Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED
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Published 2021-01-21
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:
www.americandialect.org/
Dictionary of American Regional English and Field Recordings:
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAmerLangs
Indigenous North American accents:
www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/03/06/how-rez-a…
www.babbel.com/en/magazine/native-american-accents
indigenousaccents.info.yorku.ca/resources/
African American Language:
oraal.uoregon.edu/
New York Latino English:
qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~mnewman/Site/NYLE.html
Appalachian English
artsandsciences.sc.edu/appalachianenglish/
North Carolina accent and dialect variation:
talkintarheel.com/
Learning the tools and skills needed to be good at teaching or doing accents:
ktspeechwork.org/
Language variation and education:
charityhudleymallinson.com/resources/secondaryengl…
Language discrimination and racism:
www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-statement-ra…
Other sources for accents:
www.dialectsarchive.com/
www.pinterest.com/dialectcoaches/_created/
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/sohp
storycorps.org/
accent.gmu.edu/
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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All Comments (21)
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Everyone in America: “I don’t have an accent.”
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this dude is carrying wired.
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I didn't expect this vid to be so impressive. This guy is an accent wizard.
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I've never seen an accent video that takes ethnicity, race, cultural and regional differences into consideration. Thank you for that!
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Dudes like "I'm not about to imitate black people, allow my black friends do it"
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I find it SOOOO trippy how he just shifts accents like it’s nothing
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Can you do a series like this but for decades as well? Like how accents have sort of changed over the years. Even the 80s and 90s, which weren’t super long ago, have such different accents
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HOLY COW! As a military brat growing up all across America and then as an airline pilot listening to people all across America I am SO IMPRESSED with your linguistic skills. Many times, I have had to ‘translate’ dialog in a movie featuring regional accents to friends and family who ask how can I understand. I can’t wait for Part Two.
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when Wired is running low on views Wired: honey where's my Eric Singer
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I feel like I attended an expensive and professional class for free.
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As a Scot, I was particularly taken with the Okracoke Accent. The western isles accents here have some real twists in them too; a delight to listen to. It was lovely to hear that connection in the Okracoke speech. Like meeting distant family.
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Watching him switch between accents so smoothly is like watching a magic trick...
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His ability to switch accents in the middle of a sentence truly is a testament to his talent. Unbelievable.
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The way he effortlessly shifts his accent to whatever accent he is discussing is making my brain jumpy.
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It was incredibly interesting. I need to rewatch the video many times because as non-english speaker it's really hard to understand the differences between accents.
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This was sick! Not only super fun and interesting to hear someone so in tune with linguistics all across North America, but the history of how some of these accents came to be was fascinating
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It's so impressive how he immediately jumps between accents
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I am continously forgetting how his voice originally sounds
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His southern Georgia accent is incredible
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love how intricately and in-depth this video was produced. thanks for all the expert references. love it.
