Localizing accents
Sep. 2nd, 2017 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI was listening to Gary Numan on the radio and he sounded remarkably like Noel Fielding. I mentioned this to mst3kmoxie and it turned out that she had been thinking the same.
Looking at Wikipedia, Gary Numan (then Webb) was born in Hammersmith and Noel Fielding was born in Westminster and lived in Pollards Hill. These places, well within the London Orbital, are not many miles apart. I wonder if they would have sounded more dissimilar had Gary grown up around Romford or Watford or suchlike, or if one has to be out in Reading or Chelmsford before there is an obvious difference.
mst3kmoxie and it turned out that she had been thinking the same.Looking at Wikipedia, Gary Numan (then Webb) was born in Hammersmith and Noel Fielding was born in Westminster and lived in Pollards Hill. These places, well within the London Orbital, are not many miles apart. I wonder if they would have sounded more dissimilar had Gary grown up around Romford or Watford or suchlike, or if one has to be out in Reading or Chelmsford before there is an obvious difference.
