Paddy McGuinness

[percheron67]

I switched BBC 1 on early and am waiting for Casualty. The programme on at the moment is hosted AGAIN by Paddy McGuinness. He is rarely off the screen and I cannot understand it! He has a simply dreadful dialect and will keep sounding a hard G in singing. Apart from that he yells at the top of his (Very unattractive) voice. How on earth does this man keep a job on television?

I didn't say it was forced or exaggerated, just that to me that is how it sounded.

Ah ok. My apologies.

This quiz is fascinating regarding regional accents
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

It's always the same bloody people on everything. Michael McIntyre, paddy, pip Schofield and holly,

It's like there's only a small pool of people with enough talent to be able to prevent shit tv

Spread the love: mix it up

Good quiz, quite a few “do these rhyme” questions too.

Ant n bloody Dec too. Give somebody else a chance now pls

Probably banging someone else he shouldn't be.

@ShutUpAlex

In fact, I’ve now realised that most people when taking the piss will imitate a northern accent. How bizarre I’ve no noticed it before.

I always feel like that about the West Country accent. Maybe it's because we notice people doing it more when they use our accents. So many people assume if you have a West Country accent you are either some sort of thick yokel or Vicki Pollard.

@LizBennet, we live in Trafford so not Bolton but still NW. DH and me are both Southerners. Our 17yr old DD doesn’t really have a regional accent I think because she moved here after nursery so it’s sort of blended. Our boys sound like they’re from here though. What I find interesting is that we can all here that they pronounce singer differently to us yet they can’t. They hear it the same in our accent snd their own. So I’m getting it’s to do with language acquisition. Their hard G is much more subtle than Paddy M’s though. I think the Bolton accent is very distinct and different from other areas of G Manchester.

He lives near me (ish)
Him and his wife have nothing but praise for the nhs trust I work for. They have done many fund raisers over the years to say thank you for the care for their children .
He also gave us staff a meal during the pandemic.
I don't have live telly so no comment on that

Yeah it’s weird GinaJaffacake, it wasn’t until this thread that I realised for me to pronounce ‘singing’ it requires a little more effort and I over pronounce the ‘ging’ at the end, which is clearly what those not from round here are hearing Paddy say so differently.

@An0n0n0n

Probably banging someone else he shouldn't be.

I'm from Norfolk but half my family are from Bolton (I was related to Fred Dibnah by marriage don't you know!). I can hear both ways of saying singer, and I think the sing rrr/sing grrr is the best description I've seen. My accent is a weird mixture of Bolton, generic southern and south London (I
lived there for a few years) but very little Norfolk, so sometimes I say the hard G and sometimes the southern uh noise.

DH is Italian and really struggles to understand some British accents, I can remember him passing me the phone saying that the woman wasn't speaking English, she was a Geordie!

Haha! My cousins used to always ask my (Scottish) dad to say “girl’s world”, they loved it.

I think the singing thing has been pretty well explained
No it's not, I can't tell what the difference is!

If anyone is still confused with the singing thing, the g is being pronounced like it is in single, rather than how it would be in flinging.

Which is a useless description if you have a Bolton accent 😁
🤔😊This might be why (I also went to MSJ, but a long time ago)

@drinkingwineoutofamug

He lives near me (ish) Him and his wife have nothing but praise for the nhs trust I work for. They have done many fund raisers over the years to say thank you for the care for their children . He also gave us staff a meal during the pandemic. I don't have live telly so no comment on that

That so lovely to hear. He's using his fame and fortune well

@LizBennet

Haha! My cousins used to always ask my (Scottish) dad to say “girl’s world”, they loved it.

You’ve just reminded me of my Scottish colleague years ago- I used to get him to say - there’s been a murder! Ha

Northerner on television good lord

He has kids with disabilities, so fair play to him. He needs to keep the money rolling in. Same as Katie price.

Actually I used to hate Top Gear with a passion; I couldn't stand the presenters. I really like it now and don't switch over as soon as it comes on.