“This is my favorite history podcast — it is academic with cutting edge research but presented in a way that is not pretentious. Okay now I’m going to comment on accents because I’m fascinated by the wide variety of global English accents and dialects and how they affect the listening experience. Eleanor Janega’s voice is uncannily like American actor Emma Stone’s. It is also like my own accent — and it is nice for me to hear another academic woman with a Chicago Area Midwestern accent. It is not uncommon in the US but it is distinctive. (Joan Cusack is another actor with this accent.) Sadly, women all too often have their voices criticized and reading the complaints of Janega’s accent shows this. It may take getting used to after all the Oxbridge speakers but to me it is charming, disarming, and along with her sense of humor it is very entertaining to listen to. I like all the hosts and most guests (when they are not pompous in a way that is off-putting to me) but Janega’s voice (what she says and how she says it) is, to me, a refreshing balance to all the Queen’s English.”
suzd62 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/12/24