Re: Of accents & dialects
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 2, 2008, 8:58 |
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On Saturday 01 November 2008 00:29, And Rosta wrote:
> 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....
Technically a hermaphrodite ... ;)
>
> 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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