A Tour of the Northern Accents of England (Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle) and the History

[@swamiyatri210]

I'm from Siberia and I'm still learning English. I watch your videos with great pleasure as an example of excellent pronunciation and great speech culture. Thank you Gideon and Luke for your work.

[@swamiyatri210]

And special thanks for the historical excursion!

[@Nehauon]

you're doing well. 👍

[@OceanChild75]

I feel like repeating myself but this video is outstanding, Gideon! I love the fact you don’t solely focus on the English features but also dive into the history of the area you are discussing. Your guest was also brilliant, I am looking forward to your future joint videos 😇

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Many thanks. I'm sure you'll like the others in this series...coming soon.

[@chesterproudfoot9864]

Being a polyglot and former ESL teacher, I really enjoy these 'accent' videos. I live in Brasil and had so many students saying that they wanted an "American accent" because they worked in multinational companies primarily from the US. I used to tell them to forget the accent completely because there's no single American accent, just as with the UK. I think the differences remain much more pronounced in the UK (not sure why), whereas the US has become greatly homogeneous mostly through nationalized pop culture (television, films). I focused on learning the language itself v. accent, because if you live 6 months or so in another area, your accent will change and you won't even notice. I'm from California, and while at university I transferred to a university near Canada (had Canadian friends), then finished my degrees in France upon which I drove to California and was asked where I was from. "Uh, here?..." 🤣🤣 I think learning the 4 accents featured here are more appropriate for advanced ESL students who might live in the UK. I have a friend who lived there 10 years and claimed to understand everything until I made her watch episodes of Auf Widersehen, Pet; Bourniston; Chewin' The Fat, Smack The Pony, and Still Game. She almost cried. Anyway, these videos are fantastic. I also loved the one about Viking words in English. I had no idea about the entymology of "get". Anyway, keep up the good work!

[@raffaellabarbierato8854]

I do love diving into such an engaging topic: historical roots and linguistic development are so deeply connected that you can't understand without considering both

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Glad you liked it

[@user-Dr_shahad]

​@@LetThemTalkTVDownload something about paleatine Please😊

[@Sauvageonne]

I love this vid. Two of my favourite things in the UK are all the accents and the North. I don't know the North East very well, but Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre had pages of dialogues written in the way people talked with their Yorkshire accent.

[@margheritas.2478]

Very interesting. The cultural background you give is highly appreciated.

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Your comment is highly appreciated.

[@δεσποιναπορικη]

The linguistic journey is fabulous

[@БогданКостюченко-ц4о]

Thank you, Gideon and Luke! British Isles have an impressive diversity of accents and dialects!

[@llamasugar5478]

I do miss the days when it was far easier to place a person’s home by their accent. Not for nefarious purposes-for the simple pleasure of it.

[@Bruvvvv9]

How long ago are you speaking ? Today you can still tell someone’s from Liverpool or Geordie or Yorkshire and anything abit flatter and stereotypical is southern

[@Chickenface12345]

Outstanding, educational, valuable content. I love this channel, it's an everlasting synonym for quality.

[@JenKirby]

I was very surprised when I was walking in a park in London and I got chatting to a man who asked me if I came from Liverpool. I left Liverpool when I was 5!

[@felipebelmiro7200]

I absolutely love this subject - accents and phonetics both in foreign languages and in main language! Keep up the great work guys

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Glad you liked it. Stay tuned for the other videos in this series

[@isabelatence7035]

Spectacular trainer, we just have to take advantage of your illustrious guest, Luke, with so much wonderful information, my name comes from Elizabeth (Isabel) I'm proud of the name, just like William in Portuguese (Guilherme), curiosities in the British language, Gideon his videos are always the best of the best, rich work, congratulations to Luke, see you in the next episode.. Thank you always👏👏👏🇬🇧🇧🇷

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Thanks Isabel, you're very kind. Luke and I will be back for more videos in this series.

[@isabelatence7035]

@@LetThemTalkTV The Kind Teacher is you

[@helenamcginty4920]

My mother and I used to go to university level English literature summer schools and weekend short courses. By the wednesday of the 1st summer school I asked mum if we could find a cafe somewhere for lunch instead of joining the others. She agreed. It was the wall to wall RP that we both found wearing. I described it as listening to taupe. Even though mum had picked it up during the war in the WRAAF and insisted on our using it when we were little. But we lived in a Lancashire seaside town and were used to hearing lots of different accents. We had a refreshing lunch in a tiny cafe where each of the 5 locals chatted away with 5 slightly different variations on a midlands accent. Ps. On the way back I swore for the only time in my mother's prescence. We are of a working class background where conversations are spontaneous. The very middle class fellow students all spoke in cliches. One could have scripted their conversations ahead of time. There was a sense of unreality which meant we couldnt judge who was being genuinely friendly and who was being 'so fucking polite'. 'Oh !' said mum, ' I'm so glad you said that!'. She felt the same. We were used to the friendly insults and joshing that is part and parcel of the interactions between us and our friends and colleagues.

[@helpinyerdasellavon]

Loved how insightful this video is. Great informative content impeccably presented. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@nederlanditis8154]

Fun fact, I only had the association to after it was mentioned that Scouse is a derivative from a dish. In northern Germany there exists a dish called Labskaus. We remember it with a sinister mixture of horror and disgust.

[@alfresco8442]

In Liverpool we have always known that scouse comes from Lobskaus/Labskaus. There was much trade not only with Scandinavia but also the neighbouring states of the Hanseatic League (Hansa). In fact there is a whole area near the docks known as the Baltic Triangle which housed companies trading specifically with the North German coast. With typical Liverpool humour we also have a version of the dish called blind scouse. It's got no meat in it.

[@PriapeBoudu]

I'm still amazed by how the presenter manages to combine this highly interesting channel with his day job as the singer in Killing Joke.

[@olgablang3725]

Thanks Gideon! Amazing video, so informative ! Keep up doing your excellent work !

[@ildarmingazov2304]

Good and just in time video for me Thanks a bunch To be continued..

[@ibbobo5162]

excellent - 'scran' (speaking as a Manc) has the connotation of food you'd eat really fast because you were dead hungry and like no time for a break in the docks or factories. It's like a hurried meal word. My dad necked his scran when he got home. Wolfed it down proper fast.

[@amherst88]

This is one of your most fascinating presentations Gideon -- I've always been curious about the colorful accents in the UK but never realized they were tied so closely to different invasions. Being in the US I could also hear elements of certain accents here that likely originated with people who emigrated from those regions in the UK. (Loved hearing that you are a Smiths fan -- would have appreciated one of the Beatles doing the Liverpool but I understand using them is problematic). Thanks as always -- your channel is a continual, enjoyable free education ❤

[@tinofsardines]

The Beatles are problematic?

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Many thanks. I love The Beatles too. There were many Scouse speakers worthy of inclusion. This time I went for Jodie Comer. I may tackle The Beatles in a future video

[@Azog150]

​@@LetThemTalkTV There are tonnes of different Liverpool/Scouse accents from both within the city, and also the surrounding towns (e.g. anyone from Liverpool can tell John Bishop is from just outside Liverpool). Changes most broadly in terms of age, class and North/South Liverpool, and can be divided up even narrower than that (for example, there is a fairly distinct Toxteth/Wavertree accent). Worth a whole video on it's own, I'd say! Either way, I really enjoyed the video. Subscribed!

[@pablojosemoralesidrovo9636]

3:08 Correction: The Modern English of today doesn't descend from West Saxon Old English, rather the Mercian one, the de facto standard version of Old English was from Wessex, due to its political power, but fell in prestige due to the Norman Conquest, when every dialect of Old English was relegated in favor of Old French, but centuries later during the standarization of English due to the prestige of London became the standard one, London is on what was the Mercian-speaking areas.

[@OLEKSAJEDIX]

Unexpected collab, great video 👏

[@DinoXIII]

Still occasionally use thee and thou in Wigan!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Fascinating, tell us more.

[@LizzySho]

​@@LetThemTalkTV 'Hast thee seen yon mon o'er there!'. The part about the Norwegian vikings in West Lancashire also helps explain another Wigan word - Skrike

[@james088]

Great stuff 👍.

[@mortenjohansen4120]

Fyi: the examples in Geordie are from danish (norwegian),: kirke, vår, barn

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you!

[@Rlancup]

Wow, very interesting!

[@syadkir]

Funny way the dialect specialist sounds in "southern" at 30:43

[@Sonny_V]

Fascinating Stuff. If you really want to hear the English Language Butchered Up, Come to Texas. We have East Texas Accents, West Texas accents, and plenty of others in between. In Louisiana, they call it English, but I can only understand about every other word.

[@ivanscholtz7314]

Thanks! Hilarious how Americans from neighbouring states "understand" each other, I had a belly laugh. Unbelievable!

[@peachyllama722]

We are a southern family living in Lincolnshire, their accent is so varied, the biggest surprise was ma sen for myself. I get asked which part of Norfolk in from time to time, but its Kent 😂

[@vickywitton1008]

I come from the middle.of Staffordshire and my accent varies from Black country to North Staffs depending on who I am talking or listening to. The North Staffs ( Stokie) accent is often overlooked

[@ScotClose]

I'm surprised there were no examples from the most famous Liverpudlians, John, Paul, George and Ringo. Copyright issues?

[@Azog150]

The thing is, not many people speak like that anymore. It's a fairly outdated accent, and even at the time, some people said The Beatles affected a more understandable but less natural accent to be understood in other parts of England and the States.

[@tijencan45]

Thank you for the video. Im also curious about American and Australian accents. 😊😊😊

[@БогданКостюченко-ц4о]

There is a video with Gideon and an American: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqvPpqmQi7qeg6M But no video with an Australian on LetThemTalk yet. :-(

[@alfresco8442]

To the average Brit, Australian sounds like a version of Cockney. Probably due to the number of Londoners shipped out there...willingly or otherwise. ;)

[@jackthelad5366]

Just come across this, the Leeds accent is nothing like Barnsley, Mel B was saying “you” instead of “yer” apart from that pretty good, the inner city accent like gipton and east end park isn’t that different from Manchester, ( not every single word)most people would say “alright“ not “ey up” 👍

[@MitaleeNubeebuckus]

This is wonderful ❤️ 🎉 thanks for this informative video 🎉

[@elainebelzDetroit]

Manchester & my hometown of Detroit are very different, but also share a lot of commonalities (besides being northern in their respective countries!). both had a similar history of industrialization/deindustrialization, although Detroit's didn't start till quite a bit later. But in both cases, industrialization brought in people from all over. I'd never noticed the similarity in the diversity of native/local accents before. I'm sure to some degree that's normal in cities, but you wouldn't think it would be the case with these two relatively small cities. So much is tied in with racial/ethnic/language background, socioeconomic status, education (incl. where you went for it if you went away), and subcultures, I think, as well as geography - e.g., are you in the city, which side, or what suburb/exurb, etc. I'd like to know more about how diverse accents are in relatively small geographic areas & the histories that made them so.

[@ndrmkhn6559]

I tried to leave my comments here twice but they went to void forever. why that? I used to like listening different accents on Dialects of English Archive site in old good days. Their "Comma gets a cure" text pronounced by locals from different regions is an amazing training plot for anyone who is interested in the subject.

[@juliamaddox4408]

Judy Comer? Bless...

[@1davhar]

Kes is not set in Leeds - it's set in the Barnsley area.

[@LetThemTalkTV]

I wrote that on the graphic.

[@michaelw2816]

@@LetThemTalkTV I grew up in Leeds in the 70s. The use of thee and tha was a distinction between West and South Yorkshire accents at the time - you could always tell visitors from the mining district south of Leeds by their different accent.

[@user-cc2ux9ew1r]

Interesting Gideon. ❤

[@LetThemTalkTV]

thanks

[@isabellesimon7101]

Such an interesting and amazing video gideon An old😂 pupil of yours Isabelle 🎉🎉

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Hi Isabelle, of course I remember your wisdom and your joie de vivre. I'm so glad that you liked the video.

[@cernaruka]

great lesson

[@LetThemTalkTV]

thanks

[@ericcartier2233]

thanks a lot!! i thought it was the freres lumiere film which had " la primeur" but apparently Leeds took the lead!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

The first film was indeed made by a Frenchman but not the Lumiere brothers rather Louis Le Prince in Leeds. Soon afterwards he mysteriously disappeared...

[@ericcartier2233]

Whouahhhh u really did your research on that one...i guess only an extreeeeme minority of people knows this tidbit. Thanks a million!@@LetThemTalkTV

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Louis Le Prince is an unsung hero. As the "father of cinema" more people should know about him.

[@ericcartier2233]

I am still falling off my chair reflecting on 2 facts : first, I am french, parisian, implying that I should be cognizant of this fact...but no !teachers and what not just mentioned the frere Liumieres...." second, mea culpa on the account of I am a films buff and such a major fact shouldn't have flown me by!!! @@LetThemTalkTV

[@sailorVenus225]

Growing up in Norway, my friends and I used to watch Geordie Shore every weekend (we were like 14-16 years old) lol. The accent definitely grew on us :p Basically know all the slang by now as well. In my opinion, this accent shares similarities with southern Norwegian dialects. Both have a specific tone and intonation pattern and sound a bit "whiney" maybe, it goes up at the end of the sentence. It's also fascinating how Geordies use the "wrong" grammar. Us instead of me, me instead of my, we instead of I, learned me instead of taught me, yous.

[@aman4peace]

I'm from Maine my last surname is church. I help teach basic English to one Vietnamese woman So I needed to know more english wherev am in a French canadian place of envioment

[@rajibchakrabarti8716]

I knew that Indian English pronunciation resembles Northern English in rhoticity. Now I find that there is also similarity in the tendency to pronounce diphthongs as monophthongs, as in stone or relation.

[@johnthorp3649]

Kes wasn't set in Leeds, it was in Barnsley.

[@dan74695]

In Cumbrian, , "stone", "bone, "one", "name" and "home" are "styan", "byan", "yan", "nyam" and "yam". "Gan yam" = "go home".

[@kdub1242]

Wow, I guess ol' Sting really worked to shed his Newcastle accent then.

[@garyrigby21]

i love the Liverpool accent

[@susanritter2520]

Nowt of ‘Ull?

[@igorfilin8342]

Hello! How to properly pronounce "NOTHING": nOthing or nAthing? Like in Nothing Phone.

[@jonntischnabel]

I wouldn't have chosen Morrissey as an example of a mancunian accent, his is quite weak. I would say Bez, Shaun Ryder, Karl pilkington, and Liam Gallagher, are better examples. Same with Liverpool, she was too well spoken, Jamie carragher would have been a much better example.

[@hei7586]

Foot strut split?? What a strange expression. Is it about pronouncing foot and strut differently or not?

[@LetThemTalkTV]

yes, in the north the vowels are the same in these words and many others but in the south they are different.

[@jessdog2010]

Live in Manchester not born here and I’m thinking why not use a proper Mancunian accent that I can hear by walking 5 mins from my apartment and like it, in Ancoats for example. Also tha and thi have not died out, still used widely in Barnsley Sheffield and Leeds possibly and thankfully and my “go to” after a few pints 😃 also Mel B does not sounds to me like a Leeds accent that I would recognise immediately if it were an authentic speaker. The lads in Kes film were a far better representation of that.

[@wormwood8071]

In barnsley they still talk like that especially after a few beers

[@evab2274]

Yeah, I'm not sure that clip from Morrisson was the best example of Mancunian...

[@ibbobo5162]

you should explain the north-south dinner-lunch-tea divide - northerners' 'dinner' is the southerners' 'lunch' - 'tea' in the north is what the southerners call 'dinner' - I'm afraid we northerners have no word for breakfast or supper because we are too oppressed by the southerners and are lucky if we get any scran at all.

[@erkkinho]

Circe kirke, ic ik

[@Scarlitcorpse]

Mi first bairn 😂 "my first born 'child'"

[@iainmc9859]

Mancunian, the sexiest and most trustworthy accent in Britain .... ha, ha, ha, ha, falls off chair laffing !

[@amiryazdani2318]

[@paulduffitt7338]

lightweight

[@pirangeloferretti3588]

The 'message' is so redundant.

[@jackreilly4417]

Why have you made the south so big 😂😂

[@Niemand1947]

Newcastle is pronounced "Newcastle" not "NewcaRastle".

[@AprililK]

East Yorkshire has more 😎 Lug ear Bain Kid Luggi hair knot By town Mun must En one Beck Slow running stream I in Lark play Foss waterfall Tek take Skeg look Bray to beet up Lopp flea Lowp jump Rigg Back Ligg lay down Kott raw meat Kittling kittens Carr forest clearing Kald cold Gate Street Kirk church Brigg Bridge Scran food Maftin hot

[@w-hisky]

If the "weird" English stems from the Angles and the Vikings, what then is Gaelic? 😳

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Check out the video I made on how the Celts changed the English language.

[@w-hisky]

@@LetThemTalkTV Thanks a lot, Gideon! 👍👍

[@leifpareli9792]

​@@LetThemTalkTV30:43

[@Middle-Road.Kim.K]

My quest to speak in a 'British accent' continues.. This vid answered questions and uncovered some pitfalls. I watch exclusively British TV, but that means I'm exposed to most all accents; what I end up speaking is a trap/bath/foot/strut mashup. My verbiage converted long ago - it's taking longer to remember the US terms for windscreens and torches, but my mouth parts are still grotesquely American. 🫢 Any tips?

[@simonmaximov8443]

Maybe try practicing British pronunciation by reading texts out loud when you can concentrate on the sounds making with your mouth. Because when speaking it’s hard to think about sounds as everyday speaking is fast and we have to think about what we say rather than how we pronounce it

[@AntagonizinGeordie]

Haway is the way a makem would spell that Howay is how a Geordie would spell it just thought I would share that