Before even getting to this, I’m forced to speak of accents. The presenter below is from the Texas panhandle, a native, and yet the accent is nothing like the Texan drawl … it’s sharp, northern, maybe midwest, not sure what that sounds like and it is not a speaking circuit or presentation accent. It is sharp, high, difficult to handle in high doses, plus the slurring of words is distinct.

Another like that was that girl Julia James who was on about elegance, which she described as byu-dee. There are some excellent northern accents … I heard a northern US academic once and the cadence was perfect. Same over here … some accents are easy on the ears, some are wearing.

Here’s one girl from here, living in Canada … well you decide on her manner and accent. Not RP, with “gonna”, but southern, with a bit of estuary glottal stop … I find her pleasant, apart from the horrible nose stud.

The thing with Grady below is he does his HW well, even airline people like what he did … he’s an excellent presenter … thus I’m forced, according to the Unherdables charter, to present him.

A bit more on accents … I myself have a mix of southern, a touch of RP, a definite twang but also the ability to counter insomnia … let’s call it that lullaby delivery … and there’ve been many unfortunates sent into deep slumber when I prattle on. Sometimes deliberately.