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This is not about accents alone, but about Eng;ihs language as a whole...The report says the UK needs to abandon its outdated attitudes to English and embrace new forms of the language to maintain its influence in the global market, the leftwing thinktank Demos said today.
It says the UK should focus English teaching on how the language is now used around the world, "not according to arcane strictures of how it should be spoken and written".
This is despite the fact that Tiffany Roberts, 61, has never been to Britain. Her accent is a mixture of English cockney and West Country.
Doctors say Mrs Roberts, who was born and bred in Indiana, has a condition called foreign accent syndrome.
Really! the things you get on the web is astounding...here someone is actually telling you how to fake a Brit accent...
Unfortunately, fake accents don’t impress for long. You can live abroad all your life and still never be taken, after a few minutes’ conversation, for someone born in the land
