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@chuckburroughs6427

Күн бұрын

It's pronounced "Boo-ee", not "Bough-ee" when you're referring to Jim Bowie, or the town of Bowie,TX.

@earlewilliams4262

22 сағат бұрын

Texan here. Just spent 12 beautiful days in Scotland. Loved the food, countryside, people, and trains. I experienced the same thing with the Scottish accent. I did pretty well. However, I had to translate for my wife🙃

Life-long Texan here and this just sounded like Thanksgiving dinner to me lol. I barely even register that those accents are different. They all just sound like rural Texans to me.

@ReckFamily

24 күн бұрын

Yeah - me too!

@vw2rover

18 күн бұрын

Houstonian here, they all sounded the same to me.

@Lazurikittie

18 күн бұрын

Half of the clips I was just like "wait they're supposed to be talking with an accent??" It just sounded so normal to me lol

@erinvelasquez3316

17 күн бұрын

Hahaha same!

@silentw1979

17 күн бұрын

@@Lazurikittiesame!

It’s South Texas, not Southern Texas. We don’t add that -ern business.

@spicyjoeflaminfajitas

17 күн бұрын

Yer dern right

@snickerswo1f519

16 күн бұрын

@@spicyjoeflaminfajitaswhy did you type like that

@spicyjoeflaminfajitas

16 күн бұрын

@@snickerswo1f519 why did you ask that question

@highschooloutcastrecords1055

15 күн бұрын

Just like "northwest" no, that's either west or oilfield, ain't non that north shit bout it. Least he called out panhandle for being the handle not west like us.

@JRCHomesteadTexas

14 күн бұрын

Yep

As a native Texan, I can say this was mostly spot-on, however, I kept waiting for the video to include the HUGE German influence - especially in the middle of the state! From Brenham, to San Antonio, Fredericksburg to Austin, and even more southern - German had an absolutely enormous influence on the state and accent. Most people (Texans included) don’t know that German was almost the official language of Texas before English! Spanish was a close third! True story!

@storylearning

Ай бұрын

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@EFeffie

Ай бұрын

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@Native_Creation

26 күн бұрын

Agreed, there's a lot of German influence (which heavily influences Hill Country), San Antonio has it, in addition to Central / Coastal / Southern / and Eastern Texas accents on that note. Along with a variety of Spanish accents from different parts of Mexico/Latin America.

@bluesdealer

20 күн бұрын

That’s mostly gone, though. In my region, we called those old timers with the German influence “hanyaks.” It was “dat dere,” not “that there.” That accent died with the WW1 and WW2 generations.

@xiabelle

20 күн бұрын

Right? I’ve heard plenty of people around Brenham with a German tinge to their accent.

My boyfriend and I are from Dallas, and we went to London a couple times last year. He’s a cowboy, so people were drawn to him, asking him to say “Howdy” and “Y’all”.

@lizardsofozz

Ай бұрын

Hi fellow DFW peeps! I'm in Plano :D

@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx

Ай бұрын

@@lizardsofozz Richardson & Rowlett!

@adamdrake2020

Ай бұрын

M Streets!

@dodgermartin4895

Ай бұрын

@@lizardsofozz I-35 is dadgum zoo ain't it.

@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx

Ай бұрын

@@adamdrake2020 lovely area, and close to all the Lower Greenville fun

I'm a native Texan. Lived most of my life on the Gulf Coast. I don't have a thick accent but I'm guilty of saying fixin to, over yonder, & I use y'all a lot. Word of warning, if you ever hear a Texan say "Ah hell no!" RUN!

@deborahmatherne

9 күн бұрын

jajajahahaha! ya betcha! And where is the Ft. Worth to Microplex lingo?

@brendadungan7641

3 күн бұрын

True statement. RUN AND RUN FAST

@brendaduncan4347

3 күн бұрын

I'll never forget the response of someone from Maine when he heard me say "fixin' to".

@laurakaszuba6785

3 күн бұрын

Yeah, and don't stop till you run out of road.

@marshahamilton1329

3 күн бұрын

My Texas roots run deep, ancestors where at the Battle of San Jacinto.

I live in San Antonio. People here say ma’am a lot. My two year old picked up “yes sir/no sir” from day care. She told her father - “Don’t wake the baby. No, sir.” Regarding everyone looks like a cowboy - ranchers, people from rural areas or small towns dress in cowboy style and it’s not a costume. It’s a very common to see and it doesn’t look unusual.

It cracks up my friends that I understand Boomhauer just fine, i didnt know until I got to college that Boomhauer wasnt supposed to be easy to understand.

@jamessloanofficial

Ай бұрын

Boomhauer sounds like half of my family reunion.

@philomelodia

Ай бұрын

Very similar experience. I got buddies talk just like him. I didn’t know other people couldn’t understand him until this girl I liked told me about it.

@stephenaulds2925

Ай бұрын

Dang ol Boomhauer, talkin' 'bout I tell ya what man.

@Jaster832

2 күн бұрын

Yeah, like... in the clip shown here he's talking about Seinfeld and how Kramer slides into his apartment. As far as that accent is concerned Boomhauer's is pretty easy to understand. I know a fella who has that accent here near Tyler and it takes me a while to aclimate to his speech cuz he talks has that accent, plus he talks quieter and with a deeper voice that's gravely.

@magustacrae

2 күн бұрын

Me too! Boomhauer sounds normal to me

This Texan understood everything that was said in the video and of course, while I don't hear my own accent, I was pegged as a Texan at Gatwick Airport in London once. When a Californian moved to Fort Worth for work and she brought her Californian boyfriend to lunch one day, when I asked, "What are y'all doing for lunch?" he looked at her in disbelief that I said "y'all."

@deborahmatherne

9 күн бұрын

When I arrive on an international flight and the agent asks where were you born and I say Sweetwater Texas, I get a look of recognition, a stamp and a pass.

@baronhausenpheffer

5 күн бұрын

Wait'll they get a load of the plural: "all a' y'all"!

@poeticaddictionful

4 күн бұрын

Everyone is saying y'all now, even NewYorkers

I’m a native Texan, the accents do change by just driving a hundred miles. I can be anyplace in the world and I know when someone’s from Texas. The easiest accent to spot in Texas is the east Texas twang.

@highschooloutcastrecords1055

15 күн бұрын

Issa Texas Thang

@LateNightHam

15 күн бұрын

I always know because my great aunt is from east Texas so every time I hear someone it's 🔔🔔🔔.

@Jaster832

2 күн бұрын

It's funny though, the women talk with a twang and the guys with more drawl, but both are distinctly East Texas (and not Deep East Texas like Beaumont.) Terrell, Texarkana, Tyler, Palestine, Athens area.

@Lunacat33

16 сағат бұрын

People still say y’all in Texas. I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could - 40 years and growing. Best people in the world.

I said y’all while I was in NYC. The guy in front of me in line turned around and said, “Did you just say y’all?”

@jmwild22

Ай бұрын

😂

@trey85031

Ай бұрын

I travelled all over New England and was surprised at how many people said y'all. They did find it hilarious every time one person in our group said, "big ol" as in, "that's a big ol house" though

@mikemilne

Ай бұрын

​@trey85031 lol I was having lunch with friends and as we left the restaurant I saw a huge tree across the way. "Dang!" I says, "Look at that tree!" Someone says "You know what kind of tree that is?" "No, what is it?" "That is a biggo tree."

@Blinkerd00d

29 күн бұрын

Yup... had that happen to me too. Lol

@misstasha

29 күн бұрын

My nieces, who are 4 and 6 years younger than me, grew up in Michigan and would tease me all the time for saying y'all and ain't. 😂

I’m from Houston and I’ve heard every one of these accents

@nasanerd4321

Ай бұрын

Same here. I hear them all

@petertrudelljr

Ай бұрын

That's what made King of the Hill wonderful. We ALL know people that talk like every one of them.

@jonathanvandagriff7515

26 күн бұрын

​@@petertrudelljrMmmmhmm, I tell you h'what

@rsmcroberts

25 күн бұрын

Same

@Stargatesleuth

16 күн бұрын

Are you from Houston or Uston? 🤪

never seen a video being this specific on texas accents. as a houstonian who has lived in a bunch of cities in texas, youre spot on right for the areas

@luddite4change449

Ай бұрын

He skipped right over the Houston accent, which is very distinctive from those folks up in Dallas.

@4evrtrenchbaby

Ай бұрын

@@luddite4change449 no he didn’t. he included thesouthern/houston accent in the gulf coast

@luddite4change449

Ай бұрын

@@4evrtrenchbaby The Houston accent isn't like Beaumont, Corpus, or Victoria/Port Lavaca.

@Hornsfan64

Ай бұрын

@@luddite4change449Those are Houston suburbs. 😊

@luddite4change449

Ай бұрын

@@Hornsfan64 LOL They certainly are now. I drove San Antonio to Austin a couple of weeks ago along I-35. It should be listed at the worlds longest continuous strip mall.

Boomhauer! Nobody talks like that, but King of the Hill is the most accurate representation of Texas on TV. I have the Texas Gulf Coast accent and was pleasantly surprised to hear it in the video. I don’t live in Texas anymore, but I kept the accent and I say y’all as often as I can. I also say all y’all when it’s called for.

@briansmith48

Ай бұрын

The creator of King of the Hill is from Texas. So he would know his Texas accents. 😊 Mike Judd also created Beavis and Butthead. 😅

@olliolivine9770

Ай бұрын

I feel like theyre known to talk like that in College Station, you hear Aggies start talking about Gig em they can start to sound a bit like that.

@LisaHooverdharma

Ай бұрын

@@olliolivine9770 lol! Hook ‘em.

@petertrudelljr

Ай бұрын

Heard someone behind me talkin' just like Boomhauer one day in the HEB. I've heard all the accents in King of the Hill around town.

@assignments5094

29 күн бұрын

Mike Judge is from Garland. A suburb of Dallas. Drop the first and last letters and you have, Arlan, the setting of King of the Hill. And there are people who talk exactly like Boomhauer. We sat in front of a guy at at a Rangers game once that sounded just like that.

This makes me so happy. I'm a Texas native and have been saying this for ever! My family is from East Texas, my husbands family is from West Texas. Our accents are very different. Throw in that my mom's family is from Michigan and my accent can vary.

@misstasha

29 күн бұрын

Lol. Mine varies. I moved to a small town near Fort Worth, Texas with my family when I was about 4. I picked up an accent while growing up. Sometimes it's stronger, sometimes weaker. My maternal grandmother and step grandfather raised me with my half aunt and uncle like I was one of their own kids. I lived a short while with them in Michigan, where my step grandfather was from. My grandmother is from South Carolina. I grew up with all sorts of accents around me, and sometimes one of those pops up unintentionally. When I first talked to my bio dad on the phone 3 years ago, he told me I sounded like a Southern Belle, lol. 😂 Now he brags he has a daughter with a Texas/Southern accent. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤣

@New517creation

22 күн бұрын

Same here. It's funny how I tend to shift my accent to accommodate who I'm talking to. Otherwise, they don't understand what I'm saying.

@kathleenkirchoff9223

17 күн бұрын

As a Houstonian who married a man from Lubbock and spent most of our life in Dallas, I can say East and West Texas are very different. They even Two Step a bit different. My husband teases me about my twang getting thicker when we visit my family.

@user-lr7xt6nc4u

15 күн бұрын

From Lubbock TX, husband is from the Piney Woods. I am used to but to others his accent is strong as is his parents. Most of these represent more rural accents. It is less prominent in cities. However, EVERYONE says “y’all” in both speaking and written countless times a day. Many Scots migrated this way and you hear it in common sayings and phrases. Our community is between 50-75% Hispanic so that is a whole other accent and influence.

@Talon18136

2 күн бұрын

Mine will vary as well I’ll use the city accent when I’m talking to customers on the phone at work and when I’m off work my thick accent drops in and I can speak fast and slow in both 😂

I'm from Central Texas, with deep roots in Williamson, Burnet, Llano and San Saba counties, and am an 8th generation Texan. I lived in PA for a while and people couldn't understand me. One time someone thought I was saying 'white' when I was saying 'black'! I'm proud of being a Texan and I love the old terms we use: 'might shoulda', 'used to could', 'shouldn't oughter', 'might be gonna', 'he's all horns and rattles'...

@Blinkerd00d

29 күн бұрын

Yup. My family has been in Texas since before it was part of the Union. We are mostly from the southeast, around Victoria. (Little 'ol Edna, Tx)

@Miesque1973

28 күн бұрын

@@Blinkerd00d I had dinner with a lady from Edna, just this past Thursday! LOL!

@Blinkerd00d

28 күн бұрын

@@Miesque1973 my uncle owned an auto repair shop in town for years, Dennis Ray Repair. The building is still there, but he passed away a couple of years ago.

@MsAmericanMaid

28 күн бұрын

Houston native, moved to central PA. First time I heard "you'ins" I thought I was being insulted. Had to repeat myself over and over so I could be understood sometimes, Never lost my accent, now in NC and boy hidey do they have an accent. lol

@artugert

27 күн бұрын

I can’t imagine how black and white could get mixed up. That’s really wild.

The police officer at 5:35 is the sheriff of the county I grew up in out in west Texas. Pretty funny running across him here. And, I don't have an accent, y'all do.

@deborahmatherne

9 күн бұрын

hahahajajaja! absolutely!

I am on a campaign to legitimize the exceedingly useful Texas phrase, "fixin to". I have not heard another English word that means the same. "Fixin to" is a courtesy announcement or declaration that an event or change is imminent: "It's fixin to start. It's fixin to rain. We're fixin to leave". The implied courtesy indicates that some degree of preparation or adjustment would be prudent on your part. Now, what other English words can do that? Whoever in England is in charge of deciding the legitimacy of an English word - I submit this proposal to you.

@angelastarling3052

Ай бұрын

My two future tense phrases I used all my life are 21:36 fixin' to and "I'm gonna go". I have a San Marcos accent with some northern Mississippi thrown into it. I've visited New York City and I definitely used my accent with a lot of y'alls. I'm proud to be a native Texan with my distinctive accent.

@caseywhitworth3414

Ай бұрын

@NelsonClick head on down to southeast Texas and “fixin to” becomes “finna” or “fittin to.” Lol I can’t say those phrases have never come outta my mouth before. 😂😂

@mattbelinski7760

Ай бұрын

Yeh, that phrase is used just about everywhere. I remember a girl I worked with about 7 years ago used to say it...on the east coast.

@ronnewlin-ml6lu

Ай бұрын

I'm a Kentuckian transplanted in to Texas. I've heard this phrase since I was 5. I'm in my 50's now.

@mikentx57

Ай бұрын

YES!! I totally agree there. That phrase deep in my brain for sure. Even when I try to tamp down my Texas accent. "Fixin to", pops right out without me knowing it. I will be talking to someone and sooner or later I will hear from them. "'Fixin to?' what is that?". But I love to use it. As far as I can tell it is pretty much just used here in Texas.

Your North West Texas is what we call West Texas. I have always referred to El Paso as Far West Texas. I live in San Angelo.

Loved that you launched your accent journey with a “Howdy!” from a girl Aggie from Texas A&M University, one of the largest schools in the country. That traditional campus greeting has helped meld generations of students from all parts of Texas, the US, and the world into a unified, though diverse, student body. “Howdy” is a delightful sound, particularly when uttered by a native Norwegian or Japanese or Nigerian or even Californian Aggie student.

@kathleenkirchoff9223

17 күн бұрын

Howdy is definitely an Aggie tradition. And would say not as widely used outside of College Station, the good old boy Aggie network is very strong through many professions especially engineers.

You really missed out on covering Houston which, because of its incredible diversity (over 145 native languages spoken in the city), there are a number of, lack of a better word for me, pidgin accents as all the different language groups mix together.

@ninadreams127

Ай бұрын

I agree! I think people don’t realize Texans separate Houston/Galveston and the Costal Bend as two different regions. Houston’s history and diversity makes it distinctly different, even though it’s all along the Gulf of Mexico.

@danielemmons3513

Ай бұрын

My favorite shop owner was this little Vietnamese woman. Now picture her dressed to the nines in cowboy duds and when she talked a Vietnamese accent with a deep East Texas drawl

@MrDameius

Ай бұрын

@@danielemmons3513 The Vietnamese diaspora is huge in Houston so that is not an uncommon site.

@EDDY_D26

Ай бұрын

Htown here

@LateNightHam

15 күн бұрын

I'm in the middle of everywhere, texas I-10 90 and 77 all run through my town, main streets, actually. You have all these city folk stopping for gas and vapes, grabbing a bite to eat just to deal with some country fucks in a town with a German name they cannot pronounce, and watching then is gold.

When you hear 'oil' pronounced as 'awl', or 'Highland' and 'Allen' sound exactly the same.... you're somewhere close to Marshall, Texas!

@WranglerAg96

Ай бұрын

Yep down near Houston its “ohl”

@hwgray

Ай бұрын

"Marshall, Texas!" My birthplace, y'awl. Also lived in Yewston.

@dutchreagan3676

Ай бұрын

@@hwgray Skeeters the size of small helicopters

@jrm2fla

Ай бұрын

Some great southern variations: “all” and “erl”

@reddmutt1916

20 күн бұрын

I was born, and raised in Marshall,Texas.

Thank you for covering Texas accents. People don't know how diverse accents are in Texas going from Spanish mexican accent in the South to Cajun accent in the East

That was fun. I'm a Texas girl. Born in east Texas piney woods, lived most my life on the Gulf coast in Corpus Christi. Since my mom had the strong east Texas accent, that one can come out in me easily. I was once teased by a New Zealand friend for being the only person she knew who could put 3 syllables in the word "dog" pronounced "daw-oo-guh"

Long-time viewer here. So nice to hear accents of my home discussed. Couple of notes: We consider anything west of I-35 "West Texas." El Paso is El Paso. Ask a Texan about El Paso, and you'll likely hear it's "closer to LA than Houston." It feels kind of disconnected from the rest of the state (from the viewpoint of someone east of I-35). Oh, and there aren't mountains in the RGV (roughly Laredo to Brownsville. I'm sure a local will correct me). That thumbnail pic made me chuckle. We were taught in school that they called it a "valley" to lure settlers down there in the 1800s.

@ninadreams127

Ай бұрын

Glad I’m not the only one that noticed this😅 I thought I was just being picky

@jeanniearnold6726

Ай бұрын

El Paso isn’t Texas 😂.

@jennifercarter1265

Ай бұрын

Lol it depends on what part of Texas you’re from. I grew up in Abilene and I really thought of west Texas as Odessa (though I’ve lived in DFW for 12 years and I started referring to Abilene as west Texas not long after moving here). My mom grew up in Odessa and she considered west Texas to be Big Bend. Her mom grew up in the Arklatex region and her definition was more in line with yours. To be fair, growing up in Abilene when I got on I-20 there was a sign that El Paso was 399 miles west. And it’s 762 miles from El Paso to Longview on I-20 so there is more Texas west of Abilene than east of it.

@loverlyredhead

Ай бұрын

As a central Texan, there's west Texas (Abilene, Lubbock, Odessa, Del Rio all qualify) and Far West Texas (that's El Paso, the Big Bend area, etc). West of 35 is the Hill Country (Blanco, Fredericksburg, Junction, Kerrville) before it ever gets to West Texas.​@@jennifercarter1265

@D940

Ай бұрын

El Paso pre 80's was def Texan through and through. Its different now though, sadly. My mom is Born and Raised in EL Paso and she doesn ever want to go back to that city as it is now. Im used to the Guf Coast and East Texas. Every time I go to the hill country my allergies kick up 5 times more lol.

I didn't know people couldn't understand what Boomhaur was saying until I moved to Florida for a year. 😂 I also understand everything Tater says on Yellowstone. My husband's from Iowa, and sometimes he will pause the show and ask me to translate what she's saying. 😂

@lindariley7037

Ай бұрын

I'm a Native Texan (SE TX, Beaumont area) & I think THIS is the first time I understood ALL of what Boomhauer said. My first hubby (raised in Conroe - 40 mi. North of Houston) used to say "tar" & I had to look around & figure out whether he was talking about tar, car tires or a radio tower.

@mistydawn-4884

5 күн бұрын

I lived in IA for a bit and my ex (that’s from HI) had to translate for me everywhere I went….used to drive me crazy trying to order food at a restaurant lol

@Jaster832

2 күн бұрын

Isn't Tater supposed to be from Texarkana, but she has a Beaumont accent?

@WTHshedoingnow

Күн бұрын

@@Jaster832 I kept waiting for him to go over the Texarkana accent! I always thought that's why she was so hard to understand!

I lived and still have family that lives in Odessa, which is West Texas. I LOVE how we talk y'all

@cookielady7662

Ай бұрын

I'm your neighbor in Seminole.

@whopper526

Ай бұрын

​@@cookielady7662i used to live there. I miss it. Love Seminole❤

@whopper526

Ай бұрын

Yay for Odessa❤i love our west texas accent too

@suzanneballou97

Ай бұрын

I was born in the Bronx, lived in New York most of my life. Moved to Odessa, TX nearly 19 years ago. Lived in Lubbock for about 10 years, now living in Midland, TX. I wish I could afford to move back east, I've never been able to adjust to the heat here.

@luckynumber2305

5 күн бұрын

Hey y'all....Big Spring here!

The ascents are spot on but "y'all", we must definitely still use y'all! We know how to citify our speech when we feel the need but don't let that fool you.

Thank you for covering Tejano, this is something that many accent videos fail to mention. I wish you would have expanded it, though. All of border Texas speaks it, not just the South. The accent also differs from generation. The first generation differs from the second and third. Either though, thanks!

Y'all and yonder and might could are ESSENTIAL Texas conversation❤

@wordforger

22 күн бұрын

Fixin' to. Used ta could.

@franciet99

Күн бұрын

@@wordforgeryep, I was surprised that ‘Fixin to’ wasn’t discussed.

I was born and spent the first 5years of my life in Texas. I then moved to Nebraska, my Texan accent was so strong, I was put into speech therapy to get rid of it. I wish they wouldn't have, I love the Texan accent. I do have some of it left...but not much.

@lisamarydew

Ай бұрын

I'm sure you sound lovely :)

@lamp8112

Ай бұрын

I had a thick Italian American accent growing up. It was kind of a Brooklyn accent. Then I had speech therapy for something entirely different and the therapist decided to teach me things like, it's not dis, dat and de odder ting, its this, that and the other thing. Now I do not have much of my accent left either. It comes back when I talk to relatives or sometimes it pops out on words like qwadaah, which is quarter. I catch myself correcting it., or my adult children do. Bummer huh? It was like Marisa Tomeh's character on "My Cousin Vinny." Not any more.

@andreabryant9979

29 күн бұрын

Awww, I enjoy different accents. It’s a shame when people in “authority” want us to sound the same. How boring the world would be if we were all the same!

@redhead8777

2 күн бұрын

Thaaaat's chilllld abuuuuse! Lol!

@Jaster832

2 күн бұрын

Born in Texas, but started school in Kansas and went back to Texas in 6th grade. I started new schools three times in Kansas (K, 4th, 5th grades) and every single time everyone asked me where I was from. No one asked me where I was from when I got back to Texas in the 6th grade. Was wonderful.

As someone who used to live in Texas, I only missed two outright: the Far West Texas one where I thought it was Panhandle and the Austin one(thought Michael McC. was from San Antonio) but I was too specific on a few others: I said the Permian Basin for West Texas(was an easy one for me since my Grandpa had a very strong West Texas accent from working in the oil business for most of his life), the Valley for South Texas, and Houston for the Gulf Coast.

@amandagfuller

Ай бұрын

I was too specific on most of them too. 😅 Except for the Hill Country. Enchanted Rock gave that one away.

@ninadreams127

Ай бұрын

The section for West Texas had two different accents in my opinion so that kinda messed me up. I’m from Midland but I’ve never heard that area be called “Northwest Texas.”

@Native_Creation

26 күн бұрын

There's a lot of crossover in the video, so it's hard to pinpoint. Lipan Apache one on Coastal could also be from border or Southern.

I'm really glad you brought up the "don't make fun of other people's accents" bit, I grew up in the town next to Enchanted Rock, and I spent a good chunk of my childhood getting rid of my natural accent, which is basically like 1:00 . I replaced it with a made-up accent that's somewhere between a newscaster and "Mid-Atlantic", because I saw people on TV making fun of people that talked like I did. I'm in the process of getting it back, though, and it's fun to watch people's reactions. It is nice to see someone point out that there are several different accents in Texas, though!

@hojichaisfarsuperiortochai9309

20 сағат бұрын

Fredericksburg?

Pretty accurate. There is a bit of German and Czech in central texas, and there are large Asian and Sub-continent populations around Houston. One of the last shows Anthony Bourdain did was about the diversity of Houston. Not sure how much bleedover there is in the accents, but we love the variety of food available.

@crypandora66

15 күн бұрын

There's a HUGE accent bleed of the texas accent into german

Native East Texan here with a very thick, undeniable Texas accent. I even text in accent, and didn't realize it, until my wife(from another state) informed me of this. According to Her I vary the thicknesses level of my accent depending on the Accent level of whomever I'm talking to. Apparently as She has pointed out, I can also speak right along with other dialects from neighboring southern states like her State of Arkansas. For me it's just normal conversation with other country folk.

@Jaster832

2 күн бұрын

I'm the same way, don't get me around my cousins who have lived their entire lives in Van Zandt. If I'm with them for longer than an hour or two my accent goes from midway between Dallas (where I was born) and East Texas to damn near as thick as their accent. I don't fight it though, I live out here now too and ain't ever going back.

12:25 Wow, Selena! My favorite Texan singer of all times. She’s an icon in Latin American.

@jmwild22

Ай бұрын

❤

@Andomalo

Ай бұрын

She’s only iconic in Texas. Not so much in the rest of Latin America

@frankiemendez4601

29 күн бұрын

​@Andomalo She has a far-reaching influence within the U.S. among Hispanics.

@Mantis-yg6fv

2 күн бұрын

That was a pleasant surprise to see Selena! 😊😊

It's funny how accents work. I love it when Olly speaks Spanish because all of a sudden -- no more weird British accent!

@dutchreagan3676

Ай бұрын

Yeah; he'd be a much better teacher if he learned to speak without that weird Island tone.

@TheAutisticFrog

Ай бұрын

@@dutchreagan3676truly.

As a Texan that grew up in Cali and moved back home to Texas...these accents sound normal to me. Side note. Selana and I sound a lot alike. But hey we're from Corpus and she lived a couple of houses down from my granny in Molina😊

Hey there. I'm from East TX. I got 6 of these right, the 1st one most definitely. This is very educational, learning more accents in my native state. Cool. Texas Pride!

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time on my grandparents ranch west of Waco. There was an old man who lived in the area who was a real throwback. His accent was unique and he talked exactly like Festus on Gunsmoke. Don’t know where he got it, but it was genuine for sure.

I'm mainly number 9 houston but have a mix of all of them. Alot of ppl say I sound like Louisiana as well. I have a unique accent because I spent time back and forth from big city houston and small rural south texas. I grew up around a lot of black people so the way I talk turns heads wherever I go. Even in texas. The moment I go to another state people instantly know I'm from somewhere else. I'm a Mexican guy from a black environment in white small town texas. That last statement is what makes it all happen. Texas residents are all mixed together. You can go to any small town BBQ or get together and there's gonna be mexicans, white people, and black people, all together, all raised together, etc. We all have a melting pot blend of all these accents

@chazfu

Ай бұрын

I was born in Houston and grew up close by, and I've also gotten the Louisiana comment about my accent.

@nomaderic

Ай бұрын

@chazfu yea I think ppl born and grew up in houston and South East texas have a lot of Louisiana culture and accent in them. I mean we are the gulf coast

Central Texas here. Dude went all around and left us out 😂😂

@petertrudelljr

Ай бұрын

San Antonio Sad Face here...

We are going to Texas next week to visit our son. We are from the mid-Atlantic, this is gonna be fun!

@lisasdfwhightechworld9946

Ай бұрын

You won't hear these accents in the big cities. You have to go to the rural towns and visit the feed store. I am the only person left in DFW with a Texan accent.😳

@MadTracker

Ай бұрын

I moved to Texas from the east coast many many years ago. I disagree, you’ll definitely hear accents. They may be less prevalent in larger cities but you’ll hear them. I genuinely thought I had an undetectable accent, other than sounding as though I’m from the US. While in British Columbia Canada I was repeatedly asked what area of Texas I’m from -without volunteering what state I am from. People often don’t realize how distinct their accent may sound to others.

I'm a native Texan who has lived in the suburbs of Dallas all his life. I'm definitely atypical when it comes to accent, though, as my parents are from New York and I have a General American accent with some New York influence. I don't use many "Texasisms" at all but I was able to pin down most of the accents you featured. Thanks, Olly!

Olly, I’m so glad that you got to visit Texas. You know you barely scratched the surface, right. You need to do a follow up. Come to Odessa and I’ll introduce you to a few more accents heard around the oil patch (Permian Basin).

@amandagfuller

Ай бұрын

I was surprised he didn't mention the Permian Basin accent. My grandma has it, and and people LOVE the way she talks. Although, so many people pass through there working in the oil field that it's starting to blend in with other Texas accents. Maybe that's why he didn't cover it. My grandma is 94, so her accent is pretty unique and an excellent example of how accents slowly shift over time.

@zanepetty7854

Ай бұрын

@@amandagfuller our OOs and OHs are emphasized. It’s unique.

Grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. My family is in fact Sephardic Jew and Slavic and we in fact do speak with a Tejano accent. While my husband used to speak with more of a Gulf Coast accent. He would stutter as well so it would really draw out his accent.

I moved to Texas from Michigan in 1962. I was a child then but I never picked up a Texas accent. People in Texas still ask me where I am from, and I am in my 70's now. If I travel up north people will also ask me where I am from. I don't sound like anything in particular. It is not Texan except for my word choices, not my accent. As for this lovely video, I understood every single Texas accent. I live in deep East Texas and believe me the accent is very thick here. Have a good'un y'all.

Well done! Native Texas, born in Sweetwater, raised in Uvalde, went college in Apline, ran ranches Kilgore, Ft. Stockton, Floresville, Florence. Moved to Seguin and to Lubbock and back to Seguin and retired in Yoakum. When I speak everyone knows who I’m because of my Texas accent! Long Live Texas!🤠🇺🇸

Love these accents! My husband was in the Navy for 20 years and we moved around a lot. Made friends from all over the US. I have an Italian American Northeast accent which was softened in speech therapy. I loved the southern accents. One guy was from Alabama and pronounced penny pineee. It took me a good 10 minutes to understand a sentence he was saying. "Youer Daugta lahst herrrr pineee." LOL! You're daughter lost her penny. I loved meeting all those people! So great! I now live in the North Minneapolis area. Its fun to bump into Minnesota small town people who still have their Minnesota accents. Oooo dawn che know! Accents are just fun! I like your accent too! 😊

@phronsieone

Ай бұрын

My bestie, from MN, woukd call up and say, “Would ya ever wanna take the kids to the zoo today?” Or “Would ya ever wanna meet for coffee at 10?”

@lamp8112

Ай бұрын

@@phronsieone Also, can you borrow me that pen? I was first tempted to ask if I was needing a pen which obviously I wasn't since I was being asked to lend the pen. Very confusing LOL!

@phronsieone

Ай бұрын

@@lamp8112 funny! I lived for a few years in the KC area, we had lovely peonie bushes. I was surprised that everywhere I’ve lived in the US, some people called a peony a “Pinney” . We pronounced it “Pee oh’ knee”.

My wife and I went to Australia and every time we went to a restaurant people would hear us talking with our Texas accent and would come over and tell us how much they loved to here us talk. We got several free meals yee haw y’all.

Excuse me? Nothing about Houston? We are different from Dallas, you know. I grew up using the word 'tump' to describe the action of something falling over, as in, "I almost tumped over the milk." And we old timers have a non-standard pronunciation of the word 'bayou,' which we pronounce 'BI-oh.' And it goes on from there. Lots of outside influences from French Louisiana, Mexico, the American South, etc. Also, and this is common in a lot of the south, accenting tends to be on the first syllable, as you heard in a lot of other Texas accents. FI-nance, IN-surance, MON-roe, etc.

@jennifermauricio2300

Ай бұрын

I feel like he could do a whole episode on how we say words in H-Town. Kuykendahl, Alief, Fuqua, etc.

@mmtx73

Ай бұрын

@@jennifermauricio2300 Always said I could tell a long-time Houstonian by how they pronounced Kuykendahl and San Felipe.

@EmpressNatiLocs

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for pointing this out, I kept waiting for Houston as well. I definitely say all the words you mentioned, just like you wrote it 😅

@dianevacante9382

22 күн бұрын

Tump! Yes!!! My husband makes fun of me saying this all the time. Like what's the problem. It's dump and turn combined. Duh!!!😂

I got most of them, but I'm a fairly well traveled Texan. I currently live east Texas (probably the "gateway" to east Texas) near a town called Gun Barrel City.

Mundee, Tuesdee etc is how I pronounce the days of the week and I'm English (in my 70s). Remember the rhyme Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday - to rhyme with Grundy. A lot of older people in the UK say the days of the week like this and it's how you can tell their age as Stephen Fry once remarked.

When you showed a clip of Selena, I thought this was for the Corpus Christi area because that’s where she was born and raised. That’s where her accent comes from so I was surprised that the answer was South Texas. Also fun fact, Texas has the 2nd longest stretch of barrier islands in the world! The islands do have well known towns on them like Padre Island and Port Aransas so those areas have more localized slang and accents.

@yukinoloveless2617

Ай бұрын

Selena is from Lake Jackson not Corpus.

@ninadreams127

Ай бұрын

@@yukinoloveless2617 I just looked it up and she moved to Corpus when she was 9.

@Jaster832

2 күн бұрын

The guy in the video just doesn't know Texas regions very well. There's a difference between "South Texas" and the RGV (which he just lumped in with South Texas). At 12:07 he pinpointed a spot about 75 miles due East of Midland/Odessa as "Northwest Texas," which is not a thing, ffs. "Northwest Texas" = Panhandle. The spot he pinpointed is West Texas, or Eastern West Texas. I mean the man doesn't even know the difference between East Texas and Deep East Texas. Tyler and Nacogdoches have completely different accents. Corpus *is* South Texas, btw.

@ninadreams127

2 күн бұрын

@@Jaster832 No one calls Corpus south lol It's apart of the Costal Bend region but if anything, it's southeast

@bethmendoza1847

8 сағат бұрын

I was so surprised to see Selena in this video. RIP

I'm a native Texan now living in Northern California. I can't even understand some of these accents!

@katschrodinger954

Ай бұрын

Have you been kidnapped?!? One "Remember the Alamo" for yes and two for no.

@alaneskew2664

29 күн бұрын

My biggest sympathyies that you've been captured by the heathens

Being from N. Central Tx. I got the drawl & Slang, When in College (out of State) & Military my friends would ask me to say certain words phrases. Best words - #1 the word coke - coke can refer to any soft drink i.e pepsi, dr pepper, big red & so on (Not pop or soda). #2 Laundry detergent/soap is simply washin powder. Best story In the military stationed in California (before cell phones) I maid a collect call (yes from a pay phone). The operator said "I absolutely love you Texas boys and your accents). Dang it she hung up before I could get her number lol.

Austin accent and Hill Country are almost the same. Many of the old timer men you used as examples, no matter which region they were from, definately DID have their speech patterns changed by having a big wad of chew in their mouth. You should add the accent from the gulf near the Louisiana border. Their’s is very specific. Ham’s Orchard has amazing peaches, blackberries and a fun day out in the country!

@lisamarydew

Ай бұрын

I agree about the old timers! :)

I actually made it in This video at 4:40. How many beers did I have in me when I did that interview with Markian? I don’t even know!😂 God Bless Texas! Thanks for adding me and and my buddies in the clip!

@kmcc6

2 күн бұрын

Do you remember doing the interview? 🤣

Lived for a long time in SE Texas...that accent is pretty unique as well...kind of a blended hill country & gulf coast with a ton of cajun/creole influence

I just realized this is the first time I heard y'all in a British accent😅

being a Texan i can totally relate to the fact that our accent really comes out when we're talking about Texas😂😂

I'm a Texas native i grew up in the Dallas/Ft Worth area but more specific I'm from Ft Worth there's a difference between Dallas and Ft Worth accents even though they are not far from each other i can tell when hear a Dallas resident and when i hear a Ft Worth resident

@monikapanko2800

16 күн бұрын

Really? I live in Dallas and other places in the metroplex and I can't tell a difference. What are some differences you hear? I know my siblings sound more country than me. They all live ft worth and out west more.

@shakarussanders9911

16 күн бұрын

@@monikapanko2800 Lol yeah out west of the metroplex we are definitely more country sounding! For example I can tell if you're from Dallas or Ft Worth on the way you say here or stairs 😄

@theshape8992

14 сағат бұрын

Im from west Fort Worth and I can definitely agree with this. The way people drive in traffic is even different . You can usually tell when you go from driving in Fort Worth to driving in Dallas. The people in Dallas tend to drive a bit more aggressive than folks in Fort Worth.

I'm a native Texan!! How are y'all doing?

There is a mesquite accent. Its like the mid Texas accent, but add a bit of twang, and a little drawl. You here this accent where ever large amounts of mesquite grows.

West Texas represent! We don't all sound like King of the Hill.

I love accents. It's tells you a lot about people. Each state has its unique sound and language. Just like each nation. And accents grow with each language learned.

While I'm not a Texas Native, but I got here as quick as I could 37 years ago. An old boy here told me that "Fixin to" came from fix a team to a wagon. And it morphed to preparing to do nearly anything, as in, "Ahm fixin to open up a number 10 can of whoop ass onat sucker"

I’m a native Texican - born in Juarez but grew up in El Paso. I’ve lived a long time in Houston & Galveston. The Gulf Coast is the best. My husband & kids are native Texans! We moved up to Indiana for 9 years & folks always thought it was funny to hear the phrase “all y’all”. Living with these “Yankees” took some doin’ in learning how they speak & their mannerisms. Boy howdy - God called us back home & now we’re living in high cotten! God bless Texas & thanks for the nice video! ❤🇨🇱🇺🇸

28 years a Texan from about 50 miles north of Houston, I couldn't tell you where any of those accents came from but i understood all of them lol

You hear 'Sundee' and 'Tuesdee' in Nebraska, too. (My grandmother was brought up in the country.) And I sound rather like you! (Not brought up in rural Nebraska.)

@lisamarydew

Ай бұрын

That's cool.

@loganleroy8622

Ай бұрын

Same in rural Kansas.

I hope you enjoyed TX! I grew up there and don’t have a southern accent but I did spend half of it in the cities, move a lot after and I did speech therapy as a kid. My friends don’t really have an accent either. I suppose it’s a choice 😂

@amandagfuller

Ай бұрын

You might have certain words that are slightly accented. I have lived all over Texas, but I grew up in Houston, and I have been asked several times, "Where's your accent?" Every once in a while, I will say a certain word, though, and people will say, "Oh, there it is!" 😂

South Texas here and I’m so glad you used SELENA as an example, that’s the perfect accent of what people sounds like here

I'm grew up in Austin, just under 30, and it's wild that most people my age have more "neutral" American accents but most people over 50 definitely have a Texas accent. I had trouble understanding some of my teachers as a kid because my parents were from the midwest.

My grandfather Pentecost was an Austin's 300. He fought for us all. My GG Uncle fought at the San jacinto battleground.

i understood ALL of these, including boomhowers

It's crazy how fast you pick up "y'all". I'd only been living here for a year or two when I started saying it without thinking. Back in Wyoming for Christmas my siblings were laughing at me because it kept slipping out without me realizing. 😂

I was in Tech Support in Texas for the US and Canada. Sometimes I’d get a call from NYC. Now we needed to know what was going on before we shipped them thousands of dollars worth of hardware. I had quite a few call, talk real fast, and demand parts with no troubleshooting. Honestly it pissed me off. But I laid on my slow Western Texas accent, like “well,seems like you’re in a bad way. Why don’t we take a look at this critter, and see what’s goin on”. 90% of the time they agreed, or couldn’t understand what I was talkin about. Hilarious!

I was right about Panhandle, Hill Country, West Texas and of course Dallas but the other accents done stumped me and now im mad at myself. Main reason is I was raised as a truck driver who has always lived in CA so theres that.

I love the Rural Texan accent!! I guess that would be me. I LOVE the word Y'all

Decades ago I was in a large Chicago store. Trying to call my cousins over I made the mistake of saying "y'all come here". I got a lot of looks revealing my Texas drawl.

I grew up at the eastern edge of America's Midwest. School and later my career took me to Chicago, then Georgia, before settling in Texas. Each of those places had their accents, although I've never had an issue understanding someone. I now fit into none of those places as my accent has verbal quirks from every place I've lived. My northern friends say I sound southern/Texan whereas my southern friends say I sound like a Yankee. There is one phrase in Texas to be particularly aware of: "Bless Your Heart." Depending on the circumstances of its uttering, it can either be a sincere compliment or an insult calling into question your cognitive ability.

There is an accent that is rarer and is fading away, some of the older generation that are children of Czech immigrants will still have a faint Czech accent sometimes you will hear it around La Grange and surrounding areas.

@kevinr5187

Ай бұрын

Granger, Cameron and Taylor also.

@kevinr5187

Ай бұрын

From central 5th generation, joined the Air Force all the guys said man you got a Texas accent, I said no I don’t….they said you got it bad you just don’t know it because they all talk like you. The English ladies would say your from Texas aren’t you and I would say how did you know? There response was your accent!

@frankiemendez4601

29 күн бұрын

I even notice a hint of it in Elgin.

@josephbravo2590

28 күн бұрын

Pick me up some Kolache from the Czech Stop. 😉

Can you do a video on hawaiian pidgin please.

I am an instructor for a car manufacturer from north Texas and have students that I've taught periodically for 25 years. I am amazed at immigrant accent evolution. South Tezas twang on a Swede, East texas drawl on top of German, West Texas accent on top of Farsi. "Oil" is a word that can be pronounced in an almost infinite number of ways.🎉

I'm a native Texan and its funny to hear about our accents when I'm just used to it because I hear it every day. And yes, we do say "y'all"!! lol

Did y'all catch at 14:24 Ollie said Southern Texas?!! I don't know about y'all, but I'm originally from SOUTH Texas. There ain't no Southern Texas. We ain't from California. FYI. We only use the cardinal directions here in Texas. Love the video. I pretty much understood every word, but I don't talk like this much anymore, since I have lived in Austin for the last 40+ years now. Though, I'm originally from Sinton, Texas, which is about 30 miles north of Corpus Christi. Oh and fyi it's pronounced /Sint' n/. Y'all have fun out there!

Im from the Rio Grande Valley, my ears always perk up when I hear the local accent when I'm browsing you tube!

Girlfriend is from West Texas, I'm from deep Southeast Texas. She absolutely loves the " Vidor twang " I have when I get too excited talking about something and I start shortening ten word sentences down to four or five compound words.

You forgot to talk about Houston😕😅

I think you subdivided things too much. Austin is Central Texas and West Texas and the Panhandle tend to run together. One of the reasons there are regional differences is the incredible number of immigrants who settled here and became Texans. We have some strange pronunciation of foreign words brought by immigrants. The German word for green is grüne. However, if you go to a famous beer hall in New Braunfels you better ask where Green Hall is.

@austingee238

Ай бұрын

Lubbock Resident here: People from Lubbock say they are from West Texas despite the close proximity to the panhandle. People from Amarillo say they are from the panhandle. Somewhere around Plainview is where the switch takes place. We don’t necessarily “run together”. Amarillo folks sound like the Great Plains states to the north like Kansas and Nebraska and the Lubbock folks sound like your (edited because I pulled a kindergartener and used the wrong “you’re”) typical West Texas cowboys.

As a former Texan lived in Fort Worth and never heard some of the Dallas lingo but some guys in junior college had a real twang. Have used ya'll, plus 'been there, done that'. Grew up in north Texas and had no problems understanding other Texans even when traveling to Houston or west Texas.

I am from Texas but back 55 years ago when I was starting school we moved to Washington State. My school teacher there tried to put me in a “special class” bc she thought I had a speech impediment. My mom (actually born and raised in Washington herself) had to convince the teacher I was raised in South Texas (Huntsville) and that we all talked like that and she should hear my relatives 😂😂. I talked “fast” but with a drawl. Side note…came back to Texas a few years later, glad I did❤. I love beautiful Washington, but my heart is in Texas.

Maybe next time you could identify Tennesseean Accents?? that would be cool to see as a tennesseean

❤💙Hello lovely teacher Olly! Do you know how much I love their accent? People from Texas? Is the same I love your accent also.🇬🇧🇺🇸😘🤝💋💔💋💔

really love that you did a video on the great state of Texas. So much history and culture here that many would never realize. I live close to the piney woods area, in between Houston and Dallas, so it was fun to hear accents I hear all the time featured. I dont have a thick accent but but I do slurr and drawl more than I twang. I definitely drop my g's for the gerunds though. ie "Im gonna run to the store later. Im wantin' some sushi, but thinkin' about somethin' else too. do you want me to pick you up sompin as well?"

As an East Texan I really appreciated your video, in grad school I took a linguistics class and we took a quiz to determine what region of the U.S. our dialect originated. Needless to say, my dialect was way South of the Mason Dixon Line, although I expected no different. I can relate to the elderly woman, whom expressed down playing her accent, I also consciously hide my accent when at work or professional setting. However, while I may down play my accent, my turn of phrase will always be Southern. It is also important to note the cultural differences as it contributes to our speech. Thanks for the video.

Try [just] accents in Georgia 😅

4:41 wow almost like we were a country for four years

Haha native Houstonian/SE Texan here! I'm glad you did this video, there are lots of different accents here in Texas.. What I've come to notice is in the the bigger cities like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio we don't have very thick accents like you are accustomed to seeing on television. The thick accents are in the small towns 100 miles out of the city. The thickest I ever heard was from the far north east, Mt Pleasant near Arkansas. I remember when my son was young he used to die laughing, nearly in tears listening to his cousin from his mommas side talk. Omg his reaction was gold. 😅

She said "Happy, Texas" and I just smiled. My family on my dad's side is from Tulia, which is just south of Happy. I was born and raised in Amarillo, did a bit of radio and tried hard to lose that accent but I do revert back when I get passionate about something. I've done public speaking and I have that "professional mid-west" thing, but if you put me in a room and give me something to talk about (my passions are writing, gaming, and vampires...and my kids and grandkids), I'll drop right back into that drawl I grew up with. I'm on the Gulf Coast now, been here since 1990, but I've not lost the voice from back home.