American Couple Reacts: 30 Dialects of the UK! First Time Reaction to Accents!
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- American Couple Reacts: 30 Dialects of the UK! First Time Reaction to Accents! Wow! This was fun & informative! Continuing our UK education we decided it was time to travel down the road of different accents. We know there's certainly more than this video could possibly show and we aren't finished yet! We hope you you enjoy this episode. Please like and subscribe to our channel. Thanks for always being such great people!
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Hi everyone! Firstly we would like to apologize for the poor audio in the video we reacted to here. We did our best to increase the volume without adding too much white noise. Unfortunately the video just had low quality audio. We still hope you enjoyed it & will leave a Like & subscribe. Let us know if you want Wednesday's episode to be more on: Scotland, Wales or The Lake District. Thanks for watching! ❤
@@jules.8443 we haven't. We have gone everyday to check. With our schedules we won't be able to open on the videos but will definitely be showing EVERYTHING we get on videos.
@@jules.8443 Even in the Lakes there are different accents. Cumbria accent ranges from a bit Yorkshire, Lancashire, North East, even a bit of lowland Scotland.
@@octaviussludberry9016 she was referring to which video we do next
Scotland, of course!!! There's nay place like it. :-D
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Indeed. I'm nursing a hangover so I'm not at the races this morning. Your video is helping me recover though.
Some years ago I worked for a while in China. We were asked by one of the interpreters if we would pay a visit to their daughter`s school, as they were learning English and they thought it would be a good idea to interact with some "genuine" English speakers. So we pitched up at the school with our project leader, who was from Ulster, me (a Brummie) a Scouser, a Geordie, a west-country lad and a Scot. All of us had very strong regional accents. We must have set those poor kid`s education back years.
lol good one
Older people will have a truer accent as they're less likely to have travelled out of an area and are less influenced by accents from other areas from TV etc.
It's true that given mass media, English accents are weaker than they were. However I was walking in Canada last year and bumped into somebody who said (her third sentence) "I bet you can't guess where I was born?". Just from the way she pronounced 'born' I knew. I said 'Burnley' and her jaw dropped! LOL!! Accents are great fun and sometimes you can place people within ten miles, Even today!
This is taken from the Oral History project at The British Library where they've archived regional accents and dialects because they're dying out in some places and, in other places, developing into something new. It also archives stories about the way of life of the subjects when they were younger, that's why it's all elderly folks talking about the everyday things they did in their youth, like their jobs, hobbies and home life.
Well that's awesome!!
South East of England, yes maybe.. in the west or north of England, I don't think they are dying out
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I actually notice changes quite a lot, I now live in Germany so when I go home (to Sheffield), I notice that things have changed. It's doing a full circle, my kids, now in their late 20's and early 30's, are using words that their great-grandparents used but I didn't, I was recently taking the micky out of my youngest and she said "ar da mimmamorkin' me?" , it's an expression I've not heard since I was a kid. From what I hear when I go back to UK, a lot of young people, especially in the north, are embracing their local dialects after 20 years of neglect
I lived in the industrial cities of the West Riding of Yorkshire for the earlier part of my life, but noticed a big difference when I moved to the rural East Riding and then North Yorkshire. The rural people of the North and East had retained their strong regional accents much more than the industrial West and South Yorkshire. In answer to your question, yes, I would be able to tell the area of the country that someone was from, but like yourselves, if it was a very strong accent, and if they spoke quickly and made no allowance for talking to someone who wasn't from their own region, I would have to acclimatise, concentrate more, and might not understand some of the more colloquial words.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow The Cockney voice you heard was a well known radio presenter called Danny Baker. Often very entertaining, occasionally very gaffe prone. You can find him on You Tube.
Ask any Brit for the worse Cockney accent, and they will all pretty much agree it was Dick Van Dyke's bizarre offering in "Mary Poppins".
The most enjoyable way for Debbie to get familiar with the Welsh accent is by listening to the sublime poem "From under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas, and read by Richard Burton. It will stay with you for life.
Little secret. We Brits can also have problems understanding each other, mainly when we're not used to the area we're in at the time. I live in Manchester, and I swear the accent can change just within a 15 mile radius. We're a small country, and the variety of accents is astounding to us. We understand Americans because they've visited our living rooms for at least 65 years via the tv. Remember the majority of the people you're listening to have big hearts, and you won't find friendlier people. I don't boast the friendliest over everyone else, but as friendly as you can get.
I'm in Salford, mate. You can walk a mile down the road in Little Hulton, and you're in Farnworth and a totally different accent. From Shaun and Bez to Peter Kay.
I'm from wigan, not to far from Manchester and I would say our accents are completely different
I know. A part of my family live there and they now talk differently to us. And it's 20 miles as the crow flies?
I'm from Liverpool, so not a million miles away, but look at the variation in accents from the places between us - Widnes, St Helens, Warrington, Wigan, etc.
@@AlienDenzil85 Inner cities have a more rough and ready accent. It's a lot sharper compared to the town accents.
You are very correct about the variations within the regions. I vote for Wales for your next reaction, its a beautiful part of the world.
We were on a Viking river cruise on the Rhine and on our dining table were two Americans, two Geordies, plus me and the wife.(We’re from the Midlands). We had to sit in between the two couples and act a interpreters. The Geordies could understand the Americans but not vice versa.
i'm from nottingham in the east midlands. great reaction video again, great fun haha
The North Wales accent is very different to the South Wales accent 🏴 These accents sound like they were recorded a long time ago and they definitely are a lot stronger nowadays.
I’m a Brit and am not convinced at the accuracy of that audio. You’re absolutely correct to say that the accents are far more diverse than those listened to. In Wales for instant, some Welsh speak Welsh as a first language and not English. In Scotland, the accent can be different from island to island. The Glaswegian accent is massively different to the Aberdeen accent, and in N.Ireland, the West Belfast accent is different to the East Belfast accent. The variations in England are almost too many to mention.
One of the things worth considering is ethnicity. We are now far more multi-cultural than ever before, which has impacted on our regional accents and vocabulary. Times are a changing.
My accent is Pitmatic, the accent and dialect of the Durham coalfield. It is closely related to Geordie and what is called here Northumbrian. These accents and dialect words are generally considered to be the most closely related to Old English. Scots is a derivative. You are right that the speakers are elderly, and therefore have a slightly stronger accent. These are now a bit less pronounced and dialect is changing. If they spoke full on you would not understand. For example, in my dialect to say 'I'm going home to the wife and children' would be 'Am gan hyen to wor lass an the bairns.'. I can tell the very slight difference in accent between the old mining villages only 3-4 miles apart.
I'm from Bedlington Northumberland, the accent was called pit yakka, when I was young. My mam hated the kids talking like that so we were corrected all the time, to speak proppa Geordie 🤣
@@labradorlady5537 Same here. Yakka was the term we used. Pitmatic is posher. I can still hear my old Ma shouting 'I'll have nee pit (or yakka) taak in this hoos! - usually in connection with a term stronger than 'bloody'. Interestingly the verb 'yakk' is related to the old English for 'hew' - cut or chop up.
Alrite man
Closer to Old Norse than Old English.
I am from Hartlepool and only 1 mile away from Blackhall and its crazy that 1 mile difference has a massive change in accents
There is a difference between the North Wales and South Wales accents. Certain areas of Wales are more likely to speak Welsh rather than English which affects the accents.
North Wales you will hear Welsh spoken in the street by young and old. Back in the 1990's I found that in mid-Wales the older folk would commonly speak English but the children, thanks to the Welsh Language Act, would often speak Welsh to each other (and to me on one occasion). In the south, at that time, I never heard Welsh spoken though the accent was stronger than in the north.
There's also linguistic variations that influence accents across the UK: Cornwall = Cornish/Kernow, Wales = Welsh/Cymraeg, Scotland = Scots (a sister language to English) & Scottish Gaelic/Gàidhlig na h-Alba (related to Irish), and Northern Ireland = Irish/Gaeilge & Ulster Scots.
And in Scotland you're absolutely right that there's MANY more accents but also many dialects of the Scots language: "Southern Scots" (the Borders), "Edinburgh Scots", "Glasgwegian Scots", "Doric" aka. "Aberdonian Scots" (Aberdeen region, very difficult to understand even for most Scots), "Shetlandic Scots" (Shetland Isles), "Orcadian Scots" (Orkney Isles), and "Ulster Scots" (N. Ireland).
You could check out some Scots content, since it's making a revival over here, from Erin (BeautyCreep) or a 35-mins video called "The Scots language - by an English polyglot". There's also Len Pennie on Twitter who does the "Scots word of the day", she did a short video with BBC Scotland.
You mentioned that a lot of the voices tend to be older folk and - I can't speak for everyone and every region - but where I live, my grandparents spoke with a more traditional (if that's the word) Northumbrian accent, they would roll their R's whereas the younger generations don't. Could be natural progression of an accent but the older folk tend to have stronger accents.
I agree. The rolled R is the mark of Northumbrian.
"Why are all these people so old"
It's likely because the way younger people speak has kind of been... diluted? Accents are much more spread out than they used to be. Back then you could pin down where someone grew up almost exactly and chances are they lived on the same street, or in the same house, and nearly everyone they saw or heard spoke just like them. Now though people hop cities and consume a ton of media from elsewhere. You might be able to pin them down to a county, maybe an area of a city in some cases but the borders are a lot fuzzier now.
Scotland has more than two accents, the one people outside of Scotland are most familiar with is probably Glaswegian & the wider central belt of Scotland accent, which itself has varying degrees of spoken form, but all are relatively similar in general sound. However the accent in rural Aberdeenshire is very different from that, as is the Edinburgh accent, etc., but to a much lesser degree. There’s also dialect, with older generations using words no longer commonly in use, and their accent tends to be stronger too. My grandmother was using words throughout her life I never used, and she sounded different too, although we lived only 10 miles apart. Her language was crafted through reading & listening to others around her, there was no TV exporting different accents into her everyday experience either. She was born in 1901 and didn’t have a TV until the 1960s, and she never had a phone her entire life!
We have about 40
My granny was born and grew up in a wee place outside Aberdeen, called Insch. She moved down to West Lothian. I was used to her accent, none of my friends could understand a word she said! LOL!
I reckon Scottish accents change at least every 20 miles or so in any direction.
In Caithness there is 3 distinct accents Thurso Wick and Country
@@jambolynn I lived in Aberdeen for 8 years. After 3 years I needed to get a translator for 2 guys from Insh and I am Scottish
Older people have thicker accents. Sadly many dialects are getting slowly watered down through the generations. I'm 51 and my home accent (as opposed to my 'posh' work accent) is fairly thick Yorkshire but nowhere near as thick as older people I know. Also I'm from a rural area which seem to hang on to dialects longer than urban areas.
You're right such a shame, accents are not the same anymore. Much more watered down.
@@CEP73 I make a conscious effort to use my original Yorkshire dialect wherever I can (and when appropriate) so I'm at least helping to keep it alive.
@@markrichardson3421 I have a brother who shares a full name with you and was genuinely excited to think he was watching the same stuff as I, but after reading your fully literate comments I came to the conclusion that it was not him as he is the world’s biggest Chav and also has a (admittedly very beautiful and strong) English bull terrier so yeah, truly unnecessary comment but there it is 🤣👍
Edit: btw red rose for the win 🌹🏴
I've found that youngsters living in an rural/semi rural area will have the broad accent up until they leave their local primary school and travel into the nearest big town. Its from that moment on the accents get watered down. I remember bosses at my first job making me change the way I spoke which I did at work but once outside I changed back to my West country accent with a hint of Nordic
@@cyberash3000 we here in Cumbria have no accent, we speak properly 🙄🤔 (so says anybody anywhere) 🤣
Accents are dying all across the UK. When my dad was young he could tell which town people were from by their accent. When I was young our regional accent with regional words were still in use, but now our accent is so much weaker and our dialect words have completely disappeared.
Why do you think? That's sad
I once had a fellow who came to my work with an accent, I asked him, “is that a South African accent I’m sensing?”
He was from Nottingham 🤦🏻♂️🤣
I’m not good at accents
Probably an important point here is size. By the time you got to wales you'd only travelled about 200 miles.
Apparently Oregon is roughly the same size as the UK.
Hard to believe the UK is smaller than California and we have so many accents. Its said the accent changes every 20 miles
I would say every ten miles. There's a marked difference to the Sunderland and Newcastle accents for instance
On the subject of Brits hearing other Brit accents, George Bernard Shaw, author of Pygmalion (My Fair Lady), said that an Englishman only has to open his mouth for another Englishman to despise him. The play was about a posh bloke trying to teach a heavily accented cockney girl to speak in Received Pronunciation. For her own good of course.
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
as an Englishman i can tell you they have stacked
the deck here as those with the thickest accents
were also very inarticulate, and Wales does indeed
have a variety of accents
Forty years ago I organised a conference of union activists within the company I worked for.
I found myself, as a Londoner, often having to translate between the Brummies and the Geordies because they couldn't understand each other!
This took place in London. We had some drinks afterwards. The Brummies and Geordies had a deep suspicion of the weakness and tastelessness of beers from outside their area. They soon discovered how wrong they were when I introduced them to Abbot Ale, more than 5% alcohol, from Suffolk. The effect was remarkable. Their accents intensified!
Lmao 😂 that sounds like one hell of a conference to translate for
Hi girls Debbie from South Wales here,
You are correct in saying there are as many Welsh accents as there are counties in Wales, in South-east Wales there are lots of accents due to the international port of Cardiff, with all their immigrants, then there is the Valleys accents , then you arrive I Swansea and then that again is a different accent. Then the further north you go up in Wales the stronger is the accent, because up in north Wales you get thr biggest majority of Welsh speakers, and even I from South Wales have trouble understanding a real strong Welsh speaking person talking when they talk in English.
The person in the Wales section sounded North Walian as his accent was pretty strong.
Years ago my father worked with a Tynesider from the North-east of England and he told us that when his workmate talked fast and in his natural accent my dad, (a valleys boy from South Wales) had trouble understanding him.
We love being right! 😉 thanks for this info ❤
Thre are strong accents in South Wales, too - the Llanelli/Carmarthenshire accent, for example, and full-blown "Kairdiff" (Cardiff) accents are pretty distinctive as well!
Definitely North Welsh accent. Very "clipped' sounding.
The worst accent I ever knew was my friend's father. He was a mix of Geordie and Glasgow. I think only his wife understood him properly! :-)
Not only were the speakers old, but the recordings sounded quite old too: I'd say they're representative of what those dialects sounded like between the wars. Thanks to TV, most local accents are softer now. That being said, you're right about Soctland and Wales getting short-changed in the video. Welsh people from the Valleys sound quite different from Rhyl, for example, and nobody could mistake a Glaswegian from a native of Edinburgh!
Spot on! There are several different "Welsh" accents within Wales..just on the South Coast, pretty much every City has it's own...from Newport to Llanelli you'll hear a difference & it changes the further North you go.....at that can go for both languages 🤣🤘🏴🏴🏴
We lived near Usk, where the accent sounded a bit 'West Country' - almost like how Americans think pirates sound. I worked 16 miles away, 'up the valley' , where they had a very different typical Welsh Valley accent. On the way there though. I had to pick up 'supplies' at our office in the town, on the coast, where they had yet another distinct accent, similar to nessa in Gavin & Stacey'!
11:52 Wales - like Cornwall - has it's own language, derived from Celtic. Indeed, all signs and publications in Wales are printed in both English and Welsh.
I've seen this video before, but I wanted to see your reaction. UK accents variate a lot, just one example, I grew up in Sheffield (South Yorkshire), if you go 20 miles to Barnsley (also South Yorkshire), the dialect changes dramatically, I think it's because people used to be a lot less mobile
The lake district (the lakes) is beautiful and where Beatrix Potter wrote her books
As you say, the thing to remember about these accents and dialects is that there isn't just one Norfolk accent, or one Lancashire accent - each region has multiple variations depending on which town or village you're in - you can drive 15 minutes and encounter a different accent and a different set of words for common things
That's what we thought
It can even get more complicated than that. Even different generations of the same family can sound different. It has in my family.
@@neilgayleard3842 true - and we also haven't even factored in class differences yet :P
True. Or the influx of foreigners particularly from commonwealth countries after WW2.
Yep as someone coming from the forest of dean, just going to the city of Gloucester to work, was quite a big dialect change.
As someone who lives in Scotland trying to reduce it down to 2 accents is simply impossible. Even in a single city you'll have multiple accents so to say that someone from South West Scotland has the same accent as someone from the North East is very misleading. The accents are so different that in the case of my example people from each area I've highlighted would initially have difficulty in understanding the other if they were speaking in their native accent. Things have however changed a lot in the last few decades and the regional accents are slowly but surely disappearing. Having moved from rural Scotland to a city I no longer use my regional accent and most people are the same because the regional accents do make it hard for you to be understood at times.
One thing I noticed about this is that the example for Lancashire is more modern and uses less dialect than the Yorkshire or Cumbrian examples, which makes them sound a lot more different from each other than they are - if they'd had someone of a similar age doing the Lancashire accent, it would have had more dialect words and sounded a lot more similar to the Yorkshire and the Cumbrian in terms of musicality. Effectively, in some of these examples we are comparing full blown dialects (most of which have more or less died out) with mere accents (most of which survive)
Also theres no one Lancashire accent really. It gets very strong towards the Pennines and up towards the North.
@@martynnotman3467 I Agree Manchester alone has multiple accents like Bolton Rochdale Altrincham and Tameside all speak differently. Even Bolton and Wigan sound quite distinct. And where Tameside ends and just into Derbyshire the dialect can be quite different. They just used the Stretford/Oasis Voice on this video.
@@martynnotman3467 Agreed. I grew up in Bolton, and the differences in accent across the region are incredible. I think my favourite Lancashire accent is Rochdale - its got such a lovely burr to it and sounds completely different to the accent on this video - the accent in the video was kind of flat and drony but a lot of Lancashire accents are very rich sounding
Im in west cumbria and we do still talk like the fella reading that poem. But every town and village has enough differences that it is relatively easy to hear where someone is from.
Good morning from Cleveland!! I’m a Portsmouther but am going to Uni in the north now, and the accents are REALLY different 😂
You will find that British Broadcasting will only sell the "Queens English" to the USA, for marketing purposes most likely. Very southern England Home Counties
Not these days. There are very few "received English" accents to be heard on BBC (or any other British media) these days.
It is very hard to sell hard to understand accents. Probably why they got Brenda Blethyn to play Vera with her awful Geordie accent rather than a genuine Geordie, so they can sell it to the US etc.
There's an interesting bit of history connecting Scotland and America, the Appalachian "mountain men"...they're descended from Scots, which is why they talk totally differently to any other Americans. It's also why they have stills - whisky production was illegal in Scotland until the late 1800s but obviously people didn't give a hoot, the Speyside area of Scotland is where all the best whisky comes from and a lot of the families that ran the distilliries moved to Appalachia and continued the family tradition.
Hi Natasha and Debbie, the seniors I guess were used because their generation tended to live and work in the location they were born and raised. So their accent has a strong dialect. The younger generation tend to travel more, work or go to university in other parts of the UK, as a result their accents tend to be not so strong. In Wales there is a distinctive difference in accent it gets stronger in North Wales especially in areas where Welsh is the first language spoken. In the country of Wales all road signs are in the Welsh language and English. Scotland has more accents than the 2 shown, the accents get stronger the further north you go and in the Scottish Islands, especially in areas the Scots Gaelic language is spoken. In Cornwall (Kernow in Cornish) like Wales all road signs are in the Cornish language & English. I live in Devon in the City of Plymouth where the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the new world. The Plymouth accent is known as Janner. I was in Australia talking and an expat came straight over to me and said I recognise your Janner accent, your from Plymouth England, he was originally from Torquay in Devon about 35 miles away from Plymouth.
Enjoying your content, congratulations on your anniversary. Wales would be a good one to do next. Best Wishes to both of you from Plymouth.
The Scots originated in Ireland anyway so i wouldn't worry too much about the changing percentages of Scots vs Irish. And both have a fair amount of Norse in their DNA.
In general, dialects are less strong than they used to be. That's why they're using old speakers, as it gives a clearer demonstration of the specific features of the dialect/accent
To be fair to you guys, in these recordings, people are using a lot of colloquialisms. So you've got different accents, but also quite location specific terms, that actually a good proportion of Brits probably wouldn't understand either.
Also you're right about there being many more accents in regions than are offered. You can drive probably ten minutes in any direction, and find that the accents begin to change. Drive 20-30 minutes and the changes are substantial.
Nice vid in any event, keep them coming! 😊
I vote for Wales for your next reaction as that is where a lot of my family originate from and it is absolutely beautiful and has it's own language which is still in use in many parts.
Having a traditional Bristolian accent I don't hear my accent, its when I record and replay it I can hear how strong it is!
And it's obligatory that all pirates sound like they came from Bristol or Devon! None ever seem to have originated from Birmingham.
@@nevillemason6791 lang ways fra Brum to th' sea :-)
Yeah, there's a significant difference in Scottish accent between people from Glasgow and people from Edinburgh. So you can imagine there are even more differences across that entire area that the video labelled as "Scots".
And if you want to hear an example of young people speaking in a couple of different English accents/dialects. Look up Geordie Shore for a Newcastle accent from the north of England and The Only Way is Essex for (you guessed it) an Essex accent from the south of England.
Accents are getting more Americanized, I blame tv. Here in ireland we are just as diverse as Britain and proud of it
totally agree with you Brid - it drives me mad when I hear kids saying, awesom - getting a take out instead of "take away" its my bad instead of my mistake.
You should check out videos on the official language's spoken in the UK. You have English obviously spoken all over the UK. However you also have Cornish which is spoken in Cornwell which is part of England but was a Celtic nation with its own language. You have Welsh spoken in Wales. Wales is also a Celtic nation with its own language. You have Manx, spoken on the Isle of Mann which is also a Celtic nation with it's own form of language. You have Scot's spoken in Scotland which is a unique form of English. You also have Scottish Gaelic spoken in Scotland which is also a Celtic nation language. In addition to this you have Doric spoken in the north east of Scotland. This has just been recognised as an official language. In Norther Ireland you have Ulster Scots which is a form of English & you also have Irish Gaelic which is also a Celtic language spoken in Ireland
Youre right, there is definitely a huge variety within the different areas shown
Some really thick accents take time to understand. A lot of Scottish, Geordie, Scouse, Yorkshire and Norfolk are all accents which you need to get your ear in.
Great video! Interesting to hear what some of the people were talking about, so it’s a historical document as well - and entertaining commentary! Nice to hear my hometown Brummie accent again, and the intro made me smile too! :)
Quite right, my dears. Even we struggle with some of the accents in our own country. Most of the voices were older people and they were including many
dialect words which, with the strong accents, made things challenging. As others have said, the strength of the accents is slowly fading in this age of mass
communications. I well remember as a boy going into town with my grandfather and meeting a old man that used to work with him. He came from a little
village just over the hills from Brighton (maybe 6-7 miles away). His accent was so strongly "old Sussex" that I could only understand 1-2 words in every 6!
BTW, I hope you both had a truly memorable anniversary. Bring on the next video, please....................................the ancient Englishman.
When I was young the people in the next village accents and words were quite different. Many years later they are not so different.
Yes you can tell where someone comes from by their accent, I work 10 miles from home, get asked 10 x a day where I am from because I do not have the local regional accent.
Northern Wales is completely different dialect and accent is different completely to Southern.
One of my friends who is Scottish, came to work down here in Lancashire several years ago. She is very proud of the fact that she can now say the word "right" in a broad Lancastrian accent! Check back on the Peter Kay video for what people here in the middle of the county really sound like.
My County Worcestershire is sandwiched between the West Midlands to the east Herefordshire to the west Shropshire to the north and Gloucestershire to the south and depending on which bit of the county you are from you will probably have overlap with the nearest bordering counties. For me when I travel most people think I'm from Birmingham (Brummie) but that is about 20 miles outside of my county and locals would never think I was a Brummie but even within the West Midlands there is so much variation because on the outskirts of Birmingham you have what is known as the Black Country which has a very distinct dialect which is nothing like any of the areas that surround it. Personally I don't have much difficulty understanding other accents from around the UK but there are some that do take a bit of work because they are so strong such as Glasgow or Geordie.
I have a proper Yorkshire Dales accent, similar to the one on the video but the words we use today are different to his vocabulary. He was talking about milking a cow.
There are lots of different accents in Wales and they're all Welsh.😁😁
This is Welsh English, a lot of people in Wales speak Welsh as a language.
Wales is a country with lots of different accents like Scotland.I feel like they mainly focused on England.
They always do!!! 🏴
Watching your show for first time think both of you are doing a very good job .
Your reactions on the UK is brilliant.
Thank you Lee! ❤❤
I moved 2 hours across county lines from Yorkshire to Lincolnshire. People I met could pinpoint my accent to the town I was from , not just the county 😂.
Incidentally, the letter l in the place names Norfolk and Suffolk is silent. I recommend the video "Why are British Place Names So Hard to Pronounce?" by Jay Foreman.
Good morning Ladies, you are right, there are way more regional variations of accent than 30. I would guess more in the high hundreds if pushed.
For example, I originate from a place called Leek in Staffordshire. Two neighbouring towns are Macclesfield and Buxton, both 10-12 miles from each other and the same from Leek. Each town having markedly different accents. So thats 3 accents within a 10ish mile radius. Also the video used a mix of people, some with very strong accents and some with much much lighter (scouse, brummi and Bristol were very light). Also I noticed a few dialect words used by some of the speakers, theses being archaic words which have fallen out of use in general but which are still used on a local level.
PS, you are right about Wales, north and south quite different. Best if you ask the Welsh, I’m a delicate flower and they can get a bit touchy linguistically.
Ask them to tell you about the Welsh language, I’m sure you’ll find it fascinating.
My cousin is married to a Geordie (from Newcastle) and we have to get him drunk before we can understand him 😆 When he's sober, he talks fast but get him a bit pissed and he slows down so we can keep up (we're from the South East, but sound more like Kent from this video)
That's Valleys Welsh/Southern Welsh. Northern Welsh is much different. I'm in South Wales.
I hope you both had a super Wonderful anniversary. X
Cheshire was not included as people say they don't have an accent in that part of the country. Pure English so they say.
Where im from originally on Teesside in the NE is a "smoggie" accent. You can go 5 miles south and its a North Yorkshire accent. 10 miles north and you get Durhams pityakker accent. 10 miles north of that is Sandancer, then Geordie then the weird Northumbrian accent before you get to Scotland. All within a region thats about 70 miles and all distinguishable.
Totally agree with you this, I’ve the sandancer (Sarah Millican!) accent, so different a few miles in each direction, yet all NE is thought of as Geordie!
im a Geordie! i used to drive taxis 10 years or so ago. when a fare got into my car i could tell where they wanted to go before the hellos were done and was already planning my route by the time they had buckled up! a slightly different accent every 6 miles or less!
Don't worry, I live in Nuneaton which is in the Midlands and we don't understand many of the accents you were listening to. For instance the edge of Nuneaton is 10 to 15 miles from the edge of Birmingham and we don't understand what they are saying and if you go to Dudley it is even harder.
I am just down the road from you in Coventry and I agree !! A proper potteries accent has a thick twang!! 😊
Worked on building sites with people from all over the UK and the Republic of Ireland - Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Glaswegians, Geordies, Yorkshiremen, Lancastrians, Brummies, Bristolians(?), Londoners and all points N, S, E and W - and have no problems communicating with any of them (we'll sometimes may take the P out of one anothers accents), although slang and useage of words can vary - remember we had this bloke from Leeds (Yorkshire) who would call other blokes 'love'. From this side of the Pennines (Lancashire/Cheshire), who only call the opposite sex 'love', this sounded a bit odd, but we 'got' that this was his way of saying 'pal' or 'mate'.
generally speaking, northern accents are not prominent in UK or international media. Guessing those will be to tough to understand. Even in Game of Thrones, the northern accents strangely are spoken with more American words and grammar than northern English or Scottish
As you listen to each one you tune in to the accent. You hear a few words that you can understand and that helps you understand the others. In Australia we have always got a lot of English programs so you get to hear some different UK accents
Interesting urban legend about Bristol:-
Richard Meryk, anglicised to Richard Amerike (or Ameryk) (c. 1440-1503) was an Anglo-Welsh merchant, royal customs officer and, at the end of his life, sheriff of Bristol. Several claims have been made for Amerike by popular writers of the late twentieth century. One was that he was the major funder of the voyage of exploration launched from Bristol by the Venetian John Cabot in 1497, and that Amerike was the owner of Cabot's ship, the Matthew. Some theories are that his surname was how the name America came about. Bristol was a major and significant port and a lot of early settlers came from the West Country in England hence the Bristolian accent sounds a bit southern American. There is also a peculiarity about the accent where the letter L is put on the end of words such as, America becomes Americal and idea becomes ideal. Eg “I’ve got a good ideal”. The Bristol “L” is largely spoken by the older generation and is dropping from common parlance.
It’s also my hometown 😀
Sorry for the long post.
More than likely true seeing who claimed America and how it was justified. Why would it be named after an Italian when 1. The main funder was Welsh, 2. The Queen of England used Welsh legends to show legitimacy over the New World and 3. John Dee who convinced her to use those legends. All three had ties to Wales!
@@taffyducks544 I never said it was true. Just a story that has been mentioned, particularly in Bristol. Thought I might of been interesting. I stated it was a urban legend. Sorry you didn’t find it interesting. 🙂
Hahaaa…good one! There are mostly older people being used for this video because when tv arrived in the 1950s with it’s Standard English accent speakers, regional accents began to get weaker. That being said, we were on holiday camping on the south coast and the lady in the next tent howled with laughter at my Yorkshire accent and Dialect….not knowing that I was likewise amused by her London accent 😄. I LOVE that we are all different and I use my accent all the time.
Cumbria is funny I have relatives in Gretna Green and the accents changed from Cumbria to broughed Scottish within 10 mkles
miles lol
My darling dad was Cornish my darling mum was (South) Welsh great grandfather was Scottish. I live in the south east of England. Grew up with a lot of accents! Love them!!
So far as it goes, this was accurate. However, what is described as “south east” is, of course, “south central”. Moreover, you are correct in thinking that there is a lot more variation within regions, and even counties, than was indicated, although you get the general idea from the fact that Lancashire includes both Manchester and Liverpool (Scouse), while Liverpool and Manchester are only 20-odd miles apart. The Lancashire accent was also a coastal one: East Lancashire is totally different. The Yorkshire accent cited was also atypical: it was from North Yorkshire (nobody else would call a stool a “steel”). If you travel in Yorkshire from Sheffield to Huddersfield (just over 25 miles) via Barnsley and Holmfirth, you will go through at least five distinctive accent areas. Also, it is not the case that the accents are being lost. Yorkshire people, for example, are very friendly and nice, and, if you engage them in conversation in the pub, they will tone down the accent and not use dialect simply in order that you will understand them. Once you have gone, they will start “talking broad” to each other. In Wales, there are two main differences: north and south. Northerners not only have a different accent, some of the words (in Welsh) are different, notably for grandmother and grandfather. North Walians are also genetically different from South Walians, and South-West Walians are different again. I have done the Living DNA test (they have the best database for UK ancestry). I am half South-West Walian according to them, which exactly corresponds with my traceable ancestry. It is worth spending the £80 or so doing the Living DNA test if you are interested in drilling down to where in the UK your ancestors lie.
Yes, we can tell, if we have an ear for it, where other people come from. I once astonished someone by telling him, correctly, which Lancashire town he hailed from (Bolton), even though I had only just met him in Oxford.
The entire UK is about the same size as the state of Oregon.
I know I’m late to this but I loved this listening to all the different accents of where I’m from. Like someone else has said we find it difficult ourselves to understand the different accents sometimes if we’re not used to hearing it. I’m from Staffordshire which is near the West Midlands. Love your videos.
I'm from Merseyside, so have a Scouse/Liverpool accent. But even in the space of one city - Liverpool, there are about 4 variations on the accent.
You say Scouse sounded American. Scouse.is derived from a mixture of Irish, Welsh, Norse and Lancastrian. The older guy speaking in that clip has a less harsh accent than it has become now.
Sounds.to listen to are hard 'ck' sound, often lengthened slightly and a 'd' sound.instead.of 'the.
We knew it!
We're not Beatles fans, sorry
UK, here.
Brad Pitt's mumbo-jumbo in Snatch was, actually, a pretty accurate Traveler accent. I know a guy - who has settled now - and he understands every single word of Pitt's accent and reverts to it himself when drunk.
I'm a Geordie and the older generations do have much stronger accents than the youth. Also depends on the area. Weird words and slang that is tough to understand for people. It's barely English to be honest haha.
Aye an aal gi'ya a clue.
Divent be leaving the sneck on when yer gannet out an mind ye divent bang yer ed or yer be bad.
Don't drop the door latch and be careful of your head or you won't feel so well.
I've never heard the word vitals in England, only in Hollywood cowboy films from the 1950s!
Vittles" - short for " victuals".
In the Black Country we'd say it as " fittle", so " bostin fittle" means nice food.
It's only fairly recently that you can hear the accents on TV. Only the ''Queen's English'' could be used before. They had to sound like a BBC news reader. In other words the bland southern accent. People who went to acting schools had their own accent drummed out of them so they could speak ''proper'' English. Thankfully that's all gone now.
It never quite goes though-Fred Dinenage is originally from the Midlands, has worked on Southern Television since the mid 1960's & still pronounces very as velly as the Brummies are prone to do.
@@Hi-kq1vi You can take the boy out of Brum ..... :-D
@@margaretnicol3423 I must say his Yorkshire co-host has no trace of a Northern accent, I was shocked to find out she wasn't born in the South.
The welsh/English was South Wales and your right I'm from North and we are totally different
but having said that listening to it again he did mention a town north west wales
I agree the same sentence would be great to compare. These are older people using older words too which makes it harder and as people have already commented on these accents are dying out . Also each region, towns have there own ‘words ‘ for the same thing. Look up what we all call a bread roll for instance!! 😊
The easiest way to tell where in UK someone is from is by pointing at a 'bread roll' and asking them what it is 🤣
For me it will always be a barmcake..which is also something I'd call are kid if they'd been acting like a daft 'apeth..🤣
You were very right to assume that the representation of the Welsh accent was pretty general. Welsh has two distinctive accents (and dialects in the Welsh language) though Welsh people can often hear more subtle variations. What was represented here was the accent from North Wales - the South Wales accent is distinctly different. To hear the South Wales accent, download something by Rhod GIlbert - he speaks in a Carmarthenshire South Walian accent.
The Brad Pit accent in Snatch was supposed to be Irish, not cockney. You were correct that the Scots accents were nowhere near comprehensive enough; Edinburgh and Glasgow were not covered, for instance. And generally the clips were too short and in some cases too easy to understand if anything. Lastly, you have to remember that the the UK is about half the size of Texas, as an example.
being from South Yorkshire, i'm practically right in the middle of the UK so i get surrounded by these different regional accents and dialects, so it's no problem for me to understand them. however, one dialect that was missing and deserves special attention is the one from my home town, Barnsley dialect. it is a language all of its own and it would be interesting to see your reaction to it
There’s a lot of old people in this as they’re the ones with a stronger accent. I use to have a strong accent when I was younger but school taught me how to speak “properly” so I no longer have a accent. I’ve only met a few people my age (26) with thick accents.
Ok that makes sense. Thanks!
A school's duty is to teach its pupils basic grammar and spelling. Any attempt to change a pupil's accent is a gross intrusion.
What part of Yorkshire are you in with no accents. Utter tosh
Farmers and pirates.
@@Daniel_Goddard I would say to a thick accented person that over the past 30 years accents have softened and to the people in those regions they hear less of an accent to don't realise how strong it still is compared with other areas. I have lived away from my home town for 30 years and to the guys I grew up with I have lost much of my accent. Yet when I hear it myself its still quite strong.
I'm English and I had a hard job understanding many of these. I think it was partly because they came in mid conversation so it took a while to know what they were talking about, some were reciting poetry, there was a lot of slang, and most were very old people who spoke very indistinctly anyway. Although, these did give an idea of regional accents, many don't sound anything like the regional accents around today. The Scouse and Cockney in particular were very watered down.
You're right. North and South Welsh accents are different.
I enjoyed your comments.
Did you do a reaction to "Snatch" which you mentioned because I would be really interested to see that :)
It's probably been since the movie came out that we saw it
Hi I’m scouse but I’m south of the city so my accent isn’t as harsh as most in north Liverpool plus the fact I’ve had to work with the public for over 40 you have to soften your accent so your not repeating yourself trying to tell them something , my accent is harsher than the gent in the clip but my sons accent in much harsher than mine basically it’s fluid and will change , I can understand why they made this vid to keep authentic accents from years gone by but to be honest it’s miles off the scouse I hear and say each day 👍
Accents can change from town to town as well as county to county.
Same here in the States ❤
Dialect and accent are changing because we are more connected to other areas in the UK and globally, which means that accents are merging to some degree. Dialect (the words used for things) is also becoming less regional. Younger generations have more influences on their language from outside their local area. Having said that there is still a lot of pride in regional accents and they are very much still a thing.
Many people could be considered bi-dialectical, changing the accent and words they use depending on who they are with. My accent becomes much stronger if I'm with people from West Yorkshire and more neutral if I'm not. I'm sure this is true for you too. I would also not use words like thoil (to justify spending money), laik (to play), bairn (child) and starving (cold) if I was with people who wouldn't know what they mean.
You are right that the regions on the map all have their own variation. At some point you have to start grouping similar accents together. They did a reasonable job in England but could have shown the variation better in Scotland and Wales. I don't know enough about Northern Irish accents to comment on how well they're shown.
In terms of how well we understand each other. I could understand most of the clips in this video. I had no problem with the Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh and Northern English accents. I have to work harder to get the fast Southern English accents. I really struggled with Norfolk and I have no idea what the Cornish word "stank" means.
No problems understanding most of these accent I live the scotish accents as family is from their some really struggle with Scots but I find it easier especially highland accent
Rewatch with the subtitles, I had to for some of them and I live here, lol 💕
Good idea! 👍🏻
That was fun! Lots of older style language from, as you said, older people. Think it would have helped for the sound-bites to be longer, giving the ears chance to ‘tune-in’.
The ancestry kits are popular here. I discovered that I’m a very un-diverse 98% English and 2% Germanic!!
You should look up the Black Country Alphabet Song which will help with the Black.Country accent which differs from the Brummie accent despite them being neighbours.
Always find it amazing how Americans all know their ancestry and we don’t haha. I guess much of the states….a relatively new country by world standards has a lot of European and British origin but I admire the fact many look it up and research it. We don’t bother that much
Probably because there's a chance we are either a mixture of one or many of the Ancients Celts,
Roman ,Saxon ,Viking, Angles or Norman .
@@chrisholland7367 yeah but I should really bother looking it up haha
Great Video, always enjoy your content.
You're totally right about there being many more accents, especially in Scotland, Northern Irish and Wales.
Defo the audio was of older people from atleast 20 or 30 years ago and most have softer and the words and dialects have became much more homogenised in the last couple of generations.Having said that most still take great pride in their accent and is often an extention of a persons personality.
You are right about the Cockney accent, however the one you hear on films an tv is much exaggerated, a lot like the Now York or Boston ones get exaggerated over there..
Anyways keep up the good work