Hello I’m from Ipswich and love my home town. I no longer have the “town” accent. I think it’s due partly to being corrected in school and by my Mum and places of work. My Suffolk accent creeps in every now and then (good). I love saying “No I int” perhaps in devilment, should my Mum hear 😃. At school we had to sing “Robin Hood Riding Through The Glen”, a very cheery song when you are 7. My classmates and I were singing merrily when the pianist stopped playing and told us off for singing “Robn Herd Robyn Herd Roidn Fru the Glen” she shouted “It’s Hood, Hood not Herd” I can still remember the look on her face when we continued singing it just the same. Of course we weren’t aware of accents then. I still sing Robin Hood, both renditions Ipswichian and posh British. You try it they are quite different 🙂.

I try to keep the Pityakka alive. People say, oh you're deliberately putting that on. I'm not, but I do choose to keep it. Keep it safe ❤ from Northeast England ❤️

Crikey, you brought tears to my eyes. I moved to Australia 50 years ago, at the age of 10, to live with my father & stepmother. Apparently I looked and sounded too much like my mother back in Suffolk. Between that and the teasing of the kids at school, my sisters and I soon lost our accents. I love ringing my uncle back home and every time, he says " Gawd Gel, yew shaw doo sound Awe-stray-Lee-en" 😊 but listening to you speak, you're right, there is still a twinge of Suffolk in the way I speak. Plant with the R in it, the way you pronounced brain, so I will hold on to those bits of home with love. Thank you, you kind soul. I will keep watching your videos, they are like a note from a dear friend back home. 🎉

@EssEvergreen

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Oh Tracey, thank you so, so much for your lovely words and for sharing your story. It made me feel rather emotional, so I'm sending you a virtual hug all the way to Australia. A piece of Suffolk will always be with you, and I know it'll always be a huge part of who you are, nothing will ever change that. I was bullied for my accent for what seems like decades but I refused to alter how I sounded (that Suffolk stubbornness strikes again). Plus my older relatives would've soon made me speak proper Suffolk again if I had have managed to alter my speech, lol. Sending you best wishes and some old Suffolk vibes your way. x

Im from the states. A similar phenomenon is happening in the states where we all are developing the general American accent that you see on television

@pinkkitten_nails

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I don’t think this will ever happen in new orleans

@pinkkitten_nails

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But yes i do see what your saying. I notice that too.

@EssEvergreen

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Hi Malik, it's funny you should mention that because me and friend were discussing this the other day. We were saying how in older films or tv shows you could hear all the differences or slight changes in accent. Bit of shame really, especially as I love the regional accents in the states.

@EssEvergreen

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@pinkkitten_nails That is music to my ears :) I'd love to visit New Orleans one day, the history and atmosphere of that place looks incredible.

We just came back from Sarajevo me and the boy. We didn't bother changing accent so even the Bosnians who spoke english struggled to understand us, airport security in sarajevo was the funniest, boy set off metal detector, im other side calling through buh buh he gunna pat ya down, hold hard and wait. One woman stopped and helped and explained to Bosnians we speaking dialect, couple of people came and spoke to us and said they could hear our accents very clearly. Best one was a load of kids shoiting down to us on a mountain path. The boy stood there and shouted itfc tractor boys on tour.... One lady doing our tour of a museum asked abkut words we used and what they meant, who knows, maybe sarajevo will stary speaking suffolk words. Best one was when a guy offered us a lift i said he i'nt right together toime to scramble Bloke didn't know what we said but know you would

Thank you for standing up for the delightful Suffolk accent. It's tragic that these dialects are being lost. I'm fascinated at how similar and how very different the Suffolk/Norfolk accents are from the West Country accents. I get why people might confuse them, I get why that might really annoy folk from East Anglia and the West Country, but the differences are delightful and so important. I hate the fact that almost the only context you hear the East Anglian and West Country accents is in comedy ( "Ha ha! Here's a stupid, uneducated farmer! Lets laugh at him" is always the thought in the background.) Have you ever watched HBO's John Adams? It's a historical drama about the second president of the USA but they trained the actors to speak in historically reconstructed accents, and the closest we have to it today is the West Country Accent. So, if you've been shamed by BBC comedies into downplaying your accent, watch "John Adams", hear the "Declaration of Independence" being read in a proper accent and allow yourself to feel a real swell of pride in the way you speak!

@EssEvergreen

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Thank you for your wonderful comment, and kind words! You are so right, it is tragic that our beloved dialects and accents are being lost. Our cultural history and heritage is so connected within our language, and some of us really dislike seeing it disappear so rapidly. I will have to check out John Adams, I've not seen that so thank you for pointing me towards that. You are also right about how our old country accents are used as something to find humorous, or to make fun of. The stereotypical (via tv) impression that a rural accent equals being uneducated is so annoying isn't it! Though we're in a time where rudeness seems to be the "in" thing sadly, so all I can say is that it shows more about other peoples lack of education than anything else :)

@parksideevangelicalchurch2886

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@@EssEvergreen Here's a link to the scene in "John Adams" where they are drafting the Declaration of Independence, with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson talking with a lovely West Country burr. Uneducated? Pah! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dWujl82QosWweqg.htmlsi=GBgWqZoWTD_AKtWw

@georginawhitby1320

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​@@EssEvergreenit's lovely hearing your accent , and intriguing how much in common it has with the local accent of so many of us over 40 who grew up in Melbourne Australia. It's very clear that your region contributed a lot to the population and accent here !

HOWDY from Texas ! your accent is awesome !

@EssEvergreen

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Greetings from sunny Suffolk! I’m willing to bet your accent is awesome too 🙂

I was recently in St Barts for a heart op, and the day I was being discharged, I was all packed and waiting for my transport home. As I sat there I heard a thick Suffolk accent and I leapt (as best I could) out of my chair because I knew whoever it was were coming for me. The young female driver and I talked the entire journey back to Leiston.

@EssEvergreen

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Sounds like you've been through quite a lot, so let me begin by wishing you a speedy recovery from your op and I hope that you're doing ok. I can only imagine how much it would've cheered your spirits to hear that gal with the Suffolk accent, especially for company on the journey home. Life giving out little random acts of positivity right there :)

my family is all from east london, but we gradually moved to suffolk and norfolk a few of us at a time, been over 10 years since i was moved up as a kid. what ive noticed is that we've all gradually incorporated a bit of suffolk and norfolk accents in the way we speak as well as held on to a few east london expressions, so us lot are a bit rummun innit.

Thanks so much for this, especially after I commented to you on my own accent history t’other day. I’m taking credit! I’m entering a 60 mile cycle event around Framlingham next month and staying over the night before. Any opportunity to spend time in my native county (which incidentally I left 65 years ago at age 8!) will be embraced. Uppa Towen!

@EssEvergreen

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Glad you liked the video :) It's funny how things go because I filmed this video (and another one) a few hours before I saw your comment. That's when I decided I had definitely done the right thing in making a video about this topic. Sometimes I can film something and I dither about whether to upload it, so yes, you can take credit for helping me actually decide it should be seen :) And well done for entering the 60 mile cycle ride! That's one heck of long way, but its in a fabulous part of Suffolk. I wish you well for that, and may the weather be with you!

Same here, but from across the pond. I'm from Central Florida, and our regional accent has been utterly wiped out due to Yankees migrating down, plus the TV.

Hello young lady…..what a beautiful channel…so interesting, unusual and warm. I hope you won’t mind but a few minutes into a video I put out this afternoon I gave your channel a mention and captioned it. I only have about 11k subscribers but I think many of them would appreciate you and particularly your style. I don’t make many these days since I retired, but because I keep getting asked I’m going to do a monthly thing if I can maintain the enthusiasm…..I’m a bit earthy in my presentation and not always appropriate…having spent about 60 of my 68 years in potting sheds I blame that. I’ve dealt business wise and socially with many nurserymen from East Anglia, and while the landscape is a bit flat for me, I have really enjoyed working with the people I’ve known from there…..even if I needed a bloody interpreter half the time….or wished they’d speed up! Very laid back and lovely folk. keep it up……Very best wishes….Malcolm (Plantsmans Corner) As an afterthought……if ever you want to send me a poem or a short reading in that wonderful accent of yours (I have a posh artist who does that occasionally….well quite a lot really) I’d gladly drop it into a video with a caption to your channel……I’ve no real interest in promoting my own but I would like to help yours if I can in a small way.

@EssEvergreen

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Lovely to meet you virtually Malcolm! And thank you so, so much for mentioning me in one of your videos!!! I feel very honoured 🙂 I’m a little behind with my messages this week so I’m currently playing catch up. I love your videos and your channel in general, especially as I spent many years working in a garden centre myself. The happiest working days of my life, outdoors amongst the plants and such like. I could go on forever about that. I will reply more soon as it’s getting late, but I would like to thank you again for your kind words and support. They mean a lot 🙂

I’m originally from Lincolnshire but moved away when I was 10; now I probably have a standard Thames Valley accent (apart from the northern ‘oop’ that I picked up in Yorkshire) but I can usually recognise the Lincolnshire accent and I am a little sad that I can’t speak it. Although my mum’s accent has got a bit stronger as she got older, specially on the phone. Thank you, this looks like a really nice channel … and my Frosts came to Lincolnshire from Bury St Edmunds in the 1700s so I have a small Suffolk connection 😀

I've never even been to Suffolk (except to watch a football match many years ago) but I now feel an affinity to the place, thanks to these videos. Thank you, nice Suffolk woman

@EssEvergreen

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Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you enjoy my little videos. You're not alone in feeling connected to this place, it seems to really draw people to it. Even those who have never even placed a foot on Suffolk soil :)

I wonder if those who feel they have lost their accent, are able to pick it up again when they visit home. My sister in law has lived in Derbyshire for 50 years and when she goes less than 50 miles back into Yorkshire she is as broad a ever. They other time we notice it is when she phones the her cousins who still live in Yorkshire. so perhaps if you can't visit suffolk, you can perhaps speak to family or friends who speak suffolk via the phone..

I had 3 different accents which I could easily switch between. Broad Norfolk from my Dad, RP from my Mum and broad Lincolnshire from my school mates. After 50 years working with the 'wrong' people I now have RP but do still use Lincolnshire dialect words. I wish I could still speak the other two as I feel local accents are important.

yah this video randomly came into my feed haha. I’m Texan. Went from Houston 500 miles northwest to a place called Lubbock, TX years ago for University and when I went back to Houston on semester break my friends were already saying I sounded like West Texas and not Houston😅. Have lived all over Texas over the years since then. But you’d be fascinated each region of Texas has its own accent. I mean, not as many accents as England as I have discovered through the internet videos, but definitely at least 6 or 7 regional “Texan” accent depending on if you are city or rural. Or central, west, east, or south. Way more variety than you standard Hollywood-ized cowboy accent haha. Just like England again though. You had basically your posh or or cockney in entertainment. But come to find out, there’s literally hundreds! I’m a “internet linguistics enthusiast” shall we say, hahahaha, so when I found out how actually many dialects and accents were in UK places it really blew my mind!

I’ve lived in Suffolk since we moved here when I was 6 in 1984. Was interested to hear you pronounce the word cue like you’d say Kew Gardens. I think my school friends would’ve said coo, pronouncing it like they say human (hooman). Maybe I’m misremembering. Or maybe I’m thinking of the word queue. How would you pronounce that? Maybe there are variations across the county.

Well this toim gal yew hev hit the nail on the hed. Made me feel quoit emotional!

@EssEvergreen

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Pleased to hear you appreciate the sentiment of this one. It's a strong connection for many of us, and accents can be very important to many people.

I love the suffolk accent

@EssEvergreen

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Always pleased to here that :) It's a wonderful accent isn't it.

I was in London a few weeks ago, travelling home from the Czech republic, stopped for a McDonald's at Liverpool street, bloke couldn't understand what I was saying, another customer had to step in and explain what I wanted off of him, didn't even think my accent is that bad anymore, musta been I spose

@EssEvergreen

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That made me smile, I can just imagine the whole scenario! It's quite something when you need an interpreter :D Modern types sadly haven't necessarily learnt the art of understanding Suffolk, absolute shame don't you think?!

@exploringsuffolk

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@@EssEvergreen it is a shame, the look on his face when I asked for a sachet of salt, he was like what? I was like salt boy I want some salt, he looked confused, bloke behind came in and said he wants salt, oh the man said why didn't he say? I said can I have a straw please, so it went on like that the whole order and forget foreigners understanding my accent, one bloke said it's ok English is my second language too, speak slow and clear and we can do this, ok buh I said, hope your middling well together, makes me wonder how me and the boy gunna get on in Bosnia

yep all they need to do is watch your channel and parrot you and the neurons that hold their speech memory will quickly resurface!😅

@EssEvergreen

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It could happen, it might have been waiting to resurface all along :D

My dad use to use a lot of Suffolk expressions, l don't know how he picked the up.

@EssEvergreen

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It's always nice to hear things like that. This old way of speaking is (and was) a very special thing.

@michaelwhite8031

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Our family really came from Kent, there must have been an overlap in the counties somewhere.

@EssEvergreen

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That makes it all the more interesting. Some of our dialect did travel over the nearby borders, especially back in the day. And those who spent time here often took our language back to their homelands. It would be interesting to know what you link was :)

@michaelwhite8031

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I probably had family from.Suffolk through marriage