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    Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED

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    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2025

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    14:18 · 2.7M views · Feb 17, 2021

    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.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @tstrimpleMar 2025· in “The US island that speaks Elizabethan English”

      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

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @AbsoluteDestinyMay 2021· in “The Pin-Pen Merger (2020)”

      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]

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @firstplacelastApr 2021· in “Great Vowel Shift”

      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?

      CitesView on HN