Wales thanks you for the shout out! We don't like stereotypes here so I'm off on the back of my dragon to watch the rugby and have a sing-song with my girlfriend, Baaarbra.
There's two types of people from Wales. Tarts and rugby players. My wife is from Wales. Oh, what position does she play? Very old joke - don't take offence....
especially the whale song!! the description of Newcastle always annoys me, but historically he is correct. Used to smear excrement on the town walls to keep the scots out
They're not derogatory terms Brian. It's almost impossible for a none Brit to get these jokes. UK has thousands of accents, mile to mile the accents are different even if only slight. Every region, county, town and village will have a different accent. 😊.
I live in Bury, nr Manchester. There is a Bury accent , a Radcliffe accent, a Bolton accent, a ramsbottom accent, Rochdale and Heywood. All within 9 miles of Bury
@@kamelionify I'm South Manchester born and bred, moved to Leigh and the accent is vastly different... I know live in Bolton, just a few miles north of there, and it's different again.
+ shell suits + tight perms ;) Good on the Scousers for standing up to the pigs + The Sun - the rest of us don't care if you're a little light-fingered ;)
Brits just love to take the piss out of each other. It's just jokes. It doesn't bother me when I'm called a jock, a sweaty sock or a porridge monster in the slightest. I live in England (the Geordies failed) and I give it back in equal measure and I love it. You've got to have a bit of hilarity in life. Good to see you back fella. 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
The Geordies never fail. Occasionally we’ll let the odd one in. You’ll find out soon enough once we claim Scotland and march on south to take the palace 😂
Scousers are people from Liverpool. Most famous example is The Beatles! Though they have/had quite soft chill accents. It's the really thick version that he's parodying there.
Liverpool - Scousers London - Cockneys (specifically from the East End) Manchester - Mancunians Birmingham - Brummies Newcastle - Geordies Leeds - Loiners Sheffield - Tykes Bristol - Bristolians or Brizzle Brighton - Brightonians Cornwall - Cornish (not specific to a city, but to the region) Southampton - Sotonians Plymouth - Janners Portsmouth - Pompeyites Nottingham - Nottinghamians or Nottinghamites Oxford - Oxonians Cambridge - Cantabrigians or Cantabs Hull - Hullites or Hullensians Coventry - Coventrians Derby - Derbeians
If yo're a Portsmouth ("Pompey") supporter, people from Southampton are called "Scummers". Vice-versa, people from Pomey (nobody in Hampshire callls it Portsmouth) are "Skates".
Yes and there are variations of accents. I grew up in Plymouth, the accent is janner, yet a sub dialect is Devonport janner. I can usually detect 1 generation moved out of Devonport. I guess you supersnebz can tell Gateshead, Wallsend, Jesmond & Ponteland.
Yes the reason for this is the different Gaelic languages that used to be spoken in Scotland Ireland and still all over wales today and as American just has English they do have other accents but there is less variety
I’m from South Shields, yet three miles away is Whitburn village which has a distinctly different dialect. My husband us from Blyth, 17 miles away and their accent sounds like from another planet.
Al is referring to the braveheart movie where they painted their face blue to fight the English but you are correct the Iceni tribe used to paint their faces blue as well
I've studied Spanish and there _are_ differences over there, but here in the U.K. there are literally tons of accents within England itself and then there are different accents among the Scots and Welsh also. I'm from the West Country. The accent can vary from Gloucester, to Bristol, to Somerset, through Devon and Cornwall. We mock our accents, but in a very warm hearted way.
I go diving off the coast of Northumberland, one of the funniest things I ever saw/heard was a very fat Geordie in a bright pink shirt drunkenly lean back a describe an underwater rock formation called "lady's hole". Just the way he said it, and added little details like "and it is anatomically correct too" or "it's even got a little forest o' seaweed all around it" was too much!
The Goerdies and the Scousers get their names from the headlamps they used to wear in the mining era. Geordie lamps and Scouse lamps. Look it up, interesting history.
7:09 well, the furthest south the Scots ever got was Derbyshire in the midlands during the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie. There is a joke by Nottingham Forest (Derby’s rivals) fans that the Scots got to Derby, saw them play football, and turned back
The US is a very young country historically. You've had Radio/TV for almost half your life as a country whereas those things are a mere drop in our thousands of years historical ocean. Even cars and the ability to long distance travel are relatively new to the UK as a mass populated country, so we've have had hundreds and hundreds of years where communities rarely, if ever, heard anyone else talk other than their close neighbours allowing varied accents to develop over time that today seem strange given what today would be close proximity. Even your accent is new on the world stage and will be a mish-mash of European English speaking accents. Media, immigration also play a big part which you can see in places like London where today's youth, for the most part, sound nothing like the youth of generations still alive and living in the area in old age.
Indeed, ancient Britons from the part of Britain that would become England after the Anglo-Saxons arrived, also painted their faces blue. How related these ancient Britons are in terms of DNA to modern English people is a debate that continues to this day; largely because we're all good friends in Britain now, and have intermarried and moved around a lot since, which muddies the waters. Though most agree at the very least, that the greatest single contribution to the DNA of the English comes from the Anglo-Saxons, who seem to have invaded in great numbers and brought their families too. This also explains why the Scots, Welsh and Irish view the English as somewhat different to themselves; and forms the basis of much of our mutual teasing of one another.
Mickeys (Micky mouse = Scouse) from Liverpool,in the north west of England. Geordies from Newcastle in the north east. Cockneys from London of course Brummies from Birmingham in the midlands Sheepshaggers from Leeds in Yorkshire Tractor boys from east anglia in the east of England.
a scouser is from Liverpool. Its regularly voted the friendliest UK City, and has less crime than most other big cities. Known throughout the world for its music, and not just the Beatles. Biggest football city. Great sites and nightlife. The River Mersey. Grand National at Aintree. Most fashionable girls. Oh! and the Cavern amongst other things. Some of the jealous comments 🤣
I'm from Stourbridge and it does my head in being called a Brummie we are from the Black Country I get it a lot when I go to the Rugby League especially watching St Helens away they say we don't get many Brummies watching Rugby League I just reply I'm from Stourbridge which is the Black Country/Worcestershire.
The other day I watched a video showing 7 different American Southern accents. Quite suprised that I noticed a difference. I live in an area of Scotland where the accent differs every 16 miles, and I really mean different. So much so, that my niece sometimes struggles to understand her grandparents that live 32 miles away. They speak with a Doric accent where words get changed to add to the confusion.
I’m from near Newcastle and my missus is a foreigner. She said we sound like drunk Norwegians and she doesn’t understand proper broad Geordie. She used to mispronounce ‘Geordie’ too, but she’s getting better with her English now. As for the blue paint, the ancient Britons used to paint their face before battle, it’s believe they primarily used woad, which would come out a green/blue colour. As Britain became more Romanised, woad body painting started to die out, surviving mostly in what’s now modern day Scotland into about the 6th century
@@Gabaja21 In London I made friends with a couple of Swedish and Norwegian people. They told me they understood me better than anyone else in the group.
Watching reaction clips from Texans to North Dakotans and inbetween, there is definitely a vast change in accents but that's around 1300 miles. I live in Solihull, just (2 miles) south of Birmingham UK. Just (2 miles) north of Birmingham is the Black Country. The difference in accents between these areas is ridiculous but brilliant at the same time. Every 8 miles in England the accent changes and the name for bread rolls changes too..... it's TRUE name is a cob!
The tribes of Britannia did paint themselves blue with woad before battle. What Al Murray referenced with the comment to the Scot was Braveheart I think.
Harry Enfield does sketches called the scousers. There’s one called the Scouse alphabet that’s good and you here Scouse slang , there are videos with the whole series sketch in one 👌🏼 Hope the family is all well brother 👊🏼
The Scottish town I grew up in was separated from the next town over by a river and about 1 minute of road...different accent, different slang yet barely any distance between the 2 towns.
Im English born but lived in mid west Ireland for most of my childhood. I now live near Newcastle, but have lived in Sheffield and Hampshire and was married to a Scouser. Our children had mostly Basingstoke accents until we moved to Northumberland 11 years ago. My Granddaughter has a very strong Ashington accent. One of my brothers married a girl from Dublin. They lived in Abu Dhabi for a while, their children have a Dublin accent with a slight American twang (went to an American school while there). Another brother lives near Belfast, his son has a very strong accent. Another of my brothers married a girl from Limerick but now lives 30 miles away from my Mum, and i have a brother living in Lyon France. My sister married a Cork man. Can you imagine our family get togethers with all those accents?!!!!
My brother has a slightly different accent from me. I was exposed to my mum and dad’s northern accents far earlier than he, so I have flat vowels. He grew up in southern England with more peers from that area and has much more of a Hampshire accent with more rounded vowels.
As someone who is Scottish (Highlands and Glasgow) but also has family from Ireland and Yorkshire: My opinion has always been that Geordies are not there to 'keep the Scots out'. Geordies are Scots, who moved south for the better licencing hours 😂😂
The blue painted people are the Celts, who lived in Britain before the English. Also known as "Britons". The "English" formed from the Anglo-Saxons, who were Germanic tribes that gradually migrated to Britain as the Romans began to withdraw (Romans gone by 410 AD).
I'd say 50 States= 50 accents, New Yorker, Boston, Texan, Californian... In the UK you can drive for an hour and hear 4 different accents. I think we've quite alot more! But as you said, it's linked to our patchwork quilt of a history
Near where I live are 3 small towns that almost merge together, their centres barely 3 miles apart. Newton le Willows has a Warrington/Manchester influence, Haydock has St Helens/Liverpool undertones and Ashton in Makerfield has a definite Wigan twang.
@@TonySpike My mother moved to the village we still both live in around 48 years ago - the 'locals' I remember growing up noticed her 'different' accent - and as you learn to speak from your parents mine is slightly different - not hugely but noticed by those with a good ear for accents - the great distance she moved (in Yorkshire) is 12 miles
Scouse a food Scouse is our city's traditional dish. A stew often made with lamb, beef, or both, it originates from the word 'lobscouse', which was a stew often eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe, popular in port cities such as Liverpool..
Where I live in Weston-super-Mare, during the Winter its them foreigners 18 miles away in Bristol to watch out for, them Bristolians coming over for a day trip what have you. But in the Summer... My word it gets worse. Its like the invasion of the body snatchers! Everyone suddenly has a Brummie (Birmingham) accent. Like we locals have been taken over by the pod people! The reality is, WsM along with Barry in South Wales (A town not a man named Barry) gets inundated with them every Summer while we locals all bugger off to Cornwall lol, so it sounds like we've been invaded. The reasoning being is that WsM, Barry and at a push in the dominion of accents Blackpool in the north west is because these towns are the closest ones to Birmingham with a sandy beach! However this is especially true to my town of WsM is that you cannot swim in the sea here because the quicksandy mud will kill you and we bugger off to actual true swimming beaches in Cornwall.
Wessun super Mud a Gurt Lush day out just 20 miles away and a unit of measure when on the motorway as in " it's 60 miles away the just down to Wessun back and down to Wessun again.
8:52 they’re not derogatory whatsoever 😂 Same as you’d affectionately call someone a “tarheel” or a “buckeye” if they came from that part of the country Same sense of humour, they own it ❤
There's loads of variations within variations of accents in the UK. I'm North Eastern England and I'm guessing there's about 20 up here and they can change by just going a mile or two down the road.
I was just watching your previous Al Murray reaction videos earlier and then this is uploaded. Great to see you back and I'm sorry your father had the flu.💟
Scousers are from Liverpool. Named after the local dish of stew, originally called Lobscouse brought to LIverpool by the Scandanavian sailors who would make it while on their fishing expeditions. The 'scouse' stew dish was adopted by the locals and that's why Liverpudlians are known for that dish, and therefore 'scousers'. BTW 'scouser' and 'geordie' aren't insults but are colloquial terms and proud identities. Equally there are are other local terms for indigenous groups across the UK, some more well known than others, some recognised nationally e.g. cockney (from East end of London), whereas others known more locally e.g. 'mackems', the nickname given to those residing south of Newcastle (Geordie town) in Sunderland.
Full of shit 😂😂😂 Scouse is a form of Irish stew instead of just lamb it’s lamb and beef, as all are ancestors are English Irish Scottish and Welsh 🤫 As Karl Marx said Liverpool is the epitome of the union and the Scouse accent is a quarter Welsh quarter Scottish quarter Irish quarter Lancastrian 😂 Got Fuck all to do with Scandinavians 😂😂😂😂
Liverpudlians also means you support Liverpool FC Evertonians support Everton FC 😂 I’m a proud scouser and if you do something good in front of a fellow scouser you will be told ‘scouser lad’
Absolute bullshit about Scandinavians don’t know we’re you got that from. Scouse is Irish stew but instead of just lamb it’s lamb and beef. Karl Marx said Liverpool is the epitome of the union, the Scouse accent is a quarter Welsh a quarter Scottish a quarter Irish and and a quarter Lancastrian 🫡
@@scouse_highlander Well, according to a number of sources, it is widely accepted and circulated - the Liverpool Echo even ran a piece in line with this view. Apparently, the stew became popular in the 1700s, and term followed. As you say the dish was made from lamb/beef and vegetables. Always keen to hear new insights that shed some light on from verifiable historical sources.
I'm a Geordie and we feel more Scottish than English , i think. That's cause. Scotland is just over the border from Newcastle, basically And at one time Newcastle was part of Scotland.
I'm a Geordie, go a few miles up the coast to Ashington and i struggle to understand them :) , but then again i'm not sure they understand each other as nothing seems to get done there!
Expat UK living in Sweden yes the UK has more accents, Leeds to Barnsley for example just down the road almost not English. I joke but interesting plague story. But to my main point, yes we have regional but more in counties and in terms, We have more Danish/viking words in the south, whereas the north more refined.
The English language is full of French and Spanish and some Swedish, a legacy of invasions and migrations over the last 1000 years, its culture is a convergence. The Scots on the west coast used paint their faces blue and club seals on the beach to death for food, a Scottish beach barbecue!✌️❤️🇬🇧
On accents both Geordie and Scouse there are comedy programs set in those areas, check a few out as you heard the accent and slang for those areas. UA-cam has 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads'. It is from the 70's but still good. About two best friends who drifted apart. Scouse - this is a meat dish with vegetables. Have not noticed your or your wife accent then in an IT Crowd reaction suddenly your wife spoke in what sounded like a southern accent. Have a Black Country accent (West Midlands).
yeah Celts painted themselves in blue wode before battle they believed it had magical protective qualities like armour and went into battle completely naked lol.
I brought my Japanese girlfriend back to Cardiff and told everyone I had taught her to speak Welsh. On cue, while everyone was listening with anticipation, she says, “Fuckin’ slamming’, innit!”.
In the USA, you had people from all over the world coming together, many speaking English as a second language. It was important to pick an accent and keep it simple. In the UK, we've been tripping over each other on this tiny island for millennia and need a solid way to define our local community. We're tribal in dialect and accent. We also need to keep it confusing as possible in case the Germans try any of that infiltrating spy stuff again. "How do you pronounce Worcestershire?" "War-chest-er-shyre" "NAZI! We got a Nazi 'ere lads - get 'im!"
The same way that Yanks needed a way to tell if a Redcoat had infiltrated the ranks as a spy. "We need more aluminium, sir!" "More what?" "Aluminium, sir" "REDCOAT! We got a Limey 'ere boys! Get 'em!"
UK has definately got more accents. In the US you have to travel 100s of miles to notice a difference whereas in the UK you only need to travel about 15-20 miles before its obvious. Hell, there is about 4 different accents just on my street alone
The descendants original inhabitants of what we now called England, are concentrated primarily in Wales and Kernow (Cornwall.) The rest of the country is divided roughly North/ south between the Danes and Saxons. The exact mix of all of these distinct ancient ethnic groups combined with the odd environmental factor (the London Boroughs nasal whine is from how bad the air quality STILL is some 300 years into the Industiral revolution) is what creates each county or city's accent.
I live in Leyland. If you drop a pin in the map and draw a circle of 20 miles you will get the following: Preston, Chorley, Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley, Manchester, Liverpool (scousers)....Thats just a start and part of that is the sea!..... There are probably twice that number as Liverpool has multiple accents as does Manchester. If you go back in time a few decades there were FAR more accents. You could virtually narrow down which street people came from.
Love the channel . im not usually one for commenting , but as a brit thought some context might help .Re your question about English tribes who painted their faces blue: You are thinking of the Ancient British who were - Celtic peoples who lived in the island of Britain before and during the times of the Romans. The English were Germanic invaders into Britain when the Romans left ( approx 400-500AD). The name England comes from one of these invading tribes - the Angles, others included the Saxons and the Jutes. hence why the English are called Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo Saxons did not paint themselves blue - unlike the Celts (remember the original Britons) but were very fierce and over hundreds of years pushed the now very effete civilized Celts or romano-british out to the furthest parts of the British Isles. Basically Wales and Scotland. The Scottish highland and Welsh Tribes tribes maintained a fierce independence and hatred of the English ( now with Viking and Norman added into the mix) until well into the middle ages arguably beyond - the reference Al Murray makes in this is towards the film Braveheart and Mel Gibson painting himself blue ( although this is almost certainly a fiction createted by the film) . Of all the celtic cultures of the British Isles, it is probably the Irish culture which endured mostly intact for longest - never colonised by the romans or the anglo saxons they mainained their independence from English dominance until well in to the 1500s - but that is another story . As an after thought This is why we brits get annoyed amaericans call our country England. Scots or Welsh most definitely do not see themselves as coming from England . The country is the United Kingdom ( big clue there ) made up of the kingdoms of England , Scotland and Wales - with the province of Northern Ireland .
in the north east is the Geordies, Newcastle, Sunderland , Mackams, south shields, sand dancers, Middlesborough , smoggies and hartlepool, there are monkey hangers
Scouser is liverpool its a stew a blind scouse is a stew with no meat cos the old fella spent his wages in the pub on the way home ! John from liverpool
My girlfriend lives in the next major town 10 minutes up the road, with two small towns in between. Her accent is very different to mine. I live in Northumberland which is just north of Newcastle and ends at the Scottish border.
Given that the UK is a small island. It has by far more accents than any country in the world pound for pound. Not sure about the most accents of any country as I dont know how many accents there are in Russia or China etc, but probably more than the U.S.
From the sheer size I suppose there must be plenty in the US . but here it changes within a few miles . If you go to any football match you can tell travelling supporters easily .
He slipped so many little UK based sub jokes in there you couldn't hope to keep up. In the scouse bit on the german radio he's saying "Where's me fkn giro?" A giro was originally a type of welfare cheque that was printed in Bootle, Merseyside (next door to Liverpool) and it was a popular stereotype in the 80s that all scousers were layabouts and on the Giro. Shortly after he sneaks in a "Surprise Surprise!" squeal which was a mocking impression of the late Cilla Black, TV personality and 60s pop star coming out of the same club in Liverpool as The Beatles. McCartney wrote several of her hits.
4:50 you are right, other tribes painted their faces blue but because the Romans drove those tribes into what became Scotland it's become a Scottish thing.
UK almost certainly has more accents as they have had many more years to develop. The history of where they come from can be quite interesting, take The Geordie accent from the north west. This area was the final area in England that was ruled by the 'Vikings'. Actually you can hear a similar accent to what you would find in Norway, even some of the Geordie slang are actually Norwegian words. Well over a thousand years has gone since the Vikings left, but their influence remains. I'd be interested in understanding the origin of regional accents in the U.S. for instance does having a higher proportion of German immigrants leave a lasting affect? Whence the recognisable accents of say the deep south?
The UK Has by far the most distinguishable accents. Most people wouldn't know a Canadian accent from a US one. Go back 50 years and you could tell the difference between two neighbouring villages! Not so much now with the rise of easier travel etc. they're becoming much more similar accept larger areas.
Scousers are from Liverpool, Liverpudlians. The Beatles for example. Craig Charles - Lister from Red Dwarf and Paul McGann, who accent is more RP with Liverpudlian intonations.
The Romans pushed the Celts to the extreme edges of The Isles (the people who used Blue Wode on the skin). So the Celts are basically now in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall.
The UK has more recognised accents and dialects than the US - because it was settled so quickly (the bits that were settled more slowly, the east, has the most variation for that reason)
Wales thanks you for the shout out! We don't like stereotypes here so I'm off on the back of my dragon to watch the rugby and have a sing-song with my girlfriend, Baaarbra.
There's two types of people from Wales.
Tarts and rugby players.
My wife is from Wales.
Oh, what position does she play?
Very old joke - don't take offence....
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@@jiggely_spears That made me laugh out loud. Good one.
R U the only gay in the village, say yes pls even if not true.
Diolch yn fawr ❤
I love how your just sat there bewildered at the scouse wailing , while me been English and Yorkshire am pissing mi sen 😂😂😂
As a Geordie that was hilarious 😂😂
especially the whale song!! the description of Newcastle always annoys me, but historically he is correct. Used to smear excrement on the town walls to keep the scots out
They're not derogatory terms Brian. It's almost impossible for a none Brit to get these jokes. UK has thousands of accents, mile to mile the accents are different even if only slight. Every region, county, town and village will have a different accent. 😊.
There are five distinct accents within five miles of me.
Dialects to, should have mentioned that.
Who is this Diana Lects ????.@@markwolstenholme3354
I live in Bury, nr Manchester. There is a Bury accent , a Radcliffe accent, a Bolton accent, a ramsbottom accent, Rochdale and Heywood. All within 9 miles of Bury
@@kamelionify I'm South Manchester born and bred, moved to Leigh and the accent is vastly different... I know live in Bolton, just a few miles north of there, and it's different again.
Scousers are Liverpudlians, from Liverpool.. think the Beatles
+ shell suits + tight perms ;)
Good on the Scousers for standing up to the pigs + The Sun - the rest of us don't care if you're a little light-fingered ;)
And Cilla Black and Paul O'Grady/Lily Savage! 😉😉
Brits just love to take the piss out of each other. It's just jokes. It doesn't bother me when I'm called a jock, a sweaty sock or a porridge monster in the slightest. I live in England (the Geordies failed) and I give it back in equal measure and I love it. You've got to have a bit of hilarity in life. Good to see you back fella. 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
Arthur farts? You sound like a real gas. 😆
We enjoy taking the piss out of ourselves, so don't think twice about doing it to somebody else in the country. Cause it's all fun
@@Jason.King.at.your.service That's right. Keeps my guests nice and warm.
The Geordies never fail. Occasionally we’ll let the odd one in. You’ll find out soon enough once we claim Scotland and march on south to take the palace 😂
I'm a geordie and it's funny how he sounds nothing like us but exactly like us lol
Scousers are people from Liverpool. Most famous example is The Beatles! Though they have/had quite soft chill accents. It's the really thick version that he's parodying there.
Liverpool - Scousers
London - Cockneys (specifically from the East End)
Manchester - Mancunians
Birmingham - Brummies
Newcastle - Geordies
Leeds - Loiners
Sheffield - Tykes
Bristol - Bristolians or Brizzle
Brighton - Brightonians
Cornwall - Cornish (not specific to a city, but to the region)
Southampton - Sotonians
Plymouth - Janners
Portsmouth - Pompeyites
Nottingham - Nottinghamians or Nottinghamites
Oxford - Oxonians
Cambridge - Cantabrigians or Cantabs
Hull - Hullites or Hullensians
Coventry - Coventrians
Derby - Derbeians
Glasgow - Glaswegians
Blackpool - Sandgrown'uns
If yo're a Portsmouth ("Pompey") supporter, people from Southampton are called "Scummers".
Vice-versa, people from Pomey (nobody in Hampshire callls it Portsmouth) are "Skates".
Sunderland - Mackems (FTM)❤🤍
Stourbridge,Dudley,Brierley Hill,Cradley Heath etc etc are Yam Yams (The Black Country)
The uk has 53 main accents but if you travel just 15-20 miles you’ll hear a slightly different accent
Yes and there are variations of accents. I grew up in Plymouth, the accent is janner, yet a sub dialect is Devonport janner. I can usually detect 1 generation moved out of Devonport.
I guess you supersnebz can tell Gateshead, Wallsend, Jesmond & Ponteland.
Yes the reason for this is the different Gaelic languages that used to be spoken in Scotland Ireland and still all over wales today and as American just has English they do have other accents but there is less variety
So many accents and English isn't our official language lol
I’m from South Shields, yet three miles away is Whitburn village which has a distinctly different dialect. My husband us from Blyth, 17 miles away and their accent sounds like from another planet.
Al is referring to the braveheart movie where they painted their face blue to fight the English but you are correct the Iceni tribe used to paint their faces blue as well
I've studied Spanish and there _are_ differences over there, but here in the U.K. there are literally tons of accents within England itself and then there are different accents among the Scots and Welsh also.
I'm from the West Country. The accent can vary from Gloucester, to Bristol, to Somerset, through Devon and Cornwall. We mock our accents, but in a very warm hearted way.
I go diving off the coast of Northumberland, one of the funniest things I ever saw/heard was a very fat Geordie in a bright pink shirt drunkenly lean back a describe an underwater rock formation called "lady's hole". Just the way he said it, and added little details like "and it is anatomically correct too" or "it's even got a little forest o' seaweed all around it" was too much!
I can just imagine that in a strong Geordie accent, especially the seaweed bit 😂
The Goerdies and the Scousers get their names from the headlamps they used to wear in the mining era. Geordie lamps and Scouse lamps. Look it up, interesting history.
7:09 well, the furthest south the Scots ever got was Derbyshire in the midlands during the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie. There is a joke by Nottingham Forest (Derby’s rivals) fans that the Scots got to Derby, saw them play football, and turned back
The US is a very young country historically. You've had Radio/TV for almost half your life as a country whereas those things are a mere drop in our thousands of years historical ocean. Even cars and the ability to long distance travel are relatively new to the UK as a mass populated country, so we've have had hundreds and hundreds of years where communities rarely, if ever, heard anyone else talk other than their close neighbours allowing varied accents to develop over time that today seem strange given what today would be close proximity. Even your accent is new on the world stage and will be a mish-mash of European English speaking accents. Media, immigration also play a big part which you can see in places like London where today's youth, for the most part, sound nothing like the youth of generations still alive and living in the area in old age.
Glasgow born and bred, Al's got this one nailed! Makes me literally laugh out loud every time I hear that type 4 Jock "Aiiiieeee?" Brilliant. Spot on.
My dad grew up in Manchester in the 1930s. He told me that when he was a boy he could tell where someone was from within a few streets.
The blue face painting is the Picts. Not the Scottish. Like most Hollywood films, Braveheart is full of inaccuracies.
Which Al full well knows
Indeed, ancient Britons from the part of Britain that would become England after the Anglo-Saxons arrived, also painted their faces blue. How related these ancient Britons are in terms of DNA to modern English people is a debate that continues to this day; largely because we're all good friends in Britain now, and have intermarried and moved around a lot since, which muddies the waters. Though most agree at the very least, that the greatest single contribution to the DNA of the English comes from the Anglo-Saxons, who seem to have invaded in great numbers and brought their families too.
This also explains why the Scots, Welsh and Irish view the English as somewhat different to themselves; and forms the basis of much of our mutual teasing of one another.
Mickeys (Micky mouse = Scouse) from Liverpool,in the north west of England.
Geordies from Newcastle in the north east.
Cockneys from London of course
Brummies from Birmingham in the midlands
Sheepshaggers from Leeds in Yorkshire
Tractor boys from east anglia in the east of England.
a scouser is from Liverpool. Its regularly voted the friendliest UK City, and has less crime than most other big cities. Known throughout the world for its music, and not just the Beatles. Biggest football city. Great sites and nightlife. The River Mersey. Grand National at Aintree. Most fashionable girls. Oh! and the Cavern amongst other things. Some of the jealous comments 🤣
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Some parts of England you've only got a travel 10 miles to find the different accent 😂
Wales too...
I'm from Stourbridge and it does my head in being called a Brummie we are from the Black Country I get it a lot when I go to the Rugby League especially watching St Helens away they say we don't get many Brummies watching Rugby League I just reply I'm from Stourbridge which is the Black Country/Worcestershire.
The other day I watched a video showing 7 different American Southern accents. Quite suprised that I noticed a difference. I live in an area of Scotland where the accent differs every 16 miles, and I really mean different. So much so, that my niece sometimes struggles to understand her grandparents that live 32 miles away. They speak with a Doric accent where words get changed to add to the confusion.
I’m from near Newcastle and my missus is a foreigner. She said we sound like drunk Norwegians and she doesn’t understand proper broad Geordie. She used to mispronounce ‘Geordie’ too, but she’s getting better with her English now.
As for the blue paint, the ancient Britons used to paint their face before battle, it’s believe they primarily used woad, which would come out a green/blue colour. As Britain became more Romanised, woad body painting started to die out, surviving mostly in what’s now modern day Scotland into about the 6th century
+ means you're not attacking your comrades in battle - easy to identify sides.
Isn’t there a north eastern accent that Norwegians understand more easily than southerners? That maybe a myth but I like to believe it’s true 😂
Your missus is right.
Geordie ancestors are Vikings who got too pissed on a raid and missed the longship home.😁
@@Gabaja21 In London I made friends with a couple of Swedish and Norwegian people. They told me they understood me better than anyone else in the group.
@@phil2186 my family came to England from Denmark, maybe that’s how it happened? 😂
In Britain, accents can change 10 miles apart.
I'm in the Midlands and 25 miles any direction is so different!
I agree, I am in the northeast, and it's the same thing.
Watching reaction clips from Texans to North Dakotans and inbetween, there is definitely a vast change in accents but that's around 1300 miles. I live in Solihull, just (2 miles) south of Birmingham UK. Just (2 miles) north of Birmingham is the Black Country. The difference in accents between these areas is ridiculous but brilliant at the same time. Every 8 miles in England the accent changes and the name for bread rolls changes too..... it's TRUE name is a cob!
Black country accent is my favourite. “Would you like a kipper tie?”😁
@@phil2186 Yes please, old chap. Two sugars and a drop of milk.... maybe a splash of milk if its Yorkshire Tea...
The tribes of Britannia did paint themselves blue with woad before battle. What Al Murray referenced with the comment to the Scot was Braveheart I think.
Harry Enfield does sketches called the scousers. There’s one called the Scouse alphabet that’s good and you here Scouse slang , there are videos with the whole series sketch in one 👌🏼 Hope the family is all well brother 👊🏼
Love the shirt king B. And yes, I am.
Great to have you back
The Scottish town I grew up in was separated from the next town over by a river and about 1 minute of road...different accent, different slang yet barely any distance between the 2 towns.
Im English born but lived in mid west Ireland for most of my childhood. I now live near Newcastle, but have lived in Sheffield and Hampshire and was married to a Scouser. Our children had mostly Basingstoke accents until we moved to Northumberland 11 years ago. My Granddaughter has a very strong Ashington accent. One of my brothers married a girl from Dublin. They lived in Abu Dhabi for a while, their children have a Dublin accent with a slight American twang (went to an American school while there). Another brother lives near Belfast, his son has a very strong accent. Another of my brothers married a girl from Limerick but now lives 30 miles away from my Mum, and i have a brother living in Lyon France. My sister married a Cork man. Can you imagine our family get togethers with all those accents?!!!!
My brother has a slightly different accent from me. I was exposed to my mum and dad’s northern accents far earlier than he, so I have flat vowels. He grew up in southern England with more peers from that area and has much more of a Hampshire accent with more rounded vowels.
Hooray! The king is back 🎉
Edit: yes, British tribes also used blue paint, made from the woad plant
As someone who is Scottish (Highlands and Glasgow) but also has family from Ireland and Yorkshire:
My opinion has always been that Geordies are not there to 'keep the Scots out'.
Geordies are Scots, who moved south for the better licencing hours 😂😂
The blue painted people are the Celts, who lived in Britain before the English. Also known as "Britons".
The "English" formed from the Anglo-Saxons, who were Germanic tribes that gradually migrated to Britain as the Romans began to withdraw (Romans gone by 410 AD).
I'd say 50 States= 50 accents, New Yorker, Boston, Texan, Californian...
In the UK you can drive for an hour and hear 4 different accents. I think we've quite alot more! But as you said, it's linked to our patchwork quilt of a history
Bloody forgotten about this channel! Hope all is well with the family.
Oh, good to have you back, your channel is by far the best reaction channel out there.
Near where I live are 3 small towns that almost merge together, their centres barely 3 miles apart. Newton le Willows has a Warrington/Manchester influence, Haydock has St Helens/Liverpool undertones and Ashton in Makerfield has a definite Wigan twang.
Lovely to see you back ❤ I live in south Scotland in the Borders and dialects change from place to place
I can remember hearing that in Yorkshire, the accent and dialect change every seven miles!
2 miles if your lucky
@@TonySpike My mother moved to the village we still both live in around 48 years ago - the 'locals' I remember growing up noticed her 'different' accent - and as you learn to speak from your parents mine is slightly different - not hugely but noticed by those with a good ear for accents - the great distance she moved (in Yorkshire) is 12 miles
The King Is Back! Hail To The King, Baby!
Glad Father-King is on the mend!
Watching now from Nofolk "Get awwff moi laaaand!"
Blast boi yew hint ar ya? Yew'r a rummun int'nt? Keep you arn a trarshin
@watchreadplayretro - I think it's amazing how similar the Norfolk accents sound to west country accents, even though they're so far apart
You can tell how far up the hierarchy a Liverpudlian/Scouser is by the amount of hub caps adorning their sitting room walls.
Spoken like a foolish jealous tory.
From a divvy
Mate of mine nicked so many cars he developed a scouse accent.
Warraswatt! 🤪
@@MrJPEZ123 sounds rough where you live ' wonder where it is .
For accents. Per square mile it's the UK. Probably similar per capita but less distinct for the US vs the UK
Scouse a food Scouse is our city's traditional dish. A stew often made with lamb, beef, or both, it originates from the word 'lobscouse', which was a stew often eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe, popular in port cities such as Liverpool..
Glad to see you back King B
Where I live in Weston-super-Mare, during the Winter its them foreigners 18 miles away in Bristol to watch out for, them Bristolians coming over for a day trip what have you. But in the Summer... My word it gets worse. Its like the invasion of the body snatchers! Everyone suddenly has a Brummie (Birmingham) accent. Like we locals have been taken over by the pod people! The reality is, WsM along with Barry in South Wales (A town not a man named Barry) gets inundated with them every Summer while we locals all bugger off to Cornwall lol, so it sounds like we've been invaded. The reasoning being is that WsM, Barry and at a push in the dominion of accents Blackpool in the north west is because these towns are the closest ones to Birmingham with a sandy beach! However this is especially true to my town of WsM is that you cannot swim in the sea here because the quicksandy mud will kill you and we bugger off to actual true swimming beaches in Cornwall.
Wessun super Mud a Gurt Lush day out just 20 miles away and a unit of measure when on the motorway as in " it's 60 miles away the just down to Wessun back and down to Wessun again.
Very true. I often get the train down to wessun from avonmouth in the off-season . Too busy in the summer.x
Good to see you back glad your all ok
8:52 they’re not derogatory whatsoever 😂
Same as you’d affectionately call someone a “tarheel” or a “buckeye” if they came from that part of the country
Same sense of humour, they own it ❤
There's loads of variations within variations of accents in the UK. I'm North Eastern England and I'm guessing there's about 20 up here and they can change by just going a mile or two down the road.
Scousers are people from Liverpool
Thank you king boomer
Just what I needed
Watching from Chelsea in London England
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Watching your vid now.... Love the T-shirt! 😂♥️
I was just watching your previous Al Murray reaction videos earlier and then this is uploaded. Great to see you back and I'm sorry your father had the flu.💟
Shout back from Wales!
Scousers are from Liverpool. Named after the local dish of stew, originally called Lobscouse brought to LIverpool by the Scandanavian sailors who would make it while on their fishing expeditions. The 'scouse' stew dish was adopted by the locals and that's why Liverpudlians are known for that dish, and therefore 'scousers'. BTW 'scouser' and 'geordie' aren't insults but are colloquial terms and proud identities. Equally there are are other local terms for indigenous groups across the UK, some more well known than others, some recognised nationally e.g. cockney (from East end of London), whereas others known more locally e.g. 'mackems', the nickname given to those residing south of Newcastle (Geordie town) in Sunderland.
Full of shit 😂😂😂 Scouse is a form of Irish stew instead of just lamb it’s lamb and beef, as all are ancestors are English Irish Scottish and Welsh 🤫 As Karl Marx said Liverpool is the epitome of the union and the Scouse accent is a quarter Welsh quarter Scottish quarter Irish quarter Lancastrian 😂 Got Fuck all to do with Scandinavians 😂😂😂😂
Liverpudlians also means you support Liverpool FC Evertonians support Everton FC 😂 I’m a proud scouser and if you do something good in front of a fellow scouser you will be told ‘scouser lad’
Absolute bullshit about Scandinavians don’t know we’re you got that from. Scouse is Irish stew but instead of just lamb it’s lamb and beef. Karl Marx said Liverpool is the epitome of the union, the Scouse accent is a quarter Welsh a quarter Scottish a quarter Irish and and a quarter Lancastrian 🫡
@@scouse_highlander Well, according to a number of sources, it is widely accepted and circulated - the Liverpool Echo even ran a piece in line with this view. Apparently, the stew became popular in the 1700s, and term followed. As you say the dish was made from lamb/beef and vegetables.
Always keen to hear new insights that shed some light on from verifiable historical sources.
Scouse was indeed a Scandinavian dish originally called 'lobscouse'.
I'm a Scouser!
I'm a Geordie and we feel more Scottish than English , i think. That's cause. Scotland is just over the border from Newcastle, basically
And at one time Newcastle was part of Scotland.
I love your reaction videos. They crack me up. Well done sir
Love the t-shirt dude 😊
I'm a Geordie, go a few miles up the coast to Ashington and i struggle to understand them :) , but then again i'm not sure they understand each other as nothing seems to get done there!
😂😂😂 I'm originally from Newbiggin and that made me hoot
Expat UK living in Sweden yes the UK has more accents, Leeds to Barnsley for example just down the road almost not English.
I joke but interesting plague story.
But to my main point, yes we have regional but more in counties and in terms, We have more Danish/viking words in the south, whereas the north more refined.
Scoucers are from Liverpool and I’m very proud to be one ❤❤❤
The English language is full of French and Spanish and some Swedish, a legacy of invasions and migrations over the last 1000 years, its culture is a convergence. The Scots on the west coast used paint their faces blue and club seals on the beach to death for food, a Scottish beach barbecue!✌️❤️🇬🇧
On accents both Geordie and Scouse there are comedy programs set in those areas, check a few out as you heard the accent and slang for those areas. UA-cam has 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads'. It is from the 70's but still good. About two best friends who drifted apart.
Scouse - this is a meat dish with vegetables.
Have not noticed your or your wife accent then in an IT Crowd reaction suddenly your wife spoke in what sounded like a southern accent. Have a Black Country accent (West Midlands).
Al Murray is fantastic on TASKMASTER!
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yeah Celts painted themselves in blue wode before battle they believed it had magical protective qualities like armour and went into battle completely naked lol.
I'd go down the dialect line. My wife is welsh and when I'm talking with my friends in the Cumbrian Dialect she can't understand us, and she's Welsh😂
As someone has said, accents vary in short distances. I live in Manchester, and you can go 15 miles north and the accent is different.
I brought my Japanese girlfriend back to Cardiff and told everyone I had taught her to speak Welsh. On cue, while everyone was listening with anticipation, she says, “Fuckin’ slamming’, innit!”.
In the USA, you had people from all over the world coming together, many speaking English as a second language. It was important to pick an accent and keep it simple.
In the UK, we've been tripping over each other on this tiny island for millennia and need a solid way to define our local community. We're tribal in dialect and accent. We also need to keep it confusing as possible in case the Germans try any of that infiltrating spy stuff again. "How do you pronounce Worcestershire?" "War-chest-er-shyre" "NAZI! We got a Nazi 'ere lads - get 'im!"
The same way that Yanks needed a way to tell if a Redcoat had infiltrated the ranks as a spy. "We need more aluminium, sir!" "More what?" "Aluminium, sir" "REDCOAT! We got a Limey 'ere boys! Get 'em!"
UK has definately got more accents. In the US you have to travel 100s of miles to notice a difference whereas in the UK you only need to travel about 15-20 miles before its obvious. Hell, there is about 4 different accents just on my street alone
Glad all is well, you had us all worried.
You need to give us an update next time, we all care about you.
Oh God.... the Geordie whale sound 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love the T Shirt 👍
The descendants original inhabitants of what we now called England, are concentrated primarily in Wales and Kernow (Cornwall.) The rest of the country is divided roughly North/ south between the Danes and Saxons. The exact mix of all of these distinct ancient ethnic groups combined with the odd environmental factor (the London Boroughs nasal whine is from how bad the air quality STILL is some 300 years into the Industiral revolution) is what creates each county or city's accent.
I live in Leyland. If you drop a pin in the map and draw a circle of 20 miles you will get the following: Preston, Chorley, Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley, Manchester, Liverpool (scousers)....Thats just a start and part of that is the sea!..... There are probably twice that number as Liverpool has multiple accents as does Manchester. If you go back in time a few decades there were FAR more accents. You could virtually narrow down which street people came from.
Love the channel . im not usually one for commenting , but as a brit thought some context might help .Re your question about English tribes who painted their faces blue: You are thinking of the Ancient British who were - Celtic peoples who lived in the island of Britain before and during the times of the Romans. The English were Germanic invaders into Britain when the Romans left ( approx 400-500AD). The name England comes from one of these invading tribes - the Angles, others included the Saxons and the Jutes. hence why the English are called Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo Saxons did not paint themselves blue - unlike the Celts (remember the original Britons) but were very fierce and over hundreds of years pushed the now very effete civilized Celts or romano-british out to the furthest parts of the British Isles. Basically Wales and Scotland. The Scottish highland and Welsh Tribes tribes maintained a fierce independence and hatred of the English ( now with Viking and Norman added into the mix) until well into the middle ages arguably beyond - the reference Al Murray makes in this is towards the film Braveheart and Mel Gibson painting himself blue ( although this is almost certainly a fiction createted by the film) . Of all the celtic cultures of the British Isles, it is probably the Irish culture which endured mostly intact for longest - never colonised by the romans or the anglo saxons they mainained their independence from English dominance until well in to the 1500s - but that is another story . As an after thought This is why we brits get annoyed amaericans call our country England. Scots or Welsh most definitely do not see themselves as coming from England . The country is the United Kingdom ( big clue there ) made up of the kingdoms of England , Scotland and Wales - with the province of Northern Ireland .
in the north east is the Geordies, Newcastle, Sunderland , Mackams, south shields, sand dancers, Middlesborough , smoggies and hartlepool, there are monkey hangers
we have hundreds of accents in the west country, literally a couple of miles away from each other
The pre-Roman Britons painted themselves with blue woad dye, the English didn't as we were still in Denmark and Germany and hadn't invaded yet.
The Scouser's come from Liverpool and got the knickname because of a food called Lob Scouse.
Scouser is liverpool its a stew a blind scouse is a stew with no meat cos the old fella spent his wages in the pub on the way home ! John from liverpool
My girlfriend lives in the next major town 10 minutes up the road, with two small towns in between. Her accent is very different to mine. I live in Northumberland which is just north of Newcastle and ends at the Scottish border.
You’re right about the blue face thing - the word is “Woad” 🙂
Scousers are people from Liverpool they're called that because of a food dish there called Scouse it's like a stew
Given that the UK is a small island. It has by far more accents than any country in the world pound for pound. Not sure about the most accents of any country as I dont know how many accents there are in Russia or China etc, but probably more than the U.S.
From the sheer size I suppose there must be plenty in the US . but here it changes within a few miles . If you go to any football match you can tell travelling supporters easily .
He slipped so many little UK based sub jokes in there you couldn't hope to keep up. In the scouse bit on the german radio he's saying "Where's me fkn giro?" A giro was originally a type of welfare cheque that was printed in Bootle, Merseyside (next door to Liverpool) and it was a popular stereotype in the 80s that all scousers were layabouts and on the Giro. Shortly after he sneaks in a "Surprise Surprise!" squeal which was a mocking impression of the late Cilla Black, TV personality and 60s pop star coming out of the same club in Liverpool as The Beatles. McCartney wrote several of her hits.
4:50 you are right, other tribes painted their faces blue but because the Romans drove those tribes into what became Scotland it's become a Scottish thing.
UK almost certainly has more accents as they have had many more years to develop. The history of where they come from can be quite interesting, take The Geordie accent from the north west. This area was the final area in England that was ruled by the 'Vikings'. Actually you can hear a similar accent to what you would find in Norway, even some of the Geordie slang are actually Norwegian words. Well over a thousand years has gone since the Vikings left, but their influence remains.
I'd be interested in understanding the origin of regional accents in the U.S. for instance does having a higher proportion of German immigrants leave a lasting affect? Whence the recognisable accents of say the deep south?
Scousers are from Liverpool the capital of the North
The UK Has by far the most distinguishable accents. Most people wouldn't know a Canadian accent from a US one. Go back 50 years and you could tell the difference between two neighbouring villages! Not so much now with the rise of easier travel etc. they're becoming much more similar accept larger areas.
Scousers are from Liverpool, Liverpudlians. The Beatles for example. Craig Charles - Lister from Red Dwarf and Paul McGann, who accent is more RP with Liverpudlian intonations.
The Romans pushed the Celts to the extreme edges of The Isles (the people who used Blue Wode on the skin). So the Celts are basically now in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall.
The UK has more recognised accents and dialects than the US - because it was settled so quickly (the bits that were settled more slowly, the east, has the most variation for that reason)
Scousers are from Liverpool. Definitely, lots more accents in the UK!
Toon, why aye, Shearer!! Where's the other Geordies! 😂 Howay the lads
We have more dialects in the UK because we have lots of river mouths on a small land mass.