re: British Accent Perceptions page 5

Then there's Omid Djalili Iranian-born Brit, who is hysterically ... East types, then switches to a very proper RP delivery.

If we're talking of comics of Middle Eastern origin, then watch out for Shazia Mirza - one of the few ... her do the 'pilot's ;icence' joke for the first time on TV and I assure you, her delivery is everything.

Agreed. I've seen her (only on TV, sadly), and she's a complete scream. And mostly English with a side-helping of Muslim.

David
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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

What a good idea. We must bombard the Beeb.

Goering tried that. Didn't work.

Ah, but he missed.

David
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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Furthermore, I do not watch TV news, preferring to get ... was years before I discovered that Frank Bruno was black.

Does it ever happen in the USA that a Sikh in full ethnic garb ... here from the Pun-jab an' he told me hisself that ever' Democrat he ever saw was up to no good'?

Around here, almost all the Sikhs in full ethnic garb are white (except for two brothers who are black, and one or two Punjabis), so if they get on chat shows, they must deliver themselves of good American lines. Otherwise, no. Not yet.
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And since tangents are currently on topic, I'll just inform you that my surreal experience of the day was
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Jerry Friedman

Then there's Omid Djalili Iranian-born Brit, who is hysterically ... act doing a very broad stereotype of Middle East types,

But mostly of Arabs. (Which is very Iranian: ancient hostilities and all that.) If he's who I think he is, anyway energetic podgy chap with a fleshy face and a baggy suit, Iran's answer to Albania's John Belushi.

The very fellow. And a Movie career that takes in James Bond and Gladiator.
John Dean
Oxford
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Furthermore, I do not watch TV news, preferring to get ... was years before I discovered that Frank Bruno was black.

Does it ever happen in the USA that a Sikh in full ethnic garb ... here from the Pun-jab an' he told me hisself that ever' Democrat he ever saw was up to no good'?

Never noticed that. I have noticed that American Indians, when interviewed on television, always seem to have some sort of accent. They've been here longer than us, and they sound different. (You work out the "them" and "us")
They are on television frequently. Usually about some casino story or demands that some Indian that has committed a crime to be tried in the tribal court and not the US legal system.

Never noticed that. I have noticed that American Indians, when interviewed on television, always seem to have some sort of accent. They've been here longer than us,

Oy!

They are on television frequently.

Oy!
Coop, there you go (AYK) with that 'us' and 'them' again. Are you incapable of seeing an American Indian as a fellow countryman, one of your 'us'? And you, a Hoosier, a likely descendant of the Blackfoot! Your strained efforts to pass yourself off as an ethnic Irish-American notwithstanding.
Yesterday I saw a fellow on the bus wearing a jacket that said "Native American Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces". I'm fairly sure that the 'Native American' on this jacket signified 'American Indian'. BTW, in smaller lettering the jacket said "WWI * WWII * Korea * Vietnam * Granada * Persian Gulf" the "Granada" being a (sic), I think, unless he was including the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

If I'm not mixing her up with someone else, I think she recently plated New York and had a write-up in the Times.

What does "plated" mean in English usage? (Seriously, none of the M-W definitions seem to fit.)

The mind boggles. You can probably guess which meaning sprang to my mind (assuming that the rhyming slang meaning is known in the US).

Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

What does "plated" mean in English usage? (Seriously, none of the M-W definitions seem to fit.)

The mind boggles. You can probably guess which meaning sprang to my mind (assuming that the rhyming slang meaning is known in the US).

I'm scratching my head here; rhyming slang is mother's milk to me, but this one completely sugars me.
Matti

The mind boggles. You can probably guess which meaning sprang to my mind (assuming that the rhyming slang meaning is known in the US).

I'm scratching my head here; rhyming slang is mother's milk to me, but this one completely sugars me.

The only place I ever came across it was in "Groupie" by Jenny Fabian; I've never heard it in real life, and it never occurred to me that it was rhyming slang, although I can see how it might be.

Don Aitken