HackerTube.dev

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

WIRED · 9.6M views · 2021-01-21 · 21:33

Open on YouTube ↗

If playback is restricted in your region, try opening the original video. Use Mark watched to add it to your marked videos.

Overview

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.

On Hacker News

HN recommends it as an enjoyable overview of American accents and what accent signals socially.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

Topics

Language & linguistics
Search by tags
accentsdialectslinguisticsnorth americawired

What people said

tstrimple · 2025-03 · Recommendation

If folks find accents interesting, I loved this video which does a tour of US accents. Part 1: [VIDEO] (Okracoke Island is at 13:40) Part 2: [LINK]

Read the original HN comment ↗
AbsoluteDestiny · 2021-05 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

Read the original HN comment ↗
kkielhofner · 2022-08 · Reference

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: [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]

Read the original HN comment ↗

Sources

Video by WIRED, played through YouTube.

Data and selection notes

HN summaries and labels may contain AI errors. HN dates refer to discussions, not video publication.

HN Library: HackerTube export (2026-10-31) and open-index/hacker-news. Upstream summaries and classifications may contain AI errors.

Views, duration and playback status refresh separately from the published catalog. When an update fails, existing data remains visible.

Selection checks
  • SaaS & AI candidates: Topic keywords do not match
  • Editor-approved picks: Editorial review is required

Rule matches identify candidates. They do not guarantee video quality or financial results.

About the library and its sources