hello and welcome to another episode in
our accent discovery series this series
is all about discovering regional
British accents to give you an idea of
the difference between the regional
accent and the standard British English
accent sometimes they are so different
even US natives find it hard to
understand so who are we meeting today
this is Rebecca Rebecca is from
Liverpool that means she is a scouser
hello Rebecca all right babe
people from Liverpool are very friendly
and down-to-earth but if you find
yourself in a conversation with a
scouser
you might find that you're a little bit
confused because they use some words
that we don't normally use in standard
British English we're going to go
through some of the common ones with you
now bizzy's police look how to do the
bizzy's look out it's the police hex
trousers I bought some new cats I bought
some new trousers made up really happy
or I may thought with that oh I'm really
happy with that
korban bad mood have you got a car bomb
am I in a bad mood
no Bevi drink or beverage fancy a bevy
do I fancy a drink scram
food he's got a carb on cuz he wants
some scram he's in a bad mood because he
wants some food Biff ters cigarettes I'm
just going the off Heath by some Biff
tiss I'm just going to the off-licence
to buy some cigarettes checking in being
nosey II are you gagging here hey are
you being nosey not me so there's a
small selection of some of the words you
were typically hear from a scouser
so let's now look at the actual accent
and some of the differences in
pronunciation between a Scouse accent
and a standard British English accent
the first thing we're going to look at
is the fricative T so when a T ends a
word and sometimes when it's in the
middle of a word then
rather than having a plosive sound a
scouser might make it a fricative which
means it vibrates like this so if I said
right a scouser would say right right
right right
let's get going right let us go in don't
don't don't don't
water water water water I need a bottle
of water I need a bottle of water
another typical feature of the Scouse
accent is the K sound so when a word
ends with a a scouser may constrict this
sound and make it a kind of sound so for
example if I was to say back a scouser
would say back back back I'm coming back
later I'm coming back later
look law look law look at him look at
him
a fake bake fake bake a sake bake faith
BAE
that looks like a fake bake that looks
like a fake bake sounds like you've got
a hairball one of the differences in
vowels is the AH vowel in standard
British English we have ah but in Scouse
you have or so for example if I was to
say come come come come come here come
here
up up up up come up here come up here
come up here come up here shut shut shut
shut shut the door shut the door all
right keep your head on another feature
that may sometimes change is the th in
standard British English it's the but in
Scouse we have duh for example
though dull though dull they day they
day they do though don't they though
they do donkey though great sometimes
when a tea has a vowel on either side
some old-school scousers may change the
tea for an R and a very famous example
of this is the lovely Cilla black if you
don't know who she is google her check
her out
but she had a catchphrase and the
catchphrase was a lalalalala
she's saying a lot of a lot of laughs
but she's changing that tea from lot to
and our Laura Laura
laughs what if I was to say not a lot of
laughs Nora laughs Nora Laura laughs
it's so funny two more words that you
may come across regularly but are
pronounced very differently by true
scousers are the words something certain
something thought it's very different
and nothing not own nothing not in
Naughton not nothing to worry about I'm
going on nothing going on great lovely
well we've had such a great time today
shall I do it in a Scouse accent we've
had a great time today
learning all about the Scouse accent
sorry in standard British English we've
had a great time today learning all
about the Scouse accent so I want to say
a huge thank you to Rebecca you have
been wonderful now if you are interested
in other regional accents then do be
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