On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 17:58, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As an American, I think Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins have quite > acceptable American accents
AIUI, most people do. I think it's just to their countrymen that they sound artificial. > as does Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama > in Battlestar Galactica). (*Googles*) Oh! Didn't know he wasn't. But apparently his dad's American, so I guess he grew up hearing it. > The funny thing is I just caught an episode > of Hugh Lauie in Masterpiece Theater "Roadkill" and thought he sounds > "less British" than he did in the days of Fry and Laurie. :-) > We have a Wooster, Ohio, but owing to the local rural accent, there's > a "Wooooster/Wuhster" pronunciation split. The local joke is > "Wooster, where the cows say 'Muh'". :-D -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
