The 5 Greatest American Accents 

My neighborhood in Boston had five regional accents alone. You can tell which street people lived on by their accent.

I'm from WI and went to Japan with the JET Program. On our first day of training, there I was- surrounded by native speakers of English from around the world- and when I asked someone to hand me my bag, only the woman from MN knew what I was talking about.

Your Appalachian accent is actually great compared to the rest lol. Those of us from Appalachia always appreciate when people show love for the native accent. Hopefully one day the stigma against that accent can go away and young people won't feel the need to lose their accent to be taken seriously in life.

I grew up in Minnesota and I have to say you did pretty good!! Also, I want to share this story: I don’t have a very strong accent. Since moving away from MN, most people don’t notice, and if they do, the best guess anyone has is Midwest. Back in 2018, I was working at a cafe in Seattle when a group of Indian women walked in. I asked one lady for order and she asked “Are you from Minnesota?” I was taken aback! I never had someone be so direct, let alone right. Turns out she had a coworker from Minnesota who lives in Delhi and she just happened to be in Seattle on vacation! I still can’t believe the one and only person to ever correctly guess my accent was from half way across the world! 😂

Chuck Yeager is the reason so many pilots affect a slight West Virginia accent when talking to the passengers. His stoic and calming tone in the face of death became iconic.

Father is from Barbados and mother is from North Carolina. I was raised in New York. My southern relatives tease me about my West Indian accent and my West Indian family tease me about my southern accent . I think I sound like a New Yorker. A former boss hired a guy from China who had a thick accent. I was the only one who understood him . My boss took me aside one day and asked me how I was able to understand him so easily . I told him “ Mom is from down south , dad is from the islands and I grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood” ( I’m not Hispanic) “ You think one more accent is gonna bother me!”

I grew up in the middle of Pa, and went to school in Philly. You nailed the Philly accent and how diverse the accents of Pa are. Go across the river from Philly to South NJ and check out how the accent changes again

Writing from northern Maine: parts of the state were settled by people who's first language was French, and that accent is still frequently heard on the streets. There are parts, however, that were settled by other groups: not far away from my home town is a group of Swedish decendants, and when I visited Minnesota a few years ago, they sounded very similar!

I have a Welsh friend, and I think I blew his mind by demonstrating four or five different southern accents. You actually did pretty well on the accents you selected, so well done!

I get so much shit for saying “bayg” as a person from Wisconsin I never knew that other people pronounce the word different

This is a great video. He actually avoided all of the best known accents (besides Bostonian) and brought up some accents a lot of people don't know about. Appalachian (what he called Southern WV) is a good one that isn't quite the same as a Southern accent and was heavily influenced by Scots-Irish immigrants. And what he called a "Pittsburgh accent" which actually is common in eastern Ohio, Western PA and the panhandle of WV (heavily influenced by German migrants). I've lived all over the US, and this is really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to accents in this country. I spent my childhood moving from place to place as a military kid and it was very apparent to me how the way people talked changed from place to place. And you had to learn really quickly to adopt the same accent as the kids at school to avoid...problems.

I was born and spent the first 8 years of my life in a southern Pittsburgh suburb, the following ten years in north western Pennsylvania. My first career was as a radio DJ during which, as you can imagine, I had to read a LOT of copy and critically listen my recorded voice. I discovered I had a very difficult time properly enunciating the L sound, especially when it fell in the middle of words. I really struggled with it and have always thought it was a minor speech impediment. However your observations on the "Pittsburgh accent" puts what I've always thought to be a personal problem into a whole new light. Thanks!

In certain hollars in Appalachia the accent is a mix to different degrees, Scots, Irish, English and a bit of German. They range from a soft to a quicker more nasal accent

I'm a Native MinnesOOOOHtan, currently living in W'scAAAAHnsin. If you get up towards the Upper Peninsula of Michigan via the Door County/Green Bay area, the northernness of their accent is unbelievable. And yes, you nailed *most* of the upper Midwest accent. :)

The Upper Midwest accent you describe might fall under the umbrella of the Great Lakes accent (or at least Great Lakes vowel-pronunciation pattern), which you can detect in western New York (but not eastern NY), the northern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois (but not the southern parts), then on west of the Great Lakes into Wisconsin, Minnesota, eastern ND and eastern SD. There is a theory that this pattern of pronunciation began with the construction of the Erie Canal, which involved a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic population of laborers, who did NOT have a common way of speaking English, but whose children forged this new American English accent and carried it with them throughout the Great Lakes region.

I’m from California but lived in Alabama during college. At first I couldn’t make sense of much, but after a couple of years I got good at hearing the different southern accents. Even here in California, you used to be able to hear the difference between NorCal and SoCal but that was mostly in word choice. But at the end, I generally can tell when people aren’t from California because of nuances in mannerisms, phrasing, and accent. Regional accents are fun to listen to.

He did much better with the accents than I was expecting

The reason why states can have such varying accents is that their compositions are semi-arbitrary. Between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for example is hundreds of miles, a plateau, and a large mountain range

The Upper Midwest accent is actually really interesting because it is going through a vowel shift. That is why our vowels sound strange to other people. From Wikipedia: 'This change pattern is characterized by the longer and lower vowels moving forward and upward, while the shorter vowels move downward and backward.'

Love this video... I'm from Pittsburgh... I try to stray away from Pittsburghese, but being a lifetime Yinzer it slips out from time to time...🤣

As a PA Native, there are far more than 2 accents. My personal favorite is from the NW part of the state where you get something that sounds like an unholy amalgamation of Upper Midwest, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania Dutch. It has the hard 'A' (warsh instead of wash) but also has that 'doncha know' fargo sound to the the 'O'. The best description I ever saw was 'this accent is what happens when a bunch of German immigrants learn English 2nd hand from the Scots Irish'.

When I was in my 20s, I moved my family to Wyoming. Right after we got there, through our children, I met a lady who had just moved there from the Northeast. Here we are, one with a deep southern (MS) accent and one with a deep northeastern accent (MA). For the first 2 weeks we hung out neither of us knew what the other was saying! We'd just nod, smile, and agree.😂 We eventually caught on but it was hysterical until we did.

I am from the Upper Midwest and happy to be on your list! We can’t help that whole world says “bag” wrong 😂😝.

I love this! Regional accents have always been so interesting to me! I was born and raised in southern California but my dad grew up in Pittsburgh and I remember thinking it was so funny that he pronounded "tile" and "towel" exactly the same to my ear! 😃

Having always lived in a small town in the Appalachian mountains, I do have an accent at times (notably *not* when doing customer service; I was asked if I was a robot by one man I spoke with on the phone), but even when I'm letting my words come out as terrible as they can, my accent is nothing compared to my father's, and his has lessened significantly over the years, which is terrifying. He used to go one state over to hang out with a friend, and random people who heard him speak would stop and beg, "Say something else!" By far my best story regarding accents though is when my dad, my uncle by marriage, and my uncle's brother were attempting to have a conversation. My uncle was legitimately translating between the two, because while they were both speaking English (technically), my dad's unique-to-this-area brand of Redneckanese very much did not mix with Dominic's heavy French accent, and they got to the point where one of them would say something and look at Larry, who obligingly turned it into something the other one would understand like an unpaid interpreter. Good times.

I’m from the Olympic Peninsula (northwest of Seattle) and when you said “Canadian surfer” I laughed out loud. I’ve never felt quite so seen. The accent itself is very similar to British Columbian, but the words we use are often much less formal. Lots of “dude,” “no worries,” and “rad,” even in a professional setting.

In area, Pennsylvania is ~3x the size of The Netherlands. It should come as no surprise that we have multiple accents; at least we are speaking the same language. There's also several regional accents between Pittsburgh & Philadelphia. Where I grew up the accent where I lived varied quite noticeably from the accent in the northern part of our county. The number of accents in the USA is essentially countless.

I have always been really fascinated by the interpretation of non-americans to different regional accents. I watch a lot of non-english speaking media and have begun to notice different cadences in (for example) the Korean language between Seoul and somewhere like Busan. I just find this interesting from a linguistic standpoint because I didn't understand the language at all when I first noticed it, but I could tell by the cadence. I have really wondered since how others might perceive us in similar (or dissimilar) ways.

As someone who was raised by Oklahoma parents in Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio, I can promise you that the mix of these four regions have been the subject of extreme confusion in my speech. Its a mix of the terms from Oklahoma, the Chicagoan inability to pronounce vowels correctly, and Ohioan accent which results in maximum midwestern insanity

As a southern West Virginian (Wayne County), I have to say you did a great job. It's amazing when I travel I often get asked "Oh we love your accent, where do you come from?" At first when I was a younger man I thought this question was annoying because for me I wasn't the one with the accent, the person talking to me had the accent, but the older I got and more places I have visited I have come to understand that my accent is a beautiful thing and I am proud to tell every one who asks me that question that I am a West "By God" Virginian!

I used to cover sports for the Crookston Times in northwestern Minnesota, and the head coach of the University of Minnesota-Crookston men's basketball team could be convinced to do a demo of all the accents he encountered scouting for players. I had no idea Minnesota had so many different accents. I would think that the smaller the town, the easier it would be to retain the accent too. I knew a woman whose mother lived in a Finnish town and in the 1980s still spoke only Finnish. The things you learn.

Laurence, please don't forget the vast area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Some call it 'fly-over country' but it is filled with a rich collection of cultures and accents.

West Virginia English is sort of "southern" you could say, but it falls more into Appalachian English. We have a rich history and, in my opinion, a unique accent that we all share no matter the state (I'm from Kentucky and Eastern KY natives sound more similar to WVians than folks from Louisville KY). We even still have slang and hints in our accent that is still Irish and Scottish.

This might be my favorite video so far; I'm pretty sure I laughed so hard I snorted at one point. And your American accents are way better than any British ones I could attempt. Hilarious.

You did so well with this! You have a good ear! Honored that you chose 2 accents from my home state. I'm from the Pittsburgh side and can tell you that you nailed it! No Ls! 😆 In fact, I think I was in high school or college when I realized that the word "riled" had an L in it. I had always said, "rowd." And you absolutely got the "dahn tahn" thing, too. Flower = flahr. And I agree with you that it sounds like cockney. :)

As a West Virginia native who grew up near Pittsburgh but have more of the southern accent with some Pittsburgheseword influence because daddy grew up in that region (mom grew up down South and daddy's parents were from the same area as mom, so I had a lot more southern accent influence), I'm glad to doubly be on your list. 😂 The British people around me here in the UK usually take delight in my accent, as well, like the older man I spoke to this morning as I held a grounded bumblebee, trying to coax her onto a flower. He asked if it had stung me and I said, "that almost never happens. I've only been stung once in 20 years pickin 'em up." His eyes lit up and he asked if I'm from America (like my accent didn't completely give me away) and I said yes. The usual questions followed. 😂 The point being my accent seems to cause delight in many, for whatever reason. 😂

Quite a good take on Pittsburghese. I agree that we tend to lose the Ls within words. It's fair to say they come off close to a W sound, with the tongue failing to touch the roof of the mouth and the lips rounding. Also . . . love that you noted the WV "worshington" pronunciation. I've always worshed my clothes in the worshin' machine up here 'round Picksburgh 😊

Good choice in specifying the region in the South instead of simply saying "southern". There are many many different dialects within that genre and vast differences in pronunciation can be observed from one county to the next. My dad is from Mount Airy, NC (aka Mayberry) and he has exactly the same dialect as Andy Griffith. while my mom from neighboring Stokes County has a dialect that I would place in Northern Georgia if forced to generalize.

Have recently subscribed to your channel. I'm American, (born and reared in Ohio) and your humor is cracking me up! I'm laughing out loud and the jokes you are cracking between the commentary. Thanks for the laugh, man..! I'm enjoying these videos!

I grew up in Missouri. There are three ways to say the states name. If you live in a city like St. Louis, Kansas City or Jefferson City, its Missouri. I'm from Hannibal in the northeast corner of the state. We pronounce it Mizzurah. And if you're from the Ozarks in the south like the Ozarks, it's Mizzurer. That's a basic example of the three accents in the state.

Thanks for noticing our nice, friendly "Wusgonsin" accent. I grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan, taught up North and settled in Central Wisconsin, and there are even differences in all of those accents. I was an English teacher in the Middle East, and I taught all of my students over three years to speak like me. Awesome.

Impressed with your southern accent. You also nailed Wisconsin and Philly !!

Love this! I'm from Wisconsin and had a good laugh over what you've noticed about us. On the other hand my husband is originally from West Virginia! And he's got a few words that throw me for a loop. Crayon sounds like crowns. When he says, "I know" it sounds more like, "I knooww." Fixin was another word I learned, "yeah that door needs fixin..." My in laws tho are a hoot and I just love to listen to them talk.

Re Boston- Since living in the UK (England) people often ask if I am Irish... but just to mention about Boston- the r's in words don't get used until you get to the end of the sentence where we have to put them so they don't clutter up the next sentence..."Way-ah did we pahk tha cah? I have no i-deer..." Again, applause to the channel, it's wikkid pissah. :)

Being from western Pennsylvania myself, I absolutely love that "Pittsburghese" made the top 5

I'm from Tacoma, and I can verify that "Canadian surfer dude" is an accurate description of our regional accent. But on the other side of the mountains, the accent changes dramatically.

Fun fact, Upper Midwesterners often sound a bit Irish because they were! That area is where most of the Irish (and Norwegian) immigrants settled because it had land that was most similar to what they were used to / that was best for growing the same crops they’d grown in their home country. As a result, the accent slowly evolved into what it is now from that influence and the American influence. So your Upper Midwestern / Minnesotan accent sounding Irish is honestly exactly how it should sound. Just with a touch of some Scandinavian accents thrown in. I always say Minnesotans talk like a softer, more diluted version of the shop owner from Frozen that says “Yoo-hoo! Big summa blow out!” Interestingly, the same is true of other regions. The French occupied most of the South Eastern US which is why the Cajun accent sounds the way it does. If you listen closely to someone from New Orleans and other Cajun accents from that area, they have slightly different variations of the same accent that clearly started as French. There was some added influence from enslaved people and creole people, and the accents of their original tongue, and boom, the NoLa and Cajun accents were born. The Boston accent is heavily influenced by Italian immigrants and immigrants from the South of England. The south side of Boston was influenced by Irish immigrants, and that slight variation can still be heard in some folks in Boston today. Also, the most known New Yorker accent had the same influences as Boston with some added Dutch and Western European influences. The New York accents are so different because the influences were broad because of Ellis Island. The American Southern accents, the twangy ones, the southern drawl, accents in Appalachia etc. are heavily British. Specifically, the British Received Pronunciation. It’s why there’s less enunciation and R’s are often dropped or softened. Over time, the G’s in -ing words were dropped, the speech was slowed down, and it started to develop a bit of it’s own unique characteristics. I have a theory that this is why British people seem to love the American Southern Accents and why thats the accent most Brits do when imitating the “American accent”. It’s likely that its the easiest to mimic, because it’s not a huge difference from the base British accent. Modern day AAVE heavily developed from Southern American English, because of slavery, which is why AAVE is often so similar to all of the Southern accents. Especially the dropped / softened R’s, the joining and shortening of two words (like “going to” becoming “gonna” and “gon’” and “fixing to” becoming “fixin’ to” and then “fixin’a”, in both vernaculars), the decreased enunciation, and so much more. I think AAVE in turn molded Southern American English, but that’s just a hypothesis. There’s no real data on it.

Yay! I’m so glad WV made the list. ❤ I was born and raised in WV. I now live in South Central TX. My accent gets asked about a lot. My husband is from MI. Our kids have wack-cents, for sure.

I live in Texas, grew up here, but my mom is from Massachusetts. To my ears she does not have a Yankee accent, but apparently other people from Massachusetts recognize it (it’s not that Bostonian accent). To my own years I don’t have much of a Texas accent unless I exaggerate it & then it’s just lazy talk. But my family back in Massachusetts certainly can hear it. I’ve watched quite a few videos about all the different American and English accents and it blows my mind sometimes.

I live in Orlando, FL. A common accent here is New YoRican. It's mostly Spanish structure and verbs with some English nouns and a Bronx accent, so sometimes the last few letters get chopped off and some Spanish words become non-gendered. Also, after a few years in Florida it becomes less staccato. It comes from people who moved from Puerto Rico to New York and found out they don't like snow.

Michigan has three accents, the midwestern in the Lower Peninsula, Swede in the western Upper Peninsula, and Yooper in the parts east of copper country in the Keweenaw Peninsula.

This is so fascinating. I live and grew up in Wyoming, my wife is from Eastern South Dakota. Like you said about Pennsylvania is also true of South Dakota. West river is much like how we talk in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, but East rver is totally Midwest, kind of a cross between Minnesota and Nebraska accents… 😆 I just crack up at her when she says “Bayg” for bag. She doesn’t think we have much of an accent in the mountain west region, which is definitely true of the younger generation, but we certainly do have some interesting colloquialisms that set us apart. The older generation in Wyoming sort of had that almost southern sound, but it’s really not common here much anymore. I grew up in a boom town which is just a melting pot of accents, since everyone moved here from out of state. However, I can always tell if someone is from Utah in the mountain west because they seem to swallow their Ts, which is very common on the west coast. Dang I missed my calling. I should have been a linguist. 😂

When you did the southern accent asking people to subscribe now, I just howled. You really captured it so well. We Canadians don't think we have an accent, but I can hear many eastern & western types, not to mention French Canadian .

The best accents are definitely Eastern and Southern states. I’m from Georgia and when I hear myself on a recording, i’m like, whoa is that me. I don’t even think of chicagoans having a distinct accent. TN, WVA, MA, NY, GA, AL, KY, LA, MS, TX, MN, WI all have unique accents. Enjoy your channel and your accent.

😂 Too funny! I nearly choked on my cereal 🤣

I was not expecting Pittsburgh to be on here because most Americans I've met from out of state hate the Pittsburgh accent and I got so excited lol. I kind of say the L's in Philadelphia but I definitely drop it in words like "hallway" "cold" and "told" for example.

Wisconsinite here, I think you broke down our accent beautifully. My first cross country trip, I was in a McDonalds and asked for a bag at the counter. After he asked me to repeat myself several times, the worker didn't know what I was saying until I started to spell the word b-a-g. We were both equally confused by each other.

10:19 YES!!!! It’s incredibly (and ironically) surprising how the USA’s generic “deep southern” accent, for example, while widely considered its most “distant from classical British”, can actually border Shakespearean English given certain vernaculars - full circle!

Come down to Breaux Bridge Louisiana and experience the Cajun accent.

Laurence, we lived in Chicago suburbs for almost 20 years. We moved from Florida. I had so many make fun of my accent. They said, " You have an accent." I laughed as they said so many words with an accent. I also laughed at bayegg...for bag.😂

I lived in Pittsburgh from birth to retirement. downtown is pronounced dahn tath. Yinzer is a rather famous Pitts. accent. Yinz has the same meaning as all of you. I know many people who aren't Pittsburgers don't find our accent very attractive but I am proud of my heritage. My ancestors have been in Pittsburgh since before the revolutionary war. Our church records can actually trace them since 1752. When people talk about their family being from Germany, Italy, Ireland etc I proudly say I'm an American - my ancestors fought in the revolutionary war and helped start this country.

Being a born and raised Bostonian the best not exaggerated example of a true Boston accent that I can recommend is to listen to either Matt Damon or Ben Affleck in the movie Good Will Hunting both being from Boston. Mark Wahlberg in The Departed who's accent is more what locals would call a Southie accent has a more Irish influence. Nothing is funnier than seeing an actor not from Boston attempting and butchering our accent

I live in the central part of Illinois, and a lot of people who live out in farmland country say "Warshington".

3:38 American here, for me it's Australian women saying the word "no" ...to which I'd reply 'MARRY ME!!' And undoubtedly we'd go on and on like a broken record, both progressively becoming more aggressive. 😅

The upper midwest accent is really similar to a Canadian accent, in my experience. You hear it a lot in Michigan as well. I definitely picked it up while I lived there.

As an international student who delights in learning about American culture, I find your experiences interesting and highly relatable. Take care!

From the midwest, when I had a professor from Maine it took at least a month to understand her

When you said "George Washington carrying a hotdog" and made that face, I literally spat my coffee out. Well done, Sir! 🤣

As a life long Rhode Islander, I didn't think I even had a New England type accent until I joined the Army. There are so few Rhode Islanders in the Army relative to other states, our accent is rare. So its nice to see it mentioned here, even if it is after mentioning Boston, which I get mistaken for anywhere I travel to.

As someone who was born and raised in southern West Virginia (Beckley area), your accent was pretty much spot on. You could use it the next time you're visiting your in-laws and everybody would just assume you were a local.

Such a fun video! Though with a definite Southern accent, my grandparents from Western North Carolina used many words associated with Old English. They came by it honestly, as their ancestors were from the UK. Your Southern accent was terrific!

Was in Atlanta GA for job training, a VERY heavy southern drawl. And I was born & raised in Texas 70 years!

Mitch Jayne, bass player for the bluegrass band, the Dillards, often told a story about his 1-year term teaching a class of student in a one-room schoolhouse in the Ozarks in the 50's. These were mountain folks who were isolated from the 'big city' and therefore had retained their version of English for hundreds of years. Their vocabulary was rooted deep in Old English from Shakespearean days. Most of the early settlers were Scotch Irish, so they had that component in their dialect as well. Jayne ended up writing a book about the many phrases the children used in contrast to what was more widely spoken in the US-phrases like "my daddy is duller than a widow woman's ax." Or instead of using the word 'face' they would use the word 'countenance' After a year, one family moved to town, taking half the students with them. The school board did not feel that so few students were worthy of the cost of a private schoolmaster, so Jayne was let go and the remaining children were sent to the town school. A couple years later, Jayne resisted some of the families and found an astonishing difference in the speech patterns of the children. The kids had been bullied at the town school and so over the course of only a few years, they shed their mountains words, phrases, and accents and adopted the more homogenated language of their town peers. Their parents still retained the old ways, but it was then a matter of shame for the children. Those kids grew up and raised their own kids who no longer shared in the regions dialect, and the grandchildren found it hard to understand what their grandparents were saying. I have seen this in my own family, where the offspring of Mexican or Asian parents, correct their parents constantly and roll their eyes at their parents "wrong" pronunciations. So, I guess we can hold kids responsible for changing the language patterns of our history. Growing up it seemed everyone in my world had a thick Italian or Irish accents-now it's been at least 20 years since I've encountered in my neighborhood. The grandchildren of the adults I once knew speak "perfect" Americanized English.

I hope you know what you call the upper Midwest accent only applies to the Yoopers. It's only in part of Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and I think Minnesota. I live in a suburb in the metro area of Milwaukee and I have the generic Midwestern accent. It's completely different from the Yoopers.

My relatives are in WVA too and your WVA accent is spot on. West Virginia is a small State on the map but I hear tell if you ironed it flat it would be as big as Texas. So they say.

LOL !My hubby was from Philly and ofc I picked on him about his Wooter/ water!!! I'm from Western New York so It gave me great pleasure in the begining. Now He's drinking water like the rest of us!! :)

Years ago, like in the last millennium, the wife and I spent an extended weekend in Springfield. Ill visiting the Lincoln sites. I noticed as we interacted with the locals, some had a southern accent while others didn't. When questioned if they were indeed locals, they all said yes. So, it would appear that the Mason Dixon line runs through the middle of Springfield Illinois.

I was raised by southern parents (Alabama) in the Chicago area...I have more Chicago than southern accent, but switch depending on if I'm talking to my family or other people. I was working in Brussels for a few months and my co-workers there said I had one of the hardest American accents to follow because I switched/blended the two. They also assumed everyone talked like a New Yorker or someone from the movie Deliverance.

I always enjoy your videos, and you are so funny. I love when your wife joins you. She is simply lovely

I'm from north eastern PA in the valley between a few huge Appalachian mountains in a rural area. We asked Jeetyet? all the time. We WORSH our hands and clothes, Sweep the floor with a broom & Let the dog out. The biggest giveaway bit of my accent is the HARD "AR" sound.. cAR we sound like descendants of stereotypical pirates with how pronounced our "AR"s sound. "Git wAteR from the spikit" and "Swam in the Krick" It's PineKrick not Pine Creek. 😉🤣

The great example of playing with accents/speech patterns was Moon Unit Zappa in Valley Girl. She was doing a parody of some of her friends at school for her father, Frank Zappa, who did a record around it.

I lived in the Pacific Northwest most of my life and when I moved to Kentucky, everyone always said to me that they loved my accent. I was thinking I don’t have a accent. Then I started picking up a Western Kentucky accent then I realized I did have a accent. Your right though us PNWers do kinda sound like special southwestern Canadians.

I would have to say that this is the best video you have done yet. Fortunately you didn't try doing my accent...yet!

I love the southern accents that make one-syllable words into two-syllable words, like bed ("bay-ed"), friend ("fray-end"), and town ("tay-own").

Damn Lawrence, you have a mighty nice southern accent there and it fits you.

I watch a RU-vid channel about a dog. This lady who's the owner is in england. I'm sure that she didn't realize it but she pronounced the words bowl and ball exactly the same way. She wanted the dog to bring his ball, and he brought the bowl. Seriously exactly the same. She was taken aback and repeated to bring the ball. I found it kinda cute that the dog heard no difference, nor did I, but the lady heard a significant difference.

My favorite Boston accent phrase is “Star Market charge card” or “Staeh maehket chaege caehd”

There is a northern cities vowel shift that started in Syracuse and has appeared as far west as St. Louis, MO. I moved to Cleveland long ago and have learned this Great Lakes accent. We make extra syllables like cy-at and ba-yg. Pencil is pincil.

I had a wedding reception in South Carolina but some of the guests were from New England. The combination of the slow southern drawl and the fast New England was a bit like aural whiplash. 🤣

I love the study of American accents and take great joy in hearing you stumble over our various regional dialects. I am originally from the Chicago area, am married to a lady from Milwaukee (or "M'Waukee" as the natives pronounce it) and now live in Orange County, California. When I (infrequently) return to visit the Windy City, I can DEFINITELY hear an accent that, as a youth, I was completely oblivious to. Accents are fun!

LOL. I'm from Minnesota, and whenever even Americans not from MN try to do a Minnesotan accent, they sound Irish too. Also, the "to gohhh" is spot on. Well done.

I am from Nebraska, but my father was from Pennsylvania and my mother was from Alabama. (Air Force brat...) We were told a lot that people from Nebraska (and surrounding areas) make great newscasters and spokespeople. Tom Brokaw, Johnny Carson, Chuck Roberts, Marg Helgenberger, Marcia Ledendorff, etc.

Grew up north of Boston, lived in RI for years then raised my kids outside of Philadelphia. Now I'm back to living in my childhood home now. I have an ear that picks up accents, so few people ever guess where I'm from!!! 😂 I love local accents

One of my favorite things I've learned in being in a relationship with a Pennsylvanian is that there are different grammar structures alongside our accent differences. As a Californian, it would never occur to me to drop the word "with" in a sentence like "when I'm done with my homework, I'll go for a walk", whereas he routinely says things like "I'm done the dishes". Apparently this is indeed a thing in parts of the US and Canada, but I had never heard anyone say that before meeting him. When I visit Pennsylvania, I now notice the little grammar differences as well as the accent changes.

I live southeast of Erie, PA. I have noticed that most people I know they don't pronounce the "l" in Pennsylvania. "Penn sa vain ya" And I grew up in WV! You nailed it!!

As someone from Indiana who works remotely with people from Central Europe and UK, this channel really helps me understand the other perspective. It's always good to know how you sound to other people and how tones, accents, and language can be perceived differently despite close relations. Thanks!

My father is from Minnesota and my mother grew up in both ohio and Boston. My mom is *very* particular about how she says things, on top of that I listened to a lot of books on tape read by British folks. As you can imagine my personal accent is strange, upper midwest meets "proper" English. I've had people ask which country I'm from (sometimes I say "the old country" and they nod knowingly like they know what I mean 😂). That being said I'd never heard the way some Midwesterners say bag, milk, and sorry until I met my SO. Every time he and his family say "bayge" "malk", and "sooorry" I'm caugh of guard and laugh. I have a fondness for Ohio and Minnesotan accents, but West Virginian and Kentucky accents are beautiful and soothing

The Philly accent is a combination of both New-York accent and a Baltimore accent. The AW vowel is pretty tight like a New York accent. The OH diphthong is southern or sounds a bit like a Baltimore accent. The Philly accent has a very strong rhotic R.

As a Pennsylvania-born who's lived in Wisconsin and the Chicago area, this was wonderful 😂👏 cheers

10:44 that was pretty good. I would believe it.