WIKITONGUES: Simon speaking Cumbrian

Cumbrian is a local Northern English dialect spoken in Cumbria and surrounding northern England.
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Ey-up - my nyam is Simon Roper, and aa's of Cumbrian descent.
T'dialect is a sort o' combinyation o' norse, auld english, pictish… the can lin twi it an' modern norwegian. Sa we say 'gan yam' for 'go home', awivver a norwegian wad say 'go hjeme.'
S'anyway - when we were bairns - weh and t'marras - we used to gan t'Ullswatter, and t'were snaatan a la'al bit at yan tyem, but t'watter'd nae frostit owwer as't does on t'occyasion. Awivvwer, t'were gae cald, and t'were glisky and o', sa we wore t'kyvals. Nae gev us mek gran' fettle on t'shore. Yan of us, Danny, fell in t'watter an' brayed his sel. Were hareet, tha. N'owt mek wad strike him doon. T'were creukt, cos - yon tyem o' year - t'were february or summat - t'were attercoppen ivvery which way the deek't. An' yan marra - Hilde - se were flaitent o't'. Sa… aa nivver sin a body run sa fast in o' weh leyfe. But t'were yan o' t'last tyem we speeakt cummerlan wid ithers. Acause the were nae supposed to speeak it as a bairn. The were supposed to speeak 'english.' Sa… well, yon were a hard'un. T'is shaff fettle, o' cowse, 'at… sa many… British dialects are gettan sa rare an' la'al. Aa hope they gan on, or t'would be a gran' sheame.
Anyway, w'ither marra, Burne, he's a gyamkeaper, works wid… gorcock. He tell'd us a tyal yence; there were a standan lin an' a shiftan lin, an' yan man fr'each shot at yan gorcock at t'seame teame… an t'bloody thing exploded! An' they nivver foond t'carcass. Sa he helle his sel a cup o' tea, an' that were that. An' yon's what the has to keep in mind! Pragmatism. Gettan summat done reet. If it take yan or tyan or tethera tyem, gettan summat done reet. Yence the can nae chyange fettle, div nut worry. Aa thowt sek a thing sin aa were sethera. An aa nivver been mizzlan sin.
Optional Translations: (Standard English) - Hello - my name is Simon Roper, and I'm of Cumbrian descent.
The dialect is a sort of combination of norse, old english, pictish… you can draw parallels between it and modern norwegian. So we say 'gan yam' for 'go home,' whereas a norwegian would say 'go hjeme.' When we were children - me and my friends - we used to go to Ullswater, and it was snowing a little bit on one occasion, but the lake hadn't quite frozen over as it sometimes does. However, it was very cold and sparkling, so we wore great-coats. It didn't give us much luck on the shore; one of us, Danny, fell in the water and bruised himself. He was alright, though. Not much would strike him down. It was strange, because at that time of year - it was february, or something - there were spiders everywhere you looked. And one of my friends - Hilde - she was frightened of them. So… I've never seen a person run so fast in all my life. It's bad luck, of course, that so many British dialects are getting so rare and small. I hope they survive, or it would be a great shame.
Anyway, my other friend, Burne, he's a gamekeeper, works with grouse. He told me a story once; there was a standing line and a moving line, and one man from each shot at one grouse at the same time. And the bloody thing exploded! And they never found the carcass. So he poured himself a cup of tea and that was that. And that's what you have to keep in mind! Pragmatism. Getting something done right. If it takes one or two or three times, getting something done right. When you can't change something, don't worry. I have thought this since I was six, and I haven't been upset since.
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[@bavariantrawler]

I thought this dude looked familiar. Simon Roper.

[@FireRupee]

You mean Baldric? He's a talented timetraveller alright. His English is amazing now.

[@eduardroma3305]

Our dear Simon was already speaking about Cumbrian 3 years ago 🥺

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

He is reading.

[@jewjitsu72]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 he is also speaking

[@olenvailla]

I’m pretty sure he is literally Cumbrian

[@80ki68]

@@olenvailla On one side of his family, but he's from I think Surrey (or an adjacent southern county).

[@robertoneill1979]

My Cumbrian dad married my Scottish mother. The first time he met his (future) mother-in-law and she asked him what he'd like to eat, he replied "Oh, I eat owt!" She thought he'd said "I eat out!"- that he ate in restaurants all the time and never cooked. My folks never tired of telling that wee story. Lord, I miss them so much ❤️

[@DrGlynnWix]

But what is "owt"? I don't get it. Oats?

[@robertoneill1979]

@@DrGlynnWix "owt" means "anything", meaning that he's not a fussy eater, loves his food, and would be delighted with whatever he was given.

[@DrGlynnWix]

@@robertoneill1979 Ahhh, thanks!

[@OldNavajoTricks]

Owt anything, nowt nothing...

[@capcompass9298]

@@DrGlynnWix You don't get owt for nowt.

[@ZimbaZumba]

This is not to be confused with the Language Cumbric which was spoken in Cumbria.

[@James-gc5if]

Yes of course, that language is now extinct, and was a Celtic language like Welsh. Cumbrian is more a dialect of English.

[@Aconitum_napellus]

@@James-gc5if I don't think there is an agreed upon distinction between a language and a dialect, they are arguably synonyms.

[@andzzz2]

He should speak Cumbric or fuck off imho.

[@notyetactive]

@@andzzz2 Absolutely; an entirely reasonable request!

[@jamesbagwell5120]

@@andzzz2 Cumbric died out in the 1400s

[@ben9820]

Funny how quick it goes from entirely unintelligible to understandable in an instant As soon as your ears tune in it's like bam Cool as hell, really sad that one of the biggest casualties of globalization is the death of linguistic diversity.

[@daniel-oc6pp]

I think many dialects lose their standing in the world, when government standardises the language of education in schooling. Global movement and movement into cities, caused by cheap and convenient modes of transport do help sponsor a natural assimilation and replacement of culture. The significance of these globalising factors can not be denied, and I wouldn't try to. However I'd bet that had it not been for governmental language nationalisation, we'd have a much more diverse set of dialects spoken in the world today. Germany is the obvious example. Look at the prevalence of dialects in Switzerland compared to Germany. Look at the loss of language dialects in Italy, in France. Most European governments ended up killing off their dialects in the 18th and 19th Century because opportunistic statesmen had their hands on national education. Ironically today those same governments spend money on reverse engineered education, attempting to undo the damage they'd done 200 years prior. Of course, no money would have beened needed to be spent if they just left education in the hands of educators. Perhaps still through social, economic and cultural change, the dialects would have disappeared. However I personally am much happier finding out this was the result of natural language development, rather than a forced standardisation of language, dictated by government.

[@Ennio444]

Not really "globalization" per se, the preeminence of Latin killed a lot of languages (all of the other Italic languages like Umbian, Samnite, Campanian... as well as all of the Continental Celtic languages, Iberian languages except maybe Basque, if really Basque has any relation with them... Etruscan, and a long long long etcetera), as well as the preeminence of French slowly eroded the other languages in France. Sure, globalization has played a major role in this, but nationalism also did its part before that. Countries that underwent successful conversion from geographical identity to national identity also put one language at the top and eroded the bottom. France, Italy, Poland, Germany, they all became modern nation-states. Spain, and to a certain extent the UK and Russia, failed to homogeneously nationalise, and so the UK crystalised around England but stopped its process there, Russia began but its 19th and 20th Century many crisis kind of stopped the process, and Spain never really kicked it off until the 1920's, and by then the peripheral cultures had soaked in 19th Century nationalism, crystalised their own identities in language, land and literature, and it was "too late". Not taking sides, just stating what by now are generally agreed historical facts. Anyway, it's not just globalisation, but it sure is helping.

[@DM-wk3gz]

@@Ennio444 found the globalist

[@Ennio444]

@@DM-wk3gz Founded the goblin

[@JuicyPlams]

​@@daniel-oc6pp You make it sound like it's the same people sitting in these governments 200 years ago and now. But other han that, I think you're right

[@mew11two]

Wow, it's amazing how diverse the English language can be. I can actually spot a few similarities between this dialect and Mancunian, such as the use of "nowt" and "summat" as well as only using "were" and never "was".

[@simonroper9218]

I think there are a lot of parallels between all the northern dialects - it's interesting to look at the origins of them all

[@user-td4do3op2d]

That's not just Manchester - it's Yorkshire

[@user-td4do3op2d]

It sounds more Sheffield, because of how he says "reet" instead of "right".

[@rosiem2830]

down in the west country we also say nowt and summat :D

[@Gobbygiblet]

Not just Manchester mate, in Hartlepool and Teesside we say words like nowt, owt, summit, as well.

[@capcompass9298]

"Osstha june marra? Y'ever seen a cuddy joomp a five-barred gyat? T'all fella yas, ee's a farm yakka". (A Cumbrian marra greeting me in London, 1981). (How are you mate? Have you ever seen a horse jump a five barred gate? My father has. He's a farm worker). This dialect should be all spot owwer.

[@capcompass9298]

@Chris Fosdyke Before the Norman Conquest, it was part of Strathclyde, then it was divided into Carlisleshire, and Applebyshire. Only long after the harrying of were the two "Cumbrain" (speaking) Counties given their "present" name. (1100s). Around the 1990s, all old Counties lost their old status; Cumbria now being the government county, and the two (or three) old Counties are ceremonial counties. Does the accent and dialect differ from old County to old County? The name Cumbria comes from the Welsh name for Welsh: Cymru (and its language).

[@michaelhalsall5684]

Interesting. The word "yakka" is used in Australian English to mean "work" Hard yakka means hard work!

[@capcompass9298]

@@michaelhalsall5684 I'm certain they are linked.

[@schuletrip]

We say Gan Yhem in Teesdale. Bairns and the word fettle is regularly heard throughout the North East too. So fascinating!

[@bjrn-andrehenriksen6289]

You say "gan yhem", and I say "gå hjem" (Norwegian) the "å" is pronounced as the O in stop. Hard G. And "hjem" is basically yhem as is.

[@delaney85]

Love this, I don't understand half of it and I feel like I'm very drunk trying to listen to someone tell me a story but this is amazing

[@Riurelia]

I've been watching Simon's videos, so I was glad to see this in my recomendations.

[@ofthedarknessthemoonlight5412]

Beautiful. I absolutely love dialects, and I hope we retain them. The vast range of local dialects still extant in Great Britain is truly amazing, and it's one of the reasons I really hope to visit one day.

[@GavrielAbrahams]

I love Simon! His old English channel is awesome!

[@anSealgair]

I had no idea there was Cumbrian. This channel is amazing! Between this and Cornish, Scots, Breton....

[@mikesaunders4775]

It is not the Brythonic language formerly spoken in the Strathclyde/Cumbrian region. But a more Scandinavian based dialect.

[@Threezi04]

There was Cumbric (a celtic language which is now extinct) however Cumbrian is merely a dialect of English.

[@user-td4do3op2d]

What you said is completely incorrect in every way. The Cumbrian dialect and the Cumbric language have absolutely nothing in common except where they were spoken. Here is a reconstruction of the Cumbric language: kzbin.info/www/bejne/en2tiol3haidirs

[@daragildea7434]

@@mikesaunders4775 In other words, it's far closer to Scots (and Geordie) than to Gaelic or Welsh.

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@daragildea7434 Definitely some Northumbrian features (Scots is basically Northumbrian English),but in general closer to the Norse-derived speech of Yorkshire. Very little Celtic imput, although the name Cumberland, That Anglian settlers gave the region, identified the area as a residual Welsh enclave, and the northern part was once part of the Welsh kingdom of Strathclyde. The overwhelming character of this corner of England is Norse,

[@jiggermast]

Fascinating stuff Simon, I've only just yesterday been directed towards your video's by someone else. I must say it's Great to hear Cumbrian being seriously talked about & spoke for a change for a change & by someone who clearly knows his subject. It should be kept alive just like all other regional dialects around the country, so well done my friend, we up here in the North West so often get a raw deal on any documentaries discussing this area. that's if we even get mentioned.

[@wiganfan3373]

Whitehaven born 1972, Millom bred, In my 50 years of being Cumbrian I have only heard 3 people talk like that, one was an old shepherd who lived in Millom called Cuckoo, the 2nd was a farmer who lived up on Cold Fell and the 3rd was a cobbler from Borwick Rails

[@Scotscan]

Lived in Cumbria for few years, makes a lot of sense to me - nice one mate.

[@louisewright1282]

❤️ I’ve just found out my 3x great grandmother was born in Longtown Cumbria and wanted to hear how she would have spoken. Thank you

[@justsomeofmyfavs]

Very interesting to observe how in the North of England "old" vowels and diphthongs are pronounced much more closely to the way they are spelled. E. g. in much of the North the u in closed syllables is like something between [u] and [o], rather than [a] as in RP. And this one is the first dialect of English where I hear the "ea" diphthong actually pronounced as [ea] rather than the standard [i:]. Nice!

[@theliquor6423]

@Wikitongues I'm from Sunderland and I've recently discovered by talking to older relatives and general reading of local history books etc... that "gan yem" (go home) may be of Scandinavian origin, being spoken in more recent times at least by the people that came over on lumber ships providing pit props for the mines etc and stayed here. My dad was telling me of a relative that would say things like "A chipped owa the krib" (tripped over the kerb) and I was wondering if some of the other words we use are rooted in the same kind of history, things like "gauwld" (gold) "whyte" (weight) "byotts" (boots) or even the stereotypical "man" at the end of a sentence. I'm fascinated by your videos especially the Cumbria related ones I can genuinely understand 99.9% of what you recited in this vid with virtually zero knowledge, certainly enough to roughly converse with an ancestor... I would love to know your thoughts on this! ✌

[@nicholaslewis3277]

Simon, thank you so much.

[@servantofaeie1569]

oh my gosh its him

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Great philosophy from your grandfather. It’s an idea that is used a lot in coaching.

[@joalexsg9741]

Thank you so much for this, I'm convinced Cumbrian is also a descendant from Old Northumbrian, which I also believe to have been the language of the Angles, and not a dialect of Anglo-Saxon as most scholars put it. I think that Scots is also related in the same way to Old Northumbrian.

[@marcmorgan8606]

It's such a shame the Cumbric language is extinct - it probably would be understandable to us Welsh speakers if it was alive toady.

[@jellybeesplease]

Simon Gerg As a Welsh speaker, I've found that reading the Breton, and Cornish languages is fairly easy. However, I struggle to understand full sentences when listening. Even Gaelic has some very small similarities in terms of 'written' language too!

[@anthonyellison4737]

Doesn't seem like a language more just colloquialisms to me.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

@@anthonyellison4737 You seem to be confusing the dialect "Cumbrian" with the language "Cumbric". Cumbric is a Brittonic language close to Welsh and Pictish. It likely went extinct some time in the 12th century.

[@jp-lw5gl]

I’m from Cumbria living in Whitehaven and a lot of people still speak with the accent

[@tsarnicholasii274]

@@jp-lw5gl The accent is different from Cumbric, which is an extinct celtic language

[@stephenpark8133]

Born in Kendal, understand about 75% of it, but listening to the old Farmers and me Father talking on Market Day (Saturday), well that was difficult for a 4 year old in 1961.

[@timothyj1966]

Thanks for posting.... Great great great grandparents from Alston, Nenthead, Cumberland 1807 I am wondering if this is how they might have spoke...? Intersting. Canada here.

[@brentwoodbay]

Wow! At first I thought it sounded like Lancashire, but with a few dialect words thrown in. But when you started to read from your diary , it changed to something I can't understand. I could not hear any Geordie sounds there but obviously some of the words are the same. Excellent job! Do you ever hear any one speak that locally, in the street or in the pub. ?

[@JontCarr]

Brilliant!

[@hamilax156]

From Lancashire with adopted Scottish parents, understood all of it.

[@seanfogerty6075]

simon!! the algorithm has blessed me today

[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

Scots totally get this as it's also basically our dialect with a diff accent.

[@themetricalwriter1552]

So nice to hear me own tongue on KZbin!

[@mauryginsberg7720]

I am not from Cumbria but I went to school in Cumbria for a few years and I was quite surprised that I understood quite a bit.

[@christopherellis2663]

Been there in 2015, lovely bit of countryside. 💚 🧙‍♂️ 🇧🇦

[@jameshasapoint7628]

Fascinating! It would really help to see the text of everything you said/read as you deliver it.

[@kite2139]

Amazing!

[@davidcufc]

'Deeked' for 'looked' is Romany. Great video.

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

Lovely!

[@JammieJohnny1]

Nearly all the words used in Cumbria are also used in the North East Northumbrian and Geordie dialects. Being from the North East i dont recall as much of a Yorkshire/Lancashire influence on the accent as you do here, just sounds pretty much the same too me, but maybe ive just never noticed.

[@hectorquinones5579]

Omg, of course you are here Simon, of course you are.

[@greigism]

I'm from South Yorkshire (Barnsley) and even I'm having some difficulty following him, although it's partially inteilligible.

[@tomrogue13]

The legend!

[@justmestillme7459]

I love the accent

[@lindahendry59]

Have you thought of reading us Jacky's lines from Arthur Ransome's 'Picts and Martyrs.' Shetlanders & Orcadians among others had the same problems in school.

[@Matthew-jp5nc]

This is so close!!

[@jaydubb85]

watching this because one of my family's names is Arrington, and i traced it back to a village in Cumbria named Harrington.

[@nightwonder12]

Aye mar'ra great la'al, video i know it's an old la'al video but eh well.

[@elchasai]

My grandmother's mother is from Cumbria. My grandmother always seemed a little Celtic to me.

[@SonicHandsK99]

oh hey it's baldric

[@impablomations]

Sounds a lot like Geordie with a bit of Lancashire/Yorkshire. Definitely a lot of words that are in both dialects.

[@rosfow]

Scottish words too. We say dookers for swimming trunks in Cumbria and I think that is a Scottish thing too. Go for a dook.

[@rosfow]

@widhbnw efDwdwDW No, I don't think so.

[@rosfow]

@widhbnw efDwdwDW It comes from lots of places....Germany, Italy, Greece, Scandinavia and the indigenous Celtic languages. Do your research dude....

[@basedkaiser5352]

Hey it’s Baldrig !

[@M_Julian_TSP]

English dialectiology is absolutely passionating, from a foreign point of view!

[@cathjj840]

Francophone, n'est-ce pas ? Passionate would be a neologism..if it existed. Maybe it should, but I'm afraid that the Anglish crowd would never allow it.

[@M_Julian_TSP]

@@cathjj840 Exactly, even though I could also be an Italian or Spanish speaker, or almost any romance language actually😉 Yes I meant exciting. Weird that passionating doesn't exist while passionate (as an adjective) does... English will always surprise me

[@hollyjollyproductions]

I caught "attercoppen" which is very similar to "spiders" in Danish

[@rbeygarcia]

So very cute

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

sniff t'danger

[@dictionpun1549]

Cumbrian Dialect is a Northern English accent where people speak in the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, later Cumbria.

[@fifa23noob2]

As a cumbrian his accent is really good

[@seancoleman5021]

Do some people in Cumbria speak like this to each other regularly, I wonder? It looks like he tried to write his diary in Cumbrian as much as possible. My guess is that a few older people here and there still speak like this.

[@seancoleman5021]

I find it very difficult to understand.

[@simonroper9218]

That's more or less it. I know several farmers or ex-farmers in their seventies and eighties who speak like this, but most of the younger generation only use a few words here and there. I wrote the diary as an effort to maintain it.

[@conceptacassar7755]

Is there any Cumbrian dialect poetry? It would be lovely to hear. Worth collecting the folklore and telling it so, too. You're preserving a wonderful flame.

[@simonroper9218]

Concepta Cassar There's a bit, but it's a bit tricky to find. There's one of this web page; www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk/ with a few spoken examples under the 'cumbrian voices' tab. Are you from the area, then?

[@conceptacassar7755]

Sorry, I'm slow at replying to comments here. Thank you so much for this. I'm not from the area, but it's an area close to my heart that I love dearly, and I think the dialect is very well-suited to poetry so wondered what the established tradition was, and you seemed like a good person to ask.

[@oriomenoni7651]

I underestand maybe 2% of this!

[@NoBootyBeauty]

I only caught the word "ridiculous" 😂

[@brandonnaylor9067]

I'm from sedgewick a small town close to kendal

[@IrritatedBear]

Worked in Cumbria for a while and had no idea what half the things people said , especially the older blokes in pubs

[@wildandbarefoot]

There's much Danish in English. Specially in the North. It's a pity it's dying out, in just a few generations.

[@jackmack557]

I'm 15 now I was 9 when you posted that ahah I'm Cumbrian asf

[@PewPewPlasmagun]

Sounds like Middle English and Old English at the same time. Very cool, a pity how round and soft and fluffy modern English became. But I admire Shakespeare.

[@dungcheeseMORK999]

It does a bit!

[@willmcpherson2]

I wish we still had big beautiful rolled Rs

[@alexelmaleh3076]

Try Chaucer my dude

[@EVO6-]

Shakespeare wasn't old nor middle English

[@MalachiCo0]

Why am I not surprised it's Simon doing this lol

[@hiphopson]

I imagine that the way this sounds to me is the way English sounds to none English speakers

[@ArturoStojanoff]

Not really...

[@Keke-oh6zd]

tee rod I think so too

[@IchibotK]

Which kind of (native?) English speaker? He sounds British (which sounds similar to, but still distinct from Australian) to me. Then there’s the American accent. Also Indian.

[@egrettacaerulea]

Frisian might be a bit better as far as that goes, tho it sounds more like Chaucer's English to me.

[@julianfejzo4829]

Hard to understand

[@fyrgebrc4666]

My native language!

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

Акноледгд и очень спасибо поговорите....

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

that opening word that sounds like Aoup...was that a unique word, or just your/his accent on Hello? thank you.

[@lewist7576]

He said "ayup" it's a greeting used in many parts of England, mostly in the North of England, namely in Yorkshire. In fact, some of the Yorkshire dialects (there are around 100) are much harder to understand for people outside of the county than this, a few other basic words and phrases in standard Yorkshire dialect are listed below: Hello= Ayup How are you doing?= Ow's tha goen onn? / Ow do? Earn some money/ Work= Addle sum brass Close the door= Pu' wood in't oil You= Thee Your= Tha' Eyes= Een Ears= Lug'oil Mouth= Gob Those were just a few basic words and phrases, though there are many more. You probably don't need to worry too much about learning the dialect if you are considering visiting Yorkshire however (which I would recommend because it's a lovely place) because the majority of dialect speakers will have no trouble understanding you. (Though you may have some trouble understanding them.) Hope this helped!

[@lewist7576]

Interesting... and yes there very well may be a link there, I am led to believe that the term "ayup" derives from the Swedish "ej upp" which translates to "not up." I am pretty sure that the same goes for words like bairn coming from Danish, and this Nordic influence comes mostly from the numerous viking invasions in England, which also influenced other Northern English and Scottish dialects.

[@rosfow]

There are many other Cumbrian dialects too. Take the Cumbrian counting for example (yan, tan, tethera etc), there are at least 5 different versions of that depending which part of the Lakelands you are from. I know the Borrowdale version because I'm from Workington. There are lots of regional variations. I struggle to understand a really broad person from Maryport and it is only a few miles from where I grew up.

[@sunwukong6897]

Ġéa! Mín wyn Simon Roper!

[@klearkhoswashokani1797]

Heeey I know this dude

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

So this is how Baldric sounds when he is intelligible as it gets.

[@widbear3703]

Sounds like broad Lancashire throwing in Geordie words (such as 'bairns' and 'gan')

[@C0rmac0Neill]

bairns and gan are said in yorkshire too

[@hamilax156]

@@C0rmac0Neill and in some areas of lanny

[@hamilax156]

@Chris Fosdyke wtf?

[@Correctrix]

Those words used to be widespread across northern England (which once included what's now lowland Scotland).

[@ballbagsuperstar]

I'm Cumbrian and I can remember people speaking like this as a child

[@sarahhunter1114]

Weird, I had a random desire to wonder what I probably sound like if my ancestors never left for America. Thanks

[@eyemotif]

hey everyone! this guy does videos about linguistics & more cumbrian on his channel Simon Roper

[@themagnanimous1246]

Billy Corgan!

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

sniff the danger

[@Laura-kl7vi]

I can hear the difference in your accent 7 years ago, compared to now, 2024.

[@Kelly_C]

eyyy it's simon!

[@tinyred4512]

Me being from Cumbria not understanding a thing he’s reading LOL.

[@radicalrodriguez5912]

How come?

[@tinyred4512]

@@radicalrodriguez5912 some slang words aren’t used anymore and maybe the pronunciation is a little off.

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

pictish, you say....

[@davidclifford5124]

What an interesting video. I've never been to Cumbria and so I've never heard this particular dialect.

[@commonsense6257]

Cool video. The tongue of the Lake District.

[@emmabancroft7760]

Not really...this is very much west Cumbrian influenced. The people in the fells speak quite differently to this.

[@davidlester6673]

There seems to be a lot of Yorkshire in that dialect too.

[@James-gc5if]

Hopefully the Yorkshire dialect is up next! Any volunteers? :)

[@imamoronand9199]

Go hjeme is much closer to go home than gan yam 😂

[@GarnetsWeb]

*Gå hjem :)

[@mgk3176]

2:04 I never knew there are Khoisan languages spoken in the UK...

[@mgk3176]

@Devos Lemmens Come on, that was a joke.

[@purpleroo6967]

MGK she was just trying to be helpful...

[@purpleroo6967]

Devos Lemmens sorry

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

....sniff

[@bennoben1653]

Well done mate 👍

[@TheMouseyS]

I noticed bears a lot of parallels with the Mancunian dialect!

[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

Come to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire and you’ll hear Doric- she’s richt thrang! Fine fettle. I’m nae richt sure.. fan’s the wedding? Etc

[@wildandbarefoot]

Aye, tha's gam, yunun. It's tee a fermers son.? For them as studies Shak,'spier, As missed yon, and tas the point, but nun.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

In Scotland we say Gawin hame..going home

[@TonyEnglandUK]

lol put the Closed Captions on, they're hilariously bad at translating him.

[@lughlongarm76]

Attercop! Attercop!

[@rampantmutt9119]

BAIRNS

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

what about sniff the danger though....

[@erdemir5641]

Is this the same as the Carlisle accent?

[@KaylumHSQ]

Carlisle is in Cumbria

[@britemanberry5378]

Im from cumbria. My family speak like this but not as thick

[@M_Julian_TSP]

@Chris Fosdyke stfu I think we understood what you wanted to say now stop your insanity

[@wcreamymami]

He is cute