"I have made a concerted effort to speak with as little 'western twang' in my accent as possible, " she revealed.
CNN: Regional accents thrive in U.S. -- but is that a good thing?
"I always hated my accent growing up, often trying to over-enunciate words to prevent sounding like the people around me, " she remembers.
CNN: Regional accents thrive in U.S. -- but is that a good thing?
So I didn't really try hard enough to try and keep my accent I just went with it and I lost it very fast.
My aunts kept remarking how brave I was and how unusually long my eyelashes were, and teased me about my Cairene accent, my skin.
Time seemed to have dragged, my Birmingham accent was coming on nicely, and I felt like I had been in the city for a couple of weeks rather than just a few days.
"I learnt to play rugby in Yorkshire and loved my time there, although I didn't develop the posh accent my parents were looking for after paying all that money for it, " joked Dallaglio.
She imagined the puppy grown up, entertaining some friends, speaking to them in a British accent: My family of origin was, um, rather not, shall we say, of the most respectable .
"I moved back home and there is almost no way to describe how happy it makes me when one of my kids says something so local in our accent!"
CNN: Regional accents thrive in U.S. -- but is that a good thing?
My guess is he over-enunciates to cover his prairie accent, but the effect is, well, sssssstrange.
Actually, my technical support guy was a fairly reasonable sort--smart, crisp, an Indian accent--basically everything you want when you have a computer problem.
My recollection is of a small man with an outsized head, an upper-class British accent, and a swirl of cigar smoke around his face.
My brief lesson hints at the phenomenal amount of work involved in reaching a point where that accent convinces on a giant screen, in surround sound and over a two-hour running time.
"When you see my works, it seems they change a lot, " he says, with a thick French accent.
"I bet some of you probably remember ME just 'cause of my hair, " Richards opens the play, in a perfect good-'ol-boy accent.
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