Posted by Peter Hyland on June 11, 2014 at 12:01:01 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Arthur's voice - NEW START posted by Peter Ceresole on June 10, 2014 at 14:16:10:
A brief footnote to the 'accent' discussion - there is evidence that W. G. Collingwood did not have a Northern accent. He did have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Lake District and there is a story that one day W. G. got into conversation with a local farmer on the train, and when they parted the farmer said "Ye don't look like a north-countryman, and ye don't speak like a north-countryman, but ye know a deal more than ye should." (A Lakeland Saga, by Jeremy Collingwood, p. 45). The story does not reveal what accent W.G. actually had - maybe it was like AR's. W. G. had travelled extensively in Scandinavia, so maybe he had adopted RP at that time. (Not that any of this matters . . .)