Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2021–2025.
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Dialect coach Erik Singer tours a range of accents across North America with linguists in Part 2 of WIRED's accent series. It covers regional distinctions such as Southern Mississippi, Miami and Utah English.
HN commenters recommend it as an enjoyable, accessible tour of US accents and cite it in threads on vowel shifts and dialects.
“I loved this video which does a tour of US accents.”
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If folks find accents interesting, I loved this video which does a tour of US accents. Part 1: [link] (Okracoke Island is at 13:40) Part 2: ▶ this video
in “The US island that speaks Elizabethan English” · View on HN
Really good article. For those interested in this sort of thing, wired did a pretty good series on accents in the US recently on youtube: [link] ▶ this video [link]
in “The Pin-Pen Merger (2020)” · View on HN
In the US there is a Northern Cities Vowel shift going on right now, that this linguist claims is the biggest vowel shift since “The Great Vowel Shift.” See this video starting at 7:10 ▶ this video Maybe related to what’s happening in Canadian English?
in “Great Vowel Shift” · View on HN