Jack O'Connell & Michael Socha ( from Being Human, This is England etc) are perfect examples of a broad Derby accent, albeit a more modern inner city one. It's not far off a Leicester, Burton or Notts accent, but different enough. Infact they both went to the same school up the road from me. The example in the video is obviously much further north Derbyshire & clearly the dialect is old, but I still know areas where older locals are'nt far off this!
@mofi500 hit the nail on the head. Interestingly, this dialect is close (relatively speaking) to the way English might have sounded several hundred years ago. There's a good reason for this. People in rural areas, at least until recently, tended to have much stronger social ties to the people around them, which results in dialects such as this maintaining. In cities or urban areas, there are still dialects (just think of Liverpool), but there's a much higher chance of influence from others.
it's not 100% jack o'connell's accent.. check out some devlin interview on youtube, and tell me that their accents are similar although devlin is from dagenham, greater london
I lost my Derbyshire accent... It makes me so sad.
The shocking thing is....I could understand him! And I'm from Belper!
I love Derbyshire accent, I love Derbyshire.
We also miss letters, for example, we'll miss he out of the and the g of the end of going. So we say "goin to 't' pub" rather than "going to the pub"
Jack O'Connell & Michael Socha ( from Being Human, This is England etc) are perfect examples of a broad Derby accent, albeit a more modern inner city one. It's not far off a Leicester, Burton or Notts accent, but different enough. Infact they both went to the same school up the road from me. The example in the video is obviously much further north Derbyshire & clearly the dialect is old, but I still know areas where older locals are'nt far off this!
@mofi500 hit the nail on the head.
Interestingly, this dialect is close (relatively speaking) to the way English might have sounded several hundred years ago. There's a good reason for this. People in rural areas, at least until recently, tended to have much stronger social ties to the people around them, which results in dialects such as this maintaining.
In cities or urban areas, there are still dialects (just think of Liverpool), but there's a much higher chance of influence from others.
don't forget kelly from misfits! and ya jack o'connell def speaks this
Amazon: "Words of the White Peak."
My dad's from Derby, but he doesn't speak like that. My Auntie does xD
jack oconnel from skins definitely speaks like this
Honest to god, the strangest accent in the country. In a good way of course. To me it's like a mix between Stoke and Brummie. So hard to imitate.
I want that book... where can I get it???
@LollipopStudios256 its a dialect. i'm from derbyshire too :-)
yay im frm there! tho i dnt speak with the dialect tho i understand it lol xx
Where in Derbyshire you live?
it's not 100% jack o'connell's accent.. check out some devlin interview on youtube, and tell me that their accents are similar although devlin is from dagenham, greater london
@happyMOO5 sorry, youre 100% wong. look him up. he's from derby, and has said in interviews before.