American Reacts to 20 British Accents in 1 Video!

[@gidztar]

"But that Brummy accent is so nice", never thought I'd hear that in my lifetime.

[@ruthbriggs5372]

Me too, although it's friendly!

[@BoostWorx]

Watch peaky blinders you'll here lots of Brummy accents

[@SwordOfHeimdall]

I like it actually. My go to for the accent was always Rob Halford. But he's from Walsall and describes his accent as 'yam-yam'. But other members of Judas Priest are from Birmingham. I mean, so is Black Sabbath but who can tell what accent Ozzy Osbourne speaks these days? :D.

[@SaveButterfliesUK]

its not similar in the least

[@ac1646]

@@user-tp8io4vz6s His ears are probably better at noticing the similarities rather than the differences.

[@colinp2238]

In that video the presenter fell into a common trap when he said that Lenny Henry had a Brummie accent. Lenny is from Dudley and speaks with a Black Country accent that is different form a Birmingham (Brummie) accent.They are similar but there are many differences. I am from Birmingham, and once was lost in Gornal, a town near Dudley. I asked a man for directions but I hardly understood a word he spoke. Dudley is about 8 miles from Birmingham.

[@james.strong]

Having lived in the Black Country, I know what’s the same and what is different.

[@richardjones4913]

We had three Yorkshire accents but no discussion of the substantial differences between Black County and Brummie... Possibly the video author doesn't hear the differences...

[@colinp2238]

@@richardjones4913 Exactly, so why is he making the video?

[@jackthelad8182]

I'm a brummie but love the geordie accent many years ago I had several geordie friends why aye

[@jackthelad8182]

I remember meeting someone from quarry bank and not understanding what he said I'm a brummie

[@franki7]

Am from Liverpool so I have a scouse accent but my favorite is Newcastle's geodie accent

[@Lily-Bravo]

I live in Gloucestershire and took my children up to Birmingham to visit the Cadbury Chocolate factory. It's barely an hour's drive. When we got there I had to ask directions (pre SatNav) , the guy had a very strong accent, (think Ozzie Osbourne and Noddy Holder combined} and my son said "What country are we in?"

[@lo1079]

😂

[@IAMKIMBERLEYOFFICIAL]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cymro6537]

💀

[@SirBradiator]

If you want to hear more of the Queen she does a Christmas message every year which are all available on KZbin

[@jamielong8976]

Yes! I’d love to see a reaction to one of the Queen’s speeches.

[@asxtrx63]

not this year :0

[@Oxley016]

@@asxtrx63 😭😢

[@prof.emanuelpaiva]

As a Brazilian, I'm enjoying it. English is a difficult language. Imagine listening to many accents? It is a craziness, but it is enjoyable. Thanks for producing this video. ❤

[@alanhitchings5841]

One distinctive accent not mentioned was the Norfolk accent in East Anglia. About 50-60 miles north of Essex and sounding like nothing else in the UK. Great content as usual Joel. 👍

[@carolharris8167]

I agree we were totally forgotten, I live on the Norfolk Suffolk border and our accent is different to the south west, very disappointing.

[@susanrounding3119]

Im grom Norfolk and totally agree

[@sheila3922]

Sudoku

[@LittleBird777]

I'm from Norfolk and yes it's unique

[@canarycatchup]

Yeah as someone from Norfolk, I was hoping to see him react to it

[@TheRattyBiker]

What I found interesting was usually when foreigners hear that in the UK you can travel 30 minutes and hear a complete different accent they take it with a pinch of salt... When Joel said it at the beginning of the video though - you could see from the reaction it blew his mind when he and Will rocked up and actually experienced it first hand.

[@JiminyClarkson]

Don't even need 30 miles. Only need to cross the motorway from Frodsham to Runcorn, and you go from a Cheshire accent (like that of Gary Barlow) to Scouse.

[@tedwarden1608]

And it was mixed with Jamaican:-)

[@user-ql1jv1dw8s]

He uses Elis James as an examples of a south Wales accent (which would be valleys/Cardiff/Swansea etc)... yet Elis is from Carmarthenshire in west Wales, which are different accents....

[@acybkadd]

I was born in London but grew up in Nottinghamshire. In the area I lived the neighbouring towns and villages, which might only be a few miles away, each had a slightly different accent.

[@pauljamesmorley5002]

Hey JPS - best wishes from Oxford, England . Hope you are always healthy and happy and know your videos are loved

[@Isleofskye]

The year was 1968. The occasion :Oxford v Millwall at The old Manor Ground in Headington and thousands of Millwall fans came from the train station and marched to the ground where I heard an American Woman say to her Husband " Gee,they got a carnival!"...😀

[@southbristolbcfc1943]

@@Isleofskye 😂😂😂

[@andrewfoster259]

Great video jps, I am from Leeds in Yorkshire and love my Yorkshire accent 😀. It's always interesting to see things like this from a fresh and new perspective.

[@rosie4696]

I'm Bristolian! I was born in Bristol but grew up just outside of Bristol, just 4 miles from where Josie Gibson lives (the one on the clip for Bristol) but my accents differs from hers. Mine is nowhere near as broad as hers! She has more of a what we call farmers accent in Bristol lol my accent is more JK Rawlings because believe it or not, I went to school with her for two years and I know the Boy she got the idea of Harry Potter, he's name is Ian Potter! ! He was her next door neighbour and love to dress up as a wizard when he was boy! I've just gave my age away lol 😆

[@kookytoots6755]

Alllrrrrrrrright my luvva, love a fellow Bristolian x

[@UKFirst123]

Im a brummie from Birmingham obviously thanks for liking the accent its often laughed at here as sounding thick and stupid

[@MARTIN-bd7gm]

Yep lol

[@ianz9916]

I'm a Londoner and I never thought of it as thick but it is the only place in Britain I've been where I met some people that I genuinely couldn't understand a word they were saying. Surprisingly, when I went to see Arsenal play Birmingham City, for some context Trevor Francis was playing for Birmingham at the time, me and my Dad walked up from the Bullring and found the best chippy in the country.

[@Lazmanarus]

Some of the greatest of Victorian era engineers, builders & entrepreneurs were from the Black Country & Birmingham.

[@margaretnicol3423]

It's a pity he missed out the Inverness or highland accents in Scotland. They are different again and very soft and slower than Glasgow or Edinburgh.

[@garydalziel9312]

Another good example would be Perth and Dundee, less than half an hour apart, but a million miles apart by accent

[@pauldenby878]

Yes, I thought loads of accents were missed

[@stephenoakes1240]

I thought he would mention the Shetland and other Scottish island accents as they are very distinct and retain elements of Scandinavian pronunciation. Also the Derry accent in Northern Ireland is very strong and sometimes incomprehensible to an Englishman!

[@ronrichardson3103]

Yes the people of Glasgow don't know what the Highlanders are saying

[@enemde3025]

Totally agree. I am from Peterhead and you never hear these videos talk about DORIC .

[@secretarchivesofthevatican]

I worked in the West Midlands in the 80s. Knew an old guy there who could tell you which village people in Shropshire came from by their accent.

[@ruthmuirhead61]

Even the Queen has changed her accent over the years- I think there's a video on KZbin about it, but compare the speech she gave at 21 (very RP/high English aka posh) to her recent Christmas messages, she's toned it down a lot. I prefer to hear her I interviews when she's unrehearsed and natural and her sense of humour and fun shines through.

[@jacquilewis8203]

Living in Northern Ireland we have different accents within are small country. You can always tell if someone is from Belfast, Omagh, Enniskillen and Derry/Londonderry and other regional variations. 20 miles down the road the accent is different.

[@antiqueinsider]

Not to mention that you can sometimes distinguish Catholic from Protestant by the accent!

[@cfm1337]

no you cant hahaha@@antiqueinsider

[@patsydf]

I come from the West of England so the accent is laughed at as the farmers accent, country people who talk a lot slower and drag out their vowels. Glaswegian and Geordie are my favourites.

[@Knappa22]

It’s sad this has happened. The ‘bur’ of the westcountry accent is disappearing through ignorant attitudes about it being a farmers’ accent. Variations of this accent were once heard all the way from Cornwall, through places like Oxfordshire and Berkshire, all the way to East Anglia.

[@5uper5kill3rz]

@@Knappa22 still are

[@99fruitbat94]

As a Scot I love the West of England accent , the burr just sounds like such an ancient sound 👍💕

[@lea24457]

I’m a Geordie however I like the “farmers accent” comes across very laid back ha ha

[@leesabook4891]

I’m from Bath and have to be honest I loathe my accent. Would much rather have a Gordie or Scottish accent!

[@copferthat]

I live close to the East Lancashire road, which goes from Manchester to Liverpool. In that 30 miles there are at least five separate accents that I know of. If I cross over that road from my side to Leigh the accent changes in just 200 yards.

[@patrickbriscall7934]

My dad grew up in the 1930s in Oldham, Lancashire. He used to say he could recognise within a few streets where someone lived just from the way they spoke.

[@doctorf1144]

These accents evolved over the many centuries when most people didn’t travel away from where they were born and brought up, so travelling 30 miles would have been out of the question for most before the coming of the railways in the 19th century. I have noticed young British English people adopting MLE, I suspect because it’s all around them at school, and we instinctively adjust our accents to be closer to that of those around us to fit in. It’s thought that in the past, one of the reasons for sending the children of the wealthy to a private sector school was so that they would lose their local ‘yokel’ accent which in those days would have been an obstacle to success in life ( see a book by John Honey ‘ Does Accent Matter?’). There is a move now to retain these lovely local accents as some could be at risk of dying out and the BBC celebrate local accents so long as people can be clearly understood.

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

What is MLE? Is that the same as RP? It could be argued that the children of rich people did not have "yokel" accents to begin with, being middle class; or Posh: hence fitting in, as a yokel, would be speaking in the same vernacular as one's friends, peers and family. Where do you hail from, Doc? I'm a Geordie, myself, and your sincere concern that our lovely, local yokel accents has piqued my interest. Tell me, what makes you think that our regional accents and misunderstood colloquialism are in danger of dying out? The BBC are very pleased to have regional accents featured in their programmes because they realise that posh accents are fine, however they also are very aware that their audience, loving a feature with classic RP, is enjoyed in lots of shows like Downton, The Crown and so on; shows and films with actual realistic regional speaking appeal to the audience's sense of authenticity.

[@doctorf1144]

@@RachaelMorgan-om4xw MULTICULTURAL LONDON ENGLISH

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Oooh! There's no need to shout at me. @@doctorf1144

[@airspeed_alive]

Brilliant vid! Thanks to whoever recommended!

[@Richard500]

Don't forget the Northern Irish accent is a lot different to Irish spoken south of the border. My favourite dialect is West Yorkshire and my own ( muddled southern England / North London)

[@angelaauger169]

The lady used to demonstrate the Scouse accent is an actress called Jodie Comer & she is fantastic at copying other accents. She was in a brilliant tv program called Killing Eve. I highly recommend you give it a watch😀

[@nigelhain4810]

You should react to gogglebox compilation, as this is people at home watching TV having very typical conversations that we brits have on the daily, it's great.

[@janettesinclair6279]

Yes, Gogglebox is good because in their own homes people are speaking naturally, not affected by any "showbiz" influences. Jenny and Lee are so funny.

[@simonbanks3112]

I work in a technical environment, as was once asked by a guy with a strong Irish accent to run a 'quack-seal cable'...took me quite a while to realise he wanted me to run a 'co-axial cable'...

[@PokhrajRoy.]

3:23 The fact that Joel took a break to laugh at Boris Johnson made my heart so happy. I feel better now lol

[@citizenpb]

as i view this video, there are 28 comments and 13 of them are yours. this is not normal. are you ok?

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

boris still better than corbyn

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@citizenpb I am ok. Also, I comment a lot in every video. Nothing new.

[@citizenpb]

@@PokhrajRoy. i know, i'd noticed. doesn't make it normal.

[@abi7183]

@@girlsdrinkfeck You might need to brush up on your current affairs, lol! The current leader of the labour party is Keir Starmer, not Corbyn

[@LordUhtred1]

I was born in Birmingham, brought up in Leicester and now live near Newcastle - although my family origin is in Wessex it's a wonder anyone can understand a word I say!

[@geoffreythomas4145]

On holiday last year I got talking to a woman from Lancashire, which is where I was born. Someone else couldn't believe our accents were so different as we were only 20 miles away. He missed out the Lancashire accent altogether !! The Belfast accent is very different to the Derry accent. The Queen's Christmas broadcasts are on You Tube as well. Her accent has changed a lot over the years.

[@morvil73]

I luv the Lancashire accent, especially from places like Bolton or Oldham…

[@MannAyzze]

Scouse and Geordie are my faves.

[@andrewfree9766]

I love them all. My favourite is The Queens because as and Australian or for any other accents around the we all understand her perfectly. After all it the Queens English 😜😜👍🏼👍🏼.

[@leohickey4953]

It made sense to choose Liverpool (my home city) and Manchester as representative of the accents west of the Pennine hills, but there are numerous other distinct ones close to those cities. Try Peter Kay or Paddy McGuinness from Bolton - very near Manchester but unlike it in accent, or Lee Mack from Southport - very near Liverpool, very different accent. Johnny Vegas from St Helens sounds nothing like a scouser. AJ Odudu, from Blackburn, sounds different again, Bobby Ball (Oldham), different again, etc. etc.

[@thombt963]

He missed the Black Country accent out, very different from the Brummie accent, the BC accent is the closest to old English throughout the land

[@nicholasbuttery511]

Watch Auf Wiedersehen Pet and the Come back to our hut scene.

[@meorgegoran]

You should do a reaction to Simon Roper's videos. He's a linguistics KZbinr who does reconstructions of historical English dialects and shows how they became the modern accents. His Interview in Old English is fascinating and shows quite how much English has changed over the last thousand years.

[@carolineskipper6976]

This is one of the best 'accent' videos I've seen- he lets you hear enough of each example to really hear it, and then discusses it. I've seen a few of these that gallop through at such a rate even as Brit I can't hear he differences.

[@jessgibson4790]

Try Wolverhampton, Black Country, Dudley and Birmingham. Right next to each other but miles apart in sound and use.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Reminded me that Disney popularised the popular pirate accent in their 1950 Treasure Island film. When British actor Robert Newton went full West Country playing Long John Silver.

[@christineunitedkingdom1824]

As well as the wide range of accents, we have many words that are different from one area to another. In my town for example, we call a splinter a spelk. I enjoy watching US renovation programmes and hear words used we don't. We lay turf in gardens not sod. Sod is English but is a clump of grass. We also say sod as a swear word. Interesting isn't it?

[@Stewart682]

Before WWII it was possible to distinguish which street someone came from because there was almost no mixing of populations.

[@ruthbriggs5372]

I love proper 'old person Yorkshire' our as they would say 'yor-wuk-shi'

[@johnp8131]

Interresting how things change too. I remember visiting my Mothers side of the family in Essex, when I was a child in the early sixties. They sounded pretty much like we did in Hertfordshire back then. Rural, agricultural accents, a little like a Fenland or a softish Suffolk dialect? This was before most of the migration from London happened.

[@deanfields5242]

Another great video Joel

[@waynefairclough3328]

in originally from warrington, its between manchester and liverpool. accents can vary in the same household. my mum says booook, where as i say buck for book

[@lo1079]

I'm Scouse and I say it like buck, boook sounds like Cilla to me 😁

[@Ash-ft5su]

I'm 30 years old and have lived in the uk all my life. I still get confused with peoples accents. Even different towns in the same county can sound different.

[@jujulionesselsa1416]

Brenda Bethlyn describes that while filming "Vera" To learn the North East accent is to watch the mouths of the people while they are talking.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

Brenda BLETHYN - at least get her name right - LOL!

[@neilgayleard3842]

This only scratches the surface.

[@briancooper562]

One that was not covered was that of the Scottish highlands, calm, soothing, matter of fact without aggression.

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

9:50 ...and Robbie Coltrane is Scottish, From Glasgow I think

[@tormentedsoul906]

Im a scouser but now live half a hour away from Liverpool in St Helens & the accent is completely different, we literally can’t understand each other sometimes,lol. Accents even vary depending on which part of a town or city your from!

[@Nobson-2539]

Do you ever watch the rugby in St Helens?

[@tormentedsoul906]

@@Nobson-2539 Hi! I have NEVER watched Rugby but they’re bang into it in St Helens 😆 As a scouser its all about the football & your either raised as a blue nose, Everton or a red nose, Liverpool supporter, wether you like football or not,lol. Personally I don’t watch any sport. Do you like Rugby? I wonder if they play Rugby in the USA 🤔

[@Nobson-2539]

@@tormentedsoul906 Ye i support Wigan which is Saints rival basically Liverppol and Man united of rugby biggest derby

[@tormentedsoul906]

@@Nobson-2539 oh,lol, yeh, I know Wigan well 👍 Do you live in there? How is the team doing nowadays? 🙂

[@Nobson-2539]

@@tormentedsoul906 Ye i live there, team is doing good won the Cup last tear byt Saint's still dominating the league but the world cup is on right now so more focused on that😁

[@dcallan812]

as a kid the village along had a different accent, and the nearest big town about 15-20 mins drive spoke another.

[@carterlink]

Interesting. The accents are even more regional than is mentioned in this video. For instance, I live in NW England, almost exactly halfway between Manchester and Liverpool, where the accent is something of a mishmash between those two larger cities, but even in my town alone, there are certain intonations that vary between the different areas. Crazy to think how all these different dialects and accents came about and where they originated from.

[@ronrichardson3103]

They originated.because the world was smaller and less traveled . People didn't have televisions and cars 400 years ago. Very few would travel far from their village so everything was more localised hence if you only heard local folk speaking then that's how you responded.

[@marcwarren5985]

So you live in Warrington?

[@faithrich6374]

Completely forgetting Lancashire and Yorkshire....

[@barrygentry5364]

There is a British tv show from the 1980’s called Auf Wiedersehen Pet, about British builders who were working in Germany (hence the title). It’s actually quite a funny show that features 3 Geordies (Newcastle), 1 Bristolian (Bristol), 1 Scouser (Liverpool), 1 Cockney (London) and 1 from Wolverhampton (similar accent to Brummie being performed by the great actor Timothy Spall who is quite a posh speaker in real life). The show is about the scrapes they get into abroad but would give you a great opportunity to listen to so many different accents in 1 programme. The second series has a Scottish accent as well.

[@TheRattyBiker]

Gogglebox is a bizzare type of reality TV - but might give some good insight into regional accents.

[@mikeh2006]

I live near Chester, an England /Wales border city. When i'm in liverpool i've been called posh. But when i went to london they said I sounded scouse and welsh.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Is it just me or are Americans obsessed with the Cockney Accent? Also, never forget Dick Van Dyke in ‘Mary Poppins’. #IYKYK

[@cymro6537]

Or should that be "Maouree Boppinz"😏

[@garthwick19]

Where I live in the old cotton mill area on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border you can tell what village peolpe are from and it might be 8 miles or so apart (sometimes less).

[@CupidStunt0001]

I live between Leeds & Huddersfield and can tell the difference between the accents in both areas, even though both are West Yorkshire

[@parshakamarsh]

And Bradford is different again, even though it almost joins up to Leeds

[@johnp8131]

You're right, a Leeds accent is far more refined! At least that's what my mate from Leeds says.

[@gemlou763]

From leeds and can tell the difference between leeds and Bradford for sure

[@rhilou32]

"But that Brummie accent is so nice" - said noone, ever.... til now! 😂 (signed, a Brummie viewer!)

[@showmoke]

Quite so!!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Video Suggestion: You get Tom’s book and you practice the English Accents with Will, Mac and Cam.

[@loobyloo8980]

I live in a town in Yorkshire called Barnsley which is only 10 miles away from Sheffield. Yet our accents are very different. We’re very broad Yorkshire compared to that of Sheffield or Leeds for example. A good example of our accent is in the film ‘Kes’, based and filmed in Barnsley.

[@79BlackRose]

Great reaction video Jps! My favourite accent is Yorkshire (especially south Yorkshire, Sheffield etc).

[@Bob8091]

Sean Bean accent.

[@NatalieJUK]

Well done JPS, you're really getting the hang of the accents! Best accent=Geordie. Something distinctive about (far) northern (English) accents (like Geordie and Cumbrian) is the epenthetic schwa used on certain vowel sounds - 'poor' and 'cure' and 'sure' etc are pronounced 'poo-er' and 'queue-er' and 'shoo-er' etc! (I'm a Cumbrian living in the south and it can cause much hilarity).

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

Loved this video Joel, only problem I found with it, by using famous people their accents are softened because of needing to be understood universally, you can't go wrong in watching Gogglebox they use people from all around the UK reviewing programmes, not only are they genuine from the areas they are normally very funny, I have to disagree with him saying Lenny Henry is a Brummy (Birmingham) he is from Dudley, I live 10 miles away from Dudley and can't understand them, I worked with a girl from Dudley and it took 6 months before I could really understand what she was saying, it isn't just the accents that differ, it's words, different places have different words for things eg Alley, Ginnell, Entry, Baps, Balm cakes, Rolls, I suppose it's just natural when you are born here, but it must sound very difficult to outsiders.

[@judileeming1589]

It is so funny when we travel to the UK to visit my husband’s Yorkshire family. After 55 years living outside the UK he finds it hard to understand what they are saying to him and because I have been listening to him for all that time, I can translate for him. I am used to him adding and dropping an “h” so he says AIR as HAIR and HARD is ARD. He doesn’t even realise he is doing it. it’s the strangely local words that I found charming. My niece once said we would walk down this “snicket” which is a very narrow outdoor fenced passage/laneway between buildings to access a different street without walking around the block. When I asked about the word she told me some people would also call it a “ginnel”. I found the accent in Glasgow a bit more difficult to pick up on. Being Australian is fairly helpful because during my lifetime I have heard a couple of hundred different nationalities speaking English with an accent.

[@delriogw]

I grew up in an area that is heavily London influenced in its accent, and I now live in Yorkshire and my accent is a hot mess of a mixture. My fave accent would have to be a tie between South Wales and the West Country though. They're both so full of life and pleasant sounding.

[@michaelgair89]

we have so many accents in short distances, i grew up in hull and lived in doncaster for a few years so i have a combination of the two accents

[@donnagreen7386]

I’m from 30 miles from Birmingham and I don’t think I have an accent but most people think I’m brummy mind I was married to a Black Country lad for 20 years so likely picked up a bit of his accent which IS NOT brummy! Never mistake those two they get right upset lol. I now live in the north east in Geordie country 💜

[@adrianmcgachie]

Good fun actually trying out some of the accent tips! It shows you how a vocal coach can be great for actors! In the USA can you identify people by their accents the same? I am guessing so, from TV and films you get the East Coast "Noo Yawk" and the deep south variations really easily; are the other as profoundly different? The mention of the "Ah" (for an a sound) compared to "Ar" is true. I was born and brought up in the south of England, we say "Bath" as "barth" as compared to "baff" you get as you graduate towards the midlands and the north.

[@BomberFletch31]

I must say I'm partial to RP - that is, the posh kind. I had been watching a series titled "At Her Majesty's Service" which was presented by Dame Penelope Keith, and to be perfectly honest with you, I find her accent very alluring. Also, the accent that Patrick Stewart uses when he is on screen. He doesn't use his native Yorkshire accent, but it's also not quite RP (or is it a variation of which I am not aware?) as his 'o' sounds are not as rounded as in other RP speakers. I personally speak with a rather nondescript mix of different accents as someone who was born in Hong Kong and have lived in Australia for the last 30+ years, and also, very much an Anglophile who learnt English by watching James Bond films and various British dramas like Kavanagh QC and Inspector Morse.

[@margaretnicol3423]

Don't forget that James Bond was Scottish! 🙂

[@BomberFletch31]

@@margaretnicol3423 half Scottish, half Swiss. Educated at Eton - at least, before he dropped out 😛

[@eden1719]

@@margaretnicol3423 well not all of them.

[@Lazmanarus]

@@eden1719 Pierce Brosnan is of Irish descent, Timothy Dalton is Welsh, Roger Moore & Daniel Craig are English, George Lazenby is Australian & of course Sean Connery is Scottish.

[@johnloony68]

16:15 the Liverpool accent is by far one of the strongest and most distinct accents. Check out (eg) the comedian John Bishop

[@Neil_TheShiningMile]

I find the Northern Irish accent the most soothing. Many call centres - particularly ones focused on customer retention - hire people with Geordie / Newcastle accents as they’re deemed to be a friendly and inviting accent.

[@Lily-Bravo]

Ian Paisley!!!!

[@lo1079]

@@Lily-Bravo 😂 I was just going to mention him as being the exception...so harsh.

[@Lily-Bravo]

@@lo1079 My partner's father was from NI, and I've shared a flat with a Belfast girl, so I am very familiar with some variants in tone! I'm still not sure "soothing" is quite the right adjective!

[@Neil_TheShiningMile]

I find it soothing. Of course, the likes of Ian Paisley, with his gruff and aggressive voice, only ever shouted (never spoke). Any accent will sound unappealing if used in an aggressive way.

[@SirIsaacTheRed]

This is an amazing video and wonderful reaction. My accent is a mish-mash since the last English speaking place I lived in was Louisiana. Born and spent my early years in London, was always told I talk posh. Well, with some y’all added to it for good measure :)

[@anglosaxon5874]

Would have been better to hear the locals pronounce/speak the accents as opposed to actors/celebs, as you would hear the differences really come out [original video]. The scouse accent for example is quite an 'excited' and quick speaking accent [as many commedians 'take the mick' out of it] lol. Edit: Some accents I [and others have problems understanding, like the Scottish accent. I can remember when I was in the Royal Navy [as a medic], we had a Scottish sailor patient and we couldn't understand what he was saying. We asked him to speak in English. He got upset about that and said that he was! We had a laugh.

[@Damaaskrose]

My friend is very Bristolian and adds l's to some words ie: idea is ideal, and Asda is Asdal.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I remember the Essex Accent from Towie and Chris Pratt’s interpretation of the accent lol

[@lo1079]

Yeah on Graham Norton, I remember that. He was good at it (to my ear as a Scouser anyway).

[@101steel4]

Or the TV Essex accent as we call it in Essex. In all my years living in Essex I've never heard anyone speak like that.

[@Rodgerslicker]

Hi joal, I'm from West Yorkshire near Leeds, my favourite accents are, on girl's from Lancashire, Girls from Newcastle which is the geordie accent, Scotland the people of paisley, someone told me that the good accents of geordie & paisley area of Scotland make popular choices for call centre workers because it sounds clear pleasant relaxing unthretning. Soothing voices, as opposed to Glasgow Liverpool & Birmingham, which is guttrel lazy not clear hard to understand.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

On an unrelated note, Alison Hammond is an icon, a legend and she is the moment. Also, I love how she says the word ‘Money’.

[@paulreed5077]

I live in Teesside on the North East Coast, and we have a diluted version of a Newcastle/Geordie accent (30 miles away). My aunty lives 9 miles from me but has a Geordie accent. I used to work in a call centre and took calls from a over the country and 9 times out of 10 I'd be asked if I was a Geordie.

[@lesleygilbert1945]

I am from/live in HULL but I don't speak like Jenny & Lee who have a strong Hull accent. So of course Yorkshire is my favourite accent, of which there are many variations. But I love to hear a Geordie accent when visiting Newcastle, but I love most accents from the UK as well.

[@simonjones7727]

Always love to hear an East Riding accent on the "phern"

[@pik-ull-deg5970]

Im from Hull too, i have a strong Hull accent! I dont like the way Lee speaks, because he puts 'k' on the end of thing, so nuffink , sumfink! I thinks thats more of a cockney trait ?!

[@pik-ull-deg5970]

@@simonjones7727 nope! Its not 'er' its 'ohh', so fohhn, snohh, rohhd , its also narn and farv and marn 😁

[@simonjones7727]

@@pik-ull-deg5970 Yes, I'm useless with phonetics, you put it much better!

[@GaryHayward]

Terry Christian, TV presenter, is a good example of a particularly strong Mancunian (Manchester) accent.

[@davidC1984]

I'm from a town called Widnes which borders Liverpool and the accent is so far removed it's unreal. We were originally part of Lancashire and with quite a flat northern English accent. Hop across the border and you've got the Scouse accent which is unique.

[@markaitcheson3212]

I'm from Warrington, obviously Wigan is only about 10 miles from me, I can't understand anything they say at all ha ha.

[@cw_uk]

The Liverpudlian accent changes as you move around the Liverpool region, too

[@johnp8131]

I would agree with that. When I visited a few years ago, I thought people from just outside the City actually had a stronger Scouse dialect?

[@MarkPMus]

As a southerner, I really find the Geordie accent from the North East a lovely accent to listen to. I also love the accents from the Midlands ie Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby. And especially Wolverhampton.

[@5uper5kill3rz]

I live in Oxfordshire but was born in the midlands, I also spend a lot of time in Gloucestershire and will quickly slip into a more brummie accent or west country accent or contemporary RP depending on who I'm with, it's mad how quickly it happens

[@RachaelMorgan-om4xw]

Cheers bonny lad! 🤗

[@alisoncauser2955]

Im from Nottinghamshire but my Dad was from Lancashire i loved his accent. Instead of took as in tuk he would say toook and loook, buz instead of bus. T' instead of the like the im goin t' shop fer a jam buttie.

[@cricketbat09]

The Brummie accent is now famous because it is spoken by the gangsters in Peaky Blinders.

[@helennettleship9703]

I love the Liverpool accent - Scouse. I'm from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Each city has their own accent, not just difference in Counties. Sheffield and Rotherham have so many different words they each use(and is only 7.5 miles away from each other) both in South Yorkshire. What we call a breadcake in Sheffield is called a teacake in Rotherham, Teacake in Sheffield it has currants in it

[@tomcolton5662]

Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Leeds, North Yorkshire - so many variations and different words.

[@wenglishsal]

I LOVE ACCENTS, I find them fascinating, and do try a few, when I'm working.. I have a regular customer (I work on checkouts in a superstore) and we go through quite a few, a bit like a game of Table Tennis.. It's lots of fun and we both end up laughing, great way to infuse humour and smiles in to a day .. Best wishes to you JPS, from Wales.

[@angelaburrett5279]

My darling dad was a farmer in East Sussex and his accent was lovely

[@catherinewilkins2760]

Shakespeare was from Warwickshire which Birmingham was part of and would have spoken with a similar accent. Simon Roper is a KZbinr who discusses accent and their evolution. If you watch Parliament, House of Commons you will hear so many accents. In Northern Ireland there is even a distinction between Catholic and Protestant accent. So nice to have so many accents, love it.

[@TheTwoFingeredBullDog]

Shakespeare wouldn't have had a brummie accent. If he was from the black country, then he would've because its a dialect and not an accent like brummie is. Brummie was heavily influenced by the industrial revolution from workers from the North and south and the rest of the world. That was quite a while after Shakespeare died.

[@kristymac3236]

Fascinating Joel,I’ve always found accents interesting. I’m from south London but as I worked in central London in the 70’s they expected you to speak a certain way (telephone voice) but still get pulled up when I say tail as I pronounce it like towel. My dad was a Yorkshireman so some off pronunciation rubbed off on me. I stay get confused by Scottish and Northern Irish until I tune in, even though I have relatives in Ireland. You will find the Southern Irish accent less harsh .

[@antiqueinsider]

If you've seen 'My Fair lady' then you'll know that accents used to be even more location-specific before the advent of mass media. Even now, I (with an Oxford accent) was pleased with myself whrn I met a couple in Canada at a tourist spot and she challenged me "So where do you think I come from?" Hearing the twang and cross referencing with other accents I guessed 'Barnsley'. Her mouth dropped open, literally!! LOL. It was a good spot for quite a specific localised variant of the South Yorkshire accent, if I do say so myself. However it proves how much subtle specificity there still is!

[@georgeprout42]

I'm just down the road from you in Reading. There are two distinct accents here; ones kind of a softer west country, the other is a more generic SE. But I've also had that kind of experience. I was in Rio for the carnival (I lived out there for a year) and the tourists on the table next to me in a restaurant had way too much money on them when it came to pay their bill. "Mate, that's the equivalent of about £800 you just pulled out, you wouldn't carry that much around for a night out in Dudley would you?". I'd been talking in Portuguese up until then, so they would have had no idea I was a Brit. And then they realised that I had followed their interesting (nsfw) conversation...

[@antiqueinsider]

@@georgeprout42 It wasn't Sir Lenny Henry. perhaps? LOL!

[@johnp8131]

"Oxford" no, "Oxbridge" maybe? My mates wife was born and bred in an Oxford suburb in the sixties and sounds like something out of Treasure Island?

[@antiqueinsider]

@@johnp8131 I was definitely born and raised in Oxford, and I've never heard a local accent that sounds like a pirate?! That's usually South West ; Bristol/Devon/Cornwall area (where the Pirates were usually based). Perhaps your ear for accents needs tuning?!

[@johnp8131]

@@antiqueinsider Not Robert Newton strength! She was born in Oxford around 1955 and raised in Cowley. She and her old school friend that now lives in Abingdon both sound similar West country. However their husbands both come from Oxford itself and they sound far closer to RP? Probably that's what Oxon accents sounded like post war? I'm of the same age and still have a bit of an old rural Hertfordshire accent, which is now rare, due to the overspill. Similarly, most can't identify it and think it's Posh Norfolk! I've even had it discribed as Wiltshire by the uninitiated?

[@philbaker4155]

Im a bit of a mixer 70 yr old ... born in yorkshire but spent the last 30 years in Essex and London Mate

[@colinblackledge2942]

We use a lot of thee, thy and thou.Here are some Wigan phrases. 'Gerrit thee sen' means' get it yourself'. 'Yon mon ower yon' means' That man over there' . 'Dust wannt a bevvie' means 'Do you want a drink'

[@cynicalrecidivist2026]

I'm klempt

[@tonyblackshaw5047]

I come from Haydock half way between Manchester and Liverpool. My dad was from Bolton near Manchester and my mum was from Haydock. I used to be able to place an accent from Liverpool to the Yorkshire border. There were loads of variations. As I moved further and further south my vowels were extended except when I was stressed or talking on the phone to my familt in the North West...There became Thur, were or where became wur, castle instead of ca(r)stle, grass instead of Gra(r)ss! The difference between Lancashire and Yorkshire was that in Lancashire they would say Forty, emphasis on the 'r'; whereas in Yorkshire it would Fotty. I love accents. I have lived also in York, Nottinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire and Somerset..or Zummerzet where we drink Zider (Cider):)

[@paulharvey9149]

Joel, have a search on here for 'Parliamo Glasgow', which was a 1970s comedy that translates Glaswegian - considered by most English people as the most difficult to understand - into Received Pronunciation. It is of course a bit of a piss-take on the latter, as it was all you ever heard on the BBC at that time. Also, the 1980s comedy series 'Allo Allo', in which you experience RP spoken by the English characters, a pseudo-French accented English, a pseudo-German one and a heavily exaggerated bad English French spoken by the policeman, all of which are absolutely hilarious! Indeed, you may wish to add this as a reaction series at a later date. Also, search for some Doric - which I personally think is even harder to understand than Glaswegian and just isn't as well-known by the English.

[@simonjones7727]

“Izzat a marra on yer barra, Clara?” and then Stanley Baxter would go into his best RP to give the "translation". What a hoot!

[@simonjones7727]

There is also Stanley Baxter "The Nation Speaks" where the words are indecipherable and all you hear is the accent. Content warning as very much of its time and not PC. The Northern Ireland section (in Black and White) is hysterical. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZrSZIV8ip2horM

[@timnewman7591]

There are parts of England where people from a couple of villages five miles apart can be recognised by the different ways they pronounce the name of those places. And typically a few miles further off both of those will have another different pronunciation. See: Inkberrow. Pronounced variously Inkberrah, Inkburrah, Inkbrur, Inkbruh. Or Evesham, sometimes Ee-vee-shum alternatively Eef-shum or in one small village E-veh-shum.

[@mydanshi6500]

Hahaha. I’m RP but my sons started talking like Stormzy at school to fit it. ‘I was laik Boo yaka shaa, you get me bro?’ 😎No, I’m terribly sorry, I have no idea what you said 😂They are both RP again now they’re in their 30s.

[@speedyreedy4878]

We have 4 counties in Yorkshire all speak with totally different accents.💕

[@notmissingout9369]

We do I live North Yorkshire Harrogate lad by birth and I have relatives from West Yorkshire and they say I talk posh