Nigella Lawson and Elizabeth Hurley - their accents?

[nq:1]What is it?[/nq]
Since Nigella's father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, I would call it Upper Received Pronunciation.
But as I'm from Australia and we all talk funny maybe I don't have a clue.

gtoomey

[nq:1]What is it?[/nq]
posh
Adrian

[nq:2]What is it?[/nq]
[nq:1]Since Nigella's father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, I would call it Upper Received Pronunciation.[/nq]
If the accent is supposed to go with the job, something went terribly wrong with the current holder of the office.
(I see your point, though. Apart from Gordy Baby and Jim Callaghan, all the other former chancellors I can think of did have pretty cut-g

Adrian Bailey typed thus:
[nq:2]What is it?[/nq]
[nq:1]posh[/nq]
Elizabeth Hurley's not posh - she went to a perfectly ordinary local comprehensive school in her home town - I saw her teacher being interviewed.

David
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[nq:1]Adrian Bailey typed thus:[/nq]
[nq:2]posh[/nq]
[nq:1]Elizabeth Hurley's not posh - she went to a perfectly ordinary local comprehensive school in her home town - I saw her teacher being interviewed.[/nq]
But is her accent posh?

[nq:2]Elizabeth Hurley's not posh - she went to a perfectly ordinary local comprehensive school in her home town - I saw her teacher being interviewed.[/nq]
[nq:1]But is her accent posh?[/nq]
It's actressy posh rather than upper-class posh.
I was confused at first that I fancied Liz, and also Patsy Kensit, because I'm usually immune to posh totty. But all was explained when I found out

[nq:1]They're actresses on the make (the male equivalents are probably Stephen Fry and Simon Callow); the accent is part of the image.[/nq]
Stephen Fry?!
Just because he served time when still in his teens doesn't mean he didn't start life as upper-middle posh. (I was at Queens with him.)
[nq:1]Never trust anyone who sounds posher than the Queen, is my motto.[/nq]
Bad motto. Whithe

[nq:2]They're actresses on the make (the male equivalents are probably Stephen Fry and Simon Callow); the accent is part of the image.[/nq]
[nq:1]Stephen Fry?! Just because he served time when still in his teens doesn't mean he didn't start life as upper-middle posh. (I was at Queens with him.)[/nq]
Fair enough, but what i meant was that the way he speaks is theatrical posh rather than jus

[nq:1]In fact, I like all four of my selected fakes: Hurley, Kensit, Fry, Callow, bless em. I reserve my derision for the real thing[/nq]
But that's outrageous! That's so true/false! Are you French?
[nq:1]- the Nicholas Soameses and Tara Palmer-Tompkinsonses of this world. (And according to Alan Clark's diaries, true nobs have secret verbal signals by which they recognise each other as gen

[nq:1] In fact, I like all four of my selected fakes: Hurley, Kensit, Fry, Callow, bless em. I reserve my ... (And according to Alan Clark's diaries, true nobs have secret verbal signals by which they recognise each other as genuine.)[/nq]
Perhaps you're referring to this article in the Independent the other day: