Elko Tchernev wrote:
>     Very interesting. This contradicts my experience (but what do I know 
> ;) that when singing, accents become indistinguishable. Are you guys 
> sure you can tell a British accent from an American one when listening 
> to /singing/ (not spoken portions of the song, but actual full throated 
> singing)?

Just compare Herman's Hermits to the Beatles.

Or (from a time /before/ the Americanization of practically everybody), 
compare Al Bowlly to Bing Crosby.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in 
their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is 
suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has 
become full of /Pooh./"
   -- Frederick Crews.  "Postmodern Pooh", Preface
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