Ha Ha - Cheryl Cole 'could need subtitles in US'

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Cheryl Cole could need subtitles for US audiences to understand her when she records the American version of The X Factor, it has been claimed.

A poll from London-based language firm Today Translation put the Newcastle-born singer as the celebrity fourth most in need of subtitling for those abroad, behind Liverpudlian footballer Wayne Rooney, his Glaswegian manager Alex Ferguson and fellow Scot Susan Boyle.

The survey of 226 linguists was conducted the day after it was reported that Cole had been hired for the US port of the reality talent contest. It has previously been claimed that Cole will retain her Geordie accent if she goes abroad.

MD of Today Translations Jurga Zilinskiene said: "We think that Americans will love Cheryl Cole as much as Brits do. But we know that even many Brits have trouble understanding Geordie accents.

"We also wanted to know whether our linguists thought that Cheryl Cole might need subtitles when she becomes a judge on the US version of The X Factor."

I can't believe the over hyped non talented miming idiot has the success she has, what a waste of space that air head is!

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Former Member

After reading that, I have decided that I like Cheryl Cole.

12/2/103:10 PM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

I still don't like her.

12/2/103:13 PM

Crispy ChristmasMember

She will be OK over there without subtitles. She will fit in with the "Helium filled /Southern Bubba accents " quite well.

12/2/103:17 PM

Mary SeacoleMember

Why man she talks proper English.

12/2/103:17 PM

PrometheusMember

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I can't believe the over hyped non talented miming idiot has the success she has, what a waste of space that air head is!

interesting you call her an idiot and an airhead when your main contribution to this site is 'hello everyone I am drunk again sorry heh heh'. I think we know who the idiot is here.

I don't have any problem at all understanding anything she says by the way, and no I'm not a geordie.

12/2/103:24 PM

Former Member

I love the Geordie accent.

12/2/103:29 PM

MrMincePieMember

Don't mind the accent... I always bloody fall for it when I ring up the bank and im speaking to a geordie woman, I go from pissed off dialing the numbers and then quite calm when putting the phone down after hearing the soft geordie voice

Mind you... some of the crap she comes out with on x factor just takes the piss.

"You absolutely smashed that"

Don't get me started on what she said about The Beatles either

12/2/103:36 PM

PrometheusMember

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Mind you... some of the crap she comes out with on x factor just takes the piss.

I couldn't agree more. The rest are just as bad though, particularly Louis who really is the personified enemy of human intellect.

12/2/103:40 PM

SazBombMember

12/2/103:51 PM

Garage JoeMember

I think the yanks have fallen for the Cowell scam, hook line and shrinker, it won't matter how Cheryl speaks and anyway we coped with shite like Bob Zimmerman and, in fact, country and western too.

12/2/104:09 PM

MrMincePieMember

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I think the yanks have fallen for the Cowell scam, hook line and shrinker

Well of course they have... they even fell for that Bieber kid.

12/2/104:11 PM

Mary SeacoleMember

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Thats why they do it

We can fox everyone with our love, pet and hinny, very ( Anglo Saxon)

12/2/104:12 PM

SazBombMember

awww I miss hinny

12/2/104:17 PM

Garage JoeMember

As a top righter ah feel glorious for anee Lerkal who gans the and brings wor back some poonds from a bunch er ................. (Etc etc man woman man pet lamb hinny)

12/2/104:19 PM

Mary SeacoleMember

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awww I miss hinny

12/2/104:19 PM

MrMincePieMember

12/2/104:20 PM

Mary SeacoleMember

Soccer am, even I divent understand them,

12/2/104:27 PM

ClumsycatMember

why waddya mean yas dinna understand us like pet?

12/3/1012:50 AM

CindsMember 10 yearsMemoriam

To be fair they said the same about Ant and Dec.

12/3/101:24 AM

Former Member

I don't understand the comment that Cheryl Cole will 'retain' her accent. surely if you have an accent of any kind, it's not something you switch on and off to suit the circumstances? You either have a particular accent or you don't

My accent never changes, no matter where I am or who I'm talking to.

12/3/102:05 AM

Garage JoeMember

"To be fair they said the same about Ant and Dec."

We didn't. We said, "Why don't yer **** off somewhere yer ******* baldy napper **** and little ******** and take yer carp tellybox prer-grems with yer!"
If I may say so.

12/3/102:44 AM

RiverRockMember

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This woman would make you want to pull your hair out

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Mind you... some of the crap she comes out with on x factor just takes the piss. "You absolutely smashed that"

Theres a FB grop called
'Cheryl Cole Hows about you thoroughly enjoy a new phrase' lol

12/3/102:46 AM

Soozy WooMember

My sister in law is from Whitley Bay Newcastle ................when I first met her I really and truly struggled to understand her as her accent was so thick.

When she married and moved further South (Lincolnshire) no one could understand her and she freely admits that she had to change the way she spoke. It really must have been uncomfortable and not at all easy. That was thirty years ago ..................however - when her family visit she reverts back in an instant - so funny to see but I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for her.

12/3/103:46 AM

SazBombMember

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I don't understand the comment that Cheryl Cole with 'retain' her accent. surely if you have an accent of any kind, it's not something you switch on and off to suit the circumstances? You either have a particular accent or you don't My accent never changes, no matter where I am or who I'm talking to.

Quite a lot of people lose their accent when the move to a different area... sometimes partially, sometimes fully. I don't think its a concious decision most of the time, but if you have a strong accent you do have to alter it so people can understand you - especially a Northern accent in the sarf

My accent is different when I'm talking to people at work/the south generally than when I'm talking to my parents/other Top Rightaz

Mind you, a lot of people do try to lose a regional accent cos they think it makes them sound better, or that they will be understood easier - Sting, I'm looking at you

12/3/103:46 AM

SazBombMember

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When she married and moved further South (Lincolnshire) no one could understand her and she freely admits that she had to change the way she spoke. It really must have been uncomfortable and not at all easy. That was thirty years ago ..................however - when her family visit she reverts back in an instant - so funny to see but I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for her.

Oh thats like me

I'm an escaped Top Righter living in London, I revert back to type instantly too when back in the homeland

12/3/103:48 AM

RiverRockMember

My Boyfriend is from a different are than me and they have a slightly different pronunciation of some words than me and I find that when I am with him I talk like him but when I am at home I don't (apart from the occasional word)

That annoys me when people slag Nadine Coyle, some people are more susceptible at picking up accents than other, theres plenty of celebs that it has happened to; John Barrowman, CZJ etc.

12/3/104:21 AM

Blizz'ardMember 10 years

Ah loove thah Sarah Millican.

Oh, and I speak in the accent of whoever I'm speaking with.
Without thinking, mind.

12/3/105:30 AM

ClumsycatMember

i too lived down south in london in the late 80`s... i had to modify my accent as they could not understand me..... even now when i am back up north i tend to speak a tad slower

12/3/105:38 AM

SazBombMember

Ah cannit use dialect either Clumsy

I remember the first time I said the snow was lying outside... they looked at me like I was mental

12/3/105:59 AM

RiverRockMember

I think North East/Scottish and Northern Ireland dialect are quite similar.

12/3/106:00 AM

SazBombMember

I've had at least 3 people ask if I'm Irish since moving here

12/3/107:13 AM

Former Member

Reference: Poolie

I can't believe the over hyped non talented miming idiot has the success she has, what a waste of space that air head is!

Wouldn't know an onion from a shallot.

Smashed it lol.

12/3/107:50 AM

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