Wonderful man. I've learned SO much in one short video! Thank you!
@nutster900015 күн бұрын
Every Suffolk household should own a copy of at least one of his books.
@Americathebeautiful4919 күн бұрын
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.
@JorgeGarcia-ne3ws28 күн бұрын
What a wonderful video! 🙂
@Jennifer198542 ай бұрын
Absolutely riveting!
@iceandale76212 ай бұрын
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
@cultfiction38652 ай бұрын
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
@kenking12283 ай бұрын
Well I’m having none of it!.
@adamnordinrogers3 ай бұрын
Very dutch Frieslanders
@michaelwhite80313 ай бұрын
Very interesting
@sigil57723 ай бұрын
I was at school in Framlingham, easterly, so definitely 'bor'!
@longbennyred12013 ай бұрын
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
@nathanclack7203 ай бұрын
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
@vrvretro3 ай бұрын
small example of hoard shown at 30 seconds in.
@grendel_nz3 ай бұрын
Lovely to see you again. I miss the Laxfield singing afternoons :)
@jemmajames67193 ай бұрын
Throughly enjoyed this, what a knowledgeable man.
@jhj66363 ай бұрын
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.]
@xrotor19663 ай бұрын
Absolutely fascinating.
@c.philipmckenzie3 ай бұрын
Strange how it goes from Suffolk to Norfolk but apparently doesn’t go south into Essex.
@jointgib4 ай бұрын
I seem to be the last person in Essex to used the verb 'puggle', is that still alive and well up there in Suffolk?
@michelefrancis47203 ай бұрын
my family use it ... not sure its suffolk tho ... what does it mean for you
@jointgib3 ай бұрын
@@michelefrancis4720 well you could puggle a wasps nest with a stick or you could puggle your ear with your little finger
@HughGarrette4 ай бұрын
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
@warwickkeene3634 ай бұрын
Can;t hear,
@ozalba4 ай бұрын
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...
@mrsrjlupin36502 ай бұрын
My mother uses Black over back of Bill's mother and she was from Birmingham, which doesn't seem to be a Brummie phrase. Anyone heard of a "Bobowler" for a moth?
@pda30954 ай бұрын
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.
@besparmak82114 ай бұрын
Looks like Anthony Hopkins lol
@stevestruthers61804 ай бұрын
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.
@proberttemporum45424 ай бұрын
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.
@lordeden27324 ай бұрын
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.
@lordeden27324 ай бұрын
Crinkle crankle walls were all over the country. To save as he claimed bricks. Over time most were pulled down . We presevered ours.
@robyndalby-stockwell92424 ай бұрын
Thankyou so much, this was so enlightening,, wonderful.
@Bazrad684 ай бұрын
I found this fascinating. Never been to the UK but it’s on my list😬
@winterroadspokenword46814 ай бұрын
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 😂
@winterroadspokenword46814 ай бұрын
Get wrong about learning for teaching. I think that’s across the UK as far as I know. Definitely can say it across Cornwall.
@stevecarter88104 ай бұрын
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.
@jessebarrett61324 ай бұрын
I’m from east Suffolk and it was always hayoroit buh, not questioning his knowledge but thats what that was.
@albionmyl77354 ай бұрын
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..... ❤
@Poorlybobsdad4 ай бұрын
I have spent quite a bit of time working in Germany and we are very similar indeed. If we stand in a room together we have speak before it’s clear where we are from 👍🏻
@albionmyl77354 ай бұрын
@@Poorlybobsdad yes.... Indeed... I've been many times in England.... it's like a second home for me.... we have many things in common..... we are connected with our DNA and ancestry ♥️
@donaldedgar10044 ай бұрын
Haven’t we got a brilliant English language so full of history bravo 👏
@1414141x4 ай бұрын
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.
@gurglejug6274 ай бұрын
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.
@chopsandarchie70154 ай бұрын
"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.
@PS-pn9rd4 ай бұрын
So is windey (wall) from windy?
@markmaddison53124 ай бұрын
No a windy is an ole in a Wall were a door should ave been just ask an old bricklayer
@alloneword74274 ай бұрын
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.
@stevepayne59654 ай бұрын
I'm just down the road in Leicestershire, and for that phenomenon we - older people in particular, but not exclusively; I don't think I'm that old! - say: "It's black uvver Bill's mother's", where mother rhymes with bother.
@brandendeysel65064 ай бұрын
I recognised words that we use when speaking Afrikaans today. The meanings also match.
@karamia13924 ай бұрын
My granddad was from Ipswich. He died years before I was born. It’s nice to know how few might have sounded. ❤
@Jettypilelegs4 ай бұрын
Livfen, larfen, lovfen.
@Grim1of24 ай бұрын
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.
@iunderw24 ай бұрын
in yorkshire we say bills mother, well people of a certain age
@Andrew-is7rs4 ай бұрын
I imagine this culture will never feature on country file, msm or history channels. Not that ‘diverese’ is thousands of years of white history…
@gaius_enceladus4 ай бұрын
"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!