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[quote=Anonymous]I agree, as above, and think 'endearing' is a good word.  I don't know if 'bigoted' is quite right, though, because she's upper class.  Just the knowledge of  her ancestors, however wrongheaded it seems in retrospect, given the British exploitation of Ireland, is very distinguished and she wrote the book about the Trevelyans.  Honoured by Queen Victoria, so she came from posh even if the accent isn't super-obviously posh like Joanna Lumley's (whom I love.)

Slightly off-topic on the matter of accents and usage and intonation, it seems that all Brits use the 'r' as an elision.  I'm watching Trevelyan right now and you definitely hear instead of "obama administration', but rather 'Obamar-administration'.  I wonder why this is so universally accepted.  I first heard it in an old Beatles song, one of them sang "There were birds on the hill, but I I never sawr them winging..."  I just looked up the lyrics and they even write it out as 'sawr'!  Wouldn't have thought that, and that's usually not done, even if always in speech.

I like all sorts of British accents, from Cockney to the Queen's English. Even Australian accents have their charm, and the New Zealand ones I've heard are quite unusual.[/quote]

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