Category: Pronunciation

• 3rd Feb 2023

  Duck tape, anyone?

  Occasionally partial to a bit of DIY, I was in Screwfix last weekend looking for tape to finish fitting up a kitchen extractor fan. I couldn’t remember the name of the tape: ‘Gaffer tape, you know, the stuff the baddies use to tape hostages to plastic chairs in the movies. It’s for the extractor fan…
• 23rd Sep 2020

  Surmounting the North-South accent divide

  I’ve never considered myself one for accents and impressions. I grew up with a mixed influence – starting life in a small, nicely spoken Buckinghamshire village before spending my most influential years at a somewhat less well-spoken school near Slough, yet still sounding slightly ‘posh’ at university in the Midlands. The majority of my voiceover…