22 July 2008

American actors, British accents

British actor Hugh Laurie still stuns a lot of native speakers with his impecable American accent when he plays grumpy Dr. House on TV. But how good are Hollywood stars when they need to put on their best British accent? Here's an L.A. Times article that analyzes some of the best - and worst - accents in recent years.

3 comments:

alesum said...

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Hugh Laurie id good actor. I have seen very few film of him. So I didn't know very much about him. But I will love watching his films.

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I don’t suppose I have read anything like this before. So nice to find somebody with some original thoughts on this subject