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Discussion Groups / English Usage / December 2006Last christmas ...
Hello everybody, yesterday I was once again treated (hm!) to this Wham classic. I find the singer's peculiar pronounciation of "gave" "save" interesting - where is he from? Robert  SignatureWartna dir hilfi... > Hello everybody, > yesterday I was once again treated (hm!) to this Wham classic. > I find the singer's peculiar pronounciation of "gave" "save" interesting > - where is he from? > > Robert He's actually of Greek Cypriot origin, but London born. However, tradition is that British singers sing pop songs with American accents. Therefore the accents you hear in their songs are rarely the same as the ones they would speak naturally. They are likely to be bad attempts at sounding American. Matthew Huntbach >> Hello everybody, >> yesterday I was once again treated (hm!) to this Wham classic. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >the ones they would speak naturally. They are likely to be bad attempts >at sounding American. I agree with all of that, and would add that Sir George Michael once was a great admirer of the Vowel-Mangler General, Sir Elton John, so perhaps he did it in tribute to the Great Man. That said, Sir George's sub-Yorkshire pronunciation of "gave" as "gev" in that song always struck me as particularly weird, as the OP notes. SignatureBrad Germolene >> Hello everybody, >> yesterday I was once again treated (hm!) to this Wham classic. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the ones they would speak naturally. They are likely to be bad attempts > at sounding American. I made the mistake of watching a children's concert on TV last Sunday. Why we were given a concert from NSW, I don't know, but what struck me was that 50% of the music was American, and about the same percentage of singers attempted an American accent. I didn't mind the "hat" for "hot" so much, but "ahsome" was over the top. SignatureRob Bannister |
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