Acute accents
WITH UBIQUITOUS broadcaster and BBC poster boy Amol Rajan leading the charge against surviving “posh” accents appearing on the corporation airwaves, we must brace ourselves for the inevitable.
As the career trajectory suggests “Saaf London’s” Mr Rajan will be Director-General by roughly 2029, let us accept without further ado that any remaining hint of unfashionable refinement will have been banished from the BBC before the decade’s out, succeeded by the studied vocal delights of the professional Cockney, Mancunian and suchlike.
◆ STRUGGLING TO COME to terms with the end of the second Elizabethan age, one’s been heartened by any signs of normality in these strange
