when i watched this,i thought that this was a scottish or maybe irish movie.the accent is peculiar compared to the normal british accent.the weird thing is,all the actors are british and no scottish and irish.please explain
JeSkuNk
That's the accent from Liverpool, in the north of England.
Oh, and the Scottish are British too!
i know that scotish are british too but what i meant by british is actually english
JeSkuNk
Nearly half the people in Liverpool are of irish descent. When the potato famine took place hundreds of thousands of irish came to the city to escape it. (Look at a map and you'll see it faces Ireland.) The accent changed at that time and has been a english/irish hybrid ever since. The Beatles spoke the same way.
shareIt's definately Liverpool, North West of England. I'm from Liverpool originally (now in Australia) and, although personally never spoke with that accent, my family and friends do. Especially those from places like Kirkby. When I moved to Australia, my accent had a remote scouse (the Liverpool accent)sound to it and people actually thought I was Scottish! Strange how different people view accents, isn't it?
shareWell Liverpool is a very celtic city generally. It's only about 20 miles from the Welsh border and that has had an effect on the dialect over the years as well. There's also its role as a great departure point for the new world in the 19th and early 20th century, when people came from the whole of Europe. Not all of them made the final leg of the journey though. We're a bit of everything up here. Its probably the most un-English English city there is.
sharei know that Scottish are British too but what i meant by british is actually english
You have to remember that the way British people are portrayed in films is often very misleading. For example, Bridget Jones, Notting Hill, Imagine me and You..erm, possibly harry potter also. I'm just listing the first that come to my head.
Well my point is that about 2% or near enough of British people actually speak like that. Britain is made up of loads of regional accents all very different, all with different dialects. It's nice to see a film with some good old northerners for once :D
Weren't Jeanette and Dougie from Manchester? Or is that accent similar to Liverpool?
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Jeanette and Dougie were from Manchester, although judging from how broad their accents were, I'd say Greater Manchester (technically outskirts, formerly Lancashire). I'm from South Manchester (and people originally from the actual city don't speak like that)
shareIf you ask me this just proves that while English actors are better at English accents in general than their American counterparts, they aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Pauline Collins is from Devon and sometimes her native accent bleeds through her attempts at the Liverpudlian dialect. Also there's precious little difference between Shirley from Liverpool and Jeanette and Dougie from Manchester and that isn't quite right either.
I won't bother to address Tom Conti's attempts at a Greek accent; it was enough that he sounded foreign, in much the same way as when Albert Finney essayed the role of Hercule Poirot in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.
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