Name: 我為什麼會有英國口音[CC] (Why I Have A British Accent [CC])
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Okay, so we don’t actually say that last one anymore… Also, top tip: the correct response

‘how do you do?’: they don’t actually care how you are, it’s

- subscribe to discuss more Britishness weirdness like… ‘why are we obsessed by the weather?’,

‘why isn’t yorkshire pudding a pudding?’ and ‘what is with the constant apologising?!’

Yes, I asked on my Instagram whether you’d like to see more about British stuff and…

since my country may very well either not exist or be on fire by next year-

- That’s a Brexit joke and if I don’t laugh about that drama

I thought it would be the perfect time to memorialise it. A lot of the responses to

my post (and if you’re not following me already on Instagram, you should be, get over

A lot of the responses to my post wanted to know

about my voice and in particular my incredibly British accent because, if this is the first

Yes, deaf-deaf. Deaf. The kind where you can’t hear things.

Cue people asking “So how do you know you have a British accent?”

Firstly, I talk about this on my channel a lot, but deafness isn’t binary, it’s not

the black and white of ‘I can hear perfectly’ and ‘I couldn’t hear if a ten tonne lorry

honked its horn right next to me.’ It’s actually a spectrum that moves from minor

hearing loss, through being hard of hearing, moderately deaf, severely deaf and finally

My hearing loss is severe enough that I don’t understand what people are saying or often

even realise that they ARE speaking unless I put in my hearing aids so I can’t actually

Anyway, I’m pretty sure all of those people would be aware if a massive lorry was making

That’s thanks to the wonder of vibrations.

I put my hand on the speakers to feel the beat while I'm editing

It’s a question with three main answers though:

I used to get comments on my really early film review videos complaining about my fake

British accent. Which… was confusing. It probably didn’t help that at that time I

was recovering from a mini stroke of sorts and had a very slurred, very measured way

To be honest though, I couldn’t hear my voice then and I can’t hear it now so I’m

only going off YouTube comments, which is never a great way to build one’s self-esteem.

Some people tell me that my voice sounds very American or Transatlantic but most people

say it is incredibly British. And posh. Which…

In no way is my voice the voice of every British person out there.

in the world (minus the really tiny ones like Monaco, San Marino and Leichtenstein) you’ll

discover that people born in different parts of Britain will have very different accents

- and some will even grow up speaking a British language other than English. Shout out to

anyone watching who speaks Welsh or Gaelic!

Should probably also point out that ‘Scots’ is possibly a language.

- but some people would argue that is not a distinct language,

My mother will be annoyed if I don’t tell you that Cornish is also a language. Cornwall

is that pointy bit of the UK that looks really sunny, unless you’re in Poldark, in which

case it’s ~dramatic~ and likes to think that it definitely has a shot at independence

and is really, really into its county flag but only has 500 thirty thousand something people.

Look, Wales has 3.1 million and we’re not letting them escape any time soon so wait

Cornwall, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all have very distinct regional accents as

do many major cities within England such as Manchester, Liverpool, London, Bristol, Birmingham

Yet my accent isn’t specifically regional and is best described as RP or ‘Received

Pronunciation’, similar to what you might know as “Queen’s English” or…

According to Wikipedia, that excellent resource of facts that are 100% true, it’s known

And when I say ‘it isn’t specifically regional’, I do very much mean: ‘southern’.

- and I did warn you there would be more fun facts-

Whilst RP is most commonly associated with southern England, it actually has the most

in common with the Early Modern English dialects of the East Midlands. That was the most populated

and prosperous area of England during the 14th and 15th centuries but by the end of

the 15th century the accent had migrated to the City of London.

It’s probably the easiest British accent to use when abroad because people in other

countries have become so used to it thanks to…

I was going to say ‘the prevalence of the BBC’ but…

It’s traditionally the voice of television and radio but there has been a move towards

more regional voices recently. However, most dictionaries published in the United Kingdom

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