It’s very interesting the spread.
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Oh I’ve got entire hate pages devoted to me. The nuts always seem to find me. Fortunately neither I nor my family have ever had a serious problem offline.
Tony in Sunderland, England. Retired freelance software engineer. I walk everywhere I can and on relatively rare occasions use public transport. We had a succession of cars when the kids were small but we stopped driving when we moved to London as it soon became obvious that only the pathologically fearless drive in London by choice.
I seem to have a surprisingly good ear for Western scales, but that’s probably from listening to music so much. I’m supposed to be learning to play the Theremin.
I have no serious electronic engineering. My soldering talents are abysmal and I avoid soldering except where strictly necessary. I can read a schematic and diagnose errors because those skills easily transfer from software engineering.
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So are you now in Sunderland or London?
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Sunderland 
… I bet its glorious sunshine there despite being only 65Mish away… its dull here 
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English is the principal language of at least some of the population of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. I’m given to understand that even some denizens of Canada have been known to use the language. I don’t think we can easily explain why this map is so heavily biased towards certain American states and Western Europe.
The prevalence of British posters (about 68 million, majority English speakers, home of Sam Battle) is expected. The sparsity of Texan and Californian posters (69 million in total, majority English speakers) is not. Not to mention Ireland where English has been the majority language for centuries. I’m not that surprised that sparsely populated American states such as Arizona and Colorado don’t show up.
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At the moment it’s good. Blue sky and a high cloud base, seagulls calling one another as they scavenge for scraps and watch their young. Gentle breeze. Shirt sleeve weather but no harsh sunlight thanks to the clouds.
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I realized I never posted up here when I joined:
Q1. Patrick
Q2. Virginia, USA
Q3. Job. Neurologist.
Q4. Hand-me-down used hybrid
Q5. Good Ear but not perfect pitch, shit at reading music, 4 years piano training.
Q6. None really, just build my first two circuits (Microbus from FC and the 1113 Rene Schmidt Filter - thanks to fredrik’s advice it actually works now).
I work with Deep Brain Stimulators at work, which are basically just square wave oscillators we can control where the cathode and anode are, pulse width, either current or voltage, and frequency. I basically play music straight into people’s brains to make them move around better, which is really fun.
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I’m back in Sunderland. We sold up in 2016, just before the Brexit referendum threw the London house prices into a tizzy.
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Only a couple of US states have more than one marker, so one can’t really make meaningful statistical comparisons between them. As for Britain (11) vs. Texas and California (2), presumably YouTube algorithms and human preference for people of like culture and accent account for much of the difference (and low statistics may still contribute too).
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I always holiday in the UK, not been out of the UK since I was 10 (1984 — Insert Eurythmics beat
been all over, but London I only visit under duress for work. Only benefit is I can/could go to the west end for a Show on an evening…
There’s a UK Phrase “It’s Grim Up North”… But those of us up here know better
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I am really glad Sam has reached out around the world, it’s interesting to have that diversity.
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Excuse me, I hope you’re not having trouble distinguishing Sam’s estuary accent from my own “Sunderland person who went to university 200 miles away and had to learn spoken English all over again just to make himself understood” accent. In my area just moving three miles up the coast brings a very recognisable change of accent. I can still distinguish a born Tynesider from a born Wearsider by ear, and to some extent I can tell in which area of Sunderland somebody went to school.
I do find Sam’s accent more pleasant than many, though. When I have visited the United States the English accents started to sound very weird to me. I suppose that’s how it sounds to everybody else all the time.
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LOL…
@ Bitnick, rember this
Most of the city footage is within 15 mins walk of my house (Including my sons school that was destroyed again by flooding in 2015) …
Yet they used a voice actor with totaly the wrong accent, aparently to make it more acceptable!!
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I’d call that a “Whatever happened to the Likely Lads” accent. If you listen to Ridley Scott I think his genuine Newcastle posh accent sounds a bit like that, despite all the time he worked in London and Los Angeles. It’s hard for me to tell these days how much of a young person’s accent in film is trained and how much is a touch of estuary or Sydney picked up from television. When I lived in Northumberland in the eighties all the young kids were imitating Jason and Kylie from Neighbours, and now those kids are in their late thirties.
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we have been here less than a year . a lot of people that see Sam’s you tube videos probably don’t even know this forum exists . so give it a year and I am sure word of the Kosmo will spread .
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What always gets me is when people say the midwesterners (like yours truly) have no accent, and then talk about the Received Pronunciation as though it is an accent. Our language is so closely related to England that it’s called English-so shouldn’t the Queen’s speech be considered the standard against which everyone else is judged, or is there some criteria that makes pronunciation patterns an “accent” that they just don’t teach you about when you live in a place “without” one?
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Seems like an ignorant thing for people to say.
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seems like were ever you are from your not the one with the " accent " not necessarily ignorant its just what seems " normal " to you .
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Yeah, I get it. It just seems pretty self centered.
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I didn’t mean to cause any offense. My point is that it doesn’t make sense, so it wouldn’t be my own assertion.
I’m pretty sure I’ve even heard Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig breach the subject wrapped in the context that the RP was the accent (and Toksvig has reason to Bring it up frequently since her British accent is admittedly artificial.)
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