So relatable 🤣

this is a big mood

As someone who is born and raised in south jersey but has acquired out of state friends, I feel this lol

Ya, its kinda of strange how we just pick up those things.

I sat there repeating Na-mean like 50 times. It's more "amine."

@@briantoal8872 I- He wasn't talking slow I'm from NJ

@@briantoal8872 w h a t

Awm from way don soth an Eye hadda set thu vidyo tuh 75% tuh heeyur all thu wurds.

@@SharonLippincott You alright there bud?

@@briantoal8872 Where are you from lmao? North Manhattan??

I know so many italians in jersey city that say some of these lol. like agita.

I live in central jersey so I get a mixture of both

Fr

yeah

same

Exactly...i kno bc am from jurrzzey

Irks tf outta me. "JOiSeY" 🤮🤮🤮 the only time I hear that is when ppl want to poke fun.

North jersey days joisey

THANK YOU

@@christopherbush8334 Nope. I'm from North Joisey and we definitely don't.

Yup same here

I’m from NYC and that’s how I say it too.

oh shit me too

Same

nah y'all were just in the LMN tree. It's a bit up from the groundwork ABCs but not quite at the end

yeah, lots of words he pronounced i never heard before. of course i'm from newark and all north jersey. he's from south jersey,so what does he know?! lol

Literally came here to write this.

It’s ok. We don’t consider you from New Jersey anyway. Your all New Yorkers to us 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've heard a lot of the bashed together words before. Jeet, namean, and so on...

I'm from north jersey, can confirm

Anytime I'm out of state and hear wudder my ears perk up

NJ USA here. My wife and I, and our two older children say kitten, button etc, but our youngest daughter said these and other words as Kit-in and But-in. No idea where she got it, but she didn't learn it from us :)

nor south jersey

My father grew up in Belleville - he would say 'draw' instead of 'drawer' then turn around and say 'soder' instead of 'soda.'

Accents are nice, don't lose a unique accent.

I think it was primarily popularized from the Jersey Shore where half of them were from New York.

so true! I didn't realize I had a jersey accent till I went to college and got made fun of for saying "draw" instead of "drawer" 😆

Yeah Italian American words tend to pretty unrecognizable 😅 But if you’re interested, wiktionary says stunad/stunod comes from Sicilian stunatu or Neapolitan stunat' = stonato (“out of tune”) in standard Italian. And apparently agita is from acida (heartburn/acid) in Italian and wasn’t used in English until the 1980s, according to Merriam-Webster Another one that I like that’s used around the US is capisce/capiche/capeesh/capish (my friend and I have had debates over the spelling lol) which you can probably tell means I understand

@@honestlyidk8112 makes sense! I'm from the North of Italy so that's why I didn't recognise them immediately (we have very different dialects in the north and in the south). But your comment was really interesting, thank you!

I know, right?

Besides that, everyone's Italian is different depending upon what region in Italy your parents, or grandparents came from, and they aren't always the same so it's very complicated.

My understanding is that a lot of Italian immigrants that moved to NJ in the early 20th century originated from Sicily or Southern Italy, so much of the slang is specific to southern Italian dialects. Combine that with 100 years of changes to pronunciation and you end up with words that are pretty exclusive to NJ Italian-American slang. Example: Calamari is often pronounced galamah or galamahd, but still spelled calamari.

Right....like "jawnpiece". Never ever heard that before

That’s bc he’s from closer to philly. I grew up at the shore and with the exception of the pork roll/Taylor ham thing I talk closer to a north jersian than I do to him

I think it varies between South, North and Central Jersey. I could recognize most of it so it's probably true.

The closer you get to Philly, the more of these words/pronunciation you will recognize. -Guy from “Churry” Hill

If you've never lived south of Princeton, you won't recognize most of what he's talking about. It all kicks in around Trenton and continues south of there.

We all take a fuckload of pride being new jersey natives. But we all fucking hate it here at the same time. Something alot of my friends say is "i hate it here, this state sucks, but ill never leave its awesome"

@@thomasmeyers5165 yeah it be like that, one day you'll like it the next you wanna leave but wanna stay

(From pennsauken) yeah, we're sacks of depression :p

This is so sad!

@@thomasmeyers5165 It is like the Yankees fans I know! The team can be in first place all season and when they lose one game they all say how they suck! Same with the Giants fans as well! They are brutal on their own teams!

Lol

lol yup lol

Uhmm most of us from Jersey are italian tho lol

When you've had too much wine thats aammoorree *B E L L S*

MOST OF SOUTH JERSEY IS ITALIAN. My Great Nonino was a stowaway from Italy when he was just a boy, His family left him to go to America. And he wanted to reunite with them. He got caught the first time and sent back to Italy and then held hands with a Elderly woman (a stranger) to get access to the boat the second time before getting to the states and becoming a citizen. Then he went to South Jersey and reunited with his family before then starting his own family with another Italian immigrant.

Jughandle is not even a Jersey thing. It's the literal name of that specific kind of highway intersection, in the same vein as Cloverleaf.

not me from Colorado apparently using almost exclusively Jersey slang lmao

and the pronunciation is not north jersey at all

☝️this 💯

@@robertgronewold3326 In the UK we call them roundabouts 😉

He made that perfectly clear.

Yeah bro I'm from ocean county we don't use jawn

In Central Jersey we use all of it.

Right, north Jersey I think also talks a lot like New York.

Your basically from new york in north jersey

Or geordie tbh

my family had always said jeet and we’re all from either Arizona or Texas

yea canada too

Some of this would fit the local Mockney where I live 😊

Im a Glaswegian But i never got the accent

what is your first language? where're you from?

Jawn is used in more hood areas but was only really popular like 7 years ago

just tried it and fairy and ferry are near identical 🫥

@@gsurfer04 And New Jerseyan *isn't*?! xD

@@gsurfer04 I am aware of that. I was poking fun at how different New Jerseyan is. =)

Eh dinnakeen,ach no aye.

@@gsurfer04 yeah I'm not meaning Gaelic, I'm meaning english abbreviated with a Scottish accent

You want a cookie?

@Maria Maria not at all...

Holds rifle YOU DO NOT ESIXT

Who?

There is no Central Jersey. South Jersey ends at Rancocas Crick, the rest is New York. 😄

central Jersey has no accent. I know, I'm from there

Go look for Valery I heard he was shot in Pine Barrens. What is Pine Barrens anyway, a national park?

@@me6271 it's a forest that covers a large portion of southern NJ. Also the nation's first national reserve.

@@scifiaddict Alright, thanks. I knew what it was but forgot and didn't wanna search it up again

Americans call it Scotch tape though because that's the brand name from 3M. (At least everyone I know says that.)

Isn't all tape sticky?

The term for that is brand generitization and you can look it up to see a bunch of examples you might not even realize, like Aspirin or Trampoline

A lot of Americans will simply call it “tape”, but if they want to be specific, it’s usually “Scotch tape” as the other commenter mentioned. I heard that it originally started being called “Scotch” tape as a derogative term referring to Scottish immigrants (way back when they weren’t very popular) due to the adhesive being less sticky than other types of tape. But now 3M brand tape uses the name “Scotch tape” for their adhesive tapes (along with a plaid design) & it’s not derogatory at all.

melk: milk; Nork: Newark. But my best friend's from Long Island and they add an "r" into words in various spots: Drink sod'r, not soda. I'm warshing my clothes. Or a "g": wanna a sangwich?

:O Y o u a r e n o w m y n e w f r i e n d

Yea an now I can't figure if that's how I'd normally say them or not😂

Yep

Nah, the nickname for walmart in Jersey, at least South Jersey, is generally wally world.

@@JackThePBSKid Yup! Everyone i know calls it wally world.

@@daniellewinkelspecht8356Yeah, I'm from Indiana and we usually just call Walmart "Walmart", but I have heard "Wally World" before😂😂😂

@@daniellewinkelspecht8356 never been a more accurate statement. It’s Wally World bc it’s an amusement park every time you go

Get ja ass to a wawa now, they're legit one of the best places on earth

I very vividly remember a girl in my class back in like 5th or 6th grade... For some reason, the teacher was talking about syllables, which I thought was completely ridiculous and obvious information lol so, to explain what syllables were, the teacher would clap her hands to each syllable of a word. She used this girl Pam's name as an example and clapped once when she said, "Pam" 🤣 and Pam got so upset and kept insisting that her name was longer than one syllable lol and she would just say her name longer and clap twice to it instead of only once. This stuck with me all these years and I am only just now realizing what the difficulty may have been

@@jawnjacob7573 , it’s actually important to learn syllabification (yes, that’s one form of the term). And it’s not at all obvious in English. Unlike in many other languages, proper syllabification in English is based not on how words are spelled but on how they are pronounced, but not necessarily how they are currently pronounced in any particular place. You have to be a bit of a historian and linguist. Just flip through a dictionary and see how often your gut feelings are contradicted by the actual fact of the matter. Knowing how to syllabify (yes, the verb) makes it much easier to sound out new or difficult-to-recognize words. I was a new Latin teacher at a boarding school (grades 7-12) back in 1998. We had students from around the country and world. I quickly found that some of my students had a really terrible time sounding out unfamiliar words (all American, I’m afraid), and not just the Latin ones. If they hadn’t seen or been taught a word before, they couldn’t pronounce it. They were recognizing words by sight and then slapping on the way they knew the words were pronounced. It turned out that they had never learned how to syllabify because phonics was no longer being formally taught in some schools. (Neither, to my horror, was much formal grammar, but that’s a whole other story.) I had to take time out from Latin to teach some syllabification (and basic English grammar). I chose the Latin rules as they’re easier to deal with, relevant to the class, and generally effective (yes, I made a big deal out of which rules I was teaching and why). Btw, I first learned by the clapping method, but a bit earlier back then. Phonics was taught in English class, along with spelling, vocabulary, and grammar, each with its own textbook. Reading was another class in the early grades.

eric veneto I’d never heard that there were any racial implications from that term but I guess it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for informing me

I am willing to friend you on discord or any other media if you are willing to become my friend and explain how its racist because my peanut jersey brain is dying for new social interaction

Opposite here. Choc jimmies would be racist af.

I’ve been telling my husband that central Jersey doesn’t exist, but he keeps trying to convince me..... but to me, anything north Of Toms River is north jersey . I’m from Cape May County

@@clarebebbington9984 yes central Jersey does not exist

Central Jersey checkin in on that one.... Stunad means stupid

I also pronounce towel as one syllable like towl and many Brits skip out the ts in words.

I'd say retail parks are more for larger retailers like B&Q, Pets at Home, PC World, while for smaller retailers that are filled with nail bars, takeaways etc would be a shopping parade. But in reality, the difference between the two is that the former would be in an out of town location, while the latter is in the middle of a neighbourhood. Fancy independent stores and restaurants would likely be housed in a shopping arcade.

@@steventhetford1755 true

@@myname-rz4zk festive, im actually interested in how close jersey accents and slang are to British accents and slang so wanna like get on discord and chat or somethin idk

@@Flamingaaa I don’t have discord, sorry

Heck most times I drop the 'wan'.

It was mostly made to create more jobs in the area. At least that is my understanding of it.

@@thefakecanadian2651 It's wonderful not to have to get out of your car in bad weather.

in south africa, the whole country doesnt trust one to pump their own gas

When I was a kid in the chicago area they had full service stations ..then u had a choice to pump yourself or full service ..now all self pump ..

@@thefakecanadian2651 that tracks In Hong Kong there's always a gas station attendant who's fills gas too, like that's their job

I’m french and moved to NJ 3 years ago and I say “pellow” because I struggle to say pillow lol

It’s dying out up north

Only jersey slang I use is hoagie

@@Tech-cy9yo why is that u think?

Except that’s a pillow because couch cushions are actually a part of the couch. Pillows are bought separate from the couch and placed on top.

Also a pillow because he has it on his bed.

@@ashmac2594 Nope. He's right. Pillows are rectangular and you sleep on them. Anything else is a cushion. That was a cushion. 😜

Lmao what

Yesss!

I say it like that as well and im more southwest jersey

As a retired speech and language therapist, I would transcribe his /o/ as /o:/, ie just extended rather than two syllables.

@@billswifejo I also heard /o:/

I also thought there was a few similarities to Yorkshire, but I've always struggled to pin down what 'makes' it a Yorkshire accent, tho I do aparently have one😅

@@luelou8464 Local shopping parades on estates do but the one I mentioned is very American looking.

If she moved to the (apparently mythical) Central Jersey she wouldn't have had an accent anyway. We don't get the Philly (south) or New York (north) accent. But we don't exist anyway so I guess that makes sense.

@@JohnSmith_1331 literally me

@@JohnSmith_1331 m e but sometimes i do get this weird british sometimes irish sometimes russian accent that just pops out of no where

Tbf it could well have been for all I know

@@sebastianbaynes9452 lol yeah

I think that is true for most accents. We drop ts in Yorkshire too!

@@rbarber yeah also in Essex, we find way to use every other letter sound to pronounce “th” with

@@rbarber It's interesting hearing him describe the NJ accent, to me it sounded like most of the things he was describing were just ways that many English speakers shorten words when they want to speak quickly, which is a lot of the time. Dropping 'T's and changing vowel sounds towards a schwa is definitely not unique to NJ and I'm still not really sure how its accent is different to anywhere else in the US. Obviously though as a Brit I'm much less aware of different American accents anyway

Yes, and following that, we threw the "u" out of harbor as well!

Pretty much yeah

I'm from Michigan and I've never heard that one.

Yup lol and I notice the a’s are dragged out in words. Caaaarrrr, baaarrr, etc.

Yeah honestly lol

A lot of South Jersey is about 1 degree separated from Alabama.

Part of South Jersey is below the Mason-Dixon Line, so...

Totally south. We say bennies up here. And by up here i mean anything north of Seaside

that can’t have been long ago

@@misguided_ghost S'been at least a year, hasn't it?

That make sense to agitate ot to shake

Which has since, I think, via the imagery of someone "literally shaking", to mean a person getting agitated?

It comes from Sicilian, not standard Italian.

Are u from central jersey lol

@@emilys2562 doesn’t exist, I’m from north