A Quick Lesson on Southern Linguistics

23 thoughts on “A Quick Lesson on Southern Linguistics”

1. Those closed captions. Ha ha!

2. I guess Texas isnt part of the south?

3. This is fascinating! I was born and raised and in Texas and never knew where our accents actually came from. Thanks for posting this video!

4. I love her voice so much, and the seamless transitions between accents is so amazing 😍 I keep coming back just to listen to her 😁

5. Ok but as person who’s learned English as a second language being able to understand and perceive the different accents….it made me really happy

6. I was born and raised in the south and I've been saying that Southern accents sound like British accents all my life. Everyone always laughed, glad to know I was right.

7. I've lived just outside of New Orleans my whole life (save for a few months after Katrina) and yet I can't always hear my accent clearly. It's usually very subtle to me, if even noticeable at all. I think this probably has something to do with the various intermingling accents that I grew up hearing in my town, from the classic Kuntry™ sound to the previously mentioned, more New York-type accent and even some sounds in between. She does have a point about the Cajun accent. You gotta get real into some parts the city or near the bayou to hear it, but it's definitely prominent.

8. Ever since I discovered this video and Northerners make fun of my accent, I just use facts from this video and pull it up to back up what I say lol

9. EDUCATIONAL AND AMAZING 🙌🏽

10. I'm southern, have lived in the south my entire life, and only left once to go to Europe, and my accent is so weak. I don't even know what I sound like because I have no drawl. I don't understand. Where is my accent!? 😂 I drink too much sweet tea for this!

11. Interesting,, but there are some that are just ignorant nonetheless. The BBQ is good though.

12. Thank you for this video!  I have a hard time getting anyone I know in the US to believe me when I say that Southerners speak the way we doin a lot of cases is because of the English ancestors. 🙂

13. Very impressive transition!

14. I love the southern accent. Wish I had one but I’m English 😂

15. this is heinous bullshit. first off…most people dont realize that most american colonists came from britain???

    secondly, the modern british accent was adopted in the mid-late 18th century. brits and their american colonists spoke in an accent that more closely resembled today's standard american accent than british accent for almost the entire colonial period.

16. You nailed it Sista!

17. "Are you from New York?"
    "Nah, I'm from New Orleans."
    "Why?"

18. This woman has a gift.

19. ALL SOUTHERNERS-BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE AND HOW YOU SPEAK!!! I KNOW I AM!

20. So you're telling me. If I just talk faster, I'll sound british. sweet

21. The Tidewater accent was more southern Suffolk accents, but that's only because Tidewater is really hard to do and hard to come by these days. Everything else was amazingly seamless. There are so many Southern accents, not just the drawl.

22. Peggy a devil.

23. So I'm from Louisiana. Up north.
    We don't sound like 1:15 here. It's closer to normal or Texas than anything.
    And nobody says new Orleans as norlins here. Its new orlins. Idk how NOLA people say it but I've never heard that pronunciation anywhere I've been

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