Posted: Mar 20, 2015 2:28 am
scott1328 wrote:He made prodigious use of glottal stops and dropped H's. I asked him if was an East Ender, but he said he was from the East Midlands a couple hundred miles north of London.
Couple of hundred miles north of London is Grimsby or Hull and they sound bugger all like Simon does in that clip (isn't he supposed to be from Manchester anyway?).
I'm not sure that area is really in the Midlands either, it would more normally be considered the northeast.
ETA: This is pretty cool. BBC language Archive:-
Grimsby = 185mi north of London
http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialect ... 6XX-0301V0
Grantham = 112mi north of London
http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialect ... 39X-1400V1