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<blockquote data-quote="Evans Electric" data-source="post: 498936" data-attributes="member: 1408"><p>In this area I notice that younger people ( Under 40s) ..in general ... seem to have a more neutral accent . Kids specially . Two main accents in Brum , North &amp; South roughly . Jasper Carrot is South Brum . General North Brummie would be Ozzie Osborne who grew up by me , he's not putting it on , thats normal for his age, I speak much the same , but you don't hear that from younger folk . </p><p></p><p>My father &amp; father in law spoke with a much broader accents that isn't heard much now . A similar example is broad Cockney , like you hear in old B&amp;W flims <em>" Cor blimey ..luv a duck , your a Toff guv'ner " </em>Now I hear a general <em> darn sarf </em>type accent instead .</p><p></p><p>On TV you don't hear so many local dialects anymore . </p><p></p><p>An interesting thing I read once , during World War 2 they decided to use local dialects for the BBC news in case of invasion . False news read by a German would be in an adopted posh , BBC accent so one person they recruited was Wilfred Pickles who was a radio star of the day who spoke with a broad Yorkshire accent and folk would know he was the real deal . </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evans Electric, post: 498936, member: 1408"] In this area I notice that younger people ( Under 40s) ..in general ... seem to have a more neutral accent . Kids specially . Two main accents in Brum , North & South roughly . Jasper Carrot is South Brum . General North Brummie would be Ozzie Osborne who grew up by me , he's not putting it on , thats normal for his age, I speak much the same , but you don't hear that from younger folk . My father & father in law spoke with a much broader accents that isn't heard much now . A similar example is broad Cockney , like you hear in old B&W flims [I]" Cor blimey ..luv a duck , your a Toff guv'ner " [/I]Now I hear a general [I] darn sarf [/I]type accent instead . On TV you don't hear so many local dialects anymore . An interesting thing I read once , during World War 2 they decided to use local dialects for the BBC news in case of invasion . False news read by a German would be in an adopted posh , BBC accent so one person they recruited was Wilfred Pickles who was a radio star of the day who spoke with a broad Yorkshire accent and folk would know he was the real deal . [/QUOTE]
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