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21 February 2008

The Accent Bank I was looking at the "Freak Angels" online comic and happened to check out the forums. →[More:]One of the posters wanted to know what British accent the characters had. Someone suggested "Estuary" and posted a link to the above.

post by: black8 at: 02:11 | 4 comments

Ah, Estuary.

This is excellent.

posted by chrismear 21 February | 02:45

Although none of the accents on the Yorkshire page sound like mine. And the Leeds and Halifax accents sound wrong to me. Like Actors trying to remember what they sounded like in their youth.

posted by seanyboy 21 February | 02:55

This guy does a pretty good accent tour of the UK.

posted by goo 21 February | 05:10

Peter Sellars, too.

posted by matthewr 21 February | 07:48

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