OFF: Ficton & Nektar

[Paul Eaton-Jones]

I too come from North Wales specifically Flintshire in N.E. Wales and
whenever my voice is played back on tape people think I come from
Liverpool!! ( much to my chagrin as my "normal" voice is quite
comprehensible, clear and accentless). The reason is, I think, that at
one time many Scousers moved to N. Wales to work in the steel works and
aircraft factory that were just over the border from Chester.
Paul.
On Tuesday, Aug 3, 2004, at 15:50 Europe/London, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 04:26, Henderson Keith wrote:
>
>>> Keyboards, played apparently by a Welsh hobbit,
>>
>> :)
>>
>> He has the strangest accent of any person I've ever heard.  I can only
>> understand about every fifth word!  I thought he was from Liverpool,
>> hearing some similarities to other Liverpudlians I've heard (Lister
>> from Red Dwarf is one, yeah?), but perhaps north(?)* Wales is just a
>> more extreme version of this bizarre accent.  ?
>>
>> *He doesn't sound like Terry Jones, who I use as a Welsh example, but
>> then I don't know what part of Wales Jones hails from.
>
> According to the Internet Movie Database, Terry Jones was born in
> Colwyn
> Bay, North Wales.  That is just a little east of the popular seaside
> destination of Llandudno (just one stop over on the North Wales Coast
> main line).
>
> I lived for several years in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, which is further
> west along the coast in North-West Wales.  I remember when living there
> the locals used to refer to South Wales as "English Wales."  Perhaps
> that had something to do with North-West Wales having the highest
> concentration of native Welsh speakers.  If memory serves, it was
> something like 60% in the county of Gwynedd.
>
> So, unless Terry's accent was particularly diluted or mangled through
> schooling and later life, he perhaps is a good Welsh example---unless
> you're looking for a South Wales example. ;-)
>
> (Note that Liverpool is near North-East Wales.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
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