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DT

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Feb 10, 2011, 12:37:05 AM2/10/11
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I was just watching an old fim with James Mason in it. I have always
loved the sound of his voice. Delightfully British, yet so clear with
very distinct enunciation. Does his voice fall into any particular
geographical dialect?

I'm guessing it is perhaps just a unique, wonderful voice, like James
Earl Jones.

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Peter Boulding

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Feb 10, 2011, 7:48:54 AM2/10/11
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:37:05 -0500, DT <dthomp...@SPAMwowway.com> wrote
in <20110210-0...@DT.News>:

Agreed. He came from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, so probably started out
with a middle class Yorkshire accent something like this:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbT8U-t0bY>

But it would not have survived his education at nobby Marlborough College
and even nobbier Peterhouse, Cambridge.


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Les Albert

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Feb 10, 2011, 12:24:58 PM2/10/11
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:48:54 +0000, Peter Boulding
<pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:37:05 -0500, DT <dthomp...@SPAMwowway.com> wrote

>>I was just watching an old fim with James Mason in it. I have always

>>loved the sound of his voice. Delightfully British, yet so clear with
>>very distinct enunciation. Does his voice fall into any particular
>>geographical dialect?
>>I'm guessing it is perhaps just a unique, wonderful voice, like James
>>Earl Jones.

>Agreed. He came from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, so probably started out
>with a middle class Yorkshire accent something like this:
><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbT8U-t0bY>
>But it would not have survived his education at nobby Marlborough College
>and even nobbier Peterhouse, Cambridge.


"Me Talk Pretty One Day".

Les

Lee Ayrton

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Feb 10, 2011, 12:42:30 PM2/10/11
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:48:54 +0000, Peter Boulding wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:37:05 -0500, DT <dthomp...@SPAMwowway.com>
> wrote in <20110210-0...@DT.News>:
>
>>I was just watching an old fim with James Mason in it. I have always
>>loved the sound of his voice. Delightfully British, yet so clear with
>>very distinct enunciation. Does his voice fall into any particular
>>geographical dialect?
>>
>>I'm guessing it is perhaps just a unique, wonderful voice, like James
>>Earl Jones.
>
> Agreed. He came from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, so probably started
> out with a middle class Yorkshire accent something like this:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbT8U-t0bY>
>
> But it would not have survived his education at nobby Marlborough
> College and even nobbier Peterhouse, Cambridge.

That link sent me on a nicely lateral excursion which landed me here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
Amy Walker does 21 one-line accents. (SFW, 2:36)


I know that Claude Rains grew up with a Cockney accent, but can his stage
accent be localized?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqGtl-gXRZY
Claude Rains blooper reel. (SFW, 1:10)


Mark Steese

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Feb 10, 2011, 1:03:33 PM2/10/11
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Peter Boulding <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote in
news:2gn7l6d5q74jr0b6c...@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:37:05 -0500, DT <dthomp...@SPAMwowway.com>
> wrote in <20110210-0...@DT.News>:
>
>>I was just watching an old fim with James Mason in it. I have always
>>loved the sound of his voice. Delightfully British, yet so clear with
>>very distinct enunciation. Does his voice fall into any particular
>>geographical dialect?
>>
>>I'm guessing it is perhaps just a unique, wonderful voice, like James
>>Earl Jones.
>
> Agreed. He came from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, so probably started
> out with a middle class Yorkshire accent something like this:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbT8U-t0bY>
>
> But it would not have survived his education at nobby Marlborough
> College and even nobbier Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Eh? James Mason didn't sound a bit like a twee little lad in a blue cap
who drove around in a little yellow - oh, wait, *nobby*. Ah. Never mind.
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low, unloading his special delivery. And then there was Spike.
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Mac

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Feb 10, 2011, 1:09:22 PM2/10/11
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:42:30 +0000 (UTC), Lee Ayrton
<lay...@panix.nul> wrote:


>That link sent me on a nicely lateral excursion which landed me here:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
>Amy Walker does 21 one-line accents. (SFW, 2:36)

Every one of those I can speak to from personal experience seems off.
Not that you couldn't find some people from there that spoke like
that, but that more that your first question to them would be "where
are you from, originally?"

Lee Ayrton

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Feb 10, 2011, 1:32:27 PM2/10/11
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I didn't bother researching her but from the collateral links for that
video I'm guessing that she works in the performing arts. Those may be
"movie accents" rather than linguistic anthropology.

Peter Boulding

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Feb 10, 2011, 3:25:05 PM2/10/11
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:42:30 +0000 (UTC), Lee Ayrton <lay...@panix.nul>
wrote in <ij1826$22d$9...@reader1.panix.com>:

>I know that Claude Rains grew up with a Cockney accent, but can his stage
>accent be localized?
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqGtl-gXRZY
>Claude Rains blooper reel. (SFW, 1:10)

It used to be known as the King's (and then Queen's) English; it was, very
approximately, a 1930s upper middle class Surrey accent.

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