Sentence examples for school accent from inspiring English sources
He had a grammar school accent".
Best known for portraying Boy George in the Broadway musical "Taboo," Mr. Morton has a lovely way with both a posh prep school accent and an epigram.
Their first meeting was awkward - Sassoon, seven years older and already an established poet, patronised the younger man and later referred to Owen's "embarrassing... grammar school accent".
Smith will probably be disappointed to have added only 24 to his overnight total of 40, but after conquering Thursday night's nerves he did enough to suggest that his batting is not as out of place in the team as the public school accent which makes him the butt of humour in a dressing room allegedly full of gritty northerners.
It is to the Tory leader's credit that he is more aware than many of his party that there is scant appetite in Scotland for listening to lectures about their future from the English, especially English Tories and even more so southern English Tories with a private school accent.
Millican is also responsible for the university's slogan – "Reach for the Stars" – and for the two key principles of the school, "accent on excellence" and "accent on the individual".
The Mail followed up that feature with one headlined "From cricket to the catwalk to Westminster, public school accents are back: We reveal Britain's 50 most powerful posh people under 30".
Mokni, or rather Mockney (mock Cockney), is a product of the dot-com boom in late-20th-century London: a faux working-class dialect spoken by wealthy Britons who affect that they are self-made successes from hardscrabble origins, and who must therefore obliterate all remnants of public school accents or Dad's trust fund.
She has a Brahminish, boarding-school accent but a down-to-earth steely determination.
"I know, it's a bit over the top," another son, Billy Soufraki, told me in a British boarding-school accent.
Her boarding-school accent is gone now, replaced with a faintly Southern one; only certain word choices, such as "disorientated," hinted at her far-flung past.
