Why do they have Makem accents? I'm Hebburn born and bred and the only people I know who talk like they do are from Sunderland and Cleveland (or whatever is called now!)
Because of the lack of actors from Hebburn, people who aren't from there have to play the parts, and so do the accent as best as they can.
shareso...do ya think anyone'll understand them if they were from hebburn?
shareActually after spending the last ten years or so in the west end of Newcastle, I have to say that listening to the Hebburn accents on visits back home I am surprised at how gentle it is. They are not hard to understand and are rarely littered with colloquialisms like some parts of the north east.
shareNo one outside of Tyne and Wear will get the difference, instead they just throw actors from all over the north east together. Happens all the time.
shareSo.. do North Easterners really use the non-word "yous" so often? The abuse of the English language is bad enough without the BBC encouraging it by using it as though it were correct.
shareSo.. do North Easterners really use the non-word "yous" so often? The abuse of the English language is bad enough without the BBC encouraging it by using it as though it were correct.