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Oh, and Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge, says it’s not.
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen AcademicalsIf there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.
There's no such thing as a "British accent". Britain has thousands of accents, many of which are so different from one another as to be mutually unintelligible.
There used to be an accent based on that spoken in the "Home Counties" (the area immediately surrounding, but not including, Greater London), called 'Received Pronunciation' and also known as the "BBC accent", as it was required that BBC news presenters should speak in that way. It's largely disappeared since the decision in the early 1980s to allow regional accents on BBC news broadcasts. It's that obsolete accent that most Americans think of as "the British accent"; Oddly many of the people who most famously spoke with that accent were born outside Britain, in places such as Jamaica and India where the BBC World Service was popular.
And if you want to know what "Fuck off" sounds like in RP, read it forwards, correctly. Or get Trinidadian broadcaster (and master of the accent) Trevor McDonald to tell you to fuck off.
Naw, I hear Peppa Pig saying it like the Meme says.
There's no such thing as a "British accent". Britain has thousands of accents, many of which are so different from one another as to be mutually unintelligible.
There used to be an accent based on that spoken in the "Home Counties" (the area immediately surrounding, but not including, Greater London), called 'Received Pronunciation' and also known as the "BBC accent", as it was required that BBC news presenters should speak in that way. It's largely disappeared since the decision in the early 1980s to allow regional accents on BBC news broadcasts. It's that obsolete accent that most Americans think of as "the British accent"; Oddly many of the people who most famously spoke with that accent were born outside Britain, in places such as Jamaica and India where the BBC World Service was popular.
And if you want to know what "Fuck off" sounds like in RP, read it forwards, correctly. Or get Trinidadian broadcaster (and master of the accent) Trevor McDonald to tell you to fuck off.