Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as an enjoyable, accessible tour of US accents and cite it in threads on vowel shifts and dialects.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec tstrimple · 2025-03 · on “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]
Recommends AbsoluteDestiny · 2021-05 · on “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]
Cites firstplacelast · 2021-04 · on “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?