20 British Accents in 1 Video

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

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[@Danatomasino22]

And what kind of accent do YOU have, Mr. Tom? 😊

[@Afreon]

90% of Britain: represented by an actual person West country: "uuuh... Here's Hagrid!"

[@oldoddjobs]

Crying about "representation" doesn't seem very west country

[@teletoonfan]

@@oldoddjobs hear, hear!

[@Erlrantandrage]

I'm an American...would the accents from Grace and Favour have worked...they sound similar to me but again, American.

[@danielbliss1988]

Be fair, he brings in Josie Gibson who's got surely the best West Country I've ever heard on British network TV, actually maybe anywhere because it's much earthier than John Oliver. OK so she's from Bristol itself but still.....just wonderful.

[@tayatinsley9921]

@@Erlrantandrage no they're not similar aha sorry

[@knotbox]

Introduction 0:52 Queen's English 1:34 Conservative RP 2:57 Contemporary RP 3:44 London Cockney 4:56 London MLE 6:37 Essex 8:01 West Country 11:13 Bristol 11:54 Birmingham Brummy 12:39 East Midlands, Nottingham 13:39 South Yorkshire, Doncaster 14:37 West Yorkshire, Bradford 15:05 East Yorkshire, Hull 15:25 Manchester, Mancunian 16:15 Liverpool, Scouse 16:57 Newcastle, Geordie 17:30 Scottish, Glasgow, Glaswegian 18:14 Scottish, Edinburgh 18:59 South Wales, Welsh 19:35 Belfast, Northern Irish 20:32

[@GlitterB8]

Thx bro

[@thayviesinn]

This was helpful, thanks. 😂

[@Dylan-fs7lm]

*northern irish

[@2jcward]

Bristol sounds so American.

[@alimoksin]

Thanks ye!!

[@ceilteachkitten]

Please do some more Scottish accents. There’s so much diversity here. Shetland, western isles, aberdonian, Doric, borders, Ayrshire etc! Everyone always focusses on Glasgow.

[@liamlloyd4715]

He also spoke in a Glasgow accent trying to do the Edinburgh pahaha

[@jamesbews6049]

Agreed!

[@paulaeperoutka]

Aww cut him a break! He used videos of native speakers exactly for that reason & said so, and even apologized at times for his own attempts.

[@butternutsquash6984]

I live in the USA. Nobody believes me when I say the accent is markedly different every mile of the Fife coast. Utterly unimaginable here. That would make for a very educational video to break even one Scottish region down.

[@gavinparks5386]

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[@mynamesnotrick7498]

As an American, this is very helpful. I grew up watching BBC period dramas and adaptions and I’ve heard every British accent there is, but I never knew what they were called or where they originated from. I still love watching British period dramas. My mom and I got a BritBox subscription last year, and it’s the best subscription we’ve ever made.

[@chatterbean100]

For a very typical West Yorkshire Huddersfield/Halifax accent you should watch Happy Valley or Last Tango In Halifax… you’ll see our lovely scenery too!

[@chilloutii3638]

Trust me bro you haven’t bheard every single British accent there just to many of them

[@chilloutii3638]

@Themasada bro I’m from Sussex and our accent isn’t even mentioned in this video, in fact East Sussex has a slightly different tone to West Sussex not much of a difference tho but still a difference

[@Danny-nd7hg]

​@chilloutii3638 I lived in East Sussex for awhile but never noticed a difference between East and West Sussex accents. That's really interesting to find out. Do you have any examples of some words that might be pronounced a bit differently in each area?

[@katievfx567]

Lmao they always forget about Sunderland because we are so close to Newcastle 😭😭

[@yourgaycousin9533]

"Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe-" Me: RUPERT GRINT "Ed Sheeran," Me: eh, close enough

[@engorgioarmani3381]

Meh... I’m more of a Tolkien fan

[@yourgaycousin9533]

@@engorgioarmani3381 I don't support Rowling, but she did a pretty good job with HP. But yeah, Tolkien is really good.

[@kim7990]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sybariticcupboardrat3763]

lol, I think a lot of us had that thought. Maybe he didn't include him because Rupert Grint actually speaks a bit different from the other two. He tends to use more dark Ls and often doesn't strongly enunciate the H at the beginning of a word, sometimes dropping it completely.

[@Eldaviidd.06]

Ja gay

[@jana8977]

him every 5 minutes : "now this is one of my favourite English accents"

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

Hehe fair! But it’s true I love so many British accents 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@jonathanaldecoa1099]

I think he’s pretty good. I find this video, perhaps more scholarly. That being said, he nails many points. I rather enjoyed this video. Well done 👏

[@ksnipe52]

To be fair, if it’s every 5 minutes that’s only 4...so he could have a top 5?

[@algerian2627]

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish the I know

[@LUR1FAX]

It's possible to have a wide selection of favorites. I have dozens of 'favorite' music albums.

[@Sam-cy2mv]

I'm an American and I just realized how fascinating this topic is

[@honey.8970]

I’m conservative rp so I’m British ✨😩

[@riotwire]

We probably have more accents here than they have there lol

[@ssej8552]

omg there are so many accents it’s ridiculous i have a mix of a leeds and bradford accent but not as strong 🤣😭

[@FeltonHM]

@Kenny Powers the us accent differences are a lot more subtle apart from the south/north divide

[@Avrysatos]

Look into our (united states) accents. The diversity and history is also fascinating.

[@kclancey]

Irish and Scottish accents have always fascinated me for (what I perceive as) their musicality. I think it’s so cool that some cultures somehow developed languages with such rhythm and melody that it’s fun just to listen to them talk! My enthusiasm for accents started when my dad’s Scottish friend introduced us to Still Game when I was a kid 😄

[@ifuckingh8you195]

Shut up and Welsh is even better

[@msppg769]

As a Korean student studying in Manchester, the various UK accents truly sounded like an unknown European language when I first listened to the accents. It's been around three years living in the UK, but I still partially understand the Liverpool accent.

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

I'm from the Wirral, and I guarantee you'd comprehend my accent and speech, it's just outside Liverpool BTW. Not all Merseysiders speak Scouse. I don't, I sound more Cheshire.

[@n0rthernl1ght18]

@@JasmineSurrealVideos That's the misconception many have. I'm from Billinge (Merseyside - Just about but before the boundary change in 1974 a Wigan parish) and I have a traditional Lancashire accent.

[@gayleighhalimos8091]

@Kevin S... Utter nonsense! For one , I do! I even speak it, la!!

[@Jeongjuhyun]

부럽네요 영국 유학생.. 저도 영국 가고 싶습니다!! ㅎㅎ

[@djnone8137]

Even scouse misinterpret scouse

[@bunny_0288]

How can such a small country have so many different accents? This is so fascinating to me. I took a linguistics class in college, and I absolutely loved it. I find the subtle differences in pronunciation so interesting. This video is just great!

[@kieranwarren1461]

Some of our accents are because of conquests of britain in different time periods. Iam from Bradford Yorkshire and our dialect comes from Danish Vikings (Norse) even tho we speak modern english... for example say your ears were burning... i would say are your lugs (ears) burning lol

[@colinafobe2152]

in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia... in much smaller countries you have so many accents, dialects, one can tell from what region person is, and locals can tell from what town or even village person is by hearing them talking. it has much to do with language itself and f course with different influences by other languages, by history, by local geography (mountains or flats, seaside or continental). Dutch is similar with its varieties too

[@leobender2910]

The small country was settled ages ago and has a rich history of all these regions fighting one another and trying to maintain their independence from one another. Also there wasn't that much of the migration of people within the country, not until the 20 century. Other factor is that many of British accents were heavily influenced by Celtic pronunciation of English words. All these and other factors combined led to distinct regional accents. Big, but relatively young countries like the US were mostly settled in the late 18th but mostly 19th century when huge waves of migration swept across it carrying the more or less unified pronunciation across the country. Then other non English speaking ethnic groups arrived and helped shaping many of the regional accents.

[@diydad7704]

How can GREAT Britain be small? O.k., it's constantly belittled and ridiculed by that Bozo guy from 10, Clowning Street but apart from that it's really a great country and i met loads of nice people, although i didn't always understand everything... 😜

[@helishhhmhd90]

Its not too much Iran got nearly 80 languages and accents 😍 you just can understand where is the person actually from! I love it! So many cultures and history in different parts 🌸

[@lisahinton9682]

You asked us to comment on which accent, and for me, I love the Liverpool accent. My mother was born and raised there. In 1952 she met my American father in England who was in England for university. They married and built their life here, in the USA. As a very tiny 3-year-old, I remember distinctly translating for my mother in stores and such. The small-town Ohioans could not understand her! She'd try to "Americanize" her accent and that was even worse! So, here I was, a shy little kid, translating English to English so my mom could find which aisle the confectioner's sugar was on. I'd, therefore, love a deep-dive on the Scouse accent. _(Miss you, Mom, more than you can know.)_

[@venom_ftw9316]

❤️

[@lauramonzonstorey]

Good on you! Kids are incredible linguists! I have raised two bilingual children and they surprise me every single day.

[@shep9231]

🥰

[@weir_family]

@@lauramonzonstorey What two languages do they speak?

[@Gillian_Steven]

I love the saying, Liverpudlian

[@futhark3]

I worked with someone from Northern Ireland and just got used to her accent being sort of normal. Then I watched Derry Girls and started noticing her subtle but very distinct Northern Irish notes. I really love it ❤

[@AnnesleyPlaceDub70]

Irish. Not Northern Irish. Just Irish .

[@jackfrancis5238]

take a day off @@AnnesleyPlaceDub70

[@oisin_o_boyle]

Yep, Norn Irish sounds grand

[@clicheguevara5282]

@@AnnesleyPlaceDub70 So Ireland only has ONE uniform accent throughout the entire country? I find that _very_ hard to believe and Google says otherwise. …but I’m an American who lives in Hawaii and haven’t personally known any Irish people since I had an Irish friend as a kid. Maybe I’m missing something?

[@lisadoesstuff9368]

Queen's English 1:34 Conservative RP 2:57 Contemporary RP 3:44 London Cockney 4:56 London MLE 6:37 Essex 8:01 West Country 11:13 Bristol 11:54 Birmingham Brummy 12:39 East Midlands, Nottingham 13:39 South Yorkshire, Doncaster 14:37 West Yorkshire, Bradford 15:05 East Yorkshire, Hull 15:25 Manchester, Mancunian 16:15 Liverpool, Scouse 16:57 Newcastle, Geordie 17:30 Scottish, Glasgow, Glaswegian 18:14 Scottish, Edinburgh 18:59 South Wales, Welsh 19:35 Belfast, Northern Irish 20:32

[@villeporttila5161]

I appreciate how you're not judging any of these accents and reporting neutrally on them, nice one. As a British person it can be very hard to overcome your natural prejudice towards certain accents.

[@dolorescunningham4816]

So true. People are judged by their accents in England. It's definitely a form of class distinction. Doesn't mean people who speak with an accent or dialect are less intelligent!! Think of Russell Brand!! A brilliant mind with a Cockney accent!! Love him😊

[@adamJHLS]

yep growing up in south yorkshire i would hear many people talking with a much more neutral accent as though they were ashamed of their yorkshire accent and didn't want to be deemed stupid by others. be proud of your native accent

[@dah2486]

It's not that hard

[@VeronicaHL]

@@adamJHLS It's a shame. I love the Yorkshire accent. ❤️

[@cigh7445]

@@dolorescunningham4816 Thats not just England, it happens in almost every country to varying extents. England can be quite bad for it but it has improved compared to how it used to be.

[@FionaEm]

As someone from Australia, where the accent of most ppl is relatively uniform unless they're immigrants, it's always fascinated me that a group of small islands can have so many distinct accents. I love any of the northern British accents, especially Scouse. It has a lilt and lots of character!

[@Sarah-qd9bq]

Same, I’m from Canada and we don’t even have that many

[@TarynAnnTibble]

Same, South Africans (white, English speakers) have a very uniform accent. There is some coastal variation but for the most part one could recognise any South African as such irrespective of where they live.

[@YvieT81]

Try the Netherlands then. We’ve got a much smaller country but about the same amount of accents/dialects. Frisian is even an official language despite Friesland being part of the Netherlands. But for example: I’m from The Hague area which is south-west of the country. But most of the family of my mother’s side is from Drenthe, which is more north-east, close to the German border. Now I’m serious when I say sometimes I don’t even understand my own family!

[@tchorveiik]

I had a scouse teacher at school who used to pronounce marijuana marriage-a-hwarner

[@Sarah-qd9bq]

@@tchorveiik 😂 thats just awesome

[@allthingsclassicrock]

My fascination with British accents began when I read a piece on the James Bond movie Goldeneye. The writer was critiquing Sean Bean’s performance and said at times Bean’s Yorkshire accent slipped through although he was trying to sound Southern. That sent me off down the rabbit hole of researching accents lol. It’s fascinating how many regional accents there are for a relatively small country.

[@PBurns-ng3gw]

Interesting. In Game of Thrones everyone in House Stark has a Northern English accent, and that’s because Sean Bean couldn’t do a Southern English accent, so everyone else is trying to sound like they’re from Sheffield 😄

[@allthingsclassicrock]

@@PBurns-ng3gw haha, that is funny! I guess after goldeneye he gave up on trying. Thanks for sharing.

[@C02045]

In my teen years I used tractors, co working with three generations of very local farm workers. They had distinct local accents that were more intense the older they were. I could tell by their speech,which nearby farm they grew up on!

[@craigdonegan223]

In some parts of scotland the accents are so strong they are almost a different language. Aberdeenshire "doric" is a great example

[@the_grand_tourer]

He says 'Numerous Scottish accents' then only covers two, but does 7 before he left the south east of England alone. What about the Borders accent, Highland and islands accents, what about Inverness-shire, Orkney or Sheltand heavily influenced by Scandinavia ... just another example of metropolitan laziness, no wonder we / Scotland wants rid of England.

[@person.X.]

My best friend is from Aberdeen (I am a Londoner) and when he speaks to me he tones down his accent but when we are up in the north east of Scotland and he is speaking to other locals I struggle to follow the conversation sometimes.

[@realtalk6195]

Some of them technically are different dialects.

[@buffcommie942]

@@the_grand_tourer theres more people in the south east than there are in scotland by a massive margin

[@thea1990x]

have you ever been to shetland? they almost sound norwegian!

[@kathywilliams1050]

I would like to hear native speakers of each accent read or recite the same passage or poem for comparison. I appreciate the IPA notations where provided and would appreciate more. Love listening to variants of English. Thank you.

[@clairemercier3969]

Yes, excellent idea!

[@M4RKUSS1996]

Spot on, one of the best summaries of the British accents I've seen

[@frankgerace5997]

I’m an American with a Mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia area) US accent, and I think all British and American accents are interesting.

[@julianwaugh968]

Northern Ireland. I an Atheist! Aye but are you a Protestant Atheist or a Catholic one?

[@tomauch]

Rbh in

[@uberLejoe]

Tough one to answer when they nab you and put a burlap sack over your head

[@NicoSavio2395]

"what god do you not believe in?"

[@caelania1508]

Ahahahaha

[@jurgenhorburger5609]

Protestant atheists pronounce h as aitch, Catholics atheists as haitch 🤣🤣

[@JordanRants]

Love this. There's so many accents within Manchester too. The Stockport accent is different to the Wythenshawe accent for example, even though they're situated right next to each other. Bolton and Bury and that area is like a mix of Yorkshire and Manc. Places like Rusholme, Chorlton, Gorton, Moston, Openshaw etc have the most stereotypical Manc sounding accent.

[@user-td4do3op2d]

Bolton and Bury a mix of Yorkshire and Manc??? Yorkshire and Manc accents have more in common than either do with a strong Bolton accent.

[@rachzen]

I would love to hear the Bolton accent. That's where my family originally came from.

[@baokachi9767]

manc accents are terrible full stop.

[@richardlord5573]

Mix of Yorkshire and Manc? I think you'll find both have strong south east Lancashire with very little Manc involved.

[@Artur-vh3nk]

I have a question, as a person who has never been to GB and does not fully know English. Do you easily understand what a resident of another region is saying? For example, is the dialogue between people from, for example, Newcastle and Glasgow, understandable? In my country, with a few exceptions, everyone speaks rather the same.

[@jaydenboots9383]

1. Recieved Pronunciation - 1:39 2. Queens English - 2:12 3. Chinese British - 4:05 4. Cockney - 5:12 5. London English - 7:14 6. Essex - 8:22 7. West Country - 11:30 8. Bristolian - 11:58 9. Birmingham - 12:51 10. Nottingham - 13:49 11. South Yorkshire - 14:38 12. West Yorkshire - 15:19 13. West & East Yorkshire - 15:38 14. Manchester - 16:31 15. Liverpool - 17:08 16. Geordie - 17:40 17. Scottish (Glaswegian) - 18:36 18. Scottish (Edinburgh) - 19:06 19. Welsh - 19:51 20. Northern Irish - 21:00

[@jaytops]

There's no such thing as a Chinese British accent. Just because he used Gemma Chan as an example and she happens to have Chinese ancestry doesn't mean every single Chinese person in England or Great Britain itself speaks that way. In that same section of the video he pointed out that Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Ed Sheeran also have that exact same accent. Are they Chinese? Fool.

[@user-cx2ho9hg2r]

Thanks!:)

[@ratatat9790]

Received

[@SydMountaineer]

I’m from the US. When I was a child, I noticed subtle things about Grandfather’s & his Dad’s accent, that was different from everyone else in our family and in our area, I thought it was just a family thing. His family had been in the US for many generations, living mainly in Indiana & KY- but when I got older and learned about accents & dialects, I realized that those odd little things I noticed about my Grandfather & Great Grandfather’s accent was from their English ancestors, I think Yorkshire - he always said the word “us” as “uz”, and when he said the word “he’s”, it was VERY SUBTLE, but he dropped the H just a bit, putting less emphasis on the H than normal, like “hE’s”, not quite silent, but barely there. Then, after realizing this, I noticed other things about his accent that are typical of British English, not how he pronounced words, but the words he used and also other things like pitch & volume of how he said things. The first time I heard a person from Yorkshire speak, it surprised me, because it was the first time I’d ever heard someone who sounded like my Grandpa & Great Grandpa. What’s weird, is that that side of my family had been in the US for at least 3 or 4 generations, BUT, my Great Grandfather and Gr GR Grandfather visited and kept in touch with their English & Irish family, so maybe that had something to do with it. Also, my cousins & I used to always get after my Grandpa for how he said the word “Pizza”, he refused to say “Peetsa” like we said it, he pronounced it exactly as spelled, kind of like he said the word “us” as “uz”.

[@Ionabrodie69]

It’s ENGLISH and American ENGLISH , and you barely speak that. 🤨 and Pizza and the way you pronounce it is Italian NOT american .🤨

[@ratatat9790]

@@Ionabrodie69 It's like in golf..Americans call 'The Open', 'The British Open' ..i don't know whether trying to make these changes and distinctions comes from a good place or a bad. I like American people but one thing i don't like is the butchering of our lingo!. Bad grammar, syntax, pronunciation, tautologies, etc. If you look at other Europeans, they actually speak American English even though they're from the same continent as the mother tongue. The dominance of American dialogue via film and internet for example is almost certainly responsible for this influence.

[@penelopebutterfield5732]

Wonderful! As an American, I've always loved the various British accents. I greatly appreciate how you've broken these down to help us "feriners" (foreigners) understand them better. So much fun.

[@pauliewalnuts5803]

Nice

[@oscarf5433]

Just don't go to the UK and try to sound like the locals, they'd very likely be offended, British people take offense when you try to mimic their accent.

[@em_the_bee]

As a Russian, it sounds extremely confusing trying to guess which sound this specific speaker had just gulped down and what word it's supposed to be. North American speakers are much easier to understand.

[@oscarf5433]

@@em_the_bee Yes we are, thank you.

[@andrewbuswell6010]

@@oscarf5433 I think it’s different with foreigners, it’s offensive when British people with another accent try to sound ‘native’.

[@unmitigatedgall8732]

As a Canadian who's never visited the UK, my head is spinning! Wow. Love ALL of these! 🇬🇧❤ Each is so charming in its own way.

[@maggiep265]

and we love Canadians! Your English is the easiest American accent to understand ( Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, etc.)

[@unmitigatedgall8732]

@@maggiep265 Technically, we're "NORTH American"...but thank you! 😊

[@Snowhite-tx4sm]

As a non english speaker i love how all canadians speak coz it's just so easy to understand.

[@unmitigatedgall8732]

@@Snowhite-tx4sm Thank you for that! To be honest, though, many of us who aren't Newfoundlanders (or at least from the Maritimes) might sometimes have a hard time understanding their accent. We love it, though: so distinctive, with quite an Irish flavour to it!

[@mademoiselleetpasmadamesvp1482]

I am french and learned English in america but i am aware that american pronounciation is lame, so i want to learn any british accent, and more specifically Louis Tomlinson's

[@Iznartable]

American here. I’ve always enjoyed Scouse and Geordie and recently I’ve started liking Manchester / Mancunian. Something about the northern accent is just distinct and lovely to me. Good vibes!

[@toonman1892]

I'm a Geordie so thanks for that.. I can tell the difference between Newcastle upon Tyne, and the other place 12 miles down the road I'm not prepared to write as it's a swear word..

[@glortw]

@@toonman1892 well I'm dying to know what this place is!

[@booshank2327]

@@glortw S*nderland, the home of 6 toed humans.

[@Ionabrodie69]

@@toonman1892Sunderland.. yeah and their team is 💩too 😂👍

[@toonman1892]

@@Ionabrodie69 That's the place, I can't write it, my keyboard won't allow me 😂🤣😂

[@foreverchickadee]

The Yorkshire accent just tickles my ears. Absolutely lovely.

[@APerson4889-g5f]

Loov'leh, you mean ;)

[@SStupendous]

@@APerson4889-g5f Well look who it is, how the Dickens did I find you here

[@martinburke362]

Eee bah gum yeh bugga!!

[@IsaBel-hb8ep]

As a Mexican girl studying English for almost 4 years I felt like I haven’t learned anything when I listened Yorkshire accent 😭

[@DarthFurie]

Don't feel bad, I'm a native English speaker and I've heard certain accents of other English-speaking people where I only understood like half of what they said lol

[@normanpearson8753]

Some are broader than others ,of course .I.m from there ,but at times I can barely understand the people with a strong accent .

[@butternutsquash6984]

Don't feel badly about your English. When I went to college in Dundee, there was a girl everyone had trouble understanding and most of the kids in our group grew up within a few miles if her, all within the city!

[@Hail_Full_of_Grace]

We drop letters and change things so i can understand the frustration. For instance " i took it to my mother" becomes "a tuk it to mi muther" or somthing like that or should i say or summat laak that? :P Our part of the country was under Danish viking rule for quite some time and old Norse heavily influenced certain words and our accent.

[@jasonkelly7951]

Don't feel bad, I used to teach English in Mexico and the proximity to the U.S.A made practically all of my students really comfortable with the North American style English but my Yorkshire accent totally threw them off. They got used to it eventually!

[@pandorasbox1658]

I’m in Australia and we have many British immigrants here. My late father-in-law had a Yorkshire accent, but my favourite is two of my colleagues who have Welsh accents, especially one who often gets on the PA system to make announcements - his pronunciation is a delight and makes my heart jump for joy on hearing it. 🥰

[@Maxxiej63]

One of my favourite things about the Yorkshire accent, that Lee does from Gogglebox in the clip, is pronouncing words like “take” and “make” like “meck” and “teck”. Also in the Scottish accents, I love the double O sounds in “door” and “poor” (Oo-er) that also crop up in parts of Lancashire (but feel it’s sadly dying out as only ever hear it in people of my grandparents generation). Something I hear my Nan do as well, which is relatively common where I grew up in Lancashire, is pronounce the double T sound as ck, so little as lickle, bottle as bockle. I think it can be a bit marmite for some, but warms my heart when I hear it! 😂 It’s just so fascinating! Definitely one of my favourite things about this country.

[@weejackrussell]

Dooa for door in Yorkshire. Oppen for open.

[@richardwardle598]

You are spot on about the Yorkshire accent. Break, take, make and shake become brek, tek, mek & shek. We also (so im told), pronounce words like ‘show’ very differently. Instead of the “w” sound at the end, this is dropped and it becomes sh-ooo-, (the “o” sounding as in ‘o’mega). In some cases it becomes very elongated - sh-ohhh. This can be heard even with the simplest of words such as ‘no’ - becoming n-ohh, or ‘bone’ becoming b-ohh-n. As Englands largest county, regional variations can be almost another dialect all together. In extreme cases, people may struggle to understand certain phrases from just a few miles away! (e.g. Wakefield might say, “I wont be home while 10…..” meaning, “I won’t be home UNTIL 10…..”). Barnsley actually shares a boarder with Wakefield, but is in a different county! (South & West Yorkshire). People from certain parts of Yorks may notice a person isn’t local, just from their choice of words or very slight accent change, albeit they live only a few miles away. The accents of Leeds, Wakefield, Castleford and Barnsley have very different & noticeable accents. Age also plays a large part. ‘Broad Yorkshire’ - (Eee bye gum, get thi coyt lass, thas a gale art side. Tha’l be frozen wi art. Am off t’ shop nar. Si thi), is very seldom heard now, except in the darkest & deepest pockets of Yorks and by a certain generation only. It usually serves as a source of amusement for the rest of the country thinking its how we all talk, but is essentially now totally untrue.

[@sophiaro4593]

Rule of thumb: if it sounds like a pirate, it's probably from the west country xD

[@deco2gogo]

"Arrrrrr!"

[@imranaljahsyi2801]

No mr Frodo Sir

[@williamlewis8741]

@@imranaljahsyi2801 and Ross Poldark is a pirate ?

[@countquackulon3004]

Black Beard was a Bristolian so yeah, seems legit.

[@psyberman5243]

You really missed a trick here... if they sound like a pirate from the west country... they probably arrgghhhhhh!

[@j.s.7335]

Selfishly, as an American, I'd love to see the same thing for the United States.

[@chrisvazan]

I find US accents to be much more fluid, and less regionally defined. I grew up in NYC and to this day I don’t really know what a “New York accent” is...

[@dadisiolutosin]

@@chrisvazan huh? Sounds like you need to travel more like visit Atlanta, Chattanooga, Winston-Salem, Birmingham, or Memphis and speak in public. You will find out immediately what a New York accent is. 🤣🤣🤣 There are five boroughs in NYC. Six if you include Newark and every single borough has a different accent and set of dialects depending on where you live and what your racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background is. People from BK, I'm talking about born and raised been there for generations, not the gentrifiers sound very different from people Uptown, in Midtown, in the Bronx, Queens or Shaolin. That's Staten Island for those unaware. Wu-Tang is FOREVER! Very much like what was stated in this video about London which is where the whole borough system originated.

[@j.s.7335]

@@chrisvazan I think we tend to be unable to differentiate the accents we grow up hearing. I grew up in the mid-Atlantic, but with relatives from the Midwest I heard a lot of Midwestern accents, too. And everyone is familiar with California accents from TV and movies, thus they don't realize they and the people around them sound different than that. I had no idea that the Midwestern accent was different from the mid-Atlantic accent until someone pointed it out. There's definitely a strong New York accent. I hear it all the time in New York, talking on the phone to New Yorkers, and in person talking with New Yorkers who moved to where I grew up.

[@dougthealligator]

@@chrisvazan there’s tons of distinct us accents.

[@chrisvazan]

For sure. I’m just saying that I don’t ascribe them to locations with the same specificity as I would when describing European accents and dialects.

[@gaviota6663]

Scouse because of The Beatles. Please do a whole video in how they used to speak it in the 60s. Thank you!

[@kbaylor123]

Yeah me=Scouse because Jodie Comer

[@ala0284]

The Beatles aren’t even really Scouse, they’re from the more Lancashire sounding south Liverpool, whereas traditional Scouse is more of a North Liverpool thing

[@lar9299]

funny thing; they are, among other bands, who barely sound as if they had an accent. The pronunciation of certain words just sound too, normal, or accent-less, if you will. idk if it is just me, but I feel like lots of British bands don't sing with an accent. Please, correct me if I'm wrong

[@seeleygirl6178]

Yes! Early Beatles. A Hard Days Night. Love every syllable of that movie!!!

[@seeleygirl6178]

@@lar9299 In the sixties their accents were heavier. Ex. A Hard Says Night.

[@TheErikaGuy]

You can literally hear the same characteristics in American accents: Bristolian - Great Lakes Nottingham - Washington DC, Maryland Belfast - Appalachia (Scots-Irish)

[@brythonicman3267]

Nottingham? I live near there and I also know DC as my cousin lives there, I can't hear it tbh. Nottingham "ey up duck"

[@marilynbartlett1850]

And Outer Bans English (Outer Banks of NC) is its own dialect; you'd probably hear a lot of similarities

[@sherylroemisch836]

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[@clicheguevara5282]

The southern American and therefore African American accents are VERY influenced by a specific northern UK accent. (I forget which one but Thomas Sowell has a great documentary about it.)

[@danilaird]

@@clicheguevara5282 That's because Irish and Scottish migrated to those places. We are Scots and Irish mostly in the US. Country/bluegrass music come from Irish music

[@polokolakova2049]

When you are a brazilian guy and you learn american english all your life is a little different hear so diversity in accents and I love them

[@chiara6064]

I love Louis and Zayn’s accents so muchhh

[@_n223_]

I was so happy to see Louis at the beginning

[@charlotte52yearsago84]

yorkshire accents

[@spanishdncr71]

As I’m from Manchester I love Northern accents best. I love the Norfolk accent and Yorkshire accents as well as the Manc accent. I live in America near New York City so, when I fly home I find the Northern accent to be more softer on my eardrums, it’s such a pleasant sound and I get why many Americans tell me how much they like the English accent.

[@modmutha8608]

As someone who is absolutely fascinated with accents I find this fascinating. So much variety.. and to the untrained ear I’d say ‘scouse’ ..

[@rektspresso7288]

I’m American and the only British accent I can immediately discern is cockney just because of how harshly unique it is. I can hear the differences between the others but I need to pay closer attention to notice the differences. I’m so curious how the different American accents sound to people in other English speaking countries

[@piotrwyderski7848]

The American accents I had a chance to listen to were mostly quite comprehensible, but aggressive/intrusive beyond my pain threshold at the same time. As if someone were shouting at me, which I presume has never been the intent. I prefer the "muted" variant the Brits use plus the RP features for phonetic clarity. Nonetheless, from a limited experience, a random American has been easier to understand than a random Brit so far.

[@rektspresso7288]

@@piotrwyderski7848 American accents have far more phonetic clarity. At least in my opinion it's way easier to understand without random consonants just being completely ignored. Don't get me wrong, I love all the UK accents. I just think it's ridiculous to say that they're more easily understood

[@piotrwyderski7848]

@@rektspresso7288 No worries, it's just a matter of taste after all. And we seem to agree: the American accents I know of (I am not a native speaker of English) are more understandable "on average" than the UK accents. It's just the way of pronouncing words that makes AmE less pleasant to my ear. American accents put far more stress at the beginning of the word with a relatively limited pitch range, whereas the Brits do the opposite. That makes the latter sound softer and more polite just out of the box. As long as you keep in mind the Americans are not trying to be intentionally offensive to you, both work equally well. RP has both features: it is at least as clear as AmE *and* way softer, hence I greatly prefer it. But if we leave the RP land, AmE would be my second preference. The regional British accents still sound nice, but many of them are difficult to comprehend.

[@MrBahjatt]

American English sounds like non-native English.

[@joeduffyy]

The only regional US accents I can immediately recognise are new york and the typical southern accent

[@ruthbygrave4695]

I still find it sad that nobody who vlogs about British accents *ever* does East Anglian. Although I'm not native to the region, I've lived around it for the last thirty or so years, and it has its own dialect and distinctive accentual features which never seem to get presented on TV (possibly because actors tend to guess "Mummerset" (that is, an actors' version of West Country) for anything rural. My accent is naturally not-very-clearly-marked RP--a standard middle-class Southern accent, probably from my parents' accent and the BBC. You could also mention that RP is also most frequently spoken as a "second language": that is, code-switching in mixed or work contexts (which is very important in a more geographically mobile Britain), while the broader accent comes out with close friends, drunk, or with family.

[@solidcatink]

East Anglian accent is the sexiest one, TO ME.

[@islabee94]

Yeah that was surprising to me too, its such a distinct accent. I grew up in Norfolk and then moved to Germany so I was looking forward to the nostalgia

[@Pope_Rural_I5184]

It's quite similar to west country I reckons

[@nettipush12]

I’m from Germany and love to hear people from Wales.

[@trustmeimaphysiologist]

I approve this message!

[@playlistkiddo5654]

Me too I'm German and one of the first TV-shows I watched in English was Torchwood and thus the Welsh accent sounds nice and familiar to me.

[@aldozilli1293]

There are about 4/5 main accents in Wales. Valleys, Cardiff, West Wales, North-West and North-East. Torchwood is a Cardiff accent mainly. Most famous is the Valleys accent. North-West is my favourite, they speak English as a second language so accent sounds very interesting.

[@davidlucas442]

I really love the german saxony accent

[@desperadox7565]

Same. (Ich auch)

[@him050]

Another point that people often leave out with the Bristol accent is that it’s not just the R that makes it so distinctive. The two other main points are words ending in Y get a really pronounced ay like hay when they shouldn’t. So puppy becomes slush puppay. Also al sounds become very rounded. Talk becomes tawk, for example.

[@HaunaMyKiki]

From my American ears, Geordie has always been my favorite of the British accents. So musical and unapologetically its own!

[@smartone661]

*English Accent

[@BurningBrightMonster]

@@smartone661 It's both an English and British accent

[@TryptychUK]

When you analyse it carefully, Geordie also carries elements of lowlands and border Scottish, as it's not that far away.

[@roseg2239]

It's a bit over the top. I like the west country accent.

[@JourneyLT]

That was a pretty mild Geordie accent to be honest.

[@emiliecouillard8917]

As always, you choose the video topic that I was dreaming of ! Great !!!

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

Hope you enjoyed it Emilie!

[@emiliecouillard8917]

I enjoyed it so much, I'm going to rewatch it later to take notes. And I shared it to my friend who likes to do English accents impressions. Big thanks from Quebec, Canada !!

[@brittophone6219]

Me too 😍😍

[@olgabond679]

What a huge work done with this video! As well as with all the others... Tom, thanks a million for all your devotion and effort, all your heart you put to your movies! I learn a lot! Many many thanks for this!

[@billycorgan3934]

It seems the UK accents more like a classist issue more than a regional issue... What a pity

[@oopsieoops1064]

OMG Louis and Zayn! I love their accents so much .My English improved so much over the years because of the 1D lads!

[@catinsunglasses]

I’m an American whose maternal grandmother was from Glasgow. Her accent had been tempered by years in the States but my great-grandmother moved here as well and her accent was always very thick. I loved it. Spot on to your description. I have always had a fascination with linguistics and I really enjoyed this video.

[@DeniseCummins]

I'm American, and the easiest accent for me to understand is RP, followed by posh. When watching British TV, I usually have to put on subtitles in order to understand what the people speaking in other British accents are saying. I love the sound of the Scottish accent. I could listen to the actors on the TV show Shetland speak all day long.

[@GirlWithNoPatience]

I think the RP is posh.

[@brythonicman3267]

They are even more diverse in Britain, I read recently that most British sitcoms and comedy programmes (programs) are never aired on American TV because they'd be so difficult to understand, whereas for Brits, standard American accents are very easy for us to understand.

[@jenniferrandolph4115]

I also turn on the closed caption with some tv shows! Especially VERA.😉

[@strafrag1]

Liverpool accent sounds great to this yank and Yorkshire. I watch so much UK TV that now I'm getting to pick them out. Love this video. Thanks.

[@SoTypicallyMeh]

I love the Yorkshire accents. They sound so lovely. I'd love to hear more about the Welsh accent. It's really hard for me to pick that one out.

[@DevikaK1293]

It's probably most distinct in Gavin and Stacey (in popular culture), you can really hear its singsong-ness on that show. :) I live in Cardiff now and sometimes I'll pass by people who sound exactly like Stacey, Nessa or Bryn!

[@Hellwyck]

Listen to Tom Jones speak or Rhod Gilbert.

[@ginakellett]

What do you mean by the “Yorkshire accent” There are literally dozens of accents in Yorkshire. The county is literally so big that it had to be split into 4 sections. Don’t really get what you mean by that as, North, South, West & East Riding of Yorkshire all have very different accents. I sound nothing like people who are from North/East Yorkshire 💀🥴😂

[@peterdamaris7112]

RP - Cockney is a upper - lower class acents in the same place. We have the same in Australian English (Stirling/Broad/Okka). I think in Edinburgh there is a difference between upper and lower class Scottish accents. Do we have that divide elsewhere in the UK?

As a Swede (having lived seven years in North Staffordshire and, for the last 15 years, in North Lincolnshire), I've struggled most with the Geordie accent. I have no issues, what-so-ever, with most Scottish accents or the Scouse accent. My favourite accent is the Yorkshire one, closely followed by all of the Scottish ones.

[@ajs41]

Interesting. I live in south Staffordshire and the accent here is different to north Staffordshire. It would take a long time to go through every accent.

[@chrisucl]

I love Yorkshire too. So much character. And on men INCREDIBLY sexy and masculine.

[@mrdarren1045]

Having lived all my life (50 several years) in England I also struggle with geordie accents. Not made for TV ones, real ones. And I'm a northerner.

[@marieascot]

The county is unique in have two distinct separate accents. In the county town of Stafford you heard local people with two different accents.

[@paulselvey2834]

It was a smorgasbord of accents in our house growing up: my mother and grandmothers' lilting Valleys accent, my dad's RP/public school/mixed with Gloucestershire, my uncle's Gloucestershire/Canadian drawl, and us kids with our broad Coventry sound. Add Geordie, Irish, Yorkshire and Scottish neighbours for a whistlestop tour of UK accents in a few houses!

[@michael1170]

Louis accent is gorgeous, but that accent from Leeds, like Mel B’s is my favorite! AMAZING video!

[@Mario-xr3jo]

Best BE accents analysis I have ever come across. Even my college ELT (ESOL) course didn't cover the subject so well. And, to answer your quesstion, it's just your accent that I like most. With your immaculate diction it is a pleasure to listen, really. Your ability to mimic different accents and explain them is impressive. Top professional.

[@bryan3550]

Excellent work! I'd love to hear more of the Cockney accent: I am convinced that it is the basis of our Australian accent, which remarkably has very little variation, despite vast distances between the major contemporary settlements: some nouns are different but not their pronunciation! Regional Indigenous languages, let alone dialects or accents, were innumerable in centuries past!

[@roseg2239]

I don't think it came from Cockney directly. It just so happens that both the Australian and the cockney accent have a southern English origin.

[@lespetitsmoulins]

Funny you should mention the London accent in association with the Australian accent. Some years ago an American couple, when they heard me speak with my south London accent thought I was Australian, so there must be some correlation considering most of the convicts who were transferred to Australia were from London!!

[@vituperation]

@@lespetitsmoulins I heard almost exactly the same reasoning, but with Essex. The three accents have a ton of overlap.

[@amandac.a.johnson9003]

As an Anglophile from the US, I love videos like these. Well done!! Would love more of a deep dive for Western Country accents.

[@seeleygirl6178]

In general it seems I find the “ lower class” regular people in UK’s accents to be way more interesting and appealing than the hoity toity ones.

[@floralfancy7814]

I agree. They have more character and uniqueness.

[@mariahultander2102]

My favourite’s has always been the Scottish accents as well as the northern English ones. As a Swedish person I am fascinated and interested in certain words that are used in Scotland. Like their word for child, house etc. I think they originate from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries. Would like to see a video about that. Thanks for a great video! I really like all the accents. I think accents are a huge part of a country’s soul and heart. Even if you don’t always understand what people are saying. 😂 That goes for both the British and Swedish ones. 😂😂

[@hairandcia2028]

Are there many native accents in Sweden?

[@Luking2]

​@@hairandcia2028many dialects not accents

[@malimeefr]

Scottish accents are beautiful, I would love to hear about them more

[@Tigerland1962]

Educated are great, glasgow horrible..

[@toothless3835]

I can't understand Scottish accents worth a damn when it's super thick. Like, if it's the accent in how to train your dragon for the adults, that's fine, but anything stronger than Meridith from brave, I'm lost.

[@maggiep265]

100% agree

[@IsMiseStiùbhart]

@@Tigerland1962 Glasgow is great. You are horrible.

[@gb4375]

Would love to hear Dumfries and more borders accents.

[@Yuna_David]

I just love how Jade from little mix has such a strong Geordie accent that even native speakers don’t understand her

[@saitarunikavuri1478]

it's so true...

[@bin.nabi97]

Lmao the Ian story😂😂

[@spencereagle1118]

That's not a strong Geordie accent at all, fairly weak in fact, a strong one would require sub titles.

[@shootingstar_2143]

@@spencereagle1118 the clip showing Jade literally had subtitles but that was not her with her strongest Geordie You can look up videos of people (not even fellow band mate who is also Geordie) not understanding Jades accent

[@spencereagle1118]

@@shootingstar_2143 The point I'm making is she hasn't got a representative Geordie accent, she's pretty mild.

[@sk-by8zi]

I almost jumped off my couch when I saw you used Shirley Manson as an example of an Edinburghian accent!! She is inseparably connected to Edinburgh for me, and I was hoping you might mention her as an example of ''famous people with an Edinburgh accent'', but not that she would be the main speaker example! Thank you so much for this! (Plus: I love you Shirley!!!)

[@olivialogo1978]

such a great video, so informative! As a German I was just interested in the different accents of the UK and I didn't expect to get such a in depth explanation of all the phonetic differences and also historic and geographic backgrounds to them. Very cool! 😊

[@valeriesuttonpayne7413]

I love everything British and watch a lot of British shows. Although I love the accents sometimes I can hardly catch what is being said. It’s infuriating because I don’t want to miss a single word. I always think of Bubbles on Ab Fab and wonder do people really talk like that. I love all the accents! Can’t wait to watch more videos! Thank you!

[@ludovica8221]

Jane Horrocks comes from Rawtenstall in Lancashire . and yes thats how people from there talk, though maybe she emphasises it for comedic effect

[@ullswater6]

Given the complexities and sheer variety of accents all over the UK, this is a really great idea for a video; very entertaining, enjoyable and enlightening. Thanks mate!

[@robnorris4770]

Geordie: Needs subtitles for native English speakers.

[@TRKuchulu]

If you watch every episode of Vera you'll become fluent. ;o)

[@marinazagrai1623]

Rob...I have been living in the US (at 16) for 30+ yrs, and if you think you don't understand him, to me, he sounds as though he's talking Chinese! Surely other languages have similar dialects, but, since I don't speak any other than English I can't imagine the differences other languages encounter.

[@Yuēhàn24]

@@TRKuchulu Not really, Vera has a very watered down version of a Geordie accent.

[@Roosmarijn035]

used to work for a company where the UK branch was in Newcastle. I had serious issues comprehending what they were saying and each meeting I would have a seriously fried brain within fifteen minutes. (Funny how all the women working there were like Geordie shore characters: black dyed hair, way too much make up and trashy clothing, not suited for office.)

[@simonbutterfield4860]

@@TRKuchulu have a look on youtube for Auf Wiedersehn Pet for a better example.

[@legok6037]

I liked learning about Scouse because some of my ancestors were Irish folks who settled in Liverpool. My great grandparents later moved here to New England in the US. I found out a few years ago that during my mom's childhood they actually lived in the same Boston area town I live now, only about a mile or 5 minutes drive away from me!

[@Nsix4]

My favorite is definitely West Country. I've only just learned about it today, but as an American, to hear an English accent with a rhotic R is fascinating!

[@ednorton47]

The pirate, Long John Silver, in the 1950's children's TV series appeared to speak in a West Country accent.

[@OrangeUtan1]

I think maybe the American accent was mostly influenced by West Country and Irish but that's just a theory tho

[@Nsix4]

@@OrangeUtan1 I've heard that in England all the accents were rhotic but eventually most parts dropped it.

[@OrangeUtan1]

@@Nsix4 yeah maybe but then we have no recordings from the 18th century so we'll never know.

[@TryptychUK]

'round these parts, erryone torks loik poirates! Oo-arr, Jim, lad!

[@rachelamesastro]

Lived there for two years after university. Absolutely loved and miss it dearly. So many accents! I tried to incorporate as many as I could remember into the voices of my characters. I couldn’t quite remember one in particular, thankfully I found this channel to help jog my memory. Cheers, mate!

[@Melissa-os8sw]

I am from France and I just love the Scouse accent! When I first heard it I did not even recognise it was English! 😂 It sounds so unique! The accent in East Midlands has a special place in my heart though, because that's where I did my Erasmus year

[@yardgrid]

I have a scouse accent and my American colleagues can't decide if I'm from Scotland or Ireland.

[@ajs41]

I live between Nottingham and Birmingham so the accent here is like a mixture of those two.

[@CiaphasCainHeroOfTheImperium]

@@yardgrid I get that too! It's so funny trying to explain too.

[@tub19]

@@ajs41 I was brought up in Derbyshire small mining village and we drop few letters similar to a Yorkshire When moved to Sussex, they couldn't understand a word i said.

[@UCbbFB97twmWj0Mss7Ig9Q]

​@@yardgrid I've heard that too in online voice chat and sometimes people think I'm speaking Dutch or German. I guess from the "ck" which sounds similar to Dutch "g" or German "Nacht" ( Depends on region in Germany ) and Scottish "Loch". What's funny is that the Dutch person in the voice chat actually understood me while everyone else was baffled. I started speaking in broken English as a joke so everyone else could understand me lol.

[@wevegotthis7179]

I'm going exchange student to newcastle next year and this video helped me a lot! thanks and lots of love

[@annachase6036]

"I love Louis Tomlinson's accent." Same. It's the best

[@nataliebilal8133]

I got so excited when I saw him :)

[@rileyyymo]

@@nataliebilal8133 I was happy to see Doncaster and literally jumped at Louis 🧍🏼‍♀️😌

[@Hola-fz7jq]

Agreed... 👍👍

[@gracemak]

i didnt watch this just to see doncaster...

[@IsaBel-hb8ep]

I was waiting for this comment

[@DarkwaveMistress]

I'd love to see more on the Welsh accent!

[@AnDrea-lw4zx]

Agreed! Especially Swansea ❤

[@andyhess8433]

I'd love a deep dive on Scouse. I've been interested in it ever since I heard Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard do interviews. It's the one British accent I've found the most difficult for me to replicate consistently.

[@PenaltyKicc]

Mate my whole families Scouse and I can't even replicate it

[@valerianaranjocruz25]

@@PenaltyKicc every time I watch something with John Bishop I have to put on the subtitles, no chance, can't understand a word he says

[@livvi67]

I think Irish and Welsh immigration gave it quite a unique twang and character

[@emmie599]

@livvi67 possibly them two but I think there’s definitely scandinavian influence. when I hear scandis speak natively (mainly swedes and norwegian) the accent and pitch changes is sooo similar to scouse

[@citizenerrased]

Same here

[@amedeus40k]

Just wanted to say thank you so much for the video. I’m a yank who does a lot of voiceover/acting work for fun on the side. I knew there were quite a few English accents, but not twenty! lol. Very interesting, and it looks like I’ve got a lot of practicing to do moving forward. For me personally, I’d like to see deep dives into the various RPs, the Glasgow Scottish Accent, the Londoner Cockney accent, and the North Yorkshire accents. Thanks again, and I look forward to seeing more from you. Cheers!

[@kitty_s23456]

The singer Adele speaks with a Cockney accent - more so in her younger days. I think she lived in London or surrounds. However, now that she lives in the US, her accent has been somewhat tempered or Americanized. If you want to hear her Cockney accent, listen to her older interviews. Edit: as to the various RPs, there's a vid here on YT about how King Charles' accent is different from his sons'. I think the channel is from Dr. Geoff (?) I've also seen a vid/ analysis of how Queen Elizabeth's accent has changed over time.

[@kenoliver8913]

There's a lot more than 20. There's a story about Peter Sellers (a comedian known for his mastery of odd accents) - his American director asked him for "a cockney accent". He replied "which one? I have 16".

[@mdshonkkc]

Brilliantly presented! As an American, I was only consciously aware of maybe 6 British dialects. I'll be listening much more closely in the future.

[@spaghettiballs8929]

I love how nice you are

[@normanpearson8753]

There;s 3 here in the UK in ...8 miles ? near me .3 towns 3 accents that are different .

[@williamrekow7513]

Twenty makes about a quarter of them..

[@georgeko8274]

What a brilliant video! I love the way in which Scots speak English. How about covering this topic? It'd be wonderful if you could make a video on David Tenannt's accent.

[@PockASqueeno]

The West Country accent is definitely my favorite. It’s basically a pirate accent. You should make a video about that one.

[@meliora99]

yeah it is, the actor in treasure island by disney in the 1950s based his accent off of dorset in the south west of england, which basically defined the west country accent as sounding like a pirate

[@chrisholland7367]

I'm from Plymouth (Devon) the further to the southwest you go for example into Cornwall the thicker the west country accent becomes

[@PockASqueeno]

@@chrisholland7367 So are all Cornishmen pirates? 🤔

[@chrisholland7367]

@@PockASqueeno no but in parts of Cornwall during the 1700s smuggling was very prevalent.

[@robertcorbell1006]

@@meliora99 This is since, in the novel, Long John Silver was Cornish. Many pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy were from that region since most ships went out of Bristol and Penzance.

[@inakich74]

Great video Tom! Dan sent me to watch it and It’s worth! Thank you very much!

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

Oh nice one! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@wiwatowski]

I absolutely love the West Country accents, especially Bristolian. Those accents have such a fun and distinctive sound. As an American who used to live in Bristol, I loved that "pirate" sound. I once had a bus driver ask me, "Awrght, where ye be to mi babber?" If you want to hear more, you can search for "The Wurzels", a music group from the '70s which sing with very thick West County accents!

[@guillhermio.merencio4273]

Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, and many other pirates from his age are from West Country.

[@charlesloving4820]

Which one is used by the Peaky Fu^*ing Blinders?

[@islabee94]

@@charlesloving4820 thats Brummie, from Birmingham

[@patrickkelly7085]

Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the Dysney film Treasure Island was a West country man and since his portrayal of that loveable villain almost every film pirate has tried to copy his accent.

[@lindsaykearney5089]

It’s remarkable how much the American Southern accents have been influenced by the West Country British accents. The rhoticity obviously carried through and check out the islands east of the Carolinas- a lot of those folks sound kind of like, well, Hagrid.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I remember some lady did some whole research thing about that, she did a podcast or something and did an example of how if you slow down certain English accents they turn into US Southern accents. I've also seen a lot of theories that the modern-day Boston accent is closer to the sort of "regular" accent of English from the 1600s, which is super interesting.

[@APerson4889-g5f]

All English sounded similar to West Country English right up to the 1700s when the upper classes decided to "refine" their speech by dropping hard 'r's' and so on. The Pilgrims who went to America brought the old accent and thus Americans speak a variation of this old, almost-extinct "true" English.

[@Beebop_areebop]

So true. I came to this video off of another video discussing Birmingham and black country accents and I saw a lot of similarities between those two accents and those that I hear around my hometown in eastern NC, particularly the high tider accents of Ocracoke Island. I came straight from that video to this one and I noticed that hagrids accent sounds nearly identical to some of the older generation of high tiders. I can't believe I never noticed it before, as many times as I've seen those films!

[@muremuresen3725]

@@FrenkTheJoy A simmilar thing has happend to norwegian or old norse. Islandic is now very close to what old norse was

[@floralfancy7814]

Yes I can definetly hear some similarities between them. Very interesting!

[@FloridaMan213]

Gotta say as a Southern American with a strange accent myself- I love these vids. My favorites are hands down the regions of Liverpool, Glasgow, & Cockney.

[@happysloth3208]

What state? My grandmas from Washington DC and her family originally was from Virginia and she has a weird accent.

[@FloridaMan213]

@@happysloth3208 Many family members originated in Georgia & Kentucky & I'm from N. Florida (commonly referred to as the furthest South you can go in all of Florida!😂🤣) & lived in Atlanta for 3 years so it's a very weird mix from what people tell me!

[@happysloth3208]

@@FloridaMan213 cool! On my maternal side we descend from the British colonists and Scottish settlers. I’m from California so my accent is more Californian with a southern influence.

[@FloridaMan213]

@@happysloth3208 That's a unique one I'm sure! I find accents, and the fact they can vary even with only mere miles separating them- interesting as hell! Boston v New York v Rhode Island v Maine etc etc. But my favorite being a Southerner is detecting the dialects of the South. There are literally TONS and they can vary little or immensely as well. I can spot a fake from a mile away and only a few actors nowadays can pull it off.

[@fizziz_1035]

De que país eres?

[@WuffieGG]

I love how smooth the West Country accent is. The rhotic R sounds are incredibly pleasant for the ears. ^^

[@garypointing5825]

But it's not one accent, bedmister Bristol sounds much different from North Somerset...3 miles...Liverpool is the same

[@antilogism]

The West Country accent is very interesting to me, being in born in the the US. It's vaguely similar to what we call a Kingdom accent now. Heard mostly in an area we call the North East Kingdom of Vermont. Really you hear it all Vermont over from farmers. It's also what we imagine pirates to be sounding like.

[@APerson4889-g5f]

Many pirates came from the West Country - Blackbeard was the most famous (from Bristol). Penzance is there, too, by the way.

[@josephberrie9550]

most of them were from that area especially Bristol city a massive port in the west country and a port of the british navy

[@KimberlyBaker121]

I am interested in the study of linguistics as a casual hobby and this video has been fascinating. I will watch it over and over. Thanks

[@spacecadet2973]

For me to reference later; CORNWALL 11:13, BRISTOL (Gloucestershire) 11:53, EAST YORKSHIRE 15:25,

[@slaptree1]

I'm Canadian and love the SCOUSE accent!!

[@Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq]

You wouldn’t if you went there lol

[@kh-wg9bt]

Well in slaptree! (scouser here) I'll also add over here Canadians are held in much higher esteem than Americans

[@nollypolly1869]

@@miraggg hey fellow Canuck! Where you from? I'm in the GTA, Ontario. I love all UK accents. And I'm always amazed at how actors from there can do the 'standard american' accent so well.

[@CiaphasCainHeroOfTheImperium]

@@Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq aww what appened lad? Get bullied there once?

[@zlo8389]

@@kh-wg9bt no one in the uk can tell the difference between americans and canadians unless someone has a southern accent, also the british reputation in america is just a stereotypical essex girl

[@marielzoff2703]

You're such a great teacher! I've discovered your channel this year. Thanks for all your useful and practical videos. It takes a lot of effort to produce and edit such good-quality and clear videos and keep them interesting. You are great! Regards from Argentina

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

That's so kind Mariel, yeah this one took me a long time to edit. Thanks for following my channel and abrazos desde Londres

[@EdithVUA]

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I agree with her, your videos are of quality and you explain very well, I like to learn with you ... PS: Will we ever hear you speaking Spanish? Greetings from Venezuela.

[@marielzoff2703]

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish ❤️

[@SR-zp4je]

TIL that my accent is contemporary RP. I always got called posh in school as most everyone else there was Scottish or Northern (grew up on a British Army base). In our home videos from childhood, my siblings and I sound like we’re in an Enid Blyton adaptation. Our accents changed as we got older and settled in different places, but we always broadly sound like my mum, who sounds like her mother who is from Bath. My dad is Welsh and apparently sounded like Hugh Grant’s Welsh flatmate from Notting Hill when mum met him, but now sounds like her. Except when talking to his sister who lives in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@rsoubiea]

I’ve been following a guy on you tube from Yorkshire, I’m finding him a bit hard to follow sometimes but I love it.

[@suzannebosnjak7117]

I find this so interesting. I am the first born Australian in my family with a Dad from Liverpool, Mum from Manchester and a brother and sister born in England. I had a slight English accent when I was younger, especially after my Gran came to live with us. If I watch English movies or TV shows I tend to start talking with an accent very easily.

[@angeladawn805]

The 'orrf' (off) "you don't hear outside Buckingham Palace", is actually quite common in Hamilton, New Zealand

[@howardjdownes]

And common to upper middle class people when pronouncing "Orstria"(Astria) or "Orstralia"(Australia) and with "off" / "orf/oarf' ans so foarth 😉

[@bytmee69]

Also hear it occasionally down here in Southland

[@tylahoc9271]

And Gisborne lol

[@skiguru99]

Yes i had noticed this

[@160p2GHz]

If you think they're speaking a foreign language they're scouser.

[@janjohnny4945]

I've once been (foreigner) to Liverpool and they speak there like in Norway/Netherlands/Scotland.

[@millinutz]

NO... they are Jordie.

[@Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq]

Or if they robbed you

[@genevievenimhuiris5495]

Same with belfast

[@karent-s7639]

@@millinutz Yes, I found it interesting that the only time subtitles were used was for the Geordie accent.

[@gardenjoy5223]

That's a fun course. Starts mid January and is called 'Spring' course. I'd name it 'Winter' course, since spring is far off yet. Then it runs till a month PRIOR to when it started.

[@your_opponent]

He resembles Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Fassbender at the same time.

[@aarongoodall3248]

And Tony's dad off skins ifykyk

[@Babsza]

You're right !

[@violettacute7736]

And Willem Dafoe

[@lizz333]

What? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lar9299]

right??? I saw the resemblance with Radcliffe since the beginning, but I couldn't quite make another celebrity into the mix; Fassbender! Brilliant

[@ravenblair7596]

I'm so happy to hear someone speak of MLE in a respectful and even admired way. MLE is essentially the British equivalent of AAVE (African American Vernacular English or Ebonics), and AAVE is seen as a joke to Americans. It's so upsetting.

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

Thanks for your kind and thoughtful comment. I agree, MLE is much derided and I’m never sure why. I think it’s a fascinating accent which tells the story of modern London 👍🏼

[@StewyAdamRules]

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I guess I would equate it to the way people here in America criticize the type of speech some minorities develop, particularly in inner city areas. Maybe it doesn’t sound as “romantic” as they think it should, or maybe they have a problem with it because of the kind of people who speak it. It sucks, but that can be the case.

[@OGLobotomy]

That’s because American English isn’t as varied as British English. We have 3 or 4 accents and 2 are the majority. MLE is closer to the majority accents of the UK than AAVE is to American accents.

[@LolLol-gd7ly]

Shit accent that's why it's seen as a joke

[@romanarizaga2154]

@@OGLobotomy wym America has a lot of accents. KZbin it lol

[@carolelaeticia1]

Hard to choose I love them all. But I would choose the Scottish accent, Glasgow because I find it beautiful, especially the way they pronounce the "R".

[@HenriettaP]

I loved hearing them say murrderr in Taggart!

[@normanpearson8753]

You wouldn;t get a working class Glasgow one .Tell you why ? I can;t ,I'm English .Believe it or not ,they sometimes put sub titles on the TV ! I'm not joking... the TV clip may be online .

[@carolelaeticia1]

@@normanpearson8753 I understand. Their English and accent are different from the others with the vocab.. And a bit difficult to understand. I had an English class in which we talked about the different accents of The UK, with some clips. The Scottish one is hard for us the non-native speakers.

[@peterdamaris7112]

I would love to hear accents from north wales, lewis, the isle of man, and perhaps some other islands?

[@soularddave2]

St. Louis, USA here. I enjoy accents. They add colour to language making it interesting. I particularly appreciate your explanations of the nuances!

[@karenglenn2329]

Hello! My roots are from St. Louis. We have our unique pronunciations. Fark and c a r n. My speller kept corn.