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More like a angry bunch of small people. You Sir are a national treasure that hasn't been appreciated yet, for the lost English accents of mid twentieth century in what used to be an island nation called England.

@@flukedogwalker3016 my bad

@Hnkonan... Great comment! ♥️

DAMN Monica, that was deep! Wasn't expecting a Philosopher in the comment section! lol

Whoa!

Ah's frae up in t'North an heard same thing. ;¬)

And Cockney rhyming slang!

When will you pay me said the bells of Old Bailey.

@@jenniferbate9682 faces and boat races and what not.

I was born just off London Bridge at Guys Hospital, that makes me a Cockney being born within sound of Bow Bells. My mum grew up in Southwark and my Dad's family owned a chip shop in the east end. I was raised in Essex but have always had an affinity and fascination with London and it's vast history. It's just a shame the accent is dying out now, it's one of a kind

I really Love the origins of words. Also pondering on similar words, how and why they originated. It Can tell so much about the people of that language, their culture, history. So much is hidden in the mysteries of a language.

As an American, this is the correct take...

You are so right. Many thanks

May you share the link to the lighthearted video please? I can't find it. 👋

Us too

Where was I supposed to laugh?

Pygmalion, (the British film) is free on You Tube. It is a classic, but really enjoyable. I love George Bernard Shaw.

I don't know if only older people use rhyming slang . It may be the case in the South like Essex but it seems a lot of youngsters in the North of England like to use it .

I suspect that you use rhyming slang without realising.

Why you ashamed of having a Cockney connection! Its history has always been a multi cultural City..

@D Beckett When you say "American", shouldn't you have said "North American"? Having a British accent in Ontario has a "snob" value so that's why British people of all sorts don't try to lose it. I find this brou-ha-ha over Prince Harry's book, Spare so amazing. It certainly shows the zenophobia of the Royal Family, doesn't it? The Royal Family seems very unwilling to change and Prince Harry and Meghan insist they do. Good for them.

Took the words out of my mouth. Presenter is fantastic

Actually, Dante's verse (Inferno, III, v. 51) reads : Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa (Let's not talk about them, but look and pass over). The meaning is basically the same, of course, still I don't get why people always report it that way (non ti curar): Dante never wrote it.

I felt and did the same when i discovered this channel😄 Gideon is great!

يا هلا بيك!

Glad you enjoyed it!

We have something in common. My grandparents were Jewish East-End immigrants. Though they took the 'North-West passage' as life improved. Doing the research on the history of the East End was really fascinating.

@@LetThemTalkTV So much fascinating detail, so many deep insights. Muchos Kudos ;-) I was struck by your (seemingly plausible) flagging the commonality of "innit", as a generic termination for a question, with Indian subcontinent usages: Punjabi etc. You will of course be well aware that the same construction occurs in French, with "n'est-ce pas" -- but obviously that's not pertinent to the likely influences on present day Cockney, I only raise it as a slightly interesting aside.

Aka spurs supporters like me. 👍

Yep, NooYawk has Brooklynese, Queensish, and Lowah East Side Yiddish. Manhattan doesn’t have an accent per se. The Bronx accent is Latino these days. I think of Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Raccoon as being the quintessential “New York accent” though it’s really Brooklynese. I come from Long Island and have smoothed mine over the years, but Cooper’s Rocket accent is hilarious to me and just perfect.

That's very kind. Thanks.

Hmmm.... linguists have tried for years to find a distinctive "Brooklyn accent" and failed. The current view is you can't divide the New York accent into specific boroughs.

@@Tmanaz480 maybe it's because of the rather big influence of the Dutch?? The way Staten Island is pronounced proves its Dutch origin. And that's just one of many examples.

Yes. The dropped "H's" at the beginning of words is present in Newfoundland dialects as well. One outport woman told me her sister-in-law said to her that Newfoundland was where they took the "H" off the "___ AM" and put it on the "HASS". Just dropping that "H" makes a Newfoundlander difficult to understand at first. I had been away from Newfoundland for a couple of years and the high school principal introduced me to the HART teacher as Michael Enry. For a second I thought the "HART" teacher taught biology, not art. My boarding mistress called the local hardware store, the Andy Andy store. Handy Andy was a chain of hardware stores in Newfoundland at that time. Imagine teaching Mainland spelling to youngsters who had never heard Mainland English in real life, although television was changing that in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The other letter changes I don't recognize. Newfoundland English is supposed to be based on Irish English and on English from Dorset and Devon (the west country). The area I taught in (the N.E. coast of Newfoundland) would have had more people from the West Country than Ireland (Waterford) as ancestors. Instead of Brother, Newfoundlanders would say, "Broder". There were even families with the last name "Broaders" and "Broders" which had originally been "Brothers" in the old country. The Newfoundland dialect has its own dictionary. Dictionary of Newfoundland English compiled just after Newfoundland entered Confederation with Canada. I think the compilers knew that the accent would swiftly changed and would soon be lost.

Hi Isabelle, such a pleasure to hear from you. I'm glad you like the videos.

Love My Fair Lady and love the different American accents too.

Everyone has an accent

Brilliant isn't he? I've only just found the channel but the presenter is engaging, intelligent, amusing and more.

I remember an English prof at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador laughing at how his Newfoundland students read Shakespeare in his English classes. He was used to RP, I suppose. It was a distinctive accent in North America. True Bay English was almost incomprehensible to me when I first started teaching in small Newfoundland outport in 1970. When I left another Newfoundland outport in 1974, I wondered half-jokingly if my Newfoundland accent would be so strong that I would be kicked out of graduate school at the University of Toronto.

This is the most dishonest muggy comment Iv read.