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See e.g. the conservative pundit William F. Buckley Jr, who spoke with a really classic example of this accent (and was alive much more recently than most people who spoke like this):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0d8mzdr4jE

It's such a weird mix of British and American locution. I've never heard anyone speak like this in real life, and they did I would look at them funny.




He had an interesting history. I guess English wasn't his first language. And he spent some time going to school in England in his early teens. I'd guess he came by that fascinating accent honestly. Not quite British, not quite American. And he spoke with a melody, very flowing from one word into the next. It does make him sound a bit aristocratic.


Buckley is one of Robin Williams’s impressions as Genie that I was too young to get. https://youtu.be/RBUSp7LglJg?t=36


He pulled it off better than anyone though


If sounding as infinitely punchable for how he said it as well as what he said is better.




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