Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik and a host of other linguists and language experts (Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, and Kalina Newmark), take a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the country.
Host: Erik Singer
Director: Alice Roth
Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer
Director of Photography Charlie Jordan
Production Manager: Morgan Winters
Editor: Brady Jackson and Justin Sloan
Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio
Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti
Linguists & Language Experts: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark
Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn
NYC accent demonstration courtesy of La Tasha Stephens
Latinx Light L demonstration courtesy of International Dialects of English Archive
DC accent demonstration courtesy of International Dialects of English Archive
North Carolina accent demonstrations courtesy of The Language & Life Project
Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
Special thanks to:
Reg Charging
Zachary Cooper
Justin McBride
Eliza Simpson
James N. Stanford
Pamela Vanderway
Nacole Walker
Dr. Walt Wolfram
International Dialects of English Archive
The Language & Life Project
Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
The American Dialect Society:
https://www.americandialect.org/
Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAmerLangs
Indigenous North American accents:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/03/06/how-rez-accents-strengthen-native-identity/
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/native-american-accents
https://indigenousaccents.info.yorku.ca/resources/
African American Language:
https://oraal.uoregon.edu/
New York Latino English:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/Site/NYLE.html
Appalachian English
https://artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/
North Carolina accent and dialect variation:
https://talkintarheel.com/
Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:
http://ktspeechwork.org
Language variation and education:
https://charityhudleymallinson.com/resources/secondaryenglish/
Language discrimination and racism:
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-statement-race
Other sources for accents:
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/
https://www.pinterest.com/dialectcoaches/_created/
https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/sohp
https://storycorps.org/
http://accent.gmu.edu/
https://visualaccentdialectarchive.com//
00:00 – Intro
02:10 – Pilgrims
02:45 – Boston
2:58 – Rhode Island
3:25 – New York City
4:31 – African American English Varieties
7:17 – New York Latino English
8:26 – The On Line
9:27 – DC
10:24 – Pittsburgh
10:55 – Virginia
11:27 – North Carolina
12:00 – Appalachia
13:40 – The Outer Banks
15:19 – Lumbee English
16:02 – “General American”
16:45 – Gullah / Geechee Language & Accent
19:20 – Piney Woods Belt
21:21 – Outro
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The more that I listen to him switching accents back and forth, the more I don’t remember how I say anything. 😂
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This is interesting
, but that Baltimore accent sure was goofy and exaggerated 😂
His flawless accent changing reminds me of the Reggie Watts TED Talk
I love this.
Hightiders sound very much like the people in the Maritimes in Canada.
It saddens me that high speed travel is flattening all accents. We’re all going to be speaking with a west coast accent in three generations
That was the least informative thing about DC AAE accents you could’ve put 💔 we drop our I’s to a sounds, thats the most distinguishable feature
One minute in and I’ve already gotten three Capital One ads. I hate Capital One and I’m giving up on watching Wired.
Africans were sold by their own people not stolen and put on boats. This is a fallacy and not correct so before you put a video on your page even if you’re not the one saying it you might want to do research on the validity of some statements
I can tell ya, East Anglia and Torquey and Bournemouth sound WAY different…
Same in Canada. There is vast vast various accents. So when someone says a Canadian says ABOOT for ABOUT. Ha I just roll eyes and say ABAWT!!! 🎙️🎤🎙️🎤🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️
Nope: ha. “The Canadian” accent. Is way too broad a statement 😅because when you are in TARANTO Toronto compared to Alberta or West Coast or Prairies or Quebec or Montreal or New Foundland or the Indigenous communities vast across the country, or New Brunswick, there is no such thing as a “Canadian” accent just like there is no such thing as “American” accents. As we all know it’s VAST. Nuanced. 👐🏼✨🎙️🎙️🎙️
Good video. “E” for effort. There’s also the Jewish/Yiddish influence on the NYC, Long Island or Jersey accent.
New York itself has like 3 different accents based on area
If you want to hear a genuine South Carolina Midlands accent, check out the YouTube channel “Meme’s recipes.” It’s the accent I grew up with.
Latin x 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
It’s confusing when you illustrate an accent with a fictional character played by an English person. Maybe Blanche Dubois is non-rhotic because she’s being played by an Englishwoman who is non-rhotic.
@8:05 the use of Latinx really dates this video.
watched the whole thing to see california… it never came. its just east usa