Interesting phonetics titbit: people from South London can't say "th". They say Sarf London. I've sat with friends from the Vauxhall area over bottles of Baileys for whole evenings, going th, th, th -- for hours on end, in front of mirrors and what have you, because they so badly wanted to learn to do it, but no -- f, f, f -- was all that would come out. . . fis, fat, fere etc. So sad. . . ;-)
Sarah
At 2:03 AM -0300 01/23/2003, Wally Kairuz wrote:
sarah!!! what you tell me is so amazing! it's a revolutionary phenomenon. i am a phonetics freak -- a crime mike pritchard is so fond of accusing me of -- and if you only knew the countless volumes that written recommending RP as the ONLY way to sound posh in the UK. so what would happen if the labour party lost the population's favor? would everybody try to sound like olivier again?
