Learn the Mancunian dialect from a local. We’ll look at the pronounciation, the expressions, the vocabulary and everything you wanted to know about Manchester in this deep dive video.
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00:00 Who’s Alex?
01:05 All about Manchester
05:13 The accent of Manchester
11:41 Let’s speak Mancunian
24 Comments
This needs to become series, Gideon! 😄Fun and entertaining, especially curious to learn more about other parts of the UK. 🤔
GGMU😈
tnx
This series is engaging, great participation from Alex, you always give us amazing videos, your tan is up to date. Have an amazing day in Chiang May, the best place at the moment.🍃🌞
Great taste in music our boy Alex, but dead poor in football :-))
The Smiths and Alan Turing? ❤
Im buzzin about Manc accent
this series is so helpful for my voice acting
The greatest Mancunian? Karl Pilkington of course.
Wearing a proper JD t-shirt! Fooking great!
I liked this video a lot. How about 'all right' to mean 'Can I get you something?" – or maybe that's more Lancaster than pure Manchester… You hear this in the shops & restaurants in that part of England.
Greatest Mancunian is Emmeline Pankhurst.
Morrisey has become an unbearable prick over the years, no way he's rated as one of the greatest Mancunians.
Alex has a Lancashire, not a Manchester, accent. My family all come from Bolton and Alex has a similar accent.
Sounds like a russian speaks English as he is used to.
My mother was from St.Maarten in the Dutch Caribbean. Their original English dialect is almost dead. I knew there was a lot of Irish and even some Gaelic in it, but I now realise that there was a lot of Northern Englush influence…!
Happi instead of happij?
Everybody using English West of Amsterdam and East of Broome uses the stop-t glottal stop now.
That looked more like a chip bap/batch (or roll/cob/…) than a chip butty, which has sliced bread. Chip butties are surely eaten everywhere in Britain anyway, and some words like ‘sound’ are used everywhere too. The punk band ‘The Buzzcocks’ were so-called because a Manc said to one of their members “What’s the buzz, cock?” which apparently meant “What’s going on, mate?” so that was definitely a good choice for this video, I’ll give you that.
Trap/bath in American English is similar to Mancunian
The correct answer is James, not The Smiths. For Smiths fans, check out the album 'No Manchester' by the band Mexrrissey .
The term "cock" or "cocker" comes from the same root as the term "cockney" for Londoners.
It's another term for a chicken or bird as far as I remember, we use it in Yorkshire as well as "chuck" (chick).
Very interesting, Gideon. I'm Aussie, and grew up in Newcastle New South Wales. My late mum's father's side of the family were originally from the north of England, and her mother's side of the family were from the northwest corner of Ireland. We called meals "breakfast, lunch and tea". I noticed on the map in the video that people in the northern part of what's now Eire said "tea" for the evening meal, as did the Mancs. I enjoy a chip butty, and have made them here in Cagayan de Oro City Mindanao Philippines, where I live these days.
Great film – writing as a Manc brought up in the Cheetham Hill part of town, I think Alex's Bolton accent and one from more or less within the city limits are very different. Proper Manc is maybe delivered faster, with more elision and can be quite hard for non-natives to follow. Different vocabulary too – no 'cocks' here I'm afraid. A Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham etc. accent maybe sounds slower, more rounded – even a bit rural by comparison! Mancs can't say 't' in the middle of a word. When I was a kid (1960's/70's) people would say 'I'm off to the hospickle wiv mi lickle bockle'. You don't hear than now. (My mum – who was from Yorkshire and tried to avoid sounding 'common' – would have given me a slap for speaking like that!)