To be driven potty by the accents in Corrie?

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Characters who have supposedly lived all their lives in a Manchester suburb have a weird and wonderful array of accentsspread acoss an 80 mile radius.

Ken , Nick and Peter have pronounced East Midlands accents, Liz McDonald and David Platt have Leeds accents. David even uses Leeds colloquialisms like 'us' for 'our' .

I realise that this is not the most far fetched aspect of Corrie, but it really rips my knitting. It seems like whoever casts characters think there's some generic northern English accent.

Nottingham to Manchester is roughly the same distance from Ipswich to London, but I doubt they'd try and pass off someone with a strong Ipswich accent as a dyed in the wool lifelong Eastender.

Like "rips my knitting" is an amazing saying. I'm going to swap "boils my piss" for it

Yes, while I know nothing of Northern accents (I didn't grow up in the UK - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) I LOVE the phrase "rips my knitting" :o.

I think 'Rips my knitting' is Scottish in origin.

Peter as in Barlow?

YABU for watching it.

Yeah cheers for that tattoo.

Im also from south wales and i can hear slight differences but never enough to make me really question it, other than Nick, he sounds well posh in comparision.
However, i feel the same about Gavin and Stacey, when the accents of the people who are supposedly from Barry are not. Stacey is decidedly Swansea (slightly posh Swansea though), Bryn and Gwen are also from Swansea. The only ones who have a proper Barry accent is Nessa and that bloke that drives the bus.

Dave

I've honestly tuned it out, despite being not just 'a northerner' but from Bury, which is technically only down the road from fictional Weatherfield (so much so any time a bus station is featured, it's Bury bus station)...

I have mostly become immune to the shite acting as well - wotsisname who plays Steve McDonald has to be the only actor I've ever seen who gets consistently WORSE at his job the longer he does it!

Still shamelessly addicted to Corrie though, don't care how rubbish and silly it is. Love it. Haven't missed an episode since about 1992.

That's the one plums

i feel the same about Gavin and Stacey, when the accents of the people who are supposedly from Barry are not

Yeah me too.

I suppose it depends on where you're from...if you're from the area in question, you're bound to pick up the differences more. There've been quite a few things i've seen on TV over the years where a token Welsh person has passed through and mentions they're from Cardiff or Swansea, yet they have the broadest mid-Wales/Valleys accents i've ever heard...I don't suppose the majority of the population outside of Wales would actually realise though.

wotsisname who plays Steve McDonald has to be the only actor I've ever seen who gets consistently WORSE at his job the longer he does it

The way he talks to Amy with that stupid put on baby voice makes me want to punch something - but yes, in recent months he's even extended that voice to speak to Michelle/Tim/Eileen and a couple of others with it - I just don't get why the producers don't fucking tell him!

It's not real!

It's the same with a lot of Scottish dramas - an Edinburgh accent sounds nothing like a Glasgow or Dundee accent, but you'll find people from all over Scotland pretending they all live in the same place and always have done.

I think it only drives you crazy if you're familiar with the accent though - I wouldn't be able to tell Yorkshire from Manchester easily so they'd probably get away with it if I watched Coronation St (which I don't).

Sinead and Hayley sounded similar to me - pronouncing "scared" as "scurrrd" for example. A bit like Peter Kay.

I suppose that Liz could have grown up in Leeds. She was an army wife, and they tend to be itinerant.

I assumed that Nick's Manchester accent faded when he spent all that time in Canada and then elsewhere in the UK (Leicester?) before returning to Weatherfield with a new face.

Bethany might have the accent? Her only source of English conversation would have been her Manc mum, and family when they visited. She'd have spoken Italian to friends, neighbours and teachers.

Michelle Collins' accent was terrible. The character should have been a Londoner, as a pp said.

Since Becky left, no one addresses other characters as "cock" any more. I miss that. :-) Used to love Bet.

Good point digetic re. Liz. she first turned up in the street in her early 30s after Jim left the army (so he did). Jim's regiment was based in Macclesfield, so that makes sense and explains why Andy and Steve both had Mancunian accents when they pitched up.

So Liz we can let off the hook. It is the supposed lifelong residents who get me.

No wonder Gail is so miserable she has three kids with three wholly different accents and her mum is only seven years older than her in real life.

I agree it is likely Bethany would have a Manchester accent given she'd mostly be speaking Italian.

I wouldn't think so; assuming Bethany went to an English school in Milan.

Mind you, perhaps focusing on the accent is less important than why

A part time barmaid and single mum to two has been approved for a mortgage
Everyone suddenly wants a flat
Everyone wants to snog Gary (like the two prettiest girls on the street)
Bethany and Sarah look the same age! I know Sarah was young when she had her but come on ...

Don't get me started on those flats. Sarah is meant to be desperate for somewhere to live. She's crammed into a three-bed terrace with her mum, stepdad, brother, teenage daughter and three young children - so she buys off-plan David even said 'Why don't you buy a flat that's already been built?' and everyone ignored him; I swear one of the scriptwriters was jokingly acknowledging how daft it is.

The actresses who play Sarah and Bethany are 12 years apart in age and the characters 13, so it's actually not that unrealistic. The problem is Tina O'Brien could still pass for early twenties.

I can't ever remember Bethany mentioning going to an English school in Italy. I also don't buy the whole Sarah having this high powered role with her uncle given that she seems a bit clueless and dim.

Has she actually been approved for a mortgage? Or has she just got the money from her uncle and just banged down the deposit with Phelan without securing a mortgage first in an impulsive way.

But yes, the seemingly inexhaustible pent up demand for luxury flats in a single terraced Street seems rather absurd.