Interview with a Maine Lobsterman 

At least now I know how every Stephen King character ever sounds. Ayuh.

i like how this guy is a perfect example of how Mainers are pretty intelligent and pretty crazy

This guy obviously loves his job- really great interview.

People are saying he sounds Australian; I've lived in Maine all my life and that's just kind of how people talk. There are also differs variations to the Maine accent.

This guy's accent is incredible. Sucks that regional accents are disappearing across the US

Wow, a rare sighting of a Maine Lobsterman. You can see the human genes are much stronger than those of the lobster genes in this gorgeous little fella.

He's adorable.

I was born and raised in Maine.When people ask me if I've lived here all my live,I just tell them,nope,not yet! You should their expressions!

I worked for so many years to cover my accent to sound more "american" instead of sounding like a hillybilly from Lubec/Millinocket area but lately I've given up trying to cover it up. My heart was renewed for the accent one day when I heard two small children arguing over some construction workers. Kid 1: whata they doin ovah theyah? Kid 2: they fixin the road ya numma. 😂😂

he just cracked open a fucking cooked lobster right in front of a live one - absolute savage

Man, at times he sounds *really* English. He has clear elements of at least four (West Country, Yorkshire, East Anglia, West Midlands) different regional English accents in that video. Incredible haha!

This is the most New England video I've ever seen.

I feel kinda bad for the two live lobsters at 2:57 that are watching their boiled brethren get cracked open before their eyes. Lobster 1: "There goes Jerry. He was a good guy." Lobster 2: "Ayuh."

When it comes to catching lobsters, this guy really is the… … … Maine man

I had a drill sergeant who talked just like this and everyone literally just though he had a speech impediment. Seeing it's an actual accent is mindblowing.

They try to train the New England accents out in school. The accents are fading and retreating east and north. I call it (the short for Robert) Bob (Bawb) line. I also heard someone from Maine complain she was corrected for pronouncing shark (shaak) when in school. I also remember my neighbor, who was raised in Vermont and died in 1975, answering in the affirmative, ayep. You don't hear that anymore in Vermont to my knowledge. People in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the defenders of the accent. They have the thickest accents and I can't see them changing. I remember calling someone in Seekonk MA in search of a little tech support. He explained the bolt was "shot". I thought he mean broken. He said, "no Bawb, shot not lawng."

His name is TY Bab he is originally from Port Clyde Maine i went to Georges Valley High School with him

This fisherman is awesome! Love that he understands the cycle of life in what he takes and leaves❤️

What a fascinating accent! As an Australian, I thought I could hear some Aussie accent mixed in too. For example, at around 2:00 when he says ‘and we hauled him up, and he was all crusty’ that to me sounded very Australian

I’m from Maine I WISH I had this heavy of a accent mines a very mild version of this

I love Maine, this guy is adorable!

I must be use to my accent, I didn't even notice his. I was to busy drooling over the cooked lobstah! 😋🦞

I always thought that the accent originated from the West Country in England (Dorset, Summerset, Devon and Conrwall)

What an awesome accent! I could listen to him recite every word in the dictionary and i'd be entertained! Not to mention he's adorable and obviously very passionate about his job which is cool.

I love how he says Yeaaahhs for years. That's great!

Wicked proud Mainer, he-yah, now living in exile on the South. This makes me so homesick. Thanks for the video.

Most DEFINITELY elements of South West England in those vowels!!

Man talking about his lobsters and people in comments talking about his accent 😂. I'm here for the lobstah!!

Ty.. So good to you and hear your voice! Miss you guys! Miss Maine!

The true farmers of the sea. I live in Maine and understand the true passion lobsterman and women have for their harvest.

Next time you're enjoying a lobster roll, you can thank this guy for it. up at 3am every morning for the days steam to the grounds.

I’m from Connecticut and this reminds me of how many fisherman and boaters would talk, from Montauk to Boston.

I came here to hear a Maine accent, which I love, and learned about lobsters, which Maine people love. It's a total win!

He's REALLY cute.

those lobsters are having Vietnam flashbacks watching him crack a claw open lol

I love his accent. it's lovely to listen to!

There she is mistah! anothah mainah comin at ya! Limerick Maine

About 25 years ago when I was a young boy we caught some lobster pots in the rudder of my grandpas boat. My grandpa jumped in the freezing water and freed the ropes up. The lobsterman threw us a couple fresh lobster on the deck for saving his pots rather than cutting them free. We cooked up that lobster that night and it was the best shit I ever tasted.

Somehow I could imagine giant lobsters doing the same to humans and then interviewing each other while soothing acoustic music played in the background

I thought he was kind of "slow" but he's just from Maine. 🤣

I love his accent, one of the coolest in the USA. Next to Louisianna.

Sounds english to me. Presumably most new englanders sounded like this in the former colonies, but Maine being pretty rural and remote kept its british roots. I remember watching a tv documentary about the "outer banks" islands of the carolinas, and they interviewed some fishermen who sounded just like they were from "cornwall", an english county in the south west. Same again, remoteness preserved they're accent.

This accent is surprisingly much more like a southern British accent than anywhere else in the USA.

this was very interesting. Someone who truly loves their job and life

Man I miss living in Maine and hearing these accents!

Maine is where Robert Pattinson got inspiration for the accent in the lighthouse. Yer fond of me lobster aint ye?

Hes adorable

The old swamp yankee new england accents were the best. My older relatives all have them, but no one in my generation does anymore! Shame.

Edit: I completely forgot I made this comment! I actually do have a Maine or New England accent. I think it’s something I’ve always had and has just become stronger. My accent is mostly just a common “American” accent? But I pronounce my As like I’m about to say “Ack”. And I default to that really thick Mainer accent with certain phrases/words. (Ex. Wicked smart, car, accent). Sometimes its as a joke and sometimes it’s part of my speech! I used to say lobster like “labasta” as a joke and now I can’t stop. Just want to say a quick thing about this man’s job, a lot of lobsters in Maine are dying from diseases and other things such as illegal fishing, so it’s actually noble to be a Lobsterman because people like him balance out lobsters and other sea creatures lives. As briefly mentioned, they don’t take in oversized lobsters, and they are very careful about how much they fish because it’s honestly important to Maine’s not only ecosystem but economy.

It used to be that each town had a slightly different accent. If you are interested in linguistics and take the time to listen and learn you can still hear the slight differences between them.

I am here because I wanted to figure out the accent of the 76ers coach Brett Brown. I didn't know anything about him. First, my reaction was "is that some sort of U.K accent?" Then, I heard him saying he lived in Australia for many years but still it didn't sound Australian to me at all... maybe, a few sounds... Then, it said on Wikipedia that he was born and raised in Maine. I traveled to Vermont and Massachusetts but not further north. Being from NJ, I have never knew people from Maine have such a different accent but I love it.

I nearly lost it when he said the he knows where all the hungry lobsters are

Father told me, growing up they could eat all the lobster they wanted but could not afford the butter to dip them in.

This sounds like the Metro Boston accent combined with some of the accents you can hear in the Maritime provinces of Canada.

I know next to nothing about this man yet would love to have an hour long conversation with him

what a real guy xd

best way to describe a maine accent: person with no accent sometimes drifts through boston and australian accents

LOBSTAH

There are some parts of maine that really suck but there's a lot of beauty in the state once you get out of the cities.

His surname (Babb) is like most people who have been residing in northern new england for generations, English, i believe south west english. Northern New England and the south have the highest concentrations of english americans in the us. You can still hear it in the speech. The most numerous ancestry group is English in america - see 1980 census

It's cool hearing this accent. I love Murder She Wrote, and she's from Maine and many of the people had the strangest way of saying things, but I loved how they'd say, Ayuh. It's so laid back and enjoyable to hear.

I was born and raised in Maine…that’s definitely a Maine accent.

I live in Ellsworth, ME and there are lot fishermen in the area.

I know this man personally! He's amazing at his job!

Hey! HAMMERED! WEREN'T THAT THE 20TH MAINE REGIMENT AT GETTYSBURG!

I'm reminded of Dex from Omgcheckplease

Love this. I’m from buxton Maine and really miss the culture

I think someone has already said this but there is definitely an East Anglia (English) twang to it.

The Maine accent is very distinct. It’s not Boston; Maine accent is more charming....and it almost sneaks down to British Countryside a little.

Robert Patterson did a great job at mimicking this accent in the movie The Lighthouse!

Man I kinda wish I had the Maine accent now. I’ve lived in Maine my whole life but no accent.

Those giant lobstahs don't taste good anyway... They get tough... I'm from Maine

I have a heavy accent and our language is a form of creole and old English mix. Some have the accent more than others but from small point to five islands it’s the true creole old English. People have a hard time understanding me But I love it. My 3 kids have it too. South Carolina has a couple small coastal communities that speak the same as us

This dude is what a real fisherman is! He actually loves he's job and cares about the ocean and doesn't just ruin it and doesn't give a shit like the ones on the big factory monster trawlers

gotta love maine:)

Greetings from NH..oh by the way my maine brothers GO PATRIOTS!!!

I love this man.

he's so happy

I needed to learn this for a book I'm reading. Thanks :D

My goodness, I read that this is taking place at common ground so I looked in the background, and dang it hasn’t changed in 12 years. I can’t wait to be back at the fair.

To me he doesn’t really sound like an American. This is fascinating! 🇳🇿

Glad Bert's grandson is still manning the Bluebehrd.

There's alot of the East Anglia dialect in the Maine accent.

Now this American accent I could listen to all day - possibly biased, as the occasional word has an English sound.

This is the real downeast accent, not the stuff you hear in movies. However, what most people don 't realize is there are at least 4 maine accents, of which this is just one! Inland Maine has a specific accent (think Tony Bennett from Downeast Dickering!), as does northern maine (Caribou-Ft Kent area) and yes even Portland and south (basically a mass accent).

I like that guy. He would be fun to know

His accent was actually fairly tame guy.

He has hints of various English dialects.

Gawd, it's lawbsta! I remember trying to kill my accent at age 7 in 1974, after watching the 11:00 news with mom and dad - I've always been a night owl...

If you close your eyes, it sounds like JFK talking about lobsters.

I'm English and the Fisherman's accent is very similar.

He sounds like someone who came from England.

Regional accents are disappearing. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, the people there now have neutral accents that you can't really tell.

Bless his heart. I live in Philly. Send me some of that good lobster!

These accents that sound like combinations of multiple accents are the most confusing. I think it’s because they don’t adopt a way of pronouncing a pattern of letters, they learn how to say each word regardless of rules of the language based off of a mix of local accents.

Even though I have lived in Maine for many years, this video was very entertaining. Thanks

belfast maine represent bud!

Is this Dex

Even his name is impossible to say without a Maine accent.

he's adorable