Where Did The Scouse/Liverpool Accent Come From?
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What are your views on the Scouse accent?
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It’s so wild how England is such a small country, yet you can just drive a couple miles out and hear a completely different accent. I live in the USA, and you usually have to fly to a different state, hundreds or even thousands of miles away to hear a different accent.
Its quite normal in places where the language groups have had time to evolve.
E.g. The German speaking sphere
The Netherlands are one of the smallest countries in the world and yet we too have multiple very distinct accents, usually a few (dozen) of kilometers away from each other:
- Amsterdam accent/dialect (which even has sub-accents/-dialects like Jordanees);
- Rotterdam accent/dialect;
- Randstad accent/dialect (group);
- Frisian (both the language and the accent);
- Groningen accent dialect;
- Nedersaksisch (language and accent);
- Limburgish (language and accent);
- Drenthe dialect/accent;
- Zeeuws (dialect/accent);
- North Brabant dialect/accent (which I believe is also divided)
England isn't small
@@NoName-yw1pt it is compared to the USA. Which is where the OP is from.
Being born in Liverpool but leaving for Dublin at 11 you can hear the inflections and language in both accents and words 'dead on, sound, craic, yer auld one, fella, lad, Ma, Da, alrite" all used in both cities.
And yous also say yous 😂
All your example words are spoken in Belfast as well.
And like Irish people say like a lot
@@ciandarcy5430I say you lot I’m from Liverpool
@@rampz975 you also have a union jack in your profile pic hahahaha
It's a mixture of Irish & Lancastrian ... We spoke in a Lancastrian accent as SCOUSE didn't exist until the Irish came during the famine ... I speak SCOUSE .☺️
Thanks for having us in hard time's. Respect from Dublin Ireland.
@@karlbyrne6021
You're most welcome 🤗😁 🇮🇪
A bit of Welsh in there too.
Tens of thousands emigrated from there to Liverpool
@@jayonenote7527
Yes ... Welsh too ... My Great / grandparents are Irish ; Welsh ; & Swedish .
I suspect that the Lancastrian accent is strongly influenced by the Brythonic speakers of the North West, so the Welsh factor would have been there anyway.
Pretty sure the accent is from the large North Welsh and Irish immigration.
So what accent did scousers have before irish immigrants.. Liverpool been around tens of thousands of years they have only been here 150 years
@@rampz975 Lancashire accent.
@@SaintDomingo1 well I’m scouse and me and my parents don’t have strong accents so I guess my family original scousers not Irish migrants
I remember being at a party in Madrid, and walked past a couple of reminiscing Dubliners and it hit me how familiar their voices were. I'm from the Liverpool region, and notice an especially close relationship with some Irish accents. Interesting to hear that the accent is relatively new
“Geordie Shore” might be The UK’s answer a show from The US called “Jersey Shore”, or vice versa
Geordie Shore came a year earlier, but both were made by MTV.
"Due to the variety of issues in Ireland" is a beautiful euphemism for a famine that caused over a million deaths and led to 2 million emigrating, including those who came to Liverpool. Strange how reluctant even modern day Brits including are to own what they did to Ireland
I'm an American with lots of Irish ancestors. I often wonder if that is why some of them came over here.
@@Mick_Ts_Chick Yes it was. Its also the reason the average Brit has some form of Irish ancestry spanning back to the 19th century.
@@Guttlegob We had a friend do some genealogy research and our family is almost all Irish, Scottish, and English. One German in there, lol. Some ancestors have been here a long time though- some since the late 1600s I think.
A famine in the midst of plenty
Oh for goodness sake, I didn’t do that to Ireland.
I am scouse myself and it’s cool to see history of it, boss vid mate 👍
I’m happy to see you expanding passed only names, and not trying to shoehorn a way to connect it to names when is basically isn’t. I really enjoy learning the roots of all kinds of words and dialects and not just names. I hope you continue to expand. I know that you are interested in doing so but are probably afraid of the algorithm of you stray too far. If the algorithm stops you I’ll still watch and I understand, but I would be a bit disappointed. I’m looking forward to this widened direction you seem to be heading. And most importantly, make what you enjoy! Cheers!
The polyphonic Penny Lane in the background is a nice touch
Native Scouser here now craving a pan of Scouse with pickled red cabbage and some crusty bread la🤘
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@@crung8 how am I ya blert?
@@crung8 or were you talking about yourself?
I know this isn't the right place to suggest videos but I'd love to see a video on how the words for people from the areas of the north-east came to be. Things like "Geordie", "Mackem" and "Smoggie" would make a really interesting video I think
Er a guy from Sunderland told me Mackem comes from
They build em but we make em
Or Mak em makem ??
Ships or something
Fun fact: before WWII there were Welsh street signs in certain parts of Liverpool
Correction: there’s a neighbourhood in Toxteth that still has them
There are Chinese street signs as well.
The street signs weren't/aren't in Welsh language though...simply names after places in Wales..
I live in Liverpool and on some buses I see English and Welsh
I find the Scouse dialect charming and fun--not in the least unsophisticated. Two of my favorite CZcams creators have it, and my partner says they both sound like Ringo Starr. For a musician who admires the Beatles so much, that's high praise!
When you listen to old recordings of the Beatles speaking, George and Ringo seem (to this American anyway) to have the heaviest Liverpool accents (I've never liked the term "scouse"); John less so, and Paul the least. With George you can even pick it up in his songs (most notably on "Think For Yourself" from RUBBER SOUL).
Hahaha. As a Scouser, I can tell you that they didn’t have that strong of a Scouse accent. They were from South Liverpool too which is a softer accent.
@@Iamtheliquor Yep, was about to say this :)
@@Iamtheliquor czcams.com/video/sNmG5FNISI4/video.html This shows the difference between North and Liverpool accent. Carragher Bromwich the north and Bellew from the south. South is more softer but also deeper
That’s because George and Ringo were working class. John and Paul both mainly grew up in south Liverpool. Which is the posher side of the city.
They don’t have the accent
Coming from south Wales I can't get away how similar scouse is to Welsh accents, obviously northern Welsh accents, but southern too. A broad Cardiff accent isn't so far from Liverpool. The rolling r and the sing songy quality are very Welsh.
I believe that is something to do with them being port cities.
Yeah, defo. If you go to places like Mold, Ruthin, Denbigh, Flint, Wrexham etc you can hear similarities
The real scoucers are from birkenhead
Thank you. Learnt much. 🙏 For example, I’d thought Scouse was the name of an Irish stew. ☘️
Really loving the background music here at the end
Been waiting for this video for ages my god
I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It's been considered the ugliest accent in USA (known as a yinzer accent). Could be interesting to see your take on it.
Same here. I haven't lived in Pittsburgh since 2011, but I still have a bit of trouble with the generalized American pronunciation of "windshield". It comes out like "winshild".
What’s that got to do with scouse accent
@@speakyspeak141I have skid marks in my underwear 😅🤣🙀
'Name for a specific place that sound nothing like the place they refer to'
We have a few of these in the States. Like Hoosiers for people from Indiana.
Took me until the end to realise you have an 8-bit version of Penny Lane as background music
My old boss was from Liverpool. I always did impressions of him lol, and then one of my friends told him. Glad to say he approved of it lol
The New York/New Jersey accents are also nasal and, in fact, have similar origins to Scouse.
When you live and work in Liverpool you can detect subtle differences in accent from different parts of the city
Starting at about 11:00, did anyone else catch “Penny Lane” being played in the background?
Definitely heard it. Sounds like toy instruments playing it lol
Maybe it's because I'm not from England, so I'm not as susceptible to traditional regional stereotypes and can judge mostly on sound alone, but Scouse has always been my favorite English accent. 2nd favorite British overall after Edinburgh.
Then again, maybe it also has to do with the fact a woman I used to be friends with and had a huge crush on spoke with a very strong Scouse accent, lol.
I live somewhere with a pretty unique accent, can you do more name explained about accents?
Well in a way it is, meat and potatoes/veg is simply an Irish Stew
One most important thing to remember about Liverpool people. As scousers we can take a" pop" at the city council and the city. But outsiders dare to criticise the city they will well be on their way to a knuckle sandwich. Also Liverpool is a City state because all Liverpudlians OWN IT!!! To the death!
Do you own its debts?
@@jmccullough662 No just the Air and fog above the city. Do not try to be a "Smart Ass" with a Scouser!!!
@@jas20per As I thought. Hypocritical freeloaders.
i was born in south wales, moved to liverpool as a four year old. found myself in school with kids who ,asked me why i spoke funny. so over the years my accent developed , i spoke with a mixture of scouse, depending upon who i was with. my real accent is not so strong, or as fast and gutteral as others in my family. my brother, who was born in ormskirk, and grew up in litherland.speaks very fast and thick scouse accent spews forth. yet mine is slower, and my words have a sing song quality. i left liverpool in 1978, moved to north wales, now my accent is totally different.
I was born in a market town on the Cheshire border I can say that EVERY town,village,district had a different accent If your town had been invaded by Danes like mine was ,its name was likely to begin with an O or a U...Ormskirk was a Danish settlement as was my town Manchester was once a Roman fort..Liverpool would have been greatly influenced by the extensive trade that went on there..The Isle of Man was ruled by vikings .For me Rochdale has one of the most distinctive accents.I leaned towards a softer Cheshire accent.My twin brother had a pronounced Manchester accent
nice touch w the penny lane instrumental
I wouldn’t say “Merseyside”, as St Helen’s is classed as Merseyside. And they sound like watered down mancs. People on the outskirts of Liverpool are called “wools” or “woolybacks”. They’re not scouse in any way.
I understand this back and forth but mate it doesn’t matter to outsiders 😂 they lump us all together. My partner was Xbox the other day and some muppet from London (posh lad) was ripping into his accent and taking the mick out of him with the usual stereo types that they use for scousers. No matter how much you explain it to them they don’t listen and just hear our accents and lump us together ... be like me saying a road man is a posh Tory 😂
@@GeekyC fair enough fella 😂 but scousers are the best to walk this earth. We can all agree on that…
I agree mate, from St Helens or (Shit Helen’s)! As we call it. Completely different accent. Funny thing is, if we go to Manchester they call us Scousers! 😳. Don’t get it myself as it’s nothing like Scouse. Prescott Rainhill and Whiston are Wools but at least they sound a bit Scouse lol
@@MRAPEXPREDATOR1 yer, the mancs have always been strange…😂 as for the video, I don’t know exactly how a “Merseyside” accent would sound.
@@joshg2603 😂😂
Weirdly,some of the terms for things are common in the midlands and Australia ( cossie, council pop etc).
I have heard one Irish person say that the Liverpool accent sounds similar to the Dublin accent.
Not really. It sounds northern Welsh
@@greenmachine5600 Perhaps it's somewhere in between.
Kinda does, kinda doesn't.
North Dublin / working class accents do some similar things with Ts mentioned in the video. (Ts at the end getting dropped to a lil 'h breath like "bleedin forgeh ih", and onset 'Th' voicing changes in a kinda similar way but tends to sound more like a 'd' sound to english ears)
Imo it sounds really differenrt just to hear but there are noticible similarities if you're listening closely, if that makes sense
Being born in Liverpool but growing up in Dublin you can hear the inflections of both accents, words like 'dead on, sound, craic, yer auld one, fella, lad" all used in both cities.
100% grew up in dublin and always thought this, they use so much of our slang too cause of the sheer amount that moved there during the genoicide (sound, gobshite, yous etc.)
I can't lie, being from Manchester, the Scouse accent gives a visceral reaction lol Had a Scouse teacher and couldn't understand a word she said XD Honestly I thought that the Scouse accent was a more exaggerated Mancunian accent (the chavvy type that you hear teens using). I wouldn't be surprised if something closer to Scouse spreads to Manchester in the next 20 years or so, along with the faux posh sounding accent. It feels a bit sad that you hear less and less Northern accents in young people (most of my friends don't even sound like they're from the North). And honestly I'm sad you didn't attempt it, would've been hilarious XD
I’m from the Manchester area myself, was born in Wythenshawe but moved to Hull when I was seven, and my accent is somewhere between the two thanks to my parents who spoke like Mancunians and my friends who mostly spoke like they were from Hull. I’ve not been home in a few years, but I do wonder how the accent has changed and if my accent would sound less out of place now.
I hear ye with the extra chavy , young, mank cross over there. Am from Grimsby, just on the other side of the Humber. (The bridge from nowhere to nowhere eh). The GY accent is often mistaken for Manc. I've even been mistaken for Scouser ( by a posh Londoner tbf), ok so we say "werk" not work and theres not a hint of Yorkshire . Oddly again, the Grimsby accent is almost exactly the same as the Carlisle accent. Met some lads in Amsterdam, uncanny it was. It's also very very similar to the Maltby accent. ( Slap bang between Doncaster n Rotherham ( both Yorkshire).
Bath. Never
4:40 I can tell you that is the same way in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Given that, you're probably right.
You should make a video on the mancunian accent and just have it be the Gallagher brothers cursing for 12 minutes straight
I was born liverpool and now live 18 miles away in skelmersdale, which speak mostly scouse, with a few old skemerdale accents. If i drive 4- 20 miles in any direction , the accents are different. Wigan ,bolton, southport, ormskirk, kirkby, blackburn, and many more.
What you have to remember is from town to town people didn't meet unless you owned a horse. Hence people did not travel.
Scouse as in 'Scarse Git!' Thank you Alf :-)
Paul Hollywood is from the Wirral , Steven Gerrard is from Huyton . So of the 4 people/groups you named at the start only half of them are scouse
The video author claims the whole region as being scouse. Those in Liverpool always baulk at that. We from Birkenhead are wanabees. Couldn't comment. 🤐 But the accents are close enough that the vid relevant for all
@@mango4ttwo635 I used to go to Prenton a lot to watch Tranmere, particularly on a Friday night. The crowd would often sing about not being Scousers - even though many like me had travelled across the river.
@@mango4ttwo635 Residents from the Wirral were called " Plastic Scousers ." but I haven't heard that term of endearment used for a few decades .
Stevie G has the Huyton scouse accent, same as me. We tend not to do the hard KKKKK sound tho we deffo do the rest of the accent to the extreme 😂 the classic gerrard “eeeeeeer” is so huyton it hurts. Cos cos I do that same noise 🤣
I’m from Walton. I can’t get me head round people, like Gerrard, who pronounce the “th” with “f” like “through” Gerrard says “frew”. I’ve heard that Meatball molly say the same thing. It’s mad.
The hard k is more a North Liverpool thing.
Scouse the stew varies from family to family, but it’s basically left over meat from the Sunday roast (as an example) or any off cuts the dogs didn’t get and veg that was on the turn and needing eating. Basically everyone’s Nan made the best scouse
To focus on a specific city's accent and then say 'the Irish accent' (singular) is certianly a choice haha.
Nice tho.
Tabhair aire 😉
My boyfriend has one and I LOVE it!
the sub button shined lol
Westerna was a part of the early English kingdom and it can be seen as including Cheshire, Liverpool and further north in Lancashire. A reasonable explanation of the line of settlement is from the Myrcnaland which was the border area with what came to be called, Wales.
Myrcnaland, which meant the boundary area of the early kingdom, was to the north, west and southwest of what became Birmingham. See the list of early parts of England, which was called the Tribal Hideage in recent centuries and was probably closely connected to the origin of the Round Table legend; it reads section by section, clockwise around England. The word for hides, hyda, tells of payments depending on cattle hides and probably the suspicion that some people would try to hide their cattle to reduce the payment.
Many people in the Myrcnaland would have had Celtic forms of speech and there is similarity between Liverpool speech and Birmingham speech still. That is why the -oo- sound in the name, Liverpool, seems to be similar to accents in Birmingham and the West Midlands. From the founding of the city, then? Also, the hard 'g' sound, such as in words that end in -ing, suggests a similar connection and is like accents in the nortwest of Germany.
It has been widely known that Liverpool was called the Capital of Ireland and there is mention in the video of how the 'th' sound tends to be avoided, a sign of influence from Ireland. Also, the Wirral was settled by Scandinavians, which it seems was in agreement with later English who were retaking parts of England from the Danes.
Love the subtle, almost melancholy Penny Lane in the background. Much love from Philly, PA 🇺🇸🫡
The astronomer and CZcamsr, Becky Smethurst, has something of this--she's from Manchester, so far as I've heard.
The origin of Liverpudlians eating scouse came from our sailors serving on Scandinavian ships. They ate labskaus and when they came home passed it on!
Thank you.
Very true I was born in Liverpool my relatives call me a woolly back as I have a Lancaster accent when I have a few drinks the kids say I sound more Scouse 😂 and of course I have Irish and English blood and relatives who emigrated to the US and New Zealand
The accent is a mixture of Lancastrian, Welsh and Irish, with a little Brummie, Scottish and Scandinavian thrown in. The reason it became more nasally I imagine is to do with the fashion of being as Scouse sounding as possible within the city. It has evolved to be very strong in that way, for example the accent the Beatles had is completely different to people from the same area of Liverpool today.
I have never spoke with the guttural accent, I think it evolved during the 'Thatcher years' when Liverpool and was badly treated. Due to the high unemployment resulting in poverty,, agression, and stress which caused Liverpudlians to start speaking through gritted teeth, together with an angry guttural sound. Which sound like they need to cough up some phlegm while barking the words at you. I left Liverpool at this time because of long term unemployed but more so, the anger, tension and aggression which was almost tangible. People I knew became tense and agressive, barking at you in conversation, I didn't like what I saw so decided to leave.
I went back on a visit years later, walking by the Cathedral and a young-ish girl running, pushing a pram on the opposite side of the road stated shouting "MUR-DA". "MUR-DA". Realising she was shouting "murder," murder" I quickly looked around. When suddenly a voice shouted back "wa d-yeah fuckin want"? That's when I reslised she had been shouting "Mother," "Mother". That's when I also realised, I'm Liverpudlians and proud of my City, but I can no longer understand the accent.
@@alandillon968 That sounds utterly ridiculous and I 100% don't believe anything you've written.
Not Scandinavian or Scottish mainly Irish and some welsh influence a lot of native speakers came to Liverpool also that's were we get the ch sound
Irish/Welsh/Lancastrian. The Nasal sound comes from the old generation working in smog and coming home from work with blocked noses.
I played Conker's Bad Fur day I had no idea that the Beatles characters have Scouse accents also I'm from Ireland also known as the Republic of Ireland I sometimes speak in a Scouse accent it's because of the late great Liverpool comedian Paul O'Grady who sadly passed away this year when I hear the Scouse accent it it's like a mixture between Irish, Walsh, and Norwegian so I can hear Irish Welsh and Norwegian in a conversation which I find really interesting it's sad that I can't say the same for the majority of English people who don't understand the Scouse accent.
Paul was not SCouse, although he was a merseysider, he from Birkenhead, across the water,
It's a unique accent because it's a mixture .Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Scandinavian Etc. I am proud of my accent, and it's well received all over the world. Being born and bread here, my DNA also tells tge same story.
Scouse is a type of stew ate by the norse and then adopted by people of liverpool as they where sea fairers
The number "free" is pronounced "tree" in Ireland😅, the irony is that its pronunciation THREE in Liverpool. Not so much for the rest of the country these days
I know why canf southerners pronounce TH, its always F. Annoys the hell our of me, its basic grammar
I visited North Wales in 2017 and *thought* the owner of the B&B was from Liverpool. I noticed a lot of *Liverpool* accents. The accent and the landlord where not from Liverpool. It sounds very similar though. Sorry, I should have mentioned they where ethnically Welsh.
A lot of Scousers were shipped out to North Wales. Happened to my mum. Ended up in Flint
There are a lot of people in North Wales from Liverpool. And there are a lot of people in Liverpool from North Wales. I'm from the Wirral and to me a lot of people from North Wales just sound like they're from Merseyside.
@Chester Donnelly Welsh accents on North Wales are based on phonemes derived from Welsh( Cymraeg). Welsh speaking people migrated to Liverpool and Birkenhead and Chester inlarge numbers. That's why your stereotypical scouser says Chicken with a Welsh "Ch " sound. Welsh influence the Scouse accent along with Irish of course.
@@martinhughes2549 ok but the people I know in North Wales don't say chicken like that
@@chesterdonnelly1212 No but a Welsh speaker saying Chicken or English words carries their phonemes over to how they pronounce English, their second language. They carry over word order, saying etc. 80 years ago a lot of people in Liverpool, even those born there, spoke Welsh.
Loved this upload. Im a proud "SCOUSER", born and bred in Anfield, in the shadow of Liverpool Football Club. Just a tiny point that you've got incorrect. You say people from the wider Merseyside area are also scousers! This is extremely untrue I'm afraid. Only people born in Liverpool itself, and definitely not the outside areas of Merseyside are Scousers. Those from Merseyside area, but not Liverpool, are called "woolly backs" by us Scousers. Again, only those born in Liverpool itself and not the neighbouring areas, are Scousers. It's a massive difference to Scousers. I mention it because you said it twice at least. Thanks very much. 😊
Scouser or Scouser is the preferred term over Liverpudlian, because if you mistakenly call an evertonian a Liverpudlian you might get a funny look from that person. Liverpudlian and Evertonian have strong ties to the football clubs so you're best just saying Scouse or Scouser which is the preferred term by most Scousers anyway. The Scouse accent is interesting too in the fact that it can sound noticeably different depending on the generation or depending on what part of Merseyside you're from. In fact some Scousers will only consider you true Scouse if you're from the City itself, and people with the accent from sounding towns in or around the Merseyside area are considered to be 'Woolybacks' or 'wools' and not Scouse. For example Comedian John Bishop is considered to be a woolyback even though he has a clear Scouse accent.
I am from St Helens. Born in Whiston. We have a completely different accent to Scouse. We literally live bordering Liverpool and you can drive across the traffic lights at the Dragon on Prescott road by Knowsley Safari park and the accent completely changes ! 🤷♂️. Funny but if we go anywhere else other than Liverpool, people think we are Scouse. Completely different though.
I have an uncle, who is from Manchester, I think. Even after he lives many years in Germany, I can't understand him really, because he is quite of mumbling. The bad part is, that he lived and worked in the area of Cologne and tried to accustom himself, to speak the dialect of that city (Kölsch). That made it even worse.
But the least attractive dialect in Germany is Saxonian. I find it even hard to take somebody serious, when he speaks Saxonian.
Worst case scenario: A saxon man and a woman from the palatinate. Just imagine the children picking up a mix of these two atrocious accents!
Ireland Norway Wales.
Is that a MIDI version of "P*nny L*ne" in the background? HEHEHE!
Where i am from we are called sand gropers lol nothing to do with my state western Australia's name but it's just a bug that lives here n become a mascot
Ha, my youngest daughter was born in Southport UK and is called a 'sandgrounder'
the Scouse stew came from Norway`s whaling ships, the KKK from the back of the throat came from the dockers breathing in dust and cotton fibres, as they spoke they constantly cleared their throat and it transferred into the accent.
It came from a twig in a stream in Dublin, floated over to the Wirral. Was imprisoned for crimes against comedy, then launched in a submarine.
That accent Scouse is quite crazy
Why?
Blind scouse was without meat
You only had SCOUSE as locals think about it with meat if you could afford it
The whole area got its character from the utter poverty
Investment brought much better times, but it also brought crime conversely
That seems at odds
It's sad
You did have a moment in our history there in that area that was GREAT
it was good
You could have faith in your neighbours
Now there are so many gang and bad people around
So much so I left BIRKENHEAD and now live in Australia
So much better here
Unfortunate because I do miss my family
But not the MORONS
Is the "Bastard" silent after the word scouse? Asking for a friend
What is Gialova and Yalova?
Hamburg accent also has a nasal quality , Liverpool is on the same latitude!.
From Beelzebub himself! 🤣🤗😉
God i miss the UK and proud to have been born a scoucer ey la 😉
Scouse was a Viking meal
I pretend to be a scouser when I go to Liverpool.
Errrrrrrrm.
Why izzit when a Scouser says cake it sounds like they are clearing their throat?
The harsh “k” sound comes from the Welsh influence.
“Chicken and a can of coke for me brekkie la”!
I’m a Scouser 😂
A video on the Liverpool accent by people who are not from Liverpool?
I think the nasal thing comes from north wales because people from north wales sound nasaly
We are a naturally divided nation From the invasions of the vikings that deeply affected the northern regions ,Wales , and Ireland The southern regions were affected by the invasions of the Anglo Saxons and later the French/ Normans ( who incidentally were also originally vikings . Royalty being based in the south dictated how the population there would pronounce words absorbing French into old english etc..sometimes making deliberate exaggerations to divide the rich from the poor. Court speech became the speech the rich aspired to. So began the snobbishness about speech . Today we can no longer tell from someones speech how rich that are ,only where they come from. and how they have been educated.Liverpool was decried from WW1 by Churchill..because they defied him with strikes He did it again in WW2 when he refused to tell Britain that the city had been severely bombed and many of the essential ships bringing provisions from America had been lost along with thousands of lives His excuse? ' It would lower moral. He never corrected this post war Thatcher continued this contempt for the city with a 'Managed Decline' programme Luckily Lord Heseltine ( her rival) didn't agree with this and did his best to start the revival of the city. That continued with the brilliant efforts of the Duke of Westminster's company ( before his sad early death) and the money from the EU who between them re.built this magnificent vibrant city A city that looks forwards innovative ,energetic and believes in the future Not a country set in aspic and moth balls
Yeah
2:35 “synomonous” 😮
Paul Hollywood is a wool from Birkenhead 👍
We call the gutteral 'Scouse' accent "Scally", as it's not the older, softer Liverpool accent. People who talk like a scally are said to suffer from ESD (Exaggerated Scouse Disorder).
"We speak through our nose cos our gobs've worn out!"
Second Least attractive?
I'll have you know, Americans absolutely love our accent, and it's mainly the Males in England that dislike our accent 🤣
I would like to see what percentage where males to females who voted. The males are just jealous 🤣😂
Would have been better with examples but still, interesting video.
You describe the accent as harsh! If you listen to Liverpudlians Accent of 1960s, 1970s it's very different of the accent that has developed of today. In the 60s and 70s it has a lyrical rhythm to it, influenced from the Irish and Welsh accents. During that period (when growing up there) the accent was often top of any surveys as being the best friendliest sounding accent. Unlike today being at the bottom!
However, in the 1980s under Mrs Thatcher the City underwent depravation again! The people started to speak differently and the humer changed! They were angree, desperate, poor, with little hope as I was at the time, while watching the South get rich with "Harry Engields: Load of Money" and "Yuppies" from the not particually well educated young of Essex, Surrey making easy money from the opportunities of the South wnd Thatcherisum!! Liverpudlians, started to speak through gritted teeth (teeth joined together but the lips moving) and more from the throat, not the nose, the nasal sounds of Cila Black, The Beatles, Jerry and the Pacemakers etc. The humer became bitter, nasty and sarcastic but, why not during this time!
The accent started to changed from nasal to the throat accent of today, sounding like they need to cough something up and clear their throat with a more agressive tone...horrible!
At 30, I left Liverpool during this time to find work in the south, I go back occassionally but find I don't understand some people because their accent is completely alien to me! You have another video listening to Liverpudlians of the 1960s or early 70s speaking about their accent and that is the same as mine not this modern Liverpudlian accent.
On another note yes you are partly correct about nasal sound. Not that we all had colds but Liverpool and the Northwest is wet and damp so people have blocked noses, catarrh giving that sound. When I moved away, my accent changed as my nose was not full of catarrh.
Funnily enough, the accent in north Wales can sound very Scouse and nasal. They're very different to south Wales accents.
I've always wondered where "Scouse" came from... Love that it's their favorite wonderful cheap food....
I will now call Londoners "Curries"...
Wait that might be problematic.
Scouse used to be problematic it’s just bigotry was acceptable back then
The variety of issues going on in Ireland hahahahahah
Did he ask if people outside the UK know what jersey shore is? The “situation”would like a word
geordie shore
A nice bit of information, but slightly wrong. St.Helens is in Merseyside and we are not classed as scousers but woolyback (more Lancashire). Only people born with a view of the Liverpool docks are true scousers, and the rest are called plastic scousers if they say they are scousers. Same goes for the Wirral and Runcorn. However, I am not a scouser and so don't really care one way or another. Nice video though.
My mum and dad are from St helens yet when they go abroad taking to people they call them scousers?
I am from St Helens and people say it to me! 🤷♂️ strange as I don’t think I sound Scouse at all.
Runcorn is an overspill town from Liverpool built because of slum clearances. As is Skelmersdale, Widnes, parts of Warrington, Huyton and a few other places. So the chances of people being and speaking Liverpudlian or Scouse in these places are very high, because a lot originate from Liverpool.
Birkenhead also has docks and is basically situated directly by Liverpool, so they have a Scouse accent because of the same influx of people, and it’s close proximity to Merseyside.
I thought the population of Liverpool took a big drop after the riots and Maggie Thatcher went with the 'forget Liverpool and let it die' decades.
I also know that after Huyton and just before Prescot Merseytrave (from Liverpool going outwards) say it's no longer Liverpool. I know that Kirkby was a Liverpool overspill area from around about WW2 but it's still classed as Liverpool. However, Warrington is quite away from Liverpool. Plus most Liverpool people call the Wirral the Dark Side and not a Liverpool thing.
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East Anglian counties accents next ?
Ik they speak a variant of estuary English there
I've had many a good night in Liverpool.
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Liverpool is a Port City, so the Accent is a combination of Accents from NW Britain and from around the World.😊
The Liverpool and Dublin accents are very similar.
I was born in Liverpool and left aged 18, 40 years ago. I quickly tried to lose my accent as it is viewed negatively outside of Liverpool. If someone now picks up a trace of my accent I’m a little disappointed.
Viewed negatively. Really? Paul O' Grady did well in life and he never lost his Merseyside accent.
@@joehurst he played on his accent to good effect as do other entertainers. Very different line of work to me, living in southern England
Well the fact that so many celebrities from Merseyside (who never lost their accent) did well/are doing well shows that people are not as averse to the Scouse accent as you think. Ken Dodd used to perform in venues all over the country. Maybe it's just the people you're amoungst.