1. Bloody Sticky Wicket: Americans in Britain Often Blow the Accent.
- Author
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Stecklow, Steve
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LINGUISTIC geography , *LINGUISTIC change , *AMERICANS , *LANGUAGE & languages , *BRITISH people , *PUBLIC opinion , *DIALECTS , *COMPARATIVE linguistics , *LANGUAGE surveys , *VARIATION in language - Abstract
Focuses on Americans living in England who use a fake British accent. Comments from Suzanne Levy, a British television producer regarding the phony accent used by Loyd Grossman, who is from Massachusetts, USA; British speech patterns and phrases Americans, such as Madonna, will adopt to sound more British; Comments from Khalid Aziz, a British communications specialist, regarding British public opinion about American accents, suggesting irony that Americans would attempt to lose their accents; Percentage of British business directors that consider executives with American accents as more successful in the business world than those from England; Comments from Jack Chambers, a linguistics professor at the University of Toronto regarding the inability of adults to master a new accent.
- Published
- 2003