Elleecooshun could be just about getting youngsters to open their mouths and pronounce their words properly. Mumbling and y’knowing makes even the clever ones sound thick.
Accents and dialect can be misleading. I once watched a TV programme about flying dinasours, and one of the people on it was a pretty girl called Cherry somthing-or-other who sounded like a refugee from East Enders. It turned out that she was a professor of Paleontology and the leading authority on the subject.
Wheel Nut:
limeyphil:
i’ve been watching the news today, and they are going on about the growing number of people taking elocution lessons.
as a lorry driver i get about quite a bit, and i find the different accents a part of our culture, so why do so many people want to change the way they talk?
within 2 hours from my house, i can find a barm cake, a cob, and a roll. which are all the same thing.My mates daughter said something similar yesterday, she works in a call centre and her remit was to cold call numbers in Bradford, she said she couldn’t understand 90% of the accents
Aye fink everywun shud tork lyke me an usse resieved pronouncessation
With regards to cold calling, they’ve started randomly calling people know to ask on the off chance if they’ve had a car accident recently so they can recommend personal injury lawyers for no win no, fee work. WTF? 
I think they should make large scale cold calling illegal myself, apart from anything else it must be the most soul destroying job in the world.
“You want this mate?”
“NO”
“Oh, Ok, bye”.
Silver_Surfer:
With regards to cold calling, they’ve started randomly calling people know to ask on the off chance if they’ve had a car accident recently so they can recommend personal injury lawyers for no win no, fee work. WTF?I think they should make large scale cold calling illegal myself, apart from anything else it must be the most soul destroying job in the world.
“You want this mate?”
“NO”
“Oh, Ok, bye”.
I dont think there is anything random about it, I recon there buying info from the insurance companies. 
My lad had an accident a couple of years back, nothing serious just a shunt caused by inexperience but within a few weeks we had several call’s asking about the accident and if he needed a personal injury lawyer.
Yeah, some of it is probly focused using intel but this call I had was just random out of the blue,
“That accident you had a few weeks ago Mr …?” "
“Nowt to do with me”
“OK, bye”
Santa:
Elleecooshun could be just about getting youngsters to open their mouths and pronounce their words properly. Mumbling and y’knowing makes even the clever ones sound thick.
And parents trying to get their offspring to stop talking Estuary English or sounding like some Gangster Rapper from East LA when they live in a really nice detached house in Surrey and mummy takes them to school everyday in her 4x4.
Santa:
Accents and dialect can be misleading. I once watched a TV programme about flying dinasours, and one of the people on it was a pretty girl called Cherry somthing-or-other who sounded like a refugee from East Enders. It turned out that she was a professor of Paleontology and the leading authority on the subject.
That probably another reason for some people feeling the need to have Elocution lessons, there is a good chance that despite all the education in the World you wouldn’t get a job because you sound like a reject from Eastenders or you sound like you’ll be asking to have 4 weeks holiday in the summer to get the harvest in.
It a shame that we just assume somebodys abilities because of the way they speak or look.
LandyLad:
Don’t forget a batch, a bap and a teacake…BANNOCKS… stotties… barmcakes and rolls
John
Limeyphil shows his true colours again, elocution has nothing to do with accent or the difference between the names of the same things in different places , its all to do with pronunciation,
Yeah, that told him.
Come on Phil, try harder for heavens sake.
oldsid:
Limeyphil shows his true colours again, elocution has nothing to do with accent or the difference between the names of the same things in different places , its all to do with pronunciation,
Received
oldsid:
Limeyphil shows his true colours again, elocution has nothing to do with accent or the difference between the names of the same things in different places , its all to do with pronunciation,
accent has everything to do with elocution.
you are quite clearly of very low intelect, trying to look smart behind a keyboard, but i’m afraid, you make as much sense as dog turd on smack.
limeyphil:
oldsid:
Limeyphil shows his true colours again, elocution has nothing to do with accent or the difference between the names of the same things in different places , its all to do with pronunciation,accent has everything to do with elocution.
you are quite clearly of very low intelect, trying to look smart behind a keyboard, but i’m afraid, you make as much sense as dog turd on smack.
I,ll try harder 
oldsid:
limeyphil:
oldsid:
Limeyphil shows his true colours again, elocution has nothing to do with accent or the difference between the names of the same things in different places , its all to do with pronunciation,accent has everything to do with elocution.
you are quite clearly of very low intelect, trying to look smart behind a keyboard, but i’m afraid, you make as much sense as dog turd on smack.I,ll try harder
good lad, you need to. 
My mates daughter said something similar yesterday, she works in a call centre and her remit was to cold call numbers in Bradford, she said she couldn’t understand 90% of the accents
nowt to do wi’ accent, probably speaking Urdu
There’s nothing wrong with received pronounciation.
I don’t see why folk get so high and mighty over their accent.
Red Squirrel:
There’s nothing wrong with received pronounciation.
I don’t see why folk get so high and mighty over their accent.
Mancunian and proud of it! 
only scousers need electrocution lessons!
