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  • I never thought I had an accent, but everyone else told me I did, so I never really understood my accent.

  • But we say soda pop, and that was weird, I guess.

  • [50 people from 50 states do their state's accent]

  • The great thing about Oklahoma is, it's really this confluence of a whole bunch of different parts of the country.

  • So the northern part of the state is really like the plains, so people kind of have that flat Iowa accent.

  • People always know I'm from the Midwest when I say bagel.

  • But if you get down south to the Little Dixie portion, it has a much more of a southern drawl.

  • Elongating those vowels a little bit.

  • And saying y'all every sentence.

  • How y'all doing today?

  • Y'all want to go to Waffle House?

  • Come on over, we're going to Waffle House.

  • It's just like real round in your mouth, and you're just like, hey y'all, how we doing tonight?

  • Are you guys going to go down to the game this weekend?

  • I'm so excited.

  • Like Joshua's doing real great this year.

  • Everybody talks really slow, especially compared to New Yorkers.

  • Most New Yorkers are loud.

  • You got to fit your way into a conversation most often times when you're in New York.

  • Vermont's accent is very unique, and it's hard to slip into unless you're talking to another person who like grew up farming.

  • But the phrase that I can say in my accent is always, oh sure bud, oh sure.

  • People from California kind of have like, they say like.

  • Colorado doesn't really have a typical accent.

  • Lots of people say that it has no accent, but you'll definitely get called out if you say Colorado, it's Colorado.

  • I've been told from people in New York that my state has an accent.

  • Some people go Chicago.

  • I don't think we do.

  • There's parts that I can hear like a little bit of a twang and kind of sound like this.

  • Some people in New Mexico have accents depending on what part of the state you're from.

  • People in the South tend to sound a little bit more like they could be from Texas.

  • Really wide syllables, really kind of drawn out phrases.

  • It's a little sing-songy, like a little bit Valley Girl almost.

  • I'm from New Mexico and I love eating burritos.

  • You wanna go skiing up on a mountain?

  • Pass me those taters.

  • I don't know, I mean like there's cowboys.

  • You know, there's horses.

  • I don't know, cause I don't feel like I have an accent.

  • I went home a couple of years ago and was watching home videos of my sister and I and we had to like do a weather forecast as like little kids and we'd be like,

  • "There's a big hurricane coming from the left coast, but don't worry because we don't know that it's coming."

  • And people would be like, what are you saying?

  • I can put on the, you gotta park the car and hop the yacht and give the guy a quarter for some chowder.

  • That's a standard Boston accent right there.

  • N-E-E-R would have an A-H at the end.

  • It's kind of like Boston, but cooler and a bit more drunk.

  • Like we gotta go up to Baja, but I guess some lobster supper.

  • My mom has this kind of strange half French-Canadian, half Boston accent that sounds like peanut characters.

  • Womp womp, womp womp womp womp.

  • Oh, if you're from North Dakota, you've got some long O's.

  • Oh yeah, you betcha.

  • You hang on to your R's a little too.

  • It gets a little bit thicker the older you are.

  • Your grandma sounds a little bit like this.

  • Your mom might be a little bit softer.

  • I'm from Wisconsin, go pack go.

  • It kind of gets like up here, go pack.

  • I say big.

  • I have some eggs and a big.

  • The best example of the Wyoming accent I feel like I've ever seen was in Brokeback Mountain.

  • One curve in the road and they missed it.

  • So if you live in Washington State, no one ever says they have an accent.

  • They all think they speak pretty normal, which is kind of true.

  • Just kind of middle of the road.

  • Sort of like Delaware itself.

  • But they also kind of have like a country hit kind of thing to them.

  • So they'll say like Wershington, like I'm gonna Wersh my hands, and you're like Wersh?

  • What kind of a word is that?

  • We pronounce our T's as D's, so we say like Connecdicut instead of Connecticut.

  • I feel like Michigan's typical accent is very nasally.

  • Hi, like that type of vibe.

  • So if I'm from like north side Kauai, I'm going to sound something like this.

  • People say that us Marylanders have accents, but I don't think we have an accent.

  • Idaho doesn't have a really distinct accent.

  • There's no accent in Indiana.

  • This might be very biased, but I don't think we, I really don't think we have an accent.

  • I don't hear it, but I get reminded of it when I travel.

  • I mean, I think this is normal.

  • It's a perfect neutral Pacific Northwest tone.

  • Sarah Palin does not have a typical Alaska accent.

  • She's not really from there.

  • She grew up in, I don't know, Kansas or something.

  • My husband laughs at me because I say wolf instead of wolf.

  • Our accents are all over the place.

  • The first one that comes to my head is a Latino one.

  • (Speaking in a foreign language)

  • There's the St. Louis accent where we say certain things like cuadas and wada.

  • Where I'm from, they like to say Haina or Mayan.

  • That shirt over there is Mayan.

  • From Philly, they like to say Wooder and youse guys, but in Pittsburgh, instead of youse guys, they say yins.

  • What are yins doing?

  • North Carolina is, it's an interesting accent.

  • It's just got a little bit of a drawl.

  • It's a little lazier.

  • Just very slow paced, very good, very nice.

  • There's trust in South Carolina, which is mild like this.

  • It's more smooth.

  • Might have a daughter named Darcy.

  • And then you got the real squealy, squealy Southern accent, and then you just got the very, just, hey, how you doing?

  • God bless.

  • You have a good day now.

  • Is that good?

I never thought I had an accent, but everyone else told me I did, so I never really understood my accent.

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