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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Standards
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- References: <BzMtxB.F8w@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <38068@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <12223@kesson.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:13:53 GMT
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- In article <12223@kesson.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
- :It may very well be the same thing. I've heard Mrs Elizabeth Windsor
- :on the radio, and she certainly sounds as though she has been trained
- :to speak the Queen's English.
-
- Trained is the appropriate word. The Queen's accent sounds like
- lower-middle-class modified by cheap elocution lessons. Prince Philip
- on the other hand has a most singularly marked RP accent - I'd be surprised
- if there were more than 20 people in the world who share his particular
- dialect.
-
- He speaks English amazingly well for a Greek, don't you think?
-
- G
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