One Woman, 17 British Accents - Anglophenia Ep 5

Siobhan Thompson performs a tour of the accents of the British Isles - and the celebrities who speak with them!
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[JackStrait]

I'm convinced the UK has about 100 accents for each square mile

[M A]

Nothing special, a lot of regions have that diversity

[Haer85]

Like where ?

[dust in]

every family is developing its own accent haha

[Hello There]

It's kinda similar to Indonesia, just in Indonesia's case it's a bit like 100 languages/ square mile.

[Karen From Finasse]

I remember in My Fair Lady the linguist was able to tell where a person was from based on their accent, even down to the street

[The Lost Scouser]

My grandmother could recognize what street you were from just by listening to you speak a few sentences. Mind, that was in the days when people didn't move around a lot and you married the girl from number 7 and then took up residence at number 18. Close knit communities, they were.

[Breen Whitman]

Oxford, the dictionary people, identified areas as small at 200 yards with dialect differences. Which supports your grandmothers observations.

[Diggo]

Aye

[Project Aldo]

This fact is truly amazing to me.

[warrenography]

and had it away with the lady in number 11 Tuesday lunchtimes

[Lolly Lolly]

I did my ancestry and seriously they were marrying the girl down the street. And didn’t move from the town for a century.

[Katie Gilmore]

Just wanna say that really nailing a dialect is super difficult, many actors fall short even with intensive training from a dialect coach. So I think this is impressive

[G Y]

I think it’s a bit bold of her to say she knows all these accents when she butchered the Scottish ones.

[Joyce James]

From my experience of hearing locals speak all of these accents she's missed the mark on pretty much all of them. Can't fault her enthusiasm though.

[GamerNumNums]

​@G Y Same with Northern Ireland. Good effort but missed the mark a wee bit there

[ren w]

!!

[Marta M]

@G Y she never said she knew them technically speaking

[Phillip Stonehouse]

Very impressive, particularly that you can switch so effortlessly from one accent to another. That is a talent in itself.

[Jagoda K.]

@bagel I'm sure they are better than yours though

[Simpl3Machin3]

@Jagoda K. Pizza Hut makes shite pizzas. I don't need to be able to make fantastic pizzas to understand that.

[Jagoda K.]

@Simpl3Machin3 what does it have to do with anything? Are you comparing accents to pizza? Lol

[Liam Murtezaoglu]

I met someone who spoke in heightened RP as his natural accent. It was amazing honestly.

[Liam Murtezaoglu]

ʜɪ ʜɪ Received Pronunciation- the well-spread accent that you can find across England (and to some extent beyond) in middle and upper class society.

[Lee Marshal]

Was it Jacob Rees-Mogg?

[Bingo Namo]

I can just imagine. Rom instead of room and I bid you good day sir!!!!!!, when miffed.

[Brown Dog]

I had a lecturer who spoke heightened RP and his lectures were undoubtedly the highlight of my schedule. A particular joy was a 20 minute tangent about the history of gin, which was truly magnificent.

[Vítor Sousa]

This is my accent, I learn English as my second language

[jen0kai]

she’s so fun and talented! I came back here after years, now knowing she’s directed rick and morty episodes

[Candide Thirtythree]

I think that London has at least a dozen different accents all by itself.

[Josh G]

Candide Thirtythree I think that London is the most likely place to hear any of these accents, and perhaps blended accents influenced by other places. That's just the nature of a large city. People pick up things they are exposed to over time, and it is natural that in a big city people are exposed to more accents more often.

[KingJah 1]

I'm from London, I think people up in East London's is a lot stronger proper cockney. And North London speak a lot slower and calmer and south speak quite fast.

[Mark Horton]

+Candide Thirtythree There are language experts who recon you can tie down an accent to within about a 6 mile radius. I recon that may no longer apply due to the effects of media and mobility. I think is is probably more like 12 miles nowadays. Though who knows, maybe computer analysis will be able to bring it back down again.

[AIDEN_js]

+Candide Thirtythree Same with areas in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, I'm from Bolton and my accent is quite a bit different from people that have grown up in Manchester/Salford and it's only like 12 miles away.

[BigCheese409]

+Candide Thirtythree tonnes of different accents in northern Ireland as well!

[rellimnahtan]

Siobhan is a freaking treasure. This was a lot of fun to watch.

[Briana Fogleman]

As a fan of College Humor and a VO artist working on my accents, I was shocked and also thrilled to see Siobhan here 😂

[Junior von Claire]

From southeastern U.S., she’s charming, spritely and cute as a button. I wonder if she’s considered cheeky? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Not sure the name of the accent, but in Braveheart there’s a line I love. William goes to pick up Murron (🤤) in the rain. Her father’s answer is “not the now”. With the accent, it’s so awesome. OH! And though I doubt Brits even hear it, the substitution of “me” for “my” is simply divine! I know we in the States are annoying as we gush over your accents, but suppressing a compliment IN PERSON is almost asking too much. I try to hold out, knowing we do it so much. You have no idea. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻😘

[victoriancuddler]

same i was like "holy shit what's she doing here"

[Shara Casey]

I watched this video several years ago and then later got into dimension 20! Just now came back to the video and was also like! Siobhan!

[Antonio Verdad]

Who cares whether her accents are accurate, she's good fun to watch, and she seem to be enjoying it! I wish my teachers were like her. I might have actually enjoyed going to school!

[Samantha Pearl]

I love your content and how you integrate comedy into them while you do accents and explain the history behind them!

[Chris_574]

I had no idea there were this many British accents, for such a small country that’s awesome!

[driftlion© bluebird]

Yea and everywhere u go there's a new accen just wai'in for you Yes I am British Lancashire a little town between Manchester and Liverpool but me I don't have a full accent I have slight an accent from my home town

[Kohl Donovan]

she may not be the best but it's hard to pull off 17 accents one after another. props

[Chris Danielson]

So you think she did it in one take, despite the cuts?

[Chris]

The two Irish were really bad

[Chris Salvatore 1864 Productions]

The British Accent It's Already Hard So I Respect Her Who She Know Almost Every Single British Accent I Wish I Could Talk Classic Old School British Accent But I Can't Because I'm Not From Great Britain So What To Do?

[Fun Quay]

@Chris That's because she comes from a really bad part of Ireland!

[bryan3550]

@Chris Salvatore 1864 Productions The British Accent??? No such thing, Sir! 🤣

[garrigproductions]

As a Welshman I really appreciate your "Diolch yn Fawr" effort,...Ymdrech arbennig cariad!! ...However as I've been living in Ireland for over 20 years, I can assure you that the accents from Dublin, Cork and Donegal are all from a different part of the universe, never mind the same country...

[Randal Clarke]

My grandparents immigrated from Fishguard

[garrigproductions]

@Randal Clarke Having watched this again I've realised that she is actually a proper Welsh girl who happens to be good at accents beyond Wales,...Da iawn!!!...on the subject of Fishguard, it is a lovely little Welsh town to pass because a ferry to Ireland embarks from there...however, it is very remote without the ferry port and you can take that in two specific ways. 1: You enjoy the remoteness,...or 2: It's too remote for you.......EDIT: Hold on a moment, Siobhan is an Irish girl right???....you fooled me you Irish babe but hey ho I love you anyway...

[Randal Clarke]

@garrigproductions lol right... my grandfather was Clarke and grandmother was Wallace, so I'm a British Isles/Celtic hybrid...Anglo-Celtic I say 😁

[garrigproductions]

@Randal Clarke On the subject of hybrids, although I was born in Wales and speak fluent Welsh as my parents and grandparents did before me, I discovered around 15 years ago that I am the grandson (33-times-removed) of King William The Conqueror. So as a hybrid, you may perhaps refer to me as a Celtic/Norman hybrid...?

[Dylan Warner]

Every Irish accent>>>>>>>>whatever the hell they're saying in Kerry

[Annie]

She is brilliant at the accents and nailed the slang I'm so impressed

[Fiz Taqt]

I feel like you weren't joking in the slightest when you said that's your party trick, cuz the whole act felt surprisingly practiced and polished lol. Very entertaining 😎

[Dastan K. Hawrami]

I am not British or Native English speaker and English is my THIRD language, but I really love all the accents of Britain ❤️😍

[Drew R]

How many Irish folk read this as TURD language in their heads???

[Charlie Dyble]

@Drew R and how many stokies read it as FURD

[frances farmer]

What's your native language? I'm struggling to even learn a second language, it's amazing you know three!

[Dastan K. Hawrami]

@frances farmerI am Kurd and live in Kurdistan(Iraq part) My native language is Hawrami, and also because I live among Kurdish people who speak Kurdish(Sorani) I also know that. In school I learnt English, Arabic and Turkish. So it becomes 5 languages, and I am a language person so I tried to learn German as well, and now I know 6 languages at the age of 19 😊.

[Jagoda K.]

@Dastan K. Hawrami Wow, that is really impressive! I'm struggling to learn a third (Italian). My first language is Polish and my second is English but I'm a self-trained bilingual!

[Ebba Glasell]

WoW I particularly love the RP accent because it is very straight-forward and quite easy to understand, whereas the Scottish accents can be near impossible seen as they talk too fast! Ireland is a stunner and I am a big fan of the accent in Dublin, the north of Ireland!! Thank You kindly for making my day! 🎉

[Simon Williams]

RP is easy to understand because you hear it so much on TV, but American accents are usually easier to understand as it is more straightforward. Some exceptions in the South. The TRAP/BATH or TRAP/BARRRFF being an example where RP isn't objectively straightforward.

[Laura Anderson]

It's funny because as an American, we often just group them all into general "British" accent, yet I could hear and recognize the distinction in each one.

[bwanadave76]

Some might, most don't.

[Tony Bates]

We tend to lump US accents together, even though we know there is no one American accent.

[Mohammed Fahad]

The girl can’t do the accents properly, she did them terribly

[BridgeOverTroubledWaters]

I'm from the west country and have to say she was pretty spot on with the accent, Most of us do sound like Farmers unless your posh

[bguerra4]

Many Americans lump Australian, NZ, and S. African all in with British, which seems dumb...but few Brits can differentiate Canadian from American anyway.

[Shaun Roberts]

I live in Bristol, and even in this small city there are different versions of the Bristolian accent. I’m usually confident enough to work out what part of Bristol people come from when they speak.

[Andrew Hall]

I'm glad you brought this up, It's funny because Stephen Merchant (on XFM Ricky Gerais show) often comments that he is a typical Bristolian, but when I meet other Bristolians, I never think they sound even remotely similar to his accent. Dubliners sound like other dubliners, and Scouses sound like other Scouses, but Bristol is an anamoly somehow.

[Jennifer Evans]

Yes! I'm fine with being compared to a hobbit, but if you look at Bristolian history - you can't get much more piratey!

[MrDuncl]

Live in Bristol. That be a good ideal

[Catalinaaa]

I’m Bristolian but I don’t have that piratey accent it’s more closer to rp and I rarely meet people with that pirate accent

[Bernard Timmer]

Brilliant, the pronounciation of the various accents is spot on. I think there are quite a few more that have historically been included into another recognised one, but generally this is a good classification.

[Peter Staples]

In WW1, my grandfather (Northampton) trained horses. He was seconded to the Tyneside Irish. He told me: "I couldn't understand a word they said, they couldn't understand me, for the first two weeks l had an interpreter who came round with me"

[hoosieryank67]

During the Norway campaign, a British officer came across a Scot sentry with an accent so strong, he thought he.was German.

[Felix Le Freak]

My favourite moment was when the West Midlands accent threatened to tip over into South African. But an amazing video and range of accents! x

[Michael Halsall]

South African English has a Dutch (Afrikaans) influence.

[Logical Network]

Hahahaha😂😂😂😂

[Denise Grieve]

Excellent! Not easy -17 accents in 5 minutes! I'm from Ednburgh and I think this is great. Well done!

[Tony England]

How on Earth did we get so many different accents in such a small place as the UK? Travel 50 miles in any direction and the accents will change dramatically.

[Jon Briffitt]

Uk's been invaded alot and settled alot of times hence why there's different cultures/ accents everywhere.

[Johanna Schreiber]

That happenes to a lot of countries in Europe. It's the same in Germany even though the explanation seems a bit more logical since it was seperated into 10701790170109 1/2 (not an accurate number) little states... It goes as far as that for example the average bavarian (not the one from Munich) generally has to be subtitled when talking on tv.

[FeteFatale]

UK regional and local accents are due to people not having any great mobility - at least not until the mid nineteenth Century. It has nothing to do with having been invaded - the last time that happened was nearly a 1,000 years ago. Until the Industrial Revolution, and later the railways and bicycling, most people lived in the same town as their ancestors had done for hundreds of years, and accents remained very localised. You're wrong about travelling 50 miles though - travelling just to the next village (less than five miles away) would be enough to notice significant accent change, and sometimes they'd be more or less mutually incomprehensible. Travelling 50 miles away could mean passing through a dozen different accent zones, although most such local accent variations have given way to regional accents.

[andrea strazzari]

come to italy, I guess it's the same here. apart tuscan accent, I think every local accent has also his own dialect. many of them are so much different from italian that a person who comes form more than 150 miles away wouldn't understand half of the words, because they're totally different. E.G. chair is "sedia" in italian, "cadrega" in milan and "scrana" in bologna...

[John Bell]

Tony England I'm English but the two accents I honestly do prefer are Highland Scottish and Welsh. Scotland has some fantastic accents, not just the harsher Glaswegian types but really musical-sounding and beautiful. Welsh accents I just find sexy lol.

[jenny taylor]

I think it's interesting the way your baseline changes according to the dialect. Then there's the fascinating aspect of all accents: cadence!

[The Mighty Ryden]

This is flaming great, as a writer stuff like this is invaluable. And Siobhan is hilarious, I love this video

[Francita Soto]

this is seriously my favorite video on the internet and when I am feeling down I come back to it (like now) and it never fails to make me smile.

[Jerry Frederick]

I am American from Southeast Michigan and spent a month in Coventry once, loved it. Drank pints one night with a Geordie and caught every third word at first but by the end of the night I caught every 2-1/2 words. Love it. I dated a girl from Wales LOVED HER and her accent with the way she said CAT but it sounded like COT (to me) or GATE which sounded like GET (to me). The sing song way she spoke melted my heart. Damn! I gotta get back.

[Natacha Rochelle]

That was amazing and so much fun! You are fantastic, well done

[NireNoodle XD]

She looks like she’s having the time of her life

[Devils]

Yup

[Gary Pulliam]

She's drunk.

[Y HA]

Sebastian xD

[chowelly]

It made me happy to see how happy she was doing this.

[Oddities & Whatnot]

Cheers us all up during these dark times

[Bongo Baggins]

It's not just regions, there are very specific changes that locals can detect from just a few miles. Portsmouth has a southern, round accent with accented vowels almost like Dorset, yet Havant a couple of miles away is a much flatter, more classic South Coast accent. The same in Cheshire; in Congleton, people talk much as they do across most of Cheshire such as in Crewe, Middlewich, Alsager and Alderley Edge. Yet, three miles away in Biddulph (which is in Staffordshire) they talk in a much more midland-affected Stoke-on-Trent accent with the long 'ooook' sounds such as lewk (look) and bewk (book)

[Kit Cotter]

Impressive effort, & delivered w such gusto & enthusiasm... highly entertaining, if not completely accurate ( but attempting 17 is none too shabby !)

[Anthony Murphy]

God I love this lady she adds so much personality to it

[Likely_toad57]

As a welshie her “diolch yn fawr (thank you very much)” sounded like gibberish but her gog (that’s what people from South Wales call people from north wales) accent was on point

[Iwan]

Doesn't sound so bad to me

[Likely_toad57]

@Iwan it’s not bad it’s just I don’t know to many people with strong accents

[1515327E]

You are being sarkie I hope - it sounds nothing like Gog.

[Rosie6857]

@1515327E Nor to me, either.

[Rural Squirrel]

You are so entertaining to watch. Great humor and a fun video! Could you do the Derby accent?

[Desert Father]

The American Guide to British Accents: 0:21 Disney Villain 0:40 Downton Abbey 0:53 Drunk Chimney Sweep 1:09 Eeyore Personified 1:35 Hobbits 1:57 Johnny Depp 2:00 Gorton's Fisherman 2:15 Fairy Language 2:42 Heavy Metal 2:50 John Lennon 3:05 The help in Downton Abbey 3:15 The North in GOT 3:30 Oliver Twist 3:50 Liam Neeson trying to do a Scottish Accent 4:02 Robin Williams trying to do a Scottish Accent 4:15 Braveheart 4:26 Liam Neeson trying to do an American Accent 4:46 Not British (Cousin Sean turns Come Out Ye Black and Tans up to eleven)

[eggsistance]

fairy language is the best compliment ever

[SWT]

lol

[David]

God I lost it at the Black & Tans

[jewelofthesouth]

I'm an American and find that humorous 😅🇺🇸.

[Old OddJobs]

Geordie Oliver Twist

[Piff Paff]

Highly entertaining and informative 👍👍👍👍 That Girl is drop dead funny and very talented! Great channel 🏆⭐️

[Guitar Driven]

I can't stop smiling while watching this. Fantastic work!

[EmilyZena]

I love this; laughed out loud a couple of times! Really well done.

[Shannon Britton]

Such a good job! I've always wondered about the different accents and dialects. Thanks for the info ✌💚💙💜

[Jai OLIVER]

She didn’t do good at all 😂😂

[bill jackson]

Very great video and I love watching her doing all the accent.And I love 💕 hearing them,they are like music to my ears

[treecuttertam]

Those Scottish accents probably sounded good to anyone who isn't Scottish.

[Sean Leith]

In Canada, a vast land everyone speaks in the same accent, called American. In the UK, a small land, every village has its own accent.

[Vywon Dubois]

I was just thinking this

[andrew archer]

@Sean Leith you need to travel newfoundland or any of the maritime provinces, accents vary and the dialect changes as well.

[wildheart]

Since when was burns from the Highlands?

[Cherri_Chip]

​@Sean Leith My guess on why there are so many accents is back in the day there were lots of languages you see, and the way those languages used syllables probably impact the accents of today Like welsh accent sounds like the language in the way of pronunciation I don't know much about the language history of the uk but Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall spoke celtic languages and because that they sound in the words of my Welsh Mother. "Like uneducated cabbage farmers." North East England was taken over by the vikings, perhaps some old Norse got in the accents? villages did get a bit of old Norse in village names like Grimsby which means "Grim's Village" Grim was the guy who founded it so I guess he's a creative chap Enjoy this rant about history, cabbage farmers and a Norwegian fisherman.

[Dee Kohler]

This is amazing!!!! Could you try some of the lesser known islands around Scotland?

[J PC]

This is epic! Very impressive and hilarious! 👏🏼

[Sue Smith]

You are brilliant. I can’t even do one properly. This was very entertaining.

[Bob Lewin]

IMO, people who can imitate others well, especially their accents, are extremely intelligent. Hats off to Siobhan.

[Hanno franz]

I used to live in Aberdeen for a year and got familiar with a few Scottish accents and dialects. Only by having a closer look at Scotland, you'll certainly get to quite a variety that is widely ignored in England.

[LittleLulubee]

Can't judge whether these were done correctly, but it was entertaining :)

[nema ibligg]

She was sure lovely to listen to as well as watch

[emily]

they did

[Surfnsound]

They were all very good. Some picky people might complain and feel left out but in general she nailed them all.

[Kane Jarrett]

LittleLulubee some weren't bad, most were okay a couple were terrible (Scouse and Yorkshire...) but they were all entertaining.

[Anne-Lise Krogh Andersen]

For a good Yorkshire accent I go to Dalziel and Pascoe. Wonderful Yorkshire voices in that! :D

[Butch83]

Great presentation. Of course as others have said, we have many slight variations of regional dialects within relatively small areas. Sure this is the same in other countries.

[scienzchic]

Well done! No clue why the haters gave a thumbs down. This was very informative and explained everything in a fun & thoughtful way.

[poetesstx]

I always thought that folks from England spoke English (I'm Texan)... but got to Yorkshire and it took a year to understand my local butcher! I love all the dialects and great job on presenting them!

[kim douglas]

wow, your impressions of all these different accents are amazing!

[Dee F]

Thanks so much Siobhan, I've been trying to place all the accents from different British shows and audio books I've listening to. Came here from the Website "origins of the British accents". I'm off to find out where all the Australian accents originated.

[Rick Ved]

Her liveliness, body language, facial expressions, and head movements are astonishing.

[BillAnt]

I wonder which region is the actor Russell Brand's accent from? To a non Britt it sounds pretty thick and cocky... hmmm... perhaps from sexy Essex.... (I know silly me) ;P

[NY Mets]

Bill A Ever heard of Wikipedia? 🤔

[BillAnt]

Nope omg what is that?? I've been living under a rather large rock ya know... lol By the way, the reason I was asking just because he was born in Essex, it doesn't mean he's got the same accent.

[NY Mets]

Bill A Heard of google? Well type wikipedia into it. Boom 💥

[BillAnt]

Brilliant, why didn't I think of it duhh lol

[Mazcot]

I'm so happy someone recognised the Norfolk accent 😂

[starman700]

its dying out ive even lost my broad one,but i do love hearing the old norfolk bois talking.

[Elizabeth M.]

Can you do a Devonian accent? My Grandmother was from Devon and had a very particular accent. The Cornish one was hilarious. My son and I laughed hard at this video, thanks for posting!

[Clément]

I'm French and I remember my father telling me that he could sppot the neighbourhood of someone, just by hearing him (on the French Riviera). I'm too sad accents are slowly disappearing, and I can imagine this phenomena exists in the UK too...

[Dylan Warner]

It's happening everywhere, mostly due to the internet and TV creating like a common accent for most languages, though in some cases, like the heavy New York accent, it's become less present because of negative associations with the mob due to gangster movies like the Godfather.

[GT06-stunts]

Yep ere in Norfolk hardly anyone sounds NoRfOlK anymore because of people moving round the country still some ofc

[VvSlaveofMetalvV]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the two distinctly different British accents used by the characters Frank'N'Furter and Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: I've heard that Tim Curry used an accent from Kensington, and Richard O'Brien used a completely different regional accent.

[El Hefe]

Hahaha that West Midlands accent was a wild effort. And the London one wasn't great, which is surprising as it's pretty easy to do. But I'm being picky - honestly I am very impressed with your accents. I can never do the geordie one, I wish I could!

[Kia Ora]

Give this women her own comedy show, she's hilarious and natural!

[Danielle McLelland]

Kia Ora she's part of College Humour now

[Wes Clark]

...and adorable.

[Simpan]

Allow it fam

[PhoebeStorm]

Kia Ora she's on collage humour ;)

[toby Dickenson]

the irony

[Paul Molnar]

Very interesting and thoroughly enjoyed it. Would’ve been even better if there was more analysis of particular dialects. Thanks for this video.

[Kristina Fischer]

Very well done and entertaining! Would love to hear you do maybe a Galway accent( as you said not part of UK) but still a lovely accent , possibly hard to duplicate?

[Kittyowlblu]

Even the top and bottom half of a city can have completely difference accents. Some places not even covered have their own accents and dialects as well.

[Living out Loud Project]

Love this! Would like to have heard you do a Hampshire Hog accent and of course Bristolian! 👍

[Merc at Arms]

I’ve learned so much about accents since I started DMing. Love learning about these differences through such a small nation.

[Ewan]

Yeah, the UK's plethora of accents is pretty crazy, given its small size. I live in Liverpool, for example, and all you need to do is go around 15 miles down the motorway and you have Warrington, whose accent is entirely distinguishable and different from the Liverpool accent. Another 20 miles and you have Manchester, whose accent again is entirely different. Brilliant.

[J]

We share a name

[Hugh Mungus]

Chester as well is slightly different hints of Welsh & Scouse in there!

[Jae Jones]

From Chester myself and there are some very strange accents around here..

[Ewan Marshall]

hey

[Ewan]

Ewan Marshall Lol, hey fam

[Mary Devonshire]

Wow! Very talented! I'm American and can't even begin to do American accents! (Yes, we do have very diverse accents, and no, not just Southern drawl.) If you've ever heard Pioneer Woman, Reed Drummond, my Idaho cousins sound just like her ("cuk" the casserole at 350 degrees) and I think even they sound funny.

[Todd Corey]

I'd love to hear your take on American and Australian (& NZ) accents

[MortalClown]

One of the most charming people I've seen on this platform. A delight.(Robert Easton, the late, great American dialect coach/actor would absolutely adore you! He used to do the seven accents of Texas and it was hysterical.) Paz y luz, everyone... from Alabama to NY and LA.

[Dave Oliver]

I used to live in St Helens, pronounced Sintellins. And they have a northern accent but it's different to the Lancashire accent. And literally a five minute drive away in Prescot, they have thick scouse accents. It's crazy how suddenly accents can change in Britain.

[Lina]

She really did a great job and was a joy to watch.

[JR KC]

The scouse one was poor, I could understand every word

[Flo]

Jack Richards I’m from the countryside in England and I speak sort of like the person in this video, but all I know about scouse is what my dad taught me: “If a’ dint drink me milk a’ wunt be gud ‘nough to ple’ for Accrington Stanley “Accrington Stanley? Oo a the? exAAActly” Sorry if it’s not good, I’m only 10.

[Luke Maher]

Jack Richards yeah scouse was actually horridly bad coming from a local, wonder how other locals of the other accents she did found it

[Filippo Corvalan]

Agree. Fancy a bevvy?

[RocketMan]

😂

[wildsmiley]

I can understand everything the Beatles say, it isn't very hard.

[Paul Hellander]

Excellent work! I grew up in mid Lancashire (Eccleston near Chorley) and was sandwiched between the accents of Preston and Wigan. You did a Preston accent which was pretty spot-on but how about a Wigan accent? It is markedly different. I have lived in South Australia since 1979 and people occasionally suggest I now have a South African accent. Go figure!

[Trance88]

I've gotta say as someone from the US, I've heard some people from Scotland with such a thick accent you could swear they're speaking in a completely different dialect.

[Brandybo123]

Technically it is, its called Scotts

[SKN]

She’s so good at the Geordie accent I don’t even hear the accent shes blended it in that well 😂

[Twisty Soundy Sounds]

You got the flair for accents. Awesome. I appreciate the vibration of your accent. Pronunciation is an art

[JM gonzales]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHrZh4ucgZ6nkNE what kind of accent is this?

[Some Guy]

Lady your adorable. And you actually nail these accents so much so that I do understand and have heard all these differences in movies and TV.

[Paul Trussy]

It amazes me how people seem to think this was serious - it's just a laugh, a bit of fun, lighten up! Dare say they were all inaccurate in some way but who cares, this is just funny :D

[Good Grief, stop eating corpse parts, bro]

It was real funny.

[Sam Weldon]

So crazy to me as an American that's there's such wildly different accents so close together. I live in the New England and we have basically one accent for whole region, which is almost 1.5 x bigger than England. Basically there's the sort of regular Ameican accent, the super thick Boston accent, and shades of gray between the two. And that's it.

[Sally Woodson]

Our accents aren’t as distinct, but after living 20+ years north of Boston, there are definitely differences between North Shore, Boston city, South Shore, western Mass, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine that I can hear. But nowhere near as pronounced as British regional accents.

[Romegeorgiaman Shannon Georgia]

This journey of Accents was Fun And so Enjoyable.. Your Dialectual Prowess is Uncanny. Nice Work.

[John F - American Reacts]

The west county accent (which is rhotic) was much more prevalent in the 1600 and 1700s in England, which is why standard American and Canadian is rhotic. But the Northeast of the Us (think Boston and New York) is non-rhotic and has more in come with standard British English than some would like to admit. It had its influences directly from London influences. Love the study of how different our common language can be and the historic reasons why.

[Danged ‘ol Varmint]

I love all the divers accents. I’d like to hear a comparison between a heavy Irish accent and a Scottish. I like hearing you and love looking at you Miss Anglo’ darlin’.

[JOHN ASTI]

You're amazing, quite entertaining and easy on the eyes!!! Thanks you for a great presentation...

[Niamh]

The Glaswegian accent was less shocking than I expected it to be, but the way you pronounced ‘glasgow’ sends a chill down my spine

[Ishaq]

niamh B glaesga

[Little Peach Bunny]

We diddny talk like that tho

[Niamh]

Pocahontas McGlinchey precisely

[Reece Downey]

Ye i just went tae Glasgow

[Hayley Davelle]

I was literally thinking the same thing😂😂😂 to be fair though Glasgow is quite a hard accent to do unless u go full scale ned or something haha

[sugglew]

Wow. I think that's be best Dublin accent I've heard from a non-Irish. Do you think you could do the non-regional TV/suburban accent? I've never heard anyone from outside the country manage it without going half pirate.

[Carol B]

My dad grew up in northern New Jersey (USA) with a mother from Manchester, UK. His family had this idea that they were instilled with proper English from birth, and as we grew up, we recognized that their accent was bizarre! My grandmother used to drill me to say "Look in the cook book" with long oo's, as in pool.

[frenchie5k]

No matter what accent she’s doing she still sounds like Siobhan doing an accent.

[IceCrossFire]

Accents and idiolects are fascinating. I have an autistic genius friend who could pinpoint most of my accent is Pacific Northwestern (U.S.), with bits of Tulsan (My grandma's from Tulsa, Oklahoma), unidentified British English (when I was 14, I was thrilled to have found out my grandpa's grandpa was from somewhere in England, as I loved the accents, so I practiced "one" I picked up from watching PBS shows. That went on for a whole year, until I discovered it was difficult to hide it. Parts of it still sticks in my speech to this day, after I gave up trying to unstick it all.), and a little of a language I made up for a book series I'm writing.

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There is definitely a difference between east, north and west london accents. The one that represented London here was mostly west

[Madelin Claire G]

It’s so weird that for such a small country there are more dialects than in the USA. Also her glasses are so cute.

[Hannah Dyson]

Accents are dying out. Soon we will have a RP accent

[Ginger James]

dialectal differences (and accents) develop due to time, not geography 👍

[Lauren Cooper]

english speakers have been there a loooooong time and for most of it only got around by horse. hence, dialects.

[Gothiqueluv]

You haven't traveled much in the US, have you? I can count as least 10 right away.

[Madelin Claire G]

Gothiqueluv I’ve been to 20 states 🤦‍♀️ But im from the Midwest so we all sound the same

[nursenoid]

I've only heard what was called 'black country' accent a couple times, but I loved it. Would love to hear it again!

[Crispijn van Sas]

Definitely enjoyed this video! I could add my dutch accent;) Some people have told me the accent from the black country have a distinctive accent not to be confused with the dialect from Birmingham.

[TheLizardKing1967]

I'm convinced the UK has about 100 accents for each square mile. You are quite correct in your assumption Sir. Cheers!

[caprianders]

Both welsh accents and shetlandish are my favorites, they are all amazing and unique

[LAMOROSI Originals]

It amazes me how many accents there are in GB. In France, governments have done everything possible to erase regional languages and different accents. Nowadays, there are little nuances in accents, especially between North and South, but it's always very inter-intelligible

[zerofox]

"Oh Gerald I do love you. But you're so terribly, terribly poor." I spit out my previously coffee, transformed into tea by this video, laughing.

[Lis]

Haha😂

[Randal Clarke]

At what...????🤷‍♂️

[Arthas Menethil]

Reminds me of something you'd hear in Downton Abbey or Midsomer Murders. Made me choke a little too when i heard that

[Carter Jones]

Yt

[Audrey Rollen]

i watched this video several years ago not knowing who siobhan thompson was, but super into linguistics and it stuck in my memory. and here i am now, 2021, investigating the british accents brennan lee mulligan pulls out while DMing for dimension 20, of which siobhan is a player, and i see now that it was siobhan all along and i'm reeling from this discovery

[Andrew Lee]

I'm from South Derbyshire and never really thought I had an accent, but when I went to Papworth Cambridgeshire, I spoke to a local lady and she remarked that I had a nice accent and where was I from. I would love to hear your take on the accent if it is distinctive in any way.

[Tariq Khader]

Kudos. You successfully glided into another one without any hints of the previous. Do the Channel Islands and Isle of Man have their own unique way of speaking?