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Quintessentially British
I still remember recognising her voice in the ad,
browsing TK Maxx opposite The Guildhall in Windsor,
the script I had proofed the week before:
"Quintessentially British"
her pronunciation, prosody, everything down to the finer details
of my consumerist gaze while handling fine fabrics for my autumn/winter wardrobe,'
embellished, embroidered, classy, class-conscious
in a "wear your privilege with pride" kinda way
masking and basking in it,
more tweedy than the the petty troubles of the landed gentry,
like a future series of Downton Abbey and I'm postmodern Cora,
a continental import of no importance
other than helping birth the future
of Daily Mail service communications and Fortnum & Mason radio advertisements
even if they're voiced by someone else
I'll find the mistakes:
all the missing apostrophes where there's no possessive
all the "you and I's" that should be "you and me's"
or simply "We's"
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