No Pants Day

"There even are places where English completely disappears;
In America they haven't spoken it for years."
- Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

I will happily accept your apology. What a mess!

Guy, You need to watch more British TV, though you may not get as wide a range of accents as you might wish.

When I'm trying to get an accent right for one of the story narrations here I use this website, The International Dialects of English Archive where there are hundreds of samples of people speaking English aranged geographically.

[url=http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm][/url]

There is a surprising variation in accent even in a small location, probably caused by exposure other voices via TV and radio and travel