Sentence examples for correct accent from inspiring English sources

The scene in which Eliza Doolittle appears in high society when she has acquired a correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is one of the funniest in English drama.

Actor Nicholas Lea, who plays recurring character Alex Krycek, worked with a Russian-speaking vocal coach to ensure that his dialogue was delivered with the correct accent and stresses.

But the right accent?

Or if this habit really grates, tell him basta, arrêtez or shimete yo! — giving him one last chance to correct your accent while showing off his.

You fake gratitude when locals "correct" your accent, you don't insult your host country and you endure smug comments about your native land from people who've never been there.

The New Yorker, December 6 , 1941P. 25 Talk story about Alfred Dixon, a former actor, who corrects foreign accents, regional dialects, lisps, stutters, whines, or frogs in the throat.

By Philip Hamburger, Russell Maloney, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, December 6 , 1941P. 25 Talk story about Alfred Dixon, a former actor, who corrects foreign accents, regional dialects, lisps, stutters, whines, or frogs in the throat.

Correct pronunciation and accent is therefore diminished.

Whilst at LAMDA, I trained as hard as humanly possible to correct my French accent.

You should know I only believe you when you're told to me in the correct mad German scientist accent e.g. "INCRREAASE ZE DOSAGE" David O'Doherty, comedian @davidschneider This NASA Mars explorer thing – so is Curiosity Rover it's porn name?

Were these dorks themselves "role models" as broadcasters they might learn to parse syntactically and grammatically correct sentences in comprehensibly accented English.