I love the Brooklyn accent!

Philly & NY Accents are the best! Cali Accents are wack!!

@@PhillieP215 yeah, cali is wack

Definitely! I'm from Long Island, and to me Buffalonians sound the same as Chicagoans.

@@genebigs1749 agreed

True. The futhure away you go from the city, the accent changes.

My grandpa's got a thick Buffalo accent. I love it. Go Bills!

@@HollowDesert the buffalo accent sounds like a mix of the Brooklyn and Midwest accent, similar to the old Chicago accent

very true

Agreed, I’m from Long Island and we sound nothing like folks from Western New York-One thing I do not do consistently in my speech is R dropping. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t

As a native of North Jersey, I will partly agree with your comment on NJ...although Poetry Flynn's suggestion is valid, lol, we're a feisty bunch. The more NY-ish accents traditionally have been in the counties closest to the city, but there's also been a lot of migration out of NYC into Jersey and eastern PA the last couple generations, so you hear a lot of variety. My father's generation (born in the 40s/50s) still has what I think of as "the" north/central Jersey accent, but it's a lot rarer in younger generations. I don't know if I ever really had it. NYC accents are sticky, I guess.

@Lara Gravenor My Dad's from South Africa! I LOVE listening to that side of the family's accent!Having grown up on Long Island, I have that accent. My sister, who lived for a time in New England, picked up their accent. XD

Yeah, it's not so easy to explain when your own accent does the same thing!

The thing is Brits (those from the areas around London at least, I think called "Home Counties"), New Yorkers, Bostonoians, etc. have this thing called "linking r" or "intrusive r". We add it in words like "soda" et cetera, but it's followed immediately afterwards. So we'll say "sodar and ice" but not "ice and sodar". My dad grew up on Jamaica Avenue, which he pronouced "Jamaicar Avenue".

My grandfather (from Brooklyn) called my sister Linder instead of Linda. But he didn’t add an “r” to the end of my name Barbara.

This is heard elsewhere in the Anglosphere. The Bee Gees sang "All of a sudden I sore a new morning" not long after leaving Australia. KZfaqr Half-Asleep Chris, only an hour out of London, has it too.

That’s funny, maybe the words you used? It’s true though. My spouse is from New England. I’m originally from upstate NY. Listen to the o sound in words like rock and Rochester. The o sounds more like a hard a. Rah. some times I can smooth it out but if I’m tired, I guess I get lazier and that o definitely sounds like a in the cheerleading word, rah. Yes, used to say pop. For Coke, Pepsi, root beer, Sprite, et cetera. That is, until we moved to Pennsylvania. There it was soda. To be better recognized, I started saying pop, soda pop.

I worked on Long Island, New York which is a suburb and a lot of people had moved there from NYC so there accent is pretty similar. I heard one person on Long Island say “dramer ” instead of “drama” and it was so so strange! I had heard some people sometimes say “idear” instead of “idea” but that was usually it.

@@catw6998pop is more midwestern & Buffalo, being on a Great Lake, is more like the mid-west than Manhattan. Downstate New York says soda, not pop.

@@chrisk5651 The thing with adding the R to words like "drama" and "idea" is it usually happens when it's a word that ends with a vowel followed by a word that begins with another vowel, it typically won't happen otherwise. So a New Yorker with the real NYC region accent (including LI and northern NJ), as well as Bostonians, Londoners, Aussies, will say "Don't give me any drama please" or "I have no idea" without adding the *R* , but it's "I have no ideaR_about any of it!" or "Enough with the drammeR_already!". It's called "linking R" or "intrusive R" but it normally happens in the kinds of examples I gave in the second instance, when it's a word that ends with a vowel followed by a word that begins with a vowel. Listen to how it's said next time. So more examples, JFK (from Boston) when he was president, would talk about "Cuba" without adding the "R" if he'd say something like "We must defend against the Soviet threat from Cuba" during the Cuban Missile Crisis but if he'd say something like "We must make sure that Cuba "We must make sure that Cuba isn't a launching pad for Soviet missiles" it would have come out like "We must make sure that CubeR_isn't a launching pad for Soviet missiles" . Another example: My late father, was raised on Jamaica Avenue on the Brooklyn-Queens border. He always mader it sound like, "Back when I lived on Jamaker_Avenya". Because again, "Avenue" starts with a vowel. But if he'd say , "Are you from Jamaica?" or "I'm thinking of taking a vacation to Jamaica" , no R at the end, unless followed immediately by a word beginning with a vowel. Anyway, I think I gave enough examples, hopefully you get what I mean!

i have one and i always get comments about it lol. it surprises people which is crazy to me

​ @gordonramsayslambsauce2519 Exactly the thing he says at the end. I was embarrassed by my accent when I was in my 20s, back in the early 1990s, I cringed at hearing my parents' working class Brooklyn Jewish accents ( even though they were both college-educated professionals, it sounded low class to me), and I made an attempt to cover up my accent with a generic accent. When I lived out West Califrnians teased me about saying "cawfee". So now I've largely lost my accent, but like you, it comes out when I get agitated (or as we say here on Staten Island, when someone gives me ''agida") or when I try to sound more blue collar and down to earth sometimes I deliberately lay it on thick. But I don't think it's my normal accent anymore. My stepdaughter, raised almost all her life in Brooklyn, now 25, sounds like a "Vallley Girl" not a hint of a Brooklyn accent to me.

I also code-switch depending on my mood!

@@grasmereguy5116 You basically speak different now as you trained yourself to. The New York accent is strong when a couple has one, usually the children keep it. The Valley girl accent in New York comes from imitating another like yourself.

​@@1Andelina1 Interestingly enough, I was thinking about this again today. I was riding the bus from Staten Island to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and hopefully I don't come off as a creepy middle-aged man, but I was discreetly observing and listening to a bunch of high school girls engaging in loud conversation (they were cute, I must say). In any case, they barely had a trace of New York in their voices, their speech was very rhotic (pronouncing Rs and not dropping them in the middle of the word as we old-time New Yorkers used to). I did hear a trace of New York because they were discussing some "song" and they pronounced it "sawng", but they probably didn't linger on the vowel too much, there was a short "aw" sound, we would have said it longer back in my day, I think "saawwwngg". But the accent is definitely fading in this generation

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William Buckley comes to mind (despite the fact that he wasn't of English descent and his family wasn’t from NY). I also hear this patrician accent quite frequently in old Hollywood movies (i.e. 'Now Voyager' and 'The Thin Man' movies).

I think its called the Mid - Atlantic accent.

@@crustymcgee6580 He was faking it. He grew up in the western US and was ashamed of it. George Plimpton on the other hand- he was the real deal.

@@SamAronow smh. P.S. loved your episodes on Sabbatai Zevi and the origins of Hasidism.

You the girl from the comment section of every cumtown video?

Growing up on Long Usland, almost everybody around me had a NYC accent (although it's not as common these days)

@@crustymcgee6580 true, loong ihland definitely also has the accent

Yea the only people who actually sound like what people THINK New Yorkers sound like are people from Staten Island, Jersey, and Long Island….pretty much anyone who calls Manhattan ‘The city’ 😭

Come to southern brooklyn, you'll hear it everywhere lol

Good stuff. I love when English learners adopt this dialect

I think the Germans have a huge influence over the Brooklyn accent, Swabians in particular. I say this because Central Texas Swabians sound like people speaking German like Bugs Bunny, and their English is very different from the local Inland Southern Dialect. Seriously, look up Central Texas German here on YT. It's Brooklyn.

My dad grew up in Hackensack, NJ and would say "Sundie", "Saddy", etc. for the days of the week.

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Eggzackly!

I agree! My formal Inland Southern accent is neutral, and your most formal NYC speech is quite comprehensible. Y'all do have a few quirks, like saying "you guys" when "y'all" would be simpler and more inclusive.

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Why is the car?

Like John Schneider.

@@DCMarvelMultiverse huh? Just heard him speak and I’m not sure what you mean

Western New York - e.g. Buffalo and Rochester - might as well be in northern Ohio (e.g. Cleveland), Michigan, Chicago, etc. when compared with New York City and area. Both Western New York and the Great Lakes Midwest are part of the Northern Inland dialect area.

I am from Miami but I have some New York-ish features in my accent. For example I say "orange" like "ahrange". I pronounce "mary, merry and marry" differently.

Lol

Very few younger people speak that way though, sadly. Huge generational gaps

I think most people in world will recognise it too due to greatest movies having this accent

It's not even Italian though. People of Italian heritage just adopted the accent.

When I used to hear Emmeril Lagasse (sp?) speak on his Food Network show, it sounded very similar to a NYC accent

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Never heard of it... There is a place called naw lins

@@dannicatzer305 Sorry. Pardon my crude attempt at spelling! ...Harry Connick Jr, especially when he was younger, had that accent btw.

@@crustymcgee6580 I think, that Chef Lagasse is originally from a Portuguese community in Massachusetts. But I may have him mixed up with someone else?

Not really

That's a stereotype

Having lived in Queens my entire life, I can't say I've ever heard anyone that lives here (assuming they were born and raised in the area) pronounce the word "saw" as zaw or "pretty" as preetie. As for "boid" and "turd" (bird and third) I think that's more of an old-school Brooklyn accent, but there were probably a good amount of people from Queens who also spoke this way at one time. Plenty of Brooklyn natives moved to Queens and Long Island over the years. The generation that pronounced words like thirty third and third as "toy-tee turd and turd" or "three" as tree, is pretty much non-existent anywhere in NYC these days. I guess it was a generational thing, and I'm sure class/level of education had a lot to do with the pronunciation of these words as well. Is there a particular part of Queens that you know of where you've heard people speak this way? I'm just curious if maybe it's a certain ethnic background of people that live here that you've interacted with?

Many black people have a strong new York accent in the area.

I csn confirm

Yea honestly accents are dying everywhere ....even here down south where im from....the country accent isnt that thick anymore with this new younger generation....and its mainly because social media... Social media is killing the authentic-ness of the accents....because the new generation is growing up on social media constantly listening other people on the internet talk with regular american accents.......see when we didn't have a social media the only accents we heard was the ones we heard in person so wherever u grew up and whatever accent was spoken was the only accent you knew and adapted too....without social media there was no other accent for you to here ....which is another reason i hate social media .....

I think Philly shares some aspects with bnaltimore also, in certain vowel sounds. Maybe in the way words like "home" are pronounced, which also has a little Britishness to it as well, I can't explain it using the correct linguistic terminology, but since you're a linguist you know which phones I mean, hopefully.

Brooklyn is regarded as having the most distinct accent. Queens is in second place. Manhattan does not have as distinct an accent because it is populated by people from all over the US and world so everyone speaks their most formal dialect to each other. Long Island is another story. There's a reason the accent is known as "Lon Guyland".

Is that where Archie Bunker lived? ;)

Don't forget Philly

Not really. It's a pretty standard form of Inland Southern well understood everywhere in the US.

Bacopa68 oh okay thanks for letting me know and also I am really sorry that I thought that the Texas accent was having a negative image crisis of sorts.👍🏻😅😓

Grew up in Texas and when I was in NYC I used enough of the formal end of my speech that no one thought I had that much of an accent except that that they could not sometimes understand the difference between "rat" and "right", and they wanted me to say "acorn" a lot because they thought it was funny. I thought the way they said it was funny. Only other issue was that I would lapse into the finna/gonna distinction and sometimes copula dropping. Got called out for appropriating AAVE by white folks. What? This is simply part of how white folks speak in the south. AAVE has some truly distinct features, but not many.