North vs South 

To the rest of a world, a yankee is an American. To the US, a yankee is from the north. In the North, a yankee is from the northeast. In the northeast, a yankee is from Vermont. And in Vermont, a yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.

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For a Londoner - the North is where they can't use their oyster card.

I'm Welsh. When I lived in Yorkshire, I was picked on for being Welsh. Then when I moved back to Wales, I was picked on for being "from Yorkshire". I feel your pain, Matt

I keep forgetting Tom has a linguistics degree. It surprises me every time. I also keep forgetting Tom has a really nice singing voice.

Wow, that bit of blue fuzz does a hell of a job preserving the sound considering how bad the wind looks.

In Canada their is a massive north south divide, south: Everyone North: Your a polar bear

I'm Russian and the only divide we have is between everyone living in Moscow and Peter, and everyone *not* living in Moscow/Peter.

I'm Belgian and we definitely don't have a North/South divide at all. Not at all.

In Germany, we have a North/South AND East/West divide (for obvious reasons). They're ALL strange people, though.

The "coal to Newcastle" thing is interesting. In German, we take "owls to Athens".

Southerners laugh at the northern accents such as the Geordie Newcastle accent, Yorkshire accent and the "Mad fer it" sounds of Manchester Northerners laugh at the Cockney London and Posh Southern England accents and maybe the farmers/pirate twang of a Bristol accent And then there is the Birmingham Brummie accent in which everyone laughs at you

ACCENTS ARE REALLY HARD TO GET ACROSS IN TEXT. LIKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BATH AND BATH

Pshaw. Scotsmen. Bloody Southerners. Signed, Northern Norwegian.

Anything below the wall is the south.

In Cornwall everything north of Bristol is considered "the North".

Question for maybe the next episode: I live in the Netherlands, everything is close by. if something is a 20 minute trip it is considered "far". After some traveling I found out that in some countries (Like America) people can take an hour drive to the supermarket and think it is no big deal. Did your perception of "something being far" change after all the traveling you guys did?

7:00 Interesting. I've wondered if it was just me being an ignorant American that made me think that all British media was about London, but it seems as though that's what's actually the case.

Brits: "I shouldn't insult my hometown" Americans: "My hometown is a cesspool of vomit and sadness"

As someone from the mythical land of "The Midlands", everyone does indeed hate me. I can't even say I'm from the East or West Midlands because my town is literally on the border.

Tom's pronunciation of Houston brought me physical pains, but we Texans did appreciate the attention.

I just have to say that the sound map you linked to has got some of the coolest things I've ever heard. Almost 100 years of recordings! Amazing that the British Library hosts a time capsule like that, and that it's available for anyone (even a Swede like me).

In belgium the north speaks dutch and the south speaks french. So in belgium the trouble is bigger

I overheard a conversation in 2005 between a cornishman and a scotsman, and through that talk realised something: when the corn said "bloody northerners" he meant london. When the scot said "bloody southerners", he meant london. They did not mean each other, because the other was too far north/south.

“I shouldn’t insult my home town” You should if it’s Mansfield

Wait, there are people in the UK that pronounce 'garage' the same way we do in the US? I had no idea.

I've never heard any Englishman pronounce garage the American way. I certainly don't and no one down south does.

As a Scottish person I can confirm that we think you're all southern.

I'm from a small town called Holmfirth in West Yorkshire. There are older people (mainly farmers) who live in the surrounding villages and their accents are incredibly thick, so much so I sometimes struggle to understand them. As I understand it, everyone in the area spoke as they did around 60 years ago and they've retained their distinctive accents through relative isolation. Now, due to the steady influx of non-locals that's occurred since the 90's, the accent is somewhat normalised and sounds much the same as the rest of the Huddersfield area. Interesting video!

This is interesting! In Sweden we have a north-south, west-east divide. An all the media is from the capital Stockholm, the rest of the country is mostly ignored.

PIES. FLATCAPS. WHIPPETS.

tom has some...frankly brilliantly withering expressions

As an Australian, I find regional accents fascinating. Australia, being a very young, migrant country, we don't really have regional accents. There's a bit of a country vs city difference (mostly strength), but I can't go "Oh, you're from Melbourne" or "you're from Brisbane" just from their accent, so it's always really interesting hearing different accents from different regions in the UK (and America).

So this explains the line in "Rose" where Rose is shocked that the Doctor has a Northern accent. There's a cultural assumption there as well as just commenting on accents. That's helpful.

T'North

don't you mean top vs bottom?

"We've vlogged all over Shenley" Tom, phrasing! Jesus!

I was leaving a restaurant one day when one of the patrons said to me, "You're not from Toronto, are you?" I replied that I was from rural Ontario, about 2 hour drive northeast of the city."I could tell from your accent" she said.Before that I had no idea I had a discernible accent other than that I spoke Ontario English.For an exaggeration of the rural Ontario accent, look up Don Harron or his character Charlie Farquharson

I keep looking at that microphone and expecting Matt to take a bite out of it, and prove to me that it's really fairy floss.

Thanks Shenley, Thenly. Holy crap thats an obscure one.

Please can we have the Yorkshire dial turned to 11 in all of the videos.

In Scotland we know the North as "that place on the train doon south where yon passengers get aw pally". It's really, really lovely passing through the North because everyone on the train starts calling each other "love" and "me duck" and it doesn't feel like a bliddy freezer every time someone coughs. ~Note: My Friend Joe is from the North and he's so lovely that I've pledged to not refer to them as bloody Southerners

What I get from this is, that Matt is from a long lost dynasty of royal northerners.

it is like that in Norway as well, we can almost tell what house a person is from, we have such different way of speaking, troughout the country

Here in the Netherlands we sort of have something of a North-South divide between traditionally Protestant and Catholic parts of the country, but these days the East-West divide is far more prevalent. Basically, everybody who isn't a Hollander hates Hollanders (particularly Frisians and Limburgers), and vice versa.

3:12 ireland's the exact same, there are at least 5 or 6 accents in dublin alone, and at least one for each county

Thank you very much to the person subtitling the video! You did a great job with phonetic variations for 'garage' and with details I couldn't catch watching the video many times before like 'kaffir lime leaves' It really helps a lot!

Tom's performance of Old Man River has improved in the past six years, possibly because this one wasn't intended as a torture device...

I remember a few years ago when the last London Routemaster bus was taken out of service it was the top story on the national news. As a person not from London I'd never ridden on a Routemaster as they were phased out decades ago for more modern busses that didn't need a separate driver and conductor.

I'm Finnish. My mom is from the south where I was born, and my dad is from the north where I live now. And it's absolutely horrible! The meaning of some verbs has changed, etc. I'm exactly like Matt and Tom. Southern enough to get bullied by the northern kids throughout my teens, but northern enough to say I'm from the north when people ask me nowadays.

Alright, I’m from Newcastle upon Tyne, and I’m actually scared people from London think the River Trent is at the border. In Newcastle that’s certainly the south.

Because English isn't my native language and I've learned English mostly from youtube, I've learned English hearing all different accents. So they all sound the normal to me. You have to be talking very weird before I will consider it as an accent. The only accent that I really can distinguish(in English) is "Hollanders" (people from the Netherlands, technically the wrong term, we use it anyway) speaking English. But that's probably because as a Native (Vlaams) (Flanders-) Dutch speaker the Dutch of the Netherlands sounds pretty weird to me. And it's probably the Dutch accent I hear just spoken in English.

Grandpa was from Nottingham, Grandma Glasgow. Mum is from Bristol, but moved at 8yo and Dad is a 4th gen Aussie with a Germanic background. I'm an Aussie, with the mentioned ancestry and a Norwegian speech therapist when I was young. Have fun.

1:51 Tom predicted the 2020 toilet paper shortage

I really enjoyed this summary of the politics of Westeros...

Okay, story time. I live in Belgium, which has 3 official languages: French-speakers in the south, Dutch-speakers in the north, and some German-speakers in the east. (The French-speakers are not taught Dutch in school, but we are taught French. Just one of many reasons north and south don't get along very well..) The Netherlands has one official language: Dutch. However, it's a completely different kind of Dutch. Pronunciation, expressions, and even individual words mean different things depending on which version you're speaking. For example; our slang for "to fuck" means "to shit" in the Netherlands, which is fine when you're swearing, but otherwise rather awkward. The Dutch think Flemish (Belgian Dutch) sounds cute. We think Dutch (as spoken in the Netherlands) sounds really annoying. And then of course there are the cultural differences. British/Flemish comedian put it like this: Belgian person when offered coffee: (in a timid voice) "oh, uh, yes please, but only if it's not too much trouble.." Dutch person when offered coffee: (loud, enthusiastic voice) "Yeah, have you got Cappuccino?" ..just a few things :P

My family moved from South Carolina to Wisconsin when I was one, so I grew up learning both Southern and Midwestern dialects. And the result is that my friends say I talk way too slowly but extended family complain that I talk too fast.

Well Tom, you just made Mansfield, UK a very famous town. "Well, did you know that Tom Scott of RU-vid was born here? I knew his postman, you know. Good chap, always delivered on time, not a letter lost. Yes, that Tom Scott"

Here in Labrador, you can tell where someone is from by how they sound. More Newfoundland in the south, and more Inuit in the north, and more Canada in the west.

I am also Midlands, Tom. Near the Trent. Hated by both.

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As usual, you two have made me do some work for my references. Good job lads, carry on!

As a Yorkshire lass now living in Mansfield, you two are perfect! Just found your joint channel - note going to go and watch the whole back catalogue!

From North Yorkshire, and I'll have you know that when I were a lad, we were lucky if we had more than flat caps and whippets to have for our tea*! And we're damn lucky if our peas were mushy, the way God intended them to be! I loved this video so much, thank you :) *I'm actually a little bit surprised tea vs. dinner vs. lunch didn't get brought up. Annoyingly, I've got what someone called a "forces" accent. I still say /bæθ/ rather than /bɑ:θ/ for "bath", and "tea" instead of "dinner", but it's not really a strong Yorkshire accent after that, so despite having lived with 10 miles of my current home for the last... ooo... forever(?) I still get people saying "you're not from round here, are you?". Yes. Yes I am :P Oo, and Northerners are also incredibly loud, but very friendly, while Southerners are offish and rude, apparently. I've known a couple of people to experience a kind of culture shock after moving from one to the other.

Could you do a video on the stereotypical UK university experience (partly just so we get more anecdotes from your time there)?

great sound guys, despite the wind! proud of you, keep it up!

“and she’s not happy about it” absolutely hilarious but also! what in the fresh heck did your voice do there

I feel like the West Country is a separate thing as well. Being from the West Country I feel way more at home in the North than in the South East. The South East is a lot more alien to me.

well aware im late to this but i hurt when you said "hooston" 3:30

You two never fail to bring a smile

You two, plus intricate British jokes that I half understand, are amazingly good for my sense of well-being and good cheer...

It's weird here in the US because it isn't just a north south divide. It's more like a divide between New England, the Midwest, the south, the west coast, the southwest (not California), Florida is doing its own thing, the Great Plains including Texas, and whatever you want to call Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Don't even get me started on Alaska and Hawaii.

Tom not wearing red? Shocker.

This video was a lot more fun than the Map Men video on the topic.

This is now my new favourite series I live this so much

you need to do a 2020 park bench video from home and use green-screens to make it look like you are both with each-other (unless you live together that is)

I could pick Tom's brain about English dialects for hours. If I ever meet him I'm pretty sure I'll be an obnoxious fan about it.

I seriously love you guys :D I can always watch your video's, they are basically my medication..

6:04 the Look Around You Thanks Shenley, Thenley joke was amazing! I haven’t seen Look Around You for years, but recognized it instantly!

You should do an episode on any adventures you've had up north in Scotland (which, by the way, has vastly superior fish and chip shops to anywhere in England)

Cornwall rejects your fish and chip heresy.

"Prince Charles with constipation" is the best thing I've heard all day

Like how it says ”The Queen’s Diamond” where Matt sits

God i love British people

SCOTLAND!!!!!!

These work great as podcasts.

You can still easily tell the difference in accents between Burton on Trent (East Staffordshire) and Swadlincote (South Derbyshire) five miles apart.

Could you cover the Uk's generational divide?

In Switzerland, we just declare Zurich as being not part of our country. That pretty much solves any such problem here. Also, we can still tell which village you are from in Switzerland ^^

"Southerners are more RP" People in Norfolk and Suffolk: 'As blowen' a hoolie ote 'ere.

I know it's late in the day, but I've only just watched your video, and I would like to point out that there used to be a coalfield in Kent. The pits were at Snowdown, Betteshanger, Tilmanstone, Chislet, and for brief periods elsewhere between Canterbury and Dover. They are now all closed.

I swear the guy on the right is Alan Partridge.

I was born in the south (Berkshire). Raised in the midlands (Warwickshire). And now residing in the north (Cheshire). Couldn’t be happier!

thanks, shenley. thenley. - loving the 'look around you' reference! bless you, ants. blants.

intro is perfect. i love these guys

I'm from Scotland and your all southern to me.

I can sympathise with Tom on this one; I'm a Yellowbelly (Lincolnshire) through and through - too far North to be considered "Southern", too far South to be considered "Northern". Heck, my accent's a right pick-n-mix and all (despite the "Air Force" underlayer, there's a distinct rural twang in there that weren't there ten years ago).

I love the foot-strut split

That blooper at the start had me in stitches! :-D

I would love to see a video on your perspectives on Facebook's Free Basics and Net Neutrality. I'd love to here both of your thoughts as people in the tech and communications industries. I'd also love a Tom computer video about Apple vs. the US Government and the future of privacy. Thank you for all your videos. I hope there's more Citation Needed to come as well.