 Learning "plummy" accent ???
Around a year or so back, I came across a rather intrigued survey on BBC News about "Nation's Favourite Accent".
According to the survey, Scottish accent were more acceptable for holding management position, along with nation's strong penchant for "plummy" as of Hugh Grant.
Sean Connery was voted to be nation's favourite accent followed by Hugh Grant.
American accent were also liked, especially as of George Clooney.
Accent that people often disliked were Brummie (Birmingham), some Northern accent along with to my huge disappointment, VERY STRONG regional accent like Midlands having its own setbacks in working life.
This made me delved into ways of losing my rather strong East Midland accent. Once I looked into it, I realised the way to do so, is by having good knowledge of Phonetics & once we get to know the sounds & the way it's produced in particular accent, could be the key to learn that particular accent.
After around a year since then, I seem to losen my original Midland accent & have achieved neutral accent now.
However, this one year has got me addicted to Phonetics & now, I seem to have strong penchant for a very neutral accent as of RP, something that I'm still working on.
I, however, seem to have developed a rather keen interest in "plummy" accent, as of Hugh Grant.
Now, the problem is, the easy availability of loads of books & materials on Internet had helped me work towards RP (neutral) accent, however, getting to know more about "plummy" accent & it's sound & the way it's produced has VERY LITTLE availability & hence I'm stuck in my research towards it.
I wonder if anyone could possibly point me in the right direction in working towards gaining my much loved Home Counties' "plummy" accent. Perhaps, someone could tell me more about such accent & share their knowledge about it. At the same time, someone might have some resource they could possibly share with me that could help me enlightening myself further.
Lastly, some linguistic (if there's anyone around) would have precise idea about how do I go about achiving this much desired accent.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  |