1 woman with 17 British Accents | How many more are there?

[@Slowwavesix]

I'm addicted to this channel. No clickbait, no time-wasting intros, no fake personality, no rehashing or dumbing down, just genuine talk from somebody with real charisma and actual intelligence that really adds to the conversation. I don't even think that I could watch many of the source videos without NPs commentary. They'd just be too boring or over-the-top. On top of that you get solid literary recommendations, Creators get full credit each time. This is how to run a channel, someone with real personality yet she has never even given us her name.

[@EdMac40]

You summed up NP's channel perfectly.

[@ernestb4473]

You hit the nail on the head. Probably my favorite channel.

[@celticbarry9877]

These accents are also like the polite/clear versions of how people speak. When Geordie friends are speaking to each other or east london or scouse or people from glasgow etc they speak with more slang and quicker which would probably be intlligable to Americans or foreign people. So we only really sound the way she was speaking if we were speaking to an tourist or something.

[@TheJthom9]

You mean 'unintelligible'

[@aviator2117]

@@TheJthom9 and "a" tourist

[@billycohan6975]

Cockney is a very specific London working class accent, that’s why your friends from London might not necessarily speak it. It is not just an indicator of location but also of social class environment

[@AngelTonchev]

I've known my brother-in-law for 7 years now. I'm Bulgarian, he's a Geordie. I still have to ask him to repeat twice or even three times, until I understand some or other word. 😀But I definitely love it and have picked up a lot from him haha! His mother is half Irish, her accents just melts me. It's so good!

[@Oxley016]

Howay the toon!

[@hanslick3375]

Yes, she is talented! I find it almost miraculous how someone can recognize and speak all these dialects. I could maybe do 3 😅

[@kainejoyes2981]

She struggled with some of these, there are scousers screaming….15 or 20 miles in any direction the accents change dramatically to a native speaker.

[@0191Marko]

“ there are scousers screaming “ 😳😳😳😳 nowt new there then……….

[@AlistairForsyth-y9o]

Try anything by prolific Scottis author Sir Iain Rankin. His Inspector Rebus novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh. A lot of local dialect.

[@simonatkinson6389]

Accents in the UK can change noticeably over distances of just a few miles. I was born and bred in a North East area called Newcastle upon Tyne, the home of the Geordie accent. The river divides the city and the accent can change depending on what side of the river your from and if your from the East end or the West end. That's roughly 15 miles West to East.

[@YuryVVV]

Relationship goals: find a girl who looks at you same way NP looks at a fascinating video. Ideally, who also gets cloud next to her head telling you what's going on in there. Your ability to get absorbed into a source of information is one of a kind, I gotta say. Glad KZbin decided to take me here a few months ago.

[@cobaka5061]

Read "any" UK author who tried to document the struggles of WWII. So much is held in those words. We must not forget them.

[@howieshaw8422]

I always enjoy your take on the videos you review. The Yorkshire accent varies depending which part your from. Seems to get stronger the the further south you go in Yorkshire

[@Sadlander2]

English is not my native language, I only started learning it when I was 13 or 14 (by myself with a dictionary, song lyrics and MTV when they used to play music videos). When I started learning it, I could read it and understand some songs but someone speaking at a normal speed was too much for me, especially if it wasn't with an American accent (that's what is spoken in most of the movies I watch). Now I can pretty much understand everything but for me, the final boss is the movie *_Trainspotting_* ! The first time I watched it, I had to turn on the subtitles. I no longer need the subtitles but I still need to pay close attention or I will miss one third of what they're saying. Anyone else?

[@forgoodonly]

Scottish junkies. What do you expect? Im a native speaker and there are certain movies that give me difficulties. Well done for trying!

[@Oxley016]

A Geordie here and in the same boat with a lot of trainspotting lol Glaswegian heroin addicts are certainly not the easiest to understand!

[@sheepsky]

I love the Transatlantic accent. Wish it was still a thing. Always thought it sounded really nice

[@NoProtocol]

If you bring it back, I’d support it

[@MrVvulf]

Any movie with Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn is guaranteed to have it since it was their everyday speech.

[@paultricklebank]

Ah bin ya . I was brought up Solihull/ Birmingham area but also lived in the Black Country. The way they replace so many words with their own is brilliant. You need to find a native from Cradley/ Netherton/Gornal to listen to. You will not be dissapointed.

[@gwaptiva]

Small quibble, Robert Burns is from Alloway in Ayrshire, which is in the southwest of Scotland, nowhere near Inverness

[@Meeckle]

I live in west central Scotland (just under Glasgow). Accents can alter noticeably within 10-20 miles.

[@jasoncallow860]

A fantastic UK author from the 20th century is Terry Pratchett who wrote the disc world series among other stuff. I'm from the south coast (Sussex) so don't have an accent...

[@skyebates246]

She is only doing a handful of british accent and you are right There are many different accents even in one city

[@Hercules_the_Great]

You may find Dave Huxtable's channel interesting, he explains the reasons behind the variations of accents and explains how he pronounces them.

[@VEETEEARR]

I'd like to recommend 'The Commitments' and the subsequent novels in the series by Irish author from Dublin Roddy Doyle or the Jack Parlabane series of books by the Scottish (Glaswegian) Christopher Brookmyre. Both will have you trying to read the dialogue spoken by the character's in their own dialect.

[@casp11]

absolutely love four in a bed 😊. absolutely love your British content much respect Birmingham UK 🇬🇧.

[@mallockracer]

Hi, You should read "The Wasp Factory" by Iain M Banks... Scottish Author.... Strange tale.. Or "Puccoon" or "Hitler my part in his downfall" by Spike Milligan humous view of WW2

[@NoProtocol]

I’ll check it out then! Thanks for the recommendation

[@SirHargreeves]

Dr Tom Holland has a brilliant book series on the Roman Republic and Empire.

[@earthwormandruw]

1:54 I say this about the New York accent, I lived there 2016 & '17 and rarely encountered people with that stereotypical New York accent.

[@NoProtocol]

I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone in person with a stereotypical NY accent either, but I’ve also never been there

[@Isleofskye]

@@NoProtocol Hi. Hope you're keeping well,NP. There is another video with 30 accents and bearing in mind England is smaller than Oregon,it is amazing that you can drive 15 minutes and get quite differing accents. I would love you to react to "The World's Best Football Fans & Ultras: EUROPE" which is quite mind-blowing with no violence, just amazing crows scenes. Enjoy !

[@johnmcclane88909507]

I highly recommend "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. It's all about the various cultures who inhabit England and how they intersect.

[@grumpyboomer61]

For examples of the transatlantic accent, I usually think any movie with Katherine Hepburn or Cary Grant. Philadelphia Story for example.

[@patcow9999]

Love this! She made some great references to help picture the different accents. You mention plural use where not needed, my Newcastle born friend I play football with would say "I'm going in goals", there's probably other regions that do the same. Your London reference is true, I'm a born and bread North Londoner but do not sound like an East Ender, where I spent most of my school life. I think South Londoners (south of The Thames) have a subtle difference in accent IMO. The more west you go, the posher the London accents tend to be, reflective of their relative affluence I guess. Your Orson Wells example reminds me of Dick Van Dyke's portrayal of Bert the Cockney in Mary Poppins. Absolutely no one in London speaks like that!

[@hanslick3375]

Your gorgeous smile fills me with inner light 🥲

[@hanslick3375]

I got a bit too poetic there 😅 but it's true

[@niravelniflheim1858]

Some reasonably contemporary British authors you might like that are just sort of fun are Douglas Adams ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ), Terry Pratchett ( Discworld novels ) and Philip Pullman ( His Dark Materials ). Hmm, maybe I'll add Dan Brown ( The Da Vinci Code ) too.

[@productjoe4069]

Book recommendation: Terry Pratchett. Specifically, the Discworld series. There are lots of lists as to the order you should read them, but the only commonish advice is to not start with the first one. I’d probably repeat a common suggestion of ‘Guards! Guards!’ (the first book on the City Watch subseries) as a good first book. Alternatively, ‘Small Gods’ if you want something that’s completely standalone.

[@DanJamesJames]

Spanish accents - have you tried Metatron's Academy? It's probably not exactly what you had in mind, but interesting nevertheless. He's Italian - Sicilian specifically - and tries to see to what extent he can understand various regional/national Spanish accents. He also covers Portuguese, French and other Romance languages.

[@leslieturner8276]

There are variations of accents in London itself, there are different accents, which are summarised in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZy9ZYmYmNN6n6Msi=rKPpPhQRxsrskCe_ Since, I grew up in South-East I can switch to a South London accent. Now, one of my grandparents used a lot of cockney rhyming slang in a traditional way - e.g. you only speak one of the rhyming words. If you aren't familiar with cockney rhyming slang there are plenty of KZbin videos that cover and describe it.

[@Home8rew]

I love the Geordie accent. My grandad was born and lived there for his first 12 years before the family moved back to Ireland. He never really lost his accent though so, even though he died when I was 3, it makes me think of him when I hear it.

[@SimonJM]

Gone for most of the stereotypes of accents and knowing what they are I know what she's trying for, but she's not that close on a lot of them. I have also seen this before, on another channel, (sorry Ms No Protocol, been unfaithful!!!). As you are probably aware of there are a LOT more accents in the UK. That is not really a London accent, it's an accent from London. I'm a Geordie (though I do NOT speak like that, been away for longer than you've been alive!) so I'm glad you like the accent! For books, try C J Sansom who has done a series of books about a lawyer in the the time of Henry VIII.

[@roywallis5915]

There are so many great English writers but one of my favorites is Jonathan Coe. "What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy" is a hilarious satire with a fair amount of savagery. Among his others are a trilogy written over a number of years in which he visits a group of people in their school years ("The Rotters' Club), in their 30s or so ("The Closed Circle"), and mid-life ("Middle England") If you are willing to go back a bit, you cannot beat P.G. Wodehouse, especially the Jeeves and Wooster books, which typically feature madcap plots (most of them similar) and the best part of his writing: the clever language. You mentioned Agatha Christie, so you might want to try a couple more modern, wonderful mystery writers who received some kind of honors from the Queen: Ruth Rendell, P.D. James.

[@ravenward626]

I met another Agatha Christie fan who used to get their murder mystery fix from the "Cadfael Chronicles". It's historical fiction, medieval Europe, the main character is an ex-crusader turned monk who ends up solving mysteries. But they're not books. It was a radio drama that started in the 70's. They also made a TV series in the 90's. I find old radio dramas easily fit the same spot as podcasts or audio books in my day to day.

[@David_J_B]

If your curious about language, I recommend the World Friends KZbin channel, they do lots of comparisons between similar and different languages :)

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

I loved your reaction and commentary on this. The first thing that you need to understand about the U.K. is that the language has been effected over the centuries by invasion and settlers changing it by their own tongue, and introducing new words for things into the vocabulary, this is why accents and dialects can change about every 20 miles or less in the U.K. For example the words 'Wales' and 'Welsh' are taken from the Old Dutch word for stranger, the Welsh word for its language is 'Cymraeg', 'Cymru' is the name for Wales, it's the only Celtic language which never died out, even after being made illegal to speak it, the others where reintroduced later.

[@colinmorrison5119]

Irish, Scots Gaelic and Cornish survived (just barely in some cases).

[@Jim90117]

Yeah I have RP that verges into heightened RP with certain words and if I'm around people like that it really comes out. I would agree it's a very middle class/upper middle class accent. When abroad I tend to speak heightened RP also, I think that's just to make myself sound clearer to foreign people.

[@CarlosRenfroe]

A buddy of mine used to work in radio in Whales. He used to do all of the football highlight in their perspective accents.

[@primalengland]

Tend to turn off when this lass comes on. Never known anyone but a Lancastrian do a Lancashire accent, or a corky baller a Yorkshire or a Geordie a Geordie et al on into infinity. Still one of my fave channels.

[@Chiggins_]

I'd recommend Robert Shearman. He writes short story collections, each book tends to tie the stories around a central theme, focusing on love, or death, or exceptionalism. Always darkly humorous, a rich blend of absurdist comedy and grisly frights

[@nedeast6845]

You are correct about the "mid Atlantic" accent, because many of the movie stars in the 1920's grew up on stage doing Shakespeare, and felt they had to talk like there was a problem in their fundament. if you ever watch any movie from USA, the English have one accent.

[@adamk7406]

I have never once questioned why we say ‘us’ when referring to ourself. ‘Get us a drink.’ Is something I would say regularly but now that I’m deeping it, it makes no sense

[@NoProtocol]

It confused me so much at first!

[@adamk7406]

@@NoProtocol can imagine it would definitely take some getting used to lol. I’m from Yorkshire for reference, I’m pretty sure it’s a nationwide thing.

[@StevenHadfield]

I wonder if it's a working class reaction to the Royal 'We'.

[@johnharrison154]

I've seen this video a few times and the accents are pretty good (the whole channel is pretty good as well, but seems to be dormant now). The chief accent missed though is the Manchester accent which is pretty distinctive and pretty common. There's also something called Multicultural London English (MLE) which is not a traditional accent but spoken by a lot of people nowadays.

[@cmlemmus494]

It's not exactly contemporary, but the best piece of fiction on the topic of British accents would be Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw. The story of the play involves a phonetics professor claiming he can pass off a poor Cockney flower girl as a Duchess simply by teaching her proper diction. An early line in Act One has the professor saying "I can place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets." Fans of musical theatre will be familiar with My Fair Lady, which is adapted from Pygmalion.

[@thereverendoffunk]

I have subscribed just because you love geordies and the accent. From Newcastle upon Tyne 😁

[@QTGetomov]

TRIVIA!!! David Prowse was very disappointed that his voice wasn't used for Darth Vader, since he was the guy in the costume playing the role after all. The problem was David was from the West Country, so his delivery would have been "Come over t' darrrrk soid lewk, Oi is yer farrrrther!" kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5fPlplug6l0pNE&ab_channel=sarlaccpitpodcast

[@KirkhamWesham]

I use the word "us" instead of "me" from time-to-time, depending on context, and I'm from Preston in Lancashire. I grew up in Nottingham (East Midlands) and it was common there, too. It might be widespread. I think it's because it sounds less demanding than using "me."

[@andoncroft5154]

I like this Gal she's well educated VERY articulate very intelligent, and she's EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️❤️

[@morrismonet3554]

I watched tons of Brit-Coms on PBS in the 80's and 90's and was amazed at the different accents. Small country with huge variety rivaling the U.S.A.

[@JohnResalb]

Spanish - you'll have to Google that actually in Spanish to get your suitable feature. In Europe, before we go travelling, we often have to check things in the respective language, as experience has shown - 1) the info. won't show up at all if searching in English or 2) a different subject will appear or 3) at best, a translated copy may appear which (from my experience) is more a resumé of only some of the important things you need to find out).

[@kaojinn]

Siobhan Thompson is awesome. I remember first seeing her on College Humor, and their spinoff tabletop gaming channel, Dimension20. Most recently, I've seen her become a writer on Rick and Morty!

[@citizenkane4831]

If you want to see a fun tv show with irish dialect. Watch "The derry girls" It´s supposed to take place in Londonderry. Most of it is about rthe clashes between chatolics and protestants

[@Damiana_Dimock]

Interesting, I recognized Siobhan Thompson from Dimension 20 stuff, mostly the table top role playing games/shows-Mentopolis, The Unsleeping City, & Fantasy High. I had no idea she’d been on this channel, makes sense tho.

[@L1am21]

This is the channel she started on

[@KarlRKaiser]

If you're looking for Trans-Atlantic accent, look to the actors Katherine Hepburn and Carey Grant.

[@nigelleyland166]

I can identify a person born and raised in the nesxt town, no more than 4 miles away prely by their English accent, it is at time so very suttle, but also very obvious! There are also subtle clues in the way inflect and the terms they use as well as colloqialisms ans terms of phrase which are often dependant on age, sounds complicated and it is but if you are brought up in it its second nature. Even animals have accents, We had an Astralian Cockateil it woud perch on the window sill ans go ballistic at the sound of local gulls which it considered a threat. If a gull was on the TV it would ignore it's calls unless it was a programm from our area in which case it would kick off!

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

I'm from Devon and when I went just across the border to Somerset, I found out that apparently the phrase "where's it to?" makes no sense. I still don't understand why

[@_uncredited]

As a geordie, I can confidently say we have no idea why we say 'us' instead of 'me'. But we're stubborn and refuse to change. Some theories claim it's an influence from Old Norse and Anglo Saxon, but that doesn't really hold up to analysis. I believe some ancient geordie knew full well that the word was 'me', but insisted on saying 'us' just to annoy people and the joke hasn't got old.

[@MasterIceyy]

Tbf even in the midlands we say "us" instead of "me" too. "pass us the remote" or "pass us the salt" it's common here too

[@_uncredited]

@@MasterIceyy I think it's because a lot old dialects use a short 'me' instead of 'my' (eg. look at m' new car). It's weird to say the full 'my', so we need an alternative to 'me', and 'us' seems to do the job. Source: My butt, just now.

[@herpyderpy4366]

Yeah we say "us" instead of "me" here in (my part of) Scotland too. In my personal perception, using "us" in the local dialect often makes a statement or request/command sound friendlier or simply softens it, whereas "me" makes it sound more demanding/abrasive. You can definitely do both for the different effects though, rather than only one of them being valid in this dialect.

[@middler5]

Us is used in Dublin too.

[@lk-music]

@@_uncredited Yep, in my dialect if we were telling somebody about something that happened when driving, it's more likely to begin "I was in me car" than "I was in my car", it's kinda just faster and easier to say it that way. We wouldn't use "my car" unless it's relevant, like "Shall we go in my car or yours?"

[@michaelandrew4488]

She missed Kent - shared a house with a girl from Kent and she had the most lovely soft accent.

[@breakbeatkid]

i think that saying 'us' instead of me is a primarily but not exclusively northern english thing. I think it's supposed to be a community thing. a sense of solidarity. it's also quite common to say 'our' instead of 'my' like 'come to our house' or 'it's at ours' meaning it's at my house. another thing which feels linked and is common in northern english, particularly north western english is to say 'our kid' referring to a sibling or a close friend.

[@Home8rew]

For a good book with lots of Geordie dialect, try “The Machine Gunners” by Robert Westall. It’s written with 12-15 yr olds in mind but it’s still a great read.

[@ravenward626]

Speaking of UK bed and breakfasts, there used to be at least one along the Scottish border that used a renovated Peel tower. I kinda want to visit just for the historical aspect.

[@JohnResalb]

What you may have missed in those different accents, is she also uses a lot of words and features that are peculiar to those individual regions, but probably only British can pick up on those (you need to have been to those regions).

[@anthonywalker6276]

Not surprising when you think how diverse the peoples of Britain have always been. Iberians, Gauls, Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans, etc. In modern English we have Celtic, Danish, Latin, Greek, French, and multicultural influences which are really wonderful and need to be appreciated instead of feared.

[@celticbarry9877]

In Glasgow people say "us" as well although we say it as "is". Like we would say "do you want to come with us to the shop" like "wanty come wae is tae the shoap"

[@handyandyoway]

I'm just shocked that you didn't know where Liam Neeson was from! You seem to know most other things and you give me hope that the younger generation won't only rely on google for everything. Love your videos, thanks.

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi, The use of Us rather than me, is an East London thing as well, I have also heard it in Essex and Kent. I found the accent she did to be quite close, including the Cockney. My ear for this is a bit out of date. If your looking for recent UK authors, can I suggest, Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.

[@colonelturmeric558]

There are accents for every different village here, and it gets further confused when for example a woman like my nana is raised by parents from chesterfield and passes on slang from that area to her kids and grandkids

[@MattScottMusic]

I had a Geordie friend too, actually we are still friends too, and same, I couldn’t understand a lot of what she was saying for quite a long time. I gathered ‘scran’ is food, ‘Baltic’ means cold, ‘tiffing it’ means running fast…

[@NGT4LIFE]

The word scran comes from Scotland originally...but Geordie and Scouse people also say it. We don't say it in London.

[@Oxley016]

I think it comes from the Vikings/Norse actually just like the word bairn or hyem.@@NGT4LIFE

[@spainboy]

I worked in Newcastle for two Pakistani/Geordie bothers and for a Southerner (Kent) like myself, some things were " lost in translation"

[@BerliozTheAristocat]

Her brummie accent sounds more like South african to me but other than that she’s pretty good

[@AlBarzUK]

There were bits that sounded Black Country, to be honest, but not Brum. I mean give us a break!

[@Scoobay]

@@AlBarzUKbrummie is a little more diverse than people realise. I haven’t spoken to anyone that sounded like her but hey, it’s a tough one to get down.

[@annicecooper8105]

It was more Black Country than Birmingham to be honest. Alison Hammond, Jeff Lynne, Jasper Carrott are all Birmingham whereas Frank Skinner, Lenny Henry are true Black Country ( Yam Yams ) 😄

[@ravenward626]

@00:56 I adore the trans-Atlantic accent! It probably never caught on because it was created, and didn't evolve naturally; or at the very least nobody spoke it by default. I sometimes wish we had a phonetic script that could capture pronunciations and accents.

[@danmayberry1185]

Your Geordie pal might say "uz" as a contraction of "I is." Newfoundlanders have a traditional song that translates to: I'm the boy that builds the boat. As Canadians know, it's sung: I's the b'ye that builds the boat And I's the b'ye that sails her ..

[@solomonkane6442]

Anything by Terry pratchett 😂 the man is a story telling genius 😂

[@DrainedOatmeal]

Being from caerphilly, about a 15 minute drive from Cardiff.. the womans 'welsh accent' was more akin to the valleys accent.

[@J_Stamps86]

As someone from Sheffield, I can confirm we do sound like that, haha

[@FedericoDLP]

The reason you could not recognise the accent from that London guy is because there are a number of different accents: North London: Amy Winehouse; South London: Ginger Baker; East London, Cockney (Dick Van Dyke; joke OK?), Estuary (a recent one): Paul Merton. Then there is standard London accent (an average solicitor), RP (BBC presenters, Emily Maitlis) and even posh in places like Chelsea.

[@grveyardshft]

As a scouser her Liverpool accent wasn’t too bad! Glad she didn’t go to that overly exaggerated cliche most people do 😂

[@iz723]

You think its exaggerated, and you go listen to John Bishop.

[@steveo4991]

@@iz723 John grew up in Cheshire and Runcorn and went to school in Manchester. He’s overcompensating.

[@Scoupe400]

I was looking forward to that - but it was bad. It was fun and nice she’s looked into the differences & traits but the imitation needs work. Maybe less hurried. And she needs to look into the variances of West Midlands and London, as there’s many sub dialects, which sound different. I think a lot of us can do better. I really do adore the easy to understand old American tv voices, such as those on What’s My Line. Loads of full episodes on YT.

[@philipkudrna5643]

I can not really tell many differences as I am not native and it seems to me that the Scottish Inverrrness accent could have been a bit harsher, but she definitely nailed the Dublin Accent, that‘s for sure!

[@MH-br3th]

I always thought there were two. The fancy one and the fights at soccer games one.

[@hughcromwell7845]

Been speaking RP for a long time, though my original accent was of course Geordie as a child. But moving down south saw to it falling away from how I spoke.

[@PaulDear-jb2bu]

We have a comedian named Michael McIntyre who is good at accents and very funny with it. Look up Michael McIntyre, accents. I'm sure you will enjoy him. Another comedian who is good at accents is Al Murray (The Pub Landlord).

[@Mike-rw2nh]

British Author Recommendation: Anything by Jonathan Meades. He also does some top notch documentaries too.

[@williebauld1007]

I am glad that I'm not the only one who likes Four In A Bed!!! Try Irvine Welsh Trainspotting to read! it's written in my local Edinburgh dialect, I'll be honest that was the first book I read in my own dialect and it took me a wee while to wrap my head around at first!

I think I had a small aneurysm when the woman called it "southern Ireland".

[@ravenward626]

I wonder if people living in the Republic of Korea ever have similar emotions when people call it South Korea?

[@GhostWatcher2024]

​@ravenward626 i dont know.. i mean north and south are still korea... Probably more like Taiwanese hearing them referred to as China. South ireland? Aka Ireland. F the British amirite?

[@SirHargreeves]

West Britain?

[@hugh-hoof-hearts4360]

From Belfast, you southerner, 😂😂😂

Perhaps they do but then calling them South Korea makes sense and I have met Koreans that refer to it as such so I think it's ok. The more northerly point on the Island of Ireland isn't in Northern Ireland, it's in Ireland so it doesn't make sense to refer to Ireland as Southern Ireland. That's just from a purely geographic standpoint, ignoring the political problems of the term.@@ravenward626

[@richt71]

Many places the accent and slang changes every 20 miles. Cockney accent is East London. There's lots of different accents in the 600 square miles of Greater London.

[@sjhhej]

Author recommendation: Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. A very enjoyable outsider's view of the English language.

[@MrBizteck]

The UK and Ireland has litterly 1000s of accents. In Ireland where Im from I can tell which village your from by you accent. Even Dublin that she did has several accents from a Bsllymun dregs to a D4 rugger bugger 😂 My accent is whats cslled a Bogger accent from Meath

[@Matty_UK]

Out of all the TV shows that the UK produces and you love Location Location Location, Four in a Bed, and Come Dine With Me. Lol

[@devontheultra]

As an American that’s fallen in love with Liverpool FC, I can, with full bias, say that the Scouse accent is my favorite

[@simondavies6270]

Hi Devon, I'm from the UK, from London and I am a big Liverpool fan too. I just wanted to greet you with a hearty welcome and say: " You'll Never Walk Alone." 😊🤗

[@devontheultra]

@@simondavies6270 YNWA mate ❤️

[@steveo4991]

Welcome to the family. From a Scouse Liverpool supporter.

[@Gazer75]

Add in the dialects we have in Norway and this is even more crazy here.

[@andychapman-th3bl00dynine4]

She missed Stoke or Potteries accent me duck (where the ron weezly actor's folks are from, I was kind of mates with his aunties (julia and nik who lived in Alsager). We didn't get a Cumbrian accent either which is similar to Geordie but a little softer e.g. I cannat ansa, am on the fern (phone). The scouse accent is massively different depending on which part you live e.g. birkenhead is hugely pronounced to somewhere more south like the wirral (I know this is cheshire and not liv but not far off) where it is less so. Also south cheshire where i am from is heavily influenced by Manchester and the manc twang though softened a bit by rp though most of us say bath and not barth. On the author front, if you like your game of thrones type fantasy fiction, I would highly recommend Joe Abercrombie and his 1st Law trilogy of books starting with The Blade Itself. The way he writes picks out the different type of accents for different nations and his characterisations are spectacular, there are no heroes in his books, they are all flawed, though you still end up rooting for them. Joe is proper twisted with his plotlines which are bordering on sadistic but unconceivably clever.

[@rubberyowen1469]

Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock holmes), Ian Fleming (James Bond)

[@AndrewHansenUK]

You would enjoy the books of Magnus Mills. You could start with Restraint of Beasts.

[@karlrichardson3295]

I'm from Washington in the North East of England We say us because we are a part of a family so if we talk about our self we always refure too the family

[@btraven7536]

Thursday Murder Club. Richard Osman is very popular now, with the twee Agatha Christie type of mystery. A pleasant change of pace from psychopathic slasher novels.

[@NoProtocol]

This sounds perfect for me! Thank you

[@beautifulchlorophyll2285]

4:33 she's actually incorrect about Northumberland and Newcastle speaking in Geordie accents, I'm from Sunderland - about 20mins drive from Newcastle, we're what you call Mackems, which is similar but distinctively different, Northumberland have more of a Cumbrian accent, Geordie is really only strong in and around Newcastle and sort of goes out on a gradient of strength in the surrounding areas, but thankfully, it rarely truly leaves Newcastle! - good to hear it's your favorite accent though, how YOU doin ;) ... bonny lass. It's more like 'iz' than 'uz' and I have no clue hinny but everyone says it and always has so if it works why fix it? hahaha if you like the accent you may also like this old geordie folk song kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6Czi6dogseEr8k

[@teadrinkingunicorn]

I'm from Stoke on Trent and I say us when refering to myself. I dont know why I do it, just that I do. It has also caused issues in the UK as alot of them dont know wtf I'm on about

[@paultrussy]

Years ago I was told I have an English accent I didn't even know existed! (Stockport 🤣)