He said on his twitter handle, @ YemiShogunle: 'For now, don't go and be speaking
Queen's English with them on the road.
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It was beaten by Northern Irish, which took second place, then Glaswegian,
Queen's English - if that can be described as an accent - then Mancunian and Scouse.
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It may raise some eyebrows but the Essex twang has been rated the sexiest across the UK, in the list put together by Big 7 Travel, followed by Northern Irish, Glaswegian and the
Queen's English.
Accents among UK's sexiest
Ochieng gets
Queen's English all wronPhilip Ochieng is wrong about the use of 'first priority' ("Why 'to give first priority' is utter nonsense, Saturday Nation, April 27, 2019)." He says, "The term common among Kenya's politicians, civil servants and even teachers and journalists is senseless.
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He's better known for speaking the
Queen's English but the Prince of Wales on Wednesday tried out some words of Pidgin as he visited Nigeria's commercial capital.
'How you dey?' ...Prince Charles speaks Pidgin
They should be concentrating on the three R's: learning the
Queen's English, how to speak it and how to spell, how to read and do their basic arithmetic.
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But not only were their apostrophes all over the shop (it is the
Queen's English, but the rest of the family don't want you to mutilate it either), but their offer of "British Airways Royal Wedding Celebrations -- Lounge access for ALL Megan's and Harry's!" also managed to spell the bride-to-be's name wrong.
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ABut a posh,
Queen's English accent, is overwhelmingly the most reassuring.
It ain't what you say it's the way that you say it
During the last decade, and especially post-Brexit, some immigrants have been killed, told to "leave our country", "why don't you speak the
Queen's English?", immigrant bashing, etc.
Is it any wonder that migrants are leaving?
But when, on very odd occasions, I arrived casually dressed to deliver a sample of the my company's products, the greeting was more like "What do you want, you scruff?" It is, perhaps, easy to understand why people are impressed by the
Queen's English but quite why the Yorkshire accent is considered to show more intelligence than the Brummie accent is beyond me.
'Intelligent' Yorkshire accent is a puzzler
Throop said: "They love the
Queen's English - the British accent."
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"They consulted with palace officials whose initial reaction was that the card would be in the
Queen's English. But after contacting the Welsh Language Commissioner's office they agreed to send the card in Welsh."
100TH BIRTHDAY CARD FROM THE QUEEN... IN WELSH
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John Shibley and Thomas Pink of LSSU curate the "List of Words Banished From the
Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness."
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The marvellous wordsmith Ogden Nash said that every time he needed a particular word, he made one up to fit the rhyme: "A panther is a leopard, who hasn't been peppered, If you see a panther crouch, prepare to say ouch, if called by a panther, don't anther." No, not the
Queen's English, then neither was Sarah Palin's "refudiate" but the meaning was readily understood, and isn't that the essence of communication.
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