Reaction To 7 Southern US Accents You Won't Believe!

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]Today we've got seven southern US accents that apparently we're not going to understand.

[00:00:06]>> I feel like that's a lot. So, I'm interested to see what this is all about.

[00:00:09]>> Yeah, I have no idea what we're going to get into. I mean, I obviously southern accents sometimes are a little thick, but I wouldn't say I've ever not understood something. So, I'm I'm wondering if that's going to contain language as well or what.

[00:00:21]>> I was just thinking that. But I wonder if it's the the terminology being used too cuz I actually saw a video funny enough a couple days ago where somebody was speaking with a Canadian or we grew up in Canada if you didn't know that the Canadian accent and using Canadian terminology and I could understand and knew exactly what they were talking about but so many people in the comments were like huh?

[00:00:40]>> Yeah. I guess some of it could be slang that's used. I'm also wondering if like because I think there's a French influence in Louisiana, right? So maybe like a southern accent you wouldn't understand would be French.

[00:00:51]>> True.

[00:00:51]>> Right. Yeah.

[00:00:52]>> So, let's find out.

[00:00:58]>> If you take a road trip through the American deep south and decide to stop for gas, you might see some big alligators, but you'll hear some even bigger accents.

[00:01:07]>> Thisin't turn.

[00:01:17]>> He's dead right. I did not find these on the radio. I searched the mountains, the beaches, the bayou to find the most intriguing American accents of all. And all I'm going to say is that Gator is the least of your worries. So, can you guess these accents? It's a challenge.

[00:01:31]Let's find out.

[00:01:32]>> I don't know about that.

[00:01:35]>> We heard the weather siren go off and um I got the girls. We got in the hallway and Brian had walked to the back and opened the door and he heard it.

[00:01:46]>> Well, isn't that an amazing accident?

[00:01:48]I've been told the biggest difference between the southern accents is that they either speak with a southern drool or a southern twang.

[00:01:56]>> Anyone know the difference?

[00:01:57]>> Actually, Joey kind of sent me then in the direction of we were looking for another potter. I found his son-in-law who was a potter who owned property right over there.

[00:02:07]>> I call them chiggers. U he wants to get them in if you're in the woods this time of the year. And some people call them red bugs. Really, I don't know the difference between a [ __ ] and a red bug. To me, they both hurts.

[00:02:19]>> Well, here we have a classic southern drool. Pretty relaxed sounding, don't you think? A drool just means that the vowels are pronounced kind of long and sound like they're split into two syllables. This accent goes all the way back to the ScotsIrish settlers. And then plantation life had a huge impact on the evolution. You hear some strong African-American sounds in there, too.

[00:02:37]>> Why I talk the way I do? Because the good Lord blessed me with this accent. I like it. I like it just fine.

[00:02:43]>> Amazing. Well, the deepest deep south is where you hear the strongest accent of all, but it definitely depends on which neck of the woods you're in.

[00:02:50]>> Do y'all not realize how silly y'all look accusing me of faking an accent?

[00:02:55]Just cuz I have all my teeth in my head and I'm not married doesn't mean I can't qualify for a southern accent.

[00:03:01]>> But where are we exactly? Well, let's get out of the woods for the last clue.

[00:03:05]>> I got a granddaddy and a mama and a granny and a papa. So, I got all They could never have the same. You got them all covered, huh?

[00:03:13]>> Yep. Where I'm from, there's nothing there. We had all we had to do was ride dirt roads and we'd go to pastors and then I had a little alt to my car and one time my dad got so mad cuz I did donuts and the pastor in my alt to my car and it caught on fire.

[00:03:30]>> Here comes the reveal. It is the accident of the one and only. Definitely can start to see the accent, right? Like you I never really paid attention to it.

[00:03:37]>> Yeah.

[00:03:38]>> Now that we're going through it, I'm like Yeah. And I don't also don't know if it's because I haven't been to a lot of southern states. I've only been to Florida, I think. Right. So, I don't know if you'd catch a lot of that southern accent like you might get in an Alabama or something like that, right?

[00:03:52]>> Yeah. I guess like Texas even. I think there's like a distinct like Texan accent as well.

[00:03:56]>> Yeah. And I'm starting to notice the drawing out >> the draw. Yeah.

[00:04:05]>> My car and it caught on fire.

[00:04:06]>> Here comes the reveal. It is the accent of the one and only Alabama. And by the way guys, in case you can't tell, I am not personally from the American deep south. Far from it. So if I do get anything wrong in this video, please let me have it in the comments. All feedback is welcome and appreciated.

[00:04:22]>> Well, first one I was >> he liked in in the field or why but he played music in slave time. Had him and man little braces for the fiddle play.

[00:04:32]>> Still that guy with redstone on little eyes.

[00:04:36]Don't show you again.

[00:04:40]>> Well, I hope I'm not outright giving it away here, but I can't resist. This state is known for its rich blues heritage, and the singer is a great example of how the accents have been shaped by the music and culture.

[00:04:50]Seriously, music has superpowers when it comes to preserving the way people speak. You can probably name a few legends yourself. Just like Alabama, you get that deep south rhythm even in speaking.

[00:05:00]>> I don't care about the budget. I'm going to go out. I'm going to have a good time. I'm gonna travel. If the money's in the account, the bills are paid, we're doing it. All right.

[00:05:08]>> I'm new to this whole posting videos thing, but uh I hope y'all enjoy at least hearing me talk or something like that. But uh I appreciate it.

[00:05:16]>> Of course, like all over the South, there is more than one way to talk.

[00:05:19]>> Please, please don't ever talk to me like this. And I'm fixing to do it in a fake southern accent. The one they use in the movies, they one the one like they do on Steel Magnolia. Drives me crazy.

[00:05:31]>> I AM PLEASANT. I JUST SAW A DRUM EATING IN THIS MORNING at the Piggly WIGGLY AND I SMILED.

[00:05:36]>> I'LL BE HONEST, I would not know the difference. Can you guys hear what's real and what's fake? Either way, it's an accent that I just love.

[00:05:46]>> And you'll hear it down in Mississippi.

[00:05:49]>> Ah, I was going to say Mississippi.

[00:05:50]>> Yeah, >> I was going to wanted to pause it before he just dropped it in there, but I was going to go with Mississippi on that one.

[00:05:55]>> I I wasn't sure. I miss I honestly forgot about Mississippi. I don't know how, but when she said Steel Magnolia's fake accent, I started laughing cuz like when I've watched that show before, I thought like they're landing on thick.

[00:06:07]>> Yeah. Yeah. I uh I was trying to just think of like the southern states but more on the East Coast cuz like I feel like that's what we're getting into with the draw.

[00:06:16]>> Yeah.

[00:06:16]>> Right. It's the East Coast thing. So, I don't know. We'll see where we go.

[00:06:20]>> It's also funny how some of the language though is consistent. Like, you know, when I hear people say y'all, I immediately think of like the South. I feel like all like all the way across they say that >> if you got it right, go buy yourself a blues harp. This night is about to catch fire.

[00:06:38]>> Number three.

[00:06:39]>> We're all Ken somewhere, ain't we, Jean?

[00:06:41]>> Yeah. Huh?

[00:06:41]>> A long line. Yeah. I'd say me and you are too on the light side.

[00:06:45]>> Oh, yeah. Me and your Ken. Dad's telling me how much Ken I seen my funeral home at night and he tell me how much Ken mean you are.

[00:06:51]>> Well, we ke on your mom on your grandma.

[00:06:54]Your accent comes from the people who you hear speak the most. And if you live in the mountains all your life, you will naturally learn speech that is quite unique and you hear it sung in the incredible blues, rock and soul. Lots of warm and friendly mountain folk out here. Although they probably regret that they've been discovered if you ask me.

[00:07:10]>> Mostly just mind your own business and let everybody else mind their business.

[00:07:13]You know what I'm saying? Won't be left alone. Let us do our thing. We'll let you do your thing.

[00:07:18]>> This place has the most documented caves in the US. More than 8,000 of them.

[00:07:22]Hopefully nothing lives in there. But if you know much about moonshine, you probably know a certain legend from these parts. And I'm going to keep him for until you've given up guessing. You might >> I don't know. I think I'm I'm going to go with Georgia.

[00:07:35]>> Georgia.

[00:07:36]>> Yeah.

[00:07:37]>> I don't really know enough that there's mountains in Georgia. I don't know.

[00:07:40]>> That's where I'm getting kind of thrown off. I'm thinking like Georgia or Tennessee. That's what I'm thinking.

[00:07:45]>> Yeah. I don't know. Why >> I feel like they would have said something about like more of the music elements if it was Tennessee.

[00:07:50]>> Yeah, I think so, too. Um, what's on like the east coast at the south?

[00:07:56]>> That's Georgia.

[00:07:57]>> That's Georgia. Yeah, I thought Georgia was >> South Carolina.

[00:08:00]>> I thought all that was Oh, yeah. Sorry.

[00:08:01]The Sorry. What's on the west coast of the South?

[00:08:04]>> Um, you're going to have like Nevada.

[00:08:07]Anyways, you're trying to test my geography here. Like, like why? Let's just get back into the video here. Sam, >> I want to fetch your whiskey glass while you wait. Meanwhile, here is a guy who prefers the water side. I've been a lot of places when I was in the Marine Corps by a Gush and drove a truck and I ain't never been nowhere that didn't want to come back. I like it. We don't live nowhere else. I me and a friend of mine we we garden good bit. Plant a lot of sweet corn to sell potatoes >> ears >> other stuff.

[00:08:37]>> They say that in the east people sound more Appalachian and in the west it's more deep south. But I still can't place this woman. Can you? My little mom and daddy never said ugly words ever until my sister was going to marry a little later in life and she was going to marry this hoot-doo man.

[00:08:53]>> But if you want to hear the best accent of all, how about we see a guy about some moonshine.

[00:08:57]>> Anything that I've ever used to make liquor out of sugar, meal, rye, barley, whatever the jars it's put in, I think it's my business if I want to make it. I bought it and I figure what's mine is mine. If you haven't guessed yet, there's probably no hope.

[00:09:13]But try this. I was told to listen for a shh sound on the s's. Should we see if it's true?

[00:09:19]>> They had a bear in a cage. You know, we're famous for the bears and the smokies. And people would stop at this market. They would buy Cokes for this bear.

[00:09:27]>> Ah, it's definitely true. And now you know where we've been this whole time.

[00:09:31]Tennessee. Another fun sound is the click of these buttons.

[00:09:34]>> You should definitely try it out because you if you subscribe to this channel, you'll >> you're doing good. I started thinking more Tennessee because of like how thick everything was. That's probably the thickest one.

[00:09:44]>> That girl that they had at the end there, she sounded like like somebody I would think of. Yeah, >> that girl >> I didn't even realize I was her, but uh I was just listening more. But I feel like >> she like when I think of Tennessee, like that's what I think of.

[00:09:58]>> Yeah.

[00:10:00]>> Also, get your name in the hat for a giveaway of one of my famous language books. Which book exactly? Well, keep watching and you'll see.

[00:10:10]Why would Tik Tok assume that I'm saying Sprite bean roll instead of what I was actually saying, which is Sprite Zero? I get it. Hornbread is a hard accent to understand.

[00:10:21]>> They have horse racing, they have steamboats, they have baseball, and they have bourbon. Good on them, but that's all in the cities. Out here in the mountains, it's a whole other story.

[00:10:29]>> Where's some lingo in the area?

[00:10:31]>> You ain't lying, man. After this is big, too. Come on, man. Like that.

[00:10:35]>> Like, man, come on. What are you doing, man?

[00:10:38]>> Should we go shooting?

[00:10:39]>> Yeah, we're going to go shoot.

[00:10:40]>> It's a small town. You don't have much in it, but you know, it goes off a lot.

[00:10:44]>> What's all that pain going on?

[00:10:45]>> Been working on this place real long time.

[00:10:47]>> Going try to rehab it.

[00:10:48]>> No, man.

[00:10:49]>> It looks like it's beyond hope.

[00:10:50]>> It is beyond help.

[00:10:51]>> Poorest county in America, by the way.

[00:10:53]But the accent that lives in these small rural towns is completely surrounded by beautiful rolling hills, dense forests, sparkling lakes, and the people have a strong connection to the land and traditions.

[00:11:03]>> Y going up and down. You see what I'm saying? He walks straight back and forth. He does not side to side all that bull crap. He goes straight. If you want to build his leg, you build him straight. That's his natural movement.

[00:11:13]And religion, you you keep in your heart and your head. You'll still be do better than average. You know, don't listen to the man.

[00:11:18]>> I think that was about a rooster maybe.

[00:11:21]Well, this actions is also known to accompany bluegrass music.

[00:11:29]>> How's that for a great clue?

[00:11:30]>> Hi, I'm Tuck Ford. I was just having an argument with the bull up road about who has a bigger trailer. It's me.

[00:11:36]>> You ever have a day where you just feel beautiful? I don't know if you can hear him or not, but there's sand hill cranes over there. Sometimes you just got to stop and >> I don't know. I I'm not sure if it's I'm just going to go with Georgia, which I said before, but >> for this one.

[00:11:54]>> Yeah. But you're going to make a guess?

[00:11:57]>> No.

[00:11:58]>> No.

[00:11:58]>> I'm going to be wrong for sure.

[00:12:01]appreciate nature.

[00:12:02]>> Turns out the further south you go, the stronger the accent gets. People say the smooth moonlight magnolia drool is quite recognizable. It's a mix of southern and midwestern tones which came about from contact with the English via commerce in the 18th and 19th century. But it was stigmatized as a improper way to talk.

[00:12:20]So it's actually leveled out a lot since then. Funny how we change our accents to please others. We really shouldn't.

[00:12:26]Anyway, want to learn some words?

[00:12:27]>> We got guitar. Number two, we got water.

[00:12:31]Number three, we got a swamp donkey.

[00:12:34]Number four, we got scadaddle.

[00:12:36]>> Got you there. But not all accents from this area sound the same. And the cities have their own thing.

[00:12:41]>> You can't keep on putting the people down in the hood cuz the people you see on TV today might be just from the hood.

[00:12:48]>> Yes, sir.

[00:12:48]>> And and Sher Square has produced a whole bunch of people from the hood. I can't name them all, but there's gonna be a calendar made and have these people's birthday on there as a calendar of the great people that come out the hood.

[00:13:00]>> Now, I have a question for you. How do you handle tricky accents when you're learning a new language? This can be really challenging.

[00:13:06]>> I'M NOT BEING A JERK. YOU GUYS JUST don't know what it's like to be a young southern man reading a book and be like, "All right, if that's how that's spelled, I've been saying it wrong."

[00:13:15]That is >> Well, that's a good reason right there to make sure that you can also read whatever you are hearing. And if you want to get ahead faster, try reading short stories. Short stories work incredibly well. And the best part is that you can read them in any accent you want. If you're the lucky subscriber who wins a book, you can choose any one of these. We've got 17 languages here. Have you figured out where we are yet?

[00:13:34]>> Yeah, I've been Chicago, Florida, Georgia.

[00:13:36]>> Mhm.

[00:13:38]>> You know, places like that. But I I like city life. I stay in Chicago 5 years, but I worked up there. But >> yeah, >> make big money and spent big money.

[00:13:46]>> Yeah.

[00:13:46]>> No place like home.

[00:13:47]>> Where is home? It's a gorgeous place with unpredictable weather.

[00:13:50]>> Kentucky. Oh, okay.

[00:13:54]>> I forgot about that.

[00:13:54]>> So, where we going, Gary?

[00:13:55]>> What you mean where we going?

[00:13:56]>> You got me spraying out in this hot ass weather.

[00:13:59]>> I don't know what she talking about.

[00:14:00]>> Gary, you know what I'm talking about.

[00:14:01]What you send to my phone?

[00:14:02]>> What I send to you?

[00:14:03]>> Talking about some Hey honey, I'll be there in a minute.

[00:14:06]>> You don't even like honey.

[00:14:07]>> You allergic.

[00:14:08]>> People are saying that when she speaks, you can hear the hood, the country, and southern bell all at once. And that's the kind of interesting accent I just love. But perhaps you've heard it done more like this.

[00:14:19]>> The sky is about to fall out. This is north of it and in rain, but y'all better hold on to them.

[00:14:27]>> This stage is actually really special.

[00:14:28]It has two very specific dialects that are different from everything else in the video. Yeah, I said dialects. Ready for some clues? We're about to totally lose the draw.

[00:14:49]Sometime we started a conversation in French and finish in English. Sometime we got it started in English and finish it in French. We go back and forth.

[00:14:58]>> There's a lot of deep swamp here known as Bayou country. And with the wild swamps come a million of these guys and some fascinating accents. Not a million.

[00:15:08]>> Nobody around here thinks they got an accent. They say, "Look at that guy.

[00:15:11]He's got an accent.

[00:15:12]>> I might buy me."

[00:15:13]>> There was a clue there. Did you see it?

[00:15:15]>> What?

[00:15:16]>> On her shirt.

[00:15:18]>> Oh, New Orleans. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say Louisiana when they said the bayou.

[00:15:21]>> Yeah.

[00:15:23]>> He thinks they got an accent. They say, "Look at that guy. He got an accent."

[00:15:27]>> I might buy me a house somewhere and doing like that there. But I ain't going to never leave from uptown. This is what I know. You know, >> Native Americans have lived here for more than a thousand years. But a long time ago, mid700s, a bunch of French speakers were exiled here from Canada for not bowing down to the crown, the rebels. So now you have these little pockets of French speakers surviving in certain places.

[00:15:48]>> I got a friend who's got a a chicken farm. Great big chicken for him. But when he started out, it wasn't big. No.

[00:15:54]So what he do is he start with just a few chicken and they haul up there and he they he built a black stop road by his house.

[00:16:00]>> Next thing there were German and Irish immigrants, Africans, Caribbeans, Spanish from the Canary Islands. No wonder they speak the way they do.

[00:16:07]>> There was four cents of power.

[00:16:09]>> Wow.

[00:16:09]>> For the black one. The green one, we had to put that in the water to let it kill itself. And later on, we go back and put it on one p. And about three three or four weeks later, we had to come back and turn it. They turn black. What an awesome accent. They can only be Cajuns.

[00:16:27]Now, Cajuns speak a unique kind of French. So, naturally, their English has a spicy Cajun flavor, too. If you call yourself American, you have to know where we are. It is gumbo and Marty Grow country. Good old Louisiana. And you would not get that. But if you're not into spicy, I have some sugar just for you.

[00:16:48]>> I'm an advocate of being proud of where you're from. So, let me just paint you a picture of how country the country is. I know a grown man by the name of Peewee, and nobody knows his government name. I grew up going to tractor pools. This where everybody bring their tractor and see how far they could pull stuff. I used to see how many grasshoppers I could catch in a jar. One time I got 24.

[00:17:06]>> Can you hear the sweetest sound she has?

[00:17:07]Down this end of the world, you still get a deep drool, but it's softer, practically dripping with southern molasses.

[00:17:14]>> When Morgan Wallace said, "Some people like to make a little fun of the way I talk." I'll be dang. I felt that because half of y'all are steady making fun of me and half y'all are weirdly obsessed with the way I talk. I'm Dad Gum Raggy.

[00:17:29]Well, I guess those tear-inking Franciscan monks in the 1500s can be blamed for all the sweetness, but bad news. They say the classic accent has been fading more and more and going in the direction of a California accent.

[00:17:41]Unless you're in this city, they have their own thing going on.

[00:17:44]>> No, like that. You ain't You would understand what I'm saying when I just said that to you. That's like five words in one.

[00:17:52]I ain't going to tell you either. I can't give away the lingo though. That's the crazy part about it. But it's like five words in one. I just told you like >> and I just have to mention a zombie apocalypse somewhere which apparently all goes down right here. So if you want to survive better make the right friends. And with that outrageous clue I >> I don't know. Do you know what it is?

[00:18:12]>> I feel like it definitely has to be on the west coast cuz they said it sat on some it's being replaced with a California accent and California would be close to there. So maybe like >> Yeah, I I don't know. Most of the West Coast ones I really wouldn't classify all that much being southern, but >> yeah, >> I don't know. I'm going to I'm going to say Texas.

[00:18:31]>> You think Texas?

[00:18:32]>> I'm going to go with Texas. Yeah.

[00:18:34]>> Yeah, maybe. I guess cuz there's also that's like on that side kind of more central, but >> Texas or Georgia. I'm going with that.

[00:18:42]Any any comments, Sam? No. Leave me out.

[00:18:45]>> Maybe. Is Nevada considered south or no?

[00:18:48]>> Yeah, it would be. I think >> maybe. I don't know.

[00:18:51]to leave you the answer. We are in the peach state, Georgia. We are almost at the one that's so hard. Maybe two of you will get it. But first, my favorite.

[00:19:03]>> We got water in the in the man trip we was riding. We was in the back of it and that water was 12 of water backed up and it just blowed that coal out just like a explosion, you know.

[00:19:15]>> Go on, rewind that and try again. It's okay. I did it about a million times.

[00:19:18]What an accident. Now, we might just be in Tang country now. It's faster and more nasal. On this man's doorstep is some of the most rugged terrain in the country. Lots of beautiful forests for hiking, mountain biking, white water rafting, and singing. What do you think?

[00:19:32]>> You know what I mean? I tell you from my head down to my toes. Hard part. I'm long.

[00:19:48]In many ways, it's a different America.

[00:19:49]Coal mining is the center point of everything. And if you know what a holler is, then it will be an easy guess. They say things like a hunting and a going. And if it all seems a bit ancient to you, well, you're not wrong.

[00:20:00]It's one of those speech things that came with the immigrants. Can't complain about an accent that helps keep Shakespeare alive in the 21st century, right? But not everyone is so hard to understand. You'd be a kid down there and get in trouble down here. Time you get home about five people done called your mama saying, "Hey, >> time you get there, they are waiting on you." Everybody knows everybody. It's not a good thing sometime.

[00:20:24]>> There's not a lot of thieving and stuff like that now. But there used to be that that stuff's probably >> Yeah, >> that probably come in in the '9s.

[00:20:30]>> Okay.

[00:20:32]>> So, it's gotten better in that sense.

[00:20:33]>> Oh, yeah. It's gotten better and better and better. I've been gone a bunch of a couple time few times and uh I always end up back.

[00:20:40]>> Love it. Let's try a different accent from another part of town.

[00:20:43]>> Back in the war, well, when the m shut down and the economy went down, people left and business uh business shut down at one time could buy anything you wanted in Welch. If you live Welchy because you wanted to all kind of different grocery stores, cash stands, bus terminal. One of the most fascinating things about this legendary >> What did you say?

[00:21:05]>> I said Carolina. Maybe >> South Carolina.

[00:21:07]>> Yeah.

[00:21:08]>> Yeah, that would be what my guess would be because I don't know what we have left.

[00:21:12]>> Yeah. Well, Texas. They haven't done Texas.

[00:21:14]>> I don't think that's Texas. No, >> they haven't done South Carolina. They haven't done >> um >> Nevada if you're going to count that.

[00:21:20]>> I'm just really surprised that there are so many accents that I am finding hard to understand. Like, I'm having to really listen. like I'm getting it for the most part, but some of the, you know, words that they're using and the way, you know, whether it's the twang or those are all >> and I've never even thought about the difference before. And I I personally really noticed the French influence in the Louisiana one.

[00:21:43]>> Yeah.

[00:21:43]>> I feel like the French accent like really stuck out to me personally.

[00:21:50]>> Stand bus.

[00:21:52]>> One of the most fascinating things about this legendary region is the stories.

[00:21:56]They have a tradition of passing down stories in the form of ballads which are stories told through song. They began in Britain and traveled with the settlers to the mountains here and got all these other beautiful influences mixed in.

[00:22:07]Only difference is in this part of the world the stories are all true and this is how they kept their history alive.

[00:22:13]Not in books but in song. Come on guys, pull up your bridges and take a wild guess. What is the accent?

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[00:22:29]>> It's the only state completely within the Appalachian Mountain Region, the mountain state, West Virginia.

[00:22:35]>> How many accents was that now? Seven accents. Don't go away. My spies just told me something I have never heard in my life. By the way, the Cherokee all over this region also had a wonderful tradition of storytelling to pass down their tales and legends, which is music to my ears. Because stories are exactly how we teach languages here at Story Learning. If you've never looked into it, you really should. Learning with stories is a whole new way of learning languages. And we've taught tens of thousands of students a new language using this method. It works because when you learn a language with stories, not rules, the language just sticks in your head more easily, which means you learn faster and with less stress. Anyway, if you're keen to see how it all works, you can get a free tour of the method. Just look for my story learning kit in the video description below. There's a link to click it. Completely free. It will take you to the right place.

[00:23:26]>> One time my grandmother, >> she up the 80s and she want to see that movie Bonnie and Clyde.

[00:23:34]>> Yeah.

[00:23:34]>> What? Another mountain man with a beard.

[00:23:37]Let's find someone else. Cuz I heard this status so diverse you might think you died and went to dialect heaven.

[00:23:43]>> Well, did you see that? the wind uh moving them trees and I see it blow them trees. That's all we done.

[00:23:53]And then boy, look at the river. Look how how high it's standing.

[00:23:58]>> Any clues from this? The amazing thing about this state is each geographic region has a unique dialect, but there's a special one. See if you can identify it.

[00:24:05]>> And a cup of ellic is actually coffee with sugar in it. you know, >> November. Okay, that's uh some folks call them a slingshot, but it's just uh what we would take a forkid branch and cut it off, put rubber bands on it, put a rock in it. But that's a juvember.

[00:24:21]>> To me, when you mama something, you like treat it bad. You like to mess over it.

[00:24:27]You know, you you make a mess of it.

[00:24:30]>> The accent is mostly southern with a few vowel differences. Well, when he got halfway that little ditch on this side >> before he come out of the room.

[00:24:39]>> Well, that word was different. Who are these fascinating folk? The locals and the historians tell an incredible story of a mystery out here that has never ever been solved. A mystery that led to this accent.

[00:24:50]>> Oh, we're always going to be together and then we she'll get behind me and we'll walk in the same PATH TOGETHER.

[00:24:58]IN 1584, about 100 English people were left stranded on an island just off the coast, and they created a colony. There were big clashes with the indigenous people. So, when the rescue ship finally came, they went back to England. All except 15 of them who were left behind.

[00:25:12]When the ship returned 3 years later to pick them up, the colony had completely vanished. And all that was left was the bones of just one person and a mysterious message carved on a post.

[00:25:23]It's one of the great legends of American history. We got our own little slang like coffee. I may say coffee sometime. I may say Ell which probably half of you don't know what Ell is coffee. Everybody's your hey my cousin.

[00:25:37]Everybody's your cousin. And the first thing you ask somebody when you see them is who's your people?

[00:25:44]>> I'm going to go with South Carolina on this last one.

[00:25:48]>> So what? We haven't done South Carolina, Florida, Texas.

[00:25:51]>> I don't think we're going to do that because there's only like 30 seconds left in the video. Yeah, but I'm just trying to think of like what's left of the that we have. Yeah.

[00:25:58]>> Running on the clock here, Samantha.

[00:25:59]>> Yeah, I guess let's just go to South Carolina cuz I said that one before.

[00:26:03]>> You know, we got to find out who your people is. Cousins makes dozens, but not this cousin. I don't want none of my peeps.

[00:26:09]>> More than a century later, the mixed race descendants were discovered speaking English with a lot of words mixed in from various tribal languages.

[00:26:17]Today, they speak English similarly to the rest of the region, but with their own interesting little twists. It's quite funny that that y'all ain't never heard of some of the words that we say like pie daddy jack. I call my little boy Daddy Rab. Y'all might not know what that means, but it's just something we say.

[00:26:35]>> It's the one of a kind accent of the Lumbi tribe of North Carolina. I can't wait to hear what your favorite of all these accents is, who you are hooked on now, and when your next trip down the Mississippi is going to be. Meanwhile, you can go on a different kind of trip in this video right over here.

[00:26:51]I would have never guessed North Carolina. I didn't know. I thought South was South from South Carolina. But >> so it's funny. So, ironically enough, when they did West Virginia, the reason why I thought that was North or South Carolina was because my friend's husband is from North or South Carolina and it kind of sounded like him.

[00:27:08]>> And then North or West Virginia is right beside North Carolina. He's actually from North Carolina. So, there's kind of I guess maybe even some similarities within that. But yeah, >> really crazy. I didn't realize that there were so many differing accents, but the >> way they came to be, I found was very interesting, which makes sense obviously that there's a lot of history that went into the United States and how, you know, it came to be as what it is today >> and where those accents would have came from, but before this video, I would have never put two and two together. So, I found it really informative.

[00:27:39]>> Yeah. And you don't really notice the difference until you put them like back to back and you can really compare them and and hear the difference. But, I found it very informative as well. To me, a southern accent was always just like a southern accent.

[00:27:51]>> Clearly not.

[00:27:51]>> I was very wrong.

[00:27:52]>> All right, guys. Let us know uh how you did on the test. I think I did okay. I think I did reasonably well considering I am from Canada.

[00:27:59]>> Way better than I did. I was like, I don't know any of these.

[00:28:02]>> So, uh or I we don't live in Canada anymore. We grew up in Canada. So, um like you said, that's why everything kind of sounds south, right?

[00:28:08]>> But, uh let us know if you guys are from any of these places, if you want to add anyformational insights and any other videos that might be similar. Other than that, just got to have a great day and we'll see you on our next video.

[00:28:18]>> Thanks for watching, guys.