When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[Paul Boddie]

Mike Holmans <mike at jackalope.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<pqc3c1515aph9vb930k811ghaf75hs6vj0 at 4ax.com>...
> Some of those sonorous slow talkers from the South, and majestic bass
> African-Americans like James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman, have far
> more gravitas than any English accent can: to us, such people sound
> monumental.

Yes, get James Earl Jones together with some people speaking in
(Standard) British English accents and the impression you get is
almost Imperial...

Paul