eastleigh dreamers I'm very excited to
announce that today we will be learning
English with a pop icon an absolute
British legend Sir Paul McCartney
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alright are you ready let's do this
support Kearney is most famous for being
one part of the Beatles possibly the
greatest band of all time the Beatles
were from Liverpool which is a city in
the northwest of England now Liverpool
has a very distinct accent it's called a
Scouse accent now it's called scouts
after a traditional local dish and as an
accent it's definitely a reflection of
the city of Liverpool because Liverpool
is a port city and so it had lots of
emigration it had a big Irish
immigration Welsh emigration and sailors
coming in and out of its port from all
around Europe so it really was a melting
pot for language and that's reflected in
the accent today now one of its great
distinctive features is that it's quite
nasal it sounds like it's coming from
the nose now there are many suggestions
for why this is one theory is that in
the mid 19th century when the accent was
being formed it was a very polluted area
and people had colds and this affected
your adenoids there the gland in the
roof of your mouth that connect your
nose and your throats now the adults
would have these blockages and they'd
sound quite nasally and the children
would imitate their parents and also
have that same sound now that's how we
learn language right like children
imitate adults that's how we learn and
so this kind of continued the sound down
the generations until today now accents
come in different shapes and sizes don't
they and you can have a very strong
accent or you have quite a weak accent
now we're gonna look at the strength of
Sir Paul McCartney exact said does he
sound like a true scouser or has his
accent changed over the years so I've
taken bits out of this interview we're
gonna analyze them
the sounds he's making a little bit of
English thank you so much
all right straight away hey James yeah
man it could be an American getting into
the car yeah man clearly Sir Paul
McCartney has traveled around the world
spent a lot of time in America he used
to have an American wife understandably
he is adopted or absorbed some American
in his accent so yeah man okay you know
I can't come up here without showing
people around there's the first sentence
and you can see how soft his accent is
can't there he says in almost like
received pronunciation
if it was a stronger Scouse accent if he
can't it would be a wider ah but
actually he says it was an R
now they come and up there he does
have more of a Scouse accent there with
come and OOP so it's mother-o sound
rather than ah says Oh instead of up on
that up but it's very subtle it's very
light nearly the end there you've got
interesting intonation with round round
round kind of goes up almost does a
little dance the intonation and there's
maybe a feature of Paul McCartney as he
does have some of the intonation of a
Scouse accent that kind of up at the end
there you know I can't come up here
without showing people round do you mind
if we listen to some music
okay this sentence definitely shows us
his scouts accent is still there with
especially with the forehead love love I
would say love like in my accent love
but here love love that book
sound their love I'd love to here we go
with the first time they're singing and
this different American accent here
drive becomes drive my car maybe you
couldn't drive my car I apologize for my
singing terrible but we've definitely
gone American here and again I think
that's normal when British people are
singing we do tend to slip into an
American accent just because that's a
lot of the music that we listen to now
that isn't always true with Sir Paul
McCartney he definitely does sing in a
more British accent but on this occasion
it sounded quite American to me
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there is a barber showing photographs
photographs listen to the way they say
that photographs it's almost yea
definitely receive pronounciation very
kind of BBC English if you will
definitely different from how he was
singing maybe you could drive to my car
the accent now is become much more
anchored in Britain here they get out of
the car and they going to speak to one
of the local people and suddenly Paul
mr. Paul McCartney sounds completely
Scouts coming you're shopping of like
the intonation has changed he's using
the word love which is like a term of
endearment that you use maybe for a
shopkeeper or something like that or for
someone that you know the intonation has
changed and he's subtly using vocabulary
that's much more local would he have
used that sentence if he was walking
into a shop in LA I doubt it that's
completely normal right we changed the
vocabulary we change the accent
depending on where we are interesting
let's move on the strange things we
expected it to last 10 years but keeps
going on okay you've got the word last
here so instead of last last is that a
fast fast so this what that act we
expected it to last by our music it's
weird isn't it how that can do that to
hear the Scouse accent comes out again
that dropping that to that he kind of
takes that tea off the end of that
that's definitely a feature of the
scout's accents they often drop the T or
the D off the end of a word so they yeah
like that would be that or dad would be
that so he does that on the first that
and using year instead of you that's a
feature for sure - yeah not to you -
yeah and the information as well do that
to you
kind of going up at the end again very
scouts intonation kind of fix up at the
end there how that can do that - I've
never been in since I lived there ah ok
another strong feature here the last
word there there he says the
that's the sound it's soft but it's
there there as he would say there so
that yeah
a sort of care OB care or sort of where
everywhere where so there yeah I've
never been in since I live there as I
say in Super McCartney's accent it's
soft but it is still there
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hello it's Paul Ricard James okay we
have a look around oh here he goes again
is sweeter is sweeter aiya like again
really informal way to say hi and then
sweetheart another term of endearment
for for someone so yeah when he speaking
to the local people he really drops into
that local informal language so this way
with that used to do the laundry
okay feature here my dad mid that we
look at this with Adele in some accents
it's not my it's me my dad or mean and
mcgrann this could come from I wish the
Irish immigration coming into Liverpool
could be a feature that's a legacy of
that but he uses it quite a lot in this
interview that can be dad meet me guitar
on the ground whatever it might be but
other words in this sentence sound like
a received pronunciation because I will
do the laundry he says pretty much as
you would in received pronunciation so
there's evidence here that he still has
his scabs accent but also elements have
received pronunciation and of course
American come into it as well so this
way with dad used to do the laundry say
oh gosh option yeah yeah yeah yeah I
mean listen to the whole song listen
that's very noisy said but son he said
there's enough of these Americanisms
around couldn't you think she loves you
yes yes yes who knows what love you yes
yes she does
I love this bit where they go from the
American like she loves you yeah yeah
yeah - she loves you yes yes yes yes she
does a little example there of Italy in
American English and British English we
sound slightly more formal than them and
a little silly to be honest if you put
it into a song like that she loves you
yes yes yes doesn't quite sound so good
there's the bog which was the acoustic
chamber wow that could not be more slang
British English than the book the Bob
means the toilet I haven't used that
word since I was like
it's quite an old-fashioned term for the
toilet
not particularly polite but anyway it's
yes it's just the word but yeah look how
he look at when he's back home in
Liverpool he's using these kinds of
words the Bock
there's the bog but that's so sweet you
know you would any fans came to the door
come on love want a cup of tea I love
this bit this is brilliant because this
is Paul McCartney showing his awareness
of what a strong Scouse accent is coming
love John a cuppa tea that intonation
that and the coming of the word love a
word used commonly in the north of
England and particularly in Liverpool
come in love which one a cup of tea so
my accent is bad I know it's not a very
good
Scouse accent but I'm just trying to
show you the difference and here's
transition between his accent the very
soft
Scouse accent or yeah almost RP accent
and what his dad had which was a strong
Scouse accent come on love you want a
cup of tea because we're trying to
suppose not do that yeah I like this bit
here not do that we talked about that
earlier the tea at the end of a word
just gets dropped off gets cut off he
does it perfectly just they're not doing
that we're trying to survive not do that
yeah all right so to conclude Paul
McCartney has a very distinctive voice I
mean it's a voice that I've listened to
for years all my childhood so you get
used to it and you kind of just accept
it for what it is and then when you
analyze it like this you actually think
well you know it's not very strong it's
it was never particularly strong I've
watched old interviews with him as a
young man and it's the same thing he
speaks slightly differently but the
accent is it's not a strong Scouse
accent but what I like is he still has
features of it so even though he's
travelled the world he's lived in
America he lives in London and he's
taken a aspects of those accents and put
them into his own accent he still
retains some features of a Scouts
accents of that or the intonation or
using some of the vocabulary like love
and sweeter and all that kind of stuff
okay guys thank you so much for watching
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