Americans were Shocked by 5 Different States' Accents! (California,Atlanta,NY,North Carolina,Ohio) 

Not true in the US. In the US, an accent is a "distinct mode of pronunciation of a locality." If you dont pronounce a word the way the dictionary says, then that's an accent. If you do pronounce words the way the dictionary says, you do NOT have an accent. That's literally the textbook definition. We're not as fancy as Brazil lol

I swear I need to do one of these. I remember in college my best friend was so surprised when she heard me speak to my mom on the phone because my accent came out (I’m from North Carolina like the girl in red). Sometimes I hear it but I often don’t but I’ve been told it’s definitely there and Southern. 😅 I don’t think I hear other Southern accents that easily though.

Us New Orleans noo wee say EARL

even they realized that it was a fair comparison lol

Yup, it's like trying to compare accents during karaoke. Never gonna happen.

Not likely to happen, but that would be much fun

I would love if this happened

😂😂😂

Yes and I want to see all of their reactions when the term “3-way” is mentioned 😂 Shallen will be the different one.

😂😂😂

She from upstate lol

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Lol i never heard Bagel said like that. She sounds like she has a Caribbean influece in some of her words. While i have a Carib background, there were no accents in my home. I feel like we mostly shorten our words, and she made it longer, which was stranger as heck lol it pretty much sounds like "bay-gu" when i say it.

Or maybe not Caribbean, cuz that "downtown" sounded like some sort of African ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i dont know, i just know she doesnt pronounce words like anyone i know. They need at least 5 people per borough for us 🤣 🤣 🤣

She prolly frm long island

And Mississippi

I'll be the one from the Bronx 😊

Philly sucks. Philadelphians are so lame.

I'm from New Orleans and I said ever word with them and it was different, especially oil. 😅

Agreed, they sound the same here. I also think they should have either had much older or younger people for this experiment. I also believe these subjects are more educated, which makes a huge difference in the pronunciation of your "speech" pattern.

😂😂😂 every single time

​@@WorldFriends07HAHAHA😆 SCAMMER

Californian

That guy seems so insecure and stressed, full of planned and practised poses. Hope without camera he can loosen up,

​@@shiraz9986Me when I record myself. Hahahaha

He are really funny and types of women

While still definitely being California. He's a good one.

Cali girl👋🏽

Dude! A Segel just coooold pooped on my head.

You realize there’s some inherently insulting in the “you’re one of the good ones” comment, right? It betrays a generalization about the entire state, which is ridiculous. “Oh, that state is full of pretentious losers… you’re ok, tho…”

😂😂

lmfao fr. idk why they're comparing isolated words and thinking that is what determines a person's accent. clearly not a single linguist was involved in the making of this video.

@@nodrvgs I think that's why I made the comment, like most of us who are here Ive watched alot of videos on this topic including groups of people from different provinces comparing each other and this has to be one of the most disorganised and utterly pointless gatherings Ive ever seen. The only discernible accents here are the New Yorker and the Californian cos those accents are pretty obvious in themselves but the rest of them may as well not even be there cos there's no real difference in them at all and one of them is sposed to be a southerner. Maybe if they'd spent less time laughing at the Californian's presentation and more time on the reason they're sposed to be there it might've been slightly more informative. Or you know, get people with actually different accents?

@@user-et6pj4db9s “one of the most disorganized and utterly pointless gatherings you’ve ever seen” LMFAOO 🤣

I was looking for this comment.....Hunter definitely DOESN'T sound like she's originally from NY. Most of her words I was like "ahh ahh...that is NOT how we New Yorkers pronounce that 🤦🏾‍♀️😅

I agree!!!

she a transplant probaly moved to ny wen she was 17 lmao

She has a west Indian tinged accent. She doesn't sound like her family from there.

her voice was deep tho

I just think they think they're the default and people elsewhere have the accents 😂

​@yoboidylxnzw No, it means standard American accent. We're comparing accents within the country, not with the rest of the world.

@@lavinder11 I've never been to America. I went to an international school were there were a bunch of students from different countries. There was this (only) American girl who used to insist that everyone had an accent but her. We used to try to explain to her but she was like nah

@@lavinder11and by standard, we mean neutral. Like an accent with very little inflection or emphasis or stress on certain syllables and words, I believe

@yoboidylxnzw That's her at your international school. We're talking about Americans in the USA.

Like in France!!! Accents are much more different in European countries, eventhough they are smaller 😂

@@J0HN_D03 True: Belgium would be pandemonium... ABSOLUTE pandemonium. 😂😂

I'm from the U.S. They didn't choose good people for this project. All these people speak general, standard American English. They are affecting their differences here but it is not natural.

Same in germany, take a guy speaking lower german, a salon, a barian, a franconian,a Rhinelander , a Berliner and a Westphalian for example and thats only a few.

Chuck a welsh person in there aswell

Thats weird I always thought it was 😂 But I'm not American otherwise that would be embarrassing

Of course 🤦🏾‍♂

Lol yeah, Atlanta is a city (the capital) from Georgia! ​@@nicholasr39

Nawww you're a genius

That was driving me nuts from the thumbnail 🤦🏾‍♀️

I would agree. I am a native Southern Californian. My accent is no different than my boss', who's from Atlanta.

My parents are 80, so you and I are a generation apart. I will never understand how youngsters nowadays claim that writing more than 4 lines of text is writing an essay. When I was 14 in high school, I wrote a 30 pages paper about the Soviet Union for Geography class and another 20 pages one about subatomic particles for Physics. And there wasn't Internet back then, we were still using huge encyclopaedias from the library and typewriters in 1980's...

@@BlackHoleSpain Im pretty sure they didn't mean it literally, also leaving a long comment online can be considered like an essay just bc its long...

@@minco04 yeah I was being sarcastic. I know a lot of people won't read long comments

Yes, also depends on who we are talking to. And sounds change in sentences

He was the only one who said it correctly. 😉

@@bitcoinbellehe said it exactly the same way as Atlanta and North Carolina.

In parts of Houston, they say downtown like this....."dawntawn"

yeah for those who live in Eastern Carolina (not the coast) a lot of older folks and a small number of younger folks speak the Plantation or Tidewater dialect and it's very noticeable when someone speaks it. They don't pronounce their Rs and it sounds majestic.

Within the same city 🤣 I’m from LA and I can tell when someone if from the East side cause there’s a bit more country to it. And like my father doesn’t say “car” like I would he says it more like “cor” and he’s from south central area, I’m from the southbay a bit more proper and clear.

​@@treyandrews3618my ex husband and his family have lived in Onslow County since forever and at times I would look at him like say what.lol

never heard of an appalachian accent before

I said the same thing. I'm a NYer. also oil and iron... I would think she's a transplant

​@AS-kf1ol Yeah "iron" was definitely NOT how any native NYC'er would pronounce it. Lol I was so confused 🤨

Yeah, she definitely isn’t a native of NYC.

Her parents are probably Caribbean

​@8aba_Yaga thats def irrelevant. She prob from upstate

Absolutely! People in New York City/Downstate have told me I sound Canadian ... A LOT. I grew up in Rochester and crossed the border for as long as I remember. And people from Canada also tell me I sound like I'm Canadian, too! But then they say I sound like a New Yorker when I say certain things.

I was born in upstate New York then raised mainly in the south so it’s muddled

Yes thats true! Most people think were all the same. Like you say im from NY but everyone who doesnt live there thinks New York city. Like the whole state is the city!

@@rosemaryedwards7239 Yeah, I agree with that. If I say I'm from New York, to people I know online, they think the city. I then say I'm from The Island and they are lost...I mean Long Island though. The City is Manhattan...The Island is Long Island and then everywhere else you specify. But seriously the New Yorker here does not sound like I do...when she said bagel especially, I sound more the like the one next to her, same for a few other words as well honestly.

I need to rid myself of this accent. 😆

If oil doesn't sound like awl, then y'all aint right! 😂😂

Right! NY doesn’t sound like this🙄

Nah I believe yall. Shit cause I got homeboi and homegirls from new york and they sound different as hell. It's like wit florida you can tell who not really from here fr fr. It's lil shyt that stick out.

She gotta be from upstate smh

Nah, she's from minnesota

Yea cause wtf, her accent if offff

It really depends are where in the state you are from. I'm from Raleigh, the capital of NC, and a lot of people have a more generic US accent (we have a lot of "transplants" who live in the city, ie people from all over the country, so the accents kind of merge). If you go out into the countryside, that is when you start to hear the more stereotypical "southern" accent.

We have five dialects in NC. I have been told by people in NC that there's no way I'm from here due to my accent. I was born and raised in North Carolina. I have not resided outside of NC.

Oh now I see! As a person from outside of the States, I usually hear the Southern accent from the films/series and they usually demonstrate the stereotypical one. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t believe she was Southern.

​@burakpatan8453 yep that makes sense because in the video she barely has an accent. Honestly these folks weren't good examples because they all have a more general us accent probably due to education level/travel etc.

i said the same!! we’re finally on the map haha

I was born in NC. Moved to Texas in 2012. The accent is different even though it’s still the south. Goodness the southwest is different lol. I get made fun of for my accent.

That's probably what HE thinks. And you'd BOTH be wrong.

@@richardbuchanan7124 yeah you are right. I came back to watch this video and I find Ian cringy as hell. I guess I should delete my comment

@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 I'll wait.

He’s not confident

@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826lol🤣🤣

Especially New Orleans. I'm from Baton Rouge and their accent is so much different than ours. Or the Cajuns

They would sound the same. All the participants sounded the same. Unless you're over 50, you'll sound more like an "American" versus the locale you are from.

@@Chloe.zyxwvu Now that I think about it, you're probably right.

We'd definitely show more accent. But these kids aren't from rural neighborhoods lol

My exact thoughts

The "standard american accent" is a softened mid-western accent. I think California has pretty similar pronunciation for most things, but different tonality (but also that depends on whether it's northern or southern cali as well).

@@ChrisCypher i saw vids about nyc from 2001 and a lot of people had different accents

I feel like the Atlanta girl was the most regular American accent without accent

​​​​​​​​​​@@ChrisCypherI think both Charlene and you are correct and here's why. California and the west in general were largely settled by Midwesterners. California in particular was settled by Midwesterners and to a lesser degree by northeasterners, followed by southerners, and European (largely British, Scottish, and German) immigrants. In southern California you see the first white settlers from the east, establish towns (that would later become cities), coming from states like Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, etc. Pasadena--the city where the Rose Parade takes place, was once called the Indiana colony since most of its initial residents were from Indiana (fun fact Julia Child was born and raised in Pasadena). The city of Pomona, east of Pasadena received settlers from Ohio and Pennsylvania. The city of Long Beach was initially settled by people from Iowa. Pasadena neighborhoods were even used as a stand in, in the Halloween movies for Illinois since it has that very mid western any town main street USA vibe. Of course there were also the odd immigrants from Britain/Scotland, Germany, Ireland, Canada, etc. And a few people from New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, etc. But the vast majority of settlers to places like Oregon and California followed the Oregon trail and later Route 66 which originated in Chicago, went through St. Louis, and points further west. Denver was also a stopover point for trails further north. So I've read therefore that while accents are very varied from Texas on east, beginning around Denver going west, the general accent is quite similar and uniform. You don't have as drastic distinctions as say comparing the Boston or New York accent, to the Mid-Atlantic, to the Southern accents. Therefore the California accent is a modified mostly Midwestern accent. But Charlene is correct in that Hollywood films have propagated the western, "California" accent far and wide, and mainstreamed it as the standard American accent. Other regions of the country have even adopted, for example, the Valley girl persona mimicry--even well off (or aspiring) New Yorker trust fund girls trying to ditch the New Yawk/Brooklyn accent. Foreigners have just been conditioned to expect that as the standard American accent. So that's my take on that.

@@ChrisCypher what tone is different? Not everyone in California talks like this guy or the stereotypical Cali accent portrayed in the media. We don’t all sound like valley girls

People I've met from Atlanta barely even have an accent compared to others from rural south 🤷

Yeah I don't know if I even could have guessed where they were all from lol

😂 mixed feelings. Unfortunately, many professional fields growing up did not take kindly to accents. I have one, but it isnt strong~ thanks for watching!🎉

According to the labels in the video, Chelsi was representing "Atlanta", not Georgia. And she does speak like a lot of people in Atlanta. Which is to say, with a very straight down the middle, standard American accent. It seems like each of these people came from larger cities in their respective regions, and a lot of people in larger cities generally just don't have strong regional accents anymore. So like... what was the point of it? I dunno, man.

Yes🎉

He doesn't look like a model.

And yet, his mannerisms suggest otherwise Shoot, it really might just be a California thing lol

​@@JLDReactions I was gonna call you ugly but then I saw your pfp. You're Hella cute

@@innitbruv-lascocomics9910lmao

​@@13Kr4zYAzN13 No it's not. Trust me

It's because they are a little crushing on Ian

@@deejayencontro4113 I guess you’re correct 😉

You are right. He is hot though

Because the two girls next to him were crushing on him the whole time. Take a shot every time NC makes eyes at or touches Ian. LOL

cause they want the D

The "glottal stop".

They all pretty much spoke standard American English. This experiment was poorly done.

I’m from Ohio and I also have a hard time pronouncing the “T” sound in many words, when I say “water” it’s sounds more like “wadder”

@@Jermarenorth and north east Ohio have a “vowel shift” accent where they stress their vowels. Where I’m from in Ohio, we have more of a Pennsylvania accent since we’re so close. It’s a relatively new accent in comparison to others!

For gluten, most of them said glu’n but one of them said glu’in. They all had a glottal stop but one of them out a distinct vowel after it

It's because they are attracted to him...especially the woman from North Carolina.

They are crushing on him both of the blonde chicks and he knows it he's just eating this up😅

Cuz he does it suave while looking at the camera

It's his height and Deep voice he honestly has his own accent because of his deep voice and tone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Cause he acts weird when he says the words

They’re models in Korea.

Shannon ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

The two white people? 🙃

@@GenerationNextNextNextHunter is the one from NY

It didnt make the cut, but Hunter and I def mentioned it. While living in Korea, you pretty much remain in a state of switch😅

@livinglifewithchelcichuu6721 oh no😭 I don't wanna feel like a customer support agent every day

@@amaraw9893 dun dun dunnn, our reality, haha

For sure I say ol and iaaaaan lol 😂 I’m just country unfortunately. T from gluten is for sure gone just like cotton and Atlanta.

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funny? he was acting so strange to me😂

There wasn't. All these people speak standard American English.

Same. It’s funny they think there’s a difference

My guess is because these 5 live overseas (like they address at the end). As an American living in Sweden, I have realized that many Americans who live or work internationally for a long time adjust their accents to be as generic as possible so that non-native speakers can understand them better. If you plucked 5 locals from each of those cities who have never lived anywhere else, then maybe the accents would be more distinct.

@@JLDReactions no they dont u do realize all americans dont sound alike right we all have accent depending what state u are in , this we know u an outsider dude no real american would say this fr

oh is there not a lot of gluten-free stuff in mississippi? i have an allergy to gluten so im genuinely curious

@@treefrogg No we do. Everybody is Mississippi is just so fat 😂

I agree! As a Southerner😂 Thanks for watching!🎉

Sometimes key words activate the Southern accent. Sometimes it's instinct

im from CLE and I have no clue who tf is saying rocks like Racks. Must be a west-side thing

@@crazguykwan8955 haha it’s not a literal but when I call my friend I can tell. She’s east side but we are both from west. When I went to college at Ohio Wesleyan, I got picked on a lot for my “accent”. It must be real. Now that I think about it, it really is west side. It’s like the Chicago accent.

I grew up on the east side of Cleveland and NOBODY talks like that 😂

@@saralynn518what you’re describing is definitely the Great Lakes accent. Which is Canadian influenced. Common in Milwaukee, Minnesota, Chicago too. They also say “beg” instead of “bag”. I agree with the other commenter gotta be from the west side or suburbs. The inner city sounds really country imo. I’m in NYC so I can hear the country now lol!

@@thedreadpirateroberts You missed out on the party I was born into 😎🍺🥴

Agreed! I'm from NYC maybe she's from Upstate because we don''t pronounce "bagel" and "iron" the way she did.

Thank you!! I’m from Brooklyn NY and I’m listening to her and I’m like what’s going on?! Lol

I'm from Queens and believe me my ny accent is wild I love my accent and she might be because she tripped me out on all of them especially coffee I was born in queens and raised in Brooklyn so you can imagine

LMFAOO fr, they half-assed this 🤣

That's what I was about to say. If they just let them talk freely and get comfortable having a conversation, then introduce the words, it would be easier to catch their accents.

Or the Irish. These people have no idea what actually distinct accents throughout a country sounds like lol

Unless they're from the rural south, this generation of Americans have virtually no regional accents. Now their parents might, grandparents definitely.

Growing up in the U.S., I've definitely heard stronger accent differences in person. I agree that all of the people on this video have very similar accents. There are only subtle differences. But this video doesn't feel accurate to the differences I actually hear living in the U.S. There are some very dramatic accent differences across the country, none of which were represented in this video.

These were very bad examples of regional accents. I'm guessing they just had limited access to Americans. They all pretty much have the standard us English accent.

Jenna Ortega is actually from the Coachella valley! 2 hours east of LA

I’m thinking she’s from upstate

!!!!! Oh no, I just tried to say it and you're absolutely right! 😂😂

Not really. I’m from ATL and only the most rural people wouldn’t pronounce it as I-Urn.

@@jeremiah_12 grew up in the A, and I still struggle saying that dang word, lol

@@BecomingChelciChuu It also depends on where a person’s parents are from too.

@@jeremiah_12 exactly, the list of things to consider is endless!

a little bit late but he is

no he should be a playgirl model

the Atlanta lady was deadass wrong about syrup though. I live in Atlanta for over a year and have lived in GA all my life and NO ONE i've ever met pronounces syrup like that.

I was thinking the same 👍🏻

they are, none of these people have strong enough regional/ethnic accents with a notable difference

@@suvhur The ny girl has a bit of it, sounds more Brooklyn accent than your typical NYC stereotypical accent. You can hear it if you talk to her maybe on the streets of NY. The others idk, the North Carolina girl maybe.

@@frenchchicken2799 yea for sure, if you are American and you talk to the NC or NY girls in a drawn out conversation you would hear it more, its just the way the video is structured to have them say one word at a time that makes it very hard to tell notable differences. (especially for someone not from N.A)

Depends on the word. If we said them in sentences or spoke more to each other from similar regions, definitely would have come out more :)

@@suvhur Yep, 100%

but NOT Atl😭

frrr I can tell she from there, but I def heard people with a way stronger accent that couldve have represented atl a lot better

Hunter is a very attractive woman.