British Accents: LIVERPOOL / SCOUSE

hello and welcome to another episode in

our accent discovery series this series

is all about discovering regional

british accents to give you an idea of

the difference between the regional

accent and the standard British English

accent sometimes they are so different

even us natives find it hard to

understand so who are we meeting today

this is Rebecca. Rebecca is from

Liverpool that means she is a Scouser

hello Rebecca

alright babe people from Liverpool are

very friendly and down-to-earth but if

you find yourself in a conversation with

a scouser you might find that you're a

little bit confused because they use

some words that we don't normally use in

standard British English we're going to

go through some of the common ones with

you now

bizzies police look out it's the buzzies

look out its the police

Kecks trousers i bought some new Kecks

bought some new trousers Made up really

happy Ah I'm made up with that I'm

really happy with that Cob on bad mood

Have you got a cob on?

am I in a bad mood no Bevvy drink or

beverage a fancy a bevvy? Do I fancy a

drink

scran food

he's got a cob on because he wants some

scran, he's in a bad mood because he

wants some food Bifters cigarettes i'm

just going to the office by some bifters

i'm just going to the off-license to buy

some cigarettes

geggin in being nosy ey you geggin in?

hey are you being nosey? not me

so there's a small selection of some of

the words you would typically hear from

a scouser so let's now look at the

actual accent and some of the

differences in pronunciation between a

scouse accent and a standard British

English accent the first thing we're

going to look at is the fricative t so

when a t's at the end of a word and sometimes when

it's in the middle of a word

then rather than having a plosive sound

a scouser might make it fricative which

means it vibrates like this so if I said

right a scouser would say right right

right right let's get going right let's

go and don't don't don't don't

water water water water

I need a bottle of water I need a bottle

of water

another typical feature of the Scouse

accent is the K sound so in a word ends

with a k a scouser may constrict this sound

and make it a k kind of sound so for

example if i was to say back a scouser

would say back back back i'm coming back

later

I'm coming back later look-look-look look

look at him look at him

fake bake fake bake

a fake bake fake bake that looks like a

fake bake

that looks like a fake bake. Sound like you've

got a hairball. One of the differences

in vowels is the A vowel in standard

British English we have ... but in scouse

you have ... so for example if i was to

say come come come come come here come

here

up up up up come up here

come up here come up here shut

shut shut shot

shut the door shut the door all right

keep your hair on another feature that

may sometimes change is the th in

standard British English it's th but in

scouse we have d for example

great sometimes when a t has a vowel

on either side some old-school scousers

may change the t for an r and a very

famous example of this is the lovely

Cilla Black if you don't know who she

is

google her check her out but she had a

catchphrase and the catchphrase was a

A lorra lorra laaughs, she's saying a lot of a lot

of laughs but she's changing that t

from a lot to an r lorra lorra

laughs what if I was to say not a lot of

laughs

norra lorra laughs, norra lorra laughs

so funny

two more words that you may come across

regularly but are pronounced very

differently by true scousers are the

words something something

very different and nothing

nothing, nothing to worry about

nothing going on, nothing going on? great

lovely well we've had such a great time

today should i do in a scouse accent

we've had a great time today learning

all about the scouse accent sorry in

standard British English we've had a

great time today learning all about the

Scouse accent so i want to say a huge

thank you to Rebecca you have been

wonderful

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