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  • Mr. Cox ain't a Mancunian tyre salesman

    I suppose I should really go tell it to Timothy M. O'Brien over at O'Reilly Media, but here I am right now; every time Mr. O'Brien transcribes ''white walls'' in the snippet of that quite fascinating interview you quote, Mr. Cox is most certainly actually saying ''white dwarfs'', only in an accent Americans find unintelligible (think of ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by the Phantom Transcriber on June 28, 2008

  • Accent Compliments....

    ''praising the English of someone who speaks with an accent is a harmless compliment'' Yes- I always make a habit of praising Americans who I can usually understand, despite their unusual accent. Unfortunately they often lack manners, and do not always take it as the harmless compliment that I intended.
    Posted to Dear Prudence by jyetman on January 24, 2008

  • accents

    You say, ''praising the English of someone who speaks with an accent is a harmless compliment''. Everybody speaks with an accent; native speakers of English are not restricted to the USA (where, as elsewhere, the English accent changes every few miles). English is spoken in many different ways. Why, those unaccustomed to ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by voxpop on January 24, 2008

  • Boston Accents

    What about the most-horrific attempt ever at a Boston accent? I'm speaking of Rob Morrow's astonishingly bad accent in ''Quiz Show''! When some group recently (within the last couple of years) picked Sean Connery's Chicago accent from ''The Untouchables'' as the worst ever, I can only assume that they had blocked Morrow's accent from their ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Rob1268 on October 23, 2007

  • Re: Her accent isn't that strong to begin with

    Where do Brits think he's from? (These days I'm often taken for a Scot in Britain.)
    Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by JuneThomas on September 24, 2007

  • Re: Her accent isn't that strong to begin with

    I'm from Manchester (well, a Lancashire-dialect-speaking village pretty close to Manchester). Love that I've been promoted a couple of classes. My working-class cred is unassailable! I've been in the States for 25 years or so--I think that's why my accent's so wacky. June
    Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by JuneThomas on September 23, 2007

  • ACCENTS - AMERICAN & OTHERWISE

    Okay. So what sort of accent does John Barrowman have?
    Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by Captain Bill on September 23, 2007