BRITISH

ACCENTS
COUNTRIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

• England (London)

• Wales (Cardiff)

• Scotland (Edinburgh)

• Northern Ireland (Belfast)

ACCENTS WITHIN ENGLAND

• Received Pronunciation • Brummie

(RP)
• Black Country
• Cockney
• Yorkie
• Multicultural English
(MLE) • Mancunian

• Estuary English • Scouse

• West Country English • Geordie

RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION
 RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION
• Not identified with a particular region of • CONSERVATIVE RP (aristocracy)
the UK
• MAINSTREAM RP (neutral)

• ‘Standard English’ • CONTEMPORARY RP (young people)

• Non-rhotic accent

• Pronunciation of ‘h’s and ‘t’s

https://youtu.be/k19WhcFH7WU
COCKNEY
 COCKNEY
• Spoken in the East End of London • (Cockney) Rhyming slang

• T, H, K and P-dropping

• Th-fronting
• /θ/ can become [f]
• /ð/ can become [v] or [d]

• Use of ‘me’ instead of ‘my’

Adele 1: https://youtu.be/Nck6BZga7TQ?t=21
Adele 2: https://youtu.be/3DMrKLVC3pk?t=82
1. He ain’t got the bottle to do it, innit?

2. My car broke down on my way home

3. He likes bread with butter

YORKSHIRE ACCENT
 YORKSHIRE ACCENT

• Spoken in Yorkshire • Glottal T, H and K

• No food-strut split
• Th-fronting • My, our  me, us

BBC ‘13: https://youtu.be/F5htdIW9sVo?t=61

Lolapallooza: https://youtu.be/IJyiNAPvceA

Glastonbury: https://youtu.be/_WOr3BT75pk Staithes

 No.1 Party Anthem

The look of love, the rush of blood The black and white and the colour dodge

The ‘She’s with me’s, the Gaellic shrug The good-time girls, the cubicles

The shutterbugs, the Camera plus The house of fun, the No.1 Party Anthem
 ARCTIC MONKEYS
 Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

 Favourite Worst Nightmare

 Humbug

 Suck It And See

 AM

 Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

⁕ Din’t you see she were gorgeous? ⁕ Well, now then, mardy bum

⁕ It’s reight hard to remember ⁕ And it dun’t take no Sherlock Holmes

⁕ There in’t no romance around there ⁕ And she wagged English and Science
 Favourite Worst Nightmare
⁕ They caused pure madness in the end

⁕ 007 and Brucey Wayne are shitting them sens

⁕ And with the needle in groove, is there owt to prove?

 HUMBU
G
⁕ There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw

⁕ He knows how to put a cork in the fuss

⁕ Sketchead, he’ll come to your do

 SUCK IT AND SEE
⁕ When she was putting her lippy on

⁕ Tha knows!

⁕ Give me an eeny, meeny, miny, moe // Or an ip, dip, dog shit rock and roll
⁕ That sticks around like summat in your teeth

⁕ If that watch don’t continue to swing

⁕ Let me be your ‘leccy meter

TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL AND CASINO

⁕ I’m gonna form a covers band anorl ⁕ And I never thought, not in a million year

⁕ He’s got him sen a theme tune ⁕ Bear wi’ me, man
1. Which accent pronounces all the ‘t’s and ‘h’s? Received Pronunciation (RP)

2. ________ is spoken in the East End of London Cockney

3. Yorkshire is in [Southern/Northern] England Northern England

4. In which accents would you say ‘me car’ instead of ‘my car’? In Cockney and Yorkie

5. The Arctic Monkeys are a rock band from [London/Yorkshire] Yorkshire

WAYS OF LEARNING ENGLISH ON YOUR OWN
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Eat Sleep
Dream English
Books

Amigos
Ingleses
BOTTLE PHONE LAUGH

MONEY BELIEVE

LIE
MINCE PIES CLOTHES PEG

EYES EGG

DOG & BONE BACON & EGGS

‘butchers’ = look
PHONE LEGS
‘plates’ = feet
BIRMINGHAM ACCENT
 BRUMMIE ACCENT
• Spoken in Birmingham • Glottal stops

• Trap-bath merger • Melodic intonation • Foot-strut merger

• /eɪ/ becomes /aɪ/ • /aɪ/ becomes /ɔɪ/

Geezer Butler: https://youtu.be/D5ASHXylc-g

Peaky Blinders: https://youtu.be/6l4YZlGQkyU

Geezer Butler 3 (Beatles): https://youtu.be/7gZ0A2RvDgE?t=9

Geezer Butler 2:https://youtu.be/vE_or_oVZ00

YORKSHIRE ACCENT
 YORKSHIRE ACCENT
• Spoken in Yorkshire • Omission of ‘the’ and ‘to’

• No trap-bath or food-strut split • Non-standard grammar structure

• Glottal T, H and K • ‘Thee’ and ‘tha’ to replace ‘you’

• Th-fronting

• My, our  me, us

BBC ‘13: https://youtu.be/F5htdIW9sVo?t=61

Lolapallooza: https://youtu.be/IJyiNAPvceA

Glastonbury: https://youtu.be/_WOr3BT75pk Staithes

 SHEFFIELD
 Located in South Yorkshire  The Steel City

 Described as the greenest city in  Enormous artistic heritage

England

 Home of the world’s oldest football

club and ground