Sinéad O'Connor was an amazing singer, but she was also an activist and political in ways that complicated her career, especially in the US. For example, in 1992 she appeared on Saturday Night Live and tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II in protest of the Catholic Church covering up child abuse. Good cause, great way to be seen by millions of people, not a good way to sell records.
You can tell where someone is from to within 20 miles all over the UK...so an accent if you are not familiar to an area which sounds the same to you as one 20 miles away will be obvious to a local person and thats not just near cities...rural folk know when someone comes from a different village not far away
the brummies as they are called now i am older than you might think , but i use to work on the canals at a young age in early sixties , i use to open the gates for the barges so that they get through as water is raised . The folks who lived in the cottages spoken a older brummie accent as they were in their late sixties and i caght the accent . Later they sent me to a special school due to the accent i spoke as not many spoke the old dialect , but i still kept it as i get older i thought f k it i am going by the accent to what i spoke now not many people here speak it . bham use the upper cleft of the mouth and part from the nose to make the words.
The village i grew up near Glasgow, Scotland had its own accsent but just 3 miles away in the next village they had a verry different accsent. When i was 15 my family moved to Surrey in sothern England an no one, NO ONE understood us even though our accsents were not strong at all, so we learnt English very fast. Once on a long car trip my family stopped ar Teabay, a private and amazing service station on the M6. In the resturant we overheard a family talking and yes they were from the same very odd village as us, we had never met them but the accsent pinned them down.
She was also putting on a posh version of all those accents. If you struggled to understand what she was saying for some of them, then you’d struggle even more if you heard the different social sounding accents of each of the ones she’s gone through. Just imagine all of them but stronger, chunkier and said faster (add in the local slang as well) then your getting a true range of just those 17 accents. There are so many more. Yorkshire has 4 different counties that can change so much from Doncaster to Leeds to Hull to York. And Lincolnshire from Grimsby in the north of the county to Boston in the south. And that’s just two counties that touch on the east coast 😂👍🇬🇧
If you travel one hundred miles in the UK the accent will have changed ten times - & what the locals call a bread roll will have changed fourteen times. Shiv makes a decent fist of it bless her but all up & down the UK the locals are muttering to themselves 'Well she didn't get that right for a start'. For instance - the Brummie & Black Country accents are different but a Scouser wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Thanks for this. Britain has far more. HOWEVER, a young Guy did this video around 8 years ago with 17 million views: "The English Language in 67 Accents & Random Voices".......comprising 38 Accents and 29 random voices.
In the town I grew up in you could tell which part of it a person lived from the accent (north, south, east, west or t'middle). Changed now. Now people move around more, and there's been a lot of incomers from further away.
Many more than forty. Linguists recognise around forty general regional/cultural/social accents, but also recognise that the actual diversity is far greater than that. Within those broad accents are a variety of distinct differences. Bath and Bristol are less than 15 miles apart and both are classed as "West Country" accents, but they are noticeably different.
I'm from Warrington and our accent has changed dramatically over the years with a lot of people coming in from Liverpool and Manchester so we have a mixture of Scouse and Manc my grandad had quite a broad Lancashire accent which is now unrecognisable in my town now
Guys, just to give you an idea of the accent range, Im from the north east england, where geordie is considered the main accent, but the accent changes in a few miles, im from sunderland 9 miles south of newcastle, we are called mackems, our accent is different, then you have durham, 10 miles another direction the accent is different, they are call pitt yackers, then moviing south, you have hartlepool which is another ccent, they are called monkey hangers, the 10 miles further south, you have middlesborough, who have another accent know as the smoggies, then east of newcatle 5 miles away, south sheilds, they are know as sand dancers, Sarah Millican is from there, This is trasnslated into the other 48 counties in england, so realstic figure, to a trained british ear, there would be about 500 accents, as i said many are only noticed by a trained british ear living in the counties, the accent here in the north east to a trained ear, can be seen to chang with in a mile, a village
Thous from Scarborough we av a totally different accent to the rest of Yorkshire , the wessies av there own accent , so does South Yorkshire ! , travel half an hour and there will be a different accent !
Very clever to be able to switch accents so quickly but her geography lets her down - Rabbie Burns was not a Highlander from Inverness but a Lowlander from Alloway, near Ayr, which is on the S Ayrshire coast, south of Glasgow and over 200 miles away from Inverness. He is famous for writing in Scots - hence ‘Auld Lang Syne’ translates as ‘old long since’ ie times long past.
4:39sec we don't all sound like that not that slow plus it's more so the older generation that speaks like that. And as you know Birmingham has alot of diversity so the traditional accent is changing
When most people in the UK think of the Brummie accent, they're generally actually thinking of the Black Country. The younger generation tends to speak in a much softer, more homogenised accent.
@@lazarus5609 I'm not a brummie but I find big similarities between a couple of the characters in peaky blinders and for example someone like Grealish.
Literally no one can do a nothern irish accent, any of them, i swear our accents have to be some of the hardest in the world. We have so many accents too in all of ireland, easily hundreds. Like in belfast alone theres 10+ accents off the top of my head. Also a lot of northern irish actors are kinda shit and speak unnaturally imo, like in derry girls half the time im like ???? no one speaks like this, are these people even from derry. I think casting directors cant figure out if nothern irish people are acting well our accents are so weird haha. Also if you dont use our sing song kinda flow and slang combinations etc it just wont ever sound right.
they're allowed to generalise. only locals really hear all the variations. each valley in south wales has its own accent, but noone outside the area could tell.
Robert Burns was neither a sir nor from the highlands. He was from the south west of scotland where they spoke scots. At the time he lived the highlanders would be speaking gaelic. Impressive with the welsh and english ones but her Glasgow one was not good. Plus she didn't go near Aberdeenshire or the Borders.
Why have an online presenter trying to mimic all of these different regional accents... When you could have those that are from those regions of the UK... Speak in their native accents... You could show clips of celebrities that come from there... For instance... Fred Dibnah for his Lancashire accent... Geoffrey Boycott for his Yorkshire accent... Comedian Jethro for his Cornish accent... The list goes on... Plus it would allow people who are genuinely curious to hear those accents... The opportunity to hear them first hand... Rather than to have someone give us their own interpretation of these accents that she tried to mimic here.
She may think she does the variations in accents, but she only gives a rough idea. Her Birmingham accent is not right. It maybe a cross between all the local ones, but not any of them.
There is no such thing as a singular " British" accent. British accents can change every 10 miles or so. Even in London. There are way more Scottish accents than she spoke about here !
Yeah she pointed at Preston and said Lancashire but there are several accents around Lancashire and greater Manchester and the accent she was doing wasn't like a Preston accent. My accent isn't broad I have quite a neutral accent
There are lots more British accents. That was just overview.
Those accents were very light the real accents are a 100 times thicker than these. There is also tons more accents in the UK.
Manc
Sinéad O'Connor was an amazing singer, but she was also an activist and political in ways that complicated her career, especially in the US. For example, in 1992 she appeared on Saturday Night Live and tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II in protest of the Catholic Church covering up child abuse. Good cause, great way to be seen by millions of people, not a good way to sell records.
You only have to travel 20 miles or so in the uk and sound will sound diffrent
Not true, 5 miles u will hear a difference
The reason it's double-cringe when an American tries "the" British accent. London must have four or five.
yeah, even Birmingham has 2, sort of.
Accents change from town to town, even villages have their own nuances.
17!! there are that many in Greater Manchester alone!
You can tell where someone is from to within 20 miles all over the UK...so an accent if you are not familiar to an area which sounds the same to you as one 20 miles away will be obvious to a local person and thats not just near cities...rural folk know when someone comes from a different village not far away
You guys deserve so many more subbies.
the brummies as they are called now i am older than you might think , but i use to work on the canals at a young age in early sixties , i use to open the gates for the barges so that they get through as water is raised .
The folks who lived in the cottages spoken a older brummie accent as they were in their late sixties and i caght the accent .
Later they sent me to a special school due to the accent i spoke as not many spoke the old dialect , but i still kept it as i get older i thought f k it i am going by the accent to what i spoke now not many people here speak it .
bham use the upper cleft of the mouth and part from the nose to make the words.
The village i grew up near Glasgow, Scotland had its own accsent but just 3 miles away in the next village they had a verry different accsent.
When i was 15 my family moved to Surrey in sothern England an no one, NO ONE understood us even though our accsents were not strong at all, so we learnt English very fast. Once on a long car trip my family stopped ar Teabay, a private and amazing service station on the M6. In the resturant we overheard a family talking and yes they were from the same very odd village as us, we had never met them but the accsent pinned them down.
She missed out Manchester, not sure if you know the band Oasis, but Noel and Liam have proper Mancunian accents, it’s cool.
Alright ar kid? Burnage boy here.
Gorton here!
She was also putting on a posh version of all those accents. If you struggled to understand what she was saying for some of them, then you’d struggle even more if you heard the different social sounding accents of each of the ones she’s gone through. Just imagine all of them but stronger, chunkier and said faster (add in the local slang as well) then your getting a true range of just those 17 accents. There are so many more. Yorkshire has 4 different counties that can change so much from Doncaster to Leeds to Hull to York. And Lincolnshire from Grimsby in the north of the county to Boston in the south. And that’s just two counties that touch on the east coast 😂👍🇬🇧
If you travel one hundred miles in the UK the accent will have changed ten times - & what the locals call a bread roll will have changed fourteen times.
Shiv makes a decent fist of it bless her but all up & down the UK the locals are muttering to themselves 'Well she didn't get that right for a start'. For instance - the Brummie & Black Country accents are different but a Scouser wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Thanks for this. Britain has far more.
HOWEVER, a young Guy did this video around 8 years ago with 17 million views:
"The English Language in 67 Accents & Random Voices".......comprising 38 Accents and 29 random voices.
Wow thats insane haha
@@loners4life Well worth a watch..
@@IsleofskyeI've just shared the vid you mentioned with my contacts on your recommendation
In the town I grew up in you could tell which part of it a person lived from the accent (north, south, east, west or t'middle).
Changed now. Now people move around more, and there's been a lot of incomers from further away.
There around 40+ accents in The UK, more than the US
Many more than forty. Linguists recognise around forty general regional/cultural/social accents, but also recognise that the actual diversity is far greater than that. Within those broad accents are a variety of distinct differences. Bath and Bristol are less than 15 miles apart and both are classed as "West Country" accents, but they are noticeably different.
I'm from Warrington and our accent has changed dramatically over the years with a lot of people coming in from Liverpool and Manchester so we have a mixture of Scouse and Manc my grandad had quite a broad Lancashire accent which is now unrecognisable in my town now
Guys, just to give you an idea of the accent range, Im from the north east england, where geordie is considered the main accent, but the accent changes in a few miles, im from sunderland 9 miles south of newcastle, we are called mackems, our accent is different, then you have durham, 10 miles another direction the accent is different, they are call pitt yackers, then moviing south, you have hartlepool which is another ccent, they are called monkey hangers, the 10 miles further south, you have middlesborough, who have another accent know as the smoggies, then east of newcatle 5 miles away, south sheilds, they are know as sand dancers, Sarah Millican is from there, This is trasnslated into the other 48 counties in england, so realstic figure, to a trained british ear, there would be about 500 accents, as i said many are only noticed by a trained british ear living in the counties, the accent here in the north east to a trained ear, can be seen to chang with in a mile, a village
Her Accents are near enough but 10 x by ten for actual Locals to speak.
Will not settle now till I hear Lynda sing 😅
Allwas nice to se your reactions!
Siobhan's family and friends tell her she can do brilliant regional accents - the rest of us say WTAF Siobhan!
Just wondering if you're aware the girls jeans zipper is wide open!.
Thous from Scarborough we av a totally different accent to the rest of Yorkshire , the wessies av there own accent , so does South Yorkshire ! , travel half an hour and there will be a different accent !
Very clever to be able to switch accents so quickly but her geography lets her down - Rabbie Burns was not a Highlander from Inverness but a Lowlander from Alloway, near Ayr, which is on the S Ayrshire coast, south of Glasgow and over 200 miles away from Inverness. He is famous for writing in Scots - hence ‘Auld Lang Syne’ translates as ‘old long since’ ie times long past.
Next trip you guys take you should sing a duet; for the travel vlog content!
4:39sec we don't all sound like that not that slow plus it's more so the older generation that speaks like that.
And as you know Birmingham has alot of diversity so the traditional accent is changing
I think Peaky Blinders is a pretty accurate representation of the Brummie accent. Or you know, Jack Grealish :)
@@bookclub5021 what century does the peaky blinder represent.old brumy
When most people in the UK think of the Brummie accent, they're generally actually thinking of the Black Country. The younger generation tends to speak in a much softer, more homogenised accent.
@@lazarus5609 I'm not a brummie but I find big similarities between a couple of the characters in peaky blinders and for example someone like Grealish.
You mention "lock stock" "Snatch" etc,brit flick movies are the best in my humble opinion,this woman is good,but not that good,👍🙂
Still waiting to hear Linda's accent , we know she does them lol 😂😂😂
Literally no one can do a nothern irish accent, any of them, i swear our accents have to be some of the hardest in the world. We have so many accents too in all of ireland, easily hundreds. Like in belfast alone theres 10+ accents off the top of my head. Also a lot of northern irish actors are kinda shit and speak unnaturally imo, like in derry girls half the time im like ???? no one speaks like this, are these people even from derry. I think casting directors cant figure out if nothern irish people are acting well our accents are so weird haha. Also if you dont use our sing song kinda flow and slang combinations etc it just wont ever sound right.
Same in northern England, I'm Bolton and literally 5 minutes away the accent/dialect is different 😂😂.
they're allowed to generalise. only locals really hear all the variations. each valley in south wales has its own accent, but noone outside the area could tell.
I can... yooo get on the grind rite fkin nigh, or I'll bloow your kneecarps orrf 😂😂😂
@@keefsmiff😂😂😂
@@markwolstenholme3354think it got blocked ...downer.. I thought it was a good effort
Robert Burns was neither a sir nor from the highlands. He was from the south west of scotland where they spoke scots. At the time he lived the highlanders would be speaking gaelic. Impressive with the welsh and english ones but her Glasgow one was not good. Plus she didn't go near Aberdeenshire or the Borders.
snatch is a masterpiece
It is!
How dare you make fun of the brummie accent 😂
She dropped these from the Scouse accent: ckkccckkkcckk-ch-ckkkckk-chhkkk-chchkkkkk-ckkkc.
There are loads more than that, think they're just the ones she can do!
Lovely reaction from you both. I dont care if you fumble over the like and subscribe you are gorgeous
Haha we appreciate you!
Robert Burns wasn't from the Highlands!
A Wigan accent would be good
Her Glasgow accent was not good, and I'm from Edinburgh. Edit. But she is good at her accents around the UK.
Funny - as someone who lives in Suffolk, I was thinking the same thing about her East Anglian accent.
She wasn't very good on most of the accents
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Why have an online presenter trying to mimic all of these different regional accents... When you could have those that are from those regions of the UK... Speak in their native accents... You could show clips of celebrities that come from there... For instance... Fred Dibnah for his Lancashire accent... Geoffrey Boycott for his Yorkshire accent... Comedian Jethro for his Cornish accent... The list goes on... Plus it would allow people who are genuinely curious to hear those accents... The opportunity to hear them first hand... Rather than to have someone give us their own interpretation of these accents that she tried to mimic here.
She may think she does the variations in accents, but she only gives a rough idea. Her Birmingham accent is not right. It maybe a cross between all the local ones, but not any of them.
There is no such thing as a singular " British" accent.
British accents can change every 10 miles or so. Even in London.
There are way more Scottish accents than she spoke about here !
I have 6 different accents in my town,?
More like 40 different accents
Put wood in'the ole...
You should ave sang. Or, shood hav sung. Or, shd of suing.
There is no "British" accent
Exactly, it’s like saying there’s a “European” accent….
Nothing compares to you Sinead O'connor. 😊.
Nothing compares to you, PRINCE!
Her London accent sounded more Australian. And that was not a Dublin accent.
Yeah she pointed at Preston and said Lancashire but there are several accents around Lancashire and greater Manchester and the accent she was doing wasn't like a Preston accent. My accent isn't broad I have quite a neutral accent
Sorry but not the best tbh b7t fair play for trying
please i beg u please centre urself in frame