North American Accent Thread

[Daco Celtic]

Post video or audio of regional accents from America and Canada. You may also post your own accent.

Detroit Accent as shown by John DeLorean. One of the better Midwestern accents


Stereotypical Chicago Accent


Stereotypical Pittsburgh Accent


Tidewater South


Italian American in North Boston


Boston WASPs

[Daco Celtic]

New Orleans


Minnesota


Alabama

[Trouble]

I will post mine soon

[Matty74]

[Vid Flumina]

Montana? You guys tell me (1:20 onward)

[Creoda]

From my outsider's perspective the only commonly heard American regional accents that stick out are Boston/New England, New York, the South, and the Scandinavian influenced North Midwestern states. Boston is my least favourite.

[Daco Celtic]

IMO, the strangest accents are in America are in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Philadelphia



Central PA (Dutch County)


Baltimore


Pittsburgh

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The list of words:

Wash, Oil, Theater, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, Spitting Image, Syrup, Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pyjamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminum, Envelope.

And the questions:
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the kind of spider (or spider-like creature) that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What do you say to address a group of people?


Southern Ontario

https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-reco...ccdx9v2zkacf0w

[Daco Celtic]

Montana? You guys tell me (1:20 onward)

I've been to Montana a couple times and never detected a strong accent. Most states from the Rocky Mountains west don't have a distinguishable accents, only subtle differences.

From my outsider's perspective the only commonly heard American regional accents that stick out are Boston/New England, New York, the South, and the Scandinavian influenced North Midwestern states. Boston is my least favourite.

Those same ones stick out to Americans too but I would also include Mid-Atlantic cities like Philly and Baltimore as having very strong accents (see videos above). It's the western US and certain Midwestern states, like Nebraska, that sound kind of generic. As far as the Boston accent, it's not the most appealing, but there is more than one version.

[Daco Celtic]