Completely agreed. Jack Monroe performing on video going “
duck the Tories”, in her MC generic south-east England accent, at that awards thing finished me - she’s such a metropolitan elite luvvie wannabe.
I’ve got a substantial vocabulary, and in some ways (including my work niche) I’m a hell of a lot smarter than the average bear … but I sound like a cross between Stacey Solomon and Lauren Goodger
so nobody is going to mistake me for anything other than what I am, which is an Essex commoner
(Also, plenty of people in my work sphere don’t take me seriously because of how I sound, and are genuinely surprised when they realise I’m quite clever). Jack has almost the reverse going on, in that, largely because of her accent and flowery prose (IMO), people think she’s far more intelligent than she actually is.