Fry's Lupin, Dale's Tonks

[Amy Z]

Ali reported:

> IMO Fry's Lupin sounded a little more camp than previously, 
but not 
> so much as to find distracting. 

Camp?  As in gay?  Is Fry in the S/R contingent?  

This seems to have escaped me entirely in my listen to Fry's 
PoA.

> I have always supposed that if Tonks had an accent, it would 
be a 
> London accent because she uses the greeting "Wotcher". 

I *think* Dale gives her a London accent.  Do we have any ex-pat 
Brits who've heard Dale and can confirm?

> My Oxford English Dictionary is too concise to say where 
"wotcher" 
> is most used, and I have so far tried about 5 on-line 
dictionaries 
> none of which appear to be working today.

You need a slang dictionary, or one of those vast surveys of 
regional differences--there's a zillion-volume one of US English, 
revealing fascinating tidbits such as that while a Northeasterner 
would get an oil & lube, a Southerner would get the car greased 
(pronounced greaZed to boot).  There must be a UK equivalent.

Amy Z
v. amused by the thought of Wallace Tonks