The complaint about the food! Liam Cunningham addresses that damned coffee cup on 'Game of Thrones' Mashable via Yahoo. By the time Jon and Sansa were rounding up Northern lords to fight with them at the Battle of the Bastards, the whole bloody North seemed filled with Yorkshiremen and women. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This has made more of the world aware of the accent than any other piece of entertainment (with Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch as its only serious competitor). 264 posts, read 228,992 times Reputation: 403. There are a good half-dozen accents in the North of England, distinct enough that you could also call them dialects. Either way, it's 100% creepy whisper. The Dutch, German and Danish languages are historically linked — the word "Dutch" itself comes from Deutsch — and they're surprisingly well-represented on Game of Thrones. If you want a pop culture reference, Davos in Game of Thrones had a pretty good Geordie accent. The BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances features lower-middle-class striver Hyacinth Bucket ("Bouquet"), who irks her family with her put-on posh airs; this an extreme form of a real-life phenomenon. Each has a whole culture behind it that is as distinct as wildlings compared to the Winterfell-born. I didn't like it the first time through and enjoying it more the second time. A quintessential Yorkshire scene, from a 19th century wood carving. If this kind of exposure goes on much longer, Yorkshiremen and women may even crack a smile. There isn't a great deal of directorial distinction made between non-English accents on Game of Thrones. Who talks this way: Tyrion Lannister, Lord Petyr Baelish. Spoilers must have warning. That isn't necessarily a negative term, although it is often said with a sneer by the non-posh; it's just the fastest and easiest description. Geordie — which, with many words still in use from Viking days, is definitely more of a dialect — centers on the city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. I don't know why he'd bring changing his accent to that since he lived in Fleabottom and I'd expect the Geordie accent to be from the North. To British ears, Stannis sounds a little like a character from Eastenders. That may be why he chose it. Who talks this way: Jaime, Melisandre, Jaqen H'ghar, Shae. Yeah, it's why the built all the bloody call centres here :-/. Davos (Liam Cunningham) - An Irish man doing a (pretty decent) Geordie accent despite that fact that nobody else in the series has a Georgie accent. Who talks this way: Catelyn, Sansa, Arya and Bran Stark; Cersei, Joffrey and Tywin Lannister; Daenerys and Viserys Targaryen; Brienne of Tarth, Gendry, Varys and Missandei. He is one of the only people on the show who puts on a Geordie accent, which is from Newcastle … right up in the northeast, near the Scottish border.” You can check out the full dissection by John Fleming, here. Content must be relevant. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/what-game-of-thrones-accents-mean Mashable, MashBash and Mashable House are among the federally registered trademarks of Ziff Davis, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. You're the only other real bloody Yorkshireman on the show.". Soon it became clear to the showrunners and directors that to establish a character as a downtrodden hero, nowt worked better than a Yorkshire accent. British people of a certain age had a "telephone voice," yet another synonym for posh. Not for this rural county the flashy, fast-paced style of the Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle accents (known as Scouse, Mancunian and Geordie respectively). For many fans, though, there's one detail of the show where the work that goes into it may go unnoticed: accents. The rough salt-and-pepper facial hair! Or maybe it's as simple as, Geordie was just the non-Irish accent he's the best at, lol. The actors playing grown Stark men, bastards and wards adopted the Sean Bean accent — Bran, Sansa and Arya did not, but we'll get to them. Press J to jump to the feed. The fact that Ned and Robert talked exactly alike established their friendship right from the start of in the story; the fact that nobody else in King's Landing talked like them established how isolated they were. We're using cookies to improve your experience. So I've been giving GoT a rewatch. Did he live in Newcastle (it doesn't say so on Wiki) or is this just an accent he's adopted for the show. Why would a Lannister talk like that? Geordie is in the very North-east. Mark Addy (King Robert Baratheon) is from York. Who talks this way: Stannis Baratheon and quite a few minor characters — guards, mostly. But then there's Littlefinger, for whom we can blame Irish actor Aidan Gillen. You can't blame Peter Dinklage. Some regions stand out as the books started as a fantasy version of the War of the Roses. Geordie is another, more extreme northern English accent. Be legal and respectful to others. Yorkshire is the name of the dialect, the accent and the largest county in the North of England. Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions about people. is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Sorry, London — but given the fact that you've dominated British media for decades, turnabout is fair play. You'd never know Jon Snow was a public (ie. The Angles (as in "Anglo-Saxon," not to mention "English") came from modern-day Germany and Denmark and settled in Yorkshire and other parts of the North. The regional accent pokes through underneath. One of the show's most-missed characters, he is played by Miltos Yerolemou, who is the London-born son of Greek Cypriot parents — so you could call his accent vaguely genuine. That doesn't quite explain it. None of the actors were from Yorkshire — with the possible exception of Bella Ramsay, aka scene- and heart-stealer Lady Lyanna Mormont. We have three main rules. We'll get to them. I actually think his accent is very good. I've never heard anyone else from Dublin sound like a Geordie… Personally, I hear it as one part posh English mixed with French, as if Tyrion had been brought up spending six months of the year in a chateau in the Dordogne, which seems entirely appropriate for his character. So there still are some differences between posh Starks and the Lannisters, who are full-on Southern posh except for Jaimie and Tyrion. You sound like Alan Shearer with a hangover haha Love it. Only one character uses it, and we've no idea why. The fact that he immediately represses the most hideous injury of his life! We asked HBO, but they were unable to discover whether Bella was born in Yorkshire because she doesn't seem to have an agent. Another name for posh is the University accent, because kids from working-class families used to adopt it when they went away to university, even if that university was in the North. By ancient laws carved into the stones of York Minster, anyone speaking in this accent shall forever be relating a tale of sturdiness in times of woe, accompanied by a brass band and/or the whistling of the wind over t' moors. Liam Cunningham speaks with what sounds like a Geordie accent but he's from Ireland. Robb, Jon and Theon all preferred to talk like Ned when they grew up. /u/wengerista made comment of Scottish accents but as /u/1randomguy mentioned, I didn't. mrfauzanni. Same goes for the two basically German-accented characters who've appeared in the show, Braavos' own Jaqen H'ghar (Tom Wlaschiha of Saxony) and Shae (Sibel Kekilli of Hamburg), who is from Lorath, a free city just south of Braavos. Don't generalise all Scottish accents as each town and city usually has its own. Robb (Richard Madden, Scottish), Theon (Alfie Allen, Londoner), Jon (Kit Harrington, posh Londoner) all managed very convincing Yorkshire accents for the rest of their time on the show. Liam Cunningham was born in Dublin, Ireland, though you wouldn't be able to tell from the Geordie accent he does while playing Davos. Martin Told Me A Game Of Thrones Secret - … Bronn uses it, even though we met him in the Riverlands (and though Jerome Flynn hails from the very posh county of Kent). Game of Thrones' showrunners didn't have some sort of secret plan for Yorkshire domination; it just grew from storytelling necessity. But if Catelyn had a phone instead of ravens, she'd probably answer it speaking extra posh. Given the journey we've gone on, it's only fair that the last word should go to a posh actor doing a Yorkshire accent. Bronn. Where does OP say anything about Scottish accents? Make yourself a nice cuppa [tea], grab the biscuits [cookies], pull up a pew [siddown] and we'll dig into the seven accents of Game of Thrones — starting with the one you hear most frequently. As we'll see, the show's seven accents do not map to its seven kingdoms in any way. #geordie. Yet few know what those accents are even called, let alone their geographic origins. Still, the accent is worth noting because Irishman Liam Cunningham does such a good job that you'd never know he isn't Geordie. On the show their accents might just slot into the "vaguely Mediterranean" category below, but let's go with their actual country of origin. So even though his usage of the accent is geographically bizarre and arguably appropriational, let us say: Howay Ser Davos. It's also a very middle England thing to do — to have a posh accent that you put on for special occasions the way you reserve the good china for visitors. Post spoiler tags are: [No Spoilers], [Spoilers], or [Leaks] Présent lors des répétitions du concert Game of Thrones Live Experience, l'interprète de Sir Davos s'est exprimé sur l'avenir de la série. 12w Reply. Did he live in Newcastle (it doesn't say so on Wiki) or is this just an accent he's adopted for the show. Either way, it's confusing to an 'aborigine'. It drives me crazy when actor's accents go in and out. Syrio Forel: water dancer, accent master. When George R.R. Martin invented the Andals, a race that invaded Westeros thousands of years in the past and became everyone's common ancestors, the German-Danish-English connection was clearly his historical analogy. Extremely posh Stephen Dillane, who hails from the extremely posh London borough of Kensington, put a slight cockney twist on Stannis Baratheon's gruff voice. Irish Actor Liam Cunningham, movie star and now best known as Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones chats about his dream job (he swapped being an electrician for Hollywood! The use of the word "bloody!" Better Business Bureau Accredited Business. Let's be real: almost everyone in the world outside the U.K. is enamored with the accents of Game of Thrones. If you were looking to write a paper on unconscious racism in Game of Thrones, this is where you'd start. (Who could possibly blame Peter Dinklage for anything?) But now Stannis is gone, and the only time you'll hear cockney on the show is when we encounter guards or soldiers. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has come a long way since Season 1, in which you basically have to put the subtitles on to understand him. The distribution of accents in Game of Thrones is fascinating. Newcastle is once said to have boasted to an army of rebellious Scots that its citizens were "King George's men," hence the name. It's not perfect but it's very close. As a Brit he does sound to me just like an American putting on a pretty good BBC accent. Geordie isn't considered funny the way Yorkshire is, but rather guttural. At least with Melisandre the Red Lady (Dutch-born Carice van Houten), there's a reason for her to have an exotic accent: she's from far-off Asshai. I've worked in a few call centres and in my capacity I've had to speak to people all over the country. This is a place to enjoy and discuss the HBO series, book series ASOIAF, and GRRM works in general. ©2021 Nor the lyrical style of their long-time enemies in Lancashire, who often sound suspiciously cheery. Liam Cunningham: George R.R. Who talks this way: Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon, Robb Stark, Jon Snow, Theon Greyjoy, Bronn, Lyanna Mormont, all of the Northern lords, Mance Rayder and all of the wildlings. He has a Dublin accent IRL. Geordie has spread itself like a comfortable wooly blanket across the former coal-mining counties to the north (Northumberland) and south (Durham, where this writer was raised). There's also an accent called Mackem, from the nearby rival city of Sunderland; it sounds just like Geordie to non-speakers, but my part-Mackem wife would beat me up if I didn't at least mention it. ), Season 5 secrets, his Geordie accent, and working with Dermot! I always presumed he was a Geordie, He does a convincing accent! Hunger – Liam Cunningham. It's also generally considered a 'working class' accent and Davos is supposed to be common man, a salt of the earth type. But our beloved Jaime Lannister still betrays his Danish origins: you can take the boy out of Rudkøbing, but you can't take the Rudkøbing out of the boy. And even Turner had trouble with the proper pronunciation of "butt." To be fair, though, considering Liam Cunningham is Irish, it is very impressive he can pull off such a convincing Geordie accent. It simply doesn't get more Yorkshire than that. Davos in the show speaks with a "Geordie" accent - a very specific accent from the very northeast corner of England, on the border with Scotland. No, Yorkshire is an accent full of grit and quiet determination, which is what makes it perfect for the Starks. That's why it didn't sound at all false to Brits that the Stark family accents would be a mixture of Yorkshire and posh. This description is not only wrong, it is laughably imprecise. Who talks this way: Catelyn, Sansa, Arya and Bran Stark; Cersei, Joffrey and … http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192377/ No, there's a single word Brits will reach for first when describing this accent: it's posh. Who talks this way: Lord Jon 'Greatjon' Umber. SEE ALSO: This Korean man's instructional video on 'Game of Thrones' accents is glorious. The accent now stands for unshakeable morality and doomed heroism, which is pretty much the slot Yorkshire would hope to occupy in the cultural consciousness of the world. I ask because I'm a Geordie. Will Ser Davos of … It is a safe place regardless of where you are in the story. I'm not sure why though, since Liam Cunningham is Irish, and the character is supposed to be from King's Landing. Whereas everyone in this category is putting on an accent that sounds vaguely Mediterranean — sort of Spanish or Italian or Greek or North African, but not quite any of them. That's exactly what happened to both of my parents; they passed it on to me, which is why I don't speak Geordie. But nobody else in Westeros — not even fellow Flea Bottom resident Gendry — speaks like him. The working-class accent of Britain's largest city, which is generally known as cockney, gets surprisingly short shrift in the show. Liam Cunningham speaks with what sounds like a Geordie accent but he's from Ireland. (I'm Scottish). The gargling rage! At least on the heroic side of the ledger there's Syrio Forel, the "dancing master" who first taught Arya how to use a sword and may or may not have died saving her. Don't try Yorkshire accents at home, kids. The showrunners did try their best to match northern English accents to northmen (with the notable exception of the Boltons) but there's only so much we can expect of them I guess, at the end of the day they know that it's only the UK & Ireland market out of all their global viewers, who will pick up on these little inconsistencies, so they don't mind one or two. (How to tell if someone is from the North or South of England: Ask them to say the word "bath." Yeah, well I'm from here. “Liam Cunningham has a very thick Irish accent. It was me, I should have said ''Scottish accents'' admittedly. Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner revealed that recently by playing their favorite Game of Thrones game on Carpool Karaoke — imitating Sean Bean, the show's ur-Yorkshireman. One of the comments said something like "or a Scottish accent" which isn't an accent. www.factfiend.com/game-thrones-cast-people-according-accents Redditors unable to follow the [sub's rules](http://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/w/posting_policy) are banned. We use cookies on our websites for a number of purposes, including analytics and performance, functionality and advertising. Liam Cunningham, far right, who plays Davos Seaworth, in a scene from Game of Thrones. All the swarthy-looking characters — the Dornish, the people of Slaver's Bay and Qarth, the token black pirate (Salladhor Saan, who is still criminally under-utilized in the show) — have been given the same accent that has been used for the better part of a century to signal untrustworthiness or villainy in movies. Yorkshire accents are used by Game of Thrones' greatest heroes (the Starks, the Snow). Maybe the Onion Knight picked it up on one of his smuggling trips to some mysterious Geordie island? Yet, a fan favorite still remains in the form of Liam Cunningham, who may have misled you with the Newcastle Geordie accent he has nailed for the show. As a Geordie I always thought he did too, but if you hear Liam Cunningham speak in interviews etc, it's actually his natural Dublin accent. It's possibly class-based. And so, in a sense, no matter what happens in Season 8, Lord Jon Umber's accent has already won the Game of Thrones. That fact in itself suggests an aversion to pretentiousness, which is about as Yorkshire a trait as it gets. Posts outside the content scope are removed. By Season 4, however he has slipped into something that sounds sort of like a Welsh accent. He doesn't sound like he's from Newcastle. ... Geordie accent stumps Spanish Game of . It usually signals that the character is an asshole who is getting in the way of one of our main characters and is very likely to be run through with a sword or bashed with a hammer (for example, the King's Landing guards who accosted Gendry on his way out of the city in Season 7). Cookie policy Fleming notes that Liam Cunningham (Davos) “has a very thick Irish accent,” and he is “one of the only people on the show who puts on a Geordie accent…which is from Newcastle … It is very consistent. L'acteur Liam Cunningham en dit plus sur ses enjeux. There is also nowt in t' world as funny as British people from outside Yorkshire imitating a Yorkshire accent, because anything non-serious spoken with that stone-faced gravitas is hilarious. Liam Cunningham was born in Dublin, Ireland, though you wouldn't be able to tell from the Geordie accent he does while playing Davos. Watch his scenes in Season 1 and he appears to be doing a bad London accent. Northern lad and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott demonstrated this best in 1973 when he directed what is consistently voted Britain's favorite ad, despite the fact that its Yorkshire voiceover seems weirdly mangled. Most of this is down to Liam Cunningham's performance and the very wise decision to give him a Geordie accent. He has an Irish accent and just puts the geordie accent on for the show. Plus there are already far too many Americans who automatically reach for a bad cockney accent whenever they're trying to imitate the British; it's about time they were made aware of all the other working-class British variations out there. Nor does "the Queen's English," since the Royal Family has an extreme aristocratic accent all their own. Or maybe it's half English, half Irish. Davos Seaworth, played by Irishman Liam Cunningham, has a terrific Geordie accent that no one else on Westeros seems to have. They did the same thing on the show with Karl Tanner having a Mancunian accent despite being from King's Landing. In this case, it's Clive Mantle (a public school boy and Cambridge chorister) playing Lord Jon Umber, a Northern lord who stands up to Robb Stark at the end of Season 1 and has his fingers bitten off by Robb's direwolf for his trouble. To save the blushes of less qualified imitators, it's also important to call out which other accents are fake, and which characters' colloquial perambulations have wandered all over the shop (Tyrion and Littlefinger, we're looking at you). Never mind that the two characters technically hailed from two kingdoms that were thousands of miles apart in Westeros. You will often see American news outlets describe the main Game of Thrones accent as "Northern English." If they use a short "a" sound, the way Americans do, they're from the North, regardless of how posh they sound otherwise; a long "ahhh" signals they're from the South.). One thing I find odd. So you could lump everyone into the previous category and this one together under the heading of "foreign," which in itself would be a very British thing to do. Ser Davos. I'm no expert but I can narrow down a lot of accents to locality, some to the specific city. But there is a difference, albeit a slight one: the German-Dutch-Danish actors all actually talk that way off screen. He deploys a Geordie accent to portray former smuggler Davos Seaworth, but Cunningham used his normal Irish brogue to … This is a long-running, hugely popular BBC soap opera about the east end of London, home of bruisers and gangsters who dispense rough justice — perfect for Stannis. The people who speak it are called Yorkshiremen or women. Most British actors dare not try it, because if you get it even slightly wrong it sounds embarrassingly awful and it's not even funny. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe. He sounds like he's maybe from one of the satellite towns, I wouldn't like to say which. But we're willing to bet the show's sounds will stick in your brain for a lot longer. Fun fact: Britain is the only country in the world with a nationwide higher education accent. The visuals of Game of Thrones may be fading from your memory now that Season 7 is in the rear-view mirror (also now that Season 8 isn't likely to hit until early 2019). (I once had to tell the great John Cleese that his Geordie accent sounded Scottish, and I still haven't recovered.). But the most important thing you need to know is this: there is nowt [nothing] as full of craggy Northern gravitas as a Yorkshire accent. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the gameofthrones community. Sean Bean (Lord Eddard Stark) is from Yorkshire's industrial center, Sheffield — home of The Full Monty, which also happened to be Addy's breakthrough movie.
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