“I shouldn’t be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.”
Stephen Fry
The BBC tells us what we’ve all known: a suave RP (“Received Pronunciation”) British accent gets you better service and the inside track for jobs: “Best of British.”
A rejoinder: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/04/brits200704
That is an astonishingly bitter and cruel essay. Fun to read, too.
No one beats up on the Brits like the Brits. I’ll never forget the text I was assigned for a history tutorial at Oxford–the depressingly-titled “Britain 1917-1991: Progress and Decline.”
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