What the heck has happened to his accent, i thought he was a geordie !!! He is talking in a very BBC voice lol
It can be the unconscious affect of living in a particular area for some time. Or quite deliberate.
I would think many actors adopt a more "region neutral accent."
However, others who may have spent decades away from their birthplace and have had, or softened their regional accent themselves, sometimes "resurrect" it to try to bring attention to themselves.
Classic examples, are Tess Daly with her "selective northern vowel sounds" and Neil Oliver, who in early documentaries where he had just bit parts, had just a slight Scottish accent, but now if it gets any broader, I'd have to use subtitles if I ever watched a programme, in which he appeared.
Some people in entertainment can come back from the USA after a stay of six months with an American accent.
I knew someone who went to work in Canada for twenty years and when they returned, there was no trace of where they'd been, in the way they spoke.
yeah i guess, i used to love Peter Kay on the telly then went down to Manchester to see him live and couldnt understand some of what he was saying !!! Dont know if it was cos he was playing to a "home" crowd so his accent went thicker.
I must say though i prefer Robson with his geordie voice !!
He sounded like a typical luvvy, which I guess is what he is.
I didn't see it, but what is a luvvy, not sure what it means.
As for his accent, he's an actor, they spend a lot of their time morphing into someone else, that includes accents and probably professional accent training.
Accents drifting depending on where you're living and who you're around happens to lots of people.
As a family of Londoners we came to live in the North-West when our youngest was four. She "adopted" a slight "bath & path" accent to fit in at school, (the accents aren't as heavy in "North Cheshire" which was where we lived before they changed the boundaries), but reverted to "BBC English" at home.
When she moved to London to train for a job at eighteen, she dropped the Northern accent which quite surprised someone she met on the same course whom she'd known up here.
She explained that "she'd always been bi-lingual."
What the heck has happened to his accent, i thought he was a geordie !!! He is talking in a very BBC voice lol
Lauren Laverne's another one that's been busy at the elocution lessons...and Marc Radcliffe. Bizarre as their Northern accents, like Jerome's, were central to their appeal/identity. These fake Southern vowels are pretty tragic. God knows why in this day and age they do this.
Lauren Laverne's another one that's been busy at the elocution lessons...and Marc Radcliffe. Bizarre as their Northern accents, like Jerome's, were central to their appeal/identity. These fake Southern vowels are pretty tragic. God knows why in this day and age they do this.
Funny stuff! when was the last time you listened to Mark Radcliffe ! born in the north west, works in the north west, lives in the north west. The only gentrification either he or Stuart Maconie have had was being grammar school educated. Lauren has worked in London for years so her northern accent is going to disappear a little.
Admittedly I'm Welsh, born here live here etc... i dont sound welsh though. so many people now have accents picked up from tv, popular culture.
I find it particularly amusing because I grew up in the same village and went to the same schools as Mr Green, and despite living in another part of the country now I'm still very definitely a Geordie!
Haha glad someone else spotted it.
It wasn't just his accent, he seemed to be trying too hard to sell his fishing show. That shark experience anecdote was bizarre.
Very gauche.
Funny stuff! when was the last time you listened to Mark Radcliffe ! born in the north west, works in the north west, lives in the north west. The only gentrification either he or Stuart Maconie have had was being grammar school educated. Lauren has worked in London for years so her northern accent is going to disappear a little.
Admittedly I'm Welsh, born here live here etc... i dont sound welsh though. so many people now have accents picked up from tv, popular culture.
My mother was Welsh and having lived outside Wales for well over twenty years she did not have any real Welsh accent. But if she met any Welsh people, or even spoke on the telephone, the accent returned immediately. You hear of lots of cases like this but you repeatedly find people on forums like here accusing people of deliberately dropping or faking accents. Accents come and go.
Some people seem very intolerant of any accent except a London one, you regularly see ridiculous claims that someone cannot be understood because of a bit of an accent from another part of the country.
I have worked in several parts of the country with strong accents and never had any problems unless people start using dialect but that applies anywhere.
My mother was Welsh and having lived outside Wales for well over twenty years she did not have any real Welsh accent. But if she met any Welsh people, or even spoke on the telephone, the accent returned immediately. You hear of lots of cases like this but you repeatedly find people on forums like here accusing people of deliberately dropping or faking accents. Accents come and go.
Some people seem very intolerant of any accent except a London one, you regularly see ridiculous claims that someone cannot be understood because of a bit of an accent from another part of the country.
I have worked in several parts of the country with strong accents and never had any problems unless people start using dialect but that applies anywhere.
I've not noticed any "intolerance" on here, but people do notice accents which seem to change at the drop of a hat and remark upon it. No harm in that.
What the heck has happened to his accent, i thought he was a geordie !!! He is talking in a very BBC voice lol
He's always done it - he's a right "luvvie". I think it sounds ridiculous. I have a similar accent and it's really easy just to pronounce a few selective words correctly to "round it off" so to speak, without losing the accent. Alan Shearer is a good example - same accent as RG but easily understood.
I've not noticed any "intolerance" on here, but people do notice accents which seem to change at the drop of a hat and remark upon it. No harm in that.
But many immediately assume that any change in accent is either someone trying to sound posh / Southern or they are exaggerating their native accent. As several people have written, accents come and go depending on environment.
It made me wonder whether that had always been his accent and he was putting on the Geordie one all these years.
(I must admit that whilst I am aware of his Extreeme Fishing show, having passed it on the EPG, I've never watched it so don't know when his accent mutated)
It made me wonder whether that had always been his accent and he was putting on the Geordie one all these years.
(I must admit that whilst I am aware of his Extreeme Fishing show, having passed it on the EPG, I've never watched it so don't know when his accent mutated)
That is what i thought that he only did Geordie accents. I have not seen the Extreeme Fishing show either but not noticed his accent on the trailers.
When I looked up to see who it was talking last night I was like :eek: Never thought it was RG
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It can be the unconscious affect of living in a particular area for some time. Or quite deliberate.
I would think many actors adopt a more "region neutral accent."
However, others who may have spent decades away from their birthplace and have had, or softened their regional accent themselves, sometimes "resurrect" it to try to bring attention to themselves.
Classic examples, are Tess Daly with her "selective northern vowel sounds" and Neil Oliver, who in early documentaries where he had just bit parts, had just a slight Scottish accent, but now if it gets any broader, I'd have to use subtitles if I ever watched a programme, in which he appeared.
Some people in entertainment can come back from the USA after a stay of six months with an American accent.
I knew someone who went to work in Canada for twenty years and when they returned, there was no trace of where they'd been, in the way they spoke.
I must say though i prefer Robson with his geordie voice !!
I didn't see it, but what is a luvvy, not sure what it means.
As for his accent, he's an actor, they spend a lot of their time morphing into someone else, that includes accents and probably professional accent training.
Accents drifting depending on where you're living and who you're around happens to lots of people.
When she moved to London to train for a job at eighteen, she dropped the Northern accent which quite surprised someone she met on the same course whom she'd known up here.
She explained that "she'd always been bi-lingual."
Lauren Laverne's another one that's been busy at the elocution lessons...and Marc Radcliffe. Bizarre as their Northern accents, like Jerome's, were central to their appeal/identity. These fake Southern vowels are pretty tragic. God knows why in this day and age they do this.
Funny stuff! when was the last time you listened to Mark Radcliffe ! born in the north west, works in the north west, lives in the north west. The only gentrification either he or Stuart Maconie have had was being grammar school educated. Lauren has worked in London for years so her northern accent is going to disappear a little.
Admittedly I'm Welsh, born here live here etc... i dont sound welsh though. so many people now have accents picked up from tv, popular culture.
It wasn't just his accent, he seemed to be trying too hard to sell his fishing show. That shark experience anecdote was bizarre.
Very gauche.
Yes he did have a fine set of gnashers! I remember him when he was a porter on Casualty.
Now I'm off to wash me whippet.in 't sink gor blimey hoots man!
My mother was Welsh and having lived outside Wales for well over twenty years she did not have any real Welsh accent. But if she met any Welsh people, or even spoke on the telephone, the accent returned immediately. You hear of lots of cases like this but you repeatedly find people on forums like here accusing people of deliberately dropping or faking accents. Accents come and go.
Some people seem very intolerant of any accent except a London one, you regularly see ridiculous claims that someone cannot be understood because of a bit of an accent from another part of the country.
I have worked in several parts of the country with strong accents and never had any problems unless people start using dialect but that applies anywhere.
Yes, it was good listening to the two of them together.
I've not noticed any "intolerance" on here, but people do notice accents which seem to change at the drop of a hat and remark upon it. No harm in that.
He's always done it - he's a right "luvvie". I think it sounds ridiculous. I have a similar accent and it's really easy just to pronounce a few selective words correctly to "round it off" so to speak, without losing the accent. Alan Shearer is a good example - same accent as RG but easily understood.
He has an unusual accent now
You mean he has more than one?
I've never noticed it.
But many immediately assume that any change in accent is either someone trying to sound posh / Southern or they are exaggerating their native accent. As several people have written, accents come and go depending on environment.
(I must admit that whilst I am aware of his Extreeme Fishing show, having passed it on the EPG, I've never watched it so don't know when his accent mutated)
That is what i thought that he only did Geordie accents. I have not seen the Extreeme Fishing show either but not noticed his accent on the trailers.
When I looked up to see who it was talking last night I was like :eek: Never thought it was RG