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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2011

Okay, so I thought I was pretty good at these various English accents, until I got the mic in my hand! lol Hopefully they're not all too shocking... Additionally, no offence meant to anybody, so if you don't like my interpretation of your accent, I'm so sorry!

The accents you will hear are from:
Liverpool
Yorkshire
Bristol
'Posh'
London/Essex
Somerset/Cornwall
Norfolk
Birmingham
Liverpool (again)

The poem at the end is George McGee by Craig Charles from his book No Other Blue.


Would love opinions, especially from native speakers from these towns & counties, but please go easy on me, I don't claim to be an expert! :-)

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  • I'm from Leeds in Yorkshire... and I'm pretty sure Corrie's set in Manchester not Yorkshire O_O

  • Hmm. I don't think you have a good ear for accents. If so, you would not conflate a Lancashire dialect with a Yorkshire one. Never mind the major differences in the various intra-county dialects. The scouse wasn't too bad but you did keep dropping out of it. Everything else sounds so over-exaggerated that you just parodied the dialects and ended up sounding like none of them.

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  • Your yorkshire accent is shite......and corra is manchester....so not yorkshire

  • i dont mean to offend but i muted when the Yorkshire accent started, you sound like you've got a speech problem...

  • @Lockstock97

    It used to be a country yes. Now it's a COUNTY of England as far as I'm aware...

  • @shauntbarry Well it is separated by the river tamar we are celtic and have our own flag and language learn your history

  • @Lockstock97

    Last time I looked on a map it was...

  • Her accent's not generic, its posh as fuck!!

  • @cookie36224 thats because Kernow isn't a part of england

  • Your Birmingham accent sounds like a Scouser with a cold... some of them were really good though!

  • Not like yorkshire-.-

  • wth with the Yorkshire?... you over emphasised it. you're not Betty or anyone from Emmerdale... CORRONATION STREET IS IN MANCHESTERRRR

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