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== Subverted and/or Played With == |
== Subverted and/or Played With == |
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This may also sometimes be played to allow the character to speak [[How's Your British Accent?|with their actor's actual accent]]. |
This may also sometimes be played to allow the character to speak [[How's Your British Accent?|with their actor's actual accent]]. |
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=== Real Life === |
=== Real Life === |
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* The astute listener to CBS News could always spot when a particular breaking story had been going on too long: during Election Night 2000, for example, when Dan Rather's assumed [[Network Standard]] accent began seriously slipping out of his control and revealing his Texan roots. |
* The astute listener to CBS News could always spot when a particular breaking story had been going on too long: during Election Night 2000, for example, when Dan Rather's assumed [[Network Standard]] accent began seriously slipping out of his control and revealing his Texan roots. |
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* Similar to the above, [[Supernatural|Jared Padelacki and Jensen Ackles]], who both talk in a generic Midwestern American accent on screen, lampshade their own tendencies to slip into their native Central Texan accents [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5-3HjFa6Q&feature=related win they git tahrd.] |
* Similar to the above, [[Supernatural (TV series)|Jared Padelacki and Jensen Ackles]], who both talk in a generic Midwestern American accent on screen, lampshade their own tendencies to slip into their native Central Texan accents [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5-3HjFa6Q&feature=related win they git tahrd.] |
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** Another strange case from ''Supernatural'', Lauren Cohan. She was born in America but went to school in England, and her natural accent is a mix of the two. She went full British as Bela Talbot, and had one scene where she went full American as a reporter. |
** Another strange case from ''Supernatural'', Lauren Cohan. She was born in America but went to school in England, and her natural accent is a mix of the two. She went full British as Bela Talbot, and had one scene where she went full American as a reporter. |
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* Lyse Doucet, a reporter and presenter who has been with the BBC News servicefor quite some time, was born in Atlantic Canada. She has a very distinct way of annunciating that, when she's reporting for an American or Canadian audience, tends toward US/Canadian news TV standard; sounds more Estuary when she's on the BBC; and is ''nothing'' like the accent she grew up speaking or tends to when she visits her home town in New Brunswick. |
* Lyse Doucet, a reporter and presenter who has been with the BBC News servicefor quite some time, was born in Atlantic Canada. She has a very distinct way of annunciating that, when she's reporting for an American or Canadian audience, tends toward US/Canadian news TV standard; sounds more Estuary when she's on the BBC; and is ''nothing'' like the accent she grew up speaking or tends to when she visits her home town in New Brunswick. |
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