1 woman with 17 British Accents | How many more are there?
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- čas přidán 1. 10. 2023
- One woman goes over 17 British accents and now I'm wondering how many there are. Geordies.. hello. No literary recommendations from me today but if you can think of a recommend a contemporary British author, please let me know!
Original Video: One Woman, 17 British Accents - Anglophenia Ep 5
Anglophenia channel: / @anglopheniatv
I'm addicted to this channel.
No clickbait, no time-wasting intros, no fake personality, no rehashing or dumbing down, just genuine talk from somebody with real charisma and actual intelligence that really adds to the conversation. I don't even think that I could watch many of the source videos without NPs commentary. They'd just be too boring or over-the-top.
On top of that you get solid literary recommendations, Creators get full credit each time.
This is how to run a channel, someone with real personality yet she has never even given us her name.
You summed up NP's channel perfectly.
You hit the nail on the head. Probably my favorite channel.
These accents are also like the polite/clear versions of how people speak. When Geordie friends are speaking to each other or east london or scouse or people from glasgow etc they speak with more slang and quicker which would probably be intlligable to Americans or foreign people. So we only really sound the way she was speaking if we were speaking to an tourist or something.
You mean 'unintelligible'
@@TheJthom9 and "a" tourist
Cockney is a very specific London working class accent, that’s why your friends from London might not necessarily speak it. It is not just an indicator of location but also of social class environment
She struggled with some of these, there are scousers screaming….15 or 20 miles in any direction the accents change dramatically to a native speaker.
“ there are scousers screaming “ 😳😳😳😳 nowt new there then……….
I've known my brother-in-law for 7 years now. I'm Bulgarian, he's a Geordie. I still have to ask him to repeat twice or even three times, until I understand some or other word. 😀But I definitely love it and have picked up a lot from him haha! His mother is half Irish, her accents just melts me. It's so good!
Howay the toon!
Yes, she is talented! I find it almost miraculous how someone can recognize and speak all these dialects. I could maybe do 3 😅
She is only doing a handful of british accent and you are right There are many different accents even in one city
Accents in the UK can change noticeably over distances of just a few miles. I was born and bred in a North East area called Newcastle upon Tyne, the home of the Geordie accent. The river divides the city and the accent can change depending on what side of the river your from and if your from the East end or the West end. That's roughly 15 miles West to East.
Try anything by prolific Scottis author Sir Iain Rankin. His Inspector Rebus novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh. A lot of local dialect.
Read "any" UK author who tried to document the struggles of WWII. So much is held in those words. We must not forget them.
Relationship goals: find a girl who looks at you same way NP looks at a fascinating video.
Ideally, who also gets cloud next to her head telling you what's going on in there.
Your ability to get absorbed into a source of information is one of a kind, I gotta say. Glad CZcams decided to take me here a few months ago.
English is not my native language, I only started learning it when I was 13 or 14 (by myself with a dictionary, song lyrics and MTV when they used to play music videos). When I started learning it, I could read it and understand some songs but someone speaking at a normal speed was too much for me, especially if it wasn't with an American accent (that's what is spoken in most of the movies I watch). Now I can pretty much understand everything but for me, the final boss is the movie *_Trainspotting_* ! The first time I watched it, I had to turn on the subtitles. I no longer need the subtitles but I still need to pay close attention or I will miss one third of what they're saying. Anyone else?
Scottish junkies. What do you expect? Im a native speaker and there are certain movies that give me difficulties. Well done for trying!
A Geordie here and in the same boat with a lot of trainspotting lol Glaswegian heroin addicts are certainly not the easiest to understand!
I always enjoy your take on the videos you review. The Yorkshire accent varies depending which part your from. Seems to get stronger the the further south you go in Yorkshire
I think I had a small aneurysm when the woman called it "southern Ireland".
I wonder if people living in the Republic of Korea ever have similar emotions when people call it South Korea?
@ravenward626 i dont know.. i mean north and south are still korea...
Probably more like Taiwanese hearing them referred to as China.
South ireland? Aka Ireland. F the British amirite?
West Britain?
From Belfast, you southerner, 😂😂😂
Perhaps they do but then calling them South Korea makes sense and I have met Koreans that refer to it as such so I think it's ok. The more northerly point on the Island of Ireland isn't in Northern Ireland, it's in Ireland so it doesn't make sense to refer to Ireland as Southern Ireland. That's just from a purely geographic standpoint, ignoring the political problems of the term.@@ravenward626
As a geordie, I can confidently say we have no idea why we say 'us' instead of 'me'. But we're stubborn and refuse to change. Some theories claim it's an influence from Old Norse and Anglo Saxon, but that doesn't really hold up to analysis. I believe some ancient geordie knew full well that the word was 'me', but insisted on saying 'us' just to annoy people and the joke hasn't got old.
Tbf even in the midlands we say "us" instead of "me" too. "pass us the remote" or "pass us the salt" it's common here too
@@MasterIceyy I think it's because a lot old dialects use a short 'me' instead of 'my' (eg. look at m' new car). It's weird to say the full 'my', so we need an alternative to 'me', and 'us' seems to do the job. Source: My butt, just now.
Yeah we say "us" instead of "me" here in (my part of) Scotland too. In my personal perception, using "us" in the local dialect often makes a statement or request/command sound friendlier or simply softens it, whereas "me" makes it sound more demanding/abrasive. You can definitely do both for the different effects though, rather than only one of them being valid in this dialect.
Us is used in Dublin too.
@@_uncredited Yep, in my dialect if we were telling somebody about something that happened when driving, it's more likely to begin "I was in me car" than "I was in my car", it's kinda just faster and easier to say it that way. We wouldn't use "my car" unless it's relevant, like "Shall we go in my car or yours?"
I love the Transatlantic accent. Wish it was still a thing. Always thought it sounded really nice
If you bring it back, I’d support it
Any movie with Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn is guaranteed to have it since it was their everyday speech.
I live in west central Scotland (just under Glasgow). Accents can alter noticeably within 10-20 miles.
Love this! She made some great references to help picture the different accents. You mention plural use where not needed, my Newcastle born friend I play football with would say "I'm going in goals", there's probably other regions that do the same. Your London reference is true, I'm a born and bread North Londoner but do not sound like an East Ender, where I spent most of my school life. I think South Londoners (south of The Thames) have a subtle difference in accent IMO. The more west you go, the posher the London accents tend to be, reflective of their relative affluence I guess. Your Orson Wells example reminds me of Dick Van Dyke's portrayal of Bert the Cockney in Mary Poppins. Absolutely no one in London speaks like that!
Small quibble, Robert Burns is from Alloway in Ayrshire, which is in the southwest of Scotland, nowhere near Inverness
Ah bin ya . I was brought up Solihull/ Birmingham area but also lived in the Black Country. The way they replace so many words with their own is brilliant. You need to find a native from Cradley/ Netherton/Gornal to listen to. You will not be dissapointed.
I have subscribed just because you love geordies and the accent.
From Newcastle upon Tyne 😁
Your gorgeous smile fills me with inner light 🥲
I got a bit too poetic there 😅 but it's true
You may find Dave Huxtable's channel interesting, he explains the reasons behind the variations of accents and explains how he pronounces them.
I've seen this video a few times and the accents are pretty good (the whole channel is pretty good as well, but seems to be dormant now). The chief accent missed though is the Manchester accent which is pretty distinctive and pretty common. There's also something called Multicultural London English (MLE) which is not a traditional accent but spoken by a lot of people nowadays.
A fantastic UK author from the 20th century is Terry Pratchett who wrote the disc world series among other stuff.
I'm from the south coast (Sussex) so don't have an accent...
I love the Geordie accent. My grandad was born and lived there for his first 12 years before the family moved back to Ireland. He never really lost his accent though so, even though he died when I was 3, it makes me think of him when I hear it.
Some reasonably contemporary British authors you might like that are just sort of fun are Douglas Adams ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ), Terry Pratchett ( Discworld novels ) and Philip Pullman ( His Dark Materials ). Hmm, maybe I'll add Dan Brown ( The Da Vinci Code ) too.
I have a recommendation for you that - given how well read you are - I think you'll appreciate a lot. Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair (and it's sequels) are a fantastic mix of absurdism, alternate history and are just packed full of literary references. His other series of books, the Nursery Crimes series ("The Big Over Easy" and "The Fourth Bear") and equally delightful, absurd, and hilarious - imagine Agatha Christie wrote a novel where the detective had to discover whether Humpty Dumpty fell or was pushed and you've basically got the plot of The Big Over Easy.
Book recommendation: Terry Pratchett. Specifically, the Discworld series. There are lots of lists as to the order you should read them, but the only commonish advice is to not start with the first one. I’d probably repeat a common suggestion of ‘Guards! Guards!’ (the first book on the City Watch subseries) as a good first book. Alternatively, ‘Small Gods’ if you want something that’s completely standalone.
I highly recommend "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. It's all about the various cultures who inhabit England and how they intersect.
absolutely love four in a bed 😊. absolutely love your British content much respect Birmingham UK 🇬🇧.
If your curious about language, I recommend the World Friends CZcams channel, they do lots of comparisons between similar and different languages :)
Spanish accents - have you tried Metatron's Academy? It's probably not exactly what you had in mind, but interesting nevertheless. He's Italian - Sicilian specifically - and tries to see to what extent he can understand various regional/national Spanish accents. He also covers Portuguese, French and other Romance languages.
I'd like to recommend 'The Commitments' and the subsequent novels in the series by Irish author from Dublin Roddy Doyle or the Jack Parlabane series of books by the Scottish (Glaswegian) Christopher Brookmyre. Both will have you trying to read the dialogue spoken by the character's in their own dialect.
What you may have missed in those different accents, is she also uses a lot of words and features that are peculiar to those individual regions, but probably only British can pick up on those (you need to have been to those regions).
There was a tv series in the uk called “When the boat comes in”. It was set in Newcastle. I was born and raised in south east England and needed a phrase book to watch it 😂
A buddy of mine used to work in radio in Whales. He used to do all of the football highlight in their perspective accents.
6:26 Hello, Mitch Hedberg
There are so many great English writers but one of my favorites is Jonathan Coe. "What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy" is a hilarious satire with a fair amount of savagery. Among his others are a trilogy written over a number of years in which he visits a group of people in their school years ("The Rotters' Club), in their 30s or so ("The Closed Circle"), and mid-life ("Middle England")
If you are willing to go back a bit, you cannot beat P.G. Wodehouse, especially the Jeeves and Wooster books, which typically feature madcap plots (most of them similar) and the best part of his writing: the clever language.
You mentioned Agatha Christie, so you might want to try a couple more modern, wonderful mystery writers who received some kind of honors from the Queen: Ruth Rendell, P.D. James.
I loved your reaction and commentary on this.
The first thing that you need to understand about the U.K. is that the language has been effected over the centuries by invasion and settlers changing it by their own tongue, and introducing new words for things into the vocabulary, this is why accents and dialects can change about every 20 miles or less in the U.K.
For example the words 'Wales' and 'Welsh' are taken from the Old Dutch word for stranger, the Welsh word for its language is 'Cymraeg', 'Cymru' is the name for Wales, it's the only Celtic language which never died out, even after being made illegal to speak it, the others where reintroduced later.
Irish, Scots Gaelic and Cornish survived (just barely in some cases).
For examples of the transatlantic accent, I usually think any movie with Katherine Hepburn or Cary Grant. Philadelphia Story for example.
Spanish - you'll have to Google that actually in Spanish to get your suitable feature.
In Europe, before we go travelling, we often have to check things in the respective language, as experience has shown -
1) the info. won't show up at all if searching in English
or 2) a different subject will appear
or 3) at best, a translated copy may appear which (from my experience) is more a resumé of only some of the important things you need to find out).
Hi, The use of Us rather than me, is an East London thing as well, I have also heard it in Essex and Kent.
I found the accent she did to be quite close, including the Cockney. My ear for this is a bit out of date.
If your looking for recent UK authors, can I suggest, Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.
Yeah I have RP that verges into heightened RP with certain words and if I'm around people like that it really comes out. I would agree it's a very middle class/upper middle class accent. When abroad I tend to speak heightened RP also, I think that's just to make myself sound clearer to foreign people.
Speaking of UK bed and breakfasts, there used to be at least one along the Scottish border that used a renovated Peel tower. I kinda want to visit just for the historical aspect.
1:54 I say this about the New York accent, I lived there 2016 & '17 and rarely encountered people with that stereotypical New York accent.
I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone in person with a stereotypical NY accent either, but I’ve also never been there
@@NoProtocol Hi. Hope you're keeping well,NP.
There is another video with 30 accents and bearing in mind England is smaller than Oregon,it is amazing that you can drive 15 minutes and get quite differing accents.
I would love you to react to "The World's Best Football Fans & Ultras: EUROPE" which is quite mind-blowing with no violence, just amazing crows scenes. Enjoy !
i think that saying 'us' instead of me is a primarily but not exclusively northern english thing. I think it's supposed to be a community thing. a sense of solidarity. it's also quite common to say 'our' instead of 'my' like 'come to our house' or 'it's at ours' meaning it's at my house. another thing which feels linked and is common in northern english, particularly north western english is to say 'our kid' referring to a sibling or a close friend.
I use the word "us" instead of "me" from time-to-time, depending on context, and I'm from Preston in Lancashire.
I grew up in Nottingham (East Midlands) and it was common there, too. It might be widespread.
I think it's because it sounds less demanding than using "me."
I'm just shocked that you didn't know where Liam Neeson was from! You seem to know most other things and you give me hope that the younger generation won't only rely on google for everything. Love your videos, thanks.
British Author Recommendation: Anything by Jonathan Meades. He also does some top notch documentaries too.
I'd recommend Robert Shearman. He writes short story collections, each book tends to tie the stories around a central theme, focusing on love, or death, or exceptionalism. Always darkly humorous, a rich blend of absurdist comedy and grisly frights
TRIVIA!!! David Prowse was very disappointed that his voice wasn't used for Darth Vader, since he was the guy in the costume playing the role after all. The problem was David was from the West Country, so his delivery would have been "Come over t' darrrrk soid lewk, Oi is yer farrrrther!"
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I met another Agatha Christie fan who used to get their murder mystery fix from the "Cadfael Chronicles". It's historical fiction, medieval Europe, the main character is an ex-crusader turned monk who ends up solving mysteries. But they're not books. It was a radio drama that started in the 70's. They also made a TV series in the 90's. I find old radio dramas easily fit the same spot as podcasts or audio books in my day to day.
The reason you could not recognise the accent from that London guy is because there are a number of different accents: North London: Amy Winehouse; South London: Ginger Baker; East London, Cockney (Dick Van Dyke; joke OK?), Estuary (a recent one): Paul Merton. Then there is standard London accent (an average solicitor), RP (BBC presenters, Emily Maitlis) and even posh in places like Chelsea.
Interesting, I recognized Siobhan Thompson from Dimension 20 stuff, mostly the table top role playing games/shows-Mentopolis, The Unsleeping City, & Fantasy High.
I had no idea she’d been on this channel, makes sense tho.
This is the channel she started on
Gone for most of the stereotypes of accents and knowing what they are I know what she's trying for, but she's not that close on a lot of them. I have also seen this before, on another channel, (sorry Ms No Protocol, been unfaithful!!!). As you are probably aware of there are a LOT more accents in the UK. That is not really a London accent, it's an accent from London. I'm a Geordie (though I do NOT speak like that, been away for longer than you've been alive!) so I'm glad you like the accent!
For books, try C J Sansom who has done a series of books about a lawyer in the the time of Henry VIII.
There are accents for every different village here, and it gets further confused when for example a woman like my nana is raised by parents from chesterfield and passes on slang from that area to her kids and grandkids
A LONDONER Explains How to Speak COCKNEY (London accent) - czcams.com/video/s11qjmvTdJ8/video.html
Your Geordie pal might say "uz" as a contraction of "I is." Newfoundlanders have a traditional song that translates to: I'm the boy that builds the boat. As Canadians know, it's sung:
I's the b'ye that builds the boat
And I's the b'ye that sails her ..
For a good book with lots of Geordie dialect, try “The Machine Gunners” by Robert Westall. It’s written with 12-15 yr olds in mind but it’s still a great read.
Siobhan Thompson is awesome. I remember first seeing her on College Humor, and their spinoff tabletop gaming channel, Dimension20. Most recently, I've seen her become a writer on Rick and Morty!
There are regional variations of all these as well.
Author recommendation: Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. A very enjoyable outsider's view of the English language.
In Glasgow people say "us" as well although we say it as "is". Like we would say "do you want to come with us to the shop" like "wanty come wae is tae the shoap"
I watched tons of Brit-Coms on PBS in the 80's and 90's and was amazed at the different accents. Small country with huge variety rivaling the U.S.A.
I have never once questioned why we say ‘us’ when referring to ourself.
‘Get us a drink.’ Is something I would say regularly but now that I’m deeping it, it makes no sense
It confused me so much at first!
@@NoProtocol can imagine it would definitely take some getting used to lol.
I’m from Yorkshire for reference, I’m pretty sure it’s a nationwide thing.
I wonder if it's a working class reaction to the Royal 'We'.
Tend to turn off when this lass comes on. Never known anyone but a Lancastrian do a Lancashire accent, or a corky baller a Yorkshire or a Geordie a Geordie et al on into infinity. Still one of my fave channels.
Her brummie accent sounds more like South african to me but other than that she’s pretty good
There were bits that sounded Black Country, to be honest, but not Brum. I mean give us a break!
@@AlBarzUKbrummie is a little more diverse than people realise. I haven’t spoken to anyone that sounded like her but hey, it’s a tough one to get down.
It was more Black Country than Birmingham to be honest. Alison Hammond, Jeff Lynne, Jasper Carrott are all Birmingham whereas Frank Skinner, Lenny Henry are true Black Country ( Yam Yams ) 😄
for spanish maybe try Reto de los acentos con jacky morales, they have some pretty good ones
You are correct about the "mid Atlantic" accent, because many of the movie stars in the 1920's grew up on stage doing Shakespeare, and felt they had to talk like there was a problem in their fundament. if you ever watch any movie from USA, the English have one accent.
As someone from Sheffield, I can confirm we do sound like that, haha
The London Cockney accent you're referring to is East London and Essex.
If you're looking for Trans-Atlantic accent, look to the actors Katherine Hepburn and Carey Grant.
I worked in Newcastle for two Pakistani/Geordie bothers and for a Southerner (Kent) like myself, some things were " lost in translation"
You Can make accent vidéo of Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, thank you from a french subscriber.
Been speaking RP for a long time, though my original accent was of course Geordie as a child. But moving down south saw to it falling away from how I spoke.
She missed Kent - shared a house with a girl from Kent and she had the most lovely soft accent.
If you want to see a fun tv show with irish dialect. Watch "The derry girls" It´s supposed to take place in Londonderry. Most of it is about rthe clashes between chatolics and protestants
I was looking forward to that - but it was bad. It was fun and nice she’s looked into the differences & traits but the imitation needs work. Maybe less hurried. And she needs to look into the variances of West Midlands and London, as there’s many sub dialects, which sound different.
I think a lot of us can do better.
I really do adore the easy to understand old American tv voices, such as those on What’s My Line. Loads of full episodes on YT.
I had a Geordie friend too, actually we are still friends too, and same, I couldn’t understand a lot of what she was saying for quite a long time. I gathered ‘scran’ is food, ‘Baltic’ means cold, ‘tiffing it’ means running fast…
The word scran comes from Scotland originally...but Geordie and Scouse people also say it.
We don't say it in London.
I think it comes from the Vikings/Norse actually just like the word bairn or hyem.@@NGT4LIFE
7:38 - Try 'The Geordie Shore'
Add in the dialects we have in Norway and this is even more crazy here.
Dr Tom Holland has a brilliant book series on the Roman Republic and Empire.
Anything by Terry pratchett 😂 the man is a story telling genius 😂
I am glad that I'm not the only one who likes Four In A Bed!!!
Try Irvine Welsh Trainspotting to read! it's written in my local Edinburgh dialect, I'll be honest that was the first book I read in my own dialect and it took me a wee while to wrap my head around at first!
I can not really tell many differences as I am not native and it seems to me that the Scottish Inverrrness accent could have been a bit harsher, but she definitely nailed the Dublin Accent, that‘s for sure!
I always thought there were two. The fancy one and the fights at soccer games one.
@00:56 I adore the trans-Atlantic accent! It probably never caught on because it was created, and didn't evolve naturally; or at the very least nobody spoke it by default.
I sometimes wish we had a phonetic script that could capture pronunciations and accents.
Very good, I am from Yorkshire, and yep, we don't pronounce are T's and finish most of our words off. Lol
I recommend the movie Snatch by director Guy Ritchie for some more British accents
Hi, You should read "The Wasp Factory" by Iain M Banks... Scottish Author.... Strange tale.. Or "Puccoon" or "Hitler my part in his downfall" by Spike Milligan humous view of WW2
I’ll check it out then! Thanks for the recommendation
You would enjoy the books of Magnus Mills. You could start with Restraint of Beasts.
There are variations of accents in London itself, there are different accents, which are summarised in this video:
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Since, I grew up in South-East I can switch to a South London accent.
Now, one of my grandparents used a lot of cockney rhyming slang in a traditional way - e.g. you only speak one of the rhyming words.
If you aren't familiar with cockney rhyming slang there are plenty of CZcams videos that cover and describe it.
I like this Gal she's well educated VERY articulate very intelligent, and she's EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️❤️
Many places the accent and slang changes every 20 miles.
Cockney accent is East London. There's lots of different accents in the 600 square miles of Greater London.
We have a comedian named Michael McIntyre who is good at accents and very funny with it. Look up Michael McIntyre, accents. I'm sure you will enjoy him. Another comedian who is good at accents is Al Murray (The Pub Landlord).
I'm from Washington in the North East of England
We say us because we are a part of a family so if we talk about our self we always refure too the family
I can identify a person born and raised in the nesxt town, no more than 4 miles away prely by their English accent, it is at time so very suttle, but also very obvious! There are also subtle clues in the way inflect and the terms they use as well as colloqialisms ans terms of phrase which are often dependant on age, sounds complicated and it is but if you are brought up in it its second nature. Even animals have accents, We had an Astralian Cockateil it woud perch on the window sill ans go ballistic at the sound of local gulls which it considered a threat. If a gull was on the TV it would ignore it's calls unless it was a programm from our area in which case it would kick off!
I'm from Devon and when I went just across the border to Somerset, I found out that apparently the phrase "where's it to?" makes no sense.
I still don't understand why
Being from caerphilly, about a 15 minute drive from Cardiff.. the womans 'welsh accent' was more akin to the valleys accent.
I'm from Stoke on Trent and I say us when refering to myself. I dont know why I do it, just that I do. It has also caused issues in the UK as alot of them dont know wtf I'm on about