[78-L] Accent you hate^

[Michael Shoshani]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 18:55 +0100, Julian Vein wrote:

> Bette Davis's cockney accent should be placed in the Hall of Infamy 
> alongside Dick Van Dyke's in "Mary Poppins" and Orson Welles's Irish 
> accent in "The Lady From Shanghai"! You can add Tom Hank's indeterminate 
> one in "Forrest Gump".

All I can think of when reading about accents is Rose Tyler's exchange
with the (Mancunian-accented) tenth Doctor:

"If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?"
"Lots of planets have a North!"

MS