West Country Yap Part 5

Episode FIVE of my occasional series, West Country Yap.
Anecdotal conversations with people of the UK West Country - Devon and Somerset. I'm hoping to expand the series to include people from Cornwall and Dorset in future episodes. The purpose being to record the dialects of the South West of England, in order to preserve a record of the accents - in particular, the older generations, who tend to speak with broader accents. Broad dialects are gradually being lost over time, and the accents becoming weaker among the younger generation.
Graham Trott
Previous episodes are here:
Part 4: • West Country Yap part 4
Part 3: • Video
Part 2: • West Country Yap - Part 2
Part 1: • West Country Yap

[@philipchant]

It is very important to document these wonderful "Country" folk. Their stories will not be told again, and equally their accents will fade into the distant past. Thank you Mr Trotty57

[@smikusko]

6:55 Even this American living in California instantly recognized and knows who Roger is. :) Met the fellow and drank his cider 4 years ago when back for a visit. ( My wife is from Somerset, so I'm not unfamiliar with the West Country). Great videos!

[@LordoftheOzarks]

My family is originally from Mendip area and eastern Devon (near Honiton). They left in 1635. Is this what they wouldve sounded like?

[@chrisnorman1902]

That far back, I expect people sounded a bit different. If you search KZbin there's a video titled 'old Devon accent', uploaded a few years ago - the video image is a UK map with Devon in red. The voice was recorded in 1958, from someone that growed up in the late 1800s, not too far from Honiton, so that'll give you some idea. It's similar to Devon accents from more recent times, but there are lots of noticeable differences even since then

[@aimeedanger]

It would be great if you could fix the closed captioning for this. I can 90% understand them but if I was relying on the CC I wouldn't understand half of it.

[@MrTrotty57]

It's rather time consuming in the edit, but something I'm considering for the stronger accents in future episodes. At least you get most of it!

[@Chapchrisman]

Lovely to see and hear Mary.

[@MrTrotty57]

Hi Chris. Hoping to follow up with some more of her and one of her old school friends sometime soon.

[@Chapchrisman]

@@MrTrotty57 I'll keep an eye out. All the best