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Robson

Posted by Colinmcallister on 27/8/2024, 11:06:00

For the past few weeks we have been watching Robson Green and his weekend away TV series.Very good to watch and he has taken me back to places I used visit as a much younger man but not only that, I get to hear that wonderful Geordie accent again after so many years.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Allan Campbell on 27/8/2024, 11:57:16, in reply to "Robson"

Watch every program if We can.

Yes seeing places long forgotten or places that we often visit.

Some views are annoying as you have seen them, been there but “Where are they”. Others I want to go there on that road but where the devil is it?

Often get the maps out and try to find various places. There’s one seemingly long road but you can never see a broader view to place it.

Most are very good but there is the occasional “boring” one or maddening one where you cannot find the location.

Anyway a nice little earner for his and crew.

Allan C.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Mac C on 27/8/2024, 11:58:47, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

I find Green a bit of a pain. Up his own I'm afraid.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Norman on 27/8/2024, 12:16:13, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

i agree with Mac.
Its nice to see the places but he's a 'right drama queen', waay over the top.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Liz Johnston on 27/8/2024, 14:31:45, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Must say I have to agree with the last to comments.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Sheila on 27/8/2024, 14:45:21, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Well I didn’t like to say, as you know being Geordie and perhaps offending someone, but he is quite arrogant. I did like him in Grandchester..

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Brian on 27/8/2024, 15:25:15, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

His accent is weird trying not to be Geordie, nobody else in the North East has that accent. He is full of himself.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Sheila on 27/8/2024, 15:48:33, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Brian, through the years, I think the only way the Geordie accent disappears, is if you have elocution classes. My daughter , a great mimic does Liverpool and Birmingham to perfection.. Great doing Lord Cunningham as posh Geordie. He is worse than Robson Green. In his defence, we all have to tone it down to make ourselves understood. Darn Sarff!

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Brian on 27/8/2024, 16:57:56, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

My Aunt moved to London when she was in her early 20s, she married a proper cockney, we thought she sounded cockney and her neighbours thought she sounded Geordie. Robson Greens elocution teacher should give him his money back.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Sheila on 27/8/2024, 17:36:26, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

I think you might be right Brian. Many years ago I was asked by two builders from London, directions to an Avenue. As soon as I stared speaking he laughed and said I sounded just like his Mum when she had visited her relatives on Tyneside. He said she has lived in London 55 years and when she came home after visiting Tyneside they couldn’t understand her. I asked if they could understand me, yes they said I sound like a posh Geordie. I was mortified 😀 not true at all.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Liz Dance on 27/8/2024, 19:27:44, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

I moved away from Bill Quay in November 1970, having lived in London, to begin with i flated with Aussies and New Zealanders. Many, many times now I am asked if I am from South Africa, I am never taken for a Geordie, I think I might have picked up a bit of the Aussie and New Zealand accents!!!

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Sheila on 28/8/2024, 8:27:44, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Liz, When we first moved to Somerset, lots of people thought I was Welsh.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Carol in hampshire on 28/8/2024, 8:42:04, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Sheila the same happened to me, we were on holiday and a welshman asked me what part of Wales i was from

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Ged on 28/8/2024, 9:25:58, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

There's nowt worse than a Geordie trying to talk posh, there's quite a few appear on our screens & Robson Green is one of them.

Carol the Geordie dialect

Posted by Allan Campbell on 28/8/2024, 10:50:38, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Well that’s not surprising as loads of Welsh in Hebburn due to the Chemical works just like Scots due to Leslie’s yard.

My Great Grandparents were from Swansea and Port Talbot area and they both spoke Welsh until they had to speak English for work and then as the 7 children grew up more so.

Geordie is a mixture of at least 4 language's and varied according to where you lived or your family had lived.

I’ve found when away in France meeting English folk they know that I’m from the NE but where about they ask.

There was so many variations in the way people talked when I was young. Mums sister moved to Grangetown and then back after some years her dialect had changed.

In about 1963 I went to Wales with the Senior Scouts.

They mixed us all up and in the patrol that I was in there was me a Geordie, a Cockney, 2 from Oxford and 2 German lads.

At the end of 2 weeks we talked a mixed version of English that all understood. It was remarked on when I got home and it took some months to revert back to something like before.

Geordie dialect will have changed over the years as people moved around. It always varied going from the West of Newcastle down to the Tyne entrance.

Probably the biggest changes were due to the Armstrong works in Scotswood and Elswick areas.

We have lived in the Harrogate area for 50 years and lost a lot of our accent but it’s still there and when we spend a few weeks with family from Hebburn a lot comes back.

Not thought about it before but the family that we spend a lot of time with talk a slightly different accent to us as they are from a different part of Hebburn.

Allan C.

Re: Carol the Geordie dialect

Posted by John Shearer on 28/8/2024, 11:24:58, in reply to "Carol the Geordie dialect "

Hebburn people always had a soft accent I'm pleased to say.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Sheila on 28/8/2024, 11:40:27, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Carol, it amazing how many people have never heard a North East, accent, the further you go down the country.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Colin Thompson on 28/8/2024, 13:24:37, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

I find it strange that a young guy from the north east who does no harm and has made a bit of money ends up being slated by the very people who should be proud of him - - it's sad!!

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Keith on 28/8/2024, 13:30:23, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

I agree Colin. Never bothered me, he's done alright for himself and still lives in the North East.Sting has lost his accent completely but I'm sure like Robson Green that's due to the career paths they have taken.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Maria Ratheram on 28/8/2024, 13:32:21, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Yes agree so many people have spoken well of him when he did the walks program .Grandchester we enjoyed his acting was good nobody is perfect.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Liz Dance on 28/8/2024, 14:03:05, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

Have only ever watched him in Soldier, Soldier, I enjoyed the series he was just part of it, have never seen him in anything else, so can’t comment further.

Re: Robson Green

Posted by Maria Ratheram on 28/8/2024, 15:09:30, in reply to "Re: Robson Green"

How strange just now flicking through TV channels drama channel 20 soldier soldier .Have not seen watching now .