I DON'T UNDERSTAND! American Reacts to 30 Dialects of the English language in the UK

I am American and here we have a Southern accent and a Northern Accent, but in the United Kingdom you have a different accent every 20 miles! American Reacts to 30 Dialects of the english language in the UK
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[@ianfinch2287]

America :- you drive for 2 hours and your still in the same state. UK :- you drive for 2 hours,the accent changes 3 times and bread rolls have a new name.

[@stevebaldwin6691]

It’s a cob 😂

[@tiredturtle3538]

Tea cake?

[@jburbridge7782]

Don't you mean bap mush?

[@poppletop8331]

Cob if it's crusty, bap if soft. Funny story drove car for 6 hrs, Gainsborough to Loch Lomond on arrival asked someone else parking how much it was for the car park, (which is free there by the way) it was only another blinking English person, what are the odds. 😂

[@anthonyb9047]

It’s a cob no matter what lol

[@maramackenzie-mann]

Being Scottish myself I can tell you there is WAY more than two dialects here.

[@Hugh.G.Rectionx]

true. glasgow is the only city on earth with 2 accents. the sober one and the drunk one

[@steventhemonarch]

@@Hugh.G.Rectionx it’s also the only city apart from Las Vegas where you can buy sex with chips

[@jmc7636]

Weegies have way more than 2 accents, reckon it depends on wot bloody street ya live on. Also have best statue of a dude on a horse.

[@ryanlacey7315]

At least 14 to my experience and as an English man ironically I met the most anti English scot I've ever met at the William Wallace memorial the irony made me chuckle after the altercation had concluded however I am not ashamed to admit I shat myself 🤣🤣🤣

[@Hugh.G.Rectionx]

@@ryanlacey7315 great views from up there though.

[@1960donz]

On our first holiday in the US we shared mini bus with another group from our hotel....our driver said to us that he loved the British accent as we all talked 'proper' English.....made us cry with laughter as we were 4 Bristolians, 4 Brummies and a Manc!!

[@Kittonkitkat]

Hahahaha! Such a mix! Even brummies have different accents

[@acid3129]

I'm from Stoke the potteries accent is a fucked up mix of brummie and manc and maybe a bit of Liverpool thrown in to really fuck with people . I spent my secondary school years in Cornwall Newquay so I also have a cornish element to my accent I can switch between the 2 in the fly

[@Kittonkitkat]

@@acid3129 haha I get ya! I am from cannock (staffs) but lived in Wolverhampton and Birmingham and lived with someone from Devon and someone from Wales for years so my accent is also very changeable (notably Welsh when angry)

[@jenni3599]

You all sound posh posh to us north easterners

[@amyk6496]

Hahaha 😂😂

[@charliebritton971]

For anyone wondering, pitmatic accent is now called mackem, from Sunderland, which is on the other side of the river to Newcastle, with the geordie accent

[@kylearkle2569]

nah gateshead is over the river from newcastle i live like 300 meters away from the river tyne sunderland is like 10 miles south of there but not far tho really

[@andrewfield8562]

Sunderland is on the wear near Durham not the Tyne

[@rolandcraggs348]

Pitmatic is as different to mackem as it is to geordie

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

@@kylearkle2569 ganna be honest the Geordie accent is dying out and becoming more mackem. Sad but true

[@krisjones3496]

I’m from Durham and I definitely don’t class myself as a mackem 😂 the wear runs through both city’s but we don’t have the same accent

[@mooncatandberyl5372]

"he needs to blow his nose", im literally crying with laughter, "i didnt understand one word of that", im literally crying with laughter again.

[@northernguerrilla3168]

It was the perfect description of a manc accent to be fair.

[@janicetaylor8794]

Manc accent - get us a cuddy and uddy up about it! 😁

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@@janicetaylor8794 Apparently it sounds so nasal because the air used to be so full of smoke from the factories.

[@gingerbiscuit2368]

There are so many more dialects

[@Phoenix-wl5or]

Basically everyone bloody town 😂

[@lorenzomassarella2180]

@@Phoenix-wl5or It’s been proven that every 15 minutes you drive there is a new dialect

[@Phoenix-wl5or]

@@lorenzomassarella2180 never knew it had been proven

[@torfrida6663]

Ginger Biscuit Yes, the East Midlands lumped together Lincolnshire which is more like Norfolk, south Notts is different from North Notts and that approaches Derbyshire which is different again.

[@boli2746]

There are three distinct accents in my home town alone....

[@Liam1991]

I'm British, and I'm finding this hard to understand. They sound like elderly people from the 60s.

[@missdragonfire]

You're not kidding I am 44 and have lived in Cambridgeshire all my live but struggled to understand what was being said.

[@tallthinkev]

@@missdragonfire When you do get towards Warboys and Ramsey Height, things get a bit... As for Manea

[@karlkuttup]

no no no you would have really bad issues then from the 60s this stuff is from the 70s 80s not the 60s

[@debbieburton938]

Being a brummie and having a thick brummie accent.. I completely understood.. That is a bad thing 😂😂😂and I'm only in my 30s

[@konkey-dong]

tbf that's cause lots of these dialects are mostly spoken by older people nowadays - South East for example has almost completely been wiped out by Multicultural London English and RP

[@simonpowell2559]

I love it when Americans say: "I just love your "British accent." Then carn't understand a word you say.

[@themanftheworld8439]

There is no such thing as a British accent but many British accents.

[@simonpowell2559]

At best they think I am Australian.

[@baconsandwich6584]

Yep

[@blotski]

@@themanftheworld8439 When Americans mistakenly say someone has a British accent they nearly always mean an English accent. Have you noticed here in the UK we almost never say 'British accent'. It doesn't mean anything. England, Scotland and Wales are all in Britain. We say people have English, Welsh or Scottish accents not British. And then we can start getting specific after that.

[@blotski]

@@simonpowell2559 I got that when I went to America! I'm from the north of England. A couple of people asked if I was Australian.

[@ditz2998]

You should reach out to your UK subscribers and set up an email account so we can send over audio of sentences in slang, as each accent has its own variation of slang. Would be fun watching you trying to figure out what we are saying😂

[@michellewilkins8206]

Oh my, your face hearing Welsh English spoken!!! You should listen to a welsh person speaking Welsh! Welsh is a completely different language to English. I've just moved to Wales from England & I love hearing people here speak Welsh. I love how melodic all the different accents in the uk are 😊😊😊

[@mariannehancock8282]

I was just thinking the same.

[@RevStickleback]

Most people from the UK won't be able to understand these either. They are terrible recordings.

[@g4viscon]

Yeah agreed. Why did they chose to use recordings from people that sound like they've died, been dug up and reanimated? There's gotta be a better dialect and accent video than this.

[@alanrobinson-orr8748]

Yeah the sound isn't the best

[@jackwilliams6604]

I understood them all.

[@penname5766]

Yeah I have to say I understood all of them too.

[@leesloan8216]

no problem understanding them

[@Conzdunchad]

The Scottish is just so wrong, there are so many separate accents to Scotland.

[@tracytabb2882]

Yep I felt insulted there so many different accents here in Scotland

[@kyliethomas1348]

Same with Yorkshire, it is so varied. Even where I live in South Yorkshire each town sounds so different.

[@ben_young]

They missed Stranraer, Ayrshire, Glaswegian, Lothian, Dundonian, Doric, Orcadian, Shetlandic....Western Isles... to name a few!

[@andreacrumlish9976]

@@ben_young here in greenock we are just a different breed lol

[@albaelf8481]

@@andreacrumlish9976 aye inbred

[@katrinarowell9417]

Scotland has 100 more dialects that what was here... Edinburgh sounds fuck all like Glasgow

[@rajaawad13]

yeah I struggle understanding a thick Glasgow accent

[@nekite1]

I remember working in Aberdeen way back in 1979 - as an Englishman, I had a f*^king hard time understanding 1 word in 3 at first - and I had been living in Glasgow for a couple of months prior to moving there and had no problems understanding the Glaswegian accent.

[@katrinarowell9417]

@@nekite1 try going further north than Aberdeen. My mums side is from Thurso...I grew up in Edinburgh, but my partner (also from Edinburgh) uses me as a translator when we speak to anyone on her side of the family. I’m used to it as I grew up with it but by god it’s a a THICK accent. I also have family who speak Gaelic from the islands and even I’m like “nope” trying to understand their English.

[@nekite1]

@@katrinarowell9417 I had a similar experience when at university here in the north east of England. Myself and a Geordie fellow student got to go to the Netherlands for two weeks for an engineering project collaborating with students from at least 10 different countries. I spent most of my time translating from broad Geordie to English so that the other students could understand what the hell he was talking about!

[@katrinarowell9417]

@@nekite1 my dad was born in Newcastle but his family moved to Sunderland after WWII so I’ve family in and around geordie town and am very familiar with the accent! My dad passed over 20 years ago but I still have so much love for that accent.

[@dbenj7867]

Glad you included Pitmatic and Yorkshire, the full dialects from those areas are actually closer to Norwegian than English because of the Vikings

[@louisecook6483]

Many of these old dialects have disappeared over time, the differences between places isn't so pronounced anymore although there are still strong accents in some places, very few speak cockney anymore. You can still travel 30+ miles and get a different accent but because people now move all over the country and with immigration in many places you will hear many dialects and languages

[@andrewcoates6641]

Back in the 1930’s there was a professor of linguistics who conducted a study of English accents, who toured through just the English areas, not including Scotland, Wales nor Northern Ireland, compiling information on every accent that he could and eventually he published the proverbial book on the subject. In the book he held that in some area’s he had found changes of accents, not only between villages or other built up locations but even within single villages. As he increased his database he started to find that the larger the location’s populace he was finding more accents and at the end of the study he had found that in some places accents were changing from one street end to the next. He concluded that an accent would only remain pure for as long as the speakers were isolated from other speakers of other accents and as accent speakers moved into town’s and cities from the smaller rural areas and radio stations had an effect on speech overall then he believed that accents would become more and more blurred, so he started to collect accents before they all disappeared. Unfortunately I don’t know the name of the gentleman but I know that he did publish his research via one of the university publication houses, but again I don’t know which one.

[@suevialania]

I love your southern U.S.A accent! Greetings from Portugal 💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@TheHermitTeller]

Even though there's so many more layers to what you're looking into, it's really appreciated that you're taking the time out to learn about the UK!

[@chrisholland7367]

Thanks for taking such a big interest in the history culture of the UK.

[@bushcrafty7274]

Changes every 20 odd miles. Even towns and cities have slight variations within them.

[@LilLingLing6789]

The guy talking about the drummer is where I used to live and its my absolute favourite place in England... Wolverhampton

[@chrisevans6290]

If u wanted to write Kelly in Welsh u would write it as Celi. C is always hard in Welsh, the soft c sound we have in English we use s for in Welsh. The reality is that nearly all Welsh speakers also speak and understand English so that Welsh people can switch back and fore between English and Welsh spelling. There is also strictly no j in welsh but we do not have a word for jam so that is normally now accepted for use in Welsh.

[@welshgit]

Yes! No J! That puzzles people when they think of "Jones" (iones) !

[@francisluke4739]

We can switch to English midsentance so can definitely manage pronouncing someone's surname that contains letters we don't have. Must admit though sometimes I spell in English like I'm using the Welsh alphabet (forget Ks and mess up fs or vs usually)

[@welshgit]

@@francisluke4739 I meant when you tell English people there is no J, not us lot!

[@francisluke4739]

@@welshgit yes sorry I was saying we would be able to pronounce Kelly and since it's a surname would probably keep the spelling, both comments being about surnames made that less clear 🤦‍♂️

[@welshgit]

@@francisluke4739 Ahh sorry, yes, that makes sense now.. You were replying to Chris, not me! 👍

[@tygertyger77]

"Welsh English" There are different accents in every valley in Wales, to just show one is a bit of a disservice (not that that's your fault)

[@michaeldavies6039]

There are at least 4 dialects in Wales not 1 north Wales ,mid Wales , South Wales and Pembroke Welsh ,there are even differences in accents between valleys next to each other

[@stephenellis8472]

There are a crapload of accents here in Yorkshire. The east is very different from the west etc. I think the amount of difference comes from how long the country's been around. Apparently, if you go far enough back, even leaving your town was considered adventurous, so two towns in the same city can have quite different accents.

[@kusz2704]

Scotland has dozens of local dialects. You can drive 10miles and they speak totally different and use different words for things. Then you have the Doric dialect in the north east of Scotland where Fraserburgh is, watch a video of people speaking Doric if you want to be totally confused. I’m from Glasgow in central Scotland

[@GraceeeFTW]

i’d be classed as cockney/kent but bloody hell those audios are shit. you should ask your followers to send you voice messages on instagram for a video!

[@JTReacts11]

Great idea

[@brandonnewman162]

I didnt see no essex on there either

[@satanicrainbowprincess6165]

@@brandonnewman162 if it’s TOWIE Essex then that’s a blessing in disguise.. 😂

[@louisegoldsmith1038]

Yes because the cockney one was sooo wrong

[@My-Planet-Now]

This is the best idea, the sound bites that he had were awful

[@judithbain5568]

Bloody Hell, those example's of accent's are very dated. I can travel 10min to a different town & their accent is different. North East accent's are really varied & not all Geordie. Especially the slang. I Love JT's accent.

[@England91]

Yeah, like 10/20 plus years out of date

[@Felix-ny1be]

Yeah like cities were so isolated every few miles there's a new accent because they just didn't mix their accents between towns

[@lemonade_011]

Us Georides one of the best tho .

[@tonybennett4159]

The strange thing is you can get people with received pronunciation mixed in with people with regional accents, like in the village where I was raised. It's not always to do with class or education either.

[@agdgdgwngo]

Totally agree it's not always to do with class or education. For me and my own accent it depends on my mood and what I'm talking about. Talking about anything slightly intellectual, I'll slip into having a tinge of RP, totally by accident. But if its about football for example it'll become more northern. Now, some will say I'm spineless here, but I think it's more to do with the fact that you get used to certain things being talked about with certain voices. Not to totally stereotype but it's like going from Gary Neville to Stephen Fry based on the things they mostly talk about.

[@nathanaelsadgrove]

"Mancunians sounds like they have a blocked nose" ...I'll leave now 😂

[@ajbmadmum]

I am a Mancunian, and I was raised by a Geordie Gran (who never lost much of her accent in the years she lived in Manchester), and I am married to a Pityakker from Durham (Pitmatic), and I have an accent that is pretty much a blend of them, as do our kids .

[@Zentron]

These were just the main more generalised ones, as you can often just travel up the road a few minutes to the next town and be confronted with a different accent.

[@felicitydavies3227]

You should try reacting to Welsh words, or watch a video like the Welsh singing their national anthem at a rugby game or Only boys aloud audition for Britain's got talent, to give you a better idea of how the Welsh language is supposed to sound

[@totemictoad4691]

yeah welsh prounounced english is one thing, actual welsh,,, whole other game

[@ailawil89]

Or listen to Taron Egerton saying Llanfair . . . I can’t think of a more prominent Welsh celeb.

[@sammygirl5835]

@@ailawil89 I would have gone with Luke Evans.

[@felicitydavies3227]

I would have gone with Michael Sheen

[@petervaughan9111]

Or the Llanfair-PG song! Might give him half a chance of saying it

[@melxeden]

can’t lie the cambridgeshire one sounds exactly like my grandad it’s so weirddd!!! so accurate for the older generation of people from cambridge. It’s less like that now but quite accurate for the older generation

[@mallabook1]

I never realised how strong my Devonshire accent was until I listened to this. I moved to Essex and forgot we all sound like that 😂 no wonder I get looked at funny

[@Ballissle]

I'm from Essex and went to Devon for a week one time. It was so weird hearing such a completely different accent.

[@mikexcity]

You should take a look at the Isle of Man TT bud, it will blow your mind.

[@OblivionGate]

Yeah defo!! JT needs to make sure it's the video with the tune "Faster" in the background

[@spads7130]

Peter Hickman 2017 is one to watch, it's insane.

[@jamesmatthews291]

@@OblivionGate Although he'll need to mute the background noise, or take other precautions to avoid being demonetised - has happened to a lot of reaction KZbinrs

[@OblivionGate]

The one he needs to react to is by Lockk9 TT Racing with 73 million views

[@audreyogorman2923]

Was so disappointed on the ten best places to visit in the uk it didn’t mention the tt when it spoke on the Isle of Man

[@welshcat5781]

Welsh doesn’t have a ‘k’ but it’s a phonetic language so ‘c’ is the same sound. So to sound the same, in Welsh, Kelly would be spelt ‘Celi’

[@pclement4609]

Try the difference between Walsall, Wednesbury, Dudley and Tipton all just a few miles apart yet so different you would think you need a passport :-)

[@christiancrisp2541]

you forgot wolverhampton as well

[@karlkuttup]

aye no wea bi we cor gu up t osse rode con ya od uns aye tha lolor u run th bonk or cut ,tiptonian in written words and gornal as well

[@overlordnat]

@@karlkuttup Something about not being able to go on the ‘horse road’ (main road) and holding hands around the bank (hill) and cut (canal)? I’m from Birmingham and even I’d like a translation please!

[@amandarichards5121]

Just recently discovered your videos. I am a South African Brit. There are 4 people in my household and 3 different dialects/accents. My husband is East Midlands, my daughters' Brummie. I have a Johannesburg South African accent. The distance between my husband's hometown and where we now live (Birmingham) is only 45 miles and his and our daughters' accents are so different. My grandparents were British born and between them there was Cockney, Scottish and Irish accents.

[@colinblackburn9282]

Accents in the uk can change from as little as 4-10mile depending on your location, my cousins have a slightly different accent and live 4 mile away.

[@carysevans5053]

Honestly welsh is one of the most confusing languages, depending on your tense and the words in front the sentence changes. Dw i’n hoffi - I like Hoffwn i - I liked😂

[@StonecatWales]

Throw gender into the mix also and add in a few adjectives with plural endings. Brilliant :)

[@Ashamanic]

Even many English people struggle with Geordie. Yorkshire isn’t really one accent either. People from there can tell the difference between Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Leeds and more

[@chuckyboy6977]

I grew up in a village called Aylesham, it was purpose-built in 1926 to house the incoming miner’s families that would work at the Snowdon Colliery and other Colliery in the Southeast Kent coalfield. The village is a mining village in two ways, it houses miners and the village’s roads and streets form the shape of the pit head winding tower, the pattern can be seen in Google maps. The original village has it’s own dialect that was studied in 2016, as the miners came from Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire, Lancashire and many other areas of the U.K. the village became a mixing pot of all the dialect and accents. There are village one or two miles from Aylesham and their accent completely different. In the last few years hundreds of new homes have extended the village by another 2000 people to make the population around 6000 inhabitants.

[@skasteve6528]

There are of course many more accents. They are just more subtly diffierent. It's a bit like New York, many Americans can tell if someone is from New York, but a native New Yorker would be able to tell which borough they were from.

[@nickis194]

We have way more dialects, 51 cities in England alone, each with their own accents

[@zapatron1939]

What you on about every city? Every bloody town has it's own accent

[@katehurstfamilyhistory]

When I was a teenager, someone from North Wales suggested I should try learning Welsh, so I went out, bought a "teach yourself" book (and cassette - it was the late 90s, so audio cassettes were still around) and learnt a bit from the tape. Next time I saw the family who suggested it, their son took one look at the book, and said "This is a South Wales dialect" - I was just thinking, how did they know that? Accents are really interesting in the north-west. Preston and Liverpool are linked by a main road that's maybe 30 miles long; Go from Preston to Rufford (about 6 miles) and you'll start to pick up a hint of a Liverpool accent. Go 4 miles further, to Ormskirk and Burscough - the "Liverpool" accent gets a bit stronger. It does the same again if you talk to people from Maghull (another 3 or 4 miles), and 6 miles later you're in Liverpool. It is pretty fascinating.

[@horselsndco]

The fact it huddled half of Scotland together makes me want to scream

[@flamingbridges1649]

I'm British and even I'm struggling to understand alot of these.

[@ashleyowen7664]

same here, i couldn't understand half of them haha and i''m from Stockport

[@sam6719]

@@ashleyowen7664 ayyy stockport here too

[@ashleyowen7664]

@@sam6719 cool where abouts? i'm heaton norris

[@sam6719]

@@ashleyowen7664 near wythenshawe lad

[@mikexcity]

The Queen Riding a British bull dog with big Ben in the background. You can't get a more English tattoo that that lol. I live in Devon, on the South West Coast, 10 miles away from the city of Exeter. Our accent is totally different, where they have a real westcountry twang we don't.

[@charzy888]

Exmouth?

[@skasteve6528]

Someone from the home counties would say that you do have a west country twang. It's all relative.

[@mikexcity]

@@charzy888 lol yeah

[@ixleigiontoon779]

Why would you just have the bell surely you would want Elizabeth Tower as well so more people would get the reference.

[@mikexcity]

@@ixleigiontoon779 captain pedantic has arrived. Lol

[@Pugwash.]

I was born Brummie, but at 18 moved to Yorkshire for 3 years before moving to near Norfolk. I can't understand much that my elderly local neighbour says! You probably got your idea of English from Sean Connery?

[@swynyddcymru8445]

both wales, and scotland are COUNTRIES in the uk, the orginal britons were the same as the welsh, and ventured to scotland then the saxons settled in england. We arent english, we are our own countries.. and in america you have more than a northern and a southern accent. its a melt pot of a world of different accents. WOW.

[@amazingpurplegirl0903]

Wales is actually a principality, not a country

[@StephMcAlea]

😆 wait until you hear the actual Welsh or Cornish languages! Siarad Gymraeg? 😉 Dim siarad Centwceg 😞

[@e-bike-bys-vykken7422]

yup im cornish and he would struggle to understand me especially if i talk cornish not english i do it to emmets to mess with them lol

[@swynyddcymru8445]

oh God forbid we have our own cultures and identities other than english lol.

[@ycylchgames]

Cymru am Byth!

[@jimzo6446]

The Manc needing to “blow his nose” made me crease

[@carlmuller8967]

Well if it ever stopped raining in Manchester he could get over his cold :-)

[@louisem3476]

@@carlmuller8967 its no that bad we have had more snow than rain past few weeks and its been sunny for a few days lol

[@Zoe-Zaliae]

Tattoo idea: the Queen dressed as a Roadman. 😂😂

[@marieofthetoon09]

I'm a geordie and I can honestly say I always get asked what part of Ireland or Wales I'm from when meeting people from the South 🤣🤣. Fun fact geordies actually had their own language like the Welsh but it died with the older generation. You may find the odd older older person who still knows it, pretty sad really x

[@m_h_1988]

Great video but there's a couple of these that are typical of how older generations speak, especially from rural areas, rather than the general population. Also, the scouse accent in this clip was quite tame compared to what you normally hear around Liverpool haha. Never seen Geordie Shore, but would love to see you react to an episode 😂

[@sinista.productions]

Wrights pie advert on signal 1 sounds just like that. Makes me cringe every time I hear it

[@Alex-wv9en]

this video kind of did wales/scotland/NI dirty

[@g4viscon]

And it did England any better??? 🤔

[@Alex-wv9en]

@@g4viscon at least they got more than two :(

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

They pick older people I would think remembering people of my Great Grandparents time where the local dialects will be a lot stronger. The Local area in the East Anglia so SE of England I live has it's own dialect and sayings. Most noticable is the saying "My ol' boy". Elsewhere meaning the person's father, but here means the person's son. A town 5 miles away even at one time had it's own local language. It is getting noticable as people move around more dialects evolving and other toning down even some sadly disappearing. There is a small area where the local dialect is noticable sounds an early version of where the stereotype standard American drawl is noticable. I have a friend who married and moved to the USA years ago and developed a mid Atlantic dialect. We think he now sounds American, Americans think he sounds English.

[@England-Bob]

The reason for so many different dialects in the U.K. is because up until reasonable recent(in our country’s timeline) most people never strayed far from their own villages. Most “commoners” lived and died in the same house/village/town never straying more then 7/10 miles away.

[@brian9731]

My uncle was a successful carpet retailer in Glasgow, Scotland about 40 years ago. He and his brother looked into expanding their operations into England and the first big city is Newcastle-upon-Tyne, home of the Geordie accent. Despite being used to the famous very strong accent in Glasgow which is known for being unintelligible to outsiders, they decided against doing business in Newcastle because the accent there was even stronger and more impenetrable.

[@lovelunar6185]

These are like 'posh' versions of the accents, Scouse particularly!

[@goblinbollocks2838]

I wouldn't call that a posh Scouse accent, more antiquated. Someone said these recordings are from the fifties and sixties and most of the speakers sound middle aged to elderly on top of that, so you're talking about the accents of the areas that were about around the beginning of the 20th century, possibly even the tail end of the 19th. Posh Scouse sounds very different than that to me. That sounds more like working class Scouse when it was still more of a hybrid between - mainly - Irish accents and the Lancashire accent. Scouse is constantly evolving. My old man is forever bollocking my nineteen year old cousin for pronouncing th as eff like a southerner as opposed to 't like his generation and the generations before them did, something which came from the very heavy Irish influence. Example, swimming baths, swimming baffs, swimming bat's. Still, it's meant to be one of a handful of accents that are getting more and more distinctive and spreading further while the majority become more neutral and more influenced by the general accent of the south east, at least that's what I've read. Same with the south east accents. I'm a Londoner who grew up in Kent. You would never hear accents like the ones in the recordings in Kent, Sussex etc now but they're not posh accents, they're accents from when those counties were still rural. Wave after wave of working class Londoners migrating out - cockneys might go Essex, n Londoners Hertfordshire, w Londoners Sussex, se Londoners Kent - has meant the whole south east now generally speak in a homogeneous London influenced, estuary English. There's slight variations and there's variations on the slang etc but it's nothing like the variations you will find in the midlands and north of it and it's definitely supplanted the old local accents rather than being an evolution of a hybrid accent in the way Scouse was.

[@goblinbollocks2838]

This is a bad example is because he's from Wallasey but Paul Hollywood speaks how I see posh Scousers as speaking

[@heliotropezzz333]

The accent of the man who 'needs to blow his nose' as you said, that accent (and that of other northern cities) developed historically in very industrial areas where people probably learned to speak more nasally to avoid openly breathing in industrial smog and pollution.

[@louisem3476]

Maybe he had man-flu the day he was recorded lol

[@frasernicholson1365]

when it says pitmatic, its more known as mackem where i come from in sunderland, its called mackem because when the shipping industry was big here we would "mackem and tack em" which is make them and take them :)

[@debbielough7754]

The recordings are from a project designed to record the old accents and dialects of regions, before they died out, so they're mostly of older people. The Geordie one is still relatively accurate to how people might speak among themselves, or if they were trying to exclude somebody not from around there. This is my accent, and I've had people not understand a word I'm saying in other parts of the country. I learned to water it down a *lot* to be understood, especially in the south.

[@its_me_barb]

Geordie: "I love her stronger each day, I mean, them days ya didn't live with lasses. If a bloke was going with a lass and they weren't married she had a bad name and everybody looked down.."

[@LordClunk]

Fun fact for you. The Welsh and Cornish languages are of the same family (Brittonic). It is the language that was spoken on this island before the Romans and Vikings invaded us and pushed the local language to the extremes of Wales and Cornwall. Brittonic comprises of Cumbric (Extinct) Welsh, Cornish and Breton (Spoken mostly in Brittany, France) It is possible that someone who speaks Welsh can hold a conversation with someone who speaks Cornish.

[@TheWizardOfEgo]

Some cities have different accents in different parts of the city itself

[@Sarah-nd2gy]

These seem to have been recorded decades ago, with much older generation and very dated audio. I was struggling to understand some of them. What really struck me is that accents have actually moved on in some ways since then. They have blended more. My Grandparents accents sounded so much like the man from Kent yet neither of them were from Kent. Your video was fine, I just dont think the video you reacted to was very good (in my opinion)

[@sarahh5058]

Yeah I agree. The video he used is way too outdated.

[@d.a.r.kfairy2704]

You still have people that speak like that, especially in small towns and villages, and not just the old folk.

[@rachg3696]

I'm kent. I'm from a village. I speak different to the ones that live in kent towns.

[@ampersandcastle1091]

Omg I’m from the Potteries and I didn’t realise we sounded like that, but it really sounds like every woman over 30 I’ve ever met! 7:03 absolute madness

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

It's the modern Potteries accent. You never hear the "Cost kickuh bow aggen a woe" accent any more. The last time I heard the old accent was the Sikh woman who ran a paper shop around the corner from where I used to work 20 years ago.

[@ampersandcastle1091]

@@gilgameshofuruk4060 yeah, it’s a real shame. I’ve only ever met one man who spoke in the proper Potteries dialect, and he sounded just like the Owd Grandad Piggott stories! I feel like it’s a bit of history that’s been lost, even though everyone is much more understandable now :)

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@@ampersandcastle1091 I grew up next door to a man with the old dialect. I could never understand a word he said.

[@markjones127]

Most Welsh people will be a bit unhappy about being lumped in together, the accent varies a lot from North to South, even the Welsh language itself changes, I'm Welsh born and bred but speak with received pronunciation, which is a little peculiar as I grew up on a council estate, I'm the only person in my family with this accent so God knows where I got it from!

[@darrencox6298]

In Yorkshire we can tell the difference in dialect from people who live 8 to 10 miles away ,north ,east, south,and west Yorkshire dialect varies a lot from each other.

[@andreacrumlish9976]

Me, a scottish person: Ah okay so I defos sound like my friend from montrose at the other side of the country, oh _definitely_

[@Cornet_Tooter]

You need to listen to a recording of the Singing Postman. Norfolk's finest!

[@robbieellis4840]

They're about 14 different accents in Cumbria alone and Scotland is the same every county has it's own twang, accent and slangs. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Dundee, Ayrshire, are short drives from each other but they sound very different.

[@CalicoKate13]

FYI- even within Lancashire, the accents vary wildly. I'm Lancastrian but the accent represented on here is more south west/east lancashire than North Lancashire.

[@thecollector]

JT I'm with a lot of others on this and say this isn't very acurate at all. For instance they did a west midlands bit and a 'brummie' bit, but the west midlands covers a large area including an area just outside of Birmingham 'brummie' called 'The Black Country' and we speak completely different to other areas around here, for instance the word speak.... is pronounced 'spayke'... the tv show called the 'peaky blinders' is filmed round here and based in Birmingham, but the accents are there!

[@hannahktbffh5366]

This is the reason we get annoyed when Americans say ‘British Accent’. It literally doesn’t exist.

[@hananabanana7955]

it's like how, in Japan, they make a near infinite amount of flavours for foods that do well. the amount of kit kat flavours they have is stupid, just like our accents

[@johndonson1603]

Do we really get annoyed though ?

[@hannahktbffh5366]

@@johndonson1603 It’s a minor annoyance - but it’s there.

[@thepersongaminghd7665]

You won’t understand the multicultural London English 😂😂😂😂 u are gonna hate that accent 😂😂😂😂

[@hannahktbffh5366]

@@thepersongaminghd7665 Me?

[@silicononsapphire5102]

Geordies (Newcastle) have a different accent from Mackems (Sunderland) and their only a few miles apart.

[@sweetseasons2510]

the dialects can change from literally 10miles per town in the UK it’s hilarious

[@buidseach]

You need to watch (One Woman, 17 British Accents) on KZbin, she does them and explains them a lot better than this vid :)

[@jlily8909]

Bread rolls change name also, depending on town/region.

[@coot1925]

I think the reason for so many accents on such a small piece of land is due to the amount of times we've been invaded by so many different countries. I'm English myself but I think the only original languages of the ancient people of Britain are to be found in places like Wales, Ireland, Scotland and the south west such as Cornwall. Most of England lost their native tongue due to foreign languages taking over & a mix of French, German, Latin & Scandinavian, which is why English is one of the hardest languages to learn for foreigners.

[@shortshins]

As someone born and bred in suffolk the accent does vary across the county .

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

Cerys is a Welsh name pronounced with a hard 'c'. The Crones in The Witcher 3 have a Welsh accent. Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins are from the same village. These days most kids will have English as their first language but 50 years ago that wasn't the case.

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

Our first rented house was in Clare and our landlord spoke in a Suffolk accent. But I could never trace it from listening to different people talking. But hearing this, he was born and bred on the outskirts of Clare but he sounded just like the Norfolk bloke to listen to. The dialect had obviously bled down to that area of Suffolk, on a good day I understood one word in ten, by the time we left it was nearer one word in five on a good day. His wife was from Cambridgeshire and sounded just like the person on this recording. Hope the dialects aren't allowed to die out because they are an enduring part of British history and can never be reclaimed once gone. ps: the people I know up in northern Ireland don't sound anything like either of the examples shown here, they are much harder to understand whereas those here are very clear in comparison.

[@kathleenharris-officialmus261]

Subscribed with all bell notifications on 😂 Xxx I am from North Wales, and we talk either the Welsh Language, English & Welsh as bilingual or English with a Welsh accent.xx It is compulsory to learn Welsh in school here.xx

[@D2V0N7]

im gonna be honest there is no such thing as a british accent

[@omnomshibob]

No such thing as a British person either. I live in England so I'm English.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@omnomshibob I am a Yorkshireman, English, British & European.. We have many 'tags'! But agree, i speak English, not British! 🌸🇫🇴🇬🇧

[@omnomshibob]

@@Paul-hl8yg not European anymore.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@omnomshibob Of course i & most in the UK are European. The eu isn't Europe!

[@omnomshibob]

@@Paul-hl8yg Oh yeah, Europe's the continent, of which we are a part of. Doh.

[@gwalia2112]

Dude, the Manc accent really is like that, all nasal and sharp . NOW I come from a town that's been swallowed up by Manchester and I don't have that accent and towns on the other end of Manchester, only 10 miles away talk completely differently to me and the Mancs in the middle.. :)

[@broxybearxbox]

i was born in a wee village , just outside edinburgh called south queensferry. if i jumped in the car and went as little as 5 miles in any direction then i would encounter so many different accents and uses of the scots english language

[@1960donz]

This recording is so old, dialects have changed big time....the Bristol accent is way off

[@northernguerrilla3168]

Do you still say gurt lush down there?

[@thewastelandworrier]

We'm all still 'Gert lush, yere in Bristol, me babber' 😂 (To be fair, I only know old people who still sound that broad, many of us aren't total Vicki Pollards! )

[@1960donz]

I think the classically depicted Bristolian accent is really long gone (apart from, as Polly said 'some old people')....I know our accent is still quite strong (like country bumpkins) but I get fed up when people ask if I'm from Brizzol.....never in my life have I heard a Bristolian say it that way....it's Briz-tool......lol

[@thewastelandworrier]

@@1960donz When people try to do our accent they end up sounding more Somerset. We are not Wurzels! 😂

[@northernguerrilla3168]

@@1960donz I lived in bristol for a year not long ago and found my friend and his family who lived in knowle had a strong accent but as you say, most have lost it now....plus I'm a northerner so it probably just sounded strong to me.

[@sheriburke8276]

I watched Derry Girls, I think that's what it's called. It's spoken in "English" from Northern Ireland. I had to use subtitles!

[@VikPaints]

If you have an Android cell phone download "garden radio". You can place a marker over any area and listen to live local radio to hear real accents. I think some of those recordings were ancient ! Even in the UK there are some accents a lot of people struggle with, example.... Glaswegian (Glasgow) is very fast and a lot of southerners won't understand much, Geordie accent it's very hard to catch as lots of slang is used and Welsh is a language in its own right although many in Wales will speak English but with a strong Welsh accent. The actual welsh language is complex and us English struggle to pronounce place names. The road signs and general signs in shops for example will be in Welsh languages first and underneath in English. It is a separate country after all. You correctly recognised the nasal qualities of a Birmingham and Liverpool accent. It's great you have this interest in British accents and I encourage you to delve a little deeper, you will become a master of our accents. But don't worry, plenty of us in the UK struggle with regional British accents, it's part of the culture and diversity of our country. Thanks for sharing your video and experience, I really enjoyed watching the reactions, keep up the great work. It's a big world which needs exploring 👍

[@Burwellington]

I heard a story years ago about someone that used to work for the British government during WW2 and she could identify which street someone lived on by their accent (narrowed down to Within 3 streets) wish I could find that story again to confirm I haven't dreamt that little fact

[@racheldoesstuff1702]

The Potteries, AKA Stoke-on-Trent, so called because it used to be the pottery capital of the world. Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Spode, Minton etc. A Stokie can go anywhere in the world and they will turn over plates and cups to see if it was made in Stoke-on-Trent. I am from the Potteries but when I would go on holiday to Cornwall, people would always mistake my accent for a Liverpudlian.

[@owengrant3909]

7:50 it’s because we have a completely different language as well but South Wales tend to speak English and Northern Wales tend to speak Welsh

[@hettyscetty9785]

I'm from Glasgow and my boyfriend is from Falkirk, we live about 20 minutes drive from each other and he has a completely different accent to me. I also used to work in a call centre, I love the Welsh accent and the Welsh are lovely people but you cannot understand a word they say on the phone.

[@tomtomlinson2835]

Perfect opinion of the Mancunian accent! To be fair it rains almost constantly in Manchester so many Mancs have a cold all the time.

[@martine6007]

To be honest, I can't understand most of that either! We also have what we call the Queens English which is also known as BBC English because it's how news readers speak although recently the BBC has encouraged the use of regional variations on TV programs.

[@rebeccavalentine7229]

Love this country, you can go 10-20 miles down the road and people talk completely different

[@mrraymoo5460]

In Welsh we would say Kelly due to the fact that names do not change throughout different languages.