Bristolian. We have at LEAST 3 that change based on class and location in Bristol. The more Somerset version in the south, the more "PR" around fishponds and other well-off areas and then the Easton Bristolians than I can't even describe... all of this is ignoring the mixed accents that have been created since the 50s/60s by Bristol inns mixing with immigration. When a single city has the variety of an entire nation, you can't help but feel proud
There is a video that's called " 30 dialects of the English language in the UK" you will hear recordings of some people talking from the different areas Thought you might want to check that out
HOWEVER.. "The English Language in 67 Accents & Random Voices"......YES, 67 though not all British. The video has 17 MILLION views and was made 8 years ago/ ENJOY:)
Definitely the best attempts at British accents I've seen on UA-cam by an American, I first had to learn a Welsh accent when I was in Under Milk Wood when I was about 9
Just so you know Scotland has way more than three accents. In fact Glasgow and Edinburgh have at least two - posh & not posh. I live half way between the two & sound different than either of those. Then if you go the same distance North you get the Fife accent, further North and you're into Doric. The islands have their own too as a lot of them speak Gaelic. Then there's the bit in the middle and the whole West coast all different 😁
She got all the main ones though. East Anglia has at least half a dozen depending whether you're from Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex! There are probably closer to 30 or 40 around the country! South Wales, Mid Wales and North Wales all have variations too.
Theres actually no 'British accent'. There are various English accents & Scottish, Welsh & Irish accents. Although its understandable for someone in a foreign nation to state "he had a British accent", there is no singular 'British' accent. 🇬🇧❤🇺🇸
@@johankaewberg8162 Do you mean like the old broadcasts? If so, that was usually the Queens English or now Kings English, although that is a class thing. Most people in the UK do not speak like that & have a regional accent much different. What my original post meant was that to people in foreign nations, they would simply state that i have a 'British accent' but with the various accents in the UK, there is not one British accent. English accents & Scottish/Welsh/Irish accents when they speak English. That posh sounding accent though that you hear on old (sometimes new) radio/tv broadcasts is now called the Kings English.
@@Paul-hl8yg Received Pronunciation is probably the closest thing to a "British accent" (though I agree, there really isn't any such thing) in that it isn't regional - I grew up in North Wales, for example, but on account of watching a lot of television, receiving informal elocution lessons in drama classes and clubs, and moving all over the country for university and later to other countries for work have an RP accent that isn't all that different to Siobhan's base accent in this video - with only a few minor elements of the regional accent I likely would have if not for those factors lingering and becoming more noticeable if I become more animated or angry. I suppose, because that accent can be found virtually anywhere in the UK and doesn't correspond to a discrete geographical region it *could* be considered "British" rather than "Scottish", "English", "Welsh" or "Irish", but like you, I'd be reluctant to call it that given it's cultural association with middle to upper-middle class English people.
RP exists in all parts of the UK, just in very very limited instances once you leave England. There's even an Australian accent that not that's r off RP.
Good try Sir. I will say in Yorkshire you can live on a street and at one end you can hear one accent, and at t'other is something different. A very diverse county of accents and dialects
There’s a variety of welsh accents. I can tell the difference between east, west, north welsh accents. I can ID individual areas like Cardiff or Swansea
You managed very well with most of the accents. Siobhan's accents are generally good but I don't know if people in the areas would agree because her Glasgow accent was terrible. I live 20 miles from Glasgow so my accent is fairly similar to a Glaswegian accent but just not as thick. A Glaswegian had to give evidence in court in London when I was in my twenties, and they had to use a translator for him. It was on the news here at the time. 😂😂😂
you are right about Scottish accents, I live in Dundee and if I cross the Tay Road Bridge to Fife totally different, same same to Forfar and Arbroath or Perth
People always get the Cornish accent wrong, they always sound like they're from Somerset way to harsh! Cornish is much softer and rounder, like South Wales it sounds more like singing when you hear a proper conversation, more lyrical... the words seem to blend together. ❤️
In the West Country from Gloucester to Bristol into Somerset and further into the South West the accents change every 15 miles or so. In Bristol alone there are at least two seperate dialects, North Bristol is a little different to a South Bristol accent. You would only hear the differences if you were a local like me (I'm from the North East of the City) the same area as Steve Merchant
4:24 one thing that confuses me is Americans have just decided that we ignore d’s in the middle of words in the way (not all of us) ignore t’s…even after hearing us not do that like she didn’t here 😂 you’ve essentially just assumed that and made it up it’s never been a thing 👍
Yep there are even more accents than that not to mention, dialects, unique words/ Slang, and languages. So some of the accent differences come from the different invaders we had up until around 1066, notabley the Vikings and the Danes and the Saxons and the Romans some which took many slaves back to their respective countries (The Danes took many to be sold to do farm work in Denmark). From 1066 for about 400 years the nobility and royal spoke french (which they brought from Normandy). So for many centuries it was not permitted to travel without permission from your land lord and even after that most people travelled on foot (they could not afford horses etc. usually) which meant many towns and villages were isolated enough for accents and words to be very local. And in modern day this is the case because people grow up around it.
There's a recording on UA-cam of a selection of British accents, some of which were probably recorded around the forties or fifties. Many accents are going or have now gone after city people have taken over. Case in point being Essex and Hertfordshire are now North London overspill, when I lived there in the sixties, most locals sounded like East Anglian Farmers?
The commentator was slightly off there. The royal family spend their summer break in BALMORAL CASTLE in Scotland. Our late queen went to WINDOR CASTLE every weekend. She classed BUCKINGHAM PALACE as her office and WINDSOR as her home.
Fun fact: West country is usually associated with pirates because of an actor named Robert Newton. He played Long John Silver in the 1950 adaptation of Treasure Island. He was also from Shaftesbury, in Dorset
Well done on having a go. You were pretty close tbh. As we went north, it got a bit.....less close.😂 Your basic mistake with RP is that you said 'news' as 'noos' (very US) whereas in Brit RP it is 'nyoos'. "Tell me any British accents that I missed" There's a new accent at the end of each street here! (OK I exagerate- it every 10 miles or so).
Great try on all those accents. Probably spending a bit of time in the areas would really help to absorb the accents. My mother could tell which village in our area of County Durham a person was from and often they were only 2 or 3 miles apart.
being a scouser myself, her scouse accent sounded more welsh to me than scouse until the "alright" at the end 🤣one of the best kept secret places is lincolnshire, you wont find many video's for lincolnshire but it is such a beautiful place with lots of rolling farmland as far as the eye can see with little towns in between - the accents from a little town called louth differ from grimsby town which are in spitting distance from each other.
As a Brummie I can confirm that her accent is excellent. By the way mate, your upper class and regional 🏴 are quite excellent too. You should do voice-overs yourself! 😂❤️👍
Hey! I'm from Liverpool. I recently discovered your channel and love your demeanour and attitude. I really appreciate how you gave each accent a try. You actually did pretty well for some of them given it was your first attempt. The scouse (you're correct, you can also say Liverpudlian) accent in the video is a very mild one. A thick scouse accent is very difficult for non-scousers to understand.
The amazing thing is how British people can pinpoint so many of these accents, and lots more such as Bristol, Manchester and indeed many different parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
When English arrived in the US it was already a developed language. English has been created from many languages norse, germanic, latin, french, various forms of gaelic, etc. Add to that numerous local British dialects used before a national language. In essence when people first started speaking English it was a foreign language and as with non English speakers speaking English they retain hints of their mother tounge.
How adorable you are. Trying these accents. And your voice is sooo warm and lovely. Thank you for being so open minded. The UK is great but also has many faults. We have to embrace everything. And you are. Xx
Your not bad for an American doing uk accent some did make me laugh out loud tho 😂❤ thoroughly enjoyed it 👍🏻 please react to Britain’s most effective adverts please 🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Enjoying you Chanel dude, has anyone mentioned Fred Dibnah yet? Local legend and loved by the whole of the UK. Check his videos on how to ladder and how to scaffold chimneys 👍
The accent in Chesterfield, Derbyshire is completely different to the accent in Sheffield, Yorkshire (well to a local anyway) and yet there is only 12 miles between them.
The Liverpudlian accent (scouse) has at least 5 sub accents depending on which part of the city you live in and how old that particular community is and how diverse. Someone that lives on the dock road will have a very broad accent compared with someone from Old Swan and may use different terms. So within one city there can be multiple versions of the same accent.
My children (all now in their 40's) all went to the same school in Liverpool. My eldest and youngest have roughly the same Scouse accent, sort of generic north Liverpool. The middle son to this day has a very distinct Bootle accent because the majority of his cohort in school came from that area after a change in catchment areas.
As others have said, there are many more. I'm from the northeast and can think of at least four distinguishable accents within 20 miles of where I grew up. Newcastle/Tyneside is different to Sunderland, and both are very different to Middlesbrough. I can instantly distinguish those when I hear them. They all get described by southerners as 'geordie', even the Middlesbrough one.
Credit were it's due dude, you made a reasonable fist of that. Her accents were a mixed bag, she's way better at some than others. Yorkshire was particularly ropey, no-one speaks like that.
The town I come from in Lancashire has different accents across one side of town to the other , we also have a dialect too so not only does our accent sound different we also use different words for things
Im from east anglia, suffolk which is next to norfolk and we have totally different accents, then between suffolk and London is Essex, which is a cross between cockney and suffolk
It's always abundantly clear that people who do these videos have never talked to someone from Norfolk/Suffolk or didn't even realise they were. Mostly they just do a west country accent (hot tip, it's the opposite side of the country) and have no idea on how the sounds and stresses are treated - and that's just broad Norfolk which is rare enough. But maybe if everyone from an area you know of doesn't sound like what you expect them to (there's a lot more than Stephen Fry)... it could be they don't sound like you think they do. Nah that would make too much sense.
This is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to accents in Britain. You could travel less than 10 miles and hear things pronounced differently. God bless you for trying them. You sounded Scottish most of the time and did well with Edinburgh, so if you ever want to dress up as Shrek for Halloweeen, you'll have the voice 😂
When I was at college many of my fellow students, were from all over the country. The ones from Birmingham could be separated almost into different streets because they sounded so distinctly different. yet all had Birmingham accents. This is a great channel and you are, sorry, I haven’t caught your name, very generous with our British eccentricities
One thing I love about American films…if there is ever a British character, they either have a massively posh accent, or a cockney accent, almost like they think those are the only accents in Britain, which is why I love watching Americans react to videos like this
Well, I was certainly smiling and giggling at your attempts! Bloody brilliant effort I'd say 😌 I absolutely adore your demeanor, and your voice is so calming; you could make a living doing voice overs 😊 Definitely second the other brits, saying there are waaaaaay more than that 😅 Saying Geordie is the only north eastern accent would make a lot of people unhappy! Everyone always says, you can go down the road 20 mins and the accent will change 😂
She missed out Suffolk, where I'm from. But I speak RP because of being brought up with a very deaf mother. I can key myself in to the accent though. "As a rum ald dew!" generally does it. Even single syllable words sound as if there is a 'Y' sound implanted in the middle. So 'here' sounds like 'heyah'.
I'm from East Anglia and yeah, hardly anyone has one of the traditional accents from there any more. Mostly you hear older farmers speak it but everyone else has an accent closer to a London one
This woman has never visited the West country. Me and my dad used to travel around the West country, ( we live here) and during the 70's -80's we used to visit Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and parts of Hampshire. The dialects and language literally changed 6 miles apart......... It was a part of Wessex. Many words from Wiltshire and Wessex made your lexicon. My dad spoke a totally different language to me growing up. Think of Gerald on clarksons farm.......... But we understood him 👍
As a Brit, I'm impressed. I'm pretty sure that some of your accents were better than mine would be. GJ. But.. (and it's a big one) they would be spotted as fake within seconds if used 'on the ground.' I've been thinking about this over the years. My parents were from Yorkshire, and I was born in Devon. So accents have always been 'a thing'. Another fascinating video that has made me think a bit deeper into things I though I'd already thunk. TY.
You made some interesting comments. Like the one you made about East Anglia and Penn, is this because of East Anglian settlers or Dutch and German settlers went there? East Anglia was very rich in the 1600's and land was drained using the Dutch system and many Dutch people came over, also the Puritans left from this area in 1630 for America, but to Mass. You made a good first attempt at a lot of the accents. You may find that the Cornish accent is similar to Virginia coastal accent, where a lot of the first colonists went.
Geography and the separation it creates through rives, hills/valleys etc creates veried accents. The UK has a particularly large number of accents for its size given that it is also geographically quite diverse for a small nation. They say in the UK the accent changes every 8 miles (To the extent that locals could tell which part of a given county you're from), on that basis there will be literally hundreds of accents in England Alone. The US will obviously have more, given that its 40x bigger (Though given that you can drive for hours and still be in the same sort of environment, the US probs has about 10x the number of accents rather than 40x.) Generally she does a good job, she said in the intro she could do 17 of the main archetype accents, So I won't fault her for the fact that way more than 17 exist, and they were good enough to convince most UK citizens (though I suspect locals could spot flaws in her interpretation of their own accent).
I was born in Lincolnshires and the county has at least 3 different accents.There is the accents of the main towns and then there is the accent of the country workers. Different words are used in different areas. I find it very difficult to understand the farm workers of the county.
I remember seeing a documentary on the agricultural workers from Lincolnshire when I was stationed there in the seventies and eighties. I believe the doc' was called "To be a Yellowbelly". Nothing to do with the American version of the name. It sounded to me to be similar to the rural accent from the Cambridgeshire Fens, which is just next door? And you're right, there's certainly a big difference between Stamford, Lincoln and Grimsby accents too. "Yellowbelly", could either be to do with the facings on the uniform of the old Lincolnshire Regiment, or perhaps staining from crops like mustard seed?
@@johnp8131 There is a good book called "Nobbut a Yellerbelly". It is full of lincolnshire sayings. Everyone (such as me) born in Lincolnshire is a "YellowBelly" and proud of it. I come from the town of Scunthorpe.
@@trevorveail Thanks for that, never been to Scunthorpe. Obviously I knew Lincoln and its surroundings well. These days I only venture north over the border to Stamford for an occasional pub crawl every couple of years? It's only twenty odd miles away but by train, it's two changes and two hours up a branch line!
Most English accents are formed on the lips rather than the throat like North American accents - one reason it can come across as loud to some non-Americans like Brits, you need more air and projection to control speech in your accent, and conversely it's easier to whisper with an English accent
To be a Cockney, it is said that you must be born within the sound of Bow bells. - meaning within earshot of the bells of the St Mary-le-Bow church (apparently they can be heard from upto six miles away. Cockneys are considered to be from the east end of london so i guess the church is in that direction. Google tells me that Cockneys inhabit areas of London such as Bethnal Green, Stepney, Whitechapel, and Hackney. My mother is technically a cockney but there's no way you would guess as she never actually grew up in London and speaks quite posh sometimes (she puts it on a bit) ... she just happed to be born in some hospital near bow bells. So cockneys are also characterised by their 'cockney rhyming slang' , which is kinda like Jamaican patwa for Londoners 😅, where words are replaced with rhyming words or phrases: Apples and Pears = stairs. ... Bees and honey = money. ... Bottle and stopper = copper. ... Butcher's hook = look. ... Duck and dive = hide. ... Dog and bone = phone. ... Kettle and hob = watch. ... Mince pies = eyes. Pirates of Penzance =pants. - That kind of thing. So basically a London accent and a cockney accent are the same but with cockneys/east enders it's just broader and may involve some rhyming slang and may not be understandable. I remember working in care down here in Devon and i took one of our guys to visit his brother in London for a couple of days and see his mum and it turns out they are real east enders - cockneys. Honestly he kept talking about pie and mash on the train, he couldn't wait to get to a pie and mash shop (famous east end food along with jellied eels). So eventually he forgot about the pie and mash and we met up with his mother and she was strange ... she kept randomly saying "Look!" and i'd look around to see what she wanted me to look at and there was never anything ... it was just a wierd east-endery thing ... an expession, she said all the time for no apparent reason. They were a very odd family!
I come from Ealing in West London, if I were to walk 10mins down the road to a place called Hanwell they speak very different to me. Though actually I have a mixture of 3 different accents now:- My well spoken London accent, a Portsmouth accent (I've lived here 24 years now) and a West Country accent (my ex was from Plymouth and I picked up his accent) lol
Brilliant vid, to be fair you tried your best, I had tears running down my face.. your welsh accent (south wales) was.. okay. Crack on, well done. Cheers
Good effort …! As for variations, towns only 20 miles separate have very distinct differences in pronunciation. Probably dating back several hundred years to before population mobility etc.
There's so many different accents in the UK it's ridiculous. And there's small variations within cities on top of that(for example most people from Liverpool can tell where/which end of the city you're from by your accent even though they're all Scouse accents.) You did a great job at trying them out though and I commend you for that. As far as where they come from it depends; I know scouse/Liverpool origionally sounded more like a typical lancashire accent but being a port ended up having a lot of Irish, Welsh and Scottish influence all moving into the city for various reasons and all of those accents melded together over time into what it is now. Welsh, Irish and Cornish I imagine are all influenced by their origional first languages(welsh, gaelic and cornish respectively)
I love that we have so many different accents! For such a teeny tiny island, it's pretty cool. As to why? You might want to check out this guy's video - "Why Does English Have So Many Accents?" ua-cam.com/video/vpqjo1ea700/v-deo.html I find it fascinating, hope you do too! Another one of his you might like is "11 Difficult English Accents You WON'T Understand" - ua-cam.com/video/7SJ-wTR2H6M/v-deo.html
There are waaay more British accents than 17. I live in Sussex and we probably have at least 17 here alone.
same here in Wales, drive to a town 5 miles away and the accent has changed
She was just saying she was going to do all the accents she could do. I can see how it can sound confusing, though.
yeah, I'm from Yorkshire and it's the same here, I moved 3 miles up road and the accent is noticeably different.
Bristolian. We have at LEAST 3 that change based on class and location in Bristol. The more Somerset version in the south, the more "PR" around fishponds and other well-off areas and then the Easton Bristolians than I can't even describe... all of this is ignoring the mixed accents that have been created since the 50s/60s by Bristol inns mixing with immigration. When a single city has the variety of an entire nation, you can't help but feel proud
Yeah lol like what? Does she mean 17 per street 😂...?
Still good, though.
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There is a video that's called " 30 dialects of the English language in the UK" you will hear recordings of some people talking from the different areas
Thought you might want to check that out
HOWEVER.. "The English Language in 67 Accents & Random Voices"......YES, 67 though not all British.
The video has 17 MILLION views and was made 8 years ago/ ENJOY:)
Ok but don’t confuse dialect and accent.
@@JRLNeal I enter my 8th decade in England next year,my friend so,I am,easily confused but I have given myself a good talking to:)
Definitely the best attempts at British accents I've seen on UA-cam by an American, I first had to learn a Welsh accent when I was in Under Milk Wood when I was about 9
Just so you know Scotland has way more than three accents. In fact Glasgow and Edinburgh have at least two - posh & not posh. I live half way between the two & sound different than either of those. Then if you go the same distance North you get the Fife accent, further North and you're into Doric. The islands have their own too as a lot of them speak Gaelic. Then there's the bit in the middle and the whole West coast all different 😁
She got all the main ones though. East Anglia has at least half a dozen depending whether you're from Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex!
There are probably closer to 30 or 40 around the country!
South Wales, Mid Wales and North Wales all have variations too.
@@ChristineRead-ck1uq Main ones?
There are 160 possible regional accents in the UK.
What about the other 2
Theres actually no 'British accent'. There are various English accents & Scottish, Welsh & Irish accents. Although its understandable for someone in a foreign nation to state "he had a British accent", there is no singular 'British' accent. 🇬🇧❤🇺🇸
Well, there is BBC English, just as we have SVT Swedish. Not really representable for anyone, but a good compromise.
@@johankaewberg8162 Do you mean like the old broadcasts? If so, that was usually the Queens English or now Kings English, although that is a class thing. Most people in the UK do not speak like that & have a regional accent much different. What my original post meant was that to people in foreign nations, they would simply state that i have a 'British accent' but with the various accents in the UK, there is not one British accent. English accents & Scottish/Welsh/Irish accents when they speak English. That posh sounding accent though that you hear on old (sometimes new) radio/tv broadcasts is now called the Kings English.
@@Paul-hl8yg Received Pronunciation is probably the closest thing to a "British accent" (though I agree, there really isn't any such thing) in that it isn't regional - I grew up in North Wales, for example, but on account of watching a lot of television, receiving informal elocution lessons in drama classes and clubs, and moving all over the country for university and later to other countries for work have an RP accent that isn't all that different to Siobhan's base accent in this video - with only a few minor elements of the regional accent I likely would have if not for those factors lingering and becoming more noticeable if I become more animated or angry. I suppose, because that accent can be found virtually anywhere in the UK and doesn't correspond to a discrete geographical region it *could* be considered "British" rather than "Scottish", "English", "Welsh" or "Irish", but like you, I'd be reluctant to call it that given it's cultural association with middle to upper-middle class English people.
@@smockboy You're a bit of a heinz 57 accent wise then lol. 👍
RP exists in all parts of the UK, just in very very limited instances once you leave England. There's even an Australian accent that not that's r off RP.
Good try Sir. I will say in Yorkshire you can live on a street and at one end you can hear one accent, and at t'other is something different. A very diverse county of accents and dialects
Exactly the same here Notts/Derby
You're the first American I've heard come close to a Welsh accent.
I was thinking that.
Saying that though, he has come quite close to a few of the accents, apart from the Scouse accent which sounded a bit Welsh.
@@timglennon6814 Maybe because Scouse is a hybrid accent of Cheshire, Irish - and (north ) Welsh
There’s a variety of welsh accents. I can tell the difference between east, west, north welsh accents. I can ID individual areas like Cardiff or Swansea
I'm from Wales and was thinking the same thing lol. 🏴
@@fayesouthall6604variety of accents in North Wales as well.
You did generally very well with trying them out! Well done! And you even got the Welsh phrase pretty well!
Wow! You are the first reactor to give this a proper go. Respect. Dance like no-one's watching 👍
You managed very well with most of the accents. Siobhan's accents are generally good but I don't know if people in the areas would agree because her Glasgow accent was terrible. I live 20 miles from Glasgow so my accent is fairly similar to a Glaswegian accent but just not as thick. A Glaswegian had to give evidence in court in London when I was in my twenties, and they had to use a translator for him. It was on the news here at the time. 😂😂😂
Yeah quite a few didn’t sound right to me, I’m Notts/Derby border
you are right about Scottish accents, I live in Dundee and if I cross the Tay Road Bridge to Fife totally different, same same to Forfar and Arbroath or Perth
Yeah, she gets the essense of the accents right, but not broad enough as it's actually spoken.
Yeah I thought she was doing ok up to the Glasgow accent. It sounded more Aberdonian to me than Glaswegian.
@@sunnyjim1355Yes, we all love a trier, she got it "basically" similar 😅.
You managed to mirror some of the accents better on the first try than many people that keep trying to practice and still get it wrong
Can I just say how much I've enjoyed this. You trying to copy the accents was brilliant. I think I love you!
Great vid, brilliant attempt at both Welsh accents, well done 👍
People always get the Cornish accent wrong, they always sound like they're from Somerset way to harsh! Cornish is much softer and rounder, like South Wales it sounds more like singing when you hear a proper conversation, more lyrical... the words seem to blend together. ❤️
the most impressive thing is that all of these accents are within a few hundred miles of each other
In the West Country from Gloucester to Bristol into Somerset and further into the South West the accents change every 15 miles or so.
In Bristol alone there are at least two seperate dialects, North Bristol is a little different to a South Bristol accent. You would only hear the differences if you were a local like me (I'm from the North East of the City) the same area as Steve Merchant
You did brilliant with those accents, the first yank that can imitate British accents with a degree of success, well done matey very impressed 👍
Aye, 6682, it's as terrible as either mob trying to imitate the other. Stop it.
he's better at it than she is
There are more secluded parts of New England that have retained their East Anglian accent after hundreds of years. Similar in parts of the Carolinas.
4:24 one thing that confuses me is Americans have just decided that we ignore d’s in the middle of words in the way (not all of us) ignore t’s…even after hearing us not do that like she didn’t here 😂 you’ve essentially just assumed that and made it up it’s never been a thing 👍
I love how you always give it a go 🤣
Yep there are even more accents than that not to mention, dialects, unique words/ Slang, and languages. So some of the accent differences come from the different invaders we had up until around 1066, notabley the Vikings and the Danes and the Saxons and the Romans some which took many slaves back to their respective countries (The Danes took many to be sold to do farm work in Denmark). From 1066 for about 400 years the nobility and royal spoke french (which they brought from Normandy).
So for many centuries it was not permitted to travel without permission from your land lord and even after that most people travelled on foot (they could not afford horses etc. usually) which meant many towns and villages were isolated enough for accents and words to be very local. And in modern day this is the case because people grow up around it.
There's a recording on UA-cam of a selection of British accents, some of which were probably recorded around the forties or fifties. Many accents are going or have now gone after city people have taken over. Case in point being Essex and Hertfordshire are now North London overspill, when I lived there in the sixties, most locals sounded like East Anglian Farmers?
Hhahaaa😁 I enjoyed this a lot..Thank You for trying out all the accents👍 not bad 👍 and WAY better than my attempts 😁
The commentator was slightly off there. The royal family spend their summer break in BALMORAL CASTLE in Scotland. Our late queen went to WINDOR CASTLE every weekend. She classed BUCKINGHAM PALACE as her office and WINDSOR as her home.
Fun fact: West country is usually associated with pirates because of an actor named Robert Newton. He played Long John Silver in the 1950 adaptation of Treasure Island. He was also from Shaftesbury, in Dorset
Well done on having a go. You were pretty close tbh. As we went north, it got a bit.....less close.😂
Your basic mistake with RP is that you said 'news' as 'noos' (very US) whereas in Brit RP it is 'nyoos'.
"Tell me any British accents that I missed" There's a new accent at the end of each street here! (OK I exagerate- it every 10 miles or so).
Great try on all those accents. Probably spending a bit of time in the areas would really help to absorb the accents. My mother could tell which village in our area of County Durham a person was from and often they were only 2 or 3 miles apart.
That was funny, You actually weren't too bad at them accents and weren't far off 👍
being a scouser myself, her scouse accent sounded more welsh to me than scouse until the "alright" at the end 🤣one of the best kept secret places is lincolnshire, you wont find many video's for lincolnshire but it is such a beautiful place with lots of rolling farmland as far as the eye can see with little towns in between - the accents from a little town called louth differ from grimsby town which are in spitting distance from each other.
A lot of young people in flintshire have a hint of a scouse accent when speaking English.
Wales has many different variations on the accent, just depends on what part of Wales you're from. Im form south Wales btw. 🏴
You are actually very good at the British accents... Fair play to you bro
As a Brummie I can confirm that her accent is excellent.
By the way mate, your upper class and regional 🏴 are quite excellent too.
You should do voice-overs yourself!
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Very impressed with your accents ,brilliant 👍😀
In the UK accents and slang vary from town to town and also within cities
Clearly Taffy ancestors from Cardiff (I can say taffy as I'm half welsh!)
Hey! I'm from Liverpool. I recently discovered your channel and love your demeanour and attitude. I really appreciate how you gave each accent a try. You actually did pretty well for some of them given it was your first attempt. The scouse (you're correct, you can also say Liverpudlian) accent in the video is a very mild one. A thick scouse accent is very difficult for non-scousers to understand.
"Shut it you tart!" AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was great, you did really well.
The amazing thing is how British people can pinpoint so many of these accents, and lots more such as Bristol, Manchester and indeed many different parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
I'm so glad i discovered you, you're so soft spoken i love your accent, your facination with us is so cute, btw im a northerner, near manchester ❤
When English arrived in the US it was already a developed language. English has been created from many languages norse, germanic, latin, french, various forms of gaelic, etc. Add to that numerous local British dialects used before a national language. In essence when people first started speaking English it was a foreign language and as with non English speakers speaking English they retain hints of their mother tounge.
🤣 You actually did a really good job of attempting these accents - far better than I could do, and I'm British! 👏
There are hundreds of accents,drive 15 minutes from my home and another accent is there. You did really well with the accents.
hysterical. i love this in a really nice way. great job 👏
How adorable you are. Trying these accents. And your voice is sooo warm and lovely. Thank you for being so open minded. The UK is great but also has many faults. We have to embrace everything. And you are. Xx
I saw this video years ago, it's great, she's so good at all the accents.
Your not bad for an American doing uk accent some did make me laugh out loud tho 😂❤ thoroughly enjoyed it 👍🏻 please react to Britain’s most effective adverts please 🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Let's face it, he was better than Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins! Hahahaha!
Fair play to you mate. Not a bad effort
Enjoying you Chanel dude, has anyone mentioned Fred Dibnah yet? Local legend and loved by the whole of the UK. Check his videos on how to ladder and how to scaffold chimneys 👍
You are surprisingly good at this and have discovered why we are said to have a stiff upper lip.
You are very good at the accents
The accent in Chesterfield, Derbyshire is completely different to the accent in Sheffield, Yorkshire (well to a local anyway) and yet there is only 12 miles between them.
The Liverpudlian accent (scouse) has at least 5 sub accents depending on which part of the city you live in and how old that particular community is and how diverse. Someone that lives on the dock road will have a very broad accent compared with someone from Old Swan and may use different terms. So within one city there can be multiple versions of the same accent.
Local joke but it's 'Thee Old Swan' like Thee Asda! Not sure why some supermarkets are Thee ... and some are not. 🤷♂
My children (all now in their 40's) all went to the same school in Liverpool. My eldest and youngest have roughly the same Scouse accent, sort of generic north Liverpool. The middle son to this day has a very distinct Bootle accent because the majority of his cohort in school came from that area after a change in catchment areas.
You know what fella ... for a 1st attempt at those accents ... you did a decent job 🤣
I love this bloke / he does make me laugh / great sense of humour and doesn’t take himself seriously
Almost British 🇬🇧🇬🇧
When most people react to this they don’t attempt the accents. I am really glad that you did!
You did very well. There are a lot of British people that could not do as good.
As others have said, there are many more. I'm from the northeast and can think of at least four distinguishable accents within 20 miles of where I grew up. Newcastle/Tyneside is different to Sunderland, and both are very different to Middlesbrough. I can instantly distinguish those when I hear them. They all get described by southerners as 'geordie', even the Middlesbrough one.
If it helps, the Scouse accent comes from a combination of North Welsh, Irish and Lancastrian accents.
His Welsh was pretty good tbh was very close to sounding like hearing myself through my own headphones 😂 🏴
That was impressive your pretty good at accents . 😊
Credit were it's due dude, you made a reasonable fist of that.
Her accents were a mixed bag, she's way better at some than others. Yorkshire was particularly ropey, no-one speaks like that.
The town I come from in Lancashire has different accents across one side of town to the other , we also have a dialect too so not only does our accent sound different we also use different words for things
Im from east anglia, suffolk which is next to norfolk and we have totally different accents, then between suffolk and London is Essex, which is a cross between cockney and suffolk
It's always abundantly clear that people who do these videos have never talked to someone from Norfolk/Suffolk or didn't even realise they were.
Mostly they just do a west country accent (hot tip, it's the opposite side of the country) and have no idea on how the sounds and stresses are treated - and that's just broad Norfolk which is rare enough.
But maybe if everyone from an area you know of doesn't sound like what you expect them to (there's a lot more than Stephen Fry)... it could be they don't sound like you think they do. Nah that would make too much sense.
Robbie Burns was from the south of Scotland and spoke a dialect called 'Lallans' (Lowlands). A long way from Inverness.
This is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to accents in Britain. You could travel less than 10 miles and hear things pronounced differently. God bless you for trying them. You sounded Scottish most of the time and did well with Edinburgh, so if you ever want to dress up as Shrek for Halloweeen, you'll have the voice 😂
I’ve just discovered your channel. You’re lovely 🥰
When I was at college many of my fellow students, were from all over the country. The ones from Birmingham could be separated almost into different streets because they sounded so distinctly different. yet all had Birmingham accents.
This is a great channel and you are, sorry, I haven’t caught your name, very generous with our British eccentricities
"The stiff upper lip" isn't just metaphorical. Our accents change because our mouth structure changes deoending on what city youre raised in
Fair play to you, for having a go. Our westcountry accents are big on 'R's' OOH ARRH!😀
Couldn't stop laughing. Just stick to your American accent x😂😂
One thing I love about American films…if there is ever a British character, they either have a massively posh accent, or a cockney accent, almost like they think those are the only accents in Britain, which is why I love watching Americans react to videos like this
Did you have fun with that? I certainly enjoyed listening to you getting stuck in. 😊
Well, I was certainly smiling and giggling at your attempts! Bloody brilliant effort I'd say 😌
I absolutely adore your demeanor, and your voice is so calming; you could make a living doing voice overs 😊
Definitely second the other brits, saying there are waaaaaay more than that 😅 Saying Geordie is the only north eastern accent would make a lot of people unhappy!
Everyone always says, you can go down the road 20 mins and the accent will change 😂
Good job....accents from different invasions... Anglo Saxons, Vikings, French, Celts
You nailed most of these accents.
She missed out Suffolk, where I'm from. But I speak RP because of being brought up with a very deaf mother. I can key myself in to the accent though. "As a rum ald dew!" generally does it. Even single syllable words sound as if there is a 'Y' sound implanted in the middle. So 'here' sounds like 'heyah'.
I'm from East Anglia and yeah, hardly anyone has one of the traditional accents from there any more. Mostly you hear older farmers speak it but everyone else has an accent closer to a London one
This woman has never visited the West country.
Me and my dad used to travel around the West country, ( we live here) and during the 70's -80's we used to visit Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and parts of Hampshire.
The dialects and language literally changed 6 miles apart.........
It was a part of Wessex. Many words from Wiltshire and Wessex made your lexicon.
My dad spoke a totally different language to me growing up.
Think of Gerald on clarksons farm.......... But we understood him 👍
As a Brit, I'm impressed.
I'm pretty sure that some of your accents were better than mine would be. GJ.
But.. (and it's a big one) they would be spotted as fake within seconds if used 'on the ground.'
I've been thinking about this over the years. My parents were from Yorkshire, and I was born in Devon. So accents have always been 'a thing'.
Another fascinating video that has made me think a bit deeper into things I though I'd already thunk. TY.
You made some interesting comments. Like the one you made about East Anglia and Penn, is this because of East Anglian settlers or Dutch and German settlers went there? East Anglia was very rich in the 1600's and land was drained using the Dutch system and many Dutch people came over, also the Puritans left from this area in 1630 for America, but to Mass. You made a good first attempt at a lot of the accents. You may find that the Cornish accent is similar to Virginia coastal accent, where a lot of the first colonists went.
Very good. You did well with accents. You really do understand accents.
Geography and the separation it creates through rives, hills/valleys etc creates veried accents. The UK has a particularly large number of accents for its size given that it is also geographically quite diverse for a small nation. They say in the UK the accent changes every 8 miles (To the extent that locals could tell which part of a given county you're from), on that basis there will be literally hundreds of accents in England Alone. The US will obviously have more, given that its 40x bigger (Though given that you can drive for hours and still be in the same sort of environment, the US probs has about 10x the number of accents rather than 40x.)
Generally she does a good job, she said in the intro she could do 17 of the main archetype accents, So I won't fault her for the fact that way more than 17 exist, and they were good enough to convince most UK citizens (though I suspect locals could spot flaws in her interpretation of their own accent).
We have over 3,000 recognisably different accents here. I live in Hull and we have at least 3 distinct accents alone.
I was born in Lincolnshires and the county has at least 3 different accents.There is the accents of the main towns and then there is the accent of the country workers. Different words are used in different areas. I find it very difficult to understand the farm workers of the county.
I remember seeing a documentary on the agricultural workers from Lincolnshire when I was stationed there in the seventies and eighties. I believe the doc' was called "To be a Yellowbelly". Nothing to do with the American version of the name. It sounded to me to be similar to the rural accent from the Cambridgeshire Fens, which is just next door?
And you're right, there's certainly a big difference between Stamford, Lincoln and Grimsby accents too.
"Yellowbelly", could either be to do with the facings on the uniform of the old Lincolnshire Regiment, or perhaps staining from crops like mustard seed?
@@johnp8131 There is a good book called "Nobbut a Yellerbelly". It is full of lincolnshire sayings. Everyone (such as me) born in Lincolnshire is a "YellowBelly" and proud of it. I come from the town of Scunthorpe.
@@trevorveail Thanks for that, never been to Scunthorpe. Obviously I knew Lincoln and its surroundings well. These days I only venture north over the border to Stamford for an occasional pub crawl every couple of years? It's only twenty odd miles away but by train, it's two changes and two hours up a branch line!
Most English accents are formed on the lips rather than the throat like North American accents - one reason it can come across as loud to some non-Americans like Brits, you need more air and projection to control speech in your accent, and conversely it's easier to whisper with an English accent
To be a Cockney, it is said that you must be born within the sound of Bow bells. - meaning within earshot of the bells of the St Mary-le-Bow church (apparently they can be heard from upto six miles away. Cockneys are considered to be from the east end of london so i guess the church is in that direction. Google tells me that Cockneys inhabit areas of London such as Bethnal Green, Stepney, Whitechapel, and Hackney. My mother is technically a cockney but there's no way you would guess as she never actually grew up in London and speaks quite posh sometimes (she puts it on a bit) ... she just happed to be born in some hospital near bow bells. So cockneys are also characterised by their 'cockney rhyming slang' , which is kinda like Jamaican patwa for Londoners 😅, where words are replaced with rhyming words or phrases:
Apples and Pears = stairs. ...
Bees and honey = money. ...
Bottle and stopper = copper. ...
Butcher's hook = look. ...
Duck and dive = hide. ...
Dog and bone = phone. ...
Kettle and hob = watch. ...
Mince pies = eyes.
Pirates of Penzance =pants.
- That kind of thing.
So basically a London accent and a cockney accent are the same but with cockneys/east enders it's just broader and may involve some rhyming slang and may not be understandable.
I remember working in care down here in Devon and i took one of our guys to visit his brother in London for a couple of days and see his mum and it turns out they are real east enders - cockneys. Honestly he kept talking about pie and mash on the train, he couldn't wait to get to a pie and mash shop (famous east end food along with jellied eels). So eventually he forgot about the pie and mash and we met up with his mother and she was strange ... she kept randomly saying "Look!" and i'd look around to see what she wanted me to look at and there was never anything ... it was just a wierd east-endery thing ... an expession, she said all the time for no apparent reason. They were a very odd family!
I come from Ealing in West London, if I were to walk 10mins down the road to a place called Hanwell they speak very different to me. Though actually I have a mixture of 3 different accents now:- My well spoken London accent, a Portsmouth accent (I've lived here 24 years now) and a West Country accent (my ex was from Plymouth and I picked up his accent) lol
Brilliant vid, to be fair you tried your best, I had tears running down my face.. your welsh accent (south wales) was.. okay. Crack on, well done. Cheers
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WAY more than 17 accents. I live in Stoke-on-Trent and there is two different accents around here!
Well done! Best attempts I've heard.
as someone from South Wales… your South Wales accent was actually not bad!! better than most English people trying to do it lol
Bold effort on the accents, I reckon you could get them pretty good. One accent missing is Mancunian (Manchester) but even that has many nuances.
I thought she said she could do 17 accents!! She struggled with most. 😂
Good effort …! As for variations, towns only 20 miles separate have very distinct differences in pronunciation. Probably dating back several hundred years to before population mobility etc.
There's so many different accents in the UK it's ridiculous. And there's small variations within cities on top of that(for example most people from Liverpool can tell where/which end of the city you're from by your accent even though they're all Scouse accents.) You did a great job at trying them out though and I commend you for that.
As far as where they come from it depends; I know scouse/Liverpool origionally sounded more like a typical lancashire accent but being a port ended up having a lot of Irish, Welsh and Scottish influence all moving into the city for various reasons and all of those accents melded together over time into what it is now.
Welsh, Irish and Cornish I imagine are all influenced by their origional first languages(welsh, gaelic and cornish respectively)
Us brits describe someone who talks in heightened R.P. as "They've got a plum in their mouth." which morphed into "They're a bit plummy!
I love that we have so many different accents! For such a teeny tiny island, it's pretty cool. As to why? You might want to check out this guy's video - "Why Does English Have So Many Accents?" ua-cam.com/video/vpqjo1ea700/v-deo.html I find it fascinating, hope you do too! Another one of his you might like is "11 Difficult English Accents You WON'T Understand" - ua-cam.com/video/7SJ-wTR2H6M/v-deo.html
I'm new to you, and I think you're amazing. Bonus points for me as you remind me of anakin ❤😊