What type of English does Ron Weasley speak?

Diolch yn fawr, Saesnig

Thank you very much, Saesnig

"English" English usage...probably the Ron type: interesting article in a newspaper I glanced through during tea break just a while back about the new Concise Oxford Dictionary. It lists so many words which people confuse with each other and surprisingly top of this list is confusion between "diffuse" and "defuse". Followed by "peddle" and "pedal".

There are 2,000 new words many of which are used mostly in the UK, so any learners of our language mixing with people here will no doubt pick them up if they hang around us long enough. I think particularly of Pawel here.

eg

Herbert = an undistinguished or foolish man as in "a bunch of spotty herberts".

Mentalist = a mad or eccentric person (do you know any? :-)

Va-va-vroom = exciting, vigorous or sexually attractive (do you know any? :-)

I am so amused by the "Northern England" mp3.

"Back in Scunthorpe, I used to collect Cactii...."

Ginny:

Estuary is most definitely spreading everywhere even getting a bit of a hold in Scotland too in some respects but mainly in the dropping of Ts. I'm doing it myself when talking with friends...maybe I picked it up at uni mixing with people from all over the place.

Listening to the accents on that site is great! :-)

I'm just wondering... Does Emma Watson speak proper "English English"? What do you think?

Who's Emma Watson?

It's Hermione Granger.

Well, she wishes she spoke RP. It is a good enough attempt, but it is really annoying.

Not that I am ten and watch Harry Potter or anything.

So people who watch Harry Potter are to be aged 10 or under?
Pretty logical.

It is a children's film/book series.