Re: Of accents & dialects
| From: | And Rosta <and.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 31, 2008, 11:30 |
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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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