As Emma's fortunes shift, it's not unreasonable to imagine her accent moving as well, in the direction she wants it to go, a Yorkshire lilt drifting into the anonymous Received Pronunciation of the British educated classes (it happens).
We loathed the Scottish middle classes, who constantly betrayed Scotland by sucking up to the English, changing their accents, moving south, and generally joining in with those Sassenach bastards.
Pay attention to how people with different accents move their lips differently to yours.
"We need to be constantly knocking down walls," he says in a Scottish accent (he moved south 30 years ago).
There's a trace of an Aussie accent – Mark moved from Australia to London at the age of eight.
As Papageno, Rodion Pogossov sang with a hearty baritone, quipped in a Russian accent and moved with a seasoned comic's rubbery grace.
But Britain presented a glass ceiling to black actors, and so, measuring his improved chances of winning roles against the hindrance of his accent, he moved to the US in his late-twenties.
But when she began to talk, in an unmistakable Bronx accent, she moved and gestured and made jokes and ended by walking around in the audience right up to anyone who asked her a question.
He's reasonable and articulate, and listening to him talk in his beguiling North London accent (Spearman moved to the United States at 18) about granting you "ownership" of your swing, you can't help getting a little excited.
"I want to maintain the British aristocratic accent but move the collection in a more international direction," said Jason Basmajian, former artistic director of the Italian men's wear house Brioni, who was appointed creative director of Gieves & Hawkes early this year.
A young woman with a walkie-talkie and a British accent was moving down the beach, politely asking people — a man with binoculars watching dolphins off-shore, a woman from Iowa with bright red hair walking through the waves — to move off to the side and out of the shot, please, if you wouldn't mind.
