Can Swedes Understand Southern Accents - Y'all Be the Judge!

[00:00:10]Hello, it's me Ricky together with >> Carol >> and welcome back for another reaction.

[00:00:15]>> Mhm.

[00:00:16]>> And we're going to find out seven southern US accents you won't understand.

[00:00:22]>> That's funny.

[00:00:23]>> I think I would understand most of them, but maybe not seven. I mean, here in Sweden, u I'm I'm from the middle Sweden and we talk a lot different than you do down here.

[00:00:36]>> Yeah.

[00:00:37]>> Uh so when we moved here in a very small small town, I have problems with the older generation to hear what they say.

[00:00:47]So I guess it's the same here.

[00:00:49]>> I I do believe so. But I think that it could go if I go deep deep deep >> in the Swedish Scania accent or dialect as we call it in Sweden, >> I will have issues too because uh it's it's deep.

[00:01:08]>> When it's deep, it's deep. Just saying.

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[00:01:31]All right, let's find out all about the deep southern accents.

[00:01:37]>> Yeah.

[00:01:38]>> South and decide to stop for gas, you might see some start over.

[00:01:42]>> Yeah. 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.

[00:01:51]>> This ain't the same thing you hear every single day. You turn on your radio.

[00:02:01]>> 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.

[00:02:15]Let's find out.

[00:02:19]>> 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.

[00:02:30]>> Well, isn't that an amazing accent? I've been told the biggest >> Wow, I love the way she talk. too.

[00:02:37]>> Uh, it was such a >> Can you guess?

[00:02:39]>> Uh, hold on.

[00:02:40]>> I have no idea.

[00:02:41]>> Their 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.

[00:02:51]>> Well, isn't that an amazing accent?

[00:02:54]>> I I have no idea if I'm taken down.

[00:02:56]Maybe Oklahoma.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah, I have. I've been told the biggest difference between the southern accents is that they either speak with a southern drool or a southern twang.

[00:03:07]Anyone know the difference?

[00:03:08]>> 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.

[00:03:16]>> That that sounds like uh >> Texan.

[00:03:19]>> Huh?

[00:03:19]>> Texan.

[00:03:20]>> Yeah. But um the singer um hurt >> Johnny Cash a little bit like Tony Cash.

[00:03:29]>> Yeah, maybe. Yeah.

[00:03:32]>> Property right over there.

[00:03:33]>> 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.

[00:03:45]>> Well, here we have a classic southern draw. 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.

[00:03:55]This accent goes all the way back to the ScotsIrish settlers. And then plantation life had a huge impact on the evolution.

[00:04:01]You hear some strong African-American sounds in there, too.

[00:04:03]>> Why I talk the way I do? Because the good Lord blessed me with this accent. I like it. I like it just fine.

[00:04:09]>> Amazing. I love it.

[00:04:10]>> 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. Do y'all not realize how silly y'all look accusing me of faking an accent? Just cuz I have all my teeth in my head and I'm not married my brother doesn't mean I can't qualify for a southern accent.

[00:04:27]>> But where are we exactly? Well, let's get out of the woods for the last clue.

[00:04:31]>> I got a granddaddy and a mama and a granny and a papa. I got all They couldn't ever have the same.

[00:04:38]>> You got them all covered, huh?

[00:04:39]>> 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 because I did donuts and the pastor of my alt to my car and it caught on fire.

[00:04:56]>> Here comes a 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.

[00:05:04]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.

[00:05:12]Okay.

[00:05:12]>> He liked in in the field a while, but he played music in slave time. Had him and old man Mila J.

[00:05:29]>> 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.

[00:05:40]Seriously, music has superpowers when it comes to preserving the way people speak.

[00:05:43]>> Okay. So, the first one that the first woman that talked was Alabama. And I I didn't I didn't hear the I didn't hear the Alabama.

[00:05:53]>> But you say that you can hear the difference from your hometown and just a couple of miles away you or blocks away.

[00:06:02]>> The difference between my hometown and where we live now. I There's a difference.

[00:06:06]>> Yeah. But I can't hear it, but he can.

[00:06:08]So I guess it's the same here. Alabama.

[00:06:11]>> So I'm going to say Oklahoma now because no >> no I think this is >> like >> Marty Gro that's >> Louisiana.

[00:06:21]>> So yeah Louisiana I don't know. You can probably name a few legends yourself. Just like Alabama.

[00:06:28]You get that deep south rhythm even in speaking.

[00:06:30]>> I don't care about the budget. I'm going to go out. I'm going to have a good time. I'm going to travel. If the money's in the account, the bills are paid. We're doing it. All right.

[00:06:38]>> 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.

[00:06:46]>> Of course, like all over the South, there is more than one way to talk.

[00:06:50]>> 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, the one the one like they do on Steel Magnolia. Drives me crazy.

[00:07:01]>> I AM PLEASANT. I JUST SAW A DRUM EATING THIS morning at THE PIGGLY WIGGLY AND I SMILED. 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.

[00:07:16]>> And you'll hear it down in Mississippi.

[00:07:19]>> Mississippi. Don't buy yourself a blues harp. This night is about to catch.

[00:07:23]>> Now, I feel like I should have gotten that.

[00:07:26]>> Yeah, but I am not that good at all the states and and and what belongs to the south and so sorry.

[00:07:34]I wanted this kind of pisses me off.

[00:07:36]Completely forgot Mississippi >> when the old guy start singing in the beginning. Come on. That's Mississippi.

[00:07:42]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:07:42]>> So, okay. Oh my days.

[00:07:44]>> But I love this. I love it.

[00:07:46]>> Yeah.

[00:07:47]>> Fire.

[00:07:51]>> We're all Ken somewhere, ain't we, Jean?

[00:07:53]>> Yeah.

[00:07:53]>> A long line. Yeah. I'd say me and you are too on the light side.

[00:07:57]>> 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 Kim you are.

[00:08:03]>> Well K on your mom on your grandma. See >> your accent comes from the people who you hear speak it 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.

[00:08:21]>> Most of this mind your own business and let everybody else mind their business.

[00:08:25]You know what I'm saying? We left alone.

[00:08:28]Let us do our thing. We let you do your thing.

[00:08:30]>> This place has the most documented caves in the US. More than 8,000 of them.

[00:08:34]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 want to fetch your whiskey glass while you wait. Meanwhile, here is a guy who prefers the water side.

[00:08:48]>> I've been a lot of places when I was in the Marine Corps. by a gosh and drove a truck and I ain't never been nowhere that didn't want to come back. Oh, I love this.

[00:08:57]>> I It's got to be Texas.

[00:08:58]>> It has to be Texas >> cuz I don't I don't know. I'm a Swede for the love.

[00:09:02]>> Yeah, exactly. We We don't know anything. But I'm guessing I'm going to guess like it. We don't live no wars.

[00:09:08]>> I me and a friend of mine, we we garden good bit. Plant a lot of sweet corn to sellers.

[00:09:16]>> Ters.

[00:09:17]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?

[00:09:24]>> 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 hoop-doo man.

[00:09:33]>> But if you want to hear the best accent of all, how about we see a guy about some moonshine. 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.

[00:09:51]>> If you haven't guessed yet, there's probably no hope. But try this. I was told to listen for a shh sound on the s's. Should we see if it's true?

[00:10:00]>> 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.

[00:10:07]>> Ah, it's definitely true. And now you know where we've been this whole time.

[00:10:11]>> That is Tennessee. Another fun sound is the click of these buttons. You should definitely try it out because you >> I I'm going to be honest with you. I had no idea that >> it's Oh, we're going to get so much. We >> But I mean, we are from Sweden, guys.

[00:10:27]>> Don't Don't mind the stupid Sweding accent in the deep south.

[00:10:34]because I mean we we can't do it because Tennessee is >> I know absolutely nothing about Tennessee to be honest.

[00:10:43]>> No, I mean for us is some >> I'm going to stop guessing.

[00:10:46]>> Right. Yeah. Exactly. We are going to stop meddling with this because we don't know anything about this.

[00:10:53]>> Sorry for that.

[00:10:54]>> Yeah. We're going to watch the video and don't mind the so don't don't don't we just completely trash this video for 6 minutes and 35 seconds. So just don't don't mind the dumb sweets here.

[00:11:07]>> If you subscribe to this channel, you'll 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.

[00:11:18]>> Okay. 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. Cornbread is a hard accent to understand.

[00:11:31]>> 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.

[00:11:39]>> What's some lingo in the area?

[00:11:40]>> You ain't w man after this is big, too.

[00:11:43]>> Come on, man. Like that.

[00:11:45]>> Like, man, come on. What are you doing, man?

[00:11:48]>> Should we go shooting? Yeah, we're going to go shoot.

[00:11:50]>> It's a small town. You don't have much in it, but you know, it does offer a lot.

[00:11:53]>> What's all that pain going on?

[00:11:55]>> Been working on this place real long time.

[00:11:57]>> Going try to rehab it.

[00:11:58]>> No, >> it looks like it's beyond hope.

[00:12:00]>> It is beyond help.

[00:12:01]>> Poorest county in America, by the way.

[00:12:03]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.

[00:12:12]>> You already going up and down. You see what I'm saying? He walks straight back and forth. He does not go side to side on that bull crap. He go straight. If you want to build his leg, you build him straight. That's his natural movement.

[00:12:22]>> And religion, you you keep in your heart and your head, you still do better than average, you know. Don't listen to the man.

[00:12:28]>> I think that was about a rooster, maybe.

[00:12:31]Well, this action is also known to accompany bluegrass music.

[00:12:38]>> How's that for a great clue?

[00:12:40]>> Hi, I'm Ted Ford. I was just having an argument with the bull up road about who has a bigger trailer. It's me. You ever have a day where you just feel beautiful? I don't know if you can hear them or not, but there's sand hill cranes over there. Sometimes you just got to stop and appreciate nature.

[00:12:59]>> 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.

[00:13:17]So it's actually leveled out a lot since then. Funny how we change our accents to please others. We really shouldn't.

[00:13:23]Anyway, want to learn some words?

[00:13:25]>> We got guitar. Number two, we got water.

[00:13:29]Number three, we got a swamp donkey.

[00:13:32]Number four, we got scadaddle.

[00:13:35]>> Not all accents from this area sound the same, and the cities have their own thing. You can't keep >> Hold on. I can't I can't Swamp donkey.

[00:13:49]>> Yeah, >> it's a beard.

[00:13:51]>> Yeah, >> they call it swamp donkey.

[00:13:52]>> Yeah.

[00:13:54]>> Putting the people down in the hood cuz the people you see on TV today might be just from the hood.

[00:13:59]>> Yes, sir.

[00:13:59]>> And and Shepherd Square has produced a whole bunch of people from the hood. I can't name them all, but there's going to be a calendar made and have these people's birthday on there as a calendar of the great people that come out the hood.

[00:14:11]>> 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.

[00:14:17]>> 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."

[00:14:26]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 got 17 languages here. Have you figured out where we are yet?

[00:14:45]>> I've been in Chicago, Florida, Georgia.

[00:14:47]>> Mhm.

[00:14:48]>> You know, places like that. I I didn't like city life. I stayed in Chicago 5 years, but I worked up there. But >> yeah, >> make big money, spent big money.

[00:14:57]>> Yeah, >> man. No place like home.

[00:14:58]>> Where is home? It's a gorgeous place with unpredictable weather. Kentucky.

[00:15:04]>> Wow.

[00:15:05]>> Yeah, we're not.

[00:15:05]>> So, where we going, Gary?

[00:15:06]>> What you mean where we going? You got me spraying out in this hot ass weather.

[00:15:10]>> I don't know what she talking about.

[00:15:11]>> Gary, you know what I'm talking about.

[00:15:12]What you sent to my phone?

[00:15:13]>> What' I send to you?

[00:15:14]>> Talking about some Hey honey, I'll be there in a minute.

[00:15:17]>> You don't even like honey.

[00:15:18]>> You allergic.

[00:15:19]>> 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.

[00:15:30]>> The sky is about to fall out. This is north of it and in rain. But you better hold on to them.

[00:15:38]>> This stage is actually really special.

[00:15:39]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.

[00:16:00]>> Sometime we started a conversation in French and finish in English. Sometime we get it started in English and finish it in French. We go back and forth.

[00:16:09]>> There's a lot of deep swamp bayou country. And with the wild swamps come a million of these guys.

[00:16:16]>> Now it got to be Louisiana and some fascinating accents. Not a million.

[00:16:21]>> Nobody around here thinks they got an accent. They say, "Look at that guy. He got an accent.

[00:16:25]>> 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.

[00:16:46]>> I got a friend who's got a a chicken farm. Great big chicken farm. But when he started out, it wasn't big. No. So what he do is he start with just a few chicken and they haul up there and he they built a black stop road by his house. Next thing they were, German and Irish immigrants, Africans, Caribbeans, Spanish from the Canary Islands. No wonder they speak the way they do.

[00:17:05]>> There was four cents a pound.

[00:17:07]>> Wow.

[00:17:07]>> For the black one.

[00:17:09]>> The great 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 power and about three three or four weeks later we had to come back and turn it. They turn black.

[00:17:23]>> What an awesome accent. They can only be >> I had a hint of Spanish or Yeah. Cajun speak a unique kind of French. So >> I think that he had a bit of Spanish and we need to talk too. So that was that was just a mishmash in my head.

[00:17:37]>> But naturally their English has a spicy Cajun flavor too. If you call yourself American, you have to know where we are.

[00:17:43]It is gumbo and mardigra country. Good old Louisiana. You would not get that.

[00:17:49]But if you're not into spicy, I have some sugar just for you.

[00:17:54]>> Okay.

[00:17:55]>> 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.

[00:18:13]>> Can you hear the sweetest sound she has down this end of the world? You still get a deep drool, but it's softer, practically dripping with southern molasses.

[00:18:22]>> I got to tell you, this guy is amazing. Yeah, absolutely.

[00:18:28]>> He can explain it so good. I am >> I'm a bit jealous.

[00:18:33]>> Morgan Wallace said, "Some people like to make a little fun of the way I talk."

[00:18:38]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. Dad gum raggedy.

[00:18:48]>> Well, I guess those tearrinking 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.

[00:18:59]Unless you're in this city, they have their own thing going on.

[00:19:04]>> 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.

[00:19:11]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, you better make the right friends. And with that outrageous clue, I shall 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.

[00:19:38]>> 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.

[00:19:51]>> Go rewind that and try again. It's okay.

[00:19:52]Hey, I did it about a million times.

[00:19:54]What an accent. Now, we might just be in twang country now. It's faster and more nasal. On this man's doorstep is some of the most rugged terrain in the country.

[00:20:02]Lots of beautiful forests for hiking, mountain biking, white water rafting, and >> singing. What do you think?

[00:20:08]>> You know what I mean? I tell you happy from my head down to my toes.

[00:20:15]>> I'm long long.

[00:20:23]>> In many ways, it's a different America.

[00:20:25]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.

[00:20:36]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 >> I think it's the same where Boris Gump is cuz he he's using a lot of aid. Yeah, I'm >> too understand.

[00:20:55]>> You'd be a kid down there and get in trouble down here time you get home about five people then called your mama saying hey >> time you get there they are waiting on you. Everybody knows everybody. It's not a good thing sometime.

[00:21:08]There's not a lot of thieving and stuff like that now, but there used to be that that stuff's probably Yeah, >> that place come in in the '9s.

[00:21:14]>> Okay.

[00:21:16]>> So, it's gotten better in that sense.

[00:21:17]>> Oh, yeah. It's gotten better and better and better. I've been gone a bunch of a couple time a few times and uh I always end up back.

[00:21:24]>> Love it. Let's try a different accent from another part of town >> back in the war. Well, when the mine shut down, the country and the economy went down, people left and everything.

[00:21:33]Business uh business shut down at one time could buy anything you wanted here in Welch. If you live Welchy because you wanted to all kind of different grocery stores, cast stands, bus terminal.

[00:21:46]>> One of the most fascinating things about this legendary region is the stories.

[00:21:50]They have a tradition of passing down stories in the form of ballads, which are stories told through song. It began in Britain and traveled with the settlers to the mountains here and got all these other beautiful influences mixed in. Only difference is in this part of the world the stories are all true and this is how they kept their history alive. Not in books but in song.

[00:22:10]Come on guys, pull up your bridges and take a wild guess. What is the accent?

[00:22:13]>> Get on the water and enjoy a high-tech scavenger hunt. Mate is home to over 50 geocaching sites that are only reachable by river. There's so many things to experience here in Mate1 that you'll need more than one day to do it. It's the only state completely within the Appalachian Mountain region. The mountain state, West Virginia. How many accents was that? 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. This is hard.

[00:22:42]>> This is This is impossible.

[00:22:44]>> This is really hard.

[00:22:45]>> So, basically, I didn't know West Virginia was counted as southern state either. So, >> me either. I am I'm sorry about everything I'm saying.

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[00:23:32]>> Wow. Cool stuff.

[00:23:34]>> Morning.

[00:23:35]>> Forget one time. My grandmother, she had up the 80s and she want to see that movie Bonnie and Clyde.

[00:23:44]>> Yeah.

[00:23:44]>> What?

[00:23:44]>> That's going to be me when I get home from Texas.

[00:23:48]>> Another mountain man with a beard. Let's find someone else cuz I heard this status so diverse you might think you died and went to dialect heaven.

[00:23:56]>> Well, did you see that the wind uh moving them trees and I see it blow them trees? That's all it done.

[00:24:06]And then boy, look at the river. Look how how high it standing.

[00:24:11]>> 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. And a cup of elic is actually sugar coffee with sugar in it. You know, >> okay, that's u some folks call them a slingshot, but it's just what we would take a forkid branch and cut it off, put rubber bands on it, put a rock in it.

[00:24:33]But that's a juvember.

[00:24:34]>> To me, when you mama something, you like treat it bad. You like mess over it, you know? You you make a mess of it.

[00:24:43]>> The accent is mostly southern with a few vowel differences. Well, when he got halfway, that little ditch on this side >> come out of the room.

[00:24:53]>> Well, that word was different. So, 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.

[00:25:03]>> Oh, we're always going to be together and then we going she'll get behind me and we'll walk in the same path together.

[00:25:12]>> 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.

[00:25:25]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.

[00:25:36]It's one of the great legends of American history.

[00:25:39]>> We got our own little slang like coffee.

[00:25:42]I may say coffee sometime. Mama may say Ell which probably half of you don't know what Ell is coffee everybody's your hey my cousin everybody's your cousin >> and the first thing you ask somebody when you see them is who's your people 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 >> more than a century later the mixed race descendants were discovered speaking English with a lot of words mixed in from various tribal languages today they speak English similarly to the rest of the region, but with their own interesting little twists.

[00:26:17]>> 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.

[00:26:30]>> 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 what 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.

[00:26:46]>> So, it says NC on her uh Tik Tok and I knew there was Yeah. But >> but it doesn't really matter because uh one of the most enjoyable videos I've seen in a very very long time.

[00:26:59]>> I love the accents. I really love them.

[00:27:04]For me it's uh it's for me it's the sameish sound. Uh of course it is. But um >> I think I I think for for us there's like two or three difference.

[00:27:18]>> Yeah. Maybe >> maybe there's three different ones. For you guys might be seven and eight maybe.

[00:27:24]>> Uh but it all depends because we're for us in Sweden. I mean, like I said, uh if I go to my town, which is about 40 minutes away from here, there is a change in the dialect to where we live now.

[00:27:38]>> And if we just go a bit more south uh north where we pick up our groceries, that's a different dialect. And that is just 40 minutes a bit north.

[00:27:46]>> And between us, it's a huge difference when we talk.

[00:27:50]>> Yeah. There's a huge difference in everything. But the funny thing is that you live down here for so long now and you could I need to stop talking the way I'm talking because I can't help it.

[00:28:00]>> You are when you are in Texas, you are going to be >> I can't help so influencing.

[00:28:06]>> I can't help myself because I feel like I'm going down here. I can't I can't help it. So I'm not doing this on purpose.

[00:28:13]>> No, it's not to offend or anything.

[00:28:16]>> It's just a easy >> It's a easy flowing accent.

[00:28:20]>> Oh yeah, it is. I love it. I love it.

[00:28:22]Exactly. So, >> I wish I could just talk like that forever and just not go back to Never mind that.

[00:28:29]>> Uh, I'm just going to say this again.

[00:28:31]One of the most enjoyable videos. Such a >> well-made video and I highly enjoyed it.

[00:28:37]One of the best videos. So, yeah. And what did you learn? If there's anything else, uh, what kind of accent do you have? Is it does it have a name? Uh, does it have a heritage? Let us know in the comments. We would love to read your story.

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