Actually I don't think this is particularly posh - compared to the announcers from say the fifties and early sixties - I think it's just that we've become habituated to Estuary English and come to think that clear and logical enunciation must automatically be a class identifier.
@@ontheisland11 No, not as posh as the 50s, but even the early 60s videos seem to sound strange now. There was a definite change when the BBC and ITV made a point of getting presenters with Northern and other accents in the late 70s maybe.
Just nine days before my eleventh birthday. Less than two months away from leaving junior school!
Ah the good old days when people wanted to work......
Interesting how upper class the newsreaders now sound, at the time they seemed to have fairly ordinary accents.
Actually I don't think this is particularly posh - compared to the announcers from say the fifties and early sixties - I think it's just that we've become habituated to Estuary English and come to think that clear and logical enunciation must automatically be a class identifier.
@@ontheisland11 No, not as posh as the 50s, but even the early 60s videos seem to sound strange now. There was a definite change when the BBC and ITV made a point of getting presenters with Northern and other accents in the late 70s maybe.
Viewers in England always turn it away from NI coverage