Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon): Gleeson was born in Cork, Ireland. This southern county in Ireland is know for having a high-pitched, slightly quavery sound.
In Sheffield, cases of initial "th" /ð/ become [d]. This pronunciation has led to Sheffielders being given the nickname "dee dahs" (the local forms of "thee" and "thou"/"tha"). /ɡ, k/ realised as [d, t] before /l/. For example, clumsy becomes [tlʊmzɛ].
Over the past six-plus seasons, "Game of Thrones" has introduced fans to close to 200 characters. Nearly all of them speak with some variation of an English or Scottish accent, though there are a few exceptions.
The Mancunian accent is prominent in the locally-set TV series Shameless, The Street and The Royle Family. The character Jack Regan in the 1970s police drama The Sweeney (played by Longsight-born actor John Thaw) is a Mancunian with an accent heavily modified by years of living in London.
Dunster, who is nothing like Jamie in real life, discovered the character's Mancunian accent, which was not originally scripted, as he began to make Jamie his own. The regional dialect, akin to a strong Boston accent in the U.S., stuck.
It is rather difficult to describe, but generally, the people of Cheshire sound like Lancastrians, but without the throatiness. The accents are higher pitched, spoken more to the front of the mouth, more nasal and more clearly articulated. People from the Wirral sound vaguely Scouse.
Sansa and Arya grew up in the South, with people who had southern accents. They were young, so their accents had more chance to change. Jon grew up on the Wall, under Jeor Mormont who was from the North. He was also older, his accent had more chance to stay the same northern accent.
I'll talk about the actor's real life accent and the one they implement on the show. Tyrion's accent sounds like an American version of an upper-class English accent. No-one from the UK would be fooled, but it's a passable effort.
But if you listen hard, there are subtle shifts among the syllables. For instance, in Dublin, Ireland, it's "potato." St. Louis: "Puhtato." Florida: more of a "Pehtato." Amsterdam: "Puhtatah." Guersey, U.K.: "Pehtatoo." Darlington, U.K.: "Potate-oh," as if surprised.
In English, there is an apparent reluctance to refer directly to ourselves and this manifests in different forms from the 'upper class' use of 'one' to mean 'me' or 'I' to the more colloquial use of 'us' to mean 'me'.
The posh English accent, also known as Received Pronunciation (RP) or Queen's English, is an accent that has become synonymous with prestige and refined mannerisms. It is the standard accent used in British broadcasting and is often associated with the upper class, although it is not exclusively limited to them.
Does anyone else find it weird that Stannis and Robert have Northern English accents but Renly has a Southern English accent (as does Robert Arryn, who also grew up in the Vale like Robert Baratheon for the latter stage of his teenage years).
Arya Stark has a slight West Country accent. Catelyn Stark speaks with a slight southern English accent. King Robert Baratheon has a northern accent. Some of the knights in the Vale speak with Welsh accents.
But anyway, responding to OP's question it's just a mistake on the part of the actors. Both pronunciations have been used quite widely in the show, not just by Sansa.
“So all the people from Winterfell speak with a northern accent; something a little bit closer to Manchester or up in that belt between Manchester and Scotland.” Think Ned Stark or Jon Snow. That contrasts nicely with the Lannisters, all of whom employ 'Received Pronunciation' (RP), the fancy southern British accent.
Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister): Headey was born on the British island territory of Bermuda but grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England. However, she does not have a typical Yorkshire or even northern accent. She sounds as though she grew up in a middle class home in southern England.
Did anyone in Game of Thrones have an American accent?
Are there any Game of Thrones characters who speak with an American accent? Is it not a sort of plot hole or logic flaw that 95% of them, from all those disparate lands, have British accents? No, no true American accents in GOT, though a few Americanisms (like gotten) do creep in.
British, Australian, and Irish accents are the top 3 foreign accents people find to be most attractive. When it comes to attraction, 80% of people feel that accents make someone more attractive, with 77% saying someone's accent was what attracted them to a person.
For example, in the L*+H pitch accent the L target is aligned with the stressed syllable, and it is followed by a trailing H target. This model of pitch accent structure differs from that of the British School, which described pitch accents in terms of 'configurations' like rising or falling tones.
