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I was listening to a BBC reporter talking about the earthquake in China. Aside fromthe awfulness of the event, I was really struck by his accent, which was one I was sure I had never heard before. It was I guess "thick" in that every sound of every word was particular to the accent, but it was also perfectly comprehensible to me which would I guess mean that it isn't thick? The point is, I thought it was a really nice way of speaking, and I could listen to him all night long.
It seemed like his sentences had a rhythm like Irish speakers, but his pronunciations sounded more like Northern England (please remember I have no right to make judgements like this as my exposure is so slight). He did something odd: he pronounced urban with an H. Like Hurban. I'd never heard that sound attached to a word beginning with that vowel. So I paid attention at the end of the segment, learned his name, and trolled the BBC website and eventually Google till I learned that his name is Martin Patience and he's originally from Glasgow.
But I don't know what kind of Glaswegian accent he has (or if it's really a Glasgow accent or something else). So if you know Scottish accents, would you please listen to a Martin Patience piece and tell me what you think?
I know this is a distraction. But I dearly love the way that man talks and I'd just like to know more about it and searching online has been less than helpful.
It seemed like his sentences had a rhythm like Irish speakers, but his pronunciations sounded more like Northern England (please remember I have no right to make judgements like this as my exposure is so slight). He did something odd: he pronounced urban with an H. Like Hurban. I'd never heard that sound attached to a word beginning with that vowel. So I paid attention at the end of the segment, learned his name, and trolled the BBC website and eventually Google till I learned that his name is Martin Patience and he's originally from Glasgow.
But I don't know what kind of Glaswegian accent he has (or if it's really a Glasgow accent or something else). So if you know Scottish accents, would you please listen to a Martin Patience piece and tell me what you think?
I know this is a distraction. But I dearly love the way that man talks and I'd just like to know more about it and searching online has been less than helpful.
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(I was thinking of you in particular when I wrote this post because you've been helpful at other times when I was asking things about the geography of accents in the UK)
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Speaking of reporters with accents, the Beeb's former Political Editor John Cole, who is from Northern Ireland, was famous for starting words with "h", so that if you wanted to parody his accent you would say "Hondootedly Mossis Thotcher" and everybody would get who you were trying to imitate. But trawling for "john cole bbc" on YouTube brings back only poor examples.