Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic
What Pook said. He sounds to me like a Scot who got on the Received-English track real early, with the occasional throw-back slipping in.


Actually the more I listen to him the less Scots he sounds, but yes there are the vestigial remnants such as the unvoiced 'wh' rather than a voiced 'wh' in words like 'what' and 'where' and the occasional rhotic rather than non-rhotic 'r' - definitely a Scots accent modified by the English Public School system.

I have read somewhere, however, that even the British media have taken him to task for some of his idiosyncratic pronunciations, so maybe at least some of it is simply Brownspeak.

Last edited by The Pook; 04/19/08 02:07 AM.