Upper-class Accent Examples
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Published 2020-12-13
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0:00 Prince Charles accent
0:11 Lord Sumption accent
0:33 Jacob Rees-Mogg accent
0:59 Boris Johnson accent
1:22 The Duchess of Cambridge
1:38 Tilda Swinton
1:48 Emma Watson
2:01 Phoebe Waller-Bridge
2:19 Tom Hiddleston
2:39 Benedict Cumberbatch
2:53 Rose Leslie
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All Comments (21)
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My phone just got colonized.
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My cat suddenly started pouring her self a glass of red wine while I played this....
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I don't understand why ordinary English people don't like upper-class posh English. I find it very pleasant to hear and easy to understand.
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The articulation, carefully chosen vocabularies and sentence structure… this is music to the ears
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As a non native English speaker. The upper class man English accent is more understandable than any English accent.
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All foreigners: “oh that’s English” Most English: “oh those fancy southerners”
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One of the most interesting pronunciations of these examples is Kate Middleton's "parrents and carrers" (i.e. "parents and carers") - this is a quintessentially extreme upper class affectation that you won't hear from anyone below the very highest level of British aristocracy. It's definitely testament to people's inclination to acquire accents that confer social status even in the upper social strata - her own "parrents" pronunciation is certainly not that rarefied!
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As an Indian, this is the most understandable accent to me💯
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Everyone: (speaks in sophistication, class, refined, pristine) Mr. Bean: Teeeeeeddddyyy...(inaudible murmurs and chuckles)
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Perfectly clear, absolutely elegant, sounds like music.
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These accents are fairly different one from another, but by and large they are very close to my own. However, I am in no way upper class, I am just a man of 71 who managed to acquire an excellent education for free from primary school, grammar school and university, when access was the result of passing examinations, not location or wealth. I was very frugal and saved a good deal of my university grant, that I received as a result of the very low income of my parents.
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I’ll be honest, this is probably the first time I’ve actually heard Princess Kate talk Edit: OKAY I GET IT, SHES NOT PRINCESS KATE. CAN YALL LEAVE ME ALONE NOW. Thanks for the likes btw :)
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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." George Bernard Shaw
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Lovely to listen to, clear and warm.
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So elegant and clear !! Without « you know » in the midle of each sentence !!
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This made me realize that I've never heard Kate talk before. XD
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Surprisingly, they all sound very clear and easy to understand. For some reason, I expected that the more upper-class British person is, the less legible and more ostentatious his speech is.
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As a non-native English speaker, this is the accent that is clearest and easiest to understand.
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As an Indian I could hardly tell whose accent was classier, but one definitely melted in my ears and that was of Tom Hiddleston.......what a voice and perhaps what an accent !!! 😍😍😍
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Don't you just love those crystal clear vowels and consonants.
