LL-L 'Language diversity' 2006.12.31 (06) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L - 31 December 2006 - Volume 06
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From: Paul Tatum <ptatum at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L 'Language diversity' 2006.12.31 (02) [E]

Sandy wrote:

> In the past I think the norm would have been to get an actor with a
> strong accent to neutralise it a bit unless they were playing some
> decidedly provincial part.

> We Scots were very disappointed in Lulu taking on a strong English
> accent. This was long, long ago, of course - the early 1960's, when
> viewers would actually complain about not being able to understand
> regional accents and everybody going on TV with a strong accent would
> give a lot of thought to how they could change it. ITV had already set a
> precedent with Coronation Street, though.
>
> Around the same time the Beatles were insisting on sticking to their
> Liverpool accents

These days it seems that certain regional accents, such as
north-eastern, are desirable, to the point where I suspect that certain
presenters assume their regional accent when they were actually brought
up to speak RP. (I'm trying hard here not to launch into a diatribe
against a certain TV "personality" who raises my hackles :)). Like books
about colloquials, learned accents stick out. I have lived in the
north-east for 20+ years, having been born in Kent and raised in Wigan,
but I do not try to speak Geordie - people only notice when you get it
wrong, not when you get it right...
however my pronunciation is such that northerners think I'm a
southerner, and southerners think I'm a northerner....sigh.

Happy New Year to followers of the Julian calendar, TTFN to everybody else,

Paul Tatum.

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