English and Bostonian (was Re: Klingon Script)

> > English person? I've only seen one or two episodes but I thought
that
> > guy with the non-rhotic accent was from Boston (or somewhere else in
> > that general direction).
> No, the Actor is from England: Leicester, in fact.  It's very RP, but
it's
> quite British.   Bashir is also English (The actor is of Arabian
descent).
>
> I've heard of English and Australian being mixed up, but English and
> Bostonian? ;-)
As an almost-Bostonian (I grew up in the suburbs, and I don't have the
accent, though my grandmother does) I found this quite amusing. ;-)

I remember going to see the film "Good Will Hunting" in the cinema when
it came out with several friends from university. I went to uni in
Scotland, And none of the people I went with -- some Scottish, some
English -- had ever heard a Boston accent before. As we were leaving the
cinema, one of them turned to me and said "I had no idea anybody talked
like that!" :)

-- Thomas