Let me know what makes your voice disgusting! Let's all stand together in our grossed-voice-ness.

Personally, I love the sound of your voice!

I am actually in love with your voice! Cant get the "disgusting" part at all

Sophie: *gets a hate comment* Also Sophie: “SO ACCORDING TO A SURVEY”

Bringing up your example with American accent exposure, more specifically kids would hear the "General American English" accent that is most prominent in the midwest (often called the "TV accent" as you will most see it with TV hosts and news Anchors, think Walter Cronkite or Johnny Carson) which sits somewhere in the middle of the different regional accents (New England, Southern, Texan, western North Western and even various Canadian), so is often seen as a "Neutral accent".

Way to spin a negative comment into a interesting video about a fascinating topic. 👍

You're generally right about the northern American accent, but like RP it is a particular brand of northern American - kind of a middle class white suburban accent, if that makes sense.

HAHAHAHA! YOU ARE AMAZING! Twenty minute long troll video and you pull it off so well. You are a wonderful human being, and I appreciate you.

Ooooohh such a good comment prompt! I’ve always had a California accent but I feel like it has its own personalities. Like I soften my accent and vocabulary to match either a professional context, or when I go to the skatepark, or when I’m making videos. But maybe linguists have another term for that? Well done video Soph!

In Costa Rica we have a peculiar r sound which is pretty similar to the US r... like the number 3 we say it "tress" (pronounced in English, rhymes with stress) I didn't like it that much because it is not the "proper" r so every time I would talk to a hispanic I switched. But then I learned that we share this r with many Latin-American people and hearing it from other parts of the world made me appreciate it more and I'm slowly starting to embrace it. It's still difficult because most people just judge whatever sounds different and I need to find peace with that. I want to add that the sexiness of an accent is very biased as the British empire has set its own standards of beauty in language and the rest of the world has had to adapt without even realizing, similarly as the Greeks set the standards of physical beauty millennia ago...

Accents are mental. I had a housemate at uni who was born in the Northern Highlands of Scotland. Lived there all her life. But because her parents were from the South of England, and her house was so isolated, she had a very English accent. My parents are both Geordies, but my dad was a BBC Radio presenter for many years, and had previously been in the National Youth Theatre, and pretty much lost his accent. He's still obviously Northern English, but he's not all "Howay pet, hoy ya hammer hower here" full-on Geordie. Meanwhile, myself and my older brother were born in Southampton, and in my early years, I spoke with long 'a' sound (caastle, baarth instead of castle and bath). But, when I'd just turned three years old, my parents moved us to the very north of the UK, the Shetland Islands. I don't use long 'a' sounds anymore, and I'm not sure exactly what my accent is. It's not a Shetland accent (though I can do that, and friends have assumed I have a Shetlandic parent as a result), but it does have a wee Scottish burr. My sister, on the other hand, was just two weeks old when we moved here, and her accent is very much a Shetland accent, which is kind of the opposite to my uni housemate. For such a small place, Shetland accents are actually quite varied. When I speak in a Shetland accent, other Shetlanders who don't know me have correctly identified me as having grown up on the Westside of the Shetland mainland. But we have a lot of smaller inhabited islands, which were often very isolated from each other for centuries, because the only way to travel was by boat. So, the accent on the island of Whalsay is very VERY different from other Shetland accents. Whalsay folk will often pronounce the name of their island as "Qualsa", for example. Part of that is also because none of the place names on Shetland derive from English or Scots, because they weren't spoken here. Shetland was Norse-ruled until the 1600's, and we had our own language, known as Norn, which was a mixture of Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, German, and some English and Scots. Place names in Shetland are all derived from Norse, but became anglacised when Shetland passed into the ownership of the Scottish Crown, a cartographers were sent to make maps. So, my village was called Vaas, which means voes. This became Waas over time, and is anglacised as Walls. It also didn't help that teachers, ministers, sherrifs, etc were Scots, and that Norn and the later Shetland Dialect were banned in school for years (Shetland Dialect is a mix of Scts, English, and Norn or Norse-derived words). Norn died out in the early part of the 20th century, but dialect is also threatend with extinction, though there are efforts to revive it. And I'm just gonna say, whoever said your accent is disgusting is just wrong. Between it and the huskiness, it's actually very sexy.

Congratulations on finishing your degree, I really enjoyed the video on Mike's channel. Can't wait to see what you have in store :)

I think you have the best accent :3 _Soph causes the Soph accent to spread around the world due to exposure_ XD (I'm from the US btw)

As a Cuban America I can’t leave south Florida without suddenly sounding different . It’s make for an easy conversation starter so there’s that.

Tbh I just love your voice, it doesnt sound bad :c

I was just talking about "accent softening" last night. I didn't know it had a name, but I've been doing it my whole life.

I'm a German who spend a year in New Zealand and watches way too much British media. I probably sound Boer or something... Also your accent is kinda amazing and part of why I watch your videos

Happy November! I think your accent is lovely!

In my opinion your voice sounds like Emma Stone's voice P.S. I like Emma Stone's voice)))

yup social behaviors be a weird concept, thats why i opted out of being social, much prefer anti social cus i like being an individual

Your accent and voice is so entertaining to listen to! You should start a podcast

I live in Northwest Indiana and area of the US has a very very distinct accent. We say things like doll, crayon, and milk like how people from Chicago do. But we say other words like the rest of the midwestern states do.

Your “Aisling Bea” is fantastic. Earnest comment. You could do an entire video as her, and it would be great. Your delivery is subtly funny, and you get the information in too. This is a high compliment so I hope you accept it in that spirit!

12:20 I haven't done any hard scientific research on your statement here in the U.S., but I think the same holds here - many people from industrial or low income areas have a specific accent (e.g. southeastern U.S.) and some have accent stereotypes. A counter to this data is the city of Huntsville Alabama which has a population with one the highest per capita amount of people with advanced degrees (masters, PhDs) due to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and other high tech businesses. Great video, and I think your accent is lovely 😊 PS: well done with the Duran Duran background music at 13:15 😉

I love accents, and among the English accents, I prefer the northern ones (coastal Lancashire in particular) and the southwestern ones (i.e. west country). Least fav would be the heavily aspirated, somewhat nasal RP-ish accent that many London-based news reporters have. Difficult to describe in words, but I imagine you know the type.

Don't know if this has been said but all News anchors are taught the Midwestern accent, the one I have, thus it is far more common to here as a child. Plus all tv shows have that same kind of accent unless they are really trying to be authentic which doesn't happen much for kids shows.

Your spot on with your hypothesis

Nice Hotpots shoutout. Your accent doesn't sound like it originated too far from where my accent comes from. Mine also drifts around depending on who I'm talking to.

As a Texan American (and anglophile) in the US military who lived in the UK for decades (near to Corby of all places!), married to my lovely Leicester lass (now there's an accent for you), and go back and forth across the pond living in both places, my accent has definitely blended. To Americans, I sound a little posh for some unknown reason. To Brits, my accent is easier on the ears than the common LOUD American. It's not quite Mid-Atlantic (think Cary Grant) but many of the same characteristics. However, if I want to make any British gal melt into a puddle, all I have to do is drawl out a pure Texan, "Yes, ma'aaaaam" and tip my hat. Job's a good'un! ;-)

What I've always found odd is why people don't speak of dialects when they speak about English. For example in Finland we never speak of native speakers having accents, natives have dialects and foreign learners have accents.

Intro is so funny soph, also your accent is lovely

I'd be curious about the levels of linguistic accommodation among international airline pilots, probably the group most regularly exposed different accents (including those of non-native speakers, a whole 'nother topic). There a paper in there somewhere...

Your voice is wonderful thing to hear 😊

Couldn't be disgusting if you tried! Thanks again, Soph. Can we have some more, please?

The voice, accent and attitude are all lovely to this Texan. My twang and grammar changes dramatically depending on who I'm talking to. I've moved around a lot having been raised an army brat, worked for a time in Silicon Valley and, oddly, grew up watching British comedy and Sci-Fi shows. Still, I spent the bulk of my life a literal stone's throw from the iconic Southfork Ranch. I assume I range from hardcore rural Texan to an almost North American neutral with the odd British turn of phrase just to confuse people.

You could make a bonus-content vid of equal length just consisting of clips of you re-adjusting your hair throughout this video

"Why do you sound like a posh man?" made me laugh.

Yes, a new Soph`s Notes! I recently discovered your and I love your way of explaining and your humor! The bloopers are always magnificant hahahaha And I personally like your 'disgusting' English ;)

I strongly suspect because there was no period at the end of that person's comment that they just hit send before they were done typing. Undoubtedly they meant "your english just sounds disgusting...ly unique and interesting, and it is quite melodious to my ear." :)

I found this vid very fascinating, mainly because I wasn’t aware accent neutralization and accent exposure. I personally don’t judge people’s accents, in fact I have a bit of obsession with accents in a curious kind of manner. I do now understand the concept of familiarity and it does effect my choice of people I prefer to be around with at a subconscious level. I grew up most of my life in Texas (the Dallas/Fort Worth area) I was raised in a middle class upbringing. No one in my immediate family had an accent, only cousins of course. It’s funny everyone I meet asks me where I’m from (as in what part of the US) and when I answer “Fort Worth” they say “hmmm...I thought you were from (insert non-southern state here)” it now makes sense though because I really wasn’t exposed to that kind of accent, nor did I ever make an attempt to ever pick up on it. It kind of didn’t help that I didn’t start speaking until I was 5 and even when I got older I still had trouble with my verbal skills and went through numerous speech therapy sessions as an elementary student until was able speak confidently. Again this vid was fun and informative.

John Green of Vlog Brothers sent me in this direction and this looks promising. There's nothing wrong with your voice or accent. You're very articulate and fun. I'll be checking out your oher stuff. BTW, I'm from Minneapolis Minnesota, USA.

HankGreen sent me and I am happy he did. Subscribed & “belled”. This is excellent, I don’t care the topic, it is compelling. You are sooo great at this, relatable but also information dense but digestible for me. Good on you.

This video deserves more views.

I used to think I have a nice accent, but it's changed over time and I think I sound lazy when i talk. Like i can't be bothered to open my mouth properly. I'm not sure what happened or why how I talk has changed. I wonder if I can change it to be come more pleasing sounding.

Not a German here but Norwegian that took German as a second, second language in year 8-10 and an avid lover of etymology and such. The ü should be pronounced like the U in RUN, for English speakers. Whilst you did more of an extended version of the U in TRUE. In Norway we use the letter Ø for the sound.

As a non native English speaker I give my voice for the sexiest English accent to Scottish. I find your accent pretty neutral and easy to understand, excellent for YT channel. Since we abroad all heard that posh English I don't think we needed examples, but some would be welcomed for other, to us less known accents... Is Paul McCartney relevant example for Liverpool accent? I watched series "Ideal" a while back and I often wondered is Moz even speaking English. At first I thought it was disgusting, it was hard to follow even with English subtitles, but after watching few seasons it really grew on me. So maybe that guy also thought your accent is disgusting only because he is unfamiliar with it.

I grew up in northern New York State, not NYC at all but the semi-rural Adirondack Mountains, and then lived in Los Angeles California for seven or eight years. Once at a baseball game in the heart of NYC, I was told by a woman with a HEAVY Bronx NYC accent that I sounded like "a surfer from Canada" and... she wasn't totally wrong!

Minus the huskiness, your accent is close to my own - I'm hearing a familiar and comforting voice! Northern girl here (born in Blackpool but with family from Manchester and Leeds). Married a lad with very definite London roots. He moved up here when he was 10, so he has a (let's call it a Watford Gap) London accent softened with a few northern twangs, and I've softened my northern accent with some more southern inflections. It becomes more pronounced when we're with each other's families. Hubby goes full London Boy when talking to his mum and I lean heavily into the Pennines. Interestingly, both hubby and my parents have noted that I have a definite "Telephone Voice". Not exactly RP (I keep the short "a"), but very enunciated, and no-one has any idea where I picked it up!

Fantastic video. I’m an American with a fairly “neutral” accent, and I’m absolutely fascinated by the accents in the English-speaking world. In fact I’m in Sydney right now after having spent 2 weeks in Melbourne and I *think* I’m hearing Australians here in Sydney speak with an accent slightly closer to RP than in Melbourne.

Love your accent! From the US

I am actually not lying but the Reason i subscribed you is because of your voice , i swear coz i loved it.

I love when people think there’s a (single) “British accent”.

Great video! Based on the title, I thought it would probably be about how our own voice often sounds so much different to us in recordings and why that is. Perhaps you could do "Why My Voice Sounds Disgusting Part 2: Electric Boogaloo" on that topic.

I guess we all adapt our voices to the places we are. I'm from the south, but lived in the North of England for several years. It's not just accents, but expressions - like 'now then' in North Yorkshire that I picked up. Then I moved to the West of Scotland for a couple of years and started talking about 'huns' or 'tims' (football speak). Why does the UK have so many accents? I guess it has something to do with different languages and dialects being anglicised. In the north of Scotland they like to think they have the purest form of English. I'd guess that this was the last part of Britain to become English speaking. And your voice, Soph? It's gorgeous. Serious and sexy :o)

You are too funny and (drum roll) very smart. I am from New Jersey (no we all don't say new joizee). I was in Texas once and in a convenience store and asked for a pack of Kools cigarettes. The lady at the counter was so taken with the way I pronounced Kools she called over her workmate to have me say it again. I really cannot figure out why. And, no, this was decades before kewl became popular. Regardless, you are the best and you make us smile (and continuing so even after the video is over).

I notice that my English accent varies noticeably depending on the person I am talking to. It can be sort of bri'ish or amurican. Well - a native speaker will always hear ze slight Djerman hints, but I try to get rid of them as best as I can (and as a reference to a different video of yours: There are not many things that make me cringe, but a bad German accent is quite high in the ranking)

Hey! Talking about your accent, i just wanted to tell you that : i am french and i discovered your channel through Mike Boyd’s video about taxi whistling, video which made me instantanely realized you have exactly the british accent i think is the sexiest and that i definitely want to have ahahah. So at first i came to watch your videos just because i loved your voice and accent!! Then of course i stayed for their content :)) Anyway sorry for the mistakes and this weird message Love this channel by the way, for all this reasons eheh

I think your somewhat mixed accent sounds charming to a lot of people, at least it does to me (and also to most others, judging based on the comments so far). In fact, it's why I like watching your videos, since it's so pleasant to listen to you talk. Congratulations on your successfully finished Master's degree! So do you plan on jumping into the regular work life immediately, or do you have other dreams you want to achieve first?

I've got a german accent. So not only that I use the wrong grammar and wrong words for every situation, I also sound like every evil charakter ever played.

All beautiful women have unique voices..

This is the second vid of you that I watched and I wondered where in the UK you were from. You sounded predominantly English (from England) but you also had some Celtic tint to it. That Scottish migration really explains... Also I think your accent sounds great. Personally, I am Dutch. I have grandparents from the East of the country, where Low Saxon is spoken historically, and so do my grandparents, also to me as I grew up. Whenever I talk to someone in Dutch I speak Standard Dutch, but the moment I am mainly with Low Saxon people I switch to a mixture of Dutch and Low Saxon, speaking mainly Dutch with an Eastern accent and making contractions which don't occur in Standard Dutch. As I learned English (same applies to other languages) I started to get disgusted by Dutch accents and shifted my accent to American as well as English (once again the England part) to end up somewhere in between.

I actually enjoy Soph's accent, not sure what the other person's problem was

I really like the variety of your videos.

i like your accent darlin. ive got a mix of London (Barnet/Arsenal) and Wiltshire. Odd but Ive been told nice by non-natives. Its all great that we talk different

I always thought your accent was sexy! Great video, I got LEARNT.

As a non native English speaker, I'm searching for an accent to build my identity through and I think I would like one just like yours

Feck all accents in Australia. Good content Soph, well done.

As an American. I can say "you're not wrong".

Really great flow and presentation, this is great, keep it up!

Who'd have thought Harry Styles was actually Northern?

Glad that i came here from Mike. Great vid

this channel is the definition of big brain

Lovely to hear a mini clip of Lancashire HotPots *beats chest* Ai! Your accent comes through much stronger when you sound angry as if your ability to soften decreases. Curious as to the US North South study. Gutted that Stef McGoven leaving BBC, proper trail blazer, not just accents but mannerisms. PS Yes, upload schedule... and.... Video titling!

lub your voice and accent...found you from knowing better.

Pretty interesting learnt quite a lot

Your voice soothes me.

How exactly do you think being able to do lots of accents fucks with this whole accents thing?

Underselling babies. They can not only learn to make any sound of all languages but any sound that's not precluded by the physiology of the nose, sinus, tongue, and larynx. But they could still learn to understand them Han Solo/Chewbacca style. At least that's what I learned when I got my expensive master's degree! PS: Your voice is fine and I hear you walk with purpose.

My mother tongue is Spanish, I'm from South America and I do love the sound of your voice, very interesting topic. And yeah British English is quite sexy xD

Duuude good job on the new Video! Keep it up!

The accent won me over to the channel.

I live in the midwestern region of USA, first off all of your facts about the u.s. are quite accurate, as well as part of the history of the civil war here, a lot of the people from the northern parts moved south which expanded their exposure to the northern accents. Secondly I find your accent very sexy 😉

I love your accent.

I love your accent :)

I think the most egregious accent blending happens after I watch early Guy Ritchie films and begin speaking in indecipherable tongues shortly thereafter

As an Australian, yay we were mentioned!

I’d be interested to hear your take on the Boston accent (think Matt Damon & Mark Wahlberg in The Departed). Ain’t nothin’ more disgusting -and at the same time, amazing & hilarious & brilliant- than that.

All this from one mean comment? This was awesome :))

What beat out Welsh? Welsh was 2nd and Brummie was 3rd, but what was 1st?

so that's how you get husky voice... Hm.

You and your accent are incredibly attractive

Ay up. I'm a Lancashire born scouser living in Australia. I code switch a bit. But weirdly most of my English accent that's left is like yours, not scouse, despite leaving Lancashire at 1 year old. Go figure.

Hello! I'm from Mexico, and I'm used to hear the u.s accent, so it's kind difficult to understand you, but i think your accent it's super cool, there's no way it's disgusting jajajaja by the way in Mexico there's lots of accents too, i can count like 10 right now. I love ur videos, keep up the good work!

When you’re exposed to international accents you’re more adept at speaking in different accents, some better than others. My personal favourite English accent is the German accent.

Thanks, that was interesting. I like the way you sound.

I didn't know you could also speak German... Nice :) Btw, you're cute and your accent is charming ;)

Your voice sounds great. Then you did that Irish accent, and wow! That sounds fantastic. I've no idea where the commentor got disgusting from. You are easily understood, your diction is mostly good and you don't use a lot of regional slang that would confuse an International audience. From my own perspective I like the Lancashire base to your accent, It's a third of what I grew up with. Another third is Liverpudlian, as opposed to Scouse. The old Liverpudlian accent is / was deeper and less nasal than Scouse. Think John Lennon as opposed to Jennifer Ellison. Finally the last third was Cockney. Whilst working overseas nobody could really place my accent in the UK. I seem to have developed a regionless English accent, that's not RP or SSBE. Saying that, now I'm back home in the north of England, my accent has picked up a slight northern twang. What I hate about my voice is what I sound like when it's recorded. Without the bone conduction I sound really strange. Another thing I've noticed, as I've started going deaf from Meniere's disease, my voice is changing again. I'd like to hear the person who thinks your English sounds disgusting speak some English for comparison. However I do wonder if English isn't their first language and their dictionary or online translator suggested disgusting instead of one meaning hard to understand, in relation to your northerness. Whatever, your voice sounds great, your English is good and that commentor might benefit from visiting an audiologist, or someone that could teach them some manners, so that they could insult you with a little more class (with a long a /klɑːs/)

Isn't Patrick Stewart originally from Yorkshire?

Your voice and accent are wonderful. That person probably has disgusting ears LOL

I love your accent! Maybe Irish is even better though ;)