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I know it's a lot to take in, but I'm glad you found it interesting. Please do Part 2 & 3. I wish there was "A Tour on British Accents" that would be very interesting and one that I feel sure would be highly watched. And Eric is so right, your accent is a part of your identity. I may not be right about this, but there's another channel I sometimes watch called "Office Blokes Reacts" and their accents sound very much like yours. But I have a very "untrained ear for British accents, so I hope I didn't offend anyone. Great Reaction👍Thanks so much for sharing.
Absolutely, please continue with the whole series. I have seen this several times but, as an American, can't get enough of it. I learn something new each time. I love accents. All accents. I think because I was raised in a Greek American family. My father was first generation American. His parents came from the Peloponnese region. And my mother's family had immigrated from both Germany and Ireland way back in the 1600's, but mostly settled in Appalachia/Kentucky and the North East then the Ohio Valley. So her accent was a slightly modified north Appalachian accent. And, I was raised around many immigrant citizens, European Jewish people who had survived the Holocaust, or escaped the Germans and came to the U.S. So, I was steeped in accents. And being from just outside of Chicago, in Skokie, Illinois, I was also familiar with the distinct Chicago accent, and accents from people literally from around the world. I consider myself very lucky. Cheers, mate.
I knew you were from Manchester because of the Office Blokes on You Tube. I think it's a great, interesting and expressive accent. I probably have a sort of general American accent. Having grown up in South Jersey with parents from Ohio. And I'm now living in Northern California. Enjoyed your reaction. Parts 2 and 3 are worthwhile.
By all means please continue with this series. I wish I could distinguish British accents but I can't. I know that there are a lot of them but they sound similar to my untrained ear. I can tell the difference between an English, Scottish and Irish accent after a few minutes of listening to them. An entertaining reaction to this video Joe. Many thanks. Rich in Seattle. ♠
I can recognize a few. I can only pick out the Scouse because of The Beatles. I can, sort of, pick out Midlands because of Ozzy. Also the lower class Londoner and the western, country accent. That, and the obvious upper crust accent, is about it. Sounds like a lot, but not really.
Yeah as an American if you listen to someone from London, someone from the West Country, someone from Manchester, someone from Liverpool and someone from Newcastle they all sound really different 😊 definitely watch a video comparing the accents!
I picked up on your Manchester accent. The guy in the video by default is using a General American accent. It's the "TV" accent, and it's common across the whole country, especially with younger generations.
Definitely continue the series. Accents are really interesting in this country with migration and age differences. On my Dad's side my great-grandparents were from Northern Alabama and moved to Arkansas. Because of this my grandpa had a more "classical" Southern accent. My Dad on the other hand was raised in Eastern Oklahoma hills and had a very different accent from my grandpa. I was born and raised in California and my accent is completely different from my Dad's. Its really incredible how each generation's accent changed quite a lot when moving from state to state.
This series is such a good one! I’m from New Mexico, which (unbeknownst to me until recently) has its own dialect of Spanish, so that’s interesting. There’s definitely way more variation in accents the more you go East though.
SO interesting! I knew there were regional accents, but not to this detailed extent! I have also heard the 'r' in 'wash' (warsh) from folks in/from PA.
My grandfather was from Jarrow, near Newcastle England, he spoke with a heavy Geordie accent, my own father, had trouble understanding, his father. Peace!
I’m so glad you reacted to this! You put out great content. One thing they do not address is common spelling errors that are normal in certain regions because of accents 😆
He skipped over NJ, except to mention the great diving line between northern and midland accents pass through Trenton. In NJ, we have several accents, but the main word is "water". In Northeastern NJ, its pronounced more that "WAR-ter", where as northwestern and central NJ its water is more "General American" "wa-ter", whereas is southern NJ, its pronounced more like "WOO-der". Strangely, he states there is no distinction between the 5 boroughs of NYC. Pre-1960, there were definite distinctions, and even today natives can distinguish a Brooklyn, a Bronx, or a Staten Island accent. Additionally, within those areas, you definitely have ethic-influenced accents as well. Listen to people like Jerry Seinfeld, Buddy Hackett, Joy Behar, Mel Brooks - all from Brooklyn and are Jewish. Then listen to Tony Danza, Ray Romano, etc, for the Italian-Brooklyn accent. Or take Jackie Gleason for a typical Brooklyn accent. Again, seems like accents were stronger with older generations. Check out RU-vid videos of people like Jackie Gleason, Jimmy Durante, Rodney Dangerfield, Steve Lawrence, Barry Manilow, and many more - all from New York (all except for Dangerfield) are from Brooklyn.
I would have guessed you were from Northern England. I know your accent is pretty distinct and thicker than most English people which I associate with the North of England. Can't wait for Part 2 of this video! I'm from the Ozarks and my region is in that one!
I live in that area, they aren't too hard to understand. its more of a mix of their accent and standard ENC / Downeast accent, which isn't too bad. the people on Harker's island on the other hand are extremely hard to understand.
That was a pretty good video to do. He got the Pittsburgh and Delmarva accents down pretty well. I loved in both places. There is an island in Chesapeake Bay (Tangier) that has very distinctive accent similar to Ocacroke
You definitely sound like you're from Lancashire, my dude! I was excited to see you reacted to this, looking forward to your reaction to the next video in the series
I grew up in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia and my first job out of state crushed me, nobody could understand what I was saying. I was laughed at, people automatically thought I was stupid. It was the late 1980s, people were so rude back then. I even had speech therapy for 4 years and still have to try really hard to hide my accent at meetings but it's so difficult. I totally understand why Arnold Schwarzenegger still has his accent after 60 years, I can't shake mine off either. This guy in the video is amazing at his job.
Well how else would the Yankees get by without being able to convince themselves that they're better than everyone else? Seriously, the way they treat Southerners is just ridiculous. Some of the most ignorant people on the planet come from New Jersey, Boston, or New York, yet they've somehow convinced themselves that Southerners are a bunch of inbred, uneducated morons based on nothing but native dialect/accent. The reality is that if someone were to talk about accents that are native to racial demographics, for example, the same way they mock the Southern accent, they would rightly be described as racist. But I guess in their mind, it's okay to hate certain people for no reason as long as it's the right kind of person.
You could have cut that four years down to a month by joining the army. I thinned mine out In less than a month out of necessity because the Drill Sergeants made life a living hell because I had a very thick Creole accent.
I was born and raised on the southernmost mountain of the Appalachians(in northern Alabama). I went to Newark, NJ for 2 weeks, back in the early 90's, for a certification class, so my company could buy and sell Panasonic telco equipment. Everybody else in the class was from NJ, NY or PA, except me. The first day, they had us stand up and give a brief introduction of ourselves and our experience level. They all immediately gave me that look. At the first break, they crowded around me to ask all the stereotypical questions. By the end of the second day, I had disabused them of the notion that they were more intelligent than me. By the third day, whenever they had a problem understanding concepts, they turned to me as much as they did to the instructor.
Hey Joe, I was just wondering if you were still going to get around to the University if Michigan football facilities tour by: Sports dissected by COISKi, thank you for reading this, have a great day 😊
Hopefully he touches on Jax more in part 2, we are not like the college football belt lol, its more of a coastal southern and somewhat general American, its not thick country at all
My accent is a mix of New York, Great Lakes, Canadian, and a touch of a Southern drawl. It just depends on the words and phrases I’m using at the time. I’ve lived all over the country, so I picked up a bit everywhere I’ve lived. I’m currently in the Seattle area these days in Washington: my 9th state. 🙂 By the way, I could tell that you were from Manchester as opposed to Liverpool.
It’s interesting bc his “Philly” accent (even though it was only two seconds) is way more of the stereotype that I hear non-Philadelphians use to mimic a Philly accent than the actual Philly accent. From…a Philly girl.
I'm from Alabama, and while we follow the general basis of what he said at the end, there is also a distinct difference in "city" vs "country" accents, and you can tell based on where people immigrated from. In Birmingham, there is a big influence from the Pittsburgh accent due to the close relationships in the Iron and Steel industry there, especially in the northern parts of the city where the steel plants are located. Birmingham is known as the Pittsburgh of the South. Mobile picks up a lot of the Louisiana and New Orleans influence that is going to be talked about in part 2 due to a heavy French immigration there. Meanwhile Huntsville picks up some of the Appalachia traits that he mentioned as the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains is in North Alabama. There was also a heavy Ashkenazi Jewish settlement in the deep south around 1900, so that accent picked up a heavy Germanic influence and harshness. It is all very fascinating how it played out, and also points to his statements at the beginning about the amount of diversity within these regions as well.
Does anyone remember the 90s kids US tv show Gullah Gullah Island? I don’t remember anything about it really except that it was set close to that area, but I suspect it was likely not a good representation.
That guy probably speaks better Pittsburghese than half the people in Pittsburgh. Sadly a lot of young people around here have been taught to speak "proper" English in school and have abandoned our "lazy" pronunciations. Not to mention the words we use thanks to the Irish, Italian, and Eastern European people who immigrated here during the industrial revolution.
Sadly? 😅😅😅 That accent doesn't travel well outside of SW PA. The schools might just be preparing students to be successful no matter where they live, which isn't a bad thing.
I live primarily in southern Virgina, but I also spent many summers, spring breaks and Christmases in western Missouri around Kansas City, so when I speak it can sound like a mix. At times a more southern or central accent will come out depending on if I am in Virgina, Missouri, who I am talking to or even the speed I am speaking. In collage someone once asked if I was German with my quick speaking. I took French and Spanish so some of that may have also influenced how I sometimes may say something. Within Virgina, it can also depend on if you are in the mountains area, south eastern, northern, peninsula or eastern shore. How people pronounce Norfolk is different among Virginia’s- native or one’s brought to the area via military.
1:42 im american, i can tell youre from northern england but thats it. if i had to get more specific id guess the northernmost sides of north england, somewhere above manchester and leeds, maybe around newcastle. but i could be completely wrong about that lol. northern england is as specific as i can confidently guess.
Your question in the beginning is a tough one. I'm American from Los Angeles. Born and raised. You said you're English but not from London. No disrespect, but your accent reminds me of Connor's accent. Connor, aka, CDawg. He's Welsh. If you hadn't said you were Mancunian, I would have guessed you were northern. But closer to Wales or near the Midlands.
I can pick out your northern accent for sure, but there's no way I would have been able to narrow it down to which northern accent! Definitely listen to the next part! I'm a "midlands" accent moved into the "northern" accent region and have lived here for 25 years and STILL can't get used to these speech patterns! The story behind how accents were formed is so fascinating.
You asked in the beginning about your accent and what we think. I don't think your accent is very strong compared to a lot I've heard. When you say specific words it's obvious where you are from but it isn't apparent with the first word that pops out of your mouth haha
I'm from North Carolina and am from the central area of the state, meaning that most of the people I know have the classic Southern accent, but my family is primarily from the Western part of the state, meaning that I have grown up with a much more Appalachian accent despite being only a hundred miles or so east. My accent has much more in common with those in Tennessee or West Virginia than it does with those even in neighboring South Carolina or Georgia.
I grew up in the Deep South. Tired was pronounced Tide. OVER THERE was pronounced OVA THAR. I don't speak that way anymore, but it is fascinating. My mother is still living, and she pronounces FISH as Fey-ish. ha.
Did you live in a rural area or near a city. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama originally but, while still southern, my accent isn't as strong as what you are describing.
@@Neo-hw7nu I'm originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but grew up just outside in the country. So, yeah, a bit redneck back in those days of the late seventies and eighties. Funny we're both Alabamians originally.
You're definitely a northerner from you accent, I'd probably guess Geordie except I know you're a Man U fan so I think you're from near Manchester haha
Don't even get me started on the "pop" vs "soda" battle. I'm right on the line so I use both. And my favorite band Elbow is from Manchester (or a suburb) so grateful for your music. I know the city has produced lots of good bands.
It’s crazy especially in New York State…most of the state does “soda” except for the Western part of the state where it’s “pop.” Weird how there’s a shift there.
@@hatleyhoward7193 I am from Alabama and I use the term soft drink more than anything. I don't call everything coke. Occasionally, I use the term soda.
@@Neo-hw7nu I should have been more specific and many of my fellow Texans would kick me for even referring to us as the South. A lot of East and South East Texas regional Counties would have been more accurate.
American here. To me, your accent sounds like it's from somewhere in the north of England. It is a little similar to Scottish but not as strong and difficult to understand.
I've watched enough to know the answer but when I started watching this channel- I knew your accent was Northern, not Scouse, not Geordie, and not Yorkshire. By elimination, I probably would have guessed Mancunian, especially since there are definitely features in your speech I think of as marking a more urban accent and I do hear similarities between your accent and the Office Blokes. Your accent is part of why I kept watching your channel too, since I think you have a very clear example of the Manchester accent, and I do like to work on accents.
For the African American accent she missed some stuff we also use "be" like Oh every time he go there he be wilding most black people also use a lot of slang that changes very frequently
Someone did a similar sort of video with the different accents of the British Isles, but in a much quicker way, here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--8mzWkuOxz8.html
I guess you're from north England. From there, my only templates are Yorkshire or Liverpool, so if you don't sound like Mel B or Paul McCartney, I'm stuck! But I'm not hearing much Yorkshire so I guess northwest England.
The only thing I dislike about this video is the wokeness of the helpers. For instance, I don't know any Latino that accepts "Latinx" as being descriptive of who/what they are. One of my neighbors used fun descriptive words such as "pendejo" to describe people trying to force "Latinx" into the language.
I'm just an ignorant American but from watching stand-up and movies, I would just think you were from Central or North England. You don't sound pretentious enough to be from London.
Ugh this video is so cringe worthy; however, the accent presentation is great, but I wish the wokeness was kept out. Also, they should check their facts on slavery ( not kidnapped, sold by their own people for profit). Thank you to the Brits for their war on ending slavery, and for being the first to do so, with France and the U.S. following your example.
Well, I presume the slaves didn't go along voluntarily, so from their perspective I think "kidnapped" was probably the most accurate word (keep in mind, the ones who were here in the US--the subject of discussion here--were 100% the victims of slavery; none of them were the profiteers). I do think the use of the term "colonizers" (as opposed to the more historically-common "colonists") was chosen to be a bit more accusatory, to imply that the settlers who came to this continent from Europe came here voluntarily to grab control for themselves and exploit a new land, when many of them--though perhaps more in the North than the South--were basically forced out of Europe by religious persecution, economic oppression, or famine (take the Quaker persecution, the Highland Clearances, and the Irish potato famine, for instance). p.s. I think it's interesting that the person who discussed the Hispanic dialects used the word "Latinx," since it demonstrates that she's likely college-educated and highly assimilated into progressive white American ways of thinking about language and gender: The Hispanics who are not highly-assimilated in this way (e.g. first-generation Hispanic-Americans) seem to almost never use the term "Latinx" or any other attempts to make Spanish words more gender-neutral, as it sounds foreign at best, and at worst like someone's telling them their language needs to be "fixed" because something's "wrong" with it.
And to whom did those Africans sell their waring, defeated Africans to? The British, who had an unquenchable thirst for slaves, and didn’t care how they were acquired. Only when the U.S. and other countries were no longer buying, did the British decide to end the slave trade. Good for them.
@@adrian2736 I suggest that you learn actual history, and not the narrative pushed. If you mean kidnapped by ruling tribes in Africa, then you would be correct. Thomas Sowell (Harvard Educated, African American) has a great video on facts about slavery not taught in schools.
@@adrian2736 His point is that they're accusing the buyer of kidnapping, not the actual slaver in the first place. They weren't kidnapped by the slave owners, they were bought. The people that they were actually kidnapped by were almost exclusively other West Africans who then sold them into slavery. That doesn't excuse the buyer from wrongdoing, but it also doesn't mean they were the kidnappers.
