Flippancy aside, what’s the root of the tendency for people with RP accents to believe they don’t have an accent? The BBC?
With me it’s just my solipsistic only-child syndrome, but there must be other reasons.
I think the media in general. BBC Breakfast, Sport and 5 Live now based in Salford but rarely does a proper Ordsall scally get any airtime.
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Flippancy aside, what’s the root of the tendency for people with RP accents to believe they don’t have an accent? The BBC?
With me it’s just my solipsistic only-child syndrome, but there must be other reasons.