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Dimmukane:
I always heard him in my mind as being a little bit more nasal, but with pretty much the same dialect.

Ozymandias:
I would like to say that Tommy's reading voice sounds less foppish than his conversation voice, from what I remember listening to Tania's radio show.

jhocking:

--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 06 May 2008, 18:17 ---foppish

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You have hit upon the ultimate term for describing tommy.

Gemmwah:

--- Quote from: tommydski on 06 May 2008, 15:25 ---I was just talking about this phenomena. I've spent the last few days in the north of England and it reminded me of something remarkable about the UK. You can travel about 30 miles in any direction and the place you have arrived in will have people who speak completely differently to how they spoke where you were when you started. Like, a whole other accent and sometimes a new lexicon to consider. I know this is true of other countries but I don't think it's confined to such a small area anywhere else. City to city, people have seriously bizarre accents. Especially up North.

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I was thinking about this the other day, and it really is something. I went to Bristol a few weeks back and having never been there before, I spent a good while chuckling at the farmer accent that the friends of my friend had, while they in turn were mocking me and the southern/london hybrid that i've developed over the last year. My own accent tends to fluctuate a bit depending on where I am and who I'm socialising with. When I was very young I had a strong Scottish accent from my Mother and Grandparents, when I went to school it then developed into a more 'BBC English' accent like most of the children at school. As I got older it dropped to a rougher, more London twang and then in Secondary school it switched back to the posher sound, from going to school and being friends with a lot of well spoken kids. It got lazier again as I grew up, and then became more posh again when I went to university, and now has got very London from only really spending time with the people that live on my estate.

Also I've never had any Scottish person be rude to me in any sense, except for my family taking the piss out of the way I speak when I go and visit them, but everyone is just so pleasant and aside of a few jibs and general joking around, I've never encountered hostility either. It might be because my mother is Scottish, I don't know. My Dad's a fully fledged Londoner, so I think that "Scottish people double-hate Londoners" is completely ridiculous. Again, only personal experience but that has to count for something.

a pack of wolves:
When I said London was the worst place from England to be in regard to Scottish xenophobia against the English I didn't mean all Scottish people hate Londoners. My Grandmother married a Londoner. However, the fact he was a Londoner was also the reason they only lived in Scotland for a few years after getting married before they moved back down again. It's also the reason people from both countries would call my mother a 'half-breed'. And although they would never have said anything about it, the family my sister is marrying into were very relieved when they found out she wasn't 'really English'. They also liked the idea of her being from Yorkshire much better than her being from the south, since Yorkshire is poor, not southern but also not northern enough for attacks against Scotland to have been mounted from it.

Obviously, vast amount of the population of Scotland hold no xenophobic feelings towards the English whatsoever, just like not everyone from Leeds will break your legs for supporting Manchester United or try to kick your head in because they think you're from below the Midlands. But those sentiments do exist and can sometimes be unpleasantly common in certain areas.

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