question...

[m31andy]

Phil Glenister's normal accent just sounds like a working class Northerner trying to sound posh, y/y???

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[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

If you impersonate an accent for long enough strange things can happen. I recently saw Hugh Laurie interviewed and even he was sliding in to those softer American vowel sounds.

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

I generally avoid chat shows like the plague, but I did catch one in which Hugh Laurie admitted that his American accent on "House" often slips in subtle ways. It's often more a matter of stress placement than actual pronunciation. He gave the example of "tomato sauce"; he'd nail the "tomayto" part, but would place the stress on the word "sauce" rather than on the "tomato".

This sparked a rather entertaining discussion between husband (Brit) and me (Canoodle) as to where the stress "belongs"... and whether it primarily refers to (1) ketchup or (2) that-red-stuff-you-put-on-your-spaghetti. (I seem to recall that when it's the latter, it is barely permissible to put the emphasis on "tomato" :-)