Please do some more Scottish accents. There’s so much diversity here. Shetland, western isles, aberdonian, Doric, borders, Ayrshire etc! Everyone always focusses on Glasgow.
I live in the USA. Nobody believes me when I say the accent is markedly different every mile of the Fife coast. Utterly unimaginable here. That would make for a very educational video to break even one Scottish region down.
As an American, this is very helpful. I grew up watching BBC period dramas and adaptions and I’ve heard every British accent there is, but I never knew what they were called or where they originated from. I still love watching British period dramas. My mom and I got a BritBox subscription last year, and it’s the best subscription we’ve ever made.
For a very typical West Yorkshire Huddersfield/Halifax accent you should watch Happy Valley or Last Tango In Halifax… you’ll see our lovely scenery too!
@Themasada bro I’m from Sussex and our accent isn’t even mentioned in this video, in fact East Sussex has a slightly different tone to West Sussex not much of a difference tho but still a difference
@chilloutii3638 I lived in East Sussex for awhile but never noticed a difference between East and West Sussex accents. That's really interesting to find out. Do you have any examples of some words that might be pronounced a bit differently in each area?
lol, I think a lot of us had that thought. Maybe he didn't include him because Rupert Grint actually speaks a bit different from the other two. He tends to use more dark Ls and often doesn't strongly enunciate the H at the beginning of a word, sometimes dropping it completely.
As a Korean student studying in Manchester, the various UK accents truly sounded like an unknown European language when I first listened to the accents. It's been around three years living in the UK, but I still partially understand the Liverpool accent.
I'm from the Wirral, and I guarantee you'd comprehend my accent and speech, it's just outside Liverpool BTW. Not all Merseysiders speak Scouse. I don't, I sound more Cheshire.
@@JasmineSurrealVideos That's the misconception many have. I'm from Billinge (Merseyside - Just about but before the boundary change in 1974 a Wigan parish) and I have a traditional Lancashire accent.
How can such a small country have so many different accents? This is so fascinating to me. I took a linguistics class in college, and I absolutely loved it. I find the subtle differences in pronunciation so interesting. This video is just great!
Some of our accents are because of conquests of britain in different time periods. Iam from Bradford Yorkshire and our dialect comes from Danish Vikings (Norse) even tho we speak modern english... for example say your ears were burning... i would say are your lugs (ears) burning lol
in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia... in much smaller countries you have so many accents, dialects, one can tell from what region person is, and locals can tell from what town or even village person is by hearing them talking. it has much to do with language itself and f course with different influences by other languages, by history, by local geography (mountains or flats, seaside or continental). Dutch is similar with its varieties too
The small country was settled ages ago and has a rich history of all these regions fighting one another and trying to maintain their independence from one another. Also there wasn't that much of the migration of people within the country, not until the 20 century. Other factor is that many of British accents were heavily influenced by Celtic pronunciation of English words. All these and other factors combined led to distinct regional accents. Big, but relatively young countries like the US were mostly settled in the late 18th but mostly 19th century when huge waves of migration swept across it carrying the more or less unified pronunciation across the country. Then other non English speaking ethnic groups arrived and helped shaping many of the regional accents.
How can GREAT Britain be small? O.k., it's constantly belittled and ridiculed by that Bozo guy from 10, Clowning Street but apart from that it's really a great country and i met loads of nice people, although i didn't always understand everything... 😜
Its not too much Iran got nearly 80 languages and accents 😍 you just can understand where is the person actually from! I love it! So many cultures and history in different parts 🌸
You can literally hear the same characteristics in American accents: Bristolian - Great Lakes Nottingham - Washington DC, Maryland Belfast - Appalachia (Scots-Irish)
The southern American and therefore African American accents are VERY influenced by a specific northern UK accent. (I forget which one but Thomas Sowell has a great documentary about it.)
@@clicheguevara5282 That's because Irish and Scottish migrated to those places. We are Scots and Irish mostly in the US. Country/bluegrass music come from Irish music
Be fair, he brings in Josie Gibson who's got surely the best West Country I've ever heard on British network TV, actually maybe anywhere because it's much earthier than John Oliver. OK so she's from Bristol itself but still.....just wonderful.
You asked us to comment on which accent, and for me, I love the Liverpool accent. My mother was born and raised there. In 1952 she met my American father in England who was in England for university. They married and built their life here, in the USA. As a very tiny 3-year-old, I remember distinctly translating for my mother in stores and such. The small-town Ohioans could not understand her! She'd try to "Americanize" her accent and that was even worse! So, here I was, a shy little kid, translating English to English so my mom could find which aisle the confectioner's sugar was on. I'd, therefore, love a deep-dive on the Scouse accent. _(Miss you, Mom, more than you can know.)_
I worked with someone from Northern Ireland and just got used to her accent being sort of normal. Then I watched Derry Girls and started noticing her subtle but very distinct Northern Irish notes. I really love it ❤
@@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 So Ireland only has ONE uniform accent throughout the entire country? I find that _very_ hard to believe and Google says otherwise. …but I’m an American who lives in Hawaii and haven’t personally known any Irish people since I had an Irish friend as a kid. Maybe I’m missing something?
I appreciate how you're not judging any of these accents and reporting neutrally on them, nice one. As a British person it can be very hard to overcome your natural prejudice towards certain accents.
So true. People are judged by their accents in England. It's definitely a form of class distinction. Doesn't mean people who speak with an accent or dialect are less intelligent!! Think of Russell Brand!! A brilliant mind with a Cockney accent!! Love him😊
yep growing up in south yorkshire i would hear many people talking with a much more neutral accent as though they were ashamed of their yorkshire accent and didn't want to be deemed stupid by others. be proud of your native accent
@@dolorescunningham4816 Thats not just England, it happens in almost every country to varying extents. England can be quite bad for it but it has improved compared to how it used to be.
Irish and Scottish accents have always fascinated me for (what I perceive as) their musicality. I think it’s so cool that some cultures somehow developed languages with such rhythm and melody that it’s fun just to listen to them talk! My enthusiasm for accents started when my dad’s Scottish friend introduced us to Still Game when I was a kid 😄
Don't feel bad, I'm a native English speaker and I've heard certain accents of other English-speaking people where I only understood like half of what they said lol
Don't feel badly about your English. When I went to college in Dundee, there was a girl everyone had trouble understanding and most of the kids in our group grew up within a few miles if her, all within the city!
We drop letters and change things so i can understand the frustration. For instance " i took it to my mother" becomes "a tuk it to mi muther" or somthing like that or should i say or summat laak that? :P Our part of the country was under Danish viking rule for quite some time and old Norse heavily influenced certain words and our accent.
Don't feel bad, I used to teach English in Mexico and the proximity to the U.S.A made practically all of my students really comfortable with the North American style English but my Yorkshire accent totally threw them off. They got used to it eventually!
I find US accents to be much more fluid, and less regionally defined. I grew up in NYC and to this day I don’t really know what a “New York accent” is...
@@chrisvazan huh? Sounds like you need to travel more like visit Atlanta, Chattanooga, Winston-Salem, Birmingham, or Memphis and speak in public. You will find out immediately what a New York accent is. 🤣🤣🤣 There are five boroughs in NYC. Six if you include Newark and every single borough has a different accent and set of dialects depending on where you live and what your racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background is. People from BK, I'm talking about born and raised been there for generations, not the gentrifiers sound very different from people Uptown, in Midtown, in the Bronx, Queens or Shaolin. That's Staten Island for those unaware. Wu-Tang is FOREVER! Very much like what was stated in this video about London which is where the whole borough system originated.
@@chrisvazan I think we tend to be unable to differentiate the accents we grow up hearing. I grew up in the mid-Atlantic, but with relatives from the Midwest I heard a lot of Midwestern accents, too. And everyone is familiar with California accents from TV and movies, thus they don't realize they and the people around them sound different than that. I had no idea that the Midwestern accent was different from the mid-Atlantic accent until someone pointed it out. There's definitely a strong New York accent. I hear it all the time in New York, talking on the phone to New Yorkers, and in person talking with New Yorkers who moved to where I grew up.
As someone from Australia, where the accent of most ppl is relatively uniform unless they're immigrants, it's always fascinated me that a group of small islands can have so many distinct accents. I love any of the northern British accents, especially Scouse. It has a lilt and lots of character!
Same, South Africans (white, English speakers) have a very uniform accent. There is some coastal variation but for the most part one could recognise any South African as such irrespective of where they live.
Try the Netherlands then. We’ve got a much smaller country but about the same amount of accents/dialects. Frisian is even an official language despite Friesland being part of the Netherlands. But for example: I’m from The Hague area which is south-west of the country. But most of the family of my mother’s side is from Drenthe, which is more north-east, close to the German border. Now I’m serious when I say sometimes I don’t even understand my own family!
I’m from the US. When I was a child, I noticed subtle things about Grandfather’s & his Dad’s accent, that was different from everyone else in our family and in our area, I thought it was just a family thing. His family had been in the US for many generations, living mainly in Indiana & KY- but when I got older and learned about accents & dialects, I realized that those odd little things I noticed about my Grandfather & Great Grandfather’s accent was from their English ancestors, I think Yorkshire - he always said the word “us” as “uz”, and when he said the word “he’s”, it was VERY SUBTLE, but he dropped the H just a bit, putting less emphasis on the H than normal, like “hE’s”, not quite silent, but barely there. Then, after realizing this, I noticed other things about his accent that are typical of British English, not how he pronounced words, but the words he used and also other things like pitch & volume of how he said things. The first time I heard a person from Yorkshire speak, it surprised me, because it was the first time I’d ever heard someone who sounded like my Grandpa & Great Grandpa. What’s weird, is that that side of my family had been in the US for at least 3 or 4 generations, BUT, my Great Grandfather and Gr GR Grandfather visited and kept in touch with their English & Irish family, so maybe that had something to do with it. Also, my cousins & I used to always get after my Grandpa for how he said the word “Pizza”, he refused to say “Peetsa” like we said it, he pronounced it exactly as spelled, kind of like he said the word “us” as “uz”.
He says 'Numerous Scottish accents' then only covers two, but does 7 before he left the south east of England alone. What about the Borders accent, Highland and islands accents, what about Inverness-shire, Orkney or Sheltand heavily influenced by Scandinavia ... just another example of metropolitan laziness, no wonder we / Scotland wants rid of England.
My best friend is from Aberdeen (I am a Londoner) and when he speaks to me he tones down his accent but when we are up in the north east of Scotland and he is speaking to other locals I struggle to follow the conversation sometimes.
@@Snowhite-tx4sm Thank you for that! To be honest, though, many of us who aren't Newfoundlanders (or at least from the Maritimes) might sometimes have a hard time understanding their accent. We love it, though: so distinctive, with quite an Irish flavour to it!
I am french and learned English in america but i am aware that american pronounciation is lame, so i want to learn any british accent, and more specifically Louis Tomlinson's
American here. I’ve always enjoyed Scouse and Geordie and recently I’ve started liking Manchester / Mancunian. Something about the northern accent is just distinct and lovely to me. Good vibes!
I'm a Geordie so thanks for that.. I can tell the difference between Newcastle upon Tyne, and the other place 12 miles down the road I'm not prepared to write as it's a swear word..
I'm American, and the easiest accent for me to understand is RP, followed by posh. When watching British TV, I usually have to put on subtitles in order to understand what the people speaking in other British accents are saying. I love the sound of the Scottish accent. I could listen to the actors on the TV show Shetland speak all day long.
They are even more diverse in Britain, I read recently that most British sitcoms and comedy programmes (programs) are never aired on American TV because they'd be so difficult to understand, whereas for Brits, standard American accents are very easy for us to understand.
I would like to hear native speakers of each accent read or recite the same passage or poem for comparison. I appreciate the IPA notations where provided and would appreciate more. Love listening to variants of English. Thank you.
Wonderful! As an American, I've always loved the various British accents. I greatly appreciate how you've broken these down to help us "feriners" (foreigners) understand them better. So much fun.
Just don't go to the UK and try to sound like the locals, they'd very likely be offended, British people take offense when you try to mimic their accent.
As a Russian, it sounds extremely confusing trying to guess which sound this specific speaker had just gulped down and what word it's supposed to be. North American speakers are much easier to understand.
There's no such thing as a Chinese British accent. Just because he used Gemma Chan as an example and she happens to have Chinese ancestry doesn't mean every single Chinese person in England or Great Britain itself speaks that way. In that same section of the video he pointed out that Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Ed Sheeran also have that exact same accent. Are they Chinese? Fool.
My fascination with British accents began when I read a piece on the James Bond movie Goldeneye. The writer was critiquing Sean Bean’s performance and said at times Bean’s Yorkshire accent slipped through although he was trying to sound Southern. That sent me off down the rabbit hole of researching accents lol. It’s fascinating how many regional accents there are for a relatively small country.
Interesting. In Game of Thrones everyone in House Stark has a Northern English accent, and that’s because Sean Bean couldn’t do a Southern English accent, so everyone else is trying to sound like they’re from Sheffield 😄
In my teen years I used tractors, co working with three generations of very local farm workers. They had distinct local accents that were more intense the older they were. I could tell by their speech,which nearby farm they grew up on!
I’m in Australia and we have many British immigrants here. My late father-in-law had a Yorkshire accent, but my favourite is two of my colleagues who have Welsh accents, especially one who often gets on the PA system to make announcements - his pronunciation is a delight and makes my heart jump for joy on hearing it. 🥰
One of my favourite things about the Yorkshire accent, that Lee does from Gogglebox in the clip, is pronouncing words like “take” and “make” like “meck” and “teck”. Also in the Scottish accents, I love the double O sounds in “door” and “poor” (Oo-er) that also crop up in parts of Lancashire (but feel it’s sadly dying out as only ever hear it in people of my grandparents generation). Something I hear my Nan do as well, which is relatively common where I grew up in Lancashire, is pronounce the double T sound as ck, so little as lickle, bottle as bockle. I think it can be a bit marmite for some, but warms my heart when I hear it! 😂 It’s just so fascinating! Definitely one of my favourite things about this country.
You are spot on about the Yorkshire accent. Break, take, make and shake become brek, tek, mek & shek. We also (so im told), pronounce words like ‘show’ very differently. Instead of the “w” sound at the end, this is dropped and it becomes sh-ooo-, (the “o” sounding as in ‘o’mega). In some cases it becomes very elongated - sh-ohhh. This can be heard even with the simplest of words such as ‘no’ - becoming n-ohh, or ‘bone’ becoming b-ohh-n. As Englands largest county, regional variations can be almost another dialect all together. In extreme cases, people may struggle to understand certain phrases from just a few miles away! (e.g. Wakefield might say, “I wont be home while 10…..” meaning, “I won’t be home UNTIL 10…..”). Barnsley actually shares a boarder with Wakefield, but is in a different county! (South & West Yorkshire). People from certain parts of Yorks may notice a person isn’t local, just from their choice of words or very slight accent change, albeit they live only a few miles away. The accents of Leeds, Wakefield, Castleford and Barnsley have very different & noticeable accents. Age also plays a large part. ‘Broad Yorkshire’ - (Eee bye gum, get thi coyt lass, thas a gale art side. Tha’l be frozen wi art. Am off t’ shop nar. Si thi), is very seldom heard now, except in the darkest & deepest pockets of Yorks and by a certain generation only. It usually serves as a source of amusement for the rest of the country thinking its how we all talk, but is essentially now totally untrue.
I still find it sad that nobody who vlogs about British accents *ever* does East Anglian. Although I'm not native to the region, I've lived around it for the last thirty or so years, and it has its own dialect and distinctive accentual features which never seem to get presented on TV (possibly because actors tend to guess "Mummerset" (that is, an actors' version of West Country) for anything rural. My accent is naturally not-very-clearly-marked RP--a standard middle-class Southern accent, probably from my parents' accent and the BBC. You could also mention that RP is also most frequently spoken as a "second language": that is, code-switching in mixed or work contexts (which is very important in a more geographically mobile Britain), while the broader accent comes out with close friends, drunk, or with family.
Yeah that was surprising to me too, its such a distinct accent. I grew up in Norfolk and then moved to Germany so I was looking forward to the nostalgia
@@spencereagle1118 the clip showing Jade literally had subtitles but that was not her with her strongest Geordie You can look up videos of people (not even fellow band mate who is also Geordie) not understanding Jades accent
There are about 4/5 main accents in Wales. Valleys, Cardiff, West Wales, North-West and North-East. Torchwood is a Cardiff accent mainly. Most famous is the Valleys accent. North-West is my favourite, they speak English as a second language so accent sounds very interesting.
I can't understand Scottish accents worth a damn when it's super thick. Like, if it's the accent in how to train your dragon for the adults, that's fine, but anything stronger than Meridith from brave, I'm lost.
My favourite’s has always been the Scottish accents as well as the northern English ones. As a Swedish person I am fascinated and interested in certain words that are used in Scotland. Like their word for child, house etc. I think they originate from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries. Would like to see a video about that. Thanks for a great video! I really like all the accents. I think accents are a huge part of a country’s soul and heart. Even if you don’t always understand what people are saying. 😂 That goes for both the British and Swedish ones. 😂😂
The Beatles aren’t even really Scouse, they’re from the more Lancashire sounding south Liverpool, whereas traditional Scouse is more of a North Liverpool thing
funny thing; they are, among other bands, who barely sound as if they had an accent. The pronunciation of certain words just sound too, normal, or accent-less, if you will. idk if it is just me, but I feel like lots of British bands don't sing with an accent. Please, correct me if I'm wrong
I’m American and the only British accent I can immediately discern is cockney just because of how harshly unique it is. I can hear the differences between the others but I need to pay closer attention to notice the differences. I’m so curious how the different American accents sound to people in other English speaking countries
The American accents I had a chance to listen to were mostly quite comprehensible, but aggressive/intrusive beyond my pain threshold at the same time. As if someone were shouting at me, which I presume has never been the intent. I prefer the "muted" variant the Brits use plus the RP features for phonetic clarity. Nonetheless, from a limited experience, a random American has been easier to understand than a random Brit so far.
@@piotrwyderski7848 American accents have far more phonetic clarity. At least in my opinion it's way easier to understand without random consonants just being completely ignored. Don't get me wrong, I love all the UK accents. I just think it's ridiculous to say that they're more easily understood
@@rektspresso7288 No worries, it's just a matter of taste after all. And we seem to agree: the American accents I know of (I am not a native speaker of English) are more understandable "on average" than the UK accents. It's just the way of pronouncing words that makes AmE less pleasant to my ear. American accents put far more stress at the beginning of the word with a relatively limited pitch range, whereas the Brits do the opposite. That makes the latter sound softer and more polite just out of the box. As long as you keep in mind the Americans are not trying to be intentionally offensive to you, both work equally well. RP has both features: it is at least as clear as AmE *and* way softer, hence I greatly prefer it. But if we leave the RP land, AmE would be my second preference. The regional British accents still sound nice, but many of them are difficult to comprehend.
Crazy how many accents we have in such a small country! I'm from Southampton, and feel like we don't really have much of an accent here. But when I worked in Gloucester, they all said I sounded like a Cockney, and when I worked just outside of East London, they said I sounded like a farmer (west country). So must have a mixture of both 😂
Small country but not really small, stilll 874 miles from one end of the country to the other. Or 19,491 miles around the whole coast of the uk, definitely sizeable Enough to accommodate the different accents.
yeah it is, the actor in treasure island by disney in the 1950s based his accent off of dorset in the south west of england, which basically defined the west country accent as sounding like a pirate
@@meliora99 This is since, in the novel, Long John Silver was Cornish. Many pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy were from that region since most ships went out of Bristol and Penzance.
As I’m from Manchester I love Northern accents best. I love the Norfolk accent and Yorkshire accents as well as the Manc accent. I live in America near New York City so, when I fly home I find the Northern accent to be more softer on my eardrums, it’s such a pleasant sound and I get why many Americans tell me how much they like the English accent.
It's probably most distinct in Gavin and Stacey (in popular culture), you can really hear its singsong-ness on that show. :) I live in Cardiff now and sometimes I'll pass by people who sound exactly like Stacey, Nessa or Bryn!
What do you mean by the “Yorkshire accent” There are literally dozens of accents in Yorkshire. The county is literally so big that it had to be split into 4 sections. Don’t really get what you mean by that as, North, South, West & East Riding of Yorkshire all have very different accents. I sound nothing like people who are from North/East Yorkshire 💀🥴😂
such a great video, so informative! As a German I was just interested in the different accents of the UK and I didn't expect to get such a in depth explanation of all the phonetic differences and also historic and geographic backgrounds to them. Very cool! 😊
It was a smorgasbord of accents in our house growing up: my mother and grandmothers' lilting Valleys accent, my dad's RP/public school/mixed with Gloucestershire, my uncle's Gloucestershire/Canadian drawl, and us kids with our broad Coventry sound. Add Geordie, Irish, Yorkshire and Scottish neighbours for a whistlestop tour of UK accents in a few houses!
I'd love a deep dive on Scouse. I've been interested in it ever since I heard Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard do interviews. It's the one British accent I've found the most difficult for me to replicate consistently.
@livvi67 possibly them two but I think there’s definitely scandinavian influence. when I hear scandis speak natively (mainly swedes and norwegian) the accent and pitch changes is sooo similar to scouse
It’s remarkable how much the American Southern accents have been influenced by the West Country British accents. The rhoticity obviously carried through and check out the islands east of the Carolinas- a lot of those folks sound kind of like, well, Hagrid.
I remember some lady did some whole research thing about that, she did a podcast or something and did an example of how if you slow down certain English accents they turn into US Southern accents. I've also seen a lot of theories that the modern-day Boston accent is closer to the sort of "regular" accent of English from the 1600s, which is super interesting.
All English sounded similar to West Country English right up to the 1700s when the upper classes decided to "refine" their speech by dropping hard 'r's' and so on. The Pilgrims who went to America brought the old accent and thus Americans speak a variation of this old, almost-extinct "true" English.
So true. I came to this video off of another video discussing Birmingham and black country accents and I saw a lot of similarities between those two accents and those that I hear around my hometown in eastern NC, particularly the high tider accents of Ocracoke Island. I came straight from that video to this one and I noticed that hagrids accent sounds nearly identical to some of the older generation of high tiders. I can't believe I never noticed it before, as many times as I've seen those films!
right??? I saw the resemblance with Radcliffe since the beginning, but I couldn't quite make another celebrity into the mix; Fassbender! Brilliant
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As a Swede (having lived seven years in North Staffordshire and, for the last 15 years, in North Lincolnshire), I've struggled most with the Geordie accent. I have no issues, what-so-ever, with most Scottish accents or the Scouse accent. My favourite accent is the Yorkshire one, closely followed by all of the Scottish ones.
Interesting. I live in south Staffordshire and the accent here is different to north Staffordshire. It would take a long time to go through every accent.
I’m an American whose maternal grandmother was from Glasgow. Her accent had been tempered by years in the States but my great-grandmother moved here as well and her accent was always very thick. I loved it. Spot on to your description. I have always had a fascination with linguistics and I really enjoyed this video.
I am from France and I just love the Scouse accent! When I first heard it I did not even recognise it was English! 😂 It sounds so unique! The accent in East Midlands has a special place in my heart though, because that's where I did my Erasmus year
@@ajs41 I was brought up in Derbyshire small mining village and we drop few letters similar to a Yorkshire When moved to Sussex, they couldn't understand a word i said.
@@yardgrid I've heard that too in online voice chat and sometimes people think I'm speaking Dutch or German. I guess from the "ck" which sounds similar to Dutch "g" or German "Nacht" ( Depends on region in Germany ) and Scottish "Loch". What's funny is that the Dutch person in the voice chat actually understood me while everyone else was baffled. I started speaking in broken English as a joke so everyone else could understand me lol.
Excellent work! I'd love to hear more of the Cockney accent: I am convinced that it is the basis of our Australian accent, which remarkably has very little variation, despite vast distances between the major contemporary settlements: some nouns are different but not their pronunciation! Regional Indigenous languages, let alone dialects or accents, were innumerable in centuries past!
Funny you should mention the London accent in association with the Australian accent. Some years ago an American couple, when they heard me speak with my south London accent thought I was Australian, so there must be some correlation considering most of the convicts who were transferred to Australia were from London!!
Best BE accents analysis I have ever come across. Even my college ELT (ESOL) course didn't cover the subject so well. And, to answer your quesstion, it's just your accent that I like most. With your immaculate diction it is a pleasure to listen, really. Your ability to mimic different accents and explain them is impressive. Top professional.
Hard to choose I love them all. But I would choose the Scottish accent, Glasgow because I find it beautiful, especially the way they pronounce the "R".
You wouldn;t get a working class Glasgow one .Tell you why ? I can;t ,I'm English .Believe it or not ,they sometimes put sub titles on the TV ! I'm not joking... the TV clip may be online .
@@normanpearson8753 I understand. Their English and accent are different from the others with the vocab.. And a bit difficult to understand. I had an English class in which we talked about the different accents of The UK, with some clips. The Scottish one is hard for us the non-native speakers.
I absolutely love the West Country accents, especially Bristolian. Those accents have such a fun and distinctive sound. As an American who used to live in Bristol, I loved that "pirate" sound. I once had a bus driver ask me, "Awrght, where ye be to mi babber?" If you want to hear more, you can search for "The Wurzels", a music group from the '70s which sing with very thick West County accents!
Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the Dysney film Treasure Island was a West country man and since his portrayal of that loveable villain almost every film pirate has tried to copy his accent.
I love everything British and watch a lot of British shows. Although I love the accents sometimes I can hardly catch what is being said. It’s infuriating because I don’t want to miss a single word. I always think of Bubbles on Ab Fab and wonder do people really talk like that. I love all the accents! Can’t wait to watch more videos! Thank you!
I'm not a Linguist, though I am a "language person". I'm an Interpreter. I find accents fascinating, particularly, where the accents originated and have evolved from here in the US. Linguists here can extrapolate current accents to the original settlers from Scotland, Ireland, or even Scandinavia. Additionally, It's a fascinating to me that England is only about the size of one of our average sized states, but there are so many different accents! I suppose, in comparison, the map of accents here might have a similar variety if the map was condensed. Only in a couple of places will you find such a disparity of accents in a single state. I live in western NY state for example. All the various though somewhat similar accents to be found in NYC and it's environs are very different than the accent here. Otherwise, we talk about a Texas accent, or Midwest accent. Both cover an exponentially larger number of square miles than England. Obviously, I'm not an expert; just musing "out loud" as it were. Thank you for this video!
True, The variety grows bigger as older is the countries or regions you look at. Take Germany, where I live, often dialects vary from village to village! The german word for „over there“ is „drüben“, which in English would transcribe similar to „drewben“ with the ew more spoken like the french „rue“. In a small village now, you‘d find „drueben“ pronounced „driwwe“, so they make the b a w, the ue to an i as in giraffe and they swallow the ending consonant. Just to say :D It all goes back to french victory over the germans now we say „Sally“ originating from „Salute“ instead of „Hallo“ which is the origin of the english word „Hello“. Now all of that goes back to Babylon.
Rob...I have been living in the US (at 16) for 30+ yrs, and if you think you don't understand him, to me, he sounds as though he's talking Chinese! Surely other languages have similar dialects, but, since I don't speak any other than English I can't imagine the differences other languages encounter.
used to work for a company where the UK branch was in Newcastle. I had serious issues comprehending what they were saying and each meeting I would have a seriously fried brain within fifteen minutes. (Funny how all the women working there were like Geordie shore characters: black dyed hair, way too much make up and trashy clothing, not suited for office.)
I almost jumped off my couch when I saw you used Shirley Manson as an example of an Edinburghian accent!! She is inseparably connected to Edinburgh for me, and I was hoping you might mention her as an example of ''famous people with an Edinburgh accent'', but not that she would be the main speaker example! Thank you so much for this! (Plus: I love you Shirley!!!)
My favorite is definitely West Country. I've only just learned about it today, but as an American, to hear an English accent with a rhotic R is fascinating!
I'm so happy to hear someone speak of MLE in a respectful and even admired way. MLE is essentially the British equivalent of AAVE (African American Vernacular English or Ebonics), and AAVE is seen as a joke to Americans. It's so upsetting.
Thanks for your kind and thoughtful comment. I agree, MLE is much derided and I’m never sure why. I think it’s a fascinating accent which tells the story of modern London 👍🏼
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I guess I would equate it to the way people here in America criticize the type of speech some minorities develop, particularly in inner city areas. Maybe it doesn’t sound as “romantic” as they think it should, or maybe they have a problem with it because of the kind of people who speak it. It sucks, but that can be the case.
That’s because American English isn’t as varied as British English. We have 3 or 4 accents and 2 are the majority. MLE is closer to the majority accents of the UK than AAVE is to American accents.
Thank you for this. An American living and singing professionally in Austria, I get sooooo tired of the snobbish insistence of so many central Europeans that "every" American has a flat and nasal accent and "every" resident of the U.K. has the Queen's O-So-Veddy-Brrrritish accent and thus that is how American vs. UK songs MUST BE sung/pronounced. These are the same professional musicians who make no such distinction between singing Italian or French or any other language! And of course, as an American trying to explain the many differences as well as similarities between English-speaking regions, it is presumed I know nothing about anything ....
There are entire words that change as well. The Northern Irish never say 'when', it is always 'whenever', which I don't think makes sense I want to encourage Lingoda, dig deeper please. I live in Cambridgeshire, and am told I have no accent, which cannot be true, because as an 'air-force brat' we moved every 3 years, once upon a day, in Yorkshire 'Spice' meant Sweets, and in Ghana 3 years later I had to change my words entirely...a fascinating subject
I'm from the West Country and trust me, you don't want a West Country accent. Everyone assumes you're a pirate farmer hobbit the moment you start speaking.
@@samuelhonywill4499 Did you know that that accent used to be the most common one? Way back when there were pirates, and Shakespeare was writing his stuff. That's why we associate it with pirates, but it actually wasn't specific to pirates. It was the accepted, common default accent back then. Shakespeare's plays were performed with that accent, and many of the jokes/puns he wrote in them don't work well without it. There's an interesting short documentary about it somewhere on youtube. I'll post it here if I find it... Found it! ruclips.net/video/gPlpphT7n9s/видео.html Anyway, it's a very cool accent, I think!
The West Country accent is very interesting to me, being in born in the the US. It's vaguely similar to what we call a Kingdom accent now. Heard mostly in an area we call the North East Kingdom of Vermont. Really you hear it all Vermont over from farmers. It's also what we imagine pirates to be sounding like.
Lived there for two years after university. Absolutely loved and miss it dearly. So many accents! I tried to incorporate as many as I could remember into the voices of my characters. I couldn’t quite remember one in particular, thankfully I found this channel to help jog my memory. Cheers, mate!
I enjoyed it so much, I'm going to rewatch it later to take notes. And I shared it to my friend who likes to do English accents impressions. Big thanks from Quebec, Canada !!
What a huge work done with this video! As well as with all the others... Tom, thanks a million for all your devotion and effort, all your heart you put to your movies! I learn a lot! Many many thanks for this!
TIL that my accent is contemporary RP. I always got called posh in school as most everyone else there was Scottish or Northern (grew up on a British Army base). In our home videos from childhood, my siblings and I sound like we’re in an Enid Blyton adaptation. Our accents changed as we got older and settled in different places, but we always broadly sound like my mum, who sounds like her mother who is from Bath. My dad is Welsh and apparently sounded like Hugh Grant’s Welsh flatmate from Notting Hill when mum met him, but now sounds like her. Except when talking to his sister who lives in Wales 🏴
@@miraggg hey fellow Canuck! Where you from? I'm in the GTA, Ontario. I love all UK accents. And I'm always amazed at how actors from there can do the 'standard american' accent so well.
@@kh-wg9bt no one in the uk can tell the difference between americans and canadians unless someone has a southern accent, also the british reputation in america is just a stereotypical essex girl
What a brilliant video! I love the way in which Scots speak English. How about covering this topic? It'd be wonderful if you could make a video on David Tenannt's accent.
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Introduction 0:52
Queen's English 1:34
Conservative RP 2:57
Contemporary RP 3:44
London Cockney 4:56
London MLE 6:37
Essex 8:01
West Country 11:13
Bristol 11:54
Birmingham Brummy 12:39
East Midlands, Nottingham 13:39
South Yorkshire, Doncaster 14:37
West Yorkshire, Bradford 15:05
East Yorkshire, Hull 15:25
Manchester, Mancunian 16:15
Liverpool, Scouse 16:57
Newcastle, Geordie 17:30
Scottish, Glasgow, Glaswegian 18:14
Scottish, Edinburgh 18:59
South Wales, Welsh 19:35
Belfast, Northern Irish 20:32
Thx bro
This was helpful, thanks. 😂
*northern irish
Bristol sounds so American.
Thanks ye!!
Please do some more Scottish accents. There’s so much diversity here. Shetland, western isles, aberdonian, Doric, borders, Ayrshire etc! Everyone always focusses on Glasgow.
He also spoke in a Glasgow accent trying to do the Edinburgh pahaha
Agreed!
Aww cut him a break! He used videos of native speakers exactly for that reason & said so, and even apologized at times for his own attempts.
I live in the USA. Nobody believes me when I say the accent is markedly different every mile of the Fife coast. Utterly unimaginable here. That would make for a very educational video to break even one Scottish region down.
Five Gaelic words that moved into English - ruclips.net/video/ejetbsG1rA4/видео.html
I'm an American and I just realized how fascinating this topic is
I’m conservative rp so I’m British ✨😩
We probably have more accents here than they have there lol
omg there are so many accents it’s ridiculous i have a mix of a leeds and bradford accent but not as strong 🤣😭
@Kenny Powers the us accent differences are a lot more subtle apart from the south/north divide
Look into our (united states) accents. The diversity and history is also fascinating.
As an American, this is very helpful. I grew up watching BBC period dramas and adaptions and I’ve heard every British accent there is, but I never knew what they were called or where they originated from. I still love watching British period dramas. My mom and I got a BritBox subscription last year, and it’s the best subscription we’ve ever made.
For a very typical West Yorkshire Huddersfield/Halifax accent you should watch Happy Valley or Last Tango In Halifax… you’ll see our lovely scenery too!
Trust me bro you haven’t bheard every single British accent there just to many of them
@Themasada bro I’m from Sussex and our accent isn’t even mentioned in this video, in fact East Sussex has a slightly different tone to West Sussex not much of a difference tho but still a difference
@chilloutii3638 I lived in East Sussex for awhile but never noticed a difference between East and West Sussex accents. That's really interesting to find out. Do you have any examples of some words that might be pronounced a bit differently in each area?
Lmao they always forget about Sunderland because we are so close to Newcastle 😭😭
"Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe-"
Me: RUPERT GRINT
"Ed Sheeran,"
Me: eh, close enough
Meh... I’m more of a Tolkien fan
@@engorgioarmani3381 I don't support Rowling, but she did a pretty good job with HP. But yeah, Tolkien is really good.
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lol, I think a lot of us had that thought.
Maybe he didn't include him because Rupert Grint actually speaks a bit different from the other two. He tends to use more dark Ls and often doesn't strongly enunciate the H at the beginning of a word, sometimes dropping it completely.
Ja gay
As a Korean student studying in Manchester, the various UK accents truly sounded like an unknown European language when I first listened to the accents. It's been around three years living in the UK, but I still partially understand the Liverpool accent.
I'm from the Wirral, and I guarantee you'd comprehend my accent and speech, it's just outside Liverpool BTW. Not all Merseysiders speak Scouse. I don't, I sound more Cheshire.
@@JasmineSurrealVideos That's the misconception many have. I'm from Billinge (Merseyside - Just about but before the boundary change in 1974 a Wigan parish) and I have a traditional Lancashire accent.
@Kevin S... Utter nonsense! For one , I do! I even speak it, la!!
부럽네요 영국 유학생.. 저도 영국 가고 싶습니다!! ㅎㅎ
Even scouse misinterpret scouse
How can such a small country have so many different accents? This is so fascinating to me. I took a linguistics class in college, and I absolutely loved it. I find the subtle differences in pronunciation so interesting. This video is just great!
Some of our accents are because of conquests of britain in different time periods. Iam from Bradford Yorkshire and our dialect comes from Danish Vikings (Norse) even tho we speak modern english... for example say your ears were burning... i would say are your lugs (ears) burning lol
in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia... in much smaller countries you have so many accents, dialects, one can tell from what region person is, and locals can tell from what town or even village person is by hearing them talking. it has much to do with language itself and f course with different influences by other languages, by history, by local geography (mountains or flats, seaside or continental). Dutch is similar with its varieties too
The small country was settled ages ago and has a rich history of all these regions fighting one another and trying to maintain their independence from one another. Also there wasn't that much of the migration of people within the country, not until the 20 century. Other factor is that many of British accents were heavily influenced by Celtic pronunciation of English words. All these and other factors combined led to distinct regional accents.
Big, but relatively young countries like the US were mostly settled in the late 18th but mostly 19th century when huge waves of migration swept across it carrying the more or less unified pronunciation across the country. Then other non English speaking ethnic groups arrived and helped shaping many of the regional accents.
How can GREAT Britain be small? O.k., it's constantly belittled and ridiculed by that Bozo guy from 10, Clowning Street but apart from that it's really a great country and i met loads of nice people, although i didn't always understand everything... 😜
Its not too much
Iran got nearly 80 languages and accents 😍 you just can understand where is the person actually from!
I love it! So many cultures and history in different parts 🌸
You can literally hear the same characteristics in American accents:
Bristolian - Great Lakes
Nottingham - Washington DC, Maryland
Belfast - Appalachia (Scots-Irish)
Nottingham? I live near there and I also know DC as my cousin lives there, I can't hear it tbh. Nottingham "ey up duck"
And Outer Bans English (Outer Banks of NC) is its own dialect; you'd probably hear a lot of similarities
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The southern American and therefore African American accents are VERY influenced by a specific northern UK accent. (I forget which one but Thomas Sowell has a great documentary about it.)
@@clicheguevara5282 That's because Irish and Scottish migrated to those places. We are Scots and Irish mostly in the US. Country/bluegrass music come from Irish music
90% of Britain: represented by an actual person
West country: "uuuh... Here's Hagrid!"
Crying about "representation" doesn't seem very west country
@@oldoddjobs hear, hear!
I'm an American...would the accents from Grace and Favour have worked...they sound similar to me but again, American.
Be fair, he brings in Josie Gibson who's got surely the best West Country I've ever heard on British network TV, actually maybe anywhere because it's much earthier than John Oliver. OK so she's from Bristol itself but still.....just wonderful.
@@Erlrantandrage no they're not similar aha sorry
You asked us to comment on which accent, and for me, I love the Liverpool accent. My mother was born and raised there. In 1952 she met my American father in England who was in England for university. They married and built their life here, in the USA. As a very tiny 3-year-old, I remember distinctly translating for my mother in stores and such. The small-town Ohioans could not understand her! She'd try to "Americanize" her accent and that was even worse! So, here I was, a shy little kid, translating English to English so my mom could find which aisle the confectioner's sugar was on. I'd, therefore, love a deep-dive on the Scouse accent.
_(Miss you, Mom, more than you can know.)_
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Good on you! Kids are incredible linguists! I have raised two bilingual children and they surprise me every single day.
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@@lauramonzonstorey What two languages do they speak?
I love the saying, Liverpudlian
Queen's English 1:34
Conservative RP 2:57
Contemporary RP 3:44
London Cockney 4:56
London MLE 6:37
Essex 8:01
West Country 11:13
Bristol 11:54
Birmingham Brummy 12:39
East Midlands, Nottingham 13:39
South Yorkshire, Doncaster 14:37
West Yorkshire, Bradford 15:05
East Yorkshire, Hull 15:25
Manchester, Mancunian 16:15
Liverpool, Scouse 16:57
Newcastle, Geordie 17:30
Scottish, Glasgow, Glaswegian 18:14
Scottish, Edinburgh 18:59
South Wales, Welsh 19:35
Belfast, Northern Irish 20:32
I worked with someone from Northern Ireland and just got used to her accent being sort of normal. Then I watched Derry Girls and started noticing her subtle but very distinct Northern Irish notes. I really love it ❤
Irish. Not Northern Irish. Just Irish .
take a day off @@AnnesleyPlaceDub70
Yep, Norn Irish sounds grand
@@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 So Ireland only has ONE uniform accent throughout the entire country? I find that _very_ hard to believe and Google says otherwise.
…but I’m an American who lives in Hawaii and haven’t personally known any Irish people since I had an Irish friend as a kid. Maybe I’m missing something?
him every 5 minutes : "now this is one of my favourite English accents"
Hehe fair! But it’s true I love so many British accents 🤷🏼♂️
I think he’s pretty good. I find this video, perhaps more scholarly. That being said, he nails many points. I rather enjoyed this video. Well done 👏
To be fair, if it’s every 5 minutes that’s only 4...so he could have a top 5?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish the I know
It's possible to have a wide selection of favorites. I have dozens of 'favorite' music albums.
Northern Ireland.
I an Atheist!
Aye but are you a Protestant Atheist or a Catholic one?
Rbh in
Tough one to answer when they nab you and put a burlap sack over your head
"what god do you not believe in?"
Ahahahaha
Protestant atheists pronounce h as aitch, Catholics atheists as haitch 🤣🤣
I appreciate how you're not judging any of these accents and reporting neutrally on them, nice one. As a British person it can be very hard to overcome your natural prejudice towards certain accents.
So true. People are judged by their accents in England. It's definitely a form of class distinction. Doesn't mean people who speak with an accent or dialect are less intelligent!! Think of Russell Brand!! A brilliant mind with a Cockney accent!! Love him😊
yep growing up in south yorkshire i would hear many people talking with a much more neutral accent as though they were ashamed of their yorkshire accent and didn't want to be deemed stupid by others. be proud of your native accent
It's not that hard
@@adamlaycock3702 It's a shame. I love the Yorkshire accent. ❤️
@@dolorescunningham4816 Thats not just England, it happens in almost every country to varying extents. England can be quite bad for it but it has improved compared to how it used to be.
Irish and Scottish accents have always fascinated me for (what I perceive as) their musicality. I think it’s so cool that some cultures somehow developed languages with such rhythm and melody that it’s fun just to listen to them talk! My enthusiasm for accents started when my dad’s Scottish friend introduced us to Still Game when I was a kid 😄
Shut up and Welsh is even better
As a Mexican girl studying English for almost 4 years I felt like I haven’t learned anything when I listened Yorkshire accent 😭
Don't feel bad, I'm a native English speaker and I've heard certain accents of other English-speaking people where I only understood like half of what they said lol
Some are broader than others ,of course .I.m from there ,but at times I can barely understand the people with a strong accent .
Don't feel badly about your English. When I went to college in Dundee, there was a girl everyone had trouble understanding and most of the kids in our group grew up within a few miles if her, all within the city!
We drop letters and change things so i can understand the frustration. For instance " i took it to my mother" becomes "a tuk it to mi muther" or somthing like that or should i say or summat laak that? :P Our part of the country was under Danish viking rule for quite some time and old Norse heavily influenced certain words and our accent.
Don't feel bad, I used to teach English in Mexico and the proximity to the U.S.A made practically all of my students really comfortable with the North American style English but my Yorkshire accent totally threw them off. They got used to it eventually!
Selfishly, as an American, I'd love to see the same thing for the United States.
I find US accents to be much more fluid, and less regionally defined. I grew up in NYC and to this day I don’t really know what a “New York accent” is...
@@chrisvazan huh? Sounds like you need to travel more like visit Atlanta, Chattanooga, Winston-Salem, Birmingham, or Memphis and speak in public. You will find out immediately what a New York accent is. 🤣🤣🤣 There are five boroughs in NYC. Six if you include Newark and every single borough has a different accent and set of dialects depending on where you live and what your racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background is. People from BK, I'm talking about born and raised been there for generations, not the gentrifiers sound very different from people Uptown, in Midtown, in the Bronx, Queens or Shaolin. That's Staten Island for those unaware. Wu-Tang is FOREVER! Very much like what was stated in this video about London which is where the whole borough system originated.
@@chrisvazan I think we tend to be unable to differentiate the accents we grow up hearing. I grew up in the mid-Atlantic, but with relatives from the Midwest I heard a lot of Midwestern accents, too. And everyone is familiar with California accents from TV and movies, thus they don't realize they and the people around them sound different than that. I had no idea that the Midwestern accent was different from the mid-Atlantic accent until someone pointed it out. There's definitely a strong New York accent. I hear it all the time in New York, talking on the phone to New Yorkers, and in person talking with New Yorkers who moved to where I grew up.
@@chrisvazan there’s tons of distinct us accents.
For sure. I’m just saying that I don’t ascribe them to locations with the same specificity as I would when describing European accents and dialects.
As someone from Australia, where the accent of most ppl is relatively uniform unless they're immigrants, it's always fascinated me that a group of small islands can have so many distinct accents. I love any of the northern British accents, especially Scouse. It has a lilt and lots of character!
Same, I’m from Canada and we don’t even have that many
Same, South Africans (white, English speakers) have a very uniform accent. There is some coastal variation but for the most part one could recognise any South African as such irrespective of where they live.
Try the Netherlands then. We’ve got a much smaller country but about the same amount of accents/dialects. Frisian is even an official language despite Friesland being part of the Netherlands. But for example: I’m from The Hague area which is south-west of the country. But most of the family of my mother’s side is from Drenthe, which is more north-east, close to the German border. Now I’m serious when I say sometimes I don’t even understand my own family!
I had a scouse teacher at school who used to pronounce marijuana marriage-a-hwarner
@@tchorveiik 😂 thats just awesome
I’m from the US. When I was a child, I noticed subtle things about Grandfather’s & his Dad’s accent, that was different from everyone else in our family and in our area, I thought it was just a family thing. His family had been in the US for many generations, living mainly in Indiana & KY- but when I got older and learned about accents & dialects, I realized that those odd little things I noticed about my Grandfather & Great Grandfather’s accent was from their English ancestors, I think Yorkshire - he always said the word “us” as “uz”, and when he said the word “he’s”, it was VERY SUBTLE, but he dropped the H just a bit, putting less emphasis on the H than normal, like “hE’s”, not quite silent, but barely there.
Then, after realizing this, I noticed other things about his accent that are typical of British English, not how he pronounced words, but the words he used and also other things like pitch & volume of how he said things. The first time I heard a person from Yorkshire speak, it surprised me, because it was the first time I’d ever heard someone who sounded like my Grandpa & Great Grandpa. What’s weird, is that that side of my family had been in the US for at least 3 or 4 generations, BUT, my Great Grandfather and Gr GR Grandfather visited and kept in touch with their English & Irish family, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Also, my cousins & I used to always get after my Grandpa for how he said the word “Pizza”, he refused to say “Peetsa” like we said it, he pronounced it exactly as spelled, kind of like he said the word “us” as “uz”.
In some parts of scotland the accents are so strong they are almost a different language. Aberdeenshire "doric" is a great example
He says 'Numerous Scottish accents' then only covers two, but does 7 before he left the south east of England alone. What about the Borders accent, Highland and islands accents, what about Inverness-shire, Orkney or Sheltand heavily influenced by Scandinavia ... just another example of metropolitan laziness, no wonder we / Scotland wants rid of England.
My best friend is from Aberdeen (I am a Londoner) and when he speaks to me he tones down his accent but when we are up in the north east of Scotland and he is speaking to other locals I struggle to follow the conversation sometimes.
Some of them technically are different dialects.
@@the_grand_tourer theres more people in the south east than there are in scotland by a massive margin
have you ever been to shetland? they almost sound norwegian!
As a Canadian who's never visited the UK, my head is spinning! Wow.
Love ALL of these! 🇬🇧❤
Each is so charming in its own way.
and we love Canadians! Your English is the easiest American accent to understand ( Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, etc.)
@@maggiep265 Technically, we're "NORTH American"...but thank you! 😊
As a non english speaker i love how all canadians speak coz it's just so easy to understand.
@@Snowhite-tx4sm Thank you for that! To be honest, though, many of us who aren't Newfoundlanders (or at least from the Maritimes) might sometimes have a hard time understanding their accent. We love it, though: so distinctive, with quite an Irish flavour to it!
I am french and learned English in america but i am aware that american pronounciation is lame, so i want to learn any british accent, and more specifically Louis Tomlinson's
American here. I’ve always enjoyed Scouse and Geordie and recently I’ve started liking Manchester / Mancunian. Something about the northern accent is just distinct and lovely to me. Good vibes!
I'm a Geordie so thanks for that.. I can tell the difference between Newcastle upon Tyne, and the other place 12 miles down the road I'm not prepared to write as it's a swear word..
@@toonman1892 well I'm dying to know what this place is!
@@glortw S*nderland, the home of 6 toed humans.
I'm American, and the easiest accent for me to understand is RP, followed by posh. When watching British TV, I usually have to put on subtitles in order to understand what the people speaking in other British accents are saying. I love the sound of the Scottish accent. I could listen to the actors on the TV show Shetland speak all day long.
I think the RP is posh.
They are even more diverse in Britain, I read recently that most British sitcoms and comedy programmes (programs) are never aired on American TV because they'd be so difficult to understand, whereas for Brits, standard American accents are very easy for us to understand.
I would like to hear native speakers of each accent read or recite the same passage or poem for comparison. I appreciate the IPA notations where provided and would appreciate more. Love listening to variants of English. Thank you.
Yes, excellent idea!
Wonderful! As an American, I've always loved the various British accents. I greatly appreciate how you've broken these down to help us "feriners" (foreigners) understand them better. So much fun.
Nice
Just don't go to the UK and try to sound like the locals, they'd very likely be offended, British people take offense when you try to mimic their accent.
As a Russian, it sounds extremely confusing trying to guess which sound this specific speaker had just gulped down and what word it's supposed to be.
North American speakers are much easier to understand.
@@em_the_bee
Yes we are, thank you.
@@oscarf5433 I think it’s different with foreigners, it’s offensive when British people with another accent try to sound ‘native’.
1. Recieved Pronunciation - 1:39
2. Queens English - 2:12
3. Chinese British - 4:05
4. Cockney - 5:12
5. London English - 7:14
6. Essex - 8:22
7. West Country - 11:30
8. Bristolian - 11:58
9. Birmingham - 12:51
10. Nottingham - 13:49
11. South Yorkshire - 14:38
12. West Yorkshire - 15:19
13. West & East Yorkshire - 15:38
14. Manchester - 16:31
15. Liverpool - 17:08
16. Geordie - 17:40
17. Scottish (Glaswegian) - 18:36
18. Scottish (Edinburgh) - 19:06
19. Welsh - 19:51
20. Northern Irish - 21:00
There's no such thing as a Chinese British accent. Just because he used Gemma Chan as an example and she happens to have Chinese ancestry doesn't mean every single Chinese person in England or Great Britain itself speaks that way. In that same section of the video he pointed out that Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Ed Sheeran also have that exact same accent. Are they Chinese?
Fool.
Thanks!:)
My fascination with British accents began when I read a piece on the James Bond movie Goldeneye. The writer was critiquing Sean Bean’s performance and said at times Bean’s Yorkshire accent slipped through although he was trying to sound Southern. That sent me off down the rabbit hole of researching accents lol. It’s fascinating how many regional accents there are for a relatively small country.
Interesting. In Game of Thrones everyone in House Stark has a Northern English accent, and that’s because Sean Bean couldn’t do a Southern English accent, so everyone else is trying to sound like they’re from Sheffield 😄
@@PBurns-ng3gw haha, that is funny! I guess after goldeneye he gave up on trying. Thanks for sharing.
In my teen years I used tractors, co working with three generations of very local farm workers. They had distinct local accents that were more intense the older they were. I could tell by their speech,which nearby farm they grew up on!
The Yorkshire accent just tickles my ears. Absolutely lovely.
Loov'leh, you mean ;)
@@CharlesDickens111 Well look who it is, how the Dickens did I find you here
Eee bah gum yeh bugga!!
I’m in Australia and we have many British immigrants here. My late father-in-law had a Yorkshire accent, but my favourite is two of my colleagues who have Welsh accents, especially one who often gets on the PA system to make announcements - his pronunciation is a delight and makes my heart jump for joy on hearing it. 🥰
Rule of thumb: if it sounds like a pirate, it's probably from the west country xD
"Arrrrrr!"
No mr Frodo Sir
@@imranaljahsyi2801 and Ross Poldark is a pirate ?
Black Beard was a Bristolian so yeah, seems legit.
You really missed a trick here... if they sound like a pirate from the west country... they probably arrgghhhhhh!
One of my favourite things about the Yorkshire accent, that Lee does from Gogglebox in the clip, is pronouncing words like “take” and “make” like “meck” and “teck”.
Also in the Scottish accents, I love the double O sounds in “door” and “poor” (Oo-er) that also crop up in parts of Lancashire (but feel it’s sadly dying out as only ever hear it in people of my grandparents generation). Something I hear my Nan do as well, which is relatively common where I grew up in Lancashire, is pronounce the double T sound as ck, so little as lickle, bottle as bockle. I think it can be a bit marmite for some, but warms my heart when I hear it! 😂
It’s just so fascinating! Definitely one of my favourite things about this country.
Dooa for door in Yorkshire. Oppen for open.
You are spot on about the Yorkshire accent. Break, take, make and shake become brek, tek, mek & shek.
We also (so im told), pronounce words like ‘show’ very differently. Instead of the “w” sound at the end, this is dropped and it becomes sh-ooo-, (the “o” sounding as in ‘o’mega). In some cases it becomes very elongated - sh-ohhh. This can be heard even with the simplest of words such as ‘no’ - becoming n-ohh, or ‘bone’ becoming b-ohh-n.
As Englands largest county, regional variations can be almost another dialect all together. In extreme cases, people may struggle to understand certain phrases from just a few miles away! (e.g. Wakefield might say, “I wont be home while 10…..” meaning, “I won’t be home UNTIL 10…..”). Barnsley actually shares a boarder with Wakefield, but is in a different county! (South & West Yorkshire).
People from certain parts of Yorks may notice a person isn’t local, just from their choice of words or very slight accent change, albeit they live only a few miles away. The accents of Leeds, Wakefield, Castleford and Barnsley have very different & noticeable accents.
Age also plays a large part. ‘Broad Yorkshire’ - (Eee bye gum, get thi coyt lass, thas a gale art side. Tha’l be frozen wi art. Am off t’ shop nar. Si thi), is very seldom heard now, except in the darkest & deepest pockets of Yorks and by a certain generation only. It usually serves as a source of amusement for the rest of the country thinking its how we all talk, but is essentially now totally untrue.
I still find it sad that nobody who vlogs about British accents *ever* does East Anglian. Although I'm not native to the region, I've lived around it for the last thirty or so years, and it has its own dialect and distinctive accentual features which never seem to get presented on TV (possibly because actors tend to guess "Mummerset" (that is, an actors' version of West Country) for anything rural.
My accent is naturally not-very-clearly-marked RP--a standard middle-class Southern accent, probably from my parents' accent and the BBC.
You could also mention that RP is also most frequently spoken as a "second language": that is, code-switching in mixed or work contexts (which is very important in a more geographically mobile Britain), while the broader accent comes out with close friends, drunk, or with family.
East Anglian accent is the sexiest one, TO ME.
Yeah that was surprising to me too, its such a distinct accent. I grew up in Norfolk and then moved to Germany so I was looking forward to the nostalgia
It's quite similar to west country I reckons
I just love how Jade from little mix has such a strong Geordie accent that even native speakers don’t understand her
it's so true...
Lmao the Ian story😂😂
That's not a strong Geordie accent at all, fairly weak in fact, a strong one would require sub titles.
@@spencereagle1118 the clip showing Jade literally had subtitles but that was not her with her strongest Geordie
You can look up videos of people (not even fellow band mate who is also Geordie) not understanding Jades accent
@@shootingstar_2143 The point I'm making is she hasn't got a representative Geordie accent, she's pretty mild.
I’m from Germany and love to hear people from Wales.
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Me too I'm German and one of the first TV-shows I watched in English was Torchwood and thus the Welsh accent sounds nice and familiar to me.
There are about 4/5 main accents in Wales. Valleys, Cardiff, West Wales, North-West and North-East. Torchwood is a Cardiff accent mainly. Most famous is the Valleys accent. North-West is my favourite, they speak English as a second language so accent sounds very interesting.
I really love the german saxony accent
Same. (Ich auch)
As someone who is absolutely fascinated with accents I find this fascinating. So much variety.. and to the untrained ear I’d say ‘scouse’ ..
When you are a brazilian guy and you learn american english all your life is a little different hear so diversity in accents and I love them
Scottish accents are beautiful, I would love to hear about them more
Educated are great, glasgow horrible..
I can't understand Scottish accents worth a damn when it's super thick.
Like, if it's the accent in how to train your dragon for the adults, that's fine, but anything stronger than Meridith from brave, I'm lost.
100% agree
@@Tigerland1962 Glasgow is great. You are horrible.
Would love to hear Dumfries and more borders accents.
From my American ears, Geordie has always been my favorite of the British accents. So musical and unapologetically its own!
*English Accent
@@smartone661 It's both an English and British accent
When you analyse it carefully, Geordie also carries elements of lowlands and border Scottish, as it's not that far away.
It's a bit over the top. I like the west country accent.
That was a pretty mild Geordie accent to be honest.
My favourite’s has always been the Scottish accents as well as the northern English ones.
As a Swedish person I am fascinated and interested in certain words that are used in Scotland. Like their word for child, house etc. I think they originate from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries. Would like to see a video about that.
Thanks for a great video! I really like all the accents. I think accents are a huge part of a country’s soul and heart. Even if you don’t always understand what people are saying. 😂 That goes for both the British and Swedish ones. 😂😂
Are there many native accents in Sweden?
@@hairandcia2028many dialects not accents
Spot on, one of the best summaries of the British accents I've seen
Scouse because of The Beatles. Please do a whole video in how they used to speak it in the 60s. Thank you!
Yeah me=Scouse because Jodie Comer
The Beatles aren’t even really Scouse, they’re from the more Lancashire sounding south Liverpool, whereas traditional Scouse is more of a North Liverpool thing
funny thing; they are, among other bands, who barely sound as if they had an accent. The pronunciation of certain words just sound too, normal, or accent-less, if you will. idk if it is just me, but I feel like lots of British bands don't sing with an accent. Please, correct me if I'm wrong
Yes! Early Beatles. A Hard Days Night. Love every syllable of that movie!!!
@@lar9299 In the sixties their accents were heavier. Ex. A Hard Says Night.
I’m American and the only British accent I can immediately discern is cockney just because of how harshly unique it is. I can hear the differences between the others but I need to pay closer attention to notice the differences. I’m so curious how the different American accents sound to people in other English speaking countries
The American accents I had a chance to listen to were mostly quite comprehensible, but aggressive/intrusive beyond my pain threshold at the same time. As if someone were shouting at me, which I presume has never been the intent. I prefer the "muted" variant the Brits use plus the RP features for phonetic clarity. Nonetheless, from a limited experience, a random American has been easier to understand than a random Brit so far.
@@piotrwyderski7848 American accents have far more phonetic clarity. At least in my opinion it's way easier to understand without random consonants just being completely ignored.
Don't get me wrong, I love all the UK accents. I just think it's ridiculous to say that they're more easily understood
@@rektspresso7288 No worries, it's just a matter of taste after all. And we seem to agree: the American accents I know of (I am not a native speaker of English) are more understandable "on average" than the UK accents. It's just the way of pronouncing words that makes AmE less pleasant to my ear. American accents put far more stress at the beginning of the word with a relatively limited pitch range, whereas the Brits do the opposite. That makes the latter sound softer and more polite just out of the box. As long as you keep in mind the Americans are not trying to be intentionally offensive to you, both work equally well. RP has both features: it is at least as clear as AmE *and* way softer, hence I greatly prefer it. But if we leave the RP land, AmE would be my second preference. The regional British accents still sound nice, but many of them are difficult to comprehend.
American English sounds like non-native English.
The only regional US accents I can immediately recognise are new york and the typical southern accent
I’m an American with a Mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia area) US accent, and I think all British and American accents are interesting.
I love Louis and Zayn’s accents so muchhh
I was so happy to see Louis at the beginning
yorkshire accents
In general it seems I find the “ lower class” regular people in UK’s accents to be way more interesting and appealing than the hoity toity ones.
I agree. They have more character and uniqueness.
"I love Louis Tomlinson's accent." Same. It's the best
I got so excited when I saw him :)
@@nataliebilal8133 I was happy to see Doncaster and literally jumped at Louis 🧍🏼♀️😌
Agreed... 👍👍
i didnt watch this just to see doncaster...
I was waiting for this comment
Crazy how many accents we have in such a small country! I'm from Southampton, and feel like we don't really have much of an accent here. But when I worked in Gloucester, they all said I sounded like a Cockney, and when I worked just outside of East London, they said I sounded like a farmer (west country). So must have a mixture of both 😂
Small country but not really small, stilll 874 miles from one end of the country to the other. Or 19,491 miles around the whole coast of the uk, definitely sizeable Enough to accommodate the different accents.
The West Country accent is definitely my favorite. It’s basically a pirate accent. You should make a video about that one.
yeah it is, the actor in treasure island by disney in the 1950s based his accent off of dorset in the south west of england, which basically defined the west country accent as sounding like a pirate
I'm from Plymouth (Devon) the further to the southwest you go for example into Cornwall the thicker the west country accent becomes
@@chrisholland7367 So are all Cornishmen pirates? 🤔
@@PockASqueeno no but in parts of Cornwall during the 1700s smuggling was very prevalent.
@@meliora99 This is since, in the novel, Long John Silver was Cornish. Many pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy were from that region since most ships went out of Bristol and Penzance.
As I’m from Manchester I love Northern accents best. I love the Norfolk accent and Yorkshire accents as well as the Manc accent. I live in America near New York City so, when I fly home I find the Northern accent to be more softer on my eardrums, it’s such a pleasant sound and I get why many Americans tell me how much they like the English accent.
I love the Yorkshire accents. They sound so lovely. I'd love to hear more about the Welsh accent. It's really hard for me to pick that one out.
It's probably most distinct in Gavin and Stacey (in popular culture), you can really hear its singsong-ness on that show. :) I live in Cardiff now and sometimes I'll pass by people who sound exactly like Stacey, Nessa or Bryn!
Listen to Tom Jones speak or Rhod Gilbert.
What do you mean by the “Yorkshire accent” There are literally dozens of accents in Yorkshire. The county is literally so big that it had to be split into 4 sections. Don’t really get what you mean by that as, North, South, West & East Riding of Yorkshire all have very different accents. I sound nothing like people who are from North/East Yorkshire 💀🥴😂
such a great video, so informative! As a German I was just interested in the different accents of the UK and I didn't expect to get such a in depth explanation of all the phonetic differences and also historic and geographic backgrounds to them. Very cool! 😊
It was a smorgasbord of accents in our house growing up: my mother and grandmothers' lilting Valleys accent, my dad's RP/public school/mixed with Gloucestershire, my uncle's Gloucestershire/Canadian drawl, and us kids with our broad Coventry sound. Add Geordie, Irish, Yorkshire and Scottish neighbours for a whistlestop tour of UK accents in a few houses!
I'm Chinese but I speak in a strong Geordie accent as I watched too many videos of little mix 😂😂
😂haha
omg this is the funniest thing!
😂😂😂
coolorin booo
pls tell me you get that
Omg yessss 😂
I'd love a deep dive on Scouse. I've been interested in it ever since I heard Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard do interviews. It's the one British accent I've found the most difficult for me to replicate consistently.
Mate my whole families Scouse and I can't even replicate it
@@monk3742 every time I watch something with John Bishop I have to put on the subtitles, no chance, can't understand a word he says
I think Irish and Welsh immigration gave it quite a unique twang and character
@livvi67 possibly them two but I think there’s definitely scandinavian influence. when I hear scandis speak natively (mainly swedes and norwegian) the accent and pitch changes is sooo similar to scouse
Same here
I'm going exchange student to newcastle next year and this video helped me a lot! thanks and lots of love
It’s remarkable how much the American Southern accents have been influenced by the West Country British accents. The rhoticity obviously carried through and check out the islands east of the Carolinas- a lot of those folks sound kind of like, well, Hagrid.
I remember some lady did some whole research thing about that, she did a podcast or something and did an example of how if you slow down certain English accents they turn into US Southern accents.
I've also seen a lot of theories that the modern-day Boston accent is closer to the sort of "regular" accent of English from the 1600s, which is super interesting.
All English sounded similar to West Country English right up to the 1700s when the upper classes decided to "refine" their speech by dropping hard 'r's' and so on. The Pilgrims who went to America brought the old accent and thus Americans speak a variation of this old, almost-extinct "true" English.
So true. I came to this video off of another video discussing Birmingham and black country accents and I saw a lot of similarities between those two accents and those that I hear around my hometown in eastern NC, particularly the high tider accents of Ocracoke Island. I came straight from that video to this one and I noticed that hagrids accent sounds nearly identical to some of the older generation of high tiders. I can't believe I never noticed it before, as many times as I've seen those films!
@@FrenkTheJoy A simmilar thing has happend to norwegian or old norse. Islandic is now very close to what old norse was
Yes I can definetly hear some similarities between them. Very interesting!
He resembles Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Fassbender at the same time.
And Tony's dad off skins ifykyk
You're right !
And Willem Dafoe
What? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
right??? I saw the resemblance with Radcliffe since the beginning, but I couldn't quite make another celebrity into the mix; Fassbender! Brilliant
As a Swede (having lived seven years in North Staffordshire and, for the last 15 years, in North Lincolnshire), I've struggled most with the Geordie accent. I have no issues, what-so-ever, with most Scottish accents or the Scouse accent. My favourite accent is the Yorkshire one, closely followed by all of the Scottish ones.
Interesting. I live in south Staffordshire and the accent here is different to north Staffordshire. It would take a long time to go through every accent.
I love Yorkshire too. So much character. And on men INCREDIBLY sexy and masculine.
Having lived all my life (50 several years) in England I also struggle with geordie accents. Not made for TV ones, real ones. And I'm a northerner.
I’m an American whose maternal grandmother was from Glasgow. Her accent had been tempered by years in the States but my great-grandmother moved here as well and her accent was always very thick. I loved it. Spot on to your description. I have always had a fascination with linguistics and I really enjoyed this video.
Liverpool accent sounds great to this yank and Yorkshire. I watch so much UK TV that now I'm getting to pick them out. Love this video. Thanks.
I am from France and I just love the Scouse accent! When I first heard it I did not even recognise it was English! 😂 It sounds so unique! The accent in East Midlands has a special place in my heart though, because that's where I did my Erasmus year
I have a scouse accent and my American colleagues can't decide if I'm from Scotland or Ireland.
I live between Nottingham and Birmingham so the accent here is like a mixture of those two.
@@yardgrid I get that too! It's so funny trying to explain too.
@@ajs41
I was brought up in Derbyshire small mining village and we drop few letters similar to a Yorkshire
When moved to Sussex, they couldn't understand a word i said.
@@yardgrid I've heard that too in online voice chat and sometimes people think I'm speaking Dutch or German.
I guess from the "ck" which sounds similar to Dutch "g" or German "Nacht" ( Depends on region in Germany ) and Scottish "Loch".
What's funny is that the Dutch person in the voice chat actually understood me while everyone else was baffled. I started speaking in broken English as a joke so everyone else could understand me lol.
Excellent work!
I'd love to hear more of the Cockney accent: I am convinced that it is the basis of our Australian accent, which remarkably has very little variation, despite vast distances between the major contemporary settlements: some nouns are different but not their pronunciation!
Regional Indigenous languages, let alone dialects or accents, were innumerable in centuries past!
I don't think it came from Cockney directly. It just so happens that both the Australian and the cockney accent have a southern English origin.
Funny you should mention the London accent in association with the Australian accent.
Some years ago an American couple, when they heard me speak with my south London accent thought I was Australian, so there must be some correlation considering most of the convicts who were transferred to Australia were from London!!
@@lespetitsmoulins I heard almost exactly the same reasoning, but with Essex. The three accents have a ton of overlap.
Best BE accents analysis I have ever come across. Even my college ELT (ESOL) course didn't cover the subject so well.
And, to answer your quesstion, it's just your accent that I like most. With your immaculate diction it is a pleasure to listen, really.
Your ability to mimic different accents and explain them is impressive. Top professional.
As an Anglophile from the US, I love videos like these. Well done!! Would love more of a deep dive for Western Country accents.
Hard to choose I love them all. But I would choose the Scottish accent, Glasgow because I find it beautiful, especially the way they pronounce the "R".
I loved hearing them say murrderr in Taggart!
You wouldn;t get a working class Glasgow one .Tell you why ? I can;t ,I'm English .Believe it or not ,they sometimes put sub titles on the TV ! I'm not joking... the TV clip may be online .
@@normanpearson8753 I understand. Their English and accent are different from the others with the vocab.. And a bit difficult to understand. I had an English class in which we talked about the different accents of The UK, with some clips. The Scottish one is hard for us the non-native speakers.
OMG Louis and Zayn! I love their accents so much .My English improved so much over the years because of the 1D lads!
I find the Liverpool accent the cutest. It’s somehow friendly and soft and even childish-ish.
Well... for an old French guy like me, only the Queen is clear ! 😹
Very true
LONG LIFE THE QUUEN
i had to put on the subtitles, honestly, ha ha!
Really? You must be going deaf in your old age. Piquer
Lol I'm English and French I'm so lucky! A'd I heard that accent that I love and I would have that one cause it's my favorite! ❤️
I absolutely love the West Country accents, especially Bristolian. Those accents have such a fun and distinctive sound. As an American who used to live in Bristol, I loved that "pirate" sound. I once had a bus driver ask me, "Awrght, where ye be to mi babber?" If you want to hear more, you can search for "The Wurzels", a music group from the '70s which sing with very thick West County accents!
Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, and many other pirates from his age are from West Country.
Which one is used by the Peaky Fu^*ing Blinders?
@@charlesloving4820 thats Brummie, from Birmingham
Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the Dysney film Treasure Island was a West country man and since his portrayal of that loveable villain almost every film pirate has tried to copy his accent.
I love everything British and watch a lot of British shows. Although I love the accents sometimes I can hardly catch what is being said. It’s infuriating because I don’t want to miss a single word. I always think of Bubbles on Ab Fab and wonder do people really talk like that. I love all the accents! Can’t wait to watch more videos! Thank you!
Jane Horrocks comes from Rawtenstall in Lancashire . and yes thats how people from there talk, though maybe she emphasises it for comedic effect
I'm not a Linguist, though I am a "language person". I'm an Interpreter. I find accents fascinating, particularly, where the accents originated and have evolved from here in the US. Linguists here can extrapolate current accents to the original settlers from Scotland, Ireland, or even Scandinavia. Additionally, It's a fascinating to me that England is only about the size of one of our average sized states, but there are so many different accents! I suppose, in comparison, the map of accents here might have a similar variety if the map was condensed. Only in a couple of places will you find such a disparity of accents in a single state. I live in western NY state for example. All the various though somewhat similar accents to be found in NYC and it's environs are very different than the accent here. Otherwise, we talk about a Texas accent, or Midwest accent. Both cover an exponentially larger number of square miles than England. Obviously, I'm not an expert; just musing "out loud" as it were. Thank you for this video!
In Italy it's the same. A great variety of accents and dialects in a small area😅
True, The variety grows bigger as older is the countries or regions you look at. Take Germany, where I live, often dialects vary from village to village! The german word for „over there“ is „drüben“, which in English would transcribe similar to „drewben“ with the ew more spoken like the french „rue“. In a small village now, you‘d find „drueben“ pronounced „driwwe“, so they make the b a w, the ue to an i as in giraffe and they swallow the ending consonant. Just to say :D
It all goes back to french victory over the germans now we say „Sally“ originating from „Salute“ instead of „Hallo“ which is the origin of the english word „Hello“.
Now all of that goes back to Babylon.
Louis accent is gorgeous, but that accent from Leeds, like Mel B’s is my favorite! AMAZING video!
Geordie: Needs subtitles for native English speakers.
If you watch every episode of Vera you'll become fluent. ;o)
Rob...I have been living in the US (at 16) for 30+ yrs, and if you think you don't understand him, to me, he sounds as though he's talking Chinese! Surely other languages have similar dialects, but, since I don't speak any other than English I can't imagine the differences other languages encounter.
@@TRKuchulu Not really, Vera has a very watered down version of a Geordie accent.
used to work for a company where the UK branch was in Newcastle. I had serious issues comprehending what they were saying and each meeting I would have a seriously fried brain within fifteen minutes. (Funny how all the women working there were like Geordie shore characters: black dyed hair, way too much make up and trashy clothing, not suited for office.)
@@TRKuchulu have a look on youtube for Auf Wiedersehn Pet for a better example.
I almost jumped off my couch when I saw you used Shirley Manson as an example of an Edinburghian accent!! She is inseparably connected to Edinburgh for me, and I was hoping you might mention her as an example of ''famous people with an Edinburgh accent'', but not that she would be the main speaker example! Thank you so much for this! (Plus: I love you Shirley!!!)
Great video Tom! Dan sent me to watch it and It’s worth! Thank you very much!
Oh nice one! Glad you enjoyed it!
How can you not mention Ozzy Osborne for brummy? He's the most brummy person on the planet
SHARON!
Jasper Carrott is a good rival for that accolade
For Yorkshire, at least where I'm from, "I'm going to the shop" would actually be "Am off t' shop".
It depends really as I would say"M'off t shop", I'm from Doncaster.
At an put t,wood in,t hole ! Ya girls blouse.
Aye, aye, laddie 😂
What to you think of the Monty python "Four yorkshiremen" sketch? ruclips.net/video/ue7wM0QC5LE/видео.html
@@brianmiller1077 funny af, it really tickles my sense of humour.
As an American I’m always imitating the West Country/Hagrid accent. I think it’s easier bc of the pronounced “r’s.” But it’s also just fun. ☺️
Thank you for clearing this up! Now I understand why I love Alex Turner's accent so much.
My favorite is definitely West Country. I've only just learned about it today, but as an American, to hear an English accent with a rhotic R is fascinating!
The pirate, Long John Silver, in the 1950's children's TV series appeared to speak in a West Country accent.
I think maybe the American accent was mostly influenced by West Country and Irish but that's just a theory tho
@@OrangeUtan1 I've heard that in England all the accents were rhotic but eventually most parts dropped it.
@@Nsix4 yeah maybe but then we have no recordings from the 18th century so we'll never know.
'round these parts, erryone torks loik poirates! Oo-arr, Jim, lad!
I'm so happy to hear someone speak of MLE in a respectful and even admired way. MLE is essentially the British equivalent of AAVE (African American Vernacular English or Ebonics), and AAVE is seen as a joke to Americans. It's so upsetting.
Thanks for your kind and thoughtful comment. I agree, MLE is much derided and I’m never sure why. I think it’s a fascinating accent which tells the story of modern London 👍🏼
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I guess I would equate it to the way people here in America criticize the type of speech some minorities develop, particularly in inner city areas. Maybe it doesn’t sound as “romantic” as they think it should, or maybe they have a problem with it because of the kind of people who speak it. It sucks, but that can be the case.
That’s because American English isn’t as varied as British English. We have 3 or 4 accents and 2 are the majority. MLE is closer to the majority accents of the UK than AAVE is to American accents.
Shit accent that's why it's seen as a joke
@@OGLobotomy wym America has a lot of accents. RUclips it lol
Thank you for this. An American living and singing professionally in Austria, I get sooooo tired of the snobbish insistence of so many central Europeans that "every" American has a flat and nasal accent and "every" resident of the U.K. has the Queen's O-So-Veddy-Brrrritish accent and thus that is how American vs. UK songs MUST BE sung/pronounced. These are the same professional musicians who make no such distinction between singing Italian or French or any other language! And of course, as an American trying to explain the many differences as well as similarities between English-speaking regions, it is presumed I know nothing about anything ....
awesome video, dude. Thank you.
I love the West Country accent, especially Bristol. It just makes me feel good hearing it.
It’s hard to say which is my favourite. As an Anglophile I love them all and wish anyone of them was mine.
Hehe can you do an impression of any accents Lisa?
There are entire words that change as well. The Northern Irish never say 'when', it is always 'whenever', which I don't think makes sense
I want to encourage Lingoda, dig deeper please. I live in Cambridgeshire, and am told I have no accent, which cannot be true, because as an 'air-force brat' we moved every 3 years, once upon a day, in Yorkshire 'Spice' meant Sweets, and in Ghana 3 years later I had to change my words entirely...a fascinating subject
@@rmcguire7033 No such thing as "no accent" unless you don't speak!
I'm from the West Country and trust me, you don't want a West Country accent. Everyone assumes you're a pirate farmer hobbit the moment you start speaking.
@@samuelhonywill4499 Did you know that that accent used to be the most common one? Way back when there were pirates, and Shakespeare was writing his stuff. That's why we associate it with pirates, but it actually wasn't specific to pirates. It was the accepted, common default accent back then. Shakespeare's plays were performed with that accent, and many of the jokes/puns he wrote in them don't work well without it. There's an interesting short documentary about it somewhere on youtube. I'll post it here if I find it...
Found it! ruclips.net/video/gPlpphT7n9s/видео.html
Anyway, it's a very cool accent, I think!
The West Country accent is very interesting to me, being in born in the the US. It's vaguely similar to what we call a Kingdom accent now. Heard mostly in an area we call the North East Kingdom of Vermont. Really you hear it all Vermont over from farmers. It's also what we imagine pirates to be sounding like.
Many pirates came from the West Country - Blackbeard was the most famous (from Bristol). Penzance is there, too, by the way.
most of them were from that area especially Bristol city a massive port in the west country and a port of the british navy
Lived there for two years after university. Absolutely loved and miss it dearly. So many accents! I tried to incorporate as many as I could remember into the voices of my characters. I couldn’t quite remember one in particular, thankfully I found this channel to help jog my memory. Cheers, mate!
I wish you’d included Ireland too. I know they aren’t part of Britain…but it’s so lovely!! Maybe a separate video?
As always, you choose the video topic that I was dreaming of ! Great !!!
Hope you enjoyed it Emilie!
I enjoyed it so much, I'm going to rewatch it later to take notes. And I shared it to my friend who likes to do English accents impressions. Big thanks from Quebec, Canada !!
Me too 😍😍
What a huge work done with this video! As well as with all the others... Tom, thanks a million for all your devotion and effort, all your heart you put to your movies! I learn a lot! Many many thanks for this!
It seems the UK accents more like a classist issue more than a regional issue... What a pity
TIL that my accent is contemporary RP. I always got called posh in school as most everyone else there was Scottish or Northern (grew up on a British Army base). In our home videos from childhood, my siblings and I sound like we’re in an Enid Blyton adaptation. Our accents changed as we got older and settled in different places, but we always broadly sound like my mum, who sounds like her mother who is from Bath. My dad is Welsh and apparently sounded like Hugh Grant’s Welsh flatmate from Notting Hill when mum met him, but now sounds like her. Except when talking to his sister who lives in Wales 🏴
I love how smooth the West Country accent is. The rhotic R sounds are incredibly pleasant for the ears. ^^
But it's not one accent, bedmister Bristol sounds much different from North Somerset...3 miles...Liverpool is the same
I also noticed how HMTLQE said tower in a video..its very distinct to my ear at the moment. Thanks for your lesson, nice one 😃
The 'orrf' (off) "you don't hear outside Buckingham Palace", is actually quite common in Hamilton, New Zealand
And common to upper middle class people when pronouncing "Orstria"(Astria) or "Orstralia"(Australia) and with "off" / "orf/oarf' ans so foarth 😉
Also hear it occasionally down here in Southland
And Gisborne lol
Yes i had noticed this
Glaswegian I always think “What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?” 😂
but its heavier than feathers! Limmy for the win.
Kill Jester guy is the politest glasweigan
You've no business being on RUclips. You're nae even from RUclips.
Okay, for a moment I started to actually work it out and I'm.not even Scottish
The one I love the most is Newcastle accent for a particular reason; My husband was born in Newcastle 😂
Learned a lot, great video! I like the RP, Contemporary RP, Bristol, Scouse, Glaswegian, and the Belfast accent.
I'm Canadian and love the SCOUSE accent!!
You wouldn’t if you went there lol
Well in slaptree! (scouser here)
I'll also add over here Canadians are held in much higher esteem than Americans
@@miraggg hey fellow Canuck! Where you from? I'm in the GTA, Ontario.
I love all UK accents. And I'm always amazed at how actors from there can do the 'standard american' accent so well.
@@Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq aww what appened lad? Get bullied there once?
@@kh-wg9bt no one in the uk can tell the difference between americans and canadians unless someone has a southern accent, also the british reputation in america is just a stereotypical essex girl
I'd love to see more on the Welsh accent!
Agreed! Especially Swansea ❤
What a brilliant video!
I love the way in which Scots speak English. How about covering this topic? It'd be wonderful if you could make a video on David Tenannt's accent.