as a further thing theres differences in accents regionally but also in ethncities. im a wog myself and i even speak like a wog, absolutely didnt notice till recently but people call it out and i cant hear it

I think you should get a pair of glasses that fit your head. 😂🤣😂🤣

It is now 2 years on. Do you know if there has been a decrease in poaching elephants?

It is wrong to destroy antique works of art. Ivory was also used in many musical instruments.

Just love Catherine she is such a lovely girl with a fantastic personality

I believe the hotter climate in Australia also slowed the different British accents down and melted them all together into the Australian accent. Our accent is still evolving as the different people from Asia and India migrate here. I heard a blonde haired blue eyed girl of about 7 or 8 speaking with an Indian accent despite her parent not being Indian. Her teachers at school had mostly been heavily accented and of Indian origin. Many young Australians are developing some strange sort of world accent. You dont know if they're Asian or Canadian. New Zealanders speak in a tight-lipped sort of accent because it's so bloody cold there, they don't want to breathe too much cold air in.

I feel like the Maori language impacted the New Zealand accent, and the Indigenous languages impacted the Australian accent as well.

The temptation to keep going would eat me alive, I duno how you stop. Incredible discipline. But as you constantly say youve got to think about the overheads I guess and know your financial limit cos that has to dictate where you draw the line.

As an Australian I never realised how different our accent is until I went over seas

I must add to this! Aboriginal people heavily contributed to the accent! Listen to any old recordings/film, you will hear a “very” noticeable nasal tone which is absolutely evident in the Aussie accent!

How do you explain the various American accents, considering the the US was also settled by the English.

It bugs this Australian that my wife from the Peak district of good ol UK never says the damn letter "T" in words... drives me nuts........ its a PoTaTo!!!! not a Po'a'o

Yep, we are the mutt language of all your misfits and runaways. Then sprinkle in generations of migration from other countries and you've got your modern Australian accent.

That’s probably half correct but the Australian accent was also a product of the time period during which colonisation occurred. Non-rhotic variants of English were on the ascendancy in Britain at the time and this became reflected in Australian speech.

You will find that the South Australian accent sounds odd to a lot of other Australians almost "posh" which is believed to because South Australia was the only state that didn't have convicts so seemingly didn't get the heavy admixture of lower class convict accents especially Irish.

The ‘colonial children’ were called ‘currency’. Look it up.

We should sound Irish.

I'm now living in Australia, I have been here for almost 8 years and I am now going to love being able to tell fellow Australians this! I am a true Bristolian and I don't think I will ever take on the Aussie accent! 😂

I always thought it was a blend of Brits of various sorts with a good dollop of Irish. Seems I was right. Incidentally, the first time i noticed my Australian accent was when i was speaking to a room of 500 Americans over a PA system.

We know who we are - Celtic, Saxon & Norman. Some are Plantaganet Royalty. Stop with the gas lighting.

Great to get an insider view! But I doubt the horses would have been galloping full speed on a crowded london street all the time - so you'd wait for a speed appropiate to your fitness level to jump off. Also, even today we have double decker buses & they sway & you have to clutch to the rail climbing up or down & it's really fun!! Boats also sway. The worst that happens is, you bump into other passengers & say, "oops, I'm so sorry, pardon, is that seat free?" Maybe it's not that people are less fit today and that's why we need modern cars & big, cushioned seats, but that sitting in modern cars & big cushioned seats all the time is making some people unfit? There are no seat belts on public transport (at least not where I live..) we mostly survive, and the modern bus drivers usually don't speed, drive under the influence, or take absurd risks. In school we sat on wooden seats, no upholstery, and nobody had a problem with that. In the outdoors or beer gardens people sit on plain wooden benches (basiacally a long, flat board) and nobody has a problem with that, either. Personally, I think we should bring the horse back into towns. There used to be brewery horses even in the 1990s. Horses are a cultural treasure, and if we want them to live a good, happy life, we would have to build the cities around them - more green spaces, slower driving speed, less curb clutter, more considerat cyclists.. The modern town is not fit for a human to live in, but there are no laws helping to bring back aesthetics - maybe a quota of town horses could help make city life better & more beautiful.. ;)

The 19s was a great century for high quality handcraft items !

Bitty signal cannon. From the days before radios, you had to do something, and those are a lot less flimsy than starter pistols and have better range. Bet you can hear those two miles out, over water.

Ideal for the high seas x

I love the programme so much

Hi David , please please please would you consider me to the Getting it right... Thank you. Alan Roberts.

Previous .name Was the Fordroyant berthed in Portsmouth Harbour , used as a Navy training ship. I joined the Navy in 1966, Hms Ganges ,then based in Portsmouth. Slept in Hammock on board the Duncansby Head and Girdleness when the 2 ships were based in Scotland.1968 ( Hms Cochrane ) Visited the Trinc when back up in my native North East with family and grandkids. Recommendation to visit if you are in the area.

Aren’t Americans literally from British settlement too

Why the fuck are you swinging the camera around.

If you asked my grandmother or her sister what their heritage was they'd proudly say mongrel breed, English, Irish and Scottish.

i would add aboriginal people to that also. i suspect part of our accent, humor, lifestyle, was infused by the lovely (and mistreated) native inhabitants.

The Australian accent evolved from the children of the first British settlers in the slum area called The Rocks in Sydney. The childrens parents were all over Britain and the children created the accent as they played in the slums of Sydney :) So its a slum childrens accent :) Thats why so much of the Australian accents has childish abbreviations like 'postie' for postman. 'gday' for good day :) so yay Aussie kids! :)

Helpful, thanks.

It's interesting to me when people say British when it comes to accents, when in Britain the accent changes from town to town. It shows a dense population in smaller spaces have a lot to do with accents forming.

I could never figure out where Boston accent came from ?😊

What an amazing tip. I used Brasso on some old brass weights and they were ok’ish but I tried this and it brought them up like new. Thank you!

Australians: we don’t have an accent. Also Australians: fight to the death over potato cake or potato scallop.

Now the Aussie accent has an Aboriginal influence, but most Australians won’t accept that. As a Brit living in Qld I can hear it. That and they use weird words from Victorian English.

500 was my guess.

Ok mate but I reckon it stems from Cockney.

Im from london and moved to Australia 20 years ago and i cant stand english accents now.Most of the northern ones are just whiny???

That does not make sense… the American colonies were the convict settlements pre Australia… therefore English Scots Welsh and Irish mingled exactly like they did in Australia!… so?

Listen cobber, our accent is a bloody beauty.

Of course, Australia has different accents by location and social standing.

What’s an ‘Aussie’ now anyway. Go to most Australian cities now and most people are from Asia or India 😒

We are generally lazy with our articulation and draw out our vowels

I’ve been wondering how much of an influence the indigenous people of the time had on their accents 🤔

We are the most multicultural country in the world. Every one of them has their own accent. You can tell the difference between Italian Aussie, Greek Aussie, Lebanese Aussie, Serbian Aussie, Vietnamese Aussie and so on. Recently a new family moved in across the road from my house, the lady had a very heavy German sounding accent, I just had to ask her to see if I was right, and yes she was German Aussie. I love my country, we are a chocolate box, and most of the time you can't tell, until they open their mouth's to speak.😂😂😂😂

Interesting, as an Australian, I find people in London have the most similar accents to Australians, I'd say for the very same reason that it is a metropolis where people from all around the UK and the world mingle. Also being the largest city, I'd say there were a fair share of cockneys on among the prisoners on "the first fleet"

I’d prefer to know why Americans and Canadians (to a lesser extent) don’t speak English as we know it! They got so lazy that they even changed the spelling to suit themselves. The big question is, why?