Friday, November 19, 2010

DVD's Accent: Hated by the Daily Mail

So now, as you read a book, when you hear a cockney accent as you imagine how a character sounds, if that accent is poorly done, it's Dick Van Dyke's fault.

Daily Mail, November 18 2010, "OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK" by Amber Pearson.

THE SILVER LOCKET BY MARGARET JAMES (Choc Lit £7.99)

...But Rose has other ideas, and the war ­provides the perfect opportunity for escape when she runs away to London to train as a nurse. It brings her into contact with a ­different life, not to mention some cor-blimey Cockneys (think Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins).


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