American Couple Reacts to 30 Dialects of the English language in the UK!
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2023
- Americans Anna and JT React to the different variations of the english language and dialects in the United Kingdom!
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Not the clearest examples of any of the accents. The poor recording quality of many of them don't help.
Half of them are just old blokes from the countryside, so they just sound like they have a soft West Country accent, rather than a thick local accent.
Indeed, the scouse, brummie, manc and geordie are the ones even British people have trouble understanding and on this video they all sounded the same aha
The Scots have way more accents than what was shown. Love from Scotland!
Aye we do i am from North Ayrshire so we are like half Glaswegian and half our own language
The one that said Scots sounded closer to Doric than Glasgow
That's for sure I struggle with my boss talking and he's glaswegian, Edinburgh are easy to sorta understand
@@jaydee_83 What?
Yeah I honestly can’t understand Glaswegian! Duncan Banatyne on Dragons Den used to really confuse me! No offence 😊
Those 30 dialects aren't a true reflection of the variety of accents/dialects in the UK. They covered some of the cities, but when it comes to counties, there's a huge variation depending on where within the counties people are. As an example, there's a huge variety of dialects/accents within Yorkshire, depending on the location being east, west, north or south.
Wales has dozens of dialects / accents. English is the main language. Living in South East Wales , there's at least twelve accents in a ten mile radius.
If you live in the area, you can even guess what valley people are from based on their accent.
Yes my Dad lives in Wales so I spend a lot of time there. I can certainly detect the different accents 😃
My Dad lives in Aberystwyth - I love it there!
Correction. English is the main language in South Wales.*
@@NathanWELSHY Yeah that’s true. I used to spend weekends in Barry Island
These are all extremely tame versions of the accents! Extremely Tame!
These soundbites are from old people from about 30 or 40 years ago.....so these dialects are out out date by 50+ years (I think). Accents have changed, but the regions are still distinguishable. Just like anywhere, people from these places don't always have heavy accents. With TV, multimedia and immigration, younger generations are influenced by all sorts of accents and cultures. It depends on your upbringing and also your attitude. Some people just prefer to use local dialects, where as others choose to speak more estuary.
Not true
@@CeleWolf Which part? It is absolutely true. I'm English. I live here. I can switch between my local accent and a more estuary one because I travel, teach English and have international friends. I know many people who can do this from all over the UK. I also know people who grew up in the same town who have vastly different accents based on the influence of their family and people around them. I even know siblings with very different levels of local accent.
I agree completely
I agree not many speak like the older generation now. At least from where I live. Growing in in Barnsley the accent was really strong not so much now
@Bonita Q As someone from Cambridgeshire, it sounds nothing like that example. And I now live in Cornwall, which that accent has changed a bit as well as being less pronounced.
Northern Ireland has a different accent to Southern Ireland 😅😅😅😅
You'll be surprised at how close Newcastle (geordie) and Sunderland (mackem) are and how different these accents can be. 30min drive makes a lot of regional difference.
I agree I hadn’t really noticed as a Brit myself until last years I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! when Jill Scott (Sunderland native) and Ant and Dec (both Newcastle natives) were talking to each other.
But very few people not from the North East have a clue...
@@zoemn24 The accent in north Sunderland is different from that in the south.
Yh, me dads a mackem and me mum is geordie. They sound similar but they can be very different. My school is a mixture of the two and you have never heard the confusion between me and me geordie friend with the slight dialect and slang differences trying to figure out what the other means.
Dialect too. I'm from Newcastle, I have family from Sunderland and Teesside and a friend from County Durham. To people not from the region they can all sound very similar but we all have very different words for things at times along with distinct accents! My elderly relative from Sunderland has such a strong accent I can barely understand her when she uses dialect too, and despite having lived in Boro, my Dad struggles to understand people just up the road in Hartlepool. My friend and I often end up using words when talking to each other that confuses the other (she doesn't call the extra batter you'd get with chips "scraps" so had no clue what I meant when I asked for scraps with my chips once - just 1 example of many). You'd think with how close we are we'd at least have heard of the other's words but nope. Some are totally new to me.
My accent is pretty mild as I've lived in a few places and my Dad was born elsewhere so has a more "neutral" accent but I'm still asked if I speak English at times or people ask if I'm Welsh, Scottish or Irish(?!). My accent is noticeably different enough from most in the area I've had locals point out it's different and ask which other bit of the city (there's a difference in each part of it) I'm from/if I'm from elsewhere.
There’s a tv series called 'Creature Comforts' which is Plasticine animated British conversations, using animals! Has lots of accents, and clever stop-animation. Nobody else has reacted to this, so I don’t know if it’ll be copyrighted.
That is a fantastic idea!
I remember it was originally started on the The British Gas adverts before becoming a tv show.
“They’ve got to be easily turn off and onable” 🐢
@@richardh3761 Yes!! That's the one I loved best, Richard!! "I don't have much time. I'm a very busy person..."_ 🐢😁👍
@@pimpozza 🤣 and the way he does the deep swallow, tapping his fingers 😂 🐢
Most people from Wales speak English, the Welsh language almost died out at one point. On a general basses South and North accents are very different, South is soft and flowing whereas in the North the accent is a mixture of Welsh/scouse and sounds quite groggy, the Rhondda Valley’s have a strong accent and from there down to the south west of Wales the accent becomes less prominent in welsh and has more of an English influence to it. I hope you find this interesting. It would be awesome if you could find a video on the Regional accents of Wales. Also the language between North and South are slightly different too with spelling and pronunciation of words. Love the videos 😊 you guys always have me laughing 😂👌🏼
Correction. Scouse is mixed with north Wales not the other way around.
@@ticketyboo2456 thank you for the correction. My bad, I almost had it 😂 haha
"South is soft and flowing"
You've obviously never been to a pub in Devon
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 As long as you put the cream first then pour the beer and finish with a lovely dollop of jam everything is soft and flowing in Devon. Great county.
Ehhh! I thought scouse was influenced by the Irish? Because the Irish used to dock at liverpool.
They were all spoken by an older generation, most places nowadays have a lot more accents/dialects, if you could find one spoken by a younger generation, then your get a more realistic sound of the places, London for example you can tell the difference between north south east and west London,
And it's the same everywhere.
Peace and Love ❤️🙏❤️
And not just the 4 corners of the compass, but the Boroughs! I can tell if a person is from Hackney from a mile off!
You mention Winnie the Pooh in Kent, it was actually written about 30 miles away, next door in Sussex (where my family comes from) 🙂Unfortunately the genuine Sussex accent started dying when the railways came from London in the 1830's. The Yorkshire accent (where I've lived for more years than I care to admit to) was not very clear, but then there are multiple variations in the Yorkshire accent. But "Tint in't tin" (it isn't in the tin) as they say to us off-comed-uns (somebody from somewhere else).
Well here in Rochester we got Charles dickens
@@winclouduk yes, It's a competition... I'm from Notts/Derby... I win! Haha
@@gleadhill79 ok I’m from mablethorpe I win ha ha ha
Southern ponce
Yeah it's mad cos where I'm from in West Yorkshire, we'd say that as "it int in't tin", and wouldn't say any of the Ts except for the one at the start of tin.
Hahaha! As soon as you said "I'm just waiting for a really thick / distinctive" one, I immediately thought "Wait for Geordie / Tyneside", and so it turned out! I love the Geordie accent/dialect. It's so unique and almost musical.
For the record, even though I'm originally from Scotland, my accent is a bit of a mix of RP and "Southeast", as they call it here.
I'm a Londoner my fav is Geordie,Scouse ,Scottish
And the closest to 'the Queen's English' was always supposed to be Inverness.
Funny you say it sounds musical because I think that was Brian Johnson from AC/DC talking .
Gotta say this is a bit refreshing, my experience is most people like to take the piss out of our accent or say they can’t understand us like we are speaking mandarin 😂
@@TheGeordiePoet1 Pardon?
There isn't just one accent in Yorkshire (unless you are the BBC). What is known as "broad Yorkshire" with its "thee and thou" was mainly spoken in the the West Riding but even here there were marked regional differences. The accent in Hull is very different as are the accents in North and East Yorkshire, particularly as you get to the far north in places like Middlesbrough.
Definitely. Im from Sheffield and my uncle is from Middlesbrough and we sound nothing alike . He sounds almost geordie
Yeah it is a big problem with these videos that they pretty much ignore every country other than England And ignore the more obscure English accents and dialects like for example Wales has so many accents and dialects also as far as I'm aware none are called welsh-english.
@@paleobolt8069 ... I think that was just a reference to show it wasn't a part of England.
Quite right, I'm from East Yorkshire and most of my family migrated over from West Yorkshire. As a result I speak completely differently to the older generations of my family and often get made fun of by them (all in good humour of course). Being from East Yorkshire my accent is sort of like a toned down Hull accent and I do find myself occasionally saying strong Hullisms but if I go into Hull people can tell immediately I am not actually from there because it is not strong enough. However, if I visit West Yorkshire I often get people guessing I am from Hull because of the similarity.
@@staceynoir1988 as someone who grew up in Teesside and lives in Sheffield the Teesside "Smoggie" accent is NOTHING like Geordie!!!
Haha guys! Greetings from Dublin, Ireland. I enjoy your videos. For a country the size of a postage stamp, you'd be amazed at the variety of accents in Ireland. Every thirty miles down the road there's a new accent. It's great fun! Stay well.
I'm a 41 year old man from Kent and born here and never heard anyone from Kent sound like that🤔
The Scots one covered far to much area the people at the top left of the red shaded area sound completely different from the people at the bottom left 😂😂
Love your videos, keep them coming 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Yeah it is a big problem with these videos that they pretty much ignore every country other than England (And even the more obscure English accents and dialects) like for example Wales has so many accents and dialects also as far as I'm aware none are called Welsh-English.
I was born and raised in London. I cannot understand Geordie accents for the life of me. Once I was in a queue behind two Geordies who were chatting away for ages before I even realised they were speaking English. I was there trying to figure out what language they were speaking for a good 5 minutes or so. 🤦🏼♀️
My brother's girlfriend is from South Wales and only speaks English. I love her accent. It's awesome. I'm from the West Country and not many people here have that accent anymore
English speaking welsh people have lovely accents. I know because I have one. I’ve been told.
North welsh and south welsh accents are soo different, im not too sure about north welsh but in south wales there are loads of accents, like valley accents, swansea, cardiff, Breacon and loads more
It sounds like some of those who were recorded are speaking to someone not native to their area, as the pacing is slowed down.
For example Geordies not only have a very distinct dialect but they generally speak very quickly
For the Midlands there’s no single accent that represents the region. For example the distance from Coventry to Wolverhampton is around 35 miles, but within that distance there are many distinctly different accents and dialects such as Coventry, Solihull, Brummie, Tipton, Smethwick, Dudley, Gornal, Aldridge and Wolverhampton.
coming from Durham i knew the geordie would be the belter.
Snap 😂
Oi oi, Geordie is my hometown! Mind, I have to change to RP when its with someone from either down South or not from the UK otherwise they struggle to understand. As for Scots, it is considered by some linguists as a separate language, and it's about 90% mutually intelligible to those of us from Newcastle (Geordie) in northeast England. I recommend a singer called Iona Fyfe, she recently released a song called 'the cauld' which is in Scots, also did a cover of Taylor Swift's song All Too Well in Scots too, she's really good.
Midlands probably has the most individual regional accents because people tend to come here from all over the country as housing etc often cheaper
Hello, Brit here! I think the reason that the people in those sound bites are all so old is because a lot of these accents aren't quite the same now! Where I live in the Westcountry, people don't talk with a Wiltshire accent anymore! It's much more Chav sounding in the youth! 🤷♀️🤣 Technically it's Estuary English, a more London sounding accent that has spread out from the Thames Estuary. This is me finally putting my English Language A-Level to good use!! 🤣
Oh god. Let them keep their innocence. Don't expose them to chavs. Besides, chav speak is a "fake" accent/dialect. They are trying to sound like something they're not.
theres sooooo many accents in Wales, i cant believe they showed just 1 🤣🫣 also the majority of Welsh people speak English lol
Just one for Yorkshire, Wales and such a huge area of Scotland is crazy. In Yorkshire you can hear if someone comes from Hull, / East Riding or the DearneValley, Barnsley or North Riding.
As a geordie, it sounds totally normal to me and strange to see your reaction 🤣🤣
In the south, we have trouble understanding Geordie, but Northumberland and Newcastle is a fantastic place to visit. Lovely people.
Cleary never been lol. Its a shithole, especially places like the newcastle west end and byker
@@Believer3_ I haven't been for a number of years, sixty I'd say, so that's a shame. It used to be nice. You had a great natural history museum, I do know if that's still there. My sister moved there and I'd come up to visit as a schoolgirl. In my head it's still nice. Northumberland is awesome though. I come regularly, Alnwick gardens, Hadrian's wall, Vindolanda, sycamore gap, Kielder, lovely towns like Hexham, The Sill. Amazing place.
@@Believer3_ Yeah? That's a shame. I haven't been there for about sixty years but I remember having a nice stay back then. I love Northumberland though, that really is pretty although, you aren't Northumberland are you. I remember visiting the natural history museum, was it the Hancock? It was a long time ago now.
Brilliant reaction. The pair of you plus the dogs area joy to watch. I have a West Country accent and he was basically talking about which beer he liked and what brewry it was from. The Bristol accent is where the pirate accent comes from!
You should look into Scottish dialects and Glaswegian is honestly one of the best 😂
I live about 25 miles from Glasgow, and I speak differently, like different slang words, slightly different pronunciation with different words. I'd like to see JT and Anna watch some Limmy clips, if they can make him out, it would be hilarious!
I’m a geordie and I just knew you’d struggle on that one 😂
People from the north of a town can sound different from those in the south of the same town. The recordings you were listening to were taken many years ago as an attempt to preserve local dialects. I believe most of the participants were serving soldiers.
There are a lot more than that. They just showed some common ones but each town or city has it's own
The reason lots of the voices were of older people, is because this is a obviously a record of different dialects that is unfortunately being lost because of diversity, so it’s mainly the older generation who still speak that way , it’s a way of preserving our dialect heritage,
Sitting drinking my cuppa, smiling while I watch and listen to your reactions. Lovely!
Really wish you could/would find a video about all the different dialects in Wales. We don't all sound the same! The Welsh language changes too depending where in Wales you are.
As somebody in the Uk who speak Yorkshire, I can tell you that these are all old versions spoken by old people and that dialects have changed and evolved a lot in recent years. In Yorkshire, we don''t sound much like the guy they played in this at all these days and we also have various dialects in Yorkshire alone so the different ridings of Yorkshire sound quite different to each other. I recall when I went to US and Canada, many people struggled to understand me.
I'm cockney from East London, when I first went to the US (Portland Oregon) back in the late 1970s no one could understand a word I said you would think I had just landed from mars or something, I literally had to talk in slow motion just so people could understand what I was saying.
Exactly, between Sheffield and Barnsley there are entirely different dialects despite being 30 mins apart, then you drive 20 mins from Barnsley to Doncaster and that's entirely different again.
@@_joerooney Yes it is the same just in Rotherham alone.
@@TmHudsonArt Yeah same with Leeds then going into Wakefield district, there's even slight differences between towns like I can tell apart people from South Elmsall, Pontefract, and Castleford cos we all speak the same but there's slight different words that each place uses.
There's actually so many more accents than shown here, I'm from northeastern Cumbria but the Cumbrian accent displayed here is more of a west Cumbrian, can literally drive about 10 miles in any direction from where I live and you'll hear several different accents.
In Yorkshire alone, you've got Leeds, Doncaster, Sheffield, York, Halifax, Barnsley, and Bradford - all of which have completely different accents!
Even closer in and with smaller cities like Wakefield where we have a similar accent to Leeds, which is obvious based on where we're located, but we do say a lot of different things and use different pronunciations. So glad you mentioned this though, big up West Yorkshire
Tbf most Welsh people do speak English, but there has been a revival on the past couple of decades of their native tongue. I still wouldn’t have thought it’s anywhere close to a majority though
You would get a much better understanding if you listened to 'Anglophenia' who does 17 different accents and explains where they come from and why. She is also quite amusing!
Big up Lancashire 🤙🏻
On average the accent changes about every 5 miles in the UK. To local people it's very noticeable
As others have said, these "regional" accents are just the broad brush. I was born and raised in the area shown there as "South East" but as a native of Southampton I can hear a difference to the way ppl talk just 20 miles away in Portsmouth, let alone the 60 miles north in Oxford. To me the really crazy thing is, though there are such huge differences across the island we can pretty well all make sense of what each other are saying.
Loved your confusion at Pitmatic and Geordie - there's actually a lot of crossover between the two and Northumbrian because it's related to the north east coal miners. I'm from a mining village and grew up with it. 'The gallower got a gliff' that the old men were talking about means 'the horse got a fright'.
I’m from South Northumberland and the number of different variations in pitmatic accents is huge. Blyth, Ashington and Bedlington sound different, despite being within 5 miles of each other.
When the pitmatic came on, It was strange as that very near my accent. It’s strange as I’m from Aylesham in Kent, Aylesham was a purpose built village to house coal miners from about 1902ish, it’s about half way between Canterbury and Dover. The village was built with a street layout to resemble the winding gear on the nearby Snowdown pit, Those originally from from the village like myself have a this northern Pitmatic type accent, as the miners moved to the Kent coalfields from across the north, wales and Scotland. The people from the villages 1-2 miles away have the kent accent.
Pitmatic (aka Yakka) always makes people laugh or smile. It was recorded from a news report about a dying dialect and they got two of the last remaining speakers to just go all out with each other. It was the dialect spoken by coal miners in the North East of England
There is so many more too, these were textbook examples, when u are out and about there's a whole multitude of variations...ghetto, well spoken, somewhere in the middle, thick regional...it goes on 😊
I’m a Geordie and even though our accents are hard to understand the whole of the British isles understand each other because we’ve lived with each other for thousands of years. I mean this isn’t my normal writing lingo either I’d write differently to my mates so I’m using colloquial English here to tell you about the north east. They are more than one north eastern accent in the north east we all sound the same to someone from the south but to each other in the north east we can tell the subtle differences in which region in the north east you belong just by the slight difference in the accent.
That's so true, I'm from the South of County Durham and I can understand everyone in the North East......even Macams 🤣. Thing is though, you're right, you get to Wetherby Services and start talking and everyone thinks you a Geordie, I just say yes cos it's easier than ganin through the whole County Durham spiel!!
@@graemew7001 Aye, we went on holiday once to Lanzarote and I had a mate from Teeside with me and we got talking to a few lads from Croydon and they could not tell the difference in our accents lol, they said we all sound the same. To us though there’s a difference.
@@Biketunerfy Haha a massive difference to us, my mates from Stockton sound nowt like my mate from Gateshead! I like confusing folk tho cos I was born in Dumfries and moved here as a kid so when they say "you're a Geordie?" I just reply with na mate am Scottish, them looking confused isn't in it 🤣
@@graemew7001 I know lol. I find it strange may be they were just too hammered. They looked pretty pissed like. If these people think Geordies are hard to understand now then there’s f*cking no chance when we’re pissed lmao. A thick Glaswegian accent can be hard to understand as well especially some one who doesn’t live in the U.K.
@@Biketunerfy I'm not a drinker so even I struggle when others are pissed, talking too fast lol. I've seen videos of Glaswegians and I've said to others in the comments to watch a few episodes of Still Game to get the gist of what they're saying or if they not from the UK to just give up lol
I got to a college that is 10 miles from my house and we are in the same county (Yorkshire) but there are probably 3 different dialects/ accents, and I live in the suburb so there is only a few villages and then the town that my college is in.
This video's recording are from years and years ago and they are only very small samples. Because even in the same city you might have two or three different types of a dialect or accent. We all sound very different from each other. There are some easier to hear videos of some of the more common accents from different areas.
Yep I'm the same. Picture the scene; West Yorkshire, Wakefield district reyt, I live in one of the small villages (not saying which) basically next to Pontefract, I'll just say South Elmsall cos I lived there until I was a teenager so I sound like I'm from there. When I went to high school in Ponte, there would be people from Pontefract, Castleford, Airedale, Glasshoughton (cos in reality it's different to Cas) etc, and they all sounded slightly different. I then to go New College in Ponte and we have people from Wakefield, from outside the Wakefield district like Leeds and they all sounded different. Even now I can tell if someone is from Castleford, Pontefract, Airedale, or South Elmsall (and my current village) just because of the words they use, they're slightly different to each other even though each of the towns are probably between 5 and 10 miles of each other.
I really enjoy the videos of the two of you together ❤ for sure should do more
I come from Norfolk, and there are properly 5 or 6 dialects here alone. Someone from the West of the county sounds nothing like someone from the East coast area, and down on the Norfolk / Suffolk boarder you sound completely different from the North Norfolk coast, and then the county City of Norwich is a mixing pot of them all.
I do like the Norfolk accent myself, lovely place Norfolk.
Best Wishes from Wales.
Hello from a fellow Norfolker
In wales there is different dialects, that's stronger version, not all welsh accents are that strong. listen to other welsh dialects are you'll see the difference. From south to north from east to west. please react to other welsh dialects as we all don't sound the same. 🏴
Even on the little Isle of Man, we can generally tell where someone is from with their accent! And of course, like Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, we have our own language - Manx Gaelic (Gaelg).
The Welsh accent example was from North Wales, which is very, very different from the South Walian accent.
There are different accents in wales to
These are pretty old. And you know they change within like 10 miles, not even joking. My niece has started college 8 miles away and we can tell she's picked up the accent! I'm from the Norfolk Suffolk border so it's a right mish mash.
6 years ao,I spoke to someone fron Norfolk who said 30+ years ago everyone had a local accent but now you often hear an "Ilford" accent where people have moved out:)
@Isleofskye What? The hell is that? Moved in yeah, we had a lot of Londoners move up and especially the coast for second homes I suppose as everywhere does and I think the tv has made us speak less local but that's happened everywhere right?
@@lilme7052 Er,er,er,right. I didn't mean to provoke you....😁
@Isleofskye Hahaha I don't think I over reacted or it wasn't meant to sound that way. 😅
Liverpool has lots of variants on Scouse, different areas sound different . Love your videos Anna and JB💕💕
thank you great video
Theres loads of welsh and scots accents 😢
You CAN'T do a BRITISH accent as there is no such thing. Britain is a collection of 3 countries ! England, Scotland and Wales.
As a Scotsman can I just say that this video has skipped over the very many dialects in Scotland. You can't just lump them all in to one and call it " SCOTS" or " HIGHLAND SCOTS" !
Thank you!! My thoughts exactly. It winds me up when people say 'the British accent'. What does that even mean? 🤯
@@openorwap5412 To them, a "British" accent is Harry fecking Potter !!
@@enemde3025 Haha, yes! That, or Hugh bloody Grant 🙄
The Welsh /English accent featured is specific to the Snowdonia area of North West Wales, I'm a South Walian and I can pick that up straight away.
Cardiff to Caerphilly, no more than 8 miles as the crow flies, totally different accent completely.
I live in Wales and the vast majority of people speak English mostly. I grew up with a friend who always spoke English, but one day, I went over to his house, and he was speaking Welsh with his family. He told me that they really only speak it together and when they are with certain people (who also speak Welsh), but as a general rule they speak English when out and about etc.
1:47 - even just in Kent you can hear regional differences in accents, whether it's South East London, London/Kent Borders, Medway Towns, Maidstone Kentish, Kentish Gypsy, Irish Gypsy, or just plain Kentish/Rural Kentish which sounds more like a West Country accent than anything else.
People can even tell which individual town you're from by the way you pronounce certain words.
Just a quick correction basically every one in Wales speaks English and about a third speak welsh most often as a second language also Welsh-English doesn't exist and multiple of these were just multiple languages mixed together (For example the "Welsh-English" one and the "Anglo-Cornish" one as well as the "Anglo-Manx" one also Scots as well as maybe some of the other ones listed here are just different languages) also every country in the UK has a huge amount of accents and dialects which these videos seem to like to ignore also please react to the languages of the British Isles it is a great video and would really help with some of your mistakes also they also ignored a bunch of English dialects and accents also some of these are just different languages.
ah din knar, geordie as much as ah dislike em, sounds areet ta me
Why aye !!
Don't get Lemon and come to The Smoke, Squire. I'm off to take my Trouble and The Saucepans down the rub-a-dub, now,mate..Laters,My Son..
Al'reet bonny lad. Geordies are OK. It's the mags get me.
@@Isleofskye I'm just doing a Lambeth up the apples to put on my new whistle , then me and 'er indoors are going for a Ruby .
@@halcyon289 I like it 😀
Halcyon is Bubble for The Kingfisher Bird....not a lot of people know that(probably, not even Michael Caine. lol)...
Hey guys, love the channel.The majority of people who live in Wales speak English as a first language. Fluent welsh speakers are usually from North Wales, however there are some like myself from the south who also speak it fluently.
Aye that’s a good thing you guys speak a lot of welsh 👍
Wish they would do the same up in Scotland with Scottish Gaelic
I remember a similar discussion on Twitch about Australian dialect, at the very least there's a rural dialect and an urban dialect.
I'm from Coventry in the west Midlands and my nephew moved to Newcastle about 9 years ago and he talks with a Geordie accent now. Didn't take long for his original accent to go. Lol
I’m glad you liked Suffolk🥹 I live in the town of Ipswich and we are called carrot crunchers and tractor boys🤣
You are listening to old regional accents, most of the south no longer have a country accent.
There are / use to be dialects within little Denmark that other Danse would have a hard time just understanding partially.
Generally these was northern and southern parts of Jutland, and then the people on the island of Bornholm.
There are towns in Scotland that have different accents depending on what area you are from, hell some can differ street to street.
There are way more than that. I can travel to the next town 15 mins and have trouble understanding some folk!
Good video!
Loved this thank you 😂😊👍🏻❤
You two always make me smile ,love the chemistry you have together and the dogs! Somerset is in the west country sadly the local dialect is dying out too many townies moving in lol .What i twas going to say is i understand all the accents in the UK lol my favourite will always be the Geordie x
I LOVE your dogs.
Pitmatic is from the Durham coal mine (pits) villages. My wife worked in our local hospital and it covered the old pit villages and even though only 10-15 mile from our area she struggled to understand them.
Im from the norh east, everyone knows the geordie, but 10 miles down the road os underland, where we have a different accent and known as makcems, the difference is we distinct
Don't forget these are the dialects, not simply the different accents of the areas - so they are using local dialect slang as well as speaking with their local accents.
Hi.
These recordings are about 90 years old I think.
A lot of those dialects have or are disappearing from the UK now, sadly.
Started laughing at your comment about having a stammer and communicating. I have a stammer with a mixture of Pitmatic and Geordie accent but work for a council in the West Midlands. However, everyday is such a laugh because even though we are a small island, people still get shocked by a different accent it’s it’s funnier when I start stammering cos it totally confuses people 😅
I wish there was an up to date version of this, I think some of the clips are so difficult to hear, it just sounds muffled.
I speak potteries dialect and it's way stronger than is shown here.
Cost thee kick a bo agen a wo and yed it wi yer ed til bost duck?
(Can you kick a ball against a wall and head it with your head until it bursts mate?)
One thing that's always subject for debate between us and everyone else in the UK is the pronounciation of look, cook, book etc. We annunciate the oo as an ooh sound and not a u sound. Eg look to us, is pronounced the same as you would pronounce the name Luke. And yes this is the correct way to say these words and I cannot be convinced otherwise 🤣
Only about 1/5th of the welsh population speak welsh fluently, and there are very few that speak welsh primarily.
Also there are 3 or 4 accents in North Yorkshire, they missed Teesside in this too where I am from
Lol I'm from the UK and I can tell you that the voices you are hearing are from older people. If you were to listen to younger people you would definitely understand a lot more of what was being said.
Love the video. You two work well together. I’d recommend any interview with Brian Sewell. Very, very posh art critic from my youth. People often said he made the Queen sound common.
Some of those samples were extreme examples of the local accent. The accent is often more pronounced with older people.
🏴 that was a very generic Welsh accent, there are many different types in Wales , for example North Wales sounds completely different to the accent in Cardiff or Swansea. Every town and city has its own accent 🏴
Don’t fret. I struggle and I’m from the UK
As someone from Stoke or Potteries as they call it on there. The second I heard “Hanley Park” I was like “NOT HANLEY PARK” 😂😂
haha i'm from Bristol and you two's reaction too it was great
Anna's hair looks so lovely.
Hi Anna & JT, I just this second pressed play and I had to comment straight away, my comment is "Why dose Anna not wear her hair down more often?" I don't want to come off creepy but Anna looks a bit scary when she has her hair pulled back, but today she was extremely cute. ❤❤❤
Fun video (and good dogs). Some southern US accents are meant to come from various UK regions via settlers - mainly Devon/Cornwall and lowland scotts.
Scot’s
What’s with the double T
@@bobbyscott2123 Sorry to steal your name. Scott's is a shop I used to see sometimes, so I guess it got into my head.
Accents/dialects change every few miles here, for instance I’m from Newcastle and my accent and dialect is similar but quite different to someone from Sunderland which is only around 12 mile away.
In Essex there are different accents in different towns/villages only a couple of miles apart!
It's way more than you realise, Wales and Scotland have accents that change every few miles. Between where I was raised and the Welsh capital Cardiff a distance of maybe 20 miles , there are at least four distinct accents.
one thing to take from this is most of these are very old recordings and pretty much all of these places sound vastly different to this now. I have never once heard someone in the south east sound like that my entire life.
My late dad a true Wiltshire moonraker, could speak, Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset dialects.
I have a book on West country dialects, a dag was a sheep, gallybagger a scarecrow and a hoss meaning horse.
It was eye opening hear him talk and not understand a word.
Many Wiltshire words made your vocabulary, from immigrants especially in the Virginia areas of there abouts.
My dad spoke like Gerald from clarksons farm on prime
Try it with differences in the American Accent. Not just different States but also different Counties within a State.
I had a friend, (English) she worked for a Huge Oil Company in Texas as she married an American and they lived in Texas. She manned the Switchboard/Customer services in the early 1970s. One day she was speaking to one of the Major Investors in the Industry and the Gentleman asked ....
" is there anyone there that speaks English? "
To which she replied, in the Queens English of course was, " I AM ENGLISH! "
I don't know if you've ever watched the Mel Brooks Film, "Blazing Saddles" one of the characters was played by an actor named "Slim Pickens" his accent and other characters in the film varied wildly. It ain't jus us Briddish!
Have a nice day (HAND) 🇺🇸🇬🇧😊