Regional accents- the last straw.

[James Wonnacott]

I'm sure many people do find RP irritating.
Incidentally, having been born and lived in Cornwall for most of my life (so far) I have a noticable Cornish accent which, when I hear myself on radio, I find irritating too!
I think what may have turned me against regional accents is that, whilst some are considered acceptable, others are thought to indicate a reduced intelligence.
I well remember, when I left school and travelled to the Midlands to study, one of my fellow students with a pronounced Rochdale accent muttering "ooh arr pasty" every time I spoke.

[James Wonnacott]

(I think your internet is broken matey)

I didn't say that I didn't understand it, simply questioned the relevance in the present context.

[MrGongGong]

I didn't say that I didn't understand it, simply questioned the relevance in the present context.

You used the word

I think what may have turned me against regional accents is that, whilst some are considered acceptable, others are thought to indicate a reduced intelligence.

You don't have to go along with what other folk say you know.

[Mary Chambers]

Start in Dundee. Ask someone to say "oboe".
You might hear "ubu".

Travel southwards to Newcastle - "awbaw"

This was the problem I had with Stephanie McGovern's NE (Middlesbrough) accent. She spoke about a new law, or so I thought. Turned out she was saying 'a new low'. No wonder what she said didn't make sense to me.

[James Wonnacott]

The right letters but not necessarily in the right order.

[James Wonnacott]

You don't have to go along with what other folk say you know.

I rarely do, it seems.

[cloughie]

I'm sure many people do find RP irritating.
Incidentally, having been born and lived in Cornwall for most of my life (so far) I have a noticable Cornish accent which, when I hear myself on radio, I find irritating too!
I think what may have turned me against regional accents is that, whilst some are considered acceptable, others are thought to indicate a reduced intelligence.
I well remember, when I left school and travelled to the Midlands to study, one of my fellow students with a pronounced Rochdale accent muttering "ooh arr pasty" every time I spoke.

What is sad is that the Cornish accents are heard less particularly amongst young people who are more likely to have estuary than RP. Maybe too many incomers in the county and the influences of Aussie soaps.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This was the problem I had with Stephanie McGovern's NE (Middlesbrough) accent. She spoke about a new law, or so I thought. Turned out she was saying 'a new low'. No wonder what she said didn't make sense to me.

On BBC1 Look North (NE & Cumbria) the presenters speak in clear English that everyone can understand. They aren't trying to prove a point.

[clive heath]

Excuse me asking OT but did S-A's school do the whole "Magic Flute" or the bite-size version by J. Michael Dyack (spelling?) in which, in my own school's production, I was a priest (with curtain rings as ear-decoration) and also Monostatos ??

[Serial_Apologist]

This was the problem I had with Stephanie McGovern's NE (Middlesbrough) accent. She spoke about a new law, or so I thought. Turned out she was saying 'a new low'. No wonder what she said didn't make sense to me.

A new law, in strong Middlesbrough speak, would be nearer to "a new lah" - as in various parts of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancs. My mother hailed from that neck of the woods.

[Serial_Apologist]

Excuse me asking OT but did S-A's school do the whole "Magic Flute" or the bite-size version by J. Michael Dyack (spelling?) in which, in my own school's production, I was a priest (with curtain rings as ear-decoration) and also Monostatos ??

A shortened version titled just "Papageno", CL.

[worlingworth1]

Just a suggestion; how about the announcers just speaking latin while dress in wing collar and top hat !!! with of course the female presenters only wearing a Norman Hartnell evening gown even for the morning programme. Personally I thought ethnic cleansing would have been best left to johnny foreigner. I don't suppose I could interest any of you lot in membership of the Wilfred Pickles appreciation society !!

[Serial_Apologist]

Just a suggestion; how about the announcers just speaking latin while dress in wing collar and top hat !!! with of course the female presenters only wearing a Norman Hartnell evening gown even for the morning programme.

Shouldn't that be chain male and chained female? And the wireless wasn't around at the time of the Roman and Norman occupations.

Like yourself, I'm only "joking", of course.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Like yourself, I'm only "joking", of course.

Wilfred Pickles? He's just having a go.

[cloughie]

Wilfred Pickles? He's just having a go.

Talking of whom his narration of Peter and the Wolf is in my recently acquired Markevitch ICON box - I'll have a listen to his dulcets!