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WCDT Strips 3596-3600 (23rd October - 27th October 2017)

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OldGoat:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 01 Nov 2017, 08:02 ---Yeah, Southern accents, and particularly the Southern Appalachian accent, are associated in a lot of minds with lack of intelligence or education. Unfortunate, but that's the way it is - if you want people to see you as an educated person you have to lose that accent. It wasn't so much an issue when she was at Duke University, but there is no way Harvard would ever have hired her if she spoke with her mother's accent.

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That's why UK "public schools" taught "Received Pronunciation," so one could move on to "university" without an accent of lesser social status.  For all I know they still do.  Can the UK folks confirm or deny?

Pilchard123:
I don't think so, but then I never went to a public school (I assume you mean fee-paying, selective "public schools", not schools for the peons plebs poor people general public). Its certainly not something that some of my friends who went to those schools seemed to pick up. Also, given that a lot of the top universities are likely to have people from all over the world studying there, accent probably isn't as much of an issue as it used to be. But Oxford or Cambridge, I forget which, did catch a lot of flak recently for being too elitist. That may include preferring students from RP-favouring backgrounds.

That said, I do come from the south-west and we all talk like farmers down yur; I also never went to a conventional university. pwhodges or Thrillho might say differently, since they're nearer to one of the big universities (I can't remember which).

pwhodges:
I was never taught a pronunciation, nor did my schools try to do so (well, except Latin, for which I was taught two - one in the classroom, and one in the choir).  But I already spoke that way (RP, or BBC English, as you prefer), as my parents did...  Nor did this have a bearing on the fact that I subsequently worked at the BBC for a period.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: OldGoat on 31 Oct 2017, 10:02 ---
--- Quote from: Dave H on 30 Oct 2017, 18:12 ---I'm still trying to figure out where "you'uns" comes from. Where I grew up (Appalachian foothills of southeastern Ohio) it was the plural of "you," as in "Are you'uns coming over for supper this Sunday?"

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Probably "you ones," probably evolved from "young'uns" (young ones). 

I recently got gibed for sounding like a TV network newscaster (Pacific Northwest accent).

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I grew up in Wichita, KS, so I've been asked by Oklahomans and Nebraskans if I'm from NYC because I have the Midwestern city accent (the one newscasters are supposed to emmulate). Before anyone asks, yes, rural Kansans do have a little bit of a drawal. It's more pronounced along the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, but only in the tiny "towns" (villages and hamlets).

Gyrre:
BTW, it should be pointed out that y'all along with basically the entirety of the Southern accent stem from the accent of 1700s English nobility.

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