{"id":213763,"date":"2014-04-29T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/29\/darkestelemental616-saxifraga-x-urbium\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T01:56:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T01:56:17","slug":"darkestelemental616-saxifraga-x-urbium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/29\/darkestelemental616-saxifraga-x-urbium\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

darkestelemental616<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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saxifraga-x-urbium<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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malcolm-f-tucker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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zabbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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dduane<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A tour of the British Isles in accents: for those who would be tempted to mention \u201cA British accent\u201d and leave it at that.<\/p>\n

\u2026Smart to remember, too, that all<\/em> these regions will have microregional variants. The Dublin accent referenced here, for example, is only one of at least five or six that I can identify, and I bet there are a lot more I\u2019ve never heard or can\u2019t tell from one another. Ditto for other regions in Ireland. The \u201cIrish accent\u201d as normally heard in US TV and film until quite recently has never been much more than an overstated, artficial \u201cDublin Stage\u201d accent.<\/p>\n

Equally, what most people in the US think of as \u201cthe British accent\u201d beloved of movie villains everywhere is usually the so-called Received Pronunciation or RP, a kind of by-blow of the BBC\u2019s refusal for a long time to allow its announcers to use anything but an approved version of the Home Counties \u201cposh\u201d accent. (This dialectic \u201cglass wall\u201d has finally started cracking in the last decade.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So cool.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

oi followers watch this<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

there\u2019s been all kinds of exciting polls & surveys about what people associate with each accent, and apparently people find geordies (newcastle accent) inherently trustworthy (REALLY, PEOPLE, AFTER THE ANT & DEC THING?) and scousers and cockneys inherently untrustworthy, which explain why most banking call centres are in the north east.<\/p>\n

also everyone thinks my native accent, the glorious west devonian, to be dumb as rocks\u2026and lo: why i don\u2019t have it any more<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is reminiscent of that audio overview of American accents that I can\u2019t find, and a very good reference. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Source:<\/span> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

darkestelemental616: saxifraga-x-urbium: malcolm-f-tucker: zabbers: dduane: A tour of the British Isles in accents: for those who would be tempted to mention \u201cA British accent\u201d and leave it at that. \u2026Smart to remember, too, that all these regions will have microregional variants. The Dublin accent referenced here, for example, is only one of at least five … <\/p>\n

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