10 August 2011
I don’t think I’ve mentioned the Dialect Blog here before. But I’ve been meaning to, and this is a good opportunity. The blog, which is relatively recent addition to the online family of language sites, is a superb one that, as its name implies, deals primarily with questions about accent and dialect.
Yesterday’s post on that blog is about my favorite television show, The Wire, and the flawless American accents put on by British actors Idris Elba and Dominic West in that series. The blog also links to a Language Log post about accents in acting in general. The topic of British actors putting on American accents has come up in the Wordorigins discussion forum.
