Weasley accents (was Obsessed with Harry )

[jeffl1965]

No: HPFGUIDX 81893

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> 

> Geoff:
> Just picking up on one or two points having had a little more time 
to 
> digest them. One other poster and myself have pointed out that to 
be 
> a true Cockney, you have to have been born within the sound of Bow 
> Bells. These are not strictly East London, because they are the 
bells 
> of St.Mary-le-Bow which is in Cheapside, a street running between 
> St.Pauls Cathedral and the Bank of England. Postal code wise, they 
> are EC (East Central) but I wouldn't consider them East End, 
speaking 
> as a London resident of 45 years. Many people speak with a similar 
> accent, as I see Ron doing. As Jeff(?) pointed out there are many 
> accents belonging to London residents who have moved in. There is 
now 
> also an accent referred to by scholars as "Estuary English" taking 
> its name from the Thames Estuary which is a dialect (of sorts!) 
> covering a wide swathe round London.
> 
  Jeff:

    Thanks for more details. My own knowledge of the districts are 
limited to White Chapel, Saville Row and the ST. John's Wood area and 
the NW area around Abbey Road. Lots of different accents in those 
areas alone. Some sound like they belong on Radio One, others on the 
Grange Hill programme or Eastenders. :) Not to mention the Welsh 
walking around in their wellies or a few wallys you run into. ;)



> Some folk don't have a particularly strong regional accent. I don't 
> envisage Hermione having one because of her background. I lived in 
> the north of England until I was 9 and then moved to London with 
> a "Coronation Street" accent. Thanks to mixing with "Sarf 
Lunneners" 
> and the attacks of my grammar school teachers on my diction, I am 
now 
> largely accentless. Moving to Sonerset 9 years ago, I now find that 
> the locals consider me to be from somewhere "in the South-East". 
> Little Whinging perhaps?


   Jeff:

    I can see that. She seems so proper in the books, that I have to 
agree that she'd be in the Radio One crowd, with such perfect diction 
that you'd think she'd choke if she tried a slang. :) It's intresting 
to think about this, since what these movies will do is set the 
character's voices into the minds of children for generations to 
come.  I would hope that the cast they selected is what JKR had in 
mind, and since she didn't state otherwise, then we are to presume 
that they are what she wants. 



  Jeff