slime_pixie unfortunately not. My favourite localism is "boy" when greeting other men, that one is still going strong.

angelstouch92 pronounced booo-ey. As in roight booo-ey.

yes - "boi" in the Maritimes/Newfoundland in Canada...

Oi tork Norridge. Thart rime with porridge.

The 'boy' you're hearing is actually 'bour', a shortening of neighbour.

A lot of city folk have moved down here in recent years

I love rhotic accents

Yeah I'm half norfolk but have grown up in the south, I've only ever heard recordings of old southern country ascents but never heard them in real life.

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I’m from norfolk and in the country and I agree with you, but idk how to change my accent mate

I'm from east Essex and can understand them reasonably well too. Lot of the old country folk around here speak a very similar dialect..

I can understand why that would be the case. I would assume what we now consider an 'Essex' accent is probably the result of Londoners moving away from the city after the Second World War, bringing their dialect with them.

This is crazy, I never knew English dialects could be so impossible to understand. I truly cannot understand them even with the subtitles. This is from a New Zealander. Truly sad if these accents disappear.

I originate from a small town in Norfolk, and although I have moved to another area, I understood every word - I think childhood memories stay with you forever.

hilltopcresent the amount of regional dialects is just astonishing. Proper locals can tell the difference from someone 10 or 20 miles away in some spots. I suppose these accents had a lot of time to grow roots before we had the internet/telegrams/printing/pigeons/domesticated horses.

That doesn't surprise me Marc- a lot of people out in that bit of America speak pure East Anglian, even today. It's very striking! Thank you for sharing it.

@@user-bh4rx8mf8g"Pure East Anglian" is an odd way of looking at it to me (I live in the middle of EA). The (old) accents/dialects of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk are different enough to be distinguished although it a gradual change from south (Essex) to north (Norfolk). Sadly, very few of these accents are left.

@Kindid uk I agree, the accents of the three counties are not homogenous, but they are very similar in type and, when you hear someone from abroad who sounds like it, I wouldn't say exactly 'that sounds like an old east Suffolk accent' but it might be unmistakably East Anglian. Ditto, many Canadians sound to me like Scotsmen. You could retort that there is no such thing as a single Scots accent, but nonetheless there is a recognisable and identifiable family of accents to which it belongs.

@@user-bh4rx8mf8g This is indeed is true. Scotland has very varied accents. Comparing Glasgow & Edinburgh shows some major difference. Again, I probably have an ear for EA differences... Because I live here. Only some of the older folks or their, now quite old, children really speak with much of a local accent. In the town I'm from it's mostly a London derived accent. Which, interestingly, is disappearing from London too!

@@kindiduk4298 I hate how London accents have taken over East Anglia. In no small part because many Londoners moved to the area a few decades ago. I'm from near Thetford, that place is in many ways a mini London now. A sad fate for the former capital of the Kingdom of East Anglia.

We have to get our dialects back

The Epic Random Dude That’s gonna be practically impossible

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"Luowstuff"

Queens Rangers under Simcoe, by chance?

Abraham Lincoln's father was from Norfolk I believe

Sadiq Khan has betrayed the English natives,just look at London,the majority are not even English,just dark skinned 3rd worlders that don't even fit up to the tasks that our govonours claimed,we also never asked or were included to vote or have a say in our own nation,we are simply ignored and shunned at as we decrease;die out

No it wasn’t cockney at all. What a ridiculous thing to say. The New England accent is heavily related to Norfolk/Suffolk dialect and to a lesser extent Irish

I won't lie, most criminals sent to penal colonies were from norfolk, as we are known as the British Alabama/Hills have eyes country despite being a flat wasteland

@@PiousMoltar no he wasn't, he was born in Virginia

When I listen to my grandparents, I'm reminded of that 'Bostonian' accent in Good Will Hunting.

Not for nothing, Boston Massachusetts and the adjoining coastal areas are called Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex counties.

Yeah,they are referred to as Cockneys,it is a native dialect however we don't have a flat nasal as we pronounce words like Americans do,majority of England and Midland have a Cockney 'accent'

@@diezdarbo5633 You could only be a true Cockney if you were born and lived within earshot of Bow bells.

@@wayinfront1 Dark age doesnt refer to race,it is called dark age due to the fact that everything involved wars throughout Euroasia for many reasons and it was a dark era,many wars and death has happen,many has lost

too royt boi

yis orl bwee

Aye boy

And the aud Yorkshire leid baht London words. Divn't leik them words, lad

Hello from Kings Lynn!😀👍

Depends where you go, really. You'll find less of it in the bigger towns and cities but there's still a solid accent in the countryside

​@@TankManHeavyspeaking from your experience? Are you east Anglian?

@@kfwfb534 I am, yeah. My family has lived in the same place In Suffolk for well over 100 years.

@@TankManHeavy is this common in the very small villages or everywhere in east Anglia besides the big cities - say Ipswich, Norwich? I ask because east Anglia is where the Anglo Saxons first arrived in England after coming from Jutland in Denmark

@@kfwfb534 So typically its more common in the more rural areas, at least in recent years the "afro-carribean" accent from London has influenced the larger towns/cities especially amongst the younger generations (I remember also reading a study on this). The rural areas, like the one I live in is still very much alive with the East Anglian/Suffolk accent. Its not uncommon to walk into my local on a weekend evening & hear the words; "Mind how y'go, boy" "Alright 'en buh" And various other words missing the letter "A" for instance: "Tuesdy". Norfolk is similar, albeit a very minor difference in accent. As stated, I didn't notice it very much in Norwich Centre but in the rural areas the accent is still broad. The areas surrounding Ipswich i.e Saxmundham, Leiston, Sproughton, Capel St. Mary, Stowmarket to name a few also are prevalent. In summary: Areas that are less prone to cultural influence still carry on the dialect.

There is, yes.

It does indeed. As a native East Anglian if I had a quid for every time I'd been asked "oh...where are you from?" and then told, after my reply "oh....I thought you were Australian......." I'd probably be a rich bloke.

Essex isn't part of East Anglia! East Anglia is Suffolk, Norfolk and Eastern parts of Cambridgeshire. Look up the Kingdom of East Anglia. East Anglia=East Angles and Essex=East Saxons. So Essex is Saxon and East Anglia is Angle.

​@ozzy194870 In the old definitions of the original Kingdoms, yes. But these definitions shifted with time. Wikipedia also recognises this shift ... "East Anglia is an area in the East of England.[1] It comprises the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with Cambridgeshire and Essex also included in some definitions.[2][3] The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in what is now Northern Germany. "

Obviously because english was formed there… but there is more language diversity in eastern USA

Usually, when languages and dialects evolve, they diverge, not converge. That's the sad part.

stephenmatthews861 Font Whatling was my Grandfather and I have very fond memories of the tunes he played, and I am glad he made others happy as well with his unique self taught music and playing.

Australian accent derives a lot from cockney though

Just began reading this last night! "A little light summer beach reading" at 898 pages, lol.

@@kayrogers4022 Enjoy, a good book for a lock down in the sun. Something else I found fascinating is the podcast by Keven Stroud - the History of English from the Indo-Europeans to 1400 (ATM) which explains the languages appalling lack of phonetic spelling. But be warned.... once you start it's hard to put it down and read a book.

That book is what brought me here. Good stuff.

+1 on Albion’s Seed. Best book on British Isles immigration to America I’ve ever read. Very systematic and easy to follow. A must for anyone who’s interested.

+The Terminator very sad but true, especially when technology the media and schools now being so accessable

+Felix Jimenez The same is happening everywhere. Price of progress and instant communication.

Defensor Rationis You're right. Maybe the BBC could be more regionalised and required to employ only local people with the correct regional accent. 😄

The West Country, alas, is now full of Londoners.

@@Picnicl As is the East

That is bloody cold in 'ere though ent ut?

I quite like the Fenland dialect and do hear it alot in towns like Wisbech, Spalding, March etc. The Fens is a lovely part of the country. Very peaceful.

You should meet... Well, everyone in my family over 45!

Lena Y, I'm from Norwich and I've been asked if I was Australian by a person in Florida and a cockney by a someone in Norway. I don't talk with the strong accent of the guys in the video but I didn't need subtitles for the last two blokes haha.

I'm Australian and I'm blown away by how much of what that bloke says sounds Australian. The way he pronounces his vowels and stretches certain vowels out.

@@sparkyroyal78 Alot of the Aussie dialect originates from East Anglia.

About 80% of English immigrants to the Southern US states were indentured servants,who were probably poor country people with this accent,same as 70% of Appalachian people were English and I suspect had a similar accent to this.

Wtf are you smoking

I'm from north Suffolk, we sound like Norfolk people up here.

I went to uni in Middlesbrough, there was a girl there from Essex who often got mistaken for Australian, and it's happened to me a couple of times, once in Boro and once on the train going up north (I'm from south-west Norfolk and my parents are from west Suffolk)

Great Yarnouth 11 miles up the road from Lowestoft sounds like London now due to the Cockney invasion.

Presumably you are asked that question by people who've never spoken to an Australian.

When I went to Canada everyone asked what part of Australia I was from lol

Scottish has not impacted the American accent

​@@JohnSmith-nx2blScottish is a huge factor in the southern accent, or at least the "hillbilly" accent

@@campfortson4387Still,people don’t realise,70% of Appalachian people were English in origin.

There’s many unique accents around England, not just in east anglia

Says the brilliant linguist. Where did you get your facts from? Netflix?

@@vide-yo3336 No from the same alleyway you were conceived in.

Me and my mates are from Suffolk, when we went to Liverpool a few years ago someone there heard us talking and asked if we were Australian 😂

It's really English East Anglian sounding in rhythm and vowel sounds, a "true twang" which then travelled to Australia.

Essex is massive though someone from Woodford would of always had a london sounding accent so what's a real essex accent?

Your right there’s a few different accents in Essex depending where you’re from I meant north Essex similar to Suffolk

@DavidMckenna-wl9do essex is so big beautiful part of the country in some areas some have become nasty, Kent is also beautiful love going there I've only ever lived in Islington or Enfield.

How would you define northern Essex in this context - what modern counties?

I can understand that, I know a lot of place names in Massachusetts derive from places in the UK, I found that out doing some family history research. I had ancestors who were married in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which I think from memory is in Suffolk County.

A tiny bit reaches Suffolk. It covers Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. It's not known for the reach in Suffolk - it is for the other counties I mention.

Well of course. 'Tis the Mecca of all things!

You go careful in them Fens, they still worship fire in Manea!

No, Suffolk is not in the fens, but some of the fens are in Suffolk. I should know, I'm from just outside the fens, on the Norfolk / Suffolk border. Same for Norfolk. Much more fenland than Suffolk but still a tiny part of the county.

Father*,the natives that developed it are Germanic and are purely tribes of men

@@diezdarbo5633 What are you on about, you learn language mostly from your mother, that's why your first language is called your "Mother's tongue".

Well actually quite alot.

The "educated Australian" accent eg. the Kennedy's from Neighbours have a closer accent to my own than RP Although I'll admit the two are basically the same anyway Or maybe I only think that because I sound like that...

@@PiousMoltar To me the majority of the Aussie accent is from East Anglia and the south east of England

@@jaggass Aussie and Kiwi English comes from England and was expanded more by Cockneys..

The dialect is changing rather than the accent but yes bor

Probably from Old English We sath ye hal

Actually edit, We saþ ġē hāl

That's always interesting to hear, since I've lived in North Suffolk all my life and everywhere I go up north they ask if I'm Australian 😂 But I love it!

Ron Cheetham nah used to be by post office

B n Cue

Yeah I tend to find that when I live outside the fens my accent dissapears mostly into generic southern english.

Try and keep your old accents chaps

It’s depressing to see how much we’ve lost and what we’re losing. Even having Polish here irritates me as they’re just helping eradicate what England was

We are in Cambridgeshire too, near Wisbech. :) I grew up in Northamptonshire and the Hertfordshire for secondary and college years so I did have to read the subtitles haha

Do any people in your part of Cambridgeshire have strong regional accents these days?

Norfolk too. Thetford is very Londony. A sad fate for the former capital of East Anglia.

Then again I guess London has literally spread out and enveloped southern Essex so that's a whole other level. But East Anglian dialect and accents are dying everywhere.

You can't be mixed if you're from the same ethnic of English,real Londoners spoke like this too,not the foreigners you see and not the fake RP English which is upper class Zion Jew English

We are all referred to as Cockneys..

Shat it you Slaaaiggg!!!