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Paddy McGuinness

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percheron67 · 17/04/2021 20:30

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?

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LizBennet · 17/04/2021 22:48

Which accent would pronounce it differently to the Bolton way of speaking then, for reference?

Chickychickydodah · 17/04/2021 22:48

I can’t stand him and yes I also wish his wife would put some clothes on!

EmeraldShamrock · 17/04/2021 22:48

The accent comments are really insulting.
I love English Northern accent it's down to earth and real Leeds and Newcastle are a favourite especially on a female.
It's only people from far away who believe everyone in England speaks like the Queen.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:49

Not everyone speaks with an RP accent, no, but when you're learning English as a foreign language then RP is how you are taught. Hence why it can be very difficult to understand regional accents if you are foreign.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:50

Which accent would pronounce it differently to the Bolton way of speaking then, for reference?

Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Southern, Cockney...

Yellowshirt · 17/04/2021 22:51

I like paddy . I think he is a typical daft and clumsy bloke and down to earth.
I have always thought he came across as a proud Bolton lad.
He might be on the BBC a lot but surely that shows he is a grafter

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:51

I make no objection to it being pronounced sing-ging BTW, but I think people on this thread claiming they don't know the difference between sing-ging and sing-ing are being disingenuous.

LizBennet · 17/04/2021 22:51

Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Southern, Cockney...

All collectively as a whole? No.

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 22:52

@Spiderplantwidow

How are people not getting the g thing, it isn't rocket science?!?!
Precisely why I find accents and variation in them fascinating. No matter how you try to explain it, us northerners can't 'hear' the sound, it simply doesn't formulate the same way as you hear it.
PrelovedWithValue · 17/04/2021 22:53

Which accent would pronounce it differently to the Bolton way of speaking then, for reference?

You think there is only one accent that doesn't pronounce it that way?

Umm, let's go with RP then. Which has been referred to throughout this thread, so I'm not sure how you haven't picked up on that.

I can't think of any Scottish accents that pronounce it that way either. I'll leave English, Welsh and Northern Irish accents to those that know them better.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:54

No matter how you try to explain it, us northerners can't 'hear' the sound, it simply doesn't formulate the same way as you hear it.

I AM a northerner. Leeds born and raised. I live in London now. Believe me the difference is obvious.

ShutUpAlex · 17/04/2021 22:54

I live in the south west and have never heard anyone down this way pronounce a hard g in the middle of a word like singer. I think that’s exclusively a northern thing isn’t it?

LizBennet · 17/04/2021 22:54

You think there is only one accent that doesn't pronounce it that way?

No. I asked for one as an example.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:55

All collectively as a whole? No.

I am happy to be corrected but I have never heard anyone from any of those places pronounce it with a hard G.

smallgoon · 17/04/2021 22:55

What's wrong with his accent? Aside from your snobbery...?

PrelovedWithValue · 17/04/2021 22:56

No. I asked for one as an example

Well now you have a swathe to choose from.

AnnaFiveTowns · 17/04/2021 22:56

I like him, he's warm and funny - and I like his accent.

Banville · 17/04/2021 22:56

@TheresAnEyeInMeSoup I just think it's baffling you can't imagine how words might be pronounced in another accent within your own country. I sometimes think people on MN take a kind of pride in 'saying, nope never heard of that' when it comes to regional differences within their own country. You see it on those evening meal threads. Some people will say they've never ever heard of dinner being anything other than something you eat at 1pm and others will swear blind they've never heard of an evening meal being referred to as 'tea'.

Sparklingbrook · 17/04/2021 22:57

@Spiderplantwidow

How are people not getting the g thing, it isn't rocket science?!?!
I just can't 'hear' it. Maybe if Paddy said it I would. I am spending my Saturday night trying to imagine Paddy McGuinness saying 'singing' or 'sing ging' or whatever it is. Grin Nothing to do with rocket science.
PrelovedWithValue · 17/04/2021 22:58

Sing. Grrr
Sing. Rrrrr.

Does that help?

Cowssaymoo · 17/04/2021 22:58

I don’t get how people are saying he’s saying it ‘Wrong’ doesn’t it just depend on where you’re from.

Some Northern haters on here..eurgh.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:58

I think that’s exclusively a northern thing isn’t it?

Yes it is. Northerners love to feel hard done by by nasty, snooty southerners though.

It's partly why I live in London now, the chips on shoulders back home were unbearable.

Sparklingbrook · 17/04/2021 22:59

@PrelovedWithValue

Sing. Grrr Sing. Rrrrr.

Does that help?

No. Blush
drpet49 · 17/04/2021 22:59

He comes across as a bit thick

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 22:59

You see it on those evening meal threads. Some people will say they've never ever heard of dinner being anything other than something you eat at 1pm and others will swear blind they've never heard of an evening meal being referred to as 'tea'.

Bizarre isn't it.