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Best British accent.
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To those of you not fortunate enough to reside in the UK, this is an accurate snapshot of modern Britain & the latest pop sensation storming up the hit parade! :hatsoff:
Posh definitely. I would guess (as an American) that Richard Burton and Sir Laurence Olivier exhibit posh accents in most of their movie/theater works?
George Lazenby and Roger Moore played Posh versions of James Bond, right? Daniel Craig and Sean Connery played Bond with non-Posh accents, right? (Connory obviously Scottish and Craig as rural Liverpool?)
George Lazenby and Roger Moore played Posh versions of James Bond, right? Daniel Craig and Sean Connery played Bond with non-Posh accents, right? (Connory obviously Scottish and Craig as rural Liverpool?)
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I think in those days all actors were taught how to speak in the "proper way". I remember seeing an interview with Ian Mckellen who's from up north (I think), and he was saying that in those days regional accents weren't accepted on stage or in most acting schools so most had to morph their own voice into a very almost clichéd English accent that was "acceptable".
Hey, I'm just sayin':dunno: Wasn't he born in Liverpool?
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To be honest: the only representatives of true modern English are the Cheeky Girls.
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habo9
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Or Vicky Pollard also if I hear anymore stupid teenage white girls who talk with a Jamacian twang Im gonny scream
He's just laughing because Liverpool and rural don't sound right together. There are areas of Merseyside which could be described as rural, but Liverpool? It's like talking about the pastoral landscape that is the New York skyline.
I can't even remember what Daniel Craig's accent is like, which means it's probably Estuary. Connery's accent is definitely Scottish, though I doubt there was ever a Shcot who shpoke quite like him.
Northern Irish is hideous. Southern Irish accents are lovely on women, but they don't count as British, do they? I'm going for the sing-song of the Welsh Vaaalleys.
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The welsh accent. Charlotte Church :lovecoupl
I have a Liverpool accent and every day of my life here in the US I get asked if I am Irish. I am then often told that I don't sound English. It is quite something to fundamentally fail at being yourself but apparently I do it every day.
Tally-ho, pip-pip. It has to be posh. :thumbsup:
