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Theater: A new voice for WST's 'Nightingale' - MetroWest Daily News

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:29:12 GMT

Theater: A new voice for WST's 'Nightingale'
MetroWest Daily News
All of the actors, except for Bouvier, speak in Newcastle's Geordie dialect, which sounds Scottish. He has to speak with a Brummie accent, since his character is from Birmingham. He said it sounds a like a Liverpool or Cockney accent.

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An old-fashioned musical delight at Act II - Montgomery Newspapers

Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:44 GMT

An old-fashioned musical delight at Act II
Montgomery Newspapers
By Dante JJ Bevilacqua Henry Higgins (Tony Braithwaite) shows Eliza Doolittle (Eileen Cella) his transcription of her Cockney accent in Act II Playhouse's production of "My Fair Lady," while Harrison Post and Owen Pelesh look on.
Warrior Times Weekly: Fairest musical of them allmy.hsj.org

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Kristen Stewart: Nick Frost and Ray Winstone show respect - ITN

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:17:30 GMT

ITN

Kristen Stewart: Nick Frost and Ray Winstone show respect
ITN
He did admit Kristen got a little too into her cockney accent though, joking that they once had to cut because she started calling the Queen "a toilet" - which obviously is not polite and was not in the script! The dwarves say Kristen was a hard worker ...

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UH's Jim Johnson, A Man of Many Accents - Houston Chronicle (blog)

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:37:58 GMT

Houston Chronicle (blog)

UH's Jim Johnson, A Man of Many Accents
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Jim Johnson: When I was a little kid, I was very shy. One of the things I'd do at home was play with accents. One of my earliest memories was singing “I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am” in a Cockney accent. I just started playing around with accents.

Five things I wrote in my notebook at Snow Patrol's Cosmo show - Las Vegas Weekly

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:04:15 GMT

Five things I wrote in my notebook at Snow Patrol's Cosmo show
Las Vegas Weekly
This is like a UK family reunion: Fans with rugby jerseys and Cockney accents, waving Irish and British flags, have gathered for Snow Patrol's Saturday-night performance at the Cosmopolitan's Boulevard Pool. I make the unintentional, ...

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Are we losing our regional accents? - Yorkshire Evening Post

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:03:01 GMT

Are we losing our regional accents?
Yorkshire Evening Post
Increasingly you get people like David Cameron and Tony Blair using glottle stops in their accent, which is where you say a word like 'Water' but don't pronounce the letter 'T'. “This is something which is seen as a traditionally Cockney characteristic ...

Review: From Across the Pond pub and grill in Colleyville - Fort Worth Star Telegram

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:11:24 GMT

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Review: From Across the Pond pub and grill in Colleyville
Fort Worth Star Telegram
A former professional English soccer player, Herdman leads with a Cockney accent, quick wit, and infectious chuckle that sum up the Pond's unpretentious warmth. Herdman's wife of 23 years, Emma, works behind the scenes, making sure the Pond's kitchen ...

New audiobooks for great listening - Washington Post

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:40:01 GMT

New audiobooks for great listening
Washington Post
David Pittu executes them all with only one fumble: a peculiar rendering of a Yorkshire accent becomes a raucous cockney one. Still, he transfers his voice from person to person in the book's many conversations (and interrogations) with dexterity, ...

Irish Cockney who shot the biggest stars in the world - Irish Independent

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:00:40 GMT

Irish Independent

Irish Cockney who shot the biggest stars in the world
Irish Independent
The family moved to the East End of London and their little Irish boy grew up speaking Cockney. He became a famous photographer and one of his best-known pictures showed how far he had travelled . . . It was of the movie star Faye Dunaway, ...

Old music: Bernard Cribbins – Right Said Fred - The Guardian (blog)

Wed, 02 May 2012 10:53:05 GMT

Old music: Bernard Cribbins – Right Said Fred
The Guardian (blog)
Cribbins, in an impeccable cockney accent, is one of two bungling workmen attempting to move an unwieldy yet unidentified item, eventually leaving it standing it on the landing after dismantling it (and drinking numerous cups of tea).