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> Coo!
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> I wonder if he picked it up off the World Service? I recall meeting a
> German once, who spoke very good English like many Germans do. Not
> only did he speak it with no trace of a German accent (unusual)), but
> he spoke it with a very, very proper accent indeed - just like BBC
> World Service announcers. So I remarked that it sounded like he'd
> learnt English off the BBC World Service. Turned out he had.
>
> (a bit like the Indian medical researcher I met in one lab years back.
> *HE* sounded (and appeared in other ways - dress, demeanour, the lot)
> like a pukka English upper crust type - English public school and then
> Oxford, you know? I mentioned this curious thing to the Dutch chap in
> the lab. Turns out he *had* been to an English public school
> (Winchester, IIRC) and then Oxford. Every other Indian type I'd met
> up until then had either spoken in the same way I did on account of
> having been born and raised in the same area as me; or with a bit of ...
