You shur do talk funny

Here are a handful of videos that sample some interesting accents

Eastern banks and inlets of Virginia and North Carolina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfyrRqc5TU&feature=endscreen&NR=1
(That's what my mom's family sounds like)

Southern Appalachian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iwAY4KlIU
(What my dad's family sound like)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJC4QufWs0
(What people sound like in my hometown)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis
(I think a lot of similarities between this one and some of the American southern accents are pretty clear, especially with the drawn out vowels)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTr-UlyLI_I
Cajun Dialect - the best thing about this video is it takes him a full minute and a half to roll a cigarette, and his wife has been making coffee for an hour. Oh, to have that kind of time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vWR_lNY8s&NR=1&feature=endscreen
(from an excellent docu-movie about irish travelers(Brad Pitt from Snatch) and their family feud, great for the language content)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0i2abKXr9c
This clip explores different parts of the states, but i like minute 2:30 and 33:00. Their accents are a jumble of north, south and british that is really hard to place in a category


Teaching English w/ Ricky Gervais
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2bTpyHGCE

And I could never forget the best of all my kin from the mountains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SEBA-9nU