chartreuse

What de ye think yer gonna find up there eh? A new striker fer Newcastle United?

Macca67

Benny was a Hampshire boy. From Southampton

Don't know about the rest. Don't care either.

nettlebed

Linguistically it hasn't been a single country very long. For many centuries, most people never traveled more than a few miles from their birthplace: a day's journey was very unusual for the majority of the population, so close regional accents had a great chance to develop and remain quite distinct.

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language is a great resource for learning about the development of accents.

Sally Redux

I love that clip

Fab series.

N1cky

A bit off subject but, it still makes me laugh.

When we first came here 2 different people at different times asked me if people in England spoke like they do in Snatch

The only 3 words I can understand in the entire movie are Caravan, Pikey and Dog

Sally Redux

Ray sounds a bit like Brick Top

cindyabs

I was just thinking that as well,

Tom60

We have it here, but on a different scale. In Illinois, it appears that a particular accent has a radius of about 50 miles. I'm originally from Casey, 60 miles south of Danville, where people speak with a somewhat flat accent. It's similar to what you might hear from CNN anchors, and I just think of it as a "generic" accent. I'm now in Danville, and on the edge of one of the most annoying accents I can think of, and that's the accent used in Chicago and the Lake Michigan agea. And around 50 miles south of Casey, say from Olney south, it starts to get a bit nasal.

The Horticulturalist

Wossie is from Leytonstone in East London, I think.

The Horticulturalist

Hugh, Emma and Kate Winslet are all posh English. Don't know who the Band of Brothers guy is, do you mean Damien Lewis? He'd be posh English too.

Sally Redux

Is that the technical term?

The Horticulturalist

Tis for me

As I have nothing better to do I'll just wikipedia them and see where they really come from.

Kate - Maidenhead, Hugh - West London, Emma - Oxfordshire. So all similar posh, South East of England accents.
Damian Lewis went to Eton, I'd say that's very posh English, no?

Sally Redux

I think actors usually learn to speak with received pronunciation if needed for a part. Isn't Kate Winslet from a humble background?

cindyabs

I'd say he was rather hunky, yes,

The Horticulturalist

I think she might be, but she has a very clear spoken accent. I don't know if that's from her upbringing or if she just kind of grew into that accent.