hi everybody and welcome back to love
English I'm Sabra today we're looking at
the Liverpool accent how to understand
it and how to say some things in scouts
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started on the Scouse accent now I feel
I'm a little bit of an expert on this as
I was born in Liverpool and the
Liverpool accent was the first accent
that I spoke with even though now I have
a southern accent I move when I was
young and I can remember speaking with a
Liverpool accent so the first thing you
need to know about the Scouse accent is
that a couple of the vowel sounds
actually have a different pronunciation
to what they do in the South of England
in general so for example this would be
with the earth sound for example in word
first bird in Liverpool this would be
said first weird bird the are sound
becomes an ear so you would say what's
that word what's that bird over there so
you can hear that the earth becomes air
is you have to widen your mouth a little
bit to make that sound other examples
would be girl becomes Gil work becomes
work so practice that guys if you want
to you can try these sentences
have you heard about the bird that
spread the word a few hairs about the
bird that spread the waves where do you
work where do you work
the next thing we're going to talk about
is the pronunciation of the a sound now
this is common in the north in general
to say the a as more of an ah for
example in the South we would say grass
and we would say this earth as our like
in car but it with the Liverpool accent
they would say grass grass so it's more
of an ah sound than an are the same
would go for glass South we say it glass
in the North they would generally say it
glass your glass is half-full
your glass is harmful bath would become
bath laughs would become laughs example
sentences would be we had two real
laughs we had two real laugh so that's
really the vowel sounds the really
significant changes in bowel sounds with
a little cool accent so the third thing
we're going to look at is missing
consonant sounds from the beginning and
the end of words this is particularly
common with D T and H for example the
word that would become the the word dad
would become duh the word home would
become own the word head would become ad
so all of these get shortened with a
Scouse accent let's look at these in
some phrases I'm going to see me Dad I'm
gonna see me done are you gonna eat that
are you gonna eat that I'm going home
I'm going home omni adds on me add both
those are very typical so there's a very
typical consonants that get dropped from
the beginning or the end of words an
important point to make guys is that T
and D a drop from the end of words so
you wouldn't drop them from the
beginning but H is dropped from the
beginning so don't start dropping the
beginning T or D because then the words
will not make sense anymore so TD
drop from the end and the H is dropped
from the beginning another feature is
that cuff becomes more of a heart sound
particularly at the end of words but
this can also be in the middle of words
as well an example would be work becomes
work where so it actually becomes a hub
you're pushing air out of your mouth
it's quite a hard sound to make actually
if you're not from Liverpool where where
I walked to where where are you welcome
where are you walking the last time
we're going to look at today is how th
can almost totally be ignored in a word
especially if it's in the middle and
we're also going to look at how T and a
can become an R for example in the word
nothing th is barely pronounce nothing
nuttin with a strong Scouse accent you
might say this word nothin nothin doin
nothin but she also now stay with four
games left five points clip five boys do
you know Natarajan it's yours to go and
win no I'm sorry
lots of becomes Laura have you seen as
Laura people in there as Laura not a
becomes Nora there's not a lot of people
there okay so they were some of the main
features of the Liverpool accent now
I've got a couple of phrases that I want
to teach you to say in Scouse before we
go so there are four words that you need
to know to be able to say these
sentences
the first is brekkie brekkie which is
short for breakfast and it with a Scouse
accent this would be said recce do you
fancy some brekkie the next thing we're
going to talk about is the boss and this
is when you want to say that something
was great and typically we push this
with a shortened version of the word lad
which means man so we push these
together and it would be boss laughs
obviously you say it to a man so it
would be that was boss laughs which
means that was great that was great mate
for example that was boss ha
last phrase is to say goodbye in
Liverpool we say Torah but of course
with a Scouse accent we would say tada -
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