2. Northerners
• Northerners, with their jolly, happy-go-lucky attitudes, proper water and brass
bands are stereotypically more approachable and better at making mashed
potato than their southern peers.
• Loud, sociable, not afraid to say what they want and no-nonsense attitude
• Friendly and more approachable than southerners
• Language changes, don’t say all words – slang
• Builders, hard workers, uneducated and gossip a lot
• Working class, confrontational – Jeremy Kyle
• Dialogue/Dialect: Pronunciation of words is awful
• Clothing/Costume: They’re clothing is terrible and old fashioned
• Location/Setting: Is quiet and away from everyone else (countryside)
• Make up:
• Class/Status: Not very wealthy
3. Southerners
• Class/Status: Rich and quite wealthy
• Clothing/Costume: Well dressed with up to date clothing and formal clothing
• Make up: More than northerners due to the fact they can afford it, a lot of
foundation for women
• Dialogue/Dialect: Pronunciation is good and vocabulary is widened
• Location/Setting: Noisy place, buildings and night life is lively
• Healthy living and a good lifestyle
• Mother’s boy – looked after by family, not independent
• Middle class, known as ‘southern twats’
• Non confrontation – not on Jeremy Kyle Show
4. Scousers
• Usually rich, glamorous, own big properties and have
expensive lifestyles
• Hard working environment
• Class/Status: Rich and wealthy
• Location/Setting: Surrounded by big houses and nice buildings
• Clothing/Costume: Own distinctive style which is unique and
fashionable
• Dialogue/Dialect: Unintelligent talking and vocabulary is poor
• Make Up: A lot of make up with fake eyelashes and big hair –
given a ‘fake’ look
5. Geordies
• Make Up: Caked up in make up, making themselves look less
appealing
• Clothing/Costume: Up to date with fashion but go for an
informal look rather formal
• Class/Status: Rich and wealthy in most areas with good paid
jobs
• Setting/Location: Noisy areas, trendy buildings with a football
stadium signifying its expense within the town
• Dialogue/Dialect: Chavy language, informal talk
6. Scottish People
• Tough, masculine, violent, stingy
• Independence from England – history: own money but is the same is pounds
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Council house
Weather is bad, rain
Big drinkers
Working class – fighting and aggressive
Uneducated kids
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Gavin & Stacey:
Get on with things, take what they’re given
Run down areas – poor – countryside
Commonly known as ‘sheep shaggers’
Low status, poor economically – uneducated
Sexualised
All men’s choir
Working class – mining tradition
8. Mancs
• Accent changed the way people talk from other regions e.g. through
Coronation Street and bands like Oasis
• Dialogue/Dialect: They pronounce vowels differently, words ending in
‘er’, are sounded different. Developed from old Lancastrian dialects.
Chavy language, informal and slang words used.
• Quite a rough and scratty area with a lot of gun crime
• Clothing: Tacky clothes despite the big shopping centre
• Make up: Wannabe WAG’s, a lot of fake people (especially woman) so
loads of make up worn
• Class/Status: Not very rich, low and working class mainly
• Location/Setting: Rough, council estates, not many nice areas. A lot of
poverty
9. Brummies
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sometimes people are mistaken by others for speaking like Brummies. Strong accent
and unintelligent.
Location/Setting: Poor area, not very nice looking and city is council estate. Rich
areas with big houses on the outside of city, poor, estate areas in the city
Class/Status: Have a rich and poor side, majority is poor
History: Used to be a lot of factories where rich people used to be around but in
modern day, it has disappeared and now it has gone to a poor area
A lot of ethnic minority; Asians and Blacks. They talk different, have their own way
of communicating i.e. slang
Make up: A lot of make up, given a trampy look with street style swag
Clothing/Costume: Trampy look within the city and a lot of street style clothing but
have their class shown too
By Any Means is a TV
Drama based in
Birmingham
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Uneducated – pikeys (travellers) – cash in hand jobs which aren’t done properly
Hard to understand with their accent
Chavy and trampy look – mise en scene
Caravan homes
Travel on bikes – poor economy
No respect for each other – always swearing and rude
• Smokers and alcoholics
• Dressed formally but still uneducated – kid shaved but still had the cream on his
face – stupidity
• Slow witted
• Grumpy – males
• Main religion is Catholic
