the most "British" British English

Robert Blakey   Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:36 pm GMT
My "accent" is Canadian, but if I were to choose my favourite variety of English speech it would be educated Dublin. Music to the ears, in my opinion.
Damian in Edinburgh   Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:00 pm GMT
Alicia: OK a challenge.....The BBC Radio 4 "Today" program is on each weekday morning between 06:00 and 09:00 GMT (This coming weekend we go one hour forward to BST - British Summer Time - hee hee! and it's still (BLEEP) cold... OK...all of Continental Western Europe apart from Ireland and Portugal (the same as us in the UK) is always one hour ahead of the UK. Eastern Europe (Finland, Greece, Romania and the Balkan countries) are two hours ahead of the UK.

Now Inspector Rebus is working things out: So when it's 15:30hrs with you that could mean you are anything between 7 and 9 hours ahead of us? eg 06:30hrs in UK is 15:30hrs in Japan! 07:30hrs UK is 15:30hrs is 15:30hrs in China? 08:30hrs in UK is 15:30hrs in Singapore?:

OK..I give up...where the heck are you, Alicia????

Edinburgh UK
20:00hrs GMT
Alicia   Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:01 am GMT
Hahaha, Damian, you missed a clue!!

"I listen to Mr Naughtie every day from about 7.30 GMT onward..." So yes, China, or more specifically, Hong Kong.

My accent is an undefinable mess. It's not pleasant, but a bit less grating than most locals' (I hope).
Uriel   Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:07 am GMT
Damian, I would think you, of all people, would get a kick out of saying "James Naughty"!
natalie   Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:29 pm GMT
no ones mentioned the essex accent i like it i talk it
Guest   Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:29 pm GMT
Agood old essex girl. Are the rumours true about you lot.
Guest   Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:02 pm GMT
http://www.essexgirls.co.uk/homey.html
natalie   Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:39 pm GMT
it depends
most people think all essex girls are slags and bimbos but its not true