It's crazy around North Carolina so many different accents. Like southern accents range. I have a strong southern accent. I'm proud to be a southern girl!!!
Lived in NC almost all my life. I don't speak with an NC accent but I can precisely summon it when needed. A lot of people think that accents from the southern states all sound the same but it's not true. I can positive identify a fellow North Carolinian just by the way they speak. Also I love to see fellow North Carolinians accenting their speech confidently. Way to go guys. Y'all really own it.
NC born & bred and proud of it! I'm from Kernersville and we have a mix of country accents. I don't say "right" like ya'll. My parents and grandparents could add to this video. My 96 yr old Granny said things like "Crazy as a bedbug" or "He's sorry as gully dirt", "Warsh" instead of "Wash" and she cooked EVERYTHING with fatback and did the powdered snuff until she died and we buried her with that and her Kleenex. My daddy says enVELUP like that. ;) Love it! Keep em coming!
I'm from Kernersville too and people are always surprised that I'm a local since I don't have a thick accent. All the older people on my mom's side of the family spoke like these guys though... I can remember hearing my grandpa and grandma saying the same things. My mom has a country accent but hers isn't as thick as her parents were.
I live in North GA Born and Raised! and I've called it envelop long as I can remember . I'm glad to hear younger folks holding on to mountain ways of talking. I actually live on the Tennessee, North Carolina border. Mountain born mountain bred when I die I'll be mountain dead.
Perfect! I'm from Asheville, but reside in Berlin (that's Germany, by the way... y'all done know it, but them others mightn't). My girlfriend is French and we're planning on visiting N.C. next year, so I thought it would be a good idea to let her hear the way we talk back home. You did a fantastic job!
I'm from liverpool in the northwest of England we say the days of the week exactly the same as you and its unique here how we pronounce the days of the week . Mundee Tuesdee to sundee like you guys do
I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, we don't get too much accent here, (western), but we sure do get a TON of trucks. Thanks for the video boys, I'll have to practice your accents for fun - haha.
I'm from Union County NC and say everything y'all say pretty much too. It's good to hear about how it's like that up there too. My brother went to Western.
I'm am from Australia, I am surprised how many of the same words we use, quite a lot, the difference is the way you hold onto your vowels and also drop vowels when talking. "Swamp People" is big on TV here and I do find myself sometimes looking at the subtitles. I try to copy and I haven't got a hope. Thank you for your programe
y'all are so darn funny!!! and informative too!!! I am fixing go to North Carolina soon and not sure in they all talk like you in the city of Wilmington?? Cant wait for your next video!! I am from California and y'all might visit to see Hollywood.
I just watched y’all’s other vid and I am gonna save them because y’all’s voices make me happy cuz nobody talks like that around here and it reminds me of my family I never get to see. Imma look for a college in NC. Preferably in the Fayetteville area cuz that’s where I’m from. Anyway I don’t call my grandma- well grandma- I call her “mee maw” I see how I still use some phrases and I never noticed. I know no ones gonna see this comment, but I’m puttin it up for myself
I'm from a small town in TN and my kinfolk and I talk about the same as yall do as far as words go but the accent is thicker with yall! My wife was born in the north and came to the south and her family visits and every time they do that laugh at how I talk but I'm laughing back at their yankee sounding asses lol
im from just outside greenville, small place called kinston. my accent is damn near just as thick... we also say yonder such as: right chonder up yonder down yonder (maybe its just my family down here but yea)
haha good stuff lads much more entertaining then most of the other accent tags on youtube oh and by the way greetings from Australia, now if you will excuse me i have to ride my kangaroo to the billabong to fend of killer koalas with my boomerang
Good stuff fellas. I'm from Halifax county in eastern NC and we talk just like y'all do pretty much. I moved from there when I was younger so my accent isn't quite as thick in my daily talking but as soon as I get around other people with the accent or when I go home to see family it comes right back. It was nice to see y'all's videos cuz it makes me feel like I'm back home. Good stuff!
When he first said long gun I thought rifle. Woohoo. Oh and I grew up saying tennis (tene shoes), nowadays people say sneakers and I can't stand it. I'm from California.
I´m from Germany and sometimes it´s hard for me to understand these people. I play thehunter its a nice hunting game very realistic. And in Teamspeak I have a guy with me from kentucky and from Forth Worth Texas.. they are really nice guy but sometimes its hard to understand them :DD haha In Germany we learn the British English and NO ACCENTS!! But day for day it gets better to understand them Greetings
..i am absolutely inlove with ur accent :) i swear its the sexiest thing i ever heard in my life. im from canada but my mom lives in dallas texas n they sound like u guys too kinda haha i just love love love hearin u guys talk 😍
I say envelep sometimes. I live in WA but i was born and raised in southern NC, people here are always talking about my accent and the things I say. Y'all hit the nail on the head with all the phrases we say. I couldn't agree more.
ya'll are just so funny! and I say a lot of your "Western Carolina" phrases, even though I'm from Florida. Most of them are things I grew up hearing my dad say :)
Coming from a rural little town in East Tennessee most of this is true for me too, and any time I travel I get people literally laughing in my face telling me how "cute" my accent is. 🤦🏻♀️
Almost all of the phrases and words you used we use out here in the piedmont. Your accent is just little bit thicker than mine but still. I love the videos. I plan to show it to the girls at work. They will love it so much lol.
I knew it!!!!!! Buncha damn western cu hogs. I seen your first vid and said to myself, " They sound like they go ta Cullawhee." I'm from Burnsville and I graduated from ASU in 98. \m/ \m/
I'm from North Carolina. I went to UNC Chapel Hill and people would make fun of me talking all the time. They'd be laughing at me and they'd keep saying"say something, say something else.". I just didn't understand what was so funny. And saying y'all. I even text it. But I became a pharmacist and I came back homework about 10 minutes from where I grew up. And I never had a problem with anybody not understanding what I was saying.
'm from the NC Piedmont and we have a very similar accent as Western Carolina. Also my family says envelope like that too. Pronounced as envelep. I think a lot has to do with family and how they say things. Thanks for sharing guys!
thanks for doing a very clear thick regional accent.i choose to use accents from alabama/georgia/tennesee/south carolina for my english because they sound very sexy, musical and rich compared to the flat northern accent sounds easy to do and understand from an italian point of view.your videos are very useful instead of movies where few actors are really good at faking southern.i picked up some of yours from bulldurham movie and susan sarandom was very good with carolina accent but yours is clearly thicker/better.if you have time please keep uploading because your accent is different from the movie and very different from other southern states and i can easily pick it up from you
Hi, I just wanted to say that I love what y'all are doing! I'm from Louisiana and I don't usually realize how "Southern" I sound until I hear myself recorded. I hear a lot of things we have in common in our speech, not everything but a lot. We say "Sherff" too and "GIT-ar". Curious, do you say "SURR-up or "SURRP" for "Syrup?"
Hey guys. I'm from Durham NC, but was raised without the accent because my parents didn't have southern accents. I live in NYC now, and was doing research on Arkansas accents for a screenplay I'm writing. But pretty soon I stopped listening to Arkansas and switched to NC accents because I like how they sound. (I am NOT a fan of a thick NY accent) I just wanted to say that you are super thoughtful and your video(s) are awesome. Many thanks for your excellent contributions! - Charles
[imho] Envelop, (which is what you said), is a verb, like in "Darkness enveloped the city." ("ve" is the stressed part of the word). An envelope is a noun (a paper container for a letter) - "en" is stressed here. Love your vids and your accent. Learned a lot from your lessons. Thx a ton, guys. Greetz from Poland. Never been to US but American English is my fav language model.
Hey Chris, my name is Tom Cullen, I'm an actor from the UK, I'm about to start shooting a film and I have to do a North Carolina accent. Yours is the best I've found. Would you be interested in helping me out?
I'm from Southeast Asia and we say 'thou' as a shortened word for thousand too. We like shortening words as well. What do you call pigs or swine? Do you call them pigs or soo-wee/sui (sorry if I spelt that wrong)?
I'm Mexican learn English as a kid at a young age. My Spanish accent faded but sometimes it comes out . I grew up I NYC so I grew up with that accent. Then I moved to S VA and been to nC many times and now expose to that southern Accent. I don't even know if I have any accent now, it's a mixture of many haha
Hello gentlemen: I'm originally from Nashville (TN) but now live in New Hampshire for the last 13 years. I enjoyed both your videos. Wanted to let you know that one of my Grandmothers (from Alabama) also said "IN-velope" ... (for something you'd put a letter in and mail out.) I, myself, say "AHN-velope" but like I said ... am from Nashville. Grandma was from a small town not too far from Tuscaloosa. Make us another video! Thanks - Tim
I have family that live in Marshall and i just love how they talk im from Ohio and the biggest difference i notice is the grocery store inglels I say Ingles my family calls it angles! I have heard my papaw say lofferin or however you want to spell it Youngins, Uns, its crazy how different the accents vary. Yall make great videos and you make awesome covers!!! Keep it up!!
I'm from up here in central Virginia, almost in the mountains, and I find myself saying a lot of words they same as y'all. but then again one side of my family is from western Carolina and the other side is from east Tennessee. There are some words we differ on, but all in all we sound the same. and people always make fun of me for sounding different.
Love it!! From gastonia nc but my families from Andrews, nc so I understood everything, n yall speak just like us! ***** but ya missed messing and gommin ***** yall behave!
First of all, you guys are adorable and such good sports. About the words To envelop or envelope. To envelop means to surround or to enclose. An envelope is a flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a document.
Hi, I like your videos a lot and what I keep hearing is "like at" when you said "or something like that" at about 14:20. Like I said I like the vids a lot and I thank you for sharing with us all.
Hey yall! Understood you both , I grew up hearing and saying a lot of the same dialect . I was born and raised in Virginia, both my parents were from the mountains . of Appalachian Mountains
Sandhills (Central) NC here. "Sneakers" is so Yankee, lol! "Galaxy" with a long ā was new one to me... maybe strictly mountain? "Done" as a helping verb? Check. "Anyhow..." Check. Straight up best thing to do with "dip" is put it on bee or wasp stings. "Lolligaggin'". Check. Also, if you're real oldtimey "gatherin' wool" or more common to my folks, "campin' out". Never pronounce the "f" in "of". Check. "Envelope" the way you say it... Ha! You're on your own there, bud!
