A tour of northern England in accents

Dialect coach Elspeth Morrison presents a tour of the accents of the North.
Melvyn Bragg explores the North: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tczl3

[@kaned5543]

As an American, it's fascinating to me how so many accents exist in such a small space.

[@captainkenzie6873]

As an Englishman it's fascinating to see how few accents exist in such a huge country like the USA.

[@fieryheadedgirl]

Thousands of years of history. Invaders, settlers, multiple warring kingdoms, tiny villages expanding and becoming towns and cities then under the influences of Celts, Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans... that's why our culture is so rich and varied.

[@16-BitGuy]

That also counts entirely for europe

[@cainyourkids]

@@fieryheadedgirlYup. Considering how your island has been entwined in world history since the time of the Ancient Romans, it's not surprising at all.

[@CrimsonTintedGlasses]

New York.

[@masterknoxy8363]

The Lancashire accent was spot on

[@dylanmurphy9389]

Cheshire accent is fascinating for me, you’ll hear Scouse and manc accents but there is a group of people that speak a generic English that sounds like the poshest accent in the north. I’m from a place north of Cheshire that used to be a part of it but joined Merseyside when it became a county so I have a mixture of posh Cheshire and Scouse which cancels out any of that poshness 😂

[@jakegallagher5692]

Have you ever been to Crewe? It's significantly less posh than the rest of Cheshire and you can hear it in the accent 😅

[@michaelmoran9020]

I'm from warrington but my family are scouse, and I keep getting told I have no accent. I feel like when manc and scouse collide you either get something that sounds like a gravel pit or they cancel eachother out like matter and anti-matter and you somehow end up with RP again.

[@louiejonesponation]

Coming from a Cheshire Lad (Crewe), I’d say that Cheshire is interesting with how they talk. Cheshire East is more Mancunian, Cheshire West is more Scouse. Crewe has the most sort of like weirdest accent in Cheshire because it’s a mixture between different accents (Lancashire, Northern Staffordshire, Welsh). Chester and Ellesmere Port have a Scouse Accent (you really hear it with Ellsemere Port, Chester is mixed with Welsh). Macclesfield and Wilmslow are South Manchester.

[@louiejonesponation]

@@michaelmoran9020the Stoke Accent is a combination of Manchester and Scouse.

[@cuntysluttyclit]

Omg Warrington on the map never thought I’d see it

[@PrimevalGolem]

It's a sight to see innit

[@BltchErica]

@@PrimevalGolem innit

[@jamesgriffith3480]

Innit

[@Zeighar]

Innit

[@JohnDoe-te5nj]

Wigan too! 😂 cos sum bugger has for't be frum they'r. I'm off't Gregg's for ah pie or pasty. Un if am particularly klempt and in a great need for summat more substantial ah'll goe n geet sum babbiesyed un chips wit gravey un a splash of pey wet.

[@kevincrates8844]

I'm from Newcastle and I can confirm you did the Geordie accent spot on!

[@fieryheadedgirl]

Love that accent.

[@gilesguest4]

Proud of my South Yorkshire accent, but I just love the Lancashire because it's similar to a Yorkshire accent in a way but it's much softer and relaxing to listen to where a Yorkshire accent is stuntier and more harsh.

[@jamiezaman]

I'm from Oldham (Lancashire) and when I go over to places like Halifax and Huddersfield there's not much difference in the accents.

[@mrdarren1045]

@@jamiezaman well I'm from Preston and my ex wife was from Halifax, and my daughter still lives there and there is definitely a difference between their accent and how we speak in this part of Lancashire. Lancashire also has variations in the accent and the closer you get to the West Yorkshire border the more it sounds like a Yorkshire accent. My ex wife used to say that we speak up and down here. I'm not sure what she meant by that, but I could definitely understand that they sound flatter than we do.

[@jamiezaman]

@@mrdarren1045 That's Preston it's a totally different accent to the one of Oldham ours has a little west Yorkshire twang plus certain parts of Oldham borough used to be part of West Yorkshire before the borders changed to Greater Manchester.

[@mrdarren1045]

@@jamiezaman I think all those parts of Lancashire, like Oldham, Rochdale Bury etc all sound closer to Yorkshire than we do here. The Lancashire accent is very different from the far south in Oldham, Bury etc than further north in Preston and Lancaster etc.

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

She`s a clever lass who made this.

[@KentDonaldson]

Impressed with the Hull effort.

[@eli-nz8oe]

proud of be from lancashire and sound exactly like you did 😂

[@jamiezaman]

There are so many different accents in Manchester like east Manchester - Oldham and Rochdale we're the accent has a bit of west Yorkshire twang as the towns border West Yorkshire.

[@alexojideagu]

To me Liverpool has Welsh influence in its accents too, especially the "BAKKKK" sound.

[@andrewjoyce9038]

Welsh stink

[@mikesaunders4775]

The adjacent parts of Wales have a similar accent to Liverpool.

[@dynam1cdrox711]

Accents are changing. My generation (I'm 18 years of age) and I've noticed how accents have changed over time. The native strong mancunian accent is dying out and it's being replaced by multicultural mancunian English. Compare Liam Gallagher to Aitch or Bugzy malone and you'll see a vast difference. The older generation with native mancunian accents are moving out to outskirts like rossendale area and east Lancashire towns such as burnley. I currently live in Burnley and I worked in retail and a lot of my colleagues who are middle aged have very strong mancunian accents who moved to towns like burnley for various reasons whereas people my age have a more generic mix of mancunian and burnley. Same with Yorkshire accents, because people are travelling more and socialising with different people, they're more clearer and less distinct. It's becoming more of a mixture of lancastrian and estuary English. Some argue it's a multicultural Yorkshire accent. The traditional accents are dying and I reckon in 20-30 years, it'll just be a generic northern accent with a mixture of everything.

[@leod-sigefast]

I agree. I am a Greater Manchester resident (have been all the 40 years of my life) and the inner city accent, made famous in the 90s due to the Gallaghers, is slowly being replaced, amongst the young, by that London 'multicultural' accent that you hear all the time on TV and radio now. Proper old school 'Manc' is still spoken by the, say, 30+, mainly white Mancunians and in all the outer satellite boroughs, such as where I live (Tameside). But, yeah, I was surprised when I was working in town the past couple of years and getting the tram and bus that many school kids have that London type accent coming through, sounding like Dizzy Rascal. I wouldn't say I am a particular fan, or ever have been, of the strong Manc-y accent, a la Gallaghers, but it is a shame to lose regional accents and everyone now morphing into one 'yuff accent'.

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

This is an interesting video. The study of dialects and accents is awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[@primavera3989]

I enjoyed this very much :)

[@joshuamcpherson607]

Poor Boro, i'd onced been mistaken for a geordie by a fellow smoggy, just for saying aye in a stretched emphasised way, almost like a sigh. And that was a disappointment for me.

[@amandalewis3898]

Aye was never used in boro when I was a kid at all!

[@Floral_Green]

If that doesn’t warrant seppuku, I don’t know what does

[@matthewb1867]

Would you say the boro accent sounds like the Hartlepool accent?

[@CxAgar]

@@matthewb1867 there basically the same town

[@mmaphilosophy]

​@@matthewb1867 Very alike there only 8 - 10 mile between them. Boro, Stockton, Billingham and Hartlepool, basically have the exact same accent barring a few vowel tones

[@alfiespruce1485]

Is she saying Crewe is posh

[@cheshirehomestead3574]

WINSFORD

[@mollyt8415]

hahahah

[@n5gravy772]

Cheshire Homestead winsford ain’t posh mate

[@Floral_Green]

N5 Gravy Yes it is, m88/8

[@ReiKoko]

Lol Crewe is far from posh. I don't know what it's like now, but it was full of chavs when I left back in 2007. Always been a crappy little town. Still miss it though lol.

[@Alan-Dawson]

I live 4 miles from Durham and when I'm on my hols It's amazing how many people think I'm from Newcastle!

[@krisc2535]

Nice to hear a Manc accent that isn't all "y'aaalright, madferit" or based on the Gallaghers.

[@margaretvella3557]

Quite agree....that kind of Manchester accent has been made up by a certain group of people of the Gallaghers generation. It’s nothing like the true Manchester/Salford accent.

[@jakegallagher5692]

🙃

[@deemdoubleu]

Pretty swift tour I'd say. I think there are many local dialects around northwest Manchester to speak of. Salford, Bolton, Wigan, Chorley etc are all within a small radius but completely different.

[@Monad01]

Yes, but it is good for non British/Irish natives to get a basic overview of the complexities of accents/dialects in the North without becoming too overwhelming.

[@yesthen2704]

Salford accents gone tbf mate. U might find it in the older generation

[@superholy345q]

Wakefield actually got mentioned for once

[@kingdom1682]

I'm from Wakefield 😆😆🤗

[@digbytaylor1030]

I changed trains there once and wanted a Burger King... There were two. Love Wakefield.

[@digbytaylor1030]

For the record Sheffield had no BK, the bastards

[@AtomicCalvert]

@@digbytaylor1030 Sheffield has a Burger king in the train station, Wakefield has one in the city centre and a few on the outskirts (outwood and Criggleston) sad but yeah I do love a bacon double cheese xl...

[@zareshx]

@@digbytaylor1030 the kfcs are the best

[@zarinth2411]

I did really understand everything you said, thank you ^^

[@bb6887]

It's interesting that I can still hear a more natural sound of British dialects in Canada; where in the USA it's all but gone. Maybe a hint in the southern drawl or in the old Brooklyn accent that has all but disappeared.

[@mrdarren1045]

The way they say 'about' in Canada to my ear sounds very different to the way they say it in the USA. Probably a lot closer to how many ppl say it here in England.

[@mattdubya1037]

my maternal Grandma was born and raised in Chester. she met my American Grandad in WW2 and he brought her over here to USA after it was over. she did sound like that Chester one lol and maybe a little liverpool-ish too?

[@jakegallagher5692]

Yeah there's quite a lot of accents in cheshire because it's right in the middle of all these cities with such different accents. Some parts they sound more like they're from manchester, liverpool or stoke

[@gereshomeE]

Fantastic!! ☺

[@susannahlynnhaze9046]

mum's from Newcastle . Going back next year and this is me trying to learn

[@digbytaylor1030]

Not perfect, but this is one of the best videos re: this on youtube at the moment.

[@220773]

Good about the old Lancastrian use of 'r' in any circumstance, now confined to the Accrington area (check out Jon Anderson of Yes fame), Scouse was pretty good too, well explained main difference between Liverpool and Manchester, good as well on Tyke, but I agree the north-east on the whole (Geordie sure, but Northumbria on top) is a wee bit unreal. The hard 'l's certainly sound peculiar (and Irish!) to our foreigner ear (I'm a Scotsman), but the effort on the whole isn't up to par. Cheshire fits it fantastically though, I immediately thought about Robbie Williams and sorts.

[@MrTBONE494]

This is brilliant 😂

[@kk_1212]

Brilliant!

[@Redrios]

omg i find this fascinating as an ESL person

[@jemimamartin4183]

Anyone else East Yorkshire? Hull ?

[@jameskirton3168]

The French R sound does this still exist??

[@Aceofwands688]

Not a bad effort from one person. Boro wasn't scouse sounding enough and the Cheshire accent was probably only typical of some posh parts; there's a definite scouse and manc influence to many from Cheshire. The Lancashire accent was good though.

[@kh-19636]

County Durham?

[@rushfari]

The entire of England is roughly the same size as Idaho, my home state. Our accents change every thousand miles or so. I'm fascinated that your accents change almost by city. Our accents that are unique (that you can tell immediately) Boston, New York, the 13 southern states plus Texas, and the Midwest. Here a person from L.A. sounds the same as a person from Seattle 1,500 miles away. Hawaii is different, but that's an island onto itself :) A new accent over the past 20+ years is the children of illegals who come from South America. They sound as if they speak as Spanish speakers trying to speak English, but most of these kids are English only. Slowly, Americans in Phoenix Arizona and Southern California are beginning to pick up that accent. The only word that changes around the country is soft drinks, which can be "Coke" (east coast), tonic (Boston area) soda (most of the country) and pop (West). I just watched an American tv show that had a panel discussing Brexit. They watched a video of someone from your northeast talking about it and when the camera cut to the people, they looked puzzled and said, "What did he say??" Brit Steve Hilton was on the show and said, "Don't worry, I didn't understand it either!"

[@amandalewis3898]

Middlesbrough accent was wrong mate

[@jamiezaman]

They change by towns like I live 7 miles from Manchester in a town called Oldham and our accent is completely different to the Manchester accent.

[@mrdarren1045]

Yes even here in England there are a lot of accents that ppl from other regions can't understand too great. I once knew a guy from Whitehaven and I couldn't understand a word he said. And I'm also from the north of England. But his accent was so strong I'd barely even get a gist of what he was saying.

[@RealTomsFoolery]

How do I impersonate the up and down bounce of Lancashire?

[@Elchapposki]

cheshire was pretty spot on , sounds like crewe/macclesfield

[@emilybianchibazzi4263]

How can I edit the auto-generated sutbtitles?

[@j1665]

I am from Chester and sorry to say, nothing like how we sound. It’s posh for sure but with a scouse twang

[@mrcrab6085]

dope

[@JadeLeahPilling01]

is it the done thing to pronounce leigh as 'lith' / 'lighth' with a long 'i'

[@mrdarren1045]

It's pronounced lee

[@wayulooktonige]

An admirable effort but as I'm sure you're aware there are a lot more noticeable differences in accents within counties. Take Lancashire for example; I'm from Oldham and by the time I get to Manchester the vowels are rounder as is Salford - but go over to Leigh, Bolton and Wigan and you're back in flat vowel country but a more Ulster sounding 'ow'. Get over to St Helens and there's a strong pronunciation of the letter L. Up to Blackburn and people there pawrk cawrs in cawr pawrks. Burnley folk say 'th' instead of 't'. Over to Blackpool and it's a posher Mancunian but nearby Fleetwood is proper flat vowel again. North Lancs sounds quite Cumbrian - hope I'm not insulting anyone from Lancaster or Carnforth! It's sad that accents are getting softer but inevitable thanks to TV, travel and less manufacturing industry whose pollution caused a lot of gruff throaty and nasal talk.I just hope there'll never be a day when we lose accents completely cos' wur reet gradely folk fra' Owdam us Roughyeds and yonners an' it's grand tha's tekkin th'effurt ter talk all northern - ta yon fettler!

[@p0sn]

Interesting take. What do you make of Prestonian?

[@stevenuttley]

It's true. A great effort but too complicated for 2 mins. I think the East side of Lancashire Oldham, Rochdale is more similar to West Yorkshire, Halifax, Huddersfield than to the West of its own county, the Merseyside area. Even in Manchester the accent is starting to flatten out a bit and become more nasal. Migration and travel is making things even more complex.

[@220773]

Let alone all those 'r's sounding so massive in the Accrington area! David Lloyd, Jon Anderson of Yes fame, 'oo-ar' farming old Lancastrian!!!

[@millie3096]

Same I’m from Middleton Rochdale and I would say baby like baybeh instead of baybee

[@jwSAFC167]

Wait souh shield is on they I was born they never see see south shields on a map

[@alexander92179]

Where was Lincolnshire?

[@alexander92179]

@Only Pussies Block Me they have northern accents though as do those from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

[@philipmarlowe4682]

You missed out my hometown of grimsby

[@chrissearle]

that middesborugh accent was well off, too geordie. muppets.

[@poppyr837]

Chris Searle ik it didn't sound like anyone from Middlesbrough

[@hannahbobson1656]

Ano man ahah

[@alishak9425]

They made us sound like bloody Geordies

[@Calpolinit]

I'm from middlesbrough and people think i'm either scouse, Scottish or irish ...

[@tomlynch8114]

As a Geordie - the Geordie accent sounded very forced. The Middlesbrough accent sounded too similar to Geordie - there’s a massive difference! The Northumbrian ‘r’ was good, but the rest of the Northumbrian accent was atrocious, and sounded more like Yorkshire. I’ve got relatives from Merseyside, and to me, the Scouse attempt sounded too forced.

[@mang00623]

Lol south-east over here 🙂👍🏻

[@TShah]

ya mentioned Wakefield but not sheffield

[@lewiscarroll4290]

Can't speak for everyone in Manchester, but I'm pretty sure that it's mostly a little bit less Lancashire/Jane Horrocks, and maybe a bit more Sheffield. Possibly. (Please correct me if I'm wrong) There's also the Salford accent, which has spread significantly around Manchester as a sort of 'hard man' kind of accent. Lots of people from places all around England seem to have adopted various features of MLE. I don't think that it's a bad thing, but it definitely makes it harder to try and learn about accents and dialects in an amateur setting. Until recently, I thought 'innit' was specifically Manchester and surrounding areas.

[@lewiscarroll4290]

Actually yeah I think the Mancunian accent it pretty Lancashire in a generic kind of way, just not quite so Jane Horrocks. Edit: In fact I think it's like a mix of generic Lancashire with a hint of generic Yorkshire, and then also just some original Manchester-ness conjured up out of nowhere.

[@jasonkelly7951]

Depends what part of Sheff, there's some reet Barnsley sounds in some o them Steelers out there

[@Aceofwands688]

I'm a Salford lad with many generations from there and the 'hard man' accent definitely isn't a Salford one. I'm not sure where it originated from. The older generation were more Lancashire and Cheshire sounding. Both cities and Liverpool have had lots of different influences over the last 200 years, so it's extremely difficult to unravel origins.

[@avarni]

honestly feeling so attacked right now lmao

[@sammorelikesam9448]

why am i here

[@hexonatapeloop]

Where?

[@alishak9425]

K but ur boro accent was a bit off

[@SkinnyEMedia]

The Viz accent in full play on the voiceover

[@richardmullins1883]

That wuz alright mind wonit.

[@isaacg1]

Sounds nowt like a smoggie though

[@serenaowen7295]

Northeast and Cumbria gang

[@harrychown6854]

Very good but I'd say the only criticism was that the Middlesbrough accent sounded too similar to Geordie. Middlesbrough (and the wider Teesside area) is kind of a cross between Yorkshire, Geordie and Scouse. I'd say more Scouse than Geordie actually.

[@nevillesevicke-jones1227]

A few years ago I commented to a shop assistant in the fish/meat section in Tesco in Chatham that in NZ it was illegal to sell trout. She made some reference to my accent ..to which I replied, "No. dear--it's you who's got the accent." :-) When my daughter did a mid uni gap year at a public prep school in Tunbridge Wells, she had to quickly develop a "well bred" accent to make herself clearly understood...i can quite understand... after a year back here she had regressed to a Taranaki ( province) girl "new zullin" accent.....more's the pity.

[@marteast]

If you get a 'cerch' t'ull, you can drink 'cerca cerla'

[@livherman2047]

Lancashire was a bit off - clear evidence of what happens when someone who’s not from Lancashire tries to do the accent 😂😂

[@bosnia7429]

good attempt for someone not from here

[@user-vi6wf4gh9x]

Na I thought her Lancashire accent was good, not so much the Middlesbrough attempt!

[@amandalewis3898]

Your Middlesbrough accent isn’t right we pronounce our words very similar to Liverpool for instance work becomes werk and we have that click at the end and shirt becomes shirt! When you did the Newcastle accent and the Middlesbrough one they sounded exactly the same. But believe me if you heard my accent (boro) you would not think I sounded like a geordie!

[@mutedjono6187]

can't say I've ever heard a yorkshireman pronounce a 't' that wasn't at the start of a word but apart from that and butchering Middlesbrough not bad

[@kingdom1682]

True, I'm from Wakefield The T is never pronounced at the end of a word.... NEVER

[@Limosical]

@@kingdom1682 what about isn't? in't?

[@kingdom1682]

@@Limosical we pronounce that: isn or in(t)

[@janetmcneice6246]

@@Limosical In'(silent t)

[@louiejonesponation]

I'm from Cheshire, no one sounds like that...

[@brandont9113]

Got Yorkshire spot on

[@SociallyAwkwardErin]

I get mocked for my accent. I live in the south and speak like the North

[@JamesTaylor-je6es]

I got this dealing with suppliers in London for my Brummke accent.

[@dylannnnnnnnn]

Cumbria

[@inthestands6107]

Up the lancs

[@ClassicGhost]

I think she's wonderful but she wasn't brave enough to do cumbrian

[@oliviabaines6702]

I’m Lancashire I sound nothing Like Lancashire none of my family do??

[@user-vi6wf4gh9x]

Whereabouts in Lancs?

[@mrdarren1045]

Theres a lot of ppl in lancs that don't sound lancs. We call them pakis lol

[@gogledhol]

Up the North

[@nikitawilkes3665]

i'm from the north west

[@evelsteev]

Everyone says when someone else imitates their town's accent, it's always wrong, but when they imitate others, they're always right. Wankers.

[@dannyreid8516]

Wouldn’t say Cheshire sounds like that because Birkenhead is in Cheshire?

[@qwezxc4428]

Danny Reid its in merseyside

[@Jam-wu9vz]

last time I checked it's in Merseyside and as been for yonks.

[@qwezxc4428]

Chris Fosdyke cheshire and lancashire are also fake creations. theyre all just bits of land. where you draw the borders is arbitrary

[@Jam-wu9vz]

@Chris Fosdyke Excuses people need to get over it it's not a fake creation it's part of what Wirral is now and has been for nearly 50 years. The accents are different from Cheshire and Lancashire and the history is different in Merseyside from these shires. It's there own personal identity's away from Cheshire and Lancashire. It's like calling Shropshire a fake shire has its only being created not so long ago or calling Greater Manchester fake when it's very much not. Put people have claimed that and made it there own history.

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@Jam-wu9vz Merseyside was created in 1974 and while centred on the immediate Liverpool metropolitan area it also incorporated the whole of the Wirral peninsula, an arm of Cheshire since pre-conquest days.To outsiders the accent here would be virtually indistinguishable from that of Liverpool. The 'Posh' image of Cheshire is based in great part from the environs of Alderley Edge.

[@ReaghanReilly]

All you folk from Middlesbrough complaining like f---, can you PLEASE record yourselves and put up videos? I'd really like to hear your authentic accents 🙂

[@phat-hades952]

Butchered the boro accent to bits kid, I a smoggie man is offended! Good day

[@servantofaeie1569]

I just spend 30 mins looking for "Worlder accent"... She said "where older folk", not "Worlder folk"...

[@hotelmario510]

Genius.

[@user-tx6lu6nz5r]

Manc one was alright

[@garrywalker2261]

yer avin a laf arnya thats how i talk we are not geordies we are teesside we have our own unique accent dya no wor amean lol im a pally park lad born n bred i love my town i know the boro like the back of my hand.1876 WE ARE,,,WE WILL BE,, ERIMUS,INFANT HERCULES,IRONOPOLIS.

[@keithpowles6792]

The Boro dialect was way off! You made them sound more like Geordies even though you said they aren’t Geordies! There’s more of a link with the Scouse dialect . Middlesbrough ancestry derives from Liverpool hence the link

[@HAMBLEHUMBURGER]

Hi mate, what's the shared history of Middlesbrough and Liverpool? I never heard this before. Thanks

[@mrdarren1045]

Trust me to a non boro person you sound nothing like scousers. When I think of a boro accent I think of someone like Bryan Robson ever though I think he's from Durham or somewhere like that. It's literally nothing like scouse at all. Only to ppl in boro do they sound remotely scouse

[@harrychown6854]

Ship builders and steel workers@@HAMBLEHUMBURGER

[@RugbyLeagueHistory]

The Boro accent was a fail.

[@matthewb1867]

Would you say the Middlesbrough accent sounds like the Hartlepool accent?

[@notmissingout9369]

What no Harrogate everyone says people from Harrogate talk posh I’m a Harrogate lad and I don’t talk posh

[@spyfalls_]

So who’s here from doctor Who season 11..?

[@stargazerlaurent6780]

The Northern English accents do not infuriate me like Southern England

[@Mosslistic]

Found out people have no idea how to imitate a Cumbria accent

[@emmaryan8984]

Agreed. I'm from cumbria and her attempt at cumbrian was well off.

[@lukaznidarsic2838]

At 1:00 you go from an accent to complete gibberish in two seconds

[@jd4611]

She says: “If you lessen the space in your mouth and you get on (a) train over them Pennines to Yorkshire to somewhere like Wakefield, you suddenly sound very definite and resolute, like you really know what you are talking about. And if you take the coach......” Not sure if you wanted to know or if you were just taking the piss but there you go anyway.

[@sonicstep]

I was born and raised in London. At no point did I experience difficulty understanding what she said.

[@Lee-ii9mk]

The West Country accent in South of England sounds like the older folks from Lancashire. They kinda sound like pirates When they pronounced their Rs

[@paulchapman7169]

West Country is a bit of a blob and nothing to do with the Southerners.....and Bristolian is totally different from what is spoken in the Blackdowns (and as for the Blackdowns, it depends on where you happen to live.) The Cornish are something different....my family came from Cardinham but I would not be understood there now.

[@Twilleh]

I feel sorry for anyone coming here and trying to understand people.

[@hannahbobson1656]

These accents were painful man ahah

[@stevenhaskell9025]

That is not a cheshire accent at all xD

[@louisbates673]

I live in Chester!! No one sounds like that :)

[@Freya_Blossom]

I live in Chester and I was like wtf was that haha

[@jakegallagher5692]

@@Freya_Blossom I live in Crewe and definite hear this accent in some of the towns closer to Manchester way but cheshire has a lot of accents with it being between major cities that all speak differently.

[@IngeBall]

where do they pronounce year like yör (ö = ø)?

[@lincoln_six_echo534]

Completely missed out south Durham and Teesside.. oh well..

[@andrewjoyce9038]

Lancastrian first English second European third

[@mrdarren1045]

British 3rd

[@andrewjoyce9038]

@@mrdarren1045 nope

[@mrdarren1045]

@@andrewjoyce9038 so you are European before you're British. Well that's where we must be very different.

[@andrewjoyce9038]

@@mrdarren1045 I'm not British at all. Just English

[@mrdarren1045]

@@andrewjoyce9038 well I don't regard myself as European at all. And if i had to pick one from British or European I'd go with British every time, even though I define myself as English and not British.

[@misssarah9323]

Sounds nothing like a boro accent

[@emdentaylor1110]

no need to slaughter boro like that, well off

[@zewaisnel6130]

I’m from Liverpool and even I hate the accent

[@PodOfHeat]

Why was Cumbria missed off?

[@aj-bee7673]

Middlesbrough was way off

[@user-vi6wf4gh9x]

Decent effort for Lancs 🌹🌹🌹 Not so much for Middlesbrough! Also, I wouldn't say the (hideous) pronunciation of 'o' you mentioned for Hull is exclusive to East Yorkshire, as I know someone from Bradford who also can't say the letter o properly. And emphasis on't letter t at th'end of sentences is more of a South Yorkshire thing than West Yorks/Wakefield. Thankfully I'm from good owd Lanky so may be wrong, just some observations I've made on mi travels.

[@thecumbrianman6750]

So u just completely misses out Cumbria okay 👌

[@elgee6202]

What does a Cumbrian accent sound like anyway? It must be the least known northern accent.

[@thecumbrianman6750]

L Georgiou it depends on which region of the county your in, along the west first it’s loud but very mumbly at the same time and the west coast uses more Cumbrian language

[@elgee6202]

@@thecumbrianman6750, I've heard Carlisle and Barrow accents and they just sound Mancunian/Lancastrian to me. The only other Cumbrian I've heard sounded like a soft Geordie/north-east. But I suppose no Cumbrian would accept that!

[@warsin8641]

wtf