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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:10:35 +0200, clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
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>This reminds me of a famous TV show that's traditionally repeated over
>and over again every new year's eve in German television - an old
>black-and-white recording of a sketch played by Freddie Frinton and May
>Warden somewhen somewhere, called "Dinner for One". Virtually every
>German knows the dialogues by heart. One of Frintons lines, playing a
>butler, is "Would you like some fruit"? - where he pronounces the
>"fruit" exactly like that.
>
>So no, she's not the only one - even respectable English butlers apear
>to be mispronouncing it at times... or maybe that's the /right/ way to
>pronounce it?
>
Well Christoph, the British upper class pronounce things in their own way. The
Guardian's cartoonist's Steve Bell does a wonderful phonetic rendition. An
example can be found at the Monday May 26 link at
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stevebell/index.html#
I know the film you mean, funnily enough it was a German programmer who told me
about it about 10 years ago.
The same as last year. :D
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Regards
Stephen
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