February 25, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Are you skipping over the UP?
Nathan Weisser
February 26, 2021 at 12:36 am
Fun fact: no one says LatinX unless they’re not Latin lol
Angela Bonanza
February 26, 2021 at 1:17 am
So excited for more!! Please never stop this series <3 loving all the linguists that are included in this series.
nexus1118
February 26, 2021 at 7:03 am
Colorado shares the glottal stop T with Utah. Moun’ins is how I (and most other people I know) pronounce mountains. Mittens is pronounced mih’ens. It is actually weird sounding when someone does pronounce the T where a glottal stop or a d sound is normally used.
mark young
February 26, 2021 at 7:21 am
skipped kentucky
Travis John
February 26, 2021 at 7:24 am
Oh ffs quit saying “latinx” it’s latino. Nobody uses that term non-ironically.
Brendon Mills
February 26, 2021 at 9:03 am
Suggest you stop using the word “Latinx”, people don’t like it.
Brendon Mills
February 26, 2021 at 9:04 am
Eric certainly holds himself like a true Southern Gentleman. All he needs is a white suit and a panama hat.
Whoa
February 26, 2021 at 9:36 am
I can guarantee a majority of Latinos don’t wanna be called LatinX this is stupid and just pushing unnecessary things on people
Sarah Holleran
February 26, 2021 at 10:21 am
Is part three out yet?
Antonio B
February 26, 2021 at 2:35 pm
The latin x community population is 0%, no latino identifies with that stupid term. Come mierda.
DrMedicineManMD
February 26, 2021 at 2:42 pm
You can’t degender a language where gender is an integral part of the grammar, regardless of how much you bobble your head during your attempt.
Joseph Milio
February 26, 2021 at 3:16 pm
This is great video
Shauday Smith
February 26, 2021 at 4:10 pm
i honestly did not know that R Centralization was an official accent marker. Every time i’ve heard this application in music and conversation, i thought it was just the individual being playful with language… NEAT!
I would have liked to have learned a little more about the Rez Accents, i could not hear the changes in the examples – i think the examples were poor representations honestly. Even though i think i know what she’s talking about in reference to Monotone vs Sing-Song, especially in native tribes where english is in-fact the second language, it would have been nice for more definite examples here.
cyd r-c
February 26, 2021 at 4:49 pm
ahhh it’s so fun figuring out how to describe your own accent, bc most of ma doesn’t have anything particularly distinct! but we do have mixed ON vowel sounds and use glottal stops for things like “mountain” and “mitten”
Nherlyn Joyce
February 26, 2021 at 4:59 pm
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Holly K
February 26, 2021 at 5:00 pm
I wonder what Eriks true accent is, being able to do so many and so trained I wonder if it comes naturally anymore.
Maria Hunt
February 26, 2021 at 7:02 pm
You are AWESOME!!! Your seamless transition between accents and dialects is AMAZING. I learned so much. Thank you.
METALMAN
February 26, 2021 at 7:43 pm
That Laninx womxn is very versed on those folx whether they are bipoc bodies or colonizers.
sir mrteapot
February 26, 2021 at 7:58 pm
Eric’s videos are amazing, no question. I am also really appreciating the exposure to non-white on accents. It’s a little ham-fisted but in general this is a nice step for inclusion.
PeterPaul175
February 26, 2021 at 8:57 pm
I really wish you would ditch the music, which gets in the way of hearing the accents.
M.A.
February 26, 2021 at 9:11 pm
did you miss Alabama?!!!
Seth Moller
February 26, 2021 at 9:47 pm
In the phoenix area we also pronounce words like ‘mountain’ without a /t/ sound, but with a glottal stop instead.
Andrea Williams
February 27, 2021 at 12:19 am
Dude, I LOVE your videos but….as an Alabamian, please stop butchering the southern accents. I hear enough of it in the movies.
Kevin Mccormick
February 27, 2021 at 3:48 am
I was hope -een you would talk about the San Louis Valley in SouthWestern Colorado. They settled there in the 1500’s and have a very distinct accent. Senator Ken Salazar has that accent. I don’t speak spanish but I hear it is very fast and unique.
Grace Ording
February 27, 2021 at 3:53 am
no Kentucky?
Mo Whitney
February 27, 2021 at 4:20 am
Ayyy Nevadans say “mountain” and “button” like that, too. Don’t forget about us! Haha
Michael McDonald
February 27, 2021 at 5:10 am
How are you going to say we are not a monolith, and use Latinx like that’s suppose to encapsulate everyone? Literally no one I know uses that term or has even heard of it
Troy Whitaker Pellerin
February 27, 2021 at 6:28 am
Your New Orleans accent sucks
Dave
February 27, 2021 at 10:15 am
As someone who grew up near Chicago, I don’t sound anything like what he said in the video. I do notice though that we pronounce our strong T’s like a D. So when we say butter or water it sounds like budder or wader.
Ahmrael
February 27, 2021 at 11:13 am
Regarding your comment about the dropping of the “t” sound in words like “mountain” and “button” not being heard much in the west outside of Utah: That is also a distinctive feature of the Colorado Accent.
Connor Hatch
February 27, 2021 at 11:49 am
I just came here for moun’n jokes
Sean Whearty
February 27, 2021 at 12:26 pm
Stop saying Latinx. You’re embarrassing yourself
Kameroncrazie23
February 27, 2021 at 2:16 pm
Everyone in Washington speaks like Utah with the dropping the Ts
Sara Lemur
February 27, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Are you going to focus on the Southwestern accents when speaking on West Coast accents or are you going to go into the differences between Northwest and Southwest? They are there! And not a lot of accent videos really get into that.
Cynthia Bazinet
February 27, 2021 at 3:20 pm
Massachusetts here–there is no “t” in mountain or button, just glottal stop (although there is a “t” in glottal…lol).
Erica Lopez
February 27, 2021 at 3:21 pm
My state wasn’t special enough for any distinctive accents I guess.
Xander Mijares
February 27, 2021 at 3:30 pm
No one talks about Kansas City, Missouri lol
AH White
February 27, 2021 at 4:40 pm
Why is it this artificial term “Latinx” gets stuffed down our throat in a fury of PC, but “NY Latino” and “Chicano” are still acceptable terms? It sounds so forced and “newspeak” when people say Latin”eks.” Ironic in a video where otherwise the tone is all about embracing heritage and identity. Of course, for the “latineeks” crowd, embracing PC is an identity all its own.
bengolious
February 27, 2021 at 5:33 pm
These videos put in me in a calm and curious mindset, which given my predisposition towards cynicism and anxiety, is a very welcome relief; a pool of tranquillity in an ocean of uncertainty.
225Perfect
February 27, 2021 at 5:48 pm
Cool. Did Kansas get skipped? We gonna be in the next video? I don’t even think we got included in the giant block of the Western states. A little cheesed, tbh.
Chrstopher Blighton-Sande
February 27, 2021 at 8:03 pm
The Latino population of the US is 18.5% but I’m certain the Latinx population is 0.01%
H D
February 27, 2021 at 8:53 pm
How can Siri understand all these different accents? Amazing!
Garrett Cronin
February 27, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Love this 😀
Amilton10
February 27, 2021 at 9:47 pm
Amazing
Descooo
February 27, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Why did they say Latinx
Nish
February 27, 2021 at 10:28 pm
Where is part 3 omg
Chad Bandis
February 27, 2021 at 11:27 pm
I love languages! Super interesting video! I have to mention one thing though. None of the friends I have throughout South and Central America refer to themselves as Latin”x”. It’s just a thing the Left has tried to force on people. It ruins a beautiful and already diverse language to rip out the innate feminine/masculine base. It needs to stop.
milan deep
February 28, 2021 at 12:59 am
megan’s expressions are soo confusing lol
Keith Chiu
February 28, 2021 at 1:50 am
Wow the amount of commercials in this video is insane
April Jasso
February 28, 2021 at 6:13 am
I wish he’d have paused a little more on Michigan and North Dakota lol very strong, distinct accents (not Detroit tho). He’s awesome.
marcus
February 28, 2021 at 7:13 am
can’t wait for socal and the pnw!
Lukas Pelling
February 28, 2021 at 7:27 am
Glottal stops in place of Ts also happens in Colorado, at least in the front range.
Treasure HarveyTv
February 28, 2021 at 8:34 am
why does he sound good in every single accent he spoke in
Psilly Boy Blues
February 28, 2021 at 9:07 am
Really Wish someone would’ve said how much VARIETY is in the Spanish speaking world. .. lol god lady we get it haha it’s a YouTube video
Onkel Pappkov
February 28, 2021 at 10:35 am
But wait, where’s the American accent, the one that Jesus brought to us for Freedom? 🇺🇸 Oh say…
Mark Rasmussen Nordanger
February 28, 2021 at 3:25 pm
Utah, you missed the way we slur whole sentences into one sound… “jeet-jet” for did you eat yet? “Sqeet” for lets go eat. “Yongry” for are you hungry. “Sko” for let’s go.
Mari Vaz
February 28, 2021 at 3:41 pm
I’ve heard some Gullah accents in southern Florida communities as, it would be interesting to look into it and see if there’s some similarities or distinctive differences.
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February 28, 2021 at 4:41 pm
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love supremes
February 28, 2021 at 5:05 pm
Patiently awaiting part three…
Cassie Vallarta
February 28, 2021 at 5:07 pm
I really enjoy these, but I got to say the Chicago accent is NOT ACCURATE. He’s got places like Wisconsin down, but Chicago doesn’t change its vowels as much as they’re harder and more exaggerated.
Don Beck
February 28, 2021 at 5:49 pm
Do the Cleveland accent next! People don’t give our accent much love. Although it was kinda covered in the Northern Cities, everyone says Cleveland sounds unique.
Lauren A
February 28, 2021 at 6:06 pm
I was really sad more time wasn’t spent on accents like Miami English which is, to me, so distinctive and culturally important to the area. Florida and Georgia both have so many dialectal regions. I was hoping for so much more detail in those. Does anyone know of a similar video that has a little more detail on those?
Miles Davidson
February 28, 2021 at 8:04 pm
I live north of Chicago, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a “Chicago accent” in real life. Based on what I’ve heard, the accent is more common in the south Chicago suburbs.
Steph De La Paz
February 28, 2021 at 8:32 pm
It would be awesome if he analyzed the voices of cartoon characters, muppets etc.
Fuck Niggers
February 28, 2021 at 10:04 pm
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February 28, 2021 at 10:04 pm
Michael Benoit
February 28, 2021 at 11:49 pm
Your disgusting attempt at the Cajun and New Orleans dialect isn’t worth a drop of your WASP blood. Clearly you haven’t spent a single minute anywhere near Louisiana or else you’d realize (in the case of the NOLA accent) you were doing a filthy Hollywood perversion of that dialect, one that people like you put into our mouths through dishonest and degrading portrayals of a unique and proud people. In the case of your Cajun accent, the closest thing I can recognize is an Apple Jacks commercial version of a Jamaican accent. You managed to do inaccurate parodies at once! Truly incredible. Instead of consulting “experts” who do NOT represent us, maybe let these people speak for themselves.
Jorge Diaz
March 1, 2021 at 12:43 am
What’s ‘latinx’?
Blake Eastman
March 1, 2021 at 1:57 am
Man what about ohio? He missed the whole Ohio, kentucky, west virginia, tenesee, indiana area
Noxlotl
March 1, 2021 at 3:38 am
Please make an “Around the world tour” 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Kellen Garrett
March 1, 2021 at 5:01 am
commenting for support
Jason Reviews TECH
March 1, 2021 at 6:42 am
i have california accent.
Joe
March 1, 2021 at 6:44 am
For Utah you missed the BIG hill/heel fill/feel difference.
Samantha R
March 1, 2021 at 7:37 am
Southern Californian here, waiting eagerly for part 3!
Mercutio Chaux
March 1, 2021 at 8:14 am
TIL despite being born, raised, and living my whole life in Chicago I do not have a Chicago accent lol
Juan Hernandez
March 1, 2021 at 9:44 am
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mamadoritos
March 1, 2021 at 6:04 pm
Goddammit, Erik. Freaking genious.
Zareena Bonda
March 1, 2021 at 11:03 pm
was hoping to see you do Kentucky and especially northern kentucky/southern indiana region. It is not southern but not northern.
eberalex
March 2, 2021 at 1:20 am
A Venezuelan here.
Please, for heaven’s sake.
Stop using the word “Latinx”.
It is disrespectful to us, to our language and our culture.
It is an attempt to colonize our identity and our language, that must stop.
stress free
March 2, 2021 at 1:28 am
I really wish he should have explained the southern texas accent cus i feel like ours is distinct to the rest of the south
Project Pat
March 2, 2021 at 2:31 am
The blond haired chick makes me feel nervous when she talks.. Maybe its the eyebrows or sumn
Rachel Evalyn
March 2, 2021 at 3:05 am
I wish he would’ve spoken a bit more about the Midwestern accent or the “no accent” accent. People say we do have some sort of an accent, but I don’t hear it. Maybe he’ll cover it in part 3
OldBluePurdue
March 2, 2021 at 4:53 am
He missed Indiana with it’s northern, midland, and southern accents. You guys/you all/y’all.
happybeejv
March 2, 2021 at 6:11 am
bat bet but bought
Emma Morris
March 2, 2021 at 6:38 am
He skipped over almost all of the south. Florida, Louisiana, and Texas isn’t all of us.
Brianna Bricker
March 2, 2021 at 11:36 pm
He covered some more of the south in part 1
Caro Ingram
March 2, 2021 at 10:37 am
We ❤❤ you ERIK!!
Jeremy Ulfohn
March 2, 2021 at 12:27 pm
50% of the video was dedicated to not “offending” people, lmao. You can’t make ANY kind of generalization—no matter how innocuous or, frankly, factual—without coming under fire nowadays.
lee gramling
March 2, 2021 at 2:31 pm
“Lusiana!”! –Named for King Louis, not Queen Louise!
Codenomics
March 2, 2021 at 6:31 pm
I want to have a five minute conversation with this guy so bad and see if he can pin down my accent! People can never place my accent.
Parcela Folk
March 2, 2021 at 7:14 pm
where is part 3??
ClintDempsey76
March 2, 2021 at 8:07 pm
……and here’s our guest to do all the accents that will get me cancelled.
Chris
March 2, 2021 at 9:12 pm
Yup. You nailed it on utah’s pronunciation of mountain.
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James Clark
March 3, 2021 at 12:11 am
What happened to Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee?
Lucas Alcântara
March 3, 2021 at 2:25 am
What the heck is ‘latinx’?
Aaron Gerhardt
March 3, 2021 at 3:01 am
5:15 got a welp foreshadowing for us midwesterners.
If only we had an ope there too
the.mckee
March 3, 2021 at 3:17 am
Is anyone else madly and hopelessly in love with him?
MeagerZombi
March 3, 2021 at 4:19 am
Pretty cool when he gets to your area and you just can’t hear the accent anymore
Luca Michalak
March 3, 2021 at 4:27 am
Me: “Do Chicago so I can show everyone what my uncle’s accent sounds like!”
Him: mixes like 5 accents together seamlessly without naming them
Me: “I did not know there was more than one… mind blown”
SiewHei Lou
March 3, 2021 at 5:06 am
What about the accents if those news anchors?
Mason Karr
March 3, 2021 at 5:48 am
It’s Latino or Latina, don’t try and woke a language that uses gendered words.
1322
March 3, 2021 at 6:02 am
Someone make a fancam of this king 😌 I want to save it
Katie Randall
March 3, 2021 at 10:34 am
The vowel shift explanation is so interesting. I could listen to Erik for hours.
Trapo Miller
March 3, 2021 at 12:20 pm
Literally thought it was *Bill Compton* speaking when he started talking about *Louisiana* 😢
Elise Brisson
March 3, 2021 at 12:37 pm
This is so absolutely brilliant!!
Dealing With It
March 3, 2021 at 4:48 pm
I want him to mention Vermont so bad but I know we’re so small lol
Charlotte Malmin
March 3, 2021 at 5:49 pm
This is so cool!! It would be really interesting to see a breakdown of Baltimore accents since there are so many 👀
Danielle Cooley
March 3, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Waited to hear “my” accent in the midwest (Detroit and MI in general) and it was glossed over with no detail at all! Is there a part 3 that will delve deeper? Also, the accent used for northern cities (apparently all of them) sounded like weird NY movie mafia.
Beastly477
March 3, 2021 at 6:44 pm
Man, I didn’t think western Montana had an accent until he brought up the een. Crazy how accurate it is! It’s sometheen I hear everyday I suppose.
Kyle Willey
March 3, 2021 at 6:44 pm
Can we talk about Colo(ahh)do vs. Colo(aa)do and Nev(ahh)da vs. Nev(aa)do?
Steven Climer
March 3, 2021 at 6:53 pm
Serious question: as a writer there has been backlash about writing characters with dialects. Some folks believe using or describing accents and dialects is racist, so how as a writer do you write about characters who speak with accents?
James Ni
March 3, 2021 at 8:18 pm
Rochester area def has its own accent. I live in Albany and its mainly an NYC style with a little Boston mixed.
sydney .phoebo
March 3, 2021 at 10:39 pm
I’ve been saying Appalayshun wrong for decades.
beenj
March 3, 2021 at 11:48 pm
Can we cut it out with “LATINX”. Funny to me that linguists are down with it lol
chlorhex
March 4, 2021 at 7:46 am
Guarantee you the majority of them are not. The ones I know think it’s idiotic.
Lil Cloudy Ass
March 4, 2021 at 12:07 am
So fun to watch. I would love to see longer episodes of spanish-speaking, Black american, and Native-American english.
Cerina Shippey
March 4, 2021 at 5:07 am
Can you guys please do a video where you focus on each dialect coach? So the Spanish dialect coach does one video. The black American does one. The Caribbean does one. And the indigenous one does one????? Fitting it all in one video where they only get small parts feels weird and rushed. They deserve their own content/videos as well.
chlorhex
March 4, 2021 at 7:49 am
“Latinx”: neo-colonialism that the majority of Latinos hate. Really brought down the respectability of this video and your knowledge of linguistics by including that terminology right at the start.
DisasterEXE
March 4, 2021 at 8:11 am
Erik, please make your own channel! Analyze movie accents, and just for fun have your viewers choose iconic movie scenes for you to read in different accents.
I’ll be your first sub – I’m a big fan of what you do.
ׁ
March 4, 2021 at 2:37 pm
🎶 𝑨𝒊𝒏’𝒕 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏❜𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 🎶
Patrick Worsham
March 4, 2021 at 3:46 pm
Lost me at “Latinx” ugggghhhhh
Gloria Anderson
March 4, 2021 at 5:44 pm
Where’s part 3? 🙃
dan pritzel
March 4, 2021 at 7:52 pm
the chicago accent he talks about is pretty rare these days, only a fraction of people who are like 40-50+ talk like that, and i’ve never met any young person who sounds like that
Mimi Kie
March 4, 2021 at 7:55 pm
As an non-native english speaker, I’ve got to admit that southern accents in general are one of the most fun of all english accents to listen to. I also love a whole lot of British english accents, like cockney or various scottish accents but sometimes you’ve got to make an effort to understand what they are saying wheras american southern accents are easier to understand and fun at the same time.
Jetplane Hollywood
March 4, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Hope you cover the boring Ohio “news anchor” accent
Ryan Burton
March 4, 2021 at 9:15 pm
Calling on Fred Armisen!
Tristan Ellis Gaming
March 4, 2021 at 9:35 pm
Where is part 3
Kenneth Fox
March 4, 2021 at 9:56 pm
DA BEARS!
Kelly L
March 5, 2021 at 3:51 am
Lol the Phoenix valley accent in AZ has a pretty strong glottal stop too I think
Tom F
March 5, 2021 at 4:46 am
Give this man a masterclass
Ken Bailey
March 5, 2021 at 5:52 am
Where is part 3?
Katie Faust
March 5, 2021 at 6:34 am
Too afraid to do Chicago?
Armistice023
March 5, 2021 at 7:01 am
I have to disagree on the West Coast saying “een”. Lived in CA for 34 yrs and never heard that. It’s still “ing”. “Walking” or “walkin’ “
Carlos Rosas
March 5, 2021 at 7:18 am
Growing up in Denver Co I know it’s the same with the lowered front vowels as in Utah and CA.
Горан Цеста
March 5, 2021 at 10:32 am
What is latin X? A new Elon Musk company?
Hailey H
March 5, 2021 at 10:43 am
I really hope he doesnt skip alaska 🙏
KujahKalade
March 5, 2021 at 5:50 pm
When will you finally tour Canada?
Kathy Jackson
March 5, 2021 at 8:30 pm
What about michigan
tom boyd
March 5, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Please include Nebraska with its really flat pronunciation to match is really flat land.
Joshua GC Wong
March 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm
I love this man 😌🙏
Kitten Mafia
March 6, 2021 at 12:17 am
I feel skipped T.T Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas were just moved over lol. No one remembers we exist.
Tsch
March 6, 2021 at 1:04 am
Latinx
Disliked
Broden Sklena
March 6, 2021 at 3:07 am
OHHH, so that’s why I say since like sense. I don’t know why I have the rocky mountain een though…
Broden Sklena
March 6, 2021 at 3:08 am
wait and the Utah thing wtf where did I learn to speak?
keone young
March 6, 2021 at 4:56 am
I can understand you dont deal with Hawaiian Pidgin. No one outside of it can hang with it. Bummahs but das ok.
Gabe's Gaming
March 6, 2021 at 6:03 am
I do declare
Sho Nuff
March 6, 2021 at 6:20 am
He is very knowledgeable but he is not good at doing the accents.
Sho Nuff
March 6, 2021 at 6:27 am
Uh. Oklahoma and the Dakotas don’t just have Indians. There are white people that live there that have accents.
Randy Sanders
March 6, 2021 at 6:50 am
now I know why I have a sing-songy speech pattern. some of my relatives are full blood Cherokees in East Oklahoma, & west Arkansas area.
Hansa Roos
March 6, 2021 at 10:43 am
why does the black woman look so weird when she speaks
GCentral 123
March 6, 2021 at 2:16 pm
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Ace Undead
March 6, 2021 at 2:19 pm
So when he got to the Great Lakes region i stopped hearing differences in the words being said, until Minnesota
sacramentoswag
March 6, 2021 at 3:06 pm
Californian here with tha- Utah accen- theen. In Sacramento, we say it as Sacramen-o, without the ‘t’ at all. It’s an easy way to identify recent transplants here.
Junk Email
March 6, 2021 at 3:43 pm
I will continue to boycott all WIRED affiliates until I see part 3.
Reed Sullivan
March 6, 2021 at 4:19 pm
East Tennessee has a very Appalachian sound, while West TN has more of a Mississippi accent. There is more of a plantation-type heritage in West TN and it’s not very twangy sounding.
Ancient Arizona Sites by Drone
March 6, 2021 at 4:34 pm
Sorry to see he completely missed the Minnesota accent of replacing Ts with Ds. They all live in Minne-soda and drink this odd stuff called waddur.
Navy Farrow
March 6, 2021 at 9:41 pm
Stop trying to make Latinx happen.
S. Dominguez
March 6, 2021 at 11:11 pm
This guy: spends 3 minutes on Texas cowboy accents
Chicanos: Am I a joke to you?
Lizzy L
March 7, 2021 at 1:40 am
As a Minnesotan, those strong MN accents (like what you heard in the movie “Fargo”) can really be heard in the northern part of our state.
Tony Maldonado
March 7, 2021 at 3:30 am
(Southern) New Mexican here. I can very much relate to the Utah “mountain/button” pronunciation, I think it’s pretty common everywhere in NM/Southwestern states
J K
March 7, 2021 at 3:39 am
Such a great series and so spot on! Fine job, Erik!
Sweet T
March 7, 2021 at 4:53 am
Cant wait to hear if Southern Californias really pronounce all the letters of the word, like Ive been told I do.
Brenden Montgomery
March 7, 2021 at 4:59 am
I want Atlanta accent
Hannah Walters
March 7, 2021 at 5:07 am
More Native American accents, please! Thanks!
dcamron46
March 7, 2021 at 5:56 am
The Utah accent sale vs sell and button vs buhton is like valley girl in California too actually. When he mentioned some speakers in Cali I immediately thought of thsy
Da_bomb1607
March 7, 2021 at 7:31 am
10:00-10:06 as a Minnesotan, I notice my accent a little but yes it is true that I have never heard the stereotypical Minnesotan accent. We Minnesotans use the word bud a lot though
Edit: at least I do
NettechZelkova
March 7, 2021 at 11:36 am
Why do people keep trying to make LatinX a thing? Changing peoples culture to fit their SJW ideals.
Ryan Sandberg
March 7, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Him: Chicago, the greatest vowel shift in English today …
Me: New Zealand
Tortuga
March 7, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Latinx has a word, it’s called Latino. Stop.please.
O H
March 7, 2021 at 6:38 pm
part 3 please we need to unlock california accents
Anna Holmes
March 7, 2021 at 8:02 pm
Was I expecting Kansas to be completely overlooked? Yes. Was I still a little sad when he didn’t talk about us? Also yes. But it’s okay I still love you Erik
Christy Dethlefs
March 7, 2021 at 10:49 pm
This is so interesting! Thanks for doing these videos
Rodrigo Girão
March 8, 2021 at 2:09 am
>Latinx
And you fail.
John Dingman
March 8, 2021 at 2:58 am
Growing up in Cleveland which is in the middle of this vowel shift. I don’t ever hear anyone speaking this way.
Zacchariah Wisco
March 8, 2021 at 2:59 am
The Northern Cities Vowel Shift is INSAAANEEE!!!!
It’s like the crazy cousin of the standard american accent, it’s all over the place and messed up!!!
thegreatalyssa
March 8, 2021 at 4:17 am
OOOH. You said, “circle back.”
Michael
March 8, 2021 at 4:34 am
This video is three times longer than it needs to be on account of political correctness.
Patrick Harting
March 8, 2021 at 8:39 am
I feel Saint Louis has a pretty strong mix of several dialects between not only white and black communities but also within the counties that make up Saint Louis that deserves a deeper look into
Craig Stone
March 8, 2021 at 9:15 am
I hope he’s still going at episode 300 let along just 3.
Shane Hollis
March 8, 2021 at 9:56 am
His cajun had a little Jamaican in it.
Keith Davis
March 8, 2021 at 10:35 am
The thing about the different ‘types’ of Spanish was covered quite well by that great philosopher, Gabriel Inglesias. Check out his vids here on youtube, and try to find his comedic lecture on identifying the origin of the Spanish speaker you happen to be interacting with.
Harry Jude
March 8, 2021 at 12:09 pm
… Okay … has anyone ever seen Erik Singer and Fred Armisen (SNL, “Jokes for Drummers,” “Portlandia”) in the same room? (because that IS the only way to prove they’re not the same person, yes?)
shrimpflea
March 9, 2021 at 12:55 am
No..not even close
noitall man
March 8, 2021 at 7:01 pm
I always thought Texans were a bunch of goose fronters…
Miss Cindy
March 8, 2021 at 9:34 pm
where is part 3?? It’s been two weeks! lol.
cothib199
March 8, 2021 at 9:58 pm
The first time ive ever heard a spot on cajun accent. Spot on
Josean Rivera Rivera
March 8, 2021 at 11:16 pm
As a Latino, please, call me a hard-r N-word before y’all call me “Latinx”.
Regina Head
March 9, 2021 at 2:43 am
I was only here for Minnesota.
Jon Hitchcock - The HitchCook
March 9, 2021 at 3:25 am
I was so happy with how accurate he got my roots in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Wired needs to protect this man at all costs!
Michael
March 9, 2021 at 1:28 pm
I used to LOVE wired magazine and it was always my go-to for all things tech. But now with all those political tirade rants by that nutty queen, Gilad Edelman, it is becoming a political rag.
Tó Zé
March 9, 2021 at 1:58 pm
What is a Latinx?
Autistic Birb
March 9, 2021 at 2:36 pm
Singer, you put a massive smile on my face speaking North Midwestern! (Bit too much friction with the dentals, but that’s a minor issue.)
It really does interest me how that Great Lakes City shift is making the Twin Cities feel genuinely less a part of the same state as, say, northern Minnesota, given just how much the two accents are diverging (and given some word choice, like “goes” for quotation as opposed to “is like”, which really does seem to only be something in northern Minnesota anymore, it sometimes just feels like a less extreme dialect difference instead of an accent one lol.)
Emma Crompton
March 9, 2021 at 4:45 pm
And of course ‘cool hwhip’
cantupac
March 9, 2021 at 6:00 pm
“Latinx” is such a cringe sounding word, please stop saying it, its like hearing nails on a chalkboard
Jake Nunya
March 9, 2021 at 7:28 pm
Stop it! Stop with the racism and cultural imperialism.
“Latinx” is unacceptable to 98% of Hispanic Americans and even less across the rest of Latin America.
Kjll3rUnjc0rn5
March 9, 2021 at 8:16 pm
I think i’ll be waiting for the West-Coast accent breakdown!
EM GEE
March 9, 2021 at 8:30 pm
“Latinx” ? – I frakin’ dare you to call me that to my face.
Joe Schmo
March 10, 2021 at 8:45 pm
God I hate that term. It’s so dumb.
Bruh
March 9, 2021 at 10:21 pm
The Utah one is 100% accurate, most of the time I don’t notice it but sometimes when I’m talking and I say mountain mg friends are like, stop. Pronounce your ‘t’ 😂
fretlessman71
March 10, 2021 at 12:30 am
As a Northern Colorado native, I must say that in my experience, Utahns are not the only Rockies residents who favor the glottal stop; here on the Front Range, almost everyone I know pronounces “Mountains” as such: MAU’ – nnz. Same with The 3 Li’ l Ki’-nnz who lost their mi’-nnz…
Siiri Cressey
March 10, 2021 at 2:16 am
“I tell you hwhat.” Hank Hill, Texan
Kevsky
March 10, 2021 at 3:13 am
Great video, but he got the y’at accent totally wrong bruh
Aayize Diaz
March 10, 2021 at 3:59 am
omg when he got to Louisiana… I immediately thought OMG HE SOUNDS LIKE GAMBIT 😍😍😍
Manzell Blakeley
March 10, 2021 at 4:02 am
It’s so funny that they went out of their way to get generally representative people for poc speakers, but then use latinx, which is highly unpopular. seems like a massive blind spot.
Justin Porter
March 10, 2021 at 6:39 am
Raised in AZ. Was taught to pronounce the number 10 as “tin” and to call a 🖊 a “pin”
Hill = heel
Music = mew – seek
Shane King
March 10, 2021 at 6:49 am
When do we get part 3???
Mollie Watts
March 10, 2021 at 10:54 am
It’s a bit concerning to me how impatient I am for part 3! 🙂
moviebuff1941
March 10, 2021 at 12:19 pm
This guy is handsome, charismatic, and can KILL any world accent…how is he not an Oscar winner yet?! He should be in every movie, whether leading or supporting role.
Katie Potasky
March 10, 2021 at 6:29 pm
Jesus bless you! JESUS THE CHRIST IS LORD. JESUS THE CHRIST IS KING 👑 He loves you 💗💗💗
stosh21
March 10, 2021 at 7:08 pm
His Chicago accent is actually terrible
suzy2time
March 10, 2021 at 9:41 pm
Mai oui, pretty good Cajun accent there.
Arrowslinger
March 10, 2021 at 10:17 pm
do people actually use the word latinx?
Anna Maria
March 11, 2021 at 3:36 am
He didn’t do the Florida Panhandle & lower Alabama at all. 😑
Shari Spell
March 11, 2021 at 4:21 am
Lord he’s amazing but he butchered Louisiana altogether. Yikes!
Xeno Idaltu
March 11, 2021 at 10:01 am
Uggh extremely annoying hearing trendy people say LatinX..
We are Hispanic not necessarily latino. Latinos is when Brazilians are counted..
Lucas anderson
March 11, 2021 at 12:32 pm
God dam it… where is part 3?
Greg Bennett
March 11, 2021 at 4:48 pm
Where’s part 3!
Jordan
March 11, 2021 at 6:03 pm
It is jarring on the sudden shift in accents, even though they are not perfect, he is still able to nail most of the mannerisms. The people who are saying they are terrible, I can almost guarantee that they cannot do a quarter of the ones he is doing. Atleast without sounding extremely overdone and stereotypical.
Shawn Brookbank
March 11, 2021 at 6:14 pm
part 3 modCheck part 3 modCheck part 3 modCheck part 3 modCheck part 3 modCheck part 3 modCheck part 3 modCheck
Matthew DenBoer
March 11, 2021 at 9:12 pm
The lower peninsula in Michigan doesn’t follow the northern city change shift beyond trap “bag” change. I wonder if we will see a shift overtime to follow the others?
Michael Trovela
March 11, 2021 at 9:25 pm
Part three, yes please! SoCal better be in it.
Arnold
March 11, 2021 at 9:29 pm
Is it just me or does the southern accents sound like Matthew McConaughey?
Fook Linda
March 11, 2021 at 11:19 pm
Next, accents of the Peaky Blinders please.
Sarah
March 12, 2021 at 1:54 am
Please cover Canada in part three! I’d be so curious to hear your take on some of our more distinctive regional accents: rural Southern Ontario (the “hoser”/“Letterkenny” accent), Newfoundland and Acadian english, Young Toronto (the way Lily Singh talks – influenced by Arabic, Black and Indian culture), Ottawa Valley, and Franglish joual tinged Montrealais.
LM Moore
March 13, 2021 at 11:45 pm
and accents west of Ontario lol
Sarah
March 13, 2021 at 11:50 pm
@LM Moore of course! I’m just not as familiar with those to be able to name them 🙂
Raymond Meyers
March 12, 2021 at 3:02 am
“Latinx” is not a real word. Please stop using it.
Mike
March 12, 2021 at 3:48 am
Where’s part three? I’m turning ‘blew’ in the face waiting. Help me out Wired. Thanks Eric et al, or at al, y’all.
herringchoker01
March 12, 2021 at 4:09 am
Questions for Erik:
– Have you ever compared the linguistic boundaries you outlined with the cultural ones described in the Nine Nations of N America?
– Also interested to hear your take on eastern Canadian accents, to include Cape Breton and the whole Newfoundland suite.
– Finally, where can we find Part 3?
Tatiana R
March 12, 2021 at 5:09 am
I freaking love these .
Scubaguy007
March 12, 2021 at 5:19 am
I’m not sure you nailed the Georgia/Alabama/Tennessee accents. But I did enjoy the video, and you sure do got a purdy mouth. 😉
Kaelyn Walters
March 12, 2021 at 8:17 am
I would like a part 3 please
Cat Castle
March 12, 2021 at 2:00 pm
So that’s how you pronounce Latinx…
Jordan Wheeler
March 12, 2021 at 3:43 pm
god i could listen to him talk for HOURS i love him so much
Lauren McCormick
March 12, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Incredibly well done video series. I am fascinated!
Stefan Jentoft
March 12, 2021 at 6:08 pm
As a proud member of the upper Midwest (Minnesota), any word with ‘ag’ in it gets the “a” of day, not bat. Examples include bag, rag, stag, even when it’s not at the end of the word like with bagel. Words like cat, though, I don’t find change that much. The other thing we Vikings like doing is drawing out our long o sounds.
Jelena Jelisavcic
March 12, 2021 at 6:40 pm
expectations: this is linguistics, just science, no feels expected
reality: Kalina talks about native american “boarding schools”
CharlieChoppa
March 12, 2021 at 7:49 pm
I’m straight Mexican…… and believe me when I say this……ABSOLUTELY NO ONE in the Latino community refers to themselves as Latinx 🤢
v
March 14, 2021 at 12:20 am
On Twitter they do. I was like, is that what we’re called now ?? Ohh.
Michael Malenfant
March 12, 2021 at 8:10 pm
when is part 3 coming?
Rancid Jane
March 13, 2021 at 4:16 am
Accents are far more fascinating and numerous than I could have imagined.
Deb Collins
March 13, 2021 at 5:32 am
Great series! However, am I the only one who is having trouble finding Parts 3 & 4?
MikeP2055
March 13, 2021 at 9:01 am
I would love it if you tucked into Utah (and southern Idaho) a little more. Those of us along the Wasatch front — the metropolitan area extending about 100 miles north and south of Salt Lake City — definitely drop our Ts (and Gs at the end of words like “drivin’ “), but there’s a much thicker and distinct accent floating around that I’ve been trying to pin down for years. I associate it with more blue collar or rural Utahns, but I hear it everywhere. I’ve heard it my entire life, but can’t mimic or describe it. My boss thinks I’m crazy, ha! (I’ve worked in tourism around the state’s National Parks, ski resorts, and at the airport my entire life so I’m fascinated by this stuff.)
Br Ya
March 13, 2021 at 9:48 am
I wish you guys had done New Hampshire and western PA and Ohio Germanic/northern European/Amish/Mennonite influenced accents.
dreamofstone
March 13, 2021 at 11:23 am
I don’t see why latinx is pushed here. I understand it’s being tried to be popularized as a non-gendered alternative to latino/latina but why not use “latin” as an “americanization”, instead of inventing a new suffix? I saw a research saying only 3% of latin people in the US use latinx. It just seems so silly and pushed when you take that into account.
Aaa Aaa
March 13, 2021 at 2:44 pm
America: Countries,
Australia: Countries,
Britain: Colonies.
约翰·史密斯
March 13, 2021 at 3:07 pm
Latinx? Wft?
Rabbit Piet
March 13, 2021 at 4:42 pm
He cannot just turn his accent on and off like that.
shihancheng
March 13, 2021 at 5:53 pm
I am never going to Chicago….
Elvis Colon
March 13, 2021 at 10:07 pm
Did she just say latinx
DrumCoversFromHell
March 14, 2021 at 1:57 am
Good luck breaking down northern irish accents lol
Lauren Zanko
March 14, 2021 at 3:37 am
WHEN ARE WE GETTING PART THREEEEEE WEST COASTERS WANNA KNOW
YULY HERRERA SALAS
March 14, 2021 at 3:53 am
😛😏😛😛😛
YULY HERRERA SALAS
March 14, 2021 at 3:54 am
O,0009
Victoria Munoz
March 14, 2021 at 5:15 am
Where is part 3?
selective outrage
March 14, 2021 at 5:25 am
No Latinos I know call themselves LatinX. Progressive nonsense.
Mina Castillo
March 14, 2021 at 6:52 am
I’m Latina and I’ve seen plenty of other Latinos use it.Latinx was invented by Spanish speakers in Latin America.If you prefer to use Latino or latine, then go ahead, no one’s gonna stop you.But what’s wrong with other people using latinx if that term suits them better?If no one you know calls themselves that it’s probably because you’re a member of the older generations, which is fine.But some people in the younger generations use different terms, which is also a valid thing for them to do.Language inevitably evolves over time, whether you throw a fit over it or not.
Kira S.
March 14, 2021 at 5:36 am
Erik’s “check it out” at the very beginning there sounded _almost_ a bit Canadian…
Sam Haas
March 14, 2021 at 6:50 am
I love these videos, they’re so interesting and fun to watch
Loregasm
March 14, 2021 at 1:49 pm
Nobody in northern ohio does this Northern city vowl shift we got lumped in with.
John smith
March 16, 2021 at 3:02 pm
I do with a few things growing up for awhile in Berea, but I also was a fairly mobile kid growing up all over. I am really curious about how my accent places me and what people think of it. Ohio wasn’t actually mentioned at all in the first two videos which I thought was sort of interest.
Billie Stitch
March 14, 2021 at 1:59 pm
Man where’s the new episode?
radtkebrian
March 14, 2021 at 9:51 pm
I would love to see part 3!!! This is fascinating! I do with you’d spend more time on the Texas/Oklahoma area though, you missed a lot of accents there.
MissCorr11
March 14, 2021 at 11:44 pm
Where’s part 3, is it not out yet?
Jim Green
March 14, 2021 at 11:47 pm
Erik, it just dawned on me that, when you were east of the Mississippi, you missed going into the U.P. of Michigan for a sample of the Yooper accent.
Alejandro Cruz
March 15, 2021 at 12:24 am
Stop saying LatinX! It’s ridiculous! Men are men and women are women. The Spanish language has two genders. Deal with it.
Hal Brenner
March 15, 2021 at 1:29 am
0:55 I saw an interview with Shelby Foote where he says something about getting into an argument about “woyms” in a biology class at UNC Chapel Hill…he was saying “worms.”
Daggersanctuary
March 15, 2021 at 2:33 am
Would you consider critiquing Texan accents in television and cinema? I’d love your take on Hank Hill’s accent.
Ronin
March 15, 2021 at 3:33 am
Da Bears!
Drew Kabala
March 15, 2021 at 3:53 am
Where is part 3??
A.J. M.
March 15, 2021 at 6:17 am
NAILED chicago ♥️
A.J. M.
March 15, 2021 at 6:21 am
what’s his accent…?
Dionne Dunsmore
March 15, 2021 at 5:33 pm
These videos are AMAZIN’ HON’!! 😆😉.Id love to no how they keep all this stuff straight lol
What a cool clip!
Carsonian The Great
March 15, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Kansas and Nebraska have the same glottal stop and “sale/sell” pronunciation
Specz
March 15, 2021 at 8:53 pm
Southwest ohio here: Mou’ins for mountains and awn for on lol
Jadrian Miles
March 16, 2021 at 3:17 am
He said “Syracuse” right! Or at least mostly right. He got the “-kyooze”!
Dark Horse
March 16, 2021 at 4:46 am
You skipped the Chicago accent. It’s unique because there is a few of them.
ginger toast
March 16, 2021 at 5:51 am
” ‘Bet’ (sounds like) ‘But’,(and) ‘But’ (sounds like) ‘Bought’ “. lol.
taylorsvalley
March 16, 2021 at 3:00 pm
These videos are so interesting! Next time get someone to display the Black Louisiana Creole accents of Lafayette and Southwest Louisiana, they are extremely unique in comparison to the rest of the country. Also the Black New Orleans accent.
KIM JOHNSON
March 16, 2021 at 10:13 pm
Part 3, please!
Daniel Hebard
March 16, 2021 at 11:47 pm
Coloradans do the moun’ain thing too. And who else is bummed that he didn’t mention how we pronounce our state name Colo-RAD-o, but everyone else calls it Colo-ROD-o?
Jagger Riffle
March 17, 2021 at 12:02 am
WHEN IS PART 3 COMING OUT IVE BEEN WAITING SOOOOOOO LOOOOONG
Brando Peyno
March 17, 2021 at 5:28 am
please stop calling us LatinX, seriously.
Paola Miano
March 17, 2021 at 1:58 pm
Latinx is a cringe word lol
Davy Ray
March 17, 2021 at 2:39 pm
I really want to get to the explanation of the pronunciation of contractions. Why do some people say ‘did dent’ rather than ‘didn’t’? Isn’t that the whole point of a contraction?
hmm ok
March 17, 2021 at 6:31 pm
They can’t even do California because our accents are changing by the day 😂
Jacob Grey Stephenson
March 17, 2021 at 8:20 pm
We Oregonians tend to use the glottal “T” with mountain too so I’ve noticed
janessa yuen
March 18, 2021 at 12:22 am
learning linguistics anywhere means there’s a set of vowel articulation norms, so i’m learning it all in toronto, except i grew up in hong kong and went to school in the british system. basically i never know what i’m doing or how anything usually sounds xd
Amit Gupta
March 18, 2021 at 2:33 am
Takes 90 seconds to preface not all latinos share the same accent before spending 5 seconds to say miami english features a dark l
Blank Slate
March 18, 2021 at 6:09 am
I forgot how to speak “northeast Ohio” as you could put it. If I keep watching this type of my pirate hard R is gonna fade!
Long Johnson
March 18, 2021 at 6:21 am
Anyone else realize less than 2% of the Latin community calls themselves “Latinex” yet we hear it on media 24/7
Sarah Cooper
March 18, 2021 at 8:15 am
I love these videos, but I always start to doubt them once they get to my native chicagoland. I grew up here and have worked in grocery stores and salons so I have talked to a LOT of people. I have yet to meet ANYONE who sounds like that. My dad grew up in the city proper and my brother lives there now. My dad says he knew guys who sounded like that back in the 80’s, but that they would all be dead by now. My brother is a doctor and see’s plenty of people. He has never encountered it period. So…….. can we say it’s pretty much gone? It makes me doubt the rest of the video and feel like linguists aren’t keeping up with modern trends 😬
Jonny Holmberg
March 18, 2021 at 3:40 pm
Sounds very Matthew McConaughey… 😎
NoShaneNoGain
March 18, 2021 at 3:55 pm
“Are we there yet?” he said on this much too long trip to California
branden burks
March 18, 2021 at 11:13 pm
He got Detroit wrong.
Stick
March 19, 2021 at 1:42 am
Please don’t use “latinx”, the majority of spanish speakers don’t tolerate it and find it rather stupid.
Denine D
March 19, 2021 at 1:49 am
He sound like Matthew McConaughey when he hit Texas lol
LuxSignifer
March 19, 2021 at 2:27 am
– liking the vid
– liking the vid
– latinx -me having a stroke-
– liking the vid…
Alejandro Rodriguez
March 19, 2021 at 5:50 am
Gonna watch more of your videos so you get in my algorithm. The subscribe button doesn’t do much these days. Waiting on Part 3
layala lok
March 19, 2021 at 7:33 am
He’s a genius 😲
Isaac Sagers
March 19, 2021 at 9:40 pm
As a person who moved to Utah, that Mountain and Milk pronunciations hit soooo hard
Jonathan
March 19, 2021 at 10:23 pm
GIVE IS PART 3 ALREADY FFS
v
March 21, 2021 at 2:57 am
Forreal !!! WHERE IS PART 3 WIRED ?!?!!!!!!!!
lelmDR.WHO?
March 19, 2021 at 10:29 pm
I feel so edumacated now.
Shawn Brookbank
March 20, 2021 at 1:17 am
When is part 3??
Stephanie Hankins
March 20, 2021 at 4:06 am
How do i get notified when part 3 comes out? This is unfair i tell you! Unfair..
Sebastian Peter
March 20, 2021 at 10:40 am
Can americans please leave off saying latinx? Such a disgusting abuse of language.
Blonday92
March 20, 2021 at 6:13 pm
gimme that SoCal baby!
v
March 21, 2021 at 2:57 am
I’m too impatient cause that’s all I care to see
Tayen Mellick
March 20, 2021 at 9:00 pm
Definitely guilty of dropping my Ts in Mountain, Button, Kitten, etc. Colorado born and raised.
Andres Padrón
March 20, 2021 at 11:27 pm
Is there any part three?
Denise Pecoraro
March 21, 2021 at 6:32 am
This is fantastic and extremely interesting. Btw I cannot locate part 3, is it available on you tube?
Paul Blaauw
March 21, 2021 at 6:43 am
Where is part three?
Vlad Ilkevich
March 21, 2021 at 10:24 am
part 3 when???
Mercy Ifiegbu
March 21, 2021 at 1:59 pm
I’m not gonna be able to speak properly for a while
Ralph
March 21, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Cast this guy in the MCU as GAMBIT…NOW!!!!!
efrain mariano
March 21, 2021 at 7:58 pm
Part three
Reagan B
March 21, 2021 at 9:02 pm
why latinx? latino is gender neutral, too, is it not?
sammie m.
March 22, 2021 at 3:00 am
why did i just hear matthew mcconaughy’s voice for the first 5 mins
Shaw McGee
March 22, 2021 at 4:42 am
Nothin bout Hooser accens here
cheena428
March 22, 2021 at 4:53 am
I’m waiting for part 3 soon!! They seem to be posted a month apart…. and it’s been a month. *fingers crossed*
All the Sage
March 22, 2021 at 6:35 am
Disappointed the word “ fixin’ “ didn’t make it into the Texas bit. I’m fixin’ to do this, you’re fixin’ to do that.
Stephan Sinitsa
March 22, 2021 at 7:40 am
Still waiting for part three, where is it??
mary smith
March 22, 2021 at 4:18 pm
WE WANT A PART 3! WE WANT A PART 3!
Rebecca Corley
March 23, 2021 at 12:36 am
Where is Part 3?? I can’t find it!
Tumba0
March 23, 2021 at 4:02 am
I don’t think you could find one person who both them and their parents were born in the city limits of Detroit and they sound like that. Detroit. Not Wayne or Oakland County. Detroit.
jeepin1045
March 24, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Even in the Tri-County area nobody sounds like that. It seemed like they grouped Chicago with the rest of the Midwest, and Chicago has a very distinct accent themselves. Also, the northern area of Michigan has a whole different dialect. I wish he would’ve spent more time on Michigan it’s self.
Andriya Pradipta Karim
March 23, 2021 at 10:55 am
My Request :
Sexiest Accent
Sexiest Dialect
blair dowis
March 23, 2021 at 6:44 pm
where is part 3!!
Shin TheMin
March 23, 2021 at 10:40 pm
That’s what I’m asking
Abby Hogan
March 23, 2021 at 7:51 pm
I was excited for him to get to my state and then it was just a generalization because people think Oklahomans still speak with native american accents. The cultures are so mixed that doesn’t really hold true anymore. Had to think of the Texas stuff as what would have been said but eastern and western oklahoma accents are so different it’s hard to generalize.
ukulue
March 23, 2021 at 9:40 pm
i thought i had the general american accent, and then he started talking about the change shift in the great lakes, and i started saying cat and bought and it BLEW MY MIND
SAMUELCRAFTER1
March 24, 2021 at 12:01 am
do the west coast bruh
The Shaman
March 24, 2021 at 3:47 am
As a Hispanic, Latino, Mexican; do not EVER refer to me, family, friends, and enemies as latinx. This is a sure way to insult us and create an unfriendly situation.
Noah Nipperus
March 24, 2021 at 7:19 am
Do we know what regions have the closest to a “dictionary” accent?
Noah Nipperus
March 24, 2021 at 7:40 am
I know that’s a really tricky question
Noah Nipperus
March 24, 2021 at 7:46 am
please give us part fthree
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March 24, 2021 at 1:00 pm
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March 24, 2021 at 5:52 pm
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Isabelle F
March 24, 2021 at 6:38 pm
You just gonna skip over Missouri and Kansas? Okay then
Messiah X
March 24, 2021 at 7:52 pm
Chicago folks don’t sound like that lol
Carolina
March 24, 2021 at 9:02 pm
I stopped watching when I heard “Latinx”. It lost credibility. Smh.
Salomon Ramos
March 25, 2021 at 12:06 am
As a Chicago native this explains why some people say i have an accent.
Belle Stewart LVT
March 25, 2021 at 1:45 am
No maine accent! Come on how did you miss Maine!
StabbingPrivateMellish
March 25, 2021 at 2:25 am
I hope there’s a part 3. Maybe the Latina linguistics expert will cover the Chicano accent. I noticed it’s the same between Texas and California.
Fred Robert
March 25, 2021 at 4:05 am
So uh I live in Detroit and I have never heard really anyone speak how he explained it besides how he said bus and lucky
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Pasta Shells
March 25, 2021 at 4:55 pm
its hard to focus when her eyebrows are shifting on the y axis
Harry Willman
March 25, 2021 at 5:02 pm
The Utah accent described here is more precisely a Mormon accent. You can hear it quite a bit in Arizona and Idaho as well.
Steve Avila
March 25, 2021 at 5:18 pm
I stopped watching after you uttered “Latinx.” Gracias por insultar nuestra cultura.
MadDa Dog
March 25, 2021 at 7:15 pm
Same
Ronald Felix
March 25, 2021 at 5:24 pm
There is forming a distinctive northwestern accent. Especially my neck of the woods of Northern Washington. E before g is pronounced ay, so layg bayg etc.
Arantxa VS
March 25, 2021 at 5:59 pm
Didn’t talk about south Texas or Hispanic regions in Texas at all 😐
94noj
March 25, 2021 at 8:04 pm
I live in Utah and my last name is Fenton. I moved to Vegas and I had a teacher convinced I needed a speech therapist because I kept saying my name was Fen’n
Kyle Voorschien
March 25, 2021 at 10:07 pm
Don’t use LatinX.
Cooe
March 25, 2021 at 10:09 pm
13:45 As a native Utahn I KNEW this one was coming lol xD. I glottal stop these HARD.
Josue Bustamante
March 25, 2021 at 10:17 pm
Stop saying Latin x that’s not real. No one identifies as that. Geez.
MadDa Dog
March 25, 2021 at 10:43 pm
Right?!
Josue Bustamante
March 25, 2021 at 10:18 pm
Latin x is not real. It’s just latino
Anna Tatlin
March 25, 2021 at 10:22 pm
In the Texas part on the video Eric became Matthew McConaughey 😂
Juan C Trujillo
March 25, 2021 at 11:55 pm
I hate the term latinex
Nawar B.
March 26, 2021 at 1:02 am
Central Texan here, I’m pretty sure the only word where I do the price-smoothing is “I’ll”, which sounds more like “all” than “isle”
Charlotte Corwin
March 26, 2021 at 1:03 am
I love love love this!!! I just wish he had spoken about what the Nova Scotians were doing that far south… the Acadiens were driven out of Nova Scotia in the mid 1700’s (collateral in the conflict between the English and the French) and ended up a little everywhere. But a large number settled in Louisiana and are the basis of the Cajun population. It’s a shameful and fascinating chapter in the history of what eventually became Canada.
Cap't Jack
March 26, 2021 at 1:28 am
F you Iowa
Ceth Cummings
March 26, 2021 at 3:01 am
How do non-rhotic speakers pronounce “non-rhotic”
- DB
March 26, 2021 at 3:05 am
Closed the video when they started saying “latinx”
Joel Puente
March 26, 2021 at 12:40 pm
Please stop saying Latinx
Madeline Plumb
March 26, 2021 at 2:51 pm
Linguistics isn’t my thing, but hot darn these are great!
Also, I love that Spanish Spanish wasn’t including in the list of Spanish influences (I get that it is much rarer in the US)
Julio Rodriguez
March 26, 2021 at 2:55 pm
Please stop calling us Latinx. Its annoying, its weird
Artz
March 27, 2021 at 12:15 am
Are you lgbtq+? if not its not your place to talk….
steve jette
March 26, 2021 at 2:58 pm
Why do some people say “axe” for “ask” ?
Paul Casey
March 26, 2021 at 5:05 pm
All I could hear during the Chicago portion was the Da Bears SNL skit
Steve Orbe
March 26, 2021 at 6:50 pm
Just say Latino population, or Latinos.
João Paulo
March 26, 2021 at 9:25 pm
My blood boils every time I hear “Latinx”. It’s incredibly dumb and disrespectful to the Romance Languages.
Manda G
March 26, 2021 at 11:32 pm
I love this series, especially the brief history lessons that give cultural context.
Kalua Lauber
March 27, 2021 at 12:32 am
This is awesome!
Rafiki The Guru
March 27, 2021 at 4:09 am
Please stop with the bastardization of my beautiful language for the purpose of wokism. Somos latinos, not latinx.
Gavin Wilson
March 27, 2021 at 4:53 am
I’ve lived in Texas my whole life, and I’ve never heard this accent in real life. Not even in the rural areas I’ve visited. Where is it spoken???
Liz Hutchinson
March 27, 2021 at 6:38 am
Wait…don and dawn have different pronunciations??
Dangic23
March 27, 2021 at 7:36 am
Latinx is not a thing.
Please stop the nonsense.
creinstein
March 27, 2021 at 9:41 am
so good!
Minnie11chula
March 27, 2021 at 10:35 am
Absolutely useless on Miami English.
Tre Hamilton
March 27, 2021 at 2:29 pm
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Karin T
March 27, 2021 at 4:42 pm
Speaking as a New Orleans native, you’re way off when you’re trying to imitate the accent. You’re right that it sounds New York-ish, but you just didn’t get it right. This is a good video about true New Orleans accents:
grovermatic
March 27, 2021 at 7:01 pm
Cleveland, and especially Akron have very distinct accents.
grovermatic
March 27, 2021 at 7:06 pm
Dayton, Ohio here. “Don” and “dawn” are the same for me. Likewise “Mary”, “merry”, and “marry” are pretty much identical. Same for “Barry”, “bury”, and “berry”.
margi cates
March 28, 2021 at 1:00 am
Can we talk about oil= erl!?
In New Orleans.
corina junior
March 28, 2021 at 1:25 am
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Tracy Strong
March 28, 2021 at 2:37 pm
I would love a video that breaks down the different Spanish accents. This would probably be very difficult for an English speaking linguist but as a non-Spanish speaker I don’t have the ear for the differences but am curious how they sound to Spanish speakers.
Michael Rice
March 28, 2021 at 4:29 pm
I spent my childhood in northern Wyoming and southern Montana, and my family has always pronounced Mountain and button the same way you noted for Utah.
Eduardo de Montenegro
March 28, 2021 at 5:27 pm
As a Spanish speaker “Latinx” kills me. Latino is both masculine and neutral in Spanish. And if you’re going to anglicize it just say “latin”.
Memoria James
March 29, 2021 at 1:29 pm
But “Latin” also means something entirely different. I like “latino” better, too.
Eduardo de Montenegro
March 29, 2021 at 1:42 pm
@Memoria James Latin means exactly the same as Latino does in Spanish
yalike jazz
March 29, 2021 at 4:38 pm
@Eduardo de Montenegro latin could be taken as the language, so they probably don’t call it that to avoid confusion. i don’t speak spanish but it does make sense to just say latino if it’s gender neutral imo 🙂
Thomas Tiotto
March 29, 2021 at 7:27 pm
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks it sounds dumb. In Italian if we want to be inclusive we specify “italianE ed italianI” (female and male Italians); otherwise it’s just “italianI” and no one has ever had a problem with that.
Joe Ingalls
March 28, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Iowa is literally super interesting when it comes to accents. I’m so happy you talked about us!
Jill Short
March 28, 2021 at 6:27 pm
Dear linguists, especially phonologists, I have a theory about the nasality (as compared to most British speakers) of North American accents. All Native American speakers seem to have a pretty distinct nasality in their speech, most like Northern US dialects and most Canadian dialects. I understand that many Native languages have at least some tonality characteristics (rather like Chinese) which, I would think, would require a fairly nasal pronunciation. Is it possible that early English-speaking settlers, who would surely have had to learn some bits of native languages to communicate with the locals, might have had their English articulation altered a bit by frequently communicating with the Natives? We Euros surely borrowed enough of their place names. Or were the British accents of way back just more nasal? Anyway, if it’s possible, or even likely, I think Natives should get some credit for having contributed to North American English.
Wyatt Loethen
March 29, 2021 at 12:10 am
I have lived in the Ozarks my entire life and almost no one talks like that.. like at all
Elanor The Fair
March 29, 2021 at 2:53 am
A lot of Texans do the glottal stop thing like he said for Utah.
Liz Dowling
March 29, 2021 at 3:36 am
You mention Iowa but leave out Nebraska and Kansas….dude
Koret Mulder
March 29, 2021 at 7:02 am
I’m also wondering why you don’t have your own Youtube channel, and are still under Wired.
Is it a contract issue? A hostage situation?
Blink three times for yes….
Seth Parker
March 29, 2021 at 10:21 am
Da yoopie got, skipped again.
KujoTV
March 29, 2021 at 11:34 am
Wow a trip to the south that included, the coast (Piny Coast), and… Texas, now back up to the north JOY! Next episode… California and the Ca nooks. I know you said you weren’t covering all accents but you only seem to be skipping the fly-over states. Bubble boy.
Memoria James
March 29, 2021 at 1:28 pm
11:56 So many White people were and still are so against diversity, even with the NATIVE inhabitants of the country they invaded! It’s so sad and furiating.
Tomcat Churches
March 29, 2021 at 2:16 pm
It’s heartbreaking what is happening to Native American languages. They “why” is even more heartbreaking…
Jeremiah Bachmann
March 29, 2021 at 8:05 pm
Detroit. You are wrong. No one here speaks like that. Da Bears is a Chicago thing, not even close to how we speak in SE MI.
gokblok
March 29, 2021 at 10:20 pm
“Wit them two capital Rs and e’ythang”
ExileOnDaytonStreet
March 29, 2021 at 10:32 pm
As a man in Wisconsin, I feel moderately left out. But it’s fair to give Minnesota and Chicago their own sections and acknowledge that what we do is just on the sliding scale between the two.
Also: of course we have a dialect where our mouth stays still. And yes, it gets worse when it’s cold outside. For the same reason.
Michael Greco
March 29, 2021 at 11:21 pm
he Northern Cities vowel shift is atrocious and needs to be stopped immediately
Étienne Borel
March 30, 2021 at 12:11 am
So, fair enough that what he’s using is a bit more general in terms of accents, but I have literally never heard anyone speak with the Louisiana Southern accent before in my life. But when he got to Cajun I realized the problem: that’s not what many of us sound like. That’s a specific region of cajun accent that really does not reflect the entire Acadiana region. There are so much more diversity and nuance that comes with our dialect, but it kind of makes sense why a non-native would use that as the general idea.
PG
March 30, 2021 at 4:18 am
I knew they would use that ridiculous Latinx word. So sick of it.
mitchell corona
March 30, 2021 at 5:33 am
No one uses LatinX outside of a unhinged sociology department.
Abril P
March 30, 2021 at 7:24 am
I hope you are paying well to this guy, he is your most precious gem. I love his videos ♥
federz666
March 30, 2021 at 5:03 pm
This is interesting. In Ireland, a country smaller than the state of New York, we have a billion different accents.. Even within the capitol Dublin, there’s a million accents.
Lisa R
March 30, 2021 at 7:57 pm
Your yat is lacking. Most of your southern accents are way off.
s r
March 30, 2021 at 11:32 pm
Stopped watching at “lantinx”
Baccanaso
March 31, 2021 at 12:05 am
Latinx is pretty cringe
Bella Olson
March 31, 2021 at 1:16 am
Me living in Wisconsin not knowing my accent was so detailed
Nick C
March 31, 2021 at 1:33 am
As someone who lives in western Upstate New York in the middle of the Finger Lakes region right between Rochester and Syracuse (two of the cities most impacted by this vowel shift) hearing about the Northern Cities Vowel Shift is pretty wild. We don’t have as intense of a “New York accent” as New York City folks way up here, but we don’t sound like Chicago folks either, and the accent you affect to describe this vowel change doesn’t sound like anybody I’ve ever talked to. That makes me look forward to encountering this change around here in the future because I’m such a nerd about that sort of thing lol. Far out.
Victoria Parsons
March 31, 2021 at 2:27 am
I’m just butthurt he didnt mention wisconsin accent
Peter Harrison
March 31, 2021 at 3:42 am
Erik—another thing that a friend of mine in New Orleans told me years ago was that there was a shortage of teachers in the public schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Catholic Church stepped in to help and looked about for a teaching order or nuns and found one in, of all places, Brooklyn, NY. The Church, being a lot like the Army, would reassign people (priests, nuns, bothers, etc.) as needed to accomplish its many missions. So, the good sisters of a teaching order in NY packed up and moved to NOLA to fill the shortage. And, supposedly, that’s how a good number of woids (words) for Nu Yawk ended up in good ol’ Nawlin’s, Loosianna. If you listen to old recordings of Louis Armstrong, you can hear these words in both his singing and his speech. Ditto new recordings of Harry Connick, Jr. Moidah, boid, thoid, etc., etc., all show up repeatedly. Also, some of the times I’ve been there to visit, you can hear people who you’d swear sound like they live on Flatbush Ave., and not Bourbon St.
Malkey Tone
March 31, 2021 at 5:53 pm
This is GREAT video editing for really complex and constant speaker transitions
Laura Capps
March 31, 2021 at 7:50 pm
Wait, do people actually exist who pronounce the T in button?
Matt Taylor
April 1, 2021 at 4:40 pm
hwaiting fuh par’ fthree. ‘ello?
Princess Diana Rollerskating
April 1, 2021 at 5:29 pm
When he showed the Chicago accent he sounded just like John Mulaney
Desiree C
April 1, 2021 at 7:29 pm
not me being embarrassed after he explained the northern cities shift accent
Atomsk0192
April 1, 2021 at 8:13 pm
I’m not sure what I sound like anymore
Hopeless
April 2, 2021 at 1:19 am
That’s a hat caffee pat
Pamela Saunders
April 2, 2021 at 2:58 am
“I won’t bell you out of jell if you get arrested for sneaking into a public swimming pull at night.” 🤣 Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Toxic Tyco
April 2, 2021 at 11:57 am
Dislike for saying latinx
TheDancerMacabre
April 2, 2021 at 4:44 pm
As a Chicagoan:
We don’t sound like that…
Do we?!
betenoireindustries
April 3, 2021 at 9:27 pm
the true yat accent is so immensely nuanced and granular, with differences even between upriver, downriver, eastbank and westbank, it’s not surprising even professionals rarely attempt it.
Lisa
April 4, 2021 at 3:34 pm
5 seconds on the Chicago accent? Sorry but we all do not sound the same and we don’t all speak the canned TV/Movie accent of Chicagoans. What a poor representation of the Midwest in general. Stick to your east coast and southern accents or find someone more educated about the Midwest.
Carolina Morales
April 5, 2021 at 4:57 am
MIAMI REPRESENT BABY
JaWBReaKeR 707
April 5, 2021 at 6:32 am
LatinX is offensive. It fully demonstrates the political narrative in full swing in this video. Disgusting anti-american garbage. Get rid of it!
Thomas Payne
April 6, 2021 at 1:25 am
hahahha She is a linguist and said latinx. Being woke rots the brain.
Chungus_ Bombadil
April 6, 2021 at 9:55 am
How do you pronounce “rhotic” or “nonrhotic” in a nonrhotic accent? Would it just be “otic”?
roy rogers
April 7, 2021 at 1:52 am
Latinx isn’t a word. Say Latina or Latino.
Nick Harger
April 7, 2021 at 12:51 pm
OnlyFans, but it is just Dialect Daddy talking
D’meach da peach
April 7, 2021 at 7:37 pm
I’m so excited to see all different races talking about their accents. I didn’t know I needed this but I’m happy about it
Paul Steiner
April 7, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Just a note as a Utah Native: The glottal stop thing isn’t limited to “Mountain” and “Button” we do it to just about every word that ends similarly, like “Fountain”, “Cotton”, and “Layton”(a Utah city). I’m sure there are more examples, I just can’t think of any right now.
Xavier Domenico
April 8, 2021 at 12:59 am
how many times do latino people need to say they don’t like the term latinx. just stop already.
David Patte
April 8, 2021 at 1:29 am
I am fascinated with these videos and will contribute some more info. I am a a Canadian who grew up in Quebec but with middle class Toronto parents. Canadians are VERY rhodic – don’t make me say MIRROR. But they we are famous for our OU dipthong. Not BOOT, or BOUT, But abouw-OOt. I also hear a change in rising in sentances as well. I find it annoying.
Molly
April 8, 2021 at 2:34 am
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Kailash GD
April 9, 2021 at 1:27 am
Aye Minnesota got its own segment
Dusty Thibodaux
April 9, 2021 at 2:37 am
Yikes… that southern Louisiana accent is the horrible crappy accents that is used in Hollywood. We do NOT sound like that in south Louisiana…
mingoyoongi
April 9, 2021 at 4:46 am
i was weirdly proud to see i live in the area of the northern cities shift that he was so excited about
Cartoon Fish! Fun videos!
April 9, 2021 at 7:12 pm
I wonder if he can do various Yorkshire accents?
Ms Pretty Kawaii
April 12, 2021 at 4:54 am
Dont take anything for “Granite” instead of Gran-ted
Tessa Davis
April 12, 2021 at 5:02 am
As a Coloradan we have the same accent variations as Utah
bvansenu
April 12, 2021 at 6:27 pm
Ya hear dat everyone? Us Chicagoans are changing da sound of da English language like Shakespeare did.
baazam
April 12, 2021 at 11:36 pm
As someone who grew up in Utah:
yes.
SERGIO VALENS
April 14, 2021 at 9:02 pm
and speaking about languages and accents…”LATINX” used by miss Figueroa is not a world latin people use. Actually we find it very offensive. We are LATINOS o LATINAS, not a cool word some that some hypersensitive young progressist “cancel culture” advocate invented. Miss Figueroa, as a latina speaking about languages you should be ashamed of using that term.
Agiff
April 15, 2021 at 2:12 am
The issue with me when I go to hear myself I repeat the word so Many times forgot what I was saying originally
The Slavic Cookie
April 15, 2021 at 6:46 am
I’d like to state that central texas(primarily in the triangle between austin houston and dallas sound a bit different than the rest of texas
mhp0810
April 15, 2021 at 10:09 am
I fast forward all narrators who are not the main dude
msotti
April 15, 2021 at 8:47 pm
I have yet to see one of these people do a Chicago accent. It’s all the “superfans”
Marcus Ng
April 16, 2021 at 10:54 am
2:22 You can see how camila hometown is SOOO near Miami
Kimberly Danielle Yaya Payton
April 17, 2021 at 12:24 pm
Where y’at means where are you
c.m chido
April 17, 2021 at 6:06 pm
You can see the SADNESS on Kalina’s face each time she shared the Native American English accent evolution
RaTheGreat86
April 17, 2021 at 9:35 pm
Latinx is a stupidest pseudo-word . It has absolutely no meaning. Say latino, hispanic, or be silent.
b3nzay
April 17, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Why are all the minorities in this video so white?
Brandon Vaughan
April 17, 2021 at 11:48 pm
Latinx is not a thing.
Hannah Roscher
April 18, 2021 at 12:21 pm
For a good portion of this video, I can close my eyes hear Matthew McConaughey
Snooks McDermott
April 18, 2021 at 2:39 pm
That Utah accent sounds a lot like central Ohio.
Brian Cochran
April 18, 2021 at 4:48 pm
You lost me LatinX. Dilo mija, LATINOS.
xbigshot1
April 19, 2021 at 5:27 pm
LOL……….he nailed that cajun pretty good, kudos……
Caroline Royce
April 19, 2021 at 5:58 pm
I went full fangirl when he got to Minnesota (my state). If Minnesotans love one thing it’s people talkin’ bout us.
Suzanne Parker
April 19, 2021 at 6:23 pm
The /l/ in the initial part of a word is different than the /l/ in the final part of a word. That’s why they sound different. I’m a speech/language pathologist and had to narrowly transcribe accents in college.
Fuerza American bulldogs
April 20, 2021 at 5:12 am
Latinx lol so annoying
Philip B
April 20, 2021 at 8:33 am
Something Ithat most struck me in MN and WI was an extreme diphthong, e.g. ‘fire’ pronounced ‘fah-ee-yur’.
Chibu O
April 20, 2021 at 11:51 pm
Am no fan of America but this is so intriguing I almost want to visit..!