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Thanks for featuring my video. So glad you liked it.
I've just commented that I'm a Yorkshireman and rarely struggle with regional accents, but your video is so informative it has given me a new found respect for why most foreigners (predominately American I follow) struggle so much. Thank you - you really have a talent 👍
Thank you for a wonderful video, I find linguistics fascinating.
Interesting that ItsJps mentioned his visit to Pompey aka Portsmouth and that a local person sounded like a cockney.
The traditional Pompey accent is heavily influenced from cockney plus our city has a big naval history and a traveller history so we kind of have our own mix of accent, words and phrases that are unique to Pompey and the local area or are rarely used anywhere else in the UK.
Some examples of common Pompey words/phrases are,
Dinlo - which means idiot or fool
Chore or Chored - which means steel or stolen
Weee! - which means surprised or shocked. Usually said at the start of a sentence.
Squin or Squinney - my personal favourite which I probably use daily. Which means cry baby or sulk. "Stop being a squinny"
There's others as well but I won't bore you even more😂
Great video, the pronunciation and accent are amazing. As someone who has lived in the south, midlands and north , you've reminded me of some, as I now live abroad. The Geordie reminded me of my grandad and grandma although they were actually from county Durham.Great ! Wonderful to see the reaction to the original video, too! 😊
Subscribed! Very impressed
Wow! Someone actually doing a convincing E. Anglian accent. I'm impressed!
Yeah me too. It normally comes out as Somerset doesn't it lol
Bootiful! 😂
@@gary.h.turner Hint ut?
Londoner here - he is a professional linguist for sure - 'cos all his accents sound spot on to me. It would have been good to link the original video in the description :)
You really should credit the maker of the original video. I am about to start boycotting reaction channels who do not, because they have put in a tremendous amount of work, which ‘reacters’ piggyback on top of. Just giving you fair warning.
@@doobiedootwo3517 - spot on.
@@zeeox Agreed. It's a matter or courtesy and fairness to post a link to the original video.
@@threethymes - and especially if you like the content in it.
The original maker has commented on this video - and yes I agree, that man nails it!
This is one of the best accent videos I've seen because he isn't over exagerrating them like a lot of people do. Yeah some people have different variations of each accent and adding in slang makes them more exagerrated but these are very good and represent the basis of accents.
He is bloody good, not question about. Lived in London for over thirty years and can not do any of this. What an ear, what a talent.
Firty yeers !! Gore blimey guv !!
Dad met a linguist years ago at his golf club in Birmingham, he narrowed my dad’s accent down to within 2 streets in London’s east end of where my dad grew up . Dad left London in 1942 at the age of 18 and never went back so this was around 40 years later.
That's impressive! My Mum worked in Housing for Hounslow council back in the 70s and reckons that she could work out when some of the older people she met as part of her job came from Brentford just by their accent.
I've not lived in the East End, for almost 70 years, and people still guess I am an East Ender, yet I dont think I sound like it now?
In Yorkshire we condense our words because 1. It's cold 2. Fewer syllables = more time for t'pub. 😂
And sentences:
“Pub?”
“Pub”
2 Yorkshiremen agreeing to go t’pub.
More time for pub. You don't need the t', the word 'the' is completely removed. Goin' t'pub, can be I'm going to the pub or can be asking someone if they want to go to the pub.
@@Nevyn515 😆
In the 1980s there was a famous turkey farmer called Bernard Matthews. He had a Norfolk accent. He was famous for his catchphrase on TV adverts: “Bootiful”
The guy IS a magician. Not just his amazing accents but his explanations.
This guy is so talented, he must be a speech coach or something along those lines
No, it's just some bloke making fun of Ronnie Barker making fun of us all.
He is spot on - his accents are nigh on perfect. And his knowledge of sounds is encyclopaedic. Let me add my voice to those demanding you credit the original video JPS - it is really poor form to not do so...
The linguist is fantastic, what a command of accents. I recognised all of them.
One of the best examples of how regional accents vary came from a criminal case in the late 1970s. Police in Yorkshire were looking for a murderer, nicknamed by the press as the Yorkshire Ripper. In June 79 they received a cassette tape purporting to be from the culprit. The accent was pinpointed to the Castletown district of Sunderland. This led to a significant diversion of police resources, before it was realised the tape was a hoax. Advances in DNA testing meant that in 2006 the hoaxer, who did indeed come from Sunderland, was tried and convicted.
Never understood how it took them so long to catch him, and how nobody from Wearside went "That's John Humble".
A linguistic expert narrowed it down to an area in wearside
The hoaxer lived within the five square mile area he predicted
He is very know leadable, his knowledge on accents, enables him to flawlessly flow from one to another.
If you get on a train in the northwest, you can hear so many subtly different accents in random conversations. Burnley, Wigan, Bolton, Orrel etc. Even some villages have their own accent.
Not possible to do ALL the accents. There are way too many.. 5 miles in any direction and it's changed.
But he is good.
I believe there is a name for the sub-dialects. So, in all, he's hitting all the key origins. I'm Norfolk based. We have Norfolk, Broad Norfolk, and Norwich twangs.
That was so good , excellent explanations of the differences
Wherever I go-except in the USA, of course, where they think I'm Australian-people can tell I come from Yorkshire. But Yorkshire people think I talk posh, because I softened my accent as a result of leaving there age 18 and living in the Midlands, and now in the South West.
same here with me im from greater manchester but our town used to be part of Lancashire before all the boundry changes in the 70s i too now live down in the west / south west in bristol for 20 yrs next January and i have picked up some of that twang but still have my lancashire / manchester accent when i go home they soay i have picked up the bristol twang etc ! i obv dont notice it myself it others that mention it! 😉
in fairness yorkshire people think everyone's posh
I am originally from the North East but then lived in Staffordshire, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield (just for one year) and finally Greater Manchester. Consequently I think I have a GNE (General Northern English) accent. When I was in the USA Americans did sometimes ask me if I was Australian and on a visit to Mexico I got the same question from an American tourist.
Think you’re posh for living in the midlands! That made me chuckle ;)
The East Anglian accent is brilliant. Very hard to mimic. This guy is great!
I am from East Anglia (Norfolk) and he pretty much nailed it!
Yes, he sounded like Bernard Matthews.
Intut.
This is such a comfort channel which is a huge compliment btw
In east anglia you have many accents as well tho, and then London overspill led to many mixed versions.
All around me people sound like farmers or the kray twins, or a mix of both 😂
There is no such thing as very unique, it either is or isn't unique. Unique, one of a kind
Yes and know, work that out.
very meant truly or sincerely if you want to get conservative about language use Paul
One of my pet hates.
@@jointgib Key word... "Meant", not "Means".
@@memkiii that's right, these things evolve because people find new ways to use words. Clearly this sort of process can never apply to the word 'unique' as it's in a class of its own.
He absolutely got the East Anglian accent (Norfolk Suffolk) which is unusual as people usually get it confused with Somerset. What he didn't mention was how the past and present tense can be the same which I love so for example - He goo to the shop today and also He goo to the shop yesterday.
The East Anglian accent was somewhere between King's Lynn and Swaffham [ where Stephen Fry lives ].
Yes, Joel, I have noticed you completely missing out on the East of England!!!
Norfolk coast, Cambridge, Old roman capitals, Essex. Where I live in the Fenland. [ so flat you see chimney's of houses over the horizon! ]
I was born in Sunderland and brought up in Middlesbrough and still can't tell the difference between Newcastle and Sunderland. His accents were spot on, the way he went from one to the other was amazing.
You guys in the North East win for me every time, love that accent, so warm and friendly 👍 (Greetings from Stoke, North Midlands)
I'm from Newcastle and to be honest I couldn't tell the difference between Mackem and Geordie accents until I was in my thirties. There are a few words that really stand out, and depending on how you say them really defines you as Geordie or Mackem. One of them is the word news, Geordies pronounce it "n' yoows" and Mackems pronounce it like "new' ez" I'm not very good at spelling things phonetically but I hope you get the gist. Keys, mate, and haway are other good words we pronounce quite differently, even though haway isn't really a word.
@@tryaluck Glad to know I'm not the only one. I only recently was able to tell the difference between NZ and AUS!
Makem n takem (Make them and take them) is a geordie piss take on how sunderland folk soeak the difference is more noticable in older people. Geordies wouldn't say 'mak' they would say 'made' or med
It comes from the ship yards
we make them (wearside) and you take them(Tyneside) would be proper england (sorry couldn't resist)
The Tyne was the only river in the world that could build,arm and fuel a ship. In theory a warship could sail out the river straight into battle didn't work that way they needed sea trials before that could happen
The yards on the river Wear had to send their warships to the Tyne to have their weaponary installed at the Armstrong works
Makem was a geordie slur word that they made their own
@@borderreiver1555 Geordie accent has to my Fave Man! so Warm and welcoming, I was married to a woman who's Dad originated from "Soooth Shields" ... what a place, spent many happy days in the North East on Feathers caravan park 💖
His accents are pretty much 100% accurate. One of the best person for accents on RUclips.
He is very good! I have always loved doing accents (I was once a wannabe actor), but this chap is remarkable. His East Anglian is spot on, and is really hard to do.
He is the You Tube equivalent of Professor Higgins from Pygmalion. I live in the East Midlands and even some villages nine miles away pronounce words differently.
Yes,this bloke is excellent‼️🤔,i am from Wigan in the North West of England🤣✌️,my mother was the northerner but my father was born on the south coast -torquay .Yes,that is Blackpool‼️,i am sad to say Blackpool is a dump these days.The accents in my family are wonderful 🤣❤️‼️.My own personal Favorit accent is the Scottish.You are a darlin ,Manchester is next door to my hometown of Wigan and so i speak Mancunian 😬.Totally enjoying this vid,thankyou 👍
Lancashire use goin t'pub and t'mill too. It's not just Yorkshire folk who do that.
There had been a couple of comedy show's set in Liverpool, and Coronation Street had been on since the early '60s. But TV stations were quite wary about putting on shows that had northern accents, and presenters pretty much had to speak RP. In 1983, a TV show called "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" was launched - there were worries that southerners wouldn't understand it. It followed a group of British builders who due to the recession had gone to work on a building site in Germany - the seven characters of the show were three Geordies, a Brummie, a Bristolian, a Scouser and a Cockney. Most of the characters speak with a slightly more "modern" and softened version of their accents, but one "Oz" softened nothing, speaking in pure Geordie, usually at breakneck speed. He quickly became everybody's favourite, and I think that was one of things that helped TV stations relax their stance on RP - which was often referred to as BBC English.
Yes, you can actually hear the flat vowels very reminiscent of Northern England in US states of esp. Mass, Maine, with the 'yard=yaaad,' 'apartment=apaaatment.' It's highly possible this was taken across by the British settlers.
There are all sorts of interesting bits of accent variation going on in Warwickshire. There is such a thing as a traditional Warwickshire (and Coventry) accent but it clearly came about due to the contrasting influences of Birmingham, the East Midlands, the South East and even the West Country to an extent and it varies quite a bit from person to person and place to place. Most people say ‘last’ in a Northern fashion and some say ‘lahst’ like Southerners but there are others who say ‘laast’ like they’re from the West Country. Leicestershire can sound similar but they say ‘e’ instead of ‘ee’ at the end of words, so Hinckley becomes ‘Inkleh’ - it’s the Southernmost part of England to have that particular Northern trait.
He was very good. It's a difficult job with Lancashire. Wigan Warrington St Helens Liverpool and Manchester are all very close and have very different accents.
So he would need a video just for those. Excellent stuff.
Agreed. I've been living in Burnley for about 6 months. The true Burnley accent spoken by working class people with their roots here is very distinctive and nothing like accents in places a few miles away.
There are many local variations. I once lived on the aisles of Scilly, a tiny archipelago off Cornwall. In the past, each island spoke with a different accent. West Country on two of them and similar to London on two others. Also my Dad’s family were from Devon which is very distinctive and has elements that can sound like the Southern states of the US.
Half way through, this lad totally knows his subject.
Wow, what a talent. Fabulous video and reaction, Joel. Cheers, John in Canada
I like to think I speak properly for the most part so that anyone could understand, I've had many people say I speak "posh". But that being said, soon as I start a more casual conversation about football or stuff I do and don't like etc, my more local way of speaking always slips out and I'm dropping letters from the beginnings of words, using local slang etc.
Off the top of my head: in Wales, sound of the English letters 'ar' in words are quite quite long and hard. For example, in the word 'park' instead of the lips opening to form an "O" shape for the 'ar' section, they stretch across the face like a smile. (In South Wales.) "The army marches to Cardiff, Arms Park," was the test sentence to see if you were from South Wales.
11:33 If you go into a home in East Anglia and your host says 'Take a pew', be careful how you accept the invitation.
😂😂
It always makes me smile to hear people in East Anglia talk about driving 'Poojo' cars from France.
i knoo 't snoo cos i driv there
💩/🪑... ❓🤔🤣
He did a very good job, and he covered accents like MLE and East Anglian that usually get missed by people doing this sort of thing. Obviously there is no way he could cover all of them, but he put in a lot of explanation and history. The main one he skipped was the East Midlands he got some stick for that so made this video. ruclips.net/video/VEq-Fpk-aFE/видео.htmlsi=joQPCTHld8fybyX8
Thanks for the link - that was great for hearing him deal with my local accent!
What a great video. This guy knows his stuff!
I'm a Londoner, but we're all pretty familiar with our numerous accents, and I have to say, eez bludy amazin!
Great video Joel, I live in E Anglia, he's right about the accent ! I laughed when you said you thought you were sitting in front of Rodney Trotter 🙂
Thanks Joel! What a delightful video!
As a British citizen this guy nailed it
That guy slides so effortlessly between the differnt accents- and each one would be totally convincing (if you hadn't just heard the previous one)
The East anglian accent was also spot on- I lived in Norwich in my youth, and that was EXACTLY what I heard all around me. Adverts from a large Turkey farming company based in East Anglia used to use the local pronunciation of 'bootiful' to describe their meat - and this one word has made it into everyone's collective memory.
I was fascinated by his suggestion of their being gender differences in the Liverpool accent (and in women from Hull)- sounds mad- but his examples rang true. I can 'hear' a scouse woman saying 'jokes and popes' in the way he did- but not a man. But I'm not from the region, so couldn't say for sure.
This guy knows his stuff. All the accents were spot on.
This guy is bloody amazing, he had the West country spot on and the other accents were excellent .🇬🇧
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I'm sure the soap opera EastEnders has a lot to answer for the spread of the London accent throughout the south/south east.
And the media in general for a long time employing more estuary and West Indian London accents on radio, TV, adverts, than broader regional accents. A lot of celebrity show hosts have London or Essex accents. That has influenced young people not from those regions too and it's a shame.
@@hobi1kenobi112 Yes young Glaswegians have th fronting ( like Kevin Bridges) . It sounds annoying to me -( so unlike the Francie and Josie comedians from Glasgow I grew up on )
Possibly someone has already mentioned the Lancashire dialect before in these comments but the Lancashire dialect in the area surrounding Wigan was once almost as much a language of its own, just like the dialects that are always picked out as being the main protagonists where local dialects are difficult for non-local to understand. The strong Wigan dialect that was prevalent years ago whilst still used in pockets of the Borough has now been weakened by the influx of non-Lancastrians that have moved into the area and the movement of county boundaries since 1974. It even has its own name, Wiganese. It became a the butt of Music Hall jokes in the 19th and 20th century. For instance ‘Thas ner bin t’ pub sin tha wer poorly’, ‘You have never been to the pub since you were ill’ or ‘Ar’t awreet mon’, ‘Are you alright sir’. Or ‘Weerstabin’ ‘Where have you been’. Just a few common phrases you might still hear spoken by Wigan locals from some villages or Towns in the Borough of Wigan.
My paternal Grandad was from Wigan who moved to Rotherham way back in 1919 as a miner. Wigan was a big mining town and they tend to create their own accent. A bit like pitmatic the NE variation of Geordie. Near me the Barnsley accent is another good example of a unique accent created by the mining in that area(watch Kes)
In 1967 my family moved to the Wigan area from Haydock (about five or six miles away); on my first trip into town I couldn't understand a word anyone said.
I really didn’t know this! People still don’t understand me when I leave the Wigan borough though😅
He hit every single one very convincingly. There are also areas that are a little bit of a hybridization of accents is going on.
Portsmouth (Pompey) accent is similar to Cockney, due to many London dockers working in the Royal Navy dockyard during the 1800s. The accent is quite loud (I call it the Pompey Fog horn) due to dockers having to shout over the heavy sounding machinery. I lived as a child in Portsmouth due to my father being in the navy. I moved away as a teenager and consequently I lost the accent, where my siblings still retain it. Some Pompey slang words; mate is moosh , dinlo is a stupid person, cushty is splendid, oi-ay is hello, goin dahn tahn - going to the shopping centre, skate or matelot a sailor. Then there's the famous Portsmouth weeee, which my mother always use when she is surprised by something. As a school kid we always sound the th as f, which would often get us in trouble with our English teacher, what made it worst for me having a Portsmouth mother and a scouse father, hence I would mix my slang and my school mates would call me the posh kid.
I had the piss taken out of me when I said Hilsea Lido as 'Hill-sea Lee-dough' when it's 'Ill-zee lie-dough' - I'd only ever heard Hilsea from the station announcements (I'm from Chi-iss-da). And over Pompey way is Southwick which is pronounced Suthick/Suvvick and not Saathwick/Saafwick as the Southwick over Brighton way.
I’m from the Black Country near Birmingham but our accents are different. They can change within a few miles and yow car undastand wat them on abart arf the tyim arrkid
“Car” in Walsall, “Cor” in Dudley (both Black Country towns of course) , whereas thirty-five miles up the road in Stoke it’s “Conna”.
Very good, I like the way the guy slips effortlessly into the regional dialects whilst explaining stuff. Within an area such as metropolitan Liverpool, there are variations in dialect alluded to by the description of Northern RP. Interesting to hear the middle class accents of suburban Liverpool, for example such as that of John Lennon's Aunt Mimi (an interview with her can be found on RUclips) and comparing it with John's 'working class' scouse accent that Mimi accused him of exaggerating. Mimi sounded a bit like some of my relatives from the Chester area, to the south of Liverpool.
My UK accent is not on here, but it is hard to find videos of people with it potteries, also known as the Stoke accent I no longer have it as I lived in different counties
Brummy here, he was smashing it throughout!
He's not a magician, he's an orthoepist and sociolinguist. It has been a field of study and analysis for nearly 150 years, longer in the case of historical study of such phenomena as the late medieval great vowel shift.
I spent a little time 50-60 years ago in Surrey and Sussex. There were a few old people there who still had somewhat rhotic accents, vestiges of the old accents of those areas which you won't hear now. I emphasise these were old people when I was young, people whose accents would have been formed around 120-130 years ago. The youngest people I knew who had such an accent was the father of one of my friends, and he was probably about 60 at the time and a guy who worked at Effingham Junction station and was probably around the same age and close to retirement. I doubt anyone could identify any such thing as a Surrey or Sussex accent now. Maybe in the far West of Sussex, around Chichester? I don't know that area so can't say.
I am born and bred in Suffolk and his East Anglian accent is definitely more Norfolk than Suffolk or Cambridgeshire
Found this dazzling! If you have time look up Dr Geoff Lindsey’s site, who is equally impressive in analysing accents and dialects including American. Have fun😂
MLE isn't just London anymore. I hear it here in the midlands quite a lot in use by the younger teenagers.
the drug runners from The Smoke
Worst accent in England.
I grew up in Suffolk, the middle county of East Anglia, and his Anglian accent was very accurate. - It wasn’t until I’d been living in the Midlands for a few years, with Leicester, Coventry, Brummie (Birmingham) accents around me, that the yod-dropping Anglian tongue seemed really pronounced!
This bloke is amazing. I'm a cockney lass and can tell the difference between the London accents, but his ability to swap between them is spot on. Where is he from cos he has nailed all of them
His accents are bang on the money
My Mum was a Yorkshire girl but she used to say 'book, look and cook' like he did. She also used to say 'tunner' not 'tuner' for tuna. And when she phoned me at work in Australia people would say 'there's some Scottish woman on hold for you'...🤣
You are quite right about book look and took, my mum from Greater Manchester did as well. In fact I did until I went to Uni and people thought it was funny. It's a survival of Northern pronunciation and isn't unique to Merseyside.
🤣 Brilliant!
@Brigantum Our family was from nearby Shipley.
@Brigantum My Dad called them 'Finurkans'
Such a good video, never seen anyone react to it before
I liked the way he explained why and how different regions have different accents and dialects. I learnt something too as a Brit.
I'm originally from London and my wife from the north of England (200 miles away) - some of her phrases etc are Norse and olde English - a lot of the time I need subtitles!
In England, one village to the next may only be 15 miles but can have completely different accents and words for daily living.
I’m 30 secs in and he better do Manchester our kid!
"arr kid"
He's mad ferrit
fukki nell, izza riyt propuh guddn iffy duz. wotta staaar inti, juhnotameen.
@@sc3pt1c4L believe it or not - youtube has added the "Translate to English" button to your post ;)
Our kid was originally Scouse
That was bloody interesting.
In America 100 years is a long time ago, in the uk 100 miles is a long way away.
This guy's fantastic - a real gem!
I'm glad tha got stuck into that vid youth, lol, I live in the UK and still get amazed how many different accents there all. The accent changes from my home town to a city just 5miles up the road... Great Video sir!!❤❤
Terrific video. The guy really knows his stuff, and can replicate with great accuracy. He underplayed most of them. If you went to Newcastle, or Brum or Liverpewl you'll hear much thicker accents.
..even on the estates of "Manchistoh".
It was good, but I notice nobody ever tries a true Black Country accent (not Birmingham) a special part of the West Midlands 😊
Speaking as a Yorkshireman, I don't have a problem decoding most regional accents BUT after seeing this guys explanation I can really understand why most American struggle with accents - except you as you dared to travel off the beaten path! Can't wait to see your next expedition to the UK, as much as I'm a proud Northerner I think next time you should focus on the Devon / Cornwall areas and South East.
Just to help - 'East Anglia' means Norfolk with the kind of accent he described. Very good linguist. His scouse me laugh! Love your videos. Eck--i-thump! (pronounced 'thoomp')
Just to detail a little more. I lived in a North Notts village and I worked in both cities of Nottingham and Derby, both (capitol towns of the shires’) next to each other. The girls in the Notts office thought I was from Derbyshire and Vice Versa in the Derbyshire office only 16 miles away.
Haha I'm from the city of Bath and I get annoyed with posh southerners and Londoners pronouncing my home town wrong. In the Westcountry accent it's more like Baaaff 😊 I let Northerners off tho, their pronunciation doesn't bother me haha
This guy is probably the best I’ve ever heard.
Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire but have lived in Leeds (2 years), Nottingham (11yrs) London (4yrs) and Camridgeshire (27yrs). So, I've been exposed to a variety of accents/dialects. So much so that my own accent has changed. Moved back to Yorkshire when I retired and everyone thinks I'm posh 😂
Well at least you've redeemed yourself, sitha! 🎉
If you look up the thread of comments you'll find my experience (being born and brought up in Sheffield) is almost identical!
The Yorkshire accent and missing out some words, can be heard in many parts of Lancashire too, especially in east Lancashire
This guy is spot on with all his accents!
I’m from Lancs and drop words like I’m going to watch telly now 😁
When it comes to the West Country so called accent that was a TV and film accent. There are numerous dialects down here and all sound slightly different. I live near Bath or Baff as a local but my accent is different to someone from Bristol or my cousin who lives 15 miles away. Someone speaking from times ago would be very hard to understand by someone today especially the Somerset and West Somerset dialect. When I visit Cornwall they know I’m from the West Country but not from Cornwall and vice versa.
Having recently moved to Burnley, I got somebody - working class Burnley through and through - to take my photograph for a bus pass. I mentioned it had to be against a light background and, given that the walls were painted a light colour, it was a delight to hear her say in a thick Burnley accent, "Well, shut t'door and get thysen up against t'wall, lad."
Watch the film made in1969 called - Kes ( short for Kestrel ) made around Barnsley in South Yorkshire ... You probably will need subtitles though.
Upvote from me,Joel,really good vid from a very decent linguist;and noted you are really digging the MLE mention!👌
There are two main accents in Wales (North and South). The difference is largely based on whether the person has English asnanfirst language or a second language.
I'm glad he mentioned Hull in the video cos my accent gets overlooked when people talk about accents sometimes! The most basic rule for Hull is to lengthen vowels, especially 'i'. The best example of this is referring to yourself, so calling yourself 'I' you would call yourself 'aaa'.
To give an example of a phrase you said in the video, in Hull I would say, "Aam off daarn't pub" for "I am going to the pub".
loving your channel. My daughter lives in Boston and when I am there no one can understand my Manc accent they look at me blankly however I do speak fast. Funnily my daughter has a Manc American accent now.
His accents are very good - in fact I would say that they are mostly soft versions. You can hear very much more extreme versions of brummie and scouse.
This is a very interesting video, I say as someone born in the London Area. There is also, though,. a difference in vocabulary across the country as well. Because the British Isles had many invasions over the years, the words used in the North of England from the Jutes, Vikings and other Scandinavian invaders are different from the South where French from the Normans was common. You can often tell this because northern words are shorter and more glottal, Thus we might hear 'get' rather than 'obtain' across the country and within class levels.
It all comes down to the fact that English is very complex because of its history.
I agree he’s very good at getting the accents right. Quite often people on RUclips make lots of errors about it, but this one is excellent
His old school Liverpool accent is pretty good, Mancunian even better and Lancashire accents are also decent if not strong enough. The rhotic Lancashire accent is incredible, sad that it’s disappearing.
Walking along the Leeds and Liverpool canal this summer (2024) in Clayton Le Moor near Accrington, I checked with a late middle aged dog walker if I was heading in the direction of Burnley and it was great to hear him pronounce the r in Burnley when confirming this. One little island of rhoticity in England outside the West Country.
Living in rural east anglia his accent was spot on . The moosic ( music) is real you can also add compooter ( computer) and B &coo (B & Q)
Here's the thing about living in Britain. If you move cities, you will be able to speak in the native dialect within about 2 days.
The Welsh accent is just north and south as far as I know. They consider the other to be more or less inferior I think.
In the Dutch Language region (Belgium and Flanders) that would usually take about 15 years.
that was very very good, this guy knows his stuff
Best English accent video I have seen. 😊 Howay the lads!