19 Nov
2020
19 Nov
'20
10 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 17:58, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
As an American, I think Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins have quite
acceptable American accents
AIUI, most people do. I think it's just to their countrymen that they
sound artificial.
as does Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama
in Battlestar Galactica).
(*Googles*)
Oh! Didn't know he wasn't. But apparently his dad's American, so I
guess he grew up hearing it.
The funny thing is I just caught an episode
of Hugh Lauie in Masterpiece Theater "Roadkill" and thought he sounds
"less British" than he did in the days of Fry and Laurie.
:-)
We have a Wooster, Ohio, but owing to the local rural
accent, there's
a "Wooooster/Wuhster" pronunciation split. The local joke is
"Wooster, where the cows say 'Muh'".
:-D
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