Accents.

[greg64 3,043]

7 minutes ago, Seagull said:

A question that's always puzzled me for years, all of the Beatles were from the heart of Liverpool, all within 20 or so mins from each other, and none had a scouse accent, why is that, is it relatively a modern twang?

they all had scouse accents

[Seagull 707]

1 minute ago, greg64 said:

they all had scouse accents

Did they? To me it's nothing even close to proper scouser, they sound nothing like a Wayne Rooney or a Steve Gerrard.

[greg64 3,043]

4 minutes ago, Seagull said:

Did they? To me it's nothing even close to proper scouser, they sound nothing like a Wayne Rooney or a Steve Gerrard.

depends what part of Liverpool your from ,scousers don't all sound the same

[Seagull 707]

Just now, greg64 said:

depends what part of Liverpool your from ,scousers don't all sound the same

That's what I'm saying, they weren't all from the exact same area, McCartney grew up 2 mile off Bootle where they speak broad scouser, all of them were from the heart of Liverpool.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,058]

Fun fact , the Beatles were nearly the hardest pop band that ever lived as a certain scouse actor who played the drums in spare time , worked with Paul McCartneys brother but never bothered turning up for the audition after Pete best jacked 

name that mans man for ten points ? 
 

my first lurcher was named after one of his characters 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,058]

1 hour ago, Seagull said:

Did they? To me it's nothing even close to proper scouser, they sound nothing like a Wayne Rooney or a Steve Gerrard.

Do you not think that a lot of scouse accents are kinda exaggerated? 
 

i certainly find that with the lads I work with  

[Seagull 707]

11 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Do you not think that a lot of scouse accents are kinda exaggerated? 
 

i certainly find that with the lads I work with  

Not sure, I doubt it. From what I've read they say those from south Liverpool have accents more like the Beatles and scouse in north Liverpool. But Bootle is about as far north as Walton where McCartney grew up so that doesn't make sense.

[chartpolski 27,903]

21 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Fun fact , the Beatles were nearly the hardest pop band that ever lived as a certain scouse actor who played the drums in spare time , worked with Paul McCartneys brother but never bothered turning up for the audition after Pete best jacked 

name that mans man for ten points ? 
 

my first lurcher was named after one of his characters 

John Gorman ? Or maybe “Yosser”.

Cheers.

Edited 9 hours ago by chartpolski

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,058]

On 24/06/2023 at 20:22, jukel123 said:

The first thing I suss about a person is their accent. I have learned the following: brummie accents generally belong to retarded people. A fallout with a Glaswegian accent often  heralds a violent attack,  by a gang of poison dwarfs waiting round the corner. Trust me I know. The northern Ireland accent is an accent you should hear, but immediately retreat from... unless you want to confront a religiously inspired nutjob on jihad. Geordies are generally OK if you can keep up with their genetically superior alcohol consumption, blind allegiance to black and white and some god called SHEERAH! Liverpulians can only be understood if you've worked with a high pitched  chainsaw for a few months...then it becomes understandable. My accent was initially Salfordian but I've picked up a lot of Scots twang. This has  made me a tad schizophrenic because I am referred to as an English b*****d in Scotland and a scotch c**t in England. Even my Mrs says I'm a sellout because I change my accent to be quickly understood. She on the other hand, also a Salfordian, still sounds like Ena Sharples. Ffs don't tell her I said that.

Accents yeah lol . 
we have it hard in our house as we have a different accent each . 

both my misses and me are from Galloway Irish families and are the first born in England to at least one English parent in our wider families . We have one English grandparent between us. My mam was born in longtown, and will die there , but she has a lovely lilting mixed Scot’s accent as she was born to my Scottish granny and they lived near Lockerbie until she was at school . 

Firstly I am from so close to the border that the accent changes at the end of my road . I have that strange borders voice that changes o into an a eg I say lang instead of long and wha instead of who , I also use the word like at the end of the sentence eg na , I havnae seen hum , I was at wuk the day like . 

my misses is a Carlisle girl and has developed a clipped formal english phone voice with years of working in telesales . Her voice however @jukel123descends into a proper Carlisle accent dependent on how many blue wkds she has had. 

my kids were born and raised in Suffolk and have a mixed southern English with clipped American pronunciation most kids these days have , my daughters is lest pronounced but my boy talks straight off as a mimic and sounds like a you tube presenter . 

lastly my mothers fella , is a born and bred Rotherham man , he had that howling down t’pit accent straight from Kes. 

yeah Sunday dinner needs a rossetta stone book some times 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,058]

6 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

John Gorman ? Or maybe “Yosser”.

Cheers.

Think more professional actor mate …. 

[chartpolski 27,903]

3 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Think more professional actor mate …. 

I would say Bernard Hill would have classed himself as a professional actor ! LOL !, but I give up, and I really wanted those 10 points to add to my resume’…….

Cheers.

[Seagull 707]

4 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Accents yeah lol . 
we have it hard in our house as we have a different accent each . 

both my misses and me are from Galloway Irish families and are the first born in England to at least one English parent in our wider families . We have one English grandparent between us. My mam was born in longtown, and will die there , but she has a lovely lilting mixed Scot’s accent as she was born to my Scottish granny and they lived near Lockerbie until she was at school . 

Firstly I am from so close to the border that the accent changes at the end of my road . I have that strange borders voice that changes o into an a eg I say lang instead of long and wha instead of who , I also use the word like at the end of the sentence eg na , I havnae seen hum , I was at wuk the day like . 

my misses is a Carlisle girl and has developed a clipped formal english phone voice with years of working in telesales . Her voice however @jukel123descends into a proper Carlisle accent dependent on how many blue wkds she has had. 

my kids were born and raised in Suffolk and have a mixed southern English with clipped American pronunciation most kids these days have , my daughters is lest pronounced but my boy talks straight off as a mimic and sounds like a you tube presenter . 

lastly my mothers fella , is a born and bred Rotherham man , he had that howling down t’pit accent straight from Kes. 

yeah Sunday dinner needs a rossetta stone book some times 

It's funny how folk can only distinguish local accents when you're from that area, take it from me, those from Rotherham sound nothing like the folk from Tarn, Barnsley, where Kes was filmed.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,058]

1 minute ago, chartpolski said:

I would say Bernard Hill would have classed himself as a professional actor ! LOL !, but I give up, and I really wanted those 10 points to add to my resume’…….

Cheers.

the clue is in the word brother 

[Astanley 11,635]

8 minutes ago, Seagull said:

Not sure, I doubt it. From what I've read they say those from south Liverpool have accents more like the Beatles and scouse in north Liverpool. But Bootle is about as far north as Walton where McCartney grew up so that doesn't make sense.

They are all from South Liverpool ,John and Paul were Woolton ,Allerton ,areas although Paul lived in speke at one point ,George was from Speke and Ringo was from the South end (toxteth) ,,John and Paul had a suburban ,semi posh type of accent Ringo being more inner city had a harder accent than the others 

[chartpolski 27,903]

9 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

the clue is in the word brother 

Lewis Collins ?

Cheers.