Old, Traditional British Accents (South West)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Audio extracts from the Survey of English Dialects showcasing the vernacular speech of South-East England. These audio files were recorded between 1958 to 1964
Audio gathered from: sounds.bl.uk/A...
These accents show a very obvious linguistic link with the American South.
I was going to say, especially the southern accent. Has almost like a Virginia tidewater sound
When the Devon one came on I had to do a double-take because to me (Australian) it sounded like an American accent. I guess the rhotic thing I still don't really understand but comes up[ a lot in explanations of these things?
Some of these people sound so American they blow my mind.
So dixie😂，they sound like people from Arkansas or Kentucky
@@jimmymccloskey4913 Especially the guy at 1:40. "I was born up there at Jordan" and then "I wadnt hardly 13." And then the guy at 4:40 sounds like people I saw in a documentary about rural West Virginia. It's pretty amazing, really. Yes Appalachian speech has evolved and sounds slightly different, but you can definitely hear the common origin.
@@Wowzersdude-k5cyeah I reckon
@@jimmymccloskey4913 😂
Absolutely and the man at 03:05 sounds incredibly Northern Irish!
Sounds like my grandparents, I'm from Kentucky.
Can definitely see the link to many American accents. In fact, I have read that the African American accents in the southern states are deeply rooted in West Country yap albeit with a twist.
Actually black folk got their way of speaking from their slave masters. Example the way southern black folk drop their Rs.White southern folk gave American blacks their culture. Do the research and see for yourself.
@@Christopher-ii6tr Jeez bro Christopher take a xanax man chill out
@@Zephy-kun take american chill pill
They pronounce their R’s!👍
that does exist in many parts of southwestern england still
@@TheBcoolGuylong may it continue
@@TheBcoolGuyand a bit in the north-west
Wish this included an example from Gloucestershire- the accent/dialect is still very much West Country, until you get into Worcestershire where it becomes Midlands.
Still super cool though!
only now are agri scientists beginnning to understand the impacts of tractors like they talk about
Actually they sound like those old people from the 1920's-40's who lived in the 19th century when you hear them in those old audio recordings.
Sounds almost American slightly.
These accents are close to those of Okracoke, Tangier and Smith Islands. In fact, closer than almost all other US American accents are.
True. They sound like where I come from. We were all baymen once upon a time but forced to disperse.
None of these sound American, I’m not sure what y’all are on 😭 the only thing in common is really the rhoticity
No they don't but you can tell the influence of where the US English came from.
@@jasonpalacios1363Let me explain it to you. The American English dialect is an older form of English that was spoken in England. It wasn't until the beginning of the 19th century, that the British switched to dropping the R's from pronouncing them. Migration to the New World from parts of the UK had commenced as early as 1680, long before the British took to dropping the R's. These settlers never moved back to the UK, and the form of English they spoke stood undaunted to the various influences the language's sound underwent, maintaining its form through the generations.
Hope it helps!
These accents sound almost indistinguishable from American English accents.
I find them very distinguishable, except for the Okracoke, Tangier and Smith Islands accents and the North Carolina Down East accent.
Our accents in the US is not that much different after hearing this.
I have to wonder just how Scotch-Irish the allegedly Scotch-Irish Appalachians are in actuality. My grandfather is a pretty 50/50 mix of German and British Isles ancestors, from England, Scotland, and Ireland, and he was born and raised in West Virginia, but doing our family tree, I found far more English last names than Irish. In fact, I'd say the German component aside, his British Isles ancestors are 90 percent English, with only a small few from Ireland or Scotch-Irish. Most of the English parts of the tree only go back to settling in America, but if I look at the origins of the last names, almost every single one is first attested in Cornwall, Devon, or Somerset. This seems to line up perfectly with the dominance of the accents in this video in that part of America, to the point where I wonder if the Scotch-Irish who emigrated substantially later on wound up adopting the southwest English accents that were already entrenched in Appalachia. But this seems almost impossible to Google for some reason, with most articles giving very vague and generic information about "English" immigration to the Americas, without mentioning specific regions. Strange.
what about your other ancestors, are they old stock Americans? 😮
@@jimmymccloskey4913 Most of them are. Quite a few German immigrants from the later 19th century, but mostly English and German (and some Swiss German) people who came over in the 16-1700's.
In the UK our Scots-Irish are known as Ulster Scots and they live in Northern Ireland. Just wanted to throw that fact in because a few of your ancestors with English names might have come from there.
@@gadpivs Ulster Scots (Scots-Irish) people Anglicized their names if they were Gaelic, for various reasons, which makes looking up surname origin moot. Especially with adoption and infidelity, your best bet is to also do DNA and a family tree. For example, my tree ties me to multiple Scottish clans lower aristocracy, but given the aristocracy was mostly initially installed by various English kings, they all had Anglo-Norman roots. Add to that all the other Cornish and English from my dad's side and my DNA shows as 90% English with a bit of Danish and Norwegian. At the end of the day, we're all Indo-European and cousins. Slàinte mhath mo charaidean.
@@IosuamacaMhadaidh Indeed on the last point. And although I have only found one Scottish surname and one Irish in my family tree, my DNA test results do show about 7% Irish and 8% Scottish, although DNA is tricky, and you can't really tie DNA to a nationality. I think Ancestry does a pretty good job of separating genuinely "Celtic" DNA from DNA in Scotland and Ireland that would have come from Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, meaning there could be another maybe 20-30% of Scottish and Irish ancestry accounted for under my Danish, Swedish, English, and German results, so it could be another few percentage points more than just 7 and 8%. But even on the DNA side, it would still be the minority, with English being in the 15-20% range (some of this is likely actually German, confusing continental Saxon DNA with Anglo-Saxon DNA), but maybe by not as much as the surnames would indicate.
Why is it that i can understand them all except for where I'm from?
The second clips totally Appelachian mountain
Sounds like my grandmother from somerset lol
We need Cornish accents
There's no such thing as Cornish accents, but the original names of these british version from Anglo Cornish is Colonial Twang, it has 2 variant named as Borderline from the east and Broadcasting for the west accent that used by rest of news reporter in Americas, white South Africans, Australia, and New Zealand.
@@mapengq7058 so do cornish accents sound like this too?
They sound American😂
Do people in these regions still speak like this, or do they now have an RP accent?
Most people in the south of England used to have similar accents to this, but most people (vast majority of the younger generations) speak RP, it’s probably 0% of young people speaking like this in the Home Counties. We can revive them though, with these recordings
@@MrOoYT Interesting
@@Cdh2007 I realised I didn’t really answer your question lol. The south west is basically the last region where these accents are widespread, at least among the older generations.
@@MrOoYT Okay, and then the younger generation speaks RP English?
@@Cdh2007 yeah
These I guess were the British folks on tv who talked rather American when I was little