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Post by agingerstokie on Jul 8, 2016 16:38:01 GMT
the beard is growing on me, i must say as a bearded man myself!
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Post by Batfink on Jul 8, 2016 17:11:42 GMT
It is growing on him too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 17:57:10 GMT
Does the interviewer have to have the thickest Stoke accent ever? Makes me cringe.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 18:53:24 GMT
Does the interviewer have to have the thickest Stoke accent ever? Makes me cringe. Thickest Stoke accent ever. Ast eva herd 'em toke darn neck-end. At least Hughesy seems to be able to understand his lingo and he's a taffy. |
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Post by auntiegeorge on Jul 9, 2016 10:06:29 GMT
The "thickest Stoke accent ever"?
Are you kidding me? I've lived in the Potteries all of my 52 years (apart from 5 years in Stafford) and can assure you that compared to some of the traditional accents I once heard the interviewer sounds like he's from Chelsea.
If only you were around in the 60s, 70s and 80s when the potbanks and market traders were enjoying their final hurrah then you would know what a real Stoke accent used to sound like.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jul 9, 2016 10:26:19 GMT
The "thickest Stoke accent ever"? Are you kidding me? I've lived in the Potteries all of my 52 years (apart from 5 years in Stafford) and can assure you that compared to some of the traditional accents I once heard the interviewer sounds like he's from Chelsea. If only you were around in the 60s, 70s and 80s when the potbanks and market traders were enjoying their final hurrah then you would know what a real Stoke accent used to sound like. Agreed. You can tell it is a Stoke accent but that is far from being the strongest Stoke accent they have had doing the club interviews, let alone the strongest Stoke accent ever. I grew up on the Westlands in Newcastle ( very "posh") but some of the parents of the kids in our street were almost unintelligible to me when we moved there when I was 4. I expect all North Staffs accents have softened over the years but personally, I'm glad that people like the interviewer in that video still have identifiable North Staffs accents. It is funny how you get used to an accent. I've moved a few times in my life and I've worked in Wolverhampton and Plymouth before retiring to Cumbria. In each of those places the accents sound very strange to my ear when I made the move - but after a few years I never even noticed the accent. It is only when I go back to the West Midlands or Devon that I notice the accents. And I hardly notice the Stoke one because I go back every two weeks or so to watch the games. We should celebrate our regional accents. Take the piss out of "thick" regional accents if you want to - but the country would be a lot poorer if regional accents disappeared. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2016 11:35:25 GMT
The "thickest Stoke accent ever"? Are you kidding me? I've lived in the Potteries all of my 52 years (apart from 5 years in Stafford) and can assure you that compared to some of the traditional accents I once heard the interviewer sounds like he's from Chelsea. If only you were around in the 60s, 70s and 80s when the potbanks and market traders were enjoying their final hurrah then you would know what a real Stoke accent used to sound like. And even those were different if you listened carefully to the market trader's twangs in the neck-end and Boslem. I was once down London for a seminar and asked a bloke for a light on my fag on one the breaks. He immediately identified I was from Stoke as soon as I opened my mouth. He himself originated from the "Potteries" and had been living down London for some years, saying he'd instantly recognize a Potteries slang being spoken in a crowded room of people talking. It's a shame that local, strong dialects are almost a thing of the past as they were a part of your identity. |
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Post by loosestools on Jul 9, 2016 12:04:30 GMT
I used to be able to be able to recognise an accent within an accent when I heard a Potteries person speak, I cant pinpoint this guy, perhaps Ive been away too long or probably the accent has changed, its more of a lazy drawl than when I was younger, thee knowst!
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Post by Sfance on Jul 9, 2016 12:36:09 GMT
Good for Mark - loved hearing the phrase "everybody from these shores . . .". Especially given the fact that we have a Welsh manager it was hard to credit some of the language on here when Wales were still in it.
Otherwise, I agree 100% with the praise of the variety in Potteries accents I grew up listening to.
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Post by GrahamHyde on Jul 9, 2016 12:45:28 GMT
"We have a set plan (with pre-season), we know it works"
Does it though, Mark?
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