On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:14 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > (Aside: it is amusing to me, at least, that some British actors > succeeded in Hollywood or TV analogues thereof, playing Americans, in > what to other Brits sound like unconvincing accents: Hugh Laurie > ("House"), Bob Hoskins ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?").)
As an American, I think Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins have quite acceptable American accents, as does Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama in Battlestar Galactica). The funny thing is I just caught an episode of Hugh Lauie in Masterpiece Theater "Roadkill" and thought he sounds "less British" than he did in the days of Fry and Laurie. > It took me decades to realise, but P G Wodehouse's famed fictional > character Bertie Wooster has the same name. "Wooster" is just a > phonetic rendering of "Worcester". Any placename with "chester" or > variant thereof is ~2000 years old... >Worcester → "Wooster" We have a Wooster, Ohio, but owing to the local rural accent, there's a "Wooooster/Wuhster" pronunciation split. The local joke is "Wooster, where the cows say 'Muh'". -ethan