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Thread #108031 Message #2246898
Posted By: theleveller
28-Jan-08 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Archers' (UK radio soap) - dialect.
Subject: RE: BS: 'Archers' (UK radio soap) - dialect.
Accents seem very much to split down 'class' lines. The 'nobs' have nauseating wha-wha accents ("Oh Braahn, it's absolutely frightful") - even the Indian solicitor talked like this - whilst the 'oiks' have impossibly bucolic oooh-aaarh accents. The exceptions are the odd outsiderlike Matt Crawford, Jack Wolley and, of course, the wonderful Ruth.