Name: Top 10 Worst British Accents by HOLLYWOOD Actors
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- Here we go, guys, with the 10 worst English accents by Hollywood actors. You won't believe

how bad these are. I can't wait to show you. Let's do this.

10, Anne Hathaway. She plays Emma in "One Day". Now, Emma is a character from the North

of England, Leeds to be specific, so you would expect her accent to have features of a Yorkshire

- An orgy won't look after you when you're old.

- Now, in that sentence, she does show features of a Yorkshire accent with the word after

- Now, this is the classic split, it's called the Trap-Bath Split, it's ah and awh. Now,

in southern accents in England, you have the ah and awh difference, so it would be after

in this case. But in the north of England and Yorkshire, you've got just ah, so it would

be after. They wouldn't use the awh sound. So, you've got after, laughter. In fact, there's

- The only time Ian ever really made me laugh was when he fell down the stairs.

- Okay, there you go. Did you hear it? Laugh. So, in the south of England in RP and Cockney,

those kind of things, it would be laugh with an awh sound, in the north in Yorkshire it

would be ah. However, I will say this, there is not much consistency in her accent.

- You have to, Dex, it's the rules and absolutely no skinny-dipping.

- Now, in defense of Anne Hathaway, it's possible to come from Yorkshire and to speak with a

Received Pronunciation, but to have inflections of a Yorkshire accent throughout your speech.

So, that would be, in this case, it would be the laugh or the after. Those are those

little local pronunciation features that she might have picked up, but, generally, she

might speak Received Pronunciation. That's in her defense. Now, I haven't seen the full

film. I know that there's a lot of criticism of her accent that maybe it's not consistent,

and that is a problem with many of these accents is that there's just not much consistency.

Anyway, I think she did an okay job. Things get much worse at number nine. Really quickly,

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away. Okay, number nine. Giant of the big screen, Russell Crowe. This is bad.

- If you try to build for the future, you must set your foundations strong.

- Now, let's just double check. Robin Hood is from Nottingham. Okay, that's in like the

- Offer justice. He's become fully Irish. Okay, so you've got an Irish Robin Hood straight

- The future. Okay, Russell goes full Irish again there. Okay, we've got two examples

there of Russell Crowe speaking with a kind of Irish inflection . Not very good, but it's

there. He does try to speak with a northern accent. Let's have a look.

- And that King would be great. Not only would he receive the loyalty of his people.

- Okay, so "not only". That's not bad. So, he's linking that T across. So, when you've

got a consonant and then a vowel coming after it, he kind of links it over. So, "not only".

And then that short E sound on the "only", so not only, leh, that's quite a short clipped

E sound. So, that is a feature of a kind of general northern, possibly Yorkshire-ish accent.

- Not only would he receive the loyalty of his people, but their love as well.

- But their love as well. Okay, so that love. That is a feature of a northern accent. We're

talking generically here the north of England. Again, there's a regional split between the

north and the south of England in terms of accents and sounds, specifically, the ah and

uh sounds. So for example, if you've got putt and put, in the south of England, you've got

different sounds there. Pah and puh. But in the north of England, there's no distinction.

It's the uh sound both times. So, in the south of England, you would have love, lah, ah,

but in the north of England, luh, luv. So, he does manage to bring that feature of a

northern accent into his speech. Generally speaking, it's a pretty confused accent. He

swings from Irish to Northern, maybe a little bit of Australian. It's not very good, it's

not consistent. And that's the problem I think, with many of these accents, lack of consistency.

Okay, American actor, Josh Hartnett, features at number eight. He's in a film called "Blow

Up". It's set in the northeast of England, so we're expecting to have a kind of Tyneside

- No volume, no real hold. That's the problem.

- What's it to do with you who I talk to aye?

- I mean I'm cutting in me Dad's shop, but not competitions.

- Okay, let's start of there with "me dad's shop". Now, that "me" would be "my" in most

accents. In the north and the northeast, yeah, "me", "me dad", "me dad". Right, okay, that's

not bad, but I think that's pretty much the only example I can find.

- It is Christina, isn't it? I mean that's just said completely flat. No sense of regional

accent at all. So, just the name Christina in the northeast, that would have more of

intonation to it. It'd be Christina. You're kinda going up maybe at the end. The way he

does it, there's nothing. It's just flat. Nothing.

- I'm not so bad. Not so bad at all. What about you?

- What about you? I mean that is just horrific, frankly. Okay, let's just take the word "about".

That diphthong there, aw in Received Pronunciation. In a Geordie accent in the northeast, it'd

be the ooh sound, aboot, aboot. So, it's a small thing, I know, but that's the kind of

thing, if you're gonna try and do an accent, that's what you need to think about, is how

are these vowels pronounced? And I think that's a huge thing. When I hear American actors

trying to do British accents, is they come unstuck with the vowels, either they don't

do them wide enough or they just get the wrong sound. This definitely causes some American

actors problems. And definitely Josh Hartnett suffers here. Okay, I know this technically

isn't Hollywood, but it is an American actor trying to do a British accent so I thought

I'd include it. Ross from "Friends". This is brilliant, this scene is amazing, it's

hilarious. His accent is so, so bad. Now, I have done a video all about British accents

in "Friends". You can watch it right there. Let's just quickly look at Ross here.

- Right, so when Rigby got his samples back from the laboratory, he made a startling discovery.

- Now, the big takeaway that I've got here is that American actors, some American actors,

tend to try to pronounce every single sound in a word, every single syllable. When, in

fact, what we do in British English certainly is using shwas to blend sounds together. So

for example, laboratory. Now, he says, "laboratory". Laboratory, like there's so many different

sounds there. But how do we really say it? Laboratory. Laboratory. So, that A is getting

a shwa, we're crunching those sounds together. Laboratory. He does it again later.

- What he believed to be igneous was, in fact, sedimentary.

- Sedimentary. Sedimentary. How many syllables are you saying? Sedimentary. Sedimentary is

how we would say it in British English. So, there's definitely one thing I've noticed,

the pronunciation of every single syllable in a word. Now, my other reason is to why

this is such a terrible accent is because in one section he's speaking with Received

Pronunciation, in the next section, he's speaking with a Cockney accent, or trying to speak