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For my overseas friends who don't follow British news...

Apparently while visiting Birmingham (just a stones throw from my home of Wolverhampton) dear old Prince Phillip asked a train announcer if she announced with her Birmingham accent. When she replied that she didn't he commented 'I suppose you've got to announce in an English accent so everyone can understand you.'
So, people from the Midlands don't have an 'English accent'? I'm not a Brummie but close enough that old Phil probably wouldn't know the difference.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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That is so funny! Big Grin

I do remember that Brummie accent, though, and it reminds me of a Bronx accent. Hardly understandable. I was stopped at a toll booth on a bridge in New York once when I just couldn't understand the gentleman in the booth because of his strong Bronx accent. Cars were lined up behind me while I tried to understand him. And we are in the same country, each speaking English.
 
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You might not be aware of it but Prince Phillip is renowned for saying things like this.


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