There should be one. I'll re-add it now.
You may never become a Time Lord — but least you can learn to write in their elegant, intricate language. There's no "official" lexicon to the circular Gallifreyan script we've seen in Doctor Who, but Loren Sherman has a guide to writing in it. It looks cool, and it can be your own private code.
Yeah, I was born and raised in SoCal, and I tend to think of our accent as being very generic, too. But the "the 5" thing is the best way to figure out a SoCal person from someone else. It's like how I can tell that someone's from the northeast (NYC in particular) if they stand "on line" rather than "in line."
That's one that's the opposite of cot-caught, since I can't see how they'd be the same. I think this video may be the best way to hear a number of examples of how those are pronounced differently:
This music parody video from wekejay of Justin Timberlake's "Suit and Tie" has a ton of good in it: a spot-on Tony Stark, an excellent merging of the set from the original Timberlake video and the Stark Expo from Iron Man 2, Rhodey's guest rap...
I think I remember reading somewhere that "military base" was its own accent, usually considered one of the most generic because it comes out of a place with a lot of different accents and (sometimes) languages.
If I really focus, there's a slight difference in how I pronounce them, but mostly they're the same.
I 100% agree with this! Given Wendy's reaction to her time in Neverland and Neal's speech, it is totally a Darling/Darling offspring situation. Wendy is to the "Home Office" as Queen Victoria is to Torchwood.
The machine's glitching out during the usual beginning monologue was really great, too. It was like when the X-Files used something other than "The Truth Is Out There" in the opening credits.
