American Reacts to A Tour of The Accents of England

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Thanks for featuring my video. So glad you liked it.

[@TheRattyBiker]

I've just commented that I'm a Yorkshireman and rarely struggle with regional accents, but your video is so informative it has given me a new found respect for why most foreigners (predominately American I follow) struggle so much. Thank you - you really have a talent 👍

[@MarinaE-mo2wy]

Thank you for a wonderful video, I find linguistics fascinating.

[@rogerwitte]

Londoner here - he is a professional linguist for sure - 'cos all his accents sound spot on to me. It would have been good to link the original video in the description :)

[@doobiedootwo3517]

You really should credit the maker of the original video. I am about to start boycotting reaction channels who do not, because they have put in a tremendous amount of work, which ‘reacters’ piggyback on top of. Just giving you fair warning.

[@zeeox]

@@doobiedootwo3517 - spot on.

[@threethymes]

@@zeeox Agreed. It's a matter or courtesy and fairness to post a link to the original video.

[@zeeox]

@@threethymes - and especially if you like the content in it.

[@TheRattyBiker]

The original maker has commented on this video - and yes I agree, that man nails it!

[@BennyDogwasp]

Wow! Someone actually doing a convincing E. Anglian accent. I'm impressed!

[@lottie2525]

Yeah me too. It normally comes out as Somerset doesn't it lol

[@gary.h.turner]

Bootiful! 😂

[@lottie2525]

@@gary.h.turner Hint ut?

[@karenglean3592]

This is one of the best accent videos I've seen because he isn't over exagerrating them like a lot of people do. Yeah some people have different variations of each accent and adding in slang makes them more exagerrated but these are very good and represent the basis of accents.

[@grahamcampbell8297]

The linguist is fantastic, what a command of accents. I recognised all of them.

[@HankD13]

He is bloody good, not question about. Lived in London for over thirty years and can not do any of this. What an ear, what a talent.

[@michaelblundell8608]

Firty yeers !! Gore blimey guv !!

[@Gadgetonomy]

I am from East Anglia (Norfolk) and he pretty much nailed it!

[@stevencarr4002]

Yes, he sounded like Bernard Matthews.

[@benjiman_OBE]

Intut.

[@hobi1kenobi112]

In Yorkshire we condense our words because 1. It's cold 2. Fewer syllables = more time for t'pub. 😂

[@Nevyn515]

And sentences: “Pub?” “Pub” 2 Yorkshiremen agreeing to go t’pub.

[@gavingiant6900]

More time for pub. You don't need the t', the word 'the' is completely removed. Goin' t'pub, can be I'm going to the pub or can be asking someone if they want to go to the pub.

[@bordersw1239]

Dad met a linguist years ago at his golf club in Birmingham, he narrowed my dad’s accent down to within 2 streets in London’s east end of where my dad grew up . Dad left London in 1942 at the age of 18 and never went back so this was around 40 years later.

[@stevelknievel4183]

That's impressive! My Mum worked in Housing for Hounslow council back in the 70s and reckons that she could work out when some of the older people she met as part of her job came from Brentford just by their accent.

[@vallee3140]

I've not lived in the East End, for almost 70 years, and people still guess I am an East Ender, yet I dont think I sound like it now?

[@johnloony68]

In the 1980s there was a famous turkey farmer called Bernard Matthews. He had a Norfolk accent. He was famous for his catchphrase on TV adverts: “Bootiful”

[@geetee4459]

The guy IS a magician. Not just his amazing accents but his explanations.

[@chelliebellie4443]

This guy is so talented, he must be a speech coach or something along those lines

[@Bazroshan]

No, it's just some bloke making fun of Ronnie Barker making fun of us all.

[@krisjonesuk]

One of the best examples of how regional accents vary came from a criminal case in the late 1970s. Police in Yorkshire were looking for a murderer, nicknamed by the press as the Yorkshire Ripper. In June 79 they received a cassette tape purporting to be from the culprit. The accent was pinpointed to the Castletown district of Sunderland. This led to a significant diversion of police resources, before it was realised the tape was a hoax. Advances in DNA testing meant that in 2006 the hoaxer, who did indeed come from Sunderland, was tried and convicted.

[@IkarosWaltz]

Never understood how it took them so long to catch him, and how nobody from Wearside went "That's John Humble".

[@Lixmage]

He is spot on - his accents are nigh on perfect. And his knowledge of sounds is encyclopaedic. Let me add my voice to those demanding you credit the original video JPS - it is really poor form to not do so...

[@capablancauk]

Not possible to do ALL the accents. There are way too many.. 5 miles in any direction and it's changed. But he is good.

[@benjiman_OBE]

I believe there is a name for the sub-dialects. So, in all, he's hitting all the key origins. I'm Norfolk based. We have Norfolk, Broad Norfolk, and Norwich twangs.

[@stephenhickman304]

That was so good , excellent explanations of the differences

[@ajs41]

His accents are pretty much 100% accurate. One of the best person for accents on KZbin.

[@ds.3577]

This is such a comfort channel which is a huge compliment btw

[@flipflop1975ify]

Lancashire use goin t'pub and t'mill too. It's not just Yorkshire folk who do that.

[@nathanlock73]

The Yorkshire accent and missing out some words, can be heard in many parts of Lancashire too, especially in east Lancashire

[@philiprowney]

The East Anglian accent was somewhere between King's Lynn and Swaffham [ where Stephen Fry lives ]. Yes, Joel, I have noticed you completely missing out on the East of England!!! Norfolk coast, Cambridge, Old roman capitals, Essex. Where I live in the Fenland. [ so flat you see chimney's of houses over the horizon! ]

[@overlordnat]

There are all sorts of interesting bits of accent variation going on in Warwickshire. There is such a thing as a traditional Warwickshire (and Coventry) accent but it clearly came about due to the contrasting influences of Birmingham, the East Midlands, the South East and even the West Country to an extent and it varies quite a bit from person to person and place to place. Most people say ‘last’ in a Northern fashion and some say ‘lahst’ like Southerners but there are others who say ‘laast’ like they’re from the West Country. Leicestershire can sound similar but they say ‘e’ instead of ‘ee’ at the end of words, so Hinckley becomes ‘Inkleh’ - it’s the Southernmost part of England to have that particular Northern trait.

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

He is very good! I have always loved doing accents (I was once a wannabe actor), but this chap is remarkable. His East Anglian is spot on, and is really hard to do.

[@andrewhickling5598]

He is the You Tube equivalent of Professor Higgins from Pygmalion. I live in the East Midlands and even some villages nine miles away pronounce words differently.

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

There had been a couple of comedy show's set in Liverpool, and Coronation Street had been on since the early '60s. But TV stations were quite wary about putting on shows that had northern accents, and presenters pretty much had to speak RP. In 1983, a TV show called "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" was launched - there were worries that southerners wouldn't understand it. It followed a group of British builders who due to the recession had gone to work on a building site in Germany - the seven characters of the show were three Geordies, a Brummie, a Bristolian, a Scouser and a Cockney. Most of the characters speak with a slightly more "modern" and softened version of their accents, but one "Oz" softened nothing, speaking in pure Geordie, usually at breakneck speed. He quickly became everybody's favourite, and I think that was one of things that helped TV stations relax their stance on RP - which was often referred to as BBC English.

[@iainarnold6937]

The East Anglian accent is brilliant. Very hard to mimic. This guy is great!

[@spruce381]

Half way through, this lad totally knows his subject.

[@anthonymorris5356]

This guy knows his stuff. All the accents were spot on.

[@chrisf8021]

If you get on a train in the northwest, you can hear so many subtly different accents in random conversations. Burnley, Wigan, Bolton, Orrel etc. Even some villages have their own accent.

[@lottie2525]

He absolutely got the East Anglian accent (Norfolk Suffolk) which is unusual as people usually get it confused with Somerset. What he didn't mention was how the past and present tense can be the same which I love so for example - He goo to the shop today and also He goo to the shop yesterday.

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Great video Joel, I live in E Anglia, he's right about the accent ! I laughed when you said you thought you were sitting in front of Rodney Trotter 🙂

[@johnfisher9816]

Wow, what a talent. Fabulous video and reaction, Joel. Cheers, John in Canada

[@Bazroshan]

11:33 If you go into a home in East Anglia and your host says 'Take a pew', be careful how you accept the invitation.

[@carolineskipper6976]

😂😂

[@brianc-i2i]

It always makes me smile to hear people in East Anglia talk about driving 'Poojo' cars from France.

[@jointgib]

i knoo 't snoo cos i driv there

[@gary.h.turner]

💩/🪑... ❓🤔🤣

[@PaulVincent-n2x]

There is no such thing as very unique, it either is or isn't unique. Unique, one of a kind

[@barriehull7076]

Yes and know, work that out.

[@jointgib]

very meant truly or sincerely if you want to get conservative about language use Paul

[@stephengraham5099]

One of my pet hates.

[@memkiii]

@@jointgib Key word... "Meant", not "Means".

[@jointgib]

@@memkiii that's right, these things evolve because people find new ways to use words. Clearly this sort of process can never apply to the word 'unique' as it's in a class of its own.

[@simonpowell1762]

Brummy here, he was smashing it throughout!

[@johnrussell5245]

Wherever I go-except in the USA, of course, where they think I'm Australian-people can tell I come from Yorkshire. But Yorkshire people think I talk posh, because I softened my accent as a result of leaving there age 18 and living in the Midlands, and now in the South West.

[@dizzydevil547]

same here with me im from greater manchester but our town used to be part of Lancashire before all the boundry changes in the 70s i too now live down in the west / south west in bristol for 20 yrs next January and i have picked up some of that twang but still have my lancashire / manchester accent when i go home they soay i have picked up the bristol twang etc ! i obv dont notice it myself it others that mention it! 😉

[@jointgib]

in fairness yorkshire people think everyone's posh

[@digidol52]

@@jointgib Excusez-moi? I'm from Arrogate, oops, Harrogate and we think you're a pleb.

[@mary-y8x8h]

Off the top of my head: in Wales, sound of the English letters 'ar' in words are quite quite long and hard. For example, in the word 'park' instead of the lips opening to form an "O" shape for the 'ar' section, they stretch across the face like a smile. (In South Wales.) "The army marches to Cardiff, Arms Park," was the test sentence to see if you were from South Wales.

[@johnduncombe2985]

What a great video. This guy knows his stuff!

[@trailerman2]

That was bloody interesting.

[@davidwatt901]

He’s brilliant, got every entry down to a T

[@sobelou]

Thanks Joel! What a delightful video!

[@mickylove76]

He hit every single one very convincingly. There are also areas that are a little bit of a hybridization of accents is going on.

[@DougBrown-h1n]

I'm a Londoner, but we're all pretty familiar with our numerous accents, and I have to say, eez bludy amazin!

[@Pretendship]

I could watch this guy break accents down for hours

[@weltbuergerin2007]

Yes,this bloke is excellent‼️🤔,i am from Wigan in the North West of England🤣✌️,my mother was the northerner but my father was born on the south coast -torquay .Yes,that is Blackpool‼️,i am sad to say Blackpool is a dump these days.The accents in my family are wonderful 🤣❤️‼️.My own personal Favorit accent is the Scottish.You are a darlin ,Manchester is next door to my hometown of Wigan and so i speak Mancunian 😬.Totally enjoying this vid,thankyou 👍

[@chrislethbridge1759]

There are many local variations. I once lived on the aisles of Scilly, a tiny archipelago off Cornwall. In the past, each island spoke with a different accent. West Country on two of them and similar to London on two others. Also my Dad’s family were from Devon which is very distinctive and has elements that can sound like the Southern states of the US.

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

I like to think I speak properly for the most part so that anyone could understand, I've had many people say I speak "posh". But that being said, soon as I start a more casual conversation about football or stuff I do and don't like etc, my more local way of speaking always slips out and I'm dropping letters from the beginnings of words, using local slang etc.

[@sailingby]

This guy's fantastic - a real gem!

[@9DJH3]

His old school Liverpool accent is pretty good, Mancunian even better and Lancashire accents are also decent if not strong enough. The rhotic Lancashire accent is incredible, sad that it’s disappearing.

[@ratowey]

This guy is probably the best I’ve ever heard.

[@lefty7026]

He was very good. It's a difficult job with Lancashire. Wigan Warrington St Helens Liverpool and Manchester are all very close and have very different accents. So he would need a video just for those. Excellent stuff.

[@i67x]

I was born in Sunderland and brought up in Middlesbrough and still can't tell the difference between Newcastle and Sunderland. His accents were spot on, the way he went from one to the other was amazing.

[@SkullMonkeyUK]

You guys in the North East win for me every time, love that accent, so warm and friendly 👍 (Greetings from Stoke, North Midlands)

[@tryaluck]

I'm from Newcastle and to be honest I couldn't tell the difference between Mackem and Geordie accents until I was in my thirties. There are a few words that really stand out, and depending on how you say them really defines you as Geordie or Mackem. One of them is the word news, Geordies pronounce it "n' yoows" and Mackems pronounce it like "new' ez" I'm not very good at spelling things phonetically but I hope you get the gist. Keys, mate, and haway are other good words we pronounce quite differently, even though haway isn't really a word.

[@i67x]

@@tryaluck Glad to know I'm not the only one. I only recently was able to tell the difference between NZ and AUS!

[@leehallam9365]

He did a very good job, and he covered accents like MLE and East Anglian that usually get missed by people doing this sort of thing. Obviously there is no way he could cover all of them, but he put in a lot of explanation and history. The main one he skipped was the East Midlands he got some stick for that so made this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHbUXnmmoJKUfKcsi=joQPCTHld8fybyX8

[@carolineskipper6976]

Thanks for the link - that was great for hearing him deal with my local accent!

[@mikebailey783]

I grew up in Suffolk, the middle county of East Anglia, and his Anglian accent was very accurate. - It wasn’t until I’d been living in the Midlands for a few years, with Leicester, Coventry, Brummie (Birmingham) accents around me, that the yod-dropping Anglian tongue seemed really pronounced!

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

It was good, but I notice nobody ever tries a true Black Country accent (not Birmingham) a special part of the West Midlands 😊

[@TheZiggy9]

Portsmouth (Pompey) accent is similar to Cockney, due to many London dockers working in the Royal Navy dockyard during the 1800s. The accent is quite loud (I call it the Pompey Fog horn) due to dockers having to shout over the heavy sounding machinery. I lived as a child in Portsmouth due to my father being in the navy. I moved away as a teenager and consequently I lost the accent, where my siblings still retain it. Some Pompey slang words; mate is moosh , dinlo is a stupid person, cushty is splendid, oi-ay is hello, goin dahn tahn - going to the shopping centre, skate or matelot a sailor. Then there's the famous Portsmouth weeee, which my mother always use when she is surprised by something. As a school kid we always sound the th as f, which would often get us in trouble with our English teacher, what made it worst for me having a Portsmouth mother and a scouse father, hence I would mix my slang and my school mates would call me the posh kid.

[@chrisperyagh]

I had the piss taken out of me when I said Hilsea Lido as 'Hill-sea Lee-dough' when it's 'Ill-zee lie-dough' - I'd only ever heard Hilsea from the station announcements (I'm from Chi-iss-da). And over Pompey way is Southwick which is pronounced Suthick/Suvvick and not Saathwick/Saafwick as the Southwick over Brighton way.

[@hobi1kenobi112]

Yes, you can actually hear the flat vowels very reminiscent of Northern England in US states of esp. Mass, Maine, with the 'yard=yaaad,' 'apartment=apaaatment.' It's highly possible this was taken across by the British settlers.

[@johnnybeer3770]

This guy is bloody amazing, he had the West country spot on and the other accents were excellent .🇬🇧 .🇬🇧

[@johnhewett9483]

that was very very good, this guy knows his stuff

[@clareszumiski406]

loving your channel. My daughter lives in Boston and when I am there no one can understand my Manc accent they look at me blankly however I do speak fast. Funnily my daughter has a Manc American accent now.

[@frglee]

Very good, I like the way the guy slips effortlessly into the regional dialects whilst explaining stuff. Within an area such as metropolitan Liverpool, there are variations in dialect alluded to by the description of Northern RP. Interesting to hear the middle class accents of suburban Liverpool, for example such as that of John Lennon's Aunt Mimi (an interview with her can be found on KZbin) and comparing it with John's 'working class' scouse accent that Mimi accused him of exaggerating. Mimi sounded a bit like some of my relatives from the Chester area, to the south of Liverpool.

[@carolineskipper6976]

That guy slides so effortlessly between the differnt accents- and each one would be totally convincing (if you hadn't just heard the previous one) The East anglian accent was also spot on- I lived in Norwich in my youth, and that was EXACTLY what I heard all around me. Adverts from a large Turkey farming company based in East Anglia used to use the local pronunciation of 'bootiful' to describe their meat - and this one word has made it into everyone's collective memory. I was fascinated by his suggestion of their being gender differences in the Liverpool accent (and in women from Hull)- sounds mad- but his examples rang true. I can 'hear' a scouse woman saying 'jokes and popes' in the way he did- but not a man. But I'm not from the region, so couldn't say for sure.

[@mariejoyce5150]

In the town I was born and raised in we had different accents depending which area of the town your from

[@Uk.wildman]

As a British citizen this guy nailed it

[@superspireite9484]

I'm glad tha got stuck into that vid youth, lol, I live in the UK and still get amazed how many different accents there all. The accent changes from my home town to a city just 5miles up the road... Great Video sir!!❤❤

[@michael7286]

Watch the film made in1969 called - Kes ( short for Kestrel ) made around Barnsley in South Yorkshire ... You probably will need subtitles though.

[@FTFLCY]

Terrific video. The guy really knows his stuff, and can replicate with great accuracy. He underplayed most of them. If you went to Newcastle, or Brum or Liverpewl you'll hear much thicker accents.

[@mana3735]

..even on the estates of "Manchistoh".

[@tinglestingles]

I'm originally from London and my wife from the north of England (200 miles away) - some of her phrases etc are Norse and olde English - a lot of the time I need subtitles! In England, one village to the next may only be 15 miles but can have completely different accents and words for daily living.

[@johng.lidstone2236]

Just to help - 'East Anglia' means Norfolk with the kind of accent he described. Very good linguist. His scouse me laugh! Love your videos. Eck--i-thump! (pronounced 'thoomp')

[@kevpendle2459]

Hello Joel. Pink Floyd tee. In the 1960's Dark Side of The Moon was called the wallpaper of the world : it was everywhere.

[@GarethSly]

Came out in 1973

[@shirleydanby4123]

I liked the way he explained why and how different regions have different accents and dialects. I learnt something too as a Brit.

[@angelataylor2049]

I’m from Lancs and drop words like I’m going to watch telly now 😁

[@johnloony68]

I agree he’s very good at getting the accents right. Quite often people on KZbin make lots of errors about it, but this one is excellent

[@mattwainwright9198]

I'm glad he mentioned Hull in the video cos my accent gets overlooked when people talk about accents sometimes! The most basic rule for Hull is to lengthen vowels, especially 'i'. The best example of this is referring to yourself, so calling yourself 'I' you would call yourself 'aaa'. To give an example of a phrase you said in the video, in Hull I would say, "Aam off daarn't pub" for "I am going to the pub".

[@-NemoMeImpuneLacessit]

Living in rural east anglia his accent was spot on . The moosic ( music) is real you can also add compooter ( computer) and B &coo (B & Q)

[@kimbirch1202]

There are extreme versions of all these accents . Take a look at an old TV sitcom called " Auf Wiedersehen Pet " which features strong scouse, geordie, brummie , Cockney and Welsh accents .

[@Ronnie-it7le]

Found this dazzling! If you have time look up Dr Geoff Lindsey’s site, who is equally impressive in analysing accents and dialects including American. Have fun😂

[@paulwright9749]

I’m 30 secs in and he better do Manchester our kid!

[@nortski78]

"arr kid"

[@edf6607]

He's mad ferrit

[@sc3pt1c4L]

fukki nell, izza riyt propuh guddn iffy duz. wotta staaar inti, juhnotameen.

[@edf6607]

@@sc3pt1c4L believe it or not - youtube has added the "Translate to English" button to your post ;)

[@garyrigby21]

Our kid was originally Scouse

[@Jamie_D]

Such a good video, never seen anyone react to it before

[@geoffmelvin6012]

His accents are bang on the money

[@DGLUK1]

Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire but have lived in Leeds (2 years), Nottingham (11yrs) London (4yrs) and Camridgeshire (27yrs). So, I've been exposed to a variety of accents/dialects. So much so that my own accent has changed. Moved back to Yorkshire when I retired and everyone thinks I'm posh 😂

[@hobi1kenobi112]

Well at least you've redeemed yourself, sitha! 🎉

[@johnrussell5245]

If you look up the thread of comments you'll find my experience (being born and brought up in Sheffield) is almost identical!

[@chelliebellie4443]

I'm sure the soap opera EastEnders has a lot to answer for the spread of the London accent throughout the south/south east.

[@hobi1kenobi112]

And the media in general for a long time employing more estuary and West Indian London accents on radio, TV, adverts, than broader regional accents. A lot of celebrity show hosts have London or Essex accents. That has influenced young people not from those regions too and it's a shame.

[@auldfouter8661]

@@hobi1kenobi112 Yes young Glaswegians have th fronting ( like Kevin Bridges) . It sounds annoying to me -( so unlike the Francie and Josie comedians from Glasgow I grew up on )

[@Writeous0ne]

I live on the border close to where West, South, East and North Yorkshire all meet and there's loads of different accents in just a few directions from me. People from Leeds, Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Pontefract, Wakefield, York, Hull all talk differently and you can tell.

[@iwanttocomplain]

Here's the thing about living in Britain. If you move cities, you will be able to speak in the native dialect within about 2 days. The Welsh accent is just north and south as far as I know. They consider the other to be more or less inferior I think.

[@saladspinner3200]

In the Dutch Language region (Belgium and Flanders) that would usually take about 15 years.

[@TheRattyBiker]

Speaking as a Yorkshireman, I don't have a problem decoding most regional accents BUT after seeing this guys explanation I can really understand why most American struggle with accents - except you as you dared to travel off the beaten path! Can't wait to see your next expedition to the UK, as much as I'm a proud Northerner I think next time you should focus on the Devon / Cornwall areas and South East.

[@mollyschannel9234]

This guy is spot on with all his accents!

[@johnderbyshire]

Possibly someone has already mentioned the Lancashire dialect before in these comments but the Lancashire dialect in the area surrounding Wigan was once almost as much a language of its own, just like the dialects that are always picked out as being the main protagonists where local dialects are difficult for non-local to understand. The strong Wigan dialect that was prevalent years ago whilst still used in pockets of the Borough has now been weakened by the influx of non-Lancastrians that have moved into the area and the movement of county boundaries since 1974. It even has its own name, Wiganese. It became a the butt of Music Hall jokes in the 19th and 20th century. For instance ‘Thas ner bin t’ pub sin tha wer poorly’, ‘You have never been to the pub since you were ill’ or ‘Ar’t awreet mon’, ‘Are you alright sir’. Or ‘Weerstabin’ ‘Where have you been’. Just a few common phrases you might still hear spoken by Wigan locals from some villages or Towns in the Borough of Wigan.

[@antonycharnock2993]

My paternal Grandad was from Wigan who moved to Rotherham way back in 1919 as a miner. Wigan was a big mining town and they tend to create their own accent. A bit like pitmatic the NE variation of Geordie. Near me the Barnsley accent is another good example of a unique accent created by the mining in that area(watch Kes)

[@myrtle4264]

In 1967 my family moved to the Wigan area from Haydock (about five or six miles away); on my first trip into town I couldn't understand a word anyone said.

[@mej6519]

"is he trolling" nope. pretty much spot on for east anglia, especillly with the older generation. for a great representation of the birmingham(brummy) accent in a film check out ford vs ferrari, Christian Bale's ken miles accent is spot on, although i susepct that 1960's brummy accent was a much broader than that in the film, but he does a good job of it none the less.

[@MrSinclairn]

Upvote from me,Joel,really good vid from a very decent linguist;and noted you are really digging the MLE mention!👌

[@geetee4459]

My Mum was a Yorkshire girl but she used to say 'book, look and cook' like he did. She also used to say 'tunner' not 'tuner' for tuna. And when she phoned me at work in Australia people would say 'there's some Scottish woman on hold for you'...🤣

[@leehallam9365]

You are quite right about book look and took, my mum from Greater Manchester did as well. In fact I did until I went to Uni and people thought it was funny. It's a survival of Northern pronunciation and isn't unique to Merseyside.

[@SkullMonkeyUK]

🤣 Brilliant!

[@Brigantum]

They may well have thought she was Scottish because of us old Yorkys still using Aye(Yes) and Nae(No). Happen! My dialect is West Riding from Leeds, a "Wessy".

[@geetee4459]

@@Brigantum Our family was from nearby Shipley.

[@Brigantum]

@@geetee4459 Aye Flower, Shipley is tween Leeds and Bradford, Shipley the home of the famous Harry Ramsden's Fish and Nerks(Chips).

[@SkullMonkeyUK]

The guy has the accents pwned Man, hard to do across the UK. I my self am from North Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent {The Potteries]) and married a Lancashire "Lass" (Bolton) interesting to see how our accents have merged over the years on some phrases and terms of of general day items, for instance "British Bread Roll" in Stoke this is called a Bap, in Bolton it is known as a Barm, strangely I have adopted the term Barm, to put the local into context there is a local phrase that is used widely as an example of local dialect, get your head around this lol ... "“Cost tha kick a bo agen a wo an yed it til thee bost eet?” is a phrase in the Potteries dialect that translates to "Can you kick a ball against a wall and head it until it bursts?"" Have fun with learning the local languages and dialects, I'm still on it at 59 y/o 🤣 Geordie and the North East wins for me every time!

[@dataterminal]

MLE isn't just London anymore. I hear it here in the midlands quite a lot in use by the younger teenagers.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

the drug runners from The Smoke

[@stevebradley704]

Worst accent in England.

[@eh1702]

The whole drift from Cockney to MLE is a drift from the late 19th early 20th century influence of eastern-Europeans (Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Yiddish) to the influence of speakers of Caribbean English and a wide variety of South Asian, Middle/Near Eastern and African languages.

[@ricewychrij]

The guy's great, and he seems to have covered the main ones. However, as a Mancunian, there isn't just 1 accent here. People from the north side (eg Blackley or Middleton) sound completely different to other areas (eg Salford, Sale or Didsbury). I was in Leeds (West Yorkshire) for 25 years, and can say the Leeds accent is different from other close towns (eg Bradford or Harrogate). I'm sure other regions could comment similar. Saying that, its a really well done video

[@matthew2848]

His accents are very good - in fact I would say that they are mostly soft versions. You can hear very much more extreme versions of brummie and scouse.

[@georgedyson9754]

This is a very interesting video, I say as someone born in the London Area. There is also, though,. a difference in vocabulary across the country as well. Because the British Isles had many invasions over the years, the words used in the North of England from the Jutes, Vikings and other Scandinavian invaders are different from the South where French from the Normans was common. You can often tell this because northern words are shorter and more glottal, Thus we might hear 'get' rather than 'obtain' across the country and within class levels. It all comes down to the fact that English is very complex because of its history.

[@edf6607]

Years ago i watched a TV programme where they did a time lapse flight around the coast of Great Britain and the narration was done in each local accent. You could hear how the accents slowly merged from one to the other. For example going down the east coast you got Borders - Northumbrian -Geordie - Mackem - Teeside (smoggies!) - North Yorkshire - Hull and so on. Im still surprised how places keep their accents these days - maybe less so now than in the past, but i think there's quite a bit of local pride in sounding a bit different from everybody else :)

[@stevebradley704]

Northumbrian here.

[@edf6607]

@@stevebradley704 Good lad. Just realised I missed out Pitmatic on my list

[@letitiakearney2423]

I found in Manchester I heard the saying going down pub quite a lot.

[@pulchralutetia]

Best English accent video I have seen. 😊 Howay the lads!

[@grahamcampbell8297]

His Mancunian accent was perfect.