Could Northern (Anglo-)English be Older than Southern (Anglo-)English?

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• JA

  @jaredlash5002 · 1 year ago

  "I promise I'll sort the facial hair out soon" has to be one of the best cold opens.

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• NU

  @nug_wn · 1 year ago

  i'm an asian who live nowhere near england but i find this so interesting. it's crazy how languages change over time.

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• FE

  @Fenditokesdialect · 1 year ago

  Allus a pleasur to see Simon speykin his ancestral "mak o talk"!

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• GU

  @gubbin909 · 1 year ago

  My granny was from north lincolnshire and she did the whole "yan tan tethera pethera pinth etc." form of counting.

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• IA

  @iandickinson6400 · 1 year ago

  Ok... My dad was from south Cumbria, where in dialect form he'd say things like "lookster" and "seester" when he was pointing at something. These were obviously mutations of "lookest thou" and "seest thou".

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• LE

  @LewisCampbellTech · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TucpTba-XY&amp;t=773">12:53</a> he said &quot;a lot of New Zealand&quot;, not all, which means he knows about the very minor accent differences one small part of the country has, which is Southland, where you can hear rhotic R&apos;s. Very impressed.

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• SA

  @sabotage9926 · 1 year ago

  nah be a pioneer, you gotta OWN the patchy beard

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• PA

  @paradoxmo · 1 year ago

  I like how both Cumbrian Simon and Southern Simon still have a mobile phone in their hands, but it looks even more hilarious with Cumbrian Simon

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• WI

  @willmakevideo · 1 year ago

  In SW Scotland we sometimes use &quot;yin&quot;, &quot;fin&quot; and &quot;fun&quot; (one, find and found). <br><br>It goes to show just how blurry that those lines on the map actually are.

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• NE

  @Nekog1rl · 1 year ago

  As someone who has studied linguistics (both as an official minor and just out of passion) I am ever impressed by your acuity in both pronouncing different forms of the English language as well as your analysis thereof. You deserve an honorary degree in my humble opinion. Keep up the good work! And thank you for another very thoughtful, informative, and well-produced video.

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• TE

  @TenositSergeich · 1 year ago

  Cumbrian accent Simon was a sight to behold! I personally think it would be wonderful to have more serious content in dialectical forms of English.

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• VI

  @villalactea · 1 year ago

  i remember when your videos were (still very interesting) slide show talks. now, there’s hints of a cinematic quality to your videos, especially with “alternate-dialect” Simon in a different scene. super neat ✨

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