March 22, 2007
We're On to You, Brits!

“I shouldn’t be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.”
Stephen Fry
The BBC tells us what we’ve all known: a suave RP (“Received Pronunciation”) British accent gets you better service and the inside track for jobs: “Best of British.”
Posted by Tom Palmer at March 22, 2007 12:40 AM
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That is an astonishingly bitter and cruel essay. Fun to read, too.
No one beats up on the Brits like the Brits. I'll never forget the text I was assigned for a history tutorial at Oxford--the depressingly-titled "Britain 1917-1991: Progress and Decline."