Talk:Book:The Wee Free Men/Annotations

Would anybody agree that the turn of phrase used by William The Gonnagle is very similar to the Scottish actor Gordon Jackson, known particularly from the eighties tv series Upstairs Downstairs. TheMightyLiam

That's an interesting point. I got as far as working out that more than one Scottish regional accent is being used here - poss. to reinforce the point that there are different clans of Feegle which while all Feegle (ie, Scottish)have identifiable differences of voice and mannerism and local custom. William the Gonnagle seems to be a Highlander, perhaps, thrown in among "Glaswegians", when he accompanied his sister to the Chalk to be its Kelda? He certainly has Gordon Jackson's butler about him - an attitude of conditional deference to his employers was a part of the role in U-D, after all. He certainly displays the same conditional deference, together with frank open talk, to Tiffany, when she makes abrupt demands of him and omits the most magic of magic words ("please").

And don't forget Gordon Jackson's other major British TV role... as the Director of a macho SAS-like police squad in The Professionals. A little of this comes out too, when directing the Feegle to tackle various perils....--AgProv 00:10, 3 September 2007 (CEST)