ACCENT TAG "Oklahoma Accent" 

Hey everyone! I'm loving the feedback! I never knew this video would get such a wide response. keep them coming! I love hearing what everyone else has to say about these, we live in such a diverse world. It's awesome!

And by the way... We do not consider the word "Okie" derogatory. We embrace it with pride.

Sounds normal to me but Im from Oklahoma.

It's nice to see some Oklahoma peeps in the comments XD

Where is my Oklahoman Gang??? Who ready for tornado season?? Currently it is February 19 2019!

I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma & I've always called soda "pop".

its called pop. oklahoma born and raised lol

City slicker for sure 😂😂 I dont believe he's an okie.

I cannot stand people that refer to Oklahoma as "midwestern" It's normally people from California or people from the NE that have either never been outside OKC or think midwestern means "middle of the country." We are culturally southern and considered part of the outer Appalachian ring. In fact, the western portion of the United States does not begin until you get past the 100th meridian starting at the Texas panhandle.

I'm originally from Oklahoma, and everyone here in Louisiana laughs when I pronounce things differently. Thank you so much for actually pronouncing all these words the RIGHT way! Lol.

I call a shopping cart a basket and I'm from Oklahoma😂

I am from Oklahoma and I don't pronounce some of my words the same as in this video. Oklahoma is diverse. Oil, syrup, and some of the others are ones I pronounce very differently. I don't say oyil, I say ohl. I don't say sirup, I say surup. Carbonated beverages can be either Coke of pop. I don't say wosh, I say worsh. The north central and central portions of Oklahoma are in a zone that generally speaks Western Midland and Midland. The western, southern, and southeastern portions of the state speak more Inland Southern. If you go into more rural areas, you will find it much more Southern, especially in the older people. There is not just one Oklahoma accent.

I'm from Oklahoma and I think we say stuff differently. I pronounce syrup as Seer-up. I call carbonated drinks pop. As for the shoe question I call them Tennis Shoes. I call my Grandparents G-ma and G-pa.

Here in England, UK we say aluminium the same way you've never heard before. I think people from USA pronounce it like Aloominum 😂 I also say pop or fizzy drink. I love how we are all English speaking yet we pronounce things so differently! 👍🏻

I'm English and going to Oklahoma on a university exchange program thing! I love Southern accents so much and I'm excited to hear a lot more of this lol.

I'm from Norman, Oklahoma and when the sun shines while it's raining I call it a sunshower.

From what I've read, the California accent is descended from the Oklahoma accent. Watching your video, this is my first time hearing an Oklahoma accent, and I can totally hear how similar it is.

I don't hear an OK accent. I was born and raised here.

Your Okie accent just reaffirmed mine. Now I know what I sound like (only I pronounce lawyer "loyer" and I say soda instead of coke). XD

It all depends on what part of the state ur from, we have both urban and rural areas.

born and raised in Oklahoma and I've never heard anyone say coke, always POP y'all for a group of people daddy long legs grandparents Mimi and Papa and Nana and Papa and I've always heard basket never shopping cart . remote is correct btw I love in Yukon, OK

Lol, A Native Okie..I sound more like A Southern Doc Holiday or a Blake Shelton lol. My Okie/Southern Drawl must be Dying lol.

I don't know if you just don't really have an accent or if I just can't hear it since I talk the same way haha

I love this accent too much. I need a guy from Oklahoma to move to Australia lol

I just came here from reading The Outsiders and I wanted to sound like Ponyboy. Turns out literally everyone in this comment section is from Oklahoma, lmao.

Oklahoma is an interesting state because it's a cultural mix of southern, midwestern, and western lifestyles. Also, for an Okie like myself, any shoes that aren't dress shoes, sandals, or hiking shoes are tennis shoes.

NOT TRUE I AM FROM OKC AND MY FAMILY CALLS IT POP!!

you dont sound like youre from oklahoma..

Oklahoma may not be Southern in the sense that it was a Confederate state (it was not even a state during the Civil War - it was Indian territory), but culturally and politically, it is definitely Southern.

This is quite possibly the cutest and most appealing thing I have ever seen on RU-vid. I "d'awwww"ed all the way through.

I’m from Kentucky, I live in Oklahoma for a few years when I was married to an airman. Everyone told me how thick my accent was when I lived in Oklahoma. I love this challenge!

Ok, maybe someone can clear this up for me... I was born in Washington, raised up in Oregon, but my dad was born in Oklahoma in 1929 & he moved with his family to New Mexico when he was a little kid (maybe around 4?), but my mom who was born in Michigan but raised up in Washington would sometimes call him an Okie. Anyway, he pronounced things very different from this video & I’m just wondering if anyone is familiar with these pronunciations & where he may have gotten them from: - soda was “sodee-pop” - he NEVER said “you”, it was always “yuh” - when addressing people he’d say things like “well hello there”, “howdy”, often followed up by “young man/lady” - “I reckon” was a common utterance - when working on or building something, or even when considering a particular situation & thinking out loud of how to go about it, he’d say, “what a man oughtta do...” - “holy mackerel!” & “my stars” were common phrases he used when something was surprising or unbelievable to him/blew his mind - he usually didn’t pronounce the “ing” sound at the end of words that had that spelling & just left the “g” off, resulting in a lot of words ending in “in/en” - “ain’t” was definitely a word, & it certainly was in his dictionary - he’d call his grandfather “my granddaddy”, but call his grandma “my grandmother”, his mom “my mother”, but his father “my dad”, & never without the “my” in front - pancakes were “hot cakes” - he would call me “puddin’”, “puddin-head”, “punkin”, or “bug” - grandchildren were always “grandbabies, regardless of gender or age - “boy howdy!”, “great day in the mornin’!”, “that smarts!”, & “hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!” were things he’d say when something hurt him (like getting a shock from an outlet or wiring, smacking his finger with a hammer, or getting the all-too-common “Charlie horse” - “well shoot” to express some amount of disappointment - “fella” or even “feller” - “bellyachin’” meant complaining - he called his thermal long-johns “long-handled underwear” - very cold or hot weather was “colder/hotter than a booger” - and one of my favorites I heard him say was “lawdy, lawdy, lawdy; if it ain’t one thing it’s forty” :) Miss ya dad

I'm from Oklahoma and I don't pronounce any of the words like that. when i talk to people outside of oklahoma they all say i have a southern drawl. maybe its because i raised by my grandparents. who are from Okmulgee and Antlers, Oklahoma.

1:33 People say #aluminium because that's how it's spelt and pronounced everywhere outside North America. Bizarrely though, it was first named #aluminum by English scientist #SirHumphryDavy (inventor of the #DavyLamp, etc).

His dialect sounds unfamiliar to me, almost like a California accent. He must be from Tulsa or OKC.

I'm watching this and his accent is so different from any Oklahoman I know and myself but maybe his location has an affect or he has taken on another accent because i got friends all over Oklahoma idk. P.S. I know I'm late Rain Pop Tenny shoes Daddy long leg Remote Grocery cart Hey y'all (for a large group of people)

I took one of those online 25 question quizzes and it narrowed down my home between OKC and Tulsa, I'm from Tulsa. Some of the questions were what you call certain things like the road next to the highway which is "service road". I call carbonated beverages "pop". The little round bug is rolly Polly. I agree with a lot of the comments, you can drive 15 minutes outside of Tulsa or OKC and the accents change dramatically.

woot Oklahoma =) born and raised

The song of my people Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet When the wind comes right behind the rain. Oklahoma, ev'ry night my honey lamb and I Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk makin' lazy circles in the sky. We know we belong to the land And the land we belong to is grand! And when we say, yeeow-yip-i-o-ee ay! We're only sayin' You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma, okay

The way he speaks is the way I talk when I am trying not to use an accent lol

I have always call it pop and it's always dr.pepper

I'm sure someone else has said it but that other way of saying Aluminium is how we say it in the UK . I'm from Scotland and moved to States 10 yrs ago and everyone norices that no matter what state I'm in ...lol

I was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California. There were a ton of "Okies" who settled there during the Depression (my grandparents being some of them). While they almost universally have a distinct Southern type accent their kids of course don't because they went to school here. You sound like you could be from Fresno or Bakersfield as Oklahoma. I've noticed too that my older family members in OKC have a Southern drawl while their kids have it less and grandkids don't have it at all. Kind of sad to see regional accents fading away.

I'm from a small country town on the Oklahoma/Arkansas line and everyone I know calls it pop.. Must be different in other areas. I lived in Charlotte, NC for a year when I was in middle school (yeah, talk about culture shock) anyway they thought me saying "backpack" was funny. They called it a bookbag lol Aside from the "soda" answer, though we use all of the same terms you do here!

I also say ruin "rune" and crayon not all the way crown (like my grandparents did) but not cray-on.

My father was born in Hollis, OK. I was trying to do a little research into the Oklahoma accent when I ran into you video. I overheard a lady speaking in the exact accent of my father's family and asked where she was from and she told me Altus. Sometimes my father would ditch school and go shoot pool in Altus. Coke is a trade name. I grew up calling every soda a Coke, but learned there is legal liability in using a trade name incorrectly. If a vendor gives you a Pepsi when you ask for a Coke, there may be some legal liability.

Its soda, shopping carts were invented here and this guy is from a different part of the state. He actually sounds more proper than most the people I know. It's all good though

Rain when the sun is shining is called “the devil is beating his wife”

Im from OK and weirdly enough, my mom doesn't have that much of a drawl, but me and my brother do. Idk why.

Im from OK as well but Ive never heard someone call a pop, a coke. One thing I dont understand is why some people think all Oklahomans have southern accents. I rarely hear someone with a strong southern accent. Everything else sounds normal to me. Just not the coke thing lol

So, not all us Okies sound like this, lol! I most definitely sound much more like I have a "twang" of sorts, lol; and ROUTE... Most everyone I know (I am a lifer) all pronounce it (r ow te) instead of (r oo t). Also, we say I need a Coke or pop in my neck o the woods. Just goes to say, not all labels are 100% accurate, especially these days. Oh, and I call rain while the sun is still out: BEAUTIFUL!! ;) This was fun @EagleGarrett, thanks!

I literally couldn't here an accent and I was confused cause I thought he was gonna try to do an accent but I see why I couldn't hear it now😅

When i get really mad My accent comes out and like my grandpa I've picked up saying wash like warsh but he was born in Missouri

YUKON PEEPS WERE ARE YOU???😂❤️👍

Okay. So I did an Oklahoma accent tag too. (bc I was born in OKC) lol But some people assume that we all have country accents which isn't true. I feel like Oklahoma is starting to fall into that "accent less/mid western" category. idk

Hey Garrett, thanks for the lesson. Very helpful. Also wanted to let you know that Aluminium is how the rest of the world says 'aluminum'. When aluminium was first discovered, a scientific memo (don't know the actual name scientists use for it) was released worldwide to let the scientific community learn of its discovery. However, there was a typo. Instead of spelling it "aluminium", it was incorrectly spelt, "aluminum". The releasing scientists soon realised their faux pa and followed up with a correction. The rest of the world reacted accordingly and changed their spelling, but the USA decided it liked it spelt better as they had it, so didn't change it. Hope this helps. Steve.

Is this video supposed to be a joke? I have lived in texas my entire life and oklahoma for 5 years. I've also visited various parts of the country including California and Washington. You sound like you are from cali.

Aluminium is how the Brits and Aussie's say aluminum. I'm from Calif., we call it soda, in Utah, they call it pop. RainBOW? For when the sun is shining? My question: What do you call it when someone gets in your car, and your drive somewhere? What are you DOING w that person (Deep South vs everybody else). Note the different spelling.

I’m an okie for life and I can relate all the way

I'm from Sand Springs. I pronounce all those words exactly the way you do.

Definitely ME. Yay! I was born in Tulsa, left for California when I was 9. I'm now 59. YES to rolly-pollies. lawyers pronounced LOY-er. I "lost" saying sneakers which was what I always called the shoes in OK.

I live on the North East part of Oklahoma. And I do think both the reason why my accent is a bit different to the norm is because both of my parents are from the MidWest. (Iowa & Missouri).

Aluminum = Aluminium Aluminum is U.S mispronouncation that became more commonly used than the proper one, it is also used on aluminum products (pans, foil, cans, etc). Aluminium is old English and it is the spelling used on the periodic table of elements. But essentially the same thing. Fact, around 200 years ago Aluminium was more expensive than gold because they didn't have cost effective methods of refinement back then as they do now.

1. Teepeeing 2. Roly Polys 3. Coke or specific name 4. Sneakers or just gym shoes 5. I say “hey guys” or “hey ya’ll 6. Daddy long legs 7. On my mom’s side of the fam, I say grandma and grandpa, on my dad’s side of the family I say nana and papa.( my nana passed away ) 8. The shopping cart 9. Just rain 10. remote I’m an Oklahoman, I’ve been raised in Oklahoma City, but was born in North Carolina. my south eastern Oklahoma accent is coming out. I say ya’ll all or most of the time.

Al lu min ium is the British pronunciation as opposed to aluminum in America. The Brits tend to add an extra 'i' to the word.

I love the way you say water

Aluminium is the word in Swedish and many other languages.

I used to say pop when I was younger but now I say soda because I lived in cali for 8 yrs and picked their accent

YES at long last i found a youtuber from my home state!

In Great Britain the word aluminum is spelled aluminium... note the extra i. I haven’t personally heard any Americans pronounce it with the added i, but perhaps some do and I just haven’t met them.

I’m from ok and I say ‘soda’ I just call gym shoes “shoes” or sometimes sneakers, I say y’all or you guys interchangeably and also when I say crayon I say “crayahn” with a very slight y almost like ’’cran” idk where that came from lol

PEOPLE ON THE NORTH DONT SOUND NOTHING LIKE THIS 💯👌

I live in OK and I call it soda.

in England they say aluminum differently because they spell it differently. We spell it A-L-U-M-I-N-U-M (notice one "I") in England its A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M (two "I"s)

Aluminium is the original way of saying it. Aluminum came to be through a spelling error that was never corrected.

I think pronouncing aluminum as alum-i-n-i-um is the English pronunciation (and I think most other old-world anglophones)

We address a group of people by saying ay y’all & it’s a mokencontrol😂

I'm Australian and I refer to the "bug that curls up into a ball" as a 'Slater'. My Dad's parents were both from Oklahoma and now I finally know why my Dad kept telling me these bugs were called 'Roly polies' while everyone else kept saying 'No, its a Slater'. Interesting listening to your Oklahoman accent, yours is no where near as strong (stereotypical) as my grandparents.

Voila, most Okies call it "pop" but me thinks the "Coke" thing is more of a Western OK thing.

I live in Oklahoma as well. ^_^ I have almost the same accent as you. (From around Tulsa. Owasso.)

(Some weird chroma key issues on your face dude.) As to the accent, as a Brit it's got a nice character to it, makes it stand out a bit more from the northern style accents you become accustomed to hearing on imported TV.

"What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?" That is the strangest question that always comes up in these "accent tag" videos. What IS that? WHO does it -- and, more importantly, WHY? You say: "That is called teepeeing here in America". I think it's the last three words that are the most significant there -- because I've never heard of such a weird (not to say highly wasteful!) practice occurring in any other part of the world! What makes it all the more mystifying is that I've yet to hear anyone offer any other answer than ...teepeeing.

Sounds normal to me. Maybe it's because I learned English as a child in Oklahoma where I lived for a year? However, that was over 20 years ago, so I don't know.

Literally everyone in New Zealand says aluminium al-you-mini-um. No one says it the American way and when I heard it said that way in American TV shows I thought it was a different kind on metal because I’d never heard it said like that.

The periodic table be like Lith-ium Hel-ium Be-ryl-ium Sod-ium Mag-nes-ium ALU-MI-NAM Po-tass-ium Someone fucked up in the past, c'mon!

Born and raised Okie. I call soda "pop" however my dad, who was also born and raised okie, called it coke even if it was Dr Pepper.

I’m in Oklahoma right now so nothing sounds weird

Reminds me of the California surfer accent.

Awesome bro! mine should be up this afternoon, I'll send it to ya!

I thought an Oklahoma accent would have sound more like a texas accent . This is closer to the way we sound in southern Ontario, in Canada. Would love to visit Oklahoma one day ✌🏼

haha, to me this is accent-less...cuz this is how i say everything too ;)

i had fun with rolly polies too

Cool, I love Oki accent. it reminds me Carinvale series. :-) cheers mate, lovely accent

Most people in Tulsa , Don't have accents just city accents like K.C. or St Louis . But outside of Tulsa they definitely have a western accent.

I'm from Tulsa and we call it Pop not Coke. The only time we refer to it as Coke is if we are asking for a Coke or Diet Coke.

I was born and raised in Oklahoma, and I currently Live there, I'm from Blackwell, Oklahoma. 1 point towards Oklahomans

The word aluminum is from the UK I think here in Oklahoma or the US we call it aluminum

Aluminium comes from the fact that the British spell it differently that Americans.

i say tennis shoes

So I pronounce envelope, coupon, and caramel differently and I say soda instead of pop or coke, I don't think I've ever called a soda that's not actually coke a coke.