[HPforGrownups] Wotcher WAS How Many DEs Left?

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No: HPFGUIDX 90964

Ali wrote:

> One of my biggest disappointments with Stephen Fry's reading of OoP, 
> was Tonks' accent. The accent he gives her, seems to place her 
> around Lancashire, where I don't believe that phrase is used. I 
> suppose it is possible that Tonks liked the phrase and added it to 
> her vocabularly or the people I knew from Lancashire were simply not 
> representative, and it is used in pockets of that county.
> 
> Ali

digger, veering dangerously off-topic for hpfgu...

Yep, that is the one thing I can't stand in Fry's OoP. Wotcha is, I mean 
was, (ahem, showing my age) a London expression. How he came up with 
Lancashire I can't imagine. It jars horribly with me. One must file it 
with the "french" Bellatrix Lestrange that Jim Dale imagined.....