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That what I call a British accent that doesn t sound awful affected formal so an accent that I like Good choice The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T s And T s are not pronounced at the end of a word either The other consonants are not released too much at the end...

Englishuser wrote It seems like a very aristocratic British accent is appropriate in English speaking countries and communities all over with the possible exception of Britain That may well be because in England there are many more people with aristocratic accents than aristocrats So you learn...

If you re aiming for a British accent the vowel sound in the words can k n and k_hAnt are very different In North American English the vowel is the same for both but t is usually realised as a glottal stop at the end of can t

So why do learners choose to learn a regional dialect nonaTheBrit you were probably referring to me I would like to say that I didn t really learn the cockey for years My friends had that accent and I grew up in an environment like that In other words I naturally grew up with that accent rather...

I d agree with your lists YC Some singers seem to have used a stylised accent Syd Barrett Ray Davies Bowie to avoid sounding AmE in the 60s early 70s Then as you say with punk you get an exaggerated urban BrE accent I think that was made easier by the fact that British punk rarely had any blues...

Tony Blair raised in Durham Scotland sounding like a posh Londoner Blair has at least three accents A Generic south east England with a very faint whiff of Edinburgh Note the odd short vowels though the i in it replaced by the e in the first syllable of because for instance B An Estuary version...