Wikipedia- Scouse (pronounced /ˈskaʊs/) is the accent and dialect of English found in the city of Liverpooland also in some adjoining urban areas of Merseyside. This is particularly strong within areas of neighbouring boroughs of south Sefton, Knowsley and Wirral
The Scouse accent is highly distinctive, and sounds wholly different from some of the accents used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and Lancashire. Even within Merseyside itself, accents in St Helens and Southport, for example, are by contrast different and have more commonalities with Lancastrian. Inhabitants of Liverpool are called Liverpudlians but are more often described by the colloquialism Scousers.[1] Some Scousers may refer to people from outside their region as "woollybacks".
Whitehouse created The Scousers. The usual scenario was that three brothers with tightly curled hair and moustaches would parade around in shell suits, flying off the handle at the slightest provocation. Things would be resolved by Ba (Barry), Te (Terry) or Ga (Gary) telling the others to “calm down, calm down.”
Joe McGann played one of The Scousers, Ba, for a while. He says the sketch was meant to be a skit on Brookside, but it wasn’t until after he left the programme that he realised it was compounding the Liverpudlian stereotype. There’s no doubt the image of the thieving Scouser has stuck. I'm from Liverpool, a born and bred scouser, the closest i got to being stereotyped is when going to the football, usually consisting of the opposition shouting stereotypical abuse at us...
...To be fair, it is usually answered with the same tactics, replying, focusing on their stereotype =P
People often are really stereotypical towards 'scousers', this is often due to jealousy =P haha.
The stereotypical scouser is said to be: Loud, threatening, aggressive, 'shell-suit wearing' thieves... etc... However, i insist anyone to go anywhere in the world and not find people who act in this way, obviously not wearing 'shell-suits'. Of-course there may be a selected few in Liverpool who fit this stereotype, usually the people who have had a poor upbringing.
There are many jokes about mocking the stereotypical scoser... My favorite one i heard recently is, 'What do you call a scouser in University???' ... 'The Cleaner!' ... Blatantly this 'fact' in this joke is wrong, as me and many scousers continue on to further education, all around the world. This joke was 'SHOCKINGLY' told by a mancunian. The mancunians are know for being Liverpool FCs arched rivals, usually a football rivalry consists of two teams in the same area, however LFC and MUFC have a ongoing rivalry starting a long time ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._and_Manchester_United_F.C._rivalry
Iv'e just noticed im going off the subject a bit haha, so im going to rap it up here. Stereotyping can not always be wrong, but in this case it is... 'Don't judge a book by its cover' =P
So next time you hear a 'scouse accent', 'calm down calm down' ... We're not always how you would imagine!!!
