The UK is incredibly diverse in terms of accents, and it just so happens that I can do many of these accents as my party trick.
So come with me as I take you on a guided tour through all of the accents and archetypes of Great Britain. Hi, I'm Siobhan Thompson and this is Anglo Finea.
And what I'm speaking right now is Rp. Receive pronunciation, or you know the standard BBC English. It's spoken across the country generally by middle, upper middle and upper class people. Think of Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch or you know most of the presenters of BBC News.
" So good evening，It's 9 o'clock and this is the news." " I'm very important." Heightened RP is generally only spoken on film and television now. So you can think of the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey. " Oh Gerald. I do love you. But you're so terribly, terribly poor."
Now London is the accent that most people outside of Britain can recognise. You know, like classic Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. " Get out of my pub, go on! " " Get out of it." " Shut it you tart! "
East Anglia is a flat, boggy kind of place with a flat boggy kind of accent. I love to give you an example of somebody that comes from there that speaks like this, but they all lose this accent as soon as they can. Stephen Fry's from Norfolk, but he doesn't speak like this. Because he's posh. Here's a kind of classic kind of East Anglia phrase. "I've done dropped my computer in the fen and it's broken."
Now let's go across the island to the west country, which is a much rounder sound. It's farmland full of sheep and cows and apples. Think of like Sam Gamgee from the Lord of the Rings or Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies. " Oh you bloody kids, get off my land." " Oh, Mr. Frodo，don't let me turn me into anything unnatural" .
And then, you go down to Cornwall. It gets a little bit more pirate-y. " So hoist or mizzenmast, Squire Trelawney."
Now, Southern Welsh is a great singing song of kind of accent. Think of Tom Jones or Richard Burton. You know, " rage, rage against the dying of the light! " Bloody hell I love Dylan Thomas.
Northland Welsh is where the singer Duffy is from. It's a breathy a thicker kind of an accent and most people from there speak Welsh at home, and English as a second language. So you know, 'diolch yn fawr iawn'.
