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WCDT Strips 3596-3600 (23rd October - 27th October 2017)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 01 Nov 2017, 17:44 ---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).
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I was told in high school that the closest thing there was to neutral English was the Des Moines, Iowa non-accent, so that seems to fit with the "Midwestern City" name.
WRT British "public schools," my understanding is that it referred to boarding schools where all meals were taken "in public." Makes as much sense as any other explanation I've heard. (On this side of the Atlantic Pond it's strictly "publicly funded.")
TheEvilDog:
Public Schools in the UK rose from charity schools for poor scholars, where the term public referred to that the idea to access to them were not restricted to religion, home location or occupation. They've since had a long association with the upper classes.
Grammar schools were secondary schools (high schools) where admittance as based purely on ability, with the idea that students who attended would go onto higher level education, more than likely university.
Comprehensive schools were based on the other end of the spectrum and the most recent, serving a particular catchment area and where students were expected to learn a trade when they left.
comicalArchitect:
It occurs to me: as of a few days ago, Marten and Dora have been broken up for half the strip.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 01 Nov 2017, 18:48 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 01 Nov 2017, 17:44 ---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).
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I was told in high school that the closest thing there was to neutral English was the Des Moines, Iowa non-accent, so that seems to fit with the "Midwestern City" name.
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I've also heard it called a 'cosmopolitan accent'. Though, I'm also asked if I do radio voice over or that I should.
EDIT: I suppose I should point out that I have a grandfather from Wisconsin, a grandma from Illinois, a step grandma from SW Nebraska, a grandma from Missouri, and a grandpa from Tennesse (I think). Yes, somehow they all ended up in Kansas.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 01 Nov 2017, 19:04 ---Comprehensive schools were based on the other end of the spectrum and the most recent, serving a particular catchment area and where students were expected to learn a trade when they left.
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Not quite: those were "Secondary Modern" schools - about fifty years ago Comprehensives replaced both Grammar (except those that chose to go private) and Secondary Modern schools, handling the full range of abilities and backgrounds in a single institution, with the benefits of breaking down some class barriers and reducing marginalisation. They were often successful, but class barriers put up from outside by parents often compromise the principle to this day. The current government has expressed a desire to return to creating Grammar schools, which has been much protested against as deliberately socially divisive (the Prime Minister is proud of having gone to one).
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