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| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5986 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 9 of 27 08 July 2011 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Another British-sounding accent is the old upper-crust New England accent, which is thankfully almost non-existent today. William F. Buckley is the archetype for this accent in my mind, but a lot of academics and Ivy Leaguers from his era also had it.
I'm pretty sure that Niles and Frasier imitated this accent specifically to reference that elitism from the 50's and 60's. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 10 of 27 15 July 2011 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's an example of an accent sometimes referred to as "Mid-Atlantic".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid- Atlantic_English During the post-WW2 "Red Scare" in the USA, the accent was sometimes attacked as it was said to be "un-American". 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChristianVlcek Bilingual Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5851 days ago 131 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Slovak*, Ukrainian, Irish, German, Russian | Message 11 of 27 17 July 2011 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hm when I was growing up (mostly in Canada) my dad always made me pronunciate and enunciate all the letters in English words quite precisely. I don't skip over vowels, mix stuff together, use glottal stops or any of that. But from my dad's Irish influence there's a particular rhythm to how I speak. I think mainly owing to these habits, I've developed a peculiar accent. Canadians/Americans usually call it a soft English/Irish/snobbish accent, and the English usually call it a posh Irish-American accent. Strange, huh? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5858 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 12 of 27 17 July 2011 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
Trailer Park Boys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GGL0qGk5lA 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5228 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 13 of 27 18 July 2011 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yep. What's stranger, I have no cognizance of this supposed accent of mine. I sound perfectly normal to myself, and if no one had told me otherwise, I would've assumed I speak with precisely same accent as my peers. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 14 of 27 18 July 2011 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Is this the kind of English that Charles Winchester III spoke in the MASH TV series? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| gambi Newbie New Zealand Joined 5109 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English Studies: Indonesian, Burmese | Message 15 of 27 22 July 2011 at 10:57am | IP Logged | |||||
Mr Burns from the Simpsons also has this accent, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5986 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 16 of 27 22 July 2011 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
Precisely. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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