As a transplanted Brit, I always wonder why they use British actors with phoney "American" accents and vice versa. Drives me nuts. It's not as if there aren't enough people with the correct accent... And I went to the University of Warwick... not related to Dionne...Mike001 wrote: (It was fairly cheap, so I can't complain too much.) Anyway, (among other things) the reader mispronounced Warwickshire. (He said Waw-wick-sh@r.) Now he sounded like an American a trying to "do" an English accent (not badly but not particularly well.) That in itself doesn't matter: I don't think a reader needs to get an accent perfectly. But getting a town name wrong is just such a giveaway. Anyone from Britain, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand is going to know that's not what a native would say immediately -- and I bet many people from the U.S. would know, too. Personal names and placenames are so notoriously difficult, so why didn't he look it up?
Lynne
(other than a general idea that English place names are often not pronounced as they are spelled.) For those of us who have seen these names in print but never hear them spoken -- how would we know?
, sometimes really in a strange way. I probably have tons of cities I do pronounce not really correct but thanks goddess people usually are nice to me and accept it as long as they understand me. Of course I do agree that it is nice to check a word a (professional) reader doesn't know. That's one of the things they get paid for, I think.
