Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
May 28th 2011, 2:37 pm
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May 28th 2011, 2:38 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.
May 28th 2011, 2:43 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Her hideous, grating voice would drive anybody mad, but then I don't watch the show anyway.
May 28th 2011, 2:46 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Either way, she was fired because nobody (as this thread illustrates) knew who the hell she was or could understand a word she said. It'd be like sending Jessica Simpson to the UK and expecting them roll out the red carpet for her ... not likely. A talentless annoying bimbo is fodder no matter which way the Boeing is flying.
May 28th 2011, 8:27 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
But they still wouldn't give a shit who Cheryl Cole is.
May 28th 2011, 11:44 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 29th 2011, 1:02 am
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May 29th 2011, 7:57 am
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
They should roll out some episodes of Auf Wiedersen Pet! and Spender.
CCs accent will seem quite mild after that.
I'm hard of hearing but I still managed to follow and enjoy both before programs were generally subtitled.
I still don't understand what CC has not dropped Cole as her surname. Clearly works better as a brand than Tweedy!
CCs accent will seem quite mild after that.
I'm hard of hearing but I still managed to follow and enjoy both before programs were generally subtitled.
I still don't understand what CC has not dropped Cole as her surname. Clearly works better as a brand than Tweedy!
May 29th 2011, 6:25 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Either way, she was fired because nobody (as this thread illustrates) knew who the hell she was or could understand a word she said. It'd be like sending Jessica Simpson to the UK and expecting them roll out the red carpet for her ... not likely. A talentless annoying bimbo is fodder no matter which way the Boeing is flying.
May 29th 2011, 7:21 pm
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May 29th 2011, 7:50 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Oh. Never saw the original so can't compare. I would guess it is not worth wasting time watching it! Another name I keep "seeing/hearing is Snookie. Anyone who can enlighten me?
My knowledge has tripled since joining this forum...yeah I know I was pretty dumb to start with
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May 29th 2011, 8:07 pm
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Re: Cheryl Cole dumped from US X Factor due to Geordie accent
Oh. Never saw the original so can't compare. I would guess it is not worth wasting time watching it! Another name I keep "seeing/hearing is Snookie. Anyone who can enlighten me?
My knowledge has tripled since joining this forum...yeah I know I was pretty dumb to start with
My knowledge has tripled since joining this forum...yeah I know I was pretty dumb to start with
.....a foul mouthed little trollop, thats cashing in while she can, many younger girlies appear to be following the Snookie hair style in this neck of the woods its not nice not nice at all....she gets drunk all the time shows off her ass and swears like a drunken fisherman ( I guess she might have some Poppy heritage in her back in the day lol)
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