That one line in the Beatles song "Paperback Writer" --
"it's a dirty story of a dirty man" --
why does that sort of crack me up every time?
Maybe it's because the line itself sounds kind of distasteful -- not very nice. But the way they pronounce it with their English accents makes it sound elegant and dignified.
"It's a deh - tee story of a deh-tee mahn..."
haha
To my American ear, any British accent pretty much sounds like total sophistication, right? But actual people in the U.K. would hear a variety of accents and they could then pinpoint where each person belongs in their British "class system."
It's like that movie -- My Fair Lady.
You can watch that and totally learn about their whole class-yadda, which is about organizing society, I guess, and enjoy it as pure entertainment as well.
Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
Hear a Cornishman converse,
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat....
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