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Old 13th Sep 2013, 10:09
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November4
 
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Complaining that the accents were not correct is a bit pointless when you read in ORAC's link

Among the men recorded was John Hickman, a musician from Bletchingdon, north of Oxford, who experts say has an Oxfordshire accent completely different from that of today
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'Regional accents were much stronger.

'This was a period when you could tell people from one village to another, it wasn't just county to county.'

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