Laura Trevelyan's accent
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Anonymous
| On BBC News America Drives me crazy. Half the time I can barely understand her. |
Anonymous
| I can't listen to BBC. For some reason my brain just tunes out when it hears those accents. |
Anonymous
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I do appreciate her career in journalism, her accomplishments, etc and it seems she's earned her right to present BBC News America...however,
having lived for three years in London, and hearing many versions of British accents, she is my personal champion of irritating accents on air. It seems to my untrained ear she is attempting a posh accent, suitable for her position, but cannot for the life of her, get through one sentence, it seems without lapsing into her default through-the-nose, Audrey Hepburn-Liza wailing cockney-sounding, bain of profession Higgins, and teeth rattling, accent. On PBS, the BBC world news America is my go-to TV newscast, but it is all I can do to make it through the half hour without my version of the question: why can't the English teach their children how to speak? Most of your reporters do well, but Laura unfortunatley fails miserably. |
Anonymous
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I don't think it's bad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHv4WWQJEZA Side note: on the video, does the count down clock make sense?? It doesn't!! Never noticed this.... |
Anonymous
| Wow, I looked up her where her accent is from and am relieved to know that I am not the only one to find her voice unlistenable! Ye gods, she sounds like a cross between caterwauling and fingernails down a chalkboard. Poor woman. |
Anonymous
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Gads, I thought I was the only one. I can't stand watching Laura Trevelyan, despite her background of reporting. Her voice, rises and falls making it hard to follow what she's saying, she screeches her vowels like a cat stepped on her tail, maybe having a husband the head of ABC gives her 'diplomatic' immunity and makes her target-proof in her job. I can't bear to watch or hear her speak. She's nice to look at but that's about it.
A resident in Ontario, Canada, a regular watcher of PBS/WNED |
Anonymous
| Well, as long as the little lassie is a grand view. What do you people want? Maybe she should ruin her vocal cords like Lauren Bacall? Really? Her voice? Why aren't any of you critiquing the foul things coming out of certain mouths on the TV here in the US? Oh, sorry, it's not 9 yet. |
Anonymous
She can't be blamed for what he ancestor did. |
Anonymous
| Please take her off the air. Her voice is annoying and her accent is not understandable. Replace her with Jane Obrien. Katty Kay is your top anchor. |
Anonymous
| It's true her accent is crazy awful. It sounds very lower class to me but I know her family is anything but that. Lord why would she be a news anchor? Nutty |
Anonymous
| Laura's accent is a particularly ripe example of what is called "Estuarial English," the accent of the region known as the Thames Estuary, the area covering several counties—Kent, Sussex, Essex, etc—surrounding London. It's not Cockney, but a rather common (in the English sense) lower-middle-class accent. It's quite non-u, darlings, but nowadays rather ubiquitous. It does sound atrocious, and Laura's is particularly egregious, but she's a sweetie pie notwithstanding. Very sexy eyebrows. |
Anonymous
| Her voice is like finger nails on chalk board. Surely there are others who can represent the BBC. |
Anonymous
Dianne Rehm |
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Anonymous
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I am so glad, Laura is not on now. What an awful accent. Please keep her off the air or I have to turn off TV news. What a shame.
GL in Baltimore, MD |