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
He has acquired an Oxford accent, learned better how to manage a voice that is strong, smooth, mellow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, speaking English with an Oxford accent, he oozed charm and cordiality to the visiting American journalists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Him I first met, talking with an Oxford accent, in the officers' mess of the Black Watch in South Africa.
From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack
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