Oxford accent
Britishnoun
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He’s the one with the Oxford accent and amusing tales who hands around the port and cigars while he plots the hero’s demise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
A book published that year, War Propaganda and U.S., noted: "To many upper-class Americans there was nothing so thrilling as having an Englishman around the house, complete with Oxford accent, school tie, and bumbershoot."
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2011
His Oxford accent crackling crisply, Ayyangar appealed to the Security Council to use its "undoubted influence and power."
From Time Magazine Archive
The numbers include On the 18th Day of November, The Captains and the Kings, I Am a Happy English Lad, rendered in a wildly improbable parody of an Oxford accent.
From Time Magazine Archive
How the House of Pryce can offer such bargains is a mystery to the old school of red-necked bookmakers, whose Oxford accent was not pronounced.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various
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