Word of Mouth: Multicultural London English (R4 2 Oct)

[Serial_Apologist]

I just caught up with this fascinating programme, broadcast on Radio 4 last Tuesday, which was introduced by the wonderful Michael Rosen. While it may not provoke much discussion here, if any at all, I thought people might be interested to hear the podcast:

https://player.fm/series/word-of-mouth-1301275/multicultural-london-english

[gradus]

Thanks for this, really interesting, I'd not heard of MLE before, actually I thought they were saying Emily until the penny dropped!
On a slightly different tack, The London Sound Survey contains many fascinating speech recordings going back to the early 1900's and is well worth dipping into: https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/
Years ago I remember a demonstration on R4 by a gifted film studio dialect coach on the evolution of American English, in which he added in stages West Country English, Scots and Irish on a sentence, ending up with American. Quite a party-piece.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for this, really interesting, I'd not heard of MLE before, actually I thought they were saying Emily until the penny dropped!
On a slightly different tack, The London Sound Survey contains many fascinating speech recordings going back to the early 1900's and is well worth dipping into: https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/
Years ago I remember a demonstration on R4 by a gifted film studio dialect coach on the evolution of American English, in which he added in stages West Country English, Scots and Irish on a sentence, ending up with American. Quite a party-piece.

Thanks for the London Sound Survey link, gradus. I'll check that later. A couple of months ago I linked to clips of rural dialects recorded at the turn of the 20th century and reproduced on 78s in the 1920s, and it received no response whatever here! Re American English, I'm more and more hearing Scots accents as being the strongest forbears, oddly enough.