Connery's shpeech impediment

Napoleon Plural

I suppose this is the elephant in the room in some respects. Every Connery impersonation hash that sh sound to it - but he didn't always talk like that. The 'shplendid' thing comes from NSNA, when he's talking to the Shrublands gal. Is that something he acquired with age? I noticed BBC newsreader Anna Ford had something similar going once she got in her 50s...

s96024

I think it's just an exageration on his own accent that he's picked up over time.

Alex

Boris Karloff had a lisp, Kenneth Williams had flaring nostrils, James Coburn and Robert Wagner sounded like they had recently eaten plastic. Clint squints, Pierce smirks, Prince dubs women, and Connery, well he is Connery.

darenhat

Maybe it has something to do with dentures. ?:)

John Drake

Originally big Sean was probably trying to do what a lot of Scots do when they're down amongst the English, and that is talk in a more refined version of their own accent so that people can understand them.

youknowmyname

Probably, but is it the case that the Poms have a more refined accent? ) j/k

Barbel

darenhat wrote:

Maybe it has something to do with dentures. ?:)

Yup, that's the one. It increashesh... er, increases with his age; the slight "sh" was always there but becomes more noticeable later. It's not a Scottishism- nobody talks exactly like that around here!- but I've never had the patience to work out at which point the "sh" becomes most prominent.