50 People Show Us Their States' Accents | Culturally Speaking | Condé Nast Traveler

I never thought I had an accent but everyone else told me I did so I never really understood my accent but we say soda pop and that was weird I guess [Music] the great thing about Oklahoma is it's really this confluence of a whole bunch of different parts of the country so the the northern part of the state is really like the plains so people kind of have that flat Iowa accent people always know I'm from the Midwest when you say bagel but if you get down south to the Little Dixie portion it has a much more of a Southern drawl it long gave me most vowels a little bit and saying y'all every sentence how y'all doing today y'all want to go to Waffle House come on over we're gonna Waffle House it's just like really round in your mouth and you're just like hey y'all how we doing tonight and are you guys gonna go down to the game this weekend I'm so excited like Joshua's doing really great this year everybody talks really slow especially compared to New Yorkers most New York is allowed you got to fit your way into a conversation most often times when you're in New York for months accent is very unique and it's hard to slip into unless you're talking to another person who like grew up farming but the phrase that I can say in my accent is always oh sure bud oh sure people from California kind of have like they say like Colorado doesn't really have a typical accent lots of people say that it has no accent but you'll definitely get called out if you say Colorado its Colorado I've been told from people in New York that my state has accent some people go to Chicago I don't think we do these parts that I can hear like a little bit of explain kind of sound like this some people in New Mexico have accents depending on what part of the state you're from people in the South tend a sound a little bit more like they could be from Texas really wide syllables really kind of drawn-out phrases it's a little sing-songy like a little bit valley girl almost I'm from New Mexico and I love eating burritos go skiing up on mountain pass me those taters oh I mean like this Cowboys you know there's horses I don't know I don't feel like I have an accident I went home a couple of years ago and was watching home videos of my sister and I and we had to like do a weather forecast as like little kids and we'd be like it was a big hurricane come in from the the left coast but don't worry because we don't know that it's coming and people would be like what are you saying I can put on the you got to park the kanhaiyaa and get the kind of quarter for some chowder that's a standard Boston accent right there any er would have an a hmm it's kind of like Boston go up to Baja but I guess some lobster supper my mom has this kind of strange half french-canadian half Boston accent that sounds like peanut characters womp womp womp womp well if you're from North Dakota you've got some lung oz oh yeah you betcha yeah hang on to your R's a little - it gets a little bit thicker the older you are your grandma sounds a little bit like this your mom might be a little bit softer I'm from Wisconsin go Pat go it kind of gets like up here go P ACK I see hey I have some eggs and a big the best example of the Wyoming accent I feel like I've ever seen was in Brokeback Mountain one curve in the road and they missed it so if you live in Washington State no one ever says they have an accent they all think they speak pretty normal which is kind of true just kind of middle of the road sort of like dollar itself but they also kind of have a good country it kind of thing to them so they'll say like Wersching ttan like I'm gonna wash my hands and I were kind of word is that we pronounce it he says do you say we sing Connecticut instead of Connecticut I feel like Michigan's typical accent it's very nasally hi like that type of vibe so if I'm from like North Side kawaiiboys sounds something like this I know who doesn't have a really distinct accent there's no accent in Indiana this might be very biased I don't think we I really don't think we have an accent I don't hear it but I get reminded of it when I travel I mean I think this is normal it's a perfect neutral Pacific Northwest tone Sarah Palin does not have a typical Alaska accent she's not really from there she grew up in I don't know Kansas or something my husband laughs to me cuz I say wolf instead of wolf our accents are all over the place the first one that comes to my head is a Latino one I've caught him cortadito there's the st. Louis accident where we say certain things like quarters and water where I'm from they like to say heyno or Mayan that's shirt over there is Mayan from philly they like to say wooder and you's guys but in Pittsburgh instead of yous guys they say yen's what I ends doing North Carolina is is it's an interesting accent it's just got a little bit of a drawl it's a little lazier just very slow pace very good they're nice there's chocen South Carolina which is my like this it's more smooth I have a daughter named IC and then you got the real squealing squealing southern accent and then you just got the we're just hey how you doing bliss that's a good day now okay

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Id: UcxByX6rh24

Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

"I don't have an accent", he said, in one of several American accents.

[u/mrmadster23]

Explanation:

The "I don't think I have an accent" observation is made by a good number of people in this video, but then go on to say something unique about their way of speaking. Of course, everyone has an accent, but typically people who haven't studied linguistics or are interested in linguistics might think that they are "accentless". This is impossible because an accent is a way of pronouncing words in a language, everyone has a way of doing this (idiolect) which can be generally grouped together to have accents. (Let me know if I can improve the succinctness of my summary of accents)

It's also definitely not representative of unique accents from different areas within different regions of states; a Philadelphia accent vs a Pittsburgh accent for example. Maybe that's just an issue of logistics though?

[u/scottscheule]

Another possibility is that when (these) Americans use the word 'accent', they're not using it in a specialized linguistic sense, but mean something more like: 'way of speaking that deviates from the way of speaking typically used as neutral in media.'

[u/lntef]

They really took 50 speakers of pretty non-descript general American as a way to demonstrate local accents lol

[u/hydrofeuille]

My American ex grew up in California until she was 14 then left for Georgia. Her accent was a combo of valley girl and southern drawl. When we broke up my (Australian) friends told me how much they hated her accent :p

[u/nidarus]

Eh, I don't know. "Not having an accent" is a universally well-known colloquialism for "using the standard / prestige accent of the country". It's obviously not true from a linguistic perspective, but it's kinda like saying that "strawberry is a berry" is "bad botany".

[u/Hominid77777]

Part of the problem is that if you're going to discuss the different English dialects in the US, using state lines is a terrible way of doing it.

Also I thought it was funny that someone thought that t-flapping was a specifically Connecticut thing.

[u/IanIsNotMe]

This is hardly bad linguistics. A big part of qualitative research in sociolinguistics is understand the perceptions people have about their own language

[u/jeninjapan]

This was the most disappointing video I have ever watched.. Maryland not having an accent is COMICAL.

Eyy dere hon, we goin downey ocean. I’ll warsh my hands in da zinc, den we’ll drive o’re to bawlmer.

Source: I’m from Maryland