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S2/E6 - A Conversation on Pronunciation & Accents with Emma

The British English Podcast

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The Differences Between the Yorkshire Accent and the RP Accent

There are quite a few it depends where you're from in Yorkshire I'm going to refer to Yorkshire as just like in general okay okay so some of the key differences are definitely in the vowels. Instead of saying like pub shut look there would be like look pub shut oh look the pub the pub shut you know and that's the sound I actually had to learn when I was studying in Spain. Some of my most popular videos actually are ones where I talk about Yorkshire dialect Yorkshire slang the Yorkshire accent they're sort of like my most popular YouTube videos.

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