You probably think it’s more common because Hollywood portrays the country that way. I’ve spent my life West Coast then the South then the Midwest, and I don’t think I know anyone who says sneakers. Not saying there aren’t any in these regions but I think they are a minority. Matter of fact I’m bilingual and grew up in Southern California. So I will tell you the tennis shoes thing isn’t just an English speakers thing there. I and all the Spanish and bilingual speakers I know whether speaking in English or Spanish called these shoes as tenis (pronounced like tenneys). Tenis is tennis in Spanish. I wonder what Spanish speakers in New York call them? Or Spanish speakers in Latin America? If you google zapatos tenis you will see what pops up.

@@anndeecosita3586 ​ I speak Spanish also. It’s my first language. Here, Spanish speakers also call them “tenis” but every bilingual Latino calls them “sneakers” when speaking English.

It is Tennis shoes

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Christina I’ve been waiting for you to come back. You’re one of my favorite members on this channel.

Christina is always the favorite! 🤗👍

Yeah the rich girl from Boston who did her first job as a manager at a restaurant before going to college 😂😂

The guy in the red sweater isn’t from any coast. Tennessee is landlocked.

🥲 I tried my best to represent lol

​@@tj_and_lexnice

​@@anndeecosita3586no doubt that's definitely landlocked in there 😢😮

😂😂😂

It's a pretty common phrase in parts of the south, especially within a certain demographic (like small town middle aged/elderly folk). I heard it a lot growing up. Sun shower is also super common.

i’ve never heard anyone say tonic in boston. people say soda

@@waterfaerie9 These are older people in Arlington.

Golden Shower !!!

Thanks for showing us your pretty face again. Missed you .. 😟

Welcome back Christina, you've been missed in the channel 😊🥳

So good to see Christina back on WF again! World Friends, please bring back Christina more!!

@@the-chow-hall 🥰🥰

Yes we have accents. I don’t know why some Americans say we don’t unless they lack comprehension of what an accent is.

Of course we do! I'm from New Jersey and when I'm speaking with people across the country I try to pronounce everything more slowly and clearly.

@@jtidema I love a New Jersey accent. Are you a North or South New Jerseyan?

OMG!!! I know 😅

I have heard it too. I think it’s mostly a Southern expression.

I'm from North Carolina and I say the same thing.

LOL see! I knew I couldnt be the only one!

One I've heard in New England is that the devil's moving his furniture when it's thundering, but that other expression is making me think that the person I heard it from is probably a southerner.

In the south we say pop or soda pop. It depend on where in the south

I grew up always saying 'pop', and I am from Idaho.

I live in Oregon and I do hear “drinking fountain” too. You can also hear crawdads and crayfish here too because of the people moving here. But everything else I feel like I can relate with! :) (It could also depend which side of the Cascade Range you’re on

@@latviism definitely some variation! To be honest I don’t think I ever have even said crawfish before, that one just felt right 😂 and to me water fountain just feels like more casual than drinking but you for sure hear both!

Omg all of ours was the same, I also said crawfish and I ALWAYS say crawdad 💀 and the sun thing? I thought they were talking about a light rain and I said “sprinkle”

I say caramel as ‘caremul’ and and crayon as ‘cran’ as in cranberry

Why?

@@LearnRunes because it’s raining

Yo we say the witch is having a baby. 😂

Yolisma is her name! Found it. Haha

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I’m a Victorian and I remember in school I used to call them bubble taps. I agree that a fountain is a garden feature ⛲️

Same in New England

Never called it a bubbler in my life and never heard anyone around me call it that either. It's always been a water fountain.

From the sate of Wisconsin we call it bubbler

The plumbing fixture company, Kohler (@redsippy02 will probably know them well. It's a Wisconsin company) used to make a fountain (water or drinking, your choice) called..."The Bubbler", which apparently sold very well here in New England.

In NZ accent, "air" sounds like "ear" eeah .. 😄

That's not shrimp lol. Shrimp is a different fish entirely

Those aren’t shrimp.

I'm from XZ and HG

@@Haywood-Jablomie I’m from LMNOPQRS

@@creativesparks2164 You and I must be long lost cousins !

@@Haywood-Jablomie 😧must be… Gonna go pick up a DNABCD test

Off top, "packy" sounds like a questionable word for a convenience store. I see that it comes from the term "package store". Interesting

Packy is a liquor store, not a convenient store... We call a convenient store a Convenience Store.

Haha you are so right Bama is a triggering word for me 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve been called that way to many times

Just an added note, my folks come from the mid-atlantic & that's where I was exposed to the 'devil beating his wife' thing. I wonder what the origin is. I looked it up & I see something about a French play, but I also wonder if it could be tied to some traditional hoodoo/superstition in black american communities.

@@MrJovon321 That’s really interesting about the French connection. Some parts of the South are heavily French influenced. Recently I read an article that lagniappe was the most mispronounced word in the US. the author claimed no one ever heard of it but I hear lagniappe all the time. So there are cultural differences. I know my family members are black Southerners and we have our superstitions. For example, we refer to evil spirits as haints. My grandfather had us kids scared of haints. There is a tradition in the South of painting houses a color called haint blue that is supposed to keep evil spirits away. This color, known as "haint blue," is associated with the Gullah Geechee people. These descendants of enslaved Africans in parts of Georgia and South Carolina have maintained a rich cultural heritage, and among their traditions was the belief that haint blue repels haints, or ghosts. The idea was that the color would trick haints into thinking the ceiling is either water or the sky. Haint blue was first used in Charleston during the early 1800s and continues to be popular today.

Grew up in Chicago and I agree except for me, Caramel = Ca-ra-mel Soda = Soda (but I’ve heard people call it soda or pop growing up) A water fountain is where you drink from & the thing people throw coins in is just a fountain lol. Crazy to see the differences even from the same city

@AndI I THINK THAT'S HER KZfaq/SOCIAL MEDIA NAME THAT'S WHY SHE SHORTEND IT N SHE JUST INTRODUCED HER NAME AS FLEX

Haha. Yes my brith name is Reflekshun. Pronounce * Reflection * my nick name is FLEX 😊

The white Anglo California people maybe. California is 1/3 Hispanic and was previously part of Mexico and Spain. So there was already a large Spanish speaking population in place with the English speakers arrived. IMO the mesh of English and Spanish impacts California’s accent.

I agree. Most Californians sound like the predominant accents in the Mid-Atlantic and much of the Midwest. California is just where a lot of people from those areas ended up. When people from other countries think of "generic" American accents, this is what they are thinking of.

@@anndeecosita3586 There was a tiny Spanish speaking population in California when the English speaking Americans arrived. At the time of the US-Mexican war there were 6,500 Spanish speaking "Californios" in California. There were 25,000 recent Anglo settlers and 300,000 Native Americans speaking their own languages. Basically, there were very few Spanish speakers here in the mid 1800s. You could fit them all in a small stadium. Very few Anglo Californians speak with any influence from Spanish speakers unless they were raised in a majority Hispanic neigbhorhood. Other the other hand Chicano English is a real thing and they definitely has their own accent and speech patterns.

@@jeffmorse645 This is my opinion on this. I said that the Anglo Saxon white people must be the subject of her comment about Californians sounding just like they are from the Nebraska area. For one thing to say MOST Californians is problematic because Anglo white people are not the majority in California. They are like 35 percent. I lived in San Diego until I was 12. I always lived in very culturally diverse neighborhoods and went to diverse schools where most people. It’s not that likely that you can group people from many different backgrounds together and expect ZERO affect on their accents over time. I was taught state history. A lot of the towns including San Diego were established as mission towns in order to create indoctrinate, assimilate the natives into converting into Catholicism. This went on for centuries. We got this whole school history lesson about the benevolence of Padre Serra which is a whole other discussion. This could not have been done without also getting them into speaking the Spanish language. So some of those natives you speak of are also Spanish/Mexican and they along with an influx of Mexicans that came in starting into California around early 1900s made their mark on how we sound. I have an example in another comment that I’m currently in the Midwest and I struggle to not mispronounce the cities here because they way they pronounce them is totally unnatural for me. They say Salina as Sa lie na and El Dorado as El Do Ray Do. The list goes on. And even in general conversation I notice a difference in how they tend to say vowels. So as someone who has lived in California and currently lives in Kansas which is right next to Nebraska, I do NOT feel the people here have the exact same accent I do. It’s not light years apart but not identical. I noticed the people here can’t tell I’m not a local, however, when I meet someone from San Diego they can usually tell immediately by my accent without me telling them where I’m from. I listen to rhythm, timbre, where raised inflection falls which also creates accent. California also ran a segregated school system back in the day that had to be struck down through court proceedings. One these school districts’ defenses at trial to segregation was claiming these children had limited English proficiency skills. If pretty much everyone spoke English like a Nebraskan that would make no sense. The reality was these children spoke both Spanish and English as do I. I’m not Hispanic. Unless they live in a white bubble I don’t see sounding like Nebraskans. When the Anglophones went into Louisiana and English became the dominant language there where still leftovers from the French accent that remained even in the way English was spoken. That’s my thoughts.

@@anndeecosita3586 you make an excellent point! I won't say my comment referred to only white people (I'm puerto Rican and black, lived in a diverse area, bad AAVE all around me) but I was raised speaking only English (unfortunately). Thanks for pointing out my short sightedess 🥲 I'll be more careful with statements like that in the future 💕

Meanwhile in Australia we call them yabbies.

😂😂😂 my face always gives me away. I can’t hide nothing 🤣

Maybe it’s generational and location. I lived in SoCal until I was 12/13 and crayon ALWAYS was pronounced around me like it had a Y in it when I heard people around me speak. Also caramel could be heard with two or three syllables but Lexie says she’s only heard it with two.

@@anndeecosita3586 Native Californian here, though living in the PNW now. Agree about "caramel" - I've heard both 2 and 3 syllabels. "Crayon" also heard both. "Drinking fountain" more commonly than "water fountain". Definitely "soft drink" or "soda", not "pop". Heard "sun shower" before and knew what it meant, but don't think I've ever used it unprompted. Some like "hella" I don't hear a lot in my own circles. The other one I find funny is "dude" and "guys" which on the West Coast is absolutely usable for men, women, animals, inanimate objects, whatever; when I worked in Chicago I caught some crap for that usage in fact. I suspect that the West Coast sees so much in and out migration and moving around that it all gets scrambled quite a bit, especially up and down the coast. My favorite is how people refer to the interstate 5 - in L.A. it's "The 5", in the Bay Area it's just "5", and in the PNW it's "I-5".

1. Meer-er 2. Man - naise 3. Amond 4. See-air-ra Nuh-va-da We are legit opposites haha. Are you from SoCal?

@@tj_and_lex yes. Diego 😂

I am from SoCal and "Crans" I understand...but "carmel" and water fountain are pretty common where I'm at anyway...

i was born in chicago but raised in the west coast and i was saying gym shoes 😭😭

Like Mount Carmel in Israel?

Or maybe they are just limited to those living in Korea?

Yeah her accent isn’t giving me SoCal.

I had picked up on that very thing about Christina’s speech pattern and have commented on it in several prior videos. It’s very noticeable IMO so I don’t get why people on here don’t hear speech differences between the ways many of the Americans who come one the channel. She often doesn’t pronounce the T in the middle of words like fountain, important, and so on. I’m American and like Von I always pronounce this t in similar ones like curtain, sentence, straighten, kitten. People talk about Brits dropping t in the middle of words but some Americans with accents like Christina’s do also. All accents are fine but I have noticed when I tell people who do this I don’t consider them to speak with the so-called “Standard American/Newscaster accent” or that there is a difference in how they speak some have become upset with me. Like a lot of people drop g at the end of ing but in the News business we can’t speak like this on air. There is no difference between dropping that end g and dropping a middle t. Either way is not fully enunciating. There is a woman who runs a channel called Rachel’s English or something to that effect who was instructing ESL learners not to pronounce the t in these types of words so that they would sound like native American English speakers. This pissed off a lot of Americans because she suggested those of us who don’t have this accent aren’t or don’t sound like native speakers. It would have been more appropriate to say it’s optional.

It's a very common thing to replace the odd t or d in a word when you're speaking fast, and I'm honestly surprised you picked up on it, it took me years to notice (we kinda replace them both with an n). Additionally, at least where I come from (western Connecticut) a lot of the s sounds end up being very harsh sounding, to the point where people will occasionally inadvertently whistle with their teeth while speaking.

norcal because she says hella, no one in socal says that lol

Maybe. I would be curious to know what part of California she is from. I think the California accent where I’m from is a hybrid and depends on culture. I spent most of my childhood on the Southern border where most people were bilingual which I think affects our accent. I’m currently in the Kansas and they can’t tell a difference in my accent and think Im from here. However, I can hear a difference in their accent. I noticed them leaving out syllables that I don’t and pronouncing vowels in ways I don’t. For example there is a city named Salina that I constantly mispronounce because it feels unnatural to me how they say it. When I told people that they said “you’re probably from California”. I noticed the California lady here said y’all where most people I grew up around were a you guys kind of people.

@@anndeecosita3586 There is a street and train stop (on the Red Line) in Chicago called Paulina. I think the last two syllables would be pronounced similarly as Salina. 😄 Didn't know you're currently in Kansas .. Lived there before moving to Chicago

@@JosephOccenoBFH Yes. The people are okay but not the weather. As someone who grew up in SoCal I would instinctively pronounce Paulina as Pah Lee Nah. And Salina as Sa Lee Na. But they say Sa Lie Na. They also say El Do Ray Do which sounds unnatural to me as a Californian because I would instinctively say El Do Rah Do. I’m not saying I’m right and they are wrong but that it’s a cultural difference that inclines us into different directions. I don’t pronounce Merry, Mary and Marry the same way but a lot of people here do. I detect a difference in the way people pronounce their vowels and notice they tend to elongate their vowels. I’ve even caught myself elongating my vowels so I think they are rubbing off on me. 😂

I'm Canadian... I think both the British as well as American English sound funny. 🤪

@@Haywood-Jablomie British refers to the whole of the UK! That includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland! You'll have to be more specific which accent cos there's LOADS of them within each country and province!🤣

@@andiemorgan961 Wales !! They like sheep. lololol

@@Haywood-Jablomie I AM Welsh!🤣 Such clichéd, antiquated "jokes" are typical from those who have never visited my lovely homeland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and could easily be used about New Zealanders!(which they too wouldn't appreciate) I've visited Canada, both west and east sides, numerous times so I'm not susceptible to make such hackneyed stereotypes of people from your country! I found Canada a very beautiful country and the people I met very friendly, even those from Quebec!😆 Don't be a sucker to stereotypes, or ridiculing "jokes" about certain people that have developed from political propaganda.😉 The only sheep us Welsh "like" ( as do the rest of us Brits) are the ones on our plate! A nice Shepherd's pie or a juicy lamb chop, with lashings of gravy and fresh mint sauce!😋

@@andiemorgan961 yeah but it'll be hilarious if you do make the jokes , humour is something that the world needs more of. and yes, I don't doubt that new zealanders like sheep as well... a well-raised sheep is always willing to go the extra mile in order to express love. 🤪

oh my god that would be

@spawwnn_ ^^^^ i’m from nevada and i approve this message

@spawwnn_ And THAT is the way we say it in Idaho.

Yyaasss. I’ll be back for sure!!!

Tbh, I was surprised more people didn't say craon.