hello everybody and welcome back to a video that we'll start with welcome back my name
is evan edinger and today we're talking about some new jersey slang and the infamous
new jersey accent we'll start off with some slang get into some pronunciations and that fun accent
but first our first word of the day i'm going to teach you today filler up cash regular now
i've not had to use this word in such a long time or the one that usually goes along with it which
is 20 regular cash now if you watch my previous video on new jersey culture you would know we're
very proud of the fact that we don't pump our own gas so filler up cash regular is just the quickest
way of telling your gas station attendant what you'd like him to do fill up my tank i'm paying
with cash i would like regular gas or maybe you don't have a lot of money on you just have a 20
bill you would say 20 regular cash it's really great now if you're lucky enough that your gas
station is also a wawa you can just say fill her up cash regular get out go get yourself a made
to order hoagy and then come on back and it'll all be done for you the luxury of living in new jersey
it's just we really want to say everything we want to say in the shortest amount of time possible
it's beautiful really maybe you go back home walk through the door and your housemate asks you
gee or possibly yet there's just too many words in the expression did you eat yet yet
way more concise naming actually na mean is one of my favorite jersey words just because
it's six words in one do you know what i mean no i mean it just it really flows off the tongue
so much more concise we like to be fast it's like hey that guy's a little bit suss no i mean come on
pick this up it's a good one other states take it on board i do thank you all for subscribing
to my channel by the way even if i didn't have to ask because i know you all have done that anyway
yodev is great you all would have yold of sounds like something myself but south jersey
surprisingly is also pretty self there is a possibility that learning all these new words
is giving you a bit of adjective object comes from italian immigrants and means indigestion but
colloquially in new jersey it just means to be bothered it comes from the same root word as
agitate so oh man that's really giving me ajuda it's bothering me if you're from jersey and you
don't know a lot of these words you might feel like a bit of a stunt tsunad another one of those
italian words just means idiot ah don't be such a stunnad it's weird but it's just a word we use
john my mom is someone that uses this word all the time to use it in a sentence you'd say something
like oh what's that john doing over there or did you guys see fantastic beasts oh man that
john was terrible it's basically a pronoun that can fill in the place of any noun or sentence
person place thing anything it's just to john new jersey's pronouns are john john peace yo let me
get ahead of that john peace the word is very popular in south jersey because it definitely
comes from a philadelphia influence jug handle this one comes up in a lot of my videos and it
always confuses people even though it's not that confusing it's just a road you take a right on
to go left simple we get a little flack in new jersey for referring to pizza as pie
but that's because it's a pizza pie no one's complaining about brits when they throw mash
on top of meat and call that a pie alright if you don't call it a pizza pie you can take a pizza me
the brain kleenex became so well known for tissues that people just refer to tissues as
kleenexes now the same thing happened in the delaware valley in regards to
debit cards or atm cards there used to be a brand called mac or money access center that advertised
all over the place saying get your mac card to go to the mac to get your money and the brand name
stuck to this day where even though they don't exist anymore you can find a lot of restaurants
and businesses that say we accept credit or mac card wild my mom still calls it a mac card as well
i didn't know why until i researched it for this video and i was like oh why now we talked
a bit about custard stands in my last jersey video but today we're talking about jimmies
not you jimmy jimmy jimmy's what we call sprinkles so when you get a soft serve nothing better than a
bit of rainbow or chocolate jimmies delicious also by the way i did find that you can get
rainbow jimmies in the uk i found them on a website here that says they're the most classic
rainbow sprinkle it's true they call them hundreds and thousands here boo jimmy now the last word i'm
going to teach you before we move on to the accent pronunciation section is strip mall now this isn't
a mall full of strippers though depending on the business in there it actually very well
could be a strip mall is kind of like a terrace house in the u.s except for businesses it's one
long building split up into loads of different businesses usually on the side of a semi-popular
road new jersey definitely leads the nation when it comes to strip malls they're everywhere and
they're identical i've got a couple examples for you up here this one's got a papa john's a pretzel
place and a nail place and a sushi place uh and this other one here that one's got a paint store
and oh it's got a wawa so you can park there get some paint make yourself a hoagie if you
called a sub get out of my state it's a hoagie a long soft roll sandwich with cold cuts tuna
salad you name it so the new jersey accent just follow my lead and you'll be able to pronounce
everything like a true new jersey native from the south the new joysy accent you hear a lot on tv
is usually from north jersey and even still it's just the area right next to new york i'm sure
most people from north jersey and the mountains are going to be like hey i don't sound like that
sorry hello sir i'd like a glass of water please oh my favorite part about the first day of spring
the free water ice it's just water but you pronounce it water don't know why we pronounce
it like wood or water but that is one of the words that has stuck with me no matter where
i've traveled i'm like hey can i get some water no one knows what i'm saying at least i'm not like
excuse me sir may i please have some water nah man i just want a glass of water how do you guys like
your bagels cream cheese or butter don't know why but we pronounce it bagel not bagel they're
very popular in new jersey so you actually have to learn this one okay we got good bagels now
usually with your bagel you'll probably want to order a coffee the weird thing about coffee in
a new jersey accent is it's not that full new york coffee it's in between coffee and coffee
so it's more like a coffee can hear the difference please tell me you can hear the difference there's
definitely a difference there's a lot of great grocery stores in new jersey like shoprite or acme
even though there's no extra a in between ack and me a lot of people from new jersey will just say
acme now the way we pronounce the letter o in new jersey is actually quite odd and a lot of
people don't even realize they're pronouncing it differently until they visit someone from out of
state we change single syllable words like phone and home into double syllabic words like phone and
home in an example sentence i'd say oh i'm really sorry i can't make it i've gotta run home oh i've
got someone on my phone i did not realize i did this until i talked to someone i had to ask so
many people to be like can you please use this in a sentence and they would just say oh i've gotta
run home i was like no you better on home like i said very fine details but we have our own accent
okay this is the type of stuff that i really love learning about how niche or your accent
can get depending on where the states you're from don't say we all sound the same all right as a kid
you knew you were living at large if your parents brought you back a 64 pack of crayola crayons now
depending on where you are in the state you might not actually pronounce it trans you could say
crown yet neither of these two groups in new jersey pronounce it crayon the way it's supposedly
supposed to be pronounced but i catch myself saying that all the time i love coloring crayons
it's like cray apostrophe crayons i feel like i'm making a bit of a cheat sheet for if you've
watched any of my videos before now you know all the different little intricacies of why i'm saying
things the way i say them now a lot of people from new jersey would pronounce something like this
a pillow i try as hard as i can not to but yet sometimes i find myself slipping into it 50 of
the time and i hate myself for it it's a pillow but yet i'll be like oh can you grab me a pillow
another example of new jerseyans pronouncing one syllable words as two is mayan like oh
that pillow over there that's mine it almost sounds like the ancient civilization for mine
but yet two syllables oh that's mine and weirdly enough we also do the same thing with words like
pan like have you seen my pan pan pan we also do it with words like mad and bad so instead
of saying those as one syllable it might be like oh i'm so mad oh i feel so bad it's like bad bad
now this next one isn't just from new jersey and a lot of americans say it like this
but caramel it just flows off the tongue we kind of ignore the middle a and say
caramel especially when it comes to caramel corn popcorn i cannot imagine saying
caramel corn popcorn no going to the boardwalk you pick up some johnson's crumbled popcorn you
know what i love all my pancakes a little bit of syrup supposedly it's syrup but syrup flows right
off the tongue big fan did i just do it with fan big fan oh my god hello hello how are you
pretty good i'm filming a video about the new jersey accent and i almost feel like none of it
is real and it's all in my own mind and so i'm going to text you a small sentence and i want
you to say it out loud so i can figure out if i do pronounce this weird all right i'm a big fan
say it again i'm a big fan all right would you say fan was one syllable or two syllables definitely
one okay because yeah i'm a big fan i see it i'd say like oh i'm a big fan fan oh yeah you say fan
okay i feel like i'm not crazy thank you the first school you go to in new jersey is an elementary
school we kind of just skip over that middle tee and pretend it's not there oh that that's
elementary where does tea go we don't like tea okay we drink coffee sometimes you just gotta fix
the satellite on your roof this one's weird my dad said it all the time i personally would go in and
out sometimes i'd say roof sometimes i'd say roof either way just sounds like i'm either a dog or a
posh dog ruff ruff roof if you ever find yourself going out hiking you might pass over a small crick
it's like a creek but it's just a small crick it's just a craig now usually in an american accent
you'll pronounce double t as d like letter like it doesn't sound like letter it's letter however when
it comes to baby cats in new jersey we say kittens tuttis were like i don't see any of them it's just
kittens so you're like oh you've got baby kittens kittens kittens another example of the new jersey
accent ignoring the letter t is where you go to get your teeth checked out sounds more like a
guy's name oh tomorrow i've got an appointment at the dentists dentists dennis not dentists gotta go
to the dentists it genuinely sounds just good in my voice i don't know and though in a lot of these
we're making one syllable words into two the next one actually turns a two into one and is one that
i cannot shake and it's just how i pronounce it ah can i borrow a towel hey i'm a bit wet
can i borrow a towel just towel t-a-l oh i need a towel a hand towel big towel bath towel can i
borrow a towel not towel just tell basically how i think most americans also pronounce mir you don't
really say mira or mirror you just say mirror like yo check myself out in the mirror looks
like there's a towel on the floor now a lot of people might pronounce the berry in strawberry as
strawberry but something we do quite unique in new jersey actually is the word cherry which we
pronounce as cherry hey can i get a cherry water ice now if you're from jersey you might be like
wait wait wait really think about it you want to go to the cherry hill mall cherry hill cherry
hill mall that's that's just how we say it maul i guess i can add that to this as well mall maul
it's all weird at this point and finally one of my favorites is subscribe such as subscribe to my
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you want to watch other than that hopefully you get a chance to visit the beautiful state of new
jersey sometime practice your accent and stay in the right lane i'll see you guys on the next one
goodbye
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