On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:00 PM, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
This could be nightmarish in English - accents are widely variant and in Britain are used as markers of social status to a ridiculous degree. This is of course highly politicised. I confidently predict ten or more sound files per word.
Yes, but only /mine/ will be correct. ;-)
Actually, cataloguing them as "RP", "RRP", "Brummie", "Ilkely", &c. would probably be beneficial for our article on said accents.
Swings and roundabouts. :-)
Yours,