Ride on
The Lad and The Others Lyrics

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What are you doing, in my face!?!
Where, are you going, with all haste
How did this begin? why did we start this?
And why can't you remember?

Goddamn you
Goddamn you

Why don't you ever think
About these things that you say?
Your words are there for us
To deconstruct anyway
Yes you are a product of that environment.
But change is always there.
If you want it!

Cold and foreign, spirit broken.
Please can we go home?

No!

What the fuck was that?
I'm being completely rational.
I'm not yelling!
I'm every relationship
There has to be compromise
And everyone of them has baggage.
I know I have my issues.
And we! know! you! have! yours!

Put it in gear motherfucker!

For tonight, we ride!

Deny the ride.

You and I, connect and emerge.

Overall Meaning

The opening lines of "Ride On" by The Lad and The Others see the singer feeling frustrated and bewildered by the actions of someone close to them. The lines "What are you doing, in my face!?!" and "Where, are you going, with all haste" indicate that the person is intruding upon their personal space, or perhaps acting without consideration for the singer's feelings. They then ask why they started this and why they can't remember, suggesting that the relationship may be strained or that something has happened to cause tension between them.

The mood of the song shifts as the singer directs their anger towards the other person, exclaiming "Goddamn you" repeatedly. They then call out the other person for not thinking about the consequences of their words, suggesting that they are careless or thoughtless. The lines "Yes you are a product of that environment. But change is always there. If you want it!" suggest that the singer is calling for positive change, perhaps indicating that they want the other person to take responsibility for their actions and their impact on the relationship.

The song takes an unexpected turn when the singer switches from aggression to vulnerability, describing themselves as "cold and foreign" with a broken spirit. They beg to go home as the other person continues to push them, saying "No!" The conflict continues until the end of the song, with the singer ultimately declaring that they will "ride on," despite the difficulties they are facing.

Line by Line Meaning

What are you doing, in my face!?!
Why are you bothering me and getting in my personal space?

Where, are you going, with all haste
Where are you hurrying off to?

How did this begin? why did we start this?
What caused this situation and why did we get involved in it?

And why can't you remember?
Why are you forgetting what happened?

Goddamn you
Cursing you

Why don't you ever think
You never think things through

About these things that you say?
You don't consider the impact of your words

Your words are there for us
Others analyze the words you use

To deconstruct anyway
To break down and scrutinize

Yes you are a product of that environment.
You are a result of your surroundings

But change is always there.
However, change is always possible

If you want it!
If you're willing to work for it

Cold and foreign, spirit broken.
Feeling distant and disconnected, with a broken spirit

Please can we go home?
Can we please leave now?

No!
Refusing to leave

What the fuck was that?
What just happened?

I'm being completely rational.
I'm thinking logically

I'm not yelling!
I'm not raising my voice

I'm every relationship
I represent all types of relationships

There has to be compromise
Both parties need to make concessions

And everyone of them has baggage.
Every person has emotional baggage

I know I have my issues.
I am aware of my own problems

And we! know! you! have! yours!
We also know you have your own issues

Put it in gear motherfucker!
Hurry up and get going

For tonight, we ride!
We will go out tonight!

Deny the ride.
Rejecting the idea of going out

You and I, connect and emerge.
We come together and become something greater

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

bennickss

A few of my sayings as a shropshire lad, with a bit of northern sneaking in (my mom’s from Preston Lancs):

Go down the chippy to get some chips for a butty- any sandwich which uses a bap (roll) with bacon or chips as the filling is a butty

You go up to spoons for some grub, you conner believe how good the chips are round there

It’s bostin!

Conner be bothered to walk down the hill, wouldna want to walk back up.

Gunna go up high street and get some grub, what do ye want?

‘Proper nice’

Gizza sweet, I know ye’se got some

Pass us a can of pop before I nip out to town

Well I int got any clue about what’s gone on here

What do ye’se want now, ye’re doing me head in

‘Hew new brewn cew’

All comments from YouTube:

Sue Rhodes

8y↑70

I am Shropshire born and bred and your accent is more Welsh than anything, even cwtch is a Welsh word.

B E

Shropshire accent is a pure British accent farmer gangster accent

Cambrensis

4y↑2

My Granny always asked me for a cwtch she lived in clun, - it's like we live next to Wales, like we used to be in the kingdom of powys mon :)

Russell Coates

6y↑6

I lived in shropshire most of my life. A proper shropshire accent is quite welsh. Its a mixture of welsh and "farmer giles" and maybe a small dash of brummey. Also, oswestry/ ellesmere tend to be full of people with a proper shropshire accent.

Sort Of Interesting

8y↑2

+Sue Rhodes It certainly is!

Stephen James

3y↑9

I grew up in Shropshire, in Wellington and then Newport, and I sounded more West Midlands than you do. Then I moved to London for a decade and California for 26.5 years, so I'm sure there's very little Shropshire left in me. But the fact that our accents would have sounded so disparate, even when I lived there, goes to show that accents are still very localised.

Plant Oh

I lived in Newport too! and then moved to Oswestry lol

RedFoxSkull2001

2y↑2

I’m from Australia, and I just discovered an ancestor of mine was a Shropshire native before being convicted and sent to Australia. I wanted to get an idea of what he might have sounded like :) thank you!

Rob S

2y↑3

Fascinating. I've spent a few nights in Oswestry this year, and I always listen out for accents. Most people I heard speak sounded Welsh to me.

Carol Newhouse

6y↑4

Absolutely love this! I was staring at photos on the wall of my grandfather's grandparents (who raised him) and wondering what they sounded like in his family home. Decided to Google what an accent from Oswestry, Shropshire sounded like and there you are in living color and on a boat even (yeah!)! All but about three of your terms/sayings I use today. I write the way many of your flashcards are written and I am in the middle of the United States. Family thing? Maybe. Even your facial features brought my ancestors portrait alive. Thank you for posting. Now I am off to see if I can find a similar video for my Welsh great great grandmother!

bookish

What a fascinating video! I really enjoyed learning about your accent and the slang in your area. I'm from Southern California and our "accent" has a few similarities with yours in that we tend to speak very casually and drop some parts of our words too. We say "soda" here and you would hear some say they're going to "pop" into a store. I'd love to see more of these videos in the future. Do you think you speak differently in front of the camera? It seemed that your example sentences featured a stronger version of your accent. Maybe you could have a friend join you and we could hear what a casual conversation sounds in your accent? 😀

Sort Of Interesting

+bookish That is a good idea! I think that I try and pronounce individual syllables a little bit more when I am filming but it is difficult to tell really! My friend at work once knew that I was talking to a member of my family when I didn't hear something they had said, instead of an "excuse me" I gave them a "Ya Wa?" (You what?)

Myfanwy Alexander

Thanks for this Dan. I have just been talking to an actress friend who needs to portray a character who comes from Welshpool/Llanymynych or (Lanernymak) and your way of speaking is just the thing. I can't help because I'm from up in Llanfair Caereinion where are accents are different.

hurphurphurp

6y↑8

This is really more of a Shrewsbury accent in my opinion. What I would consider 'proper' Shropshire sounds a lot more 'farmer-esque' (you can quite often here some 'proper monners' calling into BBC Radio Shropshire), although when you go towards Telford the accent very quickly picks up up bits of Black Country accents.

Saying that, I've spent most of life in Shrewsbury and I have a rather horrific 'Shropshire with hints of South Wales and West Country' thing going on! An American once referred to it as a "mud-farming accent" and I can't disagree!

Know Nonsense Man

@Tommy Shelby I honestly can't work out where abouts the lad is from. I'm an Oswestry lad and our accent is mostly English rural (similar to West Country/East Anglia/Herefordshire) mixed with Welsh and a hint of plastic scouse thanks to Wrexham but they blend together organically.

His accent seems to have all of those elements (minus Welsh) but when he speaks they surface separately and more pronounced - almost like they're being contrived. I'm not making any accusations about him but I just can't put my finger on where he is from and that bothers me.

Tommy Shelby

4y↑1

I live in Shrewsbury and I sound fuck all like this lad nothing wrong with this accent just not a Shrewsbury one

Working Class Brit

4y↑1

@Lucille The only people in Shrewsbury with a posh accent are middle-class.

Lucille

im a posh shrewsbury dweller then

Sort Of Interesting

Haha, my accent seems to be more controversial than I thought!

Nessie Barton

I love local accents and dialects. Cwtch is a great word, I might have to adopt that. The last place I lived they used the word lightsome to mean someone who is really good company and lifts your spirits, so Dan you are officially lightsome!

Max Thorpe

6y↑1

I was born and raised in Shropshire, I live in New Zealand now. I moved here when I was 15 and still have my accent. But now when I see any expatriates I get told I sound like a Welsh cadence Birmingham Accent... When I came home for a short stay my family and friends in the U.K said I have an Australian accent.

I can't fucking win.

Robert Hale

8y↑1

And this is why English is such a difficult language to learn for people who are not native English speakers. I know, my wife is Japanese and I always get questions about certain words or phrases. Thanks Dan for your videos!

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+Robert Hale Thanks for tuning in! Yes I bet it must be pretty odd to have some people say things that don't make sense when you have learned English properly!

Tim Cattley

8y↑10

Dan :- You have forgotten the most usual (unusual to everyone else) Shropshire greeting which is :- Hellohowyadoingalright?

Clay Rose

8y↑1

Very entertaining video! Now, I'd like to see you try some American accents!

Brittannia Moon

8y↑1

+Clay Rose that would be entertaining. I was born and raised in California and moved to Alabama when i was in my early 20's. (my ex husband was from alabama). Dude I am not kidding when i say that i could barely understand what people were saying. You gotta learn to drawl, Y'all!

Handstitched Life

8y↑7

In Michigan we use a lot of gunna wunna and dunna as well. we also turn t's into d's - so little turns into liddle. We also call fizzy drinks pop, not soda like Americans in southern states, and use pop as a verb like popping in some where. we pop our p's and click our k's, and stereotypically are a bit nasally.

Rob S

Interesting, does this apply to the whole of Michigan or is this more intense in any specific regions?

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+Handstitched Life Yes, we also drink pop rather than soda!

Ken Lynch

EXTREMELY (Sort) of Interesting & Entertaining. Now I know why you do not have a (what I call) a British accent. I have friends from the London area whom I usually cannot understand much of what they say. However, the same difficulty of language is found in the USA between the North & South and especially the New England states and the rest of the USA.

Sort Of Interesting

+Ken Lynch Yes, it is quite interesting that from the outside I would say that the two main stereotypes of American accent are either southern accents or (and I hate to say this) a more "Kardashian" style accent!
I feel that I may have mentioned in the past that I have seen TV programs that have used captions on people speaking with extremely broad Scottish accents!!

PhoenixLight

I am Shrewsbury born and bred and until I met my husband (who was from a different part of the country) I never thought I had an accent. He describes it as a mix of Welsh and Farmer

MOOSEDOWNUNDER

8y↑2

Spot on lad, in the South where i was raised (boarding/public school) Cambridge/Hertfordshire border we used to find the Midlands accents a real struggle but loved the Cockneys of the south, every phrase, comment and off the cuff remark ends with "bollocks" lol, now i am an Aussie so i guess im f%4cked either way lol Cheers Dan. Regards Moose

Sort Of Interesting

8y↑1

+mounty27 Haha, you must have been brought up to speak properly! It is a strange thing that even some of the people I know who went to "posh school" up here had elocution lessons and pronounce some words so properly that it is almost harder to understand!

Trudy

8y↑6

When I lived on Kidderminster, Worcestershire my next door neighbour spoke exactly like this. He was a Shropshire Lad.

Karen Dalldorf

8y↑1

love this one :-) Being South African I find it really interesting, all the colloquialisms :-)

Caaleb

yes karen

OokyDaniel

6y↑1

As a Rea Valley upper wummer I can confirm that "That's some owd bucket in a field" is the most Shropshire thing to ever been said...

AtomKaterina Ad Victoriam

My grandparents were from North Carolina (Appalachian Mountains) and through the Ancestry research I discovered a huge portion of my ancestors are from Shropshire or Hereford with Welsh dna. I've noticed that certain regions here in the USA can trace back to very specific places overseas (since families and neighbors would migrate together) and since most of them lived in the same counties once they immigrated here, for generations, the accents kind of evolve but you can still hear it's origins and it's similarities even today.
Your accent could genuinely find a place over here and you'd fit right in. If you shifted the way you pronounce words, just in a subtle way, you'd have a regional southern accent.
Languages and accents are so very fascinating!

Rob S

2y↑2

I heard the more Westcountry sounding accent whilst talking to a bloke in Ludlow this summer. He literally could have been from Somerset, where I'm from.

Rob S

@shropshire lad outdoors haha I was up there this weekend actually, fiunny coincidence. I really like the place. Although get a few odd looks as i walk about with my big camera.I'll look out for Clee Hill next time, definitely seen the name on signs.

shropshire lad outdoors

2y↑1

Ludlow is a different planet go up on Clee Hill and you might aswell be speaking a different language

triciapjs1

I have always loved the word cheeky. If I started saying rum instead, everyone would think I'd drunk to much alcohol!

Sort Of Interesting

+triciapjs1 Haha, run and cheeky make up about 80% of what I say!

ncplantdoctor

Listening to your accent is one of the things I enjoy. On this side of the pond, we also have dialectic differences among various regions of the country, so don't think that you are alone in having a go at guessing where a speaker is from. I used to work with a girl raised within a few blocks of Bow Bells. Now that was a different accent. I was midwest raised and live in the southeast. Locally dunna and wunna are in use here, and I probably use them, now, too. Don't worry about it, talk the way you wish.

Sort Of Interesting

+ncplantdoctor Haha yes, it is incredible how big a difference there can be in the way that people talk even from relatively close areas!

Dill Shiba

6y↑6

I live in Whitchurch our accent is mixed with Cheshire,Welsh,North Salopian, and a small amount of Stoke on Trent.

Guitar Talk *unedited

5y↑1

I grew up near Oswestry but moved to Leeds when I was 18/19, hearing your accent takes me back 👍🏻👍🏻

AnnaDaisybird

I LOVE your accent! Another poster is correct. We live in the Midwest US (Chicago area) and we use 'gunna' all the time. We also use the term 'pop". I'm gunna pop over to my mom's house for Easter dinner tonight!

Ash Lindop

8y↑2

I had no idea cwtch was local to us. Always thought it was what everybody has said! I'm an Oswestrian who has lived in Crewe for the last 3 years, and it's really interesting to hear the Shropshire accent nearer the Cheshire border, by Witchurch and Nantwich. Also, was expecting to hear the auld "monner" haha.

Sam Edwards

Monner

bennickss

cucumber sandwich

8y↑27

I'm a Shrewsbury Mon, living Oxfordshire and I've never had anyone guess my accent. nobody even recognises it.

cucumber sandwich

@Albiondp brother from another mother then Mon,

Albiondp

@cucumber sandwich black country mon born n bred! hear it all the time in cradley heath

cucumber sandwich

@Albiondp having lived in oldbury, wolves, blackheath, westbrom and dudley i can safely say i never heard that term spoken in any of them places,,,, just Shrewsbury monty

Albiondp

mon is very much a black country term. yow orright me mon?

cucumber sandwich

@Callum Fraser well there are very very few Jamaicans in Shrewsbury, its short for 'alright monty'

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Ethan Hunter

Well explained. Went though the accent changes as a lad in UK (Devon) after moving across the pond. Back on Canada side now. Though accent slips out after a malt beverage or 2. (Hamilton , Ontario)

Sort Of Interesting

+Ethan Hunter Haha, you could say a dunna wanna be drinkin too much!

Sandie Nease

7y↑2

I love that I've stumbled across this video. I've become very interested in learning about Shropshire after learning that my family had immigrated to America from Shrewsbury.

Aidan Johnson

7y↑4

It sounds more like a Lancashire accent more than a Shropshire accent because I understood everything lol

Fleety_Thirteen

I'm born and raised in the Shropshire hills, I do almost all the things on your list along with some others. Where I'm from people often greet each other with "'owdo mon!", "owarya shag?", "yaright jockey" and a myriad of other strange greetings. If ever I go to see relatives in other parts of the country it really stands out to me how weird our accent is.

Fleety_Thirteen

@shropshire lad outdoors I know, I live there haha

shropshire lad outdoors

Mon is more Shrewsbury borders

Gren Moyo

I'm American, but my grandmother has traced our family back to 1510 then known with the Surname Woodman who were from around Shrewsbury. So maybe when they came to the new world they might have sounded a little like you do.

Tina Woodworth

That was really funny! I love this video!

Earth Mother

2y↑1

I must of been destined to end up here because I've often referred to myself as us...pass us me drink etc had been a thing ive said for years thanks I enjoyed this

ranchovistadenada

Fun listening to you. I learned about this accent watching vids on Britbox.

Dan Power

I can definitely hear some welsh in there but there's also some scouse in you accent too. I'm very fascinated with people who live near the borders of different places.

Señor Sleepyhead

My father was born in Dawley and lived in Hipperholme most of his youth. My mother was born in Rowley Regis and moved to Much Wenlock at 21 (She doesn't have a thick black country accent). I was born in Shrewsbury, lived in Muxton, went to school in Newport, spent a lot of time at the Telford Town Centre and moved to Taranaki, New Zealand in 2006 at aged 15... I apparently sound Brummy and have done since I got here. Now you can guess with peaky blinders people think that's an awesome accent.

The problem is, My family and I are not from Birmingham. Yet to everyone who knows us, still to this day 15 years later says we are from there.

Accents are weird.

Will Ford

6y↑14

“Alright mon wunna pop to the shop with us?”
“Nah it tinna good weather mon I dunna wunna go”
How to speak like a monner

HMQ

3y↑1

Wasn't Wilfred Owen from this neck of the woods?

Brian Coates

Hi Dan, I'm an Oswestry lad too but your accent is very different from mine! Admittedly I haven't lived there for years but if you hadn't told me you were an Oswestrian I'd have said you were a Merseysider. The Wirral maybe.

buddhastaxi666

Hes not a scouser. Welsh from Flint have a scouse accent.

Randall Field

I had a real laugh when you said "oo ah the sheep's got out of the field" we have very similar ways of saying sentences so I've never really though, what did he mean by that. I like your Shropshire accent. Would love to drop ova some time and have a yarn wif ya bloke cheers.

Sort Of Interesting

+Randall Field Haha thanks! Got to watch out for them sheep getting out of the field!l

Lolita Cripps

6y↑11

Sounds like a Welsh/Stokie accent

Thomas Riley

Thought we were in for a treat, you reading some of Housman's poems🙂

Sort Of Interesting

8y↑1

+Thomas Riley Maybe in the future... now that you have given me the idea!!

Roger Quarton

I'm an American, and as is typical here, my ancestors came from all over the British Isles: my dad's family, the Quartons were from York (1828 or so), and Pratts from Huntingdonshire, England. My mother's side, Rees surname, were from Wales, and the Goodes from Whitby. . . and then there are the Etters, from Switzerland, Van Meters from Holland, etc.! But, I could understand you, unless you went into the Cornish farmer accent! That was hard to hear/distinguish! I enjoyed listening to your accent. It's not bad at all, really! I love the Welsh word, "cwtch". I'd heard it before, but only because I've learned a bit of Welsh. Keep up the good work - it's fun to learn more about the regional English accents.

Tyler Atchley

Dropped by to hear how our ancestors speak. Heard we originated from Shropshire. Saw a photo of Atchley Castle, and just got curious. Thanks for my first real English lesson!

EchoIsPro

8y↑41

My Shropshire accent is entirely different

shropshire lad outdoors

@Joe Chesters and me

Samuel Parry-Edwards

3y↑1

@Russell Coates ye I'm from shrewsbury and it's nothing interesting lol

Matt Y

Russell Coates yes true

Lolamae

Yeah same

Joe Chesters

6y↑2

South Shropshire and North Shropshire have different accents, im from South Shropshire

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Joanna Goodwin

Do you live in the Clun area by any chance? There’s loads of different accents in Shropshire but all this sounds very familiar (from that are myself). You might find this interesting. There’s some proper old Shropshire accents in there http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2008/04/09/shropshire_accents_and_dialects_feature.shtml

Derek Whyle

I lost my Shropshire accent over 40 years ago but I never sounded like this. !

Lancashirelad

8y↑1

Lots of people in the uk use "me" as in "I'll get me coat" where it should be "my". Its completely wrong but much used. Just like people say "Me and the wife" which should be "The wife & I". Lancashirelad :-)

Sort Of Interesting

8y↑1

+xLancashireladx Haha, yes I if I ever have to write anything at work about two of us doing something, I always write "Person and I" and it always seems really awkward to say out loud!

ann prince

I was born in Shropshire in Shrewsbury hospital, spent over five years then we were forced through circumstances to go to liverpool. My mother was liverpool girl , my dad was Shropshire born My paternal used to travel to Evesham to buy fruit , he made Scrumpy ( first pressing of cider) I lived not from Titterstones ( or stiperstones) hills and Ludlow was the nearest Town. My and Uncle lived in a cottage on the hill we lived in Clee hill village. ( Grandfather went to Evesham)

Ash Lindop

It's interesting how you mention we talk in the plural. As a psychology undergrad I would suggest it means we are less self-centred and more community-minded.... just a thought

MarkoBricksUK

Hi Dan, being so close to Wales did you ever learn it as a language when you were at school and can you say that Welsh place with the incredibly long name that ends in gogogoch?

Velibor Vasovic of Ajax

Im Serbian but I think I am going to start speaking English with this accent

K J

I’m South Shropshire, I’ve had people say I sound very Bristolian and Welsh farmish! The old boys round here have a very strong accent and out of towners think their Irish! We definitely over pronounce our ‘A’s’ I get made fun about this all the time! Especially saying raaaaspberry , baaath and haaalf paaast!
I could tell straight off you were Oswestry way, that accent is a mix of Shropshire, Welsh and Liverpool!

Greg Appelgren

8y↑2

I am told it is odd in my area (Near Chicago) We will say "I'm going to the store, would you like to go with"? We do not say "With me" or "With us" In my travels around the country people identify that I am from the Chicago area which I don't really understand how they pick that out.

Sort Of Interesting

+Greg Appelgren Haha, yes it is strange how some people can pick things up really well. Over here, if it is not one of the main "famous" accents I am often in the dark!

Tabby Fish

there is a variation of accents from people in shropshire for example even though they aren't too far from eachother people in Stoke speak differently from people in Market Drayton, or other towns and Villages e.g Cheswardine or Shrewsbury or Ludlow

Krzysztof Jaxa Świst

8y↑2

If You have any problem with English, You definitely should TRY to speak Polish :-P

I guarantee that You`ll hoist a white flag after 10-15 minutes xD

,,Stopy wody pod kilem Dan !,,

Timm Lashbrook

+Krzysztof Świst cwfar

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8y↑1

+Krzysztof Świst Haha yes I bet... Also after running to google tranlate... Thank you very much!

Ibizarebel

I'm a Geordie from the North East, don't get me started, you would never understand lol. Interesting that there are different dialects within the North East i.e. someone from Sunderland has a different accent than someone from Newcastle (that's New_castle btw NOT Noo_castle like a lot of southerners say it lol). It's usually only the locals that can tell the difference. People from Northumberland, Ashington, Blyth, etc. have a completely different accent too. We tend to tone it down a bit when speaking to strangers, if we spoke full on Geordie no-one would understand lol.

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+Ibizarebel Haha, yes I bet you could leave people with a blank look on their face! I once had a Geordie teacher who spoke with such an accent that one of my friends thought he was French!!!

buddhastaxi666

Shropshire is part Welsh. Especially near Old Montgomeryshire. It was the heart of the old Principality. Nant-y-cws is near Oswestry. Knockin. Rum was bit extreme. If you get into full dialect no one understands you. Cwtch iscuddling. Browys....i speak english with welsh way. Pop to the shop. I was born in Meifod. I speak like a farmer .

Bethany

3y↑3

This does not sound like anyone I live near in Shropshire. Where's the 'Ay mon?' 'Nah mate' But this is what i think when someone says Shropshire. But we definitely don't say Ts

wikikris

I have a reasonably good grasp of accents and you definitely sound quite strongly mixed middle-of-the-road English and Welsh. Weird.

ThisNarrowboatAdventure

8y↑5

I love accents so nice to know where your from

ThisNarrowboatAdventure

Oh thats a shame that the hospital was flattened!

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+ThisNarrowboatAdventure Thanks for tuning in! Yes, I was born and raised in Oswestry... one of the last to actually be born in Oswestry Hospital... Which has long since been flattened and turned into retirement homes!

Erin Dorrell

"Gonna" is actually a proper word which is recognized by spell check and is commonly used almost everywhere in the US.

Tim Cattley

+Dottie Dig Gunna may now be recognised in the USA but it is still a compression of the words "going to" whether you recognise it or not. Here in the UK gunna or gonna (depending on ones regional accent) is slang speak but means the same, ie "going to". There are numerous words like this eg dunnawannadoer meaning:- "does not want to do".

Erin Dorrell

@Tim Cattley LOL ok....

Tim Cattley

+Dottie Dig He refers to "Gunna" not "Gonna".

Levi Wilson

3y↑1

You speak properly for someone from Shropshire

shropshire lad outdoors

North Shropshire

Tony Wedding

Polish? Where are they from. Seems obvious to me you are from Britain. I was raised in southwestern Indiana, USA, in a town on the Ohio River called Evansville. You can cross the river to Kentucky and it is amazing to hear the significant change in accent you will hear just crossing the river.

Sort Of Interesting

+Tony Wedding Yes, I find it really strange just how close people can live yet sound so different!

Jason Pritchard Jones

7y↑1

I'm From Porth-y-waen,Nr. Oswestry.And I've Had People Say That I Sound Welsh Or Sound Like A Real Farmer -Ooh Arr!.I Live Near Llangollen Now And Everyone Around Says I Sound Like A Yokel

Mardiff V.

8y↑3

Nothing wrong with your accent.

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+Mardiff V. Thanks!

Freya Parker

2y↑1

i'm born and bread in oswestry, shopshire and i guess i don't really have an accent. maybe i just can't hear it coz i'm so used to it.

Ovaltine Jenkins

3y↑1

When I think of Shropshire accents, I think "Heeeeeelllllooooo there, and as usual, I'm Last Stand Gamers, aaaaaand welcome."

Sam Grove

Ye that is what we sound like tbf

buddhastaxi666

Regional dialect. I have welsh...East Montgomery shire..., Shropshire....Oswestry... and west australian mixed accent .

0riginallegend

You need to start saying 'Tidy Mon!' In each video... That be proper shropshireeee mon

Charles Buckner

3y↑1

my grandmother was from Shrewsbury, sound familiar.

Grow Your Own Life

6y↑15

typical Shropshire phrase.. "wanna cuppa tea?" reply "Cando."

shropshire lad outdoors

Proper shropshire

scat

Ross Minton mon

Isobella Evans

7y↑3

you have a West Country accent 😂

Grow Your Own Life

6y↑1

your from Oswestry, lol that explains a lot, completely different to the middle and south.
due to the coal fields there a lot of Liverpool and Yorkshire twang snuck in as men traveled here in the industrial revolution for work. like Buz in stead of bus and "Ow bist" for how do.

buddhastaxi666

Ow bist ye surree?

Phoebe loves Nick Tandy

I am from Shrewsbury but I have a bit of Welsh in my accent

a Tin of Spam

im from shrewsbury but inherited my dads hertfordshire accent :/

Cheekychops 2002

My maternal family are Salopians born and bred and sound NOTHING like this guy. There’s Stoke accent with mix of Norfolk in there. Very weird. I would never of picked Shropshire in million years if I was asked to pin point his accent. Great video 👍

ddemaine

The I can hear a Scouse/Cheshire element in the words "accent" and "perfect". Whereas the 'farmer' element I can hear in ao dipthong, for instance "about", redolent of Herefordshire. The lilt of your accent is Welsh.

Given that Shropshire borders onto Cheshire, Herefordshire and Powys-- perhaps not surprising!

Matt Y

My Shropshire accent is completely neutral, I literally don’t have a specific sound haha

plan 9

What about the noun “Jockey”?

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+Capton Ten There are so many that I could have had!

Xaleos

I'm from Whitchurch and my accent sounds abit different to yours.

Lystanix

I'm from Shropshire [all stretton] and is it normal for me to say "Mate"?

allan x

I live in north Essex...im told im a carrot cruncher..with a farmer giles accent....But we say pop and gunna and also pass us me coat...but some odd words we say that people go blank at us when we use them are DOINS...as in pass me me doins...which means pass the thing I was working on....my doins. Another goodun we use is oopsey...Which means pass up....Don't you love local accents...

allan x

+goinghomesomeday1 I love to hear accents...so much a part of heritage..its true what you say about tech comm, but I think now days with modern transport and people moving a lot more, a lot of local accents are being lost....you still have strong ones though.Welsh..Scottish..Newcastle...Liverpool...

goinghomesomeday1

+allan x - Hello Allan - Those are very interesting words and one which I have heard also especially that I am not from the UK but on the neighbouring island.
As you young-lad when helping my neighbour, and if I was doing something wrong he would say yer makin a right haems of dat. One of my grandmothers famous saying if she was spending a bit more than planned was - it will put me in the middle of next weeks bill.
Sadly with the modern world and instant communications, TV etc, we are loosing our local and very unique accents.

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+allan x Haha brilliant, particularly oopsey! Thanks for tuning in too!

Ana Parada

Greeting from Texas USA CAN YOU SUR MAKE MORE VIDEOS ON PLACES TO STAY AND EAT IN SHEFFIELD AND THE WEST MIDLANDS ECT ANY TIPS..I WOUKD IMAGINE IRELAND DUBLIN TI BE CHEAPER THAN TBE UK?! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS

Emily Sims

I live in a village out side of Oswestery but I have lived there 99%of my life

TheCWMHALL

7y↑3

Not very Shropshire for me , have to get an old timer in their 90 to speak Shropshire .

Joe Chesters

6y↑2

MsVanorak my 82 year old Grandad who is and upperwummer farmer from the hills, is a proper Shropshire mon

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7y↑3

Haha, yes and who pronounce "bus" as "buzz"!!

Lily Jones

4y↑1

I am from Shropshire and I don’t sound like that

Andrew Evans

I was born in Shrewsbury in Shropshire. But moved all over. Due to father being in the army

TheRizz701

2y↑1

a hint of welsh there

Isobella Evans

I love the word cwtch

Adolf Oof

7y↑1

I live in Shropshire lol.

joe roche

Like Cheshire but softer and more agricultural I think

joe roche

Def not meant as a insult btw I rather like Shropshire and its inhabitants, I mean it's not Cheshire but its close ;)

Koran Clover

5y↑5

I’m from Shrewsbury and umm😂😂

Sam Jones

4y↑2

From south Shropshire mon 💪🏽

Joanne Richards

4y↑1

You must be over by the border. Think that side of Shropshire are different from us near Bridgnorth/ Telford. Defo say gunna, wanna, pass us me though