In this charming video from BBC America Anglophenia, the presenter takes a linguistic tour of the British isles and shows some (I stress some) of the English accents spoken around the country (and Ireland). She does a pretty passable job at them to boot.
Which was in your favorite? I’m quite partial to Glaswegian.
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You should try the Grimsby accent 🙂
Bless her jolly little heart, she’s a funny lass…..but her Cornish accent is an absolute joke……laughed I did til I wet ’em, Don’t give up your day day job, love.
She’s funny, but don’t think for one moment that she seriously has these accents down.
she was close……the one I’m most familiar with (Geordie), I thought was the worst of the lot.
I agree! Her Geordie accent wasn’t very good….I’m a Geordie and very familiar with the accent! Also the Northumberland accent is a little different to Geordie. Also she missed Aberdeen area, and the reference to Robert Burns for the Highlands is wrong, he was from Ayrshire area closer to Glasgow! Not a bad effort overall though.
Also, Robert Burns wasn’t a “Sir” – He was never knighted. (Maybe she was thinking of Sir Walter Scott – Although that would have been an Edinburgh or Borders accent)
She is very cute and the fact that she flows them all so seamlessly is to her credit. I’d like to hear her do the Cheshire accent, its such an amalgam of the stronger accents that surround the county.
No such thing as Northern Welsh, it is North Walian.
Gwynedd is not a town/city ! All the other spots are !
That certainly wasn’t a CARDIFF accent. Tom Jones, Richard Burton abpnd Dylan Thomas have three different accents. No such thing as Southern Welsh. It us South Waluan, and there are several South Walian accents.
Her Northern Irish one was good !
No such thing as Northern Welsh, it is North Walian.
Gwynedd is not a town/city ! All the other spots are !
That certainly wasn’t a CARDIFF accent. Tom Jones, Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas have three different accents. No such thing as Southern Welsh. It us South Walian, and there are several South Walian accents.
Her Northern Irish one was good !
I’d like to hear the accent of Bristol. I have heard that it may be the basis for the Southern US accent…. except with a retracted “L.” 😉
You seem to have forgotten Cumbrian. Both accent and ancient language. Other wise fairly good job. Keep looking for more. Manx maybe.
Awesome! Now come across the pond and spend some time over here and learn the various American and Canadian accents. I recommend Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Carolina, Alabama, Texan, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Upper Midwest, Toronto, etc. Lots of fun.
And I have no idea what the Australians are talking about half the time…that might be a good project too
That was hilarious. I’ll be traveling in the UK from London to Cardiff to Inverness, so this ought to be fun trying to get my Midwestern American ear attuned to everybody’s accents.
What an awful Liverpudlian and Lancashire accents!!
I’m with you Rosemary – rubbish Lancs!!
Burns was from Ayrshire.
Robert Burns is not from the Highlands!!!!
What, no Macclesfield accent?
I wan to hear you do Stokie ” cos dow dat cosna? wench , ey up duck “
Rather insulted by the remarks about East Anglia. The fens are only a tiny part of it, and I love the accent. It’s not boggy at all! Having said that,the Norfolk accent is extremely difficult to mimic, and that was admittedly a pretty good job.