Just remember the rule of travelling in the UK: Drive for an hour, the accent has changed twice, and bread rolls have a different name.

When I joined the Navy, 50 years ago, for someone from Cornwall to talk to someone from Scotland it had to go through 3-4 interperators. It was a week or so untill we got our ears in and toned down our accents before we could understand each other. UK accents have tone down a lot since then.

Being a Geordie my self I love seeing people just looking bewildered trying to understand us 😂

When I lived in America I would deliberately talk in a generic posh accent. I always got a restaurant reservation and never went home alone after a night out.

As a Geordie I can tell you that A) Not all of us have as thick an accent as is portrayed in media, B) Not a single person in media who is not a geordie can imitate our accent correctly, and C) I've grown up a geordie, do not have a stong accent naturally and even I can't do the accent when I try! (Unless I'm quoting geordie poems like the Lambton worm - whisht, lads, had yer gobs, Aah'll tell yez all an awful story....)

It’s very sad that almost all of the clips of these various accents were spoken by actors who weren’t even from the reason represented but who had learned their accents from voice coaches!!! Without exception, the clips bore little similarity to the real thing. If you want to do a piece on British accents there are lots of clips of ordinary people being wonderfully “regional ” and brilliantly incomprehensible! Oh yes what you are fed on he screen is rarely if ever true Received Pronunciation but a pastiche of what it might have sounded like 60 years ago!

I've lived all over the UK and the only accent I can't do myself is Geordie. I can understand it, but I can't replicate it.

I have heard it said on more than one occasion that the Southern US accent has more than a little bit of influence from the West Country accent.

Glaswegian is by no means the most difficult accent to understand in Scotland (though when they are drunk it is more tricky). Peterhead in the North East of Scotland has to be the most difficult Scots dialect to follow and I'm a Highlander!

JT love your enthusiasm and energy... I'm a Scouser, and I can spot a bad Scouse accent a mile away, but even within Liverpool there are many variations of the accent, which probably makes it hard to imitate - and I guess the same is true of most of the other UK accents

The 'Hot Fuzz' West Country clip was played for laughs and made incomprehensible on purpose. I live in the UK in the South and the only one that i ever have trouble with is Glaswegian as it is so fast. I have a bad habit of picking up accents if i am around people and at boarding school i actually picked up a stutter from the guy i shared with lol.

West Country is such a wide ranging accent. That scene in Hot Fuzz is legendary tho with the farmer needing a translator. I watched it in a cinema in Somerset and we were getting the jokes early as we understood the accent

The accent from manchester are crazy 🤪 I'm a manc from South Manchester and my cousin's live in North Manchester their accent is more stronger than mine its crazy how people who live in the same area sounds totally different xx

My great uncle talked like the farmer in Hot Fuzz - he died when I was 32 and for all that time I could never understand every word he said. That kind of west country accent is dying out though as most of the older generation never travelled out of the county - my great uncle was born and died aged 92 in the same house.

Useless but if trivia. The guy in the green hat, and shotgun, talking gibberish. He's Filch, the caretaker from Hogwarts. 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜😃

One that wasn't mentioned here but definitely a strong Barnsley (Yorkshire) accent. Any road, a'll seethee. Thanks for uploading. 🇺🇸🇬🇧👍

The really hard uk accents to master would have to be the north lincolnshire accent . The Hull accent ,the stoke accent and the Nottingham accent . If Robin Hood had been made with a true Nottingham accent it would be hilarious. I say that because all these accents shown are SO obvious to anyone in the UK. They are also really easy to do as well.

That feeling when jt says hes understood all the accents so far and we're at No 2 of 10 without our geordie appearing!

My family is from the Black Country, which is near Birmingham so the accent is similar and they filmed parts of Peaky Blinders there at the Black Country Museum. The tv show is really good, the accents are very accurate considering the actor that plays Tommy Shelby is actually Irish but the show can be a bit gory in places, which does reflect Birmingham at the time as it is about the gang wars after ww1. Also the Black Country museum has the best fish and chips in the uk in my opinion. 😁

To be fair, the scene in Hot Fuzz with the West Country Accent was making a joke with the accent rather than using it as a proper example of it. What the farmer said is translated through the three cops until it’s known what was said. Remember though that there is no such thing as a British accent because it’s not just the stereotypical posh or cockney, there are over 56 recognised Uk and Irish accents.

In fairness to Dick Van Dyke for his role in Mary Poppins, his voice coach was Australian. After finding this out his Cockney accent does appear to have an Aussie twang! 😄

I’m from Orkney in the far north of Scotland and grew up speaking Orcadian Scots. When I moved to Edinburgh at 17, I had to switch to speaking English because Orcadian Scots and Lowland Scots are very very different.

As always JT great video. Your target of 100k is getting closer and closer. You might want to start to get a design down on paper, because it will happen quicker than you might think. As always buddy, much love from down in Kent to you and the family. ✌️

hi jt im from oxford uk just discovered your channel . i love watching reaction videos on the uk , last time i was in us was 2001 and should be going to us again before end of this year . keep the content coming as i enjoy your reactions . all the best

Funnily enough the South was settled by Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Kent County and West Country settlers. People from Northern England also made their way to the Upland South (Kentucky and Tennessee) so us southerners do have those old dialects that have been brought over from the last few centuries. I’m from KY and I can hear how our accents linked, because they sound like they have “smoothed” out during the past 2 centuries

I was with my husband and we were talking to a Geordie. I was nodding and mmm ing all the time. After my husband asked me what he had been saying, I said ‘not a clue’! My nodding etc was being polite. His accent was so thick!

Been watching you for a while dude,you have given me enough laughs now to deserve a sub!

Sending much love and respect to you from England! Keep those videos coming JT!

Even if I don't understand them, I love the UK countries accents a lil bit more than those I am aware off in my own country. Which, might be contradictory when one thinks that Ancient English speakers might as well came from what then has become Germany. Lol.

Hi Jt :) the best way to say that welsh town name, is break it into several chunks and start from the last section, as long as you know how something ends its easier to fill in the middle part :)

An accent that is very rarely mastered is a Welsh one - it often sounds like Pakistani when someone tries to take it off🙄

Great reaction JT. The variety of accents here in the UK is vast and very geographically specific. As example, the police hunting the Yorkshire ripper back in the eighties received an audio tape from someone claiming to be the perpetrator. Language experts pinpointed him to be from a small part of Wearside in the Northeast (Geordie-ish). When the hoaxer was caught a few years ago they were proved absolutely right. JW, Westcountry. Oooh-Arrh.....

Interestingly, the West Country accent was the one we now associate with pirates stereotypically. The reason for this is that one particular actor (forgot the name) had such an accent as he played the role of a pirate in a popular movie of that genre.

I’m from Newcastle so I’m a Geordie and the problem with these videos is it’s people imitating our accent rather than having Geordies on talking lol

I’m a geordie, I’m so used to it being the default that I forget it must be a nightmare for other ppl to understand 😂

Love your reactions as always my Wales guy, been a while since you tried out some Welsh maybe you should give it another go

The Bo Selecta sketch of Ant and Dec, supposedly talking in a geordie accent, was actually a passable Middlesbrough accent.😂

fun fact (that I learnt the other day): the geordie accent/words is a mixture of old norse and old english (and obviously modern english)

Really enjoying the videos so far. Thank you! Would love to watch you try to decipher Scottish accents 😄

omg your so close to 100k now your such a good soul

There's a BBC show called 'Trawlermen' - a bit like a British version of 'deadliest catch'. It's based around the fishing towns of Fraserburgh and Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, where the local dialect is called 'Doric Scots'. The BBC had to add subtitles because the audience just could not understand what folk were saying.

When I was training in the Royal Air Force we had a Gordie on my course. After about three months of being cooped up together pretty much 24/7 we could understand him pretty well. There was another Gordie on a different course, that lived in one of the other 17 man rooms in our block. He was pretty much unintelligible for the rest of us. All that was was the slight difference you get from one person to another. I have to say that I also personally struggle with Glaswegian.

Look at Clarkson's farm Gerald ... That's when you'll realise just how honest these accents are.

Newcastle. Famous because my step Dad is a Geordie. He lived their for his first 9 years before moving to Derby. He still sounds like he just escaped from a Dandy comic!

Many years ago in England I often avoided going into my back garden if I saw my elderly Scottish neighbour of a few doors along in hers. She used to try to speak to me from 40-50 yards away. I understood maybe 1 word in 5. It was so embarrassing to keep saying "what?".

I'm a Geordie, but I've been living in the west country for 21yrs. I can spot a bad Geordie accent on the telly a mile off. I can tell the difference in the north east accents, but my husband can't. By the way, I knew the Geordies would be no 1 😆. Mind you deep in the west country, their accent is bad, you can't understand a word they're saying. To me it sounds like there's no spaces between their words, and they're mumbling.

Love your videos JT.

Love your videos mate, all the way from Geordie land 👍🏼

I'm from Bristol. I love how the accents can change from town to town. Funnily enough I've heard the Norfolk accent is similar to the west country but its no where near each other. In fact I've never been.

Peaky blinders is amazing 👏🏻!! Would love a reaction to it 😄

As a geordie I have to agree, when I moved to Yorkshire I had to consciously slow down my speech as no-one could understand me!

It's a shame the clips of each accent were so short, but you really nailed that Welsh Town pronunciation!! 🤣🤣

They play accents down on British TV. Real people are much harder to understand, especially in the smaller towns. This list plays down the fact that even small towns and villages can each have a handful of accents. You can cross a street or turn a corner, and the accent can change.

Defo yes to Peaky Blinders, the best show in years 🥰

I am from the West Midlands, born in Birmingham, grew up in Redditch, (which though only 15 miles away, has a distictly different accent which is now fast disappearing due to overspill from Birminham which startedin the late 1960s) and bt=y ancestry am Welsh. I now live in South Africa with my Zimbabwean wife. I LOVE West Midland accents including Yam Yam.

You should check out the accent on the farm labourer Gerald from Clarksons Farm. There are videos on here somewhere.

West Country is by far the hardest 🤣 it might as well be it’s own language hahaha

Liam Neeson speaks with a very soft Ulster accent, try listening to a Belfast or Ballymena accent to hear a more everyday version

Thankyou for sharing.

Lol, the look on your face at the clip of _Bo Selecta_ at the end. 🤣

I dated a girl from Kentucky; her dad was in the Hythe US Navy base in my village on the edge of Southampton water; I loved her accent; it was quite a challenge to get it right; after a while, my English accent started to lapse. I have to admit when in the company of heavy accents, I end up speaking the same; for example, when I was in Birmingham, a guy asked me where Sutton Coal field was, and I replied, "Grate ere intit mayt, sutton coal field is just over there, how am yah?" :-)

A deep, old west country accent is the strongest and most difficult to understand. I used to spend every summer down there on a farm as a kid and I was lost listening to the old farmers talking. Nobody seems to speak like that in Devon any more.

One of the funniest things is listening to a scouser getting angry, because their voice gets higher and higher pitched as they're getting angry 😂

Your new tattoo should be the British Bulldog design like you have on one of your t-shirts! LOL!

We stopped using bendy straws when it became our responsibility to wash them 🤣 Seriously though, this video shouldn’t be showing bad examples of accents because it could confuse anyone not from these shores 😁 But the actual Welsh language is different to what you’ll normally hear. It’s like Scottish or Irish Gaelic and is really only limited to communities where it’s spoken. What everyone else hears is English with a Welsh (or Scottish/Irish) accent. That long place name is Welsh language, not English. If you want, you can learn it by breaking it down into easy parts. But it’s definitely not easy. Go for it!

Silly straws take more material to manufacture, more processes during manufacturing to get the shape and due to the increased length working against gravity they're slightly harder to suck up liquids through, plus they're unnecessary compared to straight straws. Basically anyway, not that I've used a silly straw in about 25 years

I enjoy your videos and comments

Hi JT I'm a Geordie and our accent changes from region to region. Love watching your videos much love xxxx

I am a geordie and couldn't imagine living anywhere else in UK and very proud of my strong accent...we are a friendly bunch here and we have real trouble with automated service they just don't understand a word we say 🤣🤣 love to watch your channel.

Northern Irish has to be the hardest, I worked on reception and someone called and I could literally not understand a single word, I had to pass on to a colleague who even pulled the squinting face trying to work out what was being said. Btw why *do* we squint when listening hard? Lol it’s like our eyes want to help, on a phone, where you can’t see them…. 😅

I can fully understand Geordie😂 I think its surprising alot of people can't.

"What the hell was that?" That was Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer pretending to be Ant and Dec.

Unfortunately I understood the old man's west country accent, possibly because I'm old & from the west country. However my grandparents spoke a language of their own, I can see it would be difficult if your a outsider!

A few years ago, there was a trend for call centres to be based in the north (before most companies decided it would be cheaper to hire call centre staff overseas), which led to many call centre workers who spoke with a geordie accent. Being from Kent and speaking with a North Kent/RP mix accent, I felt so bad at having to constantly ask people to repeat themselves. But I genuinely could not understand the accent half the time, especially as the phone lines often had a hiss and a crackle to them.

I’m a Geordie and when people try to mimic it, it’s usually either deliberately bad/exaggerated or the vowels are completely wrong. There have been many good actors who’ve tried to do a Geordie accent seriously but they can’t quite nail it. They can’t quite get the rhythm right. If I was to dial my accent right up and use full on dialect words then you’d struggle to understand me, but in my normal everyday accent/voice, you’d be fine. I work closely with colleagues based all over the UK and I don’t have any problems.

That last bit right at the end was from BO SELECTA, and that was exaggerated version’s off Antony Mcpartlin and Declan Donnelley also known as Ant & Dec

When I was at uni my best friend was from Northern Ireland, and one night she met a Scottish guy, however they got that drunk that neither of them could understand each other and I had to act as a mutual translator (English, from Derby)

I'm from Somerset (West Country) and don't have a thick wc accent, but some words I say end up sounding like it. I lived in a tiny village in Devon for a small time, and I saw this man walking his dog and wanted to know some good places to walk my dog, so asked him. He was an old guy and I couldn't understand a word he said because his accent was so thick. I just nodded, said thanks, and walked away. My dad was with me, I turned to him and said 'did you understand a word of that?' He was like 'Nope.'

Jack P. Shepherd (David Platt, Corrie) a Manc? He comes from my home town in Yorkshire! The unintelligible West Country farmers drawl is hugely exaggerated for comic effect in a clip from the movie "Hot Fuzz". The speaker is David Bradley (Walder Frey, House of Thrones) and is actually a wonderful example of his acting talent given that he is another Yorkshireman.

Peaky Blinders is amazing!! Get it watched!

Oh no the geordie accent can be undecipherable when they get going, my cousin married a geordie when I was about 9 and I was totally baffled but now nearly 40 years later I still can't understand lol but I love it 😀

Well jt great vid as always think Lizzie enjoyed it to 👍🇬🇧

Been watching you from the very beginning & honestly can't believe the changes in you as you get older. I'm from wales uk & would love to see your reactions of some of our comedians such as LEE EVANS & JACK WHITEHALL

For the tattoo. I like the idea of a heart that Has the flags merging into each other or the Welsh dragon outline with the rest of the flags inside it

I live around 30 mins from Newcastle but even I sometime have to ask people to repeat themselves lol

Yess im from wales, some accents I can figure out , some not so lol 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍new subscriber ty 👍

I imagine that a LOT of the variations are Remnants of when Gaelic was spoken in many areas . Interspersed with bits of the Nordic tongues .

You finally got Lizzie to stand up properly, well done :D

That last bit with the weird masked guys was I believe a show called Bo Selecta. Check it out. It's a British comedy show from the early 2000's. It's on KZfaq. UK. 10/9/2022

have a Manc(chester) accent and I have to soften it when I talk to foreign visitors, but I don't mind so much, it kinda makes them laugh 😄

watching that sub count creep up to 100k, you got this

When you’re watching a British show & they’re all hyped up, arguing whatever that’s not exaggerating. That is how difficult it actually is to understand in person. My family moved to Canada from Glasgow Scotland when I was very young and all my friends had a really hard time understanding my parents. In fact some didn’t understand at all & constantly asked me to translate.

Dude I'm from the midlands (Derby) and had a 15 minute taxi ride when I looked at Newcastle University. The driver conversed the entire trip and I didnt understand a word!

I'm Dutch and used to have trouble understanding any non-RP accent. Listening to the Toy Dolls foor nearly two decades has helped a lot in that regard.

That was “Bo Selecta” one of my favourite shows every by Leigh Francis, also “Bo! in the USA.” 😂😂😂😂

In Scotland we had a Table of 24 County Cork Farmers in our Restaurant. I couldn’t understand most of them. Even although i went to Ireland about 4 times a year on Holiday. But i had never visited Cork. It was so strong.

I love not far from Birmingham, so the regional accent here is very influenced by Brummie. Takes some getting used to. My favourite is still Scouse though.

within 10 seconds JT is already asking the serious questions

Black Country Dialect is, surprisingly, one of the oldest dialects in the UK. A lot of it is Saxon in origin. I love that you can “graunch” which is a wonderfully onomatopoeic way of saying “crunch and grind in a noisy way”. So, “if yo pair don’t stop graunching that suck, I’ll give you such a coghaiver!”. This translates to “If you two don’t stop noisily crunching those boiled sweets (hard candy to Americans), I’ll give you a slap that will rearrange your gears”. My other favourite is “fair clemmed”. This means anything from “i’m cold”, to “I’m exhausted”, to “I’m starving hungry”, to “I’ve been out in the snow for 5 hours and I can’t feel my extremities”. It doesn’t matter the cause of the situation, if you’re a bit tired, overwhelmed and whatever, you’re “fair clemmed”.

also an accent in a different part of the country can sound similar, an accent in the rural south east, countryside with a lot of farm land, can be similar to that of rural south west, devon/somerset, even though the rural south east is close to london, an accent from a londoner is very different from an accent of rural south east, and within london there are different accents..