Well said!

@@edronc2007 Well said...yourself!

The common people had the contents of their gob on display when they pronounced vowels yuk! Whereas, the well bred sophisticates distinguished themselves from the lower classes by speaking with their oral cavity modestly closed so you couldn’t see their black sugar corroded teeth. They also pronounced their vowels in more of a smile shape which changes the way you pronounce them. Got it guvna! Quite! Now what about the glottal stop and the swapping of consonants…. arks me wo’(t) I mean if you don’(t) know wo’(t) I’m tawkin abou’(t). Inni’(t).

@@RestWithin Why haven't you launched a cascade of "awesomeness" and peppered your communication with the word "like"...er... question mark?. You obviously take pride in being wordy but we netizens must avoid idiomatic English like the plague. Why the faux-plebian lingo? Is you is a patrician or a pleb? I think we should be told. Mine's a pint of Krug, squire...

@@ajarnwordsmith628 I will remain an enigma, since I don’t believe in judging people by anything that superficially speaking appears to distinguish them, (we are complex creatures after all is said and done), except to reveal that I prefer that the word “awesome” be reserved for our creator, Almighty God.

As an American, I think more Love Actually Aoan Rickman, Emma Thompson, or hiw the Harry Potter kids sounded in the movies. Maybe because I live in an area with a distinct accent, even for America, I always assumed the Queen, other Royals, and Lord's and Ladies had a more...it sounds awful but stuck up accent. Not that ARE stuck up. Just sound it

@@faeriefire99 oh they do sound more stuck up than the majority of us but I still feel like people think we all sound posher than we do! Or maybe it’s the lack of regional accents? I didn’t mean to generalise

WHAAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL!!!! YOU'RE ALL WET.....

@@karenhayman3848 massive differences I their dialects. Different levels of posh but still different

@@Kay-ly3hb I'm sorry if I seemed cranky! And you very well may ne right. I guess I can really only speak for me 😁

I don't know if that's particularly true. I live in Texas and I took a vacation to California where everyone knew I wasn't from there based off my accent alone. I remember seeing people from NYC and Philly knowing each other wasn't from their respective cities just by how each pronounced "water". Don't sleep on how varied US accents are either. I would bet almost each state would have some differences and we know for certain different regions do

You haven’t seen all the accents in America I’m guessing because it can shock you and make you say wow 50 states and 2 cities in each states over 100 cities in 1 country

@@UnlimitedProduction1 Yup from east to west to north to south in America it’s quite unique from 1-2 states away drastically different or one of a kind I will admit.

With all the different accents in America, I'm not sure your premise is correct.

Accents are formed Historically when a group of people are isolated from others geographically. Add to that that the United Kingdom is composed of 4 countries and has been conquered by Romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings and more it’s easy to see why they have not only different languages historically but accents too.

I would LOVE to hear/see a video about Canadian accents!

Hello Tara how’re you doing and your family hope they’re all doing great

Where’re it from

I actually live in Rochester, New York on Lake Ontario. I have taken both French and German for years and I am fluent in both of these languages, as well as English, although I have actually been employed as an emergency department R.N. for 20 plus years, and as a critical care R.N. before then.. It is interesting noting the Rochester R and the Rochester accent on some Rochesterians, but not on others. When I used to travel down to visit the New York City Guardian Angels with other Rochesterians., I was told that I "sounded nothing like the other Rochesterians" . whom I had traveled with. . They told me that I sounded more like a Canadian. Both The English Guardian Angels and Canadian Guardian Angels agreed that I sounded like a Canadian.

Where’re you from ?

And absolutely no-one would have guessed he was actually Scottish. 😂

@@kjh23gk Tony Blair had the chameleon quality that is taught in NeuroLinguistic Programming of adjusting his speech to his surroundings. You can se this on old news clips. Among Londoners he sounded Sarf Lunn'n, in his constituency he was almost Geordie and campaigning in Scotland he said "Aye" a lot.

You'd be amazed... I'll try to find the YTVideo of a specialist in American accents and there differences from one city / town to the next. Most of us can't hear it but the locals can tell when you are "from out of town" 😂🤣

Linguists

It's called phonology. The study of (human) voice, φωνολογία.

I have sung in church choirs for many years and it was emphasized to enunciate and never drop that T on the end of a word. Not to make it heavy, but not drop it. So it's carried over to my regular accent so this Indiana born and raised girl is often asked where in Massachusetts she was born!

I'm Australian. What's your problem with Australians? Have you been here? Ever listened to the diverse variety of Australian voices or realised what a beautiful rich country it is? Or are you happy supporting the old American cliché of an ignorant American southern hick with a voice like a melon going through a mechanical cheese grater?

BBC English is the most euphonious and easily understood dialect in the UK, IMO as an east coast American.

I don't like it. Honestly, I don't wanna learn an accent that ESL materials inculcate in us to pronounce like a British speaker from 1940/1950, while consuming music, series, films from your country. If I take a TOEFL (English language certification from your country) and make a merger between TRAP and DRESS (knowing that TRAP in RP used to be close to the vowel of DRESS), I probably won't pass or it'll be a defect of a non-native. Sincerely, a non-native speaker who had prescriptivist native teachers.

Totally agree!

@@kennethbraun1568 before being defined BBC English it was called RAF English. As my mother lived through the war she always called it RAF English.

In fact Americans often use British RP speakers for “canned messages” such as in lifts (elevators) and shuttle trains because they are so much more easily intelligible.

Would love to watch it as well. If possible, seeing it also contextualized for other languages (especially Asian languages)

2? I always thought it's one syllable [č∆ild] with emphasis on the wide [∆]

Regional accents are fabulous. There's a British telly chef called James Martin and I love the way he pronounces veg-it-abulls, when people from the south say vejtubls. One of my friends likes to read a book by the faaar, but my other friend pronounces fire as fai-uh, as in flamin ell faiuh.

@@jeanettegant75 Hahaaa! My dad says veg-it-abulls just like that, and I like reading by the fai-uh. Coincidentally, the phrase bloody hell faiuh indeed crops up often...!

Not everyone in the north speaks like that..I certainly don’t..😊🇬🇧

Same

What a stereotypical first sentence.

Great Britain's English pronunciation as well as American English pronunciation have deteriorated over recent History. People are less articulate

You prefer RP? How strange. It's so unnatural and cold.

@@markpalmer8083 I can understand someone saying that they prefer to listen to the King speaking. However, I would feel more comfortable having a conversation with someone who speaks like his sons.

Can you expand on this rarified circle? It sounds fascinating.

Recordings of Cockney music hall stars from the late 1890s to the 1910s show them to have very clipped accents, while definitely being Eastenders. Het instead of the modern Cockney 'airt, raight instead of roight etc

I'm old enough to already miss it as the norm, rather than the exception. 👀

Rarified circle is why it's so elitist and condescending. It's fortunate that it has died such a death that's it's almost died out. Even the younger Royals don't speak it.

@@markpalmer8083 disagree completely

Yes, the looping makes it so much easier to catch.

Charle ( as written 😊) or Charles? 😅

@@happylifeSteph look again, the s wandered off to make out with the and. But don't look to close, you might make it blush.

@@jayhill2193 It's a "linking" s lool. A glide

What!? Prince William's accent is horrible. He skips pronunciations on certain parts of words too much! Bad habit

@@ebrucelik9689 Queen Elizabeth II was not Scottish. She was born in London and spent most of her childhood in England QEII's mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (yes, her mother's name was Elizabeth) was Scottish.

And of course the queen’s English was even better

I wonder if that may also be due to the speed of Charles' speech. The sons seem to talk at a much faster speed.

So do I.

It's okay though. The more you get exposed to different accents, the better you understand them. There's no standard, language evolves and adapts.

​@@knoplef Yes, But well..I think it is different story between accent and mumbling which depends on speaker's style. what do you think what's the best way to comprehend mumbling?

😂😂😂😂

Ditto!

🙏🙏🙏🙏

People can't help their backgrounds, 'posh', 'common' or whatever. All bullying is awful. Thanks for commenting.

@@DrGeoffLindsey That's so true. It took me a while to realise it's ok to just 'be me'. Blessings! 😊

Youngsters can be very cruel about any little differences. I put it down to jealousy. Yes it take time to realise it’s their fault not yours. All the best.

Code switching happens in all walks of life. I find it absolutely intriguing.

@@clovermark39 I wish it were true, my mother used to always say the bullies were jealous. Now, I’m sure that in many cases there’s an element of truth to that but in my mature wisdom years (right) I’ve come to believe that bullying is more a way to hammer out non-conformity and for insecure people to feel higher up the social scale. It’s a byproduct of us being social animals and, in particular, the ham-fisted way children negotiate this social battleground. Regardless, it’s awful and should be stopped by adults. Even though many bullied people went on to make that bullying into a motivator and strength many more don’t and even the successful bully victims would prefer to not have been bullied, I’d wager.

You're Italian and you are more eloquent than most Americans who learned English as a first language.

@@lizi.2503 Thank you, what a nice compliment! However, I suppose I can almost say that I learned English as a first language. I've been studying it since I was 5. I am 39 now, and I think you never stop learning afterall. I am married to an American, I have to admit, and we live in Italy. He moved here 16 years ago when we got married. I may be skilled grammatically, but unfortunately I pretty much lost my cute British accent due to him 😉 Fun fact: when I was discussing my master degree dissertation (of course it was in English), I started to speak with a British accent. My husband later said that he started to panick because he didn't think I could pull it off, as he rarely heard me speak like that. Pheew, it went well 😂 but yeah, I don't know how long I would have been able to keep it up.

Ooh, that masters degree sounds very interesting!

Hello Elena

Ciao Elena

Megan Fox the English anthropologist says 'upper class' speakers traditionally swallow their vowels like this (hard to understand; goes with a 'plummy' rich voice. 'Lower class' speakers, she says, pronounce their vowels clearly instead (much easier to understand) and Received Pronunciation is 'middle class'. Of course I believe 'class' is a purely man-made invention and does not exist unless people make it and believe in it. But you know what I mean.

Cafrin 😂

@@jdlc903 yes... or even worse " Youwite Caffeh?" 😩 (Translation - Are you alright, Cathy?") 🧐🤨 Haha

I here this so much when watching British television! To me it's like the total opposite of hearing RP (where I assume they are well educated and rich), versus those who pronounce th as f (or v, as in Bruvva), where I assume they are uneducated and working class. Is there any connection?

@@AlphaGeekgirl Haha dangerous territory... At one point the thought was that there was a class difference, and a difference in Education. The North/South divide regarding class, education and accents has always been very obvious.. perhaps until now though? 🤷🏽‍♀️ Personally as a native speaker, but also speak other languages and have lived in other countries that speak English, it is all down to habit, how our parents talk and where we live mainly. My accent has changed so much over the years, I am a mimmick and I have just picked up different ways of speaking over the years. It was mainly to "fit in" in all honesty. Having an Australian/type accent in the Midlands meant I had to answer questions I didn't want to so I dropped it very quickly as a young person and started to speak like the other people around me. Well at least I thought I had done a good job but in my late teens , every now and then someone would ask if I was Australian and just explained that I was born in PNG and lived there until I was nearly 9. My telephone voice is articulate and to some sounds "posh".. I lived in Plymouth for four years and I picked up the long "aa" as in paaasty haha. And the over-pronounced R of the South-West, it gets strong whenever I am back down there, but mainly to take the micky out of my friends 😋😉😁😆 "ERE Bey ! Yerr but no but!" To them I will always be a "Northerner".. Leicestershire (where I have lived for at least half my life now) is different to Burton upon Trent (where I have also lived) and I picked that up too from living there and from my Dad. My mum is French /Italian and has no regional accent (and she does not speek zi Eengleeesh lak ziz " 🤣) Her accent is a Standard English and only the odd word she might say differently , or her lack of any regional inflections would make anyone think she be a Native. She says anyone who speaks English for decades like Jean Paul Gautier or Gerard Derpardieu should have better accents and they are just lazy 😂 On the same vein, if I want to wind my mum up, I just "parlay Fransay com saaah" Hehe My sister lives in Australia now and it doesn't take long for my "drawl" to return when I speak to her boyfriend.. Again though, I have to really concentrate, lest I drop back to generic Midlands, with a touch of South-West haha! I also love playing with as many accents as I can, Black Country and Brummie, Scouse, Geordie, Scots , Ireland and N.Ireland (the hardest of all !!!) Cultural changes have meant that we can accept that an accent and education aren't always connected perhaps?... Just my interpretation anyway !

@@AlphaGeekgirl The short answer to your question is that once upon a time there was a difference in class and education. The Investment Banker in London would not speak the same as a Coal Miner in Newcastle.. However, times change !

English is always changing, I was amazed when studying Chaucer how alien English appeared and even Modern English from the Tudor times requires great effort to read and understand.

Yes, Charles speaks properly. His voice is enchanting and romantic. It is The Queen’s English. I aspire to speak like King Charles.

Well said.

Agreed.

I never really heard him until the PJ, and of course, the events around the death of the legend, QEII. I LOVE listening to KCIII speak!

Indeed.

Yes. Me, too!

I think they should bear that in mind since they are speaking not only to Britain but also to the world, especially the Commonwealth

English is my second language and I agree. The Queen was just about the only posh accent I could understand until I became fluent in the language. There are still many accents I just can't understand at all. I smile and nod like an idiot hoping the whole time i should be nodding and smiling ! 😂

for me Charles’s is the easiest. but i’m a Yankee, so there’s that

interestingly most slavic languages vocalize it to a [w~u] but shtokavian serbo-croatian vocalizes it to [o] (in codae only like most slavic languages that do it, not universally like polish or some bulgarian varieties) like many english dialects

I like Charles' manner of addressing others. He does have a unique, mellifluous tone and even when upset, he sounds serene.

He always sounds like he has a bad cold to me. He talks through his nose mumbles a lot.

@@joannesmith2484Green.. not a colour that suits you..!!🤢👍🇬🇧

I like King Charles way of speaking. I could listen to his voice for hours. Articulate, yet melodious and soothing. There is a regality about his speech with a soft common touch.

@@Ionabrodie69 I have no idea what your issue is. He does sound like he has a stuffy nose. Always has IMO. Why that sets you off is a mystery.🤔

"actually"

I totally agree! It is not just a pity it is a shame and a terrible cultural loss with regards to the historically high standard of British English. Everything seems to get swallowed by the omnipresent pop culture: language and manners… it makes me sad and angry

@@piffpaff9674 same here... from the other side of the Atlantic.

Thanks to RP several UK accents were dying

@@piffpaff9674 it's normally though. As "pop culture" and day to day interactions change and evolve so does our language. As someone else mentioned one day our (wherever you may be) accents will be seen as archaic. It's part of life unfortunately. Nothing we can really do and there's no point in being upset about something we can't change.

It's mostly just the English language, I think.

Names are a huge problem as they're so unpredictable. If you say "I went swimming in the...", the next word has to come from a small set of possibilities: pool, sea, river, ocean etc. But if you "my name is...", the next word can be practically anything, and we have only the sounds to go on. It shows how much we use context in understanding speech.

"T" can sound a lot like D. It also rhymes with V, B, P, C, E, G.

@@Cricket2731 Many repeat my name starting with K or a hard C, sometimes an SH, I suppose turning it into a name that they are familiar with. I don’t have people not understanding me, so I think names are just hard for everyone, especially with the unusual names.

@@tastx3142 I would keep your original name both spelling and pronounciation.

I’m also an American, but have lived in several places during formative times in my life, most significantly England and Northern Virginia. I find that I switch between a crisp sound where I tend to be very literal phonetically or a more Southern drawl, which can get quite thick at times. These are not “put on” accents, but I’ve noticed that where I am affects how I talk. I used to “speak Southern” more at when I worked at hospitals in Northern Virginia, where I had quite a few patients and coworkers with Southern accents. Now my “accent” is a mixture of everything I’ve picked up over the years. I don’t think I’m terribly hard to understand, but I’ve noticed that I have to slow down and spell the word when I am giving the name “Fernandez” to people, especially on the phone. 9 out of 10 of people think I’m saying “Hernandez”. I never would have thought “F” and “H” would sound so similar, even with the same vowel afterwards. And my first name “Tahlia”… even spelling it out doesn’t help me. I’ve become “Polly”, “Natalia”, “Tanya”… And it’s even worse if people only see it spelled out on paper! When people do get my name right, I find it interesting that 9 out of 10 people pronounce it so that the “Tahl” part of my name sounds like “talisman”. It’s actually pronounced “Tahl”, like in how “tall” a person is. And I have no idea why people pronounce my name that way so consistently, whether they only hear my name or they see it written. I don’t remember how the British pronounced my name when I lived in England as a young child, so these are the trends I notice in the US.

Exactly!! They have no idea how beautiful, classy and melodic that accent is. They see it as "stuffy" but it's not. I'm in the US and imo Charles has a beautiful accent. Wish I had it!! 😭😭 That darn Revolution! 😡

Hopefully they know it for State Events

I doubt it was a conscious choice. Probably William was just influenced by his classmates.

It is better particularly for non English speakers

@@trawlins396same

Lesley 👋

The King speaks beautifully, as a King should. William and Harry have moved downmarket and it's shocking.

Thank you, very flattering!

Ooh it's not for free, not a charity channel😂 every vlogger gets paid based on the amounts of clicks.

Yes, his was a characteristically upper class accent, which I can only imagine was developed by lessons in elocution. I can't imagine anyone spoke that way naturally. Even upper class people haven't spoken that way in years.

@@elisaastorino2881 his accent was quite natural. My grandmother was one of his distant cousins from Philadelphia’s Main Line and she had this kind of accent without any training or effort.

The concept of an ‘unplaceable’ accent is an interesting phenomenon in Britain. I’m Canadian, born to RP speaking English parents, and would say that my accent is slightly more transatlantic than the typical North American. I’m sometimes aware of a curiosity in UK RP speakers, as if they are trying to place me but can’t quite do it - not in terms of origin (I’m obviously North American) but possibly in terms of class. Not being ‘placeable’ I think can be an advantage in Britain, where accents perhaps still matter more than in some countries.

Thanks for taking the time to let me know.

Agreed.

He didn’t explain why. I don’t think the average person works on their accent it’s typically learned from peers.

Please keep your good accents that way!

Sounds like your mother has style and standards. Good on her.

Diana did it a lot.

@@noiselesspatient I had forgotten that, but you're quite right

Kate's accent is so fake she struggles so hard to form complete sentences

@@egougwu1123 your comment is so weird. She sounds British and she speaks just fine. Sophie duchess of Edinburgh has similar accent they sound similar

@@egougwu1123 You cant be English, hers is a public school accent, quite normal here and she forms sentences better than her husband.

@@arivanilla you really are clueless. It's obviously that not her real accent. She struggles with it and so her sentences are affected. She really wants to sound very upper class posh.

@@megapangolin1093 while her husband accent is free flowing (cause he has spoken like that all his life) she desperately wants to sound posh. Meanwhile you can't be British cause if you were you would know the British have different accents

William is hard to understand. In fact the point of upper class accents was to be universally understood. It was to retrain your voice to speak properly so anyone from any place could understand you. Queen Elizabeth II and Philip and Charles and Diana were absolutely universal in those perfect RP accents.

I struggle with his awful pronunciations and I am English. Give me Charles or Kate speaking any day.

"The English accent" Er, which one? Saying "the English accent" is like saying "the English city".

The real difference is in Charles 'everyday' speaking when he's not doing prepared speeches. His 'regular' speaking is quite atrocious and at times sound very slurred. Almost like listening to someone with a 'lazy' tongue.

That's a risky thing to do, you can fall into the uncanny valley where the pronunciation is disturbing, while a French accent is perfectly pleasant to listen to. I'm learning Spanish and make an effort on good pronunciation, but go for "you made a real effort" rather than perfect mimicry. One thing I have to avoid is other English speakers in Spanish, the characteristic errors from ingrained thought patterns are an issue.

I'm South African, and I have worked very hard to remove my very distinct Eastern Western-Cape rural Afrikaans accent from my English, so now I have a more central urban Cape Town English (as apposed to the rural Cape Town or outer suburb Cape Town accents) and this has started to back-track into the accent I use in Afrikaans or Xhosa (which is more church Xhosa than usual Eastern Cape which my staff tend to have as an accent now). This all means people don't automatically switch languages when I speak English with them, which was embarrassing when I was still in High School.

I secons this. I found myself thinking about the "r" sound George vi used in his victory speech in the word "cruel," as if skipping over it.

I could have a go, but Simon Roper has already done this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbN1mZxy1q-RkmQ.html

@@DrGeoffLindsey Oh I'd love to see it done by you!

@@DrGeoffLindsey Please do it, sir!

That would be interesting! with an added value. A gap of only one generation,uhm🤔,😂

My best friend is Maltese 🙂

@@daisyflower22 And now you have another Maltese friend. ☺

Hi Melissa how’re you doing and your family hope they’re all doing Great

@@nicolamclain7465 TROLL

Tapped R's are alive and well and living in Liverpool.

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I love the sound of the letter R. It fascinates me that different nationalities have SO many different ways of pronouncing it.

The Dutch don't fall into traps. They speak better English than most natives 💫

Hello Vanessa

@@bendonaldson9026 TROLL

Liz Truss is common 😂

I do not think so. It's rather that someone speaking slowly and thoughtfully is easier to understand than someone speaking rapidly and casually regardless of whether it is RP or whatever accent.

You may prefer it but as a non UK person, itisn't "clearer".

I've been in a locally produced short film with an actress who is deaf. I picked up some basic sign language so far, but she told me the most important thing for lip reading is to speak relatively slowly (I think King Charles has about the right pace) and to make sure you're looking right at them. Turning your head even a little makes it harder to see the mouth shapes.

The 'stiff upper lip' of old RP speakers would have made them harder to lip-read. E.g. the avoidance of lip-rounding in the MOUTH vowel, which people make fun of by writing 'house' as 'hice' (discussed in my Charles video, not in this one) would make it harder to recognize.

@@almostfm as someone who lip reads, I 💯 agree with you. First, and foremost, it’s so important to look directly at the person you are communicating with. We do need that straight on line of sight. Second most important is to go slow. Third is to enunciate!!! Please please enunciate. For severe hard of hearing people, we rely on enunciation and the shape of your mouth with the words you are speaking. Thanks to all who give us your time in communicating. Being deaf/hard of hearing can be lonely and isolating in a hearing world.

So do I.

Me too. But those princes sound...slovenly.

@@jayteegamble especially the sloppy way PW speaks

I’d love to know more about how he learned to speak more fluently as well.

Curious 🧐

You're welcome. Lovely comment.

I know. I can't stand it. The other thing they do is speak without moving their lips, as if they're constantly smiling, and it's just as irritating.

She was very often hard to understand because of that, at least to this American.

Princess Diana also had a very quiet voice.

Softly spoken rather than a mumble

@@leigh7507 Hi! I was referring the ‘mumbling’ that Dr Lindsey refers to in this video - somewhat like a sliding over letters so that they are indistinct.