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paulm
Being a Yank who has lived and worked in England, to me Mick sounds like he is confused about whether he is a Cockney lad or an Eton boy. On one hand he cuts his words short with Cockney toughness, yet on the other hand he likes to round his vowels like he's royalty or something.
I don't pick up Eton or even Cockney really in Keith's speech—he sounds more east end London with some US east coast inflections thrown in for effect. Of course the US is in his blood by now...
Am I far off here? Need some Brit input.
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Silver Dagger
Many people from Dartford speak what's known as estuary English - an accent found in south Essex and north Kent - two English counties bordering the Thames before it reaches the Channel.
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yorkey
"TA-EEK MEH DEH-YAOWN LEEADL SOO-ZEH, TA-EEK MEH DEH-YAOWNNE"
"Mick..."
"AH NO YUH THOINK YUR THU QUOIN UV THU UNDERGRA-HAOWND"
"...Mick..."
"ENYOO CAYN SEN' ME DEAD FLAYWERS EUVRA MAWERNIN'"
"...MICK..."
"SEN' ME DEAD FLAYWERS BA THU MOIL"
"...MICK!..."
"SEN' ME DEAD FLAYWERS TO MUH WEDDIN'"
"...JESUS, MICK..."
"AN' AH WONE FIRGYET TA PUT...Wot?"
"Mick, you're from Dartford."
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Silver Dagger
Many people from Dartford speak what's known as estuary English - an accent found in south Essex and north Kent - two English counties bordering the Thames before it reaches the Channel.
That's probably what I speak (raised in south London but spent the past 26 years in or near Margate).
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Stoneage
Am I the only one who thinks he sounds very much like the "Naked Chef" Jamie Oliver?
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Stoneage
Am I the only one who thinks he sounds very much like the "Naked Chef" Jamie Oliver?
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Stoneage
Instead we mock him and call him a chameleon or a social climber.
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Beast
I also agree that no one else talks with an accent exactly like Mick's. He's developed his own, which is a bit of a mixture of what would at one time have been called a working class London accent and something a bit more refined. Without the American twang that sometimes creeps in when he's talking, Keith is quite well spoken. None of the Mockney where he's concerned.
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Beast
I also agree that no one else talks with an accent exactly like Mick's. He's developed his own, which is a bit of a mixture of what would at one time have been called a working class London accent and something a bit more refined. Without the American twang that sometimes creeps in when he's talking, Keith is quite well spoken. None of the Mockney where he's concerned.
Listen to Keith speak circa 1964, mumbling commoner.
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Stoneage
Instead we mock him and call him a chameleon or a social climber.