Seriously?

[ceebee_eebee]

I mean, really. SERIOUSLY?! The accents they are doing in this Big Finish 5th Doctor Stockbridge trilogy. Are they for REAL?

Please. SomeBrit. Explain this to me. Where the hell is Stockbridge supposed to be? And do people actually HAVE this accent? I've lived in the UK and traveled extensively through England, Scotland and Wales and I have NEVER heard an accent like this.

It's...yeah. Is it for real?

Comments

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Is it weird that your accent bewilderment is just making me jealous that I don't presently have access to these audios?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'll have to have a listen to the first one - haven't had a chance yet...

The real Stockbridge is in Hampshire...

[paranoidangel]

This probably says it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummerset

[butterflysteve.livejournal.com]

If they sound like they're from the West Country or Somerset then it's probably a made up accent as Hampshire doesn't have an actual defined accent like some other cities like Liverpool (Scouse), Birmingham (Brummie) or London (cockney.)

If it's Stockbridge in Edinborough then that's probably Scottish local dialect that you're listening to.

I have no idea though as I haven't heard it.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

HA. You're not missing much. They're just ok. Although I definitely did enjoy the first one the best.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Is that where it's supposed to be in the audios? The whole "Five is obsessed with Stockbridge" thing is a mystery to me.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

YES! THAT'S IT EXACTLY! Oh, man. Ok. So it's as ridiculous sounding as I though it was. Thanks for clearing that up, babe. It was driving me bonkers.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Not Scotland. I think it's supposed to be in the South. It's fucking atrocious. I think it's a mummerset accent like PA said above. Embarrassing to listen to.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ditto, actually. I've read the first of the Fifth Doctor comics set there, and then the first of Izzy's comics (Stockbridge being her home town too), but that's as far as I got. Oh, and the comic wherein Ten revisited Stockbridge, but yeah, don't really know, but I'm presuming the comic strip town's in Hampshire too...

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

completely unrelated, but i found this on the meme and of course i thought of you:



love ya, bb! enjoy!

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Oh, god YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.