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

[ADayintheLifeoftheTw]

Fun fact, if you want to find an old accent, look to the older men of society. But if you want to see the evolution to the newer accents, look to the teenage girls. It's because those younger girls will raise their kids with their accent, and if it's a boy, they usually are less exposed to cultural changes (speaking wise) compared to the girls. So they will stick closer to their moms accent as opposed to their sisters who will change their accent as they grow up.

[gerardroll]

Jamel… I picked up on this during my first trip to the US back in 1987 but then the “locals”, no matter what state I was in, got it thrown back in their faces when they encountered my broad Australian accent. I had people staring at me with typical “WTF?” faces, looking at me like I was from another planet 👍😆. Bear in mind… This was around the time the movie “Crocodile Dundee” was being released in the US & they would suddenly realise I was from the same country as “Crocodile” Dundee 🇦🇺😆🐊🇦🇺

[marleneobstnash]

I've lived in PA all my life. Half in Philly, half in the northeast. There are two distinct accents and I easily fell into the other accent when I moved.
In the middle of our state we have Pennsylvania Dutch who have a different accent and many catchphrases unique to their language.
On the western side of PA, the Pittsburgh accent is very well known with its phrase "yinz."

[Goonerette]

Goes to show to many of us that don't live in the States that there is an array of accents. Love from London.

[waltw]

New York. Eastern NY says "soda"; western NY says "pop".Heh. We were once at Shenandoah Nat'l Park in Virginia and, after a great meal in the park's main restaurant, my wife said to the older VA lady who was running the register, "I love the coffee". The lady said, "Say thait agin!". What? she asked. "You know, the draink you had!" My lady says, "Cawfee?" The register lady says, I just luv your accent! We go, Wait! You got the accent!!, Lol. We all three had a good laugh.

[matts]

I'm originally from Pittsburgh. I can confirm that we do say "yinz" quite a bit, as well as changing most "ou" and "ow" sounds to an "ah". For example, "downtown" becomes "dahntahn". Pittsburgh is a melting pot of German, Irish, Polish, Italian, you name it, and it's a very distinct accent.

[briancoyne]

“Pittsburghese”…translation follows:
“Hey, what are yinz doin? Jeet jet? I got a pahn uh grahn rahnd from Jian Iggl, I’ll make some burgers n at. I got some chip tam and jumbo for some sammiches, too. We’re goin dahna Sah Side later to ketch some tunes.”

What are you (guys) doing? Did you eat yet? I bought a pound of ground round (ground beef) from the Giant Eagle (grocery chain). I’ll make some burgers, etc. I also bought some chipped chopped ham and sliced bologna (lunchmeat), for sandwiches. We’re going to the South Side (across the river from “dahntahn”) later to listen to some music.
Remember: You don’t have a picnic in Pittsburgh; you have a pitnic in Pixburgh.

[missrachelreads]

From Massachusetts originally, but living in central New Hampshire (the "Lakes Region"!) for 25 years. Northern New Englanders have a "Yankee" accent (NOT to do with the baseball team! lol). I can really hear it in the older people here who grew up here - I hear our "O"s as "OH"s so a Pot Luck dinner (a very popular small town or church event) is "Poht luck". We do the "R" thing, like Boston, but softer, not "Pahk the Cah" but more "Pahrk the Cahr". I love NH slang (there a great Vanity Fair video on states' slang btw). My son is born and raised in NH, now 22, and I love how he and his friends talk. You make a mistake here and you would say "I did that on accident". Our version of a redneck is a "yahoo". A now retired co-worker of mine said that and also that if she bought something in the past, it had been "boughten"!

[CRabbit]

In Montana (which got snubbed by the video!) we've got the "no accent" sound like Indiana, and the accent shared by N. Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Michigan also has these two accents. The Upper Peninsula uses the northern accent, but even more pronounced. The Lower Peninsula is the home of no accent folks. But all over Michigan, everyone calls "soda" "pop."

[garymcatear]

Scotland....and you don't have a snowballs chance in hell of understanding my accent 🤣

[charlottebrookssprinkles]

I live in Southeast KY, literally on the border of KY, TN, and VA. We have very distinct accents in this area! It literally varies from County by county, holler by holler you can almost handpick what area people are from by their dialect and tone.

[donnagonatas]

Massachusetts and for sure we have an accent. My son moved to Texas over 8 years ago and they still call him Boston Nick. Some times people can't understand me. We don't pronounce our Rs and if the word ends in an R, we replace it with an A. For example you have a warm PARKER. I have a warm PAAKA🤷🏻‍♀️✌️♥️

[lindatyler]

I lived in Washinton state for awhile and my co-workers kept telling me I have an accent, I kept saying that I didn't they kept asking me if I was from the south and I said no I'm from Missouri.well one day a salesman came to install a new machine and he wa from Alabama or Georgia when we heard him speak I looked at my co workers and said now that is a southern accent.after hearing his accent they finally had to admit that I did not have a southern accent.it was hilarious

[jennifermarlow.]

We have many regional accents here. If I travel 3 hours' drive, I may not understand the lingo, but 5 hours in the other direction, completely different. Nova Scotia

[donnaguy]

I worked as a customer service rep for 30 years & one of the things that helped me with my sanity was to try & figure out where the caller was from before I pulled up their account. I got pretty good at it. I really get what the people are saying in the video in that most states have serveral accents. I'm from Chicagoland & moved to here when I was 2 from southeastern Kentucky. I never used one sylable when two would do it. By the time I was 9, it was teased out of me. Chicago accents crack me up. You have distinct accents within the city even. I love it.

[kindoe]

😂 I am from Maine originally but I have been living in New Hampshire nearly 40 years. We do sound like we say "cah" or "yahd" because for whatever reason we don't typically say "car" or "yard". Personally I love how we sound.

[lindatyler]

Missouri here, we call soft drinks soda

[thesquigglespin]

I'm from Chicago, but my first language was Spanish, that's what my parents spoke. So, in early grade school, I had to have a speech therapist, ESL wasn't a thing in public school back then. (1980ish) Anyway, my teacher was from the New England area so my English is a mix of all that. I have no Spanish accent when I speak English and visa versa. I'm all over the place, brother. Oh, and did I mention I grew up in a mostly black neighborhood, and I moved to Texas in '96. I might as well be from Mars. LOL

Much love, my man.

[katiestans]

I am watching from the gulf coast of Alabama. I am definitely eat up with a southern accent. Born in Mississippi, raised in the Missouri boot-heel. So I really do have a odd southern accent. I lived in Az for 5 years and couldn’t go anywhere without someone saying, oh my goodness you sound so sweet, where are you from. Then people would gather around to hear me talk, I felt like a celebrity lol. The people I worked with would always laugh at my southern sayings. One day it was raining hard and I said oh my goodness it’s raining cats and dogs out there and talk about laughter. Moved back to Mississippi for 25 years and ended up in Alabama. Found out that there is nothing like southern hospitality. Love my southern raising. Strong southern accent rocks. My son went to high school in Az and his coach never called him by his name Allan he always called him Mississippi because of his strong southern accent.

[mikemc]

Some say that Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and "the City" (Manhattan) all have separate accents. And they all will call-out the Long Island accent.