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TechFan 38. Now in 3D.

I'm Tim Robertson, and I've got my 3D glasses on.

And I'm David Cohen, and I've got a headache. Hey, Hey, everybody.

Hey there, let's do radio voices.

Hey, I'm Tim Robertson, and I'm joined by David Cohen.

Hey, David.

Hey, there, Tim, how are you?

You know, you kind of lose your British accent when you do that, man.

Yeah, I know.

Why is it that when, not all of them, but a lot of Brits, when they sing, they don't sound British.

And, in fact, I read that the British accent is a relatively new thing within the last few hundred years that it developed that you guys didn't sound the

way you do a few hundred years ago well we've we've got a lot of regional accents that are fairly

strong um and obviously you can cross-pollinate from those much more easily than you can say in

states because we're much closer together you can say in the States because we're

much closer together. You know, it's the way people talk here in Manchester is very, very different

from the way they talk in Liverpool, even though Liverpool is only sort of 25 miles down the road.

So what happened is when the BBC started broadcasting in the late 20s, early 30s, they kind of

developed this very clipped style, which became known as received pronunciation. That's kind of, you know,

the typical very kind of upper class sounding English accent that many people

outside of the UK will be very familiar with. And that then, for a long time,

they wouldn't have regional accents on the BBC.

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