Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED

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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:
www.americandialect.org/
Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:
search.library.wisc.edu/digit...
Indigenous North American accents:
www.yesmagazine.org/democracy...
www.babbel.com/en/magazine/na...
indigenousaccents.info.yorku....
African American Language:
oraal.uoregon.edu/
New York Latino English:
qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/S...
Appalachian English
artsandsciences.sc.edu/appala...
North Carolina accent and dialect variation:
talkintarheel.com/
Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:
ktspeechwork.org
Language variation and education:
charityhudleymallinson.com/re...
Language discrimination and racism:
www.linguisticsociety.org/con...
Lots of accents:
www.dialectsarchive.com/
/ _created
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpag...
storycorps.org/
accent.gmu.edu/
visualaccentdialectarchive.com//
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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@united1194 3 года назад

Dialect Daddy is back

@elijahsmall5873 3 года назад

Lol

@debanjan7883 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d-rfbf1U5dw.html

@sweetbitter2 3 года назад

Lmao yes 🤣

@wordtoyaz 3 года назад

Perfect lol

@xylophonenthusiast965 3 года назад

Outta pocket😭🤣🤣

@ryanmcclain9193 2 года назад

The scary thing is that we'll never know Erik's real accent. Even when he introduces himself, he could just be putting that on as the "generic American" accent and meanwhile he could have grown up with a Russian accent.

@upholstery1995 2 года назад

😂😂😂

@ryacus 2 года назад

Highly unlikely.

@anyascelticcreations 2 года назад

I was thinking that, too. I would think that by now he pretty much chooses how to speak.

@elizabethbarajas8614 2 года назад

He does NOT look Russian!

@bp968 2 года назад

@@elizabethbarajas8614 if i had to guess id say California or Canada born, but most likely living in California now because i bet he works in the film industry (though now it could be Georgia).

@woundedwarrior8916 2 года назад

There is actually a very strong Polish influence in the Chicago and Ohio accents. The Midwest had a lot of Eastern European influence in their accents because of settlement patterns.

@chadwickwright3022 Год назад

There’s a strong everything in Chicago my friend.

@kyshac81 Год назад

Yes, it is.

@johannakeefe3114 Год назад

He over does it but yes.

@cynthiabedka4361 Год назад

That's the most stereotypical Chicago accent I've ever heard. Only people over 60 in Bridgeport and other southside neighborhoods actually sound like that anymore. We definitely have features of it but it's not as dramatic as he's doing it.

@CrystalBrightz Год назад

Lotta Prussian Germans, particularly in Wisconsin.

@franki2524 2 года назад

So amazing to see Native American culture in a video.

@boobax2197 3 года назад

This guy really needs to stop giving all these views to WIRED. He needs his own channel.

@ikemeitz5287 3 года назад

He's probably locked into a contract. But you're right. He's got enough content to make a channel of his own.

@killerliquid 3 года назад

@@ikemeitz5287 Remember that the video editing is not his, it's all Wired's guys

@pbrite 3 года назад

I doubt he would have time to manage his own channel while still being a dialect coach. By doing this he gets paid and doesn't have to worry about editing the videos or managing the channel.

@miadenae8629 3 года назад

he’s minding the business that pays him.

@yateswebb 3 года назад

Wired has some really talented editors and that’s a big reason why you watch these videos, whether you know it or not. Sure, he could hire good editors.... but why? If the relationship is good, why change it?

@am24dog 3 года назад

I want a series where Erik guesses strangers' accents!!

@MinqApoc 3 года назад

I want him to guess mine. I'm not a native english speaker and am told by many people that my english mixes like 6 different accents...except the one that is commonly associated with my native language.

@someonerandom256 3 года назад

I'm curious about what he would think of my accent.

@lilflo36 3 года назад

I would love to see him guess my accent!

@samhiatt 3 года назад

I was just thinking the same thing. I moved around a lot growing up and I've often wondered what features I picked up along the way.

@TheCupcake1029 3 года назад

I’ve only ever lived in Arkansas and Texas and no one ever guesses that.

@consciencecolmon1046 Год назад

I respect how he had other ethnicities cover their own accents.

@rohanking12able Год назад

I respect that he could do them himself

@CoolForSale Год назад

Class vibes

@brianbrinkman7964 Год назад

He darn well had to nowadays.

@ayden_james Год назад

@@brianbrinkman7964 shut up

@ryosukeyagami6334 Год назад

@@brianbrinkman7964 pc ftw💩

@SheBeCodingSht 2 года назад

This is sooo impressive. I love to see someone that has studied their passion/profession so deeply and thoroughly. I am in awe of the brilliance. I wonder how long this took to master.

@ellobo4290 3 года назад

"Erik Singer again" LIKE IT'S AN ISSUE ERIK.

@A_A_K_123 3 года назад

it is an issue, apparently

@headcanon6408 3 года назад

For me it's a blessing. We get Erik Singer again! Lets go!

@theartofshwa 3 года назад

GAWHD. ERIK.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

He's too humble.

@geophy9160 3 года назад

I want more to this issue

@Skydiggz 3 года назад

“Let’s watch Erik’s channel” “What’s it called?” “Weird or Wired or something but it’s Erik’s channel”

@drkjourney1 Год назад

Louisiana may be one of the few states than can have a full segment by itself. The difference in dialect between many of our parishes is college course worth of material.🤣Love these videos. Such a well rounded, inclusive study of accents. I could watch these all day.

@ItalianCountryball11 5 месяцев назад

@ComicPower Год назад

He goes in and out of these accents so effortlessly. Its amazing

@joshhyman894 3 года назад

I feel like he's singlehandedly keeping this channel going

@Blackmuseops 3 года назад

He really is the only reason I watch it. They should just rebrand themselves around this guy and call it a day

@stevecooper1824 3 года назад

While I personally would agree with you, the "autocomplete interview" videos draw just as many viewers.

@vince1000 3 года назад

if erik decides to produce content on his own channel this channel will take a significant hit

@Blackmuseops 3 года назад

@@vince1000 they definitely have him under contract. It makes 0 sense to be perfectly honest

@Rose_Nebula 3 года назад

He needs a Netflix show

@millyfiore7815 3 года назад

it never ceases to amaze me how quickly he can change his accent

@ADballa28 3 года назад

That’s why he’s the dialect daddy.

@meowolf4750 3 года назад

@@ADballa28 💀💀

@dabeamer42 3 года назад

well, he is a professional. No more amazing than watching Lang Lang manhandle Liszt. But yeah, Erik is the best.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

Erik Singer changes his accent faster than I change my emotional state.

@GeorgisTrying 3 года назад

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I don't support your rapid emotional changes, but I understand you

@hannaht4683 2 года назад

I really love this series. But I have to be “that” person and complain that such short time was given to Texas, which is so huge. East vs north vs west vs south is drastically different. Also the Mexican influence wasn’t even touched on which I consider one of the most unique dialect I’ve come across in all my travels. But whatevs. Thanks for the videos!

@butterychicken5255 Год назад

I agree! The eastern texas accent tends to have more of the "southern drawl", whereas areas like the Rio Grande usually have more "general American" with underlying mexican influence! Despite being as southern as you can get, they don't sound like a stereotypical "southerner" or "texas accent". I've seen some interesting maps of texas dialects online. Texas has a very vast variety of accents, due to both the sheer size of the state, and the very different settlement patterns and socioethnic groups. Also I was hoping they'd mention stuff like northern and western accents, since they'd touched on the austin accent

@domosrage5434 Год назад

I want to see his breakdown of California. Being local to the south, and frequently traveling up and down the state, I've gotten a taste for a whole bunch of different Cali dialects. Very interesting stuff.

@MacNerfer Год назад

Everybody wants more time for their area (see other comments), and I'm sure Eric could spend a lot more time talking about each area. But he probably had to keep to a strict timeline.

@artiglesias9317 Год назад

God Bless TEXAS!!!

@artiglesias9317 Год назад

@@butterychicken5255 The latest "Austin Accent" is Californian.

@bentonmiller1995 Год назад

Need Erik to have his own channel. I keep coming back to this video wanting more accent breakdowns!

@unchainthewolves 3 года назад

I see Erik Singer, I click. This guy’s videos are so interesting.

@debanjan7883 3 года назад

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@Panna.P. 3 года назад

YES

@angeliquehumcke3050 3 года назад

Agreed!!

@Palidor19 3 года назад

People just love these videos, they’re mesmerizing

@Tony_Cardoza 2 года назад

The sewing machine magnate?

@kush6846 3 года назад

Why doesn’t this guy have his own channel, like it would be so successful

@jennypai3763 3 года назад

he actually does, but there aren't many videos there. i don't think he has posted anything in years

@aksb2482 3 года назад

@@jennypai3763 yeah I think it's easier for him to do it with Wired cos they have a bigger budget than just him. The videos on his own channel are still cool though

@kush6846 3 года назад

@@aksb2482 I had no idea, makes sense for him doing these videos, much broader audience.

@mari98_ 3 года назад

Probably production and stuff, I doubt he’d be the type set up his own camera or edit videos, especially anything near the quality of these videos. Editing and graphics are a big part of why these are entertaining on wired and not on a streamed linguistics lecture or something

@kaitazer 3 года назад

@@jennypai3763 having watched the videos on his channel, you realize just *how tall* he really is.

@alyn404 2 года назад

I have watched every single one of his videos because it's just amazing to me that he can confidently pull off so many accents. It blows my mind! I have also watched the New Orleans and especially Cajun part so many times because it is just so good! Seriously got me thinking of Gambit but this is even better! 😍 You're amazing Erik!

@ellementira Год назад

This series is so interesting! My grandma has the most unique accent- raised in a very remote mountain town in West Virginia, and then raised her family in Minnesota (and worked in a rural town for most of her adult life). She drawls and has the tempo of Appalachia, but then has really strong vowels and the typical Minnesota "o".

@laurensiusbretyaanindito5644 3 года назад

"Can we talk about Minnesota for a minute?" Why, yes, you absolutely can. In fact, take as many minutes as you need

@duskfallmusic 3 года назад

He stops in Iowa and all i can do is go "AHWA" because as a kid we're taught in MN that Iowa is only cornfields XD despite there being 3 major cities in there LMAO

@headcanon6408 3 года назад

I kinda wish he talked about Minnesota for longer but at least he talked about us, which he didn't do for some other states

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 3 года назад

Oh, shore!

@user-ru5er5nf3t 3 года назад

He did pronounce Nor’ Duhkoda incorrectly though.

@balancemantis4381 3 года назад

@@headcanon6408 We get forgot about. Northern MN may as well just be a little Canada but without the good healthcare

@thehopeofeden597 3 года назад

“Erik Singer. Again.” Like we’re not all here for Erik.

@jondobbs69 Год назад

It took me probably 2 hours to watch the first part in this series because I kept rewinding it and listening very very carefully... Over and over... To specific sections. This one has been no different. I honestly don't think that it's ever taken me so long to watch one 15-20 minute video. Lol I love these!

@hudsonhaynie1632 Год назад

As a Utah resident, you got that dead on! I didn’t realize how smoothed out our accent was until you started talking. I will say though, there’s two different main accents in Utah, the general one that you gave, and the rural “crik” accent, with blurring between.

@matmul4850 3 года назад

There 100% has to be an outtake video of him getting the accents wrong 😅 Would love to see that

@ianobrien3248 3 года назад

Dammit Irish again!

@borednow 3 года назад

he did lose his cajun accent for a few words there

@dabeamer42 3 года назад

I think he'd probably be able to point out more of his own goofs than the interwebz would

@ivarb629 3 года назад

His nickname is 1 take Tony...

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

I wouldn't be surprised if he accidentally slips into an accent when he's trying to talk in his normal voice.

@zirkq 3 года назад

the most anticipated sequel in recent history

@brookenjonas 3 года назад

And ANOTHER anticipated sequel🥰

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

They know exactly what they're doing by making this a three-parter.

@Holoether Год назад

Genius! Well done. I wish I had seen this sooner, as a linguistic anthropologist in-training. Your amazing switches in narrative accent give a contextual way of being there. Lovely!

@samanthajones4797 Год назад

These videos are super informative thanks for making them!

@silence.9376 3 года назад

*"The human brain is the most complex structure in the whole entire universe"* _-Human Brain_

@Sir.Craze- 3 года назад

Ahhhhhh. I see what you did there. I'm going to use this concept xD

@Tinil0 3 года назад

To be fair, the universe managed to develop intelligent life so in some way we are the universe contemplating itself.

@SamuelGalvan_ 3 года назад

The brain named itself

@dmglolmasterplays3353 2 года назад

*insert obama giving obama an award meme here*

@PaulMatthis 3 года назад

My mans got so dang excited to talk about the Northern Cities Dialect Shift. Look at his eyes, he's giddy as a child. So wholesome.

@emr1d341 3 года назад

Lol didn't catch that, but you're right. I can imagine that as a linguistic nerd that grew up in the US, that'd be one of the most fascinating topics ever.

@9to5Drone 3 года назад

I'm very happy for your mans

@angelacomeaux1953 2 года назад

wow, it was brief, but i was so excited to hear erik talk about cajun accents! as a louisiana native, i can say that his accent is VERY accurate lol

@zacharydavis4398 Год назад

Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content awareness 🤙🏾

@maxhydekyle2425 2 года назад

He sounds exactly like Matthew Mcconaughey when he does the Texas accent. It's flawless.

@NatalieJ22 2 года назад

I thought the same thing, it through me off so bad lol

@KingOfKingz819 2 года назад

Was waiting for him to say "Alright, alright, alright"

@dianeturner8375 2 года назад

And George Bush.

@maxhydekyle2425 2 года назад

@@dianeturner8375 Bush is a bit less... Intelligible.

@HB-rx1le 2 года назад

He sounded exaggerated, just like McConaughey sounds. But that is a south, western Texas accent and nothing like north or east Texas. I was actually disappointed in how poorly he covered Texas accents, especially the Cajuns of southeast Texas and the Spanglish of the Valley.

@damondominique 3 года назад

DID HE SAY PART THREE 😍

@aksb2482 3 года назад

Ikr I'm bursting with excitement already. PS cool channel

@Adri_Unsung 3 года назад

Language papí simping for dialect daddy is everything I need

@rafaelfermin4619 3 года назад

He will actually go through ALL North American accents including some parts of Canada. I think this series is a 4 parter

@bballerryday 3 года назад

Yesssss this could be a never ending series and I’d watch every episode

@expectedturbulence8475 3 года назад

DAMON!

@AKAHeatherJoy Год назад

I am so tickled you included some of the things we do in Utah! I have lived in Utah for my entire 51 years but my mother is Australian and I also spent a lot of time with her parents growing up as well so I have a jumble of things I do with my own accent. I didn't realize I have a unique accent until my husband and I started traveling all over the US to run Spartan races. East coasters and southerners really pick up on it for some reason.

@twainjones Год назад

This is just absolutely awesome. Well made video!

@cileft011 3 года назад

eric singer: talking about the different vowels in don and dawn me: "they're the same picture"

@bibliophilecb 3 года назад

Haha yep same. Cot/caught merger life!

@brookenjonas 3 года назад

Does anyone have the merger sometimes but not all the time? Does that even make sense lol

@bibliophilecb 3 года назад

@@brookenjonas well, my husband doesn’t have the merger so sometimes I catch myself accidentally copying his idiolect a bit. But in general I know the feeling of swapping the ways you say things sometimes. I flip back and forth between “carmull” and “caramell” for caramel, for instance

@brookenjonas 3 года назад

@@bibliophilecb gotcha. See in Pittsburgh (I’m a native) I hear people merge them to sound like the vowel in caught when it isn’t merged with cot. No one seems to merge them both to the vowel in cot like in the Midwest. So I just kind of say both and I don’t usually know what’s gonna happen lol

@veeree1746 3 года назад

Yup!

@joshuamalcolm4890 2 года назад

I don't know what I find more impressive, the full explanations or Erik's ability to seamlessly transition between each accent.

@anyascelticcreations 2 года назад

Same!!!

@beenaplumber8379 Год назад

He is a dialect professional. Are you also impressed when an auto mechanic can change your spark plugs and then do a brake job? They teach this stuff in universities. It's not like a magic trick. He's trying to teach us about linguistics.

@sunrise5710 Год назад

@@beenaplumber8379 it’s not wrong to be impressed by someone’s profession. Should we not be impressed by professional musicians?

@teamlining7685 Год назад

@@beenaplumber8379it’s very impressive because you couldn’t do what he does.

@beenaplumber8379 Год назад

@@teamlining7685 I can't do something, therefore it's impressive that he can? There are an awful lot of things I can't do. Does that make them all impressive when someone else does them? Why should my inability make someone else's ability an impressive feat? I can't speak Russian. Is it impressive that millions of Russians can speak Russian? They just speak Russian. It's what they do. This guy does accents. It's his chosen profession. Again, what impresses me is his ability to teach these accents to others, not his ability to speak in the accents. A modern farmer can operate a modern tractor. I can't, but it's a basic skill among modern farmers. I don't think it's very impressive among farmers to have that skill simply because I don't, and that's my whole point here. Among dialect professionals, fluency in the various dialects is a basic skill. For a farmer, the real skill is nurturing a crop to an optimal harvest. For a dialect professional, the real skill is interpreting, explaining, and teaching the dialects to others. Einstein wrote four groundbreaking papers in 1905, each of which established a new foundation in physics, but no one is impressed because he was a good writer, right? He is remembered for his advanced theories, not for his basic skill as an author. This guy is very talented, and I am impressed by his skill, but I am impressed by his more advanced skills, not by his facility with the most basic aspect of his profession. I think we should be impressed by what he's really good at, not his professional adequacies.

@jameslafleur8140 Год назад

As a certified cajun myself, his accent is incredible! Id love a video on that because theres so much influence on that one accent its crazy

@freefallin6871 Год назад

I love accent diversity, they really create their own subcultures. Erik is so on point with his dialects.

@andrielmouton6976 2 года назад

Is no one going to talk about how much he sounded like Matthew McCoungahey with his Texas accent. And I’m actually pretty impressed with his Cajun Accent, being a Louisiana Creole, I wish he would’ve tried our accent out a little more. But this guy is amazing and I love him! A legend

@wilbertlemuel1124 2 года назад

I was thinking the same thing. And I was ready for him to get into the Louisiana Creole, but he did good with the Cajun bit.

@spoodlew 2 года назад

I don't think he got the Yat accent right.

@WhateverLex 2 года назад

@@spoodlew He actually sounded very southern lol

@mikepastor.k6233 2 года назад

Watch the movie Killer Joe' for a perfect example with Mathew M.

@cfnuss5249 Год назад

He's got the tongue whistle going just like matthew!

@boyesmc 3 года назад

The west coasters patiently waiting like: 🧍‍♀️

@xaph5575 3 года назад

I want this dude to do Britain so bad

@boyesmc 3 года назад

@@xaph5575 I waited like 3 weeks or something for a part 2 and my states not even in here lfpskslwslld a Britain one would be fun to see though

@Tom-oi2tm 3 года назад

@@xaph5575 The British Isles would probably have more parts than this 😂

@starwrs3468 3 года назад

Canada be like☠️

@Annie_Annie__ 3 года назад

So is the southwest, unless we’re supposed to just accept having either a partial Texas accent or a general western US accent? I’d argue that anywhere near the border has its own accent.

@ashconner2293 Год назад

You do such an amazing job with all the accents.

@thespoiledtexan3904 Год назад

And I freaking love listening to accents and linguistics. Cannot get enough

@milenakielbicka6281 3 года назад

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.

@Hannah-dh4bs 3 года назад

As a southerner, this makes me happy 🥺

@priestesslucy3299 3 года назад

And then there's barnsley, that half the UK can't understand either lol

@kittyhouse1028 2 года назад

Maybe what helps people understand the southern accents is that most southerners speak with that slow southern drawl. I find English speaking foreigners need to slow down. It improves their English greatly. Anyone with an accent is easeri to understand if they slow down. It even helps hearing impaired people to understand others better if the speaker slows down.

@resegoletlhogile7912 2 года назад

I find southern accents rather charming.

@fourharefelting 2 года назад

Spoken by someone who's never really heard a rural southern accent 😅 some of my neighbors sound like boomhauer no joke. I was born and raised here so I can understand sometimes. A lot of the accents on television are commercialized to be more understandable.

@Nolamps6005 3 года назад

No one’s ever allowed to call me out for saying moun’n instead of mountain again. Erik Singer said it was valid.

@cielledoux3805 3 года назад

I never noticed I say that

@Nolamps6005 3 года назад

Ciel Ledoux Welcome to the no-hard consonants gang my friend. Glad to have you.

@cielledoux3805 3 года назад

@@Nolamps6005 You should see my Rs and As. It's all an "ah sound"

@jakehr3 3 года назад

You shouldn't need a RU-vid video to have your speech considered valid. All language varieties are valid forms of speaking. Really, if your accent is varied enough, you are just adding to the richness that is human language, which how can that ever be invalid?

@daniedco10 3 года назад

@@jakehr3 because there are countless occasions where people are encouraged or forced to change their native accents for a more "professional" one.

@FrakkinCylon84 6 месяцев назад

I love the representation of the different cultures, but let’s just admit that Erik can do all the accents.

@pitbull3822 Год назад

Amazing! Thank you for posting this information

@mamochan0821 3 года назад

LOL his imitation of Cajun accent is really mild so people would understand what he's saying

@akhmedthemerchant4741 2 года назад

That's what I thought lol

@motarded4214 2 года назад

I was wonderin who the couyon was that told him he was sounding cajun. He might need to spend some time out in the bayou listening to some real cajuns talk.

@emilysmith2965 2 года назад

He probably just didn’t want to sound overly stereotypical. He’s been really careful with accents that tend to cross racial lines. Would’ve been cool to see a Black Cajun linguist talk on that for a bit. As is, the video’s linguistic representation is already outstanding.

@whatever3912 2 года назад

We don’t tend to call it a Cajun accent either. We call it talkin’ flat.

@CajunA79 2 года назад

I find it sounded more like our great grandparents Cajun accent. The Cajuns that spoke French more than English in their homes.

@booksandbroadway 3 года назад

Erik: Join us for part three where we'll pick up in sunny, Southern California. Me, a person born and raised in LA: DRAG ME ERIK

@crstph 3 года назад

I KNOW IM SO EXCITED im also hype for the analysis of how mexican spanish affects our language, bc its EVERYWHERE lol

@Mojabi_ghost 3 года назад

I’m a bit nervous about it tbh, but I hope they do another version for Spanish speakers in the US🥰

@vanessa0111 3 года назад

He saved the best for last haha

@isabellagarcia3703 3 года назад

I WANNA SEE HOW HE DRAGS MY VALLEY ACCENT 🥵

@sh0shkabob 3 года назад

literally me

@marlowc2324 Год назад

This series is so so so good

@oliviaaaaaah1002 3 года назад

Erik Singer: inspiration to linguistics undergrads everywhere

@notaspacealien 2 года назад

I want a whole video on the midwest phase "Ope, sorry, just gonna squeeze by you real quick."

@kaitlynoddie9649 2 года назад

midwesterners canadians 🤝 “lemme just squeeze right past ya”

@whiteface513abandonedchann8 2 года назад

@@kaitlynoddie9649 as a Canadian, I'm here to ask You mean to tell me that's not a phrase everywhere in the west? I thought it was standard

@emilysmith2965 2 года назад

Not if it starts with that “Ope!”

@markteague49 2 года назад

That’s all we say 😂😂

@monkiram 2 года назад

That's so interesting. I'm Canadian (Toronto area) and I say "ope" a LOT, I didn't realize it was associated with any particular region haha. I did live in Detroit for a few months but I doubt that was it, I feel like I hear it here too? Can any Canadians here provide some input on this?

@annmackay5786 2 года назад

This is super excellent!! Thank you!!!

@darkslayer366 Год назад

As a southern Louisianian, i love his respect for the variety here. Thank you.

@kolotosa 3 года назад

He's like the Mystique of accents, it just kills me.

@tantig5923 2 года назад

I got that reference… that was good!!

@ArtsyFreak467 3 года назад

as a minnesotan i appreciate that Erik pointed out that many of us don't have exaggerated accents-- we get touchy when people bring up Fargo lmao

@Wimikk 3 года назад

I am forever amazed at how much you folks sound like Nova Scotians.

@ArtsyFreak467 3 года назад

@@Wimikk we really do sound the same until we start apologizing!

@BM-si2ei 3 года назад

As someone who grew up in Fargo, I worked hard to drop the accent when I went out West. It comes back with a vengeance when I return to visit family.

@ALLSTAR284 3 года назад

@@BM-si2ei My Wisconsin accent comes out in full force when I'm around a bunch of family or start drinking. Even in normal conversations I have to admit it's pretty strong lol.

@cutapacka4 3 года назад

I wish he'd point that out for Chicago too. Don't get me wrong, plenty of people who sound like his impersonation, but it tends to be based on where in the city you grew up. There are some neighborhoods and surrounding metro area that produce accents that sound flat/unidentifiable. Though there's always a bit of nasal to the "As" regardless of where you live.

@shiva_689 Год назад

I miss you Eric and your online accent escapades, where ya at, it's been a while, I'd love to see you talk about more accent stuff :)

@JazzInATinCan 2 месяца назад

this is absolutely fantastic

@Oi-fo1wt 3 года назад

Can’t wait to hear you cover SoCal, San Francisco, the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Rockies, Prairie Canada, Ontario, the Ottawa Valley, Québec, the Maritimes, and Newfoundland

@thisuniquechica 3 года назад

Please :)

@nicholamarshall9927 3 года назад

YES

@javla15 3 года назад

Yeah I can't wait for the qc, the canadian valley and newfie accents

@Piper_____ 3 года назад

Heck yeah!

@AdamBowman83 3 года назад

PEI accent: The inhaling "yah"

@queerboy8370 3 года назад

Most of the accent transitions are SO smooth, but then Ozarks to Chicago was JARRING lmfao

@tonyjoseph707 3 года назад

TBF I think they based their research on SNL skits and never bothered to actually talk to someone who lives in Chicago

@queerboy8370 3 года назад

@@tonyjoseph707 Erik Singer has been a dialect coach for movies/tv and a master teacher for well over a decade. For years, he was the editor for the linguistics/dialect section of the Voice and Speech review, which is the peer reviewed journal of the field. He's an extremely qualified expert, as are the other people in the video.

@TheDancerMacabre 3 года назад

@@queerboy8370 Hmm, People who live in Chicago, do not sound that nasally and exaggerated. I was born and raised in Chicago, and when I went to Boot camp, no one could pinpoint my "accent" outside general midwest. But it's definitely more about idioms, slang, and hand movement that you don't see in other parts of the Midwest. Gym shoes is a big giveaway, we say Soda instead of Pop unlike other Midwest, we say Stevenson, Kennedy instead of the highway, and we say expressway over highway. (I've noticed west coast say the the number, show it would the 90 or 55) I also noticed we say "Foo" and "Joe" a lot, the latter almost being a stand in for "Yo" but is also this incredibly generic acknowledgement of a person.

@laurahamilton8868 3 года назад

@@tonyjoseph707 When he started doing "chicago" I immediately thought he was trying to do middle of wisconsin or something.

@josephinehowell5280 2 года назад

@@TheDancerMacabre Bro, this is a 14 minute video, in a series covering as many American accents as possible. I'm so sorry that 5 minutes weren't spent on Chicago alone.

@IceCenders 2 года назад

At 8:15 the subtitles read "They uphold" even as the speaker says "They abhor". Really awesome video. I'm using it to restore my American accent, which I partially lost after watching too much British TV, so thanks a bunch!

@teletek1776 Год назад

💀

@KHQMaster 3 года назад

"hello it's me again, a hot male professional" okay yes continue

@CynicalDuchess 3 года назад

I'd also love to see a tour of Amish, Orthodox Jewish and Asian American accents in a video!

@columbus8myhw 3 года назад

Tantz, tantz, tantz, chabibi

@abgeordnete 3 года назад

It'd be cool to schvetz about the Dutch once

@naterlandsw2963 3 года назад

Yeah, I just wrote a comment and realized...the Asian and Arabic populations here in Upstate, NY also perfect pick up on that ‘shift’ that he was talking about.

@naterlandsw2963 3 года назад

Yup, terribly underrated for half the cities in NY, PA, OH, etc being Dutch names.

@saintmichael1779 3 года назад

Pennsylvania has many accents between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, which he doesn't mention. Amish (Lancaster county) is one.

@MasiKarimi 2 года назад

Thanks for the info!

@grantstacy1084 2 года назад

The "Cherokee" accent is very much the unique Okie accent. I've heard a lot of older people both native and not that have that sound. JJ Cale turned that accent into the "Tulsa sound". So happy our little state got featured!

@madelion24 3 года назад

You could hear how emotional Kalina got when talking about how many native languages have been lost over the years. Over 100... I teared up.

@HalJordanParks 3 года назад

Same.

@judybaltazar4967 3 года назад

You could see the emotion in her eyes when she began talking about the boarding schools, that's what got me crying! 😭😭

@XingAoShen 3 года назад

i knew i wasn’t imagining things... i could really feel the pain in her voice.. it hurt :’(

@luvmeday 3 года назад

It’s horrible how much the settlers tried (and still do try) to stamp out every bit of their rich and vast culture

@killgore_trout626 3 года назад

Residential schools were such a horrible disaster with on going effects. One of the cruelest forms of eurocentrism....attempted, and sometimes successful culturecide. Horrendous.

@user-qb5dd6lq2p 3 года назад

*I feel like they deadass broke down the accent of every single city in the southern states, then said "these 11 states all have the same exact accent bye" lol...*

@liftingskies8970 3 года назад

Probably because those accents will be in the next video lol

@PumpkinMelon 3 года назад

maybe because the first video was largely based on the east, this one was based on the south and midwest, and the next video will be based on the west

@Targivod 3 года назад

*Why are you writing in bold?*

@isaaclarson4050 3 года назад

I mean, they are kinda right...

@sharonthornton8803 3 года назад

To be fair though the Utah accent specifics he talked about were shockingly similar to my Oregon accent (especially the glottal stops in mountain and button)

@pcatful Год назад

Fantastic job everyone!

@lynneharbour8883 Год назад

As a military brat I find this series fascinating. I was born in NH, lived in France and Germany all my growing up years. Yet I can adopt just about any accent in just a few minutes .

@darlenetroise7079 3 года назад

Erik is carrying this channel all by himself, I know that he's the only reason why I watch this channel now.

@jacobmccarthy256 3 года назад

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”

@evalillian4840 3 года назад

Eh! That’s nord’ern Minnesotans to ya.

@evandavid9087 3 года назад

It’s not that our accent doesn’t exist, it just isn’t done correctly

@evalillian4840 3 года назад

@@evandavid9087 Yes.

@gethaunted 3 года назад

@@evalillian4840 Yeah like I have lots of family in rural Minnesota and people do have strong, noticeable accents. But in pop culture it almost always focuses on those two vowel sounds Erik identifies and actors just play that up to an absurd degree

@evalillian4840 3 года назад

@@gethaunted Yep, exactly.

@cooperl960 3 месяца назад

Impressive. Love hearing him change accents so quickly.

@daniellecarpio637 Год назад

Erik I love your videos and I love this concept and how you incorporate the different scholars to explain the linguistic dialects for the different ethnicities and races all over the countries! I found that so fascinating! However, I did find it interesting that the Latinx scholar did not have a segment regarding the Latino/a/x/e people of Texas especially when Eric was breaking down the Eastern Texan accent as Houston in part of East Texas and has one the largest population of Latinos in the state which encompasses many different nationalities, additionally, the Rio Grand Valley also has a significant Latino population with their own “valley accent” that surly impacted the linguistic patterns of the region and the state. I would’ve loved to have heard the scholars analysis of the different dialects spoken by the Latino community here in Texas but perhaps not much research has been conducted on the subject or maybe it’s addressed in the third video I am watching this series many years after it’s initial publishing 😂 so perhaps there has been research on this now, hopefully there has!

@thefriesofLockeLamora 3 года назад

Heeeey dialect daddy is back 🎉🎉🎉 Edit: He sounds like Matthew McConaughey and Brad Pitt at the same time.

@brettlarch8050 3 года назад

Honestly, he's really hot.

@xavierrowe8282 3 года назад

@@brettlarch8050 5:14

@jonahs92 3 года назад

He sounds nothing like Matthew McConaughey. MM has a Texan accent, but Erik doesn't because he's an inferior human being.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 3 года назад

I was really impatient for this to come out and wasn’t disappointed. Eagerly awaiting part 3.

@puddlemini 3 года назад

the wait is keeping me going

@stinkbug4321 3 года назад

I was waiting for part three to come out before this one was half over.

@miaomiaochan 2 года назад

I have often wondered about the accents of those like me who have moved around often, never having lived on one area for over ten years. Yet, to the best of my recollection, I'd once been told by someone that my accent is Upper Plains or Montana, places I've never lived in. Fascinating stuff.

@Mansardian Год назад

These two parts are THE best linguistic explanation for a non-native speaker like me how "American English" arose. I didn't understand the whole process until now.

@regenweber-fares3213 3 года назад

Living out of state as a Wisconsinite is just having everyone make you say “bag” repeatedly.

@JcKramer1991 3 года назад

I feel like his normal accent is closest to what people in SE Wisconsin sound like.

@autumnatic 3 года назад

It's a BAGEL not a BEGGLE!

@peterste8652 3 года назад

My mother in-law says she lives in "Witz-can-zin" and yet the radio people on wpr say "Wiss, CONsinn"

@kindasorta123 3 года назад

"Bayeeg"

@Sullsfx 3 года назад

LOL this is the only time my Wisconsin accent comes out

@fernschiffer9471 3 года назад

"people don't tend to think of Iowa as having a lot of variety" Yeah

@meggzkeitel5802 3 года назад

we got an entire 30 seconds about us. and we're representing the general midwest area

@fernschiffer9471 3 года назад

@@meggzkeitel5802 I like Iowa, severely underrated imo

@meggzkeitel5802 3 года назад

@@fernschiffer9471 oh, i was agreeing that iowa doesn't have a lot of variety

@fernschiffer9471 3 года назад

@@meggzkeitel5802 lmao yeah, it's perfect if you like corn fields and wind farms

@PerfectlyNormalBeast 3 года назад

Skipped right over Nebraska

@becominghuman3561 Год назад

I wish he would explore the Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse accents more! It kind of got lumped in with Chicago, which is pretty similar, but they are actually some distinct and interesting differences. It’s such a small regional accent that when I visit different parts of the country people are horrified at how I pronounced certain words 😂

@katharine1229 7 месяцев назад

Yea I was thinking hey that’s not our accent (rochester here) not enough different words sound the same, we have moved all our vowels to make room yet lol

@sir.arthur.the.69th Год назад

The Utah one was spot on, I moved there 2 years ago and couldn’t understand why everyone kept saying mao-ann and melk 😂

@RebekahFinley 3 года назад

If y’all made Erik Singer merch shirts, I would definitely buy one.

@rafaelgarcia5797 3 года назад

Dialect daddy shirt

@maddieb.8514 3 года назад

It's gotta say something about dipthongs. Lol I love that word now

@stinkbug4321 3 года назад

Didn't you mean: "I'd defenly bi wun."

@danielvergara4358 3 года назад

The shirt would have fronted vowels in the front and recessed vowels in the back

@evalillian4840 3 года назад

YES!!!!

@JonpaulGee 3 года назад

He's back!! Also I'm like 90% sure Erik Singer has taken the Wired crew hostage at this point 😆

@BenjiSun 3 года назад

i don't see a problem with this.

@BM-si2ei 3 года назад

My concern is that it's the other way around. Wired knows he's their star, so I'm not entirely positive he isn't locked in a basement somewhere with access to food, shower and basic attire.

@BenjiSun 3 года назад

@@BM-si2ei well, i don't see him tapping morse code for "help help, i'm being repressed." and there's no "watery tart" anywhere distributing swords... 😂

@MakeyJu 3 года назад

or the other way round 😂

@brookenjonas 3 года назад

But is that really a bad thing?

@mikefrey4406 Год назад

The end of the segment featured prounciation of "mountain" and "button" in Utah. The glottal stop, dropped "t" accent is becoming more common nationwide, and you can hear it frequently among young people, coast to coast. When TV newscasters start using it (as many are now), you know it's growing.

@matthewweflen Год назад

I was born in Milwaukee, moved to the Chicago suburbs in 1986, and have lived in Chicago for 25 years. I have never once heard anyone speaking in the way represented by the "Northern Cities Vowel Shift." 7:02

@quesoturtle739 2 года назад

I used to get embarrassed by my Utah accent and have been trying to pronounce my T’s more but now I’m actually proud of it after learning all of the different US accents.

@kayduff5676 2 года назад

I was fascinated with the accent that a few of my coworkers had when I lived in UT

@JELazarus 2 года назад

For what it's worth, that "mountain / button" thing is pretty common in the mid Atlantic also. I mostly heard it when I lived in Delaware, but it's also pretty common in the Philly area and south Jersey.

@ianboersma1259 2 года назад

That glottal stop is not just in UT and CA we also have it in CO.

@migotohoseki 2 года назад

@@ianboersma1259 Incredibly strong in NM too, native, spanish or anglo...

@aprilflowers3268 2 года назад

@@ianboersma1259 Ahh that makes sense.. I didn't realize I did that until watching this! Grew up by Chicago but moved to Colorado 15 years ago and I know my accent has changed.. but I can't really "hear" it lol

@ljshamash 3 года назад

as an ESL speaker I find this highly informative and the eye candy doesn't hurt either

@luvmeday 3 года назад

What’s your first language?

@rxa177 3 года назад

stop objectifying

@ljshamash 3 года назад

@@luvmeday Spanish

@ljshamash 3 года назад

@@rxa177 there's a whole bunch of people saying that they're here just because of Erick. I'm here because of the info. Erick being easy on the eyes is just a bonus.

@jamesdewane1642 3 года назад

So what accent do you imagine him wooing you in? Asking for a friend.

@oldtop4682 Год назад

You nailed Utah. Also, "Sal Lake" v Salt Lake, and where I grew up it was "crick" versus "creek". There's more, but the accent there is basically flat and apparently most related to the Midwest. This is northern Utah - the southern part has a different accent. I was once told that when speaking German my accent was "flat". Not a native, but hard to define. Love this channel!

@constancestellas1409 Год назад

Congratulations. I teach international students! A whole other batch of pronunciation problems and allowing them to hear history and American accents is always a great lesson

@meganburbage1232 3 года назад

Petition for Eric to make an accent tour of the British Isles!

@someonerandom256 3 года назад

Scotland in particular! I'm such a sucker for a Glaswegian accent 🤤

@robinpinnock2678 3 года назад

That would be a fifty part series!

@ShaudaySmith 3 года назад

@@robinpinnock2678 i would watch every single one.

@roxanajohnson2789 3 года назад

@@robinpinnock2678 yeah and.... I see no problem with that

@brookenjonas 3 года назад

I’m down! We’d have content forever!

@jiamingjin1433 3 года назад

At this point, I see no difference between Eric’s own channel and Wired.

@202triciae Год назад

Hes good, very knowledgeable and opened my eyes or ears to how many accents there are. Do more in my state of Jersey, we all think we have north, central and south Jersey accents.

@argoth83 4 дня назад

Love watching these videos. I can parrot just about any accent if I hear it a bit, and people will ask me how to do them...and I've no idea. THIS guy, he KNOWS. He knows the mechanics of language, and hearing him and all of these other people talk about how these accents came to be is really interesting. So much going on.

@meninunjazbam 3 года назад

Cut needs to do ‘Guess my accent’ video with Erik plz

@melanieleverich9239 3 года назад

Heck yea. I live in MN but have been told I sound British it’d be cool to see why stuff like that happens

@brookenjonas 3 года назад

When the world needed him most, he did tongue twisters and language pet peeves. This year, it’s going up to a whole different level. The people at Wired know what we want, and we want Erik Singer content.

@TREVANATOR55 Год назад

The moun’in and bu’in was the first time I learned I had an accent as a CO native.

@iesika7387 Год назад

I was sad watching the first video not to see Louisiana until I realized there was a part two. There were at least 4 or 5 clearly different accents just in my hometown and then my older relatives had several more in different parts of the state.

@graygreysangui 3 года назад

Me: "Oh boy, part two." *Still doesn't get to my accent* Me: "Oh...part three it is then."

@randymason9215 3 года назад

For sure all of us in the west got slept on

@JcKramer1991 3 года назад

Where’s the plain Midwest accent damnit. The Chicago one is like they watched the super fans SNL skit and made all their observations based on that

@CypressDeer 3 года назад

@@JcKramer1991 fr we have no flavor to our speech and that's one of the best things about it

@paytonlott5183 3 года назад

@@JcKramer1991 nebraska and kansas missing our representation :(

@iunderscoream 3 года назад

...Said every Canadian watching this video on North American accents

@amandalong220 3 года назад

I'm surprised he didn't mention the Scandinavian influence in the Minnesota accent. As an American living in Sweden, I've picked up on a lot of similar vowel sounds.