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What kind of accent does she have?

posted 17 years ago by lori-lynn
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We're American, tivo'd this last week and just started watching it tonight. We're having a hard time understanding the accents so we put subtitles on and that helps (boy, do I feel dumb saying that). But I just wondered what kind of British accent Mrs. Pritchard has; usually we don't struggle so much to understand English accents. For example, the Helen Mirren series was no problem, as I recall (Prime Suspect).

NOt just Mrs. Pritchard herself but others around her.

[–] angelofvic 17 years ago

The Pritchards [well, except for Steven Mackintosh, who plays her husband and pretty much just uses his normal accent] and the other residents of "Eatanswill" -- a fictional town, but in this case, intended to be in West Yorkshire -- have a Yorkshire accent.

Same as the housekeeper and other residents of the township Mary Lennox is sent to in The Secret Garden, if you ever happen to see an adaptation of that book.

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[–] LPurch6636 17 years ago

Thank you for this information!

Flanagan

[–] angelofvic 17 years ago

Welcome!
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[–] minspam2004-orders 16 years ago

I'm American and I found her perfectly understandable--far more so that people here in the south. Sometimes I have to ask people to stop, back up, and enunciate, and I feel like an utter idiot because I can't decipher the drawl. Jane Horrocks' accent, however, was crystal clear to me.

[–] jf_606 16 years ago

One of the Yorkshires, and I even detect a slight bit of Irish in her accent.

[–] tedtunes 16 years ago

I think Jane Horrocks is using her own accent, Lancashire, likewise the daughter. The husband has a kind of generic northern accent, but the younger daugher is speaking with a nottinghamshire accent, which I am sure is her own. She says Nerr, instead of no, as in Ah dernt nerr - anyway, that's what I think.

[–] angelofvic 16 years ago

Ah, thanks Ted. You're absolutley right. In fact, Jane Horrocks' IMDB page says her trademark is her pronounced Lancashire accent.

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