A Boltonian has raised eyebrows for his well-spoken voice on a YouTube challenge.

Danny Chapman recorded a video of himself speaking for the AccentBase channel, which aims to collect as many accents as possible from around the world.

In the video, Danny recites a script welcoming people to Bolton , before demonstrating all of the vowel and consonant sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

At the end of the video, he signs off in true Boltonian fashion by saying: "Come to Bolton. You're welcome anytime, you can have a chip butty."

However, a lot of people in the YouTube comments weren't sold on his accent.

Paolo Hewitt said: "That's posh Bolton.. Give me Fred Dibnah any day."

Rebecca Jackson wrote: "This isn't a very typical Bolton accent, though. It's quite levelled."

While Andre Bell commented: "Sounds a lot more standard than the typical Fred Dibnah or Peter Kay Bolton accent."

Other commenters were more complimentary, although the general consensus was that he didn't have the most obvious Bolton accent.

Artur Macedo wrote: "I have a friend from Bolton and she does not sound like that at all haha I like your accent though."

FrenchDasxies described the accent as "posh", while Juan Fernando Carabali Carvajal agreed, referring to it as 'elegant'.

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Danny laughed off the comments and provided an explanation of why his accent may not be as strong as others.

The 24-year-old from Heaton said: "I'm Bolton born and bred but my mum is from Surrey and my dad is from Yorkshire so I think perhaps my mum's accent has rubbed off on me a little bit.

"To be completely honest, I recorded the video a while ago and completely forgot about it until I heard there was a few comments on it."

Richie O'Brien, founder of AccentBase, set up the website to help English-speakers from other countries adapt when they visit the UK.

Eventually, the Liverpool-based teacher wants everyone in the world to record a video or soundbite for his database.

He added: "I think Danny is representative and there are certain vowel sounds he uses that are of that area.

"I think he's just well educated and well spoken. You can definitely tell he's Lancastrian.

"I monitor the comments and there hasn't been anything too bad to be fair, just people saying 'that's not a proper Bolton accent'. Those people are more than welcome to send me a video of themselves as well."

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