I live in Chichester, the county town of West Sussex. Folk born and bred here always pronounce it as 'Chiddester'.
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Nice
@vary114311 ай бұрын
Cool
@vary114311 ай бұрын
How long have you been there
@Northstander7 ай бұрын
Or if you grew up not too far away it was often referred to as Chi.
@evegoddard73909 ай бұрын
My family were from Sussex, the older generations would speak with drawn out r’s which sounded very rural and nice! Probably not many people with the accent anymore!
@bjornsmith94316 ай бұрын
The old East Sussex Accent is similar to the USA state of Georgia southern accent pronounce is same also the old the Isle of Wight accent is the same has a person for the state of Kentucky accents, guess you Britons kids got beating over your heads by your teachers to sound like the Royal family and the aristocrat class, posh accent not have your Great grandparents and Great Parents regional accents losing your identity, it sad to me to see such beautiful culture lose.
@ryder_hd5 ай бұрын
@@bjornsmith9431you know it’s possible to have a regional identity (as we do here in Sussex) without an accent? What a weird and insulting take
@bjornsmith94315 ай бұрын
@@ryder_hd accent change by force, there plenty of actors and actress who was drop there regional accents for a career.
@ryder_hd5 ай бұрын
@@bjornsmith9431 tf are you talking about? Accents change and evolve.
@bjornsmith94315 ай бұрын
@@ryder_hd B.S this happen sometime on people by pressuring, I seen it happened many times.
@paulwillard9687 Жыл бұрын
I was from Ore close to Three Oakes and my great uncle was total fluent in Sussex and family gatherings sounded more like the Wurzles than the middle class family of my father’s side so very mixed which still lingers in some of my words but as you say practically died out.
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Interesting. Did he have a brand new combine harvester?!
@paulwillard9687 Жыл бұрын
@@BritishNativeSpeaker no but he was a cider 🍺 drinker 😂
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Of course!
@MrJonah539 ай бұрын
I'm from East Sussex, and people say I have a Sussex accent, but several of my friends have a much broader accent than me. I can understand them easily, and sometimes I translate.
@BritishNativeSpeaker9 ай бұрын
What kind of accent features make them broader?
@MrJonah539 ай бұрын
@@BritishNativeSpeaker A lot more Wurzel like.
@BritishNativeSpeaker9 ай бұрын
Ha ha ok
@stuartcarden13717 ай бұрын
Being born in Brighton, you don't hear obvious examples of a traditional Sussex accent but it's definitely still in there. I can tell a brightonian speaking a mile off compared to someone from London for example.
@alfiegrove72335 ай бұрын
its subtle differences but im the same you can tell!
@dis807864 ай бұрын
Everyone who lives in Brighton is basically from London, so I doubt that
@paulmessis10942 ай бұрын
I feel fortunate to have spoken at length with an elderly man in his 90s who lived his whole life in West Chiltington.... I wish I had recorded his conversations
@KMartin-jf5kwАй бұрын
As a Sussexer thank you for explaining this. I often pronounce my Ts as D's. My R is quite pronounced and I speak fast like Sussexers usually and I slightly slur.
@BritishNativeSpeakerАй бұрын
I'm in Upper Dicker near Eastbourne as we speak
@archiefinch3807 Жыл бұрын
I come from worthing
@NatashaBorgorez Жыл бұрын
Yay, Worthing is here also!
@marcellesantos4877 Жыл бұрын
Amazing! I'm living here in Crawley. Would like to watch more videos of west sussex
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Great, I'm in Crowborough at the moment.
@marcellesantos4877 Жыл бұрын
@@BritishNativeSpeakercool! It's seems to be a beautiful city
@Dustyspeccs9 ай бұрын
Sussex Rep!!! I used to live in maresfield and some people genuinely had the traditional sussex accent!! I wish I was more distinct :(
@BritishNativeSpeaker9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment
@jcepri Жыл бұрын
just a suggestion.... I recommend toning down the animations and behaviors a tad. At some point they begin to get distracting. It's like making every other word bold, italics or underlined.
@timbhaovard13272 ай бұрын
I was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex and it used to be spelt Kukefield and Ansty was spelt Anstye
@Northstander7 ай бұрын
In Sussex an adder is called a viper!
@BritishNativeSpeaker7 ай бұрын
Ok, cheers for that.
@SRiRJag4 ай бұрын
Why don't you put more videos on East Sussex or Brighton pronunciation ???
@Kitschy_ Жыл бұрын
I’m form Hastings East Sussex
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Pleased to meet you.
@Criacwas902 ай бұрын
One of my Norman ancestors fought along the side of William Duke of Normandy/King of England and kept him being thrust through the guts. In turn for saving his life William knighted him and gave him a good hide of land in the Market town/civil parish of Framlingham. I'm American surname Freeman as my Norman ancestors were Freeman families of Suffolk as some of them settled in Sussex and Kent also.
@slyfoxie5511 ай бұрын
We say Brigh'on though. No T.
@BritishNativeSpeaker11 ай бұрын
Indeed
@dis807864 ай бұрын
Sorry, but most of this is a little inaccurate. Based on how I have heard older people speak round where I live in Sussex, the general rules here do indeed apply but the pronunciation in this video is more often off than correct
@chilloutii3638 Жыл бұрын
Lewes is rough in the estates
@BritishNativeSpeaker11 ай бұрын
Fair enough.
@jakedeane86255 ай бұрын
you're taking the piss right?
@chilloutii36385 ай бұрын
@@jakedeane8625 No bro I’m being serious,there’s some rough council estates in Lewes, landport and ousedale have always had a bad reputation stabbings, if you’re from Lewes then you would know how bad landport really is, it’s a slum and when the wheelie bin murder happened that was when I realised I had to get out of that hell hole
@jakedeane86255 ай бұрын
@@chilloutii3638 nothing compared to haywards heath or burgess hill
@alfiegrove72335 ай бұрын
@@jakedeane8625this guy would get robbed in burgess in a second if he went down bedelands way
@youwat7 күн бұрын
That’s a city not a town
@timbones4319 Жыл бұрын
There is a nice recording of East Sussex accent here from 1920: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSugJyFlMqoiM0
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Yes. Good call.
@jonbaker1697 Жыл бұрын
Yes the videos of "British Drama League" discs with middle aged speakers using their native , UK regional accents. Is very interesting. So are videos of archeologist basil brown speaking. In the Anglian, Devon, northern Irish accents, on the league vinyls. I can hear the "sweetness" (of what is now considered the USA accent) in the voice, on the vowels , and some of the word cadence. I suspect the "sweetness" would have been stronger around 1800.
@swagmaster284 күн бұрын
I'm so flippin immature...
@chilloutii3638 Жыл бұрын
From lewes but but a nice part unfortunately
@BritishNativeSpeaker11 ай бұрын
I guess you meant 'not'
@chilloutii3638 Жыл бұрын
From Lewes but not a nice part of the town unfortunately
@BritishNativeSpeaker Жыл бұрын
Fair enough
@Clodhopping6 ай бұрын
The narrator has a very odd stilted delivery and I found that hard to follow. Unless this video wa designed for primary school kids?