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

That's all I hear and I am american.

Where I live in the U.S., there's a lot of accents so I'm pretty keen on it

XxDepthsOfShadowsxX there’s plains,southern,northern,north east accents

Yeah pretty much

Moonlit Waters Me too

Braxton Collett park the car in Harvard yard and the guy a quarter for some chowder

She went dkeiwodkeodfowprkfoffftt chowdah

Lmao only a small amount of people in Massachusetts sound like that

You gotta park the car in Harvard Yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder. It's a Southie accent (not South End).

Braxton Collett 😂😂😂

i dont notice it until people call me out after saying things like coffee, dog, walk😭

Jersey here lol. Coffee. Dog and drawer.

@@SmokinSesh yup drawer too! lol no matter how hard i try it always just comes out like "draw"

@@beccaesten7709 I’m so glad it’s not just my family hahahahaha. It’s a draw to me too.

My aunt swears a lot and she does it in her jersey accent 😂

tbh if you heard it the dialect in real life you would FOR SURE hear it

​@@ayin_northstandard southern British is not a thing

Not hawaiian?

honestly americans do the same thing with british accents i know theres a few but they all sound the same to me whereas i can hear different american ones since ive lived here my whole life yk

Yeah it's definately not the same stark variations like there is in the UK where you go 20 miles up the road and everyone speaks different.

Her beta t shirt says it all

@@pascho1057BAHAHAHAHA

2:26 you lost me at "you gotta park the car"

Hey bro, I took the pic in your profile photo.

She sounds like Sadness in Inside out

Can confirm lmao

Does beyonce sound like that. I think so but I'm not sure 🤔

LMAO

Ah yes. Maybe just because I may or may not be sad 90% of the time but most of the time I speak... how i speak

I’m am very guilty of saying oyl instead of oil

Oh I like that comparison

I see no font here.

@@Exayeviesigh.

@@coledeko I'm just saying, it's a way less compelling argument than he thinks it is when you look at these letters. Honestly, it demonstrates what the "i don't have an accent" crowd means really well, technicalities aside.

@@Exayevie maybe i’m the dumb one. there is a font; what do you mean?

Where I live we don't really have an accent until we pronounce certain words. Sometimes I'll accidentally slip into a more Southern accent for no reason.

@BrewsBrownies neat...yea I don't really have an accent either but more the phraseology that I use is what sets me apart. Like I'll just use a Spanish phrase for certain situations

For me I live in Texas, and I would say I have a Mexican and southern accent that come out with different words

@Luigi_Luigington no but the Texas version of it is. There's a difference between every version of it in every culture it's used in.

@@fatdinosaur6845Yep, absolutely, same here. I say things like “Winda” for “Window”, I say stuff with i’s real long like line or wide with more of an A sound. I roll the R and say ‘tortilla’ real fast and sharp though.

Each state deserves its own video

@@raynarounds8957 Exactly. California got skipped over and I kept waiting for it to come back to be elaborated on but it never happened. T^T

I'm very guilty of saying that a lot and also awesome or dude

We're really nasal in our voice, our a's we hide in our noses We also do vocal fry more often than other place 'All right' Some vocal fry in the 'a' & 'i' I'm working on voice training & north Carolina female singer of the Band "Squirrel nut zippers" whom sang 'winter weather' has a goal voice Its cool we individuality taylor our vocal Communication in accents!

@@denesetler I mean, we kinda like . . . Do that It's funny

Alabamians (me): I ain't got no accent

Mass though was just: "Here is the Boston accent you all thought of when you clicked this video."

Michiganders don't have an accent

To be fair, most of them were right! We tend to go for the "General American accent" when speaking to strangers, presenting, etc.

I think by "I don't have an accent" they mean "I speak with a standard American English accent". If you sound like people usually do on national news broadcasts or in American shows, I think that's fair to say. Everyone has an accent, of course.

As a Missourian, i found this comment nice😌

As a Missourian too, we have a lot of different accents based on where you go but they’re all very smooth and calm in a way :)

only toward wisconsin, minnesota, and the dakotas though. toward michigan and illinois and whatnot that is not typical

Most of the MN accent is German and Norwegian with some Swedish and some farm lingo thrown in. Farmers have the most Minnesota accent of all.

Can agree

And after a while in Ohio especially you lose you’re accent often when u grow up too I couldn’t tell with her

Maybe it's because they took a bunch of metropolitan liberal millennials to do this video.

kledo5778 mmmmmmmmmm I don’t know

@@trishalennex4630 Well, I think you can tell. I mean, you can see the age. None of them look like they're poor, they look pretty middle-class. Also, some of them are even wearing political (democratic) shirts. I think it's pretty obvious they didn't interview random people.

kledo5778 okay so yes maybe that but what I meant was that millennials would probably still have their accent, I’m assuming a lot of these people have lived out of the state for a while and have faded their accent

Edgyboi117 is that a tally hall pfp i see or no?

@@dollartreejadenyuki6046 yes

Tally hallll

Hahahha 😂

It’s literally 50% 50% in Maryland depending on where

The Masachussets and Maine accents sound complex

It's because you have to listen closely lol! And also, yes, some of them sound normal, but different states use different words and phrases!

Your hearing is shot.

It's all the same but americans try so hard to feel special that they think the smallest difference in accent is some sort of big "quirk" that they have to flaunt and be proud of lol. That's what happens when you're a monolingual loser.

Heh

We should get another word to say at some point though

We do say that too much

Devin..?

Fun fact, we do that in Ireland too, put a like on the end of everything

Agree. That would be way better

I agree but the NY guy was 👌

All due respect, there's no such thing as "original accents"

@@joeyedmond6587 Correct, but some of the States' accents are lost with increased inter-connection. For example here in the UK where I live, in the 1950s many people in parts of the country spoke in more regional accents, with certain phrases and forms of grammar dating back to Middle English, but not used in Standard English. I read a story of a child during WWII who left London during the Blitz, to a small town in Northern England, and heard completely unique forms of pronunciation and grammar, which were leftovers of the more complex grammar structure English had in the past. When he visited the town again a few years ago, he couldn't find anybody who spoke like they used to.

texas was fairly spot on for women with texas you have to have a girl and a guy we speak very different to each other.

I could feel the tears in her voice

Serina Nicole Omg so true

Serina Nicole literally she sounded so nervous haha

Yess her voice was bout shaky😂😂😂

i was looking for this commect

yup and he still somehow managed to uptalk. If he had said hella it would have been the coup de grace.

girlmathnerd Exactly

i wish that guy didnt represent my state

iRememberY0U he really does 😂

He was hella accurate. I live in Cali and he was, like, totally on point.

Yeah, I'd say there's definitely a different accent for rural Oregon than there is for the cities. Once you get out past the suburbs it gets real hick, real quick.

sounds like she’s bout to cry at any second

shes likely nervous. i do the same

FR

I was looking for this comment😹

Her vocal chords vibrate way too much lol

Honestly that's kindof everywhere in the US though...

Soooo true. A lot of us have valley girl accents too

Like foreals

When I lived in California I picked that up and when I moved to Illinois every one pointed it out 🙄

@@sweetpotato3427 I've lived in california all my life except now I live in Texas. Does that mean I'm gonna pick up a Texas accent?

I'd go with her

Zakaaar Offnanyan I thought they came across that way though, Middle American vs Southern. That was cute.

Zakaaar Offnanyan Nah Nah nahhh north east and west America: u think we sound pretty normal South: HEY YALLLLL WHAT YALLL DOIN TONIGHTTT???? the south already knows lol

Addi Wright yup 😂🤣

SCOTT HERE

@@Johnny_64 dude i appreciate your scott the woz reference

For real

She was just mocking the Texas accent but did it badly.

Cause she was forced to wear a Beto shirt

she got dem hips tho

She was probably trying to play it cool but her nervousness was showing through.

Same here she forgot the “ope”

I think when people say that, they mean they believe they have what they consider to be the "standard American accent". I'm guilty of it myself. I've said that before because I felt mines wasn't attached to a certain area or region. Even when people say they have a certain accent, I find it kind of hard to notice. The differences throughout the entire country is pretty subtle to me besides certain ones that are thicker than most like the stereotypical NY or Southern accent.

And I know what they meant when they said we don’t have an accent I was just Quoting them lmao

they don't know what accent means lmao

Basically, they all sound the same (maybe southern accent can be distinctive..) compared to the accent differences in Britain.. cockney, scouse .. they all crazy ..

Title should have been "50 People claim they don't have accents"

Lol didn’t expect you here! Snd yeah lol

Hi

Wait hold up, u came

Whoa. David. Still slinging brutal truth.

Wut are you doing here?

no, not at all. we’re pretty neutral

Eh not really. I don’t hear the Boston accent much where I am and I’m pretty much as close to Boston as you can be in CT

We gutta pahk the cah in Harvid yahd and give the gahhd a quarta fa sum chowda

100% The lady for my state said something that was blatantly false.

#Diversity

Litterally had a Democrat for Texas 🤔🤔

Lilpeanut8888 yeah he was

except the wisconsin guy, his was BANG on

This!!

Yeah

exactly kids don't really have accents due to people moving around since the old days and the internet being able to talk to people around the world

AMEN

I think so. Too many 'basin' states sounded exactly alike to me.

Same Idk anyone who says it like that

@@ThatOneIsSus You clearly live in southern Wisconsin.

That’s because she is

Ha

A Texan with a beto shirt? Probably was held at gunpoint with a fully semi auto with a .30 caliber clip

@@codeinecowboy8607 I hear it's able to dispense 30 rounds in half a second**

@sophia lazzaro wait she does???? i feel like a jerk now :/

As a non-native english speaker, I'm afraid to going to Boston and find everyone speaking like that girl jajaja

What the guy said is to true, We Midwest Washington people do have an accent and we don’t like admit it

Because we are amazing and powerful.

@@KEVINBRYANful not everyone does talk like that as the strength of it can vary, but most people do have some level of an accent

Fr

Maryland: Wuuder

Georgia: Wata

California: like waterr

Philadelphia: wooder

Connecticut: wahder

That's the stage fright accent.

*laughs in timid Texan*

*Happy Texan noises*

We do NOT sound like that. Unless we have severe stage fright.

She just seemed a bit afraid

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Waahhahhhahahah 😭😂💀

All of these reply’s are cancerous

@@woody9278 replies*

when you're in California it's hard to outsource i guess

Eh idk. These are pretty accurate for the not-so-accented... accents. But also would know the thicker-accented people by association.

Seriously, I live in a Ohio and we are surrounded by so many accents. Northern Ohio “My MAm” hard As. Middle Ohio sounds like a standard news caster, Southern Ohio twangs, and rural Ohio accents that are different than southern. Above is Michigan with the lakes accent, and below is northern KY with a faster speaking twangy sound than the rest of KY.

the minnesota and california ones were both on point

@@Britenus Michigander here 👋

I think that's interesting because in northern Missouri I don't hear much of the accent but as soon as I get a little further south I feel like I'm in the deep south.

Are you sure you don't sound like you're having a panic attack?

I thought it sounded like talking through a fan for a bit

Right I sound nothing like that and not everything is cowboy or cowgirl and not everywere is a desert

I can hear the crying through your comment

Her voice is so shaky

Peachy Pineapple she sounded super nervous. Bless her heart.

That's what I was wondering, but I felt her

Either she was nervous or just sounds like that. I’ve met someone who just constantly sounds nervous even when they genuinely aren’t

Cuz beto lost lol

Peachy Pineapple i know a couple of people who genuinely just sound like that

not if you got a chopped cheese with your timbs on and you scream YERRRRRRRRRRR.

Just daily life for a New Yorkaaa *whistles for a taxi*

Which one is unintelligible? The New York/Boston one?

@@poopfart65 Uhh I think mainly that one, yes

Es ist besser nur ein Paar Akzenten haben, als verschiedene Dialekten, die voneinander total unverständlich sind, wie in Deutschland.

Floridian here. it's a normal speaking state with some southerners and then of course half the state is Hispanics

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw what's the difference between General and California and northwest?

Lies again? Samsung Ericsson

In croatia, we don't understand people who live 100 km away

Yeahh, most likely since the US is so much younger than GB, which existed for hundreds of years even before ppl started moving around much. In comparison, more than half of the US isn't even 200yrs old. And in that time there was a lot of movement so there was never the chance much for distinguished dialects to pop up like back in Britain

Oh look a european finding something else to claim is better in Europe on the internet. Loser.

@@SuperSkipMaster you must be American with that comment, really you’re the loser lol

Turtle Vision Films lots of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, & South Americans in South Florida. North Florida is very Southern American.

I actually don’t like this girl’s responses that much, they’re all about Miami, specifically, not about Florida as a state. I have seen 4 videos so far.

Caribean Spanish

@@vinucete yeah, most florida has latino accents except north florida which has more of a southeren one haha

It’s pretty accurate tho for a miamian

don't watch if you don't like

Yeah I'd probably be on the brink of tears too if I lived in a barren wasteland where God threw whatever was leftover after making the rest of the world.

@@nekrataali wow lol dude harsh

@@nekrataali wym

@@nekrataali Somebody hates Texas.....

@@nekrataali what the-

In my opinion a lot of the people who said they don't have an accent actually all sounded very similar. So they are kinda right

Indiana though

I'm your 1k like

1000th like

@@dancepants3399 no u ain't I was 😂😂

Good point! I think it was the North Dakota woman that mentioned the same thing.

They will still have an american accent

Ok boomer.

Amelia Ok Boomer

Ok boomer

Isabella yeah about

TRUE 😂

Agree

Isabella yous

accurate

as a Mainer, I can 100% confirm she is spot on

@@parmesanjon as a Bostonian you are dead on accurate 😂

@@parmesanjon Same But it sounds southern Maine

@O1LMc Same. That accent was pure Boston, NOT Maine

@O1LMc You're so lucky, dude. My grandmother used to live in Bristol, Maine (she moved in 2018) and my family and I would go there every year on a road trip. Her house was huge, and even had a separate apartment and barn, and she owned a huge pond with lilypads so big we couldn't get them out no matter how hard we pulled on them. There was this super pretty garden, too. Uh, there were also a lot of coyotes. But. Yeah. I haven't been there in so long, and I just remember going out for lobsters and looking at the boats and going shopping in Damariscotta. Maybe it's not the most ideal place to live, but it was super cool when I went. Maryland gets boring sometimes, lol.

@@nick-zc9xv It served its purpose - Making college kids even poorer so they want to vote for handouts more than ever.

Definitely not Texas

Tiri Gapara she sounded like a goat

Sooo disappointed. Couldn’t they have had Matthew McConaughey do it at least????

@@MR-cb7pe he also sounds like a goat. But a cool goat who drives a nice luxury car

As an Oregonian that was also born in Washington I will say I do the same thing lol

Gobi Vertefeuille oh you meant literally 😂

LoL

Yeah, I don't think thats Florida's accent either. Thats a hispanic accent lmao

Well um Florida actually was originally Hispanic so its prolly genes

@@thebackpackingnigiri6800 Interesting, I didn't know that. It does sound like a Spanish name. Thanks for sharing

@LAUGHING KIDD Yah. Nevada has like a more chill, laid back kinda thing. But still energized. It is also very lispy. So the s’ sound like c’s and we hold onto the s a bit longer.

LAUGHING KIDD Oregon is just like "what's an accent" we all just chill Americans that miss the beach XD

@@camarodriver6475 LMFAO in Oregon all we care about is smoking our trees, and brewing our beer 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

Arizona is straight on, non accent. Maybe a few people have native american or slightly southern accents.

Northeast Indiana - "warsh" [wash], "torlet" [toilet], "maysure" [measure], "ruff' [roof], "rut" [root], pop [soda]

I think she was just mad nervous lol you could hear her heart pounding through her chest with every word

Tyler Bodies True, she looked at the camera for like a millisecond

thats beto people

@@texasisfortexans7170 😂

IKR

That's because the accent is really only applied to certain words

@@jvyeknom really? That's fascinating

It’s because they chose a bad selection lol a lot of the southern states have a different accent then what they put in this vidro

@@jvyeknom That's not really true. The accent is easier to hear in certain words, but it's always there.

Same though... up that to about 7-9 tho ;-;

Autumn Lindsey everyone has an accent lol

Freal lol

@@katelynd2978 no shEt

Literally everyone has an accent. It irks me so bad when people say they don’t lmao

@@tourmii exactly. That's why it's funny. Everyone has an accent, whether they'll admit it or not. Even "general American" is an accent lol.

i think you need a decently high iq to hear the accent

ma rk no that’s like that rick and morty bs. That’s not true at all

IQ isn't credible science. Pass it on.

alabama didn't say that

... not realizing that every single person on Earth (who talks) has an accent... You can say many things about it (that it is not distinct, or not particular to a state or a region, or I dunno what), but you can't not have it.

The amount of them saying so was outrageous, these people didn't know what they were talking about. The New Jersey guy saying they had no accent, I could not disagree more.

We do have an accent in Arizona. In Tucson and small towns it sounds like we were raised by people who's parents were raised with Spanish but never spoke it themselves. A dirty Spanglish is the only way I can describe it lmao

Oregon Washington Alaska and Delaware don't really have any accent I agree, I have experience with 3 of them

@@Boomdude67 There is no such thing as not having an accent.......

“You gotta park the car in Harvard yard and give the guy a quarter for some chowder” my entire dad’s side of the family has Worcester accents which are similar so it just sounds normal to me lol

I thought this the entire time lmao

True half the video is clickbait

ht2t00 y0U yep I hear straight through my screen...

Well, they're not linguists; they did their best to explain it -even if they failed in so doing.

An American accent is still an accent.

whalecome tew new joisey

my part of NJ does not have an accent.

I am a such have an accent Yes I know I am aware of the bad grammar doing it on purpose

Do you want a glass of wooder

dreefree like this is literally a philly/delco accent but go off

Oh god we do...

we do say like a lot tho 😭

Guilty as charged 😭😭

Yeeeeeee

Lol we do say like a lot where my California people at?

Believe me people in Alabama have strong accents still

Majority of em do (Understood that technically everyone has an accent)

its very suddle, if you cant hear the detail in the accent you are accent blind and you should get that check with a doctor, buddy.

@@deadeyes2803 *subtle

@@deadeyes2803 "accent BLIND" "get that checked by a doctor" You may be projecting about that doctor bit, my man

I feel like almost everyone in the video who said this, was right. They just sounded 'general American'. Not all though.