Brit Reacts to 11 Strange American Accents You’ll NEVER Guess 

Facts!

I always associated it with New York more so, William F Buckley jr comes to mind.

I know right? When I heard it, all I could hear was Shirley Temple and Judy Garland.

I was always so confused watching old movies as a kid cause I lived in many states and never heard anyone talk like that

Madonna adopted it. And it's cringe

I agree. Some of those clips were far off

Agreed. His examples were crap.

yeah, his examples weren't super. My friend who is from below Boston, she has a thick enough accent but goodness her mom's accent is pure eastern Mass. I also briefly dated a guy from near Boston and his accent was pretty thick. Besides the word 'wicked', the examples were sub-par.

I grew up in the chicago burbs, the clips he was pickin made me think minnasota lmao

@@MrSolLekssame! The first few I was like that’s Minnesota for sure then when the new girl clip played I was like is Chicago in Minnesota?

That's the exact accent Dorothy used in 'The Wizard of Oz'.

It’s like the UK RP accent.

It drives me crazy. It sounds like Americans somehow can lose a British accent they never had.

I for one am sick and tired of the freaking midwesterners messing with my game.

Yep, it’s not as pronounced anymore, but I always tease my son about his “news anchor voice” when he’s on air.

Was gonna say that "hoagie" pretty much gives it away. LOL

@@bluflaam777😂 that and the Wawa references

That and how you pronounce “Poconos”.

And no one from Philly says "cheese-steak hoagie."

And Water ... I mean Wooder.

I've seen the movie FARGO

Yes! For a minute I thought the first one might be.. but not as pronounced. Lol!

I moved from California to Minnesota, the accent here is wild to me

You wanna sooodah

@@maylinrivera6482i live in CA and a in my previous job, we had some transfer employees from MN including my manager. You’d think they were Canadian with how they talk.

Code-switching. My grandparents were ESPECIALLY like that with me. My nana's family, was from the "old world" Spanish here. My gpa was Apache. They were adamant I spoke "proper". The proper lil doll in company. Most of my friends would make fun of me, I was soo used to speaking that way, I didn't realize I'd speak like that in front of them. Thankfully in HS, I had friends "raised the same way", so we were always polite in front of others, but fools w each other. We called it "proper ebonics", or "intelligent ebonics". I had a very mixed/diverse friend group 😂

He wasn’t exactly incorrect when guessing Denver. I’ve heard the “New Mexican” accent my whole life in Colorado. A lot of our great or great great grandparents came from New Mexico. Even some of my family members have that accent.

That’s hilarious! The last video I got West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia. Just started this one. I got Arkansas right! And Chicago. And Hawaii and New Mexico.

I didn't realize there was another vid with some of our southern accents. Being a country boy from Southeast Louisiana I have to admit , I love the accents of a Georgia Peach or a small town country girl from Texas.🔥

​@@kerrypierre9494I'm from Louisiana and when I moved up north people constantly had opinions about my accent. Men loved it and the women mocked me. It was strange.

@@lightsalt8530 That's wild, I grew up in a farming community not far from the Mississippi line so my accent is a mix of LA and MS hick 😁. Hell I only moved three Parishes to the west and people made comments about my accent 😄

@@kerrypierre9494 that's funny lol. I now have this weird mixture of a Southern and Midwestern accent. So nobody can quite figure out where I'm from. 😀

Yeah, I didn't get many of them, either. I was originally from southern New Jersey, and I could swear the "Pittsburgh' accent was north Jersey. You can hear 'yinz' there as well. I did get the Pennsylvania Dutch because my husband's family is from there and they are the only people I've ever heard say things like "The car needs washed".

I live near a lot Chicagoan’s. I’d say near 50% people talking like this

The funny thing about the "Pittsburgh" accent (Born and raised and currently living in the area again) is it's not only a regional accent, but its a local accent within the region. You either sound like a Yinzer, or you don't. I can turn it on or off when I want to. I confuse most people I talk to.

@@drew9739 my husband is from the steel valley Ohio/pa/WVa triangle. His dad says “you’uns.” Hubs went to Bobby Mo and Point Park. His brother still lives in South Oakland. Hubby can turn it on and off, but it comes out when he’s angry LOL. I totally agree with it being a regional and local accent. I think the biggest determinant is environment and immersion. If your family uses it, you’ll most likely use it and have to kill it off to be understood by us “normies” LOL! The variations between city and country really make it a puzzle. I recently discovered my birth family is from St. Mary’s, WVa, and had to brush up on my holler talk translation. In FL(my home state), but PGH is my home away from home. I had to explain Pittsburghese & the region to my friends while playing Fallout76.

I’m from Pittsburgh, but my mom was from Illinois and she would allow us to speak in the traditional lingo. I’m thankful.

Also, “you goin dawntawn (downtown)?”

My family are dutchies and the accent and vocab is distinct, for sure.

I went to AIT at Redstone Arsenal. I went to town and couldn't understand anything.

@@tomlevi2106 LOL!! I remain fluent in understanding this accent -- I grew up there and my family are all there, but I have been away longer now than I lived there, so I don't sound like this any longer. There are some words and phrases that occasionally come out of my mouth though and people here in California look at me like I am crazy.

@@prcdbearHey, I went the other way😂 I’m from San Diego and my brother was a Navy SEAL for 20 years. My husband is an EE and we are in HSV because he works with NASA and Marshal Space Flight Center on the Space Station and other experiments/platforms on several missile programs etc…(can’t say) and he did work on Space Shuttle Program. Maybe I have not had any trouble as most of the people are from other states that live here now. I go back and forth to San Diego all the time and I have no trouble understanding or being understood in either place. Not sure how long it’s been for you but I imagine things have changed because over 50% of the people in HSV are not from Huntsville anymore . My French has gotten better. Really good actually as I married into a predominantly French family. Both my father and mother in law are fromFrance . The only difference is that I have lost a lot of my Spanish. lol. 😂 I’m a Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, PhD work in in Neuroscience Research that has allowed me to speak with patients, colleagues and Doctors from all over the country and world. My husband’s father was Army Colonel who retired at the Arsenal and speaks 7+languages a small part of his military career included being an interpreter. His parents spoke French as their first language. Gosh technology has made the world so small!!😂

I believe it. You're both kinda hard to understand for me.

I love Bernie’s classic Brooklyn blue collar accent. ❤ I’m born in Brooklyn too.

I moved out of NY 35 years ago the one word that everyone gets me on is coffee .

It’s a combination of English, German , and Dutch… because if you ask a German they’ll say it isn’t German, if you ask the Dutch they say it’s not Dutch and it’s clearly not English…

@@emanymton713 The Amish were from Switzerland so not even close to the Netherlands, it's a German dialect.

Same! I'm from Dauphin County. I love how PA has a lot of linguistic diversity for a state it's size!

My aunt in Lancaster would smack him on the hand for pronouncing Lancaster the English way though, they hate it when you do that out there.

​@russellhall1195 fr, if they're not from PA they always say it wrong 😂

Wisconsin same

But he was Philly

From Philly, moved to Bel Air

@@CH-wy8exyes but he didn’t have a California accent.

"In west Philadelphia' born and raised"...

@@christined6321 Being a 40 year resident of San Francisco, I'll deny there IS a "California accent". It's more of a "Valley Accent" or, to be generous, a Southern California accent. You don't hear it in the Bay Area. We don't even call freeways "the XXX" except people who've lived a while in the Southland.

That's because we didn't grow up on the one street he's pulling the accents from lol I can do states but specific street corners?!!? 😂 This guy is a weinus!

Same

Geordie. Brian Johnson of AC/DC speaks it.

My mom was born and raised in Hawaii. She used words like all pau, pilikia, hapai. I didn’t even know they were not English until I started school. Oh yeah, and pau hana traffic 😊 In Lisbon, I saw a restaurant called Pololo. I hope that’s a Portuguese word!

Yea I was thinking Minnesota to start then as they talked a bit more, I picked South Carolina (Gone With the Wind). Then he was all "See this ENTIRE SIDE of the country? Yea it's over here." 🤣 If that...cuz he didn't really point it out.

I, too, have traveled to or through every State, got all correct except #11 ... but gave myself half a point for the Native American res accent because I thought it was Oklahoma or Northern New Mexico. Kind of close. 😄

Ditto we do

Wisconsinite here, you do. However I have never heard a Chicago accent like that before.