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Subject: Re: George Orwell died (21-1-1950)
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On 1/21/2024 2:55 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
>   Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Aidan Kehoe:
> 
>   >  Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Ross Clark:
>   >
>   >  > [...] Strange fact about Orwell which came to light in a previous
>   >  > discussion: apparently there is no extant record of his voice. This
>   >  > despite the fact that he broadcast many talks on the BBC over a period of
>   >  > years. Perhaps he died too soon after the advent of the tape recorder.
>   >
>   > From his biography (boarding school in Sussex, empire-builder family
>   > background) and from the lack of comment on his accent I imagine he spoke a
>   > normal-for-the-time RP.
> 
> And I’m wrong:
> 
> https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/no-g-men-frank-mcnally-on-the-politics-of-english-accents-1.4483443
> 
>    ‘It was the fashion then among Britain's upper classes to sound less posh
>    than they were, something to which dropping Gs was vital. Not even the
>    highest echelons of society were immune from the pretence. There was for a
>    time an English accent known as "Duke of Windsor Cockney". And among the
>    people accused of having occasional outbreaks of it was a man otherwise
>    famously devoid of affectation, George Orwell.
> 
>    Mind you, Orwell’s accent seems to have been considered odd everywhere he
>    went, including Eton and Oxford. It must have been a product of the
>    empire-governing classes of which he was briefly a member before resigning to
>    become a misfit in other walks of life instead.’
> 



On 1/21/2024 2:55 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
 > --
 > ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
 > How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
 > (C. Moore)


                 --------  what's so funny or clever about this quote???