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Fake accents
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Is it just me, or does anyone else find it incredibly irritating that half the country seems to have adopted this "raised intonation" accent, like every time they speak they put a question mark on the end of each sentence
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Actually Elvis, Mark Lamarr is a bigger accent fraud - he sounds like a Cockerney, he was born in Swindon!
The speech pattern to which you refer masonma71 is wonderfully referred to by Rory McGrath as the 'mornic interogative' - and yes, it is irritating, but t'was ever thus.
Speech patterns evolve over time, and always annoy someone somewhere - we just have to let them flow over us.
The speech pattern to which you refer masonma71 is wonderfully referred to by Rory McGrath as the 'mornic interogative' - and yes, it is irritating, but t'was ever thus.
Speech patterns evolve over time, and always annoy someone somewhere - we just have to let them flow over us.