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Originally Posted by gunnut
Tony Blair doesn't speak anything like what the characters in the new "Dr. Who" speak. The "t" is almost silent, but not quite. They also enunciate certain syllables in an almost exaggerated way.
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The upper class have that silent 'r' happening too, Gunnut ... they say "finguh" rather than "finger" ...
You might point out to snobs that the American accent is a bit of a regional English time capsule, and is probably much closer to Shakespeare's speech than Tony Blair's "received pronunciation", which is a more recent phenomenon. He would go for a "darnse" instead of a "dance", for instance.
So, we can conclude Tom Arnold would deliver Hamlet more accurately than Sir Ian MacKellen ...
