9 Difficult Texas Accents You WON’T Understand
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🐎 Everything is bigger in Texas–even the accents! How well do you know your twangs from your drawls? I found 9 wild accents that I’m convinced y’all won’t understand. Let me know how many you got right in the comments. And if I’ve missed your accent, never fear! It might show up in the next video.
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It’s pronounced “Boo-ee”, not “Bough-ee” when you’re referring to Jim Bowie, or the town of Bowie,TX.
Texan here. Just spent 12 beautiful days in Scotland. Loved the food, countryside, people, and trains. I experienced the same thing with the Scottish accent. I did pretty well. However, I had to translate for my wife🙃
South Eastern Okie here (I can throw a rock and hit both Texas and Arkansas). I just spent 22 minutes trying to figure out what it is that is supposed to sound so weird, lol.
@@Bugg…0_oSame here! I grew up in and around Tulsa and it all sounds normal to me. 🤷🏻♀️
My boyfriend and I are from Dallas, and we went to London a couple times last year. He’s a cowboy, so people were drawn to him, asking him to say “Howdy” and “Y’all”.
Hi fellow DFW peeps! I’m in Plano 😀
@@lizardsofozz Richardson & Rowlett!
M Streets!
@@lizardsofozz I-35 is dadgum zoo ain’t it.
@@adamdrake2020 lovely area, and close to all the Lower Greenville fun
The police officer at 5:35 is the sheriff of the county I grew up in out in west Texas. Pretty funny running across him here. And, I don’t have an accent, y’all do.
hahahajajaja! absolutely!
I’m from Houston and I’ve heard every one of these accents
Same here. I hear them all
That’s what made King of the Hill wonderful. We ALL know people that talk like every one of them.
@@petertrudelljrMmmmhmm, I tell you h’what
Same
Are you from Houston or Uston? 🤪
Life-long Texan here and this just sounded like Thanksgiving dinner to me lol. I barely even register that those accents are different. They all just sound like rural Texans to me.
Yeah – me too!
Houstonian here, they all sounded the same to me.
Half of the clips I was just like “wait they’re supposed to be talking with an accent??” It just sounded so normal to me lol
Hahaha same!
@@Lazurikittiesame!
As a native Texan, I can say this was mostly spot-on, however, I kept waiting for the video to include the HUGE German influence – especially in the middle of the state! From Brenham, to San Antonio, Fredericksburg to Austin, and even more southern – German had an absolutely enormous influence on the state and accent. Most people (Texans included) don’t know that German was almost the official language of Texas before English! Spanish was a close third! True story!
Good point! You may be interested in this video 👉 https://youtu.be/VxrL8La1BjM?si=yATxkCKdhejv19t4
@@storylearning Excellent! I’ll watch it! And thanks, as always, for great videos! You always put out terrific content. 🤠🐄🐴🧲
Agreed, there’s a lot of German influence (which heavily influences Hill Country), San Antonio has it, in addition to Central / Coastal / Southern / and Eastern Texas accents on that note. Along with a variety of Spanish accents from different parts of Mexico/Latin America.
That’s mostly gone, though. In my region, we called those old timers with the German influence “hanyaks.” It was “dat dere,” not “that there.” That accent died with the WW1 and WW2 generations.
Right? I’ve heard plenty of people around Brenham with a German tinge to their accent.
It’s South Texas, not Southern Texas. We don’t add that -ern business.
Yer dern right
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Yep
It cracks up my friends that I understand Boomhauer just fine, i didnt know until I got to college that Boomhauer wasnt supposed to be easy to understand.
Boomhauer sounds like half of my family reunion.
Very similar experience. I got buddies talk just like him. I didn’t know other people couldn’t understand him until this girl I liked told me about it.
Dang ol Boomhauer, talkin’ ’bout I tell ya what man.
Yeah, like… in the clip shown here he’s talking about Seinfeld and how Kramer slides into his apartment. As far as that accent is concerned Boomhauer’s is pretty easy to understand. I know a fella who has that accent here near Tyler and it takes me a while to aclimate to his speech cuz he talks has that accent, plus he talks quieter and with a deeper voice that’s gravely.
Me too! Boomhauer sounds normal to me
I’m a native Texan. Lived most of my life on the Gulf Coast. I don’t have a thick accent but I’m guilty of saying fixin to, over yonder, & I use y’all a lot. Word of warning, if you ever hear a Texan say “Ah hell no!” RUN!
jajajahahaha! ya betcha! And where is the Ft. Worth to Microplex lingo?
True statement. RUN AND RUN FAST
I’ll never forget the response of someone from Maine when he heard me say “fixin’ to”.
Yeah, and don’t stop till you run out of road.
My Texas roots run deep, ancestors where at the Battle of San Jacinto.
I’m a native Texan, the accents do change by just driving a hundred miles. I can be anyplace in the world and I know when someone’s from Texas. The easiest accent to spot in Texas is the east Texas twang.
Issa Texas Thang
I always know because my great aunt is from east Texas so every time I hear someone it’s 🔔🔔🔔.
It’s funny though, the women talk with a twang and the guys with more drawl, but both are distinctly East Texas (and not Deep East Texas like Beaumont.) Terrell, Texarkana, Tyler, Palestine, Athens area.
People still say y’all in Texas. I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could – 40 years and growing. Best people in the world.
So funny. But soooo true.
I live in San Antonio. People here say ma’am a lot. My two year old picked up “yes sir/no sir” from day care. She told her father – “Don’t wake the baby. No, sir.” Regarding everyone looks like a cowboy – ranchers, people from rural areas or small towns dress in cowboy style and it’s not a costume. It’s a very common to see and it doesn’t look unusual.
it is the military influence in SA
We moved to San Antonio when i was in Kindergarten and my sister was in second grade. She went with my mom to enroll in school, and excitedly answered “yes!” when the secretary asked her if she liked school. The teacher mean mugged her and asked “Yes what?” and my poor sister broke down crying because she didn’t know she was meant to say “Yes, ma’am!” and for that matter, neither did my mom, lol.
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We do our kids a disservice if we don’t teach them “yes, sir” and “no, ma’am”. To us native Texans, a young person who doesn’t “ma’am” us has very poor manners indeed. Brought up in a barn, or worse yet, a Yankee.
I thought we used “ma’am” & “sir” all over TX. We certainly do in SE TX. When I was in my 20’s, teaching in Conroe, the other teachers convinced me it made them feel old, so I gradually stopped using it so much. But my 45 yr. old son still calls me “ma’am”. It feels a little weird, but sounds nice & well-mannered. He is also ex-military.
I worked with a woman who told me “You have a thick accent”. I said, “I have an accent! You’re from Boston. You have an accent!” LOL
Boston, she has no idea of how to use the letter R.
being a Texan i can totally relate to the fact that our accent really comes out when we’re talking about Texas😂😂
We really get so excited and it amps right up for real!
Ikr? 😂😂 lol
I don’t think I have an accent and then someone gets me mad and THERE IT IS. Lol. I definitely have one, but I grew up city sadly.
I was in Tech Support in Texas for the US and Canada. Sometimes I’d get a call from NYC. Now we needed to know what was going on before we shipped them thousands of dollars worth of hardware. I had quite a few call, talk real fast, and demand parts with no troubleshooting. Honestly it pissed me off. But I laid on my slow Western Texas accent, like “well,seems like you’re in a bad way. Why don’t we take a look at this critter, and see what’s goin on”. 90% of the time they agreed, or couldn’t understand what I was talkin about. Hilarious!
Yep, dealt with a new Yorker the other day. I got slower and slower and he confessed where he was from.
My daughter was born in Conroe & had a SUPER East Texas drawl. We moved to San Marcos when she was 7. (To me, those people seemed to have NO accent unless they had a Spanish one. And they talked FAST!) By the time she was in Middle School, when she got excited I would frequently have to tell her, “Slow down! I can’t even LISTEN that fast!”
Malicious code switching 😂
When i lived in Dallas and Florida, I was around people from New York. They talk fast and sound very abrupt and to the point. They do not sound friendly at all, but that is just how they come across. Some were very nice.
Yes, they are rude and abrupt, I worked on the phones for a health exchange company and was licensed in NY and no one wanted that state for that reason but I loved talking to people from New Jersey because they were just really nice and down to earth.
Moved to Texas 2 years ago. My favorite expression is “fixing to”, in the sense of “I’m fixing to go to the store” or “I’m fixing to go mow my lawn”
Yeah! 🤣 We live in Oklahoma & my 10 year old nephew was at my house once when my neighbors had company from CA. They had a boy his age & they were out tossing the ball. We started to leave so told him to tell him. He looked at him & said, “we’re fixin’ to leave”. The kid said “WHAT?” He repeated it & he still didn’t get it. Finally I said “we’re leaving”. The kid was like “ahh, ok!” 🤪🤣
Well, you’re close. It’s fixin’ not fix-ing. Run it together and drop the g.
On my first work trip to California, I said to the hotel clerk “I’m fixin to go up to my room” and it took a few minutes to explain that nothing was broken and I was not trying to ‘fix’ something myself.
@@scottballentine1846 🤣
@@scottballentine1846 lol!
I am from Amarillo and I spent a lot of my life in Houston and Austin. I understand all those people perfectly. My mother was a stickler for perfect English, and she taught me to speak beautifully with proper grammar and a large vocabulary. But I do it with my Texas accent. I have lived all over the world and people always recognize that I am from Texas.
I too speak Standard American English, learned from my English teacher mother. But nobody is fooled; they know immediately I’m Texan.
I too am from Amarillo. The only accent that’s kinda hard for me to understand is Cajun.
I’m 74, a native West Texan, understood ever word just fine.
I didn’t hear any accent
My das was stationed in Texas for two years…never had a problem understanding them…to my moms dismay I spoke ” Texan” within a few weeks😂 and still drawl and twang to this day 30 years later
My late father-in-law was raised in Plainview. His Texas speech was the prettiest English I ever heard. RIP Doss.
I’m from Austin and yeah the younger generations have lost most of the accents, but the farther you go outside of the major cities the thicker the accents get.
Thanks for the video ❤
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