To ask WTF is Nadine Coyle's (from Girls Aloud) accent?

[MissionItsPossible]

She seems perfectly nice and likeable but that is one of the weirdest accents I have ever heard. (She was just being interviewed on This Morning). A sort of cross between Northern Irish and Texas. I couldn't understand her at times, she sounded like her mouth was full - did anyone else see it or heard it? Has she been living in Texas?

What is Derry? Really?

Cant hear even a hint of an American accent!

what is Derry? for the love of Christ I have just lost the will to continue reading.

What is Derry?!?!

Ah Mission might know it as Londonderry.
I always get a cheap thrill by sending company post to Derry not Londonderry

I can't hear any American...

She just sounds like a Derry woman. She’s always had a slightly strangulated way of speaking, but I don’t hear any accent other than Derry.

NC is well Derry. Her sister is a beauty queen, she talks total Derry too.

what is Derry?

Ah mission. Derry is the best city in the world. I think you could do with a visit. To get the best of your experience please visit the fountain area in a celtic top

It's legenDerry!

Forgive me for not knowing what Derry was though I had an inkling from other users comments. I’m not hot on geography at an embarrassing level as demonstrated by this thread. I wasn’t being ignorant or dismissive, I had just never heard of it before, sorry.

She is from county Donegal. Best accent in the world!

I don't hear any American at all, just a strong NI accent.
My cousin is Scottish now living in Belfast, his accent screws with my head

@amalfimama love Derry girls!

It's like a Derry accent but a bit affected somehow?

I find NI people's accents are really susceptible to US twangy influence. Graham McDowell is well American now and Rory McIlroy isn't too far behind in some interviews.

@shakeyourcaboose

It's class. I've started to show it in school when the kids complain i speak too fast.

It leaves them like

@amalfimama very reminiscent of my own teenage years.. , "I wanted to be an individual but my ma wouldn’t let me.” – Erin

NI Isn’t just one accent. Just like England isn’t just one accent.

@shakeyourcaboose

That's probably why I like it so much too. Typical Derry childhood of the 80s/90s

Oh god how angry was Brian Dowling with Nadine in that clip? you’d think she’d kidnapped someone and held them hostage in her bathroom so she could take their place!

It sounds Northern Irish to me and perfectly understandable. Not sure what is 'American' about her accent.

She sounds a bit like my cousin who is from Derry but went to America for acting lessons. She never quite mastered acting (I think because she couldn’t do an American or English accent) but she has a weird affectation with a lot of her words now. Could be that?

Do any other Irish MNers remember Nadine trying to con her way into Popstars?

No American in there...very NI, a very down to earth accent too, maybe that where part of the American accent comes from rather than the other way around?

But there is no such thing as a NI accent.

Derry ppl can tell the difference between a bogside or a waterside accent, plus the difference between a Derry city or Derry county accent (of which there are many)

I'd hazard a guess of there being at least 200 distinct separate accents in the 9 counties of Ulster.

I agree @Amalfimamma - someone from Ballymena for example will sound almost Scottish. But how often are these people in the media. We don't all sound like Ian Paisley or Arlene Phillips! People have asked me if I'm American, French, Swedish, Scottish - some people really struggle to place my accent - true it's more subtle than it was and this is simply to be more understood; you get a bit bored repeating yourself - it's really not to sound like I'm from somewhere else, how ridiculous.