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The Queen's English: changes through the years - Telegraph.co.uk

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:23:24 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

The Queen's English: changes through the years
Telegraph.co.uk
Evidence from a detailed acoustic analysis of royal Christmas broadcasts suggests that Estuary English, a term coined in the Eighties to describe the apparent spread of London's sound patterns to counties adjoining the river, might well have had an ...

Media Bullying Of Roy Hodgson Will Only Guarantee Failure - Football-Talk

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:38:12 GMT

Media Bullying Of Roy Hodgson Will Only Guarantee Failure
Football-Talk
Is it worth pointing out that neither Jonathan Ross nor Roy Hodgson have a lisp, but a phonetically realised /r/ common to Estuary English? Is there anything to be gained from highlighting the incongruence of saying “It will be great if Roy Hodgson can ...

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Are these the best places in Ireland? - Irish Times

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:51:09 GMT

Irish Times

Are these the best places in Ireland?
Irish Times
Here are four of the pitches written by readers WHAT JOY to live near an estuary: watch the changing light and seasons, the ebb and flow of tide. Herons feed in the shallows, waders pick their way awkwardly through mud and weed, banks of cloud build ...

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London Mayor's Race Shapes Up as a Grudge Match Between Ken Livingstone And ... - Daily Beast

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:53:58 GMT

Daily Beast

London Mayor's Race Shapes Up as a Grudge Match Between Ken Livingstone And ...
Daily Beast
Labor's ranks are packed with teenage Trotskyites who morphed into besuited managers, indistinguishable except sometimes in accent and manners from the Tories opposite. Livingstone was an unreformed hard-left socialist, expelled from the Labour Party ...

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Fleet of 'gandelows' race in Shannon competition - Irish Times

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:31:00 GMT

Fleet of 'gandelows' race in Shannon competition
Irish Times
Described by one regatta visitor on Twitter over the weekend as a “gondola with a Limerick accent”, the carvel-sided fishing craft built of yellow pine are similar to the North American “dory”, but are unique to the Shannon estuary.

Despite spring breakers, Cabo San Lucas a paradise that's easy to love - Chicago Sun-Times

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:59:55 GMT

Despite spring breakers, Cabo San Lucas a paradise that's easy to love
Chicago Sun-Times
... to reinforce my biased notions of Cabo San Lucas' reputation as a playground for grating, overgrown frat boys, I caught sight of a slightly overserved man in wet swim trunks greet a woman with the most unfortunate, ahem, Gringo accent: “Mamacita!