Wonderful man. I've learned SO much in one short video! Thank you!

Every Suffolk household should own a copy of at least one of his books.

I’m American but I was influenced by an Aunt and Uncle that were both English teachers and were also Anglophones. Charlie reminds me so much of them. Brilliant.

What a wonderful video! 🙂

Absolutely riveting!

If you listen to his accent though, its gone, it’s infiltrated with what’s generically heard as London, if you listen to the documentary from The Story of English its far stronger and his accent is completely gone, sadly

Ive heard a bit of suffolk before. " Ai ruyd muy trackurr ai dew" I wish you all talked like that down there. It would feel like time travel

Well I’m having none of it!.

Very dutch Frieslanders

Very interesting

I was at school in Framlingham, easterly, so definitely 'bor'!

I met Charlie in a Beccles bookshop 11 years ago, when he did a book signing. He signed my copy of his first book “do yew keep a troshin” and I went on to buy several more of his books. A wonderful man and historian, and a caretaker of the East Anglian dialects

This bloke came to my sixth form around 2006/7, he was brilliant and incredibly knowledgeable. He told some of us the origins of our surnames. Can still remember it well now. <3

small example of hoard shown at 30 seconds in.

Lovely to see you again. I miss the Laxfield singing afternoons :)

Throughly enjoyed this, what a knowledgeable man.

Lovely. Thank you for putting this together. I didn't know the origin's of many of these words. My father's family were from Sudbury, Suffolk. I'm a Norfolk man ['...and proud of being so'] but, for me, the Suffolk accent is easier on the ear. If I may add a phrase: "Come you here, or I'll sting your lug." [Come here, or I'll clip your ear.]

Absolutely fascinating.

Strange how it goes from Suffolk to Norfolk but apparently doesn’t go south into Essex.

I seem to be the last person in Essex to used the verb 'puggle', is that still alive and well up there in Suffolk?

This is fantastic-fascinating. I'm from West Yorkshire, but briefly lived in Bury St Edmunds, and could move back. I've family in Norfolk, and the accent here, sounds very similar, to my ears

Can;t hear,

Dad, a West Bridgford man, used "that'll larn you", but probably didn't realise the derivation; he also used "black ovva Bill's mothers" (which I used today when I spotted the dark clouds not far away) with the 'o' in "mother's" sounded like the 'o' in "moth". And I was introduced to "shew" by my Saxmundham-born old boss; I eventually got used to it...

I love watching these videos about local dialects, my grandad was from Kent but sounded just like Charlie, thanks mate, we need to protect our language and dialects by keeping them in use. Love from Wiltshire.

Looks like Anthony Hopkins lol

The way this man says the word 'tide' is exactly the way Newfoundlanders in Canada say it. The Newfoundland dialect is believed to be at least partly influenced by the West Country dialect, and from this video, I'm getting the sense that it might also be influenced by the Suffolk dialect.

What an amazing chap. What a captivating lesson on the origins of words and phrases embedded the English language . What a brilliant reminder of the richness of English culture. Let’s never forget where we came from. Let’s never allow the currently fashionable suppression of Englishness to prevail. Let’s be proud of who we are, not be made to feel ashamed of our own diverse history in the rush to celebrate the diversity of other cultures.

Most of this is Tommy rot. Dialect words in Norfolk and Suffolk could differ from village to village. This goes for the rest of the ZK as people rarely left theor villages from the time they were born to the time they took up residence in the local churchyard. Dialect words began to spread when people either went in to service with the gentry or military service.

Crinkle crankle walls were all over the country. To save as he claimed bricks. Over time most were pulled down . We presevered ours.

Thankyou so much, this was so enlightening,, wonderful.

I found this fascinating. Never been to the UK but it’s on my list😬

I noticed you snuck another one in without realising it coupla’three. Didn’t even see it did you haha! It means several. Couple or three. Two or three. But it’s a phrase unto itself and means a few haha! Not the number itself. So more like 5-10 😂

Get wrong about learning for teaching. I think that’s across the UK as far as I know. Definitely can say it across Cornwall.

8:18 Dutch and English oo and oe are more or less swapped in pronunciation so Dutch stroop is pronounced strope, and boek hoek and boer are pronounced book hook and boor.

I’m from east Suffolk and it was always hayoroit buh, not questioning his knowledge but thats what that was.

Suffolk =Südvolk...... Norfolk =Nordvolk that's old Saxon and Angles legacy...... I am a native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany and a great adorer of England..... our closest in this world..... ❤

Haven’t we got a brilliant English language so full of history bravo 👏

What a rich tapestry the English language is. So much history is contained in our words. Words we use without thinking about. Even the names of many of our villages, towns and cities have the language of history embedded in them.

That explanation of the word Mawther - I do wonder if it's not the origin of the word "mither" - to annoy or pester someone, as its other etymological explanations seem to be rather wanting and uncertain.

"Shew" is used by VC Herschell in the Privy Council case of Bank of England v Vagliano Bros (1900). So, reckon "shew" was used by all for longer than this charming gent says.

So is windey (wall) from windy?

I'm from Notts, and we say 'It's black oar Bills' but will use it to say rain on the horizon from whatever direction it's from, not just the East. Loved this video.

I recognised words that we use when speaking Afrikaans today. The meanings also match.

My granddad was from Ipswich. He died years before I was born. It’s nice to know how few might have sounded. ❤

Livfen, larfen, lovfen.

When I was but a boy, I stayed with my old Grandma on many occasions in Clare, Suffolk. She was born in Poslingford. On one occasion we were out & about in Clare, and I was watching a couple of girls across the the street, she said to me "yew garpin' at the mawthers, boi?". I dont think I'll ever forget that.

in yorkshire we say bills mother, well people of a certain age

I imagine this culture will never feature on country file, msm or history channels. Not that ‘diverese’ is thousands of years of white history…

"That'll larn yer!" Great! I love the West Country accent too, as shown by Phil Harding in "Time Team". "'Ere's LOADS of arrrrrchaeology there, look!" I'm a NZer and I *love* the wonderful accents in the UK!

Fascinating. Shew makes so much sense now.