East Coast Accents Ranked EASIEST to HARDEST to Understand
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How well do you know the accents of the East coast? I’ve found 11 accents and ranked them from easiest to hardest to understand. Let me know in the comments how well you did!
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0:00 Think you know East coast accents?
0:16 Accent # 1
02:10 Accent # 2
3:41 Accent # 3
5:46 Accent # 4
7:24 Accent # 5
8:58 Accent # 6
11:37 Accent # 7
13:31 Accent # 8
15:10 Accent # 9
17:18 Accent # 10
18:48 Accent #11
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At the 12:54 Mark I believe her name was Nina. She was a TV cameraman at Channel 2 news here in Charleston. I worked at Channel 5 and I would see her all the time down at bond court covering cases.
I buhlieve Gawguh in itsewf has mo den 11 accents Olly.
Brahmin
Jersey can be split by North and South. There are definitely differences within in these, but generally North Jersey is more New York, while South Jersey is more Philadelphia. The mass media ‘Philly’ accent (even though you rarely hear it nationally so no one can place it) is very white and varies by area, while Philly AAVE is unique by itself (although there is some overlap).
This video is so poorly organized.
So true!
Seems fine to me
The Kennedys did not have a brahmin accent. They had a Kennedy accent. I never heard anyone else speak that way.
Can you please make a video giving 11 reasosn to learn Russian? I love the language!
I didn’t miss any. I grew up in South Carolina & South Jersey, lived on Long Island, have relatives in inland and Outer Banks North Carolina, Virginia (Vuh jin yuh), Georgia and Florida, went to school with a girl from downeast Maine, did research for my MA in Boston and New Hampshire, spent time in DC and heard the Baltimore (Bald’m’r) accent.
I also recognize some Midwestern, Texan and California accents.
I wish you had used an organizational plan rather than a guessing game. Your map shows 5 accents but you cover 11 and never refer back to the top 5. Confusing!
I could understood most of these but I grew up in Texas.
Several of the numbered “accents” featured examples of distinct accents (Florida a particular example). Did not make much sense.
Basically one born in the last hundred years has the accent featured at the beginning of the video.
I’m so glad you included the Gullah-Geechee creole (some call it a dialect or even a language). It is unique and many English speakers would not understand it.
Haven’t you heard, Olly? We don’t have working class people in the US! We only have “middle class”, ask any Democrat or Republican politician!! And that term covers EVERYONE, including billionaires! Now ya know. 🍻
Im from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and have a heavy Chesapeake accent. I forget i sound different until i travel to different states and people point it out.
How about making a video about the different types of German spoken in the US (Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin)?
Native Merliner here (from Maryland), had no trouble with any of them. Not sure what Swedes had to do with Maine since the Swedes settled in extreme southern New Jersey (there’s a town there called Swedesboro) and, mostly, Delaware.
Of course, NJ and DE aren’t the only states in which Swedes settled. It would be silly to say that was the case! There’s a town in northern Maine (Aroostook County, not far from the Canadian border) called New Sweden and another one called Stockholm. Swedes settled in that area in 1870 and their descendents still celebrate Swedish holidays and festivals in the traditional way and wearing traditional Swedish clothing. They hold a festival every year. There’s also a town called Sweden in southern Maine.
@@BlissfulDee Sure, but those are all tiny. Stockholm has 250 people, New Sweden has 577. By contrast, Irish and French Canadian immigrants were something like 40% of the population in 1900 (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maine), not to mention the obvious continuity of the Maine accent with the other New England accents which derive ultimately from the Norfolk origins of the original English settlers, obviously much modified over the centuries. It’s not plausible that a few hundred people in a few isolated towns had a major effect on the accent of the whole state.
Olly, kudos to you for explaining that NJ is incredibly diverse accent-wise, and leading with one of the most hardcore south Jersey accents I’ve heard in ages! It’s probably the accent that is probably least associated with my state’s stereotypes, but one I once heard a lot of. Still, these clips leaned heavily on south NJ accents, and I’d have loved to have heard a contrasting hardcore NJ one…one that is in some ways heavier than NYC’s, except that it is entirely rhotic.
im from russia, and i only guessed the florida and amish accents