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England Five - Text

White female, born and raised in Lancashire, moved to London at age 20, and was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when recorded there in 1999. Subject has just faint traces of Lancashire (the 'flat' Northern 'a' for example), but in the main has adopted Received Pronunciation. No trace of America in speech. Sample recorded and edited by Rena Cook.

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