An accents is strongly influenced by an individuals time spent in an elite education institution. In public schools children are, or at least were, taught to speak properly and and were put through elocution classes. This is then carried on to higher education where an accent is established by the student community. Oxford, for example, has an accent.
![Christopher Hitchens - [2007] - 'No Laughing Matter' with Martin Amis](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-5xXDvORf0/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you so much for uploading this Martin Amis interview. He is always worth listening.
“If I dropped dead…” Gone too soon. RIP one of the all time great writers of prose.
you mean you made your excuses and left?
no I made my apologies and stayed.
Ben Hughes I was left astounded by the sheer celerity with which he pulled that one out of the bag.
Year?
"The Wound and the Bow," Edmund Wilson.
An accents is strongly influenced by an individuals time spent in an elite education institution. In public schools children are, or at least were, taught to speak properly and and were put through elocution classes. This is then carried on to higher education where an accent is established by the student community. Oxford, for example, has an accent.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that. Reading back my comments were unnecessary and I am deleting them
he hadn't met her yet when he gave this interview....
@sambar0986 Thank you.
@benhughes163 Yeah, cooly tells the truth.
Pull!!!!!
@scottvska 1993
Good Lord. He was an insufferable pratt even then.