Accents in the UK developed a long time ago before people moved around easily in cars or trains. This means the accents developed in relative isolation from each other, which is why they can be very different over small distances

"Do you guys always understand each other?" was the funniest moment for me.

The "Queens English" or "posh" is Heightened Received Pronunciation, not RP. Received Pronunciation (RP), the accent she's talking about, is socially a step below Heightened Received Pronunciation, and is associated with the Gentry or middle class. It's very common in the media as well. Heightened RP is typically associated with the nobility or upper class. (This is not universally true, though. Prince William, for example, speaks mostly in RP, with the occasional Heightened RP and even Estuary accent enunciation.) Compare the way King Charles speaks with the way Tom Hiddleston speaks and you can really hear the differences between Heightened RP and RP. RP is also sometimes confused with Estuary, a South-Eastern/London accent which blends elements of cockney and RP. Because Estuary sits on a bit of a spectrum, people with an Estuary accent who lean more towards the RP end of it are often confused with RP speakers by foreigners, but the regional elements always come through, in particular with how they pronounce the T's.

They should have got a Geordie and a Glaswegian...

I live a couple of hours away from Manchester and I knew all of the words/phrases mentioned because we use a lot of them here as well. Also, even though the UK (England mainly) is so small, you can literally travel 10 minutes away and you'll hear a different dialect or accent. You can't avoid hearing them no matter where you are in the country. I love the range we have here😊

Why use a collective term like “British”, that’s supposed to cover all the cultures and nation of Britain (English, Scottish and the original Brits, the Welsh), instead of using the term “English”?

In Sheffield when you say ark, as in ark at him, it means listen to.

ow bist (thee), Ive heard it used in the Black country, which is a dialect that retains features of Early middle English, so closer to English's Germanic Roots, it contains more words of germanic origin than standard English Also it was less influenced by the great Vowel shift that took place between the 15th & 18th centuries. Bist in German means are

I find it bizarre that Americans think we all speak with one accent, but not as bizarre as Americans who think they don’t have an accent. 😂

Americans, totally confided in their bubble, have no idea of other cultures. Very self protected country.

So daps is a shared Severn estuary word, commonly used in South Wales, Somerset, Gloucestershire and North Devon showing that certain words are shared widely between different accents (one of which is heavily influenced by a completely different language, Welsh). I do also find it interesting that a lot of major slang differences revolve around children/youth. A NY Times quiz published a few years ago was able to give a pretty accurate measure of the area you were from based in slang you used and a lot of identifiers were names of children's games (touch/tag, mob/123 home) and terms to do with school (daps/plimsoles/pumps, bunking/mitching/skiving). I guess children's lives are far more localised than adults, so (previously) developed unique local terms (the internet and social media may just kill that off)

The crazy thing about UK accents is that they vary in such a small area. I live in north Manchester and the accent here is slightly different from the way that young woman from Manchester spoke, which sounds more south and central Manchester to me. I am originally from Durham but grew up in Hebburn, which is on the Tyne just opposite Newcastle. You can usually tell if someone is from north of the Tyne or south just by the way they pronounce the -er on the end of words like 'bigger'. Mind you, nowadays people move around so much that differences are gradually melting away.

The accents were mostly caused by the great vowel shift. Because the GVS happened over the course of hundreds of years some changes reached some parts of the country others reached different parts. Technically the UK standard southern accent, which is often regarded as the standard English, is the least authentic, because it's the place that underwent the most change. The regional accents that differ from the southern accent are still pronouncing certain things the way they would have been previously.

Serviette is a middle class word, and was an attempt by the new middle classes in the late 18th century to sound more "french" and therefore sophisticated. Napkin would be the more aristocratic and traditional word.

English from Lancashire.. Born 1953. Never heard "ow bist" before. Typical greeting " 'ello luv" or " 'ello chuck".

If you want to meet a cockney,you'd struggle to find in our home town. Most have moved to Essex and Kent. London is now full of middle class people and foreigners. It's thought only between 5-15% of Londoners are cockneys,and most of them are older.

West Country accent is the precursor to the modern standard North American English of today.

In RP it's always a napkin, never a serviette.

"Ark" does not mean "look", it means "listen". It's short for Hark.

"Daps" were called that because of the sound they make when they were used to smack you on the arse. We used that word in Wales too. " 'Ark at ee" comes from "Hark at ye", here in Wales, we'd use " 'ark at ewe" meaning "Hark at you".

Why do Americans say "LIKE" a thousand times a day 😅 like like like 😅

I grew up in north London and then spent my teens in Worcester and Gloucester and had a friend group from Wales, Manchester and Derbyshire. I use slang terms from all over the place, lol. At school in Worcester, back in the 90s, we all used to say "kecks" for "underpants" and I only just discovered that that actually comes from Liverpool, which is weird because I didn't really know any Scousers - I don't know where we got that from, lol. I guess we just pick things up from TV and British music as well - we have a lot of accents, dialects and regional slang but we're also a pretty small island, so we interact with each other all of our lives and so understand each other and pick up bits and pieces too. I sound very Norf London most of the time but I still do a weird thing where I slip into slight West Country with the odd word and use various slang from all over the gaff.

No, Cockneys say 'f' and 'v', not 's' instead of 'th'. And why are there so many different accents in the 'small' UK? Because it's much older than America.

UK has the most accents because English has been spoken there the longest. So the language has had much more time to diversify, regardless of how large the land area is or isn't.

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Why do the Americans on this show always sound like they're high

There are actually MANY American accents too. But mass media, particularly with the creation of the unnatural “Midatlantic” accent in the mid-20th century, homogenized many of them to the public view into a couple broad stereotypes.

She got off lightly here. It would of been different with a scouse, a yam yam and a geordie.

"Some people don't say their Ts"; a small correction to a common misconception - it's not that the Ts aren't said in most such accents, but that they are realised as glottal plosives rather than alveolar plosives.

If you want to hear how wildly the accents can vary, Listen to Shaun Ryder and Bez talk. They're from Little Hulton in Salford. Just a few yards down the road is the border, and you cross into Farnworth, Bolton, where Pete Kay is from. It's a short walk. Compare the accents!

There are YT channels showing the origin of US accents going back to the regions of Britain and Ireland The US Southern accent is like the fringes of England but England weakened its accent because of the influence of things like radio, while the US South preserved it.

I was brought up to say Wawturr for water. Yellow was pronounced yallur. Allergic was lurgict, horse was hoss. My dad spoke like Gerald off of clarksons farm. Wiltshire language and colloquialism was passed on to the south in America. Unfortunately Gert here is used wrong. It means big or great. We use it in Wiltshire a few miles away from brizzle. Twer a nice brew= good cup of tea, wass be on then? =what you doing, wot be thee gaulpin at? = what you looking at?, thee assunt =you haven't, of a caddle =confused. Welcome to Wiltshire 🤣🤣

She would lose her mind if she heard someone talking DORIC !!

Didn’t realise the English were the sole owners of the term British! Here I am supposedly wrong in understanding that the term was coined for the Welsh by the Romans. With Welsh being an Anglo Saxon/English Term.

I actually find myself siding and sympathising with the American girl...i'm a born bred Londoner and a strong Cockney..the only slang word in the whole video I've ever used i was telling a story about when i stayed in Lancashire like 5 years ago nearly..and it was vegetarian food for 2 days..and i said in the story..by Wednesday i was Gagging/gaggin for a bacon roll..that one seems countrywide..the northerners constantly use the word brew but i just say cuppa..it comes natural to me..but like them..we know what other slang means..as for most of the slang..a lot of it was meaningless..i got a few only..i dont yravel enough obviously

I come from Wigan in the North West of England more or less equidistant from Manchester and Liverpool, around 18 miles and our old accent / dialect is nothing like either but on the whole its less pronounced now, you do get some really old Wigan speakers (WigginSpeyk) for example ‘aret awreet’ for ‘are you ok’. It cann be spelled differently from area to area but the pronunciation would be very similar.

These are all english panelists so English Accents not British Accents

The many accents in the UK are due to the influx of various peoples over the last two thousand years, such as the Picts, Scots, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, vikings from Norway, Norman French (1066), the 'great vowel shift' (1300s to 1700s), the impact of the British Empire and illiteracy.

My hometown has at least 4 different sounding names depending on the side of the river you come from. One has at least three syllables yet another has just one. The BBC for it has two.

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Throw Glasgow in to it as well as Liverpool

"Dead sound" is what you hear in an anechoic chamber, isn't it? 😅

Stuff like " l reckon" is somewhat strongly british , instead of saying " l assume or guess etc is more the american way. Whilst came to mind as the british way, instead of "while" etc... as being the traditional way of expression.

“Ow bist” - that’s straight from German! “Du bist” = “you are” in German. Probably from Anglo- Saxon. I’d not heard that before, it’s great!

Why use a collective to describe a singular? Why use the term British for solely the English?

England is half the size of California (by area) but has twice the population of that state, so quadruple the population density of California. I think distinct regional accents developed to help with cohesion of local identities. I’m from East Lancashire in the North West of England, which had a lot of small towns that developed around a single industry or large factory during the Industrial Revolution so accents would have become very locally concentrated. Movements of people to follow the work would lead to influences and developments. Then factor in the other two countries in Great Britain - Wales and Scotland - and you have a lot of mixed influence. Ireland adds to the mix. And consider the original major influences - Latin, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse and Norman French - and you have quite a heady brew!

It’s back to being the Kings English now

Dead Sound is a brilliant name for a band. Come on youngsters!

I’m from England and been around many military bases and knew very few of these phrases.

Who would have thought different area different accent (sarcasm)

Folks tell me I have a weird accent. I was born in Bedfordshire, spent my childhood in Suffolk and now live in Essex. That's 3 very different accents mixed up there, my mates at college called me the posh one 😉

'ark at ee' = Hark at thee = listen to you. sound= good, solid, reliable not cool per se

We should bring back the Transatlantic accent

Fun video but the subtitles are misleadingly wrong several times (e.g. 1:01 "British pronunciation" instead of "Received Pronunciation" which actively misrepresents both the literal words and more importantly the _thrust_ of what the leftmost English woman is saying or 1:56 where she correctly points out Cockneys often say "F" instead of "TH" but the subs claim she says "S").

Now make a video featuring a New Yorker, a South Carolinan and a Louisianan!

I would not have guessed the guy on the right comes from Bristol!

This video it seems is designed to make people believe that the de facto “British” culture and people are the English. The term hasn’t been used as a singular representation of any one culture in Britain for atleast three hundred years. So surely you should have had one person from England, One from Scotland and one from Wales?

Our accents differed from town to town city to city village even Street to street the influences of the different invaders have moulded the way the accents developed we have had french german Scandinavian whatever languages all the Roman's used in our whistlestop tour of taking over the world we pulled words from all over a lot of the variation is diminishing due to media influence we're all starting to sound the same

dialects - not accents. When people speak one language (English in this case), but with regional differences in pronunciation, spelling, etc., then they have a dialect. If a person does not speak in their native language (e.g. a Japanese person speaks English), then the person most likely has an accent.

I have a strong R but I'm from East lancashire so it's rare.

Port Out Starboard Home POSH, Used to describe Empire British Civil Servants, travelling, to and from postings in the British Empire, aboard Steam Ships,

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L’Americaine à l’air de manger ses mots ou de parler avec un chamallow dans sa bouche 😂 et il y a aussi cette voix que les Américaines prennent à la fin des phrases , une voix rocailleuse, de gorge, qu’on n’entend pas chez les britanniques. Serviette est bien un mot français.

Let’s also not forget that this language is Germanic, not Brythonic (British).

Okay vikings romans Sax-son Normans Gaelic’s Celtics that’s why there are so many different accents you really should have had an answer to the question to be honest

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different accents because to get to another town you had to walk or be rich enough to own an horse, so we were separated for hundreds of years...its bloody obvious if you just think about it. So you think there there as always been cars? cars are new

The first lady thinking she has RP is funny. She is just estuary.

Social mobility is slowly eradicational accents unfortunately

Southern Drawl...Have you not listened to anyone from the West Country?! Also the "Yam Yams" people from the black country in the Midlands Wolverhapton, Walsall etc they say "Alright Y'all". Being someone from the Southwest of England I hear smatterings of our accent in some of the Southern US Accents. The reason we have so many different accents is down to the amount of times we have been Invaded and the invaders settling in different areas then over time thier language and accents have merged also immigration has played a role...the "Road man" accent being one of them which has basically come out of the Jamaican accent. When people don't pronounce "T" when talking its called a glottle stop. If I said "In'um my you", would you know what I was saying...am I stating something or is it a question or even both!? 😁

English regions

Sink (think) So... Mourinho has a Cockey accent

Batmun is Peterborough And yes that's pe'uh Burrah

If I was to say what I'm thinking - it would be taken down.

I like the way the American girl talks. It’s so relaxing.

Bist is a German word for are, ie Wie bist du? = How are you?

Why does your thumbnail use an American flag from the 1800s? Seems random.

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You've only included English accents and there's a huge difference between British and English.

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Is "tiss-yew" really how "tissue" is pronounced in RP??? Huuuh

Wow this is laughable three people with different accents that are very mild for where they are from, posh girl not very posh, and the other two with very mild accents too! 😂😂

it's 'let ter' not 'let t ter' get it right

The American girls accent was quite strong but sloppy at the same time,poor enunciation and what’s with the constant “like” ?

"I would say S, instead of TH, so I'd say Fink, instead of Think" ...Because "Fink" starts with an "S" Get your subtitles right if you're going to make this kind of content, please.

Is that American girl high, or drunk or something?

There are no cockneys anymore the cockneys all moved to Essex after we 1 when immigration became prevalent guys you need a bit more knowledge

These three are not good samples of accents, they all sound middle class with hints of an accent.

Nothing worse than an english person who says their accent is RP

They all sound English tae me.

Boring

You forgot to say about the G language where we add a g in each word or some call it bubble language