Is there any other kind?
Are there even classes in "speaking posh’ on this side of the Pond?
pretty harsh… he’s a fucking Tank Engine…
Oh, come on, let’s give ourselves more credit than that. If you can’t tell the difference between the Queen and a Cockney fishwife, you’re not paying attention. I may not be able to tell a Scouse accent from a Mancunian, but I can certainly distinguish both from BBC English.
chowder, is the accent your friend has considered to give off a “Chav” vibe?
To illustrate that I am not unique in this, I can point to at least one Frasier episode where Roz thought Daphne’s shlub brother was ‘classy’ because of his British accent. The point of the joke was that it was a very ‘unclassy’ type of British accent, and she had no idea.
Along with the joke that all Daphne’s family were supposed to be from the same place, yet had completely different accents.
Great idea! I’ll do the “sounds a bit like Ewan McGregor”, and you southern lot can do the cast of Eastenders! Of course, we’ll also need a “Stephen Fry”, a “Jimmy Nail”, a “Ricky Tomlinson”, a “Noddy from Slade”, a “Wurzel”, and an Alan Partridge!
'ecky thump!!
I think Rose from the new Doctor Who has the accent in question.
She doesn’t. She’s from Swindon. Poor love.
Who cares where she’s from?
She is still as fit as a butchers dog.
Oh yes, the best thing to come out of Swindon since the M4.
Not lately 
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What? We get it on PPV, okay?
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I can’t say I ever came across any Maoris who spoke a different version of English to the one I spoke, but the South Island of New Zealand was never really noted for being the Cultural Centre of Maoridom, so it’s quite probable that Maori English was a “North Island Thing” that never really crossed Cook Strait…
Well, what the hell do I know? I’m just a 3rd generation Northern California dude. All I know is Rose says stuff like “somefing” and “innit”.
Indeed, but all of the teachers are obsessive jerks. :dubious:
Seriously, there are tapes available for teaching various dialects and there are dialect coaches also – mainly in Hollywood and New York.
It stings! It stings! 
I was thinking more like elocution classes where yokels from wherever can lose their old “people think I’m stupid” accents and learn to speak like TV newspeople, except without the exagerated pronounciation of Spanish words.
Wait, is this the Thomas who makes the English muffins? Or muttons?
Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian.
The Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France every Frenchman knows his language from A to Zed.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And the Hebrews learn it backwards, which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English, you’re regarded as a freak.
Oh why can’t the English…
I say, why can’t the English, Learn, to, speak!?