Originally Posted by lundavra:
“I think it is just a mixture of influences with Tess Daly, as happens when people move around. She might well adopt a Home Counties accent at home with living down there and mixing with other people with that accent.
Does Vernon Kay have an accent, never noticed but I come from the same area! That is the point, it is always other people who have accents.”
“I think it is just a mixture of influences with Tess Daly, as happens when people move around. She might well adopt a Home Counties accent at home with living down there and mixing with other people with that accent.
Does Vernon Kay have an accent, never noticed but I come from the same area! That is the point, it is always other people who have accents.”
This is true, I've said before that I doubt if she's spent much time in Derbyshire, so her accent will have changed if she's spent most of her time in the South. That's why I find the accentuated pronunciation of the "odd word," strange.
I traveled from home in South Manchester to work in Bolton for about four years.
I'm surprised how broad is Vernon Kay's accent given that he too wouldn't have spent much time there. Most of the native educated classes (for want of a better phrase) don't have such a broad accent, so I think his is a bit "affected" too.
Still, "you have to have a gimmic" don't you?
