30 Dialects of the English language in the UK

30 dialects, variations and accents of the English language in the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) and the Isle of Man.
Including Received Pronunciation, Cockney, Brummie, Geordie, Scots, Ulster Scots, Highland English, Welsh English, Manx English, Ulster English, Anglo-Cornish, dialects from Kent, East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire), Sussex, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Country, South East, Bristol, Devon, the Potteries, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Scouse, Mancunian, Northumbrian and Cumbrian dialects.

[@ilovenycsomuch]

You picked so many old people, it’s like a bunch of lord of the rings wizards and dwarves sitting in a room

[@DLJ_Official]

Multiple lols

[@itsHansCam]

Omg 😂😂😂

[@kevinyoung3499]

Probably because the old people were only too happy to talk to them, whereas, if they asked somebody younger they were most likely told to 'F@#K OFF!'

[@carrot5826]

OMG HAHAHAHAHHAHA

[@carrot5826]

"Master, you have given Dobby socks. DobBy iS FrEe"

[@toxicbee990]

It should be renamed " accents of 80 year old pensioneers in the UK"

[@portelm3137]

Anglus Patria racist

[@alienbsg]

@Anglus Patria it still is though. 80.5% of England identified as NATIVE white British according to the latest official census

[@Polaris750]

@Anglus Patria you have no comeback so you just call him a racist?

[@nickwhite7476]

@@portelm3137 Name country in the world that wouldn't have a problem with being replaced out of your own home.

[@theo1856]

Well this country is less english, but NO ONE EVEN REALISES THAT THIS BASTARD HAS A FACIST FLAG IN HIS PROFILE PICTURE. THIS IS ENGLAND NOT GERMANY.

[@MutantNinjaPotato]

For anyone wondering why the accents tend to be older folk, it could be because with each generation our accents get gradually more dilute and blended. Interestingly, some older farmers from isolated areas still have historic dialects that the rest of us have completely lost through travel and urbanisation etc. It's really fascinating how language evolves, and so quickly as well.

[@sikkableeat5614]

That is the result of standardized education. It's a good thing these accents are being recorded, because they will soon be lost forever. A sad byproduct of standardization.

[@clairecheskin4213]

The whole of Wales has one accent? I don't think so

[@grandma-1639]

claire cheskin exactly in the north it’s more strong but I’m the south (where I’m from) it’s a little more faded

[@AdaraLily]

Grandma - you have the same name as my second account and profile picture

[@charlottedavies6961]

claire cheskin exactlyyy 😂

[@ambergaskell8222]

Grandma - I’m from north wales x

[@cringeanimate2900]

No

[@curt3494]

The fact is, if you wanted to include every accent in the UK, you'd be looking at a video with 100+ different dialects.

[@myowncomputerstuff]

I wouldn't doubt it. I'm not from the UK, but here in the US, I can break up the city of New York into at least six different accents, and that's just one city out of dozens.

[@HouKayWolf616]

+myowncomputerstuff only dozens of cities in the us have accents?

[@myowncomputerstuff]

Texasyellow Monkee I didn't want to say "hundreds". That would be pushing it. But surely a few dozen of the major cities have distinct accents. The smaller ones just cling to the accent of the region. For example, the people in the city of Casper have an accent that's not really distinct from the rest of the state and neighboring states.

[@HouKayWolf616]

myowncomputerstuff being frm ny i guess southern accents all sound the same to u lol...its coo all ny accents sound similar to me too...southern drawls vary city to city...state to state...

[@myowncomputerstuff]

Texasyellow Monkee I know there's a variety of accents down there. They are just more region-specific than city-specific. From my experience, I know inland Kentucky has a particularly raspy sound to it that locals have called the "smoky mountain accent", Virginia also has a very high pitch twang on short vowels sounds once you distance yourself from DC. And the coast sounds drastically different from the Appalachians. Then there are pockets I've visited that hardly have a general southern accent at all. Atlanta seems to be losing the accent gradually, and southern Florida is just full of influence from northerners (and Hispanics near Miami).

[@shaunfraser3720]

People complain that there is a few English accents missed out, but look at Scotland, they've literally only got 2 when there could be 50 haha

[@CountvonCount33]

The Welsh one is all to cock also, thats a south Wales accent. The 'Gogs' up North is different from that.

[@rhyswatkins7545]

+Zig Zag And the west

[@lawofscotland]

Ano go between eh edinbuggers and the weegies and wan canny understand eh other at aw

[@MKRM27]

No one cares about Scotland

[@cgmcg]

MKRM27 hahaha try all the Scottish people?? And if we're no here , what country are you going to steal oil from? Gonna start another illegal war?don't think you can claim that EVERY middle eastern country has nukes,but fucking try if you want . We scots and the Norwegian folks are laughing

[@Farto126]

Why everybody is so old?

[@CountvonCount33]

Time tends to do that to people.

[@Bergwacht]

in the uk are only living old granpas lol

[@Farto126]

+Zig Zag yes, so funny, congrstulations for your joke. Your medal is in the way.

[@danielwurzen]

I assume it's because younger people are less likely to speak these regional dialects, due to the influence of TV and radio and the stigma around these seemingly old-fashioned dialects that are at odds with the cosmopolitan dialects heard on TV and the radio. I think the Manx English heard in this video has been supplanted by English English dialects but I could be wrong about that. I was listening to 'Manx' (Gaelg) speakers on KZbin and they seem to 'speak Manx' by saying Manx (Gaelg) words in a Manx accent. If it were 50 years ago or more, maybe that wouldn't be so bad but the phonetics of modern Manx English (which seems to be mainly a recent import from mainland Britain) is probably very different from the phonetics of the Manx language as it was spoken by the real native speakers of the past.

[@fernlilley2699]

The geordie bloke would be about 30. We sound older because of dialect is quite rough

[@JamilaMonia]

So eine einfache und klare Predigt...vielen Dank... für Ermutigung mitten im Leid

[@Lord_Pender]

Being in the states as an American, I've always been fascinated by the diverse geographic spectrum of dialects in the English language, not only from country to country, i.e. the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, but even WITHIN a single country. It's beautiful hearing them all.

[@jayjayn007]

You definitely see a LOT more varied accents in the older English speaking countries. You should visit England to encounter yourself! I'm half Irish and living here now, and again there are so many different Irish accents per region.

[@funtzman]

Listening to this so far, up to the 2:35 mark, and you can really tell how the southern US accent developed. The slow drawls are just spot on and very common.

[@MaoRatto]

As someone who has heard spoken bits of Appalachian English in real life ( ozark / south Appalachian accent ). Yeah, a lot of these come off familar and pretty understandable. It seems UK speakers don't understand it, but Appalachian English speakers do more than standard English speakers.

[@thomsboys77]

@@MaoRatto What?

[@MaoRatto]

​@@thomsboys77 Here's an easier way of putting it... It seems like the UK don't have an easy time understanding it.... It just sounds very familiar and reminds me a lot of the accents regionally. It is easy to and noticed most people in the other comments don't understand it. East Midlands so much like Appalachian to me outside of the vocabulary and the R sound.

[@jacobbentley9318]

Didn't bother making the distinction between north and south welsh accents

[@catherinebutler4819]

I know, right? They're far more different from each other than, say, Kent and what's called "south-east" here. Somerset wasn't there at all - a land of silence between the West country and Devon...

[@Rachulie]

YES!

[@JM-ft8lw]

Catherine Butler well I agree on the Wales front but the way they have done the south east is ridiculous anyway. Hampshire shouldn't be lumped in that category

[@w0rmg0rl]

was that north wales then? (assuming because he said machynlleth was "down") i lived in mid-wales and no one had that accent there

[@Emberrss]

Or between glasweigen central or ediinburgh accents

[@Paul_Lucas]

There's a whole plethora of accents within Northern Ireland itself. Derry for example isn't at all like "Ulster English".

[@randomreddituser7100]

First

[@callumhardy5098]

And in every other region including within this video, but if you read the title it says ‘30’.

[@smoothfags20]

You can have 30 Dialects in Scotland alone.

[@Tjmce]

There could be a few In Ireland

[@JamesDean-tc8ml]

Touche

[@constantineravenna86]

There must be at least 90 in Ireland

[@moony5097]

Probably double that in Wales lol

[@hanabi_noir]

For 1/3 of the accents , I won't recognize those as English if I randomly hear those from radio. Okay, I'm a non-native speaker.

[@bnanaaasbrown9529]

To be fair, I'm a native English speaker from the UK, and I found it hard to understand a few of these. Very poor audio recordings for some, and I think very outdated accents.

[@cremebrulee6667]

Native American English speaker here, most of them were difficult to understand entirely and a few sounded like foreign languages.

[@nostalgiabruh7002]

Im a native english speaker and i can barely understand half of these lmao

[@MaoRatto]

As a native American English speaker with Appalachian influence and exposure via real life. These accents are pretty inteligable via Appalachian English sounds very similar to a lot of these. A lot of it has to do with bad audio or weird stress patterns. Sounds like spoken middle english at times.

[@placeholdernameisplacehold7671]

To be honest, it's a running joke that rural Yorkshire is essentially its own language

[@SloopeyC]

This should be re-titled "Geriatric Dialects Of The English Language In The UK"

[@grimaldus1967]

Real British accents before 3rd world immigration destroyed our country.

[@TH-sw1yx]

@@grimaldus1967 More like American cultural imperialism.

[@benjaminshepherd2988]

will deely how is that racist?

[@Kejsaren]

@@TH-sw1yx Learned from the best!

[@paufonseca4249]

RIR.16AA xenophobia 😍😍😍

[@KP-vg3zn]

I'm an American from Eastern North Carolina but my ancestors come from East Midlands. It's fascinating how the same dialect is used in my area. My 85 year old grandmother speaks just like she's from East Midlands but with more of a southern drawl.

[@oliviacranex]

Kristin P. we don’t talk like that at all lmaooo

[@Floral_Green]

I’m from the East Midlands as well and what you describe sounds genuinely fascinating. I’d be intrigued to hear that.

[@teltri]

Very good job! It´s so nice to hear original residents speaking their mother tongues.

[@Timpanocity]

With half of the Manx flag at the end, it looks like someone falling off the edge of the screen.

[@hera2159]

Studio Avocat Haha that's great :)

[@emiliasulivan7464]

No it don't. (English launage/accent) I am English so I'm not being harsh

[@Abshenonas]

+SynthesizerSounds it doesn't just vary between north and south but between English and Welsh speakers

[@Gynra]

+SynthesizerSounds The Cardiff accent is distinctive, too - very different from a South Wales accent.

[@Abshenonas]

+SynthesizerSounds way more than 3. In fact once January exams are over (I am a student) I plan to do a video on Welsh accents

[@chrisklitou7573]

Wales has more than 1 accent. you have the Cardiff accent,Swansea accent,The Valleys accent and the Northern Welsh accent.

[@carlh429]

There is more than one accent in North Wales. North East Wales has a strange mix of Northern Welsh and Scouse with hints of Cheshire and Shropshire. North West Wales has a harsher sounding but still "sing-songy" version of South Welsh.

[@PiousMoltar]

@@carlh429 Don't call north western Welsh south Welsh!

[@mangocrumble3419]

I once went to north wales on holiday and I thought the accent was fairly similar to a scouse one

[@chrisklitou7573]

@@mangocrumble3419 it is it's like a mix between Welsh and Scouse because near the border Similar to how people from Northumberland sound a mix of Scottish and English

[@sonicstep]

Good point.

[@robertedwards5184]

There is a World of difference between north & south Wales accents. In Wrexham, accents change from villages only 3 miles apart.

[@MaoRatto]

Sounds Germanic.

[@omikl]

There's 3 distinct accents in Yorkshire. North, West, and South, plus Hull which is completely distinct. I joke that when I was a kid you could just about tell what street someone lived on by their accent ;-)

[@whnook]

There's more than that Steve. I'd hate to be compared with modern day Bradford or Huddersfield accents. Compare Castleford with Halifax.

[@Kris_1708]

Steve Kellett ezzle roadddd

[@Kris_1708]

Blast Thunder I’m from Hull, well East Riding to be exact but I can honestly tell you there is a big difference from even Leeds accent to a hull one you can tell somebody is from Hull by the way they pronounce the letter O’s in words and when I was working with people from Leeds they say the word now as naaa and also they skip words like they’ll say “I’m going across t’road” 😂😂

[@DaveBartlett]

Not such a joke in Hull. I can usually tell which side of the river Hull someone was brought up on, just from their accent, and to a certain extent, I'll get an idea of which area beyond that they're from: in some cases, right down to which housing estate they hail from.

[@ThatsnewsTV]

Yeah, but Hull isn't Yorkshire.

[@ferkinskin]

Excellent. Many people in the UK are unaware that there are so many dialects, and this only scratched the surface.

[@cristiaolson7327]

An an American, I'm struck by how much of the sound of certain vowels and consonants in Mancunian remind me of certain regional accents in the parts of New England here in the states.

[@jout738]

Who is an an American? You mean ananas?

[@richardbradley1172]

That Geordie accent was quite mild to be honest

[@TheWomblemaster]

theres a differnce in the accent, from those who live west of the tyne bridge and those who live to the east. the west side is diluted by northumbrian.....its around byker where the accent is thickest. tynemouth accent is more diverse, lot of posh middle class folk live there.

[@whentheleveebreaks3962]

I wouldn't say any accents in the toon have been diluted by Northumbrian. If anything, its up here in Northumberland that our accent is getting diluted by Geordie

[@themaggattack]

@@whentheleveebreaks3962 It's all a matter of perspective, innit? 😉

[@whentheleveebreaks3962]

@Gísiu Wolf The further out into the wilds of wannie you go, you can still find it mind. If you're in a pub in Rothbury or round Coquetdale it's still as strong as its always been.

[@peaceandjustice3575]

I live in Sussex and I don't know anyone speaking like the one you've shown. I couldn't even understand what he was saying.

[@sophiejdalston]

that's because its an old recording. People in Sussex did indeed used to speak like that.

[@peaceandjustice3575]

Sophie Jenkins Now no more, it's seems that there are likely lots of cockney,south-eastern and Scottish accent speaking people here.

[@sophiejdalston]

+Jazir Kamal the British library has recordings from between the fifties and seventies of different dialect I believe some of the clips are from there. It is all online. Strangely some accents have got stronger since, such as the Northumbrian/Geordie accent and Cockney

[@Abshenonas]

+Peace and Justice Sophie J is right. The Suffolk recording is from the Survey of English Dialects done back in the 1950s and early 60s. The Suffolk recording in this video is of a retired gardner from East Harting called Harry Prior who was born in 1881 making him 135. Also East Harting is in the far west of the county. But either way, no wonder you don't recognize his accent.

[@peaceandjustice3575]

+Trent Report Maybe the Sussex accent might be rare these days. Because many people from the north,London,Scotland and Ireland have migrated to this county.

[@Abshenonas]

Wales has been to over generalised. Accents differ between North and South and between native Welsh speakers and non-native/non-Welsh speakers

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Trent Report Agree

[@johnhiggins3745]

+Trent Report yup apparently the whole of Wales sounds the same and the only difference in Scotland is from the highlands to the lowlands which as a Scot my self i can say is complete and utter shit

[@greyscaless_]

I was born in Wales, lived here my whole life... but don’t speak welsh So what am I?!?

[@Stettafire]

+Akela 14 a non-Welsh speaker. Also pedantic as the OP said that said accents were different (and they are) not that either was good or bad

[@greyscaless_]

Welsh Boy ppppttthh I rather die thanks.

[@MrAtsyhere]

Accents are fascinating. I'm 68 and remember the accents of three of my Grandparents from the UK. All three of them arrived before WW1 and retained much of their accents well into the 1980's. No more so than my Grandfather from Liverpool who after 70 years in Canada sounded like he just jumped off the boat.(Cherrington) His wife that he met in Canada was from Birmingham (Salmon) whom had the strangest of pronunciations. My Grandma Hayes was a war orphan from Manchester (Old Seram?) and grew up in Eastern Canada. Some of the Old New England of her husbands family crept into her speech so when you hear FDR talk about "Fear Itself" your hearing a person who was a relative of ours. Even OUR language has homogenized over the airwaves into something rather plane and quickly spoken. Nothing like Shakespeare in our languages today.

[@thesunman]

I love this language! English sounds so exotic. England is truly a fascinating country.

[@goatfader]

This must confuse the heck out of any Americans watching. Many of these are basically what the accents were widely like 200 years ago and extreme examples useful in examining the regional differences between speech but not typical of how people from each area sound today, although as the recordings show there are rural enclaves that preserve accents and many are still fairly widely used.

[@pwthcim]

+GoatFader Whatis needed is CURRENT recordings of UK dialects. Posts on youube also cover slang from different geo. areas of USA. Most of that slang is from the 1880s - 1900. Not current at all. Criminy!

[@albin4323]

+GoatFader Are you embarrased of your accent of what? Stop denying how you speak i have been to UK and i KNOW EXACTLY that they speak like this. This video is good for us foreigners to hear how you speak

[@heythenameiselliott2673]

+Diamant Kusen I have lived in the UK all my life, I live in the East Midlands and that accent sounds NOTHING at all like how most speak, mine is a mix between the more posher British accent but also has a little mix of dialect slang and accent from the east. But the voice in this video was totally wrong

[@grampton]

+Chloe Price, I didn't know you were British!

[@Ian-dn6ld]

Perhaps your voice was the voice which was totally wrong... You have the posher sound. Perhaps the voice was from someone who didn't or tried to avoid the posh sound.

[@kevindasilvagoncalves468]

RECIPE TO CREATE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: 1. Take an unimportant coastal dialect of northern Germany; 2. Vulgarize it a lot until it get almost unrecognizable; 3. Mix a lot of gay French words and Latin to give it flavor. Enjoy! (just a joke)

[@PetraRocks100]

you forgot to add some old norse words as well...

[@kevindasilvagoncalves468]

+Randomstuff Of course, like TAKE, LEG, SKY, WANT, TELL.

[@wednesdaynightbusiness6296]

"HAHAHA UR LANGWEJ IS GAY" - Random Spaniard 2016

[@atwcat9370]

How to make a germanic language 1: Steal every world you can from the romans. 2: add random fucking symbols and noises. 3: Make an anagram of these words. 4: Enjoy!

[@bluesfan582]

For real cosmopolitanism, also add American mis-spellings.

[@dritzzdarkwood4727]

The Kent dialect is beautiful. Edit: The Highlanders are so much more clear for a Dane to hear than the Lowlands!

[@davidmarshallthegoat2737]

This is english ignorance from the post at its finest there are plenty more than two accents in scotland don’t believe this wank

[@hustensaftvernichter3785]

This video reminds me of when my brother was once approached by a Saxon guy while out partying. The guy was trying to have a little chat and little did he know we weren't locals. I am fluent, or so I thought, in both German and English but still couldn't figure out what the Saxon was saying as it didn't sound like German at all so we considered that he might actually speak some weird variation of English, which my brother then indeed answered in English, followed by the saxon leaving the scene without further comments but a confused look on his face. As it turned out, it was German - just with an extreme saxon/thyringian accent. I'm glad that German is not the only language which allows for such challenging but yet very amusing encounters. I've heard that Russian makes for similar differences in between the regions.

[@everettduncan7543]

Thing is, I could understand most of these English accents shown pretty well. Same can't be said for German

[@twangbarfly]

Great video - OK, it's a bit old, and you might struggle to find people speaking entirely like this these days, but it's great to hear representations of the different accents around the British Isles. There's obviously a LOT more to it than 30 accents, but this really is MUSIC to my ears! The further we can get and remain from drab, homogenised English the better! Thanks for posting this document.

[@laura101cookies]

that Cumbrian one was pretty good, finally glad to see some form of media including Cumbria.... the national weather forecasts always manage to miss us out. it's a bad job when Manchester is a far north as you get

[@Emily-Whitfield]

Very fascinating! Thank you from Missouri. US

[@Transportia]

Thanks! Not only a good tour but hearing old people remembering their own experiences is gold.

[@MrRevoltOfficial]

So close together yet such different accents. It's insane.

[@travishughes5609]

We are still the Ulster Scots and some Welsh here in western North Carolina and eastern TN. Great video thanks!

[@fmorley368]

There are many different accents in Yorkshire! West Yorkshire and East Yorkshire will sound very different to the trained ear x

[@largeladsteve25]

Grouping us East Midlanders into one seems a little strange, Lincoln and Leicester definitely have different accents. Definite similarities too, though, although there's also similarities with us, the West Mids, and others with Yorkshire. I do hope I don't lose my Notts accent over my life.

[@absurdious]

audio is very bad... I can't hear anything

[@loganran4074]

All the examples sound like they were recorded on different cassette tapes at least 6 feet away from the speaker, half of which are mumbling rapidly. It's just not terribly helpful. I'm a little confused though, some of these are more accents than dialects or am I plain wrong? Regarding accents for Scotland/Wales/Ireland, yes - lots are not represented here. I personally love Glascow's accent in English but each one is beautiful in its own right.

[@cmns8725]

You mean you can’t hear clearly right? Me too.

[@jeongna]

Lol the only one I could understand all of what he was saying was the Michael rosen one

[@phandill1240]

Im from Bristol, that's exactly how my granddad sounds

[@Abshenonas]

+Phan Dill What accent do you have then?

[@1963salvator]

+Phan Dill where to in Bristol my lovva

[@edg6762]

Rob Kinnon-Brettle me lubberrrr*

[@Rosiecrossley1]

I is from brizzle too me luvver x

[@diegedankensindfrei2872]

Thanks for doing the "Cambridgeshire" accent! You don't really hear it much, but I can detect a "rural" twang in the way some native Fenlanders speak but I've never heard a clear example like you've presented here. By placing it next to the Norfolk accent you can compare and contrast - which is helpful to me as I often confuse one for the other!

[@Bilzo599]

I second this! Been searching for examples online for a while

[@Thracian117]

Being country bumpkin from the south west I can get by with the accents straight through to Cornwall, Odly though my gran was from a tiny village in ulster, so whenever I hear that accent it I can't help but feel a little warmer inside

[@puekbislayer]

From my experience living in the South East our accents are often more similar to a less posh variation of the first accent shown. HOWEVER, every city you will go to will have a different accent, even if it is only a slight change. I live 10 minutes away from one city and they sound completely different. Accents everywhere in the UK and abroad are broad and always changing... Plus I don't understand half of these! XD

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

Love this, old-fashioned accents.

[@NoiseOverMusic]

I go to an Episcopal Church in America, and a lot of people there are from England. Thankfully this video helps me understand which different accents are which without me outright asking.

[@RonRicho]

So fascinating. Many thanks.

[@AlisonBryen]

Too many generalisations here; the west mids (my area) has the black country, brummie and potteries accents to name but three , each of which are diverse and distinct from each other! not to mention accents from the countues of Staffs, Shropshire, Worcestershire etc!!!!!

[@Cephlin]

brandybuck1984 way too many generalisations, the whole of Yorkshire = 1 dialect? Whole of Wales = 1 dialect? Only 2 dialects in Scotland? Only one accent in the West Midlands and the East Midlands only has one too? At least the south east is covered reasonably well and the north west is fairly well covered.

[@hera2159]

Cephlin The purpose of this video is not to be comprehensive, it is only a selection. Plus I am not a native speaker, so it is sometimes extremely hard for me to identify dialects and see if an audio record is really relevant.

[@Cephlin]

Hera but Robin Hood ^_^

[@phill9825]

Cephlin lol

[@Officialhelpkenet]

+brandybuck1984 You can't have every single local dialect, then there would be hundreds, or even thousands.

[@Ash-vt5cp]

Basically the more north you go, the more unintelligible it gets

[@Ash-vt5cp]

Liam Cundle i'm from the midlands...

[@pogotheclown77]

Ash Lol soo true! Derbyshire! 😂

[@kianaustin6665]

Pogo The Clown you from Derbyshire as Well?

[@piter4595]

Midlands? What is that imaginary place?

[@DuxoupJr]

john v Only the best place in the entire UK (West > East Midlands :D)

[@davepalmtree2198]

There are at least 4 distinctive accents in Wales. The man speaking is from North Wales: a very different accent to South and West Wales. Cardiff is also a very distinctive accent in comparison to the rest of the country.

[@sicgc7658]

For Highland Scots, that's only Inverness. For Scots, that's not even Glaswegian, Perth, Aberdonnian nor Lothian accents. In all fairness, you can only really do the borders because most speak Scots English and not English or even just Scots and not English at all. And with Highland Accents, many speak Doric outwith Inverness, and even then sometimes in Inverness.

[@evanmclaughlin4792]

they just have the stereotypical scots

[@zeusmc.8662]

Yoda I am Doric is not spoken in the Highlands or Inverness. Its spoken in Aberdeenshire.

[@RexGalilae]

I came here solely for the scouser accent. I was disappointed

[@rosfow]

I went to uni in Liverpool. The scouse accent in this video was very mild. I was disappointed too.

[@anthonyf3680]

For me that sounded nothing like a Liverpool accent

[@BillyDrakePianoMan]

I had a great-uncle from Harleston, Norfolk, may he rest in peace, and I could never understand a damn word he said when we’d talk over the phone.

[@mountainadventures7346]

We have lots of accents in the USA too. What blows my mind is that the widest point of the UK is the south at like 320 miles. That’s not as wide as Washington state. And we are not Texas…. How do you pack that many accents into a small space? I also heard a lot of R’s being spoken unlike RP…. Makes you wonder where American English actually came from. What region. Or maybe it’s more OP.

[@UKDrilla]

West country and Sussex accent is most like American . Accents in uk have been spoken and evolving from eachother for more than thousand years. Most of them originate from Old English and Old norse

[@clintharrington9524]

Only one accent in Wales? Cultural imperialism at work here.

[@user-tx6lu6nz5r]

wayy george my g

[@portelm3137]

Anglus Patria racist

[@nigheananndradubh]

@Anglus Patria the irony of complaining about "cultural replacement" in England but then ignoring when it actually happens for real to Wales, by the English. anglo fascism is cringe

[@nigheananndradubh]

@Anglus Patria lmao "larping twerp" can it get any more cringe

[@williamllwyn1258]

There's about ten or so different accents in Wales not just the one.

[@williamllwyn1258]

I'd rather us leave so we can control our own country and economy rather than some stuck up English toffs in Westminster.

[@williamllwyn1258]

Wales never broke off from anything. Welsh is a Saxon word which the Anglo Saxons called the native Britons. The Britons lived in what we now call England but were invaded by the Anglo's and Saxons and pushed the native's west into what is now Wales and Cornwall.

[@williamllwyn1258]

Wales are Britons who get there Celtic culture from mainland Europe probably from Migrating tribes from Gaul which is now France as most of Europe back then were either Celtic or Germanic Britain:Britons recent study's suggest are a mixture of hunter gatherers who got trapped here from the last ice age and migrating tribes from the Basque Country.

[@legionofwaa9543]

Just ignore those Americans, if they don't know about such a great country, jokes on them. By the way, this is coming from an English person.

[@jflynn9081]

+Opptonic you are represented in Parliament, learn economy and realise as much as you hate it, London helps, yes you should be represented more in the flag etc but still leaving the UK would damage you, I've been to Cardiff many times and although it's nice it doesn't have the financial district, tourism etc like London does, I'm from Suffolk as well before you think I'm some sort of Posh twat

[@petezereeah517]

Good vid. I've been to the UK, and I've always told people in America that people in the UK don't talk like the kids in the Harry Potter movies. People roll their eyes is disbelief. I walked around London barely understanding what anybody was saying. I played this vid for a few people to prove my point. Now they believe me.

[@jflynn9081]

+christopher smith fuck off England is in the UK therefore it's the UK, if someone said they went to Europe on holiday and visited Madrid, you wouldn't say "so Spain"

[@jensonwilkinson5408]

UK is in Europe and always will be

[@jensonwilkinson5408]

***** Every country is in a continent. There are 7 continents in the world and the UK is in one of them - Europe

[@YahYakBandan]

Jenson Wilkinson it's eurasia

[@jensonwilkinson5408]

Trollaman Zerreitug no it's not! Europe and Asia are two very seperate continents

[@DafyddWillz]

There's a number of very distinct dialects of English within Wales alone, and generalising them all is a crime. Listen to someone from Cardiff, someone from Bangor, someone from Machynlleth and someone from Wrexham speak English (Or Welsh for that matter) and you'll realise how different they really are.

[@TheMrbaummann]

I'm from Germany and so I#m of course not a native English speaker. I'm also actually very proud that I hear many differences in those accents, because I've seen a similar video of the German accents and many comments were saying that there were no differences. Well, i don't understand East German as a native speaker so... there are heavy differences :D

[@amancalledjim5382]

Yeah quite funny isn't it...I was linked to this video from French speaking Quebecers who couldn't be understood by native French speakers because of their accents

[@yeshewaskebede2784]

Lovely composition

[@ChantelStays]

Its actually really overwhelming (and fascinating) how many english accents there are in the UK...and then on top of it you have the Welsh, Gaelic and Irish languages...which im sure also have their own accents... 😮😮😮 In such a small region, so much history.

[@MrOoYT]

Unfortunately most regional accents are dying out - being replaced by more general ones. Some accents have become stronger though Dialects with their own words and vocabulary are long gone from the areas close to London with standard upbringings - academic speech defines the populations of these counties. However, there are still some speakers of almost all of these and I wish for one day to have children taught phonics in their local speech and their parents can speak to them in dialect (wishful thinking but oh well) By the way, this isn’t even all the accents. Wales and Northern Ireland have at least 5, Scotland could have up to 20. England has many more not mentioned here like Mackem, Smoggie, other Teeside accents, Wigan, Black Country, Somerset, Herefordshire, Salopian, and the counties of East Midlands have their own accents, while northern counties of York, Northumberland, Durham and Cumbria have regional accents within the counties, Cumbria even has different numbers depending on what town you’re in… there are many many traditional accents and dialects, but as I said a lot are dying out

[@erlikquadros5873]

Kent dialect sounds like Lemmy Kilmister, even though he's from Staffordshire!

[@Dunsapie]

I suppose this video was produced by an English person. There are hundreds of different accents in Scotland and they vary from town to town. Musselburgh has a different accent from Edinburgh despite being right next to each other. Similarly, Paisley and Glasgow have different accents.

[@joshhayden3133]

The bit with the 🇮🇲 Isle of Man at the end, love the support 😀

[@CuthienSilmeriel]

I'm from Lancashire and this is pretty much spot on. If anything it's mild compared to the older folk.

[@aliciavivi2147]

I live in the West Midlands and I have no clue what he is saying

[@Julia-hs7vh]

Thomas Warren I am also from the West Midlands, this is my interpretation of what he said "Mind you I don't know if there were any truth in it, to tell ya the truth because never nobody ever took interest and course I suppose would had"

[@CosmicAngel_xo]

same wtf

[@SmashMash1000]

@@CosmicAngel_xo yes wolves fan

[@tubular7752]

Thomas Warren it didn’t sound like West Midlands at all. Have a few friends from there, they sound nothing like it lol

[@stopcomparingeverythingtob6378]

shlups can confirm we don’t speak like that haha

[@lejardinlowerschoolfrench3796]

Very cool! Would love to hear the same sentences read!

[@dani777-nv5kt]

England's accents are so unique🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@lizlovesafrobeats]

My God...Devon Accent is Amazing to listen to❤,I just hope the accent doesn't die off.

[@MarkCrilley13]

Bold move calling Scots a dialect of English!

[@oysterhunter276]

+Andrew Collins Because Scottish people speak ENGLISH. When they say 'English' they don't mean England, they mean the language.

[@MarkCrilley13]

+OysterHunter Yes, most Scottish speakers speak the English language, however, Scots, a language in its own right, is not just English with a Scottish accent.

[@oysterhunter276]

Andrew Collins But that's obviously what the video meant... English with a Scottish accent.

[@whnook]

The Andrew Collins would be a good name for some kind of medal.

[@Banginyermamsince93]

LDN EDD i thought proper Scots was mixed from Gaelic and English?

[@daniele7929]

Volume is too low for most of the speeches. I can barely hear them with maximum speakers volume.

[@maiden5427]

london : you know dem way there fam

[@MrEiliv]

It's fun to see that this text is used for dialect examples in English too. We have this story in Norwegian, called "Nordanvinden og sola". It's used for dialect examples here.

[@poodtang1]

Holy cow Northern English is almost a foreign language. Couldn't understand a word they said.

[@Leo-vr3bg]

I just could understand a thing the Manx English was saying.

[@poodtang1]

That Contra Guy Me neither or the Scottish.

[@YangSing1]

It's nothing like a foreign language. It's a dialect of English in England.

[@fionagregory5774]

poodtang1 well you are just stupid and do not listen properly. I can understand all British accents.

[@edg6762]

lots of American Southerners got their way of speaking partially from Northern English

[@druginducedfeverdream1613]

You left out "Angry Scottish" lmao

[@cymro6537]

3:26 This Welsh accent is located around the Machynlleth area of mid Wales - or at least it once was - it's more or less disappeared because of English incomers.

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

Love this! Could you do one of the United States please?

[@danielhigashikata1169]

it's cool to hear how similar to "American" english some of these sound

[@BigDave15]

Some dialects/accents are missing entirely. For example the people of Teesside and nearby parts are not particularly similar to any in this video, and there is significant variation in Yorkshire. I am sure this applies to other areas too.

[@BigDave15]

+christopher smith Pitmatic is a north Durham accent from the pit villages I believe. I have lived a long time in Teesside too. None of them were like Teesside, which has aspects of Yorkshire and North East type accents.

[@905kadin8]

Family from Ireland, Wales, Yorkshire, Sussex and surrey and as a 2nd gen Canadian... I feel like a broken Australian with a polar bear pulling sled 😂 my accent goes wherever somtimesn

[@robertastewart2083]

It is a pity you weren’t able to record the original rural Essex accent. It is still around in areas that cockneys from London haven’t settled in

[@RaaawuR]

The hardest part about living in Scotland is adjusting to that one other dialect we seem to have...

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

I love how Yorkshire sounds a little bit like Norweigian (due to the Vikings invading).

[@r1tzy5551]

And a mix of Russian

[@K-Viz]

I like the rhotic ones along the south and southwest of England! Sounds closer to American somewhat.

[@sissaboolives2012]

This is like listening to CBC radio in Canada, I have heard probably 85% of these accents in my day to day experience. Some of them remind m of my grandparents and relatives of their generation

[@rebdomine938]

as someone coming from manchester, its only people from north manchester who speak similar to that. theres different accents in manchester

[@ejulian17]

The only dialects that I was able to understand were Ulster English & Ulster Scots! I tried hard listening to others, but didn't get any.

[@LuigiTormenti]

One of my uncles once said, 50 odd years ago, that he could recognise different accents across Bradford (Yorks.)

[@janesharpe5920]

I think this would be an even better video if it was updated. ESL students and non-native speakers would really benefit from hearing younger people with regional accents from the main cities speaking.

[@CockneyRebel1979]

The ironic thing is that I come from London, but according to this- (from what I can hear anyway), my accent sounds more Kent than what it does, London. o.o

[@graceygrumble]

Oh, for fuck sake, stop with the whinge-fest! This was a 'generalised' introduction to English speakers from these islands! It's not supposed to be definitive! It's a broad brush-stroke and one which, given the restriction of 30 dialects, isn't half bad. Sadly, these 'dialects' are intelligible to most British people, because actual 'dialect', as opposed to accent, is dying out. I say 'sadly', because there is an honesty of emotion; a sense of community; a self-worth - 'Jack's as good as his master' - which is encapsulated by the true dialects of these islands. With this, pride is wrought! It's a pride which separates people, on the one hand, but makes people - when attacked in the larger world - more protective of the underdog - 'The Jacks'. Britons have fought, long and hard, throughout history, to gain the respect of 'The Powers That Be'! When Jack becomes a homogenised version of 'The Powers That Be' and loses respect for his community, then watch out! For then, he will act as their attack-dog'! Hunger for education; master the English language, then "No-one," as my granda said "can muck you about!"! But, stay strong; stay proud; stay loyal; stay rooted; keep fighting for Jack, even if Jack knows Jack-shit and never let the bastards grind you down!

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

+graceygrumble I come from Norfolk, I have a slight old Norfolk accent. I live in a small village. Most do not speak that way now, but I know a few with broad old Norfolk accents. It's amazing. I love the older accents and I completely agree with your comment!

[@BadgerUKvideo]

+graceygrumble Well said. For 30 only they did a phenomenal job.

[@graceygrumble]

HardcoreHamster33 English regional accents, when I was a child, were frowned upon as 'uneducated' and the use of dialect was seen as some kind of linguistic deprivation! Standard English is a beautiful, nuanced language. But, for me, it doesn't have the 'soul' of dialectal English - in my case, Geordie. Emotions: happiness,anger, excitement, love etc. can not be expressed in Standard English. It's too sterile. I love the freedom, honesty and wit of Geordie. It's like 'comfort food' - egg and chips; Sunday dinner; a full English and 'a canny bag of Tudor'! (That last one may have been lost to all non-Geordies). Like Latin, dialects are dying. But, I will continue to fight the good fight - despite written appearances. Standard English will never be my modus operandi! ;) x

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

graceygrumble So very true! I really love Geordie! Let us keep fighting, friend! :D

[@obiwankenobi661]

there is nothing more sad than people who define themselves by culture and history. ironically, culture and history were made by people who did things differently and not the way they were used to - thats the makeup of history and culture, not people clinging to the past. conservatism is in direct opposition to nature, since nature rewards change. conservatism reeks of fear and weakness.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

My late brother had a much stronger Devon accent. He spoke Swedish most of his adult life which probably preserved it.

[@bennickss]

To me everywhere in Kent, Essex, Sussex and the south east all sound the same

[@nellydoyley3815]

3:14 is horrid and I can say that because I’m from there 😂 I can 100% say I’ve never known anyone to eat a beetroot sandwich not even my grandma and she’s almost 80 😂

[@jamesflannery-serle3489]

Beetroot in hamburgers, yeah

[@aidanmercer9422]

Scotland has way more dialects. There’s the Loctan accent (Edinburgh) Glaswegian (Glasgow) And Aberdonnian (Aberdeen, Which I think the guy speaking In the “Scots” dialect was speaking as)

[@kirisuta8496]

Lol I'm from Wales and I can promise you I don't sound a thing like that dude - thanks for making the differentiation between north mid and south mate. We're like England jc - different places different accents. On the plus side the dude talking did mention the town I'm from...

[@Ephigy17]

Haha! The East Midlands one is bang on (I'm from Derby).

[@Oleeh-oleeh]

Oh I absolutely love the different accents from England. Does anybody know the Brittish TV show 'Supersize vs Superskinny'? You could take all the accents from there :D That's one of the reasons I love that show so much. By the way I'm from Germany and 13 years old. I just love the English language. I love listening to it, speaking it and whatever else you can do with a language that's beautiful xD Does anybody else feel the way I do about the English language?

[@oysterhunter276]

+Lilith Biskup It's an English tv show, not a British one.

[@johnhiggins3745]

+Lilith Biskup Just so you know most of the accents in this video were just plain wrong

[@Oleeh-oleeh]

+Sir Higgins I meant that I like English accents in general, not just the accents they showed in this video.

[@johnhiggins3745]

Yeah I was just saying there are a lot more than just what they showed and even for Scotland they only showed 2 dialects and only 1 for Wales which is just wrong

[@Abshenonas]

+Sir Higgins It's not that these accents are plain wrong, its that many of them were chosen from the Survey of English Dialects, which focused mainly on elderly people in rural areas - many of whose accents are now extinct. Plus there has been some over-generalisation, there are dozens of different Welsh ones for example, and I am thinking of doing a video for them alone.

[@lewislllouis3877]

I feel really sad about the fact that these dialects are gradually dying this days, similar things are taking place in China as well. Young generations refuse to speak the old dialect while appreciating and imitating the so-called ‘standard language’. To me, each dialect records an unique part of the past time of our language. This is why linguists could reconstruct the Old language (by referring to various dialects). I really really hope every young man could cherish their mother tongue and pass it to the next generation.

[@thomasharter8161]

Toutes les langues disparaissent un jour ou l'autre

[@den93050]

This is a weird comment. Accents evolve, live, and die over time. It has nothing to do with younger generations "refusing" to speak a certain way, or older generations "choosing" to speak another. It happens naturally within any culture, given enough time.