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Have you ever had a hard time telling the difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi accent? Dialect coach Erik Singer breaks down the subtle differences between a few commonly confused regional accents. What actually makes a New York and Boston accent different? What’s the main differentiator between a northern and southern English accent? Also,…

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Have you ever had a hard time telling the difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi accent? Dialect coach Erik Singer breaks down the subtle differences between a few commonly confused regional accents. What actually makes a New York and Boston accent different? What’s the main differentiator between a northern and southern English accent?

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  1. Geoff Bannister

    October 22, 2019 at 9:55 pm

    Londoners always accuse us Brummies of being northerners and Geordies/Mancs e.t.c. always accuse us of being southerners 🙁 Us Midlanders have our own identity too you know :'(

  2. Asher Wilkins

    October 22, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    I like how at 4:53 the lady actually says “that’s not a lot of pot” which you can tell cause she immediately started laughing afterwards like “Why did you ask me to say this though?”

  3. James

    October 22, 2019 at 10:39 pm

    Kiwi: do you get pissed?
    Aussie: yeah, plenty, but the calesi virus has taken care of most of them.

  4. Kevin Hodgson

    October 22, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    Whay aye man us Geordies finally got a look in!

  5. Salmon

    October 22, 2019 at 10:55 pm

    northern english i always just do my best jon snow impression

    jon snOOOOOOOOOEEEEE

  6. katy

    October 22, 2019 at 11:05 pm

    scottish & irish would have been cool

  7. CherryBlack

    October 22, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    Fooking graite Tommeh ~

  8. Okuno Zankoku

    October 23, 2019 at 12:23 am

    Erik: straight across
    line: look at me, I’m wibbley!

  9. Feuer-Kampfer

    October 23, 2019 at 12:27 am

    Here’s a New York speaker:
    “Trash Trash Trash”
    Hmmmm… ????

  10. denise v

    October 23, 2019 at 1:26 am

    He should do a video on California accent. I ask a lot of Californians if they have accent and they look confused that I ask so does that accent even exist?

  11. i am not a cat

    October 23, 2019 at 2:19 am

    Nobody:
    New Zealander: *_meth_*

  12. Quinian's Budget Crafts

    October 23, 2019 at 2:43 am

    I’d like to see you do “military accents” like my own. Raised by parents with wildly different accents, but being in the military living all over the world speaking several languages. I now have either a non-accent or a mix of a bunch, I’m not sure how you’d explain it. If I had to guess based on your past videos I’d say I’m closest to mid-west US accent.

  13. Ismail x

    October 23, 2019 at 2:50 am

    Eric Singer
    He was born for this

  14. sarah elizabeth

    October 23, 2019 at 3:37 am

    am i meant to not fall in love with this man? ….. have mercy

  15. Andrew Grey

    October 23, 2019 at 3:58 am

    Check out this kid doing English in 64 accents, hilarious. I wonder what Eric think about this:

  16. joeli fische

    October 23, 2019 at 4:04 am

    Cawktael pahdy

  17. hellfish2309

    October 23, 2019 at 4:19 am

    4:45 that’s not a lot of pots: I knocked over the corner store for a box of quarters after I salted the carport

  18. ncl

    October 23, 2019 at 5:28 am

    Fush n chups

  19. Matthew Sawczyn

    October 23, 2019 at 6:38 am

    You have made us all appreciate and love our accents more 🙂

  20. GADCL4

    October 23, 2019 at 9:06 am

    Southern English people speak English. Northern English people speak Chav. Australian males speak Yank-on-meth. Australian females speak Shrill-banshee.

  21. Finnzy

    October 23, 2019 at 9:29 am

    Sorry, but us Aussies sound nothing like kiwis

  22. ElDeano09

    October 23, 2019 at 10:50 am

    When I asked a Nuw Zullander to say ‘fush and chups’ and they tried to fight me.

  23. Andie Morgan

    October 23, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    Oh dear, the arrow pointing to South England was pointing to Wales! Should have put the boundary line between Wales and England before making the demarcation line between North and South England, Wales was included – very different accents in that part of Britain.
    Should have put the boundary line between Scotland and North England.
    Very misleading representation of the UK – yet again. ????

  24. ckbs1

    October 23, 2019 at 12:40 pm

    New Zealander: METH!

  25. July 31st

    October 23, 2019 at 3:20 pm

    Koq yo foq

  26. paranoid android

    October 23, 2019 at 11:17 pm

    *H E ‘ S B A C K ! ! !*

  27. paranoid android

    October 23, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    yo editors britain =/= england

  28. Joey Zelasko

    October 24, 2019 at 12:52 am

    Maine vs Mass

  29. Kailey Mercurio

    October 24, 2019 at 2:08 am

    I want him to try and guess my accent

  30. 19Jetta

    October 24, 2019 at 2:39 am

    Just tuning in for my daily dose of Erik…

  31. Xzertion -

    October 24, 2019 at 4:46 am

    METH

  32. Ginger Taylor

    October 24, 2019 at 5:02 am

    First guy to describe my NYC accent correctly.

  33. DeaconTaylor

    October 24, 2019 at 5:30 am

    why does a country as small as england have so many accents when australia has so few? there’s class accents but i couldnt tell you any regional accents

  34. Stronk

    October 24, 2019 at 7:29 am

    His belt angers me

  35. Eji

    October 24, 2019 at 9:25 am

    He looks like he’s 7 feet tall o_O

  36. BRK

    October 24, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    Since when has Birmingham been considered north

  37. Jia Cheng Chong

    October 24, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Malaysian v Singaporean please. That would be enlightening

  38. hadnoidea

    October 24, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    So, nobody got the joke about NY and Philly and Trash/traffic? 😀

  39. Dewi Jones

    October 24, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    Wales and Scotland are not part of England

  40. Cerulean Skigh

    October 24, 2019 at 11:40 pm

    If you’re not sure if they’re Kiwi (New Zealand) or Aussie (Australian) then guess Kiwi. The Aussie will be flattered but the Kiwi offended if you guess Aussie.

  41. Lily Nyenga

    October 25, 2019 at 12:54 am

    I need Erik to do Different African accents next !!

  42. Joseph Sonners

    October 25, 2019 at 3:30 am

    Belt!

  43. Hailey Martin

    October 25, 2019 at 3:36 am

    4:20 “Here’s a New York speaker”
    I’M CACKLING WHY does that man look like the perfect New Yorker

  44. Sparrow The Sissy

    October 25, 2019 at 4:47 am

    “mith” “meth” “mith” “meth” we are off to a fantastic start.

  45. Brittany Ferris

    October 25, 2019 at 4:56 am

    Ugh. Ny…. Western NY here. And we speak nothing like NYC!

  46. James Guildford

    October 25, 2019 at 9:50 am

    Man my New Zealand Accent must suck to other people

  47. allrequiredfields

    October 25, 2019 at 11:10 am

    The U.S. east coast accent would have been far more interesting addressing the Mary/marry/merry thing – the rest of the U.S. pronounces them all the same, but people in the north east make a stink about the differences.

  48. Roxanne Atwater

    October 25, 2019 at 12:14 pm

    As an aussie im very distressed at the idea someone couldnt tell our accents apart

  49. Dan Belmonte Alcaraz

    October 25, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    “That’s not 5:24”

  50. Emma Marie

    October 25, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    Could you do the Cornish and other places like Scotland and Wales. My English friends can’t tell the difference, but I feel like my Cornish accent is very clear

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