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Published online 21 December 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001221-9
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The Queen's English dethroned
Queen Elizabeth II's accent is drifting towards the common people.
With each passing annus horribilis, Queen Elizabeth II sounds more like some of her trend-setting younger UK subjectswhen delivering her Christmas speech to the Commonwealth, new research reveals.
Jonathan Harrington of Macquarie University, Sydney, and his colleagues have analysed the vowel sounds from every Christmas broadcast made by Elizabeth II from the 1950s through to the 1980s.
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