"The MidAtlantic Accent" was an attempt to create an accent halfway between American and English. You can find it in some old movies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IL2MJ8rQ12E.html
The Chicanos are people of Mexican descent who live in the U.S., particularly those who were born in the U.S. You said that the New England accent sounds posh. To most Americans, I think, it sounds quaint and maybe a little rural. There are a couple of posh American accents that one hardly hears any more. One is the Boston Brahmin accent, which is how the John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy spoke. The other is the mid-Atlantic accent, which is how Franklin Roosevelt and Katharine Hepburn spoke.
Very much like RP in that it was specifically taught in boarding schools aka the American equivalents of Eton/Harrow in the 20th C, oftentimes a signifier of class as well- especially as these schools just like the UK w Oxbridge, were feeder schools into Harvard, Yale etc. Frasier also speaks w something close to it, the conservative political commentator William Buckley spoke w this accent as well. Very much a relic though as Americans in general even amongst white people the “General American” with the influence of the rising middle class in pop culture and also of Hollywood took place.
I grew up speaking the Western New England dialect with some NYC influence, and while my 'marry' is quite distinct from my 'Mary' and 'merry,' my 'Mary' and 'merry' are merged (while I *think* of them as having a clear distinction, nobody can hear it in my speech).
I grew up around the PA Dutch (Deutsche) area and that is a unique accent in the US I’m surprised they skipped over as it’s a mixture of German and English as it’s spoken heavily by the Amish and Mennonite community but leaked into the “English” community and their accents as their cultures have been around since the the late 1600’s in the US. It’s a unique and interesting language which when people find out about it and hear some become fascinated. If you e never heard some I recommend listening to some PA Deutsche language.
Hey I'm from Central PA too, I'm also surprised they didn't mention PA Dutch. I don't have much of the accent myself since I'm not German-American, but I hear their accent all the time.
I have seen four different folks doing reactions to this series, and it never gets old. I learn something new, each time. And, you are right, Eric is just so much fun. And I had fun listening to you trying out your linguistic prowess. Please do go further down into a study of dialects and accents. It is such a fun area for consideration. Peace
I’m from the middle of nowhere Midwest, where cornfield and cow are my best friend. Some personal things I’ve noticed about myself and other around me is… I don’t say the ‘g’ sounds at the end of ‘ing.’ Like thinkin’ and likin’. I also don’t pronounce the ‘T’ sound too much, it becomes a ‘d’ instead. Like wa’d’er for water and na’d’ive for native. As well as saying ‘I’ma’ like “I’m a go do this.” And most of the time, the word about become ‘Jabout.’
I grew up near Boston, but my mom is from the West Coast but her parents were from the Midwest. I kind of don't have much of an accent myself, other than people around here tend to say I tend to talk slowly. Often times though I find I will shift around my accent based on who I'm with what I'm doing and so forth
I'm from North Carolina and I have relatives that live in the Appalachian Mountains. My aunt and uncle still uses words that you can distinctly hear the "R" & "H" sounds in words such as "Wa(R)sh" as in the sentence "I have to hang out my warsh, so (H)it will be dry by morning." 🤭☺ You might find this topic interesting "The Most Expensive Homes In America" and "Inside The Most Expensive Penthouse in America" and finally "What $1 Million Buys You Around America" I've really enjoyed your reactions thanks so much for sharing, Take care~
Joe try to find something similar with UK accents. I’m sure Britts and we, Americans, would find it interesting. You might want to check out Geoff Lindsey.
Shocked he mentioned the cot-caught merger not being as pronounced in the SF Bay Area, since I'm born and raised here and definitely merge the two myself, and don't recall many people, if any, pronouncing them differently
An interesting accent in Wisconsin that everyone in the state finds hilarious is a local comedian named Charlie Berens. He does a “character/skit series” called “the manitowoc minute” where he uses a very strong Midwest accent typically used by northern Wisconsin citizens including in the city of Manitowoc. We have t shirts with some of his phrases in stores here and they even have cardboard cutouts of him on the displays. I think checking him out could be very entertaining especially because the whole state loves him even if his accent is a bit extreme. That’s the funny part about it. It’s accurate yet over the top lol
Besides English accents, I've watched videos of folks who grew up elsewhere in the world then moved to the US (for work, school, got married to an American, etc, etc, etc) who have made videos of Americans who live in places where English isn't the first language or still speak dialects of other languages of English. I don't remember the channels the ones for Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Mandarin, French, Czech, Polish, Italian, etc were from though I'm sure if you searched for them you might find them. I only watched the videos that popped up. However, a channel called Feli From Germany has made several videos where she discusses whether she understand the variety of different German dialects that still exist in some communities in the US so I am subscribed to her channel just because her channel kept coming up with such videos. So I do know that channel by name. I don't recall the other channels where i've seen this ever making more than one or two videos which is probably why I didn't subscribe and don't remember the channels' names. But it's something to look into if you're interested in that sort of thing. I'll admit my favorite part of watching you react to these three videos has been listening to you attempt the accents as they're presented. It's fun to watch you try whereas other people I've watched react to the videos usually just comment something here or there. So it was a new, neat addition to see someone attempting the accents. Keep in mind what Eric said at the start of the first video, though: accent is identity and they're just presenting generalizations in the videos. I have family from the exact same city in Florida. They're both my cousins and they're siblings....yet they speak with slightly different accents. Same goes with my family from Louisiana. My cousin and her husband speak with one kind of accent while her two kids (my second cousins) each speak with different accents. Her son, who is the eldest, has an accent that's combination of Cajun and Southern. What I mean by that is he does the price smoothing, but the prosody of his speech sounds more French and he drops letters at the end of words unless the next word starts with a vowel and even then it's subtle. From my understanding his dad's grandparents and parents spoke with that prosody which might be where he picked it up whereas he probably picked up the price smoothing from some of my cousins from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, etc he grew up around a lot more often. His sister, however, moved to Colorado to go to college and she's picked up some of the features Eric talks about when discussing the Rockies accent, but there's still hints of her Louisiana roots via how she pronounces certain words. The reason I'm mentioning this is because in each of these videos you've said your bad at accents. However, I had a British coworker once who wanted to use an American accent. He picked up bits and pieces from a few US English dialects and came up with one that was unique for him, but that most Americans just accepted as "American". (We worked in a call center together and he got annoyed at folks who'd complain that they had trouble understanding him....I don't know what part of England he was from as he never said....his accent was pretty thick if he got to talking quickly it honestly sounded like a bunch of words run together. I think the only reason I understood him was because 1: I had an uncle from England 2: I had worked with British people before 3: I had an aunt who loved watching British tv shows and I would watch them with her whenever I visited 4: my great aunts and uncles from New Hampshire had think accents and spoke super fast. When he changed to using his "American" accent his call volume went up, his scores went up, and he found the job more enjoyable. I have no idea what happened to him as I ended up leaving the job to move back home to help my mom when she found out she had cancer. We kept in touch for a bit, but then he had fallen in love with a girl from Hawaii and had moved there and gotten a job at some bank and bought a house and that was the last I heard from him around 2009-2010).
I'm from Western New York, and my wife's family is all from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There are many words we accent differently like "insurance" where I pronounce it "in-SHURE-ence" and my wife says "in-SHORE-ence". I say "radiator" like "RAY-dee-ay-tor" but my father-in-law says "RAT-ee-ay-tor".
I'm a Northern Californian, but I catch myself saying some words as he described as features of the Southern California accent. I think it spread all over. I was young in the 70s and young adult in the 80s (when the San Fernando Valley accent took off) so maybe that's why. Once he pointed it out I noticed I do drop my jaw a bit when I speak, but so do many people here. I do remember when I was young hearing an almost New York City type accent among older people in San Francisco. I think its pretty much dead now (because those people are!). As far as Chicano English, Mexican-Americans are the only ones I ever hear using it. I really don't think Spanish has had much of an impact on the English of California.
The lack of self awareness to say “the San Fernando Valley accent” and in the same comment say you don’t think Spanish has influenced the English much in your region…🥸
@@AtSignAlejandro Dude, I've lived in the San Joaquin Valley much of my life plus Salinas (70% Hispanic) and I know what Chicano English sounds like. The typical accent of any English speaking California native not of a Hispanic background is very different. Please point out specifics to me how you think the later was influenced by the former.
No offense but as an American I don’t find the English accent posh but rather obnoxious. I guess I should be more specific about it and say that it’s mainly the southern part of your country
I don't find British accents to be posh either, instead some of them (particularly in the south) are very goofy and silly sounding. The only Brit accent that imo is truly obnoxious is the upper crusty pretentious aristocrat/royal accent, which ironically is supposedly super posh but in reality just sounds like they have a mouth full of marbles and a speech impediment. I definitely prefer the northern accents, as well as the rhotic western accents.
