Agreed - you can tell she was taking it easy on her students by giving them slower “cleaned up” versions of accents. I’d like to have seen them paired with a stronger version of each
Indeed. There was a student at Durham University from Yorkshire and I had no idea what he said half the time. The cleaning staff from Newcastle were also incomprehensible to me.
John Bishop actually said: "I wrote about them in the book, they're called generation z." None of those accents were particularly heavy, making them easy to understand. It amazes me that the West Country accent doesn't appear in these lists more often. Trying to understand a heavy West Country accent is akin to wearing ear defenders while listening to Wurzel Gummidge on speed.
@@squirrelwithaflute8512 Aye, no west country and definitely no Pityakka from the countryside of County Durham. My home We should get examples of people with broad accents and post it. 😮 Nay as gan'n hyem (hjem), wah lass L' ge' a canny munk on, sa howa man mam howa It's not too bad when it's written down, but just like you lot in the west country, it's when a few people are talking and the words all mingle... unintelligible to anyone beyond 20 miles. Just as it should be ❤️ from Northeast England ❤️
I think most of the examples she chose were actually pretty "soft" accents. Talking of difficult accents - "I'm scared, I'm really scared!". JT, "Aahm skay-yurd, aahm rilly skay-yurd!"
I'm from the North East of Scotland and that's a pretty tough accent, so much so that when there was a show called Trawlermen (about North Sea Fishermen) on TV, they used to subtitle it so other British folk could understand it!
@TimDawsonify Hey... behave yourself. I'm from across the boarder... not understanding you is one of the only mercies left in the world 😂 ❤️ from Northeast England ❤️
Proper Dundonian is mad. I'm from Glasgow, but if older Dundee folk got going, I got maybe 1 word in ten. Think they were still using a lot of Doric words. 😂
An older bloke I used to know said that when he was in the RN and came up from the engine room after docking in Aberdeen he genuinely thought that the skipper had turned right rather than left coming up the North Sea! I was born in Aberdeen and not raised there (No 9 accent here) but have no problem understanding it or using Doric vocabulary as half my family speaks it; the other half is Black Country (NOT Brummie!). It's broad Glaswegian and Ayrshire that I struggle badly with.
My uncle missus is Scottish and usually it's Manchester and Scottish faint mix but when she's on the phone to her dad or relatives in Scotland might aswell speaking Japanese 😅
That wasn't Frankie Boyle's real accent, that was his "I work for the Guardian" accent. Glaswegian accents are much thicker than that. Source: I'm Glaswegian Also she got the scouse translation slightly wrong. She said he said "I wrote about them in the program called Generation Z"" but it was actually "I wrote about them in the book and I've called them Generation Z," perhaps somewhat obviously from the context
I went to a do where there were Scots and Spaniards. As a native English speaker, pretty nondescript RP, with limited French and Latin from school, I could understand and communicate with the Spaniards, but not the Scots speaking English with Glaswegian or Paisley accents. Admittedly, they could have been exaggerating the accent to wind us up, but it was a shock.
Proper Geordie speaking to a proper Geordie is like a Norse language at 5x speed. Everyone in this video was code-switching so that they could be understood. She should have consulted a scouser or someone who has had a scouse friend for the John Bishop translation. I have no idea where she got "program". "but I'm calling them Generation Zed" actually has a nuance that is difficult to translate to standard English in a short phrase. The implication is that the reference is made many times or throughout that part of the book, where "I've called them Generation Zed" could be a single mention, a few or many. There is also the shade being cast on the transatlantic "zee" as well as the abbreviation.
Having heard Kevin Bridges' speak in perfect RP, my theory is that all Glaswegians actually speak RP when among themselves and only bring out the so-called "Glaswegian" accent to befuddle foreigners.
Are they? I don't think they are? Mind you being a Glaswegian we do have a lot of similar pronunciations with Geordie accents e.g. Doon - Down Toon - Town Ain - Own Aye - Yes... Yes I think Gloucester is way more hard to understand. Scouse I just don't like very much, but other than that I think all our accents are pretty easy to understand.
@bellblue5527 Scouse just depends on who's speaking it, it's just a mix of everything, a lot of Yorkshire in it, a dash of Welsh and Irish. Like I'll say just goin t shops, and I reckon I've got a fairly understandable accent, but I can understand most accents in the UK with ease, just because, I just understand.
I'm not sure Geordie and Glaswegian are considered tougher to understand than Northern Irish! But to be fair I didn't expect Northern Irish on a list of British accents in the first place :)
I can't stand her accent either and I've lived my whole life about 20 mile's from her. She's got a thicko Essex accent. It sounds embarrassing to people who have a proper Essex accent. And when I say proper I don't mean posh! I live in Basildon and there's nothing posh here. 😂
I am from Lancashire in England and many years ago we were having drinks at the pub the night before my brothers wedding. Our uncle Tommy from Glasgow was with us and he loved to talk, I actually think he had an Olympic gold medal for talking. Anyway, at one point he went to the toilet, my brother said to me that he couldn’t get his head around how I could understand a word he was saying, I just told my brother that I didn’t and was simply nodding, shaking my head, saying yes, no, and hmmm. Basically I was winging it to be polite because apart from the odd word, I didn’t have a clue what uncle Tommy was talking about either, he may as well have been talking Swahili. I imagine uncle Tommy in the toilets thinking that pratt of a nephew is saying yes, when no is the right response, and no, when yes is the right response. 😂😂😂
My late Grandfather had such a thick Yorkshire accent that my mother used to have to translate for me! He had a very old-fashioned way of speaking, and would use words like thee and thou, and instead of saying 'self' he would use the word 'sen' - there was a lot of smiling and nodding going on! But it was a very different accent to Louis Tomlinson - the accents around Yorkshire are incredibly varied around the region, which makes it even more complicated. In a similar vein, people talk about a 'West Country' accent as if it is one single accent, but it varies massively from area to area.
So true. I'm from near Portsmouth, and dated a Mancunian once. He kept telling me I sounded the same as those from Devon, he would not accept that it was a totally different accent. The closer you live to them, the more you can hear the differences I think. Like many thinking all of Yorkshire is one accent, or the whole of Scotland is the same.
@@lozzylols I worked in Southampton for a bit and thought it had a bit of a Bristol twang to it, but mixed with southern. I'm from Bradford and work with people from Sheffield who I think sound totally different to me, just to agree with your last point!
Yes totally agree. On the coast our accents are totally different to the stereotypical Yorkshire accent,which I would say is from West Riding. Makes sense seen as its the most densely populated part of Yorkshire. Again though so many different accents in the West Riding alone.
My nephews are Barnsley born and bred. When we got together , our Irish family and theirs we were creased up with laughter. I remember, ‘gee ower ,tha daft apeth’. As you said it was lots of themes and thous.
There is not a Yorkshire accent. Leeds is different from Barnsley. I'm from Sheffield! Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster are all next towns as with Chesterfield. We all have different accents. Even in Sheffield I live 4 miles south is different to the north of the city.
Very true, I'm from Chesterfield, Sheffield has a different accent, we say "home" , they say "herm" 😂 I have family in Barnsley, or baaarnsleh as they say, and when I'm there my names not Stacey, it's stare-seh! 😂😂
Yup! My Nanna was from a village in ‘The West Riding of Yorkshire’ and would get throughly offended if everyone/everything across all the ridings/cities/towns/areas was lumped together as just ‘Yorkshire’.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention it to be honest, I love when people from up country come into a pub with all us Devon boys and don’t know a clue of what we be saying aha
I'm from Birmingham in the uk and the reason people don't like the accent is because they confuse it with another dialect which is called the black country accent, (for non UK people this doesn't have anything to do with race). The Black Country accent is a very thick accent and can be hard to understand. There is a difference between Birmingham and black country even though they are in close proximity of each other.
I left Birmingham in my early 20s. For over 20 years I've been doing an exaggerated version of the Brummie accent to show other people. I thought it was OTT. Then I went back there last weekend for the first time in decades... And it turned out that the fake Brummie accent I'd been doing all those years was nowhere near as thick as the real one!
As a Yorkshire lass born and bred, I knew two old lads, proper Yorkshire lads with an accent so thick, I couldn’t understand half of what they said. I used to nod or shake my head at what they said and hope I did it in the right places!! 😂Unfortunately, both gone now but the accent has gone too. There is still a Yorkshire accent, but somewhat diluted now .
There are so many external influences these days that I think strong accents are the result of deliberate study rather than a default. Lots of people can tone it down to be understood.
i am also in Yorkshire there are so Meany accents people from other parts of the country would just recognise them all as Yorkshire people close but not in Yorkshire might pick out say a south or north Yorkshire people say in south Yorkshire would pin it down to what town someone was from.
You should watch a show called Derry Girls, I think you and Anna would love it. Lots of Scots have 2 accents...one for talking to friends and family etc. Then another for talking to non-Scots, like a customer service voice. That was Frankie Boyle's customer service voice, not his full-on Glaswegian accent. I'm surprised there was only one Scottish accent on this list. I don't know why but it's rare that I have any issues understanding accents. I think some of the thicker north eastern accents in Scotland might be the toughest but again generally...if someone's speaking English, no matter where in the world they are, I have very little difficulty understanding them.
Frankie Boyle talks almost posh Glaswegian, I bet he's worked hard to make himself understandable. Kevin Bridges is probably a better choice for Glaswegian.
I'm from the North East of Scotland and as well as having an accent that most people would find difficult, we also pepper our speech with another language called Doric. So we've basically given the difficulty factor a double whammy 😂😂
I think it was when she was done for assault on a toilet attendant, so he wasn’t technically wrong, it just depends on how you want to define the word abuse.
On 11 January 2003, Cheryl was involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, and subsequently charged with racially aggravated assault over the incident. At her trial on 20 October she was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm but cleared of the racially aggravated assault charge, and sentenced to 120 hours of community service. She was ordered to pay her victim £500 in compensation, as well as £3,000 prosecution costs. Judge Richard Howard said, "This was an unpleasant piece of drunken violence which caused Sophie Amogbokpa pain and suffering."
I was Born in Essex, moved to Doncaster in South Yorkshire, then went to Shrewsbury in Shropshire, then Norfolk, then to Cheltenham, then finally ended up in London, so my accent is all over the place
You should try and understand people from Dundee Scotland or people from the Aberdeenshire area of Scotland who speak Doric, I’m Scottish and don’t have a clue 😂😂
Yeah got to agree with you on both the Dundee and up in a Aberdeenshire area. I might stay in Dundee but thank Christ I’m not from here as that accent sounds awful. The Aberdeenshire is something else that’s a different language in itself 😂😂 Have family members who are from that way and after all these years I still haven’t a clue what they are talking about half the time 😅and the Fifers man their accent as well 😂
Was actually expecting this to be the number 1 actually, that or a more rural West Country accent or North Walian, or maybe (since Northern Ireland made it in) somewhere from the Southwest of Ireland like Cork or Kerry, a really strong MLE (urban accent with heavy Jamaican influence) would have been interesting to include as well
That is not a true Cardiff accent by Charlotte Church, it is a Cardiff girl who has gone to a very expensive private school, and there's a hint of a welsh accent in the background.
@@neilgriffiths6427 Judging by the census returns between 1881 and 1921, there are more people of irish and english descent in the most populated part of South Wales, than there are welsh.
All the accents are softer now. Pityakka where I'm from is all but unintelligible if you go to the countryside of County Durham. West Country is missing too
Not 1 of these accents are strong, except for the late Queens. All of them are actors accents, the "Welsh" accent that is always portrayed is the South Wales/Valleys accent which is completely differant from the North Wales accent.
Also since they were all celebrities they all enunciated pretty clearly as JT pointed out, and they all tended to come from places that get represented on TV a lot, no rural Cumbrian accents or Shetland accents for example
Yes, that is the same Cheryl and as a fellow geordie, we don't claim her, I'm not a fan, if you can't tell 😂 also, the scouse subtitles were wrong, he said "wrote about them in the book" not in the "programme". I personally find scottish accents from the countryside around Glasgow the hardest to understand 😅 also, from the first day geordie shore came out, I was horrified 🙈😂 they got the roughest sounding lot and stuck them on TV. I'm from the coastal side of Newcastle, north of the river tyne so my geordie accent is a lot lighter but when I worked as a community nurse around byker and walker the accent was a lot thicker 😅
100% Geordie Shore is so embarrassing and the accents are so forced these days like They’re hamming it up for the TV. I wish she’d used the little mix girls as they get so much grief for their accents so strong
Non of these accents are bad enough to be consistent with the real way people talk in those regions, plus instead of Birmingham try the Black Country accent Wolverhampton etc. The only one of these who carried his real regional voice was Louis.
Try Aberdonian. It was parodied in the film "Brave" when one of the characters from Aberdeen started speaking, all the other Scottish characters fell silent as if trying to figure out what he was saying. It was quite funny. It's actually called "The Doric" and even uses words unfamiliar to other parts of Scotland like "Loon" and "Quine" for boy and girl. It's definitely a contender over Geordie.
It wasn't Aberdonian in "Brave" it was Kevin McKidd's version of the Doric spoken in Elgin, where he grew up. The Doric is spoken in different subdialects all over the North East of Scotland from Inverness to Stonehaven. My father came from Aberdeen and my Aberdonian grandma and other relatives didn't sound anything like Kevin McKidd.
@@alicemilne1444 For the vast majority of movie-goers and most others outside your part of Scotland, Kevin McKidd's version is just fine. After all it's supposed to be amusing and not a lesson in linguistics. But your pedantic parochialism is excellent.
@@bertharius9518 Sorry pal, did I touch a wee nerve there, eh? I wasn't born in Aberdeen but 200 miles away near Stirling in Central Scotland. This whole video was about genuine regional accents in Britain. If you want to listen to an authentic Aberdonian accent, look up "The Caledonia Bank" from the Desperate Fishwives album. You can find it on TH-cam.
@bertharius9518 Aw, did I touch a wee nerve there, eh? This video was about real accents, and the people were speaking in their natural accents. McKidd is not from Aberdeen. If you want to hear real Aberdonian, look up "The Caledonia Bank" from the Desperate Fishwives album. It's on TH-cam and it's authentic Aberdeen humour.
My home city is split by a river different accents on both sides. Yorkshire has many accents and dialects across its area. Barnsley totally different to Leeds yet very close to each other
As a Norwegian I got 10/10. I dunno what the big deal is. As said below, these are "mild" accents. There are even Norwegian accents that need subtitling for the general public at times :)
Well, it must be a Germanic language thing there going on, then, with a commonality of similar sounds, 'cause I am Spanish and have been working hard on my English for most of my adult life. I can guarantee to you that, no matter how many reincarnated lives I spent replaying the last guy's first words, I wouldn't be able to understand what he was saying for the life of me. Scouse really got my language confidence down.
I’m half Swedish and cannot understand Norwegian. But my Swedish is not as great now to be fair so I only really know my region because we moved when I was small- I always think of Norwegian as the Scottish accent and Swedish as the English…i might be wrong though!
How you can call Gemma Collins a celebrity baffles me. I think one of the hardest accents personally if not a native speaker would be a hardcore West Country accent. That sounds like a different language at points
I'm a number 4. Although, Louis has a South Yorkshire accent. Yes, there is that much variation. You can tell which part of a city someone comes from too, if you are familiar. The rural accents are the hardest. Places that have been more isolated. Somerset accents are tough for me, and Yorkshire Dales villages change from valley to valley. From Yorkshire (the largest county)
He left Shirebrook at an early age to live in Gt Yarmouth, so not much chance of a Derbyshire accent... and, as it happens, not a Norfolk one either. Vinnie Jones likewise.
I've lived in Liverpool for 20 years, and even I struggled to understand John Bishop when the clip first started. Scouse is a very melodic accent and you need to hear the whole sentence. Without any prior context it can be difficult to follow when you just jump in mid sentence.
I think it was unfair to pick on John Bishop there, especially given the background music and the very mistaken transcription of book. Watch clips of him in Doctor Who (where he was a companion) and he's perfectly understandable.
@@LunarJetwoman Runcornians have a strong scouse accent that is almost indistinguishable from people from Liverpool. So much so that I once asked a girl (this was in Runcorn) if she was from Runcorn and she said "you cheeky git! I'm from Liverpool." Many of their parents or grandparents were forced to move out of the city in times past when people could be banned easily from the city limits, and kicked out of housing in the city. I think this went on until the 50's or 60's. I'm Widnesian so I should have known to just ask where she's from.
@@micmac274heh! I'm from Widnes too but I lost the accent years ago. People say I sound 'posh'. I'm not posh. These days it's nice to hear a proper Widnes accent though, instead of the incessant scouse whining.
I'm from the North East of England and my wife is Northern Irish. We've both had to adjusts our accents slightly for each other (people now say I sound more like my wife!). Family gatherings were initially quite interesting when both of our families met for the first time.,
When I lived in Scotland I knew a family from Surrey. Their son was about 18 when I first got to know them. With his parents he used a Surrey accent, with his friends he used a Scottish accent!
I'm a Yorkshire living in Wales. I had a few problems with understanding some of the welsh accent but I managed understand in the end. I absolutely love the welsh accent.
Yo JT just a quick FYI , Jason statham is not a cockney he's from north east Derbyshire a small town called Shirebrook. I bet his real accent is a thick northern farmer jazz like mine 😂😂😂❤keep up the awesome content 👊👍🏻
Even the subtitles got the Scouse accent wrong 🤣 He said he wrote about them in the book. And I feel like book is one of the classic words you think of when you think of a Scouse accent.
My accent (and vocabulary) is a mix of my native Hampshire + 40+ years living in London with minor influence of my mother/grandparents "Pitmatic" (north eastern England, County Durham). Much to the amusement of my colleagues back in the day.
Similarly also native to Hampshire, so I guess my "base" accent is SSB (Standard Southern British), but having lived in Wales and the West Country for a bit I have bits of both of those, which can confuse people.
@@__-fm5qv Southampton in my case, my younger brother has more of an accent than I do, 'Ampshire, sort of bordering on Dorset/Wiltshire, sort of "light west country", ahhh, thas roit...
@@terryloveuk ha what a small world! Southampton here also! I do find the west country does creep in around Wiltshire yeah. So I'd probably fit right in there given my current accent mix.
It amazes me and makes me proud at the same time that i can understand any accent of the English speaking world yet others cant. We all learn about each other with you bro.
I have a Black Country accent, it comes from the north west area of Birmingham, although both are considered similar to the outsider, Black Country is considered very different by the locals.
Within the Black Country there is a lot of variation. Dudley sounds to me like a very exaggerated Brummie accent. Further north the accents are very different.
@@ianbeddowes5362 originally I'm from West Bromwich. There are the areas of Upper and Lower Gornal, where even those of us that originally come from the area have trouble understanding the accent.
I was born in London (an 'official' cockney), then moved to Germany when I was 5 years old (where my cockney accent softened a lot, as I only spoke English at home), then moved to Teesside/North Yorkshire at 13. So now, my accent is as confused as anyone who tries to figure out where I'm actually from ...
You're only Cockney if you were born within the sound of Bow Bells. Bow is a tiny part of East London and in this day & age I wouldn't imagine the sound of the Church Bells would transmit very far ?
I grew up hearing lots of different accents so I don't find many that difficult, but the deep west country/Cornish accent is pretty much impossible. But yeah, many of these were the accents on easy mode. Great reaction JT!
Jason Statham's accent, as much as he tries, isn't cockney. He himself isn't cockney, he's a northerner who, because of the first few movies he did required him to play a cockney, has pigeonholed him as being/playing cockneys. It's not his natural accent. It basically what is known as 'mockney'. He's actually from not far from where I live. His real accent would be nearer to mine than cockney. It's not hard to pick up a cockney accent, I lived in London/Essex for a few years,, I met my wife who is a cockney whilst there, and my accent did gain a bit of a cockney twang, not purposely, but luckily after we moved here it settled back to what it used to be. My wife however despite being a cockney, and brought up in the borders of Essex and the east end in greater London, had neither a cockney or Essex accent. I found that there are more than just those accents down there that the locals speak with (andi mean locals as in born and bred , not people who have moved there). Accents aren't static, other accents penetrating a town can totally change the regional accent if a town within about 20 years.
I believe Jasons accent is heavily influenced by his time as an older youth in Watford with the likes of Vinnie Jones? I come from St Albans and he sounds very similar to many of my old school friends.
@@littlemy1773 yes, what I meant by North was North of London, and it's less than 20 minutes from my front door and I'm in Sheffield which is the north. It's nearer north than it is to the midlands, Derbyshire is a big place, a lot of it is regarded as the north by the people who live there, and they don't have what is regarded as a typical midlands (Brummie/Leicestershire) accent. it's on the border, but definitely regarded as northern. especially by Londoners, as to them anything north of Watford is the the north. Also, he spent a lot of his time growing up in Great Yarmouth which is in east Anglia, so that would influence his natural speaking accent aswell, the accent there is a blend between a Lincolnshire accent and an old Essex (nothing like the modern cockeyfied Essex accent we have now, pre 1950s) and is more soft spoken, and Yarmouth accents tend to be more like a stereotypical farmers accent, not dissimilar to a bristolian accent in many ways, and none of those accents are cockney or in any way like Staham's accent that he carries now. He uses it because it suits the image of the stereotype roles he plays, he's adopted the mockney accent for a purpose, rather than unconsciously gained it over the years. Sometimes in interviews he even slips back to his accent, especially on certain words. It happens. My wife's accent is about 80% northern now, but so e if her southern ways come out during certain words, or if she's talking to family from down south. It's not a conscious thing I don't think, it's just you get back in to that swing, that way of talking when you are back around others who are talking like that. Also, next time you watch it, If you listen carefully, you can hear bits of his natural accent coming through In 'Lock, stock and two smoking barrels '.
@@littlemy1773shirebrook foke have a mixed Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire accent combined with common farmer tone I have friends and family there and even I struggled to understand them 😂. But Jason does have a Derbyshire twang to his cockney accent But yes he's a middlander not a northern but Londoners think anything above them is a northener 😂😂
I'd love to see you react to more Welsh accents. I think some of the hardest for you might be a few of the accents from very deep into the South Wales valleys, A lot of the more inland North Wales accents and southern coastal accents like Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea and Llanelli.
Scouser here JT, When I first started my channel I had to have a think about my regular day to day accent because I thought half the viewers wouldn't understand me 🥴😅 I toned it down but I can't lose it completely 🤣
My dad was a scouser living in the south . I had to translate what he was saying for the nurses, I realised when they kept doing the total opposite of what he was requesting and they said they didn’t understand him. That was an eye opener for me
As an English Brit, I think my two favourite British accents are probably Scottish and Northern Irish. I'm from South Ascot, Berkshire, which is west of London. So I have a stereotypical "Harry Potter" accent
She mentioned discrimination against certain accents but only in reference to certain English ones, where in reality for many jobs or in certain areas of England, if you don’t have an RP accent or a South East of England accent, you will likely face some discrimination or there will at least be some presumptions made about you, your upbringing and/or how you live your life. The RP accent is a general middle/upper class English accent that can be found all over England but it’s not the most prominent accent anywhere and will very rarely be found in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
In fact you still find the Home Counties RP accent at branch-manager level all over Scotland. This was so much the rule when I was a kid, that I was amazed as a teenager to get a new manager in our local Comet (white-goods store) who had the same accent as we had. Failing that, they would at least have an anglified private-school accent. This has changed over time in that people can have a standard-Scottish accent now, around local workplaces. You still won’t find that many in the boardroom compared with RP. Where a change was noticed, a kind if watershed moment, was when the SNP won a lot of the Scottish seats in Westminster (I think it was 2015?). Instead of the old guard from the London parties, people Young, Rifkind, Fowkes, Forsythe, Campbell - who had all held their seats from through the years when England had voted for Thatcher and ever since. Most were either privately educated or tried to sound like it; suddenly they were gone and reolaced by a broader cross section of people who would actually not be mistaken for an Old Etonian by a foreigner. This led to some weird moments in the Commons. Even though there were now only 50-odd MPs representing Scottish constituencies, where once there had been 72, the Tories in particular were very vocal - in the Commons itself - about “how many Scots there are now!” And “Where are all these Scots coming from?” Literally they started laughing when, during the swearing-in, there was one “Mac” after another. This was when pretty much everyone suddenly Scotland’s representatives as actually being from Scotland. Alasdair Carmichael, who has an RP Scottish “university” accent, a wee bit posh, was inadvertently at the centre of a very revealing incident. He had been the Northern Isles MP for at least a decade, and until just a few months previously was the Scottish-Office minister in the Tory/LibDem coalition cabinet. Some Home Counties Tory (i forget who) was in full sneering mode, intervening as Carmichael got going, tearing into him for being a nationalistic bigot (i.e. anti-English) etc - and Carmichael had to interrupt to inform him that he was actually a member if the LibDems. In fact he had onky just rescued his seat after lying about asking foreign governments to campaign AGAINST Scottish independence. Why was he assumed to be a Scottish nationalist rather than the British nationalist he is? Because he has a detectable Scottish accent. A last thought on this: During lockdown I saw a saw a youtube video where by chance Malcolm Rifkind, who also once headed the Scottish office, appeared briefly in an old clip, in full Miss Jean Brodie flow. The young Scots commenting on the clip were going, “Bloody hell, what kind of weird tortured accent is that?!” Literally they did not recognise what used to be the standard mode of speech among the political class of Scotland just a decade before. They did not realise he was Scottish at all.
Be careful im from a low income London council estate the amount of times Ive been called posh by middle class Northeners spefically Mancs and Scouse is insane.
@@grantsnake I’m not sure what I should be careful of. In general terms any accent from the South East of England along with the RP accent faces less discrimination and judgement than any other accent in the UK. What you’ve experienced is a presumption, which is also unfair and something that no-one should do but as someone who is Scottish and over the last thirty years has lived in a number of places in England, the general consensus by Northerners is that Southerners are posh and the general consensus of Southerners is that Northerners are rough, working class and uneducated. That is the North South divide in England.
Agreed. Written Welsh doesn't have any redundant or silent letters as far as I know. Charlotte wasn't adding in an extra syllable, she was pronouncing the one that was there in the word.
I find the scouse accent one of the easiest to understand, and by far the kindest. It definitely helps that the majority of my family are scouse so I’ve heard it all my life. Also worth noting that there are multiple types of scouse
While a dialect can include differences in pronunciations from the language it comes from, it also includes differences in vocabulary and grammar. The word accent, however, describes just a distinct way of pronouncing a language. It does not include differences in vocabulary and grammar. In the UK, there are almost 40 different dialects that can sound very different from each other and may use different spellings and word structures
what i find fun about our uk accents is they also sometimes merge. someone with a welsh parent and english parent will end up with an acent half way between the two. someone with a RP speaking parent and Glaswegian speaking parent may speak with blend of those. it applies to accents from other english speaking countries. i have friends who are british american and they have rp accents with an american intonation.
She even got the subtitles wrong on Scouse 😂 One of the stereotypes of Welsh women is they can talk without taking a breath. One of the things with UK and British accents is they can mix with each other SO much and yet you can still hear them. My mum is from Cardiff. She hasn't lived there for about 40 years so it's faded over the years, but, if you listen to her speak, you can hear the Welsh rhythms. I should have grown up with a Mancunian accent, but, aged 3, my Lancs dad, Welsh mother, and 1 year old sister, and I moved to Cornwall - in the South West of England. Listening to my sister speak, she sounds a cross with RP, Welsh, and Cornish. My speech and dialect, on the other hand, sounds a cross between RP, Mancs, and Welsh - but no Cornish. My boyfriend finds it hilarious listening to me because when I start getting tired or stressed, I start sounding more and more Mancs - but when I get cross or start ranting, it's Welsh. My theory with my lack of Cornish and my sister's lack of Northern is that I had started talking full sentences when we left up North - but she hadn't.
These are so mild it’s wild. You listen to a thick Glaswegian or even North West Scottish accents or West Country and they’re so hard to follow. Watch Clarkson’s Farm and Gerald on there, those are proper difficult UK accents. As you said, these are in interviews so they’re really mild versions. It’s a really bad example.
True, though I think most people these days do have a more "mild" varient of their local accent, especially younger people. That being said I have definitely met people where their accent is so thick I had to really concentrate to understand them. Weirdly though that hasn't happened to me yet in the West Country after moving here.
I have the same accent as the girl in the video, and my partner has a Mancunian accent (he's from Manchester). We lived in Liverpool for a little bit and I found it so hard to understand what they were saying. I used to avoid talking to anyone because I was worried they'd be thinking "stupid southern girl with her posh accent" sorta thing, but in all honesty, scousers are some of the nicest people I know ❤ liverpool will always hold a special place in my heart, even though we live in Cornwall now 😂
Gemma Collins lovely accent stops around Basildon, Brentwood way. When you come further east and north it is similar but a little more country, a little less eastenders.
Liverpool makes me feel at home being from Northern Ireland. Last night out there I had to ask for directions and the first three people I asked (separately from eachother) were all from Northern Ireland! I know the odds for that are still slightly low but it told me there must be absolutely loads of people from Northern Ireland in Liverpool. You're accent is going to get tricky for the average American to understand when you start getting a Liverpool twang along with you norn iron accent
I'm yorkshire but as someone else says there are varieties of it. Rural accents are different from urban ones and west yorkshire is not as strong as barnsley
I'm from Leicestershire in the East Midlands, which has the broadest selection of accents, in a small area, but the actor with the nearest accent to mine is The 11th Doctor Matt Smith because he is from Northamptonshire in the East Midlands.
@@shaunrye7740 If you get yourself out to the Fens (like), you won't understand anything, do you know what I mean? because nobody say's anything about Lincolnshire over the far end of the country isn't it (like)
@@ChrisPopham .. THANK YOU, I kind of understood most of it, but seeing your translation made it much more easy to 'say it out loud' (to myself), and working out where the gaps/breaths/pauses take place.. Many thanks again.
Where the hell is the link to the original video? It should be the first thing in your description so people can open it in a new tab and give it a view and a like. If you are going to react to someone else's content at least provide a link to the original video.
I've seen plenty of other people already say this but yes, the examples she gave were proper mild ones. Go to the actual areas and they are much much much thicker and unintelligible if you cant understand em. And as a scouser, the scouse accents can get thicker than the example she used
The only bit I didn’t catch first time was when John Bishop said “see, I wrote about them in the book”, but the second time when I was concentrating I got it. These are definitely easier examples, which makes sense if it’s a beginners look at accents for non native/less confident English speakers. I love the way she calmly explains things and how much she clearly enjoys the topic.
When travelling to Scotland, on leaving Newcastle there was the standard tannoy announcement with the thickest geordie accent I ever heard, full 5 minutes of ot, everyone who was already on the train were just looking round at each other confused, then someone who got on at Newcastle stands up and says ffs they said were heading north
"Public school" was originally a school that was open to the public - for money - as opposed to private tutors for the really rich or church schools that again trained people for service in the church.
Must admit, when the main cast of Gavin & Stacy appeared on Would I Lie To You I had to turn it off as I couldn't understand them, probably the speed of speech as much as anything. Im also going to agree with some of the other posters saying that these were mostly pretty gentle versions of the accents. I would also commiserate over the non inclusion of West Country accents while adding that I think Black Country accents can also be pretty horrific. Sometimes even other Black Country locals cant understand it.
These were pretty mild versions of all the accents. There are also several really difficult ones which weren't even mentioned. The old Devon version of the West Country accent is very tough, as is the Cumbrian accent. Mix that with the fact that a lot of the accents have dialect words thrown in and they can get really hard to understand..
Born in London but moved to Newcastle when I was 8. I now have a geordie accent, however it's a lot slower when speaking to southern people but put me with another geordie and southerners look completely confused when we are talking together😂
All of these accents are really mild versions of the accents. They get a lot thicker in the actual area.
Very mild indeed.
When I heard the Brummie accent I thought that's closer to Donny
Some of the people who get on my bus in Brum barely even grunt these days 😂
Agreed - you can tell she was taking it easy on her students by giving them slower “cleaned up” versions of accents. I’d like to have seen them paired with a stronger version of each
Indeed. There was a student at Durham University from Yorkshire and I had no idea what he said half the time. The cleaning staff from Newcastle were also incomprehensible to me.
John Bishop actually said: "I wrote about them in the book, they're called generation z."
None of those accents were particularly heavy, making them easy to understand. It amazes me that the West Country accent doesn't appear in these lists more often. Trying to understand a heavy West Country accent is akin to wearing ear defenders while listening to Wurzel Gummidge on speed.
Same. They are soft and where is the west country.
My lot are never there. Pityakka, rural County Durham
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I'm cornish so I agree, I'm wurzel gummage 😅
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Aye, no west country and definitely no Pityakka from the countryside of County Durham. My home
We should get examples of people with broad accents and post it. 😮
Nay as gan'n hyem (hjem), wah lass L' ge' a canny munk on, sa howa man mam howa
It's not too bad when it's written down, but just like you lot in the west country, it's when a few people are talking and the words all mingle... unintelligible to anyone beyond 20 miles. Just as it should be
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Need bloody Gerald from Clarksons farm
It was "but I've called them", not "they're called"!
I think most of the examples she chose were actually pretty "soft" accents.
Talking of difficult accents - "I'm scared, I'm really scared!". JT, "Aahm skay-yurd, aahm rilly skay-yurd!"
@@DougBrown-h1n 😭😭😭🤣
I always think about a Benny Hill sketch where he talks about a "woowerly tayerdy bayer"!
Trust me they were.
They were extremely soft
As Red Dwarf once said "Send a message in every known language...and Welsh..."
🤣 Ha! Ha! - I love that comment.
the welsh accent in this vid ,is NOT the same as speaking welsh ,that is a separate language from English
Good ole Rimsy
I've never been able to purchase a Smeg appliance thanks to Red Dwarf. 😄
smeeeeg heeeeed
I'm from the North East of Scotland and that's a pretty tough accent, so much so that when there was a show called Trawlermen (about North Sea Fishermen) on TV, they used to subtitle it so other British folk could understand it!
Even Still Game has subtitles across the border😂
@TimDawsonify
Hey... behave yourself. I'm from across the boarder... not understanding you is one of the only mercies left in the world 😂
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Proper Dundonian is mad. I'm from Glasgow, but if older Dundee folk got going, I got maybe 1 word in ten. Think they were still using a lot of Doric words. 😂
An older bloke I used to know said that when he was in the RN and came up from the engine room after docking in Aberdeen he genuinely thought that the skipper had turned right rather than left coming up the North Sea! I was born in Aberdeen and not raised there (No 9 accent here) but have no problem understanding it or using Doric vocabulary as half my family speaks it; the other half is Black Country (NOT Brummie!). It's broad Glaswegian and Ayrshire that I struggle badly with.
My uncle missus is Scottish and usually it's Manchester and Scottish faint mix but when she's on the phone to her dad or relatives in Scotland might aswell speaking Japanese 😅
That wasn't Frankie Boyle's real accent, that was his "I work for the Guardian" accent. Glaswegian accents are much thicker than that.
Source: I'm Glaswegian
Also she got the scouse translation slightly wrong. She said he said "I wrote about them in the program called Generation Z"" but it was actually "I wrote about them in the book and I've called them Generation Z," perhaps somewhat obviously from the context
how the hell did they get program! it was def BOOK
I went to a do where there were Scots and Spaniards. As a native English speaker, pretty nondescript RP, with limited French and Latin from school, I could understand and communicate with the Spaniards, but not the Scots speaking English with Glaswegian or Paisley accents. Admittedly, they could have been exaggerating the accent to wind us up, but it was a shock.
I prefer Billy Connelly's accent, tbh.
Proper Geordie speaking to a proper Geordie is like a Norse language at 5x speed. Everyone in this video was code-switching so that they could be understood. She should have consulted a scouser or someone who has had a scouse friend for the John Bishop translation. I have no idea where she got "program". "but I'm calling them Generation Zed" actually has a nuance that is difficult to translate to standard English in a short phrase. The implication is that the reference is made many times or throughout that part of the book, where "I've called them Generation Zed" could be a single mention, a few or many. There is also the shade being cast on the transatlantic "zee" as well as the abbreviation.
Hello fellow Glaswegian, or should I say oright? Totally agree...
Frankie Boyle is pretty proper speaking, Kevin Bridges at the start of his career wouldve been a better choice for Glaswegian.
So true
Yea hes speaking proper 😂 shoulda picked a wee jakey from Posso to talk instead 😂 that would be a challenge 😂
I was thinking Rab C Nesbitt.
Having heard Kevin Bridges' speak in perfect RP, my theory is that all Glaswegians actually speak RP when among themselves and only bring out the so-called "Glaswegian" accent to befuddle foreigners.
I find it funny that JT looks so confused when faced with a strong accent, when he has one of the strongest accents I've ever heard!
He has a different way of, umm, pronunciating.
Cockney is one of the easiest. Geordie and Glaswegian are generally considered the hardest.
Essex is really original cockney, many ofthe old East Enders moved to Essex as their conditions improved bringing their accent with them.
My Uncle is a genuine Cockney (born in Whitechapel Hospital as the Bow bell was chiming), as in the official deffinition. His accent is almost RP.
Are they? I don't think they are? Mind you being a Glaswegian we do have a lot of similar pronunciations with Geordie accents e.g.
Doon - Down
Toon - Town
Ain - Own
Aye - Yes... Yes
I think Gloucester is way more hard to understand. Scouse I just don't like very much, but other than that I think all our accents are pretty easy to understand.
@bellblue5527 Scouse just depends on who's speaking it, it's just a mix of everything, a lot of Yorkshire in it, a dash of Welsh and Irish. Like I'll say just goin t shops, and I reckon I've got a fairly understandable accent, but I can understand most accents in the UK with ease, just because, I just understand.
I'm not sure Geordie and Glaswegian are considered tougher to understand than Northern Irish!
But to be fair I didn't expect Northern Irish on a list of British accents in the first place :)
I can't stand Gemma Collins and I'm not alone with thinking that. She's so up herself.
Yes, I had never heard of her but took an instant dislike!
Fucking global icon ... FFS, what a fukwit
She certainly has no talent
Do you mean 'always full up'.
Obesity is a disease, she should hide in shame.
I can't stand her accent either and I've lived my whole life about 20 mile's from her. She's got a thicko Essex accent. It sounds embarrassing to people who have a proper Essex accent. And when I say proper I don't mean posh! I live in Basildon and there's nothing posh here. 😂
I am from Lancashire in England and many years ago we were having drinks at the pub the night before my brothers wedding. Our uncle Tommy from Glasgow was with us and he loved to talk, I actually think he had an Olympic gold medal for talking. Anyway, at one point he went to the toilet, my brother said to me that he couldn’t get his head around how I could understand a word he was saying, I just told my brother that I didn’t and was simply nodding, shaking my head, saying yes, no, and hmmm. Basically I was winging it to be polite because apart from the odd word, I didn’t have a clue what uncle Tommy was talking about either, he may as well have been talking Swahili.
I imagine uncle Tommy in the toilets thinking that pratt of a nephew is saying yes, when no is the right response, and no, when yes is the right response. 😂😂😂
My late Grandfather had such a thick Yorkshire accent that my mother used to have to translate for me! He had a very old-fashioned way of speaking, and would use words like thee and thou, and instead of saying 'self' he would use the word 'sen' - there was a lot of smiling and nodding going on! But it was a very different accent to Louis Tomlinson - the accents around Yorkshire are incredibly varied around the region, which makes it even more complicated. In a similar vein, people talk about a 'West Country' accent as if it is one single accent, but it varies massively from area to area.
So true. I'm from near Portsmouth, and dated a Mancunian once. He kept telling me I sounded the same as those from Devon, he would not accept that it was a totally different accent. The closer you live to them, the more you can hear the differences I think. Like many thinking all of Yorkshire is one accent, or the whole of Scotland is the same.
@@lozzylols I worked in Southampton for a bit and thought it had a bit of a Bristol twang to it, but mixed with southern.
I'm from Bradford and work with people from Sheffield who I think sound totally different to me, just to agree with your last point!
Yes totally agree. On the coast our accents are totally different to the stereotypical Yorkshire accent,which I would say is from West Riding. Makes sense seen as its the most densely populated part of Yorkshire. Again though so many different accents in the West Riding alone.
My nephews are Barnsley born and bred. When we got together , our Irish family and theirs we were creased up with laughter. I remember, ‘gee ower ,tha daft apeth’. As you said it was lots of themes and thous.
Whereabouts was he from? Sounds like Barnsley area.
There is not a Yorkshire accent. Leeds is different from Barnsley. I'm from Sheffield! Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster are all next towns as with Chesterfield. We all have different accents. Even in Sheffield I live 4 miles south is different to the north of the city.
Very true, I'm from Chesterfield, Sheffield has a different accent, we say "home" , they say "herm" 😂 I have family in Barnsley, or baaarnsleh as they say, and when I'm there my names not Stacey, it's stare-seh! 😂😂
The whole video has so many poor version of the celebrity that was chosen.
Yup! My Nanna was from a village in ‘The West Riding of Yorkshire’ and would get throughly offended if everyone/everything across all the ridings/cities/towns/areas was lumped together as just ‘Yorkshire’.
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It's the same here in South Wales, Newport, Cardiff, Bridgend and Swansea all have different accents.
It’s funny I have a Donny accent and someone from Barnsley up the road thinks it’s posh 😂
26:27 subtitles are wrong here. He says, “so I’ve wrote about them in the book”
Exactly. I thought that I was the one who was hearing things 😂
If you want difficult, try rural West Country/Cornwall/Devon - see the clip from Hot Fuzz (with Simon Peg).
I’m from Plymouth Devon and we all speak like them lol
I’m surprised they didn’t mention it to be honest, I love when people from up country come into a pub with all us Devon boys and don’t know a clue of what we be saying aha
I'm from Birmingham in the uk and the reason people don't like the accent is because they confuse it with another dialect which is called the black country accent, (for non UK people this doesn't have anything to do with race). The Black Country accent is a very thick accent and can be hard to understand. There is a difference between Birmingham and black country even though they are in close proximity of each other.
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I left Birmingham in my early 20s. For over 20 years I've been doing an exaggerated version of the Brummie accent to show other people. I thought it was OTT. Then I went back there last weekend for the first time in decades... And it turned out that the fake Brummie accent I'd been doing all those years was nowhere near as thick as the real one!
I'm a Brummie and I quite like The Black Country accent.
It's apparently the oldest dialect in the country.
"I'm from Boeurmingam"
Get well soon
Gemma Colin’s is NOT a global icon!!!
Cheers for the heads up i’ll be skipping when herface shows up lol
She's fucking massive mate. Universal icon.
She's not from Essex either😂
@@101steel4Born in Essex but talentless 🤣
Maybe it's the accent. Perhaps she intended to say globule.
As a Yorkshire lass born and bred, I knew two old lads, proper Yorkshire lads with an accent so thick, I couldn’t understand half of what they said. I used to nod or shake my head at what they said and hope I did it in the right places!! 😂Unfortunately, both gone now but the accent has gone too. There is still a Yorkshire accent, but somewhat diluted now .
There are so many external influences these days that I think strong accents are the result of deliberate study rather than a default. Lots of people can tone it down to be understood.
i am also in Yorkshire there are so Meany accents people from other parts of the country would just recognise them all as Yorkshire people close but not in Yorkshire might pick out say a south or north Yorkshire people say in south Yorkshire would pin it down to what town someone was from.
You should watch a show called Derry Girls, I think you and Anna would love it. Lots of Scots have 2 accents...one for talking to friends and family etc. Then another for talking to non-Scots, like a customer service voice. That was Frankie Boyle's customer service voice, not his full-on Glaswegian accent. I'm surprised there was only one Scottish accent on this list. I don't know why but it's rare that I have any issues understanding accents. I think some of the thicker north eastern accents in Scotland might be the toughest but again generally...if someone's speaking English, no matter where in the world they are, I have very little difficulty understanding them.
I'm Scouse and you can get different variations of the Scouse accent. The most difficult to understand I think is either pure Glaswegian or Yorkshire.
Frankie Boyle talks almost posh Glaswegian, I bet he's worked hard to make himself understandable. Kevin Bridges is probably a better choice for Glaswegian.
I'm from the North East of Scotland and as well as having an accent that most people would find difficult, we also pepper our speech with another language called Doric. So we've basically given the difficulty factor a double whammy 😂😂
I was really hoping the clip of the Doric truck driver would have made an appearance. That clip is legendary
John Bishop said “I wrote about them in the BOOK” not program. Cheryl Cole didn’t abuse anyone as far as I know. I sound like Sharon Osborn xx
Yeah, I was pretty sure he said book not programme.
When she was early in her Girls Aloud career, she assaulted a bathroom assistant at a nightclub. JT did a video recently that mentioned it.
I think it was when she was done for assault on a toilet attendant, so he wasn’t technically wrong, it just depends on how you want to define the word abuse.
@@lynnejamieson2063 I had forgotten about that. Seems like a lifetime ago xx
On 11 January 2003, Cheryl was involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, and subsequently charged with racially aggravated assault over the incident. At her trial on 20 October she was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm but cleared of the racially aggravated assault charge, and sentenced to 120 hours of community service. She was ordered to pay her victim £500 in compensation, as well as £3,000 prosecution costs. Judge Richard Howard said, "This was an unpleasant piece of drunken violence which caused Sophie Amogbokpa pain and suffering."
I was Born in Essex, moved to Doncaster in South Yorkshire, then went to Shrewsbury in Shropshire, then Norfolk, then to Cheltenham, then finally ended up in London, so my accent is all over the place
You should try and understand people from Dundee Scotland or people from the Aberdeenshire area of Scotland who speak Doric, I’m Scottish and don’t have a clue 😂😂
Yeah got to agree with you on both the Dundee and up in a Aberdeenshire area. I might stay in Dundee but thank Christ I’m not from here as that accent sounds awful. The Aberdeenshire is something else that’s a different language in itself 😂😂
Have family members who are from that way and after all these years I still haven’t a clue what they are talking about half the time 😅and the Fifers man their accent as well 😂
Was actually expecting this to be the number 1 actually, that or a more rural West Country accent or North Walian, or maybe (since Northern Ireland made it in) somewhere from the Southwest of Ireland like Cork or Kerry, a really strong MLE (urban accent with heavy Jamaican influence) would have been interesting to include as well
Doric is counted as a different language though. This was about accents.
@@micmac274 Doric Scots is a language, but Dundee-accented English is also a thing
This is such a typical Yourkshire thing to say, but there is no Yorkshire accent, each city has a totally different sound
True in other parts too... Dudley and Solihull are both kind of in Birmingham (the same built-up area, anyway), and have very distinct accents.
That is not a true Cardiff accent by Charlotte Church, it is a Cardiff girl who has gone to a very expensive private school, and there's a hint of a welsh accent in the background.
That is a perfectly normal Cardiff accent.
Almost as if people from Cardiff are Welsh, then?
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Judging by the census returns between 1881 and 1921, there are more people of irish and english descent in the most populated part of South Wales, than there are welsh.
All the accents are softer now.
Pityakka where I'm from is all but unintelligible if you go to the countryside of County Durham.
West Country is missing too
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I'm not sure if you have been to the Cathedral School and Howells you have a typical Cardiff accent.
Not 1 of these accents are strong, except for the late Queens. All of them are actors accents, the "Welsh" accent that is always portrayed is the South Wales/Valleys accent which is completely differant from the North Wales accent.
Also since they were all celebrities they all enunciated pretty clearly as JT pointed out, and they all tended to come from places that get represented on TV a lot, no rural Cumbrian accents or Shetland accents for example
I’m just gonna point this out. Frankie Boyle was speaking very slow and polite in his part for a Glaswegian guy. We talk much faster too..🤷🏻♂️🏴
Yes, that is the same Cheryl and as a fellow geordie, we don't claim her, I'm not a fan, if you can't tell 😂 also, the scouse subtitles were wrong, he said "wrote about them in the book" not in the "programme". I personally find scottish accents from the countryside around Glasgow the hardest to understand 😅 also, from the first day geordie shore came out, I was horrified 🙈😂 they got the roughest sounding lot and stuck them on TV. I'm from the coastal side of Newcastle, north of the river tyne so my geordie accent is a lot lighter but when I worked as a community nurse around byker and walker the accent was a lot thicker 😅
100% Geordie Shore is so embarrassing and the accents are so forced these days like They’re hamming it up for the TV.
I wish she’d used the little mix girls as they get so much grief for their accents so strong
Non of these accents are bad enough to be consistent with the real way people talk in those regions, plus instead of Birmingham try the Black Country accent Wolverhampton etc. The only one of these who carried his real regional voice was Louis.
@@valerienorton4371I think John Bishop did too. Though I think he puts it on a bit when he wants too 🙄
I also though a dialect from around Glasgow would be the hardest.
The shires around Glasgow would tend to speak slower than the city, so that's a little surprising
Try Aberdonian. It was parodied in the film "Brave" when one of the characters from Aberdeen started speaking, all the other Scottish characters fell silent as if trying to figure out what he was saying. It was quite funny. It's actually called "The Doric" and even uses words unfamiliar to other parts of Scotland like "Loon" and "Quine" for boy and girl. It's definitely a contender over Geordie.
It wasn't Aberdonian in "Brave" it was Kevin McKidd's version of the Doric spoken in Elgin, where he grew up. The Doric is spoken in different subdialects all over the North East of Scotland from Inverness to Stonehaven. My father came from Aberdeen and my Aberdonian grandma and other relatives didn't sound anything like Kevin McKidd.
@@alicemilne1444 For the vast majority of movie-goers and most others outside your part of Scotland, Kevin McKidd's version is just fine. After all it's supposed to be amusing and not a lesson in linguistics. But your pedantic parochialism is excellent.
@@bertharius9518 Sorry pal, did I touch a wee nerve there, eh?
I wasn't born in Aberdeen but 200 miles away near Stirling in Central Scotland.
This whole video was about genuine regional accents in Britain.
If you want to listen to an authentic Aberdonian accent, look up "The Caledonia Bank" from the Desperate Fishwives album. You can find it on TH-cam.
@bertharius9518 Aw, did I touch a wee nerve there, eh?
This video was about real accents, and the people were speaking in their natural accents. McKidd is not from Aberdeen. If you want to hear real Aberdonian, look up "The Caledonia Bank" from the Desperate Fishwives album. It's on TH-cam and it's authentic Aberdeen humour.
These comparisons aren't even close to what you'll hear on the street. These are mainly celebs who have rounded out their accents
My home city is split by a river different accents on both sides. Yorkshire has many accents and dialects across its area. Barnsley totally different to Leeds yet very close to each other
'Ull by chance 😅 East Vs West 'ull accents are weird, Greatfield estate Vs Hessle Road couldn't be more different
As a Norwegian I got 10/10. I dunno what the big deal is. As said below, these are "mild" accents. There are even Norwegian accents that need subtitling for the general public at times :)
Well, it must be a Germanic language thing there going on, then, with a commonality of similar sounds, 'cause I am Spanish and have been working hard on my English for most of my adult life. I can guarantee to you that, no matter how many reincarnated lives I spent replaying the last guy's first words, I wouldn't be able to understand what he was saying for the life of me. Scouse really got my language confidence down.
I’m half Swedish and cannot understand Norwegian. But my Swedish is not as great now to be fair so I only really know my region because we moved when I was small- I always think of Norwegian as the Scottish accent and Swedish as the English…i might be wrong though!
@@carlosaradas5926 If it helps, I'm English and I had trouble getting what he was saying to begin with!
That's actually Frankie Boyle annunciating, it's what we call in Glasgow, talking like a bender.
*Ennunciation / *ennunciation.
@@brigidsingleton1596 If he was pronouncing properly or proclamating it makes no difference, he was talking like a bender.
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I was not criticising speech patterns, only offering the corrected spelling.
@@brigidsingleton1596 And I acknowledged that by defining both words.
Frankie Boyle is not speaking Scottish,he is putting on a voice that you can understand, you would not understand Glaswegians at all
JT I’ve got to say I’m really loving the daily videos. I look forward to watching them. xx
How you can call Gemma Collins a celebrity baffles me. I think one of the hardest accents personally if not a native speaker would be a hardcore West Country accent. That sounds like a different language at points
Amen to that 😅😂
The West Country accent reminds me of the translation scene in Hot Fuzz. Love it 😂
@@kellyedwards6343 exactly, lol
Yarp!
I’m from the west country and even I can’t understand some of the old timers in the area. 😂
Next level is Gerald from Clarksons farm 😮
Not an accent. It's his own language 😂
Love Jeremy's face when Gerald talks, he may as well come from another planet, I don't think I have ever understood one word from him 🤣
Comedy gold 🤣🤣
Agreed ..Even We need subtitles for Gerald lol.
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I'm a number 4. Although, Louis has a South Yorkshire accent. Yes, there is that much variation. You can tell which part of a city someone comes from too, if you are familiar. The rural accents are the hardest. Places that have been more isolated. Somerset accents are tough for me, and Yorkshire Dales villages change from valley to valley. From Yorkshire (the largest county)
Jason Statham is actually from Derbyshire.. he adapted his accent for the movies.
Fake - but I wouldn't tell him
He left Shirebrook at an early age to live in Gt Yarmouth, so not much chance of a Derbyshire accent... and, as it happens, not a Norfolk one either. Vinnie Jones likewise.
Yes, Public Schools are private schools. Because traditionally children would be educated at home by private tutors or at a Public School.
aye and no school shootings too!
I've lived in Liverpool for 20 years, and even I struggled to understand John Bishop when the clip first started. Scouse is a very melodic accent and you need to hear the whole sentence. Without any prior context it can be difficult to follow when you just jump in mid sentence.
I think it was unfair to pick on John Bishop there, especially given the background music and the very mistaken transcription of book. Watch clips of him in Doctor Who (where he was a companion) and he's perfectly understandable.
John Bishops from Runcorn isn’t he ? Plazzy Scouser. Runcorn full of them
@@LunarJetwomanI was about to say this but tink he was born in Mill road then moved to the outskirts 😂 should of had gerrard or carragher doing it
@@LunarJetwoman Runcornians have a strong scouse accent that is almost indistinguishable from people from Liverpool. So much so that I once asked a girl (this was in Runcorn) if she was from Runcorn and she said "you cheeky git! I'm from Liverpool." Many of their parents or grandparents were forced to move out of the city in times past when people could be banned easily from the city limits, and kicked out of housing in the city. I think this went on until the 50's or 60's. I'm Widnesian so I should have known to just ask where she's from.
@@micmac274heh! I'm from Widnes too but I lost the accent years ago. People say I sound 'posh'. I'm not posh.
These days it's nice to hear a proper Widnes accent though, instead of the incessant scouse whining.
I'm from the North East of England and my wife is Northern Irish. We've both had to adjusts our accents slightly for each other (people now say I sound more like my wife!). Family gatherings were initially quite interesting when both of our families met for the first time.,
When I lived in Scotland I knew a family from Surrey. Their son was about 18 when I first got to know them. With his parents he used a Surrey accent, with his friends he used a Scottish accent!
I'm a Yorkshire living in Wales. I had a few problems with understanding some of the welsh accent but I managed understand in the end. I absolutely love the welsh accent.
The bow bells refer to the bells of st Mary le bow in cheapside not Bow church in east London
Which welsh accent is that? 😂
The Welsh people have a habit of really rolling their "Rs "-❤
Not a habit is it. It's the way we talk
@@robertroberts8648 yes soon after it used that word I realised it was not the correct term ,my apologies.
@@trevorlsheppard7906no probs 👍
Welsh roll L's further south in dorset they roll there rrrrrrrrs through the lips sounding like oooo rrrrrrrr and welsh its with the tongue
@poolelasssb we don't roll our l. If you mean when we use the letter LL, that isn't rolling it.
Yup, we would all have loved an English teacher like her! my old teacher was probably trained by the Gestapo
Yo JT just a quick FYI , Jason statham is not a cockney he's from north east Derbyshire a small town called Shirebrook. I bet his real accent is a thick northern farmer jazz like mine 😂😂😂❤keep up the awesome content 👊👍🏻
He's from the East Midlands he definitely isn't a cockney,
Even the subtitles got the Scouse accent wrong 🤣 He said he wrote about them in the book. And I feel like book is one of the classic words you think of when you think of a Scouse accent.
My accent (and vocabulary) is a mix of my native Hampshire + 40+ years living in London with minor influence of my mother/grandparents "Pitmatic" (north eastern England, County Durham). Much to the amusement of my colleagues back in the day.
Similarly also native to Hampshire, so I guess my "base" accent is SSB (Standard Southern British), but having lived in Wales and the West Country for a bit I have bits of both of those, which can confuse people.
@@__-fm5qv Southampton in my case, my younger brother has more of an accent than I do, 'Ampshire, sort of bordering on Dorset/Wiltshire, sort of "light west country", ahhh, thas roit...
@@terryloveuk ha what a small world! Southampton here also! I do find the west country does creep in around Wiltshire yeah. So I'd probably fit right in there given my current accent mix.
Good old Yorkshire.
26:35 even the subtitles got it wrong he’s says book not program 😂
It amazes me and makes me proud at the same time that i can understand any accent of the English speaking world yet others cant. We all learn about each other with you bro.
16:26 Richard E Grant not Lee
I have a Black Country accent, it comes from the north west area of Birmingham, although both are considered similar to the outsider, Black Country is considered very different by the locals.
Within the Black Country there is a lot of variation. Dudley sounds to me like a very exaggerated Brummie accent. Further north the accents are very different.
@@ianbeddowes5362 originally I'm from West Bromwich. There are the areas of Upper and Lower Gornal, where even those of us that originally come from the area have trouble understanding the accent.
@@katherinetucker4265 I was born in Wednesfield and moved to Bilston, they think I talk posh! 🤣🤣
@@W0rdsandMus1c anyone from the area now thinks I talk posh because I've lived for so long out of the area
I was born in London (an 'official' cockney), then moved to Germany when I was 5 years old (where my cockney accent softened a lot, as I only spoke English at home), then moved to Teesside/North Yorkshire at 13. So now, my accent is as confused as anyone who tries to figure out where I'm actually from ...
You're only Cockney if you were born within the sound of Bow Bells.
Bow is a tiny part of East London and in this day & age I wouldn't imagine the sound of the Church Bells would transmit very far ?
I grew up hearing lots of different accents so I don't find many that difficult, but the deep west country/Cornish accent is pretty much impossible.
But yeah, many of these were the accents on easy mode. Great reaction JT!
The Queen's accent softened, over time, as the UK changed.
It would be really cool if us viewers could send in clips of different accents for you to watch so you can get the proper thick accents!
Jason Statham's accent, as much as he tries, isn't cockney. He himself isn't cockney, he's a northerner who, because of the first few movies he did required him to play a cockney, has pigeonholed him as being/playing cockneys. It's not his natural accent. It basically what is known as 'mockney'. He's actually from not far from where I live. His real accent would be nearer to mine than cockney. It's not hard to pick up a cockney accent, I lived in London/Essex for a few years,, I met my wife who is a cockney whilst there, and my accent did gain a bit of a cockney twang, not purposely, but luckily after we moved here it settled back to what it used to be. My wife however despite being a cockney, and brought up in the borders of Essex and the east end in greater London, had neither a cockney or Essex accent. I found that there are more than just those accents down there that the locals speak with (andi mean locals as in born and bred , not people who have moved there). Accents aren't static, other accents penetrating a town can totally change the regional accent if a town within about 20 years.
I believe Jasons accent is heavily influenced by his time as an older youth in Watford with the likes of Vinnie Jones?
I come from St Albans and he sounds very similar to many of my old school friends.
He was born in Shirebrook which is Derbyshire,according to google that’s the East Midlands not the north
@@littlemy1773 yes, what I meant by North was North of London, and it's less than 20 minutes from my front door and I'm in Sheffield which is the north. It's nearer north than it is to the midlands, Derbyshire is a big place, a lot of it is regarded as the north by the people who live there, and they don't have what is regarded as a typical midlands (Brummie/Leicestershire) accent. it's on the border, but definitely regarded as northern. especially by Londoners, as to them anything north of Watford is the the north.
Also, he spent a lot of his time growing up in Great Yarmouth which is in east Anglia, so that would influence his natural speaking accent aswell, the accent there is a blend between a Lincolnshire accent and an old Essex (nothing like the modern cockeyfied Essex accent we have now, pre 1950s) and is more soft spoken, and Yarmouth accents tend to be more like a stereotypical farmers accent, not dissimilar to a bristolian accent in many ways, and none of those accents are cockney or in any way like Staham's accent that he carries now. He uses it because it suits the image of the stereotype roles he plays, he's adopted the mockney accent for a purpose, rather than unconsciously gained it over the years. Sometimes in interviews he even slips back to his accent, especially on certain words. It happens. My wife's accent is about 80% northern now, but so e if her southern ways come out during certain words, or if she's talking to family from down south. It's not a conscious thing I don't think, it's just you get back in to that swing, that way of talking when you are back around others who are talking like that.
Also, next time you watch it, If you listen carefully, you can hear bits of his natural accent coming through In 'Lock, stock and two smoking barrels '.
@@littlemy1773shirebrook foke have a mixed Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire accent combined with common farmer tone I have friends and family there and even I struggled to understand them 😂.
But Jason does have a Derbyshire twang to his cockney accent
But yes he's a middlander not a northern but Londoners think anything above them is a northener 😂😂
@@littlemy1773 S'norf of Watfud, innit?
I'd love to see you react to more Welsh accents. I think some of the hardest for you might be a few of the accents from very deep into the South Wales valleys, A lot of the more inland North Wales accents and southern coastal accents like Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea and Llanelli.
Scouser here JT, When I first started my channel I had to have a think about my regular day to day accent because I thought half the viewers wouldn't understand me 🥴😅 I toned it down but I can't lose it completely 🤣
I used to date a scouser so for me easy to understand. Unless he was drunk then it's like dude speak English 😂
@@JonEvans-st9ktI'm the same! 😅 You literally have to rely on various grunts and body language! 🤣🤣🤣
@@scouseofhorror104 i normally went for the nod and agree god nos what I said yes to 😂
The Yorkshire was or were sounds like wah. The same sound as the sha sound ie YorkSHA not YorkSHIRE. .
My dad was a scouser living in the south . I had to translate what he was saying for the nurses, I realised when they kept doing the total opposite of what he was requesting and they said they didn’t understand him. That was an eye opener for me
I love the glaswegian accent, it is so soothing
As an English Brit, I think my two favourite British accents are probably Scottish and Northern Irish. I'm from South Ascot, Berkshire, which is west of London. So I have a stereotypical "Harry Potter" accent
I'm from Eastbury, right next to Lamborn in "the valley of the race horse" born in Reading 😊
There are many Scottish accents. I think there's quite a few Northern Irish ones too.
You hit the nail on the head JT. They will hold back on the accent, because they know they need to be understood. Well, maybe not GC. 😆
She mentioned discrimination against certain accents but only in reference to certain English ones, where in reality for many jobs or in certain areas of England, if you don’t have an RP accent or a South East of England accent, you will likely face some discrimination or there will at least be some presumptions made about you, your upbringing and/or how you live your life.
The RP accent is a general middle/upper class English accent that can be found all over England but it’s not the most prominent accent anywhere and will very rarely be found in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
In fact you still find the Home Counties RP accent at branch-manager level all over Scotland. This was so much the rule when I was a kid, that I was amazed as a teenager to get a new manager in our local Comet (white-goods store) who had the same accent as we had. Failing that, they would at least have an anglified private-school accent. This has changed over time in that people can have a standard-Scottish accent now, around local workplaces. You still won’t find that many in the boardroom compared with RP.
Where a change was noticed, a kind if watershed moment, was when the SNP won a lot of the Scottish seats in Westminster (I think it was 2015?). Instead of the old guard from the London parties, people Young, Rifkind, Fowkes, Forsythe, Campbell - who had all held their seats from through the years when England had voted for Thatcher and ever since. Most were either privately educated or tried to sound like it; suddenly they were gone and reolaced by a broader cross section of people who would actually not be mistaken for an Old Etonian by a foreigner. This led to some weird moments in the Commons.
Even though there were now only 50-odd MPs representing Scottish constituencies, where once there had been 72, the Tories in particular were very vocal - in the Commons itself - about “how many Scots there are now!” And “Where are all these Scots coming from?” Literally they started laughing when, during the swearing-in, there was one “Mac” after another.
This was when pretty much everyone suddenly Scotland’s representatives as actually being from Scotland.
Alasdair Carmichael, who has an RP Scottish “university” accent, a wee bit posh, was inadvertently at the centre of a very revealing incident.
He had been the Northern Isles MP for at least a decade, and until just a few months previously was the Scottish-Office minister in the Tory/LibDem coalition cabinet. Some Home Counties Tory (i forget who) was in full sneering mode, intervening as Carmichael got going, tearing into him for being a nationalistic bigot (i.e. anti-English) etc - and Carmichael had to interrupt to inform him that he was actually a member if the LibDems. In fact he had onky just rescued his seat after lying about asking foreign governments to campaign AGAINST Scottish independence.
Why was he assumed to be a Scottish nationalist rather than the British nationalist he is? Because he has a detectable Scottish accent.
A last thought on this: During lockdown I saw a saw a youtube video where by chance Malcolm Rifkind, who also once headed the Scottish office, appeared briefly in an old clip, in full Miss Jean Brodie flow.
The young Scots commenting on the clip were going, “Bloody hell, what kind of weird tortured accent is that?!” Literally they did not recognise what used to be the standard mode of speech among the political class of Scotland just a decade before. They did not realise he was Scottish at all.
@@eh1702 as a Scot myself, I definitely know where you’re coming from.
Be careful im from a low income London council estate the amount of times Ive been called posh by middle class Northeners spefically Mancs and Scouse is insane.
@@grantsnake I’m not sure what I should be careful of. In general terms any accent from the South East of England along with the RP accent faces less discrimination and judgement than any other accent in the UK. What you’ve experienced is a presumption, which is also unfair and something that no-one should do but as someone who is Scottish and over the last thirty years has lived in a number of places in England, the general consensus by Northerners is that Southerners are posh and the general consensus of Southerners is that Northerners are rough, working class and uneducated. That is the North South divide in England.
Welsh accent here and with Charlotte them extra letters come from just speaking Welsh
Agreed. Written Welsh doesn't have any redundant or silent letters as far as I know. Charlotte wasn't adding in an extra syllable, she was pronouncing the one that was there in the word.
@@Gynra cheers butt
I find the scouse accent one of the easiest to understand, and by far the kindest. It definitely helps that the majority of my family are scouse so I’ve heard it all my life. Also worth noting that there are multiple types of scouse
While a dialect can include differences in pronunciations from the language it comes from, it also includes differences in vocabulary and grammar. The word accent, however, describes just a distinct way of pronouncing a language. It does not include differences in vocabulary and grammar. In the UK, there are almost 40 different dialects that can sound very different from each other and may use different spellings and word structures
Jason Statham is from Derbyshire so his isn’t a true cockney accent…
what i find fun about our uk accents is they also sometimes merge. someone with a welsh parent and english parent will end up with an acent half way between the two. someone with a RP speaking parent and Glaswegian speaking parent may speak with blend of those. it applies to accents from other english speaking countries. i have friends who are british american and they have rp accents with an american intonation.
She even got the subtitles wrong on Scouse 😂 One of the stereotypes of Welsh women is they can talk without taking a breath.
One of the things with UK and British accents is they can mix with each other SO much and yet you can still hear them.
My mum is from Cardiff. She hasn't lived there for about 40 years so it's faded over the years, but, if you listen to her speak, you can hear the Welsh rhythms.
I should have grown up with a Mancunian accent, but, aged 3, my Lancs dad, Welsh mother, and 1 year old sister, and I moved to Cornwall - in the South West of England.
Listening to my sister speak, she sounds a cross with RP, Welsh, and Cornish. My speech and dialect, on the other hand, sounds a cross between RP, Mancs, and Welsh - but no Cornish. My boyfriend finds it hilarious listening to me because when I start getting tired or stressed, I start sounding more and more Mancs - but when I get cross or start ranting, it's Welsh.
My theory with my lack of Cornish and my sister's lack of Northern is that I had started talking full sentences when we left up North - but she hadn't.
dont all woman talk without taking a breath
These are so mild it’s wild. You listen to a thick Glaswegian or even North West Scottish accents or West Country and they’re so hard to follow. Watch Clarkson’s Farm and Gerald on there, those are proper difficult UK accents. As you said, these are in interviews so they’re really mild versions. It’s a really bad example.
True, though I think most people these days do have a more "mild" varient of their local accent, especially younger people. That being said I have definitely met people where their accent is so thick I had to really concentrate to understand them. Weirdly though that hasn't happened to me yet in the West Country after moving here.
as someone living in Yorkshire... Louis' accent isn't even that thick compared to some. 😅
I have the same accent as the girl in the video, and my partner has a Mancunian accent (he's from Manchester). We lived in Liverpool for a little bit and I found it so hard to understand what they were saying. I used to avoid talking to anyone because I was worried they'd be thinking "stupid southern girl with her posh accent" sorta thing, but in all honesty, scousers are some of the nicest people I know ❤ liverpool will always hold a special place in my heart, even though we live in Cornwall now 😂
I'm a Midlands accent. Same as jason statham.
🤣🤣me too
Gemma Collins lovely accent stops around Basildon, Brentwood way. When you come further east and north it is similar but a little more country, a little less eastenders.
Did she say "gotten" at 22:07? So much for her PR English accent.
These were tame, you want a real test look up guy Martin when he is excited about something OR Gerald from clarksons farm
I have a northern Ireland accent but not exactly a Derry one and I live in Liverpool which is where the scouse accent is from
Liverpool makes me feel at home being from Northern Ireland. Last night out there I had to ask for directions and the first three people I asked (separately from eachother) were all from Northern Ireland! I know the odds for that are still slightly low but it told me there must be absolutely loads of people from Northern Ireland in Liverpool.
You're accent is going to get tricky for the average American to understand when you start getting a Liverpool twang along with you norn iron accent
@@beltrofix7667 Scousers are a mixture of the Irish and Dutch
You shouldn’t be worried about understanding a scouse accent. You should be concerned as you’re just about to be robbed.
I'm yorkshire but as someone else says there are varieties of it. Rural accents are different from urban ones and west yorkshire is not as strong as barnsley
I'm from Leicestershire in the East Midlands, which has the broadest selection of accents, in a small area, but the actor with the nearest accent to mine is The 11th Doctor Matt Smith because he is from Northamptonshire in the East Midlands.
If you git ya sen ayut the fens lawik, you weunt understand oat yertameen, coz nearun sez oat abayut Lincolnshire ova yonend o the cuntry init lawik
Gotta love you tube. Your comment has a translate to English option 😂
@@shaunrye7740 If you get yourself out to the Fens (like), you won't understand anything, do you know what I mean? because nobody say's anything about Lincolnshire over the far end of the country isn't it (like)
@@ChrisPopham .. THANK YOU, I kind of understood most of it, but seeing your translation made it much more easy to 'say it out loud' (to myself), and working out where the gaps/breaths/pauses take place..
Many thanks again.
It's called English because it's from, England pretty simple really.
Where the hell is the link to the original video? It should be the first thing in your description so people can open it in a new tab and give it a view and a like. If you are going to react to someone else's content at least provide a link to the original video.
Oh give over.
I've seen plenty of other people already say this but yes, the examples she gave were proper mild ones. Go to the actual areas and they are much much much thicker and unintelligible if you cant understand em. And as a scouser, the scouse accents can get thicker than the example she used
Yep. She really is the English teacher that we all wish we had!
The only bit I didn’t catch first time was when John Bishop said “see, I wrote about them in the book”, but the second time when I was concentrating I got it. These are definitely easier examples, which makes sense if it’s a beginners look at accents for non native/less confident English speakers. I love the way she calmly explains things and how much she clearly enjoys the topic.
I wonder if there’s an equivalent video for American accents, I’d actually be really keen on watching that
When travelling to Scotland, on leaving Newcastle there was the standard tannoy announcement with the thickest geordie accent I ever heard, full 5 minutes of ot, everyone who was already on the train were just looking round at each other confused, then someone who got on at Newcastle stands up and says ffs they said were heading north
RP ( received pronunciation ) is what the Queen supposedly spoke.
The normal, default accent is SSBE ( Standard Southern British English ).
"Public school" was originally a school that was open to the public - for money - as opposed to private tutors for the really rich or church schools that again trained people for service in the church.
Must admit, when the main cast of Gavin & Stacy appeared on Would I Lie To You I had to turn it off as I couldn't understand them, probably the speed of speech as much as anything. Im also going to agree with some of the other posters saying that these were mostly pretty gentle versions of the accents. I would also commiserate over the non inclusion of West Country accents while adding that I think Black Country accents can also be pretty horrific. Sometimes even other Black Country locals cant understand it.
Legend has it that Eamonn holmes is still sat there, open- mouthed, trying to keep his breakfast in…..
These were pretty mild versions of all the accents. There are also several really difficult ones which weren't even mentioned. The old Devon version of the West Country accent is very tough, as is the Cumbrian accent. Mix that with the fact that a lot of the accents have dialect words thrown in and they can get really hard to understand..
I heard a slight American twist coming through Jason's cockney accent too lol. Specifically when he says "that" and "get things done"
“Pronunciate”!!!
A new word. 😂
Surprised somerset aint in there😂, yarrp
im from Yorkshire and some of us talk lot broader than loui but we do all talk quite fast
I was I Newcstle and Gateshead for 13 months. I could understand Geordie fairly easy.
Born in London but moved to Newcastle when I was 8. I now have a geordie accent, however it's a lot slower when speaking to southern people but put me with another geordie and southerners look completely confused when we are talking together😂