Almost non of these people have accents representative of their areas. These accents are typical of performing arts students trying to leave thier roots behind.
Exactly, this was just awful, apart from the Scottish guy they were all just typical slightly posh accents, so unfair on the guy who clearly knows his stuff, he knows more about British geography than most British kids!
@@123Luke456 even the Scottish accent was posh. That was middle to upperclass Glaswegian. I’m from Edinburgh and our accent is even more difficult to understand than Glaswegian if you come from the lower socio-economic areas. We know how to adapt our accent to be more understandable than Glaswegians though.
slightly disagree. i do agree that they weren't representative but for example i've grown up in the same northern village my whole life with northern english family with northern accents and people always think i have an american accent. yes they should have found people with actual representative accents but not everyone who grows up in certain areas has those accents. and no i've never studied acting and i've only lived away from my county for 8 months.
@@melitajay Yeah I've noticed in couple of other videos too! It's like whoever is doing the captions are not familiar with the content or areas discussed in the videos
They all sounded middle class with a standard English accent and no regional accents except for the Glaswegian and even he sounded like a middle class weigie lol , I would have found that hard
The weagie accent sounded nothing like real weagie. The tone goes up towards the back of the sentence as of a question is being asked and he doesn’t roll his R’s.
I have a similar accent to the woman from Merseyside as that is also where I grew up. I’ve been told I don’t have a Received Pronunciation accent because like her I have a short a in words like path and glass
He was actually pretty good. I was guessing along as well. I think you might actually have to be British to zero in on specific areas, but he got general regions.
I think most of them he was getting more from the clues they gave him rather than their accent. I’m good with British accents & apart from the Glaswegian accent none of them were typical of the areas they came from
All these accents are fairly neutral versions of their respective regions, they all have relatively middle-class accents. Even the Glaswegian accent was quite toned down - but I suppose that's because he's from a village not the metropolitan area.
@@xohyuu Rhoticity in US English is because it was pretty much ubiquitous at the time of colonisation. Even up until the 1950s most of Southern England was rhotic.
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Kind of disappointed in the lack of diversity with the accents because they were mostly very similar (no scouse, brummie, Yorkshire, mank, jordie, Essex, Ireland, welsh, Bristolian, etc) but otherwise interesting.
He done very well for a foreigner so far removed from the UK but the accents are all weak. The Glaswegian one was barely Scottish at all. No singing quality and very monotone when a Glaswegian accent goes up in tone as if asking a question. Also he didn’t roll his R’s at all.
How many Southerners do you want to guess a general posh accent for? "All of them" Needs way more Northern accents, Yorkshire, Geordie, Mackem, Carlisle, Manchester...and so on.
Definitely not! But he did say village at one point so I’m thinking he has to be outside Glasgow but far enough away I would put him near a village called Milingavie. Close enough to be called Glaswegian but far enough away not to sound like it
He definitely comes from the east side of Glasgow. The real Glaswegian accent goes up in tone towards the end of sentences like the Irish accents do. All the accents on the way of the UK have a strong Irish influence for obvious reasons.
He sounds like a Scottish person who lives in England. I had quite a few neighbours growing up in South England with a stronger Scottish accent than him
A neutral/normal/BBC english accent is called Received Pronounciation or RP. Most of the people on here mainly spoke RP. There weren't many strong accents tbh
Not a life or death matter, but you might be interested to know that RP is more or less retired now, basically only the king speaks that way haha. Modern equivalent would be like Standard Southern British English (SSBE) which sounds more natural than RP these days.
Only in Spain, I can count at least 12 *VERY* distinctive accents inside the Iberian Peninsula (13 if we add the Canary Islands), completely different between them. So I guess it must be hundreds if we take all the variations of Spanish in the Americas. For example, accents in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Venezuela evolved from the Canarian accent.
@@BlackHoleSpain13?! I can only count about 6ish (Vasco, Catalan, Gallego, Andaluz, Canario, Madrid) where are you getting the others? Beyond the places mentioned accents are pretty neutral
I'm sure he said Cornwall is not a county. It most certainly IS a county. One more point is that after the Merseyside girl said 'bath' he started saying that was from Yorkshire rather than Merseyside or Lancashire. He knows SO much about British accents that I'm surprised about this big mistake. The so called 'trap-bath' divide is a hugely important factor in British accents. Everyone in the north of England from a point just south of Birmingham upwards pronounces the vowels in the words 'trap' and 'bath' the same with a short 'a' sound. In the south they pronounce them differently with 'trap' having a short 'a' and 'bath' having a long open vowel rhyming with general UK pronunciation of 'half'. So her saying 'bath' with a short vowel is a sign she is from the north in general (which she is) not Yorkshire in particular.
Wrong , Im from Southampton and in our working class accent we pronounce bath grass etc same as northerners do. It's something about academic study of accents that annoys me, the complete ignoring of working class southern accents which are more often than not the true accents of that area. They use working class accents for the northern accent studies but not for southern. I think its because of classism within academia.
@@DontTrustAshesFakeVideos i agree im from essex and in the case of the scone vs scone debate we take the northern side, it is sk-own! also got to take notice that a lot of us here drop our t's, e's & h's (the is said like da lmaoo) and switch our o's with a's and 'ough' words end more like 'uh', so though is not th-oh its th-uh :D
so many accents to chose from and pretty much everyone here had an accent from a generic southern accent lol. Even the ones supposedly from other areas didnt have their local accents. Should do this again but with actual variety.
That was a very good video! Knowingly that the UK 🇬🇧 has so many regional accents, it was great to get everyone together to compare. Lauren, aka Lily now 😂. It was great you got Korean Billy on! I used to enjoy his YT comparison videos with the US John, UK Sam, AU Bella/Walter and SA Chantélle years ago. He’s definitely as demonstrated today he’s an British accent expert.
He done well but those accents are the mildest accents I’ve ever heard. They must all be middle to upperclass. The Glaswegian sounded nothing like real Glaswegians
It's funny, because you can hear a slight Souse twang in Lily's voice sometimes - particularly when she was talking about her mates back home at the end, so maybe a touch of it coming on subconsciously there. But it's not consistent enough for you to think "I know where you're from".
I don't think she sounds scouse at all, whatsoever 🥴 I'd have never have guessed she was from Merseyside if she didn't say. To me she sounds almost like standard RP except with a bit of a Northern twang, and even her twang is really hard to place. I'd have guessed Yorkshire or Lancashire too.
People outside the region forget that Merseyside (which is one of the new counties) stretches north as far as Southport and west as far as Newton-Le-Willows. The typical Scouse accent is centred on Liverpool city and Birkenhead. Outside of there the accents are more Lancashire. So it's not true that the people of Merseyside all sound Scouse.
They also forget that Lancashire was a lot larger pretty recently (1974!), and included the Greater Manchester area and Merseyside. I’d have put her as coming from Southport or Formby maybe, but that’s only because I’m from just north of there and have family who now live there.
This is a giggle - I could immediately think of accents that would have been much easier to recognise, like in London, blimey, the world's your oyster!
@@oswaldjameslangston6008 so you would know those closer to Charlton Kings speak a little 'posher' and pronounce it more than those who live in Hatherly. 😊
Oh wow, the girl who is from Greenwich, I guessed before she said where - I thought we sounded really similar, and I am actually born and raised in Greenwich and Blackheath☺️
Lily is like Lauren, is it her sister 🤔? The Korean guy is actually not so bad. He didn’t totally guess everything but analyzed their accents very well and made close guesses.
None of them had a strong accent, that's the issue. Even though I've lived in Glasgow for 4 years now, I thought the guy was from somewhere else, because his accent was so soft
I really wasn't expecting Korean Billy to be in a World Friends video, and it's about time for Billy to see if he can spot accents from different parts of the UK! 👍
As these Brits live abroad they have all slightly weakened thier accents, little point talking fast with strong accent using local dialect as your just be asked to repeat yourself so the accent becomes weaker, Scots hard to hide but I would not have said Glasgow, more Stirling to me, London accents were all pretty middle class harder to pin point in city as more RP, Lauren is well Lauren and I actually guessed Cheltenham correct thx to word festival (racing) and it clearly was in that region but not coastal.
As a Scot, the Scots guy didn't sound like he came from Glasgow at all. He did in fact say he came from a village. When Korean Billy said that the accent sounded "thicker" than Edinburgh, I nearly spat out my coffee because I've heard some pretty "thick" Edinburgh accents in my time. I agree with you about Stirling. The guy could have come from anywhere between Callander and Crieff.
@@alicemilne1444 he’s definitely from a wee village close to the likes of Bathgate and is definitely middleclass. I’m from Edinburgh and I was filled with rage 😂. People from Edinburgh can enunciate better than Glaswegians and we dont have that ‘singing’ quality towards the end of a sentence. Once we add in our east coast vocabulary he’s be totally lost. Let him read trainspotting 😂
That girl with the pink jumper and black skirt has some funny inflections that remind me of Asian accents. I’m wondering if she’s picked up a few Korean inflections. If I heard her say some of the sentences she says, I’d even say she was a Korean person speaking very good English. I lived near Cheltenham and she sounds a bit different. I’m a bit confused by his geography - “the black country/ Yorkshire border”… um… where’s that then?! Derbyshire is in the way! I was raised in Devon but don’t have a Devonian accent. I’m more RP, like she is. My husband is Devonian and his accent comes through with a/r/ar sounds. His parents both have thicker accents and his grandparents had even thicker accents. Cornwall is a county. The old name for Devon is Devonshire and it’s used in certain contexts still - such as another way to say something is from Devon (like ‘Devonian’). A Devonshire cream tea, for example.
"Korean Billy" sounds so much like a Karl Pilkington friend. Then again, it sounds like a nickname that could definitely stick to someone in some town/ housing estate or something. Probably someone who is not Korean.
Can someone PLEASE tell me when this guy goes back and forth so much between a British accent and a Korean accent?? It’s not a blend, it’s like he has both accents and switches mid sentence
I was thinking Dorset for the last one (because that's where I'm from so I completely got what she was saying about the typical farmer's accent, but nobody uses it haha) but she threw me off when she said she was 30 minutes from Bristol - there's no way anywhere in Dorset is only 30 minutes from Bristol 😂😂
This really wasn't the best sample of people to choose to perform this experiment. I'm fairly good with English and Welsh accents, but they all sounded very close to RP to me (with the exception of the Scot, and even his accent was a very mild version of Glaswegian). I think most native speakers of English English would have difficulty locating these accents to anything more precise than 'RP' or 'Southern'.
OK, so the expert is going to guess where that person is from by checking their accent but the last girl does NOT speak in that accent? Are you joking me?
None of these were regional accents, they were all very mix and ambiguous. I live in dorset, get a person over 50 to talk. You'll hear the 'farmer' in every word.
I can also trick Mexicans when it comes to my accent, Sometimes I just change to a somewhat neutral accent or sometimes I pretend I'm a foreigner with a foreigner accent(I do it pretty easily cause I know English), etc I love tripping em up
This was a bit of a shame. Of the 6 people, you chose 4 posh people with homogenised SP accents. So it's kind of irrelevant where they come from in terms of accent identification.
Almost non of these people have accents representative of their areas. These accents are typical of performing arts students trying to leave thier roots behind.
Yes, they all sound like they should be in Netflix shows.
Exactly, this was just awful, apart from the Scottish guy they were all just typical slightly posh accents, so unfair on the guy who clearly knows his stuff, he knows more about British geography than most British kids!
@@123Luke456 even the Scottish accent was posh. That was middle to upperclass Glaswegian. I’m from Edinburgh and our accent is even more difficult to understand than Glaswegian if you come from the lower socio-economic areas. We know how to adapt our accent to be more understandable than Glaswegians though.
they all have mixed and ambiguous accents. apart from the Scot
slightly disagree. i do agree that they weren't representative but for example i've grown up in the same northern village my whole life with northern english family with northern accents and people always think i have an american accent. yes they should have found people with actual representative accents but not everyone who grows up in certain areas has those accents. and no i've never studied acting and i've only lived away from my county for 8 months.
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I thought that voice was familiar haha
Your English is amazing btw, also I’m obsessed with Korean culture, would love to go their
No Mancs though!!
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Ahh yes, that place in the UK called "Lankshear" 💀
The captions were very wrong for the whole video (e.g. Glasgow region for Glaswegian)
The subtitles are always pretty bad on this channel lol
@@melitajay Yeah I've noticed in couple of other videos too! It's like whoever is doing the captions are not familiar with the content or areas discussed in the videos
It's so weird that a channel specifically about language and accents can't get subtitles right.
"How many UK people do you want to put in one video" - world friends : yes
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And yet they still didn't get any of them to proofread the title or captions...
Boring! You don't have own phrases
Can they do a video of France regional accent next time?
@@locacharliewong Why you asking the OP?and anyway if you know that modern English is made up of 30% French. You're 30% the way there then eh.
They all sounded middle class with a standard English accent and no regional accents except for the Glaswegian and even he sounded like a middle class weigie lol , I would have found that hard
The weagie accent sounded nothing like real weagie. The tone goes up towards the back of the sentence as of a question is being asked and he doesn’t roll his R’s.
I have a similar accent to the woman from Merseyside as that is also where I grew up. I’ve been told I don’t have a Received Pronunciation accent because like her I have a short a in words like path and glass
@@boxtradums0073the rolling of r’s is generally dying out though
He was actually pretty good. I was guessing along as well. I think you might actually have to be British to zero in on specific areas, but he got general regions.
He did really well considering none of them had their own regional accents 😅 Even the Scottish guy had the most blunted Glaswegian I've ever heard.
I’m actually British but I’m northern so the only one I could tell was Glasgow the others all just sound southern
I'm impressed he did that well, considering their accents were almost "neutral", with simply a whisper left if their regional accents lol
@@alistairt7544 They gave him a lot of clues with other stuff tbh like talking about "boroughs".
I think most of them he was getting more from the clues they gave him rather than their accent. I’m good with British accents & apart from the Glaswegian accent none of them were typical of the areas they came from
All these accents are fairly neutral versions of their respective regions, they all have relatively middle-class accents. Even the Glaswegian accent was quite toned down - but I suppose that's because he's from a village not the metropolitan area.
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I thought he couldn't be Glaswegian, because I could actually I understand him...
@@xohyuu Rhoticity in US English is because it was pretty much ubiquitous at the time of colonisation. Even up until the 1950s most of Southern England was rhotic.
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Kind of disappointed in the lack of diversity with the accents because they were mostly very similar (no scouse, brummie, Yorkshire, mank, jordie, Essex, Ireland, welsh, Bristolian, etc) but otherwise interesting.
The channel is Korean. I guess they use whoever they can find.
They weren't strong accents.
Ireland's not Britain.
He done very well for a foreigner so far removed from the UK but the accents are all weak. The Glaswegian one was barely Scottish at all. No singing quality and very monotone when a Glaswegian accent goes up in tone as if asking a question. Also he didn’t roll his R’s at all.
Ireland is not British, educate yourself
How many Southerners do you want to guess a general posh accent for? "All of them"
Needs way more Northern accents, Yorkshire, Geordie, Mackem, Carlisle, Manchester...and so on.
He wouldn’t be able to place them. These accent are all posh.
I didn’t think the Scottish guy had a strong Glaswegian accent. He fooled me.
Definitely not! But he did say village at one point so I’m thinking he has to be outside Glasgow but far enough away I would put him near a village called Milingavie. Close enough to be called Glaswegian but far enough away not to sound like it
He definitely comes from the east side of Glasgow. The real Glaswegian accent goes up in tone towards the end of sentences like the Irish accents do. All the accents on the way of the UK have a strong Irish influence for obvious reasons.
He sounds like a Scottish person who lives in England. I had quite a few neighbours growing up in South England with a stronger Scottish accent than him
Me too. I thought, "He can't be Glaswegian - I can actually understand him."
Think he's more Ayrshire than Glasgow but it's just easier to agree with Glasgow as the general region.
You should give him an East Anglian accent (Suffolk/Norfolk) ! Lots of people think we sound Australian.
I believe the Australian accent was in fact heavily influenced by immigration from East Anglia
I'm from Norwich, and in middle school people thought I was from Australia 😂
No you don’t
Should have given him a proper Edinburgh accent to hear. He must have only spoken to posh or people with good enunciation.
@@Tayloraurrekoetxea You are very much correct. They share a common accent ancestor. And some eastern islands in the US.
4:44 soothing accent, defo gonna do a voice over on a galaxy chocolate advert in the future
Stacey's voice sounds lovely. Like something you'd hear in an ASMR program.
A neutral/normal/BBC english accent is called Received Pronounciation or RP.
Most of the people on here mainly spoke RP. There weren't many strong accents tbh
Not a life or death matter, but you might be interested to know that RP is more or less retired now, basically only the king speaks that way haha. Modern equivalent would be like Standard Southern British English (SSBE) which sounds more natural than RP these days.
hahahaha man said BBC accent that's bang on lad
The voice of the girl from Cheltenham was so poised and calm.
Please make a similar video with Spanish accents (not only from Spain, México and Argentina), there are so many countries who speaks Spanish.
Best!
Only in Spain, I can count at least 12 *VERY* distinctive accents inside the Iberian Peninsula (13 if we add the Canary Islands), completely different between them.
So I guess it must be hundreds if we take all the variations of Spanish in the Americas. For example, accents in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Venezuela evolved from the Canarian accent.
Boring! No one cares
@@BlackHoleSpain In the UK, there are 100s, every town in the north has it's own accent and cities, like Sheffield, where I am from, has 5 or 6.
@@roberto-qy2ysI do, actually
@@BlackHoleSpain13?! I can only count about 6ish (Vasco, Catalan, Gallego, Andaluz, Canario, Madrid) where are you getting the others? Beyond the places mentioned accents are pretty neutral
Devonshire is an older name for Devon. It's still used sometimes now, but generally when describing something... like a Devonshire cream tea.
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@@xohyuu in most of the uk it is nonrhotic but in places like the southwest it is rhotic
I'm sure he said Cornwall is not a county. It most certainly IS a county.
One more point is that after the Merseyside girl said 'bath' he started saying that was from Yorkshire rather than Merseyside or Lancashire. He knows SO much about British accents that I'm surprised about this big mistake. The so called 'trap-bath' divide is a hugely important factor in British accents. Everyone in the north of England from a point just south of Birmingham upwards pronounces the vowels in the words 'trap' and 'bath' the same with a short 'a' sound. In the south they pronounce them differently with 'trap' having a short 'a' and 'bath' having a long open vowel rhyming with general UK pronunciation of 'half'. So her saying 'bath' with a short vowel is a sign she is from the north in general (which she is) not Yorkshire in particular.
Wrong , Im from Southampton and in our working class accent we pronounce bath grass etc same as northerners do. It's something about academic study of accents that annoys me, the complete ignoring of working class southern accents which are more often than not the true accents of that area. They use working class accents for the northern accent studies but not for southern.
I think its because of classism within academia.
@@DontTrustAshesFakeVideos i agree im from essex and in the case of the scone vs scone debate we take the northern side, it is sk-own! also got to take notice that a lot of us here drop our t's, e's & h's (the is said like da lmaoo) and switch our o's with a's and 'ough' words end more like 'uh', so though is not th-oh its th-uh :D
bristolian here - id say bath with a short a /æ/ sounds
@@DontTrustAshesFakeVideos yeah most of Bristol is the same.
Idk why but emily's accent is so addictive. I can listen it over and over again as listening practice. Thank you emily 😭😭🎉🎉🎉
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uh- how is asking about location, city size, sports teams and tourism the same as recognizing accents?
so many accents to chose from and pretty much everyone here had an accent from a generic southern accent lol. Even the ones supposedly from other areas didnt have their local accents. Should do this again but with actual variety.
Not guessing where they are from by accent; guessing by collecting data about where they are from.
Yeah, I was thinking that
That was a very good video! Knowingly that the UK 🇬🇧 has so many regional accents, it was great to get everyone together to compare. Lauren, aka Lily now 😂. It was great you got Korean Billy on! I used to enjoy his YT comparison videos with the US John, UK Sam, AU Bella/Walter and SA Chantélle years ago. He’s definitely as demonstrated today he’s an British accent expert.
He done well but those accents are the mildest accents I’ve ever heard. They must all be middle to upperclass. The Glaswegian sounded nothing like real Glaswegians
He knows so much. I grew up in Britain, he knows more British accents and geography than I do.
Well , hello Lily , or should i say Lauren🤣 with another made up name
So happy to see my friend stacey on here 💜💜💜
It's funny, because you can hear a slight Souse twang in Lily's voice sometimes - particularly when she was talking about her mates back home at the end, so maybe a touch of it coming on subconsciously there. But it's not consistent enough for you to think "I know where you're from".
I don't think she sounds scouse at all, whatsoever 🥴 I'd have never have guessed she was from Merseyside if she didn't say. To me she sounds almost like standard RP except with a bit of a Northern twang, and even her twang is really hard to place. I'd have guessed Yorkshire or Lancashire too.
Notice that it is Lauren
People outside the region forget that Merseyside (which is one of the new counties) stretches north as far as Southport and west as far as Newton-Le-Willows. The typical Scouse accent is centred on Liverpool city and Birkenhead. Outside of there the accents are more Lancashire. So it's not true that the people of Merseyside all sound Scouse.
They also forget that Lancashire was a lot larger pretty recently (1974!), and included the Greater Manchester area and Merseyside. I’d have put her as coming from Southport or Formby maybe, but that’s only because I’m from just north of there and have family who now live there.
I would’ve thought she was a southerner tbh everyone in this video sound posh they don’t have accents at all really
This is a giggle - I could immediately think of accents that would have been much easier to recognise, like in London, blimey, the world's your oyster!
Wow! That Billy is great!! Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I've watched this videos for ages and never saw anyone from my town of Cheltenham before! Haha. It's weird hearing your own accent back at you. Haha
may I ask how you properly pronounce your place? Is it Chel-ten-am or Shel-ten-am? Just curious tho😅
@@berrymunchkins7497 of course! It's "chel-tuh-nuhm" or "ch-el-ten-hum-" it differs from the area you are from here.
@@KarlaMB I'm from Worcestershire and lived in Cheltenham for a few years, I pronounce it Chelt-num 😂
@@KarlaMB nah I went to school in Cheltenham for about 10 years everyone pronounced it chelt-num
@@oswaldjameslangston6008 so you would know those closer to Charlton Kings speak a little 'posher' and pronounce it more than those who live in Hatherly. 😊
He’s also using the words that they use and tbh he is asking a lot of geographical related questions.
This guy did a great job with this.
Srry, I missed this video. I was AFK, but wooow. Surprised to see Korean Billy guest star!
This was incredibly difficult. Most of those people don't speak with their regional accents at all! (I'm British and hadn't a clue.)
Oh wow, the girl who is from Greenwich, I guessed before she said where - I thought we sounded really similar, and I am actually born and raised in Greenwich and Blackheath☺️
"It's globally famous" from UK and then anyone would say London
Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Oxford are absolutely globally famous as well tbf
I wouldn’t say that most any of those cities have the global recognition that London has, with the exception of maybe Oxford and Cambridge.
@@saltycalmonds No, those cities have :-) soccer is a huge thing
@@saltycalmonds Manchester and Liverpool are far more famous than Oxford or Cambridge imo
Very interesting. Billy is good at guessing UK accents
the fine lass from Dorset is a beauty
Lancashire = Lankshear 🤣
Plethora = there are four 🤣
Borough = barrow 🤣
Take the mickey = take the, make it 🤣
I still remember that episode where they subtitled the German "wie geht's?" as "idiot" 😅
Neighbourhood = neighbour of
@@LeChapeauMusic - Oh, I missed that one!
@@module79l28 there must be many more, i just noticed that one
London still has administrative boroughs. Lots of places have borough in their name, but they're local government is no longer known as a borough.
These are the most neutral accents apart from the Glaswegian 😂
From her accent, I think Lilly is probably from Southport or somewhere nearby.
Very good job, Billy!!
Lily is like Lauren, is it her sister 🤔?
The Korean guy is actually not so bad. He didn’t totally guess everything but analyzed their accents very well and made close guesses.
None of them had a strong accent, that's the issue. Even though I've lived in Glasgow for 4 years now, I thought the guy was from somewhere else, because his accent was so soft
First Claire, then Sophie and now Lily 🙃
Lauren made me laugh 😂😂😂
Lauren is the star of WF
I really wasn't expecting Korean Billy to be in a World Friends video, and it's about time for Billy to see if he can spot accents from different parts of the UK! 👍
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Wjrn be says: 'so, don't & know...' He sounds exactly like a geordie 🤣🤣
Wait that’s billy lmaooooooooooooooo his tiktoks are funny as fuckkkkkk
I'm not entirely sure why the blindfold was needed.. You're not about to look at someone and be like, oh, they're scouse lol
Unless they are wearing a shellsuit and have a big perm
More tricky or just trickier but not both!
Baybee, God is real with the creation of this Felix person and his voice. lol 7:55. Wow.
Me watching till the end just to see Emily , cute as ever ❤
As these Brits live abroad they have all slightly weakened thier accents, little point talking fast with strong accent using local dialect as your just be asked to repeat yourself so the accent becomes weaker, Scots hard to hide but I would not have said Glasgow, more Stirling to me, London accents were all pretty middle class harder to pin point in city as more RP, Lauren is well Lauren and I actually guessed Cheltenham correct thx to word festival (racing) and it clearly was in that region but not coastal.
As a Scot, the Scots guy didn't sound like he came from Glasgow at all. He did in fact say he came from a village. When Korean Billy said that the accent sounded "thicker" than Edinburgh, I nearly spat out my coffee because I've heard some pretty "thick" Edinburgh accents in my time. I agree with you about Stirling. The guy could have come from anywhere between Callander and Crieff.
@@alicemilne1444 he’s definitely from a wee village close to the likes of Bathgate and is definitely middleclass.
I’m from Edinburgh and I was filled with rage 😂. People from Edinburgh can enunciate better than Glaswegians and we dont have that ‘singing’ quality towards the end of a sentence.
Once we add in our east coast vocabulary he’s be totally lost. Let him read trainspotting 😂
Also living abroad in a country like Korea means most of them are very likely to come from rich backgrounds which will also temper the accent
I'd love to know which village near Glasgow, they each have there own accent, I'm from Kilmacolm 16 miles outside Glasgow, to the west.
Blackwoods in the village. Best steak pies on the planet. :-)
@@MitchCraig best ice cream ever
What difference did the blind fold make?
Long time no see Billy!
as a cornish person it upset me that we dont get a county anymore :(
he really didn't guess through accent and more through geography
Great to see Korean Billy on the channel. That was bare japes, fam.
Yay Gloucestershire representation 😂
I'd really appreciate if a Mackem or Geordie had been in that game
That girl with the pink jumper and black skirt has some funny inflections that remind me of Asian accents. I’m wondering if she’s picked up a few Korean inflections. If I heard her say some of the sentences she says, I’d even say she was a Korean person speaking very good English. I lived near Cheltenham and she sounds a bit different. I’m a bit confused by his geography - “the black country/ Yorkshire border”… um… where’s that then?! Derbyshire is in the way!
I was raised in Devon but don’t have a Devonian accent. I’m more RP, like she is. My husband is Devonian and his accent comes through with a/r/ar sounds. His parents both have thicker accents and his grandparents had even thicker accents.
Cornwall is a county.
The old name for Devon is Devonshire and it’s used in certain contexts still - such as another way to say something is from Devon (like ‘Devonian’). A Devonshire cream tea, for example.
Stacey's voice is so nice!
Felix is so handsome and cute~ I really like him~~~
2nd girl knew straight away she was from merseyside, not all "scouse" accents come with a tsunami of phlegm, some are much more subtle
"Korean Billy" sounds so much like a Karl Pilkington friend. Then again, it sounds like a nickname that could definitely stick to someone in some town/ housing estate or something. Probably someone who is not Korean.
Did anyone check the subtitles before this came out ?? Glaswegian = Glasgow region, Lancashire = lankshear....
Lankshear? Not Lancashire? Seriously? 😂😂😂
Can someone PLEASE tell me when this guy goes back and forth so much between a British accent and a Korean accent?? It’s not a blend, it’s like he has both accents and switches mid sentence
I wish their was a Cumbrian peorson in This
4:32 lankshear?
Yeah, Wushear is a fantastic place too, and Lestashear too...
Lauren changed her name from Claire to lily??? What’s next Samantha? Emily!! 😂I love this channel!
I was thinking Dorset for the last one (because that's where I'm from so I completely got what she was saying about the typical farmer's accent, but nobody uses it haha) but she threw me off when she said she was 30 minutes from Bristol - there's no way anywhere in Dorset is only 30 minutes from Bristol 😂😂
Same! I wish Bristol was only 30 mins from Dorset haha. Wow she's only down the road from where I grew up!
The subtitles are wrong at 2:06 Korean billy says "Glaswegian" not "Glasgow Region" Glaswegian is a term for someone from Glasgow.
Is Lauren from Southport?
My dumb ass really reads subtitles even though i can understand and speak English quite well. Lmao
Haven't seen Billy for ages. Is his 'Billyonaire' channel still going?
I think he may’ve posted an occasional short video in recent months but I used to enjoy watching his country comparison videos up to 5 years ago now!
I was hoping for the West Country accent to be more prominent. It's very distinctive
How come Lancashire becomes Lankshear in the subtitles?
That girl from Dorcet on 14:16 this is actualy a very very Korean way to shake hands. Interesting
This really wasn't the best sample of people to choose to perform this experiment. I'm fairly good with English and Welsh accents, but they all sounded very close to RP to me (with the exception of the Scot, and even his accent was a very mild version of Glaswegian). I think most native speakers of English English would have difficulty locating these accents to anything more precise than 'RP' or 'Southern'.
You're so lovely Emily.
OK, so the expert is going to guess where that person is from by checking their accent but the last girl does NOT speak in that accent? Are you joking me?
None of these were regional accents, they were all very mix and ambiguous. I live in dorset, get a person over 50 to talk. You'll hear the 'farmer' in every word.
Is Lilly from St.Helens by any chance?😂
these captions are wild
lol your favourite football teams cannot both be Liverpool and Everton. Billy's a unicorn 😂
Maybe a bunch of people who don't have the accent typical of their hometowns weren't the best choices for this video.
A British girl who wears a pink jacket is cute like a kitten meow meow
Great to see Billy on here!
Where's Yorkshire then? We're always forgotten
All the southerners just sounded the same
I’m curious why he always says “there you go”
The second guy has the same socks as my boyfriend and wears them as odd pairs too - it really threw me haha
I can also trick Mexicans when it comes to my accent, Sometimes I just change to a somewhat neutral accent or sometimes I pretend I'm a foreigner with a foreigner accent(I do it pretty easily cause I know English), etc I love tripping em up
This was a bit of a shame. Of the 6 people, you chose 4 posh people with homogenised SP accents. So it's kind of irrelevant where they come from in terms of accent identification.
Would say they are posh. Just ordinary good schools and had gone to uni
I have really loved this video. The reactions are really great
you didnt need an expert, just grab a random man from the pub and ask him to come for the video, the video will be shorter but more accurate.
This is the first person on media ive ever seen from Cheltenham
Obviously not an expert, but he's good.