poopylungstuffing wrote:
I am amazed by his American accent...I keep listening or him to slip up, and he never does...or if he does, it is so subtle that I never catch it.
I have developed a habit of picking apart people's speech (such as noticing subtle lisps that no one else does until I point them out). I love the show House and don't watch it with the intent to find fault, but noticed a slip in at least one episode.
One episode had a elderly doctor as a patient. This patient wanted to die, however House woudn't allow it because he hadn't yet solved the case. As the patient awoke from a House induced coma, House says "Don't go towards the light". From what I have observed, most Americans pronounce the word toward without the w. Hugh Laurie most definitly emphasized the w, pronounced in to-wards.
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