Why I Have A British Accent [CC] 

She looks so much like a Disney princess :’)

“deaf, like deaf, deaf, the kind of deaf where you can't hear things deaf.“ i can’t.

Video title: “Why I have a British accent” Me:”Because you’re British?”

As a guy from the deep south (US south) that can hear perfectly... there are times my accent is so thick i don't even know what I just said.

Comments: “wHy dO yOu hAvE a bRiTisH aCcEnT?” Jessica: *summarizes history and evolution of BBC English accent*

deaf, like deaf, deaf, the kind of deaf where you can't hear things deaf. i'm wheezing

"If I don't laugh about it, I'll cry about it" Honestly the exact Brexit mood right now

👏👏I 👏 WANNA 👏 HEAR 👏 JESSICA 👏 TALK 👏 ABOUT 👏 THE 👏 QUEEN'S 👏 ACCENT👏👏

Fascinating. My Welsh relatives were less than pleased when the Speach Therapist taught me an Oxford accent. They said it was too posh to understand.

"Next year my country may be on fire" - if only you knew...if only you knew.

I was so confused when the title of this video showed up. “I assume she sounds British... because she is British? 🤔”. I do have a Cornish Rex cat.. she definitely meows with an accent. 😺

In case you see this: your voice is smooth, fluent, with a news anchor assertiveness, sharp with some words like with great annunciation, and also very soothing.

jessica looking over her shoulder and being sassy is such a mood

Can we all just take a moment to admire her consistent aesthetic?

I’m a very old woman. My 70s. I lost my hearing as a teenager too. I just adore you.

My accent is so inconsistent it really depends on who was the last person I was speaking with beforehand.

You accent is kind of like marry popins very soothing

When I read the title my first response was just "well because you're British of course"

I can't believe she can't hear her own voice but has such amazing pronunciation. Her voice is so relaxing and lovely.

Woohooo an English person who respectfully acknowledges the Welsh language and independence!! As if I needed another reason to love you Jessica, thank you! :)

I cant be the only one who saw the title and went "shes british!"

Me:sees title Also me: Jessica, you are the most British person I have ever seen on the internet.

It’d be funny if the video was just three seconds of her saying “because I’m British”

I would like an entire installment about the Queen's accent please!!

I learnt English in Germany. Then I went to college in west England and I have American friends the most. When I see my Australian cousins my English changes again... My English accent is just a mess.

When I was a kid I thought people were just born with the accent of their country and I thought that dogs somehow knew the language of wherever they were from, I fell down the stairs as a baby lmao

So when I was is high school I took a class with this young lady whom could hear normally, yet she spoke with 'a deaf accent'. Why because both her parents were deaf! Whole life learning to speak from people that could only hear vibrations.

I would love to hear her have a conversation with John Maclean

Holy crap, you do your own editing WITHOUT being able to hear the sound effects like the, "Ting!" when you make a point?? Major respect!

When she started speaking like the Queen I SCREAMEDDD YES JESSICA GIVE US THE VIDEO

“that’s a brexit joke and if i don’t laugh about that drama, i’ll cry.” honestly same, same.

“If I don’t laugh about it, I’ll cry about it” *laughes in american* Believe me I understand.

Jessica helped me so much with my confidence. The way she presents and holds herself is so inspiring.

She looks like Ariel from the little mermaid. Loving her outfit and hair it's so pretty.

Why do I suddenly feel the need to sit up straight, eyes forward, hands folded???

The Queen's English is the posh accent last commonly heard in the 1930s.

I'm Irish with an American-irish mom who moved from county to county as a child, and a dad from Dublin, and I spent a lot of time with my British and Irish friends. As a result, I have a really strange accent. Edit: Whoa, that's a lot of likes 😮😊

Constant apologizing? I'm sorry you have this problem...we inherited the tendancy here in Canada as well. So I'm sorry we're sorry together.

“Top of the morning to you” Jessica: We don’t actually say that last one anymore. Jacksepticeye: “Loud Irish Noises!”

I can relate to that experience of everyone thinking it’s either sound or complete silence as a blind person. Able-bodied folks really don’t seem to like spectrums.

Me: sees the title in my notifications Me:...because...you're...english? Didnt think that was needed to be asked

I've had a speech impairment my whole life and living in the US means I get a bunch of people asking where I'm from due to my "accent." A lot of times people think I'm from Europe or English isn't my first language. 😅 At least I have "pretty accent." Lol

P l e a s e tell us about the queen' s accent, that sounds so interesting. I am but a lowly American. Please, share your strange and mysterious British secrets.

*Dear Americans* We are all obsessed with the weather becouse it's so dam weird. Monday: 30°C/86°F sunny Tusady: 10°C/50°F raining Wednesday: 20°c/56°F Thursday: -10°C/ 14°F *IT JUST NEVER MAKES SENSE*

I am completely and utterly in love with this lady and her voice. I would happily listen to her read the dictionary, a complete set of encyclopedias, and a variety of manuals. 😍

If she did ASMR I’d never stop watching her voice is so soothing

*me looking at the title* I dunno. Maybe because shes BRITISH.

Why are people focusing her hands and the way she speaks, I don’t even think about it because I don’t even know or focused on it. Just leave her alone lol

"As my country may not exist or even be on fire next year" The way I CACKLED (I'm allowed to find Brexit jokes funny I'm British too)

You have one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. I could listen to you speak all day.

THE EDITING IN THIS VIDEO IS SOOOO GOOOOOOOD

I'm English too, and that brexit joke was too real 😅

I'm early and taking the opportunity to drop my love for you in the comment section. Your channel is one of the only channels that I can watch all the videos on. Seeing your notification and being able to actually watch it right after without having to wait for captions is one of the best parts of my day. I want to thankyou for giving me the opportunity to feel "normal" once in a while and have a bit of a laugh while doing it. Lots of love ❤

You have a beautiful voice and it's very clear! I know you put a lot of effort in speaking so I must say: YOU ARE INCREDIBLE! I love your accent: you sound funny, sensual and very confident

Is the sassy side camera gonna stay around, because I love it

Fun fact: Accents are more tightly packed together in space on the British Isles than anywhere else in the English speaking world. This pattern takes a weird turn in the United States, where if you know what to listen for you can hear which part of New York city or which county in the American South, but when you get west it smooths out a lot and someone from Washington State sounds about the same as someone in New Mexico over a thousand miles away. If we suddenly pulled a Big O (the anime) tomato surprise and all forgot everything, linguists would use this fact to conclude that English came from England (though that right there would be a pretty big hint) and more or less accurately reconstruct how it spread, because if a language lives somewhere for a long time, preferably without a lot of travel, the more accents you get. Biologists do something similar all the time to figure out where animals and plants come from.

3:28 ‘Gaelic’, pronounced ‘gal - ick’, only applies to Scots-Gaelic; It’s a distinct language but has roots in Early Irish. What some people may call Irish Gaelic, is just called ‘Irish’ or the Irish Language. In the language itself, we call it ‘Gaeilge’! Then, Ulster Scots is the language which is disputed as a dialect or language. It’s separate from both Scots-Gaelic and Irish, and it’s used mostly in Northern Ireland. Hope that helps! 💚

Since she goes of RU-vid comments... Your accent is ssssssooooooo beautiful!!!

I want her to do an audiobook. Her voice is so satisfying to listen to

Your accent actually sounds to me very similar to the “posh” version of a southern New England accent that my grandma, my great aunts, and my parents have. I think the “BBC” pronunciation was commonly taught in New England schools up until my parents were teenagers (like “bath” with the elongated “aaa” and dropping “r” at the end of words). I and my family are all from Central Massachusetts, but I don’t have their accent because I learned the “American standard” pronunciation that was typical of news reports in the U.S. of the 1980s (think Dan Rather).

Me mams a witch, da’s a muggle. Personally I’m Northern Irish, with an English father and an Irish mother. I moved away from Northern Ireland as a 18 year old and moved to Bristol, then London, then Nottingham, and then to Scotland within a few years If one another. So now my accent is mostly posh English, with an angry Irish/northern Irish tone when I’m upset/annoyed/angry and some words slip out as Scottish when I’m tired or excited. Accents are weird and I’m very often asked if I’m American/South African or Canadian 😂

Your voice no way sounds American! 😂

I’m living for the sass during this whole video.

I was raised on an island and the later in a valley. My family's accents are island influenced and Irish and English influenced. I feel like I have 12 different voices depending on how tired, excited, drunk, or what mood I am in. Everyone around me say "wadder" and I say "waTer" I feel the odd one out and have a few different ways of saying words if I'm nervous of being picked on.

Scotland has Scots Gaelic and there are other “dialects” such as Doric (North East Scotland dialect) which has recently been given protected language status :) Also my boyfriend is from Aberdeenshire but he doesn’t have an Aberdeenshire accent as he had speech and language therapy as a child and his speech and language therapist was from Edinburgh so he has an Edinburgh accent instead.

"Practically perfect in every way" you are a treasure to us Jessica.

It’s been a while! New camera angles 🤣❤️❤️ Also regarding the Scottish speak you’re thinking of, it’s called Doric and I think it absolutely counts as it’s own language 😊

Would most definitely be interested in a video about the Queen's Accent.

As someone with mild hearing loss and years of speech therapy, I think you sound fantastic.

When I was a kid, I thought that the “bath trap” was a matter of gender because my mum is from Kent and my dad is from Lancashire, so they both pronounce their As differently. I also remember one point at preschool when our teacher was reading a poem to us which included a line about “a giraffe in a scarf” and she had to pronounce the word “scarf” as “scaff” to make it rhyme.

Can I just say I love your dress today? It's really gorgeous and goes so well with your hair!

I love listening to you speak, your voice is beautiful.

You have the most musical voice I have ever heard for a deaf person! Impeccable nuances.

i would LOVE to see someone else try to edit without actually hearing the noises. that is so insane and amazing, truly iconic

The accent is FABULOUS!! I just like British accent why are you judging me?

Please I'd certainly be interested in an entire installment devoted to the Queen's English. 💜👑

I'm american- I was raised on the west coast until I was eleven years old, and then lived in the midwest until I was eighteen. My accent is west coast, specifically Washington State, but my vocal patterns and vocabulary are midwest!

when you said "google assistant" you LITERALLY sounded exactly like the British google assistant

She looks like a Disney princess she is a beautiful redhead woman like Ariel the little mermaid.

Your hair, makeup and outfit are GORGEOUS and STUNNING in this video!!!!! I'm getting sophisticated Disney princess vibes.

we do the "how do you do?" "how do you do?" greeting in the southern us too! it's mostly used in aave but a lot of southerners have adopted it, we mostly say "you good?" and "what's up?", with the response just to ask the question back

The weirdest accent I've heard is my stepdad's extended family, they're all from West Bromwich but some emigrated to Canada in the 70s and 80s and sound VERY strange!

Petition to make Jessica the first deaf Disney princess

I grew up in North Carolina, then Southern Maryland, my favorite (and only) video game as a small child had a main character with a British accent, both my local and national newscasters had more "national" accents, and my parents are from Virginia and western New York. I can subconsciously pick up and start speaking in all of the above accents and their most immediate neighbors if I hear it for long enough (45 minutes seems to do it) and sometimes have trouble dropping the accent for a little while after I pick it up. I also speak with a bit of southern Maryland (its actually specific to my county, but it's not a big county so I won't tell you the name) accent when I'm tired and have a more "national" accent normally. Also brother had/has a small speech impediment and apparently I pick it up when it just the two of us for a bit. People have asked if we're british/russian/whatever, idk. It's a pretty common speech impediment so I'm guess the few who comment on it are in the minority of those who notice.

Im Australian and got a weird dead Australian accent from my dad, also from him i subconsciously accent match everyone. Its so bad some poor english tourist tried to chat to me about what 'back home' was like. Which was unfortunate. Ive never seen someone look so betrayed and denied as this woman when i told her i was born in melbourne...

Loving the camera angles. I’m from Wales and this made me laughs so much 😂

About Wales: "and we're not letting them escape anytime soon" LMAO

Your accent is so beautiful and soothing. I love it! I could listen to your voice all day. I’m literally just listening to you talk and writing an essay and it’s honestly so calming. Your videos are great so keep up the great work!

When you kept repeating "off" with different inflections I immediately thought of the scene in Red Dwarf when they encounter a white hole and Holly's lifespan is shortened. She keeps trying to conserve power but Rimmer won't allow it. Random I know...

Oregon (Or-eh-guhn) US here: I’d pronounce Glastonbury exactly as you do. Our accent tends toward the heavily contracted (ought’n’t’ve=ought not to have) and this can be very “slurry”, as in the case of havvaguggai = have a good day. Fun video, thanks for sharing!

"Wait, couldn't she hear herself through the playba-..? Ah. My bad.." lol

My boyfriend sounds different from his parents and siblings because he's from Georgia (Atlanta area) and so are his parents, but he refused to have a southern accent. He trained himself to not speak that way growing up and I find that amusing. His parents themselves don't have strong accents themselves (they're not from areas like the southern parts of Georgia), but it's still noticeably different from his and his siblings.

That’s awesome that you take time to learn names. As someone with an odd spelling and frequency mispronounced name just thinking that someone cares enough to learn it means a lot. I struggle sometimes with foreign names, and try my best to properly articulate them. My name is pronounced like Erica.

Ironically one thing I love about your videos, plus content, it's your voice

I just want to thank you for putting the link to your outfit in the description because it’s so pretty and I want it

L O L she didn't even know how plausible the whole "country on fire next year" would actually be

I am glad that minority languages have been given recognition, as I am Welsh, and can speak Welsh

Such a stunner! Jessica I’d like to say thank you for sharing your smile and jolly vibes. You are an extraordinarily genuine and vibrant person inside out. I found it so inspiring to see your smile. Your witty sarcasm constantly makes my day. I am glad that you bring mental awareness, disability and sexual identity topics in such a manner. You are an extraordinary ‘wonder woman’ yet so genuine. I am amazed by people who overcome their chronic illness struggles and find the courage and determination to be the best version of yourself. You are such a bright soul despite all challenges you flourish like a phoenix from the ashes of your darkest times. I can’t imagine what these 2 years in a dark room could feel like. Once again thank you for your input. I truly appreciate your work. Well speaking of the subject of this video. Well, I am not English native speakers. My mother tongue is Russian, but from childhood, I was speaking the other 3 languages. I feel that I have an accent in any language that I speak. Somehow mostly am told that I sound rather French haha. There is the brilliant book “Watching the English”, by Kate Fox. I found it so helpful to know the insides of the English culture. You have touched on most of the touchy titles smoothly. Having a learning disability, myself I have attended speech for performance courses to work on my voice and punctuation. I can’t imagine how it is to work on your vocal performance with hearing disability, but what I know for sure is that you are nailing it. I think you made it so clear in between differences between received pronunciation, queens English as well as other British/ Scottish/ dialects, Irish Gaelic is another story. Your video was witty, fun and somewhat educational. Thank you for sharing the vibe. Best wishes Denis

I wish you could hear your voice because it’s so beautiful!

britain has more accents than it does square hectares of land, i swear throw a rock, the accent's changed again