Re: Of accents & dialects

Whoops! Sorry - I know exactly how this came about, but you won't want to
hear the sorry tale. Of course you're right. Mea Culpa... and I have family
in Muswell Hill, too... as well as being a Spurs fan!
----- Original Message -----
From: "And Rosta" <and.rosta@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Of accents & dialects


> To honour the gods of pedantry, as is our wont, I shall reply firstly that
> I had actually already consulted Gillian Anderson's Wikipedia entry, which
> says "is an American actress ... born in Chicago", and secondly that if
> Gillian were indeed born in Crouch End (as I in fact was, a year and a bit
> earlier) she'd be not an Essex girl but a Middlesex girl....
>
> Michael Poxon, On 30/10/2008 17:46:
>> But the lovely Gillian is British, and an Essex girl to boot. Born in
>> Crouch End!
>> Mike
>> But latterly we have had Gwyneth Paltrow, Renee Zellweger, Gillian
>> Anderson & perhaps others acquit themselves admirably doing English
>> accents in British films.
>>>
>>
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