On Jun 25, 2:10=A0pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:57:36 GMT, Amy Guskin 
> wrote:
>
> >How is that? =A0Is anybody watching it? =A0Has Billie Piper dropped the =
Estuary
> >English for the role?
>
> >I don't get Showtime, but I'm on some of their mailing lists, and just b=
efore
> >this show started airing they sent me an offer to preview the first two
> >episodes. =A0But the link didn't work (and yes, Mac user here, but I did=
 check
> >it on my Windows PC as well). =A0So I haven't managed to see any of it.
>
> Speaking of English, is anyone else bothered by the BBC's
> democratization of accents? It's very cute and all, but it doesn't
> seem convincing in the case of the Doctor, who is, after all, a lord
> of sorts and an educated man. More to the point, half the time, my
> poor American ears can't make out what the characters are saying!

An Englishman's way of speaking
Absolutely classifies him
The moment he talks
He makes some other Englishmen despise him
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
Oh why can't the English learn to
Set a good example
To people whose English is painful to your ears
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
There even are places where English completely disappears
   In America they haven't used it for years
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