A few weeks ago, Hugh Laurie was a guest on the Craig Ferguson late-night show,
and he was speaking in his "native" tongue, not his actor's Murkin. Ferguson is
a Scot, and it was most entertaining -- at least for somebody who doesn't hear
those dialects all the time.
To my ears, John Cleese doesn't have much of any kind of accent.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:20:19PM +1000, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> > No mate - woman at work who sits next to me. I could have sworn she
> > was a kiwi until we got chatting about her origins. I was somewhat
> > surprised.
>
> Wow... Typical Adelaideans sound a lot more like John Cleese than they
> sound like the people on "Motorway Patrol"... Those guys sound more like
> Tony Greig...
>
> davidt
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