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He sounds like he's from Tennessee and trying really hard to sound like he's not from there - hence the mixing up of other accents.
FYI, I'm from the west (born and raised in CA, lived for 18 years in WA), but lived in Tennessee for 5 years. He does not sound like he's from the west. And as far as the south, he does not sound like he's from Georgia or Virginia, which have a different sound, or from Texas (I've known several friends from TX and have visited there often. And Alabama has more of a twang. Maybe Florida...but my memory of vacationing there is that they also have more of a twang.
I vote TN, and he's trying to fake like he's not from there.
Listen harder next time. My family is from Kentucky and I was raised in northern Florida. I have friends who are from Tennessee and have spent enough time there to know: That doesnt even "slightly" resemble a Tennessee accent, not even in the least. Kentucky's accent is very similar to Tennessee. If you want to hear what a real Tennessee accent sounds like look it up on youtube, youll find out quickly...that is NOT a Tennessee accent.
You didnt read what I said...I said: rural "inner mountain west" not "the west as in a general sense of the term" I'm referring to mainly Idaho, Wyoming and rural areas of eastern Oregon, Washington, Montana, maybe areas of Colorado, Utah etc....
He sounds like alot of ranchers that I've seen and heard on TV...besides it says the man lives in Montana so. I must not be too far off..
Tennessee? Not even a little LOL...
Maybe while you were living in Tennessee those 5 years you did alot of "talking" and very little "listening?" I dunno......listening is an aquired skill that unforunately is a dying breed in todays age of ultra "narcissism" and glorified "me" worship...
Alas I digress...
Go listen to some Tennessee accents on youtube, and listen a little harder......not even close.
Definitely not west...I was raised in California, and have family in eastern Washington and have traveled extensively there and in Idaho. He sounds nothing like natives of those areas.
I'm no expert on regional dialects, and wouldn't be able to pin his down, but I would say anything else before West.
Listen harder next time. My family is from Kentucky and I was raised in northern Florida. I have friends who are from Tennessee and have spent enough time there to know: That doesnt even "slightly" resemble a Tennessee accent, not even in the least. Kentucky's accent is very similar to Tennessee. If you want to hear what a real Tennessee accent sounds like look it up on youtube, youll find out quickly...that is NOT a Tennessee accent.
You didnt read what I said...I said: rural "inner mountain west" not "the west as in a general sense of the term" I'm referring to mainly Idaho, Wyoming and rural areas of eastern Oregon, Washington, Montana, maybe areas of Colorado, Utah etc....
He sounds like alot of ranchers that I've seen and heard on TV...besides it says the man lives in Montana so. I must not be too far off..
Tennessee? Not even a little LOL...
Maybe while you were living in Tennessee those 5 years you did alot of "talking" and very little "listening?" I dunno......listening is an aquired skill that unforunately is a dying breed in todays age of ultra "narcissism" and glorified "me" worship...
Alas I digress...
Go listen to some Tennessee accents on youtube, and listen a little harder......not even close.
I can't even hear your accent, but I know where you belong.
I bet you nailed it! Which is the opposite from what I was thinking. I was thinking the twang was natural, and the rest was put on to cover it. But, I bet you got it right. And from what others say, he's from the east. So, this is his idea of what people from Montana sound like.
He sounds like he's from Tennessee and trying really hard to sound like he's not from there - hence the mixing up of other accents.
FYI, I'm from the west (born and raised in CA, lived for 18 years in WA), but lived in Tennessee for 5 years. He does not sound like he's from the west. And as far as the south, he does not sound like he's from Georgia or Virginia, which have a different sound, or from Texas (I've known several friends from TX and have visited there often. And Alabama has more of a twang. Maybe Florida...but my memory of vacationing there is that they also have more of a twang.
I vote TN, and he's trying to fake like he's not from there.
Never! I've been in TN 20 + years, from east to west, and he doesn't sound like anybody here I've ever heard. The O's are odd
our (ayer) time
moment
granted -very nasal
bloated
overreaching
growth
right (rait) now
standing on (own) the side
He's definitely from the country. He's got a good ole boy/bubba subtly to his accent, but not entirely southern as some of his vowel sounds are forced and a bit nasally reminiscent of the Upper South/Lower Midwest.
He's definitely got some southern twang. But strangely, it also sounds slightly British-esque. Listen to how he pronounces "bloated overreaching government growth" at the 0:23 mark.
And that is what you call the old South, probably America's closest cousin to the British Isles.
Kind of a North Cities Vowel Shift thing going on but with some other effect.
What? What exactly about his accent has a Northern Cities Vowel Shift?????
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