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Here's a rundown of different American accents: https://youtu.be/4NriDTxseog

For those unfamiliar.

 

[BearFlexington]

Whatever her accent in Boyz N the Hood is called.

"Well you need to watch him, cuz he's foin"

 

[hikarutilmitt]

Yep, the "Shoot my guns, touched my younger siblings, and vote republican to protect my 8/hr income" accent.

Please don't. I neither own a gun, nor touched my sibling and make a good deal more than 8/hr. I haven't voted in a while.

This raises an important question: do cats have accents?

Apparently animals DO make different sounds in different parts of the world, so it's likely true, but maybe to a lesser degree. I've heard cats that grew up around barking dogs their whole life actually bark like a dog (though clearly not exactly like one) because it was all they were around.

 

[Piggus]

Whatever the fuck accent Sarah Palin has makes me want to get my ears surgically removed.

I've been around a lot of rich Texans, and they tend to have a pretty pleasant accent. The southern accent is only bad when the person speaking has terrible grammar.

 

[kruis]

Why are we making fun of regional dialects?

We shouldn't. It's a shame that regional dialects are disappearing.

 

[MrChocolate]

Fran Drescher. If you say anything else, you're lying.

Janice from Friends. Your move.

 

[teruterubozu]

Canadian

Which one?

 

[jmood88]

North Carolina, that area accent. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I agree with this. I only lived there for two years but that was more than enough time for me to get to hate that accent.

 

[eddie4]

I always wondered what teaching the alphabet to kids in Boston is like.

Teacher: ...P... Q... AH... S... T...

Say "I lost my khakis" out loud.

Good job, you just said

Spoiler

"I lost my car keys"

in a Boston accent.

 

[Zeke]

Definitely.

This guy is awesome.

Liberal Redneck

This guy is amazing. I couldn't stop laughing he's on point man.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Does any heavy american accent sound intelligent?

New York Jew? Kinda associated with book smarts and the typical "nerd" voice.

 

[Forerunner]

That Hollywood California accent like totally freaks me out ("out" was sort of screeched there)
The Kardashian kind of thing

It's actually called, California English.

 

[teruterubozu]

Say "I lost my khakis" out loud.

Good job, you just said

Spoiler

"I lost my car keys"

in a Boston accent.

 

[Ding II]

Definitely.

This guy is awesome.

Liberal Redneck

Thank you for this.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Obviously whatever chain-smoking accent Cumberbatch was using in the Doctor Strange trailer.

The Boston accent is simultaneously the best and worst accent in all of the US.

 

[Gnome Scat]

Fran Drescher. If you say anything else, you're lying.

Agreed.

 

[exmachina64]

The Southern accent.

 

[Anoregon]

Because it's harmless fun?

I mean, yeah, but on the other hand a "What is the worst European accent" or "What is the worst Asian accent" thread would probably not last very long.

 

[Cagey]

Boston. By fahh.

Honorable mention to whatever the hell Torae on SiriusXM is trying to impersonate.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Definitely.

This guy is awesome.

Liberal Redneck

This dude just got a new subscriber.

 

[CharminUltra]

I dreaded callers with thick southern accents back when I was customer support.

Usually nice people, but... what did you just say?

 

[Davey Cakes]

Boston. And I've lived on the MA south shore for my whole life.

 

[Kangi]

Joisey.

But I say that as a southerner who's used to the... local dialect.

 

[Reverend Funk]

My favorite accent is brad pitt's southern-ish accent in ingloruous bastards. I'm not into guys but if he asked me to suck his dick I would.

 

[Regiruler]

Jersey Jersey Jersey.

I don't mind southern.

 

[impact]

Atlanta accent

pretty sure that's not english, but ok

 

[Vilam]

Definitely Boston.

 

[The Lamonster]

I hate the Brooklyn Bernie Sanders-esque accent.

It all sounds like Coffee Talk from SNL.

 

[gate stormer]

Not saying it's the worst, in fact I rarely hear this in MI. However I do hear it from time to time.

https://vid.me/OVE4

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I love you, Beantown. But yeah, another vote for Boston.

 

[mattp]

every accent where they pronounce the -ing at the end of words like "een"

fucking

god


whyyyyyyyyyy


edit: but really, we all know it's boston

 

[salty_Josh]

That's called Valley.

"Valley" is reserved for only the worst accents apparently


P.S
I love the Boston accent. Chandeliers

 

[gutter_trash]

I hate the Brooklyn Bernie Sanders-esque accent.

It all sounds like Coffee Talk from SNL.

Bernie's accent is more specifically Jewish from Brooklyn.

Eddie Murphy and Charlie Murphy have the best Black American accents. Hailing from Brooklyn

I love Charlie Murphy's telling of his Hollywood Stories.

 

[Raven117]

In terms of actually not being able to understand, it's Cajun...seriously...that deep South Louisiana accent is impossible to understand unless you are from there.

For ones that are actually spoken more widely....Man...that Boston accent is pretty damn grating.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

The fargo accent.

It sounds like they are the most gullible people in the world

 

[Trigonometrize.]

I think any accent can be endearing if the words that go with it are endearing and the accent isn't a cartoon version of itself.

 

[PeskyToaster]

you guys hate on all the coolest accents.

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

The crazy Northern accents -- specifically the Boston accent -- are probably the worst, but there are some in the really deep South like Cajun that are really more of a separate dialect of English than a simple accent.

Definitely.

This guy is awesome.

Liberal Redneck

This is amazing! I've never seen this guy before.

Watching it is making me kind of lapse into that accent though!

 

[AnathemicOne]

Southern redneck

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Anything besides General American accent is the worst. I'm glad I grew up in the midwest.

 

[Aurongel]

Let's be real here, the Boston accent is a fucking blight on the English language.

 

[timetokill]

Boston

oah you oah ahh you noahht a naahc

 

[WaffleTaco]

Anything besides General American accent is the worst. I'm glad I grew up in the midwest.

Pretty much this...I do enjoy the Frank Underwood Accent or a Matthew Machoangey Accent.

 

[SyNapSe]

It's either Boston or some people from Jersey/NY. It's not everybody from Jersey/NY but there is some accent from that area that is terrible.

 

[Liquidsnake]

Southern redneck.

 

[Rayis]

Living in Texas, I actually find the Texan accent endearing, too bad it comes with a bad stereotype, you would never catch me dead speaking like that though.


Boston accent is grating as fuck tbh, I had a German teacher who was from Boston and her voice would give me a headache.

 

[Marvel]

I don't like a NY accent at all.

 

[Einchy]

Even the worst American accents don't hold a candle to stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c

 

[Sonicbug]

All this hate on the Boston accent makes me wish I had a stronger Eastern Mass accent. Most of the people in the area that have that accent are cops, contractors, fisherman, and car salesmen.

RI accent is far, far stronger.

Thick southern drawl makes me want to yell at them to hurry up. Nobody has time for your slow ass accent.

 

[nasax]

Even the worst American accents don't hold a candle to stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c

Where's the subtitle for that?