Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown, garbed in a black catsuit, presses on in her obscure transatlantic accent, "What law are you practicing...
...Theresa's chatty friend, Lucienne Lester has the misfortune of playing a completely superfluous character. Still, her comic energy and annoyingly fake southern accent liven up an otherwise dreary second act. The most skilled actor of the four, McDonald brings focus and commitment to her role. Although she quickly establishes the character of a tightly-coiled middle-age career woman, McDonald appears too late in the play. And her character's final confrontation with her daughter is so unconvincingly written as to be almost unwatchable...
...proposed changes will affect at most 4,000 of the 50,000 words in use, but such minor "rectifications" cut no ice with editors and academics who have launched a vigorous contre-attaque (new spelling: contrattaque). At the center of their protest is the circumflex accent, a little hat the French occasionally put over vowels (as in chateau and hotel, crouton and maitre). To simplify matters, the new rules would remove it from...
Biggest Turkey TV's most obnoxious chef is a would-be comic whose series appears on the Discovery Channel. Pasquale Carpino of Pasquale's Kitchen Express yowls snatches of operatic arias as he demolishes eggplants and describes his recipes in a tootsie-frootsie accent that was barely funny when Chico Marx used...
...same blood. Flesh and blood, we get along with one another," says Isaac Scott, 77, who went back to the rural town of Barnwell, S.C., after 49 years in New Haven, Conn., mostly as a construction worker. "The Southern accent sounds beautiful to me now," says Dykes. "That's the way it should have been the whole time...