That's pretty Tupelo / North MS. You head down towards Peppertown / Fulton and people aren't even speaking recognizable English unless you grew up with it. Coastal MS is a whole different bag of beans, and don't get me started on Alabama. Us Birminghamians sing songs nobody has ever heard.
I appreciate all the comments and views of my video y'all. I didn't figure on having even one comment or a handful of views and Ive got over a thousand not a RU-vid sensation but I sure thank y'all.
Here I am a decade later and just discovered this. I’m from Texas and I love your accent. Hollywood needs to hire you to teach actors how to do a real Southern accent. They always muck it up. 😅
Northern and the rest of Alabama are also different as are different parts of Texas and Arkansaw as well. Agree he has a very nice Mississippi Deep South accent!
LOL, this is awesome man. I'm from Northwest Alabama and I'm told I sound "country as hell" but you take the cake here bud. At least people now know what one real southern dialect sounds like.
Oh yeah man, not that far off. I lived in Florence, AL for awhile. I live back close to my home in Marion county now. I don't make my way into Tishomingo much but I've been there.
took a trip too Nashville for the weekend and to my knowledge that's still the south lol but I had 8 people that couldn't understand a word I said. it's hard to believe people from other countries understand me but people 150 miles away dont.
+Andrew Andersen Anderson Yeah Mississippi(Miyus-siyupa), Alabama(Awlabyamo), Georgia(Jawjuuh), and South Carolina(Sa Kyalawna) got the thickest country drawls, I'm from North Carolina doe folk.
I'm originally from Nashville but have lived away now for 17 years but I understood every word you said without any problem at all. Nashville is growing so fast and I think there are people moving to there from all over so maybe that was the reason those 8 didn't understand you. Cheers! and thanks for the video. I enjoyed it. Tim
Nashville is fixing to be just like Atlanta. Nothing but a bunch of Yankee carpetbaggers and a few Yankefied locals. So I'm no ways surprised they didn't understand you. I'm from Terry in Hinds County, about 15 miles from Jackson. I like watching these videos because Im so homesick after being away for over 20 years that all I can think of sometimes is being laid to rest in that Yazoo clay and waiting for the last day in that green and humidity! Y'all don't know what y'all have, living in Mississippi. Ain't no other place in the world like it! By the way, folks still ask me where I'm from all the time so I guess I still speak like a Mississippian. I'd sure hate it if I didn't. God bless you, and keep up doing videos (I don't know how to post a video either).
I read an article years ago which said young Southerners we're loosing their accents. The author obviously never visited the great State of Mississippi! My young nephews in elementary school have stronger accents than I do. Thanks man, from a native Mississippian who left when I was 18 and realize it was the worst decision of my life. But at least folks are always asking me where I'm from and asking me to repeat things so I suppose by the grace of God I've still got Mississippi in me. I'm going to listen to you a few more times remembering my home.
Great job man. You know for me at my age of 63 from here in Australia, your accent brings a feeling of adventure, like how I imagine Davy Crockett might have spoken. I know you certainly think the way you speak is just ordinary, but for some of us, in a world where everything is kinda the same, hearing that regional differences still exist make me, at least feel that there's still something alright with the world.
Angus Dewangus Yeah, I can't really tell fine differences in Southern accents, to be sure. I can of course, tell English dialect differences, because in Australia we got wall-to-wall English drama and comedy for the last 60 years :). Myself, I don't really speak with your normal Aussie accent like Chris Hemsworth or Hugh Jackman, but rather more with a Standard English accent, if you can imagine a mid-Atlantic accent if you substitute Australian for American (!). That was due to accent-shaming at primary school (we had pictures of Queen Victoria on the wall...), which is kind of sad, and another reason why I value the authentic accent as a definitive claim to identity that this video shows. There is no mask, no encrustation of a personality that isn't his. Hmmm - I'm not really as gloomy as that sounds :)
Ron Williams "hearing that regional differences still exist make me, at least feel that there's still something alright with the world." You must not be a globalist. ….Good. Funny, too -- they're actually eroding diversity in the name of _promoting_ it. Odd, huh?
i am from California. we sound pretty different. i like your sound and i love the variety of speech sounds around the country. the influence of national media tends to flatten out our regional differences and i hate that. the diversity we have is our strength and our beauty. rock on, son. ya sound great.
That thick accent is not common in the younger generation, mostly people who are middle/elderly have a thicker accent. It’s been slowly thinning out throughout the years.
Fellow west Texan here! I actually have a lot of family who talk like this or something real close. But that’s because most of them aren’t from really urban places. You don’t really hear much in the cities like where I live.
love the accent man..i work with a guy from lumberton and he has the same "heavy" accent..very interesting hearing other accents as im from southern California...
Using your voice for character research for a play. Thanks for the genuine upload. So many others are trying too hard, fancy’in it up and trying not too sound southern. Womp womp. Yours is hands down the best. Ya never know how you’re gonna help someone out... but ya sure did for me! Thanks again. 💙✌️💙🤘💙
Excellent accent! My great-grandparents were from Itawamba County, Mississippi (between Tupelo and the Alabama state line). I can't wait to visit one day to see where my family came from (I was born and raised in California).
I'm a big fan of the Southern accent and wish that people would not hide it. I hope that this accent style never dies out. To me it seems more friendly and authentic than we city folk. So you keep that ahksent aliiive now ya hearrrr.
i think its really really interesting that you pronounce oil the way you do. my grandpa would say oil as awl, tire as tahr, fire as fahr, (pretty much exactly how you say fire) so when i heard you say oil as 'oyl' it really threw me for a loop. accents are too damn interesting.
Love ur accent! I come from oxfordshire/Berkshire in South East England UK! My fave UK accents are northern England accents and south London cockney accents! ANY US accent I Love! X
I just found this video randomly. I am a New Hampshire Yankee, but I went to law school in north Mississippi and loved it, and I still return sometimes to visit friends. I like your accent - it brings back great memories.
I am from MS too, but have moved around a bit. I don’t think I have ever really had a strong accent, but it definitely gets stronger when I have been around folks from home. I think the various southern accents are cool. Anyway, thanks for posting.
+GIANCARLO VIOLANTE anything you need too know about mississippi the people or culture would be glad to help will make more videos soon. will comment on here anytime though.
+Andrew Andersen Anderson Hell yeah it does man! You know i might even record my self saying a few things and send it to ya :) Then you can tell me how bad i am haha
This was great. I just got back from Santa Clara, Cuba where I met this older guy who lived in Mississippi as a teen for a couple of years and it was wild hearing his Mississippi affected accent and his English was still really good.
Hello from NC. My maternal grandmother was from Hattiesburg but her accent wasn't as thick as yours. She spent many years in Dallas so maybe that influenced her speech more. To me you sound similar to the mountain folks here in NC rather than pirdmont or coastal regions. I took a test online once to determine where you were from by the way you answered questions. The 2 places they gave were Greensboro NC (which is about 15 miles from where I was actually raised), and the second place was in Mississippi! That threw me for a loop, lol.
Yeah buddy. Love it. I spent a few months in South MS for 4 years in a row. I spent enough time down there to bring back a hint of the accent to South Dakota. I started talking to someone after I got home that didn't know me and they asked me where I was from! Hahahaha. It's easy to rub off on others. 20 years ago memory lane.
I'm from NE Kansas, and the first time I heard a shopping cart called a buggy was from my foster son. I don't know if he learned it in his bio home (originally from Orego ) or from another foster home (SE Kansas). We were in the store and he says, "I'll go get you a buggy" and comes back with a shopping cart. I really loved hearing it called a buggy, but he pretty quickly started calling it what I did.
Hey I'm from south Mississippi (80miles down from Jackson) I love how thick your accent is. I get made fun if because of mine. Haha I live in a pretty small town. I went to Nashville, Tenn one day and it blew me away how huge it's was and so many people, most if them were rude too. It was a bunch folks from up north there. Completely different world than here.
Excellent! Indeed a "deep southern accent." I'm an actor auditioning for a role in a play as a white Mississipian and this video should be very helpful. Thanks!
I would be curious to know how you feel about Robert Duvall's accent in the 1972 movie Tomorrow? It can be found in parts and whole on RU-vid. I think his accent is terrible and doesn't quite sound right.
Very nice accent. Please make more videos with your accent so that we, non-native English speakers will understand the southern accent better. Thank you.
i am too born and raise in South Mississippi and i definitely have a southern accent too when i went to new jersey people always told me i have a southern accent and i didnt realize i had one and people cant understand me half the time i talk
Andrew Anderson: I'm from Central Missouri around on the north/west side of lake of the ozarks. There are lots of people that have very similar accent to yours around here, even mine is kind of similar (maybe not as strong because my mom is from California). But I can see why they thought that you were German. There were many German immigrants that settled in Missouri. Any who, great video!
As a young adolescent , I remember visiting my relatives in Brookhaven, MS. They swore I talked like a yankee....I thought that was odd and funny because I'm from Texas. I noticed that the locals didn't say Mississippi, they would shorten it to Miss sippi.
Spitin image of the way I talk. We can spell. Just because we leave letter out such as, “G” don’t mean we can’t spell it correctly. It’s the way we was taught to say it before learning to spell
Oh my god i love your account i have family in Louisiana and people there sound just like that but if im gonna tell truth everyone always says i have a country accent so I guess I get it from both sides of my family Louisiana and Texas
2:04 here in south Texas the oldies would call it Soda Water... I used to say it to back in the 80’s but I rarely hear people say “ Soda Water,” people now days says soda or coke!
I'm from the south end of Mississippi and it looks like there's not a whole lot of difference between the top and the bottom of the state, as far as how we talk. (I did one of these a while back myself that's on my page, if your curious.)
Thanks for the video. being from the midwest its hard for me to try to tackle a southern accent without sounding like a warped vinyl. been lookin up videos cause im planning on cosplaying Cullen Bohannon in the future. Its a task i can tell you that.
I enjoyed your video. Thank you. I live in Philadelphia (PA) transplanted from No Jersey (near NYC) 40 years ago where I have been mistaken for a native Philadelphian. I don't try, it just happens.
