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...time Academy Award winner is undeniably mis-cast. When I do free association with Swank’s name “femme fatale with a bizarre English accent and a weird rat-like flower in her hair” is not one of the phrases that I generally come up with. She trills lines like “The family’s in Laguuuuuuna!” as if she is playing Katherine Hepburn in a drag show...
...Some just want to sound more British, or don't want to be labeled. They want to blend in." No one, it seems, wants to stand out from the crowd. Despite premature announcements of a classless society, plenty of native English speakers still want to lose or lessen regional accents. Professionals call this "accent smoothing" or "accent softening." Students usually want to go up the social scale, and a certain type of voice may be essential in some fields. One lawyer from the north of England who approached Futerill "felt the legal profession was still very upper middle class...
...Fortunately, it’s certainly not as demanding as Professor Aleh Tsyvinski—a decent but not amazing teacher who explains basic concepts well but without any particular flair—makes it out to be. Just figure out how to decipher his terrible handwriting and charming accent, and you?...
...study, everyone reports to the Head of Undergraduate Studies himself, Professor David J. Roxburgh. This may seem unnerving in the beginning, but at your first meeting you’ll realize it’s much, much worse: his combination of incredible good looks and a charming European accent means you’ll manage little more in the way of conversation than a few fawning smiles and gushing “ahhhs.” The quirky teachers and strange advising policies are just a couple aspects of a rather vibrant concentration. In spite of a lack of difficult...
...changed the state, but the political ground had also shifted under her as conservative Democrats fled to the fast-growing Republican Party. Her defeat was a shock to the national media. After all, she was a Texan loved beyond the Red River (though to some back home, her accent always seemed suspiciously thicker on Larry King). Most of the men around the Quorum Club table are gone, and now she is too. But the image of her there remains, as a wily woman who played the game with the best of them...