How to Speak with a Southern Accent | American English

There are different dialects of the southern accent. Most of our words come from the Queens English of 1800 during Queen Victoria's reign unless you're talking about the south mountain dialect the that something completely different.

Excellent!!

I could do a 2 hour video on southern accents and different dialects from the south I loved the southern accents since I was a kid I was actually born in Michigan but moved to Tennessee when I was 9 and I loved the way they talked but most of us southerners create our own dialects within the accent which is why it makes is so diverse I still love this video as you taught the basic vowel sounds but as a Tennessean we all kind of combine words to create words sometimes blending 3 or more words to sound like one word people say we are mumbling if they are not used to hearing it

This sounds like AVE

And a southerner can always tell the difference between a real southern accent and a fake one. Us southerners have our own sayings and words and it's really hard to imitate unless you've spent alot of time in the south. Also, southern accents will vary from state to state. Someone in Mississippi or Louisiana with a thick drawl won't sound exactly like someone from Virginia or North Carolina where it's more subtle.

In my hometown in southeast Louisiana, we don't say gui or gee tar, we say git tar--accent on the first syllable.

If u ever care to learn the pittsburgh accent.. u HAVE TO INCLUDE THE TERM YINZ... and tahhhnwm. We luve the steelers in rahnd tahnd haha

So tough so many southern accents and dialects but these are all good elements in them all

This is excellent I have a lot of education on this but needed a refresher highly extensive highly recommending!! Ty! About to have an audition ty!!

Sorry but doesn’t tell you how to speak Southern. To speak with a Southern accent, don’t use anything below your neck. Forget you have lungs and a diaphragm.
Then just pronounce the words as written. 😊

Yoooo born and raised in Mississippi (unfortunately) I’m only a few minutes in and this is fascinating! I’m “Deep South” and have the drawl. You’re breaking it down in a scientific way then just nailing the pronunciation, great job!

Edit: this is legit mind blowing I talk so much like this when I stop to think about it

In south Mississippi we say yeller, not yellu, and we say feller, winder not window, and piller not pillow

There are widely varying accents even within a state. I'm from Mississippi. I think there are at least five distinctive Mississippi accents. I grew up in Oxford and my family had more of the Gone with the Wind accent. When we would go to visit relatives in Northeast Mississippi I would sometimes struggle to understand them. The accents down near the coast are also different. The closer you get to Louisiana the more creole influence creeps in. I'm sure every state in the country has similar phenomena.

They turn one syllable words into multi-syllable words.

I’m from Louisiana and we have a lot of accents in this one state.

The top of the boot sounds different from the bottom of the boot. Further south you go, the more accents you will hear. I love them all 😂.

I’m 47 Spent my whole life
In South Georgia. I’ve been in Battle Creek Mi 2 years. Last week I was fishing. A guy hollered at me from the bank. Where is the boat ramp? I thought I said right down there. He heard rightdowndare and repeated it to me and laughed. I apologized and said sorry. I ain’t from here

I know you did not generalize SEVERAL distinct accents from all over the South. I’m dissapointed. There are literally 2 different “Southern” accents in Texas alone. Smh. 🙄

My is not really "mah" though. Its hard to explain and I'm a native speaker. It's close to the vowel sound in "mat" (with a neutral American accent). Say the word "mat" but don't pronounce the t.

are you going to do a video on the accent on other parts of the country?

Yall, this is bullshit.

I’m from Tennessee Why am I watching this

Raised in California by a Michigan farm girl, married a Maine Man, ( soft down East accent, 42 years), and lived in North Carolina for over 30 years...my accent is a cacophony of dialect sprinkled with mixed metaphors and malapropisms, Daaaay'ng, Pah- leeese! What the hell did I just say? That was, like, too totally thrashed man- whatever-uh'yuh- bless my heart, ( which can be californeese for ' have a nice day'), outta here yah'all, fixin' to walk dang dawg, ( NC), and just shut the f*** up, ( MI), Uh'yuh, ( ME), as I no longer know what the hell I'm talking about...and caint, ( rhymes with taint), figure out why I'm so misunderstood, listen to some Punk Floyd or Zed Lepplin, have me one of them thar chillax attacks , ( think I just broke spell check, good.), oh yeah, after I walk my pooch. See yah in the funny papers...yep, done gone crazier than a sh** house rat up in here, ouch, my head hurts.

FYI, ain’t can also be your “aunt”. As in Aint Susan.

If you’re visiting the south don’t spend much time in the big cities. Big cities are the same all around the world. Get into the rural areas to enjoy the south. I did the same when I went abroad and loved it.

Southern accents vary by state or county. As a south carolina native, raised in north carolina, stationed in Texas, VA, TN, GA, (just southern states) and as someone who picks up accents fairly easy, there are subtle and major differences in them.

The accent he did for the video is a GA accent, most common around athens/macon GA. Not all of GA sounds like that. And macon GA gets even deeper..... you cant mistake someone from macon with any other town once you hear it lol.

Now for me personally, i normally have a mid-western accent, most people cant tell im from the south. Except when i start explaining that there are certain words i say where it comes out..... heavy..... and it usually takes me about 5 mins to get out of it lol. Songs especially bring it out.

I am from NC and I pronounce "fire" as "far" The house is on far. And "yellow" becomes "yeller" . "Fellow" becomes "Feller" No one round here says "fellah" it's always "feller"

Um, no thanks. Sorry, it's a personal bias.

being a southerner in the deep south I would have to disagree with some of this but maybe that's because my parents ain't from the south

'we'r tokking about'🤦‍♀🤦🤦‍♂

Florida hasn't got a 'suthurn' axunt.

I have always used y'all as singular and all y'all as plural

Jesus christ, are you channeling a Slave owner from the Antebellum south ? That was terrible !!

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What about Texas drawl. Different from a Southern Drawl.

Wonderful video.Very useful.Thanks for all these information.

First time I heard pres. Jimmy Carter speaks, that was for me the best us english accent I ever heard.

I have a friend from Texas that's why I am here

I’m from Texas, have family in Ohio and sometimes they can’t understand what we are trying to say. They say our accent is too strong. Sorry I don’t hear it.

white trash maxxing 🥰

I was born and raised in north west FL and moved to southeast TX. I never really thought i had an accent until visting places up north. So many people would ask where i was from and how they liked my accent. I love hearing all accents but the Cajun accent is my favorite.

Thanks for sharing. Valuable tips here.

omg dawg, can I download your voabulary jajaja

We do shorten words up but we spell the words correct. Just so y’all know

The development of the language of the USA southern states, which is a richer sounding language than that of the north, and in many ways more pleasant to listen to, came about in a similar way to all languages of aristocracy.

Having the fortification of wealth, the need to squabble and interrupt one another was less necessary.

Interrupting one another was certainly considered rude behaviour by aristocratic society. These people, whether they agreed or disagreed with what was being said, could patiently wait until the person speaking had fully expressed themselves. These were certainly not the traits of peasant society and understandably so.

Those who are constantly interrupted and not carefully listened to, do not develop a coherent way of speaking that is pleasant to listen to. This is not the way of the peasants.

Knowing that you are listened to when you speak and will not be rudely interrupted, will contribute to giving the voice a more and confident and pleasing sound. You will speak slower , hence todays southern drawl that’s a hangover from yesterday.

One’s behaviour changes when one has servants, and because of the need to keep those servants affiliated, the speech will naturally
become laced with graciousness and courteousness to achieve this.

In the society of the peasants they didn’t have the fortification of wealth or the time to think reflectively, which resulted in their inability to articulate well and with pleasant sounding voices. And though they could have copied the aristocratic voice however it was socially unacceptable in their own society, therefore such a development was not possible for them.

Compared to the hand to mouth peasants the aristocrats had a life of ease. The need to make money had been greatly eased or completely erased. It was being made for them by their workers.

In the South it was slaves who catapulted them to wealth whereas in England the process was much slower because labour had to be paid.

No white folk talk non-rhoticly anymore bud. Apart from some old folks deep in Louisiana, but that’s it.

Alternate title: How to talk like a redneck

I live in southern michigan and notice many rural friends have developed a more southern drawl. Especially in Southern Ohio.. Just kind of raised into us

As a southerner, this is correct and hilarious.

DIPHTHONG IS PRONOUNCED DIF-THONG, NOT DIP-THONG!!! It makes me not want to listen to anything else.