Inventing an Accent

West Country


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This week we head out West and find that a large area of England has what's known as a 'West Country Twang'. 

Distinctive among southern English accents for its rhoticity, West Country suffers some stereotyping in film and media. 

We discuss the distinctive features of this accent: vowel sounds, consonant sounds and intonation. 

At the end of the episode, we each choose a sound from West Country to go into the new accent cauldron. 

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Inventing an AccentBy Joseph Hudson