My grandparents used to call the Suffolk accent "singing Suffolk" because the old accent from their youth had a sing-song lilt to it. A broad Norfolk accent rolls like a gentle breeze, a Suffolk accent lilts and sings. The old boy talking sounds just like my uncles and grandfathers. They are all long passed away now, but this brought back wonderful memories.
My brother lives in Cromer (David Jarrel).. We're American's with a Sheringham mother - lived on Priory Rd. I returned to the US at almost 22, my brother in Cromer became a British citizen. I think you and I know a lot of the same people as I've seen you on friends FaceBook posts.
I'm Aussie and this guy sounds a lot like some of my uncles 😂I came here because I've heard the Norfolk accent frequently being compared to Australian, and I gotta say I wasn't disappointed!
I'm born and raised in Norfolk and I'm occasionally mistaken for an Auzzie whenever I travel to other parts of the UK, particularly Scotland. My theory about the similarities in the accents is that it might be because of the 'Captain Swing Riots' in Norfolk and Suffolk during the 1830s. Many hundreds of people where transported to Australia as punishment in the aftermath of the riots, at a time when the European population of Australia was less than 150,000, so I think that their arrival in large numbers may have had some sort of lasting impact on the development of the accent.
That's actually a funny coincidence. My uncle is Norfolk born and bred but moved to Australia YONKS ago so he has a semi-strong Australian accent now. You can hear the difference when an Australian is speaking to someone from Norfolk BUT I can seriously hear how similar some words can be when I talk to my uncle's partner who is Australian born and bred lol.
My Grandad had a very similar accent, he died well over 10 years ago now and I'm slowly forgetting how he spoke, but to hear this is so nice. He was born in North Cambridgeshire and worked as a farmer :)
I'm originally from Cambridgeshire and can say the accent is quite similar, mainly with words like 'game' where there's a very distinct 'aaahhyyy' sound. Most people understandably think of the Cambridge accent as standard RP because of the unis but to me I always think of 'Caahyymbridge'. Almost slightly cockney and slightly country sounding.. My grandparents are from West Yorkshire and think it's a horrible sound haha
Fellow American here who was lucky to live in Sheringham, Norfolk from age 9-21 (my mother is from there), returning to the US with a bit of a bastardized Norfolk accent that went away after a couple of years. My elder brother stayed in Cromer and as a weird hybrid US-Norfolk dialect, Nice you captured this nice fellas accent.
No way. I love Cromer. We go there at least 2 times a year. Online, it feels like people don’t know Norfolk exists and I always get joy when people talk about it ha
Same and both my parents are from Suffolk and I was born in Suffolk and grew up about a mile from the Suffolk border so... maybe I'm more Suffolk. Also considered myself more Norfolk though. Actually even my parents seemed to somewhat. Which is kinda strange...
I am lucky enough to have spent the first 30 years of my life living in Norfolk and now live in South Wales so my accent has changed 'bu ass aurite bouy'.
See my above comment, and link, for a conversation with a lady interviewing a proper old norfolk boy. Intrestingly the Norfolk accent has sometimes been described as Aussie or NZ, but I can see why you guys also think it has Bostonian hints to it. To me (a brit from norfolk) all the US accents sound the same.... except when it comes to A)The southern drawl and B) People from boston
@@Arc_Luena I listened to a radio programme about accents and there's a theory that Norfolk convicts were deported to Australia to work on farms and their accent influenced the modern Aussie accent. It's a great theory because I know a couple of people from Norfolk who sound uncannily Aussie. It's not beyond imagination to think people from Cornwall, with a similar drawl accent, may have settled in places like Maine and Massachusetts to be fishermen.
@@drey8 I'm from Norfolk and have been asked more than once if I'm from Australia when I've visited other parts of the UK (and mine is way more RP than Norfolk.) A proper norfolk speaker would struggle to be understood outside of East Anglia..... A lot of people who try and do a Norfolk accent end up doing west country, there are similarities but we don't round the r sound, and here, near and dear become "hair" "nair" and "dare". Roof and road are made with the oo sound in woof, and mode, code, toad becomes mood cood and tood. Also "that" is used in replace of it. "When she driv up the rud, that started to rain" for example. Finally, hour, power and flower in Norfolk is, ahh, paaah and shaaar. There's a tonne of other stuff, the wiki entry on Norfolk dialect is good.
@@Arc_Luena great stuff yeh I have a mate who's a Norfolk farmer and he sounds Aussie. This chap on the video sounds a bit Aussie. Then again I've lived in NSW and they are really whiney and nasally sounding. Oyy noyy.
This guy sounds just like so many of my older family members, oh my god. I'm proud to be Norfolk and have a slight Norfolk accent. I've never noticed it but some people have pointed it out to me. They say the true Norfolk accent is a dying accent - I hope it sticks about though, I think it's brilliant.
What a lot of people do not understand is that Norfolk is a large county. We have different accents if we are from the South, East, North or West. I grew up with a South Norfolk and Norwich accent. However, I have lived all over both real East Anglian counties: Norfolk and Suffolk. Even in different parts of Norwich, there are differences. Having been a private international school teacher, around the world, I now officially speak RP ( Many years at various unis ) butI still swear to myself in Broad Norfolk when aggravated: in the full knowledge that nobody else can possibly understand me. I am still proud of my roots. Many folks underestimate us bumpkins. Now show me a poor farmer...
Yer I love me ole accent as well me ole bor. It's ashamed our titty tot kids now are ashamed of it and correcting their kids to speak plopply. Int they a blaarren loada ole juddering gret duzzy woops. They lollop around with a plum in one's mouth now, how sad hintert. Afternoon.
My forebear immigrated from Norfolk in 1749 to South Carolina, America. Glad to hear this accent. My parents still say "cain't" instead of "can't" and we drop all of our "g's" on endings of words. We also say "ya" instead of "you". We came from a village called Honing, near Norwich. My forebear was christened in St. Peter and St. Paul Church there. I reckon we were Angles from North Germany at one time. My father's people are all blond with blue eyes.
P.S. My mom's dad was nearly full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee, so I don't represent the "Aryan race". I also have a black ancestor, an escaped slave who married a Shawnee warrior. I represent the usual American from the South. In the Southern US, "races" were often mixed. We weren't racio-phobic (my term) as they were in the North, according to Alexis deTocqueville, who wrote "Democracy in America" after touring the US in 1830 or so.
@Itachi Uchiha I have traced my ancestry on Ancestry.com and have a second cousin who is a genealogist. We are Shawnee/Cherokee on my mom's side, which has been traced to the 1400's. We also have a small amount of Powhatan background. One Shawnee woman married Chief Powhatan. Their daughter was Matachana the Shawano. I had a Mitochondrial DNA test done on 23andMe and it traced my mother's mother's DNA back through their mothers. It says my MtDNA shows Irish (Donegal), English (London), Spanish and Portuguese. Have no idea where the Spanish or Portuguese DNA was from, unless it was Roman Legions in England. I haven't had a paternal DNA test from a male relative on my mom's side done, and that's where the Shawnee/Cherokee is from. However, I have the Ancestry.com records. There are some mixed blood people in Florida and many Cubanos live in Miami, but most are not mixed in modern times, only from 'way back. As far as Southerners, not all are "hillbillies". It depends on where they are from. Hillbillies are usually from Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina (known as the Upper South) Arkansas and Missouri (because many people from Missouri and Arkansas were from Tennessee and Kentucky). People from Alabama also call themselves hillbillies but I have no idea why. People from the Deep South, i.e., South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana are not hillbillies, but Southerners. People from Oklahoma and Texas are Westerners, although Southern. But each Southern State is different and has a different culture, sometimes varied within the State.
@Itachi Uchiha I would think that Houston and Dallas have Scots/Irish (the usual Southern blood) as well as Latinos and Indians, as well as some blacks. They could be mixed but most "races" stick with their own.
@@karenbartlett1307 I don't know to be honest but I would probably be confident in saying that native American tribes of the era that pre dated the renaissance, would not of kept birth/marriage and death records, which would then be archived for around 600 years, for people then to be able to read on ancestry website giving evidence of this bloodline. Also your DNA is a makeup of codes that produce your skin, eyes and hair colour, your biological makeup of limbs, digits and face. No where in that would it say that you are from a European city. As for Spanish and Portuguese Roman legions in England. Firstly there was no England until about 500 years after the Romans left Britain, secondly you truly believe that after 2000 years that would be traceable in a DNA test? If you have paid for this, I would get your money back. Though I think the main question is this? What the hell has this got to do with the Norfolk accent.
You are saying that after 260 years your family kept it's accent from Norfolk. Yeah, I am going to call BS on that one. If Bob Hope was unable to keep hold of his English accent in his own lifetime, I very much doubt that your family over many generations was able to.
Makes me laugh how the American thinks the game bowls and football (David Beckham) could possibly be something a bowls play would naturally progressed to. 😄
My granny and her seven brothers and sisters were all even broader than this. All born late 19th century and died late 20th. I grew up in Kent but was teased mercilessly at school because I used to say "hair" instead of "here", like this gentleman, and "rarely" instead of "really" etc. Picked up from my Dad who, although he spoke like a BBC presenter as he had been sent to public school, had retained these bits of Norfolk from my granny.
My family had relatives in Sea Palling, in fact they lived just by the sand dunes in 1953! Anyway, they used to have holidays down there but the last time I was there I was about 6 years old and that's 61 years ago. At the time there was a record out from a chap called The Singing Postman called "A ye go a loight boi". Coincidedntally when I holidayed down there the local postman to the village had an accent almost identical and I can still remember him speaking to me and especially the way he pronounced my name "Brian", lovely feller.
One day for my birthday we went looking for one of those villages you'd never find, Whaplode St Catherine. We found it by asking someone where it was: "You're in it."! We went to the fantastic cactus and succulent nursery. Well, thanks for the trip down memory lane :) Long may the accent thrive!
When I was a kid, the last family holiday we had was to the Norfolk Broads. And my Dad imitated the Norfolk accent the whole time we were there. Mostly place names. All of a sudden he'd burst out with "Potter Heigham !!" or "Wroxxxhhham" in a really bad Norfok accent. Totally fed up with him by the end of the fortnight. :-) :-) Dead funny though :-) :-)
At Christmas they always have “bootiful” turkeys in Norfolk! “Bootiful” Norfolk, the home of “bootiful” food, great tasting and “bootiful” poultry products and the local restaurants serve “bootiful” turkey dinners. “Bootiful!”
Yay Hindleveston. My great uncle had a farm there and my great aunt played the organ at Hindleveston church. My great uncle had an accent exactly like this guy (even broader I think). Love, love Norfolk.
How does he pronounce it? Living in Norfolk for almost 20 years now I've never heard anyone say Hin-dol-ves-ton as he does in this video, it's usually Hindleston or even just Hindle.
I'm not sure if the whole of Norfolk is like this, but in my area the pronunciation of towel and tile sound pretty much exactly the same (said like "taahl"), so it's always funny when it comes to talking about bathrooms 😆
Half expect him to burst into ' I got a brand new combine harvester, won't give the key' brilliant! Looking forward to my next trip to Gr8 Yarmouth plus River Yere? Or Bure or summat lol
I moved to Suffolk 25 years ago from London, I thought everyone was weird, we walked into a pub and everyone turned like in "American Werewolf in London." I can spot a townie a mile off now and they are the weird ones.
I'm an anglo Arab, I live in Lebanon but my family came about 3 generations ago from Norfolk England, THIS IS MAKING ME CRY MATE I WANT TO BE THERE SO BAD!!!
Y’all I was listening for Norfolk, Virginia. We pronounce Norfolk the same way here. I was born in Suffolk, Virginia and we pronounce it the same here, too 😊 I used to live in Surry County, too. Now I live in Portsmouth 😊
Along with Sussex and Hampshire. It's to do with the rise of the middle class in the 1800s where the well spoken English accent evolved, along with post war overspill of Londoners moving out to the home counties that killed it off.
I've traced my ancestors to Norwich. From the 1700s I'm From South Carolina USA. I was wondering if anyone knows of any Hall family/families that are still there?
" I put a hammer down hair". "You wa' a point a' bear?" Love that. Funny thing is, Norfolk is a non-rhotic accent where (just like most modern southern English accents) the 'r' is dropped in words. So 'car' becomes 'caa'. But if the Norfolk accent were to be rhotic, it would sound a lot like the West Country accent. Some ancient link there I think.
My family ha bin in Norfolk since 1562 (I can’t find further back) my great grandparents were still alive and sprightly in 1978 when I was 18. They were pure Norfolk. Their accent doesn’t exist anymore. My parents had a weak accent, and I sadly have none except for the odd word. ☹️
Question: a lot of people are saying the younger generations don't have strong accents these days. Is this true? Also, people are saying norfolk has received a lot of internal and external migration. Are the more isolated parts of the county different in this regard? Perhaps those areas have people with stronger accents
I remember seeing the phone book with the residents nicknames. When the locals speak together it’s a totally different language. Amazingly beautiful place.
I've lived in Norfolk more than a decade and I must say the accent/dialogue drove me mad at first. I had a constant voice in my head saying "Speak properly! Get your grammar right! Enunciate!" It's grown on me though. Probably literally, as I don't really sound like I'm from London anymore. I've come to really like accents like this gentleman's now. We don't all have to sound like we're reading the news, do we?! There's room for all sorts.
I spent the summer I was 12 within sniffing distance of the chocolate factory in Norwich. Wells-next-the-Sea was a great little visit. Magic. Why go to London?
Yoo i find it strange that we've probably walked by eachother at some point but never acknowledged one another. (I go to norwich all the time i live near gorleston)
The legend of Black Shuck is spoken about over Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Where people claim to of seen a big black dog. Yes, in Scotland its a large monster that lives in a lake, in the US its a giant ape that lives in the forest. In East Anglia its a dog, that is black. I tell you that must be terrifying, you will never see that anywhere else. Before I make myself look like an angry troll type, I am from the area.
I spent a holiday on the Norfolk Broads and being very interested in language I looked forward to hearing some broad East Anglian dialect. No such luck I'm afraid. Everyone I met was a tourist like me!
I was on holiday on the Broads in 78 and 79. Loved hearing the locals refer to Potter Heigham as "Porr". Bet you don't hear that now, everyone seems to speak Estuary style now. Dialects have been wiped by Television speak exposure. Sad.
@@WildernessofMirrorsN17 well as a teenager who’s grown up in rural Norfolk I can confirm the accent hasn’t gone anywhere😂. Just the broads in summer, hunstanton and places are always full of tourists if you go to any village pub you’ll hear the accent:)
I was a student in Norwich back in the 1970s. At that time the Norfolk accent was still commonplace. However now it’s almost extinct and only heard in older people. The younger generation just don’t want to speak like that anymore. The same can be said of most southern regional accents. The Cornish, Devonian, Somerset and Hampshire accents are functionally extinct.
My grandparents used to call the Suffolk accent "singing Suffolk" because the old accent from their youth had a sing-song lilt to it. A broad Norfolk accent rolls like a gentle breeze, a Suffolk accent lilts and sings. The old boy talking sounds just like my uncles and grandfathers. They are all long passed away now, but this brought back wonderful memories.
I live in Cromer, Norfolk. It's bootiful ☺
I went there for the beach
There was no beach
@EyeZackZin byootafal
My brother lives in Cromer (David Jarrel).. We're American's with a Sheringham mother - lived on Priory Rd. I returned to the US at almost 22, my brother in Cromer became a British citizen. I think you and I know a lot of the same people as I've seen you on friends FaceBook posts.
@@clairehutcheson8485 Norwich
Do ya take a tashin boi?
For me the 'don't knooooow' was the perfect example of Broad Norfolk.
Sounds like Now
My site agent when I worked for a Thetford company would answer the phone with Harold Hare. Me thinking his surname was Hare. He meant here. Nice guy.
“I don’t naaaaaoooo” probably one of the thing most Norfolk thing to say 😂
Haha srry to disappoint but most of us from Norfolk don't have this accent 🙃
@@scruff101collects7 I know I’m a dumpling too!
@@alecfrancis2084 haha lol
@@scruff101collects7*laughs in Suffolk accent*
@arrow has autism I tend to speak king's English lol
I'm Aussie and this guy sounds a lot like some of my uncles 😂I came here because I've heard the Norfolk accent frequently being compared to Australian, and I gotta say I wasn't disappointed!
Alot of the East Anglian dialect made it's way to Australia and New England
@@jaggass Ah, I have heard that! It's pretty neat to think about. I wonder if it influenced NYC too, with things like 'bootiful'?
@@vulpesaustralis1452 Possibly but the Irish, Italian's, English, Spanish etc settled in New York yrs ago.
I'm born and raised in Norfolk and I'm occasionally mistaken for an Auzzie whenever I travel to other parts of the UK, particularly Scotland. My theory about the similarities in the accents is that it might be because of the 'Captain Swing Riots' in Norfolk and Suffolk during the 1830s. Many hundreds of people where transported to Australia as punishment in the aftermath of the riots, at a time when the European population of Australia was less than 150,000, so I think that their arrival in large numbers may have had some sort of lasting impact on the development of the accent.
That's actually a funny coincidence. My uncle is Norfolk born and bred but moved to Australia YONKS ago so he has a semi-strong Australian accent now. You can hear the difference when an Australian is speaking to someone from Norfolk BUT I can seriously hear how similar some words can be when I talk to my uncle's partner who is Australian born and bred lol.
My Grandad had a very similar accent, he died well over 10 years ago now and I'm slowly forgetting how he spoke, but to hear this is so nice. He was born in North Cambridgeshire and worked as a farmer :)
I'm originally from Cambridgeshire and can say the accent is quite similar, mainly with words like 'game' where there's a very distinct 'aaahhyyy' sound. Most people understandably think of the Cambridge accent as standard RP because of the unis but to me I always think of 'Caahyymbridge'. Almost slightly cockney and slightly country sounding.. My grandparents are from West Yorkshire and think it's a horrible sound haha
What a beautiful accent. Love this one. Thanks for sharing.
Norfolk is the best place in the world. I’ve lived in
Norfolk all my life and I love it more and more each day.
Everybody's hometown is their paradise.(usually)
fake and gay
@@padda5004 Are you ok? Do you need a hug or something?
Nobody agrees with HTK?Strange.He's sooo right!
Boi, that is alright
Fellow American here who was lucky to live in Sheringham, Norfolk from age 9-21 (my mother is from there), returning to the US with a bit of a bastardized Norfolk accent that went away after a couple of years. My elder brother stayed in Cromer and as a weird hybrid US-Norfolk dialect, Nice you captured this nice fellas accent.
No way. I love Cromer. We go there at least 2 times a year. Online, it feels like people don’t know Norfolk exists and I always get joy when people talk about it ha
You may be my dad - did you happen to have sex with a sheringham girl toward the end of 1968?
I’m from Norfolk but my accent isn’t as strong
same lad
Same and both my parents are from Suffolk and I was born in Suffolk and grew up about a mile from the Suffolk border so... maybe I'm more Suffolk. Also considered myself more Norfolk though. Actually even my parents seemed to somewhat. Which is kinda strange...
That’s what we think at least😳
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its a lot more rare these days, much more common among older people buh.
Sounds like my grandad I love it!
Sounds like mine too lol
That is how my grandad use to sound
I have traced my ancestors back to 1633 Norfolk. This is pleasant.
I’m American and traced mine back to 1640. I’m confused because I always read that my last name originated in Devon.
They left just in time.
I've traced mine there as well and around that same time. I'm American as well
I am lucky enough to have spent the first 30 years of my life living in Norfolk and now live in South Wales so my accent has changed 'bu ass aurite bouy'.
Can definitely hear elements of a New England/Bostonian accent in there- "put the hammah hea", "one yea", "he was fahntastic"
See my above comment, and link, for a conversation with a lady interviewing a proper old norfolk boy. Intrestingly the Norfolk accent has sometimes been described as Aussie or NZ, but I can see why you guys also think it has Bostonian hints to it. To me (a brit from norfolk) all the US accents sound the same.... except when it comes to A)The southern drawl and B) People from boston
A lot of American English accents have elements of the East Anglian accents. The southern accents have more in common with West Country accents.
@@Arc_Luena I listened to a radio programme about accents and there's a theory that Norfolk convicts were deported to Australia to work on farms and their accent influenced the modern Aussie accent. It's a great theory because I know a couple of people from Norfolk who sound uncannily Aussie. It's not beyond imagination to think people from Cornwall, with a similar drawl accent, may have settled in places like Maine and Massachusetts to be fishermen.
@@drey8 I'm from Norfolk and have been asked more than once if I'm from Australia when I've visited other parts of the UK (and mine is way more RP than Norfolk.) A proper norfolk speaker would struggle to be understood outside of East Anglia..... A lot of people who try and do a Norfolk accent end up doing west country, there are similarities but we don't round the r sound, and here, near and dear become "hair" "nair" and "dare". Roof and road are made with the oo sound in woof, and mode, code, toad becomes mood cood and tood. Also "that" is used in replace of it. "When she driv up the rud, that started to rain" for example. Finally, hour, power and flower in Norfolk is, ahh, paaah and shaaar. There's a tonne of other stuff, the wiki entry on Norfolk dialect is good.
@@Arc_Luena great stuff yeh I have a mate who's a Norfolk farmer and he sounds Aussie. This chap on the video sounds a bit Aussie. Then again I've lived in NSW and they are really whiney and nasally sounding. Oyy noyy.
This guy sounds just like so many of my older family members, oh my god. I'm proud to be Norfolk and have a slight Norfolk accent. I've never noticed it but some people have pointed it out to me. They say the true Norfolk accent is a dying accent - I hope it sticks about though, I think it's brilliant.
What a lot of people do not understand is that Norfolk is a large county. We have different accents if we are from the South, East, North or West.
I grew up with a South Norfolk and Norwich accent. However, I have lived all over both real East Anglian counties: Norfolk and Suffolk. Even in different parts of Norwich, there are differences.
Having been a private international school teacher, around the world, I now officially speak RP ( Many years at various unis ) butI still swear to myself in Broad Norfolk when aggravated: in the full knowledge that nobody else can possibly understand me.
I am still proud of my roots. Many folks underestimate us bumpkins. Now show me a poor farmer...
Count his fingers on each hand he should have 6 on each hand to be true norfolk
The fact he sounds exactly like my dad proves how accurate this is
Norfolk is based
This message is from your friends to the west, Cambridgeshire.
There's a small community in North Carolina, USA that sounds a lot like him... very similar... it's amazingly close.
Yh because they’re derived from Southern English accents like Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, West Country
Yeah, I have seen the clips of this. See where you are coming from, but it's not.
As a man who has lived in norfolk me ole life, i love my accent
Yer I love me ole accent as well me ole bor. It's ashamed our titty tot kids now are ashamed of it and correcting their kids to speak plopply. Int they a blaarren loada ole juddering gret duzzy woops. They lollop around with a plum in one's mouth now, how sad hintert. Afternoon.
My forebear immigrated from Norfolk in 1749 to South Carolina, America. Glad to hear this accent. My parents still say "cain't" instead of "can't" and we drop all of our "g's" on endings of words. We also say "ya" instead of "you". We came from a village called Honing, near Norwich. My forebear was christened in St. Peter and St. Paul Church there. I reckon we were Angles from North Germany at one time. My father's people are all blond with blue eyes.
P.S. My mom's dad was nearly full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee, so I don't represent the "Aryan race". I also have a black ancestor, an escaped slave who married a Shawnee warrior. I represent the usual American from the South. In the Southern US, "races" were often mixed. We weren't racio-phobic (my term) as they were in the North, according to Alexis deTocqueville, who wrote "Democracy in America" after touring the US in 1830 or so.
@Itachi Uchiha I have traced my ancestry on Ancestry.com and have a second cousin who is a genealogist. We are Shawnee/Cherokee on my mom's side, which has been traced to the 1400's. We also have a small amount of Powhatan background. One Shawnee woman married Chief Powhatan. Their daughter was Matachana the Shawano. I had a Mitochondrial DNA test done on 23andMe and it traced my mother's mother's DNA back through their mothers. It says my MtDNA shows Irish (Donegal), English (London), Spanish and Portuguese. Have no idea where the Spanish or Portuguese DNA was from, unless it was Roman Legions in England. I haven't had a paternal DNA test from a male relative on my mom's side done, and that's where the Shawnee/Cherokee is from. However, I have the Ancestry.com records.
There are some mixed blood people in Florida and many Cubanos live in Miami, but most are not mixed in modern times, only from 'way back. As far as Southerners, not all are "hillbillies". It depends on where they are from. Hillbillies are usually from Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina (known as the Upper South) Arkansas and Missouri (because many people from Missouri and Arkansas were from Tennessee and Kentucky). People from Alabama also call themselves hillbillies but I have no idea why. People from the Deep South, i.e., South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana are not hillbillies, but Southerners. People from Oklahoma and Texas are Westerners, although Southern. But each Southern State is different and has a different culture, sometimes varied within the State.
@Itachi Uchiha I would think that Houston and Dallas have Scots/Irish (the usual Southern blood) as well as Latinos and Indians, as well as some blacks. They could be mixed but most "races" stick with their own.
@@karenbartlett1307 I don't know to be honest but I would probably be confident in saying that native American tribes of the era that pre dated the renaissance, would not of kept birth/marriage and death records, which would then be archived for around 600 years, for people then to be able to read on ancestry website giving evidence of this bloodline. Also your DNA is a makeup of codes that produce your skin, eyes and hair colour, your biological makeup of limbs, digits and face. No where in that would it say that you are from a European city. As for Spanish and Portuguese Roman legions in England. Firstly there was no England until about 500 years after the Romans left Britain, secondly you truly believe that after 2000 years that would be traceable in a DNA test? If you have paid for this, I would get your money back.
Though I think the main question is this? What the hell has this got to do with the Norfolk accent.
You are saying that after 260 years your family kept it's accent from Norfolk. Yeah, I am going to call BS on that one. If Bob Hope was unable to keep hold of his English accent in his own lifetime, I very much doubt that your family over many generations was able to.
Superb. I love listening to this chap speak
Makes me laugh how the American thinks the game bowls and football (David Beckham) could possibly be something a bowls play would naturally progressed to. 😄
I live near hindleveston and I know people with Norfolk accents
Hindolveston......just saying
slacko 1971 autocorrect
slacko 1971 idk why tho
How ya gettin orn boi!
My granny and her seven brothers and sisters were all even broader than this. All born late 19th century and died late 20th.
I grew up in Kent but was teased mercilessly at school because I used to say "hair" instead of "here", like this gentleman, and "rarely" instead of "really" etc. Picked up from my Dad who, although he spoke like a BBC presenter as he had been sent to public school, had retained these bits of Norfolk from my granny.
My family had relatives in Sea Palling, in fact they lived just by the sand dunes in 1953! Anyway, they used to have holidays down there but the last time I was there I was about 6 years old and that's 61 years ago.
At the time there was a record out from a chap called The Singing Postman called "A ye go a loight boi". Coincidedntally when I holidayed down there the local postman to the village had an accent almost identical and I can still remember him speaking to me and especially the way he pronounced my name "Brian", lovely feller.
One day for my birthday we went looking for one of those villages you'd never find, Whaplode St Catherine. We found it by asking someone where it was: "You're in it."! We went to the fantastic cactus and succulent nursery. Well, thanks for the trip down memory lane :) Long may the accent thrive!
My Dad was stationed at Lakenheath. I miss the area, and especially miss the great folks from the Fens and small towns.
Great respect from a 65 yr old Norwich boy to all American airmen who were stationed here from the 40s on and saved us from both Fascism and Communism
When I was a kid, the last family holiday we had was to the Norfolk Broads. And my Dad imitated the Norfolk accent the whole time we were there. Mostly place names. All of a sudden he'd burst out with "Potter Heigham !!" or "Wroxxxhhham" in a really bad Norfok accent. Totally fed up with him by the end of the fortnight. :-) :-) Dead funny though :-) :-)
At Christmas they always have “bootiful” turkeys in Norfolk! “Bootiful” Norfolk, the home of “bootiful” food, great tasting and “bootiful” poultry products and the local restaurants serve “bootiful” turkey dinners. “Bootiful!”
I live in Melton which is just down the road to Hindolveston
I'm from taverham
@@Arc_Luena didn't ask
I don't need your permission to say something on here
Weird. There’s a town named Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire that I thought you were referring to for a second there
@@Floral_Green shut up how can you not know about the infamous criminality that the melton mafiosos get up to
Yay Hindleveston. My great uncle had a farm there and my great aunt played the organ at Hindleveston church. My great uncle had an accent exactly like this guy (even broader I think). Love, love Norfolk.
Cool, what farm did your great uncle have? Do you know?
@@slacko1971 Not sure. They retired and died many years ago, but think White House Farm rings a bell, but could be wrong.
How does he pronounce it? Living in Norfolk for almost 20 years now I've never heard anyone say Hin-dol-ves-ton as he does in this video, it's usually Hindleston or even just Hindle.
I'm not sure if the whole of Norfolk is like this, but in my area the pronunciation of towel and tile sound pretty much exactly the same (said like "taahl"), so it's always funny when it comes to talking about bathrooms 😆
Just realised I also do this
I’m from wymondham
This tickled me re 'bathrooms'😂. I love a regional accent. I am a Geordie and dialects from all fellow folk enthrall me!
I’m in Hindolveston tooo
Same
So that's everyone then? 😛
Ha anywun bin cross the borda to Lowstf?
Not #normalforNorfolk.
Born in Barsham, and lived in Fakenham all my life.
So broad Norfolk I suppose I am.
The chap in the video sounds just normal to me.
😉 👍
Half expect him to burst into ' I got a brand new combine harvester, won't give the key' brilliant! Looking forward to my next trip to Gr8 Yarmouth plus River Yere? Or Bure or summat lol
Wrong end of the country.
@@cambs0181 my bad lol
That's Zummerzet moi luvver not Norfolk
I moved to Suffolk 25 years ago from London, I thought everyone was weird, we walked into a pub and everyone turned like in "American Werewolf in London." I can spot a townie a mile off now and they are the weird ones.
I'm an anglo Arab, I live in Lebanon but my family came about 3 generations ago from Norfolk England, THIS IS MAKING ME CRY MATE I WANT TO BE THERE SO BAD!!!
From Dereham!
Anna101shark uno where beeston is?
Beetley??
Deerum!
eyyyyy
Y’all I was listening for Norfolk, Virginia. We pronounce Norfolk the same way here. I was born in Suffolk, Virginia and we pronounce it the same here, too 😊 I used to live in Surry County, too. Now I live in Portsmouth 😊
I'm almost completely norfolk
Some folks from Kent used to have a version of this accent too.
Along with Sussex and Hampshire. It's to do with the rise of the middle class in the 1800s where the well spoken English accent evolved, along with post war overspill of Londoners moving out to the home counties that killed it off.
One of my favourite places is the west coast of Norfolk
What?😅
Reminds me off my grandad 🥺
i live in norwich, the city in norfolk and i don’t have a strong accent tbf ahahah
Dwile flunking, shink , shount, sharnt, dingover, lumox,rummun, wick, huh, jip, Just a few.
Mawther
The accent in Cape May county NJ has a lot of Norfolk in it.
My accent is this strong and I'm proud love Norfolk
My dad and grandad were born in Hindol!
we were going to move to great yarmouth but after hearing his accent, essex it is.
Great Yarmouth is in Suffolk.
@@cambs0181 Unfortunately it's actually in Norfolk, although everyone wishes we could disown it and push it in to Suffolk
I was really confused for a bit, because I was looking for Norfolk, Virginia...there are actually some commonalities though, like the word "about"
I am true Norfolk person and very very very proud to be Norfolk
Me to ! I’m from Norwich
Can I test that pride on the very level?
I've traced my ancestors to Norwich. From the 1700s I'm From South Carolina USA. I was wondering if anyone knows of any Hall family/families that are still there?
There are quite a lot of Hall’s in Norfolk!
@TheUntidytv Thanks. God willing,I would love to visit the home land one day.
I lived in Norwich norfolk for ten years now I live in chandler Arizona USA
"Have you got loit a loight boy"? ...is the stereotyped Norfolk phrase with the inflection dipping down and up again in the middle :-)
"Naw-fuck"
Rebecca Lowe is from Norfolk. 😉
I M from Cambridgeshire
" I put a hammer down hair".
"You wa' a point a' bear?" Love that.
Funny thing is, Norfolk is a non-rhotic accent where (just like most modern southern English accents) the 'r' is dropped in words. So 'car' becomes 'caa'. But if the Norfolk accent were to be rhotic, it would sound a lot like the West Country accent. Some ancient link there I think.
Ha ha ha! Got a warning for blood & gore & violence! Turns out it was ad for a game, not this video. Made me laugh out loud for real.
Kings Lynn born and bred. I’m a naaarwich boy now
Traitor
Jk
I worked in Norfolk much of the 1970's and by the end I could often tell Norfolk from Norwich accents
My family ha bin in Norfolk since 1562 (I can’t find further back) my great grandparents were still alive and sprightly in 1978 when I was 18. They were pure Norfolk. Their accent doesn’t exist anymore. My parents had a weak accent, and I sadly have none except for the odd word. ☹️
I have heard broader accents in Norfolk than that
I.love Cromer
Eeeee say IIIIII say sheeeee say ..aaaa ya gotta light boyyyy 😂
They look like turkeys who have just seen Bernard Matthews grinning at them...
Good ol' buh
I han’ go’ nun (I haven’t got any). Is very typical... Also no oi in’ (No I am not).
Woah - water, here sounds like hee, bootiful - beautiful, I'm freezin' cold.
Question: a lot of people are saying the younger generations don't have strong accents these days. Is this true? Also, people are saying norfolk has received a lot of internal and external migration. Are the more isolated parts of the county different in this regard? Perhaps those areas have people with stronger accents
I was looking for the Norfolk, Virginia accent 😂😂😂
I remember seeing the phone book with the residents nicknames. When the locals speak together it’s a totally different language. Amazingly beautiful place.
"Amazingly bootiful place". You used a compooter though, so it probably corrected thou
I've lived in Norfolk more than a decade and I must say the accent/dialogue drove me mad at first. I had a constant voice in my head saying "Speak properly! Get your grammar right! Enunciate!" It's grown on me though. Probably literally, as I don't really sound like I'm from London anymore. I've come to really like accents like this gentleman's now. We don't all have to sound like we're reading the news, do we?! There's room for all sorts.
Sounds like an East Mercian accent to me. I could here that in Lincolnshire
I’m from wymondham norfolk
my bus driver is Norfolk and my teacher was
We can tell by your grammar!
Tha chaff my ring piece tha do
I spent the summer I was 12 within sniffing distance of the chocolate factory in Norwich. Wells-next-the-Sea was a great little visit. Magic. Why go to London?
I’m from Norwich. Norfolk
same!
Yoo i find it strange that we've probably walked by eachother at some point but never acknowledged one another. (I go to norwich all the time i live near gorleston)
@@steviegilham9158 I have family that live in Gorleston
@@camerondownes5711 damn where abouts?
@@steviegilham9158 can't remember exactly where but they live about a 15 to 20 minute walk from the High Street
black shuck live's there.....
The legend of Black Shuck is spoken about over Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Where people claim to of seen a big black dog. Yes, in Scotland its a large monster that lives in a lake, in the US its a giant ape that lives in the forest. In East Anglia its a dog, that is black. I tell you that must be terrifying, you will never see that anywhere else. Before I make myself look like an angry troll type, I am from the area.
I'm from thetford
@Razors yes! whats your problem?
"Bed for Cher." 🙃
bishy barnabee
Good god, folks that haven’t married their sisters mums aunties daughters grandma. Won’t have a clue what’s occurring
Hes a goood old Bore!!!! nice man , i work for john deere here in norfolk and all the farmerssound like this arrhhhhhh bore!!!!
Cen ya droive a traaacta?
Born in Norwich and lived in Aylsham.
I spent a holiday on the Norfolk Broads and being very interested in language I looked forward to hearing some broad East Anglian dialect. No such luck I'm afraid. Everyone I met was a tourist like me!
I love the Norfolk Broads - very pretty area
I was on holiday on the Broads in 78 and 79.
Loved hearing the locals refer to Potter Heigham as "Porr".
Bet you don't hear that now, everyone seems to speak Estuary style now.
Dialects have been wiped by Television speak exposure.
Sad.
I can soon sort this for ya.
Come back to Norfolk and give me a shout.
I've been to Norfolk many times on holiday and only heard the older generation speaking it.
@@WildernessofMirrorsN17 well as a teenager who’s grown up in rural Norfolk I can confirm the accent hasn’t gone anywhere😂. Just the broads in summer, hunstanton and places are always full of tourists if you go to any village pub you’ll hear the accent:)
_I love this accent as even black British talking thats so interesting though_
Hev ye got ah light boy
I was a student in Norwich back in the 1970s. At that time the Norfolk accent was still commonplace. However now it’s almost extinct and only heard in older people. The younger generation just don’t want to speak like that anymore. The same can be said of most southern regional accents. The Cornish, Devonian, Somerset and Hampshire accents are functionally extinct.
Absolutely Norfolk'd
He's such a cutie old guy really sweet
Love the broad Norfolk accent. My cousins speak like that
Hi, Liz. Caroline from Oz. Love listening to the broad Norfolk accent. Makes me feel homesick
Ha ya got a loight boy? Bootiful.
A lot of U.S. Colonists were from Norfolk area
I’m from norfolk but I’ve got a more of a London accent then this, wish I could represent my county better 😂