How to pronounce Talia

Yes, I agree that KM’s accent is markedly different from Morgan’s

See, with these two, the underlying accent (or no accent) is the same to me. They speak the same, but he is more loud, and she is more "posh". Does that make sense? If Morgan was less foghorn, he'd sound akin to KM.

How can you remove an accent? Are you seriously saying you have no accent? I bet if you spoke I could guess roughly where youre from.

"I'd say Kate Middleton has a received pronunciation accent. It's not necessarily linked to a region or location, but it's still an accent.*

That's sort of what I mean. She just pronounces her words properly.

A Glaswegian person speaks words perfectly in a Glaswegian accent. KM speaks words perfectly with no geographical link.

Tah lee ah

Yes, I agree that KM’s accent is markedly different from Morgan’s (he’s done a Prince William with his accent). And Cowell is different again, in the eastern Home Counties split where it has slightly more of an Estuary sound in some vowels.

I can’t bring Freddie Mercury’s speaking voice to mind but it feels fairly safe to suggest that (like me) it wasn’t the accent he was born with.

I'm SW and we pronounce the long 'a' so Barth, farther, grass, arse.

Ok I have said both in my head multiple times and they both sound exactly the same in my head!!

Is it a Yorkshire thing?

Tah-lee-uh or tar-lee-uh

Those would surely sound exactly the same in any English non-rhotic accent? Certainly would for me!

Of course English people have an English accent. Just like Americans have an American accent or the Irish have an Irish accent. Or Scots a Scottish accent.

These are all encompassing terms for people that come from that location. People in America have an "American" accent. People from Scotland all have Scottish accents, but they are eg Glaswegian, or Edinburgh accents, which have very different sounds.

I know what I mean, it's hard to explain. Sort of, that being able to identify someone is English, by their voice, doesn't mean they have an accent. The country isn't an accent within that country?

Tah-Lee-Uh

That makes more sense than adding an R!

To you, sure. To non-rhotics it would make perfect sense.

A little more thought and willingness to bend on both sides is probably needed here. For a non-rhotic, a bit of ‘how will people who pronounce Rs read this?’ For a rhotic, ‘I wonder if there is any chance at all that the poster is one of those many people who don’t pronounce the R at the end of a lot of vowel sounds?’

They live in England. They dont have an accent.

They have an English accent

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@TwinsandTrifle

"They live in England. They dont have an accent. People are confusing location with meaning it has an accent The people I listed don't have one."

Please stop. You're making yourself look more and more ignorant with every post.

Piers Morgan- he's quite interesting as his accent was a lot more RP some years ago. I'd say, but don't know, he's done some voice coaching to be more down with the plebs.

Simon Cowell- normal fairly standard southern estuary. Slips into a bit of a US twang on certain words, only to be expected after spending such lengths of time there.

Kate Middleton- coached since she was born to speak the way she does. Has much more of an RP accent than her husband.

Freddie Mercury- a naturalised British Citizen born in Zanzibar. But, ultimately, standard SE for him too.

And that doesn’t mean no accent, it’s talking about the standard/dominant accent (or the accent historically considered to be standard/proper - strong class overtones here) in the dictionary’s primary market. So an American or Australian dictionary will list different pronunciations; for many words dictionaries list more than one way to pronounce a word.

The people you’ve mentioned are mainly Standard Southern English/RP if you’re taking a modern/inclusive view of RP. There is accent variation between them of course.

RP is an accent, not the absence of one.

@LizzieAnt I appreciate you're not English, so you're answering as if we all sound the same because we're "English" this isn't the case. I asked a specific question regarding well known voices, and you came on to say "I haven't heard of most of them, so I'm guessing they sound like this". With respect that completely glossed over the exact point.

Of course English people have an English accent. Just like Americans have an American accent or the Irish have an Irish accent. Or Scots a Scottish accent.

An accent is a way of pronouncing a language. It is therefore impossible to speak without an accent.

Oh dear.

English people have English accents.

They live in England. They dont have an accent. People are confusing location with meaning it has an accent The people I listed don't have one.

An English person who lives in Norfolk, °could^ have a thick Norfolk accent. They don't have an "English accent" they have a "Norfolk accent."

A strange question...
What point are you trying to make?
That some of them have no accent?
That's just not true, you know. English people have English accents.