Oxford accent
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Many of them come from the Midlands, from Yorkshire, Manchester and Birmingham, sporting their distinct regional accents like badges�it is no longer necessary to affect an Oxford accent to get ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
He speaks "German with a Rhineland accent, French with an English accent and English with an Oxford accent," says his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was undoubtedly pro-English, had been to Oxford, had perhaps a quiver of an Oxford accent in his English; he had studied England, as Germans do, and made considerable research among us.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen
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