Drivers prefer posh for sat-nav.BRITONS prefer posh to parochial when it comes to the accent of the voice on their in-car satellite navigation (sat-nav) system, a survey has claimed. Nearly three in five people said they wanted their sat-nav accent to have an upper-class Queen's English tone, a survey by the CoPilot Live company found. Only 2% of those polled wanted a Brummie accent, with even 35% of Midlanders rating Brummie tones the worst in the country. The second-worst accent was Liverpudlian, with Cockney rhyming slang Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London. Overview Traditional Cockney rhyming slang works by taking two words that are related through a short phrase and using the first word to stand for a word that rhymes with the also seen as a turn-off. People from every part of the UK, including Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, showed their preference for a posh, southern English accent. The second most-popular accent was southern Irish, followed by Scottish, Welsh and Geordie. Dr Bernard Lamb, spokesman for the Queen's English Society The Queen's English Society was founded in 1972 by Joe Clifton, an Oxford graduate and schoolteacher. A letter he had sent to his local newspaper (the West Sussex Gazette) deploring the current decline in standards of English had resulted in so many sympathetic letters from readers , said: "For something as important as getting your directions right then clarity is paramount. What matters most is a form of English that is most understandable by the majority. "It's clearest in pronunciation and clearest in grammatical structure. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , it doesn't have the idiosyncrasies that some local accents and dialects have." |
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