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All the staff you interact with have been to the same handful of British public schools (ie private fee schools) so you never have to talk to someone who is ignorant of precisely your standing in the British class system and they will all speak with comforting RP, follow the cricket, and drop an occasional Latin phrase into the conversation. Banking service is basically as shite as all the rest. [source: I ran a company that for very strange reasons ended up having to use them for business banking services]



"RP" explained for oiks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation

Think William Reece-Mogg, not Dick van Dyke.


> Think William Reece-Mogg

FYI not sure about other countries, but Americans don't know who the fuck that is.


Name's misspelt, it's Rees-Mogg. This is his son, same speech pattern they're talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uCHNaNbmU


"There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!” ― Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady

https://youtu.be/t8zhp699FXg?t=110


And yet there are places in America whose regional accents are closer to English was at the time those places were settled than Britain is now.

Even more ironic is that My Fair Lady is an American film based on a play by an Irish Brit (George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion).


I think it's ironic that language which is used as the primary form of communication for one's whole life still requires training in University.

Perhaps there truly is no such thing as proper English.


Partly because his name is actually Rees-Mogg


More Jacob Rees-Mogg than William - it’s important that there be absolutely no discernible substance, skill or wit behind the voice.


Agreed. Looked him up and sti ll don't know who he ism




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