Jacob Rees-Mogg was reciting “This Sceptred Isle” by William Shakespeare from Richard II, and is a “portrait” of England as an earthly paradise- an idyll; on John Gaunt’s death bed he delivers the lines as part of his dying monologue 🎉

@darkpitcher5242

25 күн бұрын

People like JRM always stop before the end: "England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death!"

@spruce381

24 күн бұрын

Horrible man.

@eddisstreet

21 күн бұрын

O Level English 1970

They speak slowly, because they don’t expect to be interrupted.

The haunted pencil is quoting Shakespeare.

@AndrewwarrenAndrew

25 күн бұрын

Jacob greased frog

@scouseofhorror104

24 күн бұрын

I always said haunted shoe but now can't stop giggling at yours 🤣🤣🤣😊

@johnritter6864

19 күн бұрын

Haunted pencil, lol. Quality description. I used to refer to Denise Welch as a haunted beanbag.

You speak, then I speak. These actors have been well educated and speak the Kings English. In the early days of British movies, most of the actors were taken from the old music halls or the theatres. The actors had to throw their voices to the back of the theatre ,they had to speak clearly inorder for the audience to hear. Their cut glass accents then transferred to the moves.

They live in large hizes, drive a rails and drink cake-a-cayla.

@drziggyabdelmalak1439

21 күн бұрын

🤣

A vocabulary plays a vital role as well as pronunciation and annunciation... combined it shows education.breeding and class level.. One can use all the above in a regular working class accent but the impact isn't the same

@denniswilliams160

21 күн бұрын

It's enunciation - to say or pronounce clearly. The Annunciation was the announcement made by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive and bear a son through a virgin birth and become the mother of Jesus Christ

The 'laziness ' you are noting is probably best described as an upper class drawl. Not coincidentally, the upper class Southern Accent or the Patrician New England drawl all share a common origin in the mists of time

@jamesdignanmusic2765

24 күн бұрын

Including the dreaded Bahston accent in Massachusetts.

Carers - trained people who care for others in a semi-medical capacity but not usually nurses. Did you see Me Before You? The main actress in that was playing a carer for the paralysed man.

Hello,I'm French and love the English accent❤ Talking about the "British accent" is wrong. Next to the English accent,there is the Irish,Scottish and Welsh accent.They have nothing to do w/ the English accent.Kind regards❤

@MrBulky992

25 күн бұрын

There are many English accents which as far removed from the "standard southern English" accent featured here as the Scottish, Irish etc. are and as difficult to comprehend, for non-native speakers! We're all English too!

@JJ-of1ir

25 күн бұрын

Oh my - we love your French accent too! A lot!

@Bill-2203

24 күн бұрын

In parts of the southwest of England we sound similar to how pirates speak in movies

@stephaniebarker9244

21 күн бұрын

Thanks for li king the English Accent. I think you must be the only French person to do.

The Jacob Rees Moss speech is lifted straight from John of Gaunts death bed monologue in Richard II (Shakespeare).

Growing up in West Yorkshire, I used as a child to be mocked for "talking posh" because my accent was not as pronounced as many other people's. It was somewhat closer to RP largely because we listened to the radio a lot, so heard BBC English, and my parents did not have very strong accents. I find that in the company of people with noticeable local accents my Yorkshire tends to assert itself. If you think that any of the speakers you hear on this video are posh, find some archival stuff from the 1950s, such as the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth back in 1953, including her own voice then and the BBC commentary. Even Rees-Mogg is mild in comparison.

Upper-class people tend to speak with what used to be called 'advanced' or 'conservative' received pronunciation (RP). Here, there is little movement of the lower jaw and an associated limited movement of the mouth. There is also a tendency to form words at the front upper area of the mouth cavity, to elongate vowels and clip consonants (with some of the latter disappearing altogether if in the middle of long words), and to follow a 'falling' pattern through sentences, which are projected as though the sound is coming from the area between the upper lip and nose. Additionally, there are certain vowel sounds that distinguish advanced RP from the speeech of 'plebs' (like me!); for example, the 'ow' sound in the middle of words is pronounced like an 'i' (house becoming 'hice' and mound becoming 'mind') while the 'o' sound is pronounced like 'e[o]uw' (go becoming ge[o]uw, so becoming 'se[o]uw, and 'ou' sounds becoming 'aa' (our becoming 'aar') or 'i' (round becoming ''rind') (see HM The King). Others, like Boris Johnson tend to have grown up in environments where this pattern is copied 'though to a less exaggerated extent; this is known as 'general RP'. Those like The Princess of Wales (Catherine) and Lord Sumption are, in contrast, simply speaking standard RP (or 'BBC English' as it was once known because all the presenters used to have to use this standardized southern accent); it's also taught to all actors in the more prestigious academies such as RADA and 'Central'. It's very complicated to explain in black and white (as you can see), so I'm sorry if I sound like a complete bore! By the way, Connor, you have an excellent ear and could easily pick up accents, including RP.

@herrbonk3635

22 күн бұрын

Yes, and as a swede, I love it! Some southern accents in the USA are kind of similar too, at least in some respects (albeit low status).

Loved your lapse into Dick van Dyke 😂

Prometheus, that's the fire guy, right? 😂😂😂.

if i remember correctly Prometheus was a greek titan who had a hand in creating humans and was an intellectual, master craftsman and trickster

Ill be honest i love the way, Jacob Rees Mogg speaks

@jamesdignanmusic2765

24 күн бұрын

I like how he speaks, I just don't like what he says. Or thinks, for that matter.

@Will-nn6ux

21 күн бұрын

He's definitely one of the most malevolent living Quentin Blake illustrations.

@alicemilne1444

16 күн бұрын

He's as fake as they come.

@tomstorey8559

16 күн бұрын

@@alicemilne1444 you can say that about anyone South of Nottingham

On "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Jack Dee gives amusing variations and meaning of words in "The Uxbridge English Dictionary" (if you know, you know?!) and has said what ' _sprites_ ' are (they're what the Royal Family eat at Christmas Dinner... _sprouts_ said with the RP accent) and there are several more, which I've unfortunately forgotten, sadly, 😟

Americans like yourself have easy to understand words almost as if you were middle class English perhaps because we have so many accents that distort words .Of course America has different accents but not to the extent the U.K. has and i have yet to hear an American accent i could not understand well even the most severe Southern accent is little problem, where as there are some U.K. accents i trip over a little.

People with money travelling to India by ship, for example government officials, booked the cabins POSH. Port out - starboard home. Those cabins were mostly in the shade while travelling in the hot sun.

Connor, if you want an authentic Cockney accent, please tune in to the U-tube video, 'What is Wrong with the Labour Party?/Rosie Duffield is a Legend' from The Famous Artist Birdie Rose. Also, note how the late Queen Elizabeth's accent changed over the years, from her wartime broadcast as a teenager to her latest Christmas broadcast - this is PARTLY, but not entirely, a function of age.

Charles sounds like he has had a few drinks

With Lord Sumption ending on the word "divided" you are picking up on the short vowels of the upper class accent, in a way that makes their speech sound 'clipped'. Conversely, other people (and very often those speaking in a regional accent) may well 'draw out' their vowel sounds or 'broaden' them. People who are well spoken are more likely to enunciate their words and pronounce all the consonants...by not 'dropping' the letter 't' and the letter 'h' for example in everyday speech.

What is interesting is that Rose Leslie and Tilda Swinton who are both from upper class Scottish families speak faster which is a characteristic of Scots as opposed to English. No doubt, if we listened to more of their speech, we would be able to pick out other small instances such as the occasional word or grammatical characteristic that is indicative of Scottish English as opposed to the accent. I found this a really interesting study at university.

@alicemilne1444

16 күн бұрын

Tilda Swinton was educated at posh English boarding schools and one of the Oxbridges (I forget whether O or C) . If she has picked up anything Scottish in her speech it's from living in the North East of Scotland for the last 20 years or so. She does not sound the slightest bit Scottish to me.

@jacquieclapperton9758

14 күн бұрын

@@alicemilne1444 I didn't say that she did. Please read my comment again. At no time did I say that either she or Rose Fraser had a Scottish accent despite being from Scottish families. Her accent is RP. She is from an upper class Scottish family, her late father being the laird of Kimmerghame in the Scottish Borders and Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire. Her family, the Swintons of Kimmerghame, is a branch of the Lowland Clan Swinton. I myself went to an English public school (a "posh English boarding school") and speak with an RP accent despite being Scottish, from the north-east, and having no difficulty in understanding Doric. (My father, despite also speaking English with an RP accent, could drop in and out of Doric, complete with accent, as it suited him.) Nevertheless, there are differences between the standard English spoken in Scotland and that spoken in England, in terms of vocabulary, grammar and speed due to being spoken alongside Scots. The majority of people in Scotland will speak on a sliding scale between broad Scots on one hand and Scottish English on the other, depending on the situation and the company. Accent has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Very many people will not have the accent of their country for various reasons when speaking English.

Rich rounded vowels - sometimes exaggeratedly so (playing a rind of golf?) - every letter enunciated, occasional use of metaphors from Greek myth. The product of the most expensive schools in the land. With many of the actors, though, it was a different accent - the RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) "neutral" accent, especially taught to make it easier to slip into any other required accent.

@alicemilne1444

16 күн бұрын

A "rind" of golf is not a rounded vowel. It is in fact a thinned, fronted vowel spoken at the front of the mouth with the jaws almost clenched and without rounding the lips.

You 'certainly' caught the accent 'quite' well. You have a good ear Connor. Our posh English accent cannot sound 'like some of the American accents, dear Sir. No, no, no. Absolutely not! I am 'quite' certain it is the other way round. Some American accents 'certainly' do sound 'quite' English!! 😊 Love from the UK

I was taught to speak with a very standard RP accent. I’ve had it all my life and it’s simply part of who I am, although some people have said I sound posh in the past. Compared to Boris or JRM I’m an absolute beginner! Having lived all around the U.K. I can also sound London or Norfolk or Welsh or Irish or West Country if I try. With RP the emphasis is on giving every part of the word its full value. Europeans say we speak as if we have a hot potato in our mouths so the sound is quite clipped. As well as slightly drawn out vowels all consonants have to be enunciated very clearly. An instantly recognised difference is that RP speakers do not get involved with glottal stops. This is where you drop the middle letters of the word, especially the letter T, resulting in bu*er instead of buTTer, wa*uh instead of waTER, or using an F instead of a TH and dropping the final G resulting in finkin instead of THinkinG and for* instead of THoughT. It’s regarded as lazy speech by those who teach elocution but regional accents and differences in speech patterns are far more acceptable these days than back in the 1950s when society was infinitely more structured and opening your mouth said far too much about you! 😊

The posh say House us common folk say ouse. Connor Did you watch the debate between Biden and Trump it was comedy gold ..made me chuckle anyway 😊

@marieparker3822

25 күн бұрын

The really posh say, 'Hyce' - listen to Charles.

Jacob Rees-Mogg was quoting Shakespeare's Richard II, which is probably why it sounds a little repetitive. It's called 'The Sceptered Isle Speech'. And he's talking about England. If you want to hear a wonderful version google Patrick Stewart in The Hollow Crown.

Connor, Promethius drew fire down from the Gods, for use on earth. Ancient Greek legend of course.

When the word "lion" rhymes with the word "barn", then you're very posh

@AndrewwarrenAndrew

25 күн бұрын

and house rhymes with Mice.

@Bill-2203

24 күн бұрын

And golf sounds like gofe 😂

@rasmusn.e.m1064

24 күн бұрын

Or very Southern (as in the US South).

@blundin4165

24 күн бұрын

Lol

@blundin4165

24 күн бұрын

Why they all sound the same? They're all top public (private!) school educated - Eton, Harrow... with lots of elecution lessons - and then on to Oxford/Cambridge..!

I don't understand the American obsession with the English Accent, it always makes me chuckle 😊.

Quite good actually, certainly worth a subscription, methinks.

Although the Duchess of Cambridge (now the Princess of Wales) obviously has high social standing now, her background is not 'upper class' but solidly middle class; her parents, for example, were both British Airways employees when they met: he a despatcher, she a flight attendant. They subsequently 'made their fortune' running a party planning business. Far from being upper class, they would (in former days) have been dismissively described by the upper class as being 'in trade' (ie working for a living).

@alicemilne1444

16 күн бұрын

You can be upper class and as poor as a church mouse. The Middletons have connections to aristocracy.

Listen to the Queens address to the nation when she ascended to the throne in the early 50s to see how the posh accent has changed!

rees mogg in Parliament was quoting Shakespeare.

@user-yu9uw8wo9o

25 күн бұрын

from Henry 5th play

@timranachan3224

25 күн бұрын

He was sitting at Shakespeare's feet when it was written. ​@@user-yu9uw8wo9o

@readMEinkbooks

25 күн бұрын

@@user-yu9uw8wo9o Nope. Richard II

Its important in this context Conor.. There is NO British accent....ITS ENGLISH...not Irish Welsh or Scotish or British its English.

@MrBulky992

25 күн бұрын

All English accents (and there are many) are British. Not all posh British accents are English. It is called set theory! Malcolm Rifkind's Edinburgh Morningside accent is also a posh British accent because Edinburgh and Scotland in general are in Britain.

@101steel4

24 күн бұрын

Exactly, British people come from numerous different countries all around the world. There is no British accent.

It used to be called Queens english and it had a german accent and at times a french accent. and those who copied it were snobs

This Sceptered Isle is beautiful referring to England

@MrBulky992

25 күн бұрын

... and oddly so, as England isn't an island! Geography wasn't Shakespeare's strong point!

Our beautiful late queen Elizabeth spoke perfect English, in a way that nobody else has quite mastered, I added the quite to be annoying 😂

Jacob Reese-Mogg was the only 'upper class' accent amongst that lot.....

We talk with accents they talk proper english.

Boris has a doctorate or master in Greek philosophy and Latin

When a Brit says "quite" (you are absolutely right), it is usually emphasised in the way you describe... reason... you need to understand Connor that this word sounds as though it is mild, but it is not..... "You were quite good" to English people means "you were damn good" In other words it sounds like an understatement, whereas in fact the best interpretation of it is "very" "We had quite a good time" = "we had a very good time"

The finest upper class accent would be Joanna Lumley the actress and travel documentary presenter

R/P is the perfect English vocabulary.

Sir, was Rees Mogg was referring to this Sceptred Isle, this England, this Once United Kingdom.

Quite means different things in British and American English. In America it means 'very'. This is a mistake. Quite means precisely, or exactly - no less but also no more than. If you doubt this, date a British girl and tell her she's 'quite pretty'. You might get a slap. To a Brit, 'quite pretty' means: Not ugly... but not exactly beautiful. It can even mean 'nearly or less than' in some contexts. For a man, 5'10" is quite tall. 6'1" is tall. 6'5"+ is very tall. So you see, 'quite' almost means the opposite of what the US thinks it means.

Sloanes - upper middle class folk, or Preppies you might say - always insert as many adverbs as possible.

Theses are NOT posh BRITISH accents !! They are posh ENGLISH accents !!

@carpediem5510

25 күн бұрын

Indeed

@chrisnorman1902

25 күн бұрын

Rose is Scottish

@QueeferSutherland1

25 күн бұрын

@@chrisnorman1902 It's still an English accent

@anthonycunningham8116

25 күн бұрын

The truly posh Scots generally went to English public schools and sound more English than the English

@c_n_b

25 күн бұрын

It's still a British accent, because England is part of Britain.

Catherine, Princess of Wales has a very attractive voice but that's a middle class accent - which I happen to find easier to listen to.

One tip to speaking posh is to speak as far forward in your mouth as you can it makes harder to not pronounce the t in water 😂

no S.Fry

Is Kate posh? Her parents sell balloons for a living

Please react to shakespere scenes. React to a bunch!

Listen to the late Queen speaking in the 1950s

Divided. Not dividedge. It’s educated English. Some Aussies speak Educated English as well but with an Australian accent.

Just noticed, PWB doesn't pronounce the 'o' in 'to', she does a 't'.

Maybe because I am from the North in England, I find the northern dialects or even the southern, far more interesting than the received pronunciation dialect. I can mimic the received pronunciation dialect quite easily, it is not hard to do, that's why most north americans can do it "rather well". As a north american say "raaatheeerr weelll", with practice you can do it with other words, then form sentances. However if you're not from yorkshire, merseyside, lancashire, northumbria, kent, black country, I challenge you to mimic their accent, some are easier than others. It does not make you "posh". Rosie Leslie does it with aplomb in the late stage of your video, she's scottish so will have a scottish accent in her relaxed "tongue", she has a north yorkshire accent in game of thrones and then has received pronunciation in the video. Only the royals hold the station/ status of "upper class" in the UK and they're a tourist attraction. Anyone else are plebs, some richer than others.

P.O.S.H. Port Out Starboard Home.

your only posh if your in a bubble.

RP = Received Pronunciation. Posh people are taught RP from early on. He's describing England.

Mogg proving he's an utter clown. Can't remember the exact details but its only about 3 generations back and one of his relatives was something like a truck driver. No offence to truck drivers.

It isn't correct to describe any accent in English as upper or lower class. I attended school in England from aged eight to 13. We boys acquired a common accent, simply from our masters and each other. So whether a farm boy from Wales, a French lad from Dijon, an East African boy like me, or a son of a wealthy family from Norfolk, each of us four roomies shared the same accent when speaking English, and have maintained it to this day, 60 yrs later.

Javob Rees Mog is a very clever and funny man.

@INeilMJ

25 күн бұрын

No, he really isn't Gabby!

@101steel4

24 күн бұрын

Eton wasn't it? Yes, I was there with your son.

@gabbymcclymont3563

24 күн бұрын

@@101steel4 no kids thanks to a botched Gaul Bladder op, dont guess you have no idea. 5 months in hospital 4 life saving ops , 3 years ago hart attack 10 weeks in Liverpool hart hospital, new titaniam bits. Iv aranged that when i die 2 rings are made for my brothers. This year ffom end of Jan 11 strok,s, mybody is tryong to kill me. Maybe do not guess stuff.

Jacob Rees-Mogg's accent is fake. Multiple people that grew up with him have said he never used to talk like that. He taught himself that accent when he went to university.

@rasmusn.e.m1064

24 күн бұрын

Ok, so that's why I thought he sounded a bit like a twit (sorry, can't retract my first impression, I'm not British, so I don't know him. )

@ftumschk

22 күн бұрын

He spoke posh when he was a child, although his accent definitely got plummier as he grew older. There's an infamous clip of him aged 12, saying how much he loves money: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2lhsKp_ndW7qZs.html

Jocob Rees Mogg is the epitome of a fart in the wind; all noise and no substance

English accents, not British

Hate everyone of these posh or wanna be poshos. Give me a regional accent every day.

What about the bloke in Parliament who yells Ordar Ordar.

I've always thought Charles sounds like he's smoked a bong or two.

He is to important to articulate properly. It sounds ridiculous.