Ohio part here

Hey neighbor, Seymour TN

So glad to see this 😊

Thanks!

Thanks, from the mountains of Georgia

youre not wrong with the massantten accent! growing up in the shenandoah valley and going to massanutten i remember hearing some of the strongest accents id ever heard growing up

@@isabellemohl5378 Hope you're doing well!

I’m from Knoxville too

I can’t quite put my finger on what I noticed, but before hearing their locations, the accents of folks close to where I grew up jumped out at me. Everyone else sounded lovely, but I was much more interested in the voices of folks that turned out to be closer to my hometown. It’s so nuanced, but I think if you’re from any of these areas, you might hear the differences a little more easily.

Outside ears versus inside ears. While they are all similar, I can definitely hear differences that are general to regions, not speakers.

Accents aren't dying out. Regional accent differences are growing, only isolated accents are dying out.

Trained ears can hear the differences! Younger folks are somewhat losing their accents, but don't be deceived. Since they knew their voices were being recorded for a video, some individuals may have subconsciously altered their accents. We do this often; I see it happen a lot when people want to sound more educated, since Appalachian accents have suffered a lot of negative stereotypes in the past.

To add, I am fairly certain the girl at 4:15 uses both her local accent and a "standardized" one. She even makes a lil joke out of it.

@John Canter i have a similar story, i grew up in rural pa and my dad did too. i took his accent more than my mothers because his tended to be heavier. once i went into school, all of the english teachers would “teach” the voice out of me. it’s started to come back now that they haven’t done to for so long

@John Canter in the world we live in today where almost anything can be considered offensive for some reason it’s still acceptable to call Southerners dumb, hillbillies, make fun of the way we talk, etc in television, movies or just regular banter and no one bats an eye

I'm sad to say I don't have the beautiful WNC Appalachian accent that I love

I blame stupid ashville always trying to act like the progressive states out west, everyone tried to get rid of it and now I got stuck with some halfassed Appalachian accent

@@thatsyaboi8185 nah asheville is just a city, that's how cities are. Knoxville is losin it too.

I know where hazard Kentucky is & my pastor is from Hazard Kentucky

I have family from Lee County Virginia

🤣Hinterwäldler? Hallo. Mein Name ist Chet. Ich komme aus Richwood, West Virginia, und das ist mein Appalachen-Akzent bei Google Translate.

@Maxine: Sounds like you have quite an inferiority complex.

@@echt114 ..Honey, I don't know what is when you're referring to me. I've spoken my Mountain English for 70 years. Educated. retired from a satisfying career.

@@maxinefreeman8858 I'm referring to the perspective and character of someone who would try to slight someone else as having the "worst accent," apparently because of something else you resent about them.

@@echt114 ..This was back when I was going to school. Some kids, including myself would go up north and stay few weeks with relatives. Some would come back home from summer vacation and we couldn't understand them. Much worse accent than most that were born and raised up north. Some that moved up north, married to someone up there would come back to visit, they try to talk and you could understand the northern husband better than someone who'd been gone a year. It's usually women that does. I know they're probably teased about their speech. I was teased but I never let it bother me. I think it made me want to hang onto my accent.

@@maxinefreeman8858 OK, it sounded like you didn't approve of anyone changing an accent. I've never heard anyone who shifted into unintelligible speech, so I can't judge what you described, but I do like different accents and have always had fun imitating them. On youtube there's a common reaction in the comments under these type of videos (even moreso under "accent reduction" videos) where people will get pissy about it and respond with something like "Why would you ever do that? Don't ever change your accent!" Then they'll go on to trash the accent the person desired. It's really a ridiculous thing because people can still use the former accent anytime they want. Nobody discourages people from learning a 2nd or 3rd language - they realize it's a great addition to your first. So why the defensiveness about learning something much less difficult like an accent? I apologize if I misunderstood your intent though.

That's because it's not southern, it's Appalachian! :)

www.arc.gov/appalachian-counties-served-by-arc/

@@Appodlachia I misunderstood thinking specifically in the Appalachian Mountains and immediate surrounding areas.