[BITList] Learn How To Speak Propah English - Ted Heath

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agree, hugh

propah english speakers prefer the rather weak ‘r’ – better still, change it to ‘w’ and don’t use ‘r’; as per ted.
probably the r to w conversion was the next lesson in the eric idle series.

had you nothing better to do for half an hour with a young lady in southampton?

I well remember peter sellers and the peasant sketch – a ‘dayzzling white clorth’ covered the wicker basket of nutritious scraps.

New York hurricane had been downgraded to a Scottish summer...LOL, that’s a really good one.

smatter of fact, we have just come through a long week end of tropical storm lee which sprang up in the GOM almost overnight with little warning. overcast skies, heavy wind and rain, flooding, trees down.
however, the temp has dropped from 90 to 75 and the sun is out once again, so all’s well that ends well.

ct


From: HUGH 
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 4:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [BITList] Learn How To Speak Propah English - Ted Heath

Colin,

Many of his vowels were strangulated, and he had a slight tendency to say such as "pwonounce" for "pronounce", but there are wide variations all over the UK in the way people pronounce vowels.  What caught my ear, but not that of the "presenter", was the total inability or reluctance to sound a letter "r" at the end of a word, and sometimes in the middle of a wo-d.  I once spent a fruitless half hour trying to convince a lady from Southampton that many of her vowel sounds were diphthongs, she having criticised mine.

Peter Sellers was good at taking off  the upper class accent and pronunciation.  One of his characters, reminiscing about how he and Nanny used to take rotten fruit and nutritious scraps round to the tenantry, commenced his tale thuswise : "I ve-ee weh wemembah."

On a different tack, I read that the New York hurricane had been downgraded to a Scottish summer.

Hugh.


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