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hello welcome to easy english so today i

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want to find out which uk accent the

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people of brighton love the most let's

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go

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in your opinion

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um what is the best or the nicest

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british accent to your ears

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the nicest british accent's got to be

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the irish accent

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so um yeah could you tell me what your

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favorite accent is british accent um i

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think i really like the yorkshire accent

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because i grew up there when i was

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younger i just like the different tones

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of it it's nice and familiar and it just

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reminds me of childhood could you tell

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me what is your favorite accent my

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favorite accent is a west country accent

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oh okay

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my aunt

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who was born in lewisham yeah broadest

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west country accent and we have no idea

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where she's picked it up

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she has no right to have this west

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country accent

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but she's had this since i can remember

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her

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and yet she's never been anywhere near

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the west country accent and i love it

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because it's just such a it comes across

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as such a warm accent such a welcoming

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it's it's a kind of accident that some

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switches feel it's like an accident with

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a cuddle what is your favorite british

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accent

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geordie

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really absolutely

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welsh accent i think really okay

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why is that by interest uh it's quite

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warm

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it's quite unfriendly the kind of the

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pronunciation of the worshipers yeah

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it's a southern welsh and probably also

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the west country

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i see i think it's because i kind of

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associate it with holidays

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interesting but uh also quite warm and

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friendly so there's like a romantic

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feeling to this accident reminiscent

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almost of being away yeah especially

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it's very sort of uh sing-song yeah yeah

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quite rounded maybe you'd say or

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something like that any specific part of

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ireland or like northern or understand i

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don't know i can't distinguish the

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difference

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and why did you say that

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because

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i can't how does it sound to you like

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why is it why do you think it's nice

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it's lovely it's soft it's rolling

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um it's quite poetic

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how long did you grow up in yorkshire

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until i was about 10 or something like

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that right and do you have a yorkshire

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accent i have a yorkshire accent

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do you have any leftovers from yorkshire

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accent i don't think so but sometimes

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when i spend more time with my family my

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dad's still got a yorkshire accent so i

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might pick up bits of it but not really

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no and then out of interest what accent

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do you consider yourself having

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i tend to struggle because i tend to

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inadvertently pick up other people's

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accents very easily

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so

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speaking now

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there's no particular accident that you

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could say okay he's from glasgow or he's

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from liverpool birmingham

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it it's it's quite bland

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um but even

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generally regional generally it's it's

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i i can pitch high and low and i do a

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lot of presentational work but there's

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nothing that tends to someone will say

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okay he's from such and such an area

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because it it's it's quite a i wouldn't

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say boring but it's quite a steady

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yeah

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which comes in handy when you're doing

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presentations um from work um but

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sometimes it lacks the um spice

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of having a regional accent that i can

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be so proud of otherwise having

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i i traveled to newcastle quite a bit

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right and

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i find that people very friendly yeah i

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think it's not an aggressive accent yeah

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yeah so

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i associate it with

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a fun place and fun type ah this is

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interesting

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it's kind of got reminiscence to it yeah

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okay so but it's also quite like a nice

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sort of rounded

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i would ask you to do an impression it's

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distinctive yeah would there be a way

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you would is there a word you could

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think of which is perfectly in place for

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a geordie accent why yay

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would you say you have an accent and

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what i do i'm a south londoner

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she puts it on i'm a south londoner

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okay those really long vowels it's quite

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shrill okay and do you think that comes

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out of you more like if you're with more

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of the more of your crowd do you think

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or after a drink or something no i

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didn't think i had one but then i worked

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in surrey who are very posh

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very well spoken even when i was trying

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my best

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the long vowels like south london nice

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it came out so i really noticed it uh

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that's a distinguishing feature the

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dropping of the vowels that's what the

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extending that's uh

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which isn't quite eastenders i've lived

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there but yeah

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yes nice you're a good uh good

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impressionist i think can you do an

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irish accent

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i have to be sure

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course what accent would you say you

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have

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i don't think i have an accent i have a

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very what they'd say a middle english

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accent so it's not really anything it's

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no nothing that you could identify where

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i'm from from the way i speak probably

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right

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i would think not too northern not too

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southern

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no i don't have do you think i have an

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accent uh

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it's hard how would you say

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um

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the thing that you um wash yourself in

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not that's not a shower a bath yes yeah

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when yorked too it would be bath yeah i

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know that's like pronunciations but i

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would sort of

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that would make me sort of think you

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tend towards the southern accent i guess

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would you actually prefer that you had a

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uh

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i was gonna say spice in your in your

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terms yes i i would love to have an

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accent that gives me

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another layer to my being

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when they look at me it's like oh yeah

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and then i speak and then it takes them

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by surprise right

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so i i would like an accent that

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surprises people

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um so they have to do a double take to

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make sure that was me speaking it and it

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was me being genuine with it as opposed

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to me

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mocking somebody else's accent it's like

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well where's he picked that up from he's

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it's it's like i said it's like my aunt

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i would i would like to be able to just

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assume an accent or if you had one and

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then just take everyone by surprise by

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being able to use it

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but if so for someone who's never been

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to great britain

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would you sort of say if you had to pick

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a region

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like i would like if i'm listening to

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you i'd say you're sort of south east

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but not southeast of london yes so

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you're sort of the sussexy kent yes um i

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would think that you're probably fair in

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that assumption um but we only moved to

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the sussex area in december oh really so

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from where uh croydon

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okay um and i've i've lived previously

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in areas like beckenham

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um but predominantly it's been bromley

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so it's it's all within the london

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suburbs of london

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so again it's like there's a bit of an

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accent perhaps as you've picked up in

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that respect yeah but it's not the most

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obvious once you place where i've come

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from

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and my origins so right

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what accent would you do you think you

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have

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london i'm born and bred in cockney land

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so but it's softened out because you

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know i've been traveling all over the

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world so

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i don't speak cockney except when i've

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had too much of dread i don't

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particularly like it because no i

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actually think

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some strong

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i say accents but london is it's it's

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bad english because everything's cut off

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yeah yeah

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and i've been in the travel business in

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my days and i have a theory you might

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like this no go for it i'm interested is

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when people live in cities yeah

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everything's speeded up

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so

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londoners go all right make your way

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everything's fast right in italy i lived

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in rome for a while romans speak

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okay

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it's very quick italian and hong kong

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is very very quick chinese because

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you're in a city

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so everything has to be speeded up and

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the languages so bits are cut off at the

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end and that's what's i think it's bad

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about cockney because it's not like

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finishing the word like you know

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everyone's it's like that

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so

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i wouldn't say it's a nice accent at all

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you know so uh i really like your theory

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i never ever really it's true is that

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why like

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is that why like leeds and yorkshire so

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drawn out

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yeah it gives you more time

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you've got more time to pronounce the

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word fall on look at new york new york

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brooklyn oh yeah absolutely

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wow i'm going to be thinking of your

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theory every time i'm traveling though

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it's very true i'm sure you could get

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into other major cities

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around the world exactly the same it's

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just that life is that much quicker so

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you don't really have time how funny to

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finish

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the word yeah because now i'm thinking

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of like fruit vendors yeah in my mind or

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fruit or vegeta vendors always a me

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is that just for the for practicality

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no i think that they are

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the street markets in london are

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were predominantly in the east end of

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london yeah

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so i think that's it but you know it's

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just that

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life's that much quicker you know how

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interesting

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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favorite british accent and we'll see

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you next week bye

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