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Post by theother on Aug 28, 2019 3:12:53 GMT
... that Terrance Dicks has?
My understanding is that the way he speaks is not a speech issue but a particular accent.
Can someone from across the pond shed some light on this?
(Also remember seeing Rik Mayall in the Young Ones and recall him speaking in a similar way)
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Post by Tony Jones on Aug 28, 2019 7:17:31 GMT
He has a slight tendency to pronounce r as w, but for me he is London but not Cockney. It could be Estuary Essex as he is from East Ham.
On an unrelated note I discovered recently that I went to the same college as Terrance, and in fact John Cleese as well!
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Post by Tony Jones on Aug 30, 2019 10:07:01 GMT
As to Rik Mayall, he was also born in Essex but moved to the West Midlands when he was three. His character Kevin Turvey had a pronounced accent and I've always felt he retained a little of it whenever he spoke. Of course when he went to university in Manchester he met Ade Edmonson and Ben Elton. From such decisions whole careers blossom!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Aug 30, 2019 10:44:16 GMT
Uniquely Terrance. That’s the sort of accent he has.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 11:29:39 GMT
It reminds me an awful lot of the accent Joyce Grenfell did for her Eng Lit character: the wife of the Vice Chancellor at one of the Oxbridge universities. It might be a combination of accents. A bit of East Ham where he grew up and a bit of Cambridge from when he was studying English.
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