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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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Clydesider · 17/04/2021 23:32

Isn't his accent posh enough for you.

LizBennet · 17/04/2021 23:32

I can understand that people say them in a different accent (obviously).
It’s singer and finger not rhyming that I’m struggling to understand, but obviously I’m wrong 🤷🏼‍♀️

ShutUpAlex · 17/04/2021 23:33
TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 23:33

Banville - you've been judgemental and rude to people on here, myself included. If you can't discuss something without being rude don't bother, and if you can't understand why people would be annoyed at your tone, that's on you.

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 23:34

@Spiderplantwidow

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 Confused. Even when I was a kid I could hear the difference.

I dunno, I just don't hear the difference 🤷‍♀️
Bomchiccawick · 17/04/2021 23:35

I’m from the midlands and singer and finger rhyme for me. I like Paddy, he seems a nice bloke! The snobbery on MN has excelled itself tonight. Bloody southerners Wink Grin

Amummyatlast · 17/04/2021 23:35

I just made my non-northern DH say singer and finger and OMG they do sound different when he says it! How have I not ever noticed. I still think I’m correct with rhyming singer and finger Wink

AnnaFiveTowns · 17/04/2021 23:35

Our findings. Our findings seem to support those of Wells (1982): singer and finger rhyme for 97% of northern speakers, and for 90% of those in the West Midlands. This is in contrast with the South, where only 54% of speakers reportedly rhyme these words.

Just googled and this came up. So it looks like it's southern snobbery.

Cowssaymoo · 17/04/2021 23:37

@LizBennet Same

midsomermurderess · 17/04/2021 23:38

I'm rather partial to a Bolton accent.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 23:39

This is in contrast with the South, where only 54% of speakers reportedlyrhymethese words.

Some people don't seem to understand what rhyming is though, so this doesn't surprise me. I once heard someone insist that "glass" and "last" rhyme.

PinkiOcelot · 17/04/2021 23:40

Well if you were talking about Philip bloody Schofield I could understand what you’re saying. He’s on every program and advert going. I can’t stand him and his smarmy face.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 17/04/2021 23:40

I am from the West Country and having been sat here saying both over and over and getting my son to do the same I think we say sing er and fin grr

Banville · 17/04/2021 23:41

@TheresAnEyeInMeSoup

Banville - you've been judgemental and rude to people on here, myself included. If you can't discuss something without being rude don't bother, and if you can't understand why people would be annoyed at your tone, that's on you.
You have far and away been the most aggressive person on this thread.

Best of luck to you.

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 23:42

Ok, I've just watched that video posted. I've figured out for me that when I break the word s-i-ng-i-ng down like that there is a slight difference. However when I say it at normal speed 'singing' in my accent, it goes back to a hard G sound and I can't get it to not do that without breaking it down like S-I-ng-I-ng very slowly. My accent wasn't built for this.

Spiderplantwidow · 17/04/2021 23:42

Of course singer and finger rhyme if you pronounce the hard g in singer. If you don't pronounce the hard g in singer then they don't rhyme.

Neither is "correct", they are just different.

There is a Tony Harris poem called Long Distance which had the lines:

Kept her slippers warming by the gas
And still went to renew her transport pass

Rhymes if you're northern. Doesn't if you're southern.

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 23:47

Aye Banville, only at you though. Wonder why that could be... 🤔

Banville · 17/04/2021 23:50

@TheresAnEyeInMeSoup

Aye Banville, only at you though. Wonder why that could be... 🤔
Because you wanted to. People choose aggression.
queenofthenorthwest · 17/04/2021 23:53

Well I fancy him. He's nice

weewitch · 17/04/2021 23:54

I can't stand him - used to love him with Peter Kay but now find him a caricature of himself.

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 23:54

And you chose to be rude repeatedly. Bye Banville.

Guavafish · 17/04/2021 23:54

I like the accent

But Amanda holdens face 😱

Banville · 17/04/2021 23:55

@TheresAnEyeInMeSoup

And you chose to be rude repeatedly. Bye Banville.
Oh yes, I was asking for it.

Best of luck to you.

TheresAnEyeInMeSoup · 17/04/2021 23:57

😘😘😘

Ingridla · 18/04/2021 00:00

@Cuntryhouse

Liked him until the All Saints cheating.

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