A Southerner Learns English

Class is in session, and today your favorite Southerner is learning the English language. Again. Maybe Matt will finally figure out who Chester is.

[TheDragonBloom]

Only a southerner can hear the subtle difference between jewelry box and jury box.

[mimimcbroom]

Being half Japanese I didn't think I had much of a southern accent until I heard an audio recording of my voice. Nothing is more discombobulating than hearing Japanese spoken with a Texas accent. konichiwa ya'll

[timeflies]

I remember asking my 5th grade teacher how to spell “wallago, ” and learned it was “a while ago.”

[Mayaa]

You know you’re southern when you couldn’t tell what was the problem with the words he said 😂

[stephenriggs]

Born and raised in Texas. Scored in the top half percent on my English Achievement Test. Southerner is right, on all counts.

[nicks.]

As a teen I worked in a movie theater concession stand. This following was typical... CUSTOMER: “Can I have a Coke?” ME: “What kind?” CUSTOMER: “Diet Sprite.”

[davidstoyanoff]

A girlfriend once invited me to visit her family Boone North Carolina. They offered me a beverage and I said "I'll have a soda". Then they blessed my heart.

[richardhaganjr]

I was 21 when my dad (mid forties at the time) called me to let me know he had just learned it is actually chest OF drawers.... That day changed both of our lives.

[ladiel]

I’m from AL, and I totally heard the difference between the “jery” box and the jury box.

[clovismerovingian]

I had no idea that other regions didn't call it hamburger meat.

[reflexxuns]

My family was from Arkansas and moved to the north. When my kids were in school, they were required to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. They were the only two kids who understood it. The teacher spent the next three days "interpreting" that book for the rest of the class!

[LadyAnuB]

"What are you going to use that 'hamburger meat' for?"
"Ummmm…tacos"
Totally busted up at this. 🤣

[andreaashley]

I'm from Germany, been here for 32 years in the imagine my german accent that I have not lost ... together with southern speech. It's hilarious 🤣😆🤣😆🤣

[ChristysChannelYall]

I’m from southern Mississippi and he sounds perfectly normal to me ❤

[mycents]

"I'll speak my Southern English just as naturally as I please"
👋😂

[nancymills]

I remember when my Southern uncle asked why I had an accent. My true Southern aunt said, ”Danny Ray, she’s from the North, she cain’t hep it.” His response was I needed to stay in Mississippi so I could ‘learn to talk right’.

[duphasdan]

The Coke part made me laugh as I had an experience when I first moved to the south as a kid.

I went to a Wendy's and asked 'How much is a pop?'. The worker asked what I said, and I repeated. The worker asked that I point and I pointed up to the Diet Coke and said 'Like the Diet Coke'. The worker then replied 'Oh, you want Coke'. While I was still pointed confused I said 'No, I want Diet Coke' and everyone just started laughing.

I then found out later that Coke is a term southerners, mostly in Georgia, refer to pop and other soft drinks.

[amandabaddeley-davis]

I know im southern, but I never really thought I spoke like a southerner. After this video, I realize I was wrong about that lol

[nicoleabed]

My mom used to call the washing machine the warshing machine 😂

[adriennefriend]

This was so much fun. Before you said each word, I guessed it from the picture — and I was delighted to hear you say the same thing I was thinking. I am from rural north Georgia and you nailed it! From hamburger meat to man-aise, coke machine to Chester drawers! ❤