Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

At 11:56 pm -0400 4/4/01, Roger Mills wrote:
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>slang/idioms, or some of each?   I hear items from the BBC over our public
>radio network-- most of it's RP, though for some reason the man who talks
>about sport usually has a regional accent of some sort--
That's de_facto mandatory now-a-days - region depends upon the sport, to
some extent.

>never impenetrable,
>however.  The accent in the TV show ("Dalziell and Pascoe") was, I suspect,
>Scots
Yorkshire, actually.

Ray.

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