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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The use of regional accents is a reaction against this. It was seen as snobby and elitist to exclude people who couldn’t speak in received pronouniciation English, so they did a quota of regional accents just like they do with women and minorities.
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