Do you get wound up by actors doing your accent wrongly?

[Pruni]

I only ask because I was watching Ivor the Engine today and thought some of the Welsh accents sounded pretty dodge.

I am Scottish and it never fails to amaze me how many actors (and good ones at that) think they can get away with the crappy offerings that are their Scottish accents.

Really winds me up. Let's name and shame.

'One I find particularly annoying is the generic "rural" accent used ubiquitously (sp ?) for anyone who comes from a rural area from Cornwall right up until you hit the "northern" accent. '

Yep, that's really ignorant and lazy. Mummerset! Considering that the area covered holds a multitude of various accents and dialects. It's also used a short-hand for stupid quite often which is infuriating. I am very RP and have lived in this area (ish) most of my life without picking up a local accent but my children are developing a slight Somerset burr (mixed with 'posh' from me and East London from DH) and it actually worries me that people think that makes them thick.

I am a Scot living in Norfolk and find older Norfolk people hard to understand

what's RP,

moiy luvvvvvverrrrrrrrrr?

my kids are as broad yokel as they come at the moment - I am hoping it will tone down a bit as they grow up a bit.

I love accents - but agree lots of city folk look down on rural accents as being thick. (Although in some areas they may have a point ).

I am from Dundee and everyone understands me!

Received Pronunciation
BBC English

oh thenkU

find older Norfolk people hard to understand

ah - but older Norfolk people are hard to understand - particularly when they don't have their teeth in.

Back to the original point - I used to find Monarch of the Glen particularly annoying when so many "local" characters had accents from all over Scotalnd - though at lease they were genuine Scots accents - just not the relevant Highland one. Just the same with 2000 acres of Sky.

'what's RP,

moiy luvvvvvverrrrrrrrrr? '

Very good!!!

RP is 'received pronunciation', ie the way BBC 'enniyncers' used to speak in days gone by..well not quite. But people assume I'm not a local.

Daphne in Frasier is deeply annoying - no one from Manchester (or anywhere) talks like that. It got even worse when Anthony LaPaglia turned up as her brother with dodgy Cockney accent!! Couldn't Jane Leeves have pointed out the difference??

Whoever it was who didn't like Hugh Laurie's accent in House - I disagree! I think he's wonderful in every way

But throckenholt - seriously, if they used geographically-accurate accents in Monarch of the Glen everyone would piss themselves.
I mysteriously "lost" my highland accent the minute I left home.

but maybe if we heard more genuine accents in everyday life we would not get that reaction.

I personally hate the way mose people from the South sound exactly the same.

Me - I probably have that horrible "southern" accent - but I am a chamelion (can't spell today !) - I take on the accent of the place I am in - so when I lived in Bradford I became more Yorkshire, now I am in Norfolk I sound more of a yokel . And I hear myself changing depending on who I am talking too (am I odd ? )

Whenever someone tries a scottish accent poorly my DH calls it doing a 'scrooge macduck'.
HOw about that "scottish" muppet on PLay with me sesame?

HC and Pruni. Sean Beans accent doesn't seem to have affected his roles though does it, like Sean Connery. Only he could could get away with being a Russian defector but still maintaining his Scots accent.
However it doesn't matter what accent Sean Bean has, i'd still watch whatever he was in.

Fimbo, I'm scots and i can understand the Dundee accent, in fact the only Scots accent i struggle with is broad Glasgow, which my cousin speaks. I pick a few words out of each sentence she says and get the gist of what she is saying. She has the cheek to tell me my Border accent is hard to understand

on the other hand, the cast of 'sea of souls' is really Scots, not just putting on. love the wee chap who plays craig :).

I hae just thought of a low point
Daphne's family in Frasier, who all seemed to come from different parts of the UK
excruciating

we saw some bbc programme about anti-social kids, and of couse they filmed some neds in east glesga. i near creased myself when the subtitles appeared! i mean, i could understand them, ken? :o

one of the students' dads was like, 'that's so rascist! they didn't do that to the neds fae gunchester or the brummies! and they're pure neds like, ken?

How about the 'British' accents in Disney films? Robin Hood is particularly painful with 'Notting-ham' etc. We have an extract from Wind in the Willows on another video, eek
Slightly different: Winnie the Pooh being American and saying things like 'junk food' argh

I am Norfolk born and bred, and agree about the Mummerset accent. I get really annoyed when I hear a Norfolk accent done as though from the SW - it is completely different. I don't sound like a turkey any more though, lived oop North too long.

Oh yes, in ordinary decent criminals all the Dubliners had Galway accents, really irritating!

Kevin Costener playing Raabin of Locksley - cringe

Eh saltire re Sean Bean's 'Scottish' accent? He's from Sheffield.

Hmm, not a fan of the word mummerset personally- been used against me. Sure was meant differently tho, no offence taken (plus couldn't find original post so can't realte it to ecverythings o should PARP myself- sorry).

REALLY hate actors who can't tell difference between Bristol (Brizzle), Cornish (Carnish) and my home Somerset (Zummersaet) accent. On casualty you used to get it all the time- Bristol accents done in Cornish. WTF??

And I have a friend in a shop who when he doesn't want to serve appears too stupid to be relied on (techinical shop) so puts on a ... Somerset accent.

Sean connery has a scottish accent though Moondog - reread the post

why 'mummerset'?