Jim Dale Audio Books

[Joe Bento]

The five CD audio books arrived the other day from my eBay purchase.  
I'm thoroughly enjoying myself, listening for an hour or so each night 
prior to bed.  I'm about 1/2 way through listening to SS / PS right now.

Not only does Jim Dale have a pleasant voice to listen to, but by 
listening, I'm learning what I hope is the proper pronunciation of some 
of the words.

An example is the knut.  I have always thought this was pronounced as a 
single syllable, silent k, long u.  I would have never imagined it was 
pronounced as K-nut.

I seem to also detect that Jim Dale not only has his British accent, 
but there seems to be a touch of New England in there as well.

Does anyone else hear this?

Joe