Oh, cool! I'm really glad they're working on archiving examples of all these... it's such a neat aspect of history and culture. How did your talk go? Did the class enjoy it?
Yea, I can see how that would be annoying... but then, how many people outside of England ever hear any accent other than RP, even on British TV? (Is "RP" even the correct term for BBC English?)
I got interested when I started reading the Herriot books, because of the way he described Yorkshire accents.
It's funny, in the 30s, when people first started hunting out dialects in the US, they found that on some remote islands on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, they were still speaking Elizabethan English... :)
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Date: 2008-06-09 03:52 pm (UTC)Man, you WERE bored. :)
Oh, cool! I'm really glad they're working on archiving examples of all these... it's such a neat aspect of history and culture. How did your talk go? Did the class enjoy it?
Yea, I can see how that would be annoying... but then, how many people outside of England ever hear any accent other than RP, even on British TV? (Is "RP" even the correct term for BBC English?)
I got interested when I started reading the Herriot books, because of the way he described Yorkshire accents.
It's funny, in the 30s, when people first started hunting out dialects in the US, they found that on some remote islands on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, they were still speaking Elizabethan English... :)