Is having a posh accent a new ick?
by Katie Rosseinsky
Feb 15, 2024
3 minutes
There are few experiences more shudder-inducing than having to listen to a recording of your own voice. Something to do with the way we hear vibrations through our bones when we talk, versus the way we hear air-transmitted sounds, apparently. But for judge Prue Leith, the exact source of the cringe is more specific: her clipped RP tones. “Oh, I hate my voice,” she in an interview with . “It’s too posh. When I replaced Mary Berry on someone on Twitter said: ‘Oh no, not that posh b***h,’ and I sort
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