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Many of the statesmen in history to whom actors ascribe smart southern accents were in fact proudly northern.
But then, the Scots played the dominant role in early Victoria, and there are many oatmeal accents to be heard here these days.
Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, debuting as a Broadway actor opposite Marisa Tomei, "should be humiliated" by his performance (Vincent Canby, the New York Times ). His faults are said to range from the small (he can't render accents) to the large (he exhibits the "charisma of a week-old head of lettuce," says the New York Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole).
SIX Accent variety and the mass media SEVEN The accents of politics EIGHT Changing patterns NINE Accents and the future
News services that drop umlauts might deserve some sympathy; given the isolation of North Americans, the assumption is easily made here that the umlaut is an extraneous character that can be dropped—as accents in French often are when French words are transcribed into English—without doing bodily harm to the word in question.