to think Adam from Cold Feet has the wrong accent?

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Lived in Didsbury since the beginning of primary school, but still had broad Irish accent and irishisms in his speech. No hint of a Manc accent at all.

Hmmmm, aibu to be unconvinced by this?

I moved from South London to North London when I was 25. After a year, my dad was struggling to understand my accent

My mum has lived in England for 44 years and still has a N Ireland accent. My grandmother was from Galway and moved here in the war. She still had her Irish accent right up until she died age 90.

I think it depends when you move. My H was 4, his sister 7 and bother 8 when they moved to London from Ireland and they don't have a hint of Irish between them. They all have different accents to one another though.

Their parents still have their Irish accents though! As does my Irish grandmother who he lived in Wales for 60 years.

Yes LAlady I assume your DM and DGM were adults.

Not many Irish loose there accents for English ones

American and Australia yes English no

I knew a Lithuanian bloke from Corby who sounded like a Glaswegian.

DM left Ireland at 16, 60 years ago and still has a noticeable accent.

Dsis and I often pronounce the odd word with a slight Irish accent and use Irish phrases, so I guess it is possible.

DH moved from London to Scotland when he was at primary school. He learnt very quickly to sound like his classmates, mainly to avoid being beaten up for being English! Moved to the north of England in our early twenties, my Scottish accent remains, but his has mainly gone. Our grown-up DC have 'northernish' accents, but they're not specific as they've moved around a bit too.

My parents were both Irish and moved to Nottingham in their 20s - they never lost their accents (mum lived till 89, dad till 78).

However I was born in England and spent most of my school holidays in Ireland and I can assure you I still have an English accent.

I had a boyfriend who was born and bred in east London but had Irish parents and had a definite Irish accent, more so when talking to his family.

Curiously, I'm also from east London and pronounce some words with a Welsh accent. My paternal grandfather- who I never knew- was Welsh and my Dad inherited his way of saying some words and me and my sister have picked it up. Never noticed it until I met my husband and he asked why we all-
Including my Mum who has obviously just lived with my Dad too long- pronounced some things with a hint of a The Valleys. I knew that my Dad did it but didn't realise the rest of us did. I think it's quite nice in a weird way that my Grandfather who I never knew has influenced the way we speak. I wonder if my daughters will do it too. Or if they'll move somewhere far away and their Scottish or Irish or Welsh children will pronounce some words with a hint of cockney like me!

My grandmother was Dutch but came over here to marry my grandfather when she was about 22.

She died aged 89 and she still had trouble with some sounds in English. So chips would always be ships and chairs would be shares for example.

My uncle moved to The Netherlands in his 20s, married a Dutch woman and settled there. When my auntie speaks English it's peppered with Yorkshire dialect words! It sounds so funny.

The answer is of course that Nesbitt can't do accents, and so the part is written round him. Same as Connery.

"Yes! And why do Karen and David's kids have such thick Manchester accents then when both parents are posh voiced?!"

Most people over 5 years old have the accents of where they live, not their parents' accents although I thought the two daughters sounded posh today. I think Karen't house is in Altrincham, so the posh Cheshire side of Manchester.

Gwen - yes, absolutely, but if that is the theory then why does Adam still have belfast accent if he grew up with Pete in Manchester!

They need to get their accent theories consistent.

My DD and I moved from the midlands to West Wales when she was 5. I have a neutral accent, her dad has a Midlands one. She's lived in Wesy Wales ever since with regular Midlands visits and her accent veers from Brummie to mild Welsh depending on who she is talking to/ her mood. I know other people who have retained a parental accent or fully converted to the lids, accent. I don't think you can make any criticism based on accent.

I'm from the same part of NI as JN and even though I've not lived there since I left to go to uni at 18, lived in Edinburgh on and off for 10 years and have been in England for almost 6 years now, I still sound entirely Norn Irish and my accent is really strong. It's one of those accents that is all but impossible to get rid of - not that I'd want to, I love my accent

James Nesbitt specifically asked to use his own accent so that there would be a visible Northern Irish character on TV that was nothing to do with 'The Troubles'.

Or.............he was lazy and knew he wasn't much good at accents so just says that's the reason.

DP has an Irish accent although born and bred in London. His parents would correct any difference. In the same way parents teach their native language to preserve it his parents felt the same. He lost some of it in the military and getting bored being asked why he was British with a Irish accent. He still within minutes reverts to his Irish accent with family.

Adam moved to Manchester as a young adult didnt he? he would have his accent still im really not feeling the new cold feet at all was David always that annoying?

There was a similar situation in the Archers where Brian Aldridge's son with Siobhan had an Irish accent for years despite never having lived in Ireland and being in Ambridge since toddlerhood.

Moving to a place as an adult and as a child is a different kettle of fish.

I know two sisters who moved from Yorkshire to the Midlands when the eldest was about 14 and the younger one about 10. They're both in their 50s now and younger sister has a very broad Midlands accent and the elder has retained a very broad Yorkshire accent.

An Aunt and uncle of mine have lived in England since they were 30odd now 80odd they still have their scottish accents

The answer is of course that Nesbitt can't do accents, and so the part is written round him. Same as Connery. smile

That's unfair. He tries to do posh New England for about a third of the time in Marnie and uses his own accent for the rest of the film when he couldn't be arsed.

I don't care if he can't do accents, I find his accent really sexy. Besides which, he's a great actor inability to do accents aside

I have lived in England for over 20 years and still sound pure Norn Iron. I have met people who have lived over here for a couple of years and have gone really quite English. Different people lose or change their accents at different rates.