Word: accent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to see how Dove fit in so well in America, Bridges can't affect and Irish accent to save his life. One does wonder why he chose Boston to settle in, for he can't do that accent either. He is addled with an impossible script but still does his part, through over-done winces and cries of anguish, to take this show to new lows it works...
...brought up, of course, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was in Canada that Prabhu learned to dress the ways she does, and to speak with impeccable pronunciation, with a trademark accent that can only be described as "proper...
...voice has always been a big problem at Harvard," she says; a professor once told her that her accent was "incredibly affected." But that was the way one leamed to talk at her all-girls high school, "a cross between a ladies' finishing school and an institution that bred independent, feminist young women...
...have the accent. I know what JP ad EB are, I know when to say "Boston" and when to say "in town", I know the difference between Townies and Parkies and what radio stations they listen to, and I know where to go to meet somebody under the arches. I have hit the number. I can drive here. I can get you from Fields Corner to Chestnut Hill in 20 minutes flat, taking one-ways the whole route...
After I clean up my accent and get used to a city where people don't say "wicked" anymore, where they laugh when I say "laugh", I'll finally make that break, putting my hometown in perspective and ready to choose it again, maybe, a couple years down the road...