Sounds Appealing Quotes

“It’s often thought that the only function of pronunciation is to facilitate intelligibility; but it is also there to express personal or group identity.”
― David Crystal, Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

“Intonation is the use of pitch to convey meaning in a language. It has been described as the music or melody of speech.”
― David Crystal, Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

“Mixed accents are the norm these days. Even if you don’t travel, you’re not immune from accent shift. Innumerable voices enter your home every day through radio, television, the telephone, and the internet.”
― David Crystal, Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

“Old attitudes die hard, of course, and there will still be those who mourn the passing of the days when a single accent ruled the British airwaves. But they are a steadily shrinking minority.”
― David Crystal, Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

“The news isn’t all positive in relation to regional accents. There are pockets of resistance to the general trend, some quite influential. A report in the Independent (7 March 2017) was headed: Banking jobs denied to young people due to having ‘wrong accents”
― David Crystal, Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

“The reality is that accent distinctiveness is nothing to do with physical environment, but a result of the combination of regional and social factors that have influenced the emergence of a particular community.”
― David Crystal, Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation