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a young lady i know used to live over there. she says plummy "sounds like money is falling out of their mouths".
so read this out loud.
if there is change around your feet...
No Mark, your laugh was not plummy. How would you describe mine????
I'm not sure why English accents are "plummy" but they are damn sexy.
This whole 'meeting' thing is annoying. It's always London, London, London. Why don't we have a massive meet somewhere central, with name badges?
The name badges probably aren't as important as I made them sound.
From the Book (the OED):
[f. stem of PLUM v. + -Y.]
1) Loose in texture, spongy, porous. Hence plumminess, sponginess, porousness.
Adjective.
1. Consisting of, abounding in, or like plums.
2. fig. a. Of the nature of a ‘plum’; rich, good, desirable. slang or colloq. b. Of the voice, then of sound gen.: thick-sounding, rich, ‘fruity’; indistinct; with bass predominating.
3. Comb., as plummy-voiced adj. Hence plumminess; plummily adv.
1881 Punch 23 July 25/2 The same aged lover was bidding, with rather a ‘plummy’ voice, the More-than-Middle-Aged Heroine ‘good bye for ever’. 1947 Jrnl. Inst. Electrical Engin. XCIV. IIIA 446/1 Such distortions can be tolerated..without serious loss of articulation, though the speech will usually sound rather ‘plummy’ and unnatural. 1951 K. HARRIS Innocents from Abroad 199 The rich, plummy voice of [actor] Edward Arnold. 1955 Times 3 May 14/4 A disc which sounds plummy and muffled in tone. 1965 G. MCINNES Road to Gundagai xi. 197 His voice..was wonderfully plummy and Edwardian. 1970 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 9/5 All India Radiomodelled..on the BBC, even down to the plummy accents of its announcers. 1975 City Press 1 May 16/5 Her duchess on the make is a finely pointed performance, the plummy vowels contrasting splendidly with consonants periodically marred by the lack of false teeth. 1977 Early Mus. Oct. 549/3 The plummy..tone [of Flemish virginals] is evidently more popular than the musically versatile but astringent Italian virginal. 1978 Gramophone Feb. 1439/1 His tone is mellow, but again, as in the Waltzes..the sound sometimes seems a bit plummy and close.
APPENDED FROM ADDITIONS 1993
plummy, a.2 Add: [2.] c. transf. Of a person: having a ‘plummy’ voice; hence, aristocratic, upper-class. Also of places, etc. associated with such persons. colloq.
mark, darling, on your mobile's voicemail you didn't sound plummy. but i didn't get a chance to listen to you pissed. maybe pissed, you become plummy?
wait. what IS plummy.
Was it a plummy laugh, though?
Haven't met you Mark, but since I don't know WTF "plummy" means, I can assure you that I wouldn't describe your accent that way.
For the record, when I was in Winchester I thought that the central Hampshire accent was very pleasant.
Mark, having only met you the once, I would say no you don't have a plummy accent, but then again not much was said. But I did hear you laugh quite alot in the cinema ;o)
I dunno, I just know that I sit next to a girl who would melt if she heard your Noocas-tle accent.
Mr. Bridger!
Maybe Mark should have played him in the new Italian Job film?
I think I can tell all Londonmark's readers, with great authority, that Mark sounds like Noel Coward.
No, *really*.
In answer to 1) here's a great page:
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulleti...ssages/
812.html
I can't answer 2), not having met you. This might be an audioblog opportunity!!!
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