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Or has their accent changed noticeably? In Australia the accent has changed among most young people (teens and those in their 20s), but it doesn't seem to have happened (or only a bit) in the UK. I'm talking less about slang but I suppose that plays a factor too.
I read an article somewhere complaining Glasweigian kids talk like Eastenders.
I think there is a gender divide. Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch noticed his accent dropped as many haitches as possible, while his sister sounded like a duchess, and you would never think them siblings.
Estuarine - drives me nuts when it's not come by naturally (i.e. being raised there). The most irritating example for me is Lily Allen - for goodness sake, the girl went to Hill House, Millfield and Bedales. Mind you, it's no different to how people affected a london accent in the 60s to be (and I can't believe I'm using this word) hip.
Estuarine - drives me nuts when it's not come by naturally (i.e. being raised there). The most irritating example for me is Lily Allen - for goodness sake, the girl went to Hill House, Millfield and Bedales. Mind you, it's no different to how people affected a london accent in the 60s to be (and I can't believe I'm using this word) hip.
Have you listened to very early David Bowie recordings from the mid - late 60s? He sounds about as rah rah posh as you can get, but over time that changed a lot and he sounds more Estuary. I get a real tickle out of it
Reminds me of some people I know in California who adopted hippie speak themselves in the 70s, and now their kids sound like valley girls and gangstas Wonder what kids will sound like in another 30 years and what will be cool then...
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Have you listened to very early David Bowie recordings from the mid - late 60s? He sounds about as rah rah posh as you can get, but over time that changed a lot and he sounds more Estuary. I get a real tickle out of it
Reminds me of some people I know in California who adopted hippie speak themselves in the 70s, and now their kids sound like valley girls and gangstas Wonder what kids will sound like in another 30 years and what will be cool then...
Really? If anything I thought he got more American as he aged.
In 'David Bowie' he sounded more 'posh Cockney' or lower middle class, same with Space Oddity, by the time of 'Hunky Dory' it was getting posher, by the time of Ziggy/Young Americans he'd gone all 'blue-eyed soul', and in later years well, he was just Bowie!
The Cockney London accent has changed considerably. Now its become a mix of Cockney and Jamaican patois, whether youre White, Black, Asian. Sacha Baron Cohen did a great satire in the form of Ali G (before Bruno):
In North Staffordshire over the last 2 - 3 years there have been occasions when I've heard young people, mostly late teens and early twenties, talking and haven't been able to understand a word of what they're saying. Whether it's a broadening of the local accent or their picking up other accents and slang, I don't know.
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