It is not common to use the phrase "proper accent" in written English.
Instead, it would be more appropriate to use words like "correct accent" or "accurate accent." However, here is an example of how you could use "proper accent" in a sentence: "She worked hard to perfect her pronunciation and add the proper accent to each word."
ANOTHER debate concerned the proper accent for Aubrey.
The proper accent could be the difference between success and failure.
"Yeah, some customers call it pizza GAYN-a here," said Louis Faicco, articulating its alias with the proper accent.
She has become the face of Highclere as her husband devotes himself to the less-glamorous operational side of running this vast estate, and speaks with the proper accent of a countess and the numeric frankness of a chief financial officer.
He had no snowy memories, no castles, no wild cherry trees, no sound stone houses with polished brass and roaring fires, no Halloween, no ghosts or witches, no legends of his own going back to the morning of the world, no proper accent, like the people there.
(Whereas Shaw wanted Mrs. Warren to reveal her working-class roots through slips of the tongue, Jones speaks with a Cockney accent most of the time, and this works, largely because you can see the pleasure she takes in Vivie's more "proper" accent, even when what she's saying is hateful).
But given the expertise with which Schubert set the Hebrew text, it seems likely that Sulzer transliterated it for him and perhaps coached him on the proper accenting.
Patrick McGrath, who was actually born in Britain, did all the proper accents ("I've lived here for a long time, but I'm still fluent in both languages")., and said that he found it much easier than reading his own work.
The same solution could be ascribed to any further period adaptations of this kind: Alan Furst's 1933-45 norels, or Philip Kerr's eminently filmable Bernie Gunther series, for which I offer this simple yet radical solution: just give it to the Germans, cast Christoph Waltz, and let them get on with it in their own proper accents.
A proud Londoner with a proper cockney accent, Burke is a heroic smoker and swears like a navvy.
