Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
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World Service Radio is even worse, now that they've decided upon this diversity of accents nonsense.

Try listening to the shipping forecast one night, with the West Indian guy . God knows what the the poor sailors make of it, while trying to listen in a force 9 gale.
They should stick to the Oxbridge accent, at least everyone can understand that. It might not be representative of the regional accents the rest of us have, but at least it makes us sound sophisticated to the rest of the world