American Reacts to 10 British Accents Ranked

The UK has a rich tapestry of different accents. In this video we showcase the incredible diversity of dialects, from the posh RP (Received Pronunciation) to the lively Scouse, and everything in between. So, if you're a language enthusiast, a lover of accents, or simply curious about the incredible diversity of British English, this video is a must-watch. Prepare to be charmed, surprised, and entertained as we rank and explore 10 fascinating British accents.
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[@stewedfishproductions7959]

TBH most of those accents were NOT as 'broad' as many people would speak them and some are also spoken slower too! That could be because the featured people were already speaking on TV shows or during interviews and may have unconsciously used a more 'gentle' version (like a 'telephone voice', perhaps?). I'm quite confident if, for example, someone visits a Liverpool or Newcastle pub and had to join in with a group of locals, they would struggle 'big time' to keep up with the conversation... 😎

[@wirralnomad]

You mean subconsciously lol.

[@PolarBear4]

Yeah, as a Geordie I've got my normal accent where I talk with friends and locals which includes a load of dialect too, and then there's the accent I use with the rest of my family which is more toned down and ditches some dialect, and then there's the "phone accent" where all the slang goes and the accent is dialled back as much as possible. I did that talking to someone from Southampton and apparently I sounded like I was from Scotland so not sure how much that helped! Accents also vary widely within the city (you can narrow down the part of the city someone is from!) and if I come across someone from some areas which have a stronger accent or use more slang then even I can struggle a bit and I'm from here. The adding in extra vowel sounds isn't unique to the accents mentioned either. People say Geordie and Maccum (Sunderland - just a few miles down the coast) accents sound the same but they don't and one of the differences is once you get down there (my friend from County Durham does it too!) they add in extra vowels. At least my relatives and friends all do! So a film is a fil-um for example. I have an elderly relative from Sunderland and I struggle to understand her at times!

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@wirralnomad I had to re-read my comment and burst out laughing... You're right and rather than edit, I shall leave it. I have lived in London over 40 years but visit 'home' in Eastham a few times a year.

[@TheCornishCockney]

My thoughts entirely. As a cockney,I went to see Man Utd away at Newcastle and was in a pub near the ground right next to us were these local lads,and they were speaking so fast and with such thick geordie accents,I couldn’t understand anything they were saying. Then they noticed and spoke to us,but this time they toned it right down and we understood. Like my cockney accent,when I’m with old pals,it’s fast and full of slang,but talk to someone not from London and we make the adjustments. I love our huge variety of accents. I can tell if someone is from east or south London pretty easily.

[@PATRICKSMITH1]

Received Pronunciation definitely IS a regional accent, as spoken in more affluent areas of London and the Home Counties. It is not heard much outside there.

[@johnallsopp6324]

You have to remember that these videos are made for people learning English and so the sub-titles are very useful for them. It is also why she speaks so clearly and slowly and seems to over-explain.

[@nephtari]

My daughter in law is Polish and she was taught English by an American. She landed in Newcastle pretty confident she knew English. At the train station a guy walked up to her and said eeee lass a thee gannin t toon? (Basically Are you going to the town) She stood wide eyed like a rabbit in headlights. She said she feels she’s had to learn a whole new language. 🤣😂

[@donmongoose]

I'm from the NE and know a fair few Polish people, every time I hear one try to do the Geordie accent it cracks me up (in the nicest possible way). Hope she settled in though, we're a lovely bunch up here.

[@Hobbies-and-Experiments]

That's because your daughter-in-law was taught American by an American. Notice how the USA is stealing the English language. I have to click on an American flag now to select my language that is not American.

[@karengray662]

Thing is, it’s not just the accents, it’s the dialect. Towns 10 miles apart can have different words for the same thing. Makes life much more interesting 😄

[@LauraNixon1]

I was chatting to a friend the other day when he said a word I'd never heard before; gennel. I looked at him blankly, so he tried an alternative, and that meant nothing either. He meant alleyway. So I searched regional words for alley and there are several, like gennel, ginnel, jitty, twitchel... There were others. It seems to vary from county to county. I've clearly been living under a rock!

[@karengray662]

@@LauraNixon1 I live in NE England. Parents born in Gateshead, (other side of the Tyne from Newcastle), I was born in Sunderland and moved to Durham when I was 4. No more than 20 miles between any of those places but accents & dialect so different. It’s crazy! But v interesting 😊

[@Oxley016]

@@karengray662 Living in Washington I am in the middle of Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland and we get a right mix here because of it

[@icatjam]

Correct! I know places 2 miles apart who talk slightly diferently

[@yvonnesanders4308]

Don't start on what is a bap, barm, roll saga

[@richardhall6034]

She's chosen people with the softest accents even if you were from another planet you would understand everyone

[@wessexdruid7598]

She's teaching students who's first language isn't English. However Lucy does sound like she was head girl, at her public school..

[@AdeHida]

That is interesting. English is not my first language and Iam struggling to understand the last 5 accents. I guess I will not survive in the UK.

[@nicolap2]

i have to say even in Yorkshire the accent differs within a few miles . Leeds (west yorkshire) is very different to South yorkshire (Sheffield, Doncaster etc) and East yorkshire (Hull) is different again

[@JJLAReacts]

That's wild. I wonder how accents can change so much in a few miles. I wouldn't think that people are staying in one place for so long that they're not influenced by other accents, especially in current times. But maybe they are, I don't know. 🤷🏻

[@vaudevillian7]

@@JJLAReactstime. They’re baked in by time. Consider how quickly the western US was settled with trains and cars and how little variety of accents there is in the west compared to the east (including the south) which had had more time for the accents to bake in - but still nowhere near as long as the UK has had. The lines are starting to blur now because of how instantaneous communication is via the internet and ease of movement but meaningfully that’s 20 years vs 1500 years just for English - and prior languages to English spoken here like Brythonic dialects will have influenced how various regions spoke English when they adopted it

[@user-to7sm4sf6i]

I'm leeds and struggle with other yorkshire accents 😂

[@clairecalton2116]

Yep deffo (a Yorkshire saying!). Me and my hubbie are Barnsley and he used to work in Leeds and they didn't know what pehs (peas) were!

[@Richard-io9xe]

People in and around Barnsley can tell what village you are from by listening to you speak. The accent has subtle variations in different parts of the borough.

[@mallymac9761]

If you want to hear a more authentic Geordie accent, it’s the 40th anniversary of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. It’s on the tube and well worth a watch

[@sp4rtavus244]

I am from the West Country and my favourite accent is by far the Geordie accent.

[@Bart-tk9um]

@@sp4rtavus244I’m from Manchester and my favourite accent is scouse, i feel like a traitor every time I tell another Mancunian lol

[@BMWMike]

I'm from Yorkshire and my wife is a Mackem (Sunderland). We went to the states earlier this year and were teaching friendly waiters and people we met how to say hello in our different accents. They found 'Ey up' really difficult to say. And then my wife said 'Yalreet pet' which blew their minds.

[@davidwatson8873]

😂 love it

[@razor1uk610]

American minds generally do seem to be easily blown,.. although I am not sure if it's from... ...their stereotypical myopic lack of education outside of the USA & 'Americana',.. ...their larger populational effect, thus having a more noticeable percentage of meeting a stupid in person,.. ...or the amount of guns they have, overtime their brains reducing in size to try and escape potential future coming bullets (am joking very darkly upon that last one, if someone is toi stupid to read an contextual inference).

[@Zac-cw1zz]

I'm going to type this out in both English, and my native Doric, which is the dialect from the northeast of Scotland--Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and north to the Moray Coast. In so doing, I hope it becomes clear just how much the dialect can change over such a short distance, and stress just how different and unique an accent can be from region to region. My qualm is the mainstream media portraying the Scottish accent through Glaswegian (and occasionally Edinburgh, or West Coast accents, while overlooking the impenetrable brogue of Northern/Northeast Scots). This is naturally a video focusing on learning English. It is therefore understandable that The Glaswegian accent is used, since it is Scots English, rather than the Teutonic (roots in Germanic/Old English) of Aberdeen and its outlying areas. The spelling of Doric also varies from area to area, and is not an English dialect; rather, it is officially recognised as having independent language status, in the same way Gaelic might be for example. It is my hope to portray just how devolved and multitudinous dialects are around Britain, and how even a solid grasp of English across the Ilse's many thick accents may be frustrated should you visit rural areas, or the nation's extremities. I trust, if nothing else, you might take delight in the richly flavoured visualisation of my own mother tongue, however difficult and tiresome it may be to follow. :) [Doric transliteration] Ah'm gaan til scrieve ess oot in baith Inglis n ma native Doric, fit ist e dialeck fae e nor'east o Scotlaan'--Aiburdeen, e Shire an' noraard til e Moray Caist. Bi deein sic, Ah hope thon cams clear jist foo muckle e dialeck kin change ower siccan wee distance, an' stress jist foo different n unique an accent kin be fae region til region. Ma qualm ist e mainstream media portrayin e Scottish accent ben Glesga (n eft Embro or Teuchter accents, fyles owerlookin yon impenetrable brogue o Norlaan/Nor'east Scots). Ess is naityirally a video focusin on learnin Inglis. 'Tis as unnerstaunable at Weegie is eesed, syne ist Scots Inglis, rether an e Teutonic (roots in Germanic/Aul Inglis) o Aiburdeen n its ootleif areas. E scrievin o Doric ay varies fae area til area, an' isnae an Inglis dialeck; rether, ist officially kint as haein independent langyij status, in e sam wye Gaelic micht be. Ah hope til show jist foo devolved n mony dialecks are aroon Britain, n fit wye even gwid Inglis athwert thon Ilse's mony steepit accents maun gar yi grue gin ye visit rural areas, or e eyns o e laan. Ah trow, iffen ni'hin else, yi micht fyne yirsel affa tricket wi e scrievins o ma ain Mither Tongue, fyles teuch n puggilt yi micht fyne yon.

[@taykeir1682]

I live in moray, murry we call it. My english teacher in school spoke doric which made classes interesting. What catches me out is that the farmers and the fishermen seem to speak completely different languages from each other, even us locals have trouble sometimes

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Fit ye daen

[@johnlaurie5786]

A just read that in big Roisin fae river citys voice 😂😂😂😂😂

[@tomgreen625]

Who you calling a teuchtar ya eejit

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

@tomgreen625 remember Rab Nesbit and Jamsie Cotter encountering a 'teuchtar' when they went to Loch Lomond for a holiday? Rab and Jamsie are walking along a track on their way to try and find a pub. They're lost.. they see a land rover approaching and decide to ask directions: " Hey teuchtar! Whur aboots thae pub?" Landrover driver is obviously in a Barbour jacket, has an upper class accent and can't understand them! 😁

[@ajm2612]

I love seeing americans struggling to understand the scouse accent, its too funny

[@kimbirch1202]

There was a TV comedy called " Auf wiedersehen Pet " in the 1970s which was about a gang of bricklayers from different parts of the UK, working in Germany. If you watch a clip on KZbin you will hear strong authentic Geordie, scouse, Welsh ,Brummie, and Cockney accents. I'm from Yorkshire, but my favourite accents are Welsh, and Geordie, as they are quite melodic. Al Murray does a very extreme version of British accents in a comedy routine, which I recommend.

[@PedrSion]

I’m from North Wales. The North Walian accents are totally different from the South Walian and Mid Walian accents. The gutteral sounds in the Scouse accent come from the influence of the Welsh language.

[@sarahbee4164]

I’m from Manchester and about 30 miles to Burnley, 30 miles to Huddersfield, 15 miles to Bolton and 35 to Liverpool. The accents are so different, even I struggle a bit, especially if folk have had a couple of shandies

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

You are so right, accents and alcohol often don't mix well... 😅 😂 🤣

[@samanthaparmley1386]

It’s the same in greater Manchester from north Manchester the furthest Rochdale to the other side of south Manchester the accents change a lot

[@rewghob]

Bolton is v different to Manchester and sounds more like Yorks to me, but is prob just a strong Lancs accent which MCR doesn't have. Huddersfield are in Yorks so obvs diff accent

[@judithmorganjudyteen]

Horrible cockney accent JJ

[@sharronnorman574]

I couldn’t stop laughing at your “Welsh” accent. It was so funny. But you did good with many of them fair play. 😂

[@LouieAvery-uf8km]

Are you Welsh? Im from Cardiff and i am crying at how he pronounced my accent

[@sonny2593]

Your Statham impression had me rolling mate 😂

[@JJLAReacts]

LOL Thanks!!!!😂

[@gmdhargreaves]

Read your comment before watching this didn’t think anything of it meant nothing! Having just witnessed what I have I must say I almost chocked to death on a chicken wing seeing it!!! This guy is Jason’s American Brother! ❤❤❤❤😂😂😂 love this channel

[@gmdhargreaves]

@@JJLAReactsthat was quality mate, had me in stitches ❤❤😂

[@johnp8131]

Jason Statham, although he sounds like a "Cockney" isn't one. He was born up in Derbyshire then moved to Norfok as a kid. Maybe he gets the accent from his parents or he just adopted it for acting purposes? Anyone know?

[@danrcash]

I think he speaks 'Hollycockney' An accent invented by Guy Ritchie which sounds like Estuary English, but can be understood by Americans. Gor blimey faaack off you cheeky bleeder etc.

[@hardcorecwtchers8000]

The Devon accent is something else - I'm from Wales but it always makes me smile

[@rachelpenny5165]

I grew up in a farming area in Devon so my accent can be strong. I live in SW Hampshire now and still use the Devon dialect.

[@BloodRedKat]

I’m from Devon but if I go out in the sticks then even I struggle to understand what they’re saying, I’m surprised to see that no southwest accent even made it on the list!

[@nathanthomson1931]

Shocking that Glasgow wasnt #1 lol. She also found herself the most well-spoken Glaswegian ever haha. She needed to have a vid of a NED! The clip she had of a Geordie accent was also favorable. She couldve used a clip of Adam Pearson doing a Newcastle match review, or just a fan coming out of St. James Park after a match.

[@donmongoose]

For sure, I doubt Franky is actually from Glasgow, and I base that on the fact I can easily understand him. As for us Geordies, you can tell how extreme the accent is by how we say the colour Purple.

[@MattCrawley_Music]

"Ozzy osbourne speaks with a birmingham accent and I could barely understand him" yes but a lot of that is to do with the decades of drugs and alcohol

[@GormlyKeep]

I think the years of copious amounts of drugs are more relevant than the accent in respect if understanding Ozzy

[@Bart-tk9um]

@@GormlyKeepI find it funny that Ozzy came up with the majority of the lyrical topics of early Black Sabbath, and they were some very deep and philosophical topics, but Geezer Butler was the one who had to write the lyrics because Ozzy wasn’t very articulate, just goes to show that great articulation isn’t the be and end all of determining intelligence.

[@SongBillong]

I really enjoy your reactions as you're genuinely interested and actually take time to think about what you're watching. Good stuff!

[@head_like_an_orange]

I swear you're one of the best reactors. Your comments and facial expressions are gold, and I love how you look stuff up too.

[@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej]

I thought you did really well with this sample of accents. I'm very impressed that you were genuinely interested. This was a lot of fun to watch, thank you.

[@TheWacoKid1963]

I'm a Geordie and Cheryl Cole's accent has been butchered with elocution lessons to make her sound more middle class, if you want to hear a true Geordie have a listen to AC/Dc's Brian Johnson been interviewed, that is a true Geordie accent or watch the first episode of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", especially the Geordie characters of Dennis, Oz & Neville, Neville has the softer Geordie accent of Cheryl Cole EDIT: Sick DOES NOT mean cool in the uk, it means disgusting, foul ie That is sick Frankie Boyle's accent is a mixture of Glaswegian & Irish Ps personally I think think those were a very poor selection of UK accents

[@CrankCase08]

I'm from London, and when I want to mimic a Geordie, I just do an Oz. I think a better Glaswegian would have been Alex Ferguson or Kenny Dalglish - I have real trouble understanding them.

[@Oxley016]

Sam Fender is a good modern example of a young Geordie as well. He's from North Shields and accent is a lot stronger than Cheryl's and he uses a lot more dialect.

[@johnwellbelove148]

A lot of people in Portsmouth speak with a 'Cockney' accent as many people from there moved to Portsmouth during Victorian times to work in the dockyard. My schooldays involved many bits of Cockney rhyming slang, even though I didn't know that's what it was at the time.

[@rageface5985]

These examples are of people speaking to people outside of their region, so they tend to modify the way they speak. I didn't realise how lazy we speak in Yorkshire until I moved to the US in the late 90s and had to drastically change how I spoke because no one understood me.

[@racheltaylor6578]

I’m Scottish but I love a Geordie accent.It’s so comforting.

[@jamestownsend2095]

Cheers pet

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

I'm a Scot who lives in Northumberland. There are a LOT of common words between Lallans Scots and Geordie..Champion!

[@TSpencerT008]

Bearn, wee and canny and aye for sure!@@HarryFlashmanVC

[@sheilaleslie1323]

Should have had Jasper Carrot. For Brummie, check him out and have a good laugh as well. Jimmy nail for Geordie. The Big Yin and where was Northampton? “Oim gewin dain tain me duck.(I’m going down town). And “Oi shallader be gewin. Tadar air kid.”

[@JJLAReacts]

I'll check those out! I appreciate the phonetic spelling 😂

[@VeeTuTonic]

This was so much fun to watch. Not a bad attempt at all at some of these accents

[@MajorMagna]

The issue with many of these accents is that there are many variations, especially "Yorkshire" and "Welsh", given their historical splits, Doncaster and Leeds, despite only being 30 miles apart, and both in Yorkshire, have noticably different accents.

[@Howay.Man.Angelica]

I'm a Geordie, i moved to Somerset around 22yrs ago. When i first got here, i was broad and had to tone my accent down. They said i was rude and abrupt. But when i toned it down, i found they reacted positively. To me they have a sing song voice here, where Geordie isn't, it is quite flat. When i go home for a visit, i come back broad. But i do find if I'm relaxed, tired or with the grandbairns who've obviously been hearing me for years, i can geat really broad again 😆.

[@noladavis5085]

I'm so jealous you have an accent. I lived in Dorset for 40 years. I have no accent. I now live in the West Midlands and only one person mentioned my accent when I said I was from Dorchester. But on the plus side I can translate drunk Glaswegian which is more useful than I would ever thought.

[@lilmsmetal]

I am from Aberdeen, and moved down near Reading many years ago, they could barely understand a word I said, even my name! 😂

[@seanhomar5945]

There are many accents within a regions accent. For instance the yorkshire accent changes in different parts of the county.

[@davidsweeney4021]

I'm a Brummie, born and bred. I lived in London for 5 years and Durham for 15 years. So my accent has changed, strangely closer to RP now. I do get funny looks from fellow Brummies when they hear me speak.

[@grahvis]

Big road accident, young woman trapped in her car. The paramedic asked, "What is your name?" "Tracy" "Where are you bleeding from, Tracy? "Romford".

[@claytonskids6764]

Accents are Such Fun 😁 I just adore all our differences…..how boring would it be if we all had the same accent😳! Thanks for sharing…and trying some of them out 🤗👍

[@allenwood9967]

True! It would suck if every accent was the same, that distinction make's all the difference ✊

[@HollyLyne]

Worth remembering that there is much greater diversity of accents than suggested in this. I'm from Yorkshire and there is a broad range of accents across this particularly large region (made up of multiple counties).

[@Burglar-King]

I loved your cockney JJ, the gurning was hysterical 😂

[@jackieyoungman7970]

I love the way you present your videos in that your approach is calm, sensible and non-hysterical. As for accents, I'm a Brit with what they nowadays call an 'Estuary accent' Like yourself, the accent I find hardest to understand is Derry, but my favourite accent in the whole of the British Isles as opposed to just the UK, is a Dublin one (as spoken on the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, which if you don't have in the USA, there are plenty of clips from it available on KZbin, although some, shall we say, colourful language is used at times).

[@blackbob3358]

D'oirish would have it Britain AND Ireland, 7970. Maybe small beer to us, but not to the sons of Erin.

[@alexmctear5420]

You made a fairly good job of replicating some of those accents, certainly much better than I could, I have a Glaswegian accent, possibly not as strong as Frankie Boyle as I lived 40 years in London.

[@coraynbell8991]

She should have had an Aberdonian fisherman!!!!

[@JJLAReacts]

Wow, found it! What in the world?! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGjWqmRmp7tgf7M

[@Thurgosh_OG]

'Peterheed' (Peterhead) would have been the one to beat. I'm from Inverness but one time (years ago) visiting friends in Peterhead, we went to the cinema and to this day I've no idea what the guy at the sweetie counter said to me, when I asked how much the Opal Fruits where. In the end I held out my cash and he took the coins he needed. I have no trouble with any other Scottish dialect.

[@Dcs.234]

@@JJLAReacts on of my friends married a guy from Aberdeen .. she had to translate what he said all the time lol ….

[@philmckenna5709]

Fit like are ye, loon?!

[@aldozilli1293]

​​@@JJLAReactsyou do realise she teaches English to foreigners not Americans, subtitles aren't for your benefit 😅.

[@Dionysos640]

The strongest Glasgow accents are so difficult that even non-Glaswegian scots can find them hard to understand. Glasgow also has rich and varied coloquialisms that many English people will not have heard. I'd have to say that a thick Glaswegian accent is the most difficult.

[@neuralwarp]

Posh Girl thinks she knows how Common Folk speak.

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

I dont think you understand - she is a well known professor of English for foreign students NOW. She's not there for the likes of you and me just wanting advice for some future tourist travel, with a slant toward comedy.

[@carollewis5931]

I grew up in Somerset lived in London for a few months Earls Court (lots of Aussies and Kiwis) spent a bit of time in Scotland and now live in Wales so I've got used to a lot of accents 😊

[@ginacable5376]

God she loves the sound of her own voice. I wouldn't want her teaching me because a great deal is irrelevant.

[@sgtsundance]

Your impression of the Stath had me LOL'ing hard. Can't believe you think Welsh sounds Irish, tho! Ozzy's hard to understand, not just because of the accent, it's also because he mumbles a lot. Remember, there's more than one Irish accent, as much as multiple Welsh, English and Scots accents. I remember that thing with Cheryl and the US talent show, they did a thing on the news talking to Geordies about it and there was a guy on there who's accent was so thick I could barely understand it, but I never have trouble getting Cheryl's.

[@pauldurkee4764]

If Charlotte Church has a Cardiff accent, then her parents wasted a lot of money sending her to expensive schools. Thats a Cardiff accent from one of the more affluent areas.

[@cymro6537]

Her accent has changed. When she was younger ,she spoke with a very English accent - this due to the fact the she rubbed shoulders with her mates at Howells girls school; a private school in Cardiff where most of the pupils come from very affluent ( and Anglicised) homes

[@jeepsthetimebandit]

Your Welsh accent! 😂 That was brill! You managed to do every British accent in one sentence lol

[@julianbarber4708]

Geordie is my fave accent.

[@colingregory7464]

Some of the "country bumpkin?" accents in Hot Fuzz are fairly challenging, some of it may be exaggerated but there are people whose accents are similar to those used in the film

[@sgtsundance]

This is very true. I'm from Gloucestershire where the film's set and my accent's more like Nick Frost's, but my mates at school would tell you I sounded more like the old cop with the dog, or more likely the farmer with the barn full of guns.

[@carriehellyer1777]

Yurp! 😉😁

[@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc]

Bit pointless having personalites illustrate different accents. Stagecraft has forced them to tone down to be accepted on the national stage. Geordie, deffo my fave; sorry, but Brummie always makes me inwardley giggle. Love All!

[@sarahradford9822]

I dont think I've ever seen this much of the Queens Christmas Speech ..ever in my life ..

[@julianbarber4708]

You are a superb mimic!

[@davidfletcher1454]

I love your efforts of our very strange, up and down accents 😂👍, I'm from Sheffield in England which is in the region of Yorkshire which does hold very weird accents 😂

[@lorettamoulpied5293]

Lucy picked some easy examples of these regional accents to understand. The Cardiff accent is common I'm from South Wales and it's normalish to me. Further nothing our accent is much stronger.

[@Shoomer1988]

Loved JJ doing Welsh via Scotland, Ireland and India.

[@boldee101]

I would like to see what people make of a group of excited people from the Rhonda Valley talking very fast.

[@ollwynaspinall1991]

I'm from Lancashire north west England and have the similar accent to Yorkshire for example I say mi instead of me it's a down, to earth accent

[@helenryder8999]

I'm from Yorkshire but my grandmother was from Wiltshire. Whereas I would say cuk (cook), buk (book) and luk (look) ie short vowel sound; she would pronounce them coo-k, boo-k, and loo-k with much longer vowels! I wish that they had included a West Country accent - I had difficulty understanding my mum's cousins when we visited Somerset and Wiltshire!

[@SprinterPlayz]

I thought a clip of Liam Gallagher speaking in a Mancunian accent would be one of the top 3 lol

[@glennda72]

Ha ha ha 8 loved that Gemma Collins impression, fantastic

[@brianhanna3128]

Absolutely cracked me up with that Statham riff dude!

[@JJLAReacts]

Haha! thanks!!

[@prestonnevlogs1462]

In most towns, (I know for a fact in Preston) the accent and dialect differs from one area of the town to the next. I can tell an east Preston accent from a west for example. Im sure this is the case accross the nation.

[@laurajarvis3156]

Yeah we have a ton of accents here. I'm closest to Wolverhampton out of cities. Which has a similar, but not the same, accent to Birmingham. However I live west of Wolverhampton approx 10 miles just into the rural county shropshire. Here we're sandwiched between Cheshire and then Liverpool to the North, the more "farmer" type accents South of us, Welsh to the west and the west Midlands to the east of us. And that makes the accent round here almost a hybrid of all those places.

[@peterhall8572]

I'm a Yorkshireman, Specifically Huddersfield (West Yorks.) our accent is recognisable everywhere, My ex was in Beijing where a Chinese lady actually said"excuse Me But are You From Huddersfield?" she'd been a student here!

[@leejones4439]

The regional accents used here are nowhere near as broad as they really are in those areas. The only naturally spoken accent was Louis Tomlinson's. That really is how people speak in Doncaster (Yorkshire). But Jason Stathom isn't even a cockney! Born in the North Midlands. Then he moved to Norfolk as a kid. To my ears, he does sound like a cockney. I'd be curious to know how a Londoner views his accent.

[@Lostachilles]

I'm surprised she didn't elaborate on some of these accents, tbh. In fairness, she did explain that Essex got the accent due to east-end migration, but there were a lot more that needed explanation or clarification. For example, Louis Tomlinson (her choice for Yorkshire accent) is from a city called Doncaster, in South Yorkshire. He does have a very typical Doncaster accent, but it differs drastically from that of Sheffield (the "capital city" of South Yorkshire) that sits not even 20 miles away, which, in turn differs from Barnsley, which is less than 15 miles from Sheffield. The three locations are in a triangular shape, all less than 25 mins from each other via car, and yet each has a distinctly different "Yorkshire accent." As if that weren't enough, there's also Leeds in West Yorkshire with another different accent, and then you've got York in North Yorkshire, and that's without discussing any of the other large towns or cities in those parts of Yorkshire. This is a long-winded way of saying that there's more than just one Yorkshire accent, and despite being so close together, they vary quite noticeably. She kind of dropped the ball a bit on that. As others have pointed out, too, she chose people who are famous, meaning that many of them have watered down their accents to be more easily understood due to TV presence and interviews requiring that people be able to understand them. If you're really interested in the different accents, do some KZbin searches on the accents and you'll find locals speaking with much more pronounced accentuation.

[@AnnaM-uj5yo]

Her video is not for people who speaks english is for people who doesn’t. I don't really see why you criticize her so much. You are an english speaker of course you can understand everything.

[@Naefacesix6six]

if you ever come Aberdeen scotland ill buy you a few beers brother. love the channel.

[@makavelismith]

3rd comment here but man, your efforts at doing these accents is really good. A great addition for the video for comedy purposes but a fantastic effort. I don't know if I could do better than you for some of them, and I know the difference between most of their accents quite well. I can't wait until they get to Scouse and they have Jamie Carragher up there. Good luck lol

[@andrewstevenson6026]

Jason Statham, is from just outside Mansfield, along with John Hurt, not London, and He an Olympic swimmer.

[@JJLAReacts]

OMG, you're right Statham was in the '88 Olympics! Wow, what a wild ride he's had.

[@peterburry2531]

@@JJLAReacts His accent isn't really Cockney, either; more of a hybrid that he's picked up along the way.... it can happen if you move around a lot

[@almostclement4975]

Jason statham hasn’t got a cockney accent because he isn’t a cockney. He’s got a mockney accent, to be a true cockney you need to have been born within the sound of the bow bells which he wasn’t, he wasn’t even born in London. Unfortunately, in the last few decades people have been labelling the broader London accent as cockney. Statham has a broader accent in my opinion and the fact that this woman is calling him cockney is actually offensive to me.

[@Celestine-]

Now we have just got to talk about the brits that have a mixture of accent into something incredibly unique since you moved around lots as a kid and your parents have different accents Can’t wait for that 😂😂

[@Howay.Man.Angelica]

I'm a Geordie, I moved to Somerset 22yrs ago. My granddaughter is nine, and she's been to Newcastle once. But has obviously heard my accent her whole life. I picked her and her brother up from school once, and I was taking them to a cafe. We were walking along the road, and this car who was quite far from us, beeped their horn. The bairn turned around and shouted, yeah we can see you, you doilum (idiot). I didn't know whether to laugh, or tell her off 😆. But it just shows you, that they pick lots of words up. My late husband used to say aye all the time too 😆.

[@airedale1913]

This is me lol. People always ask me where my accent's from and I'm just like 🤷‍♀️ it's just kind of a generic one I think, but with short As (grah-ss, bah-th). My dad uses long though.

[@LeeStewart]

I’m a Geordie and when I visited New York last year I had to speak posh for people to understand me. Although I had a few Americans praising and loving my accent.

[@yvonnesanders4308]

My first job out of university was a 192 operator. Most caps were local. Occasionally we got overspill from Glasgow. It was like taking calls from rab.c.nesbitt 😅

[@alexcampos4370]

Ha ha! Where’s the one doing a Somerset accent? That one got me during my first day in Bath when I moved to the UK.😂

[@jomc20]

I've only been to the West Country twice and as a Londoner was quite taken aback that only a couple of hundred miles away, the accent was so different not to mention the cashier in a supermarket calling me 'my lover!',

[@TheKellyLlama]

We have so many accents over here, and then so many dialects on top of that. These people are using their "tv voices" though and slower/clearer than most speaking naturally. Takes the fun out of it haha.

[@vallejomach6721]

Schools that are 'Public schools' in the UK are actually private schools...state-run government funded schools are free. Once upon a time the the only education that existed was via the Church (Catholic or Christian depending on time period) and the only recipients of any education were monks and members of the clergy in monasteries...and the rich, wealthy nobility/royalty were educated via private tuition. 'Public Schools' eventually emerged that were open (in theory) to people outside of the 'Church', i.e. public, but tuition was still paid for (and still to this day are essentially pay to win)...only the wealthy could access them (and that's still true). They are still the most prestigious schools and where the majority of politicians and top brass come from...public school straight into a top university like Oxford/Cambridge. Hence why the top 'public' schools in the UK like Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Westminster etc are still called 'public schools' even though they are what everyone else calls private. 'Free' schools didn't happen until much, much, much later when 'poor schools' were established around the early 1800s...funded initially usually by charity, those free schools are what were eventually nationalised into the free state-run school system.

[@eclipsesonic]

The part where you impersonated Jason Statham was hilarious! 😂😂

[@John_Lyle]

She managed to pick ten very "soft" examples of the accents.

[@briwire138]

I can travel on a bus 15 miles west to Liverpool, and hear the accents change every 4 miles or so as people get on. Same going north 10 miles to wigan, or 8 miles north west to St helens. Strangely, I can go east across Manchester 25 miles to Stockport with little difference,

[@dyent]

If you want a real accent challenge, try watching 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' You've got Geordie (Newcastle), Scouse (Liverpool), Mackem (Sunderland), Bristolian (Bristol), Cockney (London) and Yamyam (Black Country, the area surrounding Birmingham), and it's all the broadest, most working class versions. The character Oz (Jimmy Nail) has such a heavy Geordie accent that I've met Geordies who couldnt understand him.

[@dcallan812]

Im from North Yorkshire, in land, but the nearest village is on the coast and they have different accent.. Middlesbrough is the nearest big town and we sound nothing alike. Funny with in 10 mile radius we can pick up "your not from round ear". 😃👍

[@natelo952]

Jason statham isn't cockney, he's from derbyshire and moved to norfolk whenhe was in his teens

[@fleuriebottle]

I loved you doing the Essex accent (Gemma Collins) you sound puts in mind of Mick Jagger

[@darkraft1020]

Hah, great attempt on these accents! And hey, us balding guys need to hear these things! :)

[@peterburry2531]

I'm balding and it's never held me back... The pug ugly face is a different matter though.

[@ziggythedrummer]

There's a brilliant clip of Chris Pratt on the Graham Norton Show doing an Essex accent, he pretty much nailed it :)

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

The Northern Irish accents tend to be harsher that accents from the Republic. A great example of a "Norn" accent is Liam Neeson's. For a strong Geordie accent, have a listen to stand-up comics Ross Noble and Sarah Millican, both of whom are from Newcastle. And yup - both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have (had) strong Scouse accents.

[@steveaga4683]

I came to a conclusion even before I listened to these accents! They are analysing CELEBRITY accents! Therefore, by definition, they need to be generally understood! Therefore, they are obviously watered down and not really representative of the TRUE speakers of the accents.

[@vaudevillian7]

The default for English speaking accents that Americans aren’t familiar with seems to be default to Irish, Scottish or Australian - have had it a lot in the US. Even Canadian or ‘out of state’ occasionally. My accent is northern east midlands of England

[@PolarBear4]

I'm a Geordie and when people even in the UK can't understand me well/place the accent they default to Wales/Scotland or N Ireland (in that order). Someone in Canada asked me if I spoke English. My friends from elsewhere in Europe have had no (unless I use slang) problem understanding me though.

[@debbielough7754]

A lot of these accents are watered down from what you'd hear in the actual areas they're from. Probably because they're celebrities, so they're used to having to talk with a lot of different people from different places, so you have to learn to communicate in a way that let's you get your point across. In the actual areas, they can be a *lot* stronger. Mine is Geordie, and I've watched people from the south of England smile and nod at a conversation between north easterners, because they couldn't understand a word (especially when dialect enters the chat). I've also been made fun of or treated as though I was stupid because of my accent. Meanwhile, living in Yorkshire (which is only 100 miles or so from where I grew up), there are accents so strong I can only get every second or third word, and I'm the one smiling and nodding.

[@PolarBear4]

I've had that too. The being made to feel stupid/less because of my accent or have it made fun of. I also seem to absorb bits of accents after living somewhere for a while so both times I lived away from the area for a number of years my family made fun of me because I'd say some words with a different accent. I think the accent I struggled with the most to understand in the last few years was a lady from Edinburgh who'd lived in Newcastle for 5 years. She had what sounded like the strongest version of both put together and spoken at a rapid pace! I had to really concentrate. Apart from that the most I've struggled is a relative from Sunderland which is hilarious as I'm only from up the road in Newcastle so what, 10 miles or so?

[@FRAAANKYSUUUPER]

*sigh* from London and some foreigners really don't understand me when I say bottle of water. Like really, even some English people have been like.. "What?"

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

As a non native English speaker, the only dialect/accent I had problems with was Edinburgh. And I've been to London, Oxford, Cardiff, Ely, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Derry, Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Dingle, and many other cities/towns/areas in the UK/Ireland

[@juliedawson8027]

Interesting to me as a non-Brit who lived in Edinburgh for 25 years and always thinks of the Edinburgh accent as being almost non-existent. Do you mean the working class Edinburgh accent because again, that is a totally different story!

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@juliedawson8027 Seriously, I don't remember, it was 30 years ago, but I believe it was working class, or even lower. I was hanging around with punk rockers at the time and there were quite a lot of low earners

[@juliedawson8027]

@@matshjalmarsson3008 That makes sense in that case. You'd get a lot of dialect too, particularly in those days. Must have been an interesting time! I'll bet you've got a few stories....

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@juliedawson8027 Don't get me started! ;)

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@juliedawson8027 I'll tell you one. By Loch Ness, I arrived late so the Hostel was closed, so I spent the night outside. Drinking some wine in hope of spotting the monster. I walked up and down the street to stay warm, and used my towel as a scarf and socks as gloves. Then a Bread delivery car crashed nearby and I helped the ambulance people carry the driver into the Ambulance, one of his arms was almost completely severed and his head was damaged. It was bad. As sad as that may be, the funny part is when I sat in the police car explaining what I'd seen, and I took off my socks and towel... I can't immagine what the officers thought of me

[@toxictony4230]

I remember John Bishop been on a talk show once, and an American guest remarked 'Is he even speaking English?' So funny. As Accents go, those from the North East of Scotland I have the most difficulty with. Dundee upward.

[@mikicoal]

Northern Ireland accent is quite distinct from the accents in Ireland. There're certainly similarities between the different Gaelic derived dialects though, as noted by your associating the Welsh accent with Irish.

[@sarahradford9822]

Your welsh is a bit scottish .. but good effort 😂 . Your essex /cockney is pretty good 👍

[@Bart-tk9um]

I love that Cockney accent is perfectively understandable, but as soon as they start talking in full slang it becomes comprehensively gibberish.

[@buidseach]

The Scottish accent originally comes from Northumbrian Old English with a bit of Flemish Norse thrown in :)

[@wirralnomad]

What could possibly sound more difficult than Glaswegian? To be honest John Bishop is talking quite slowly here and rightly so as most folk won't understand him if he spoke fast like he would to another Scouser, but I always felt Glaswegian and Geordie were more difficult than Scouse although I have to admit that I did expect Geordie, Glaswegian and Scouse to be the top three accents so I got that bit right.

[@philmckenna5709]

Aberdonian!

[@bruce-e-bonus]

And I'm pretty sure John Bishops says "...I wrote about them in the book and I've called them Generation Z (Zed), cos I've give them a full title" - I wasn't sure about the work 'book' until I found the original video, which was about plugging his book

[@johnp8131]

The Essex accent has changed so much due to London overspill. When my parents were young and even when I visited my relations there in the early sixties, many still sounded like rural agricultural people?

[@jointgib]

do you remember Peter Seabrook off the telly? He had a nice mid Essex voice. You still meet the occasional old boy who has the twang, but it's definitely heading for extinction.

[@HarleyFirestorm]

You can tell the difference, between early Londoners and later arrivals in Essex, I came from London and grew up in Essex and I miss out my 'H's and pronounce things more in line with the original rural Essex people (even though I am from South London), than the later arrivals who sound more 'posh'.