Useful site...

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Courtesy of sharpiefan and snakey, Teach Yourself the Devon Dialect. Basically, it's a series of lessons in how to sound Devonian. I just spent WAAAY, WAAAY too much time messing around here.

There's also the the BBC's Voices project, which catalogs regional dialects and accents around Britain. Very, very cool!

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The way the Queen speaks... I thought I'd read someplace that that's a descendant of the affectations of the 18th century Devonshire house set?

I just got _Pies and Prejudice_, though I haven't had a chance to read it. Thanks for the rec! :)

"in Frasier, when Daphne and her brother had accents from different ends of England, because some producer seemed to have the idea that all working-class English people are Cockneys."

Believe me, that drove a lot of Americans nuts, too. :)

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The way the Queen speaks... I thought I'd read someplace that that's a descendant of the affectations of the 18th century Devonshire house set?

I'd never read that, but... WELL, the Duchess Georgiana was standing in place of a queen for setting fashions at the time (because nobody liked the queen much and the queen spoke mostly German anyway), I THINK that she did come from the south-west. HMMMMMMMM....... (don't tell me we still put up with accent-prejudice because of that bloody adulterous-compulsive-gambling-clothes-horse...)

I just got _Pies and Prejudice_, though I haven't had a chance to read it. Thanks for the rec! :)

*bounces* You like?

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I'll have to look it up... I do remember reading that it got imitated like CRAZY, and, from her biography says, sounds enormously dorky.

I did! It's a very interesting book... :)

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(And I always did feel a bit sorry for Caroline of Brunswick.. I mean, it sounds like she had some serious issues, but the Prince Regent was kind of an asshole, too..)