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  • @alecfrancis2084
    @alecfrancis20843 жыл бұрын

    “I don’t naaaaaoooo” probably one of the thing most Norfolk thing to say 😂

  • @scruff101collects7

    @scruff101collects7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha srry to disappoint but most of us from Norfolk don't have this accent 🙃

  • @alecfrancis2084

    @alecfrancis2084

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scruff101collects7 I know I’m a dumpling too!

  • @scruff101collects7

    @scruff101collects7

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alecfrancis2084 haha lol

  • @arrowhasautism9953

    @arrowhasautism9953

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@scruff101collects7*laughs in Suffolk accent*

  • @scruff101collects7

    @scruff101collects7

    Жыл бұрын

    @arrow has autism I tend to speak king's English lol

  • @AndreasYiasimi
    @AndreasYiasimi5 жыл бұрын

    I live in Cromer, Norfolk. It's bootiful ☺

  • @clairehutcheson8485

    @clairehutcheson8485

    4 жыл бұрын

    nowrich

  • @dylanbracey9493

    @dylanbracey9493

    4 жыл бұрын

    I went there for the beach There was no beach

  • @vipinvnath4011

    @vipinvnath4011

    4 жыл бұрын

    @EyeZackZin byootafal

  • @tubadude905

    @tubadude905

    4 жыл бұрын

    My brother lives in Cromer (David Jarrel).. We're American's with a Sheringham mother - lived on Priory Rd. I returned to the US at almost 22, my brother in Cromer became a British citizen. I think you and I know a lot of the same people as I've seen you on friends FaceBook posts.

  • @auroraborealis2442

    @auroraborealis2442

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@clairehutcheson8485 Norwich

  • @laurakitteridge2150
    @laurakitteridge21502 жыл бұрын

    For me the 'don't knooooow' was the perfect example of Broad Norfolk.

  • @underneonloneliness2

    @underneonloneliness2

    10 ай бұрын

    Sounds like Now

  • @snowysnowyriver
    @snowysnowyriver2 жыл бұрын

    My grandparents used to call the Suffolk accent "singing Suffolk" because the old accent from their youth had a sing-song lilt to it. A broad Norfolk accent rolls like a gentle breeze, a Suffolk accent lilts and sings. The old boy talking sounds just like my uncles and grandfathers. They are all long passed away now, but this brought back wonderful memories.

  • @robertmilligan3950
    @robertmilligan39503 жыл бұрын

    My site agent when I worked for a Thetford company would answer the phone with Harold Hare. Me thinking his surname was Hare. He meant here. Nice guy.

  • @vulpesaustralis1452
    @vulpesaustralis1452 Жыл бұрын

    I'm Aussie and this guy sounds a lot like some of my uncles 😂I came here because I've heard the Norfolk accent frequently being compared to Australian, and I gotta say I wasn't disappointed!

  • @jaggass

    @jaggass

    Жыл бұрын

    Alot of the East Anglian dialect made it's way to Australia and New England

  • @vulpesaustralis1452

    @vulpesaustralis1452

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jaggass Ah, I have heard that! It's pretty neat to think about. I wonder if it influenced NYC too, with things like 'bootiful'?

  • @jaggass

    @jaggass

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vulpesaustralis1452 Possibly but the Irish, Italian's, English, Spanish etc settled in New York yrs ago.

  • @ben_9134

    @ben_9134

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm born and raised in Norfolk and I'm occasionally mistaken for an Auzzie whenever I travel to other parts of the UK, particularly Scotland. My theory about the similarities in the accents is that it might be because of the 'Captain Swing Riots' in Norfolk and Suffolk during the 1830s. Many hundreds of people where transported to Australia as punishment in the aftermath of the riots, at a time when the European population of Australia was less than 150,000, so I think that their arrival in large numbers may have had some sort of lasting impact on the development of the accent.

  • @theinvertebratequeen

    @theinvertebratequeen

    Жыл бұрын

    That's actually a funny coincidence. My uncle is Norfolk born and bred but moved to Australia YONKS ago so he has a semi-strong Australian accent now. You can hear the difference when an Australian is speaking to someone from Norfolk BUT I can seriously hear how similar some words can be when I talk to my uncle's partner who is Australian born and bred lol.

  • @thear8241
    @thear82412 жыл бұрын

    My Grandad had a very similar accent, he died well over 10 years ago now and I'm slowly forgetting how he spoke, but to hear this is so nice. He was born in North Cambridgeshire and worked as a farmer :)

  • @Bilzo599

    @Bilzo599

    9 ай бұрын

    I'm originally from Cambridgeshire and can say the accent is quite similar, mainly with words like 'game' where there's a very distinct 'aaahhyyy' sound. Most people understandably think of the Cambridge accent as standard RP because of the unis but to me I always think of 'Caahyymbridge'. Almost slightly cockney and slightly country sounding.. My grandparents are from West Yorkshire and think it's a horrible sound haha

  • @cwbrooks5329
    @cwbrooks5329 Жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful accent. Love this one. Thanks for sharing.

  • @liannecat
    @liannecat5 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like my grandad I love it!

  • @mitzymoomoo6658

    @mitzymoomoo6658

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like mine too lol

  • @amandachurch19

    @amandachurch19

    2 жыл бұрын

    That is how my grandad use to sound

  • @rjwoodhouse1
    @rjwoodhouse13 жыл бұрын

    I am lucky enough to have spent the first 30 years of my life living in Norfolk and now live in South Wales so my accent has changed 'bu ass aurite bouy'.

  • @dalewarren6271
    @dalewarren62714 жыл бұрын

    Norfolk is the best place in the world. I’ve lived in Norfolk all my life and I love it more and more each day.

  • @htk8581

    @htk8581

    3 жыл бұрын

    Everybody's hometown is their paradise.(usually)

  • @padda5004

    @padda5004

    3 жыл бұрын

    fake and gay

  • @dalewarren6271

    @dalewarren6271

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@padda5004 Are you ok? Do you need a hug or something?

  • @myk1137

    @myk1137

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nobody agrees with HTK?Strange.He's sooo right!

  • @anthonydanielgittins1864

    @anthonydanielgittins1864

    3 жыл бұрын

    Boi, that is alright

  • @tubadude905
    @tubadude9054 жыл бұрын

    Fellow American here who was lucky to live in Sheringham, Norfolk from age 9-21 (my mother is from there), returning to the US with a bit of a bastardized Norfolk accent that went away after a couple of years. My elder brother stayed in Cromer and as a weird hybrid US-Norfolk dialect, Nice you captured this nice fellas accent.

  • @Adam-yu5zj

    @Adam-yu5zj

    2 жыл бұрын

    No way. I love Cromer. We go there at least 2 times a year. Online, it feels like people don’t know Norfolk exists and I always get joy when people talk about it ha

  • @stevegoodson9022

    @stevegoodson9022

    11 ай бұрын

    You may be my dad - did you happen to have sex with a sheringham girl toward the end of 1968?

  • @ceefaxbbctv8788
    @ceefaxbbctv8788 Жыл бұрын

    Superb. I love listening to this chap speak

  • @theinvertebratequeen
    @theinvertebratequeen Жыл бұрын

    This guy sounds just like so many of my older family members, oh my god. I'm proud to be Norfolk and have a slight Norfolk accent. I've never noticed it but some people have pointed it out to me. They say the true Norfolk accent is a dying accent - I hope it sticks about though, I think it's brilliant.

  • @anthonydanielgittins1864
    @anthonydanielgittins18643 жыл бұрын

    What a lot of people do not understand is that Norfolk is a large county. We have different accents if we are from the South, East, North or West. I grew up with a South Norfolk and Norwich accent. However, I have lived all over both real East Anglian counties: Norfolk and Suffolk. Even in different parts of Norwich, there are differences. Having been a private international school teacher, around the world, I now officially speak RP ( Many years at various unis ) butI still swear to myself in Broad Norfolk when aggravated: in the full knowledge that nobody else can possibly understand me. I am still proud of my roots. Many folks underestimate us bumpkins. Now show me a poor farmer...

  • @TheBanMan
    @TheBanMan5 жыл бұрын

    Can definitely hear elements of a New England/Bostonian accent in there- "put the hammah hea", "one yea", "he was fahntastic"

  • @olliereed4206

    @olliereed4206

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its pure Maine old timer.

  • @Arc_Luena

    @Arc_Luena

    5 жыл бұрын

    See my above comment, and link, for a conversation with a lady interviewing a proper old norfolk boy. Intrestingly the Norfolk accent has sometimes been described as Aussie or NZ, but I can see why you guys also think it has Bostonian hints to it. To me (a brit from norfolk) all the US accents sound the same.... except when it comes to A)The southern drawl and B) People from boston

  • @cryoraptora303tm2

    @cryoraptora303tm2

    4 жыл бұрын

    A lot of American English accents have elements of the East Anglian accents. The southern accents have more in common with West Country accents.

  • @drey8

    @drey8

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Arc_Luena I listened to a radio programme about accents and there's a theory that Norfolk convicts were deported to Australia to work on farms and their accent influenced the modern Aussie accent. It's a great theory because I know a couple of people from Norfolk who sound uncannily Aussie. It's not beyond imagination to think people from Cornwall, with a similar drawl accent, may have settled in places like Maine and Massachusetts to be fishermen.

  • @Arc_Luena

    @Arc_Luena

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@drey8 I'm from Norfolk and have been asked more than once if I'm from Australia when I've visited other parts of the UK (and mine is way more RP than Norfolk.) A proper norfolk speaker would struggle to be understood outside of East Anglia..... A lot of people who try and do a Norfolk accent end up doing west country, there are similarities but we don't round the r sound, and here, near and dear become "hair" "nair" and "dare". Roof and road are made with the oo sound in woof, and mode, code, toad becomes mood cood and tood. Also "that" is used in replace of it. "When she driv up the rud, that started to rain" for example. Finally, hour, power and flower in Norfolk is, ahh, paaah and shaaar. There's a tonne of other stuff, the wiki entry on Norfolk dialect is good.

  • @cheesesticks158
    @cheesesticks1585 жыл бұрын

    I’m from Norfolk but my accent isn’t as strong

  • @siena4235

    @siena4235

    5 жыл бұрын

    same lad

  • @PiousMoltar

    @PiousMoltar

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same and both my parents are from Suffolk and I was born in Suffolk and grew up about a mile from the Suffolk border so... maybe I'm more Suffolk. Also considered myself more Norfolk though. Actually even my parents seemed to somewhat. Which is kinda strange...

  • @naomi5710

    @naomi5710

    4 жыл бұрын

    That’s what we think at least😳

  • @jamesiyer4937

    @jamesiyer4937

    3 жыл бұрын

    69 likes (lmao)

  • @youwot2430

    @youwot2430

    3 жыл бұрын

    its a lot more rare these days, much more common among older people buh.

  • @briankeniry219
    @briankeniry2192 ай бұрын

    My family had relatives in Sea Palling, in fact they lived just by the sand dunes in 1953! Anyway, they used to have holidays down there but the last time I was there I was about 6 years old and that's 61 years ago. At the time there was a record out from a chap called The Singing Postman called "A ye go a loight boi". Coincidedntally when I holidayed down there the local postman to the village had an accent almost identical and I can still remember him speaking to me and especially the way he pronounced my name "Brian", lovely feller.

  • @maggiehyder7075
    @maggiehyder7075 Жыл бұрын

    My granny and her seven brothers and sisters were all even broader than this. All born late 19th century and died late 20th. I grew up in Kent but was teased mercilessly at school because I used to say "hair" instead of "here", like this gentleman, and "rarely" instead of "really" etc. Picked up from my Dad who, although he spoke like a BBC presenter as he had been sent to public school, had retained these bits of Norfolk from my granny.

  • @fetengineer9151
    @fetengineer91514 жыл бұрын

    There's a small community in North Carolina, USA that sounds a lot like him... very similar... it's amazingly close.

  • @TP-mv6en

    @TP-mv6en

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yh because they’re derived from Southern English accents like Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, West Country

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I have seen the clips of this. See where you are coming from, but it's not.

  • @isabella2472
    @isabella24725 жыл бұрын

    I live near hindleveston and I know people with Norfolk accents

  • @slacko1971

    @slacko1971

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hindolveston......just saying

  • @isabella2472

    @isabella2472

    3 жыл бұрын

    slacko 1971 autocorrect

  • @isabella2472

    @isabella2472

    3 жыл бұрын

    slacko 1971 idk why tho

  • @dimezreconB4
    @dimezreconB44 жыл бұрын

    My Dad was stationed at Lakenheath. I miss the area, and especially miss the great folks from the Fens and small towns.

  • @allancrotch2953

    @allancrotch2953

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great respect from a 65 yr old Norwich boy to all American airmen who were stationed here from the 40s on and saved us from both Fascism and Communism

  • @Sophie.S..
    @Sophie.S..4 жыл бұрын

    Yay Hindleveston. My great uncle had a farm there and my great aunt played the organ at Hindleveston church. My great uncle had an accent exactly like this guy (even broader I think). Love, love Norfolk.

  • @slacko1971

    @slacko1971

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cool, what farm did your great uncle have? Do you know?

  • @Sophie.S..

    @Sophie.S..

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@slacko1971 Not sure. They retired and died many years ago, but think White House Farm rings a bell, but could be wrong.

  • @mikelovesbacon

    @mikelovesbacon

    8 ай бұрын

    How does he pronounce it? Living in Norfolk for almost 20 years now I've never heard anyone say Hin-dol-ves-ton as he does in this video, it's usually Hindleston or even just Hindle.

  • @Nyctophora
    @Nyctophora10 ай бұрын

    One day for my birthday we went looking for one of those villages you'd never find, Whaplode St Catherine. We found it by asking someone where it was: "You're in it."! We went to the fantastic cactus and succulent nursery. Well, thanks for the trip down memory lane :) Long may the accent thrive!

  • @Krgump
    @Krgump8 ай бұрын

    I have traced my ancestors back to 1633 Norfolk. This is pleasant.

  • @barbaravyse660

    @barbaravyse660

    5 ай бұрын

    I’m American and traced mine back to 1640. I’m confused because I always read that my last name originated in Devon.

  • @AndyT-np8mm

    @AndyT-np8mm

    4 ай бұрын

    They left just in time.

  • @anthonyhall4427

    @anthonyhall4427

    Ай бұрын

    I've traced mine there as well and around that same time. I'm American as well

  • @oasisstoneroses
    @oasisstoneroses2 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid, the last family holiday we had was to the Norfolk Broads. And my Dad imitated the Norfolk accent the whole time we were there. Mostly place names. All of a sudden he'd burst out with "Potter Heigham !!" or "Wroxxxhhham" in a really bad Norfok accent. Totally fed up with him by the end of the fortnight. :-) :-) Dead funny though :-) :-)

  • @GB-uk6dr
    @GB-uk6dr2 жыл бұрын

    At Christmas they always have “bootiful” turkeys in Norfolk! “Bootiful” Norfolk, the home of “bootiful” food, great tasting and “bootiful” poultry products and the local restaurants serve “bootiful” turkey dinners. “Bootiful!”

  • @karenbartlett1307
    @karenbartlett13073 жыл бұрын

    My forebear immigrated from Norfolk in 1749 to South Carolina, America. Glad to hear this accent. My parents still say "cain't" instead of "can't" and we drop all of our "g's" on endings of words. We also say "ya" instead of "you". We came from a village called Honing, near Norwich. My forebear was christened in St. Peter and St. Paul Church there. I reckon we were Angles from North Germany at one time. My father's people are all blond with blue eyes.

  • @karenbartlett1307

    @karenbartlett1307

    3 жыл бұрын

    P.S. My mom's dad was nearly full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee, so I don't represent the "Aryan race". I also have a black ancestor, an escaped slave who married a Shawnee warrior. I represent the usual American from the South. In the Southern US, "races" were often mixed. We weren't racio-phobic (my term) as they were in the North, according to Alexis deTocqueville, who wrote "Democracy in America" after touring the US in 1830 or so.

  • @karenbartlett1307

    @karenbartlett1307

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Itachi Uchiha I have traced my ancestry on Ancestry.com and have a second cousin who is a genealogist. We are Shawnee/Cherokee on my mom's side, which has been traced to the 1400's. We also have a small amount of Powhatan background. One Shawnee woman married Chief Powhatan. Their daughter was Matachana the Shawano. I had a Mitochondrial DNA test done on 23andMe and it traced my mother's mother's DNA back through their mothers. It says my MtDNA shows Irish (Donegal), English (London), Spanish and Portuguese. Have no idea where the Spanish or Portuguese DNA was from, unless it was Roman Legions in England. I haven't had a paternal DNA test from a male relative on my mom's side done, and that's where the Shawnee/Cherokee is from. However, I have the Ancestry.com records. There are some mixed blood people in Florida and many Cubanos live in Miami, but most are not mixed in modern times, only from 'way back. As far as Southerners, not all are "hillbillies". It depends on where they are from. Hillbillies are usually from Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina (known as the Upper South) Arkansas and Missouri (because many people from Missouri and Arkansas were from Tennessee and Kentucky). People from Alabama also call themselves hillbillies but I have no idea why. People from the Deep South, i.e., South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana are not hillbillies, but Southerners. People from Oklahoma and Texas are Westerners, although Southern. But each Southern State is different and has a different culture, sometimes varied within the State.

  • @karenbartlett1307

    @karenbartlett1307

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Itachi Uchiha I would think that Houston and Dallas have Scots/Irish (the usual Southern blood) as well as Latinos and Indians, as well as some blacks. They could be mixed but most "races" stick with their own.

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    @@karenbartlett1307 I don't know to be honest but I would probably be confident in saying that native American tribes of the era that pre dated the renaissance, would not of kept birth/marriage and death records, which would then be archived for around 600 years, for people then to be able to read on ancestry website giving evidence of this bloodline. Also your DNA is a makeup of codes that produce your skin, eyes and hair colour, your biological makeup of limbs, digits and face. No where in that would it say that you are from a European city. As for Spanish and Portuguese Roman legions in England. Firstly there was no England until about 500 years after the Romans left Britain, secondly you truly believe that after 2000 years that would be traceable in a DNA test? If you have paid for this, I would get your money back. Though I think the main question is this? What the hell has this got to do with the Norfolk accent.

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    You are saying that after 260 years your family kept it's accent from Norfolk. Yeah, I am going to call BS on that one. If Bob Hope was unable to keep hold of his English accent in his own lifetime, I very much doubt that your family over many generations was able to.

  • @angelaandersons7918
    @angelaandersons7918 Жыл бұрын

    Half expect him to burst into ' I got a brand new combine harvester, won't give the key' brilliant! Looking forward to my next trip to Gr8 Yarmouth plus River Yere? Or Bure or summat lol

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    Wrong end of the country.

  • @angelaandersons7918

    @angelaandersons7918

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cambs0181 my bad lol

  • @andymackie8283

    @andymackie8283

    5 ай бұрын

    That's Zummerzet moi luvver not Norfolk

  • @St311a0ctangu1a
    @St311a0ctangu1a26 күн бұрын

    The fact he sounds exactly like my dad proves how accurate this is

  • @noahlaws531
    @noahlaws5313 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure if the whole of Norfolk is like this, but in my area the pronunciation of towel and tile sound pretty much exactly the same (said like "taahl"), so it's always funny when it comes to talking about bathrooms 😆

  • @gt06-stunts54

    @gt06-stunts54

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just realised I also do this

  • @gt06-stunts54

    @gt06-stunts54

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m from wymondham

  • @moiragoldsmith7052

    @moiragoldsmith7052

    2 жыл бұрын

    This tickled me re 'bathrooms'😂. I love a regional accent. I am a Geordie and dialects from all fellow folk enthrall me!

  • @jamesfowler3582
    @jamesfowler35824 жыл бұрын

    Makes me laugh how the American thinks the game bowls and football (David Beckham) could possibly be something a bowls play would naturally progressed to. 😄

  • @jlaurelle
    @jlaurelle2 жыл бұрын

    Y’all I was listening for Norfolk, Virginia. We pronounce Norfolk the same way here. I was born in Suffolk, Virginia and we pronounce it the same here, too 😊 I used to live in Surry County, too. Now I live in Portsmouth 😊

  • @ArcadeCabNBud
    @ArcadeCabNBud2 жыл бұрын

    we were going to move to great yarmouth but after hearing his accent, essex it is.

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    Great Yarmouth is in Suffolk.

  • @mikelovesbacon

    @mikelovesbacon

    8 ай бұрын

    @@cambs0181 Unfortunately it's actually in Norfolk, although everyone wishes we could disown it and push it in to Suffolk

  • @akz4634
    @akz4634 Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me off my grandad 🥺

  • @Surv1ve_Thrive
    @Surv1ve_Thrive2 жыл бұрын

    Some folks from Kent used to have a version of this accent too.

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    Along with Sussex and Hampshire. It's to do with the rise of the middle class in the 1800s where the well spoken English accent evolved, along with post war overspill of Londoners moving out to the home counties that killed it off.

  • @cliveadams7629
    @cliveadams7629Ай бұрын

    Ha ha ha! Got a warning for blood & gore & violence! Turns out it was ad for a game, not this video. Made me laugh out loud for real.

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom2 ай бұрын

    "Have you got loit a loight boy"? ...is the stereotyped Norfolk phrase with the inflection dipping down and up again in the middle :-)

  • @Official_england_account_1066
    @Official_england_account_1066Ай бұрын

    As a man who has lived in norfolk me ole life, i love my accent

  • @isabella2472
    @isabella24725 жыл бұрын

    I'm almost completely norfolk

  • @kewakefield
    @kewakefield2 жыл бұрын

    My dad and grandad were born in Hindol!

  • @alexawhite6119
    @alexawhite61193 жыл бұрын

    i live in norwich, the city in norfolk and i don’t have a strong accent tbf ahahah

  • @andymackie8283
    @andymackie82835 ай бұрын

    The accent in Cape May county NJ has a lot of Norfolk in it.

  • @zacjenkins3964
    @zacjenkins39643 жыл бұрын

    I lived in Norwich norfolk for ten years now I live in chandler Arizona USA

  • @user-np8nr5uw3r
    @user-np8nr5uw3r3 ай бұрын

    One of my favourite places is the west coast of Norfolk

  • @smythharris2635

    @smythharris2635

    2 ай бұрын

    What?😅

  • @tiddlesa.6125
    @tiddlesa.61253 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing the phone book with the residents nicknames. When the locals speak together it’s a totally different language. Amazingly beautiful place.

  • @rbarnett3200

    @rbarnett3200

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Amazingly bootiful place". You used a compooter though, so it probably corrected thou

  • @kartherton
    @kartherton3 жыл бұрын

    Born in Barsham, and lived in Fakenham all my life. So broad Norfolk I suppose I am. The chap in the video sounds just normal to me. 😉 👍

  • @donmurray3638
    @donmurray36383 ай бұрын

    I worked in Norfolk much of the 1970's and by the end I could often tell Norfolk from Norwich accents

  • @ollyfox9157
    @ollyfox91574 жыл бұрын

    I live in Melton which is just down the road to Hindolveston

  • @Arc_Luena

    @Arc_Luena

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm from taverham

  • @ollyfox9157

    @ollyfox9157

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Arc_Luena didn't ask

  • @Arc_Luena

    @Arc_Luena

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't need your permission to say something on here

  • @Floral_Green

    @Floral_Green

    4 жыл бұрын

    Weird. There’s a town named Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire that I thought you were referring to for a second there

  • @ollyfox9157

    @ollyfox9157

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Floral_Green shut up how can you not know about the infamous criminality that the melton mafiosos get up to

  • @steveo726
    @steveo7269 ай бұрын

    Count his fingers on each hand he should have 6 on each hand to be true norfolk

  • @disembodiednarrator
    @disembodiednarrator Жыл бұрын

    Norfolk is based This message is from your friends to the west, Cambridgeshire.

  • @freddyrash2869
    @freddyrash28694 жыл бұрын

    I’m in Hindolveston tooo

  • @georgehowes5878

    @georgehowes5878

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @TheOneUK1111

    @TheOneUK1111

    3 жыл бұрын

    So that's everyone then? 😛

  • @johnmasters504
    @johnmasters5044 жыл бұрын

    I M from Cambridgeshire

  • @samwainwright4641
    @samwainwright46414 жыл бұрын

    How ya gettin orn boi!

  • @TheVoyagersBlueprints
    @TheVoyagersBlueprints2 жыл бұрын

    I was really confused for a bit, because I was looking for Norfolk, Virginia...there are actually some commonalities though, like the word "about"

  • @Anna101shark
    @Anna101shark5 жыл бұрын

    From Dereham!

  • @jackmalcolm3708

    @jackmalcolm3708

    4 жыл бұрын

    Anna101shark uno where beeston is?

  • @tobshhh230

    @tobshhh230

    4 жыл бұрын

    Beetley??

  • @TheOneUK1111

    @TheOneUK1111

    3 жыл бұрын

    Deerum!

  • @iamnotmadi

    @iamnotmadi

    3 жыл бұрын

    eyyyyy

  • @teddingtonbear3265
    @teddingtonbear3265 Жыл бұрын

    I moved to Suffolk 25 years ago from London, I thought everyone was weird, we walked into a pub and everyone turned like in "American Werewolf in London." I can spot a townie a mile off now and they are the weird ones.

  • @ed393
    @ed393 Жыл бұрын

    Tha chaff my ring piece tha do

  • @kronsteen9093
    @kronsteen90933 жыл бұрын

    Born in Norwich and lived in Aylsham.

  • @nectafarious8842
    @nectafarious8842Ай бұрын

    They look like turkeys who have just seen Bernard Matthews grinning at them...

  • @andrewpegg1050
    @andrewpegg10502 жыл бұрын

    I am true Norfolk person and very very very proud to be Norfolk

  • @akz4634

    @akz4634

    Жыл бұрын

    Me to ! I’m from Norwich

  • @user-np8nr5uw3r

    @user-np8nr5uw3r

    3 ай бұрын

    Can I test that pride on the very level?

  • @crepoyf6709
    @crepoyf67093 жыл бұрын

    I.love Cromer

  • @llTllOllBllYll
    @llTllOllBllYll4 жыл бұрын

    Good ol' buh

  • @traceyculyer5811
    @traceyculyer58112 жыл бұрын

    Dwile flunking, shink , shount, sharnt, dingover, lumox,rummun, wick, huh, jip, Just a few.

  • @lifeslessons9889
    @lifeslessons98895 ай бұрын

    Eeeee say IIIIII say sheeeee say ..aaaa ya gotta light boyyyy 😂

  • @estebansteverincon7117
    @estebansteverincon71173 жыл бұрын

    "Naw-fuck"

  • @jamesm.3967
    @jamesm.39673 жыл бұрын

    Rebecca Lowe is from Norfolk. 😉

  • @wltrzxoux3558
    @wltrzxoux35583 жыл бұрын

    _I love this accent as even black British talking thats so interesting though_

  • @jameshorth2722
    @jameshorth27223 жыл бұрын

    bishy barnabee

  • @Violetentropy
    @Violetentropy Жыл бұрын

    I was looking for the Norfolk, Virginia accent 😂😂😂

  • @Darkhorse-vb7wq
    @Darkhorse-vb7wq3 жыл бұрын

    I’m from wymondham norfolk

  • @freddiemedley5580
    @freddiemedley55802 ай бұрын

    Sounds like an East Mercian accent to me. I could here that in Lincolnshire

  • @emilywickson5148
    @emilywickson51484 жыл бұрын

    big up hindolveston

  • @dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744
    @dandylandpuffplaysminecraf87442 жыл бұрын

    I spent the summer I was 12 within sniffing distance of the chocolate factory in Norwich. Wells-next-the-Sea was a great little visit. Magic. Why go to London?

  • @georgehowes5878
    @georgehowes58784 жыл бұрын

    I live in Hindolveston

  • @vaughanrichards7438
    @vaughanrichards74383 жыл бұрын

    I spent a holiday on the Norfolk Broads and being very interested in language I looked forward to hearing some broad East Anglian dialect. No such luck I'm afraid. Everyone I met was a tourist like me!

  • @mattylamb9194

    @mattylamb9194

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love the Norfolk Broads - very pretty area

  • @yiabwstetienne7474

    @yiabwstetienne7474

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was on holiday on the Broads in 78 and 79. Loved hearing the locals refer to Potter Heigham as "Porr". Bet you don't hear that now, everyone seems to speak Estuary style now. Dialects have been wiped by Television speak exposure. Sad.

  • @kartherton

    @kartherton

    Жыл бұрын

    I can soon sort this for ya. Come back to Norfolk and give me a shout.

  • @jaggass

    @jaggass

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been to Norfolk many times on holiday and only heard the older generation speaking it.

  • @Darkhorse-vb7wq

    @Darkhorse-vb7wq

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yiabwstetienne7474 well as a teenager who’s grown up in rural Norfolk I can confirm the accent hasn’t gone anywhere😂. Just the broads in summer, hunstanton and places are always full of tourists if you go to any village pub you’ll hear the accent:)

  • @isabella2472
    @isabella24725 жыл бұрын

    my bus driver is Norfolk and my teacher was

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    We can tell by your grammar!

  • @LiterallyRhx
    @LiterallyRhx2 жыл бұрын

    My accent is this strong and I'm proud love Norfolk

  • @alexguest9937
    @alexguest99373 ай бұрын

    " I put a hammer down hair". "You wa' a point a' bear?" Love that. Funny thing is, Norfolk is a non-rhotic accent where (just like most modern southern English accents) the 'r' is dropped in words. So 'car' becomes 'caa'. But if the Norfolk accent were to be rhotic, it would sound a lot like the West Country accent. Some ancient link there I think.

  • @garethpaice7078
    @garethpaice70785 жыл бұрын

    proper

  • @kfwfb534
    @kfwfb534 Жыл бұрын

    Question: a lot of people are saying the younger generations don't have strong accents these days. Is this true? Also, people are saying norfolk has received a lot of internal and external migration. Are the more isolated parts of the county different in this regard? Perhaps those areas have people with stronger accents

  • @georgebeltran3742
    @georgebeltran37423 жыл бұрын

    Hev ye got ah light boy

  • @lindarooney3833
    @lindarooney38333 жыл бұрын

    "Bed for Cher." 🙃

  • @joep3793
    @joep37933 жыл бұрын

    Kings Lynn born and bred. I’m a naaarwich boy now

  • @tesco139

    @tesco139

    3 жыл бұрын

    Traitor Jk

  • @johncopeland3826
    @johncopeland3826Ай бұрын

    Ohh ahrrrr...littil Emily it be ..ahrrr !

  • @TheOneUK1111
    @TheOneUK11113 жыл бұрын

    Ha anywun bin cross the borda to Lowstf?

  • @aclark903

    @aclark903

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not #normalforNorfolk.

  • @noelames1703
    @noelames17034 жыл бұрын

    black shuck live's there.....

  • @cambs0181

    @cambs0181

    Жыл бұрын

    The legend of Black Shuck is spoken about over Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Where people claim to of seen a big black dog. Yes, in Scotland its a large monster that lives in a lake, in the US its a giant ape that lives in the forest. In East Anglia its a dog, that is black. I tell you that must be terrifying, you will never see that anywhere else. Before I make myself look like an angry troll type, I am from the area.

  • @user-ee7gl4ux5m
    @user-ee7gl4ux5m5 жыл бұрын

    Omg I’m near him lol

  • @kayakamy2618
    @kayakamy26184 жыл бұрын

    Ha ya got a loight boy? Bootiful.

  • @owen_003
    @owen_0034 жыл бұрын

    I han’ go’ nun (I haven’t got any). Is very typical... Also no oi in’ (No I am not).

  • @auroraborealis2442

    @auroraborealis2442

    4 жыл бұрын

    Woah - water, here sounds like hee, bootiful - beautiful, I'm freezin' cold.

  • @anthonyhall4427
    @anthonyhall44272 ай бұрын

    I've traced my ancestors to Norwich. From the 1700s I'm From South Carolina USA. I was wondering if anyone knows of any Hall family/families that are still there?

  • @TheUntidytv

    @TheUntidytv

    Ай бұрын

    There are quite a lot of Hall’s in Norfolk!

  • @anthonyhall4427

    @anthonyhall4427

    Ай бұрын

    @TheUntidytv Thanks. God willing,I would love to visit the home land one day.

  • @i2creative973
    @i2creative9732 жыл бұрын

    I have heard broader accents in Norfolk than that

  • @kerryevans7793
    @kerryevans77933 жыл бұрын

    He's such a cutie old guy really sweet

  • @jess5427
    @jess54273 жыл бұрын

    Teacher's from here.

  • @Msnando09
    @Msnando093 жыл бұрын

    Love the broad Norfolk accent. My cousins speak like that

  • @carolinestammers4740

    @carolinestammers4740

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi, Liz. Caroline from Oz. Love listening to the broad Norfolk accent. Makes me feel homesick

  • @LH-kr4od
    @LH-kr4od Жыл бұрын

    I've lived in Norfolk more than a decade and I must say the accent/dialogue drove me mad at first. I had a constant voice in my head saying "Speak properly! Get your grammar right! Enunciate!" It's grown on me though. Probably literally, as I don't really sound like I'm from London anymore. I've come to really like accents like this gentleman's now. We don't all have to sound like we're reading the news, do we?! There's room for all sorts.

  • @billypower3349
    @billypower33492 жыл бұрын

    My family ha bin in Norfolk since 1562 (I can’t find further back) my great grandparents were still alive and sprightly in 1978 when I was 18. They were pure Norfolk. Their accent doesn’t exist anymore. My parents had a weak accent, and I sadly have none except for the odd word. ☹️

  • @zanecollin5743
    @zanecollin5743Ай бұрын

    Go on bor

  • @arturkhs7425
    @arturkhs742511 ай бұрын

    Mad Traveler, tell me pls, what your accent is

  • @MadTraveler

    @MadTraveler

    8 ай бұрын

    Buffalo, New York!

  • @camerondownes5711
    @camerondownes57115 жыл бұрын

    I’m from Norwich. Norfolk

  • @kinga4k

    @kinga4k

    4 жыл бұрын

    same!

  • @steviegilham9158

    @steviegilham9158

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yoo i find it strange that we've probably walked by eachother at some point but never acknowledged one another. (I go to norwich all the time i live near gorleston)

  • @camerondownes5711

    @camerondownes5711

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@steviegilham9158 I have family that live in Gorleston

  • @steviegilham9158

    @steviegilham9158

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@camerondownes5711 damn where abouts?

  • @camerondownes5711

    @camerondownes5711

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@steviegilham9158 can't remember exactly where but they live about a 15 to 20 minute walk from the High Street