Posted by Peter Ceresole on June 05, 2014 at 22:53:39 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Arthur's voice posted by Peter Hyland on June 05, 2014 at 09:00:41:
W. G. Collingwood was born and bred in Liverpool ! No doubt he had lost any accent by the time he was at Oxford. However, it is possible that his three daughters had a slight north country accent.
Liverpool was a major port city, earlier made rich in part by the slave trade, and it would have a substantial middle and upper class, all of whom would have had what we would consider pretty cut-glass accents. Remember the saying 'an Englishman wears his caste mark in his mouth'. Class would transcend everything, including geography.