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From: Andre@shappski.demon.co.uk (Andre Shapps)
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Subject: Re: Differences between American + British english
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Edmund Grimley-Evans (etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
 
: British newsreaders have a weird intonation. If you were to speak like
: that in any context other than reading news, people would think you
: were mad.

Do you know, I really miss Angela Rippon's enunciation of the names
of foreign dignitories (or is it Pamela Stephenson's impersonation
that I'm missing?).

A S
