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Christanford Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

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00I would really love to have Edmund's accent and was wondering if anyone could state some features of that accent for me.02br
00Here's an interview of the actor, Skandar Keynes.02br
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00And for some reason my browser cannot display some of the phonetic symbols. Does anyone know if I have to download anything to read them?02br
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0That what I call a "British accent that doesn't sound awful, affected, formal", so an accent that I like. Good choice! 05000 The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T's.

— Kooyeen

  • 0That what I call a "British accent that doesn't sound awful, affected, formal", so an accent that I like.
  • Good choice!
  • 05000 The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T's.
  • And T's are not pronounced at the end of a word either.
  • The other consonants are not released too much at the end of a word either.
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0That what I call a "British accent that doesn't sound awful, affected, formal", so an accent that I like. Good choice! 05000 The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T's. And T's are not pronounced at the end of a word either. The other consonants are not released too much at the end of a word either. That way, you don't get a "A little bit" pronounced like it
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0Thanks for answering050010id2
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10That way, you don't get a "A little bit" pronounced like it's a series of spits, but you get "11b10A li(t)l bi(t)12b10".12blockquote
10Your comment reminded me of something I listened to a couple of weeks ago. 02br
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0I don't know whether some call it lazy or not, but I know it's a feature of several accents (also Scottish?). And yeah, I think I heard that young people are switching to glottal stops even in areas where they wouldn't be expected to pick up that feature. Go figure. 050010id1
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0Does anyone say "battle" with a glottal stop?02br
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