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New Orleans Accents

By Stuart Buck

On browsing through YouTube videos of accents, I loved this clip featuring many different New Orleans accents: Am I wrong to think that the very first woman in the video sounds like a New Yorker? The narrator later (at about 4:20) mentions people who "talk the famous Brooklyn-ese of the older city neighborhoods, the so-called 'yat' talk." Then, from about 5:25 to the very end, there are a couple of women who really sound like New Yorkers to me. UPDATE: Wikipedia confirms that the "Yat" dialect does sound like people from Brooklyn. Awesome. As for the video below with Amy Walker speaking in 21 accents, here's a video that shows what some real Texans sound like. Also some Kentuckians from Appalachia, who have a delightfully thick accent.Probably the thickest accent I've ever heard (from a native English speaker) is in this video: continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).