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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25205

    #31
    Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
    Preferably without regional accents - bring back those clipped sonorities that we had when the higher classes did the broadcasting.
    well quite. Who needs yobs like CBH and Katie Derham with their estuary engerlish all over the hallowed airwaves?
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • Beef Oven!
      Ex-member
      • Sep 2013
      • 18147

      #32
      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      well quite. Who needs yobs like CBH and Katie Derham with their estuary engerlish all over the hallowed airwaves?
      Yeah, and Brummie accents are the worstest. And that bloke who wanted to be John Peel when he grew up, forgot his name.

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      • jean
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7100

        #33
        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
        Heaney is responding to the 'Hwæt!' which starts Beowulf. It probably means 'pay attention' or 'Lo!', or 'Listen...'
        Much like initial so, then.

        And very persistent - there are lots of examples in Shakespeare.

        (A later generation moved the what to the end of the sentence.)

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        • Flosshilde
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7988

          #34
          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
          that bloke who wanted to be John Peel when he grew up, forgot his name.
          John Peel?

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            #35
            Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
            John Peel?
            A DJ with the BBC.

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25205

              #36
              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
              A DJ with the BBC.
              Kid Jensen?
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • Beef Oven!
                Ex-member
                • Sep 2013
                • 18147

                #37
                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                Kid Jensen?

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30264

                  #38
                  Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
                  Of course. I just think we prefer to hear broadcasters and public figures using the standard version.
                  Out of interest, do any national BBC television newsreaders have a regional accent (especially English regions, not 'devolved nations')?
                  It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                  • Gordon
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1425

                    #39
                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    Out of interest, do any national BBC television newsreaders have a regional accent (especially English regions, not 'devolved nations')?
                    Huw Edwards?

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                    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 9173

                      #40
                      Martine Croxall?
                      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988

                        #41
                        Originally posted by Gordon View Post
                        Huw Edwards?
                        Isn't he Welsh?

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                        • Richard Tarleton

                          #42
                          Originally posted by french frank View Post
                          Out of interest, do any national BBC television newsreaders have a regional accent (especially English regions, not 'devolved nations')?
                          A couple of Norn Ireland ones...Maxine Mawhinney, Annita McVeigh...

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37648

                            #43
                            Back in the early 1980s Bristol BBC had a newsreader of surname Brown (I forget his first name)*, who had a very nice local accent. Either they got rid of him or he was retired, and thenceforth it was back to RP accents.
                            Last edited by Serial_Apologist; 17-02-14, 14:04. Reason: *Pete Brown

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                            • Honoured Guest

                              #44
                              It's a bit patronising (and wrong!) to call Huw Edwards a "newsreader". Nowadays, almost all BBC television news is presented by journalists who interview and speak off-script, in addition to reading news items. The only BBC pure newsreading I can think of is in short headline bulletins, like at the top and tail of Sunday mornings' Andrew Marr Show. That regular newsreader, Naga Munchetty, does indeed have an English regional accent (London).

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20570

                                #45
                                I'd much prefer a newsreader to speak RP than to have token patronising regional accents.

                                The likes of Steph McGovern almost require subtitles for me to understand, and I'm a patriotic northerner.

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