BBC, ITV, Channel4 etc. More and more 'regional' accents seem to be in vogue. On ITV for instance, you get 'cheeky cheery Northern chappie'(annoying), male and female Ulster person (so you do), various Scottish ones with varying degrees of dialect ranging from the easily understood to the utterly unintelligible (this applies to adverts as well), a Geordie who seems to have escaped from Big Brother and I've even heard a male and female West Indian pair on 4 with a creole accent that wouldn't be out of place on Rastamouse. Obviously for regional programmes, you'd expect the appropriate accent to be used, but not for national TV. I'd be interested to know, do people that live in the North of England, Scotland and NI get cockney, brummie or other announcers that are not from their area on their local TV? How I miss 'neutral' standard English !
I was thinking along the lines of Judith Chalmers or 'Diddy' David Hamilton actually, not Danny Dyer.
We have a Welsh weatherman on our local BBC radio and tv up Yorkshire way. Nowt wrong with that, nice chap in fact.
What's spoke within 100 miles of London, is not Cockney! It was once described as 'Est urine English' (Thames estuary) Tony
I was born in sarf London, lived in sarf London until 2004, if a horse is born in a stable and moved to a field it's still a horse, I rest my case, I'm a cockerney Not a horse
I'm a resettled cockerney from sarf London, with a loud hailer you could hear the Bow Bells from my mums hospital bed Cor blimey mate is that the time
I just returned from a trip to Aberdeen. Jason Donovan was presenting a radio show. Wrong Perth I guess !
Received Pronunciation or RP is what BBC continuity announcers used to have to speak. Similarly US newsreaders used to be most commonly from Nebraska as that was considered the most neutral American accent.
