The Traditional Sussex Accent - Everything you need to know tutorial

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Next up a videon the Hampshire county accents!

[@user-yt1sg3pj9z]

I live in Chichester, the county town of West Sussex. Folk born and bred here always pronounce it as 'Chiddester'.

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Nice

[@vary1143]

Cool

[@vary1143]

How long have you been there

[@Northstander]

Or if you grew up not too far away it was often referred to as Chi.

[@evegoddard7390]

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!

[@bjornsmith9431]

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_hd]

@@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

[@bjornsmith9431]

@@ryder_hd accent change by force, there plenty of actors and actress who was drop there regional accents for a career.

[@ryder_hd]

@@bjornsmith9431 tf are you talking about? Accents change and evolve.

[@bjornsmith9431]

@@ryder_hd B.S this happen sometime on people by pressuring, I seen it happened many times.

[@paulwillard9687]

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]

Interesting. Did he have a brand new combine harvester?!

[@paulwillard9687]

@@BritishNativeSpeaker no but he was a cider 🍺 drinker 😂

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Of course!

[@MrJonah53]

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.

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

What kind of accent features make them broader?

[@MrJonah53]

@@BritishNativeSpeaker A lot more Wurzel like.

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Ha ha ok

[@stuartcarden1371]

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.

[@alfiegrove7233]

its subtle differences but im the same you can tell!

[@dis80786]

Everyone who lives in Brighton is basically from London, so I doubt that

[@paulmessis1094]

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-jf5kw]

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.

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

I'm in Upper Dicker near Eastbourne as we speak

[@archiefinch3807]

I come from worthing

[@NatashaBorgorez]

Yay, Worthing is here also!

[@marcellesantos4877]

Amazing! I'm living here in Crawley. Would like to watch more videos of west sussex

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Great, I'm in Crowborough at the moment.

[@marcellesantos4877]

@@BritishNativeSpeakercool! It's seems to be a beautiful city

[@Dustyspeccs]

Sussex Rep!!! I used to live in maresfield and some people genuinely had the traditional sussex accent!! I wish I was more distinct :(

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Thanks for the comment

[@jcepri]

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.

[@timbhaovard1327]

I was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex and it used to be spelt Kukefield and Ansty was spelt Anstye

[@Northstander]

In Sussex an adder is called a viper!

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Ok, cheers for that.

[@SRiRJag]

Why don't you put more videos on East Sussex or Brighton pronunciation ???

[@Kitschy_]

I’m form Hastings East Sussex

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Pleased to meet you.

[@Criacwas90]

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.

[@slyfoxie55]

We say Brigh'on though. No T.

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Indeed

[@dis80786]

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]

Lewes is rough in the estates

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Fair enough.

[@jakedeane8625]

you're taking the piss right?

[@chilloutii3638]

@@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

[@jakedeane8625]

@@chilloutii3638 nothing compared to haywards heath or burgess hill

[@alfiegrove7233]

@@jakedeane8625this guy would get robbed in burgess in a second if he went down bedelands way

[@youwat]

That’s a city not a town

[@timbones4319]

There is a nice recording of East Sussex accent here from 1920: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSugJyFlMqoiM0

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Yes. Good call.

[@jonbaker1697]

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.

[@swagmaster28]

I'm so flippin immature...

[@chilloutii3638]

From lewes but but a nice part unfortunately

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

I guess you meant 'not'

[@chilloutii3638]

From Lewes but not a nice part of the town unfortunately

[@BritishNativeSpeaker]

Fair enough

[@Clodhopping]

The narrator has a very odd stilted delivery and I found that hard to follow. Unless this video wa designed for primary school kids?