So, do you speak Italian?
Me beauty or me hearty?
To be fair, there’s quite a few different Yorkshire accents (A big county).
There’s common like Lion Queen and myself spoken in West Yorkshire
Broad Yorkshire as spoken in Barnsley
Posh Yorkshire like North Yorkshire spoken by Summer
And Dales Yorkshire - sounds like a different language altogether 
Still quite a lot of Anglo-Saxon/Viking influence up here with many towns and villages having Viking names. That’s to be expected because at one time Yorkshire was part of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria which stretched from Doncaster right up to the Scottish border and became controlled by the Vikings whose capital was at York (Yorvig).
Born & bred Basser?
I am an incomer, we will never be classed as local, Daughter has a Devon accent though.
BC, it must be hard to be born before Christ.
Good grief certainly not!
Go on then share a vid of your actual accent. Troll YouTube:-)
…and that is just Yorkshire?
Just how big IS GB? Y’all must stay home more than we do 
. I would think those…um…accents would have blended more by now 
Back to Youtube accent videos. You all are wearing me out
Hi
Yorkshire has very strong accents and they differ immensely within miles.
Judd, LQ and myself could understand each other quite easily.
Barnsley accents are weird and bear no relation to human life.
I love the Yorkshire accent in the Middlesborough/Stockton-on-Tees area. The people are so very friendly too. I have been there a few times.
It’s not just accents within our largest county where accents vary. Accents in parts of Bristol differ significantly from the surrounding counties that border it. (Bristol is unusual in that is a city and county.)
I’m not sure if Youtube would cover these city districts.
Pirate speak is based on Bristol/West Country accents thanks to an actor called Robert Newton who used the local accent when he played Long John Silver in a 50s film version of Treasure Island, and later, Blackbeard the Pirate, real name Edward Teach, who was a former resident of Bristol.
Interesting, Fruitcake, about the additional branching off of accents in the cities.
So, are accents a source of regional pride?
Certainly are…
Over here in Blighty we have soap operas based in the North but broadcast everywhere. To Southern ears the accents all sounds the same but soaps based in Yorkshire have Lancastrian actors which to Northern ears can be easily distinguished.
Then you can imagine why it drives me batty that movies made in Hollywood almost always depict accents that in no way shape of form match the location in the script.
It matters; wars have been started over less .
I agree, surfermom, listening to accents is often distracting.
A few years ago while in London, I met an online gent for the afternoon and strolled around while getting to know each other. He was from Kent, and spoke softly.
This year I noticed the geico ads with the little green guy seemed to speak with the same accent. I thought it was an Australian accent, but just learned it is Cockney! Should I say when I texted him to share this cute realization, he seemed not to find it cute at all! Go figure:lol:
I’m posh…but not by choice!
As a child there were certain syllables I had problems with…perhaps as a result of going to so different schools in different countries before the age of 10. Finally returned to the UK and a school with a resident speech therapist was found and I was her only pupil…so she spent rather a lot of time on me!! As a result I speak pure RP! Can’t loose it! Totally brain-washed! It’s had certain advantages, but has also set me apart from family and some friends.
Was posh once, but just on the phone Nine to Five, come six o clock, the Tipton Slasher was unleashed.
Funny thing about London?
Where are all of the Cock-a-Knees, these days?
All the passing accents/dialects seem to be Scots, Irish, Northerners, foreign people.
I suspect that potential visitors practice, befoe arrival, by watching Corrie, or Emmie’s Dale!
:twisted:
Robin Hood with an American accent. :confused2:
The prosecution rests.
Try these.
