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What is the name of the dialect?


Most of the cast seems to have a Scottish-Irish sound, but not exactly. I may be wrong... But someone please help me understand the part of UK this is located at and the accent.

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Its shot not far from where I live which is why I checked the movie out. Liverpool and our acccent is called scouse. Hope that helps an answers

taking porch monkey back 4 lyfe

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Scouse, like scousers are us.

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It depends on the actor. E.g. The girl is from Manchester, her mother is a Scot and her father from Yorkshire. As it was filmed in Liverpool you'll hear a lot of local accents, but there is no single dialect in the filmn and many of the main actors are not from around there.

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So maybe that explains why I could understand the mother, the fat neighbor and her pudgy daughter, but I didn't catch a word coming out of the injured soldier's mouth. Jodie & Kiernan were kind of hit and miss.

I kept messing with the volume but I seriously could not understand that soldier guy, and naturally he was the one that explained what was happening. I completely missed the explanation for the "monster" or whatever.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

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I agree the soldier was hard to understand

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Although it was filmed in Liverpool there is no indication where it is actually set. The characters have a range of accents. Beth is Scottish, Kieran is from Yorkshire, the soldier is from Liverpool (the only one who is), Jodie is from Salford (near Manchester).

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