tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post2967984125624428841..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: You can take the girl out of Yorkshire and apparently take the Yorkshire out of the girlDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-38549132620541513982011-06-13T07:03:54.780+01:002011-06-13T07:03:54.780+01:00James Mason, Peter O'Toole and Dominic West ar...James Mason, Peter O'Toole and Dominic West are all Yorkshire folk, though you wouldn't guess it from their accents. Denis Healey was from Keighley, but listening to his Desert Island Discs podcast recently I would never have guessed. <br />And it's interesting to hear how many upper class people (including Prince Harry/Wills) now lapse into a kind of Estuary English, innit?mutikonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013127024190330396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-9409461029411781282011-06-12T08:33:23.935+01:002011-06-12T08:33:23.935+01:00Joan Bakewell underwent a similar transformation w...Joan Bakewell underwent a similar transformation when she went 'up' to Oxf/Camb, I forget which. By her own admission she (seemingly overnight) got rid of her Lancashire vowels (and her <i>factory lass</i> dialect) and ended up speaking like a member of the family Windsor. Caitlin Moran did the same thing to get rid of her West Midlands twang. I suppose it's just an extension to the'telephone voice' syndrome.John Meddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10547777949324509522noreply@blogger.com