I Reckon That . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . it's almost worth me getting Netflix just to hear an actor finally getting the Suffolk accent right!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-55669002

9 out of 10 actors who attempt a Suffolk accent end up speaking with a Cornish one (or something roughly akin to it, at least). The other 10% do manage to get a bit closer though - with a Norfolk accent (which is the ultimate insult to people from this fair county!)

;-)

[shoota]

Where is Suffolk?
Is it in Wales?

[Rosie29]

Oh B - how I agree. Radio plays are the worst. It seems any Worzel Gummidge talk will do.

[Buenchico]

It's south of the border controls at Diss, Shoota and east of the barricades at Newmarket. (We refuse to accept that we're anywhere near to Essex).

;-)

[Patsy33]

We used to have an elderly man that lived near us from Suffolk. Such a lovely chap. Loved the accent. He would often begin conversations with, "When I was in the Navy.... :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Sounds like Charlie has really put the seal of authenticity on this, sounds marvellous.

[Buenchico]

Radio plays seem to be getting just a little bit better, Rosie29. At least they seem to have stopped using women to play young boys. (I can't be the only person who finds the voice of a woman in her 20s or 30s is absolutely nothing like the voice of a 10-year-old boy but, up until recently, radio producers clearly didn't see it that way!)

[Buenchico]

Have you been watching too many episodes of Only Fools and Horses, Patsy ;-)

When I was younger Mamya, I used to loathe the Suffolk accent. These days I love it ;-)

[Patsy33]

Haha...I know, I always thought of Uncle Albert, from Only Fools n Horses!

[Atheist]

A'll tell the what! Tha'll never gerra wiggin accent ont telly!

[Buenchico]

Some things are just impossible, Atheist ;-)

[Sunk]

It would be much simpler just to change the script and rewrite the Suffolkian as a Rastafarian (possibly on holiday). It would tick a diversity box, and avoid the need for subtitles.

[Peter Pedant]

// 9 out of 10 actors who attempt a Suffolk accent end up speaking with a Cornish one//

no it is standard mummerzet

Hardy wivvart da Darzet accents gets me - Bathsheba ( which they called Barfshebber) in Far from the madding crowd
should have been Not far from Mile End....

and then when she said - oh Mr Oak, in Hampshire, hurricans hardly happen.... I turned off

[Peter Pedant]

// just to change the script and rewrite the Suffolkian as a Rastafarian//

'Farian : an dees is where Keeng Edward was buried
onlooker - the monarch or the potato
2 onlooker - make mine wiv mayonnaise den

( part of scene outside St Edmondsbury cathedral )

[New Judge]

I have a friend born & bred in Lowestoft, Chris. He has a very pronounced Suffolk accent. You're right - totally unique and very hard to emulate. I'm pretty good at recognising accents from across England but, unique as it is, the Suffolk accent often gets me stumped. I can understand actors having trouble with it.

[Buenchico]

Suffolk people sometimes get accused of being Australian because of the rising inflections at the end of each phrase or sentence, NJ.

In Adelaide I got asked what part of Australia I was from several times by locals, who were amazed to find out that I was actually a Pom!

[Buenchico]

PP: You might be right that it's the Somerset accent that gets confused with the Suffolk one. To be honest, I get a bit confused between the various west country accents anyway!

[lady-janine]

Granddad was a Norfolk man and I lived with him for many years. Still got some inflections.
Thought I would try to learn Cornish at one time but couldn't understand teacher in English most of the time.
Strong accents can be difficult.

[roopower]

Having lived in foreign parts, mainly the Midlands, for years I have lost most of my Suffolk accent, sadly, except when I'm cross or excited or back 'home'. People often accused me of coming from
Somerset, most upsetting.

[roopower]

My dad had a very strong suffolk accent, I have cassettes of him and his friends having a mardle. Makes me miss him and Suffolk even more listening to him.

[Bobbisox1]

And Vera with her Geordie accent is awful too :0(