Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Accents. Date: 31 Oct 2025 19:41:52 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <68ea7364$0$12948$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <68eb8c02$0$24822$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10d0f0e$1u8bd$1@dont-email.me> <68f40083$0$28050$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20251020092029.000020b3@gmail.com> <68fcc773$0$417$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10djhg8$3kg9d$5@dont-email.me> <10donsh$17dho$6@dont-email.me> <10dp2m1$1ctkt$1@dont-email.me> <7jtMQ.876831$7Ika.50088@fx17.iad> <4luctlxlmi.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10e1rt5$b3bl$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QPj0ldI6ElOIjllYqYXtOAAsrey8bwDfdZ7BPj7vwJfXfJMSE0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7T8rNhdAAIaMFkiyiMibUtMmLzE= sha256:gH4iWrVTZBMMm2X0x8L+o812Ejd2IGZ4oL9lgPXaEcM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76872 On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:27:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> Sometimes the misunderstandings are amusing. I watch some British >> police or crime shows and often the head honcho is a woman who they >> address as 'Ma'am'. As far as I'm concerned they are calling her Mom. >> > Marm. As in 'Marmite' No 'r' sound that I can detect although I think I have heard the 'r' creeping in on other shows. It's like the relatively recent affectation in the US Army of pronouncing 'sergeant' as 'sarnt'. >> Some of the British actors also do something with 'murder'. It isn't >> quite 'murther' but there is more than just 'd'. > > That sound Scots or Irish. May well be. Henshall does it and he's a Scot. I think it's his natural accent and not something he was doing for the Shetland series. It's hard to tell with actors. I've heard Ray Winstone with an almost unintelligible accent and sometimes without. I think his natural accent is the former.