American Reacts Upper-class Accent Examples

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[Sue-Eliz]

Jacob Rees-Mogg was reciting “This Sceptred Isle” by William Shakespeare from Richard II, and is a “portrait” of England as an earthly paradise- an idyll; on John Gaunt’s death bed he delivers the lines as part of his dying monologue 🎉

[spruce]

They speak slowly, because they don’t expect to be interrupted.

[johnellis]

You speak, then I speak. These actors have been well educated and speak the Kings English. In the early days of British movies, most of the actors were taken from the old music halls or the theatres. The actors had to throw their voices to the back of the theatre, they had to speak clearly inorder for the audience to hear. Their cut glass accents then transferred to the moves.

[Rick-mexr]

The haunted pencil is quoting Shakespeare.

[thomaslowdon]

A vocabulary plays a vital role as well as pronunciation and annunciation... combined it shows education.breeding and class level..
One can use all the above in a regular working class accent but the impact isn't the same

[anthonycunningham]

The 'laziness ' you are noting is probably best described as an upper class drawl. Not coincidentally, the upper class Southern Accent or the Patrician New England drawl all share a common origin in the mists of time

[readMEinkbooks]

Carers - trained people who care for others in a semi-medical capacity but not usually nurses. Did you see Me Before You? The main actress in that was playing a carer for the paralysed man.

[missharry]

Growing up in West Yorkshire, I used as a child to be mocked for "talking posh" because my accent was not as pronounced as many other people's. It was somewhat closer to RP largely because we listened to the radio a lot, so heard BBC English, and my parents did not have very strong accents. I find that in the company of people with noticeable local accents my Yorkshire tends to assert itself.
If you think that any of the speakers you hear on this video are posh, find some archival stuff from the 1950s, such as the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth back in 1953, including her own voice then and the BBC commentary. Even Rees-Mogg is mild in comparison.

[williamevans]

Upper-class people tend to speak with what used to be called 'advanced' or 'conservative' received pronunciation (RP). Here, there is little movement of the lower jaw and an associated limited movement of the mouth. There is also a tendency to form words at the front upper area of the mouth cavity, to elongate vowels and clip consonants (with some of the latter disappearing altogether if in the middle of long words), and to follow a 'falling' pattern through sentences, which are projected as though the sound is coming from the area between the upper lip and nose. Additionally, there are certain vowel sounds that distinguish advanced RP from the speeech of 'plebs' (like me!); for example, the 'ow' sound in the middle of words is pronounced like an 'i' (house becoming 'hice' and mound becoming 'mind') while the 'o' sound is pronounced like 'e[o]uw' (go becoming ge[o]uw, so becoming 'se[o]uw, and 'ou' sounds becoming 'aa' (our becoming 'aar') or 'i' (round becoming ''rind') (see HM The King). Others, like Boris Johnson tend to have grown up in environments where this pattern is copied 'though to a less exaggerated extent; this is known as 'general RP'. Those like The Princess of Wales (Catherine) and Lord Sumption are, in contrast, simply speaking standard RP (or 'BBC English' as it was once known because all the presenters used to have to use this standardized southern accent); it's also taught to all actors in the more prestigious academies such as RADA and 'Central'. It's very complicated to explain in black and white (as you can see), so I'm sorry if I sound like a complete bore! By the way, Connor, you have an excellent ear and could easily pick up accents, including RP.

[margaretnicol]

People with money travelling to India by ship, for example government officials, booked the cabins POSH. Port out - starboard home. Those cabins were mostly in the shade while travelling in the hot sun.

[araptorofnote]

They live in large hizes, drive a rails and drink cake-a-cayla.

[carpediem]

Hello, I'm French and love the English accent❤
Talking about the "British accent" is wrong. Next to the English accent, there is the Irish, Scottish and Welsh accent.They have nothing to do w/ the English accent.Kind regards❤

[paulmidsussex]

The Jacob Rees Moss speech is lifted straight from John of Gaunts death bed monologue in Richard II (Shakespeare).

[vikkihumble]

if i remember correctly Prometheus was a greek titan who had a hand in creating humans and was an intellectual, master craftsman and trickster

[charlesfrancis]

Americans like yourself have easy to understand words almost as if you were middle class English perhaps because we have so many accents that distort words .Of course America has different accents but not to the extent the U.K. has and i have yet to hear an American accent i could not understand well even the most severe Southern accent is little problem, where as there are some U.K. accents i trip over a little.

[brigidsingleton]

On "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" Jack Dee gives amusing variations and meaning of words in "The Uxbridge English Dictionary" (if you know, you know?!) and has said what ' _sprites_ ' are (they're what the Royal Family eat at Christmas Dinner...
_sprouts_ said with the RP accent)
and there are several more, which I've unfortunately forgotten, sadly, 😟

[nightowl]

With Lord Sumption ending on the word "divided" you are picking up on the short vowels of the upper class accent, in a way that makes their speech sound 'clipped'. Conversely, other people (and very often those speaking in a regional accent) may well 'draw out' their vowel sounds or 'broaden' them. People who are well spoken are more likely to enunciate their words and pronounce all the consonants...by not 'dropping' the letter 't' and the letter 'h' for example in everyday speech.

[billyo]

Prometheus, that's the fire guy, right? 😂😂😂.

[tomstorey]

Ill be honest i love the way, Jacob Rees Mogg speaks

[jacquieclapperton]

What is interesting is that Rose Leslie and Tilda Swinton who are both from upper class Scottish families speak faster which is a characteristic of Scots as opposed to English. No doubt, if we listened to more of their speech, we would be able to pick out other small instances such as the occasional word or grammatical characteristic that is indicative of Scottish English as opposed to the accent. I found this a really interesting study at university.