Favourite accent?

[Bagpuss]

Yeah - I can't tell the difference between a Geordie and a Yorkshireman.

Why Haddaway and sh ite man

as spoken by many Yorkshire men

[up4it]

Northern, cos I speak it like it is don't tha' knowz!

[Bagpuss]

Northern, cos I speak it like it is don't tha' knowz!

All people from t'North have that accent, like all people from the South sound like Chas n Dave oi oi, up the apples and pears, guuuuuvnoooooor, rubber duck. There are no other accents outside of Scottyland or Walesland where they speak in a pixie accent.

Yours
An average well travelled member of CUK

[TimberWolf]

A few questions:

(i) What parts are associated with speaking in a plummy English accent?
(ii) What parts speak with the most proper pronunciation?
(iii) Are 'plummy English accent' and proper pronunciation one and the same and as pronounced in the OED, and how we should all speak?

Should we teach others how to speak proper like, as what it is given in the OED?

(E.g. it's Baaarth, not Bath)

[Lucy]

Yours
An average well travelled member of CUK

[cailin maith]

A few questions:

(i) What parts are associated with speaking in a plummy English accent?
(ii) What parts speak with the most proper pronunciation?
(iii) Are 'plummy English accent' and proper pronunciation one and the same and as pronounced in the OED, and how we should all speak?

Should we teach others how to speak proper like, as what it is given in the OED?

(E.g. it's Baaarth, not Bath)

Plummy English accent - like the shipping forecast - just like RH

[up4it]

It's a fact that Northern English is more like Olde English as it has changed least over the centuries!

So Northern English is therefore the only proper English!

So thaz better get thi' pronuncaition 'reet!

[VectraMan]

Anyone else noticed the sudden increase in TV presenters with Northern Ireland accents? I'm starting to think I should be saying "nigh" and "brine" instead of "now" and "brown".

[Churchill]

It's a fact that Northern English is more like Olde English as it has changed least over the centuries!

So Northern English is therefore the only proper English!

So thaz better get thi' pronuncaition 'reet!

As spoken by the Duke of Lancaster?

[bogeyman]

A few questions:

(i) What parts are associated with speaking in a plummy English accent?
(ii) What parts speak with the most proper pronunciation?
(iii) Are 'plummy English accent' and proper pronunciation one and the same and as pronounced in the OED, and how we should all speak?

Should we teach others how to speak proper like, as what it is given in the OED?

(E.g. it's Baaarth, not Bath)

i) It's not geographical, it's societal/educational. The 'plummy' English accent is called 'received pronunciation' (RP) and was the accent favoured by the BBC in the 1930-50s for radio announcements.

ii) See i - people from all over can speak with RP.

iii) Generally yes but some of the gentry (and esp. royalty) have vocal mannerisms which exaggerate various vowel combinations etc.