Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
May 27th 2011, 8:19 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Hadaway and shite
I can understand Geordies perfectly myself, but I find it hard to give two ****s about that bint being kicked off the show, sorry!
I can understand Geordies perfectly myself, but I find it hard to give two ****s about that bint being kicked off the show, sorry!
May 27th 2011, 8:39 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
By the way , we lost 3 more troops in Helmand today , but i guess thats not front page .
May 27th 2011, 8:49 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
How the hell did she get a visa to work in the US with a criminal record for assault? Oh yeah...money talks.
May 27th 2011, 9:13 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Whoops looks like Leslie asked the same question I guess I better do a wiki and find out, heard her name many times but clueless to what she has done or who she is!
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May 27th 2011, 9:28 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Couldn't agree more Thyd. She can't sing and has to lip synch...all she is is eye candy. Despite her saying she was reverting to her maiden name after her divorce...she's still hanging on to the name Cole. Perhaps she doesn't wish to be associated with her dreadful family.
How the hell did she get a visa to work in the US with a criminal record for assault? Oh yeah...money talks.
How the hell did she get a visa to work in the US with a criminal record for assault? Oh yeah...money talks.
May 27th 2011, 9:45 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
only a misdemeanor conviction.
I do find it ironic that 365 days before she married Cashley she was calling some girl a Carribean Jigaboo.
May 28th 2011, 12:40 am
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
I think it's way more likely that they dropped her because noone here knows who she is and couldn't give a shit who she is.
I saw a hilarious Brit article the other day saying that she was causing uproar here because she sat between Simon Cowell and Paula. They said that over here we call them Saula. SERIOUSLY? Then it went on to say something about her fans over here. pmsl. excuse me? her fans over here? As I said above, noone knows who the **** she is here. (edited to add, except for Manc obviously
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I saw a hilarious Brit article the other day saying that she was causing uproar here because she sat between Simon Cowell and Paula. They said that over here we call them Saula. SERIOUSLY? Then it went on to say something about her fans over here. pmsl. excuse me? her fans over here? As I said above, noone knows who the **** she is here. (edited to add, except for Manc obviously
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May 28th 2011, 11:23 am
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
It was a fellow Brit who got to make the decision to axe her not a Yank......just sayin' 
May 28th 2011, 11:55 am
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
The Oxford Dictionary Of Rhyming Slang has a new entry in it this week.
Cheryl Cole = On the dole.
Cheryl Cole = On the dole.
May 28th 2011, 1:16 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Cheryl Cole is a real Geordie, being from Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Tyneside. If she had been born in nearby Sunderland then she'd have been a Mackem, and not a Geordie, as true Geordieland covers a much smaller area of North East England than most people realise.
I went for an interview for possible admittance to Newcastle uni in 2000 and the two people on the reception desk (a man and a woman) had very distinct Geordie accents, the man particularly so, but strong as his accent was I had no problems understanding him - none whatsoever - as here in Edinburgh we are used to hearing the Geordie accent as so many of them come up here on jollies, being jot all that far from Geordieland.
Another lad was there with me for interview as well, and he came from Wiltshire, in the south of England, and even though the reception man was very well spoken his accent caused this lad appeared to have some problems with full comprehension and he had to ask the man to repeat himself several times. The Geordie accent was obviously quite new to him.
I eventually ended up at Leeds uni anyway, and I honestly had more problems understanding some of the broader aspects of the local Leeds/West Yorkshire accent.
I read in a newspaper here that many Americans thnnk that all British people (well, English British people, shall we say) speak Standard RP English and that they all speak like the Queen or Hugh Grant or Dame Judi Dench (and she's originally from York so I reckon drama school may have tones down her accent quite a lot!)
It's time the Americans recognised the fact that the entire British Isles are awash with all kinds of local and regional accents and dialects, often contained within comparatively very small geographical areas. Glasgow and Edinburgh "speak" are very different from each other - 40 miles apart, and similary Liverpool and Manchester, and Birmingham and Coventry, all down in England, to name just a few examples.
Listen to some Geordies speaking....from the Hebburn area of Tyneside, just across the River Tyne from Newcastle city centre. They all sound very clear and understandable to me, but as I say, I'm used to hearing Geordies sounding off.
Perhaps there are a wee bit of the "posher" Geordies, if there is such a thing as a "posh" Geordie.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordin...-hebburn.shtml
I went for an interview for possible admittance to Newcastle uni in 2000 and the two people on the reception desk (a man and a woman) had very distinct Geordie accents, the man particularly so, but strong as his accent was I had no problems understanding him - none whatsoever - as here in Edinburgh we are used to hearing the Geordie accent as so many of them come up here on jollies, being jot all that far from Geordieland.
Another lad was there with me for interview as well, and he came from Wiltshire, in the south of England, and even though the reception man was very well spoken his accent caused this lad appeared to have some problems with full comprehension and he had to ask the man to repeat himself several times. The Geordie accent was obviously quite new to him.
I eventually ended up at Leeds uni anyway, and I honestly had more problems understanding some of the broader aspects of the local Leeds/West Yorkshire accent.
I read in a newspaper here that many Americans thnnk that all British people (well, English British people, shall we say) speak Standard RP English and that they all speak like the Queen or Hugh Grant or Dame Judi Dench (and she's originally from York so I reckon drama school may have tones down her accent quite a lot!)
It's time the Americans recognised the fact that the entire British Isles are awash with all kinds of local and regional accents and dialects, often contained within comparatively very small geographical areas. Glasgow and Edinburgh "speak" are very different from each other - 40 miles apart, and similary Liverpool and Manchester, and Birmingham and Coventry, all down in England, to name just a few examples.
Listen to some Geordies speaking....from the Hebburn area of Tyneside, just across the River Tyne from Newcastle city centre. They all sound very clear and understandable to me, but as I say, I'm used to hearing Geordies sounding off.
Perhaps there are a wee bit of the "posher" Geordies, if there is such a thing as a "posh" Geordie.http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordin...-hebburn.shtml
May 28th 2011, 2:31 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Cheryl Cole is a real Geordie, being from Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Tyneside. If she had been born in nearby Sunderland then she'd have been a Mackem, and not a Geordie, as true Geordieland covers a much smaller area of North East England than most people realise.
I went for an interview for possible admittance to Newcastle uni in 2000 and the two people on the reception desk (a man and a woman) had very distinct Geordie accents, the man particularly so, but strong as his accent was I had no problems understanding him - none whatsoever - as here in Edinburgh we are used to hearing the Geordie accent as so many of them come up here on jollies, being jot all that far from Geordieland.
Another lad was there with me for interview as well, and he came from Wiltshire, in the south of England, and even though the reception man was very well spoken his accent caused this lad appeared to have some problems with full comprehension and he had to ask the man to repeat himself several times. The Geordie accent was obviously quite new to him.
I eventually ended up at Leeds uni anyway, and I honestly had more problems understanding some of the broader aspects of the local Leeds/West Yorkshire accent.
I read in a newspaper here that many Americans thnnk that all British people (well, English British people, shall we say) speak Standard RP English and that they all speak like the Queen or Hugh Grant or Dame Judi Dench (and she's originally from York so I reckon drama school may have tones down her accent quite a lot!)
It's time the Americans recognised the fact that the entire British Isles are awash with all kinds of local and regional accents and dialects, often contained within comparatively very small geographical areas. Glasgow and Edinburgh "speak" are very different from each other - 40 miles apart, and similary Liverpool and Manchester, and Birmingham and Coventry, all down in England, to name just a few examples.
Listen to some Geordies speaking....from the Hebburn area of Tyneside, just across the River Tyne from Newcastle city centre. They all sound very clear and understandable to me, but as I say, I'm used to hearing Geordies sounding off. Perhaps there are a wee bit of the "posher" Geordies, if there is such a thing as a "posh" Geordie.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordin...-hebburn.shtml
I went for an interview for possible admittance to Newcastle uni in 2000 and the two people on the reception desk (a man and a woman) had very distinct Geordie accents, the man particularly so, but strong as his accent was I had no problems understanding him - none whatsoever - as here in Edinburgh we are used to hearing the Geordie accent as so many of them come up here on jollies, being jot all that far from Geordieland.
Another lad was there with me for interview as well, and he came from Wiltshire, in the south of England, and even though the reception man was very well spoken his accent caused this lad appeared to have some problems with full comprehension and he had to ask the man to repeat himself several times. The Geordie accent was obviously quite new to him.
I eventually ended up at Leeds uni anyway, and I honestly had more problems understanding some of the broader aspects of the local Leeds/West Yorkshire accent.
I read in a newspaper here that many Americans thnnk that all British people (well, English British people, shall we say) speak Standard RP English and that they all speak like the Queen or Hugh Grant or Dame Judi Dench (and she's originally from York so I reckon drama school may have tones down her accent quite a lot!)
It's time the Americans recognised the fact that the entire British Isles are awash with all kinds of local and regional accents and dialects, often contained within comparatively very small geographical areas. Glasgow and Edinburgh "speak" are very different from each other - 40 miles apart, and similary Liverpool and Manchester, and Birmingham and Coventry, all down in England, to name just a few examples.
Listen to some Geordies speaking....from the Hebburn area of Tyneside, just across the River Tyne from Newcastle city centre. They all sound very clear and understandable to me, but as I say, I'm used to hearing Geordies sounding off.
Perhaps there are a wee bit of the "posher" Geordies, if there is such a thing as a "posh" Geordie.http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordin...-hebburn.shtml
Very educational, as usual.
May 28th 2011, 2:32 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
.......did a few searches yesterday to see what all the fuss was about.