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Share Share Tweet Email. Related Topics Car TV. Kenny Norman Articles Published. Read Next in auto culture. The last two gecko voices are very like Michael Caine in rhythm and lilt no doubt the wrong terminology for you linguists! Definitely not Australian — and the reference to pie and chips utterly nails the London angle. As a Brit, I agree that the BP man is certainly not posh. In fact, his accent makes him seem more credible: ie, a technocrat who's risen through the ranks and knows his stuff, rather than a smoothie PR or parachuted-in executive.
At the beginning of his comments I caught the odd yokelish tone I becomes oi which seems to exist right across southern England from East Anglia to the West Country, tho with RP overtones: a Berkshire boy finding success seems about right. The Kelsey Grammer clip has poor sound quality, so hard to judge how British it seems. But once you know the id of the actor it all falls into place.
Agreed that it seems a little supercilious. Lucky Goldstar launched a big marketing campaign when it rebranded itself as LG not long before the s Asian financial crisis. The media didn't taunt it with its former name when it was down! I recently moved from England to America, and practically the first comment anyone made about my accent was a comparison to the Geico gecko. I'm middle class and from Oxford, so my accent is closer to the first ads than anything aired recently.
I wonder whether Americans are really identifying class indicators at all, or if it's just a case of "British accent belonging to someone I want to like" vs.
I was heretofore unaware that, like Kentucky Fried Chicken, their initialism no longer had a referent. Unlike the typical American, however, I know well the difference between Kiwi, Strine, and South African, having worked with citizens of all three nations. Leaving geckos aside entirely — close your eyes and listen to the first clip and tell me the Fox newscaster doesn't sound uncannily like Paula Poundstone.
Please, no one tell Paula — she's had enough troubles in her life. As a Mancunian living for a long time in London, and consequently tending to notice London accents, the "pie and chips" ad sounds to me like someone posh trying to talk Estuary English — a very irritating affectation, commonly used by politicians.
Does his portrayal of Max Branning strike you the same way? One interesting thing about this discussion is the expectation that Mr Hayward might have a more cultured accent than he does, given his position as a CEO of a major oil company. A generation ago, he might have modified his accent to meet those expectations, unless he was from a part of Britain where people traditionally "get away with" having strong regional accents, like Scotland, and even then class distinctions emerge in how people would speak.
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who had a humble origin as the daughter of a shopkeeper, definitely speaks with a "classy" accent, but Mr Hayward doesn't bother. What that suggests is that the badges of class distinctions in Britain, like a pukka accent, are becoming less important.
The article says there are or have been lots of BP stations in the Southeast in recent years. Of course, that doesn't make other Americans familiar with them. June 17, am. Thanks, Jerry and Language Hat! Wasn't aware of the ubiquity of this annoying reptile — or the way Stone spelled his fiend. I think it's completely unfair—and vaguely offensive—for an entity to "change" its name to its own initials, and then expect people to disassociate the expanded version as the referent of the initials.
But surely no one will join them in their exasperation when the disassociation fails to obtain. Consider that they're up against, e. Diddy et al. Colin Reid: Agreed about Kelsey Grammer. But his actorly mannerisms are so Shakespearean that I'd bet any American myself included would admit he sounds a little English. Especially as Frasier Crane. So I'm a little uncomfortable with the apparent correlation between US posh and theatrical British.
I think drama students spend their time losing their accents and then putting them back on demand, except fake. And yes, I completely say the same about Eastenders. That's pretty surprising to me. I mean, besides being one of the largest companies in the world well, until their share price collapsed , they were also responsible for a massive explosion at a refinery in Texas just a few years back which killed several people.
Surely you remember that. Sid Smith said: "At the beginning of his comments I caught the odd yokelish tone I becomes oi which seems to exist right across southern England from East Anglia to the West Country, tho with RP overtones: a Berkshire boy finding success seems about right. I think what you're hearing specifically is a touch of Brummie that he probably picked up during his time at Aston. There were moments when I caught a fleeting hint of Jasper Carrott.
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