I was born and raised in Lowestoft. My uncles and aunts (now all in their late 70s) all have a very strong Norfolk/Suffolk accent. I can slip back into it too anytime I want. Even though I've lived in Australia for 51 years. I will return one day soon to live my last days out in my beautiful home town. I miss it so much.

@chrisburn7178

4 ай бұрын

"Luowstuff"

I love these old accents so much - it's honestly heartbreaking how more and more people, in south England especially, are just growing up with standard London accents nowadays. It's a real loss of culture. I reckon we need to get as many older people recorded as possible while we still can. Either that, or invent a time machine.

@joeyrb4509

Жыл бұрын

A lot of city folk have moved down here in recent years

@gjfkhvjzjsxbq

Жыл бұрын

I love rhotic accents

@lets-all-love-lain

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm half norfolk but have grown up in the south, I've only ever heard recordings of old southern country ascents but never heard them in real life.

@yeshaya24

Жыл бұрын

💋

@RJDANKZ

Жыл бұрын

I’m from norfolk and in the country and I agree with you, but idk how to change my accent mate

this east Anglian is where the original Boston accent is from. the delict that the pilgrim's spoke. faceting stuff great footage of a small village in England.

Even as a young Suffolk Native today, I understood virtually 99% of what these old boys were saying.

@JacksonNomad

7 жыл бұрын

I'm from east Essex and can understand them reasonably well too. Lot of the old country folk around here speak a very similar dialect..

@alexcapon3620

7 жыл бұрын

I can understand why that would be the case. I would assume what we now consider an 'Essex' accent is probably the result of Londoners moving away from the city after the Second World War, bringing their dialect with them.

@hilltopcresent

7 жыл бұрын

This is crazy, I never knew English dialects could be so impossible to understand. I truly cannot understand them even with the subtitles. This is from a New Zealander. Truly sad if these accents disappear.

@Sophie.S..

6 жыл бұрын

I originate from a small town in Norfolk, and although I have moved to another area, I understood every word - I think childhood memories stay with you forever.

@ben1210

6 жыл бұрын

hilltopcresent the amount of regional dialects is just astonishing. Proper locals can tell the difference from someone 10 or 20 miles away in some spots. I suppose these accents had a lot of time to grow roots before we had the internet/telegrams/printing/pigeons/domesticated horses.

I live in norwich and I always love hearing people with really strong local norfolk and suffolk accents, you dont hear them so commonly nowadays

@Lookatmeshine

7 жыл бұрын

slime_pixie unfortunately not. My favourite localism is "boy" when greeting other men, that one is still going strong.

@ben1210

6 жыл бұрын

angelstouch92 pronounced booo-ey. As in roight booo-ey.

@JazzyBabe56

6 жыл бұрын

yes - "boi" in the Maritimes/Newfoundland in Canada...

@Replevideo

6 жыл бұрын

Oi tork Norridge. Thart rime with porridge.

@sparrow2931

6 жыл бұрын

The 'boy' you're hearing is actually 'bour', a shortening of neighbour.

I'm Norfolk born and bred, but lost my accent growing up in an overspill town. My grandmother still has her Norwich accent and it's delightful

@Epicrandomness1111

4 жыл бұрын

We have to get our dialects back

@TP-mv6en

3 жыл бұрын

The Epic Random Dude That’s gonna be practically impossible

@jaif7327

9 ай бұрын

@@TP-mv6enshame

I'm pleased to say there are still old boys in rural Suffolk who speak like this.

Crazy how close this sounds to my older relatives from the farmlands of Maine. We are all from loyalist dragoons that escaped the revolution, and were resettled in Canada.. only to have that later changed to America (Maine) as well. As of the early 1900's they still considered themselves British Subjects, and their kids, my grandparents all sounded like this with a bit more Irish thrown in. (forgive me, I just spent a lot of time digging through my genealogy).

@kayrogers4022

4 жыл бұрын

Queens Rangers under Simcoe, by chance?

My family is from a remote island called Beals in Maine, USA. Sounds just like the older generation there.

@user-bh4rx8mf8g

6 жыл бұрын

That doesn't surprise me Marc- a lot of people out in that bit of America speak pure East Anglian, even today. It's very striking! Thank you for sharing it.

@kindiduk4298

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-bh4rx8mf8g"Pure East Anglian" is an odd way of looking at it to me (I live in the middle of EA). The (old) accents/dialects of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk are different enough to be distinguished although it a gradual change from south (Essex) to north (Norfolk). Sadly, very few of these accents are left.

@user-bh4rx8mf8g

5 жыл бұрын

@Kindid uk I agree, the accents of the three counties are not homogenous, but they are very similar in type and, when you hear someone from abroad who sounds like it, I wouldn't say exactly 'that sounds like an old east Suffolk accent' but it might be unmistakably East Anglian. Ditto, many Canadians sound to me like Scotsmen. You could retort that there is no such thing as a single Scots accent, but nonetheless there is a recognisable and identifiable family of accents to which it belongs.

@kindiduk4298

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-bh4rx8mf8g This is indeed is true. Scotland has very varied accents. Comparing Glasgow & Edinburgh shows some major difference. Again, I probably have an ear for EA differences... Because I live here. Only some of the older folks or their, now quite old, children really speak with much of a local accent. In the town I'm from it's mostly a London derived accent. Which, interestingly, is disappearing from London too!

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

@@kindiduk4298 I hate how London accents have taken over East Anglia. In no small part because many Londoners moved to the area a few decades ago. I'm from near Thetford, that place is in many ways a mini London now. A sad fate for the former capital of the Kingdom of East Anglia.

The subtitles are a major cheat code! I finally get the rhythm and inflection patterns. It also helped to hear the accent in natural dialogue. It’s rare to hear it in movies or tv shows. When you do, it’s only one weirdo character like a creepy groundskeeper who speaks a few lines of gibberish and disappears.

So rare to find examples of true East Anglian accents, thanks for the upload!

The New England Yankee accent is the direct descendant of this one.

@alexcapon3620

7 жыл бұрын

When I listen to my grandparents, I'm reminded of that 'Bostonian' accent in Good Will Hunting.

@TJStellmach

4 жыл бұрын

Not for nothing, Boston Massachusetts and the adjoining coastal areas are called Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex counties.

@diezdarbo5633

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah,they are referred to as Cockneys,it is a native dialect however we don't have a flat nasal as we pronounce words like Americans do,majority of England and Midland have a Cockney 'accent'

@wayinfront1

4 жыл бұрын

@@diezdarbo5633 You could only be a true Cockney if you were born and lived within earshot of Bow bells.

@codyderbyshire8634

4 жыл бұрын

@@wayinfront1 Dark age doesnt refer to race,it is called dark age due to the fact that everything involved wars throughout Euroasia for many reasons and it was a dark era,many wars and death has happen,many has lost

So this is the region for Britain's colonial Anglo exports. I can recognize the similarities with New England accents, as well as the derivations that other parts of the Anglosphere have. Quite interesting!

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

Abraham Lincoln's father was from Norfolk I believe

@diezdarbo5633

4 жыл бұрын

Sadiq Khan has betrayed the English natives,just look at London,the majority are not even English,just dark skinned 3rd worlders that don't even fit up to the tasks that our govonours claimed,we also never asked or were included to vote or have a say in our own nation,we are simply ignored and shunned at as we decrease;die out

@scottutting2729

4 жыл бұрын

No it wasn’t cockney at all. What a ridiculous thing to say. The New England accent is heavily related to Norfolk/Suffolk dialect and to a lesser extent Irish

@thesenate5291

4 жыл бұрын

I won't lie, most criminals sent to penal colonies were from norfolk, as we are known as the British Alabama/Hills have eyes country despite being a flat wasteland

@newmanj8690

3 жыл бұрын

@@PiousMoltar no he wasn't, he was born in Virginia

I was born in Norwich but grew up in North Suffolk. Everyone around that area still talks like this.

My grandparents lived outside of King's Lynn and would visit them every summer from Canada. I can understand every word these gentlemen are saying.

@jamiewilson8253

5 жыл бұрын

Hello from Kings Lynn!😀👍

I so wish more was done to document not only the awesome accent, but also the dialect. The old Kingdom of East Anglia is an iconic place as it is where the English language was born. I don't hail from The Fens, but i imagine internal and external migration has changed the character of the area, including the accent.

@TankManHeavy

Жыл бұрын

Depends where you go, really. You'll find less of it in the bigger towns and cities but there's still a solid accent in the countryside

@kfwfb534

11 ай бұрын

​@@TankManHeavyspeaking from your experience? Are you east Anglian?

@TankManHeavy

11 ай бұрын

@@kfwfb534 I am, yeah. My family has lived in the same place In Suffolk for well over 100 years.

@kfwfb534

11 ай бұрын

@@TankManHeavy is this common in the very small villages or everywhere in east Anglia besides the big cities - say Ipswich, Norwich? I ask because east Anglia is where the Anglo Saxons first arrived in England after coming from Jutland in Denmark

@TankManHeavy

11 ай бұрын

@@kfwfb534 So typically its more common in the more rural areas, at least in recent years the "afro-carribean" accent from London has influenced the larger towns/cities especially amongst the younger generations (I remember also reading a study on this). The rural areas, like the one I live in is still very much alive with the East Anglian/Suffolk accent. Its not uncommon to walk into my local on a weekend evening & hear the words; "Mind how y'go, boy" "Alright 'en buh" And various other words missing the letter "A" for instance: "Tuesdy". Norfolk is similar, albeit a very minor difference in accent. As stated, I didn't notice it very much in Norwich Centre but in the rural areas the accent is still broad. The areas surrounding Ipswich i.e Saxmundham, Leiston, Sproughton, Capel St. Mary, Stowmarket to name a few also are prevalent. In summary: Areas that are less prone to cultural influence still carry on the dialect.

My Granda is the chap dancing and step dancing. Often get told my accent sounds Australian

It's got the same cadence as Australian - I've often wondered if there's a connection.

@timflatus

2 ай бұрын

There is, yes.

@jonhodder363

Ай бұрын

It does indeed. As a native East Anglian if I had a quid for every time I'd been asked "oh...where are you from?" and then told, after my reply "oh....I thought you were Australian......." I'd probably be a rich bloke.

Sounds really dumb but after my grandad and his brothers died sometimes I come here to this video just to listen to the two lads in the flat caps at the end. It reminds me of them. It breaks my heart that their accent is dying away.

I have a distant 18th century ancestor named Robert Copping who I discovered was born in Worlington, Suffolk

God bless the old suffolk accent buh

@craiggradidge8228

9 жыл бұрын

too royt boi

@philipians1635

7 жыл бұрын

yis orl bwee

@theroundestboi2762

5 жыл бұрын

Aye boy

@dominicgrandon5903

5 жыл бұрын

And the aud Yorkshire leid baht London words. Divn't leik them words, lad

This is wonderful thank you for posting this up. I grew up in Maldon Essex and my Grandparents and Great Uncles and Aunts still spoke with the original rural Essex dialect so I was lucky enough to hear enough of it that I can speak it and remember the sayings. It is very sad that today the London spill over/Thames Estuary accent has started to dominate Essex, particularly amongst the youth but that's progress. I always thought that the Essex Rural Dialect was very similar to West Country dialect so was pleasantly surprised when they compared the East Anglian here to West Country with minor differences. The accents of the two gents in this clip are again different to the Essex Rural Dialect I grew up hearing - not hugely, but enough that I'd know they weren't from our part of East Anglia.

@ozzy194870

5 ай бұрын

Essex isn't part of East Anglia! East Anglia is Suffolk, Norfolk and Eastern parts of Cambridgeshire. Look up the Kingdom of East Anglia. East Anglia=East Angles and Essex=East Saxons. So Essex is Saxon and East Anglia is Angle.

@thevelointhevale1132

5 ай бұрын

​@ozzy194870 In the old definitions of the original Kingdoms, yes. But these definitions shifted with time. Wikipedia also recognises this shift ... "East Anglia is an area in the East of England.[1] It comprises the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with Cambridgeshire and Essex also included in some definitions.[2][3] The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in what is now Northern Germany. "

I live in suffolk , born and bred.... the old boys still sound like this

The subtitles for the old boy at the end read 'he said' even though what the old boy actually says was ' 'e say'. A true Suffolk boy knows this!

The fact is, the whole of England has already seen so many dialects and accents. England will always be the epicentre of modern English language because it’s so diverse and has so many language inputs from all corners of the world. The English language hasn’t been truly English for a long time.. but then which language has??

@Roadtripmik

11 ай бұрын

Obviously because english was formed there… but there is more language diversity in eastern USA

@AdenMcIsaac

8 ай бұрын

Usually, when languages and dialects evolve, they diverge, not converge. That's the sad part.

I remember my grandparents speaking with this accent and they were from West Essex just 20 miles from North London.

I'm from Bristol and thought the West Country accent was difficult to understand, but I literally have no idea what these men are saying without those subtitles

Font Whatling playing accordion and stepdancing. Used to play with him years ago. Clifford Arbon also played and sung a lot of good songs. I think Geoff Ling was sitting to the left of the bearded yank. All gone now and them days are now gone.

@neilwhat

7 жыл бұрын

stephenmatthews861 Font Whatling was my Grandfather and I have very fond memories of the tunes he played, and I am glad he made others happy as well with his unique self taught music and playing.

Bloody hell those blokes sound deadset Aussie! The older generation of WW2 coves and before sound just like them beside the words like 'risbun' ( though thats how we say Brisbane. Rural Aussies of my generation, born in the 50's, are probably the last to really sound like this. Gives me chills to hear em. This is where the early ships and crews came from.

@moonknight4053

3 ай бұрын

Australian accent derives a lot from cockney though

Moi mate said to me 'ere wots an hospice'? I said 'bout bucket an a half'.

I grew up near Peterborough - and realised after watching this that I still say 'that's cold in here' without even realising it!

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

That is bloody cold in 'ere though ent ut?

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

I quite like the Fenland dialect and do hear it alot in towns like Wisbech, Spalding, March etc. The Fens is a lovely part of the country. Very peaceful.

I can't bear to think of what we've lost.

It sounds like these accent variations in England, Scotland and Wales are dying off. I even travelled to the West Country and not as many as I thought sounded like a pirate

@hispaniolan9327

8 жыл бұрын

+The Terminator very sad but true, especially when technology the media and schools now being so accessable

@Guitcad1

8 жыл бұрын

+Felix Jimenez The same is happening everywhere. Price of progress and instant communication.

@RichardABW

6 жыл бұрын

Defensor Rationis You're right. Maybe the BBC could be more regionalised and required to employ only local people with the correct regional accent. 😄

@Picnicl

5 жыл бұрын

The West Country, alas, is now full of Londoners.

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

@@Picnicl As is the East

Hello from Texas brothers and sisters! Best kind of documentary-nice n old fashioned--Big warm smile 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😊

The linguistic ancestor of the Bahston accent

Many of my relatives sound like this! Barely understood them as a child. Wonderful video document.

Here's a good book about it. (I have no financial interest) Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States.

@kayrogers4022

4 жыл бұрын

Just began reading this last night! "A little light summer beach reading" at 898 pages, lol.

@jcoker423

4 жыл бұрын

@@kayrogers4022 Enjoy, a good book for a lock down in the sun. Something else I found fascinating is the podcast by Keven Stroud - the History of English from the Indo-Europeans to 1400 (ATM) which explains the languages appalling lack of phonetic spelling. But be warned.... once you start it's hard to put it down and read a book.

@donaldtrumpgaming7668

Жыл бұрын

That book is what brought me here. Good stuff.

@JohnnyKy9

Жыл бұрын

+1 on Albion’s Seed. Best book on British Isles immigration to America I’ve ever read. Very systematic and easy to follow. A must for anyone who’s interested.

This absolutely made my day. I said the word pumpkin, to someone the other day, and they (not from Suffolk), said cor! I can really hear your Suffolk accent when you say pumpkin… I was so proud. :)

That is beautiful! I've lived in suffolk 20 years but I can't speak it praaply yet. Thanks for uploading it.

My grandfather spoke a stronger Suffolk than anyone in this video. He needed a translator if he spoke to anyone from further than 3 miles from Sprougton.

it's really Australian sounding in rhythm and vowel sounds. I expect that the Aussie accent is a mixture of the accents from south east England as they were in the 1800s, but the hot sun and sea voyage gave it the true Aussie twang! Do you know where and when in suffolk this was filmed?

@Da1Dez

Жыл бұрын

Me and my mates are from Suffolk, when we went to Liverpool a few years ago someone there heard us talking and asked if we were Australian 😂

@yvonnewalesuk8035

Жыл бұрын

It's really English East Anglian sounding in rhythm and vowel sounds, a "true twang" which then travelled to Australia.

My grandad, who died before I was born, was from Ipswich. I love to hear how he probably sounded ❤

I believe this accent exists because the Vikings ignored the fenlands and travelled further in land to settle the East Midlands, where the land was more preferable, so what we get here is an Anglo-Saxon Derived dialect, not really influenced much by the Danes.

@ne270

2 жыл бұрын

There’s many unique accents around England, not just in east anglia

@vide-yo3336

Жыл бұрын

Says the brilliant linguist. Where did you get your facts from? Netflix?

@jakezywek6852

Жыл бұрын

@@vide-yo3336 No from the same alleyway you were conceived in.

I live in the Fens (though I'm not originally from there) and sadly I can only think of a handfull of people with this accent. It's sort of like a mix of Norfolk and Lancashire with some cockney and Australian sounds. It's so unique but it's fading fast.

@TheYopogo

8 жыл бұрын

You should meet... Well, everyone in my family over 45!

@TheRedRuin

6 жыл бұрын

Lena Y, I'm from Norwich and I've been asked if I was Australian by a person in Florida and a cockney by a someone in Norway. I don't talk with the strong accent of the guys in the video but I didn't need subtitles for the last two blokes haha.

@sparkyroyal78

5 жыл бұрын

I'm Australian and I'm blown away by how much of what that bloke says sounds Australian. The way he pronounces his vowels and stretches certain vowels out.

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

@@sparkyroyal78 Alot of the Aussie dialect originates from East Anglia.

I live in Maine and these old fellows sound like some of the older dudes I work with

Along with Scottish, Irish & West Country English, the East Anglian accent is a major component of the American accent.

@JohnSmith-nx2bl

2 жыл бұрын

Scottish has not impacted the American accent

@campfortson4387

11 ай бұрын

​@@JohnSmith-nx2blScottish is a huge factor in the southern accent, or at least the "hillbilly" accent

@Bella-fz9fy

9 ай бұрын

@@campfortson4387Still,people don’t realise,70% of Appalachian people were English in origin.

I grew up in Suffolk in the 80s and listening to these fellas is just wonderful. My mum occasionally comes out with East Anglian dialect, although she's from Norwich (Naarruch) so it's a little different in subtle ways. Very nostalgic and a little sad that this kind of community in the pubs is gone. My dad remembered going to the pub when we moved villages in around 1986 (the pub opened when the first person knocked on the door in the evening) and being greeted with stares of distrust, not being from the village. He was served, but it took a few weeks of returning before he was considered one of the locals.

delightful and sounded lyk dutch or plattdeutsch. even e anglian ppl luk different frm otha types of brits.

I'm a Norwich lad who's got a little bit of East Anglian in my otherwise received pronunciation accent, I say "Oi" instead of "I" lol

I'm a from east Suffolk and often get asked if I'm Australian!

@vladskiobi

6 жыл бұрын

I'm from north Suffolk, we sound like Norfolk people up here.

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

I went to uni in Middlesbrough, there was a girl there from Essex who often got mistaken for Australian, and it's happened to me a couple of times, once in Boro and once on the train going up north (I'm from south-west Norfolk and my parents are from west Suffolk)

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

Great Yarnouth 11 miles up the road from Lowestoft sounds like London now due to the Cockney invasion.

@WiggaMachiavelli

5 жыл бұрын

Presumably you are asked that question by people who've never spoken to an Australian.

@frooty_frog

4 жыл бұрын

When I went to Canada everyone asked what part of Australia I was from lol

I think it is truly sad that these accents are going. Grateful that they were at least saved on film.

This accent is so similar to that in the southern US!

@Bella-fz9fy

9 ай бұрын

About 80% of English immigrants to the Southern US states were indentured servants,who were probably poor country people with this accent,same as 70% of Appalachian people were English and I suspect had a similar accent to this.

1970 we had just arrived in Great Yarmouth. We got lost in town and asked directions back to our hotel. Everyone was kind, and gave us directions. Each time we looked at them and said "huh?" Two American kids who had no idea what had just been said.

Love it. It reminds me of my Grandad and Uncle Edgar, both Sudbury, Suffolk boys. I grew up in Colchester, only 15 miles away, but sometimes when my Grandad and Uncle got going, I couldn't understand a word they were talking about. :)

He said Fenland. Notice that he starts buy saying "The flat cold Fens of East Anglia". The Fens are areas of marshland, many of which have been drained to create flat, low-lying agricultural land.

The real Essex accent can still be heard in a few places in north Essex I still speak it

@LondonGooner

8 ай бұрын

Essex is massive though someone from Woodford would of always had a london sounding accent so what's a real essex accent?

@DavidMckenna-wl9do

8 ай бұрын

Your right there’s a few different accents in Essex depending where you’re from I meant north Essex similar to Suffolk

@LondonGooner

8 ай бұрын

@DavidMckenna-wl9do essex is so big beautiful part of the country in some areas some have become nasty, Kent is also beautiful love going there I've only ever lived in Islington or Enfield.

@kfwfb534

2 ай бұрын

How would you define northern Essex in this context - what modern counties?

I can really hear the origins of the Boston/New England accent in this dialect. There are def similarities between the East Anglian dialect and the old Boston accent, which is also sadly dying off. My Grammie had an old Boston accent and I miss hearing her speak so much!

@pauldurkee4764

8 ай бұрын

I can understand that, I know a lot of place names in Massachusetts derive from places in the UK, I found that out doing some family history research. I had ancestors who were married in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which I think from memory is in Suffolk County.

One of the creators of Australian and New Zealand English

A little bit of the Aussie dialect came from East Anglia.

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

Well actually quite alot.

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

The "educated Australian" accent eg. the Kennedy's from Neighbours have a closer accent to my own than RP Although I'll admit the two are basically the same anyway Or maybe I only think that because I sound like that...

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

@@PiousMoltar To me the majority of the Aussie accent is from East Anglia and the south east of England

@diezdarbo5633

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaggass Aussie and Kiwi English comes from England and was expanded more by Cockneys..

Just to clarify, Suffolk is NOT in the Fens.

@PhyllisJay

9 жыл бұрын

A tiny bit reaches Suffolk. It covers Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. It's not known for the reach in Suffolk - it is for the other counties I mention.

@PhyllisJay

9 жыл бұрын

Well of course. 'Tis the Mecca of all things!

@tallthinkev

6 жыл бұрын

You go careful in them Fens, they still worship fire in Manea!

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

No, Suffolk is not in the fens, but some of the fens are in Suffolk. I should know, I'm from just outside the fens, on the Norfolk / Suffolk border. Same for Norfolk. Much more fenland than Suffolk but still a tiny part of the county.

3:09 sounds just like my Grandad, he’s from around Colchester Essex

It’s similar to the Carolina Brogue (Hoi Toider dialect) found on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

Yeah the days are now too gone after all my old folks died out with their different accents and various dialects that come from all over the U.K. I am from the state of Tennessee in America raised in Northeast part my mom's family were all mostly mountain folk. I miss hearing my grandparents voices and dialectal phrases.

0:30 anyone know the name of this accordion song?

Also that’s the Blaxhall Ship which is not in the Fens but near Orford on the East Coast

I've found out what the word "Lydger" meant! it was an alternative name for a 'Bowyang' which is a bit of cord or strap that a worker would wear around the lower leg in order to squat or bend without one's trousers falling down it was actually referred to as an elijah, which makes the subtitles slightly off in this film, the defenition is given: 'String tied around labourer’s trousers, just below the knee.'

Them days are gone :(

It used to make me chuckle when I was younger, when an older relative would say do he? Instead of does he.

New England's mother accent

@diezdarbo5633

4 жыл бұрын

Father*,the natives that developed it are Germanic and are purely tribes of men

@richardpoole9793

4 жыл бұрын

@@diezdarbo5633 What are you on about, you learn language mostly from your mother, that's why your first language is called your "Mother's tongue".

East Maine dialect in the states sounds almost exactly the same

Everyone in the comments section saying the accent is dying, I'm 21 from Norfolk and I definitely speak with a Norfolk twang, it's not super strong but it's there.

I love it, great to hear and I hope it lasts.

Quite a tune- up, on the ocassion of a piss up🤣

My mother was born in kings Lynn and when ever she “goes home” it takes her a day or so and she’s back to her old not midland accent

Living in East Anglia it's sad that this accent is on the major decline. Only the real oldies speak something similar to this.

@ramadamming8498

15 күн бұрын

The dialect is changing rather than the accent but yes bor

That pub song sounded like something Frodo and Sam would sing at the Prancing Pony.

As a Norfolk native, I must say it tickles me seeing subtitles to these guys talking.

It sounds very close to the American Southern accent

Gotta keep a-hold a that.......sounds just like my Norfolk grandmother.

Thanks for the informative reply.

I'm from the Suffolk countryside and don't hear accents like these very much now.

By the way, they're not saying "boy", but "bor". In some parts of Suffolk and Norfolk they just say "ba".

Be there a b&q in lowestoft ? !oi dunno , but there be 2 c's in beccles

@ellalalalalala1420

5 жыл бұрын

Ron Cheetham nah used to be by post office

@CooCuMbEr

5 жыл бұрын

B n Cue

the normal greeting was weahip buh, even charlie haylock never says this, it was very common in 50/60s, well, in my village of Thurston near Bury,,

@iceomistar4302

6 жыл бұрын

Probably from Old English We sath ye hal

@iceomistar4302

6 жыл бұрын

Actually edit, We saþ ġē hāl

I was born in Stradishall, in the married quarters of the old RAF base. Didn't spend that much time there, as dad got posted to Germany, Cyprus & Malta. We returned to East Anglia in 66 but this time, just outside Norwich. Only there for 5 years before emigrating to Australia, in late 71. Nice to hear that accent again . . .

Australians did get their accents from Cockney and they aren't just found in East London,they are found in Sussex, Essex, Birmingham, Norwich, Manchester,a few in Yorkshire, Derbyshire as well

I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath back in the 90s. In the beginning, I felt like I needed a translator. By the end, I could understand people a lot better.

Sounds exactly like my grandfather, but ever so slightly more understandable!

From the Cambridgeshire Fenlands. Sadly, although many of the older generation (including in my family) speak like this, I find it difficult to understand sometimes. With my uncle, it's like we're speaking two separate languages entirely. It's really cool, and part of me wishes that I'd grown up with it a little bit more

@Bexyboo88

3 жыл бұрын

We are in Cambridgeshire too, near Wisbech. :) I grew up in Northamptonshire and the Hertfordshire for secondary and college years so I did have to read the subtitles haha

@kfwfb534

11 ай бұрын

Do any people in your part of Cambridgeshire have strong regional accents these days?

It’s remarkable how similar the accent is to deep Arkansas or Appalachia.

"Them days are gone, boy. They're all gone."

3:00 Sounds almost Australian!

@Da1Dez

2 жыл бұрын

That's always interesting to hear, since I've lived in North Suffolk all my life and everywhere I go up north they ask if I'm Australian 😂 But I love it!

Suffolk only has a small part of the fens in it the only places that are real fenland are like Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. This accent I hear a lot in the Soham and Ely regions as well. Luckily I still got my one slightly.

@VampireNewl

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I tend to find that when I live outside the fens my accent dissapears mostly into generic southern english.

@Epicrandomness1111

4 жыл бұрын

Try and keep your old accents chaps

Fenland village - a village in the fenland, or land full of fens. A fen is a reclaimed bit of the sea or former marsh, a bit like the polders of Holland - very flat.

Its the sound of my grand parents. 😊 ♥

Having watched both this, and the Yorkshire Dialect video, I'd love to see the whole thing if it's from the same programme. Do you have the full thing or any information on what the programme is called?

Grandmother was a Nethersall, from Lowestoft. From boatbuilders.

unfortunately Essex was the place for Londoners to come to, a mix of London and Essex is what fills the ears of people now..

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

Norfolk too. Thetford is very Londony. A sad fate for the former capital of East Anglia.

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

Then again I guess London has literally spread out and enveloped southern Essex so that's a whole other level. But East Anglian dialect and accents are dying everywhere.

@diezdarbo5633

4 жыл бұрын

You can't be mixed if you're from the same ethnic of English,real Londoners spoke like this too,not the foreigners you see and not the fake RP English which is upper class Zion Jew English

@diezdarbo5633

4 жыл бұрын

We are all referred to as Cockneys..

@martinburke362

Жыл бұрын

Shat it you Slaaaiggg!!!

Growing up in Norfolk, where my parents had moved to, I never thought my speech sounded local. That was until I saw a voice coach who told me how I missed pronouncing the -ing on verbs using instead the gerund -end. I also found out that my pronunciation of girl and world was not the one I thought everybody used 🤪

A lot of Australian sounds. Bargain sounds so similar to how Australians say it.

@kayalls

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, I agree... If I close my eyes I can hear my late Tasmanian Grandpa talking!!

@jaggass

6 жыл бұрын

The Aussie accent is a mixture of English accents.

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

I'm from Norfolk and I think Aussies speak better English than 99% of English people.

@PiousMoltar

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaggassYeah I believe it was mostly a mixture of East Anglian and Irish though if I recall correctly. But yeah probably a little bit of everything.

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

@@PiousMoltar Im guessing most English prisoners who got sent to Australia were from East Anglia.