We have listened to quite a few different dialects in the United Kingdom. From England to Wales even some in Scotland. We have read that the West Country Yap or dialect may be the hardest to understand!? Is it? This is our first time hearing this dialect from England. Let us know if you think it's the hardest to understand and if not, which is? We love hearing the many different dialects & slang in the UK. There's so many! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
John Treagood was a local traveller - I'm Devon born and bred and for as long back as I can remember, we used to wave at him and his horse Misty when we drove past him and he'd always wave back. He died in 2020 and local people crowd-funded his funeral, he was taken to the crematorium in a horse-drawn carriage and had a really good send-off. He was very much loved locally.
I'm from the West Country, and lots of people had stronger accents years ago, but they are now dumbed down somewhat. Older people said things like, "Thess casn't see as well as ee could cass?" (Translation: You can't see as well as you could, can you?) In my city of Bristol, we still have quite unique sayings. When people get off of a bus, we tend to say, "Cheers Drive" to the driver, we 'scraidge' a knee (injure/bloody), our children play on 'sliderz' or fall in 'stingerz'. So many quite unique local sayings that there is a company that sells t-shirts with them on. Very popular with visitors.
"Cheers Drive" is interesting. As a Londoner I've always said that without thinking about it, but my folks came up from Cornwall. Maybe it's a West Country thing I picked up from my folks.
If you've ever seen the 1950s movie Treasure Island, the actor Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver, grew up in Cornwall. In the movie, he exaggerated his West Country accent for the role. Due to this, it became the "default" accent for pirates. So you can thank the West Country for the whole "yarr" pirate talk😅
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Treasure Island is probably the most famous pirate story. Easy must be over 50 films and series. Long John Silver, the cliche peg leg pirate image, the parrot on the shoulder, the Jolly Roger , the skull and crossbones flag etc all popularised from from that. Based on the book Treasure Island from the 1800s
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow lol I was a little suprised 😅 I can understand not maybe seeing the movie, but didn't quite understand having never heard of it 😅
There is an old saying “A mine is a hole in the ground with a Cornishman at the bottom" . Cornish miners travelled the globe in a mass migration seeking more mining work, and you find their influence in many places because of this. There are areas of America, for example, who's dialect and folk tales has been influenced by those miners from the West Country from generations ago. You'll find this in areas of Virginia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania for example aswell as several others
Frank never changed his trousers and Harold’s trousers were so dirty, they were stiff and could stand up by themselves. The two guys at the end worked as roof thatchers, so that’s why they had mammals darting into their clothing. Watch a few Pam Ayers videos for a strong, yet understandable West Country accent.
lol , I'm from the west country from Devon. That was the broadest accent I've ever heard . My Nan was from Cornwall. I've friend from Cornwall and her accent is extremely thick.
This is brilliant because I always think that the English language and it's dialects start to sound more American the further down the West country you go. If you started in Kent and worked your way West, it picks up more of a 'twang' as you go through Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire towards Bristol and Devon, and if you were to put the accent of one of these gentlemen in this video alongside someone like Popcorn Sutton from Appalachia, then they would probably be pretty similar.
The two old guys speaking at the end were talking about there experiences while working on the threshing machine. Even back in the 70s it was not unheard of for farms to still harvest crop the old ways. When a field of wheat, barley or oats was cut for instance, the cut crop would be placed in stooks (stacks) to dry before thrashing. The disturbed wildlife would find refuge in the stooks, when you picked them up to thrash them the wildlife would jump onto you. It was very common to have field mice, shrews, and even hedgehogs or occasionally rats to be in the stooks and they jump on to you to escape and find shelter, which was often in any available opening in your clothing, including pockets, shirt opening like down the neck, up the sleeves and down up the trouser leg hence why you tie the trouser legs shut with bailer twine. On our farm we had a threshing machine, and even an early wooden combined harvester. The guy with the horse drawn cart, I cant think of his name now. I think he recently died. He travelled all around the South West collecting scrap metal. Back in the mid 70s he spent the entire summer on camping on our farm. because he travelled around so much he had a very soft accent. It is important to note that every village has a slightly different language and accent, for instance what I call a stook, the next village may call it a shock or even ricks. Unfortunately both different language and accents are being lost.
Wow! This is what I grew up hearing when I was a child in Cornwall in the 1970s. Most of my ancestors were farmers or miners and had very strong Cornish accents. I could transcribe the video for you but that might spoil the fun 😀There aren't many Cornish people left anymore with an accent this strong. A lot of my male ancestors left Cornwall in the 19th century to mine or farm in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Mexico. I grew up hearing about an uncle who was blinded in a mine blast in Butte, Montana, and came back to Cornwall.
You won’t hear accents like that much in the West Country nowadays they were old farming boys. Most locals nowadays just have a gentle burr. But the most common accent now is upper class English as the area is invaded by people from London who want holiday/second homes there. I think the hardest accent to follow is south Glasgow - Hamilton and that area. When my wife’s family (yes I married an immigrant!) talk amongst themselves I’ve given up listening because I cannot get a word! Not sure if there’s a video on that though.
If you think Glasgow is hard listen to a thick Aberdeen accent lol or find a recording of an old Fife speaker. As a child I couldn't understand the old fifers in my family . I complained to my dad that they wouldn't stop speaking "celtic at me"😂
I'm a born and bred Forester from The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire and when i moved to Nottingham in the 1980s, nobody could understand a word i said. Alas the Forest dialect is dying out rapidly, so it makes me sad that soon I will never hear anyone cry "Wass thic choppsing bout ow butt?" , "Surree oh, thic dunalf belloch!" etc.😢
I'm North West English: I only got about 30% of what the older guys were saying, but most of what the rest were. We had a lady from Dorset working at our factory two jobs ago, and the thing with her was that her default word for everyone and everything was "boy". Male, female, animal, vegetable or mineral, if it didn't have specific name it was "boy". "Yarright Boy? Me boy Janey wans tha big boy of the top agin" = "Hello mate: my colleague Jane wants that big box on the top shelf again". The thing with accents is that tuning in to the _sound_ of the speech and the pronunciation is only half the battle. You also have to understand the local vocabulary, i.e. the "slang" for it to make any sense. Understanding that a Cornishman is annoyed with the "grockles" doesn't do you much good if you don't know what "grockles" actually are (they're tourists, so it's probably _you_ ...🤣)
Speaking of the rat-up-the-trouser-leg story, my mum used to tell the tale of one time when their cat chased a mouse _into_ the house through the open kitchen door, and it ran up my grandma's leg under her skirts. When it got to the waistband it couldn't go any further, so it ran round and round her waist trying to find a way out. Mum said she'd never seen her mum dance like that before! 🤣😂🤣😂
The most beautiful American accent I have ever heard is from KY - especially southeast down near Corbin. My Grandma was born in the Cumberland Cap TN and I used to visit in the area every year. I love it...
"Ah be roight, moi lover!" ...I had no problem listening to this. I am Oxfordshire born and bred, which borders Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, and my accent could be described as a watered-down version of west country (People reckon that those from the Oxford area have a really posh accent but that's a myth, probably because of the University). My Dad's accent is such that others have often confused him with a west country resident.
My folk came from Cornwall, and as a lad I spent a fair bit of time there, so I'm pretty familiar with the accent/dialect. But whilst most folks to spoke like that when I was kid (in the 1950s!), hardly anyone does now. There's still a definite Cornish accent, but it's softened a lot these days.
John Tregold, the traveller (guy with the hat) was not originally from the West Country. But before he died he spent his life in a caravan that would move around Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. I grew up in a farming area in Devon so I understand what was being said. Some of my relatives would talk like this. Even the Westcountry accent changes over the counties of the West Country.
I remember the chap in the Gypsy caravan. He was called Alec. He was a Romany Gypsy. I would often see him with his horse on grass verges at the side of the road near my home. Would always toot the horn as I passed which got a wave. I remember one time when his horse died due to an illness and the locals chipped in and bought him another one. He was a lovely bloke.
I can't help but think of the Wurzels when listening to the west country accent. Also, the stereotype of how Pirates in movies sound, springs to mind. Oo, arr...!
😂😂😂.... The gentleman that lives in his trailer with his dogs, is from London, that's why you can understand him, he just lives in the south West, suspender in the UK, hold up your socks 😂 braces, hold up your trousers lol... Love you girls and such fun to watch you try to understand 🤣 xx. More please xx
I’m from the West Country and didn’t understand any more than 25% of what was being said😂 The accent varies in the south west/West Country but this is the kinda accent my nan still has, although hers is more old school Bristolian than Somerset/Cornish like these men seem to have. People still sound like this but more so amongst the older generation and in more remote places, in my opinion. Bristolian is more like Stephen Merchant, Josie Gibson (tv presenter). Worth listening to Josie Gibson accent on This Morning for to get an accurate idea of the Bristol accent… might come in useful when you visit! 😂
It’s interesting you say that as I think a lot of Appalachians have Irish heritage and the chap you said sounded most like that , his accent had some occasional similarities to an Irish accent
Girls, please don't say suppender to the British. In Britain, a suppender in what holds up a womans stockings. You call it a garter belt. You were saying those men had on cool garter belts 😂😂😂
I used love talking with Old locals, anywhere I went, my mates use to say why are you talking with that old fart, I learnt so much about life. Now I'm one of those old farts at 78. The one that made me laugh when I was about 20 was in Cheddar, talking with old local in a pub ( red veins on his nose ) , I was drinking scrumpy cider, he said in his west country accent> Best way to drink that is put in a bucket, put outside yer door, in the morning take the Ice off. Keep doing this until there's no Ice, that's when you drink it, my boy.
This little Canadian caught some of it! But It was like the 2 men didn’t have any teeth!! Especially the 2nd one! The hardest for me to understand is a Scottish accent. I worked with a Scotsman for 2 months and never learned to really understand him! But I was great with Irish (Dublin) - in fact I picked it up. My boyfriend’s brother thought I was Irish!!
Quite a few accents are hard - mostly rural people, example farm folk, who don't have much communication with big city life. Don't forget (as I've told you before) I've met many people who have never been to London in their life-time, and just in England, before we even start to consider the Welsh and the Scots.!!!!!
You did a lot better than me ladies! I didn't have a clue what they were saying. It was kind of funny in London last weekend where nobody could understand my ulster accent. Maybe give that one a try next? 😊
My mother and both sides of her family are from Cornwall. I was born and lived in Hampshire my whole life, but whenever I had to visit family as a child, I could never understand a word my Great Uncles would say. The more puzzled I looked, the more funny and talkative they got. Now in my older years, I understand the old boys in the video (mostly). Now when I visit Cornwall, I rarely ever hear a thick accent like this now - it seems so diluted, which I guess is due to the influx of emmets (tourist) and tv. I love hearing a real west country accent.
If you have a freeze and a power cut you can still use that old trick of putting some rocks in a fire then wrap them in an old towel and take them to bed. Also useful to give to older people/neighbors in your community for a little bit of warmth. A communal fire can save lives - rocks and potatoes!
Not in the Towns and Cities, but definitely among Country folk and farmers. note, when you visit the UK and you are driving in the Countryside, anyone you stop to ask directions from, is likely to speak like this. I lived in Aberdeenshire for almost 17yrs and in the Country they have a dialect called Doric. When my Mum came to visit and we went to my local Butcher in the next village, I had to translate as Mum could not understand a word.
If you want to listen to someone with a West Country accent . Pam Ayers a writer of funny verse made funier by her accent and delivery . Comic timing from a gentler age .
oh my word, i used to love her weekly poems on tv as a kid lol very near the knuckle stuff like the tale of dating a gardener who offered to 'stimulate her clematis'
Morning lovely ladies , oohh arrr youm gonna struggle with this one I'm a thinking lol , they make a Brummie like me sound like I speak received pronunciation and we are not exactly renowned for our clarity of speech, can't wait lol , I'm predicting an N & D head scratching moment lol ❤❤xx
My Family is from The Isle of Thanet, East Kent, one of my sisters moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne, the people there thought she was posh because of her dialect.
When I went to Padstow on May Day during the Obby Oss festive a couple of years old, I stayed in an Hotel. The lady behind the bar would always end a sentence with "my Lovey". What can I get you my Lovey? Is that all my Lovey? Such friendly people.
This is probably more specifically a Somerset accent, there are several in the West Country not all as strong as them, yes younger people have much milder accents now with people moving around etc.
I'm from Norfolk East Anglia in the UK and I still have the accent and the further to the cost you go the stronger the accent gets, so there is another accent for you
Forest of Dean is quite difficult even for us people that live in the West!😂 As a Bathonian, I find the Geordie accent the most difficult to understand.
Please remember that 'the West Country' does not have one accent. As a Cornish Elder I can say that, when I was a child the accents were discernable village to village, let alone county to county. TV has homogenised their individuality. Also, Cornwall is a Duchy, and is technically not under the English crown. We have a Duke as our head. (Prince William)
Welsh, with a CF36 accent (See UK postcodes) Can understand most of this. Yes, technology is levelling dialects like this and I don't see a solution outside of folk museums and reenactment groups. If you want a beautiful Scots accent that anyone can understand, try the Hebrides.
Similar to this , and I know you struggled with everyday Geordie , I'm about 20 miles from some of the Northumberland pit villages but listening to some of the old timers I really have to concentrate . If you can find some old footage of that dialect , you will be knackered trying to get even a % . Happy Birthday by the way .
will have to remember that one..if someone comes to visit and you want them to stay. light a long candle for light, if its someone you really dont want to stay long..light a small nub of a candle i speak with a received english accent, but i dont have an issue with any uk dialect, you just have to switch your listening speed up or down a gear depending on where you are
You may want to watch the film Kes, it'll guve you agood look at the Yorkshire accent, became most of the Yorkshire accents on showed on clips about British accents, have been very weak Yorkshire accents, i live 5 minutes away from the writer house and it was filmed all around where i live, and the accent is still strong around here, plus Kes is a great film lived by many
My home town is Buckfastleigh South Devon, you should look at the history of the town, the author Arthur conan Doyle, wrote one of his Serlock holmes books based on The hound of the baskervilles and that is based on a local man from the 1600's.
I do find this relatively easy to understand. Being from the Isle of Wight the accents are sort of similar. However its not so common any more , its been diluted a lot, especially with the overners who have moved here.
Ooh Arr =yes, my brother was born London and married Bristol Girl at 19, his accent is pure E.G Ooo Arr I,zz goes ere all's the time. Our ma & da = my Mum and Dad. > they'zz still thinks I'zz ar Londonorr
I'm a Cockney but I never had much bother understanding Geordie. Moved up to Northumberland when I was 10, I am 34 now. Even picked up a few Geordie phrases. I can't speak like Geordies though. My two younger sisters can switch between cockney and geordie super easily. 😂😅
oh my lord, that was about the worst thing ever.. im a 60 year old guy and the thought of that brings me to the verge of tears everytime someone mentions it, that poor lad that survived..probably gone himself now, but how do you cope after something like that. 😟
I enjoyed that - I got most of it even tho I'm an Essex girl. Not the accent but the conversation reminded me of my grandad. He was a farmer and had that kinda permanent smile and laugh when telling a story. I've lived in Northern Ireland for 40 years and there are a lot of dialects I do not have a clue. My son-in-law is convinced I'm deaf because when he speaks to me my I mostly respond WHAT?? The Strabane accent is nuts th-cam.com/video/XhGbpatmplQ/w-d-xo.html
Hardest accent? What's tricky for me might not be what's tricky for you, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Eastern Scotland might be the most challenging for US listeners, not just the accents but the vocabulary choices are likely to be unexpected which makes it harder
Its entirely possible and even likely that the Appalachian accent was influenced by settlers who originated from the west country. A lot of the early English settlers to America came from the west country as you probably already know. I bet a lot of the people in that part of the US can trace their families back to settlers who came England.
Well apart from the guy talking about the Orchard Being Irish, which is not in the West Country. This is about right. Or as I would say "Isounsaboutroight, Theese outta come downa Brissle an aveus a chat wiv me nan, and sheel tell ee that theese parkun where theese cassent backen assunt, an if theese cuss theese ussunt ust." And because your voice is a bit loud she'd say "Willst thee shut atnoise, theese giviniunedache"
I was born in Brighton but my dad was born in Axminster Devon which borders Lyme Regis in Dorset . my dad served with Devon and Dorset he served 8 years in India and 4 years in Burma in WW2 . My dad spoke w ith his Devon accent and words all his life . did you know my ancestors went to America with the may flower my great great grandfather was Nathanael Bowditch he wrote the ships navigation which is still kept in all us ships until now. His bust is or was in Boston university his face looks like my dad
I was born in Dorchester in Dorset but moved to Brighton when I was three. A lot of my cousins still live in rural Dorset villages and still retain their broad Dorset accents,my link to my original Dorset home.
When I was young, each village had its own dialect, then with long-distance travel coming into fashion and families moving to other parts of the country, plus the older generation leaving us, it's normal that the dialects are thinned out, the dialect from my Scottish part of my family was difficult to understand in the 60s, today it's a lot easier, it's the same in parts of Germany, if you ask a Kölner to use the Kölner slang, there's no way that I could understand what they are saying, even after 42 years, and I only live 10 miles away from Köln, but here again the dialects are dieing out fast, because of the Internet and mobile phones, in one way there a curse, and in the other way a blessing, I know change is going to happen, but the speed of the changes is scaring the pants off me, we had the oldest soap opera in British radio for years, called the Archers, with a broad dialect spoken at the time, it always reminded me of the country side on a summers day, and of course some of my older family and friends, damm I miss them. 😊
We have listened to quite a few different dialects in the United Kingdom. From England to Wales even some in Scotland. We have read that the West Country Yap or dialect may be the hardest to understand!? Is it? This is our first time hearing this dialect from England. Let us know if you think it's the hardest to understand and if not, which is? We love hearing the many different dialects & slang in the UK. There's so many! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
my girlfriend been here 66 year all her life and still cant understand others and i from australia 34 years can doesn't make sence
The northwest Scouse accent is the hardest. Our accent is Norwegian Irish .Welsh from the south, and scottish from the north.
The Scottish have a Few Scouse Words
An accent is not the same as a dialect. Every country has a variety of accents.
John Treagood was a local traveller - I'm Devon born and bred and for as long back as I can remember, we used to wave at him and his horse Misty when we drove past him and he'd always wave back. He died in 2020 and local people crowd-funded his funeral, he was taken to the crematorium in a horse-drawn carriage and had a really good send-off. He was very much loved locally.
I'm from the West Country, and lots of people had stronger accents years ago, but they are now dumbed down somewhat. Older people said things like, "Thess casn't see as well as ee could cass?" (Translation: You can't see as well as you could, can you?)
In my city of Bristol, we still have quite unique sayings. When people get off of a bus, we tend to say, "Cheers Drive" to the driver, we 'scraidge' a knee (injure/bloody), our children play on 'sliderz' or fall in 'stingerz'. So many quite unique local sayings that there is a company that sells t-shirts with them on. Very popular with visitors.
"Cheers Drive" is interesting. As a Londoner I've always said that without thinking about it, but my folks came up from Cornwall. Maybe it's a West Country thing I picked up from my folks.
If you've ever seen the 1950s movie Treasure Island, the actor Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver, grew up in Cornwall. In the movie, he exaggerated his West Country accent for the role. Due to this, it became the "default" accent for pirates. So you can thank the West Country for the whole "yarr" pirate talk😅
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Treasure Island is probably the most famous pirate story. Easy must be over 50 films and series. Long John Silver, the cliche peg leg pirate image, the parrot on the shoulder, the Jolly Roger , the skull and crossbones flag etc all popularised from from that. Based on the book Treasure Island from the 1800s
@LilMonkeyFella87 Oooh sorry!! Read that with glasses off 😆 🤣 Of course we've seen it but not in forever!!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow lol I was a little suprised 😅 I can understand not maybe seeing the movie, but didn't quite understand having never heard of it 😅
There is an old saying “A mine is a hole in the ground with a Cornishman at the bottom" . Cornish miners travelled the globe in a mass migration seeking more mining work, and you find their influence in many places because of this. There are areas of America, for example, who's dialect and folk tales has been influenced by those miners from the West Country from generations ago. You'll find this in areas of Virginia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania for example aswell as several others
Where ever you find a ship or a hole in the ground you'll find a Cornishman!
❤❤ hearing all the different dialects! So much fun in this episode.
This should be fun. Thanks for sharing ladies.
It is
I'm Bristolian, and our dialect has a germanic element. We often say things like "Ow bist?" (How are you). I understood the old guys conversations.
Frank never changed his trousers and Harold’s trousers were so dirty, they were stiff and could stand up by themselves. The two guys at the end worked as roof thatchers, so that’s why they had mammals darting into their clothing. Watch a few Pam Ayers videos for a strong, yet understandable West Country accent.
Pam Ayres is from Oxfordshire, which is in the South Midlands, so not really West Country
lol , I'm from the west country from Devon. That was the broadest accent I've ever heard .
My Nan was from Cornwall. I've friend from Cornwall and her accent is extremely thick.
One branch of my family comes from exeter in devon, i have traced it back to 1580
😂😂 oh Bless .. sounding exactly like my grandpa… born and bred Bristol boy ….. loved this video ❤ 😂
Always love to see you taking a look at our dialects, have sent you one on Patreon 😄
This is brilliant because I always think that the English language and it's dialects start to sound more American the further down the West country you go.
If you started in Kent and worked your way West, it picks up more of a 'twang' as you go through Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire towards Bristol and Devon, and if you were to put the accent of one of these gentlemen in this video alongside someone like Popcorn Sutton from Appalachia, then they would probably be pretty similar.
Have you heard of the high tide accent In I think coastal areas of Virginia and Maryland. It's very like the Norfolk UK accent.
The two old guys speaking at the end were talking about there experiences while working on the threshing machine. Even back in the 70s it was not unheard of for farms to still harvest crop the old ways. When a field of wheat, barley or oats was cut for instance, the cut crop would be placed in stooks (stacks) to dry before thrashing. The disturbed wildlife would find refuge in the stooks, when you picked them up to thrash them the wildlife would jump onto you. It was very common to have field mice, shrews, and even hedgehogs or occasionally rats to be in the stooks and they jump on to you to escape and find shelter, which was often in any available opening in your clothing, including pockets, shirt opening like down the neck, up the sleeves and down up the trouser leg hence why you tie the trouser legs shut with bailer twine. On our farm we had a threshing machine, and even an early wooden combined harvester.
The guy with the horse drawn cart, I cant think of his name now. I think he recently died. He travelled all around the South West collecting scrap metal. Back in the mid 70s he spent the entire summer on camping on our farm. because he travelled around so much he had a very soft accent. It is important to note that every village has a slightly different language and accent, for instance what I call a stook, the next village may call it a shock or even ricks. Unfortunately both different language and accents are being lost.
Wow! This is what I grew up hearing when I was a child in Cornwall in the 1970s. Most of my ancestors were farmers or miners and had very strong Cornish accents. I could transcribe the video for you but that might spoil the fun 😀There aren't many Cornish people left anymore with an accent this strong.
A lot of my male ancestors left Cornwall in the 19th century to mine or farm in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Mexico. I grew up hearing about an uncle who was blinded in a mine blast in Butte, Montana, and came back to Cornwall.
You won’t hear accents like that much in the West Country nowadays they were old farming boys. Most locals nowadays just have a gentle burr. But the most common accent now is upper class English as the area is invaded by people from London who want holiday/second homes there.
I think the hardest accent to follow is south Glasgow - Hamilton and that area. When my wife’s family (yes I married an immigrant!) talk amongst themselves I’ve given up listening because I cannot get a word! Not sure if there’s a video on that though.
The hardest I ever heard was from a chap from Glasgow, but he'd lived in Durham for years, so he had a mixture of Glaswegian and Mackem.
If you think Glasgow is hard listen to a thick Aberdeen accent lol or find a recording of an old Fife speaker. As a child I couldn't understand the old fifers in my family . I complained to my dad that they wouldn't stop speaking "celtic at me"😂
I'm an Englishman (Yorkshire), and i have to admit i struggled. All the best.
I'm a born and bred Forester from The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire and when i moved to Nottingham in the 1980s, nobody could understand a word i said.
Alas the Forest dialect is dying out rapidly, so it makes me sad that soon I will never hear anyone cry "Wass thic choppsing bout ow butt?" , "Surree oh, thic dunalf belloch!" etc.😢
I'm North West English: I only got about 30% of what the older guys were saying, but most of what the rest were. We had a lady from Dorset working at our factory two jobs ago, and the thing with her was that her default word for everyone and everything was "boy". Male, female, animal, vegetable or mineral, if it didn't have specific name it was "boy".
"Yarright Boy? Me boy Janey wans tha big boy of the top agin" = "Hello mate: my colleague Jane wants that big box on the top shelf again".
The thing with accents is that tuning in to the _sound_ of the speech and the pronunciation is only half the battle. You also have to understand the local vocabulary, i.e. the "slang" for it to make any sense. Understanding that a Cornishman is annoyed with the "grockles" doesn't do you much good if you don't know what "grockles" actually are (they're tourists, so it's probably _you_ ...🤣)
Remember The Singing Postman - 'Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy'? th-cam.com/video/hn5m4m5VdP8/w-d-xo.html
Speaking of the rat-up-the-trouser-leg story, my mum used to tell the tale of one time when their cat chased a mouse _into_ the house through the open kitchen door, and it ran up my grandma's leg under her skirts. When it got to the waistband it couldn't go any further, so it ran round and round her waist trying to find a way out. Mum said she'd never seen her mum dance like that before! 🤣😂🤣😂
Now that made me laugh, as I could picture it in my head. 😂🤣😂
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The most beautiful American accent I have ever heard is from KY - especially southeast down near Corbin. My Grandma was born in the Cumberland Cap TN and I used to visit in the area every year. I love it...
"Ah be roight, moi lover!"
...I had no problem listening to this. I am Oxfordshire born and bred, which borders Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, and my accent could be described as a watered-down version of west country (People reckon that those from the Oxford area have a really posh accent but that's a myth, probably because of the University). My Dad's accent is such that others have often confused him with a west country resident.
My folk came from Cornwall, and as a lad I spent a fair bit of time there, so I'm pretty familiar with the accent/dialect. But whilst most folks to spoke like that when I was kid (in the 1950s!), hardly anyone does now. There's still a definite Cornish accent, but it's softened a lot these days.
John Tregold, the traveller (guy with the hat) was not originally from the West Country. But before he died he spent his life in a caravan that would move around Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
I grew up in a farming area in Devon so I understand what was being said. Some of my relatives would talk like this.
Even the Westcountry accent changes over the counties of the West Country.
I remember the chap in the Gypsy caravan. He was called Alec. He was a Romany Gypsy. I would often see him with his horse on grass verges at the side of the road near my home.
Would always toot the horn as I passed which got a wave.
I remember one time when his horse died due to an illness and the locals chipped in and bought him another one.
He was a lovely bloke.
I can't help but think of the Wurzels when listening to the west country accent. Also, the stereotype of how Pirates in movies sound, springs to mind. Oo, arr...!
😂😂😂.... The gentleman that lives in his trailer with his dogs, is from London, that's why you can understand him, he just lives in the south West, suspender in the UK, hold up your socks 😂 braces, hold up your trousers lol... Love you girls and such fun to watch you try to understand 🤣 xx. More please xx
I thought it sounded like a Suffolk accent. Ipswich sort of sound
There are various videos from the Orkney Islands some from the Island of Westray that have interesting accents.
I’m from the West Country and didn’t understand any more than 25% of what was being said😂 The accent varies in the south west/West Country but this is the kinda accent my nan still has, although hers is more old school Bristolian than Somerset/Cornish like these men seem to have. People still sound like this but more so amongst the older generation and in more remote places, in my opinion. Bristolian is more like Stephen Merchant, Josie Gibson (tv presenter). Worth listening to Josie Gibson accent on This Morning for to get an accurate idea of the Bristol accent… might come in useful when you visit! 😂
The old guys are particularly from Exmoor, Somerset … I think!
It’s interesting you say that as I think a lot of Appalachians have Irish heritage and the chap you said sounded most like that , his accent had some occasional similarities to an Irish accent
Girls, please don't say suppender to the British.
In Britain, a suppender in what holds up a womans stockings.
You call it a garter belt. You were saying those men had on cool garter belts 😂😂😂
I used love talking with Old locals, anywhere I went, my mates use to say why are you talking with that old fart, I learnt so much about life. Now I'm one of those old farts at 78.
The one that made me laugh when I was about 20 was in Cheddar, talking with old local in a pub ( red veins on his nose ) , I was drinking scrumpy cider, he said in his west country accent> Best way to drink that is put in a bucket, put outside yer door, in the morning take the Ice off. Keep doing this until there's no Ice, that's when you drink it, my boy.
I spent time in Somerset and Cornwall so can understand most of it.
I had a suspicion you’d like the Jonuts 😉 and due to my competitive nature it was essential for us to beat the soft cakes somehow!
You've overdone the Photoshop on the thumbnail ladies ! 😮
This little Canadian caught some of it! But It was like the 2 men didn’t have any teeth!! Especially the 2nd one!
The hardest for me to understand is a Scottish accent. I worked with a Scotsman for 2 months and never learned to really understand him! But I was great with Irish (Dublin) - in fact I picked it up. My boyfriend’s brother thought I was Irish!!
Quite a few accents are hard - mostly rural people, example farm folk, who don't have much communication with big city life.
Don't forget (as I've told you before) I've met many people who have never been to London in their life-time, and just in England, before we even start to consider the Welsh and the Scots.!!!!!
It was a good video, I didn't understand anything,🤔but it was fun to listen.🤣 . You get to choose which one you want😊
You did a lot better than me ladies! I didn't have a clue what they were saying. It was kind of funny in London last weekend where nobody could understand my ulster accent. Maybe give that one a try next? 😊
Great idea! Can you find us a video & put it on FB or Patreon?
@TheNatashaDebbieShow I will certainly have a look for you. 👍
My mother and both sides of her family are from Cornwall. I was born and lived in Hampshire my whole life, but whenever I had to visit family as a child, I could never understand a word my Great Uncles would say. The more puzzled I looked, the more funny and talkative they got. Now in my older years, I understand the old boys in the video (mostly). Now when I visit Cornwall, I rarely ever hear a thick accent like this now - it seems so diluted, which I guess is due to the influx of emmets (tourist) and tv. I love hearing a real west country accent.
If you have a freeze and a power cut you can still use that old trick of putting some rocks in a fire then wrap them in an old towel and take them to bed. Also useful to give to older people/neighbors in your community for a little bit of warmth. A communal fire can save lives - rocks and potatoes!
The Shropshire accent is s killer. Try that. Hearing it always makes me smile.
when in Cornwall, if you're asked " where you be?" it mean where do you come from, if you're asked "where you be to?" it means where are you going,
Them two blokes are wearing braces not suppenders 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Braces is funny they say suspenders in the US but Braces could be fir your teeth as well 😊😅
Braces is funny they say suspenders in the US but Braces could be fir your teeth as well 😊😅
@ yeah true. Americans say retainers I think for braces for teeth. I might be wrong.
I have a London accent. I understand them all but Wales, Cornwall and up north pretty hard if you not from the UK
The British Dental Association have taken a fairly firm stance against Jonuts.
But what do they know? 🙂
If it’s any consolation, I can’t understand them either, and I’m English!
Not in the Towns and Cities, but definitely among Country folk and farmers. note, when you visit the UK and you are driving in the Countryside, anyone you stop to ask directions from, is likely to speak like this. I lived in Aberdeenshire for almost 17yrs and in the Country they have a dialect called Doric. When my Mum came to visit and we went to my local Butcher in the next village, I had to translate as Mum could not understand a word.
It’s as much old men with dentures as it is dialect/accent. Younger people speaking exactly the same dialect would be easier to understand.
I think there are still a couple of small areas in the US that have traces of a West country accent?
If you want to listen to someone with a West Country accent .
Pam Ayers a writer of funny verse made funier by her accent and delivery .
Comic timing from a gentler age .
oh my word, i used to love her weekly poems on tv as a kid lol very near the knuckle stuff like the tale of dating a gardener who offered to 'stimulate her clematis'
Morning lovely ladies , oohh arrr youm gonna struggle with this one I'm a thinking lol , they make a Brummie like me sound like I speak received pronunciation and we are not exactly renowned for our clarity of speech, can't wait lol , I'm predicting an N & D head scratching moment lol ❤❤xx
My Family is from The Isle of Thanet, East Kent, one of my sisters moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne, the people there thought she was posh because of her dialect.
Hi Peter , yes I would put the Geordie accent just fractionally behind the West Country accent in terms of understanding lol , enjoy the show 👍👍
When I went to Padstow on May Day during the Obby Oss festive a couple of years old, I stayed in an Hotel. The lady behind the bar would always end a sentence with "my Lovey". What can I get you my Lovey? Is that all my Lovey? Such friendly people.
Funny Iam British I can not understand them the west country accent is hard to understand good video as usual
This is probably more specifically a Somerset accent, there are several in the West Country not all as strong as them, yes younger people have much milder accents now with people moving around etc.
Zummerzet ?
Happy birthday
I'm from Norfolk East Anglia in the UK and I still have the accent and the further to the cost you go the stronger the accent gets, so there is another accent for you
Well, I’ve lived and worked in Cornwall and Devon for 44 years, and I got lost in the first section of this video!!
Hello watching from Perth Western Australia. My fur babies say hello 🇦🇺🏖️🌏🦘
Forest of Dean is quite difficult even for us people that live in the West!😂
As a Bathonian, I find the Geordie accent the most difficult to understand.
I think that most local dialects have softened over the years because people move around far more than they did years ago
Please remember that 'the West Country' does not have one accent. As a Cornish Elder I can say that, when I was a child the accents were discernable village to village, let alone county to county. TV has homogenised their individuality. Also, Cornwall is a Duchy, and is technically not under the English crown. We have a Duke as our head. (Prince William)
Welsh, with a CF36 accent (See UK postcodes)
Can understand most of this.
Yes, technology is levelling dialects like this and I don't see a solution outside of folk museums and reenactment groups.
If you want a beautiful Scots accent that anyone can understand, try the Hebrides.
Similar to this , and I know you struggled with everyday Geordie , I'm about 20 miles from some of the Northumberland pit villages but listening to some of the old timers I really have to concentrate . If you can find some old footage of that dialect , you will be knackered trying to get even a % . Happy Birthday by the way .
will have to remember that one..if someone comes to visit and you want them to stay. light a long candle for light, if its someone you really dont want to stay long..light a small nub of a candle
i speak with a received english accent, but i dont have an issue with any uk dialect, you just have to switch your listening speed up or down a gear depending on where you are
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that was great hardly understood a word. Xx
I’m English…and I’m only getting a word or two 😂🤦🏻
My family always described it as having a “West Country twang”
You may want to watch the film Kes, it'll guve you agood look at the Yorkshire accent, became most of the Yorkshire accents on showed on clips about British accents, have been very weak Yorkshire accents, i live 5 minutes away from the writer house and it was filmed all around where i live, and the accent is still strong around here, plus Kes is a great film lived by many
The strongest accents I've encountered are Yorkshire and Norwich (distinct from separate surrounding Norfolk!)
Often confused with West Country
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I LOVE accents, west country is a biatch, hot fuz film is a great example, even though I worked Taunton, still farm accent is above me lol.
Aargh de aargh de aargh de aargh.
My home town is Buckfastleigh South Devon, you should look at the history of the town, the author Arthur conan Doyle, wrote one of his Serlock holmes books based on The hound of the baskervilles and that is based on a local man from the 1600's.
I do find this relatively easy to understand. Being from the Isle of Wight the accents are sort of similar. However its not so common any more , its been diluted a lot, especially with the overners who have moved here.
Ooh Arr =yes, my brother was born London and married Bristol Girl at 19, his accent is pure E.G Ooo Arr I,zz goes ere all's the time. Our ma & da = my Mum and Dad. > they'zz still thinks I'zz ar Londonorr
Welcome back.
How would you get on with Geordie from the North East of England around Newcastle.
I'm a Cockney but I never had much bother understanding Geordie. Moved up to Northumberland when I was 10, I am 34 now. Even picked up a few Geordie phrases. I can't speak like Geordies though. My two younger sisters can switch between cockney and geordie super easily. 😂😅
one word YES!!!
Me proud because I understood everything but I am from Bristol 😂😂
Jonuts wow I have never seen those, ok I'm off to the shops right now.
Doric in Aberdeenshire is harder to understand and I say that as a fellow Scotsman
Please take a look at a bit of Welsh history that was televised world wide. (When Havoc Struck - The Children Of Aberfan - 1978 TV Series Glen Ford)
oh my lord, that was about the worst thing ever.. im a 60 year old guy and the thought of that brings me to the verge of tears everytime someone mentions it, that poor lad that survived..probably gone himself now, but how do you cope after something like that. 😟
Ok I Will have to Listen to that one Again
Yes I Agree
Understood most of it, bits I missed.❤
Old guys in suspenders is not a mental image we want 😂😂
Last words were "Plenty o' rats" lol
I am from the East Midlands in England and I can't even understand this 😅
The Jaffa jonuts it's not so much the taste it's the after taste they leave that's gets you addicted 😎👍
I enjoyed that - I got most of it even tho I'm an Essex girl. Not the accent but the conversation reminded me of my grandad. He was a farmer and had that kinda permanent smile and laugh when telling a story. I've lived in Northern Ireland for 40 years and there are a lot of dialects I do not have a clue. My son-in-law is convinced I'm deaf because when he speaks to me my I mostly respond WHAT?? The Strabane accent is nuts th-cam.com/video/XhGbpatmplQ/w-d-xo.html
Hardest accent? What's tricky for me might not be what's tricky for you, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Eastern Scotland might be the most challenging for US listeners, not just the accents but the vocabulary choices are likely to be unexpected which makes it harder
Its entirely possible and even likely that the Appalachian accent was influenced by settlers who originated from the west country. A lot of the early English settlers to America came from the west country as you probably already know. I bet a lot of the people in that part of the US can trace their families back to settlers who came England.
Well apart from the guy talking about the Orchard Being Irish, which is not in the West Country. This is about right. Or as I would say "Isounsaboutroight, Theese outta come downa Brissle an aveus a chat wiv me nan, and sheel tell ee that theese parkun where theese cassent backen assunt, an if theese cuss theese ussunt ust." And because your voice is a bit loud she'd say "Willst thee shut atnoise, theese giviniunedache"
The southwest of England is further west than any other area of England because it sticks out thus it's west of the rest of the country. West country.
Those accents sadly are dying out , the young generation don't speak like that anymore 👍🏼
@@AdrianCurtis-n7f that is sad
I was born in Brighton but my dad was born in Axminster Devon which borders Lyme Regis in Dorset . my dad served with Devon and Dorset he served 8 years in India and 4 years in Burma in WW2 . My dad spoke w ith his Devon accent and words all his life . did you know my ancestors went to America with the may flower my great great grandfather was Nathanael Bowditch he wrote the ships navigation which is still kept in all us ships until now. His bust is or was in Boston university his face looks like my dad
@@ninajaiherm that's super cool!
I was born in Dorchester in Dorset but moved to Brighton when I was three. A lot of my cousins still live in rural Dorset villages and still retain their broad Dorset accents,my link to my original Dorset home.
When I was young, each village had its own dialect, then with long-distance travel coming into fashion and families moving to other parts of the country, plus the older generation leaving us, it's normal that the dialects are thinned out, the dialect from my Scottish part of my family was difficult to understand in the 60s, today it's a lot easier, it's the same in parts of Germany, if you ask a Kölner to use the Kölner slang, there's no way that I could understand what they are saying, even after 42 years, and I only live 10 miles away from Köln, but here again the dialects are dieing out fast, because of the Internet and mobile phones, in one way there a curse, and in the other way a blessing, I know change is going to happen, but the speed of the changes is scaring the pants off me, we had the oldest soap opera in British radio for years, called the Archers, with a broad dialect spoken at the time, it always reminded me of the country side on a summers day, and of course some of my older family and friends, damm I miss them. 😊
You should have a listen to Jethro, a very funny comedian
I'm from the South West
They sound pissed to me. Love you girl's