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Originally Posted by kit
It's an imitation ' cockney ' ( ie Londoner working class accent ) ,adopted to meld in with the ' crowd ' .
The TV chef , Jamie Oliver , is a famous exponent of this .
A little bit ' higher up the scale accent ' that serves the same purpose in less Hoxton , Shoreditch media-person blagger mode ( eg Hathan Barley ) environments is ' Estuary English ' - eg Thames Estuary English . Politicians like
' Tony Blair ' adopt this when they address ' the common people ' .
There , I've made you even MORE ' flummoxed ' .  |
Oh, like the naked chef guy. I see. Thanks, I like Phoebe and keep thinking she'll take over for Lagerfeld at chanel.