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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

Peter Ackroyd
Class, Effort, Ordinary
"Tales of the city". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2003.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.