9.6M views · Jan 21, 2021 · 21:33 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2025
Dialect coach Erik Singer and several linguists tour distinct accents across English-speaking North America. It is the first part of a WIRED series on US accents.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends it as an enjoyable overview of American accents and what accent signals socially.
“I loved this video which does a tour of US accents.”HN comment, 2025
“wired did a pretty good series on accents in the US recently on youtube”
Series on US accents.
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: this video link link
“I loved this video which does a tour of US accents.”
Tour of US accents.
If folks find accents interesting, I loved this video which does a tour of US accents. Part 1: this video (Okracoke Island is at 13:40) Part 2: link
“This YouTube series covers it quite a bit”
Series covering what it means to sound white.
While there isn’t a formal definition of “sounding white” anecdotally I have plenty of friends of color that routinely joke about pulling out their “white voice” in certain settings (professional, addressing “authority”, etc). This YouTube series covers it quite a bit: this video Myself I have a very vanilla non-regional American accent (think Walter Cronkite) and they often point out just how “white” I sound. I also have family with more regional American accents (Upper Midwest, Southern) and as a child they’d often make fun of my “accent”. My response was always “turn on your TV, they sound like I do everywhere”: link This can be seen in a somewhat-humorous old YouTube clip: link
