'public school accent'

Posted by SR on September 22, 2004

In Reply to: 'public school accent' posted by Travel Junkie on September 22, 2004

: The accent of one who has been through the elite school system in the UK is distinctive. The question is -- how can this accent replace the original accent of boys from all over the country who presumably have developed their speech patterns when they get to school?

Do we really want to replace the colourful accents that are the spices of any language? I was noting the previous discussion on the Irish accent, yet there are so many different Irish accents as there are English accents as there probably are in any country. I grew up in east Cork in Ireland and just a few miles away, across the Blackwater River in Waterford, the accents were entirely different. I have always marveled at how one language can be spoken, written and perpetuated in so many different colourful ways. Homogenized milk and language anyone?

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