David Beckham's accent.

[Globalti]

....it's gone!

As a linguist with a keen ear for accents I noticed a couple of years ago that David's dahn sarf accent was disappearing. Heard a soundbite with him on the radio this morning and he now sounds almost completely neutral, with only the tiniest carefully modulated hint of a region in his voice.

I know absolutly zilch about cheese-rolling but I imagine his wife takes him to lots of smart tea parties to show off her clothes, where he mixes with people with nice accents. Actually he has a decent timbre and I think he sounds okay on radio - maybe he will retire and find work as a sports commentator?

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

I ain't gorra ak cent

 

[Andy in Sig]

....it's gone!

As a linguist with a keen ear for accents I noticed a couple of years ago that David's dahn sarf accent was disappearing. Heard a soundbite with him on the radio this morning and he now sounds almost completely neutral, with only the tiniest carefully modulated hint of a region in his voice.

I know absolutly zilch about cheese-rolling but I imagine his wife takes him to lots of smart tea parties to show off her clothes, where he mixes with people with nice accents. Actually he has a decent timbre and I think he sounds okay on radio - maybe he will retire and find work as a sports commentator?

Wouldn't he require at least some sort of brain to do that?

I've always felt it was an act of unnecessary cruelty to stick a microphone under his nose and by that I'm referring to content and not accent.

 

[Paulus]

Don't think he came from sarf london, more Leytonstone, East London.

 

[ianrauk]

And over to David Beckham.
Umm thank you Jim, umm, yes, umm, England are playing umm well umm this half Jim, and umm, if they start umm pushing forward umm they will umm start to penetrate umm the sold defensive umm wall that the oposing ummm team have umm put to good use in the umm first ummm half.....

....it's gone!

As a linguist with a keen ear for accents I noticed a couple of years ago that David's dahn sarf accent was disappearing. Heard a soundbite with him on the radio this morning and he now sounds almost completely neutral, with only the tiniest carefully modulated hint of a region in his voice.

I know absolutly zilch about cheese-rolling but I imagine his wife takes him to lots of smart tea parties to show off her clothes, where he mixes with people with nice accents. Actually he has a decent timbre and I think he sounds okay on radio - maybe he will retire and find work as a sports commentator?

 

[Paulus]

To the manor born eh?

Not me, but the same place as Johnathon Ross.

 

[ChrisKH]

To the manor born eh?

Nuffink wrong with that manor maaate.

Some of the best people I know are born in East Lundunn. Me being one.

 

[Davidc]

Went to Chingford (County High) School, Essex. Di'n'e. (Only know 'cos my wife went there a few years earlier).

 

[Globalti]

Hmmm, that's a non-starter then. Could he read the cheese-rolling results or do the speaking clock voice?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I was half expecting to hear him speak with a Californian accent on the telly last night.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Hmmm, that's a non-starter then. Could he read the cheese-rolling results or do the speaking clock voice?

That involves numbaz though dunnit? Possibly a bit of a minefield.

 

[ComedyPilot]

His accent has gone?

Does he still sound like a pre-pubescent, whingy, girly, toss-pot?

 

[Mr Pig]

My sister is Scots, lived in Germany and now lives in the US. Her accent is odd! It would be very hard to pin down where she came from.