Peter ----
   
           Can you make mine with a Tex-Mex accent?
   
                              Stan

Peter W Redstone <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Hi folks! David P wrote:,
>
>The station in question was WRR 101.1 and I cannot stand the toffee 
>nosed English guy,
>Christopher Hackett. He makes me want to throw up or punch him in 
>the face. I left England to get away from people like that.
>
Oh dear! I suggest that David not come to the Williamsburg 
Virginia area then, where many TV commercials are spoken by a Brit! 
Since moving here I have found that my accent has largely reverted to 
my native British, since that is the most appreciated. I didn't do it 
consciously - in fact I didn't even think about it till now! But 
I'll try my damnedest not to sound too toffee-nosed! (On the upside, 
many a young girl has fluttered her eyelashes at me and commented on 
my accent: very gratifying to an old geezer!!!)

Interestingly, Tangier Island Virgina is reputed to have the most 
perfectly surviving Eizabethan accent extant, centred on a 
Shakespearean Warwickshire dialect. The speech has been much 
recorded, because of course, it's disappearing fast among the younger 
generation.

Of course, my harpsichords speak with an English accent too! (but I 
wonder how a troffee-nosed harpsichord sounds?) LOL!

Best!

Peter Redstone
http://www.ctg.net/redstone