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. GB

Hearing the Gullah segment makes me want to rewatch Gullah Gullah Island to see if that dialect appeared in the show.

tfw they say North America but it is actually just about the states ( ͠• ェ ͠• )

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
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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

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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 YouTube 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 !

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 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?

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.

My God, Erik has certainly settled in the right career. Quite an amazing talent! I find it interesting that he defaults to what I consider my own "accent", or lack of accent, here in Northeast Ohio. For some reason I personally am guilty of saying dis & dat instead of this & that, but my fellow NE Ohio citizens do speak "correctly".

No Asian Americans?

What, no Pennsyl-Tuckey, Pennsylvania Dutch, or whatever accent I have that causes me to merge the word "shower" into "sharrr" (Shah-rer would be the easiest way to describe how its pronounced)

Would love to hear an Amish accent. Where we eat feesh and trim the booshes.

8:03 It's "latino"

i have learning the language for years and now i remember how much i needed thisssssssssssssssss

Great to see him include the Delmarva peninsula! The southern accent nuances of this area are often overlooked by many videos.

So he starts in on the general American accent and then abruptly goes somewhere else without finishing?

I would love for him to do a UK/GB video. There's so many different accents in London alone. Bengali London accents, Turkish London accents .... East London, Islington.... it goes on.

Eric is not gonna be caught on camera imitating any non-white English speakers 🤣

I have a California valley girl accent and I absolutely hate it

Just waiting for someone to call this racist.

South Carolina

Nice Pittsburgh Accent. But it is more of a Gen X and Boomer Pittsburgh Accent. The younger generation has an accent as well but it is less though.

Weren't the blacks in Africa enslaved by other Africans and sold to European slave traders?

Dude was Finna get canceled if he did the African American accents 😂

As a voice coach and accent specialist for commercials, industrials, etc... I can tell you for a fact that the "classical southern accent" you speak of??? We call that the "Hollywood Southern accent" ....because it never existed in the south. It existed in "Gone With the Wind" and it still exists in Netflix's "House of Cards" since Kevin Spacey cannot master a real Georgia accent.

"North America" aka America? By the way, there is a whole other country above it with a whole variety of other english speaking accents. North America does not = America. All very interesting but don't forget about Canada!

This is amazing 👍🤩 I'm speechless 🤩

Can you do British accents next? That’d be cool 👍

Bro, Pittsburg sounds like a kiwi accent

Detroit ?

I love this series of videos but the pacing seems a bit fast, like he's rushing through the material.

He nailed the real yinzer portion of Pittsburgh

*Guess my accent ladies and gentlemen.*
*"Hey bebi gurl mama show Bobs n vegana"* 🌚

Do German accent please.

At the beginning of the video he said he was going to talk about North American English accents. Outside a 1/2 sentence on Canadian accent, it was all American :(

So sad he missed Tangier Island in Virginia. It has a VERY unique accent and dialect that traces back to Elisabethan English.

The Appalachian is my favourite!!

So glad they brought the people of color linguists, as a New Yorker I have never even heard white people speaking Italian like accenrs

you are really hot.

Do this for the big GB

Latin x people..... UGH! Whoever came up with that words needs to stick their head in a freezer for a week

Dude when I heard Ocracoke island I was like “I go there every year that’s cool”