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Sep 2 13 7:53 AM
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Matt Hughes wrote:But it's a mutable accent. Up until the 1960s, there was a creaky, back-of-the-throat sound to RP -- you can hear it in old movies and BBC broadcasts -- but since then the creak has disappeared and the vowel sounds have become more Cockneyfied. Your average toff now sounds a litttle like Michael Caine.
But it's a mutable accent. Up until the 1960s, there was a creaky, back-of-the-throat sound to RP -- you can hear it in old movies and BBC broadcasts -- but since then the creak has disappeared and the vowel sounds have become more Cockneyfied. Your average toff now sounds a litttle like Michael Caine.
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Sep 2 13 8:15 AM
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Sarnidac the Dwarf wrote: Sir Humphrey emphasizing that he had studied at Oxford, and not at Cambridge, and so could not have been spying for the Russians.
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