The English accent

[colesy]

I'm from Bolton but I don't talk like this at all. I think it depends upon your parents i.e. where they were originally from, who you mixed me and other criteria. I grew up with a lot of people from the north Manchester area so that's probably why I don't sound this broad.

[sentinental]

absolutely spiffing if I might say so myself ;)

[p0sn]

Oh my, that is so northern! Sounds like people where I live :D

[1DannyOAFC1]

The Bolton accent sounds more upbeat than other Lancashire accents, fuck knows why.

[GrandDizzy]

@1DannyOAFC1 I actually think Bolton is LESS upbeat. I think it's more abrupt, forceful and "stroppy" and a little unsettling, compared to, say, the neighbouring Bury accent which is more gentle, slower and more soothing.

[1DannyOAFC1]

@GrandDizzy I think this bloke and a few other Boltonians (Peter Kay, Vernon Kay etc...) all sound more upbeat than your average Burnleh accent or whetever.

Being Lancastrian mesel' accents sound grim where I'm from (Oldham pronounced Owdum) and around Burnley etc... like I've said. Can't remember having an actual conversation with someone from Bury, talked to Wiganers and they sound very grim. I would be aswell, if I came from Wigan mind.

[EmilyStation1994]

You can have a posh accent even if you're from the north..

[ShredderBenjamin]

Another Boltonian here thinking that video was shit!

[FunkChicks08]

I love my Bolton accent :-D so proud to be a Boltonian

[HelenaRaven]

I love danny jones' bolton accent :)

[4everMANC]

well done!!! thts well GUD!!

[Shrimpo1919191919]

Less pronounciation of the 'spiffing'. Also, you might want to use 'top-hole'.

[smiffy992]

BLACKBURN FTW!!!

[huggie28]

Suffolk accents :D

[sophiibabe2009]

im from Bolton ... yeh xxemmaxxtaylorxx that annoys me i went down to skegness and they all kept asking me to say 'garlic bread' but the thing is though my accent is a mixture between blackburn and bolton so i dont think it sounds like that

[FarooqBSB]

it's clear enough to understand, but i can't deny it's not an easy accent for someone who's english is not the first language !! but it's not that hard at all .. actualy i find it really cool :)

[roxyrazy]

i was born in bolton xD

[xxemmaxxtaylorxx]

I have a bolton accent! And just moved up to york for uni! one of my flatmates is geordie and the other american! it took a good couple of days to understand what we was all saying! but come on! a Bolton accent isn't hard to understand!....especially when as soon as you say you are from Bolton people request you to say "Garlic Bread" over and over!

[emzy1967]

Ohhhhh I'm from Bolton tooo [:

[isackiuk]

Anyone notice that he simply got another person to record the posh voice?

[gloomy027]

what exactly did he said?? cant get it :/

[stealsticks123]

sounds like a mix of Scottish and English to me

[creamyfilling102]

yolkshire, boulton, posh, ......i'm completely lost lol.

[SR0Penne0Brillo]

I'd really appreciate it if Americans and Canadians were a little more specific, I'm pretty sure you would not need subtitles to understand what I'm saying, whereas on American T.V. Scottish accents are often given subtitles as they can't be understood by most americans, neither can welsh accents. Whales and Scotland are also a part of britain, and the UK includes Northern Ireland. So please say English rather than british.

[Detjo]

@SR0Penne0Brillo - WTF! hahahahahahaha ... and you wanna learn how to spell Wales!

[xledzepplinx]

@Detjo you must be north american :)

[Detjo]

@xledzepplinx .. Nope!

[darkaudiovideo]

@SR0Penne0Brillo Whales?

[AncientSusquehanna]

@SR0Penne0Brillo We'd appreciate it if you didn't lump us all together and make broad generalizations about what we do and don't understand as well.

[SR0Penne0Brillo]

@AncientSusquehanna Would all of you appreciate that? Glad we sorted that so now I can please all of you, whoever you all are.

[Archey999]

Haha its great, i talk like the bolton lad with my family and the posh one my my friends......i love being british!!

[sireljack]

Good on yah

[MultiNayi]

what??????????????????????????­????

[lilmshottie2013]

I live in maine, but i grew up in south carolina. its odd though i havnt got a southern or yankee accent. Ive actually picke up a somewhat english one. but im special for it. and just to let you know. neither i nor my friends speak through our noses. just letting you know......

[dark0fday]

Lol I'm from bolton and I talk like this at school - where everyone speaks half posh, half not. If that makes sense, lol. Anyway, they keep saying I have a yorkshire accent, and I'm just like how the hell can it be yorkshire when I'm from bolton?!

[ShOrtaRseo9]

Bolton Mateee Proud (y)

[Raidenv]

lol

[alwaysknowingit13]

I'm american, and for some reason, most of us sterotype people from Bolton saying that they talk really funny. I don't think they talk funny at all. I think it's quite cute. (Danny Jones *cough* McFly)

[lottiee600]

Hi! am from england n knowone talks like that! Americans think we all speek powsh but we dont we talk like you but without the longs parts on the end of iche word. Thanks I love Americannss..xx Fromm Lottieee.x.x

[SR0Penne0Brillo]

wow, sorry Lottie but i don't think i'd like you representing the English language in any way as you seem to be unable to spell or use grammar.

[Ali74]

DIFFERENCE in Accents...

The Yanks = renowned american NASAL accent, Squeaky, high pitched, speak through nose. REALLY noticeable when yanks say a slang word of theirs like "Weiner"

The English = Regional accents, soooo many completely different. Some dialects not as clear as squeaky yank NASAL accent.

Hugh Laurie as Dr.House simply speaks through his nose to imitate american NASAL accent. People from southern states are hard to understand as are ghetto people... need Subtitles.

[AndrewTraceur]

I do feel as if you're oversimplifying American accents by allotting them only two categories. However, that's not a bad observation.

[Eetaq]

lol...

So in America theres these accents:

New England, New York, Carolina/georgia, Deep Southern, Texan, Louisiana, Great Lakes, Midwestern, California

And you're going to call it a renowned nasal accent?

And people from southern states are only hard to understand because they aren't portrayed in hollywood, so you as a Brit aren't used to it.

[TheSkyScans]

Umm...Southerners are portrayed in Hollywood. Quite a bit actually. And who decided to group the Carolinas and Georgia, those are very different accents. The South has many different accents: Lousiana--more old style, Alabama, South Georgia--kind of redneck, Tennessee and North Georgia--more country, Texas--very soft, Carolinas--more neutral, Greater Atlanta Area--dealing with way too many Yankees.

[Inspire6]

where can you change voices lol

[Klurty34]

Oy, watch it

[totalalex90]

talks like keeth lemmon :p im from leeds

[elekcal]

Bolton wanderes for life!!!

[whotababexxx]

turton x

[whotababexxx]

bromley cross x wot school do u go 2 x

[Maesaphine]

Thornleigh, you?

[whotababexxx]

turton x

[Maesaphine]

Its so weird, all the 1000s of people on Youtube i'm having a conversation with a girl my age from Bolton. Lol x. Are you in year 8?

[whotababexxx]

no year 9 x lol

[scjg2]

I'm from bolton - were not all that posh at all, scouse accent is the funniest though lol

[whotababexxx]

were about in bolton r u from x

[Maesaphine]

Heaton, near Chorley Old Road,you? x

[scjg2]

Sharples near Belmont

[jiouoiuuu]

Yes, "spiffing" indeed.

[camogirl2468]

i was just serching english accents for no reason! i am english and we don't acctually sound that posh and use posh words!! lol! =D

[jessicamazinggx3]

you know, england is like tiny.

haha how many accents can there be?!

it's not like america, we have loads.

[jessicamazinggx3]

sorry, "britain."

[Corzare]

Lmao go back to the kitchen and leave linguistics to the men.

[jessicamazinggx3]

aw well you're sweet.

[jessicamazinggx3]

just saying, i mean it's smaller than michigan.

[whotababexxx]

belive me england has alot of accents x

im from bolton x

and we dont talk posh that is just london x

i hav never even been to london x

[YamahaFs1e]

Clearly your in no position to comment then, ive been to london and i think i met like 1 person that actually had the posh brit accent, everyone else just sounded slightly cockney. Bloody northerners all think us southerners are posh!!

[whotababexxx]

Well it is just anoying when

americans do an english accent

and do it posh when not all of

england speaks like that x like bolton

[Maesaphine]

im from Bolton to, it really annoys me when american sterotypes think we all say stuff like "spiffing" and "poppycock" talk funny and drink tea x

[whotababexxx]

i no isent it anoying x

were about in bolton r u from x

[YamahaFs1e]

Yes we are a rather barren little rock stuck out in the north atlantic. But we have a shed load (or barn as i spose you yanks would call it) of accents. There was some guy on here doing a load of examples of them a while back, try and find him.

[jrune22]

not bad, shame no-one in the south actually talks like that lol

[SpoonOnWheels]

ROFL!

[xsophie15x]

The accent doesn't even sound like that up here...:S...Cool how you changed it though :)

[yhou8065]

Aussie？

[De4thXcoreXem0]

hurts my ears

[De4thXcoreXem0]

the english accent sucks so hard.

[YorkshireMacduff]

Aren't you a hard man.

[grumpygrim]

How did you do that? :O I want to sound posh, I think I sound a bit like a chav - it's not nice.

[RipPhilOdonnell]

why would they shit themselves?

[YorkshireMacduff]

probably laughing.

[Sinjinator]

Hey, we Texans have alotta shitkickers in our saloons already! Don't make it worse.. lol

[takeuchimasafumi]

Does anyone know what song is playing in this video?

[lilissy101]

Herefordian accent is the best!!!!!!!! Woop i dont reckon i have one but my mats from London and she says i have a major one LOL

[Tvalo]

wow well done. how clever are you?! xxx

[Danougie12]

I ADORE Bolton!!!

[DavidTL]

Should have kept your Northern accent mate.

[remango]

Cool man!

[TRWolf]

I'm from Bolton, and no one here sounds remotely like that...

[Torchwood001]

Im from Stoke-On-Trent woo

[jeanandpaul]

see ya up hanley duck

[Torchwood001]

or8 duck see ya in gregs n potteries :D

[jeanandpaul]

see you up hanley duck

[bigjames83]

bloody hilarious!!!

[AprilnCloe]

im from wigan and i hate the accents so luckily i dont really have 1

[devlin9695]

im frm bolton n nt evry1 speaks lyk him

[adnnay]

I love this accent!!!..

Where is it from?

[4EVAORLANDO]

bristolian accent is dah best

[yagatza]

i love accents

[Kelzie90]

Lancashire Rocks! Our accent is the bloody best, cant be doing with the poshness lol.

[Tanhukagan]

Kelzie90! hello my friend!I'm from Seoul/Korea

I am wondering that in England which accent is

the best? London, Manchester? or where? If you

mind could please teach me and then possible

to send me CD of English accent? write me on

to my address!I'll be waiting all-fours!Bye!  TANHU

[IForgottenHopeI]

The Brummy!!! :D

[AKAnuclearted]

South Hampsire!!!!

[Tanhukagan]

AKAnuclearted!Hi boy/girl!thank you for your

information about English accent.if I need, later will be able to return your information!thank you again!Good Bye!  TANHU

[kngiht84]

Don't listen to the previous comments. Geordie is the best.

[DavidTL]

Nottingham!!

[ronamjack]

im sorry but uuurgh

south-west at any time

tbh most cities are now getting similiar accents

[GlamGal66]

Scouse. ;]

[ruthy5555]

You always seem to be able to trust a person with a Goerdie accent.

[kngiht84]

That's right, and may I just say they're the nicest, most fervent fellows on Earth; love them !!!

[burninator666]

Yea u can, but tht aint a goerdie accent, lol :p

[ruthy5555]

wat? cause i spelt geordie wrong? lol

[burninator666]

No, because this a western Lancashire accent. He lives in Bolton (north of manchester) But his accent is more like the chorley area (South of Manchester) Newcastles alot further north and has a very different accent.

[ruthy5555]

Yeah i know i was saying that the geordie accent is the best and you can trust it. I know he doesnt come from around newcastle. I wasn't talking about him as was sayin wat i think the best English accent is.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

@ruthy5555 "I'm going away this weekend, you'll look after the brewery for me won't you Gazza?"

[killerkid123100]

@ruthy5555 and then your wallet goes missing

[lollirock13]

wow!! why is everyone so harsh on these comments?? be nice ppl!! im english and i dont think u should say things about anyones accents.. deanbush was mean but so is sarahjayneadams.. lay off the americans!! and dont diss my accent either lol

[richardmullins44]

excellent demonstration. Maybe you could make the software (or use of the software)available on the net - people might be willing to pay money for it. But will it change my speech to RP, or does it only work on yours.

[clemdane]

Ruddy well done, old chap.

[poisson999]

i am from blackburn and i went camping with school and we met these kids with really posh accents and thay do not know what they were saying

[simargl]

What just happened??? Horrible memories of being a media student flooding back aaaaaaaarrrggghhhhhh

[deanbush]

I like accents, but I must admit that some of those British accents are so annoying that I just have to turn them off. They over emphasize words and speak like they're stupid.

[sarahjayneadams]

Wow you are extreamly rude and discriminatory but what else would anyone expect from an American.

[elizabethoftherocks]

I'd like to point out that Deanbush is a person, not only an American. It's true, a lot of Americans don't watch what they say and how they say it, and several American YouTubers insult the English (usually just given the general term, British) almost perpetually.

Not being one of the aforementioned Americans, I would appreciate if your comments would reflect your dislike of the negative attitude of the *person*, not their ethnicity. Thanks.

[dojokonojo]

We Americans love our vulgarity just fine, thank you. :)

[hiyapeople1234]

you mean the "english" accent, not British, its got different kinds of accents like irish, Scottish and welsh....its not just england

[ohxmyxgod]

Either way, all accents are annoying as fuck.

[pinky9597]

i dont even think the queen speaks like that! lol

[hellokittylolll]

im doing media in september :D

woo now i cant wait ;)

[KingNordy]

I hate people from bolton bloody annoying accents.

[whotababexxx]

hey bolton is the best x were r u from x

[KingNordy]

You joker bolton isnt the best its a shit hole and im from the outskirts of london where we don't sound like a prick

[06Laura]

bolton :) im from a town very near bolton that also starts with a b! can u guess??? hmm lol

nice vid

[trytuningthat]

its not blackburn or burnley is it? im pretty much strugglin to think of any others OO blackpool or bury. either of those? lancs rocks. im off for a chippy tea

[06Laura]

:D bury :) heh .. well done :P

[AverageAsian580]

Ahh! I love the Bolton Accent. (:

I'm from America, btw.

[bscjew]

why change? you and your current accent are hot.

[halfpint2002]

Hey Jim that kicks ass neva thort u wud eva be able 2 sound civilised???????? haha

[jimmykerwood]

cheers, naa i got someone elce 2 do that bit lol.

[tomuk53]

well thats fake...

anyways who the fuck says spiffing well at least no1 since ww1

[KQLYN]

lol... a Brit.

[setoy31]

using cool edit...cool

[Dupe16118]

Cool film man - what was this for your college project?

[Shmuelthinker]

thou hadst failed miserably!