Paddy McGuinness

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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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@Pieceofpurplesky Oh wow, I love that word nerdery.

@1forAll74 PS really does seem like a little jerk 🤣

PM doesn’t..he’s a NORTHERN fitty

If you genuinely can't hear the difference I would get your ears checked.

Exactly @LizBennet I have given counties where I am very acquainted with the accent as examples and I still can't hear a difference.

I think it is genuinely boils downs to the sounds you learn from being a baby and the way phonetics is taught in primary school, plus absorbing your local accent. I think your brain filters out some sounds whilst passing others, which is why as northerners we don't hear what is obvious to other people (sing-er, sing-ger sounds the same to us no matter who is saying it).

[quote Banville]@TheresAnEyeInMeSoup, I'm sorry your brain can't compute things. Sounds tough.[/quote]
Did someone order a twat tonight, cos Banville is available.

This is so confusing, how can singer and finger not rhyme 🤣

@Spiderplantwidow

If you genuinely can't hear the difference I would get your ears checked.

My ears are fine, I think it's to do with the way the brain translates sounds.

Got to be that TheresAnEyeInMeSoup. I’d still like someone who pronounces them differently to say which specific region they are from.

why as northerners we don't hear what is obvious to other people (sing-er, sing-ger sounds the same to us no matter who is saying it).

I'm a northerner and I hear it.

@Cowssaymoo

This is so confusing, how can singer and finger not rhyme 🤣

Exactly 😂😂

A twat who can compute different accents though. Happy with that tbh.

I’d still like someone who pronounces them differently to say which specific region they are from.

My DH is from Cardiff and he says it without a hard G.

My BIL is from Belfast and he says it without a hard G.

There.

Is it snobbery to dislike an accent?
I think it is.
Surely it’s similar to disliking someone’s singing voice?
Not really. People don't generally sing all day, you can't change an accent and from the many threads I've read from Southern England on Northern and vice versa it seems snobby.
It’s just what is pleasing to your ear surely? 🤷‍♀️

I'm from Dublin and say singer without a hard G.

There.

@LizBennet I’m from cornwall, my partner is from Exeter, my cousins are Londoners. Singer and finger don’t rhyme at all in our accents. My northern father in law can hear the difference.

Sorry @LizBennet but you are wrong and just don’t want to admit it. Hitting the G in singer (and any other G for that matter!) is specifically a northern English thing. I have lived all over Scotland, my husband is Irish and the only people we know who hit the G in words are from northern England. I think it’s a pretty well known quirk of that accent. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing! The same way people from the midlands don’t pronounce their Rs. Us Scots hit our Rs really hard but often miss out our Ts. Irish folk don’t have an ‘ow’ sounds in their vocabulary. So many different quirks and none are ‘wrong’ but it doesn’t help to be deliberately obtuse. A little self awareness goes a long way!

@Spiderplantwidow

why as northerners we don't hear what is obvious to other people (sing-er, sing-ger sounds the same to us no matter who is saying it).

I'm a northerner and I hear it.

Well I really do not and I don't hear it in people with different accents, nomatter where they are from.

Wow the nastiness 😂
I’m genuinely not being sarcastic or facetious, I’m genuinely interested 🤷🏼‍♀️

It isn’t a ‘Northern thing’ at all, I think it’s a North West thing to use a hard G. I’m from Yorkshire, we don’t use a hard G here at all and I don’t like the G in ing being pronounced either fwiw.

I’ve never really liked him, think he’s a bit of a sleaze.

Well bully for you, your Blue Peter shite badge is on its way to you in the post. Glad your happy with being a twat.

@TheresAnEyeInMeSoup

Well bully for you, your Blue Peter shite badge is on its way to you in the post. Glad your happy with being a twat.

Wow, why are you getting yourself so worked up?

Thank you ShutUpAlex.
I’m definitely going to be listening out for all pronunciations of finger and singer after this.

Well I really do not and I don't hear it in people with different accents, nomatter where they are from.

I cannot get my head round that, sorry. How can you not hear that a word is being pronounced differently . Even when I was a kid I could hear the difference.