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Re: [iatefl_pronsig] What is an English English pronunciation?


Shakespeare is often performed in what we understand to be the "Queen's English" but in OP (original pronunciation) it is fascinatingly different as the work by David Crystal shows.....
If you're interested here's a link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4761275&m=4761276
Have a good weekend all
Anna




Anna Bernard
EFL Lecturer
Ecole Nationale de L'Aviation Civile
7, avenue Edouard Belin
BP 4005
31055 Toulouse CEDEX
Tel: 00 33 5 62 17 41 15
Fri Feb 1, 2008 3:49 pm

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Hi folks, I've been thinking about the questions that came up from the newsletters and I will post about them soon, but I want to ask a perhaps more whimsical... 		pronsig_mod
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Hard to say what an 'English' accent is. But I've just been reading John Peel's* semi-auto-biography, and thought these two extracts might be of some interest....
Jonathan Marks
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Shakespeare is often performed in what we understand to be the "Queen's English" but in OP (original pronunciation) it is fascinatingly different as the work...
BERNARD Anna
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Hi, I think Jonathan's points highlight the variety of regional pronunciation of English, and the importance role of pron in marking identity. Some strange...
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"The vulgar Americans speak much better than the vulgar in Great Britain for a very obvious reason viz. that being much more unsettled, and moving frequently...
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