Thursday, 19 April 2012

Hotel Babylon

I must admit I'm not very good (putting it mildly) at GB accents. Can you do me a favour and listen to this voice?

credit: Carnival Films


Now, can you tell me which area of the realm this lady comes from (or pretends to come from)?
I can provide you with subtitles in case you don't understand the torrent of sounds coming out of this beautiful mouth.

As I've been asked for subtitles, here they are:

Flipping paps have been following me everywhere.

I can't even powder me nose without someone jumping out from behind a bush. 

Depends on how much they pay me.

See what I mean? It's a nightmare. I haven't got lippy on me teeth, have I?

Oh, 'cause I hate it when they snap me looking like a minger.
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12 comments:

  1. Limey19 April 2012 at 10:27

    It's horrible quality but my first impression is that it might be Newcastle or at any rate somewhere in the far northeast.

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    1. Kraut19 April 2012 at 13:02

      Sorry for the mediocre quality. It's a copy of the soundtrack of a YouTube video clip.

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  2. Anonymous19 April 2012 at 11:06

    Liverpool.

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  3. Limey19 April 2012 at 11:20

    Of course Paul's right.

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  4. Sidney Wood19 April 2012 at 12:56

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    1. Kraut19 April 2012 at 13:21

      Gonna try to find out who the actress is and where she spent her speech-forming years

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    2. Phillip Minden19 April 2012 at 14:23

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ellison?

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    3. Kraut19 April 2012 at 17:45

      @Lipman: Exactly! That's her! And a genuine Liverpudlian. Wikipedia mentions her appearance in Hotel Babylon

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    4. Sidney Wood19 April 2012 at 22:41

      I must confess the last time I guessed an accent was Ulster it turned out to be Manchester (or perhaps the other way round)

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  5. Kraut19 April 2012 at 13:02

    Thanks to all of you for 'orienting' the lady accentwise.

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  6. Geoff Lindsey22 April 2012 at 14:54

    It's the accent of my native area so I'm kind of bilingual. Sooner or later I'll do a post on it.

    @Sidney: Liverpool, like Ulster (and Birmingham, Newcastle, and Glasgow), has default intonational rises. Manchester, like Southern British, has default falls. Hope that helps!

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