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  • čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
  • Anecdotal conversations with people in the UK West Country.
    See part 2 here: • West Country Yap - Part 2
    And part 3 here: • West Country Yap - part 3
    West Country Yap part 4 • West Country Yap part 4
    West Country Yap is a short film consisting of snippets of conversation and anecdotes from five elderly gentlemen of south west England. A particular point of interest is the regional dialect - Somerset and mid Devon - which is changing and diluting with younger generations. The strong dialect is a result of growing up in an age where mobility was limited, and travel out of the region or community was unnecessary. Now, with cars and transport taken for granted we are able to move around the country at will, and as a result, regional populations are slowly becoming homogenised and regional accents gradually being lost to a bygone era. Certain words, peculiar to the region, are heard less and less among younger inhabitants, and gradually the rich dialects of the West Country will disappear over the coming decades. It is my hope to record many speakers of the genuine dialects before this generation passes on, and before all that is left is a modern diluted version.
    Note: The traveller, John Treagood, is not a native of the west country, but hails from Kent. He travels around the south west and has been included for his interesting take on life and the fact that he is a rare character.
    Footnote:
    Sad to report that the two gentlemen in the first segment, Bill and Marcus, both passed away within two days of each other. Marcus died on Sunday March 4, 2018, and Bill apparently left us on the previous Friday. More of them from my archive when time permits.
    R.I.P. Bill and Marcus.
    Further footnote: I recently heard that another of my subjects, Peter Isaacs, passed away around May 9, 2018, at the age of 93.
    March 21, 2019:
    Sad to learn today that another gentleman from my West Country Yap film has passed away.
    Paul Isaac, whose brother Peter died last May, died on Tuesday March 19, 2019, at the tender age of 93.
    All have now left us, except for John Treagood, the gentlemen of the road - as far as I know. So glad I met these wonderful gents and captured their dialects on video. Truly, an era is passing.
    February 9, 2020:
    John Treagood passed away on the evening of Feb 9, 2020. All the subjects of this film have now left us.
    Watch West Country Yap part 2 here: • West Country Yap - Part 2
    Uploaded May 2020.

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  • @Tumslover27
    @Tumslover27 Před 3 lety +736

    When that one dude said, "Ho ligkhf flip gfddytr uyutre toll." that hit me right in the heart.

  • @CrisSantos-cc8cc
    @CrisSantos-cc8cc Před 4 lety +194

    They sound like they could give a contract to a witcher

  • @MrTrotty57
    @MrTrotty57  Před 5 lety +92

    Sad to learn today that another gentleman from my West Country Yap film has passed away.
    Paul Isaac, whose brother Peter died last May, died on Tuesday March 19, 2019, at the tender age of 93.
    All have now left us, except for John Treagood, the gentlemen of the road - as far as I know. So glad I met these wonderful gents and captured their dialects on video. Truly, an era is passing.

    • @joshroberts6721
      @joshroberts6721 Před 5 lety +5

      May peace be with them

    • @TheDoitpow
      @TheDoitpow Před 3 lety +1

      Do you know whereabouts John is these days? I'd like to check in, especially these days.

    • @TheDoitpow
      @TheDoitpow Před 3 lety +3

      Oh. I just read down. It's a tragedy.

  • @tyferro1943
    @tyferro1943 Před 3 lety +49

    The fact that the two old men at the beginning can understand eachother is a beautiful thing

  • @matthewpaterson5216
    @matthewpaterson5216 Před 6 lety +80

    You've done a great service for anyone interested in British regional speech, not to mention colorful persons. Many thanks for this.

  • @Survivethejive
    @Survivethejive Před 6 lety +213

    Charming accents and people. This dialect is heritage that must be preserved.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Před 6 lety +19

      Very Indo-European ;-)

    • @hullaballoo9703
      @hullaballoo9703 Před 4 lety +16

      Indeed. The Sussex accent is pretty much obsolete, we now have a terrible mix of old cockney sounding London accent and new jafaican London accent. Nothing wrong with those accents I would just rather the Sussex accent and dialect hadn’t been pushed out by an ever expanding London.

    • @yeerkals
      @yeerkals Před 3 lety +1

      Why

    • @kovdrop3915
      @kovdrop3915 Před 3 lety +1

      Things change. Get used to it.

    • @setadriftonfishandchips
      @setadriftonfishandchips Před 3 lety

      Big influence on the Newfoundland dialect

  • @MrTrotty57
    @MrTrotty57  Před 6 lety +102

    Sad to report that the two gentlemen in the first segment, Bill and Marcus, both passed away within two days of each other. Marcus died on Sunday March 4, 2018, and Bill apparently left us on the previous Friday. More of them from my archive when time permits. R.I.P. Bill and Marcus.

    • @matthewpaterson5216
      @matthewpaterson5216 Před 6 lety +8

      I was very sad to hear this news. Have watched your video many times, at first simply because of the language aspect. I'm an ESL teacher, I live in southern Taiwan, had been reading the Harry Potter books to my son at bedtimes, and was curious about the accent of Hagrid. But watching your video has been much more than that. I have been so beguiled and charmed by these elderly gentlemen. Thank you for this.

    • @All3ofus
      @All3ofus Před 6 lety +2

      MrTrotty57 r.i.p grandad

    • @Miquelalalaa
      @Miquelalalaa Před 6 lety +1

      MrTrotty57 I’m so sorry to hear that. Both they, and their accents will be missed.

    • @sinead7475
      @sinead7475 Před 6 lety +5

      Bless them. Maybe a case of broken heart syndrome?

    • @Daniea3
      @Daniea3 Před 5 lety +2

      Such genuine souls.

  • @Survivethejive
    @Survivethejive Před 5 lety +143

    RIP these gentlemen and may their dialect live on

  • @BlackButteMining
    @BlackButteMining Před 4 lety +111

    As an American from the Western USA, the thick West Country dialect is by far the most easily intelligible to me. These guys sound like some of the old timers I know, especially old miners. There were many Cornwall miners who came to the western USA in the last century. Their language lives on here. The most prominent aspect of this dialect is the rhotic R, which is fundamentally American English.

    • @brendonhavener
      @brendonhavener Před 4 lety +7

      Where in the western us do you live lol

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 Před 3 lety +8

      At the time of American settlement all English accents were still rhotic

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 Před rokem +1

      @@cigh7445 They weren’t

    • @jaif7327
      @jaif7327 Před rokem

      @@cigh7445 nah not all but the majority yea

  • @HowardEllisonUKVoice
    @HowardEllisonUKVoice Před 6 lety +22

    See how Bill and Marcus really listen to one another. A lost art. Such real people. Rest their souls.

  • @AngloSaxonVanguard
    @AngloSaxonVanguard Před 4 měsíci +29

    I've travelled all over the USA and was captivated by the American Southern accents and now I know why they sound the way they do. They come from from the West of England 😂

    • @MaxIsBackInTown
      @MaxIsBackInTown Před měsícem +1

      This sounds nothing like a southern accent

    • @colemanstarr5404
      @colemanstarr5404 Před 20 dny

      Not all of them or most of them. Maybe Tangier Island and Ocracoke on the Virginia and Carolina coast.

  • @monicarivers4864
    @monicarivers4864 Před 7 lety +21

    There are times when the older gentlemen at the start of the video sound like the elderly relatives I remember from my childhood- and I'm from the south in the U.S.

    • @Slashplite
      @Slashplite Před 6 lety +4

      Tangier accent from US sounds similar to these people. It's probably how founding fathers sounded like

    • @ricksmith4145
      @ricksmith4145 Před 6 lety +1

      @ The Guardian of Truth:
      1. I don't think that's true. I think a lot of northerners _did_ have West Country heritage. Maybe southerners were more likely to have ancestors from that area, but IDK.
      2. In the 17th and 18th centuries, you didn't need to have West Country heritage in order to sound similar to the guys in this video. _Everyone_ in England used to have some variation of this accent.

  • @johncashrocks221
    @johncashrocks221 Před 6 lety +168

    West country is a remnant of how English sounded before the industrial revolution spread the upper class "posh" around England. Almost everyone spoke rhotically in England, hence why 17th-18th century English settlers gave their accent to their descendants in America and thus was born modern American English.

    • @diane9247
      @diane9247 Před 4 lety +3

      Interesting!

    • @dalzvert9206
      @dalzvert9206 Před 3 lety +9

      Yes West Countrymen were settlers in America too but don't forget the fact that Londoners, Wight Islanders, Bristolians, and other British folk from southern England formed the American accent in the East Coast known as the Yankee and Country which is coastal accents from America Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.[2]
      East Coast of the United States
      🇺🇲 ❤ 🇬🇧 ❤ 🇯🇲
      we still take influences from y'all by imitatin English non rhotic speech and even Jamaica had the same English settlers and even they still take British influences in terms of speech as well just like we do in America too.

    • @stonedape2406
      @stonedape2406 Před 3 lety +4

      @@dalzvert9206 i comes from the isle of wight, and I can say the original dialect is closest to that of the dorset dialect, and is within the west country branch.

    • @InnerDness
      @InnerDness Před 3 lety +6

      Funny, because upper-class Southerners, particularly in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi usually speak with non-rhotic accents, because that accent came from the posh upper crust English who could afford to buy slaves and plantations

    • @K-Viz
      @K-Viz Před 3 lety +5

      I kinda hear some midwest and southerner US accents here. Makes perfect sense.

  • @jeanetteclarke3054
    @jeanetteclarke3054 Před 2 lety +49

    I’m proud to say that the gentleman in the hat, on the right in the first part of this film, is my late father, Bill Vowles. He and Marcus (on the left) were both Somerset born and bred, and died within a week of each other in March 2018.
    Whilst I don’t speak with the same accent, I could always understand what was being said. As many have said, this dialect is slowly disappearing. It’s also interesting to hear that this accent is similar to some parts of the US. Some of my dad’s ancestors emigrated to the US in 1868, settling in Illinois, Iowa and New York. His direct ancestor returned to the UK luckily; otherwise I wouldn’t be here.
    You may be interested to know that the drink in the mug wasn’t tea or coffee; it’s cider. Marcus made cider each year and loved nothing more than to share a mug or two (a wet) and a yarn with anyone passing.
    Glad most of you enjoyed listening to the stories.

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 2 lety +13

      Hi Jeannette. I made several visits to the shed in Cinnamon Lane - Bill and Marcus were true characters and I really miss them. however, I have a lot of recordings of their chats and plan to edit more when I find the time. If you would like to have some unedited video, do let me know and we can keep in touch. I won't give out my phone number here, but if you search Graham Trott on the web, you should find my website easily and can get my number on the contact form. Your father's face when he laughs never fails to make me laugh too - pure joy to witness.

    • @adamm2091
      @adamm2091 Před 2 lety +5

      The internet sure is beautiful

    • @andresverdejo374
      @andresverdejo374 Před 2 lety +5

      @@MrTrotty57 inmortalizing this conversations is such an amazing work. Keep on doing what you are doing man

    • @damon235
      @damon235 Před 2 lety +3

      Proper gentlemen the both of them happen they both could tell a story ❤️

    • @philomelodia
      @philomelodia Před rokem +2

      Ah, yes. 😁That special bond between daughters and dads. My heart goes out to you for your loss. Must’ve been quite a fellow. I hope, someday, quite a few decades hence, mind, my daughter speaks as highly and fondly of me as you did of your dad. No father can ask for more. Be well and be safe.

  • @sirknighter2794
    @sirknighter2794 Před 5 lety +40

    accents in the West Country change every 2 miles no joke lol ive lived there in Gloucester all my life

  • @howiedogp
    @howiedogp Před 3 lety +26

    It’s amazing that we can understand every twelfth word from the gentleman on the left, but his buddy on the right gets every word.

  • @youtubelife921
    @youtubelife921 Před 4 lety +38

    This is so upsetting, I just found out that John Treagood, the travelling bloke, passed away on the 9th February 2020. Such a shame that now all of these lovely gentlemen have left us.

    • @xxIluvyouguysxx
      @xxIluvyouguysxx Před 4 lety

      :(

    • @user-zy9yg2eu5t
      @user-zy9yg2eu5t Před 3 lety

      It was very tragic he died of Ligma.

    • @user-nx9eq2wq7t
      @user-nx9eq2wq7t Před 3 lety +1

      I grew up in Devon and saw John Treegood and his caravan all the time. Often every week. I remember him parking down by Exminster on Dawlish Road and on the Ide roundabout too. RIP John, it was always lovely to see you about.

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 9 měsíci

      @@user-nx9eq2wq7t that's where I filmed his sequence.

  • @selflessone3880
    @selflessone3880 Před 3 lety +17

    Please search “Americans who still speak with regional English dialects” and you’ll notice the similarities it’s incredible.

  • @Crunch2327
    @Crunch2327 Před 10 měsíci +20

    Takes me back, like listening to me grandad and his brothers yapping on the porch up in Wrington all evening.

  • @aiyanaperry4016
    @aiyanaperry4016 Před 4 lety +88

    I have a feeling that this is what English sounds like to non-English speakers

    • @samsara450
      @samsara450 Před 4 lety +8

      Exactly ! I'm French and I've thought that I was bilingual until today, but I don't understand anything at what they said. It's funny because I recognize specific tones to English language.

    • @davidblackwood106
      @davidblackwood106 Před 4 lety +11

      @@samsara450 Don't worry. I'm English and am also struggling to understand them haha

    • @jason-8608
      @jason-8608 Před 3 lety

      Or, how Texans sound to Brits

    • @benrogersdevon
      @benrogersdevon Před 3 lety

      I can understand every work each bloke comes out with. I’m from north Devon though so could be the reason!

    • @carlit8617
      @carlit8617 Před 2 lety

      I’m from the Midwestern USA and I can understand about 0.01% of what they’re saying. I can’t imagine if this dialect was the most common of English dialects and I tried to learn it.
      It seems like they roll a lot of their syllables and words. Also, it sounds like they differentiate between vowels and similarly articulated consonants a lot less. From what I can tell, the way I speak is a lot clearer than the way they do.
      Crazy how much language can vary from
      place to place.

  • @clinclin1240
    @clinclin1240 Před 3 lety +45

    Those first two gentlemen sound like extremely dignified drunken South Carolinians.

  • @jonjits
    @jonjits Před 6 lety +24

    This is basically every pair of old men who take bus journey's together in Plymouth.

    • @tecteam
      @tecteam Před 6 lety +4

      ere bey u know it innit

  • @icyhot4444
    @icyhot4444 Před 4 lety +25

    Many older people in western Pennsylvania still sound a good bit like this. The one term that stood out is "warsh", I hear that all of the time.

  • @decimatedmusic
    @decimatedmusic Před 3 lety +21

    These old boys are fucking beautiful. I'm from the west country and I grew up around blokes like this, working with my father on building sites and farms. Such hilarious stories to tell, and moreso how it was told to you. Great memories. Fucking love these old boys, salt of the earth.

  • @ZosKia523
    @ZosKia523 Před 4 lety +16

    My grandfather and his brothers grew up on a small farm in Southern Georgia (U.S.). The first two gentleman sound nearly identical to them (especially, when he says Dr. PEPPER and 'warsh/wash) after a few shots of moonshine liquor. I love it.

    • @BLane-xr1ic
      @BLane-xr1ic Před 4 lety +2

      The accents are a dead giveaway. We are definitely all the same people. I have records of some of my family leaving on boats for the USA and East Indies, they have lived in Dorset for hundreds of years.

  • @harrysalt5277
    @harrysalt5277 Před 2 měsíci +13

    When he said "IGGHRHHHHGUHHHREEMEMEMVBEUHOHHLLLLFRAUNKKKKKYESSSSZZ" i felt that💯

  • @rupertharrison4977
    @rupertharrison4977 Před 4 lety +18

    The opening shot is pure Somerset! A cider orchard in the lea of Glastonbury Tor!

    • @kurluk04
      @kurluk04 Před 4 lety

      Rupert Harrison i noticed that - so somerset 😂

  • @battenburg6089
    @battenburg6089 Před 2 lety +19

    Proud to sound exactly like these blokes when I talk with me grandad.

  • @Lavoz7
    @Lavoz7 Před 3 lety +10

    That’s JOHN! The traveller in the second clip always used to stay up the top of my road a lot, a couple of paces away. With his horse and cart that he slept in with his dogs. My dad used to bring him fire wood and he was well known in Devon. He’s of course passed away now bless him. Can’t believe I’ve stumbled across him on CZcams!😅

    • @ladygg2753
      @ladygg2753 Před 3 lety +2

      bless his lovely heart ,,, lovely story ..

    • @WizzardJC
      @WizzardJC Před 3 lety +1

      He was a lovely fella, he will be missed

  • @IosuamacaMhadaidh
    @IosuamacaMhadaidh Před 2 lety +32

    I'm from Missouri in USA, and I have heard oldtimers in the Ozarks sound just like those first two gentlemen RIP

    • @ricosuave7102
      @ricosuave7102 Před 2 lety +4

      Yup lots of appalachians and southerners in certain regions still talk like that. Even in New England,north and South Carolina still have regional English accents.

    • @ES2990
      @ES2990 Před 2 lety +3

      Came to say that, those first wo dudes sounded like rural southerners at certain points

  • @preamp1000
    @preamp1000 Před 6 lety +28

    I am sad to say my dad (Marcus Govier) and his great friend Bill who you see at the start of this film both passed away in the last few days, Bill at the end of last week and my dad on sunday. I am sure they are up there still having a yap. RIP DAD AND BILL

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 6 lety +2

      Sam emailed me on Sunday evening with the news - very sad to hear of your Dad's passing, but then a double blow when she later informed me that Bill had also passed away. No doubt they are both in cider heaven continuing their daily yap. I would very much like to pay my respects at their funerals if I am able to be there. Best wishes, Graham.

    • @matthewpaterson5216
      @matthewpaterson5216 Před 6 lety +3

      I'm sorry for your loss.

    • @stevelawson7595
      @stevelawson7595 Před 6 lety +1

      My condolences.

  • @user-nx9eq2wq7t
    @user-nx9eq2wq7t Před 3 lety +20

    I’m from Devon and I’m able to understand everyone in this video. I’ve worked in pubs in mid Devon for years and spoke to punters with this very same accent all day long.

  • @BlackButteMining
    @BlackButteMining Před rokem +29

    To my USA ears, this is the most intelligible and familiar-sounding UK accent of all

    • @M_SC
      @M_SC Před rokem

      There’s like 12 accents in this video

  • @lemonhummus
    @lemonhummus Před 5 lety +13

    I love that I can understand a lot of this, this is literally what the old guys sound like in my local pub

  • @High_Lord_Of_Terra
    @High_Lord_Of_Terra Před 4 lety +14

    I'm Welsh but I spent every summer in deepest Devon so hearing some of these accents was really sweet. Reminded me of sitting around with the farmers in the evening while they got hammered on the cider they made and played crib.

  • @caboyd1977
    @caboyd1977 Před 4 lety +17

    1st two blokes, the ones in suspenders, they remind me heavily of my own great granpaw. he was nigh impossible to understand unless you was of the same generation and from the same area. We're all from deep south in Mississippi in the US. My old great grandpaw would've understood every word. Makes me miss him.

  • @whiskyngeets
    @whiskyngeets Před 2 lety +18

    I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. Appalachian accent sounds so much like the first two guys.

  • @theo1856
    @theo1856 Před 4 lety +124

    Americans: Oh my god i can't understand this irish guy
    Old cornish bloke: *unintelligible*

    • @JacksonS44
      @JacksonS44 Před 3 lety +4

      I’m English and still can’t understand them lol

    • @persephonessibling
      @persephonessibling Před 3 lety +6

      They arent from cornwall theyre from somerset!

    • @liamberry5671
      @liamberry5671 Před 3 lety

      @@persephonessibling one of thems from Devon

    • @splitraven7060
      @splitraven7060 Před 3 lety

      I’m American and starting to understand them. What unique and beautiful dialect. So charming these men are. Love this!!

    • @benrogersdevon
      @benrogersdevon Před 3 lety

      The Cornish accent & dialect is even more difficult to understand than the Somerset accent !
      I’ve lived near bude in Cornwall & locals had a very strong accent but now I’m in north Devon & I can understand what these guys were saying (mostly!.)

  • @sinead7475
    @sinead7475 Před 6 lety +16

    There's something very heart warming about hearing these old boys talk amongst each other A dying breed.

    • @TunedVXR
      @TunedVXR Před 6 lety +6

      Sinead Grace lots of these chaps where I'm from 😊

    • @charliebarker9065
      @charliebarker9065 Před 6 lety +6

      Hardly a dying breed in wiltshire, they’re in abundance

  • @JohnCenaKun
    @JohnCenaKun Před 6 lety +19

    Honestly sounds so much like the Newfoundland accent. Makes sense because the original settlers were fishermen from Devon and so many of the communities here still hold this accent.

    • @Daniea3
      @Daniea3 Před 5 lety

      I'm from the South Coast/Grand Banks, Newfoundland and I can understand everything the old timers are saying.

  • @bearoyay
    @bearoyay Před 2 lety +13

    I feel something so powerful. Something real, from these folks.
    Its like a real, authentic, genuine feeling of life that I dont see around me or anybody I know.

  • @frisco21
    @frisco21 Před 2 lety +33

    You can hear similar accents in parts of the Appalachian region in the USA.

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy Před 9 měsíci +1

      CZcams comments etc are always saying the settlers in Appalachia from England were from the North but the surnames are much more South Western English country names and the accents there are much more akin to West Country ones.

  • @Justino_de_Paula
    @Justino_de_Paula Před 4 lety +13

    Old Marcus was a lovely old chap, he used to make the nicest rough cider ever. Any excuse for a yarn. ''Drink it here young-un, it don't travel very well.'' Both he and Bill passed away last year. Glastonbury - Edgarley, is a poorer place without them.

  • @camerachica73
    @camerachica73 Před 4 lety +8

    I'm from South Somerset and loved hearing those two old guys, as my uncle spoke exactly like that.

  • @ThankYouCityOfficial
    @ThankYouCityOfficial Před 2 lety +32

    As the the Australian son of a west-country dad I can honestly say I can understand every word spoken.

    • @bigpopparasta8133
      @bigpopparasta8133 Před 2 lety +4

      As a true Bristolian lad, I understand every word too. My grandparents speak the exact same as the first lads.

  • @SouthwesternEagle
    @SouthwesternEagle Před 2 lety +49

    This is how the original American accent sounded. This accent still survives unchanged in the Outer Banks of North Carolina today.

    • @MrClickity
      @MrClickity Před 2 lety +5

      I used to live on Roanoke Island, can confirm. There were definitely folks with accents like that, with just a bit more Southern drawl to it.

    • @idipped2521
      @idipped2521 Před 2 lety

      @Meadowfrost maybe they weren't from Texas. Lol

    • @benmaloney5434
      @benmaloney5434 Před 2 lety +4

      Not quite. We have enough phonetic descriptions of early American speech that we can reconstruct it, at least well enough to know that it didn't sound like this. There are certainly archaic features that are still present in both conservative American dialects and rural British dialects for sure, however they evolved separately and both contain their own innovative features too. If there is a striking similarity, it's probably either coincidental development to some degree, or due to the influence of later immigration. Although, in my experience most people just hear a bit of rhoticity and a PRICE vowel that isn't /aɪ/, and automatically think the accent must be ancient, which is weird.

    • @globalloon
      @globalloon Před rokem

      how would you know what the "original" accent sounded like? weird thing to say

    • @WizzardJC
      @WizzardJC Před rokem

      @@benmaloney5434 yes, it’s a common ancestor as opposed to one coming from the other, like the evolving from chimps idea, close but not quite

  • @fireemblemistrash75
    @fireemblemistrash75 Před 3 lety +18

    I feel like drinking out of a wooden cup when I watch this

  • @Betteraliarthanalie
    @Betteraliarthanalie Před 3 lety +9

    This is the video I show people when I need them to know what my neighbours sound like. 💙

  • @justinspanos4382
    @justinspanos4382 Před rokem +10

    I love all of these, but the two gentlemen at 6:28 are especially soothing to listen to for some reason. Their laughter is full of so much joy. I'm an American and for some reason I find a lot of comfort in this video, thank you for posting.

  • @beagilbert
    @beagilbert Před 3 lety +15

    this is therapy. I'm from the west country and listen to this as i go to sleep

    • @CelticSaint
      @CelticSaint Před 3 lety +2

      That's right Bill. I am from Cornwall though I now live in a different country. Listening to this transports me back to when I was a child in shorts listening to my family talking to each other. It's wonderful.

    • @rebeccatowner6700
      @rebeccatowner6700 Před 3 lety

      The old boy in the striped shirt is just like listening to my long dead grandfather again. 🥺

  • @FrejthKing
    @FrejthKing Před 5 lety +20

    these are like some kind of gnome folk living in moss houses next to giant mushrooms

  • @crebeccag
    @crebeccag Před rokem +22

    The 2 old fellas at the beginning sound so much like certain areas from Newfoundland :) if I hadn’t read it was England I would’ve assumed it was from home

  • @WilliamSmith-md9xh
    @WilliamSmith-md9xh Před 3 lety +14

    Rip john treagood, saw him constantly in Devon and his dogs and horse❤

  • @Astro_Guy_1
    @Astro_Guy_1 Před rokem +24

    1:22 sadly John Treagood passed away in 2020 at the ripe old age of 84. May he rest in peace.

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 Před rokem +1

      That's really sad to know. I would've liked to meet him.

  • @sampitt3168
    @sampitt3168 Před 7 lety +5

    Love this!! Marcus Govier is my grandfather and a complete legend!!! Love that man

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 7 lety +3

      I do enjoy visiting your grandfather Sam. He and Bill are a great double act! Very entertaining.

  • @Lordshaw
    @Lordshaw Před 4 lety +10

    Beautiful. Thank you for saving this for the future.

  • @hippyjoe
    @hippyjoe Před 5 lety +58

    It's an entire countryside of hagrids

  • @kurtisgeorge4127
    @kurtisgeorge4127 Před 2 lety +23

    West Country is where much of the Newfoundland accent came from. The first two men especially. They sound like my family haha.

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 Před 2 lety

      I always assumed it was Irish.

    • @CaptainBeetheart
      @CaptainBeetheart Před 2 lety

      @@UstashaMe84 it’s both, but generally more of one or the other depending where you’re from

  • @-.8.-
    @-.8.- Před 4 lety +10

    I'm 26 and from Devon, brought up in a rural community and i can understand a fair bit of each chap as he talks but would still have to ask them to repeat themselves every now and then. I now live in Yorkshire and have done a lot of travelling around the UK so have developed a much more usual base accent with just a few twangs here and there, if you got me talking to someone with an accent as thick as these chaps though, i would quickly become as undecipherable as they are to most people. Where i grew up is the heart of Devon's farming community and i can tell you that although the accent is declining it holds strong in many circles; the fisherman from north devon villages and towns like Clovelly Heartland and Lynmouth, the third generation and up farmers of the entire county, hunters, tradesman, land owners and pub landlords/ladies. There are only a few left that yarn like these boys in normal conversation and even if most Devonian people of rural or working background can innately understand and take on the vernacular to varying degrees, very soon it will be totally lost.

  • @emilychb6621
    @emilychb6621 Před 3 lety +13

    Damn you got to them just in time before their sounds would have forever been forgotten.

  • @CharlesFVincent
    @CharlesFVincent Před 4 lety +28

    Anyway, then there was another lay in the village, there, with a nice apple orchard.
    Kids used to go in and pinch apples, see? But the missus always put a basket out, and filled up with apples for the kids. But they wasn't satisfied with that. They had to go orchard and get them, didn't they?
    So the policeman, oh said he, oh he said, "Missus, you leave it to me! Bide quiet," he said, "but... keep your eye open, alright?"
    So when the kids come out of school, down they'd go, and cull all these here apples, see?
    So the next day, he goes down, and he puts a little nice bit of rope, but they couldn't see it. But down the bottom of orchard there was a gap! And there was a stog out towards end.
    (Other guy is smiling. "He... Oh!")
    A watery stog of water and mud.
    A stog that was. He said... he never said nowt.
    Anyway! When got like all they coming out of school, about four o'clock, huh? He got down to the field, and watched them. Seen them coming in now, they was into her apples! He walks in. Of course, they got no other way -- they couldn't go back!
    (Other guy: "Ha ha.")
    They goes down out the gap! Trips their feet and in they went in the stog! Ha ha ha.
    (Other guy: "Ha ha ha ha went in the bog!)
    And so! He blowed his whistle! That give the woman know that was now to come out! Ha ha ha!
    Oh, the poor kids, they was mud all over!
    Yeah!
    They never had no more apples pinched!
    (Other guy: "Ha ha.")
    They took them from up the, up beside the door.
    Yeah!
    Ha ha ha!
    These were great storytellers. I am glad this was made.

    • @crackthefoundation_
      @crackthefoundation_ Před 4 lety +3

      Thank you for the transcription, I'm American but have British background. I could understand about half of it. Also, stealin' apples back in the day. Great story lol.

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 4 lety +1

      Curious - is this your own transcript, or from youtube subtitles or some sort of software?

    • @CharlesFVincent
      @CharlesFVincent Před 4 lety +5

      @@MrTrotty57 I transcribed it one sentence at a time by pausing -- I can't type that fast, and I did listen to a few bits over again, to be confident of what was being said. I am Canadian, but I had grandparents who were born in Bristol and in Devon, near the start of the 20th C. Their accents weren't this thick, but it is familiar. I haven't yet visited the UK, and I sound Canadian, unless sometimes I say something like "records in the corner" I might sound a bit like Hagrid and people look at me funny, so I suppose some of it sticks somehow. I did have to look up the word for a marsh, "stog" -- that is one I had never heard before. But he explains it when he says it. I love the slapstick suspense of the apple story, and there were a few comments saying people couldn't understand it, so I felt it had to be transcribed so everyone could have a laugh with it.

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 4 lety +7

      @@CharlesFVincent Pronounced 'stug'. Also known as a 'zug'. "Stuck like a cow in the zugs" is an expression my grandfather used. Coming from Devon myself, I am in tune with virtually all of it - I grew up with people like these. I just wish I'd had the sense to record more of it when my Grandparents and others were alive.

    • @Sorrowdusk
      @Sorrowdusk Před 4 lety +1

      Kids stealin apples? Hah! At least kids actually ate apples. Not anymore :(

  • @alexanderwatkins7330
    @alexanderwatkins7330 Před měsícem +9

    As a forester (from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire) I could understand nearly all of what was being said by these blokes as I grew up with people who sounded like this.
    Sadly you don’t hear much proper Forest being spoken anymore, it’s nearly all but died out unfortunately.

    • @myrusEW
      @myrusEW Před měsícem

      woop-di-do

    • @iceandale7621
      @iceandale7621 Před 17 dny

      Yeah only in your area, The Forest of Deane being the Appalachia of England they’re either eaten by Wild Boar or living against they’re will in a cave chained up 😂

  • @jimmyutley2375
    @jimmyutley2375 Před 3 lety +12

    "Youngsters come into town. 'I can't live without me phone. I can't live without me computer.' Of course they can. I mean, you need the air to breathe, don't you, and food to eat, to live." A modern day Diogenes here.

  • @captaincapitalism9535
    @captaincapitalism9535 Před 2 lety +17

    I wouldn’t have been able to tell the first two men were English without the occasional “bloody”, or “mate”.

  • @samuelbarham8483
    @samuelbarham8483 Před rokem +28

    4:37 -- he pronounces "wash" as "warsh," a phenomenon which is also common where I'm from, in the state of Maryland (particularly in the suburbs around Baltimore, though I've heard it as far South as Camp Springs).

    • @DaddySizeIt
      @DaddySizeIt Před rokem +3

      My grandparents in Iowa said it the same way. I've heard my mom say it too. It drives me nuts but makes you wonder where that comes from. Strange thing to add.

    • @JustinSeara
      @JustinSeara Před rokem +1

      It comes from here. West Country.

    • @lakesidefiddle8051
      @lakesidefiddle8051 Před rokem +1

      Hear this in the older people all the way in Idaho

    • @jacobsmith6136
      @jacobsmith6136 Před rokem

      Warsh=wash, wooter=water, crick =creak, crown=crayon. Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia all have large amounts of people whom speak with the aforementioned accent.

  • @theoluscombe
    @theoluscombe Před rokem +29

    I live in the west country and they do sound like this

    • @greyee0005
      @greyee0005 Před rokem +6

      Nowadays it seems like its only the older people who have accents this strong. Is a shame it's getting diluted

    • @Bigdogjason
      @Bigdogjason Před rokem +2

      People are trying to sound like cool Londoners now

    • @grassytramtracks
      @grassytramtracks Před 10 měsíci

      ​​@@BigdogjasonI guess I'm contributing, because I've lived in Bath almost all my life yet have no west country accent, mine is a home county type accent and is non-rhotic, my mother is French and my father is from Surrey, so I haven't artificially avoided a west country accent, which means I'm not contributing to the dilution in that sense

    • @radicalrodriguez5912
      @radicalrodriguez5912 Před 5 měsíci

      @@grassytramtracksdo you stand out?

    • @radicalrodriguez5912
      @radicalrodriguez5912 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Bigdogjasonawful

  • @jasontucher7011
    @jasontucher7011 Před 4 lety +7

    Grandad did the same thing when a rat ran up his trousers. Always ties the cuffs. What was funny about it was before it ran up, he didn’t know what it was. He said, aww if that aren’t the cutest thing. Then he screamed kill it, kill it . I haven’t seen him jump so high since.

  • @kristofevarsson6903
    @kristofevarsson6903 Před 5 lety +14

    This is what I imagine Blackbeard sounds like talking to himself.

  • @Mick-fw3hi
    @Mick-fw3hi Před 3 lety +18

    When you think about it, this is the ancestor of the Southern US accent and several New England accents.

    • @iceomistar4302
      @iceomistar4302 Před 3 lety +4

      Not really, before the mid 1900s even, most English accents had the Postvocalic 'r'

  • @anastasia-fr1gn
    @anastasia-fr1gn Před 4 lety +14

    It’s a bit sad that these dialects, all over the world, are becoming rare. It’s especially evident in rural dialects. Seem like funny, sweet gentlemen with a charming accent. I’m surprised I can actually understand most of it.

  • @dhelor
    @dhelor Před 6 lety +8

    I consider myself to be pretty good at understanding heavy accents, for the most part... but these gentlemen had me boggled. XD

  • @diane9247
    @diane9247 Před 4 lety +10

    The first two gentlemen are adorable. I understand some words, but certainly not the stories! I am fascinated by the remnants of accents like this that can still be heard in isolated communities of east coast USA.

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 4 lety +2

      The first two were talking about two cider making brothers they both knew for many years - and how they never changed their clothes and their trousers would stand up by themselves if they took them off. Also, the brothers they talk about had a cherry plum tree and their doctor, a Dr Tripp, would collect the plums and make wine. If the brothers had an evening visitor they didn't want to stay long, they'd bring out a short candle for illumination (no electricity), so the candle would burn down and the guest would leave. If they were happy for a guest to stay on, they'd bring out a longer candle.

  • @dailymass4924
    @dailymass4924 Před 5 lety +29

    It doesn't help that old people tend to be hard to understand to begin with lol

  • @cameroncook2048
    @cameroncook2048 Před 4 lety +25

    As a native to Devon. I can understand everything they say.

    • @speckytwat
      @speckytwat Před 4 lety +7

      As a native to Devon. I still have no fucking clue.

    • @otakuleveledup8458
      @otakuleveledup8458 Před 4 lety

      Spexx lmao

    • @stonedape2406
      @stonedape2406 Před 4 lety +1

      As an isle of wight native, I can understand most of what they're saying.

    • @Tuffydipstick
      @Tuffydipstick Před 3 lety

      I’m a native of Somerset. I can understand every word.

    • @user-nx9eq2wq7t
      @user-nx9eq2wq7t Před 3 lety

      Me too, sounds like all the punters I used to serve working in pubs in Exeter and mid Devon

  • @markgruchy727
    @markgruchy727 Před rokem +21

    I'm from Newfoundland, Canada.
    There are times when the way the two guys at the beginning speak sounds extremely close to the way older people in my family's home town speak. Particularly the phrases "It's like they say", "make em up into wine" for example.
    They also are the only people outside of Newfoundland who appear to be using b'y exactly the same way. You hear that at 40 seconds on.
    B'y is a huge word in Newfoundland, to the point it is essentially a cultural symbol of the place. We use the phrase "Yes B'y" to express a wide range of emotions and ideas
    ranging from mild to strong agreement, to approval, to irritated surprise, to sarcasm, to contempt, to comedic dismissal, to a signal we want to go to another topic in a conversation, to awe, to disbelief etc. I've watched people who didn't grow up here try to use it. It's extremely hard for people to master. In fact, I have never seen anyone master it who didn't grow up here.

    • @markgruchy727
      @markgruchy727 Před rokem +1

      There is a huge West Country influence here in Newfoundland. Most English settlers came from the West Country.

    • @markgruchy727
      @markgruchy727 Před rokem

      This is a great example of the contemporary Pouch Cove accent.
      Plainly related.
      czcams.com/video/L5lKC4YJ9Ts/video.html

    • @coreywestwell
      @coreywestwell Před rokem

      Bloody is used throughout the UK.

    • @chrisnorman1902
      @chrisnorman1902 Před rokem

      @@markgruchy727 I don't hear the bit where he says b'y - could you type the whole sentence where he uses it for context?

    • @globalloon
      @globalloon Před rokem +2

      I'm from Devon and call everyone bey.. or B'y... funny to hear that's used in Canada as well

  • @philomelodia
    @philomelodia Před 2 lety +20

    Reminds me of thick rural southern accents. American accents, that is. Two of them even sound like they might have spent time in Appalachia. As a linguistic enthusiast, I have heard recordings of people who were born in the 19th century in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia and they sounded very similar to this. This is especially true with regard to the rhythm and cadence of their speech. They did not drop any h’s like a lot of these people did and the way they said their i’s would probably remind a British person of Yorkshire or Scotland but, other than that, very very close.

    • @intellectualesemv
      @intellectualesemv Před 2 lety +3

      American rural southern accents have actually evolved from Irish settlers. Maybe Scottish too, but I don't remember reading about the latter specifically.

    • @philomelodia
      @philomelodia Před 2 lety +7

      @@intellectualesemv they evolved from all over the British Isles. The Scots Irish (ulster Scots)had a huge impact on the flatland accents of the Midsouth in particular but, not everywhere else. East Texas, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, western Tennessee and western Kentucky would be the mid south. They also had a strong but, lesser impact on the accents of Appalachia but, the West country was also strong in that region. Of course, the very strongest influence of the west country in American accents can be heard on the islands off the coast of Virginia. Looked it up. It’s very interesting

    • @PatrickFDolan
      @PatrickFDolan Před 2 lety +1

      @@intellectualesemv keep reading then because the original post was quite right.

  • @leonreaper90
    @leonreaper90 Před 5 lety +22

    Southern accents in America have the same Rhoticity as the west country accent. Kinda crazy how far it spread.

    • @soybasedjeremy3653
      @soybasedjeremy3653 Před 5 lety

      The Southern accent dates back to the Civil War, while the Western accent is probably due to the rough terrains.

    • @KP-vg3zn
      @KP-vg3zn Před 5 lety +4

      @@soybasedjeremy3653 It goes farther back than the civil war. Cities had already been established before then. My coastal town in NC was founded in 1710. Communities in eastern VA, NC & SC known as the tidewater region are the last areas in the USA that still speak with the British/American dialect.

    • @leonreaper90
      @leonreaper90 Před 4 lety +3

      I think many migrants from Britain came from the South-west due to the close proximity of Southampton Port which took them to the Americas. It was a major Naval Hub back in the day and Plymouth I think also transported people.

  • @chrisnorman1902
    @chrisnorman1902 Před 3 lety +21

    0:02 - 1:22
    No.
    Oh Harold were a funny bugger, mind.
    I know he were, I know he were, very funny bloke, oh yes, yeah.
    I got on alright with old Frank, like.
    Harold always had Frank to do his meals didn't he?
    Oh aye, oh, Harold - Harold wouldn't make a cup of tea.
    No, he wouldn't make a cup of tea.
    He wouldn't make a bloody cup of tea, no he bloody wouldn't.
    Oh no, he told Frank to do that.
    He were a lazy sod.
    'Let's have a cup of tea Frank'
    It's like he said, at least, or more than what I did, like, because he's lived up there.
    He didn't give a bloody lot away, mind.
    No, they wasn't going to anyway, they wasn't going to, Mark.
    Well they cherry plums, I always remember they.
    Oh yes.
    Aye, there were old Dr. Pipp, or Dr. Flipp, or I don't know what bloody name was.
    Yeah.
    Lived up somewhere or other.
    Well, as these cherry plums, they called up, they said to Dr. Flipp...
    Oh Tripp.
    Or Tripp.
    Of East Pennard there.
    Aye.
    Aye, I know him.
    And they said, 'what can we... Oh, we'll... I'll come down and get them, we'll make them up in to wine'
    That's right, that's right.
    They didn't waste them [something].
    No way, no way, no...
    Very funny people.
    Yep, there you go.
    But what good did it do?
    No good at all.

  • @Un0rdin4rYPr0gr4mmeR
    @Un0rdin4rYPr0gr4mmeR Před 4 lety +12

    The more I'm drunk, the more I understand :)

  • @1982kinger
    @1982kinger Před 9 měsíci +14

    Best highlight was "bloody cup of tea"

  • @sueriksson3959
    @sueriksson3959 Před rokem +15

    Lovely hearing the language i grew up, still understand every word even though I haven't lived there for decades

    • @van-gabondramblinrose6398
      @van-gabondramblinrose6398 Před rokem +5

      I understand it all perfectly as well. Brought back memories of working on Somerset Farms as a lad and listening to the old boys yappin away. It's a lost world now.

    • @radicalrodriguez5912
      @radicalrodriguez5912 Před 5 měsíci

      @@van-gabondramblinrose6398has the accent disappeared? Please say it hasn’t

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 5 měsíci +2

      Disappearing fast as the older generations pass on.

  • @ReidHenderson
    @ReidHenderson Před rokem +27

    I'm from South Carolina back country. We are considered hicks and speak with a special southern drawl. I can hear similarities between this accent and ours seeing as most of our areas ancestors came from Western England Ireland Scotland and Germany

    • @beccu-chan8693
      @beccu-chan8693 Před rokem +2

      Bruh I am from the south west and my mum was from Somerset in the uk of course
      I literaly grew up with this accent around me and also frequently went to America and I can imagine we sound very similar after a 3 week trip to America 😂

    • @beccu-chan8693
      @beccu-chan8693 Před rokem

      I literally had to have speech therapy because where I’m from it’s not a common accent but picked it up in my childhood from my mum 😂

    • @beccu-chan8693
      @beccu-chan8693 Před rokem

      I used to leave Kissimmee with the weirdest accent in the fucking world.

    • @PatrickFDolan
      @PatrickFDolan Před rokem

      Sure 🙄

    • @needtoknow5529
      @needtoknow5529 Před rokem +2

      Ya, I don't get it completely either but I was from southeastern low country Virginia as a kid and our red-neck accent from there sounds (a lot of draw taken from) this English West Country accent. A lot of colonial Virginians haven't moved in hundreds of years. 400 years. I'm thinking that old standard English 400 years ago sounded more like this. Because Ive never heard of a mass migration from West County specifically to Virginia. My family was supposed to be from Kent or possibly Yorkshire.

  • @hotdogstratus6533
    @hotdogstratus6533 Před 3 lety +16

    Is this why my southern grandma says 'warsh'? 🤣

  • @zalz82
    @zalz82 Před rokem +30

    Well, this is certainly where our American southern accent comes from. I can understand most of these guys fairly easily. I’m from Texas & i’ve always said warsh instead of wash.

    • @AngloSaxonVanguard
      @AngloSaxonVanguard Před 3 měsíci

      I've travelled all over US especially the South and a lot of them sound like some of these in this video 😂

  • @real_lampcap
    @real_lampcap Před rokem +21

    As an American person who has the most basic midwest accent in the world, I think these accents are beautiful. If I really listen I can understand a lot of it, but still so much is gibberish to me. But I love hearing it.

    • @lydiamichaels1976
      @lydiamichaels1976 Před rokem +1

      Devon isn’t just an accent. There’s an entire dialect so complex and distant from English that a lot of ppl consider it a language. For example some Devon folk spk entirely in the dialect and can’t spk English

    • @andrewesau51
      @andrewesau51 Před rokem

      Just head out into the woods in the Midwest and you'll hear some of the wildest things you've ever heard especially the further north in the Midwest you go. But you can hear it even I Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa if you look in the right spots

    • @ah795u
      @ah795u Před rokem +1

      @@lydiamichaels1976I understand it all this is exactly how some of the elderly people in my family speak like 😭 shame this accent is dying now. Most people in the west country these days just speak with the London accent

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před rokem +2

      'can't speak English'. Really? Where are these people - I need to film them. Utter nonsense.

    • @lydiamichaels1976
      @lydiamichaels1976 Před rokem

      @@MrTrotty57 it’s true though. Yeah obviously not many but they do exist

  • @magnolia2415
    @magnolia2415 Před 5 lety +8

    Reminds me a lot of old timers I met growing up around Mississippi in the USA. The similarities between these accents and older southern ones is really remarkable.

    • @ZemplinTemplar
      @ZemplinTemplar Před 5 lety +2

      I once read speculation that the Texan accent might have been partly influenced by the accent of Somerset, in the northern part of the West Country. ;-) WC accents might have had an influence in the US South, in addition to Scottish and Irish accents.

  • @rentonsadboy9366
    @rentonsadboy9366 Před 3 lety +6

    At 3:00 I had a serious flashback with my grandad telling me how he run away from a farmer across fields and the wheezing laughter that came from his mouth as he told me his story .I'm fast approaching the time I will tell my grandchildren of the story of my great escape across fields

  • @Timcurryman
    @Timcurryman Před 3 lety +12

    I was born in Cornwall but grew up in Wiltshire. My accent is a proper job accent.

  • @kakeshisama
    @kakeshisama Před 3 lety +19

    Having old Southern family 🤝 Understanding West Country Yap

    • @chkpnt-fq5rv
      @chkpnt-fq5rv Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah, they sound a bit Appalachian. I'm a Southerner from Texas and I'm catching bits of what they're saying but not everything. But then again I've heard other US Southerners I've had trouble understanding depending on where they're from.

    • @everettduncan7543
      @everettduncan7543 Před 2 lety +1

      @@chkpnt-fq5rv Yea me too. I'm from the northeastern edge of the Ozarks and can catch a lot but not all of it. As intelligble as eastern Tennessee

  • @nathanbell8356
    @nathanbell8356 Před 4 lety +22

    When he said "Orbluddyseddockerpeppurordoggerflepper"...i felt that

  • @keithhooper6123
    @keithhooper6123 Před 7 měsíci +6

    At 62,born and still living near Glastonbury,I am old enough to remember characters like this.Still a few about.

  • @arthure-b9895
    @arthure-b9895 Před 3 lety +11

    I had to work with two old lads like these on a construction site and I had no idea what the fuck was going on

  • @ethandement482
    @ethandement482 Před 4 lety +23

    The first two guys remind me of some of the farmers from the American Midwest. Not the accents but their mannerisms.

    • @cheeveka3
      @cheeveka3 Před 4 lety +4

      Their accent reminds me of my relatives I have family in Illinois that near the quad cities. 😂 So confusing when hearing them talk😂

    • @bavariantrawler
      @bavariantrawler Před 3 lety

      100% agree. I grew up on a farm in Michigan. I can see the same mannerisms in older neighbor farmers.

  • @georgecatalinnicuta8559
    @georgecatalinnicuta8559 Před 4 lety +93

    Old people are hard to understand in every language .

  • @Ray-oj6xf
    @Ray-oj6xf Před 4 lety +8

    R.I.P John.
    He looks like someone you'd imagine from the medieval ages.

  • @terryhawkins575
    @terryhawkins575 Před rokem +10

    Frank bought me back a new pair of trousers is funnier than most stand-up comedians today

  • @stephenbesley3177
    @stephenbesley3177 Před rokem +32

    Understood every word ahrrr... West Country born and bred!

    • @davidraymer397
      @davidraymer397 Před 11 měsíci +3

      The gentleman with the hat I could easily understand every word, unlike somebody from London. I'm American.

    • @MrTrotty57
      @MrTrotty57  Před 11 měsíci +7

      Well, he's not actually from the West Country - he was from Kent, originally.

    • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
      @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@davidraymer397I'm assuming you mean the jamaican cockney mix accent that's getting so popular in London. Because people who speak RP are easy to understand.

  • @korayramzi
    @korayramzi Před 4 lety +27

    If garden gnomes had a voice this would be it

  • @geoffreythomas2022
    @geoffreythomas2022 Před 3 lety +15

    Sounds like a British Boomhauer.🤣

  • @Tuffydipstick
    @Tuffydipstick Před 3 lety +4

    I was born and bred in Somerset. Still live there. I can understand nearly every word.