Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!alan From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: British English/American English Message-ID: <1230@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 12:41:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1230 Posted: Wed Aug 1 12:41:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 01:54:36 EDT References: <3012@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 7 < For a really incongruous experience, watch and listen as a beautiful woman speaks Switzerdeutch > I suppose that most everyone has noticed that English singers sing with a decidedly non-English accent. What is it about the English accent that doesn't lend it to song? When Englishmen sing, do they sound more like Americans, Canadians or Australians?