(Yes I am from Sheffield) When I was saying probably Too a polish girl she loved it It gave her some sort of spine tingle She got angry at me tho if I said it too much because it had some butter melting affect on her (for me with a girl that was all new too me so I did drop it in from time too time even tho I didn’t need too) but I did stop using the word all together due too it making. Her getting annoyed at me mid conversation haha
@@bentownsend4017 I'm German so English is my second language but I still understand most of what he says hahaha. Might be because I practically learned English through One Direction and Yungblud.. Louis Tomlinson (member of 1D) has a strong Yorkshire accent (not Sheffield but yeah) and Yungblud does too so I'm kinda used to hearing it lmao
@@Marie-mw6bh not me, english is my second language as well but im from America so I had a big influence from the US, i wish i could understand Alex better :((
@@nataliassvv it's a bit hard at first, especially because he's got a very strong accent but you'll get used to it when you listen to him talking more often :) I still don't understand him sometimes when he mumbles or talks really fast hahaha
i was born in yorkshire and its so strange watching this because it’s just what i’m used to hearing. i fully understand it and sometimes i forget that some people can’t sometimes understand what he’s saying
My first language is spanish and im full related with american english, Alex accent has been hard to understand and didn't know why. Now I know its just the Yorkshire accent. You have a pretty accent. ;)
I'm from Yorkshire... About 30-40 miles north of Sheffield. Don't ever let anyone tell you different, Yorkshire, is how English is meant to be spoken. Its the closet to real old english dialect as you find 👍🏻
@@115115cameron man the thing is that the accent is not too representative of how English is spoken around the world, I lived in Chesterfield for 9 months when I was a kid and I had to relearn all my English to understand the accent, at first it felt like I had been studying a complete different language
The sexiest way to learn accents!! Alex is the best musician of our generation and the savior of rock and roll! Please, Dan Smith from Bastille for the next video 🥰❤🔺️
I love how a country not that big in size developed so many accents that are this distinctive from each other. Thanks for the dissection! I would love one on Geordie accent
American English is my second language and undertanding British people is hard enough, the Yorkshire/Sheffield accent takes it to a whole nother level. It’s a very different accent, blows my mind
@@Elchino5.7 same, i learned english watching tv shows and interviews and it took me like two months of alex's interviews to understand what he was saying
I don't know if you've noticed, but he drops the "f" on the word "of" and then links with a linking R with the following "it", resulting in "o' (r)it". I heard him say that more clearly in an older interview from 2006 :) super interesting, if you ask me
Having a very Scottish accent myself, I’m super, super aware and conscious of every single thing a say and how I pronounce it, even when talking to other people in Scotland that have a “posher” accent than me. I was once on 30 miles away from where I live, for an appointment, and I really had to try to talk “properly “ because they wouldn’t have understood me. The said “oh there were so many scurries when I parked the car” she looked at me like wtf? -that one slipped out, scurries are sea gulls who pounce for any bit of food-they have zero manners and massive balls 😂 , it’s so embarrassing when I slip up and word gets through, mostly when I start to relax, it’s just embarrassing. I love my accent but hate it at the same time. We have friends in the Caribbean and they love our accent, but even then it’s extremely toned down from how we talk at home. Saying all that, my kids have to talk proper in English in school, they aren’t allowed to talk with our accent, and even did a project on “talking Doric”, it’s sad, there are so many words that we maybe don’t use as often now a days, and my kids are slowly loosing their native tongue despite living in the same place their entire lives.
People saying that he changed... He is just more comfortable on stage and developed a persona to express himself there, a lot of great artists does that, but he still himself...Just see his interviews and interactions, he still shy and with difficulty to express himself speaking... And actually no one is a teen forever
my dad was born in wales and moved to the us when he was 7, and lost his accent. the funny thing is that he still does many british accents very well. i told him alex is from sheffield and he immediately did his exact accent, it was so impressive to me.
I’m from Yorkshire and honestly listening to him singing and talking is just ordinary to me and I absolutely love people talking about how is accent is strange
This video saved my life! I have always wanted to know the story of his accent because I find it interesting every time I listened to him speaking and singing. Thank you so much!
Hi! I am learning English, and I really like British accent. And I love Arctic Monkeys. So seeing this video on my recommendations was a great surprise! Thank you🤩
The usage of mek and tek (make and take) in Yorkshire are pretty interesting. As a Yorkshireman (west) myself, I find I use both accented and correct pronunciation of the words. I think the word "make" when casually slipped into a sentence will be pronounced "mek". But when used as a key word in a sentence, like "I'm going to make something (or summat)" will more likely be pronounced correctly. That's just my observation anyway.
Found this vid very interesting - I'm a Sheffielder, and it can be difficult trying to explain my accent to those from out of the country, for example, or describe it to those I can't actually speak to myself. I like the way this is put together and presented. Got to say, though, I do think Alex's accent has lessened over the years - he's not lived here for a long time, and his singing voice in particular has a much more American influence about it.
Hey! I’m Swarnima, a student of class 10 from India 🇮🇳. Just wanted to say you’re accent is amazing! And I love a British accent and wanting to learn for a long time. You’re channel’s helping a lot! Thanks!
It’s great to hear someone so enthusiastic about English accents and dialects. My German wife learned RP and, on her first visit to me in Yorkshire, got off the plane at Liverpool to be met by a Scally bus driver. She was utterly nonplussed! Listening to and understanding the local accent, if you’re planning to spend some time in the UK, is time well spent I would say, and Tom’s presentations, from what I’ve seen, are an excellent introduction. As an aside I missed Alex Turner’s Buzz Cut years and didn’t realise that he had such a pronounced Widow’s Peak. Very scary. He’s also from the very north of Sheffield - it’s almost Barnsley his accent, not Sheffield City… Accents and dialects change from village to village in that part of the world.
i think where he’s doing the interviews has a massive impact on his speech. it’s a common habit a lot of people i know have; when you’re around people that speak a certain way you begin to unconsciously adopt certain ways of pronouncing words to sort of sync with them. in the second interview example he’s not only in america but he’s also being interviewed alone and i think in the absence of matt jamie and nick he automatically loses a lot of the dialect
I always love the 'üh' sound especially when I'm listening to their old albums. I would sing along and do my best yorkshire accent everytime. My fav part of the üh sound is in 'if you were there beware' "ain't you had enough? what you're tryna dig up isn't there to be dug, the thieves help the thugs"
I would probably blame the vikings for the way we speak in Yorkshire. Most of us still use old Norse words still. I worked with a Norwegian woman and she was amazed how much norse we speak.
I was pretty lucky to have an English teacher from York, the first time I heard him I was bamboozled because of his pronunciation: Those "u's" drove me crazy but it was easy for me to get used to his way. In that time I began to listen to the Arctic Monkeys, I'll just tell I didn't have to search where they came from. Greetings from Peru
I'm from Sheffield and I just love that some people will be so confused at his accent but even though I don't have a strong accent I can put it on whenever I like
Came here randomly - well probably because of binge watching videos of the Arctic Monkeys - and what can I say, I love that! I‘ve learned a lot, thank you ☺️
I like this video a lot as I was trying to explain the so called "singing accent" and an article on dailymail sent me here! Thank you for the patiently made video, great example even for linguistical research
Wow, as an Italian and fan of The League Of Gentlemen/Psychoville world (from which I could already tell "me mother" meant "my mother", for instance), I always find interesting to learn new apparently tiny details about English language, accents and dialects! We, as complicated people with a complex language and a hundred provincial dialects and accents, tend to perceive English as more immediate (especially when it comes to asking a girl out 😅) and simpler, but it seems clear that pronounciation may counterbalance such perception and actually make a huge difference, thank you for this video! Am I wrong or Scottish people and Liverpool dwellers have very similar ways to pronounce the "T", the "N", the "O" and the "S", as well as other letters? I'll dig deeper when I have time!
I'm from the same village as The Arctic Monkeys, we are technically Sheffield but actually border Rotherham and Barnsley and this makes our accent a little more broad than true Sheffielders who were known as "Deedars" because instead of thee and thar (you and yours) they started with a "D" sound. also northerners don't say "nowt" to make it rhyme with flout - this is a southerner's myth! Here are some Sheffieldish phrases for fun: lerrergerron'bus (Let her get on the bus) Washyweeyim, o' washy wee 'er sen (was she with him, or was she by her self?) tin'tin'tin (it isn't in the tin).
@@katethomas5712 There isn't a word in English that rhymes. Where in Yorkshire? I've lived in Sheffield all my 54 years and worked all over Yorkshire never heard any Yorkshire person say it that way.
@@dudeatx I think this sounds more similar to nowt than the word flout, even the American pronunciation, just imagine the 'n' at the start .dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/oat
@@kittyhawk7031 That's still not it, it's like the O has more of an "Ow" sound than an "Aw" sound as in flout. for me that audio just sounds like "ought" or "nought". this is really frustrating - we might actually be trying to describe the same sound! If you were in South Yorkshire than I guarantee you were hearing the same thing as me.
