A Tour of The Accents of England

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Polyglot and language coach Dave Huxtable takes a tour of the English accents of England, taking a look at the most interesting and iconic accents across the country and the phonetic features that make then stand out.
If you like this look at contemporary accents, you'll love @simonroper9218 's look at London Accents through history, which is one of my favourite KZfaq videos ever! • A London Accent from t...
00:00 Intro
00:43 North South divide
01:53 RP - Received Pronunciation
03:07 London - Cockney
05:45 Multicultural London English - MLE
06:45 West Country
08:11 East Anglia
10:33 West Midlands - Birmingham
12:51 Liverpool - Scouse
15:01 Lancashire
16:38 Manchester
17:45 Yorkshire
19:48 Newcastle - Geordie
21:06 Northern RP
21:41 Outro

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@DaveHuxtableLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Hi all. I hope you enjoy this little romp around the map of England!

@dambrooks7578 2 жыл бұрын

That fabulous confusing school naming method, nice work on the that tasty Ertarian Accent; notable is that missing t in sport, well when verbalised, or maybe my Essex origins are still sloshing around... Although I am lucky to have had to alter my own accent because of a Spanish partner that struggled with the natural murky muddied sound. I have family all around, from Hampshire through the Midlands, although the most confusing is that of Dudley: "Yawl like the Karaoke you do Dam?" I am led to believe that what to me sounded like an instruction was actually a question. 😲

@darthvader3910 Жыл бұрын

@@dambrooks7578 Hey Dave is it possible now to make a video or perhaps a series dedicated to going deeper into all of these different accents plz??

@DaveHuxtableLanguages Жыл бұрын

Maybe one day.

@maryuspandyra7359 11 ай бұрын

I loved this ❤️ could you deep dive into Coventry and Warwickshire accents. I've heard they differ from the rest of West Midlands as they were isolated by the forest of Arden, is this true

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 11 ай бұрын

@@maryuspandyra7359 Hi. So glad you liked it. Yes, the West Midlands is one of those areas where accents change over short distances. I’m not sure about the forest of Arden point. I wonder how much of a barrier it would have been during the Industrial Revolution.

@omblae 9 ай бұрын

Basically the only person I've ever seen who's nailed every single regional accent. Absolutely insane

@mickavoidant4780 9 ай бұрын

He missed southeastern Suffolk, where home is ho-wum and machine is masheeyun. Northeastern Suffolk says here as hee-ya. I get folk trying to work out my accent, which is Wiltshire and northern Suffolk. Another East England way is saying spade as spaird. 'Have you hurt yourself' comes out as 'Are you hat yourself' and we have a cuppa carfee, or suffen loik tha'.

@omblae 9 ай бұрын

@@mickavoidant4780 he can't do every single variation of every single accent across the country. Bath and bristol have different accents, but broadly similar. Same for Yorkshire, midlands and the North East.

@mickavoidant4780 9 ай бұрын

@@omblae I know that and don't reckon he would. I was answering your comment about nailing 'every single regional accent'.

@omblae 9 ай бұрын

@@mickavoidant4780 you misunderstood my comment, I was saying that each accent he tried, he did well. Not that he did an exhaustive list of every accent in the country...

@mickavoidant4780 9 ай бұрын

@@omblae Thank you for putting me right. Bump fist.

@TiamatStorm21 9 ай бұрын

As a native Geordie i have NEVER heard someone nail my accent so flawlessly while not being from the city itself. You actually dropped my jaw! Well spoken sir

@martiseelye6443 9 ай бұрын

I found it interesting how well he nailed a western...American standard...accent. 👍

@JohnDoe-to2kr 9 ай бұрын

Whey aye man

@Squishy_yhsiuqS 9 ай бұрын

Yooo Tiamat never expected you here

@CorkyMcButterpants 9 ай бұрын

Fellow Wallsend Geordie boy approved 👍

@DC-lx8si 8 ай бұрын

literally me too!

@vincentbaelde-millar670 9 ай бұрын

That was amazing. As an Australian it strikes me as mad how so much variation can occur in such a small area, as opposed to here, where there's only a little bit of difference over 1000km.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Thank you. It’s mainly because people have been speaking English here for a very long time and until very recently didn’t move about much. English speaker arrived in Australia from all over the British Isles and from different walks of life. Within a generation the kids had developed their own way of speaking that was very different from their parents. It was that Australian English that spread around the continent.

@chrisgarrettmoon 8 ай бұрын

Texas here, northern vs southern accents here are also very far apart in area!

@frankie3213 8 ай бұрын

Fellow Aussie here - we don't have this many, but we still do have 3 recognised accents - broad, general and cultivated. I think of broad as the Aussie stereotypical language, cultivated as the Cate Blanchett version, and general what the majority speak 🙂

@lapincealinge2 8 ай бұрын

@@chrisgarrettmoonyeah cause they've had very different influences and are still changing, but they're also far appart geographically. But I reckon the US might have as many regional dialectal differences as most other countries in a couple of centuries, it's just lacking time atm

@kchuen 7 ай бұрын

@@lapincealinge2Yeah but now you also have the media and internet, which expose regional people to accents all over. It will be interesting to see if US accents diverge even more.

@sailorboon 8 ай бұрын

I love the depth you went into explaining the East Anglian accent. I feel it’s an often forgotten area of the UK but this made me realise how complex of an accent it really has! Being from Suffolk it always feels so nostalgic to hear it 🥹

@iangoldie6396 8 ай бұрын

North Norfolk here, he absolutely nailed East Anglia 😂

@aa-ph7ev 5 ай бұрын

See, we weren't talkin squit after all.

@ItsmeAz 10 ай бұрын

Your ability to effortlessly transition between accents with such accuracy is mind-blowing. I appreciate how you avoided portraying us Brummies' in an overly cartoony manner.

@stalfithrildi5366 10 ай бұрын

Set himself up for The Black Country by talking about differences with surrounding towns but swerved it. Mebe he cor dow em

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

I always try to avoid stereotypes. And you’re right, I wouldn’t be able to do justice to the subtleties of the Black Country.

@stalfithrildi5366 9 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages if only the producers of Peaky Blinders had taken that view

@rjy8960 9 ай бұрын

I'm also from Birmingham and have traveled, worked and lived in quite a few different parts of the UK. I would say that the West Midlands probably has more dialects per square mile than any other part of England. Travel from Walsall to Tipton and there is a marked difference; Coventry is softer than Birmingham which is softer than Dudley and so on. No wonder people confuse the Birmingham accent with the Black Country.

@neilbadger4262 9 ай бұрын

@@SNLL811 Take comfort in knowing that Black country dialect is the closest thing to old English than anywhere else 🙂👍

@FriedAudio 10 ай бұрын

It's truly amazing that such a small island nation can contain SO many different and unique accents.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Indeed! Though I suppose people have been speaking English there for rather a long time and didn't move about much until quite recently.

@MacakPodSIjemom 10 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages I am Serbian and I speak (to some extent) both English and Russian. It is so fascinating that such a (relatively) territorially small nation as England is, has so many distinctive accents, that even I as a non native speaker can easily recognize, while Russia, the biggest nation in the world, territorially more than 100 times bigger than England, has very few regional features that a non native can pick.

@deanchur 9 ай бұрын

Have a look at the languages of Papua New Guinea if you want to see how many languages you can cram into one space!

@bloggsie45 9 ай бұрын

All invaders over the centuries brought their own particular ways of speech with them, thus England's current speech patterns have been influenced by at least four different mother languages.

@12388753 9 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages It's the same here in Norway. Sometimes two towns on different sides of a mountain, have completely different dialects. That's because they have been seperated for hundreds of years. On the other hand, in places where the geography is more flat, the dialects don't change as much...

@carolfaber585 9 ай бұрын

This is so fascinating! As a Yank who watches a lot of British shows on PBS (not to mention growing up with the Beatles), I’ve heard many of these accents, but not all spoken by one person! Impressive! I’m always astounded when I realize how many variations there are in such a small place. Thank you for explaining each of them so clearly. And now I can feel even more justified in turning on the closed captioning when I watch some of those shows!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@kylewaddington1983 8 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages how ya going mate my is Kyle I live in Australia and I think British Acteens are strongst sounding in the world both girls and boys

@galerussell1710 7 ай бұрын

It is fascinating. My country of Canada is so large, yet our accents with the exception of the East coast, especially Newfoundland and Quebec vary only a little.

@RobMacKendrick 3 ай бұрын

@@galerussell1710 I agree, though the truly odd thing about our country is that accent changes from speaker to speaker, rather than region to region. There are identifiable Canadian English accents -- pay attention to the infamous "about", to name one, and see how many ways it comes out -- but they don't signal region or class as far as I can tell. I'd like to know the linguistic origin of this phenomenon.

@scotthutchinson1078 9 ай бұрын

I'm from Leeds with Welsh, Salopian and southern English family, been in the Army where accents get scrambled together, worked as an actor where accent skill is highly valued, and lived in London, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Manchester. I *love* accents, have spent a lot of time playing with and working on them, and I am utterly floored by this video. You are my new hero sir.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Wow. That’s an honor!

@MoveFreerunning 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from the UK and throughly enjoying this! You're skills are insane - how you managed to do MLE is beyond me 😂 Seriously, you deserve more views! Love the bit of history / storytelling too.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.

@laurafowler-nichols7828 11 ай бұрын

That MLE is insane right? I’m good at picking up accents (thought not good at spotting/defining them) and using them unconsciously. But this is INSANE! I love it, as an English person and hope that larger geographical countries such as our European friends and Americans enjoy experiencing some of the stronger accents in England. There are SO many! Just a few here.

@pw274uk7 10 ай бұрын

To ‘MoveFreerunning’ : please note ‘you’re’ stands for YOU ARE! This should be taught in primary school…

@maxkho00 10 ай бұрын

His MLE and Cockney were quite bad, actually; especially the MLE. Or maybe "bad" is the wrong word, but both were unnaturally mild, to the point that nobody actually speaks with that subtle of an accent.

@vinceturner3863 10 ай бұрын

@@maxkho00 I realise I am on shaky ground with my own London sprawl accent picked up in Surrey over 60 years ago, but to me MLE seems to have picked out the worst features of Cockney and thrown in some Caribbean and Indian slang words. I love the clipped short vowels of Cockney (not the drawn out long vowels of Southern Essex) and I love the sing-song lilt of a Jamaican accent, but the MLE accent drools out some vowels and is as flat as pancake! It is devoid of any interest to my ears! Unfortunately I live in Peckham in Inner South East London and hear this damned way of speaking every day. Give me a Bermondsey accent any day!

@clairee4939 8 ай бұрын

Interesting thanks for subtitles I’m British but born always profoundly deaf and first language is BSL and can see there’s different mouth shapes of different accents but don’t know much about it. Tbh I don’t understand everything you said because it’s difficult to imagine but very interesting learning more about different accents. ♥️ 😊

@littleloner1159 8 ай бұрын

It gets so confusing that it took me 3 months to understand my now boyfriend. I spoke perfect American English at the time, he's from Hartlepool. Some accents are easy to understand, but sound funny (those posh ae sounds for example) It's like a weird way to sign. Still very recognisable as the sign it's supposed to be, but somehow looks a bit more dramatic and extra. Just a touch overdone. Others, like cockney or very northern accents are alot harder to understand, because things are missing and the changes in pronunciation make it very difficult to figure out which word was said sometimes. So, it's like someone half assing all their signs and also changing them slightly

@SynthhInHD 2 ай бұрын

Linguistics is very interesting. There are charts showing the mouth shapes that certain sounds make.

@dh7314 9 ай бұрын

Did I miss the East Midlands? As an East Midlands guy working in Weat Midlands it always fascinates me how 50 short miles makes a huge difference to how we speak. Superb video, thanks

@JakubS 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm in the East Midlands and none of the accents he made sound familiar

@georgetaylor6146 9 ай бұрын

Yeah haha, even the difference between Nottingham and Derby is noticeable. Especially around the Stokies and Brummies

@ilikelampshades6 9 ай бұрын

Teesside and Yorkshire 5 miles they'll have a different accent

@enilesnirkette 9 ай бұрын

I was brought up in Chesterfield, north Derbyshire. There people from Sheffield - a dozen miles up the road - are known as ‘Dee-dahs’ because of their accents. A similar distance in other directions, eg Bakewell or Mansfield, will also find a different accent.

@tgrules565 9 ай бұрын

There a difference in accent between Heanor and Alfreton and they're only 6 miles apart!

@dudleybarker2273 9 ай бұрын

i'm South African but my grandad was from West Yorkshire and i remember his accent being much broader (to my childish ears, at least) - he'd use these fascinating idiomatic phrases that were really confusing to me as a child - he would say things like "put wood in t'hole, son", and my dad would have to explain that he meant to shut the door...

@jacquelinemcgowan8164 9 ай бұрын

ahh I am from West Yorkshire funny old place haha,

@pipwhitefeather5768 9 ай бұрын

My family comes from west Yorkshire, I heard that phrase as a kid, and 'up the wooden hill' for going upstairs, is that a Yorkshire phrase too?

@dperson9212 9 ай бұрын

@@pipwhitefeather5768nope, it's used across the country

@Musketeer009 9 ай бұрын

@@dperson9212 Unless you are from a Cockney area where you go 'up the apple and pears'.

@dperson9212 9 ай бұрын

@@Musketeer009 well yeah, Cockney expressions have also made their way across the country. People say "let's have a butcher's" for example, everywhere now.

@voodooguy2 9 ай бұрын

This video is BY FAR THE BEST video on regional accents I've ever seen. Dave really has an understanding of dialects and a talent for accents.

@tomasbyrom3954 9 ай бұрын

As an Australian who has only hear MLE spoken by younger people on movies and TV it was awesome to see how easily you could mimic the accent. As a language teacher an phonology lover myself, your use of IPA made the whole video really educational, and now I can practice myself. Cheers.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it. Thank you!

@PoloABD 9 ай бұрын

He managed all of that on a pint of IPA? 😳😅

@tstcikhthys 4 ай бұрын

Don't you mean _practise?_ ;)

@alkaholic4848 9 ай бұрын

I couldn't help clicking on this thinking "this'll be a laugh - watching someone try to switch between all the different accents, bet they're cringeworthily bad".... Came away with mind blown! To understand them all to that depth, AND be able to speak them so accurately is pretty phenomenal.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it. I know how you feel. I never click on things like this, but I’m glad you did.

@michaeltaylor1247 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic, but as a North Easterner I have to fight for our corner! The accents north of Yorkshire are so much more diverse than people realise. Darlington, Durham, Middlesbrough, mackem, pitmatic, Geordie, Northumberland are to my ears just as distinct from each other as they are to the rest. Another video on them? Never seen it done before. Great work all the same!

@derosabike 9 ай бұрын

I agree, there are the nuances in London & Greater London accents. which people will generalise as cockney but vary greatly. Someone from New Cross will sound different to someone from Battersea and then Essex is unique and which must have changed since the Second World War when loads of people moved out of the bombed East End to the 'newer towns'. I guess that in London accents are now less noticeable as it is so cosmopolitan and language constantly evolves. I lived in South London for 20yrs but originate from the Croydon area. My late Grandad was from Northumberland and left there when he was 15 for work and never lost his strong accent despite living in Sussex all his life). The mid- Sussex accent btw, was very distinct which my mother had.

@benanderson89 9 ай бұрын

He did say it was far from comprehensive :) Also as a north easterner (Sunderland), he says there's no H-dropping in the region but all I hear is H-dropping! I even do the dreaded "-erbs" :P

@roonilwazlib3089 9 ай бұрын

@@benanderson89bet there’s a southerner in your recent family tree then... or teachers at school. My bairns have started to pronounce thing odd because of teachers, I used to get a clout round the lugs for saying aye but I encourage mine to use it and correct any weird southern heresy 😂 honestly the way they say sure grates my pee 🙃

@benanderson89 9 ай бұрын

@@roonilwazlib3089 H-dropping happens in the North East the further south you go. Surveys all the way back to the 50s show Durham and Hartlepool dropped the H constantly (and Sunderland used to be part of Durham). Me nanna Liz did it all the time and she was born in the 20s. If yay from Sunderland and add an H, you're getting influenced by the Geordies as the H gets added back on as you move to Tyneside. :)

@zaphodbeeblebrox9109 9 ай бұрын

I lived in Trimdon and from the accent i could tell if the person i was talking to was from Wingate, Thornley or Peterlee back in the day. There was diversity even between the villages.

@nicholascoleman1131 8 ай бұрын

Here’s one Anglophile Californian who thoroughly enjoyed this, good sir! I love tracing the history of my speech patterns, especially with my English friends and via countless hours of British television. Many thanks to your work and content - Cheers!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@phrayzar 9 ай бұрын

I'm from the UK, grew up in London and Bournemouth. I hadn't been back for 25 years till a few months ago. I generally was always quite good at doing accents, but I had never really heard MLE, it's one that I found fascinating, as you can hear all the influences, especially Caribbean. I also noticed that the rural Dorset accent seems to have moved back in Bournemouth for younger working class people, compared to when I was a kid in the 80's and it was more cockney. It's astounding how fast this change has happened.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

You’re right it’s mind blowing. Good to hear that young Bournemouthers are rediscovering a strong identity. I’m heading back to the UK tomorrow and will be listening out for new developments.

@harrynewiss4630 8 ай бұрын

That's interesting as in the west of Dorset where I live the rural accent is retreating notably among younger speakers and being replaced by an odd mix of RP and glottaly 'town' accents with just a scattering of Dorsetisms.

@MrBenn197025 8 ай бұрын

I moved to Poole in 2005 and thought everyone was from London 😂

@thromboid 10 ай бұрын

What a tour de force! I can only imagine how long this took to prepare, record and edit.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Yes, it is quite a bit of work but I enjoy it.

@joelediger1728 9 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages As one can see from your face in the video :) Keep it up!

@unstoppablefalse 9 ай бұрын

I'm having a lot of fun trying to say tour de force in the various different accents. Geordie might be my fave so far.

@louisekullar6629 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this ...you will have to do a midlands special Nottingham, Stoke, Leicester, Lincolnshire, Derby always get missed out even politically, as if we all are from Birmingham!!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. I’ll have to come and do some research around the East Midlands. You are right that it’s a part of the country that is often overlooked.

@chantellove9570 2 жыл бұрын

And the Northamptonshire accent never mentioned even though its different to all of them. Not that forgetting it is a bad thing lol

@multilingualmotociclista 2 жыл бұрын

I think there is also a Multicultural East Midlands English, that’s most recognisable in the South Asian community of Leicester.

@briwire138 2 жыл бұрын

That would be good duck.

@justakathings Жыл бұрын

I agree. East Midlands needs some love XD

@mikedakin2016 8 ай бұрын

BTW Dave , in Yorkshire the accent will change every 3 miles and as a kid that could get you in trouble as I found out when visiting relatives in neighbouring villages ! It's still the same now 60 years later. Excellent work Dave.

@connorhibberd4147 9 ай бұрын

I really admire your amazing attention to detail in the different accents of England! What a great educational video!

@johnnyonline 11 ай бұрын

I'm Australian but apparently have an English sense of humour because the only thing I watch on TV are UK comedy panel shows. This is a wonderful and incredibly thorough break down of the mix of accents I hear on these shows. Thank you for helping me put a name to them all. By the way, I'd love to hear you breakdown the Australian accents one day. There are certainly not as many as you'll find in the UK but despite what a lot of folks think, there's more than one.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 11 ай бұрын

My feeling is that British humour is much closer to Australian than say American. Glad you liked the video. I'd definitely love to do a breakdown of Australian accents but would have to come and do lots of research. Hopefully one day I'll get enough views to finance that.

@stephengreenwald5271 10 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages My impression is that Australian accents are split by age rather than region.

@davidschutz3177 9 ай бұрын

Australian accents do depend to some extent on colonisation patterns. I’m South Australian and often mistaken for being English in Eastern States. Apparently our distinctive accent (and love of pasties) owes something to Cornish miners.@@DaveHuxtableLanguages

@deanchur 9 ай бұрын

@@davidschutz3177 South Aussie here as well, I've never had my accent commented on by other Australians. However, I also speak Japanese and Chinese Mandarin and when I speak those languages I change my accent to match (makes it easier for my brain to differentiate so I don't get language crossover). What's probably happened is those languages have affected my English and as a result I speak with a more neutral accent (though thanks to Mandarin I have unconsciously begun saying "wedgetables" instead of vegetables).

@johnnyonline 9 ай бұрын

To my ear, the Australian accent divide is mostly rural, urban, socioeconomic and education level. Age might be a factor if you're taking about someone born before WW2. Other than that a farmer in Tassie probably sounds a lot like a farmer in the top end. Someone in their mid 30s from any major population centre with a yr12 or better education could conceivably sound exactly like they're from any other city in the country. We're very homogenous in that way. It's probably why you don't see many Australian impressionists.

@beatleswave5737 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful tour of English accents, but having moved around the midlands a fair bit there are so many others that could be done, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and Coventry accents are all distinctive. Your ability to be able to swap between the accents without appearing to have any difficulty is an amazing talent. I am looking forward to watching more of your videos.

@olliewalton361 9 ай бұрын

Also Stoke

@darrentoon5332 9 ай бұрын

No vids do East Midlands

@abandonstrings 9 ай бұрын

@@olliewalton361 Was gonna say Stoke.

@peteblack50 9 ай бұрын

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@mouf725 9 ай бұрын

@@olliewalton361Yeah, live in the West Midlands atm but spent a few years of my childhood in Stoke, it's a very distinct accent altogether isn't it

@alpine9750 8 ай бұрын

This was ace, cheers for making and posting!

@Flip5ide 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic, thank you for this.

@kingrapid 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but how this video doesn't have more views is beyond me... they never taught us this in school but through life one was always curious as to why there were accents... BRILLIANT ❤ IVE SUBBED!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. Feel free to share widely.

@phutureproof 10 ай бұрын

what on Earth are you apologising for?

@nigelwylie01 9 ай бұрын

@@phutureproofHaha, it’s a typical English way of starting any conversation. ‘Please’, ‘thank you’ and ‘sorry’. We are famous world wide for littering our conversation with these three things, are we not?

@davedraycott5779 9 ай бұрын

@@nigelwylie01step on a Englishman’s or woman’s foot and they’ll say ‘sorry.’

@nigelwylie01 9 ай бұрын

@@davedraycott5779 Of course! Doesn't everyone in the world? Haha!

@Mallyhubz 2 жыл бұрын

Love to hear Suffolk and Norfolk accent's broken down and the subtle differences explained.

@pw274uk7 10 ай бұрын

What do you mean by ‘explain we’ ??

@redvelvetdewdrops 10 ай бұрын

@@pw274uk7 it’s probably a typo supposed to say “explained”

@olhickory9815 9 ай бұрын

@@pw274uk7 Maybe it's a Suffolk/Norfolk turn of phrase

@timinder-gray2138 9 ай бұрын

@olhickory9815 nope! As a general East Anglian accent it was (to my North Norfolk ear) much closer to South Norfolk or even Suffolk, but still covered the basics. My Mum (North Norfolk born and bred) says Bowls as "Bowels" among other amoosin' and confooosin' things 😂

@roseann05 9 ай бұрын

@@timinder-gray2138ahah i can hear some differences between how my nan talks and the video maker ( being from north norfolk too ) not sure how dif south norfolk is tho aha

@whatsupchannel2794 9 ай бұрын

This is amazing!!!

@renaultlover1 9 ай бұрын

This is absolutely amazing.

@NovaRuner 9 ай бұрын

As a Canadian I am amazed that Britain has so many different ways to pronounce the language we inherited from them. Awesome video and thanks for this tour of UK English.

@mattd6085 9 ай бұрын

The wild thing is you could easily do a full video on every single regions specific dialects. My accent is markedly different from the town 10 miles over, and different again in the other direction. Prior to the industrial revolution people lived and died in the same town, accents didn't mix

@jako1234567890jako 9 ай бұрын

I live in a town near Bristol (west country) and you can tell which town someone lives in by their accent. Some of these towns aren't even 5 miles from each other but the accent (to a local) is noticeably different

@queenbean7071 9 ай бұрын

@@jako1234567890jakoyou from somerset too?

@jako1234567890jako 9 ай бұрын

@@queenbean7071 North Somerset

@queenbean7071 9 ай бұрын

@jako1234567890jako I grew up there. Certain funny town where they decided towing a decommissioned oil rig to the beach would be a great wys to show how eco riendly they sre

@paulwhitehead1190 9 ай бұрын

I’m an Australian who had English parents and grandparents.. I’ve always been fascinated at how such a small country had so many distinct accents.. This was a brilliant explanation. I’d love to hear an explanation of the “traveller” accent as portrayed in the movie snatch. Keep up the good work

@Ewas77 7 ай бұрын

I agree! Loved Snatch by the way😊

@lauracross3290 9 ай бұрын

That was absolutely fascinating 😊 I'm going to have to watch it again as there is so much to take in. Thank you 😊

@SteveSmallMusic 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic Dave! Not just a showcase of your phenomenal ability, but highly interesting and educational, too. Thanks.

@marypinkman4016 7 ай бұрын

I'm Polish and I moved to the UK a few years ago and I was SHOCKED when I found out how many different British accents there are. I was used to the really clear Cockney accent from films and TV shows (and that's English that we were taught at school). The first few months at uni in Wales were quite a challenge - so many people with so many accents. Now, after I got used to most of them, I want to be able to tell them apart so thank you!

@dfpguitar 4 ай бұрын

Are you sure it was cockney you learned in Poland? Like most regional accents, It is not considered as a desirable accent except for the locals who have it. RP is the "desirable" standard associated with being educated, intelligent and middle class.

@RobMacKendrick 3 ай бұрын

@@dfpguitar There's a tendency outside the UK to call RP "Cockney". Yeah, it's weird. My theory is that Cockney is the only accent name most people have heard, so they assume it means "normal". (Also, and again this is difficult for British folk to hear, many outside the UK can't really hear the difference. We see a BBC production and it's got characters from all over, and if we're not terribly bright we just mush them all into one "English accent" in our head. How bad does it get? A fellow Canadian once referred to a colleague from Newfoundland as "that English guy". I wish I were joking.)

@OlgasBritishFells 3 ай бұрын

It couldn't have been Cockney.

@SongBillong 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely fantastic video. I'm from the West Country and always become frustrated when people can't tell the difference between our accent and East Anglians'. This explains it so clearly. Great stuff!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@chrisstaniforth5629 9 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this!

@Amateur0Visionary 8 ай бұрын

Quite enjoyed this. Thank you!

@JonEnge 9 ай бұрын

I am an American fascinated with the accents of England and do a few of them myself... very imperfectly. This was a great video, my friend, well done!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@monthelionsss 9 ай бұрын

Your level of analysis and ability to perform the accents flawlessly are incredible. This is miles better than any accents video I’ve seen on KZfaq.

@joanbatson5194 8 ай бұрын

Fascinating and brilliant. Can't wait for more.

@siz2271 5 ай бұрын

Astonishing! So interesting, so rich - something to rewatch many times. Thanks 😍

@kytoaltoky 9 ай бұрын

When I read "tour" in the title, I had no idea what to expect, but this is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time! I'm not sure if you did it on purpose, but the transition between dialects made me feel like I was on a drive through the country listening to each word from a different speaker along the way. Simply amazing!

@LordWalsallian 9 ай бұрын

I'd be very interested to hear you explain and attempt difference between Birmingham and Black Country accents. Very close together but the difference is tangible. Most outside of the West Midlands can't tell the difference.

@richardwall2330 9 ай бұрын

What a great video !Stumbled on it totally by accident and as many have previously said your ability to "nail "so many accents flawlessly is fantastic !!

@callmeneutrino7136 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! As an American who is an avid viewer of a lot of British television, I’m only just beginning to identify which accents belong to which specific regions, so this was really fun and educational. I wouldn’t embarrass myself trying to imitate one, but I do love hearing them all!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

My pleasure. What’s you favourite TV programme at the moment?

@callmeneutrino7136 9 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages I can’t pick a favorite show, but I think I most love the panel shows. I was devastated when they took Mock the Week off the air. QI, The Last Leg, and even the insane 9/10 Cats does Countdown - all of them appeal to my love of learning, humor, and mild competitiveness. This summer I finally got my husband to watch one of my shows with me and we did nearly 10 seasons of Task Master. He couldn’t understand Johnny Vegas’ accent and couldn’t believe when I insisted he was from England (the best I could identify was “northern” but I was proud of that!)

@dianef4227 8 ай бұрын

There are British people who struggle to understand Johnny Vegas!

@JamesLindsayUK 8 ай бұрын

@@callmeneutrino7136 If you're interested, Vegas is from St. Helen's, which is in Merseyside, so you would think he'd fall into the Liverpool accent, it's probably more Lancashire though.

@peterw29 8 ай бұрын

@@JamesLindsayUK Before 1974, St Helens was in Lancashire, and the phrase "in Merseyside" did not exist. One could say "on Merseyside" meaning around the Mersey estuary, but St Helens certainly isn't there. The creation of the metropolitan county is unlikely to have had any effect on accents.

@carolynkimbrey1423 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thanks so much!

@captaincruel8890 9 ай бұрын

Great video. Absolutely fantastic analysis of East Anglian accents, an often overlooked accent.

@trishagoodwin4069 Жыл бұрын

I was born and grew up two miles from Ely in Cambs and went to school there. My father spoke with a strong fenland accent, and we could certainly tell Norfolk from Suffolk and so on, even the villages in each area. My mother, by contrast, spoke with received pronunciation and would not let us speak "like a yokel" at home, although I remember doing so with friends and at school! Sadly, I lost it when I went to college in London, as no one could understand me (one reason my mother I suppose, tried to get us to "speak properly") ! My brother who stayed locally, has now morphed into a softer Thames Estuary type of accent, as have most people I know there, maybe due to the large influx of incomers since the 1960s and proximity to London. I still, and always will, refute being a Southerner though, I will always be from East Anglia, and a fenland gal. As the area is little known, even within England, I do despair though, that plays, for instance, set in East Anglia in the past, have dreadful renditions of the accent. Strangely, by marriage and so on, I now live in the Scottish highlands, but even here the accent has faded in complexity from earlier decades.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story Trisha.

@geoffpoole483 10 ай бұрын

I grew up in Suffolk and like you identify as East Anglian; I am not a southerner. A few weeks ago I was watching a cricket match between a team from Bury St Edmunds and a team from Norwich; two places about 25 miles apart but noticeably different accents. I also cringe when East Anglian "accents" crop up in radio and tv drama.

@jameswallis4220 9 ай бұрын

@@geoffpoole483 why would you cringe, i love seeing difference accents used on tv instead of the generic London English, like when david tenent talks he has a great broad scottish accent and its refreshing to hear something different with flavour in it, usually they use people from Bristol way to portray Suffolk people in things nowadays

@paulabeattie8565 9 ай бұрын

Amazing, well done!

@maudclaud6132 9 ай бұрын

Fabulous, thank you

@mariemccann5895 9 ай бұрын

I've travelled around most of the UK and this demonstration of accents is amazing. It takes me back to places I once visited as if I was there again, even though in some cases it was many years ago, in a way that simply just thinking back never does. Music and smells sometimes do the same thing, transporting me back in time in a way like nothing else can. Thank you for this amazing demonstration and trip around England.

@icecoffee71 9 ай бұрын

This Australian really enjoyed your most informative video. Love the Birmingham, Liverpool, Wessex and North Yorkshire accents.

@lovepeace1953 8 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved the content and the presentation. Awesome

@TXM 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating

@judyhaines2139 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for fascinating lightning trip around English accents! I grew up in Sheffield and it was possible to distinguish the Barnsley variant of the South Yorkshire accent from the Sheffield although the two towns are so close that we shared a school. And the extraordinary adaptability of ordinary people to change accent, without even realising it, according to whether they are speaking to non-Yorkshire parents (as in my family) or local peers!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

I’m fascinated by those parts of the country where accents change over short distances. Interesting to hear about people switching according to their audience.

@harrynewiss4630 8 ай бұрын

My mother does it without even realising it. If speaking to her Lancashire relatives becomes very broad very quickly even though she hasn't lived there for over fifty years.@@DaveHuxtableLanguages

@azariacba 6 ай бұрын

As an American my favorite accents from England are the northern ones, in particular Manchester and Yorkshire.

@lydiachione6001 9 ай бұрын

I love this. So much. Thank you for all the work you put into this!!

@marcusfearon-smith570 9 ай бұрын

Superb execution and insight into the intricacies between the wide range of accents we have here

@user-rc5jm1he4h 9 ай бұрын

Very well done Dave. Educating, entertaining and most amusing all at the same time. With mass communication now on tap I greatly fear for our many dialects and accents.

@annkrieger6572 8 ай бұрын

As a Speech-Language Pathologist in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. At an early age, I fell in love with English literature and History. My interest since then has spread to all of the UK and Ireland. I have been fortunate to be in England 4 times and Scotland once. Thanks again for this podcast.

@HF-ne6zd 7 ай бұрын

This is fantastic thank you.

@SuperCarottesRapees 9 ай бұрын

Incredible knowledge, phenomenal. Thank you for this amazing resource!

@britinokinawa Жыл бұрын

Very well put together. You held my attention all the way through. Excellent!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages Жыл бұрын

Thank you John. Glad you enjoyed it.

@JoshuaTanzer 2 жыл бұрын

I watched this when you first posted it, and I just came back and watched it again because it was so interesting and entertaining. Amazing job, Dave!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joshua!

@LightShady 9 ай бұрын

Incredible video! Cheers

@BrainlessMozzzG 9 ай бұрын

an astonishing video. keep it up

@Dave5400 10 ай бұрын

I always find it surprising the variety of accents in the North West alone. You can go from a high pitched scouse in Liverpool; to a more reserved central Lancs in Preston; to a "roownd 'n doown" in Blackburn; to Wigan where a very short 'ur' sound is all over the place (think 'berserk' said more as bu'su'k); to a half Lancs, half Yorkshire moors accent around Burnley. All within 50 miles of each other!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Indeed. My wife is from Atherton. I love how accents completely change ever few miles in that part of the world.

@penhullwolf5070 9 ай бұрын

I grew up between Blackburn and Burnley. People can narrow down your accent to within a couple of miles round here. I found this out when I went into a pub in Burnley and was immediately pinged as being "Blackburn" .......Not Good. Blackburn v Burnley makes the sectarian divide in Glasgow look like a disagreement at play group.

@Dave5400 9 ай бұрын

@@penhullwolf5070 Ah, yes. I'm from Preston and I know the feeling well!

@Sue-rh4qj 9 ай бұрын

Skem is in Lancashire and full of scousers!

@harrynewiss4630 8 ай бұрын

Six fingers in Burnley, isn't it?@@penhullwolf5070

@Shinryuken15 9 ай бұрын

Wow, the East Anglia accent is quite fascinating. I dont think Ive ever heard of it but it sounds like a mix of irish, west country, and even aussie. Really interesting one imo

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 9 ай бұрын

It shares the upward intonation on statements with Australian.

@jarrodclyne707 8 ай бұрын

Parts of it remind me of the New Zealand accent also - beer and bear being pronounced the same.

@harrynewiss4630 8 ай бұрын

no idea where you get Irish from there

@edward6438 8 ай бұрын

@@harrynewiss4630 There are regional accents in Ireland too,

@harrynewiss4630 8 ай бұрын

As an Ulsterman I am aware@@edward6438

@mokamuss4456 9 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this linguistic journey. I've always been fascinated by the many different regional accents and now I finally have a good insight into their orgins and key differences. Great work Dave!

@chrisward7582 7 ай бұрын

Epic video thank you :)

@arnie78wa 8 ай бұрын

Hi Dave, I'm a Bavarian living in Australia. I pretty much can do what you can do - but with German dialects. Haha probably not the explain bit, but the mimicking. Love this video. I'm here since a decade and finally start picking it all up more and more so that I can mimic English and other accents as well. This video here is gold. Big shout out to you, this is an awesome watch.

@arnie78wa 8 ай бұрын

PS where I grew up 4 language groups come together. Swabian, Upper Bavarian, Tyrolean, Swiss Alemannic. Words change from town to town. It's where Neuschwanstein is. Kind regards

@jayq9188 2 жыл бұрын

Incredibly enjoyable. I love your enthusiasm. Please continue to make more videos.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

@TheRipaz123 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely smashing content. Really fun and informative. Keep it up!

@user-tc2cz4lm4x 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Very instructive and enjoyable!

@PropagatorNET 9 ай бұрын

I've seen so many people claim to be able to do many/all of the accents of the UK and I've never been impressed. You sir have nailed every single one of them, with detailed knowledge of the phonetics of each to boot, amazing!

@GwazaJuse 3 жыл бұрын

this is top notch content. the best

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! So glad you like it.

@jamesharcombe3358 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely wonderful

@krjjohnson 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazingly!

@vincentanutama 10 ай бұрын

This has got to be the best video on English accents on the Internet. Being a non-native English speaker but growing up and living in the US (first in quite accentless Connecticut), I naturally pick up the General American accent. Recently though, my favorite TV shows have all been set in the UK, and I want to be able to identify where the characters are from, and possibly pick up some of my favorite accents as a party trick (Cockney, Scouse, and Southern Dublin). Your explanations are beyond brilliant. I cannot thank you enough for making this video.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

That’s wonderful. Thanks so much for letting me know. I’m really glad you found it useful.

@CoreyKaineWest 8 ай бұрын

I found it interesting that you brought up the Northern RP at the end. I found that I started doing this at work when serving customers and overtime naturally started speaking more like this. However, I find that when I go back to my hometown and see family my original accent comes back. So as you say, your accent really can change depending on situation and audience.

@penashe17 8 ай бұрын

This was absolutely amazing! Learned so much!

@jonbidston 8 ай бұрын

i love this and revisit it regularly - very glad you cvered the east midlands at a later date

@andrewmabbott7354 Жыл бұрын

The amount of effort in here is amazing. Incredible video

@DaveHuxtableLanguages Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew.

@christinehales4222 8 ай бұрын

Im a native Geordie ,during the years ive lived in Lancs/ East Midlands/ Southern England ( & now Wales ).When i went to college many friends used RP & i tried copying them .Accents are more interesting & my efforts didnt last long 😆.Thanks for adding the phonetic transcriptions up .I studied phonetics for 3 years & used it in my job for 25 years. .

@susiehenders 8 ай бұрын

Really great overview! Looking forward to checking out your other videos.

@dprodonnell 8 ай бұрын

Fabulous. Technical unpacking of what we hear, know and love.

@musicalmarion 10 ай бұрын

I've such a lot of respect for the sheer work you put in David, although this is quite an old video, I think it's amazing.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@Knappa22 10 ай бұрын

Superb. The amount of preparation for this video is astonishing, not to mention the way the accents are so accurately demonstrated. Hats off to you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@Ewas77 7 ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed the video!😊

@stacyroth6951 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful, Mr. Huxtable. Thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Thank you for recording this!

@seanosborne3343 10 ай бұрын

LOVED IT! Can't wait to hear you go for the sounds of Northern Irish!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Are you from Norn Iron, Seán?

@Bendabell 9 ай бұрын

"Far from comprehensive" yet still probably the most comprehensive break down I've come across on the topic. Great video Dave. You could do a series of videos focusing on the differences within each region. Although that would be a pretty big project. I'm from the Isle of Wight, where the traditional accent would come under West Country. No one really speaks with it anymore but I used to work with some older folks who still did and I remember how it differed from other West Country accents. More monotone, slurred. Most people here would say we collectively no longer have an accent but we definitely do, albeit subtle. I was in New Zealand some years ago where a Kiwi, a stranger, asked if I was from the Isle of Wight. He said he used to work with a girl from here and we had the same accent. I've also had many people from elsewhere in the UK who have met multiple people from here say the same and interestingly describe it as 'slurred'. It's odd because islanders will immediately think of and imitate a thick traditional accent at the mention of the 'Isle of Wight accent' while neglecting to acknowledge that we actually have our own newer one.

@WhippetOut 5 ай бұрын

Amazing, @DaveHuxtableLanguages - you nailed every one. Great job and I learnt a lot.

@benjaminbaldwin7846 8 ай бұрын

absolutely incredible video

@bigoldgrizzly 8 ай бұрын

.... gets even more interesting when you add different dialect to the accents. I went from the south coast to working in Stoke on Trent coal mines a bit over fifty years ago and had to rapidly learn what seemed to be a totally new language. There used to be some great little publications by a fellow called Alan Povey that were a really humorous way of getting your head round the dialect.... called if I remember correctly 'Ar fer towk rate' He also had a regular slot on local radio called 'Owd Grandad Piggot'... some are available on youtube.... Look them up.

@Thefirebird49 10 ай бұрын

Impressively researched and brilliantly presented. Well Done! Your switching from one region's dialect to another is amazing. This is a must go to video for anyone learning English from abroad and/or planning to visit or live here. It will help them understand the rich variety of our accents and how they evolved.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages 10 ай бұрын

Praise indeed! Thank you!