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Post by snaffler on Mar 9, 2011 12:01:26 GMT
have recently been listening to the stoke and wolverhampton TAAB shows and ian has a distinct lancashire accent. can anyone tell me when he began to speak like a BBC home service announcer and why!!??
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 9, 2011 19:28:46 GMT
have recently been listening to the stoke and wolverhampton TAAB shows and ian has a distinct lancashire accent. can anyone tell me when he began to speak like a BBC home service announcer and why!!?? Shows your age Snaffler - BBC Home Service!!! Yes he does have a Lancastrian accent which is surprising considering his Scottish birth but he was brought up and educated in an age where your regional accent was smothered by the BBC "correct way to speak" brigade. He also had a grammar school education so I expect any accent was gradually erased there and his later Lancashire accent was probably part of a minor rebellion by him in the Anderson household.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 10, 2011 12:06:16 GMT
I'm not really sure what a Lancashire accent sounds like When he was young and him and the band packed off to the Big Smoke (sorry) he sounded very home counties and I struggle to even hear the Scottish burrrrr however as he got older and his voice deepened he seemed to pick up a bit of an "ooo arr" now I have put this down to the Scottish accent and the rolling of the rrrrs - when i lived in the West Country I found that accent the easiest to fall into out of all the other parts of UK I've lived in. However it might not be west country or Scottish - not sure ;D Ps I know that technically he doesn't live in the West Country which I think is Cornwall/Devon and Somerset but Wiltshire and even Bucks has a bit of an "ooarrrr" about it
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Post by 3chordtrick on Mar 25, 2011 0:07:05 GMT
I believe that, geographically/technically, the West Counrty is Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Our resident Cornishman and Chief Westcontryman may be able to confirm this.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2011 8:51:58 GMT
I believe that, geographically/technically, the West Counrty is Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Our resident Cornishman and Chief Westcontryman may be able to confirm this. I reckon your assumption is correct but the linguistic boundaries have certainly changed a wee bit. In fact when we lived in London I think we knew more folks of Cornish birth living there than is in the case now here in Cornwall. Most we now know have "emigrated" to the west country whilst the "natives" have moved "up country" to live in the home counties and the midlands. Having said that, the eastern european contingent who have taken the oportunity to live and work here have certainly spiced up the language and brought with them strong and very good beer, food of a distinct spicy flavour and possibly a "muddying" of the gene pool. No more village idiots in Kernow
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