Chapter Discussions: Chapter 3, the Advance Guard

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 83254

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
> <june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> > --- >  [Authorial note: since writing, Stephen Fry has 
> > released 
> > > his audio version in which Tonks has a Lancastrian accent 
despite 
> > > saying "Wotcher" - the use of wotcher is still unknown to the 
> > author 
> > > outside of London].
> > 
> 
> June:
> > Picky Brit comment:  It's a LANCASHIRE accent meaning coming from 
> the 
> > now non-existent county of Lancashire in north west England (it 
> > housed Manchester and cites like that).  
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Geoff:
> Further picky Brit comment. Tonks' "Wotcher" could be anywhere in 
> London. The "East London" accent referred to probably means Cockney 
> but "Sarf Lunnon" which uses a lot of Cockney phrases covers a much 
> wider area. I lived for 45 years in SW London and still 
use "wotcher" 
> myself, though as you will see in a mo, I am not a Londoner.
> 
> Excuse me but Lancashire still exists. They may have shunted 
> Manchester and Liverpool into Greater Manchester and Merseyside 
> respectively but my home town of Burnley is still very firmly in 
> Lancashire.

Jeez if I'd realised there were all these chippy "Lancastrians" 
hanging around I'd have kept schtum.

Buggerahell as we say in Newcastle.

June