A A Gill on James Nesbitt playing Dr Jekyll, in the Sunday Times

[devi]

"I suspect the Irish accent has a lot to do with the success of his characterisation. It is a Jekyll-and-Hyde voice. He's blarney and craic and Terry Wogan, but also the voice from behind the balaclava, the code-word warning and sectarian bile."

Wait, what?

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[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

I suspect that AA Gill also bemoans the "regional" accents on the BBC and longs for a return to RP and dinner jackets.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. No one talks properly these days, do they?

Mind you, the people back home who say "the English spoken in Dublin is the best English" are almost as bad. Best by whose standards? Their arbitrary ones? One of them was a linguistics lecturer, for goodness' sake.

[cpio.livejournal.com]

Story bud, Dublin English is bleedin rapid, wha!

As for Sir Terry Wogan, he's Irish now is he? Who'da thunk it.