Can We Tell The DIfference?! Americans React To "20 British Accents In 1 Video"
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This is really cool! Thanks for featuring my video guys. You did a great job : )
Thanks my guy for making great videos and being cool with us checking them out :)
In regard to Daniel struggling to pick up on some of the differences, it should be pointed out that the examples you are seeing are people that are on television and it's very rare that a tv show will allow someone with a thick accent to speak much, and even then most British people have their "telephone" voice which is a slightly posher accent that they use for clarity in situations like job interviews, speaking to tourists or when they are in court.
I disagree. These days you hear tons of thick accents on TV!
@@mdhazeldine No you hear more accents but they aren't that thick. For example, people think that Kevin Bridges has a thick Scottish accent but he really doesn't if you are struggling to understand him when he's using his TV voice you are really going to struggle to understand typical working-class Glaswegians talking casually at work.
@@24magiccarrot aye I'm fae glesga and think Kevin is posh 😂
@@brianjohnston3707 He talks like a nonce when he's recording something for tv or a dvd, he has a thicker accent when he's off camera
I genuinely didn't have a clue what some older people from my home town were saying (Stoke on Trent - OK City, not town) - and I'd lived there 20 years. It was indecypherable. I could understand MOST people who had a very strong accent and dialect - but some might as well have been from a different planet.
Don't feel bad about not quite getting some of the accents from over here guys. In WWII it's said that we used to baffle German operators who would listen into communiques by having a Geordie speak to a Cockney. You are not alone :)
And my man wilfred pickles :)
@@NoNowwwell Whey aye man bonnie lad
And for blocking German comms, we used Scousers.
hahaha why ayye is that true? that's amazing if it is, I could believe it. I'm a mackem, learning to speak Chinese.. you know how Chinese people, even when they speak perfect English still have like a Chinese accent? I'd absolutely love to know what a mackem speaking Chinese sounds like to native speakers... it has to sound dodgey as owt - I even tried asking the lass who's teaching me, she says she can hear parts of my accent but it's obviously .. almost impossible to describe accurately to somebody who can't hear it xD
@@beautifulchlorophyll2285 It's actually from an Al Murray sketch, where the Scousers are used as transmitter blockers. "Eyyccccckkkkkkkkkkuuuuuccckkkkk"
I'm a Yorkie myself, but have moved around so much my accent is just an amalgamation of heavy regional accents blended into some weird RP thing.
The problem with using actors and some famous people is they usually have a watered down version of there accents, a weaker sounding version so they can be understood when in a roll or for public speaking, most people in this video was mild sounding compared to what the accent should sound like
Exactly
Hence the gogglebox folk get a bit closer...
Yes these were all fairly mild accents from their respective locations.
Daniel's confusion was hilarious. The accents all sound soooo different to us in the UK. I think it would help to have a video with the same sentence said in different accents. That way you'd be able to properly hear the difference, which is more obvious to us.
I'm sure if Daniel put the first RP accent next to the last northern accents he would hear the difference then rather than travelling subtly through the country. It is insane to us that some Americans really can't hear a difference as you say its so obviously different to our UK ears .
I'm from London and I was doing a delivery near Newcastle. The guy asked me if was going straight back to London and I told him I had a stop in Dudley. He went silent for a moment and stared at me with wide eyes, then said in a thick Geordie accent, "wor man, they speak dead funny down there like"... I struggled not to burst out laughing... But the thing is, when I got to Dudley, it was an old guy with no teeth (which probably didn't help) and I couldn't understand a word he said, his grandson had to translate.
It always amazes me that accents vary so much in the UK considering how small it is and how close we are to each other. But in the US they're so spread out over a much larger area and much less variation in accents... Just for reference, the whole UK is around the size of Minnesota and the British mainland is around the size of Idaho but with a larger population than California and Teaxs combined.
Funny thing is, I'm from north London and have no issues in Dudley and Shropshire, but Sunderland completely stumped me.
I'm from just south of Birmingham and when I briefly worked in Dudley I felt like I needed a translator for the first 20 mins everyday 🤣 Once I'd ' tuned in ' I was OK but... oh boy ! 😊
Can't believe he missed out doric from north east scotland. When the BBC did a series about trawlermen from NE Scotland (sure it was Peterhead), they subtitled the first few programs.
Sadly Robbie Coltrane that played Hagrid passed away recently. He does an excellent west coast accent but it's put on, he is actually a Glaswegian. I think Josh Widdicome from the panal shows is West Coast?
West Coast? What, California? 😚 Josh, although born in London, was brought up around Dartmoor in Devon.
@@rocketrabble6737 yeah Deven, Dartmoor Redwood National Park, South LA 🤣
West Country..... Not West Coast 🤣🤣🤣
@@annicecooper8105 yeah you are right, I'm a weegie in Edinburgh so just used to saying west or east coast 🤣
Micky Flannigan is a great example of a London accent.
@@bethcushway458 It's a working Class Accent. It's all the same regardless what part of the thsmes you are.
Intact cockney was supposed to be east London but its anyone that was born mainly in the sounds of the bell, which made people born in guys hospital and St Thomas hospital, genuine cockneys. Them hospitals are technically South London.
Before you reply with shit.
I researched it.
If are born in guys hospital in the London Bridge area, which is SOUTH Bank, you are a genuine Cockney
@@bethcushway458 I think it's you that's taken it out of context.
Danny Dyer too or the actor Alan Ford.
Stormzy is from London guys. It’s kind of the point of the MLE accent. However, his mum is from Ghana
Nigeria*
americans need to realise how multicultural the uk is, i can go down the road and see a jamaican shop, turn the corner see a polish shop or indian etc
If not right next to each other.
That said, this has nothing to do with this video, which is about native British accents.
The phenomenon is where Jamaican accents or Indian accents get mixed with local accents in England. That's something you need to hear
RIP Robbie Coltrane, the actor who immortalised Hagrid.
My son went to Birmingham for a sporting event and told me he couldn't understand passing pedestrians cos they sounded like Bill and Ben 😂
Enoch and Eli were the character names used in local Black Country.
You need to view "Auf wiedersehen Pet". A great UK comedy from the early eighties. Especially Jimmy Nail, his accent will blow you away.
I always remember Chris Pratt on Graham Norton doing his TOWIE accent. He was pretty good lol. Im from Lancashire, Northern England and I learned a few things 🤣
Accents in the UK are now effed up, I'm from Derbyshire, I say things like "eh up me duck", but I have (always) said "Human" not 'uman" I now live in Burton upon Trent (formerly south Derbyshire, now east Staffordshire) Driving in ANY direction for about an hour, you could encounter any one of several accents!
"Go down t' shops and buy some tea bags from t' shops" is a classic.
Combine comedy and accents the jimmy carr stand up on how to do various accents in Britain is brilliant and perfect for you
As someone who is born and bred in England, I still struggle understanding some accents. It is especially difficult when you hear two people speaking in the same dialect, at their usual speed.
I know a few English folk who are stumped by my Scottish accent.
I’m from the Highlands originally, with a mother from Belfast, and I lived in Aberdeenshire for 24 years before moving to Leeds. I’ve also had to change my accent slightly to be understood, as although I’m not broad like a Glaswegian say, people would still squint at me when I was talking. I figured I had to soften it, but now I’m making a conscious effort to go back to how I should be. Apparently I sound more Scottish when I’m p*ssed off 🙂
As a fellow Scot who has lived south of the border for nearly 30 years, I concur that I sound more Scottish when I’m angry…also when I’m drunk or over excited or emotional in general 😊
My Father was from Paisley, in his day a Town 10 miles from Glasgow, now its been swallowed by Glasgow I think, but in English, Derbyshire, When I was off Work I went for a pint with my dad ,One day one of his mates had family from Strathclyde, After ten minutes of Talking my dad and them were Talking a Language I didn't understand,
Oh god. Me too. Also from Glasgow but have lived in another country for almost a decade now. My Scottish accent gets strong when I'm annoyed and when I talk with another Scottish person, much to the amusement of everyone around me.
I LOVE the Scottish accent I think it is is beautiful!
I grew up in Asia at a private school. Sounded so americanised that when in Canada they thought I was Canadian.
Until I was drunk, or angry. Usually both.
Also, when I got a call from back home and fell straight into glawegian again and I could silence entire rooms. Just wide eyes and open mouths all round.
I'm from the border between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. I can drive to Wales in about 15 minutes. My dad has a Forest accent which is close to the West Country/Bristol accent. For some unknown reason, my sister, my mum and grandmother have RP accents but I and my grandmother's siblings have South Herefordshire accents. My former boss had a very RP accent and the receptionist had a very strong Herefordian (rural) accent, yet their families had lived in the same town for generations. Sometimes after work, I would drive 20-25 minutes to visit my friend in Worcester. Her accent is incredibly different, because for "bath" I would say "barth" and she would say "baath". Worcester is more Midlands, so sounds like a watered-down Brummy accent. And yet, until the mid-90s, Herefordshire and Worcestershire was one county known as Hereford & Worcester. I can detect differences between the Hereford accent and those in the Herefordshire market towns. I used to be in a band comprising me, a Welshman from Abergavenny with a strong melodic Welsh accent (only about 30 minutes drive away), another guy from Shropshire but who grew up in Abergavenny, a scouser and a guy from Widnes which very close to Liverpool but he had a very different northern accent.
The north south divide is more of a north and west to south and east one. Brum is north, like Nott'n'm. Leicester and Lincs are south Eastern.
nah he needs to do more research for his book, nobody in Yorkshire says 'going t'shops' it would be 'off t'shops'
Accents are taken seriously here.
During the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (serial killer, murdered 13 women, attempted 7 more 1975-1980) letters and a tape were sent to police from "Jack". The accent on the tape was identified as the Wearside area of Sunderland pinpointed to Castletown. Police switched their search from Yorkshire and looked only at men with a NE accent. The actual Yorkshire based Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe) was questioned 9 times and released allowing him to kill more women, .
A mate of mine, with a public school RP accent was traced and interviewed by police because he was from Castletown. All men from there were.
In 2005, due to DNA advances and the glue from an envelope, Jack the hoaxer was sentenced to 8 yrs in prison.
Always disappoints me not hearing my East Anglian brethren mentioned in the accent videos
Very cool that you credited the English teacher whose channel 'EatSleepDream' is second to none in assisting foreign learners.
To me every accent he showed you was the posh versions but it gave you a idea of the regions , another good video from you guys , keep it up 👌
I can't remember if I've seen ETS watch that drunk Scouser in Vegas? There'll obviously be more examples they can find for all of them.
Exactly right. These are not the strongest versions of almost any of these accents. But if it's for people learning English I suppose it's understandable. If he had drunken Glaswegians and Scousers talking to their friends no bugger would understand it.
Bob Mortimer is from Middlesbrough, which is sort of midway between York and Newcastle, so he has a mix of the accents but it mostly sounds like a mild Geordie accent (as that has the most distinctive features that stand out)
How dare you! Bob is not a Geordie!
I’m from Belfast, living in Scandinavia. I still have my accent and love it, but I’ve had to water it down a bit just so people can understand me in both English and Swedish lol.
Love your channel guys.
I'm from Ireland too, living in the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Ulster Swedish sounds fun My Nirweguan mum's cousin married a Swansea/Abertawe lass, so she speaks/snakke Norsk with a south Cymru/Welsh accent, wonderful stuff!
There are more than 2 Scottish accents. Dundee and Highlands have very distinct accents and that's before even getting into doric speakers
The soft schloering, sic, of Highland and Islands accents...
I didn’t even know there was 2 Scottish accents 😂
There are more than TWO Scottish accents...?? Help ma boab! Are ye sure about that, me bonny bairn? Ach, it's a guid job yer here..... 🤣
Scouse comes from Lobscouse, a stew often eaten by sailors which originates from Northern Europe, Liverpool was a major port, so the dish caught on there and also became popular throughout North Wales, did he do the North Wales accent? I don't think he did, just South Wales, the accent is completely different in the North, I'm from North Wales but don't have the local accent though, I'm a curiosity, grew up on a council estate but have the Contemporary RP accent.
Don't worry that all accents sound "British". It's the same for us over hear listening to the the people from the US. I can spot maybe a New York Accent and Deep South Accent and A Canadian Accent. But I couldn't say for sure. I've seen videos of movie reviews where the reviewer is from Wisconsin and they comment on the actors thick Wisconsin accent and to me it sounds just like a generic US accent. lol.
But I paused the Video at 6 minutes to comment. I'm from Lancashire in the northwest of England. And the reason we talk the way we do, putting such emphasis on vowel sounds is it was a very industrialised area with factories as far as the eye could see. And because of all the noise in those factories people communicated mainly with reading lips so that's how we got our slow deliberate accent.
My nephews girlfriend is Spanish. She has lived in Scotland and London. She said that she can't understand our accents, because every 10 miles there is a different accent. I am scouse( liverpool) , we needed translators to have a conversation. Funnily enough, I asked her how the Spanish accents vary and she said all accents are the same, there is no variation, which I find hard to imagine.
That isn't true! There are variations the Catalans, Basques and Valencians for example
@@vickywitton1008 I wouldn't know, I am just taking her word for it, she is from Madrid.
Russian is quite uniform, apparently. Monomefia, I guess. Spain had Francoist fascism.
I can't believe that Spencer and Daniel agreed at the beginning that they just hear an "English" accent with the clip that was given with a variety of English accents. After all, they have been listening to a variety of English accents and aren't new to them.
I'll be honest, I was a bit shocked Daniel couldn't tell any difference between Cockney and the Queen's English. They have completely opposite "flavours". One being the most refined sounding accent on planet earth and the other sounding quite rough (with all due respect, I love the cockney accent. It's sexy as hell!).
my husband had to tone down his chester accent when he moved to London now over 30 years later we moved back to chester and his accent is so slight now that people don't realise he was born and bread in Chester.. 20min away from there in Wales Wrexham people have completely different accent from people in Chester, then under an hour drive u have Liverpool and again completely different accent again.
Online or in published edition you will find 'Larn Yersel' Geordie (learn yourself Geordie)...I am a Geordie which is why this tag name starts with Toon..It means town but if pronounced Toon anywhere in the UK the listeners, no matter which part of the UK, will almost always identify Toon as Newcastle.
Loony toons?! Ha-way the lads! :-)
With the West Country, DEFINITELY watch David Bradley’s character in (the best comedy film ever made) Hot Fuzz for the extreme version. It’s based in Somerset. I’ve met a few farmers who sound just like him.
Anyone who plays a pirate puts on a west country accent. Usually, they go for either Cornish or Bristolian. All the pirate accents in pirates of the Caribbean are based on these accents. Cornish is rounder than Bristol, and they’d say /ar/ instead of /or/.
As someone raised in Devon (although I have a modern RP accent as I’m originally from Kent), I have to mention Devon too. We have slightly different accents through the county but it’s the land of farmers, smugglers and wreckers, so still similar to our neighbours. It’s definitely getting weaker with the generations - my husband’s accent is mild, his dad’s is stronger and his grandad’s is stronger still. A good place to go for an example is to watch War Horse as the English parts are based there and the main character of the film has a Devonian accent.
Hot Fuzz may be the best comedy film you have seen, but that's it!
Being English I grew up on American shows and movies. We understand practically every American accent and you have soooooooo many.
England has more accents than america.
It's true we understand them but we can't necessarily identify them. I wouldn't know a Maryland accent from a Floridian accent and I doubt most Brits would.
I was born in Nottingham, grew up in Hertfordshire and live in Northamptonshire I can hear someone’s accent and work out where they’re from. It’s a skill.
To hear more Geordie you should react to Auf Wiedersehen Pet - it’s on TH-cam and is a comedy show about 3 Geordies in late 80s doing construction work abroad because couldn’t find work because of Margaret Thatcher’s decimation of the North. They make friends with people with lots of these other accents too - it’s a very grounded show if you want to hear how English is spoken here at a more working class level rather than over dramatised for TV usually.
Loved that show. I was just reading about the tragic end of the guy who played Wayne.
@@davidmcnulty8181 yeah was really sad - mid filming season 2 as well. You can kind of tell they wrote around him when they got to Spain when you know
Great show but to my Birmingham ears Timothy Spall's attempt at a Brummie accent was almost as bad as Dick Van Dyke's attempt at Cockney.
I loved that show as my Dad was a builder
Gives other accents too: Cockney, Black country, Scouse, West country.
What a shame we only got one Welsh accent. Where I live there is a valleys accent. 25 miles east is a cardiff accent, 25 miles west is a Swansea accent and 10 miles south they have a different accent in the vale of Glamorgan.
James Nesbitt is probably the most likely/famous Northern Irish accent you've come across (the hobbit, Stan Lee's Lucky Man,Bloody Sunday),It's a really strong, hard accent 👊💜
Play them an Ian Paisley clip.
Liam Neeson has decent coverage
Dialect/culture wise , I find the concept of the divide between Northern and Southern England 'clicks' with Americans when I say to them to think of the north and south divide in the US, then to take that divide and flip it.
Here, it is the North which is seen as stereotypically underpriviliged, with heavy accents and a different culture to the rest of the country (which is surprisingly similar to the culture of the southern US at its core tenets, i.e. we both value generosity, people stop and talk to you on the street both in the South of the US and Northern England, we are more laid back, etc) whereas in the South of England, they are seen as far wealthier and 'cultured' or 'cosmopolitan'.
Basically, the further from London you live, the less advantaged and funded you will be, as London only cares about it's fucking self, this goes for the southern counties further out from London too but the difference is the North's past wealth was lost with all the industry it once had, and things have been pretty shit ever since the 80's, economically speaking.
Daniel was saying about, all he heard was British and that's it.
It's no different for us too, When we hear American Accent but it's been able to point out what part of the different dialects you hear in the British Accent.
I can hear a Californian Accent, I Can hear a Texas Accent, I can hear a NY accent and a Boston.
It's all American to me but just pick up the different dialects.
The amazing part of the UK, is how many different Dialects there are to such a small island Compared to America.
This guy was so interesting! I’m sure this isn’t an easy topic for Americans to get their head around but you did great, I liked hearing about American accents too and the comparison.
A very funny accent clip is from the Graham Norton show, with Jimmy Carr teaching how to speak scouse. Check it out
I'm from Sussex and I guess I speak with a contemporary RP accent with a hint of cockney/MLE. Actually a really good vid to pick, lots of vids about British accents seem to invent an accent that isn't spoken anywhere other than that vid. Think this guy was pretty knowledgable.
It's not surprising you struggled. These clips were very short. It takes time to learn all the nuances. I'm British and lived here all my life (40 years) and travelled across most of the country, and if you played me all those clips and asked me to guess the accent, I don't think i'd get them all right. I'd maybe get 80% of them, but a few are quite hard to distinguish. The fact is, the UK is so old, people had 1000s of years to develop accents when long distance travel was very slow and difficult, but in the U.S. trains and cars existed not long after people settled there, so I guess the accents spread quickly.
The Bristol accent, like birrrrd, is how Ricky gervais and Stephen merchant speak!
Proud Yorkshire lass here :) I love your videos
If you want to hear a gentle version of an East Midlands ( the "shires" Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Northamptonshire) accent, Sir David Attenborough is a good example . He lived in Leicestershire with his brother Sir Richard Attenborough up until their early teens.
My dads from London and my mums from Kent. I moved to a different part of Kent and have been told I talk differently when I'm with them, and talk more 'proper' at home. There is only 40 miles between us but the accent is different, and the locals recognise that.
That's because many Kentish people including me have family who came from London. It's a subtle difference that only locals will notice.
Kudos for sticking with it guys. Can't recall if you have reviewed Jimmy Carr doing accents, its hilarious 🍻
If you think of Mickey Flanagan's accent, that's Southern. Then you get to the Gallagher brothers in Manchester. Listen to Chris Ramsey the comedian for the Geordie. That's 3 very different accents, working your way from South to North. I'm from North Yorkshire but very close to County Durham. My accent is Yorkshire mixed with the North East Geordie. Not as harsh as both of them but you can definitely tell I have a north East accent. I moved 20 minutes up the road to a different county, from Yorkshire to County Durham and I sound very different to everyone else here 😂 If you watch GoT they kept the "normal" British accent in Kings Landing then when you go up to Winterfell it's the Yorkshire accent. They basically kept the North Vs South accent in Westeros 😂
Robbie Coltrane aka Hagrid was actually a great Scottish actor/comedian. I don't know if you're aware but he passed away within the last couple of weeks. A sad loss. RIP Robbie 🙏
I'm from Leeds and live in South Wales, my partner is from Cornwall but has a more generic Southern accent so is much easier to understand than I am. Usually if we're around people who aren't used to how I speak, she'll translate what I'm saying. Even when I try and speak more clearly, I have a deep voice that does muffle it a bit. All a bit amusing to me, but there are times it can be frustrating. Sometimes even my partner can't understand what I'm saying 😂
I am Swedish but can pin point accents in UK and Ireland from town to town, or at least area, since I was a kid, but Sweden also have so many different type of dialects and accents, that also differs from town to town, and sometimes even village to village, so maybe it comes from being use to it from my own native language.
And they never even covered North Wales, Birmingham, Nottingham, Norfolk, Bristol, they all have their own accents
BTW Ozzie Osbourne is a Brummy. I am a Welsh girl living in Nottingham. A well known greeting here is "Hey up me duck", the "0" pronounced more like "OO" x x
Great video :-) I'll be honest alot of those accents were mild. Full on Scouse or Georidie is much harder to understand (as a southerner!) and thats not including the different local vocabulary.
For a strong Glaswegian accent try the comedy TV program Rab C Nesbit, its hilarious, but you wont understand it!
When Americans try to do a British accent they do a weird combination of RP and cockney
We need to remember that the different English accents developed over many hundreds of years, and those people didn't travel. So they kept to same area, probably living and dying in the same village and speaking their own unique accents.
However, rhotic "R" speakers from the West country of England and Ireland emigrated to America and merged into the general American accent. But they travelled all over America looking for new opportunities (pioneers) and could even claim land as their own without needing to pay for it. So they carried the same accent all over America making it more or less the same.
Saying that, after about 300 years differences did develop.
Have you guys ever checked out horrible histories, it's on the kids channel here, but it's definitely for adults to, and the outtakes are so much fun 😄😄😃. I have gone to watch this video so many times and keep getting sidetracked, so thank you 😃👍👍👍⭐️.
Love this! But I agree with other comments that these accents are watered down. I’ve just recently watched a video on here where an English couple got their American followers to send in audio of them saying a particular phrase and they had to guess which state they were from. It would be interesting to see if you could guess where us Brits are from by doing the same, you’ll get some strong accents I reckon!
if you listen to old devonian (from devon) even english people wont understand it. as for geordies, im from london, and understand them fine. but some are really broad. and i often had to ask them to repeat themselves.
Fair play to both of you for getting stuck into a topic like this. It can be bewildering for non British people. Not the easiest to grasp for Americans but thanks to previous videos you've got a basic grasp of it.
I'm reminded of a comment by the dialogue coach for 'The Crown' who advised the actors playing the Royal Family (and, in my experience, very mannered toffs) when saying 'yes' to pronounce it 'ears'. You catch King Charles saying it that way from time to time. So incredibly funny. Try it sometime. Robert, UK.
Air, hair lair there! Welcome to Sandhoyst!
@@willrichardson519 ....Good one. Robert.
I love all the accents, I find Yorkshire the warmest 🤗.
Proud Bristolian here. Our accent sounds like a pirate/farmer. 😂
Arrrrrgh
I’m from a town not far from Manchester City Centre and whenever I visit the US people often mistake my accent for Australian which always surprises me 🫤
I’m from the Notts / Lincs border and I get the same - we do share some pronunciation features but I think ultimately because Anericans are so used to RP being *the* English accent, anything that doesn’t fit into that they mentally file as ‘Australian’
One Uber driver in the US (Indiana) thought I was Canadian… god knows how
I've got a broad Brummie accent and I've been asked if I'm from Australia when I was in the USA, I was also told to speak English by a New York cop, cheeky swine was lucky he had a gun.
Yep I've had this too from Americans despite being pure London cockney. Bizarre but funny!
I thought you were gonna say how can ya get so many accents in something the size of a pea. 😆
I moved to Newcastle for 6 years as a none native English speaker and it took me about a year to get comfortable with the accent...after 6 years I was still unable to understand anyone drunk or over 65
By using TV personalities you haven't heard the strongest accents from each region. The Edinburgh accent can be stronger yet more well spoken than thev example. One other interesting fact is the scouse accent is also influenced by dutch and russian sailors. If you listen to a dutch person speaking english you can pick out the influence.
Love how you said BirmingHAM. Always makes me think of meat when Americans pronounce UK cities that you also have in the US in your way. We'd pronounce it Birming-m.
The comedian Russell Kane does a good bit on Northern girlfriends where he highlights accent differences in a way I think you’d appreciate and find funny
Gemma Collins saying Essex girls are smart... now that is pure comedy
Don't forget the brilliant Sarah Millican for the Newcastle surrounding areas 👌💜
As a Scot (Ayrshire, not Glaswegian accent), I had to giggle at your reaction when he mentioned the Scottish accents.
I'm English and I struggle to understand a few of the accents! Scottish/Scouse/Jordy...
I like how you really 'got' how diverse accents are here and why asking someone to "do a British accent" (expecting the Queen's English), may get a response of "which one?" or "where do you want me to start?"
If you want to hear Geordie, Midlands, Scouse, Bristol and Cockney dip into a tv series called Auf Wiedersehen Pet. It’s a comedy/drama about builders who are in Germany to earn a living. It’s a funny series that ran for quite a few years. Jimmy Nail (Crocodile Shoes singer) is in it. Also has Timothy Spall, renowned actor, marvellously playing Boring Barry from Wolverhampton. Seriously, give it a look and listen. 7 main characters with 5 different accents.
He’s right, you would hardly hear day to day someone speaking ‘posh’ English in England
I like hearing the cockney accents in MINDER (Arthur Daley, main character) from the late 70's and 80's - He explained in one interview that half the cockney rhyming slang used in the show was made up just for the show. There are now practically ALL the episodes available on TH-cam. It's keeping me busy catching up right from the start. I stopped liking it when they changed the minder character in much later series. The original minder played by Dennis Waterman, (who famously SINGS the feme tune! ... ref to LITTLE BRITAIN's regular impersonation of Dennis Waterman as a tiny person, who will only take acting jobs if he's allowed to "WRITE the feme tune - SING the feme tune!" It's hilarious seeing how they make him look tiny with huge cups, chairs, pens etc.)
Loved that!
I've lived all over England, so my accent is a bit messed up (a friend once said I have southern consonants and northern vowels). Where I first grew up I learnt two accents: one which is nearly incomprehensible to people not from the area, and RP. Like many who have to do a fair amount of public speaking, I tend to use a contemporary RP accent with others just to be understood clearly (although I do mode shift, as everyone does here to some degree). RP is a constructed accent, explicitly designed to be easy for everyone in the country to understand. It dates from the early days of radio (hence it also being called 'BBC English'), when the sound quality was poor and regional variations in accents were more pronounced. Because of its clarity and only the rich could afford to send children to boarding schools that would change their accent, it gained a strong association with wealth and power.
The US had an equivalent of RP btw, called the Mid-Atlantic Accent. It was taught to actors in the golden age of Hollywood for similar reasons to RP in the UK. To get the extra clarity, the Mid-Atlantic Accent uses more of the vowel set of RP (hence the accent's name). Standard American English 'only' has 16 vowels (this is a lot by most language's standards btw), but RP has well over 20. Separating out the vowels makes words more distinct when recorded by bad equipment.
Excellent effort for trying to understand the various British accents.- not easy 👍
Never thought I'd hear Gemma Collins and brightness in the same sentence...
I'm a Brummie, I'd say Alison Hammond has quite a mild accent, to hear a strong Brummie accent I'd recommend listening to Carl Chinn, he's a professor and expert on the history of Birmingham, he's done some excellent videos about the real Peaky Blinders.
She's probably poshed it up for telly!
I love Carl Chin he is so interesting, not from Brum but not far away out in the sticks
Me not Carl!
Nice episode guys. Very interesting. Thank you xx
We say "Baath" elongated 'a' in the West Country. So it isn't just a northern thing, which is what the commentator states.
I'm Welsh and there are at least 10+ accents just in Wales. Ellis James that was shown (comedian), has a West Walian accent, the cities each have a different accent, the valleys, East Wales, Mid Wales, the North (known as Gogs), and Pembrokeshire is also different (and a very strange accent) as there have been so many English immigrants that it is a combination of Welsh and Received Pronunciation.
Wow! I can only tell the difference between South and North Wales accents
As a South Walian I can 100% confirm that our accent is often refereed to as a sing songy voice. But here's the ironic thing. North Wales is alot more cultured and traditional in terms of celtic culture but the accents are alot more similar to English whereas South Wales is very anglesized yet the accents are alot more welsh
Interesting points! A lot of people can't do a South Welsh impression without drifting towards a borderline offensive Indian accent. That's funny to me, as someone who lives in a country where the language is, if anything, even more intrinsically melodic. 😂
The original video is interesting and the speaker knew his stuff. I’m not sure the examples of accents were very good though. They tended to be very mild accents. I think he relied on TV clips.There are better videos out there with better examples of UK accents out there.
Virtually all of the examples of accents, given in the video, were INCREDIBLY mild versions of these accents. It's probably because he mainly used celebrities, especially presenters and actors, who tend to tone down their accents. Also, people from the middle and upper classes, often have as much, or more, rp (received pronunciation) in their accent as they do the local dialect.
When you said "as long as people speak slowly" this may be why you have problems with Geordie as it is traditionally quite fast.
Guys, please please please look up the amazing Professor Stanley Unwin, a true genius of language much like Ronnie Barker but without a script.
The best way is to listen to someone speaking at length. Ozzy Osborn, Birmingham: Sam Fender Geordie: Gallagher Brothers Manchester: Judy Comer Scouse:
Best London artists in the rock field you should look out for are Steve Marriott, Ray Davies and Paul Weller. They are old school Thad some great tunes. Steve Marriott (RIP) does Five Long Years a killer blues live, it’s on TH-cam.
Great video guys. The one issue I have with the video that you watched is when he talked about 'The Essex Accent'. I've lived in Essex all my life (in my fifties now) and I don't know anyone who speaks like that. Essex is a large county with many accents, and most of the native accents are very rural, many sounding like farmers/country folk. The accent he was talking about is one that is mainly used in areas close to London where people have migrated from the East End, so it's really a hybrid accent and not a native Essex accent. His ignorance is based on a program called 'The Only Way Is Essex' which features people with this accent. It's a bit like assuming that the whole of England has the same accent, because you've only heard one group of people speaking.
West Country accents are apparently what gave birth to the American accent! (from what I've heard). That's why some of the secluded communities such as the Appalachians and those from Tangier Island VA (and others) still sound like that. Can you hear a bit of your southern rhotic "r" in there?
There's some good footage on YT of these accents. One's called " The Americans Who Still Speak with Regional English Accents", or just type "Tangier accent" or "Smith Island accent". Interesting stuff.
Edit: Ok I see you mention that you heard the similarity now 😄
Blend in rhotic Irish and Scottish english too I think.
Anglohpenia produced a similar video but was less linguistic and more humorous which may have been an easier video to watch.
I was in the US doing some training with your fine troops and on my RnR, I took a road trip to Dallas from Louisiana. Stopped at a random shop in the middle of nowhere and tried for 5 mins to convince the shop owner I was actually English. Not a clue where she thought I was from, but I can only guess that the fact I didn't sound like Hugh Grant threw her off.
Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) was Scottish, but you wouldn't know it from potter. A very talented actor clearly if his fake accent is being used as an example, sadly died earlier this year. Cracker was a great show in its day.
When I moved from north bristol to south bristol… 10 miles away. No one here could understand me.. sometimes they still don’t.. it’s only a few miles but my dialect is completely different.
It's always overlooked that the Merseyside accent has a very strong similarity to North Wales given their close geographic proximity - Nerys Hughes summed it up when she said she speaks Welsh with a Scouse accent.
To my ears, the presenter of that video's accent has more than a passing influence of what he calls an MLE accent rather than an RP accent. Some of the examples he used aren't the best as their accents aren't as strong as they could be as they've been softened with both time and the media.
None of the accents presented here are really typical. They are dumbed down for mass viewing. These guys need to come over here and travel around to meet real people.