On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:00 PM, David Gerard <fun(a)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,
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