10 American Accents You May Never Hear Again
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They say big cities and the internet are killing iconic accents. Check out these 10 endangered accents that you may never hear again.
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Accents are just so fascinating. If you haven’t watched Erik Singer’s videos on accents in the United States, I HIGHLY recommend it!
They are awesome. And he is so good at reproducing them!
2:20 the couple times I’ve been to Pittsburgh in the last ten years, I didn’t hear the Yinzer dialect that much. I was given a one-sheet guide once, that listed various local oddities. One that struck me the most odd was the “whole nother” phrase. I’ve heard this in every part of the country, and from Brits, as well. I think I’ve heard it from a couple of Norn Iron expats, but not from Free Staters. At any rate, it didn’t strike me as a Pittsburgh exclusive. Now, turning left when the light changes without waiting for the thru traffic… 😂
It is literally the WORST city to drive in! I haven’t been to too many places. But there is no one that can convince me that it isn’t horrible to navigate that city. I grew up there.
@@ashleymcclung8495 I hate driving in Pittsburgh. For one thing, you have to be very familiar with your route, because all of a sudden, with almost no warning, you see a sign that says right lane must turn right or left turn must turn left. By the time you see the sign it’s impossible to get over unless it’s 3 AM and there’s no traffic. Then there are all the intersections where you have a stop or yield sign and because you’re almost parallel to the street you’re turning onto, you have to turn your head around almost 180 degrees to see if anyone’s coming, provided that you can even see over the top of the bushes. Don’t get me started about the bridges where you enter the bridge onto the right lane and have to exit from the left lane, or vice versa.
@@sarco64 ALL OF THIS! Plus Penn Dot has a terrible habit of posting exactly ONE detour sign and then expecting you to figure out the rest.
@@ashleymcclung8495 I have fond memories of every time my family drove to either Pittsburgh or Washington, DC. Every time, we’d get lost, and my father would scream, “They tore up all the roads and put down new ones since we been here last time!”
@jonathanramsey I’m from southwestern PA, so while I don’t speak Yinzer, I’m definitely in its orbit.
The first time I heard the expression “a whole nother” was not in PA. It was on TV. It was the early to mid-1980’s. My brother and I were watching some “TV event” (I can’t remember what it was now) and at the beginning of the show, there was a minute-long commercial for Texas tourism. At the end of it, the guy said, “Texas–it’s like a whole nother country!” My brother and I laughed so hard at that that we fell out of our chairs! Well, you can see how things change, because I say “whole nother” all the time now, and I must resist the urge to correct people who do not say it.
7:42 the idea of Country Music saving southern accents reminds me of an American expat in London —ca 2005- complaining about a West End production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, that the actors seemed to have been told to emulate George W Bush, a man not at all indicative of any southern American accents.
Let me tell you this, now, that first older Tangier Island accent sounds like many of my kinfolk in southern Mississippi who are influenced by Cajun (coonass) English. It was as if I was listening to my Uncle Jimmy Dale who is now passed. Personally, I have worked on my very thick Southern twang over the years and most people do not reckon me being from South Mississippi. (adding French, Romanian, and Russian to the fray helps, for sure). Enjoyed the video. BTW, I have picked Russian Short Stories back up after over a year and am reading so well. Thanks for your work.
How well do you know Texas accents? 👉🏼 https://youtu.be/45DfrwXf0bA?si=0JdIzsNCDFLswWe-
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For a possible idea you could make a video about Oklahoman and Arkansas accents . I live in Oklahoma and we are not in the Deep South, but how I talk has some twang in it. Mostly people assume that we speak with a Midwestern regional accent. However, where I live we certainly use the Midwestern and Southern dialects mashed together. Oklahoma is not brought up much when it comes to these types of videos and I would love to learn more about how we speak. Just an idea though, amusing video!
I will say, I grew up in Texas and when I moved to south Florida, I had to flatten my accent for anyone to understand me. However, it definitely comes back the second I meet someone from back home, or when I visit.
And if you want to laugh, it happens in Spanish as well. My accent in Spanish is a combination of Cuban and Spaniard (wildly different), but it leans more heavily in one direction, depending on whom I’m speaking with. 😆
My grandpa was a Pittsburgh Slovak and his brother, who is still alive, has a strong Yinzer accent. But he’s in his 80s, I don’t think the younger generations have it.
Myron Cope! Pittsburgh! I would argue to the contrary. Pittsburgh-ese is alive and well especially in the working class neighborhoods around the periphery of the city and in the surrounding areas of Western Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvanian who lives in the Pittsburgh area here. Pittsburghese is dying because of the increase in non-Pittsburghers moving to Pittsburgh (not complaining, just explaining). I will say, even outside of Pittsburgh you will find a similar sounding accent in the Southwestern areas of Pennsylvania. I was always told its due to heavy early German, Scottish, and Irish settlements in Pennsylvania.
Dying? It sounds like they are a separate species that do not reproduce with others and are literally dying due to habitat loss in the environment.
I lived in Pittsburgh from 2018-2023. The accent isn’t as prevalent as it once was but it is still alive and well in born-and-raised Yinzers.
I lived there from 1973 to 1984. It was very prevalent then! Myron Cope (the first example of the Pittsburgh accent) was still around then.
@@arjaygee I loved Myron Cope, but that accent of his was really exaggerated.
@@JRBWare1942 Do you think he was faking it? I always wondered … it seemed extra compared to the people I encountered in real life.
It is on its way out. No one below a certain age speaks with that accent.
@@arjaygee I think saying he was exaggerating it would be fairer than to say he was faking it.
12:00 – I recognized absolutely every one of those Appalachianisms! In addition to those, you aren’t preparing to go and take a shower, “you fixin’ ta go rainch awf.” My dad was born and raised in Dalton Georgia, but early in life he rejected his native accent because he listened to radio announcers a lot, and he decided to speak like them instead. At age 25 I became a major-market radio announcer myself in Houston TX, and I did that for the next 27 years until I got a real job.
20:00 – I was raised in Houston TX. In east Texas you don’t “put some meat on the grill”. No, instead you “put some mate own tha gree-ull.” At least that’s the way it was when I moved away forty years ago. Don’t get me wrong, I love the way southerners talk. They are generally good, friendly, and kind-hearted gentle people.
Having grown up in da ‘Burgh, but now living overseas I notice when I go back that the accent is alive. It definitely exists in some classic Pittsburgh locales such as going to the amusement parks in tawn.
I grew up in the Bay Area and I remember the San Francisco accent when I was growing up especially when I was a teenager in the 80s. Mostly then by older people. One holdover of this influence is the Bay Area was the last place on the west coast to get the “caught/cot” merger and at age 53, I still say these words with a slight difference because I always have. When I visit home now I never hear this accent anymore.
same. I say cot and caught differently. My parents and especially grandparents/great-grandparents had a thick accent I still get asked if I’m Canadian or new yorker at times.
I grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania (35 miles north of Pittsburgh). There are still a decent number of people who talk like that. Some not as strong of an accent though.
I live on the periphery of Appalachia in Southwest VA. My accent is mild compared to many in my town, and I try to cover it up a bit when recording, but I get a lot of YouTube comments of people pointing it out. Most say the love it because the accent is rare on YouTube but I receive almost equally as many telling me my accent makes me sound like an idiot.
One of my favourite channels. Waiting for new episodes.
Some of my relatives have accemt #1, but they are older. The youngest is my 60 year old uncle. When I was 6-7 we moved to Philadelphia, but I still say ‘red up the room’ without it being deliberate.
I’m in north texas, and yeah dallas especially feels like its losing its accent, but there’s a lot of people coming from out of state so i’m sure thats also contributing. Most people I know born in Texas still have an accent, and i refuse to change mine, although I used to when I was younger.