19 Nov
2020
19 Nov
'20
8:58 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:14 AM Liam Proven via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
(Aside: it is amusing to me, at least, that some
British actors
succeeded in Hollywood or TV analogues thereof, playing Americans, in
what to other Brits sound like unconvincing accents: Hugh Laurie
("House"), Bob Hoskins ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?").)
As an American, I think Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins have quite
acceptable American accents, as does Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama
in Battlestar Galactica). 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.
It took me decades to realise, but P G Wodehouse's
famed fictional
character Bertie Wooster has the same name. "Wooster" is just a
phonetic rendering of "Worcester". Any placename with "chester" or
variant thereof is ~2000 years old...
Worcester ? "Wooster"
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'".
-ethan