Um, London alone has more than 17 accents, depending on which area you were raised in. There is a very well-known Essex accent as well, which she missed. In Scotland, there are a lot of accents and they can vary according to the native language spoken in the area, i.e. Scots or Gaelic which have an affect. Orcadians and Shetlanders have a very different accent indeed but I wonder if that is the Norwegian (and Viking) influence. My favourite accent in England is a Geordie (from Newcastle). In Gaelic, my favourite accent is the one from North Lewis.
There's a lot more than just 17 British accents, Ryan - that's just some of the main ones... She has left out Orcadian, Shetlandic, Hebridean, Doric, Dundonian, West Fife, Falkirk and South-western Scots from Scotland alone - and isn't terribly good at all of the others, either! Basically, anywhere that large numbers of people regularly gather - such as a large factory, a coalmine or even a large school; develops it's own accent or dialect over time; and although those less familiar with the accents of different areas might group them all together as one, people who live and work in one of the South Wales Valleys, for example, will often claim to be able to tell the difference between one of their own peers - and that from a different valley in South Wales!
@@herrbonk3635 It's because the toff version of RP is going out of style, hopefully permanently. As something you have to learn rather than being a natural regional accent, it's now looked down upon by most UK residents as being too connected with the old elitist class-system. The BBC itself has converted to presenters who either have neutral or soft RP, to a lot who now talk in soft regional accents.
@@Dinvan It's actually every 15 to 20 miles that the accents shift. In the West Country alone there are many variations. Someone from West Dorset sounds different to someone in East Devon. Someone from East Devon sounds different to someone from South Devon. Someone from South Somerset sounds different to someone from Bristol etc. etc.
There's plenty more distinguishable accents than that. Just in the Rep. of Ireland there's 4 or 5 noticeably different accents, likewise the N.E. of England, and the Scottish Islands. There are some areas where you only need travel 20 miles and the accent is entirely different.
There are 40, distinct regional English dialects in the UK, plus dozens of smaller variations. This is in addition to minority accents, such as Caribbean, inner city, South Asian. Plus there are five or six different regional accents in Welsh, plus Scots and Scottish Gaelic.
Just like the other accents weren't spoken by minorities... :) And often much smaller too, than the so called "minorities". Locally as well as globally.
There's 41 accents altogether I believe....but because this lady speaks RP, received pronunciation, she is able to pull off the accents whilst still clearly pronouncing the words. The reality is VERY DIFFERENT HOWEVER! I'm English born, bred and live, (born in West Sussex, now live in East Sussex) to proper Cockney parents. (East End of London) My friend lives up near Wolverhampton, and when her family hear me on the phone, they say "is that your Cockney mate?" You could assume my accent is influenced by my parents, but actually, if you're from here, you can hear my accent is clearly from Sussex and not Cockney. The South East and South Central areas of England's accents, are all very similar when heard by non natives - and actually *ARE* similar to a degree, but there are subtle differences between the counties, particularly Essex, which has it's own unique variation. Definitely it's the quarter chunk of England where accents are generally very close to each other. The South West becomes definitely more "country farmer" type of sound, and anything above the whole South half of England is a free-for-all! The Northern half of England is where even us Southerners start to struggle with understanding what's being said. Luckily my friend speaks very clearly, so she's easy for me to understand. She speaks the West Midlands accent, (specifically Black Country) the same way that this lady demonstrated - same accent / clear pronunciation.... HOWEVER, if any of my friend's family speak to me, or call out something for her to tell me, my brain turns into overcooked spaghetti! I literally need a translator! I get embarrassed saying repeatedly, "say that again...?" Or "what did you say...?" Then they tend to yell it at me as if I'm deaf! I can HEAR it just fine, I just can't unravel the accent! And to be fair, the West Midlands area doesn't even have the most difficult accents to understand. I went out with a Scouser years ago, (Liverpool) and it took my Mum 6 months before she understood a paragraph he said all the way through! 😂 I find it much easier when talking face-to-face with someone from "oop North" because at least then I can see their facial expression and body language to help me figure out what they said. I find Geordie (Newcastle) is especially difficult, and I struggle to make sense of most Scottish or Irish speakers, generally because they tend to have very over-emphasised ways of speaking. She mentioned Billy Connolly as a Glaswegian accent, but I find his voice is very softly spoken, and hear pretty much every word he says clearly. I had a neighbour from Glasgow however, and he has a much harsher, louder voice, so he may as well have been speaking a foreign language, for how little I understood! Most tourists TEND to head to London, particularly first time visitors, and if they venture further out than that, it's generally an hour or two outside of London only, where they'll find similar sounding accents. Like my parents did, and my Aunts and Uncles, who were all born in London, they all moved out of the city as it became too expensive to raise their own families there. Hence the South East in general, has a lot of people who originated, or their parents did, from London, so that's why our accents down here are very similar. We've mostly sprawled out of the Capital into Sussex, Kent, Essex etc. You have to remember, we've been invaded by Vikings, Saxons, Romans, French etc.... England's official language was French for around 400 years at one point! (Roughly between 1000AD - 1400AD ish) and English itself is originally Germanic and replaced what was spoken by earlier Britons before the Saxons arrived. A lot of our words are Danish, wider Scandinavian, French, Germanic etc, and mixed in with Shelta, Pictish, Scots, Celtic and tons of other languages from older tribes.
I have to agree with you having grown up in Birmingham with Irish parent my accent was considered Irish or a mild Brummie. However the first time I met my sister-in-law who is from West Bromwich 5 miles away I swear that I needed a translator. I remember many years after living in Oz after getting out of a Black Cab in London my then twenty year old Australian daughter turned to me and asked “What language was that cab driver speaking?” When I stopped laughing I responded “Cockney” and received another blank look, my wife’s came back with “Yes and he was laying it on a bit thick!” Just a few years prior to that I virtually had to translates for my wife once we were visiting the town of Bath and subsequently in Scotland. I can therefore understand why people from outside the UK find accents very difficult and why there are so many different accents and ways to pronounce the same thing. NSW in Oz
Here in Yorkshire there are 4 regionally distinctive accents(North, South, East and West) each of which compromises dozens of more localised ones centred around specific cities, town or areas, even some of these more localised accents can have even more local variants within them, e.g. people from one side of a town can have a sightly different accent to people from the opposite side of town, or from one village to the next village barely a mile down the road, although they may sound pretty much the same to the untrained ear, local residents can tell the difference.
There are more than 17 accents in this country. I have a westcountry accent as I am from Devon. Though there tends to be a misconception that we are all stupid. Especially if you are from the rural areas.
She wasn't bad , and they were recognisable accents but in the actual places they can be much stronger , there are also many others changing slightly every few miles . Add to that many different common expressions used in different parts of the Country and it can get confusing . In the old days everyone had a " Telephone voice" where you tried to speak more clearly . With the coming of mobiles no one bothers which probably explains why foreign call centres and robots are so frustrating .
But TBH, although most non-Welsh may be able to distinguish a North Wales versus South Wales accent, the Welsh themselves can recognise many more (historically valley to valley or even village to village). That also applies to Scotland, Ireland and England... 🤔
@@argumentativelysound2001 I do hope you realise I wasn't 'having a go' at YOUR comment 😀, far from it... I was hoping to point out that in the UK we have so many MORE accents than mentioned. Obviously, most are a lot more subtle to 'locals'. Anglophenia is only giving some of the more noticable changes i.e. the difference between Brummie and Scouse. But then the Scouse has very soft or very hard (and with everything in between). 😂
@@stewedfishproductions7959 No, don't worry, I got it. I've heard that in London, every neighborhood has its own accent. Probably exaggeration but not without some base under it. Fun stuff. ✌
@@argumentativelysound2001 I have lived in London for 40 years, but was born and grew up on the Wirral (and still go back at least twice a year). But I have also traveled ALL OVER the UK and Ireland (the Republic, as well as Northern). Along with Wales, Scotland and many islands. Not many people (even in the UK), know that the British Isles consists of OVER 600 islands, of which, 188 are inhabited !!! Always 'Pub Quiz' favourites... to be asked about the British Isles. An EASY question (for people who do any quizzes, just KNOW): Name the SIX largest islands (land mass, largest first) that make up the British Isles... I have listed the first 12 in order for fun... I BET you cannot answer it!? If you can, you are a quizzer, a geography teacher or a sad bastard with nothing better to do (like me - LOL). Answer below - NO CHEATING !!! 12 Largest Islands in the British Isles ------------------------------------------------------------------- #1 Great Britain #2 Ireland #3 Lewis & Harris (one island, 2 parts) #4 Isle of Skye #5 Shetland (mainland) #6 Isle of Mull #7 Anglesey (inc. Holy Island) #8 Islay #9 Isle of Man #10 Orkney (mainland) #11 Isle of Arran #12 Isle of Wight FYI: #3 Is the one that usually 'catches' people. because it has a double name (but is single island !!!)
Absolutely. I just made (or tried to make?) a similar comment. I'm from the Wirral and you can 'tell' the area where someone 'comes from' (or you find out they grew up but moved, say from Birkenhead to Ellesmere Port etc.) LOL
Many accents have now gone or been "swamped" by city overspills etc......? When I was born in late nineteen fifties Hertfordshire many of the locals spoke with something like a soft East Anglian or Fenland Accent similar to rural Essex. Seems to have all but gone now in both? Although I now live near the Cambridgeshire Fens and some of it has come back!
I maintain that Americans know a lot more British accents than they claim, because just like your Ozzy assumption, you mostly know the odd person from each accent so you dont know the accent from the persons own voice.
Hey I know I'm not in Estonia but I am a native Canadian. I am also an English teacher. I teach my students Canadian English because of the emphasis on vowels. It is easiest to hear and easiest to learn. But we too have many different accents. I was born in Saskatchewan and moved to Alberta. My husband is from Alberta. He and I have different accents, so different that if I spend a lot of time speaking with my brother or sister, he can barely understand. For many years I was a political strategist, teaching politicians how to speak and one of the things I did with them was work on their vowel pronunciation so they could more readily relate to their audiences. I thought it would be fun to attach this video for you to look at to show just how different the Canadian Accents are. th-cam.com/video/8YTGeIq4pSI/w-d-xo.html Also, you should know there are no less that 13 accents in The United States and arguably more.
Theres more than 17 accents within 10 miles of where i live in northern ireland haha nevermind the republic. Her 'northern irish' accent was way off the way she said cow is so english. We say words like cow and now and stuff really weird you cant even explain it in text. Now is more like nigh if that makes sense haha theres no wide O, Ow sound its more narrow. High nigh brayun couyay not 'how now brown cow'
@@auldfouter8661yep. Dropping vowels left right and centre. The other one is eight becoming ate. Had to reel off a serial number once and the girl couldn’t understand me.
Why do most Americans on here, insist on saying "Scouzer"? It does not have a Z (zed not zee) in it. "Scowsir" would be more accurate. Or try "Scouse~err".
Where i was brought up in surrey, south of london there were at least 3 accents in the same area: RP for the better off residents, 'estuary english' version of the cockney accent, and a rural accent a bit like a softer version of the Norfolk accent that i think has died out but you will possibly still hear it in rural parts of Sussex these days?
Ewan McGregor is anything but snooty!! He’s so very down to earth and often uses Received Pronunciation instead of his natural Scottish accent. There are more than a hundred accents in the UK, because it changes every few miles! Watch this comedian demonstrate from west to east in England: th-cam.com/video/lzymb0YJp7E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VhRkQVDIbhTbwTkJ
Ewan McGregor is actually from Perthshire which is a bit north of Edinburgh but he went to Crieff Academy so probably is a bit posh in his accent. As per usual the great 150 mile sweep of southern Scotland from Stranraer to Berwickshire is ignored and there are at least three very distinct accents there. The most obscure is the Galloway Irish one found in Wigtownshire which sounds remarkably Irish for the Scottish mainland. Dumfriesshire has the Sooth Country accent and the Borders accent in the east is unlike the central belt. Even Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire are distinct from Glasgow.
I live in Liverpool (not born here) and you do hear commonly a stronger scouse accent that I struggle to understand sometimes! And there are subtle variations across the city. You also get a softer posh scouse accent spoken by people like George Melly, though not common these days so much?
I'm in London but grew up and still go 'home' to the Wirral. If you traveled from Chester, Ellesmere Port, Eastham (where I come from), Bebington, Birkenhead (through the Mersey Tunnel) to Liverpool... You would HEAR so many different 'Merseyside accents. With lots of different 'twangs' of Welsh, Irish, Cheshire, Liverpool and Birkenhead - some 'posh' and some very 'strong'. But everyone understands each other and you can often 'tell' what area they are from... 😎
She missed the East Midlands accent. But even in the East Midlands, there is a distinct Nottingham, Newark, Mansfield, Leicester, Northampton , kettering accent... that's working out at one different accent per town. It's pretty much like that across the whole country.
you can get different accents in the same town, never mind the whole country. It's weird how Americans cant really hear the difference in the accents, yet to most Brits they're easily distinguishable. That doesn't mean we always understand what people are saying to us though, but we usually know where that person is from. Personally I love all the different accents and hope that we never lose them
And your native language is English. Then you can imagine how people who come from another country feel. You may be able to have a good conversation with people who speak standard English, but if the person have a strong accent, you won't understand anything. I find Birmingham difficult as a German, but when I see English-language videos of Scots, I sometimes need English subtitles. I feel the same way about Doctor Who, without the English subtitles I wouldn't understand partly half of what is spoken.
It's a bit silly to say there are X or Y number of accents. Accent boundaries don't have neat edges, they exist on a continuum like colours on a spectrum. How many you count depends on how fine you want to divide up the range.
Lol. There's dozens and dozens of accents in the UK. When I first moved into the house I live in now my neighbour heard my partner speak and said to her "your not originally from around here". My partner replied with the town she was born and grew up. It's less than 30 miles down the road from our house. That is how much an accent changes in just a few miles.
There are way more than 17 British accents ! These are just the basic , well known ones. SCOUSE is pronounced scouSe not scouZe. GEORDIE is pronounced georDie not georJie.
Love Brummie accent, my family, both side are from Bromsgrove not far from Birmingham. I couldn’t hear my mums, dads or my sisters English accent but all other Aussies could. Their accent was like Mrs Buckets.
How can there be more??? There are a LOT more, she just covered the classics. Just my own original accent (from Grimsby) is different, an accent that tries to mess up everyword it can. So many messed up words, eg: "Scartho" should be Scar-Tho but becomes Skah-Tha and "Cartoon" becomes Kar-ooon. I got rid of that accent when I moved down south as people had some trouble understanding me.
Hi Ryan. Did you notice - it's not only the accents that she uses, it's also the actual words and the manner of speaking that she uses, which are different in each region.?
There's a shift in accents every 15 to 20 miles that you travel in all directions in the UK. Here's one example of West Country. th-cam.com/video/ahznvtDunEw/w-d-xo.html The woman is talking in soft RP, whilst the bloke is talking in a very broad West Country. I believe it's Devon, because "Alright me luver" is something they say in Devon, but not where I grew up in Dorset. See, even the lingo radically changes in different parts of the country as well as the accents.
Cities can have slightly different accents. Rural/urban accents can be quite different, so when cities expanded and engulfed a rural town/village, it mixed it up. Lot of socioeconomic differences between areas too. Her accents are ok, not great.
Live in Cheshire and the accent around where I live is different from the Manchester accent though it is only a few miles away. I lived in Florida and those born there have a different accent. I can tell if they are bred Floridians by the way they say book or look, the way I can tell if you are Canadian vs American by the way you pronounce any word with, 'out', in it.
Just came home from Newcastle. Britain sure is full of accents, I could barely understand the locals! Well I did, but not without frequent "Whats that?"
Sorry but London has a lot of different accents as does Britain . I like your video usually but the video they are showing is insulting and I hate that people think this is how people speak in England. Aground thumbs down
Aye aye Ryan min phit like the day loon I nae bad min phit aboot yer sel weather's been well fine here in Aberdeen North East Scotland Inc Doric which can be spoken here in North East Scotland aye Ryan many many uk accents cheers 🍻
Before mass transit, new accents would pop up every few years. It's just what humans do. Younger nations with their trains and TV and other such things meant new accents became increasingly rare.
She was totally wrong about christopher eccleston he wasn't born in Preston he was born in salford greater manchester my one claim to fame I went to school with him and his twin brothers keith and Alan lol
That video is out of date, when checking the last video published was made 7 years ago, the same person has links to other sites and doesn't appear to have used the internet in a real long time.
0:35 If you wanted to hear a variety of British accents bc you're interested in languages or wanted to place an accent or sth, this was one of 2 or 3 videos offering that on all of TH-cam, at the time. So it might be a niche thing to wonder about but the video cornered the market, so to speak.
For Our Information there are apparently 3x linguistically identified & registered classifications of accents in Australia.a/Broad b/General c/Cultivated which one would agree has more to do with socio-economical &/or/educational levels more than location? So i say BS!😂 How many geographically, abso-f-ing-lootely "strayt arp" identifiable Australian accents can "yooze gyze" 😉😅..list here?
It's not everything we've got :) Just in my area (East Midlands) we have about 11 accents. And I know for sure, that it's 5-6 different distinguishable accents around Birmingham. Who knows how much in total is in the UK :)
The village i grew up in Scotland had it's own accsent and the village 3 miles away had a different accsent, it's something i never thought about until seeing all the vids about them on youtube.
As well as accents which there are more than this, there are also multiple languages in the UK, and also local word variations and local slang. Most of us can understand a lot of it because we hear the different accents frequently either on TV or IRL
The thing about British accents is the scale they range over. My family comes from Wigan, 15 miles from Liverpool - totally different and very distinctive accents. 10 miles away is Bolton - and its a different accent than Wigan. 20 miles away is Manchester - with its own accent. I do think they are merging more with technology and travel, but for my parents generation they swear they could tell what part of Wigan somebody came from!
It is true. I have stated before that the New England accents sound similar to the Mancunian (Manchester accent - people from Manchester are called Mancunians) one.
It is a bit bland though?..........................................................As I say to my mates from Sutton-in-Ashfield and Derby! One thing that did surprise me was, my son went to Staffordshire University, and his landlord in Stafford, also a farmer, had this sort of strong rural twang to his East Midlands accent? Never come across that one before?
@@johnp8131 I don't know, even the east has a huge difference throughout the county. Derbyshire and Leicestershire and, Nottinghamshire all have a slightly northern rounded accent but still have some crossover to Warwickshire. Any of the Shane meadow's movies show just how strong the accents can be. I quite like it, but then I also like Brummie accents so.. I probably have the shittest taste hahaha
@@kdog4587 Know what you mean as, if I tell my mate from Sutton-in-Ashfield, that his accent sounds like a Leicester one, he goes spare! Heard most accents around the Midlands area as my other son went to De Montfort Uni' and I did my apprenticeship at Cosford back in the seventies. I live in Cambridgeshire these days, however Warwickshire is less than half an hour away along the A14, now there's a difference in accents, don't you think?
As an Aussie, the range of British accents intrigues me. They have so many different accents in such a small geographical area, while we have a relatively uniform accent across a huge geographical area. I like the Scouse & Geordie accents the best. I can also hear a bit of our own accent in the way Brummies pronounce words like stay, play, know and go.
Yep, I've lived and worked in London, there are probably 17 accents just in London. I worked in Kent. That was different to the East End, with a different cockney accent. But there was, within, a Bromley accent. like on Monty Python, the Bromley Train Station, "Hello, I'm an accountant, Hello, I'm an accountant, hello...and so on". But out to Chatham and the Isle of Sheppy, which is an Isle of inbred 3rd generation heroin users, and after so many social problems, their language depends on their genetic disability. Yes, this Island does exist, it is a real problem, one that the UK doesn't want you to know about. Moving in, South London, You have Brixton, the accent that has been affected by the Carribean population. There are London Jamaican accents, yes this is the real "Electric Avenue", it's in Brixton, and its wall to wall gunge man. Just don't call a man "Botty boy"! They might kill you. Nah, probably not, they'd probably laugh. London is a country of it's own, obviously, London, along with Scotland did NOT want to leave the EU. So people there are much more progressive than the rest of England. And the Scottish are generally smarter as Scotland has a better education system than England. If you don't agree, ask someone fron Scotland.
The accents change every 5 miles along the East Coast. Chelsea ≠ Cockney ≠ Estuary ≠ West Essex ≠ Suffolk. East Yorkshire is curled and thas lurds of snur tha knurs.
The Northern Ireland accent and in particular the Belfast one is one of the hardest accents to mimic. I know of only a handful of impressionists who can successfully carry it off. And you’re right. She was dire. Even the Dub one was poor.
Um, London alone has more than 17 accents, depending on which area you were raised in. There is a very well-known Essex accent as well, which she missed. In Scotland, there are a lot of accents and they can vary according to the native language spoken in the area, i.e. Scots or Gaelic which have an affect. Orcadians and Shetlanders have a very different accent indeed but I wonder if that is the Norwegian (and Viking) influence.
My favourite accent in England is a Geordie (from Newcastle). In Gaelic, my favourite accent is the one from North Lewis.
There's a lot more than just 17 British accents, Ryan - that's just some of the main ones... She has left out Orcadian, Shetlandic, Hebridean, Doric, Dundonian, West Fife, Falkirk and South-western Scots from Scotland alone - and isn't terribly good at all of the others, either! Basically, anywhere that large numbers of people regularly gather - such as a large factory, a coalmine or even a large school; develops it's own accent or dialect over time; and although those less familiar with the accents of different areas might group them all together as one, people who live and work in one of the South Wales Valleys, for example, will often claim to be able to tell the difference between one of their own peers - and that from a different valley in South Wales!
Rule of thumb in the UK, drive for 10 mins in any directions and you'll hear a different accent.
So true .👌
But why doesn't her "RP" sound like RP?
It almost never does nowadays, at least not in an old outsider's ears.
@@herrbonk3635 It's because the toff version of RP is going out of style, hopefully permanently. As something you have to learn rather than being a natural regional accent, it's now looked down upon by most UK residents as being too connected with the old elitist class-system. The BBC itself has converted to presenters who either have neutral or soft RP, to a lot who now talk in soft regional accents.
@@Dinvan It's actually every 15 to 20 miles that the accents shift. In the West Country alone there are many variations. Someone from West Dorset sounds different to someone in East Devon. Someone from East Devon sounds different to someone from South Devon. Someone from South Somerset sounds different to someone from Bristol etc. etc.
17 😂😂😂 the official amount of accents in the UK is 40! 😉
And that's only the OFFICIAL total 🎩
There's no official total
20 accents in Dublin
There are hundreds.
There's plenty more distinguishable accents than that. Just in the Rep. of Ireland there's 4 or 5 noticeably different accents, likewise the N.E. of England, and the Scottish Islands. There are some areas where you only need travel 20 miles and the accent is entirely different.
There are 40, distinct regional English dialects in the UK, plus dozens of smaller variations. This is in addition to minority accents, such as Caribbean, inner city, South Asian. Plus there are five or six different regional accents in Welsh, plus Scots and Scottish Gaelic.
Just like the other accents weren't spoken by minorities... :) And often much smaller too, than the so called "minorities". Locally as well as globally.
There's 41 accents altogether I believe....but because this lady speaks RP, received pronunciation, she is able to pull off the accents whilst still clearly pronouncing the words.
The reality is VERY DIFFERENT HOWEVER!
I'm English born, bred and live, (born in West Sussex, now live in East Sussex) to proper Cockney parents. (East End of London)
My friend lives up near Wolverhampton, and when her family hear me on the phone, they say "is that your Cockney mate?"
You could assume my accent is influenced by my parents, but actually, if you're from here, you can hear my accent is clearly from Sussex and not Cockney.
The South East and South Central areas of England's accents, are all very similar when heard by non natives - and actually *ARE* similar to a degree, but there are subtle differences between the counties, particularly Essex, which has it's own unique variation. Definitely it's the quarter chunk of England where accents are generally very close to each other.
The South West becomes definitely more "country farmer" type of sound, and anything above the whole South half of England is a free-for-all! The Northern half of England is where even us Southerners start to struggle with understanding what's being said.
Luckily my friend speaks very clearly, so she's easy for me to understand. She speaks the West Midlands accent, (specifically Black Country) the same way that this lady demonstrated - same accent / clear pronunciation....
HOWEVER, if any of my friend's family speak to me, or call out something for her to tell me, my brain turns into overcooked spaghetti! I literally need a translator! I get embarrassed saying repeatedly, "say that again...?" Or "what did you say...?" Then they tend to yell it at me as if I'm deaf! I can HEAR it just fine, I just can't unravel the accent!
And to be fair, the West Midlands area doesn't even have the most difficult accents to understand. I went out with a Scouser years ago, (Liverpool) and it took my Mum 6 months before she understood a paragraph he said all the way through! 😂
I find it much easier when talking face-to-face with someone from "oop North" because at least then I can see their facial expression and body language to help me figure out what they said.
I find Geordie (Newcastle) is especially difficult, and I struggle to make sense of most Scottish or Irish speakers, generally because they tend to have very over-emphasised ways of speaking. She mentioned Billy Connolly as a Glaswegian accent, but I find his voice is very softly spoken, and hear pretty much every word he says clearly. I had a neighbour from Glasgow however, and he has a much harsher, louder voice, so he may as well have been speaking a foreign language, for how little I understood!
Most tourists TEND to head to London, particularly first time visitors, and if they venture further out than that, it's generally an hour or two outside of London only, where they'll find similar sounding accents. Like my parents did, and my Aunts and Uncles, who were all born in London, they all moved out of the city as it became too expensive to raise their own families there.
Hence the South East in general, has a lot of people who originated, or their parents did, from London, so that's why our accents down here are very similar. We've mostly sprawled out of the Capital into Sussex, Kent, Essex etc.
You have to remember, we've been invaded by Vikings, Saxons, Romans, French etc.... England's official language was French for around 400 years at one point! (Roughly between 1000AD - 1400AD ish) and English itself is originally Germanic and replaced what was spoken by earlier Britons before the Saxons arrived. A lot of our words are Danish, wider Scandinavian, French, Germanic etc, and mixed in with Shelta, Pictish, Scots, Celtic and tons of other languages from older tribes.
I have to agree with you having grown up in Birmingham with Irish parent my accent was considered Irish or a mild Brummie. However the first time I met my sister-in-law who is from West Bromwich 5 miles away I swear that I needed a translator.
I remember many years after living in Oz after getting out of a Black Cab in London my then twenty year old Australian daughter turned to me and asked “What language was that cab driver speaking?” When I stopped laughing I responded “Cockney” and received another blank look, my wife’s came back with “Yes and he was laying it on a bit thick!”
Just a few years prior to that I virtually had to translates for my wife once we were visiting the town of Bath and subsequently in Scotland. I can therefore understand why people from outside the UK find accents very difficult and why there are so many different accents and ways to pronounce the same thing. NSW in Oz
Here in Yorkshire there are 4 regionally distinctive accents(North, South, East and West) each of which compromises dozens of more localised ones centred around specific cities, town or areas, even some of these more localised accents can have even more local variants within them, e.g. people from one side of a town can have a sightly different accent to people from the opposite side of town, or from one village to the next village barely a mile down the road, although they may sound pretty much the same to the untrained ear, local residents can tell the difference.
Practically every old town has its accent. There are certain words I pronounce differently to my wife, who is only from 2 towns over.
There are more than 17 accents in this country. I have a westcountry accent as I am from Devon. Though there tends to be a misconception that we are all stupid. Especially if you are from the rural areas.
Which is very comparable to the same misconceptions about the southerners in America, and the apalachians.
I am from the Norfolk/Suffolk area we too apparently sound thick
What do you mean is there more? She didn’t even do half of them!
She wasn't bad , and they were recognisable accents but in the actual places they can be much stronger , there are also many others changing slightly every few miles . Add to that many different common expressions used in different parts of the Country and it can get confusing . In the old days everyone had a " Telephone voice" where you tried to speak more clearly . With the coming of mobiles no one bothers which probably explains why foreign call centres and robots are so frustrating .
The only good Scottish accent she done was the Edinburgh one but thats not how the average person from Edinburgh speaks.
I live in Sussex and we have at least 17 different accents just with Sussex. I know it's the same all over the country.
Aaaand there's also Welsh, which isn't an accent but an entire standalone language. UK is fantastic.
But TBH, although most non-Welsh may be able to distinguish a North Wales versus South Wales accent, the Welsh themselves can recognise many more (historically valley to valley or even village to village). That also applies to Scotland, Ireland and England... 🤔
@@stewedfishproductions7959 Of course Welsh also has its own accents, why wouldn't it.! I knew it couldn't be that simple... 😅
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I do hope you realise I wasn't 'having a go' at YOUR comment 😀, far from it... I was hoping to point out that in the UK we have so many MORE accents than mentioned. Obviously, most are a lot more subtle to 'locals'. Anglophenia is only giving some of the more noticable changes i.e. the difference between Brummie and Scouse. But then the Scouse has very soft or very hard (and with everything in between). 😂
@@stewedfishproductions7959 No, don't worry, I got it. I've heard that in London, every neighborhood has its own accent. Probably exaggeration but not without some base under it. Fun stuff. ✌
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I have lived in London for 40 years, but was born and grew up on the Wirral (and still go back at least twice a year). But I have also traveled ALL OVER the UK and Ireland (the Republic, as well as Northern). Along with Wales, Scotland and many islands. Not many people (even in the UK), know that the British Isles consists of OVER 600 islands, of which, 188 are inhabited !!! Always 'Pub Quiz' favourites... to be asked about the British Isles. An EASY question (for people who do any quizzes, just KNOW): Name the SIX largest islands (land mass, largest first) that make up the British Isles... I have listed the first 12 in order for fun...
I BET you cannot answer it!? If you can, you are a quizzer, a geography teacher or a sad bastard with nothing better to do (like me - LOL). Answer below - NO CHEATING !!!
12 Largest Islands in the British Isles
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#1 Great Britain
#2 Ireland
#3 Lewis & Harris (one island, 2 parts)
#4 Isle of Skye
#5 Shetland (mainland)
#6 Isle of Mull
#7 Anglesey (inc. Holy Island)
#8 Islay
#9 Isle of Man
#10 Orkney (mainland)
#11 Isle of Arran
#12 Isle of Wight
FYI:
#3 Is the one that usually 'catches' people.
because it has a double name (but is single
island !!!)
Norfolk , Essex, North Wales, Somerset, Glastonbury (in Somerset) , Cheltenham, Wirral , Chester. Some of those places have.more than one accent.
Absolutely. I just made (or tried to make?) a similar comment. I'm from the Wirral and you can 'tell' the area where someone 'comes from' (or you find out they grew up but moved, say from Birkenhead to Ellesmere Port etc.) LOL
Many accents have now gone or been "swamped" by city overspills etc......? When I was born in late nineteen fifties Hertfordshire many of the locals spoke with something like a soft East Anglian or Fenland Accent similar to rural Essex. Seems to have all but gone now in both? Although I now live near the Cambridgeshire Fens and some of it has come back!
I maintain that Americans know a lot more British accents than they claim, because just like your Ozzy assumption, you mostly know the odd person from each accent so you dont know the accent from the persons own voice.
Hey I know I'm not in Estonia but I am a native Canadian. I am also an English teacher. I teach my students Canadian English because of the emphasis on vowels. It is easiest to hear and easiest to learn. But we too have many different accents. I was born in Saskatchewan and moved to Alberta. My husband is from Alberta. He and I have different accents, so different that if I spend a lot of time speaking with my brother or sister, he can barely understand. For many years I was a political strategist, teaching politicians how to speak and one of the things I did with them was work on their vowel pronunciation so they could more readily relate to their audiences. I thought it would be fun to attach this video for you to look at to show just how different the Canadian Accents are. th-cam.com/video/8YTGeIq4pSI/w-d-xo.html Also, you should know there are no less that 13 accents in The United States and arguably more.
Theres more than 17 accents within 10 miles of where i live in northern ireland haha nevermind the republic. Her 'northern irish' accent was way off the way she said cow is so english. We say words like cow and now and stuff really weird you cant even explain it in text. Now is more like nigh if that makes sense haha theres no wide O, Ow sound its more narrow. High nigh brayun couyay not 'how now brown cow'
Hehe " an hour in the power shower ".
@@auldfouter8661yep. Dropping vowels left right and centre. The other one is eight becoming ate. Had to reel off a serial number once and the girl couldn’t understand me.
@@TheGiff7 What would she have made of aicht then?
She did so many of the accents wrong. It's not meant to be accurate.
Why do most Americans on here, insist on saying "Scouzer"? It does not have a Z (zed not zee) in it. "Scowsir" would be more accurate. Or try "Scouse~err".
As an American, I agree with you. I'd say it as scouse-er, just as I say friss-bee (there is no Z in frisbee). 😂
Where i was brought up in surrey, south of london there were at least 3 accents in the same area: RP for the better off residents, 'estuary english' version of the cockney accent, and a rural accent a bit like a softer version of the Norfolk accent that i think has died out but you will possibly still hear it in rural parts of Sussex these days?
Ewan McGregor is anything but snooty!! He’s so very down to earth and often uses Received Pronunciation instead of his natural Scottish accent.
There are more than a hundred accents in the UK, because it changes every few miles!
Watch this comedian demonstrate from west to east in England: th-cam.com/video/lzymb0YJp7E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VhRkQVDIbhTbwTkJ
That's probably the wrong McGregor you're thinking of. She meant Ewan (actor). You're thinking of Connor (MMA fighter), who is Irish, not Scottish.
Ewan McGregor is actually from Perthshire which is a bit north of Edinburgh but he went to Crieff Academy so probably is a bit posh in his accent.
As per usual the great 150 mile sweep of southern Scotland from Stranraer to Berwickshire is ignored and there are at least three very distinct accents there. The most obscure is the Galloway Irish one found in Wigtownshire which sounds remarkably Irish for the Scottish mainland. Dumfriesshire has the Sooth Country accent and the Borders accent in the east is unlike the central belt. Even Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire are distinct from Glasgow.
I like her; she is so good at this....always happy to see this video again 👍
That wasn't a good east anglian accent, sounded more like Jethro. Wat appened waz 😅
I'm a Geordie. Take it from me, her attempt at a Geordie accent was laughable, nowhere near.
Geordie,not Georgie🎩
She's actually not that good.
It was a very understandable Scouse accent if you ask me.
I live in Liverpool (not born here) and you do hear commonly a stronger scouse accent that I struggle to understand sometimes! And there are subtle variations across the city. You also get a softer posh scouse accent spoken by people like George Melly, though not common these days so much?
I'm in London but grew up and still go 'home' to the Wirral. If you traveled from Chester, Ellesmere Port, Eastham (where I come from), Bebington, Birkenhead (through the Mersey Tunnel) to Liverpool... You would HEAR so many different 'Merseyside accents. With lots of different 'twangs' of Welsh, Irish, Cheshire, Liverpool and Birkenhead - some 'posh' and some very 'strong'. But everyone understands each other and you can often 'tell' what area they are from... 😎
Her scouse is awful.
She missed the East Midlands accent. But even in the East Midlands, there is a distinct Nottingham, Newark, Mansfield, Leicester, Northampton , kettering accent... that's working out at one different accent per town. It's pretty much like that across the whole country.
She needs to work on her London accent a bit more...
They say our accents in the uk change every 5 miles or so. In my house growing up we all had different accents.
you can get different accents in the same town, never mind the whole country. It's weird how Americans cant really hear the difference in the accents, yet to most Brits they're easily distinguishable. That doesn't mean we always understand what people are saying to us though, but we usually know where that person is from. Personally I love all the different accents and hope that we never lose them
And your native language is English.
Then you can imagine how people who come from another country feel. You may be able to have a good conversation with people who speak standard English, but if the person have a strong accent, you won't understand anything.
I find Birmingham difficult as a German, but when I see English-language videos of Scots, I sometimes need English subtitles.
I feel the same way about Doctor Who, without the English subtitles I wouldn't understand partly half of what is spoken.
I find Glaswegian particularly difficult to understand.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire is a very broad accent. East Yorkshire ( Humberside) is also quite distinctive.
People like to claim there 100's of accents, but to me theres some core accents and then slight local variants of each.
It's a bit silly to say there are X or Y number of accents. Accent boundaries don't have neat edges, they exist on a continuum like colours on a spectrum. How many you count depends on how fine you want to divide up the range.
Lol. There's dozens and dozens of accents in the UK.
When I first moved into the house I live in now my neighbour heard my partner speak and said to her "your not originally from around here".
My partner replied with the town she was born and grew up.
It's less than 30 miles down the road from our house. That is how much an accent changes in just a few miles.
Skowsser not scowzzer🎩
The Netherlands have also a lot of dialects
There are way more than 17 British accents ! These are just the basic , well known ones.
SCOUSE is pronounced scouSe not scouZe.
GEORDIE is pronounced georDie not georJie.
Love Brummie accent, my family, both side are from Bromsgrove not far from Birmingham. I couldn’t hear my mums, dads or my sisters English accent but all other Aussies could. Their accent was like Mrs Buckets.
How can there be more??? There are a LOT more, she just covered the classics. Just my own original accent (from Grimsby) is different, an accent that tries to mess up everyword it can. So many messed up words, eg: "Scartho" should be Scar-Tho but becomes Skah-Tha and "Cartoon" becomes Kar-ooon. I got rid of that accent when I moved down south as people had some trouble understanding me.
Hi Ryan.
Did you notice - it's not only the accents that she uses, it's also the actual words and the manner of speaking that she uses, which are different in each region.?
There's a shift in accents every 15 to 20 miles that you travel in all directions in the UK. Here's one example of West Country.
th-cam.com/video/ahznvtDunEw/w-d-xo.html
The woman is talking in soft RP, whilst the bloke is talking in a very broad West Country. I believe it's Devon, because "Alright me luver" is something they say in Devon, but not where I grew up in Dorset. See, even the lingo radically changes in different parts of the country as well as the accents.
Cities can have slightly different accents. Rural/urban accents can be quite different, so when cities expanded and engulfed a rural town/village, it mixed it up. Lot of socioeconomic differences between areas too. Her accents are ok, not great.
Live in Cheshire and the accent around where I live is different from the Manchester accent though it is only a few miles away. I lived in Florida and those born there have a different accent. I can tell if they are bred Floridians by the way they say book or look, the way I can tell if you are Canadian vs American by the way you pronounce any word with, 'out', in it.
Just came home from Newcastle. Britain sure is full of accents, I could barely understand the locals! Well I did, but not without frequent "Whats that?"
It's probably got 10mil views because of the thousands of other TH-cam reaction channels that have already reacted to it.
There's hundreds of different British accents. The town 8 miles down the road from me speaks differently. With even different slang words.
I could barely tell the difference 😂
There’s lots more accents. The West Midlands foe example has many accents not just the typical Brummie.
Sorry but London has a lot of different accents as does Britain . I like your video usually but the video they are showing is insulting and I hate that people think this is how people speak in England. Aground thumbs down
There are so many more than 17 British accents. There are at least half a dozen within a ten mile radius of where i grew up. Probably more, actually.
Aye aye Ryan min phit like the day loon I nae bad min phit aboot yer sel weather's been well fine here in Aberdeen North East Scotland Inc Doric which can be spoken here in North East Scotland aye Ryan many many uk accents cheers 🍻
southern accent in america derives from devon and cornwall. The counties the original people on the mayflower also came from
Before mass transit, new accents would pop up every few years. It's just what humans do.
Younger nations with their trains and TV and other such things meant new accents became increasingly rare.
She was totally wrong about christopher eccleston he wasn't born in Preston he was born in salford greater manchester my one claim to fame I went to school with him and his twin brothers keith and Alan lol
That video is out of date, when checking the last video published was made 7 years ago, the same person has links to other sites and doesn't appear to have used the internet in a real long time.
0:35 If you wanted to hear a variety of British accents bc you're interested in languages or wanted to place an accent or sth, this was one of 2 or 3 videos offering that on all of TH-cam, at the time. So it might be a niche thing to wonder about but the video cornered the market, so to speak.
Martin Freeman is a South London boy and definitely not middle class!
I've heard all of the accents except the Irish down the pub.
1:45 “RP” Pay attention! it’s written right in front of your face!
Ireland 🇮🇪 is not part of Britain/UK.
theres over a 100... we have the most accents in the world
For Our Information there are apparently 3x linguistically identified & registered classifications of accents in Australia.a/Broad b/General c/Cultivated which one would agree has more to do with socio-economical &/or/educational levels more than location? So i say BS!😂 How many geographically, abso-f-ing-lootely "strayt arp" identifiable Australian accents can "yooze gyze" 😉😅..list here?
What
She's actually not very good at most of them
There’s 100s of accents in the uk
Hah. You should hear The Wurzels!
For me Doctor Who is the best British series.
Fun Fact: the now no longer posting Anglophenia was run by BBC America.
Utterly outlandish
Why does it say ‘Dream Big, Little One’ above your bed?
That's his baby son's cot.
It's not everything we've got :) Just in my area (East Midlands) we have about 11 accents. And I know for sure, that it's 5-6 different distinguishable accents around Birmingham. Who knows how much in total is in the UK :)
Was that a Chicago accent ?
The village i grew up in Scotland had it's own accsent and the village 3 miles away had a different accsent, it's something i never thought about until seeing all the vids about them on youtube.
As well as accents which there are more than this, there are also multiple languages in the UK, and also local word variations and local slang. Most of us can understand a lot of it because we hear the different accents frequently either on TV or IRL
The thing about British accents is the scale they range over. My family comes from Wigan, 15 miles from Liverpool - totally different and very distinctive accents. 10 miles away is Bolton - and its a different accent than Wigan. 20 miles away is Manchester - with its own accent. I do think they are merging more with technology and travel, but for my parents generation they swear they could tell what part of Wigan somebody came from!
It is true. I have stated before that the New England accents sound similar to the Mancunian (Manchester accent - people from Manchester are called Mancunians) one.
As someone from the east midlands. I feel unseen hahaha
It is a bit bland though?..........................................................As I say to my mates from Sutton-in-Ashfield and Derby!
One thing that did surprise me was, my son went to Staffordshire University, and his landlord in Stafford, also a farmer, had this sort of strong rural twang to his East Midlands accent? Never come across that one before?
@@johnp8131 I don't know, even the east has a huge difference throughout the county. Derbyshire and Leicestershire and, Nottinghamshire all have a slightly northern rounded accent but still have some crossover to Warwickshire.
Any of the Shane meadow's movies show just how strong the accents can be. I quite like it, but then I also like Brummie accents so.. I probably have the shittest taste hahaha
@@kdog4587 Know what you mean as, if I tell my mate from Sutton-in-Ashfield, that his accent sounds like a Leicester one, he goes spare! Heard most accents around the Midlands area as my other son went to De Montfort Uni' and I did my apprenticeship at Cosford back in the seventies. I live in Cambridgeshire these days, however Warwickshire is less than half an hour away along the A14, now there's a difference in accents, don't you think?
As an Aussie, the range of British accents intrigues me. They have so many different accents in such a small geographical area, while we have a relatively uniform accent across a huge geographical area. I like the Scouse & Geordie accents the best. I can also hear a bit of our own accent in the way Brummies pronounce words like stay, play, know and go.
Yep, I've lived and worked in London, there are probably 17 accents just in London. I worked in Kent. That was different to the East End, with a different cockney accent. But there was, within, a Bromley accent. like on Monty Python, the Bromley Train Station, "Hello, I'm an accountant, Hello, I'm an accountant, hello...and so on". But out to Chatham and the Isle of Sheppy, which is an Isle of inbred 3rd generation heroin users, and after so many social problems, their language depends on their genetic disability. Yes, this Island does exist, it is a real problem, one that the UK doesn't want you to know about. Moving in, South London, You have Brixton, the accent that has been affected by the Carribean population. There are London Jamaican accents, yes this is the real "Electric Avenue", it's in Brixton, and its wall to wall gunge man. Just don't call a man "Botty boy"! They might kill you. Nah, probably not, they'd probably laugh. London is a country of it's own, obviously, London, along with Scotland did NOT want to leave the EU. So people there are much more progressive than the rest of England. And the Scottish are generally smarter as Scotland has a better education system than England. If you don't agree, ask someone fron Scotland.
Maybe it is because English is not my first language but I understood everything
The accents change every 5 miles along the East Coast. Chelsea ≠ Cockney ≠ Estuary ≠ West Essex ≠ Suffolk. East Yorkshire is curled and thas lurds of snur tha knurs.
I’m sorry, but damn you are handsome 😂
That Belfast one was shocking! It was half Derry and all bad
The Northern Ireland accent and in particular the Belfast one is one of the hardest accents to mimic. I know of only a handful of impressionists who can successfully carry it off. And you’re right. She was dire. Even the Dub one was poor.
Thank god Australia is almost all the same it does change a little bit not much.
Cumbrian try that one