I was born in New Zealand and moved to the UK when I was a teenager. The range of accents and dialects in the UK for such a geographically small country is mind blowing.
Yep I live in a small town in the south, You can go literally a 15 minute walk into the next town and the accent is observably different with the pronounciation of vowels.
There was a serial murderer back in the 70's and an hoax audiotape was sent to the police. The police thought it was genuine and got language experts to work out where the hoaxer came from. They not only found out which city he came from (Sunderland) but the housing estate as well. That's how many accents there are in the UK.
@@jameswroe2403 Correct. One of my best mates at schools family was from Sunderland and it sounded just like unintelligible gibberish to me. I'm from the Midlands.
Here in Britain accents can change across a city. I grew up in the Newcastle area, ("The Toon"). People in the west end of the City sound totally different to those in the east end. The East end accent is so thick even other Geordies stuggle to understand them! A distance of about 4 miles.
His rendition of a smooth Scottish accent is usually what happens when a Scot gets famous and they start speaking slower and over annunciate so other understand them. Kevin Bridges talks about this, "a seen ye on telly talking like a bender"
If you want a good spectrum of Brit accents. Try watching a bit of a show from the 80's called 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' about a bunch of British construction workers going to work in Germany during the recession. It has 3 genuine Geordies, a Cockney played by a Cockney and Scouse, Brummy and West Country accents. All very convincing too.
As a Geordie with the ubiquitous bone in my head, he is spot on with the accent, Toon is what we call the City and Shearer is an iconic football player,
You probably didn't understand but at 7:44 he said "where's my giro" he's basically making fun of the unemployed in Liverpool and 7:57 he said "surprise surprise" to which he was referencing Cilla Black who was a famous woman from Liverpool who was a singer decades ago but then went on to host Blind Date and Surprise Surprise which were massive shows in the UK at the time.
I used to live with two Scousers, both with the harshest of Liverpudlian accents, and whenever they'd speak to me I'd firstly reply with "Was ist los?! Was ist los?! Mein funkt ist kaput ja! Mein funkt ist kaput!" Still do when I see them, and I still haven't told them why.
As a Scouser, I completely understand. If you aren't a Scouser and haven't lived in Liverpool, you've got next to no chance of understanding half of us. You only learn by living here or living with Scousers for ages. I'm the same when it comes to the Scots. If they're from Edinburgh or Glasgow I have no issues, but if they're from the Highlands I've got no chance 😆
AS a Geordie that was fucking hilarious.....knowing scousers, that was even better.....christ I have tears pouring down my face right now from laughing so hard.
There are more accents here in the UK Spencer than anywhere. As Daniel higlighted; here in the UK, but you can not go a couple of miles up the road and there will not only be a change in accent but also vernacular. Apart from regional differences which have always been, due to the melting pot we've become; there are so many foreign influences on the way we talk, our accents and the evolution of vocabulary! Surprised you thought that was so funny, which it was to us but there were a lot of cultural references which I wouldn't have thought you would have got.
To give you a better understanding of these, have a listen to Jamie Carragher (ex liverpool footballer) and Jimmy Nail (Geordie actor). I recently took a bus ride from my home town to Liverpool, a distance of 17 miles. As people got on along the route, and talked amongst themselves I could hear the accent changing every 3 or 4 miles.
I'm Aussie, grew up to Aussie parents in Hong Kong and had Yorkshire neighbours as a kid. By chance my missus back home here in Australia is from NORTH Yorkshire and took great exception when I first told her she sounded similar to the South Yorkshire neighbours. At least they all agree it's the centre of the universe haha, we feel the same here in Queensland.
our accents change every 15/20 miles. my accent (Derby) sounds different from Nottingham. carry on a bit further and you'll get Mansfield. or you can go in the opposite direction where things start to sound strange.
You guys should check out some other Brit comedians with marked accents. John Bishop (Liverpool) Russell Kane (London) and Rhod Gilbert (Welsh) are all a good laugh.
Kevin bridges stand up some absolute class material , he's also on the show WILTY - " would I lie to you" and defo along with Bob mortimer one if the best repeat guests please check him out guys , keep doing what you do 👍
You guys touched on an interesting point of how in the USA the accents are spread over a large area (which you’d expect) but in the UK, there are so many accents over a small area. I’m from England and always found that strange myself. I’m from the south of England and my friend is from the north and there is a rivalry between the two. The cheeky bast*rd calls me French because, as he puts it, I’m closer to France than to him. 🤨😂
We're a tiny place but have so many accents because those lands were settled long before any kind of significant or affordable transport network was in existence. You were born in a place and then you never really lived or moved a few miles from that place. These places were whole countries that stuck to themselves for centuries, long enough to develop unique cultures in an area that's basically the size of a city in America.
When you hear his “own” voice it’s actually quite posh ! He does the Cockney accent so well but he’s actually softly spoken, went to University Oxford and started his career at the BBC.
English accents are getting diluted a bit now, but when I was a child you could listen to older people and know that they live 3 miles away. My parents were born in Liverpool but lost the accent before I was born. I still get called out because I said a word that only Scousers would say. I was brought up in Wigan and the language is a million miles away.
When I was 16 we moved from Hull in East Yorkshire to Maidstone in Kent, only about 230 miles. When we got there I was surprised to learn that people genuinely couldn’t understand a lot of what I said. Before we moved I honestly didn’t think we had an accent.
@@ricard01983 my Son born in Essex, went to a East London Nursery, went to Yorkshire with grandparents from Middlesborugh when 3 and then on a day trip to liverpool told me - they talk funny there can we go back ! (says he with a Dewsbury/East Ham mix of talking)!
Of course Hull/East Yorkshire has an accent .. "What 'TARM' is it?" .. "Ten past 'NARN'. "Wers the baine?" .. "In tenfoot playin". 🙂 👍 From 'Ull'. 🏴🇬🇧
One video that I think you would absolutely love (but I think might get conyright-blocked, sadly) would be Victoria Wood - The Ballad of Barry And Freda... absolutely makes me roar with laughter every time...
I just want to thank you for sharing this vid on the different accents in the UK and for explaining that we don't talk like the queen! Could you do a vid on the different accents/dialects and see if you understand what their saying?? That would be so fun. This vid shows the top accents people are aware of on an exaggerated level!
Its actually less. Every town in Yorkshire has its own distinct version of the Yorkshire accent, a Barnsley accent possibly being one of the strongest.
@@antonycharnock2993 i did say an average and some are closer,, im in the north west Bolton north of me Wigan and Liverpool to my west, Manchester to my east and warrington to the south all different accents within a few miles of me,,
Two very down to earth guys with a great sense of humour. You’re the only reactors comments I willingly listen to because you make sense with no egos. Love your channel guys 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Forget about accents, there's one Borough in London with over 150 different languages. Look up a softer Scouse(Liverpool) accent, or a soft Newcastle accent. Once you decipher them, they're really nice.
When television started 70 years ago, everyone thought that British accents would vanish but that hasn't happened for some reason. But, it's true that lots of Brits sing with what they think is an American accent.
You´re right. Even though the UK is much smaller than the US, Canada and Australia, it has a much wider diffusion of regional accents, since it had the language for many centuries before the standardisation machanisms of mass communications kicked in. My favourite is the difference between Manchester and the rural areas of Lancashire less than ten miles away from the city
Good channel guys !! On the subject of the welsh you should have a look at how they sing their national anthem ‘land of my fathers ‘ at a big rugby game , those folks can sure belt out a n anthem Land of my fathers 2013 from the final game of the six nations Wales v England is just off the scale , nothing comes close This from an Englishman
Incidentally, Al Murray isn't bald in real life - he shaves his head because "The Pub Landlord" is bald. If you see photos of him when he hasn't toured for a while, he has hair!
I mentioned in a previous comment that Al Murray went to a prestigious private school. He is an actor of note and the pub landlord is his southern English bombastic voice. Very good
I live in Yorkshire, You can trael 30 mins south of Leeds, the city where I live, to Barnsley, still in Yorkshire and the accent is a hundredd mile from mind, but it's still considered Yorkshire. Then, I can travel 30 Minutes East to York, And though there accent in't much differentfrom mine, it is different. Go 50 mile north, to Thirsk and the Geordie will start to reveal itself. Travel 30 minutes West of Leeds, and your in Manchester, Lancashire. The accet there once again so differen. As a sales rep I used to visit all over the North and North Wales. to the point, that when I ever met a person, I could pinpoint his place of irth within 10 miles just by listening to him talk
His Geordie accent sounding like a whale song was spot on. I have studied whales for over 30 years and can generally understand what they are saying. They can communicate over 100's of miles. The most common phrase used in the whale kingdom is Can you hear me now?
Special Brew is a beer made by Carlsberg - originally brewed for Winston Churchill. It used to be 9% ABV, since reduced to 7.5%. It is also known in the UK as Tramp Juice or Spesh.
Al is actually very intelligent and has a degree from Oxford/Cambridge. His character is based on the pub landlord personal and his Historian background.
I lived in New Jersey for a couple of years and my accent made it hard for folk to understand me so I had to speak queens accent. When I got back to England my family asked me why I'm talking like a snob. It's been a few years now and my old accent is slowly coming back.
I am a whole mixed bag of races and ethnicity. I've got black Sri-lanka in me from Grandparents on one side, The other grandparents were mixed Irish and English. My parents are Filipino and English. As my parents died when I was young I've lived almost everywhere bouncing from country to country as I could find family to stay with for a while. I wasn't able to get my inheritance until I was 18 so as you can imagine growing up and traveling from country to country finding places to live was not a great upbringing. But even though I am a mixed bag of races, colours, and beliefs I identify myself as English. The whole multi-cultural nature of Britain is something I found myself being drawn to. As I myself and multi-cultural so what better place to call home than a multi-culture country. While it is true that some of the older generations think that GB is getting over run with foreigners most of the younger generations don't see it that way. I'm kinda in the middle I'm fast approaching my mid 40s and I've seen all kinds of changes some good some bad. But the pure diversity of this tiny little country should be celebrated. I don't think there's anywhere else on the planet where you can look at a school playground and see the Jewish kids playing ball with the Moslim kids. The African kids are running around with the white kids, the Asian kids playing catch with the pale ginger kids. It's such a nice thing to see.. To all those children being from a different background or having a different skin colour doesn't mean anything. If you were to ask one of those pale freckly ginger kids to describe their best friend is at school they'd say a whole bunch of qualifiers but not one would be about the race or colour... Don't forget racism has to be taught. People don't just become a racist it has to be taught that people who are different are a lesser person. Children don't think that. I wish that more countries were like the playgrounds of school in GB. Everyone living together happily. Racism just makes me so angry at other humans.
This, along with the mentioned Nations of the World and probably some of his other great clips come from the Givin' It Both Barrels tour, which I once had the DVD for. The reactions I've seen for that routine often clock in at around 20 mins cuz he literally goes around the globe and has a lot to talk about but totally worth it :D
I'm from the UK. Make of that what you will, haha. During the latter end of 2019 I was fully involved in trying to accomplish one of my dream goals of visiting the US, and going to every state. I spent over two years saving for the trip, and decided to ease into the culture shock by visiting Maine (New England, haha) in the fall. It all turned to dust when the "ahem" hit, and figured I should probably head home, because I had a feeling I might not be able to travel back. Anyway. I had a rental and was driving along. I saw "Bucksport" on the signposts. Haha... I mean, that HAS to be one of the most quintessential/stereotype American named places in the book. I loved it so much I got out the car and took a picture of the sign. But to the meat of the matter. I was in a place called Bangor (very familiar name because we have one over here), and I was chatting to a very amiable waitress. We're talking along the lines of "Oh, you're form the UK", and "you should check out this and that". Lovely. But then she goes into this semi-long description of a "haunted wood" close by, and ends with the addendum "say that again". At the time, I thought I was privy to some wonderful local slang inflections. Back in the UK I was eager to look up the term. It would seem, from my research, it really isn't a local saying: More like crack head speak, or random nut job. :(
Should react to different British accents, we all sound so different all over the country, sometimes we can't understand eachother. I'm from the second city of the UK called Birmingham and my accent is so different to someone from Newcastle
Scousers are people from Liverpool. There were a couple of well-known references to the city, which as non-Brits you may have missed: its legendary high rate of unemployment and the singer and TV presenter Cilla Black who, back in the day, had the same manager as the Beatles.
The county of Derbyshire in England spreads from the Midlands to the bottom tip of the North; so the county's city - Derby - has that Midlands drawl, similar to Nottingham with slight strains of Birmingham. Then in the north east there's the second biggest place in the county, in Chesterfield, which has a South Yorkshire influence as it's just outside Sheffield, then travel to the north west of the county across the beauties of the Dark Peak of the Peak District, there's the small town of Glossop, which is at the foot of Greater Manchester, so you've got something approaching Mancunian. A varied, transitional county geographically and culturally, and all the more fascinating because of it.
The NYT has a great British and Irish accent locater quiz. Try it and see where you'd be best understood. It is pretty accurate, got me down as upper Thames Valley, effectively.
Irish comedians, Foil arms and hog, have a brilliant accent skit. Called *An Englishman plays Risk* it's their most famous accent video. Over a million hits.
One wee question for you... How much of this do you understand? I'm Scottish and have worked with Al, he is a great guy even off stage he is a brilliant historian
Never watched much of Al Murray but that's pretty funny that one lol. When he was doing the scouser bit (Liverpool) he mentioned a giro, that's social security Money in UK!
If you go about 4 miles in any direction in the UK the accent and dialect changes. Birmingham "Brummie" go a few miles and it "Yam Yam Black country", as few miles on "Wolverhampton", A few miles on another one. There was a thing once saying if it wasn't for BBC radio in the first part on the 20th century, this country would have numerous different languages, Not just versions of English.
Amazingly in the UK we probably have more accents in 50 square miles than they have in the whole USA. In England certainly you can drive 15 miles and find vastly different accents than the one you have in your town
I'd like you to take to me a place and talk to some people. And then drive me 15 miles to a place with a "vastly different accent". Or at least tell me where I can do this.
@@exessex3522 I'm from Carlisle and around 5 miles away is a small town called Wigton and you would swear they are speaking a different language keep going another 15-20 miles and the accent is so ridiculous you would not believe it, basically if you were a genius with the west Cumbrian accent people would think that you were a moron
I'm from Sheffield, South Yorkshire and all Sheffield women can speak fluent Chinese cos I heard a woman in a supermarket say another woman, "who washy wi, she wernt washy"
If you guys wanna check out "Nations of the world" by Al Murray, then I have the video here: ua-cam.com/video/6DafuN7wxuM/v-deo.html Another great reaction by the way👍
I was born in New Zealand and moved to the UK when I was a teenager. The range of accents and dialects in the UK for such a geographically small country is mind blowing.
It blows my mind and I live here
Yep I live in a small town in the south, You can go literally a 15 minute walk into the next town and the accent is observably different with the pronounciation of vowels.
As a geordie I can confirm that Al Murray is pretty accurate when it comes to our accent 🤣🤣🤣
Seconded!
Agreed. They find it funny now, but if they ever visit the UK and Newcastle they will actually realise this is more facts than funny
As a Glaswegian I can confirm we sound like the first Scottish accent 😆
As a Welshman I'll just keep quiet.
El Funko 😂
There was a serial murderer back in the 70's and an hoax audiotape was sent to the police. The police thought it was genuine and got language experts to work out where the hoaxer came from. They not only found out which city he came from (Sunderland) but the housing estate as well. That's how many accents there are in the UK.
That was Peter Sutcliffe or The Yorkshire Ripper. I knew one of the linguists who worked on that tape, very clever man.
@@jameswroe2403 Correct. One of my best mates at schools family was from Sunderland and it sounded just like unintelligible gibberish to me. I'm from the Midlands.
@@jameswroe2403 I think we all enjoy a cunning linguist.
Weir side Jack
I remember seeing that in a documentary
Here in Britain accents can change across a city. I grew up in the Newcastle area, ("The Toon"). People in the west end of the City sound totally different to those in the east end. The East end accent is so thick even other Geordies stuggle to understand them! A distance of about 4 miles.
His rendition of a smooth Scottish accent is usually what happens when a Scot gets famous and they start speaking slower and over annunciate so other understand them.
Kevin Bridges talks about this, "a seen ye on telly talking like a bender"
Leamington spa accent 😂😂😂
Billy Connolly is an excellent example.
@@jayneeisan6726 James McVoy and Gérard butler are far worse
If you want a good spectrum of Brit accents. Try watching a bit of a show from the 80's called 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' about a bunch of British construction workers going to work in Germany during the recession. It has 3 genuine Geordies, a Cockney played by a Cockney and Scouse, Brummy and West Country accents. All very convincing too.
thats one of the funniest shows ever, awesome!
Loved that show was a good show
I was going to suggest this too !!
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was my first introduction to Uk accents , as a four year old 😂
I love the fact he’s called Ally Fraser as a pun on Ali - Frasier two of the most legendary boxers :)
Actually Barry was from Smethwick, in the later series he lived in Wolverhampton so it would be a Black Country accent, not Brummie.
As a Geordie with the ubiquitous bone in my head, he is spot on with the accent, Toon is what we call the City and Shearer is an iconic football player,
I piss myself when he shouts shearer hahaha
@@loganjukes8820 yip but it's true...
@@davidhoward5392 I know it's true. Crying with laughter I mean haha ... toooooooon
@@loganjukes8820 All 3 are spot on
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You probably didn't understand but at 7:44 he said "where's my giro" he's basically making fun of the unemployed in Liverpool and 7:57 he said "surprise surprise" to which he was referencing Cilla Black who was a famous woman from Liverpool who was a singer decades ago but then went on to host Blind Date and Surprise Surprise which were massive shows in the UK at the time.
I used to live with two Scousers, both with the harshest of Liverpudlian accents, and whenever they'd speak to me I'd firstly reply with "Was ist los?! Was ist los?! Mein funkt ist kaput ja! Mein funkt ist kaput!" Still do when I see them, and I still haven't told them why.
As a Scouser, I completely understand. If you aren't a Scouser and haven't lived in Liverpool, you've got next to no chance of understanding half of us. You only learn by living here or living with Scousers for ages. I'm the same when it comes to the Scots. If they're from Edinburgh or Glasgow I have no issues, but if they're from the Highlands I've got no chance 😆
AS a Geordie that was fucking hilarious.....knowing scousers, that was even better.....christ I have tears pouring down my face right now from laughing so hard.
SHEARER SHEARER
How maaaaaaaaaaaaan, whey ayeeeeeeeeeeee!
It was so funny
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There are more accents here in the UK Spencer than anywhere. As Daniel higlighted; here in the UK, but you can not go a couple of miles up the road and there will not only be a change in accent but also vernacular. Apart from regional differences which have always been, due to the melting pot we've become; there are so many foreign influences on the way we talk, our accents and the evolution of vocabulary! Surprised you thought that was so funny, which it was to us but there were a lot of cultural references which I wouldn't have thought you would have got.
I think Ireland is similiar too, you move the next town down and it changes.
English language accents*
@@henrydabeast6364 ? What's your point. We're talking Anglophone countries! You're stating the obvious lol.
I’m a Geordie and proud of it but I’m crying with laughter at this video 🤣
To give you a better understanding of these, have a listen to Jamie Carragher (ex liverpool footballer) and Jimmy Nail (Geordie actor). I recently took a bus ride from my home town to Liverpool, a distance of 17 miles. As people got on along the route, and talked amongst themselves I could hear the accent changing every 3 or 4 miles.
I’m enjoying a lot of these Americans and Canadians reaction videos, and these two are among the finest. Keep it up fellas, and cheers from Blighty.
I'm Aussie, grew up to Aussie parents in Hong Kong and had Yorkshire neighbours as a kid. By chance my missus back home here in Australia is from NORTH Yorkshire and took great exception when I first told her she sounded similar to the South Yorkshire neighbours. At least they all agree it's the centre of the universe haha, we feel the same here in Queensland.
our accents change every 15/20 miles. my accent (Derby) sounds different from Nottingham. carry on a bit further and you'll get Mansfield. or you can go in the opposite direction where things start to sound strange.
You guys should check out some other Brit comedians with marked accents. John Bishop (Liverpool) Russell Kane (London) and Rhod Gilbert (Welsh) are all a good laugh.
John Bishop is great, I saw him live a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely brilliant
There's so many Welsh accents too. Rhod's is best, seeing as we come from the same place :)
John bishop is a wool
Russel kane has essex accent
@@essexhoop9652 Mate, half of them work in London
Kevin bridges stand up some absolute class material , he's also on the show WILTY - " would I lie to you" and defo along with Bob mortimer one if the best repeat guests please check him out guys , keep doing what you do 👍
Would i lie its so funny, defo review ones with Bob Mortimer on
Omg I love that episode!! Was that the one with the story of he sold his car for a donkey?
Kevin bridges is class
Ducking Bob Mortimer on WILTY. You just never know. They're all ridiculous
I’m a geordie and he got us spot on 😂😂😂
You guys touched on an interesting point of how in the USA the accents are spread over a large area (which you’d expect) but in the UK, there are so many accents over a small area. I’m from England and always found that strange myself. I’m from the south of England and my friend is from the north and there is a rivalry between the two. The cheeky bast*rd calls me French because, as he puts it, I’m closer to France than to him. 🤨😂
You poor bastard,I can't think of anything worse than being called French 😂
@@dawnfishwick861 😂
Shearer: Alan Shearer; legendary Newcastle -footballer- soccer player & Premier league all time top scorer
Giro: welfare -cheque- check
Never won anything with Newcastle
@@jamieforrester2857 Newcastle never won owt, except the wooden spoon.
We're a tiny place but have so many accents because those lands were settled long before any kind of significant or affordable transport network was in existence.
You were born in a place and then you never really lived or moved a few miles from that place. These places were whole countries that stuck to themselves for centuries, long enough to develop unique cultures in an area that's basically the size of a city in America.
When you hear his “own” voice it’s actually quite posh ! He does the Cockney accent so well but he’s actually softly spoken, went to University Oxford and started his career at the BBC.
Yes, he’s also a bit of a leftie by all accounts. Still funny as fk though!
@@lordcharfield 👍
I live 60 miles away from Newcastle and there is no accent in the world I love more than the geordies
English accents are getting diluted a bit now, but when I was a child you could listen to older people and know that they live 3 miles away. My parents were born in Liverpool but lost the accent before I was born. I still get called out because I said a word that only Scousers would say. I was brought up in Wigan and the language is a million miles away.
But only half an hour away along the East Lancs road, with a little diversion through Billinge. 😄
My gratitude towards your paraents for all their work during the war.
We are even closer (St Helen’s)! And it’s different again 🤷♂️
Great fun, interestingly enough I recently watched a few videos of people speaking a number of English accents and I was impressed.
When I was 16 we moved from Hull in East Yorkshire to Maidstone in Kent, only about 230 miles. When we got there I was surprised to learn that people genuinely couldn’t understand a lot of what I said. Before we moved I honestly didn’t think we had an accent.
I moved from Sunderland to Edinburgh when I was 12 and it was the same for me too. Only 125 miles
@@ricard01983 my Son born in Essex, went to a East London Nursery, went to Yorkshire with grandparents from Middlesborugh when 3 and then on a day trip to liverpool told me - they talk funny there can we go back ! (says he with a Dewsbury/East Ham mix of talking)!
Of course Hull/East Yorkshire has an accent .. "What 'TARM' is it?" .. "Ten past 'NARN'. "Wers the baine?" .. "In tenfoot playin". 🙂 👍 From 'Ull'. 🏴🇬🇧
@@Paul-hl8yg From Ell, Ull and Alifax, Good Lord deliver us.
@@jameswroe2403 Ey! Thers nowt wrong wiv Ull !! Lol 😉
You now need to pair those with real clips of each accent 😂
Al studied at Oxford and has a degree in modern history.. funny & clever 😍
Really good lads ,must be pretty difficult understanding British humour and accents ,well done 👍👍
Come on guys you know we love to hear Americans trying to do English accents.😂😂😂😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🏻
'How global finance really works' is my favourite of Al's.
One video that I think you would absolutely love (but I think might get conyright-blocked, sadly) would be Victoria Wood - The Ballad of Barry And Freda... absolutely makes me roar with laughter every time...
My wife is Baltimorean and still just about keeps her accent our kids (UK) have a real laugh with their cousins'🤣😎
Not only does his own voice sound ‘posher’ than the pub landlord, he also grows his hair out
Love the reaction mate.💥💥💥 Its amazing how many reators dont know Hip Hop, loved seeing you react to that bit. Keep on going man!
I just want to thank you for sharing this vid on the different accents in the UK and for explaining that we don't talk like the queen! Could you do a vid on the different accents/dialects and see if you understand what their saying?? That would be so fun. This vid shows the top accents people are aware of on an exaggerated level!
I read somewhere that English accents change every 25 miles on average, this is an average and as you quite rightly said some change much closer.
Its actually less. Every town in Yorkshire has its own distinct version of the Yorkshire accent, a Barnsley accent possibly being one of the strongest.
@@antonycharnock2993 i did say an average and some are closer,, im in the north west Bolton north of me Wigan and Liverpool to my west, Manchester to my east and warrington to the south all different accents within a few miles of me,,
In Sheffield, our accent changes from one side of the city to the other, north to south,.
Were I live in the black country our accent changes every 3 to 4 miles
Probably less than that mate , but very true
Love it. If you want a challenging accent check out Dylan Moran. Another legend who knows how the world truly operates.
Two very down to earth guys with a great sense of humour. You’re the only reactors comments I willingly listen to because you make sense with no egos. Love your channel guys 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Born and bred in England, NEVER met anyone who speaks like Harry Potter or the Queen.
Forget about accents, there's one Borough in London with over 150 different languages.
Look up a softer Scouse(Liverpool) accent, or a soft Newcastle accent.
Once you decipher them, they're really nice.
Yay... you've fixed the volume balance. Great job. Love your videos.
I'm a geordie and that was hilarious, he has that spot on 🤣🤣
I laughed so hard watching you cry laughing at this. Well done chaps.
that's a good point about our accents being close, great video and another Al snippet that I'd not seen before!
"We're friends with them ; the Germans - not the Scousers"
Sheer bloody genius!!!!!
I’m English and a colleague who was from Glasgow said ‘oh they are the Scots that sing their words 👍
I can walk to a village near me and can tell if someone is from there by how they speak. Takes about 3-4 mins in a car.
Yeah, your accents are 100's of miles apart. in Britain they're different from village to village!
When television started 70 years ago, everyone thought that British accents would vanish but that hasn't happened for some reason. But, it's true that lots of Brits sing with what they think is an American accent.
Got. You should both come to the UK. It will be an eye-opener for you. You may need a translator though lol.
You´re right. Even though the UK is much smaller than the US, Canada and Australia, it has a much wider diffusion of regional accents, since it had the language for many centuries before the standardisation machanisms of mass communications kicked in. My favourite is the difference between Manchester and the rural areas of Lancashire less than ten miles away from the city
Good channel guys !!
On the subject of the welsh you should have a look at how they sing their national anthem ‘land of my fathers ‘ at a big rugby game , those folks can sure belt out a n anthem
Land of my fathers 2013 from the final game of the six nations Wales v England is just off the scale , nothing comes close
This from an Englishman
Incidentally, Al Murray isn't bald in real life - he shaves his head because "The Pub Landlord" is bald.
If you see photos of him when he hasn't toured for a while, he has hair!
I mentioned in a previous comment that Al Murray went to a prestigious private school. He is an actor of note and the pub landlord is his southern English bombastic voice. Very good
As someone from Newcastle can I just say that accent was perfect 😂
I live in Yorkshire, You can trael 30 mins south of Leeds, the city where I live, to Barnsley, still in Yorkshire and the accent is a hundredd mile from mind, but it's still considered Yorkshire. Then, I can travel 30 Minutes East to York, And though there accent in't much differentfrom mine, it is different. Go 50 mile north, to Thirsk and the Geordie will start to reveal itself.
Travel 30 minutes West of Leeds, and your in Manchester, Lancashire. The accet there once again so differen. As a sales rep I used to visit all over the North and North Wales. to the point, that when I ever met a person, I could pinpoint his place of irth within 10 miles just by listening to him talk
His Geordie accent sounding like a whale song was spot on. I have studied whales for over 30 years and can generally understand what they are saying. They can communicate over 100's of miles. The most common phrase used in the whale kingdom is Can you hear me now?
Special Brew is a beer made by Carlsberg - originally brewed for Winston Churchill. It used to be 9% ABV, since reduced to 7.5%. It is also known in the UK as Tramp Juice or Spesh.
Al Murray is brilliant.everybody gets attacked to extreme but so so good cos there is a colonel of truth in everything he says.
Al is actually very intelligent and has a degree from Oxford/Cambridge. His character is based on the pub landlord personal and his Historian background.
Lol. Worlds greatest understatement.
He's a masters degree and PhD
You guys rock , I'd like to visit your town. I could definitely clue you guys up on British life.
I lived in New Jersey for a couple of years and my accent made it hard for folk to understand me so I had to speak queens accent. When I got back to England my family asked me why I'm talking like a snob. It's been a few years now and my old accent is slowly coming back.
where were you from orginally ? Given NJ is a mash of Yiddish Italian I dont know what they would be complaining of (Says this sarf londoner)
I am a whole mixed bag of races and ethnicity. I've got black Sri-lanka in me from Grandparents on one side, The other grandparents were mixed Irish and English. My parents are Filipino and English. As my parents died when I was young I've lived almost everywhere bouncing from country to country as I could find family to stay with for a while. I wasn't able to get my inheritance until I was 18 so as you can imagine growing up and traveling from country to country finding places to live was not a great upbringing. But even though I am a mixed bag of races, colours, and beliefs I identify myself as English. The whole multi-cultural nature of Britain is something I found myself being drawn to. As I myself and multi-cultural so what better place to call home than a multi-culture country. While it is true that some of the older generations think that GB is getting over run with foreigners most of the younger generations don't see it that way. I'm kinda in the middle I'm fast approaching my mid 40s and I've seen all kinds of changes some good some bad. But the pure diversity of this tiny little country should be celebrated. I don't think there's anywhere else on the planet where you can look at a school playground and see the Jewish kids playing ball with the Moslim kids. The African kids are running around with the white kids, the Asian kids playing catch with the pale ginger kids. It's such a nice thing to see.. To all those children being from a different background or having a different skin colour doesn't mean anything.
If you were to ask one of those pale freckly ginger kids to describe their best friend is at school they'd say a whole bunch of qualifiers but not one would be about the race or colour... Don't forget racism has to be taught. People don't just become a racist it has to be taught that people who are different are a lesser person. Children don't think that.
I wish that more countries were like the playgrounds of school in GB. Everyone living together happily.
Racism just makes me so angry at other humans.
When my dad was growing up in Oldham , Lancashire, he could tell within a few streets where someone was from.
This, along with the mentioned Nations of the World and probably some of his other great clips come from the Givin' It Both Barrels tour, which I once had the DVD for. The reactions I've seen for that routine often clock in at around 20 mins cuz he literally goes around the globe and has a lot to talk about but totally worth it :D
Dayam, found me a playlist. I'm binging. Cheers guys.
I'm from the UK. Make of that what you will, haha. During the latter end of 2019 I was fully involved in trying to accomplish one of my dream goals of visiting the US, and going to every state. I spent over two years saving for the trip, and decided to ease into the culture shock by visiting Maine (New England, haha) in the fall. It all turned to dust when the "ahem" hit, and figured I should probably head home, because I had a feeling I might not be able to travel back.
Anyway. I had a rental and was driving along. I saw "Bucksport" on the signposts. Haha... I mean, that HAS to be one of the most quintessential/stereotype American named places in the book. I loved it so much I got out the car and took a picture of the sign.
But to the meat of the matter.
I was in a place called Bangor (very familiar name because we have one over here), and I was chatting to a very amiable waitress. We're talking along the lines of "Oh, you're form the UK", and "you should check out this and that". Lovely. But then she goes into this semi-long description of a "haunted wood" close by, and ends with the addendum "say that again". At the time, I thought I was privy to some wonderful local slang inflections.
Back in the UK I was eager to look up the term.
It would seem, from my research, it really isn't a local saying: More like crack head speak, or random nut job. :(
Should react to different British accents, we all sound so different all over the country, sometimes we can't understand eachother. I'm from the second city of the UK called Birmingham and my accent is so different to someone from Newcastle
Didn't realise brummies had an accent? The only one I know brummies speak is 'Indian or Pakistani sounding???
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Al Murray has stated in an Interview that he was Inspired by The Comedian Steve Martin in Stand-up Comedy ! 😊👌
Scousers are people from Liverpool. There were a couple of well-known references to the city, which as non-Brits you may have missed: its legendary high rate of unemployment and the singer and TV presenter Cilla Black who, back in the day, had the same manager as the Beatles.
I live about 14 miles from Newcastle and can confirm the shouting of Shearer and Toon lol
Loving it, thank you...much easier to hear..lol.... Al Murray is amazing and very funny..hahahaha
Love me a bit of Al in the morning!! Cheers!! Kx
Loving these al murray reactions
Al Murray's Nations of the World joke can be found on his special called "Giving it both Barrels" and starts around the 34 minute mark.
Al actually has a PhD in history.
The county of Derbyshire in England spreads from the Midlands to the bottom tip of the North; so the county's city - Derby - has that Midlands drawl, similar to Nottingham with slight strains of Birmingham. Then in the north east there's the second biggest place in the county, in Chesterfield, which has a South Yorkshire influence as it's just outside Sheffield, then travel to the north west of the county across the beauties of the Dark Peak of the Peak District, there's the small town of Glossop, which is at the foot of Greater Manchester, so you've got something approaching Mancunian. A varied, transitional county geographically and culturally, and all the more fascinating because of it.
As a geordie I can confirm what he said about us is true 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Regretfully a jock now living in Liverpool. Can confirm he is awkwardly accurate LMFAO
Nice pick guys, he is one of the UK best comedians.
If you get a chance you could consider doing a review on Lee Mack - accents, even better.
The NYT has a great British and Irish accent locater quiz. Try it and see where you'd be best understood. It is pretty accurate, got me down as upper Thames Valley, effectively.
you can drive an hour in England and the accents drastically change, its crazy
I though his first impression was grounds keeper Willy 😂😂
Irish comedians, Foil arms and hog, have a brilliant accent skit. Called *An Englishman plays Risk* it's their most famous accent video. Over a million hits.
One wee question for you... How much of this do you understand? I'm Scottish and have worked with Al, he is a great guy even off stage he is a brilliant historian
If you guys like Al Murray you should definitely check out his highlights from the show "Taskmaster". Amazing show
Mr Moneybags 🤣 paying his way through the series 👌
I can still tell the difference between a Pontypool Cwmbran and Newport accent and they are all 12 miles between each other.
I'm a Geordie and I can say that was the worst attempt at our accent but it was still funny haha
As a Scouser it hurts but it's true 👍
Loved this one guys c
Never watched much of Al Murray but that's pretty funny that one lol. When he was doing the scouser bit (Liverpool) he mentioned a giro, that's social security Money in UK!
If you go about 4 miles in any direction in the UK the accent and dialect changes. Birmingham "Brummie" go a few miles and it "Yam Yam Black country", as few miles on "Wolverhampton", A few miles on another one. There was a thing once saying if it wasn't for BBC radio in the first part on the 20th century, this country would have numerous different languages, Not just versions of English.
Amazingly in the UK we probably have more accents in 50 square miles than they have in the whole USA. In England certainly you can drive 15 miles and find vastly different accents than the one you have in your town
I'd like you to take to me a place and talk to some people. And then drive me 15 miles to a place with a "vastly different accent". Or at least tell me where I can do this.
@@exessex3522 I'm from Carlisle and around 5 miles away is a small town called Wigton and you would swear they are speaking a different language keep going another 15-20 miles and the accent is so ridiculous you would not believe it, basically if you were a genius with the west Cumbrian accent people would think that you were a moron
@@exessex3522 try Kettering and Corby.
Brilliant Love 💕 from Denise in Yorkshire England 🏴👍😂😂🤣👏👏👋🥰👋
you really need to check out freddie starr unbelievable stand up comic
C’mon guys check out Al Murray Global Finance Explained 👌🏻
Haha Brilliant standup from The Pub Landlord. He is exaggerating our accents but he his spot on with the tone.
I'm from Sheffield, South Yorkshire and all Sheffield women can speak fluent Chinese cos I heard a woman in a supermarket say another woman, "who washy wi, she wernt washy"
If you guys wanna check out "Nations of the world" by Al Murray, then I have the video here: ua-cam.com/video/6DafuN7wxuM/v-deo.html Another great reaction by the way👍