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* ''Formula 51'', filmed and set in Liverpool. |
* ''Formula 51'', filmed and set in Liverpool. |
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* ''Liam'' is set in 1930s Liverpool, showing the titular character preparing for his First Communion when his father loses his job, his sister becomes a maid to a wealthy Jewish family, and his father and brother turn to disparate ideologies (fascism and socialism) in response to the family's economic decline. |
* ''Liam'' is set in 1930s Liverpool, showing the titular character preparing for his First Communion when his father loses his job, his sister becomes a maid to a wealthy Jewish family, and his father and brother turn to disparate ideologies (fascism and socialism) in response to the family's economic decline. |
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* Neville Longbottom from the |
* Neville Longbottom from the [[Harry Potter (film)|''Harry Potter'' movies]] has a Northern accent, due to Matt Lewis being from West Yorkshire. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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** Author Bill Bryson, who lived in the area for many years, points out that the pre-WWII Yorkshire accent, as found in the Herriot books, is a very different thing from the current incarnation. To his American ears, the older dialect sounded almost like a different language altogether. |
** Author Bill Bryson, who lived in the area for many years, points out that the pre-WWII Yorkshire accent, as found in the Herriot books, is a very different thing from the current incarnation. To his American ears, the older dialect sounded almost like a different language altogether. |
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* The Sarah Caudwell novel ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Sibyl in her Grave]]'' features a bank director with a very pronounced Lancashire accent, which is commented on numerous times by various people. Most of them talk about how remarkable it is he's risen to his prominent position what with the disadvantages he must have had. {{spoiler|The gentleman is actually very well educated with a First from Oxford and quite capable of speaking with a Southern accent, but found that other Englishmen were more inclined to trust him with the Northern accent. Then he kept it and started exaggerating it - and the "provincial Northerner" persona - to make fun of a snobbish coworker he particularly disliked, but no one ever realised it was a joke.}} |
* The Sarah Caudwell novel ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Sibyl in her Grave]]'' features a bank director with a very pronounced Lancashire accent, which is commented on numerous times by various people. Most of them talk about how remarkable it is he's risen to his prominent position what with the disadvantages he must have had. {{spoiler|The gentleman is actually very well educated with a First from Oxford and quite capable of speaking with a Southern accent, but found that other Englishmen were more inclined to trust him with the Northern accent. Then he kept it and started exaggerating it - and the "provincial Northerner" persona - to make fun of a snobbish coworker he particularly disliked, but no one ever realised it was a joke.}} |
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', Spinner's End is in the north, around 200 miles from London; the descriptions are evocative of old textile towns like Rochdale, Stockport, Brighouse, and Halifax. Which side of the Pennines it's on is a matter of debate, with equally convincing arguments. [http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-spinners-end.html An essay] on the Harry Potter Lexicon by Claire M. Jordan states: "Of these locations, the Manchester/Salford area is probably the most likely. (In the [[Film of the Book|movies]] Snape speaks with a West London accent [because Alan Rickman is originally from Hammersmith] and therefore can't be used to prove or disprove this theory.) |
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212193919/http://hplex.info/essays/essay-where-longbottoms-from.html Another Lexicon essay] asserts that based on the details given in the books, Neville Longbottom and his relatives appear to be from Lancashire. |
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212193919/http://hplex.info/essays/essay-where-longbottoms-from.html Another Lexicon essay] asserts that based on the details given in the books, Neville Longbottom and his relatives appear to be from Lancashire. |
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** In the UK audio books, [[Stephen Fry]] gives Tonks a strong Yorkshire accent. |
** In the UK audio books, [[Stephen Fry]] gives Tonks a strong Yorkshire accent. |
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