A blogger for the Economist replies: "It's true that Mr Ramsey's accent, word-choice and grammar all suggest a black American without higher education.
Originally from Zimbabwe, he delivered his accented words slowly and cautiously as he described Joyce and the two years they lived together in the early 90s.
When provided with pitch cues (F), children increased utterance-wide peak F0 range (mean = 34.5 Hz) and absolute peak F0 for accented words.
However, attempts are being made by some writers and radio presenters to revitalise its use and the distinctive sing-song accent and many dialect words of Norse origin remain in use.
Bond speaks the classy accent-words, cocksmiths on an unparalleled scale, bleeds the line between cleverness and gadgets, and re-spawns as the masculine ideal of the period thereby guaranteeing an eternity of dude-debates over the pinnacle of testosterone, among a champion's testosterone bracket.
While Japanese does not place stress and accents on words like English does, it does have a pitch accent, making homophones like hashi (bridge) and hashi (chopsticks) sound different.
The parallels between film and reality are perhaps best summed up in zee accent and words of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, himself from the original 1963 "The Pink Panther".
She suggested that when I declare to the audience that I cannot tell a lie, I should accent the words with a crisp salute.
Often the accent cuts words short.
Word accent (also called word stress, or lexical stress) is part of the characteristic way in which a language is pronounced.
My editor in Birmingham sometimes objects to quirks of accent or wording (questioning my use of the word "turlit" for "toilet," a panel featuring pantsing), and the Charlottesville paper recently declined to run a particularly filthy strip called "X-Rated Acts of Tenderness".
