Luke Thompson

Are you sort of... Do you have any kind of academic background in terms of looking at accents and pronunciation, phonetics, phonology and stuff?

So breaking down accents is more just something you're interested in, just as a hobby kind of thing.

Yeah.

Yeah, but maybe that helps as well, because if you are overly academic in the way that you describe features of accents, then it can start to become a little bit...

alienating for people who are not from the academic world.

So I guess that you kind of like, you do your research and break down different features of an accent, but then you can explain them in a kind of everyday, in layman's terms, which is quite an appealing thing for most people who are not sort of into the academic side of things.

Yeah, absolutely.

So let's talk about the London accent video then.

You break down four different London accents in that video.

Can you tell us about those four accents?

Okay.

Right.

Wow.

A lot of stuff all neatly summarized there.

That's great.

So listeners, you can check out Patricio's video about the four London accents, but also there's a specific video, a couple of videos about MLE as well, where you can hear examples of all those things that he's just mentioned.

I mean, one point that you've made, I've noticed in your videos, and I think you said it earlier on, which is the fact that every accent is a spectrum.

So we talked about RP being a spectrum where on one end you've got the kind of heightened RP that you might hear from very old-fashioned English or upper-class English speakers.

that you might hear on a show like Downton Abbey or The Crown, or even members of the royal family using it, or people from very upper-class, exclusive schools will speak in a certain heightened, posh RP.

And then there's a more standard RP.