Accents and Dialects

[zarahbear02]

acts. ive heard it that way

[spacedementiiia]

lol where i live, ghetto ppl pronouce it like arks its like axs tho lol

[purebelterrr]

omg yeah i know what you mean haha xD

like no offence to english people but they always put r's in words and on the end of them, like drawring and arsk, it's pure stupid cause it's like nah that's no how it's said :P

[compnerd2797]

I know someone who pronounces breakfast as brefkas.

[minimonsta2000]

i say grarss, glarss, barth and parth :) and arsk

[Katiexxryden]

I say arsk, but I also have this problem when I shout things, eg, when i call my sister's name 'tiff' i say 'teff'... i don't rly knoe y. I'm aussie btww. no accent thoe,

[picklesfukkyeah]

I think 'arks' is something little kids have always said...It pisses me off too. I don't know how to write how I pronounce 'ask' but I think it's :'aaahsk'. I'm wrong.

[LetBeRandom]

veeery cool gutair

Mario <3

Can i arks you a question xD

xx

Susbribed ;]]

x

[MsHappyCinnamon]

i pronounce ask 'assk' since im from NJ. lol

[SamanthaKosor]

yeah GWYNZILLAAA is right. Americans say axe. its terrible....

[laneylikewhoa]

I know, it bugs the CRAP out of me.

[jordanmichelle97]

no we dont. its just that sometimes we talk so fast it sounds like that. lol

[shesgotstyle19]

I say ask. but I also so gless for glass and gress for grass I too am Scottish. I hate it when I have to change my words because English/Americans don't understand it!

[JoyNine7]

Come to Scotland, you will hear so many mind-bending pronounciations of every word in the english language it will make you want to commit literary and grammatical suicide

[c0capop]

scottish accent is :D

i dont understand a word

[JoyNine7]

Haha, i have a hard time understanding it too sometimes and i live here lol!

[c0capop]

lol! so i'm not alone ;) x

[audie93]

"i shit you not!"

[kevin4vicki]

what a twat you must realy have personality problem

[emmaa2007]

i say

Arsk, grarss, baarth, parth, glarss

i never actually noticed that i said it like that till now x)

PJ PJ PJ, everyone has differnt accents, just depends where you live/come from.

but i must admit, arks, and axe are ridicolous ways of saying it, cause they dont even sound remontly like how its spelt.. :S

[GWYNZILLAAA]

a lot of Americans seem to pronounce it "axe" a lot lol I'm Canadian but yeah that really bothers me xD

[thefangirl09]

@GWYNZILLAAA Yeah I've noticed that! I'm American and I say ASK not AXE. It's ask not axe haha. and not arks either. lol.

[iSugarHeart]

hm.. people coments vid il coment smf else u look prety much like Hue Grant :D siriously and anyway ur videos make me think o.O u scare me really

[EmHoTennearDear]

I say grass, glass, bath and path like you do cos Im from Bristol and I cant help it lol Ive never heard someone say arks before. I say ask. No offence, but people with posher accents say arsk I think. But Im gonna be listening out for people saying arks now lol Its gonna bug me ¬¬

[TotallyTscopeTV]

you sort of lose your accent when you say "ask"

[AnonimosArtist]

I can't stand people who say aks. I can deal with ask, obviously, and even arsk, but never aks... or axe.

[BelectiveDuck]

lauren and wotsit say it on catherine tate

-_- l'adore you, peej :D

[asalamanderx]

fantastic eyes(:

[mickeleh]

you got me Googlin' on this. Turns out that "Arks" has ancient and honorable roots in Old English (ācsian and āscian are both used) and Middle English (axen as well as asken). Chaucer used both "aske" and "axed."

In days past, both forms seem equally acceptable. Over time, however, the phoneme ax has been more or less reserved for that choppy-loppy tool.

[IWHWM4ever]

Evidence that the Americans are influencing your beautiful, pure, eloquent language!...and for the worse no less! "Aks" is very, very common in the US :o/

I apologize on everyone's behalf ;o)

[OneAwkwardChild]

Haha, I HAVE heard people say that! You're right, it's fuckin' annoying, but I still feel intrusive "arksing" them to say it differently :S

[abmindprof]

Actually, both pronunciations go back to Old English. It's not clear which one came first.

Long live /æks/, very common in NYC.

[belidama]

i thought british ppl said arsk? (and glarss, barth, parth, etc.)

[sami2503]

no thats just the posh people from places like oxfordshire

[belidama]

oh okay... i didn't realise i was posh ;)

i think saying ask and not arsk sounds really american....

[sami2503]

Didn't mean to generalise (even though i obviously did)

[absYAY]

if youre from london then you say it like that.

[Emmanovi]

It varies wildly across the country. Pick any town or city and you could probably find plenty of people who use any given standard pronunciation. ^^

[TheLadybirdsPicnic]

not all british people talk like posh snobs you know :L

[belidama]

british peoples accents are awesome :P

and posh british accents make my heart melt ;)

[BountyHunter233]

why thank you ;)

[illogicalpotatoe]

Umm, i say arks? |D

But alot of new zealanders do, well, depending on where you live.

[sarahroobabey]

you are super hot ;) xxxxxx

[CocoTheeClown]

Ur smile at the end was so cute! Lol

[OpenYourSkies]

In the southern ghetto part of the US, some people say "axe." it gets on my nerves so much.

[kritzpeaceon]

i dont really care whether if ppl pronounce the word as ask aks arks arse blah blah.. but i saw the whole vid cuz you, sir, are adorably adorably hawt! :D <3

[TheNightmareB4Wendy]

how come he has an accent in most of his vids but in like the first one he doesn't?

[ishragaibrahim]

I say ask.. London,

[goatcheese2]

Black people are genetic incapable of saying "ask", so basically you're being racist to them as they can only say "Arks"

[symonexlovesxyou]

um. dude, whhhhat? no they arent. are you serious? lol

[ishragaibrahim]

since when were black people unable to say "ask", your the racist one. thick

[alicedavies1990]

eughhh i hate it when people say thisss!

[ELJCqUaCkErSmAd]

same as 'wordsfromliss' <33

[MindlesslyGenius]

"can i arks you a question? just let me arks you a question"

Catherine Tate i think the comic relief sketch with david tennant? :)

[PaperUniverse]

Haha.

I like when you say:

"Who's this phyco escaped from the mental institution last tuesday..."

-serious face-

HAHA.

that made me laugh. =)

[NightGodess80]

my friend is so annoying, she says Axe instead of Ask. It pisses me off

[SinexVictrola]

I say Barth, Parth and Arsk ;)

[wordsfromliss]

Catherine Tate's character Lauren says "arks"

[LifeNeedsWork]

lol :D

[LiLsJtRoX]

I'm glad someone else has realised this. x]

[xtiffingirlx]

You're the new Lauren Cooper. :)

[watkinsisthesex]

they say aaksk aswell

[Polkaadotgirl]

Their is a song that has arks and when I was listening to it I was like maybe he said ask but NO it was Arks and its annoying

[wellgetchawithtoast]

I like the smile he smiles at the ending

[toucanorange]

the bristolian/west country way of saying it is 'ast'. it drives me MENTAL

[ohsocooljess]

NO thats asked. get it right before you critise the cool kids =]

[bekkynixon]

Hehe, I do remember an extremely long, late-night conversation that went something along these lines... but we were decidedly bitchier.

Your head neared exploding point when 'busghetti' came up.

I need to stop making mental lists of things that make me angry. ^_^

[loudspeaker911]

Well your wrong because it's pronounced 'Grars Glars Barth and Parth' , not that it's spelt like that that though.

[KickThePj]

It was an ironic joke.

Also, it's spelt, you're*

[loudspeaker911]

Well done einstein

[KickThePj]

Erm, what?

[averycleverusername]

in america, most people say ask, but i've heard people pronounce it like ax.

they'll be like, "can i ax you something?"

it bugs me sometimes :P

[NillaVision]

I loved it when you realised Arcs was a word too. xD

[NemmyN00]

arrggh... i have heard people saying that so much, i just wanna shake them and say, speak correctly you fool.

[JESSx123543]

SO I LOVE YOU

[alazabelcray]

Flattering, but I have a girlfriend.

Thanks anyway!

[JESSx123543]

well then shes really damn lucky.

can i arks you a question?

just kidding just kidding

[charlieorsomething]

they say arks in eastenders. cos they from london isnt it

[MrsNerdfighter]

sorry, the only time ive ever heard that is in catherine tate :)

grarss glarss barth parth

[deadXDsmiley]

smile at the end = so cute!

[terixscott]

this video made me think of catherine tate so much :P

i hate saying ask

cause sometimes i guess im just stuipd

and i end up just saying the as part

so in converstaion it just sounds like im saying ass...

i hate it so much

[ahhhllie]

people in america don't say "axe/ax" and if they do, they're usually african-american.

[haleyisgangsta]

People in the us say ACKS. Like axe. I make fun of them when they say it. Its ridiculous.

[FluroEmo]

Haha. Well, our family friend-family thing pronounces it arks. And they say bally.. Like.. a for apple.. instead of belly =P things like that. Me and my bro so ars.. we just don't say the k for some reason =P

So there is someone(someoness) who says arks and a-sorta-4th-way of saying it =P

Anika.x

[laplinp]

When I say I can't be asked, I said can't be arsed. Just how it comes out. But never heard arks. I say arsked normally

[xmadmomentsx]

i hate it when people pronounce "us" as "uz"

there is no Z in US

grr

[monkmonk666]

0:37 i shit u not lmao

[HazzaPistheDocsBFF]

PJ, is that an Irish, or Italien flag? I can't tell from the light. Sorry, random question, its just annoying me. :)

[alice2k67]

My australian pe teacher pronouces his s after the k in ask

[CinnamonTrees]

Haha, very funny. I actually got here from Lex's video, but I agree with you.

And some kids back in elementary school used to say "axe".... Even one substitute teacher did, if I remember correctly.

[DJE179]

you racsist xD

[SinexVictrola]

*racist. :)

[DJE179]

indeed! my lack of education you see.

[indiegabe]

Could someone please tell me what song PJ was playing in the vid called "Noodle in the garden"

[KapowVlogging]

It's the Birabuto Kingdom Theme from Super Mario Land

[AMAZINGPHILstalker]

he wrote it

and it's probably called noodle in the garden

[indiegabe]

He definitley did not write it. It's a mario song. You can tell that from all the comments on it. =P

[Gemmarmaladeable]

I know you were very worked up about there being 3 ways to pronounce the word, "ask" but, I do in fact know a fourth way:

Ast

Don't really care too much about it though. *shrug*

Gemz :]

[AzuraJin]

Hmmm, speaking of accents, back in second year high school... My classmate once told me that I have a bad accent just once... XD

But nobody reacted to it~ -_-

-Jin

[jerryhcooke]

Gras Glas Ba-th and Pa-th?

I think you mean Gr-arse Gl-arse Baath and Paath ;)

But I'm just one of those RP snobs, compared to 95% of the country, I'm wrong, haha

Fuck, I wish I could remember my phonetic spelling from my EngLang A-Level *sighs*

[vanness5]

My best friend david is passed out onthe sofa, the time in San Francisco is 1:23 AM, his weed tin on the floor is a Nintendo NES controller, I think it originally came with gum in it or something. Seeing it reminds me of your nintendo stuff. Before I pass out myself I would like to draw your attention to the curious fact that when certain australians say "beer can" it sounds like certain Jamaicans saying "bacon". yes, the sophistication of my commentaries has dropped. time 4 bed. Goodnight.

[Unpromulgated]

i'm only 12- who is this mad-man, who is this preacher? jk

[WorldofWit]

I have no opinion on this subject. All I know is you have excellent lighting in your videos.

[xedon2]

Futurama?

[AlexBlogs]

Yeah it's fucking annoying. You'll sit there & be like "DO YOU WANT ME TO SPELL 'ASK' FOR YOU? NO? SAY IT HOW IT'S SPELT THEN! D: "

''¬¬

[stephda11]

haha i know a lot of people who say 'ass' actually

"Yeh, I assed him."

"Really, what did he say?"

Never noticed it before but now i think about it it's hilarious

[epsilon8entity]

They are just donkeys!

[xforgetmenotsx]

dude

I HATE when people say

"aks" as in "ax"

(in America)

it sounds SO silly

[optimisticrabbit]

i immediately thought of Catherine Tate.

[epsilon8entity]

If you wanna know how to pronounce English correctly... arks the Italian!

[akamaru3]

Everyone in my area says "ass" lol

[unoriginallywitty]

Yeah, the stereotypical bearer of the New York accent pronounces "ask" as "axe".

[malpal16]

i guess people everywhere do that

cause a lot of people in Texas say axe

instead of ask. it drives me crazy

[asimplecadence]

LMAO!

[peppercorncrisp]

ha yeah i told someone this the other day =) very true!

[theblazingarrow]

i shit u not lol i heard that too dude its amazing alien language!

[y2kjonrichards]

Lol, I'm wrong as I pronounce all the words you said at the end differently, I basically put an 'r' in them.

But when I think about it your way makes more sense as there is no 'r', I blame my parents!

[GordonMacNaughton]

Sometimes ye can gie accents it ay text

[babybott330]

So do you say ask or arsk? You sound so cute saying arsk, LoL. I say ask. I live West Virginia, USA, though, and people say some really crazy stuff around here.

[MusicFromBlueSkies]

That's not an accent or a dialect, that's a prick.

... The person saying arks, not you.

[Jonnyiswhatweaimfor]

Arks?! WTF

Ive heard Axe before not Arks! :L

[annapunk90]

I LOVE ur accent ^_^

[GiraLikesYou]

My god. I hate when people say "aks."

-_-"

[IfYouHadAHailey]

i said what the "fuck"

right as you said "fucking" annoying.

that amused me for some reason cause we said fuck at the same time.(:

[IfYouHadAHailey]

then people say, "aks."

[xylojosie]

I have ranted to several people about people saying 'arks' and they never properly understand how much it frustrates me. Maybe it shouldn't annoy me as much as it does, idk.

[GoodbyeRock]

I laughed so hard from 0:49-0:52 xD Haha

[wentzizzlesizzle]

Grass glass brass and path.

I agree. :D <3

[Maryangel24]

haha i was so surprised when i first watched the catherine tate show, but she always says her "ask" like that, it's funny :D

[BethOnTop]

i say ARSK and we come from the same place.

hahaha, this made me laugh, peej! :D xxxx

[KickThePj]

yeah but you go to a snobby posh school.

fanks beth

[BethOnTop]

urrm.. hu r u n y r u replyin 4 alazabelcray?

[lindseyatthedisco19]

i've heard it pronounced that way several times.

people can't talk properly.

[danthman666]

Loving the sense of achievement on your face when you realised arks was a word.

[NessaR12]

i've heard people say that before. it's so incredibly annoying.

[SkunkMoney]

I hve a hard time pronouncing the K...I just hope people don't listen closely.

[dontmindme831]

I heard someone say the other day, " She tryin to ax you a question? But you isn't tryin to listen." This is the pain I live in on a daily basis.

[HiImJellyBean]

i kept hearing a ton of people pronouncing it 'aks' the other day. hah.

[suicideslowmotion17]

YAY

[Emmaheartsmcfly]

best video youve ever done :')

'as in plural for ark' hahahaa

i was excited to watch this, and i wasnt disappointed :D xx

[kelseykap]

It bothers me when people pronounce it "axe"

[makemukchick123]

some of my friends say 'arks' im always like 'wtf!' - but ye i say 'ask' and thats probs cause my welsh accent tbh

Caru ti (love you) Babsh..xx<3

[Scythe137]

The K is silent if I'm right.

[HatticusRex]

sit sit *wierd motion* >:l back down

roflll rofll flfghjkfghjf. best.

plural for arc lol. ROFL. noah. AHAHAHAA. stop it. STOP IT.

you're wearing that grey shirt you always wear.

[watchingyoutoobers]

YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG!

[Kalliegirl08]

Ha, yeah people do that all the time.

[Veganluke]

Wow never heard anyone say it like that!

[WillThePlank]

Just ask someone from Gloucestershire how they pronounce the word Carpet. they say it like '' car put'' with a twinge of farmer on the ''car''

[essiefromhere]

In America, when people say ask like axe they are usually either ghetto or country.

[confusedscooter]

there is a fourth way! i hear people always say atsk, like dude do you really need to add another letter to the word when there really is no need to! it totally bugs me!!!!

[lunaticaution]

I thought they had a problem :/

[YouKnowThatDaveKid]

I've heard Arks before. Like Catherine Tate.

[brilohblog]

What is the font you used for Accents and Dialects in the begining?

[calumrb22]

i like how you jumped at the realisation of arks as an actual word XD

^__^

[matiou479]

Kiss my ask !

[LauraIsobelx]

urgh i hate it when people do that

seriously how can u be that stupid

[lysmeanslily]

want me to blow you mind?

In america particularly in the midwest and the ebonicly influenced accents, some say aks like axe. It's funny and sad really. I say it right.

[c0capop]

lol, i think i pronounce it in the american way- ask?

idk, people kept saying that i speak with an american accent which is really pathetic.

[maniacalmike]

Standard American accents are close to a Midlands accent from the 1700s, or so they say.

[Epiphanized]

I've heard people pronounce it 'aks' too.. so like a northern 'arks'.. so there's 4 ways!

(I think Jankino says aks.. i was like wtf you on about when he said it ^_^)

[JooshAhoy]

ive gotta do accents and dialects for my eng lang coursework aha

[emoly1994]

parth arsk barth glars grars =)

The northern way is correct, because there is no r in path etc., but if I try and say it the northern way it just sounds fake =/

[iHarrySmallwood]

I have a friend who does that and to make him stop I ignore his question untill he says it right.

[Jodeenah]

That's like when people say scon not scone. the e makes it into an oh sound. like you say stone not ston.

[malarayofsunshine]

ha, ha, ha!

no way to people say it like that! pshhh, so silly!

nice to see a video from you again, (:

[glitterandmoredoom]

I say asska.

O_o

[JokerProof]

Lol Loved it xD

[gerardwaysfriend]

thats exactly how my uncle mel says it he lives in newport whales

[ameliepoule]

Maybe I'm wrong but might it be from the Catherine Tate show, where her character Lauren mispronounces ask as "arks"?

If so, that might be where it comes from, since she also made "bovvered" a popular word.

[KickThePj]

haha you're right actually, i know what you mean.

[Cowscream]

That annoys me so much! I find a lot of americans pronounce it axe. No offense to any americans who do pronounce it that way, but it is annoying.

[soldsoulBKM]

i say "arsk" and "parth, barth, clarss". All that southern jazz - but i'm half and half (i live up north) so i really don't HOW to say them anymore!

[trannylexxx]

I still want to post my video response

[xAyameHimeX]

Never herd arks before o.0

[lukeb3000]

lol love this video, perfectly executed and to the point! <3