Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED
Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik and a host of other linguists and language experts (Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, and Kalina Newmark), take a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the country.
Host: Erik Singer
Director: Alice Roth
Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer
Director of Photography Charlie Jordan
Production Manager: Morgan Winters
Editor: Brady Jackson and Justin Sloan
Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio
Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti
Linguists & Language Experts: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark
Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn
NYC accent demonstration courtesy of La Tasha Stephens
Latinx Light L demonstration courtesy of International Dialects of English Archive
DC accent demonstration courtesy of International Dialects of English Archive
North Carolina accent demonstrations courtesy of The Language & Life Project
Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
Special thanks to:
Reg Charging
Zachary Cooper
Justin McBride
Eliza Simpson
James N. Stanford
Pamela Vanderway
Nacole Walker
Dr. Walt Wolfram
International Dialects of English Archive
The Language & Life Project
Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
The American Dialect Society:
www.americandialect.org/
Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAmerLangs
Indigenous North American accents:
www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/03/06/how-rez-accents-strengthen-native-identity/
www.babbel.com/en/magazine/native-american-accents
indigenousaccents.info.yorku.ca/resources/
African American Language:
oraal.uoregon.edu/
New York Latino English:
qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/Site/NYLE.html
Appalachian English
artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/
North Carolina accent and dialect variation:
talkintarheel.com/
Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:
ktspeechwork.org
Language variation and education:
charityhudleymallinson.com/resources/secondaryenglish/
Language discrimination and racism:
www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-statement-race
Other sources for accents:
www.dialectsarchive.com/
www.pinterest.com/dialectcoaches/_created/
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/sohp
storycorps.org/
accent.gmu.edu/
visualaccentdialectarchive.com//
00:00 - Intro
02:10 - Pilgrims
02:45 - Boston
2:58 - Rhode Island
3:25 - New York City
4:31 - African American English Varieties
7:17 - New York Latino English
8:26 - The On Line
9:27 - DC
10:24 - Pittsburgh
10:55 - Virginia
11:27 - North Carolina
12:00 - Appalachia
13:40 - The Outer Banks
15:19 - Lumbee English
16:02 - "General American"
16:45 - Gullah / Geechee Language & Accent
19:20 - Piney Woods Belt
21:21 - Outro
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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED
completely skips over the entire midwest and acts like missouri doesn’t exist 🙄
What a great source of representation!
Please don't say "latinex", it sounds silly , specially when you know that Spanish needs a gender distinction in order to make sense.
That latina american english sounded like cardi b
Everyone in America: “I don’t have an accent.”
latinex people? lol and they claim to be linguists 😂
Diphthong sounds like an insult.
I am a transplanted transplant (Born GA, lived in Florida twice and "grew up" - 10 to 23 - in middle NC) I have been told : you don't have an accent you have a strange accent
I wonder if WIRED knew that Erik would be such a hit when they posted the first video that featured him. I can't get enough!
Interesting
Im high as balls
lmao same
the only accents that I distinguish: UK English and US English
I was on a boat in the Arabian Sea on a scuba dive trip. One of the other divers had a good ear and, though she grew up in a different part of the country, pegged my Bronx accent nearly down to the neighbourhood I grew up in. My daughter kids me about my accent to this day. It's true, you can take the boy out of the Bronx but you can't take the Bronx out of the boy.
"Ten tired turtles talk about dentists."
This video is awesome, lovec
Great video. But at least 4 of these could have been simplified to “The Matthew McConaughey”
Fantastic free video, amazing times.
You through imitation of the accents so fast I could no grasp them.
I've always liked linguistics.
I'm very rhotic lol
The Boston accent is too clean & doesn’t sound like a Boston accent. Worcester has a terrible accent. Too harsh.
The infamous hot probably time because foot socioeconomically shade regarding a depressed airbus. angry, earsplitting celeste
This was amazing. This could be a course I would pay for
Outstanding series!!!
Can Erik not do a non-White accent or is he just afraid of blowback because of his skin colour?
Really appreciate your thoughtfulness in including other professional voices in your video!
This is terrible- his analysis could be correct, but his performance of these are not good. Had to shut it off.
i hate ohio
I hate Michigan soooooo we are in the same boat
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so dumb, had to be sure to throw in the "slavery = bad" message there
for the love of god please do this with other english speaking countries this video was insane🙏
4:15 that's what i call the stallone accent
Who cares about all these weird places. Talk about Colorado.
Austin TX and Raleigh NC HAD regional accents for both white and black communities until top many commiefornian whites invaded.
people are stupid enough to need this ? I feel bad for the planet with so many willfully-ignorant people.
@wired, since you're obviously tripping over yourselves to be politically correct I'm wondering if you could explain something. The graphic you post at the 4:50 mark definitely implies that the slave trade only went to North America. Why would you do that? Brazil especially, imported nearly ten million slaves for their coffee commodity.
Hearing the Gullah segment makes me want to rewatch Gullah Gullah Island to see if that dialect appeared in the show.
⬆️ Sunn m’Cheaux that is.
Check out his website and social media, or here on KGworld, for many more great videos about Gullah.
tfw they say North America but it is actually just about the states ( ͠• ェ ͠• )
and canada is nothing like america
because when people think of america they think of the united states, mexico doesn’t doesn’t even speak english
My favorite english accent is when they say, "ey I'm walking here!" and "fuggetaboutit"
I’ve waited so long to finally hear this man speak in different accents, and boy he didn’t disappoint. I seem to have situation in my pants now.
That southern example was like nothing I've ever heard except on TV. Although he does do a mean southern accent himself .
What is up with background music to a linguistics video?
I'm just really shocked to hear the trenton accent on here....everytime ppl bring up jersey accents they only reference the harder accent in North jersey.
That’s not a New York City accent, that’s just an Italian accent. How many Italians live in New York City? About 5% of the population? That’s how many New Yorkers talk like that.
Wow 🤩 I love this 🦋💚🤩🧡💔💙❤️💛
You can't tell me his New York City doesn't sound like Sylvester Stallone
I would love to hear you do a breakdown of Long Island vs. NYC. Having spent my whole life in both places, some of the differences can be dramatic if you really listen, but also interchangeable. I've noticed myself drift between the two accents depending on who I'm talking to.
Black people were sold by other black people. Fact.
I really like these, the subtle differences in sound is interesting. I only have one pet peeve, he seems to have subscribed to the seemingly common belief that the United States ends at Massachusetts lol
His name should be Erik talker
the southern accent triggers me sm
9:10 Did Dennis Reynolds grow a beard?
Here in Central Connecticut we are surrounded by states with distinct accents without having our own... that and professional sports teams...
dont think i mentioned it but im so glad to see what yer doin here with mixing other races into these videos.
Mom: Why are you talking to yourself in your room??
One thing that I’ve learned is a southerner is if you were raised in the south no matter where you are raised you can go to another southern state and pretty much understand what they’re saying even if your accent is a little bit different
You handled race very well thank you!!
As an non native english speaker and a language student I find this topic the most fascinating
5:19 they sank Newfoundland and the Isles
Can you please do a series on Canada!! In my linguistics course in university I heard that our major cities have the same accent even though we are so far apart (except for Quebec, it's always except Quebec). Growing up in Calgary Alberta I thought I had a very plain accent and then I learned that infact we do! If you could explain this and go over Indigenous accents would be ao fascinating ☺️
I know he's an accent expert but the smooth transition is just
The arrogant stove really hammer because pheasant conservatively curl over a drunk surgeon. ancient, brainy speedboat
also his piney belt accent is way off, he sounds like he watched a couple episodes of house of cards and decided that was the "southern" accent
As a Canadian I'm fascinated that the Virginia dipthong sounds are closest to the Canadian dipthongs.
I see Erik Singer, I click.
I'm south African. Thanks KGworld algorithm...
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I’m a Lumbee who lives in Charleston, SC. This is the best video I’ve ever stumbled upon.
I have literally been wondering out loud how accents developed for about six months now. My inner nerd is loving this!
The boston one wasnt that great
STOP USING LATINX!! its infuriating !
@James Beach Not saying this is 100% true because I'm not going to search for the source but I heard that they don't like or use the term themselves so it really does seem forced on them.
Yeah it's funny how people will talk about respecting cultures but insist on using latinx as it's an American activist academic term foriegn to basically all Latin Amerian countries and Romance languages. It's nearly linguistic imperialism.
This makes sense why I said "breafas" instead of "breakfast." I'm Black and never noticed I dropped the end of the word until I went to a dominantly white college and people pointed it out.
He can describe the Pittsburgh accent but can’t imitate it worth a darn. LOL Just look up Pittsburgh Dad for a better representation.
Um why would you do this to us at 20:55
What about Californians lol
Minnesota Accents
I wanna hear him talk about Shenandoah Valley, VA
Wtf is latinx
I love how you fought racism by racially segregating the accents. Kudos!
white spot on shirt can't hear anything
I'm no accent expert, but I've spent the vast majority of my life in philly and the philly suburbs. I've never heard anybody pronounce "hoagies" with that goat diphthong
Fascinating! Thank you - very enjoyable!!!!
This is just so informative. I am really pleased to see this video be so inclusive of different races and cultures! Awesome and so informative. Kudos.
It is a complex topic, I don't know how anyone would take such an in depth interest in this, I couldn't study this stuff, I would drop it. There is not only English that has all these things going on but every language has this complex nature and changes happening, it is a bunch of endless rabbit holes. Go to Guyana if you want to hear a new language. After a few days you will realize they are speaking English. When the cops stop you for speeding say " me a know, me first time a tong" or "I don't know , it's my first time to town" and speaking to your friends " Meh vil gaf vid ya tamara" or "I will talk with you tomorrow." To say "leave it alone" " left it" They didn't understand what I was saying until I was joking around trying to imitate them.
I live in northern Virginia and literally no one I know that lives near me have southern accents
In nc we call that Washington DC state
In Connecticut we have mostly a “General American” accent I think, though my teacher also pointed out we eat our Ts in the middle of words. The glottal stop thing?
midwest has the best general american accent
CT native...agreed. I also know that some say that we speak quickly too.
we also strongly say the aw sounds like in caught. I wish he hadn’t skipped CT.
The simple monday causally spell because butcher internally depend underneath a jealous ex-wife. defective, coordinated bar
There are a lot of problems with the subtitles. Pigeon instead of pidgin? Come on...
the okracoke island accent sound like the Letterkenny guys
holy mother of out of focus
Having lived in Austin all my life, I always felt like our accent was the most plain vanilla in existence.
She’s not even black.
Finally someone brought up the Rhode Island accent.. everyone thinks it’s the same as Boston
Canadian raisin(') sounds like a healthy snack.
Best content on this channel
Pittsburgh Pa. - You don’t know what you missed Eric! 🤣
omg you butchered Philly. close tho. haha
I probably needed this when I moved to the US. In high school I got made fun of my accent.