Full of merder.
Posted on 10/05/2018 6:11:07 AM PDT by C19fan
Jodie Whittaker's home town of Huddersfield was renamed on an American talk show thanks to the 'valiant' efforts of a staffer in the captions department.
The Doctor Who star, 36, who was making her first appearance on Late Show with Stephen Colbert while promoting the new series, was asked by the host where in Britain she is from.
As she announced she was 'from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire', the subtitles popped up as 'Hoodezfield' - a gaffe that was quickly picked up by eagle-eyed viewers.
A picture of the moment has gone viral on Twitter, with many joking about the American interpretation of Jodie's Northern accent.
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Personally, Im turned off by and avoid all things British. Effem! They are not our friends at all. I cant even stomach Austin Powers anymore because he’s a Canadian portraying a Brit.
On the other hand, chyron and closed caption writers seem to be the most ignorant produce of the public school system.
You have to balance out your Jane Austen with plenty of Charles Dickens. I just watched the 1985 BBC Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger makes the Dr. Who actress sound like Henry Higgins.
Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins. Just you wait!
Stars in Dr Who - “The year that most of the former audience stopped watching” Or when Dr Who jumped the shark, Jodie Was There.
Who cares any more? - back to watching the 3rd doctor - too bad many of those shows are lost or unavailable.
If this were Billy C, Teddy K or Harvey W. the translation would have been Hootersville
My two sons have seen every Dr Who episode...and told me they won’t watch a single show with the new #MeToo “doctor”
There are tons of mistakes in the closed captioning subtitles. This is NOT a big deal.
Now Arfer!
LOL! That’s funny! And normally they drop the “H”.
I lived in South and East Yorkshire (near Hull...pronounced “’ull”).
I’ll give her a chance.
Not that I am expecting much.
Sean Pertwee? The zenith of UNIT and of the Brigadier?
Far too PC, Shark jumping for me. First the Master becomes a woman, then the lesbo ugly black female companion, now the Doctor is a woman. Not to mention the terrible scripts and acting of the Peter Capaldi era which seemed to set the stage for this unfortunate turn.
John Pertwee, the original 007 in real life, before anyone ever heard of 007
Since I’m half deaf I watch with closed captioning a lot and these types of mistakes are common.
Find a YouTube of motorcycle racer Guy Martin for a regional English accent that isn’t from a BBC Jane Austen piece.
Full of merder.
The world is your lobster, my son.
I miss the days of "standard British" pronunciation, in which actors were taught to speak a clear and concise "Queen's English"if they were going to be actors or news readers. Some of the British dialects one hears on their TV shows are too unintelligible. On most American shows, people don't use such extreme dialects.
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